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The Australian Government will provide more than $8 million in funding to support thousands of asthma patients in Australia.
The Turnbull Government will provide more than $8 million in funding to support thousands of asthma patients in Australia.
Asthma can be fatal, causing around 400 deaths each year and asthma attacks cause around 40,000 hospitalisations every year.
More than 2.5 million Australians are affected by asthma and it is one of the most common chronic conditions among children.
Asthma Australia will receive $7.6 million to continue two training programs.
Asthma Australia's Asthma Child and Adolescent Program delivers asthma information and emergency training for staff in preschools and schools and supports self-management for adolescents while its Community Support Program delivers community training education workshops and information online.
National Asthma Council will receive $525,000 to boost its support for GPs and nurses.
This program provides training in best practice response to asthma and linked chronic respiratory conditions to primary care health practitioners, including GPs, practice nurses and Indigenous health workers.
This additional funding means that the National Asthma Council is now receiving $1.26 million to support the conduct of the program over three years.
Australia has high incidence of asthma compared to other similar countries. People living in remote or lower socio-economic areas have higher rates and are more likely to have severe and life threatening asthma.
In January I announced $1 million for the National Asthma Strategy, which will provide a roadmap for more effective treatment and better care for patients.

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Lovra (mađ. Lórév, srpski: Ловра) je općina u Peštanskoj županiji u Mađarskoj, na Čepeljskom otoku, 50 km južno od Budimpešte.

Zemljopisni položaj
Lovra se nalazi na obali Dunava na južnom dijelu Čepeljskog otoka. Cestom mu je moguće prići jedino iz smjera Budimpešte. Nasuprot naselja, na drugoj strani Dunava leži grad Džankutaran (mađ. Adony) kojem se (kao i autocesti M6) prilazi riječnom skelom direktno iz Lovre.

Stanovništvo
Lovra ima 310 stanovnika. Većinu stanovništva čine Srbi (59%), a ostatak Mađari i Bugari. (Popis iz 2001. godine). Lovra je jedina općina u Mađarskoj gdje neka nacionalna manjina čini natpolovičnu većinu te je također jedina općina sa srpskom većinom. U okviru mjesne samouprave u Lovri funkcioniraju još dvije manjinske samouprave i to bugarska i srpska.

Većina stanovništva Lovre pripada Srpskoj pravoslavnoj crkvi, a značajan je i broj rimokatolika i reformata (kalvinista).

Ime
Ime naselja je mađarskog podrijetla sa značenjem "konjski gaz (plićak)". Taj naziv podsjeća na vremena u koja je Lovra bila mjesto gdje su ergele bile prebacivane na drugu obalu Dunava.

Povijest
Najstariji arheološki nalazi svjedoče da je mjesto današnje Lovre bilo naseljeno već u željeznom dobu. Ostaci zidine koji su pronađeni blizu sela najvjerojatnije su činili element rimskog limesa.

Naselje je prvi put spomenuto 1259. godine kao Portus equorum, zatim u 1276. pod imenom Loureu. Od tih vremena Lovra je bila stalno naseljena. Srbi, bježeći od Turaka počeli su se doseljavati tijekom 15. stoljeća te u većoj mjeri 1690. godine. U 1890. 95% stanovnika zabilježeno je kao pripadnici "grko-istočne" vjeroispovijesti. Budući da Lovra zauzima prilično periferijski zemljopisni položaj te ga važne prometnice zaobilaze, nije bio toliko pogođen procesom asimilacije pa je uspio zadržati svoje običaje i sačuvati svoju etničku karakteristiku.

Obrazovanje i kultura
U Lovri funkcionira osnovna škola sa srpskim nastavnim jezikom. Lovra je domaćin ustanove Srpsko kazalište u Mađarskoj čiji je glavni sponzor sama mađarska vlada i koje uglavnom predstavlja djela srpskih književnika iz Mađarske.

Turizam

Znamenitosti
srpska pravoslavna crkva sagrađena je na kraju 18. stoljeća u kasnobaroknom stilu, njezino renoviranje je u završnoj fazi
spomen-kapela "Ödön Zichy" (rimokatolička) sagrađena je 1859. godine po narudžbi habsburške kuće. Ödön Zichy bio je velikaš vjeran Habsburgovcima koga je narod objesio na početku mađarske borbe za slobodu u rujnu 1848. godine
umjetnička galerija (Művészeti Galéria) predstavlja zbirku srpskog slikarstva
područje zapadno od naselja je prirodni rezervat
vrbik na obali Dunava omiljeno je kamp-mjesto raftera

Događaji
 Dunavski festival (obilježava se svake godine posljednje subote mjeseca lipnja)
 Proštenje (28. – 29. kolovoza)

Stanovništvo
2001. je u Lovri bilo 308 stanovnika. Srbi čine 66%, Bugari preko 3%, Roma je nešto preko 1%, Hrvata je 1%. Rimokatolika je nešto manje od četvrtine, kalvinisti su desetina stanovništva, a "ostale vjere" (uglavnom srpsko-pravoslavni) je 59%.

Izvori

Izvor
 Službene stranice općine Lovra

Naselja u Peštanskoj županiji

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Read about the new and exciting, cutting-edge medical therapies currently and soon to be offered at TotalBond Veterinary Hospitals and Carolinas Animal Pain Management.
Pet owners are hearing and seeing more and more information about Regenerative Medicine for pets (dogs, cats and horses). This area can be confusing for pet owners AND their Veterinarians! Biologic and Regenerative medicine are terms that describe a form of therapy to help the body heal itself, in a safe and non-toxic manner. Either cells of the patient or other cellular technology are infused/injected. These therapies elicit a number of biologic responses, including the stimulation of growth factors, anti-inflammatory mediators, and in some cases the actual regeneration of tissue.
Our bodies have abundant stem cells, but in adulthood they have become dormant. Arguably the most studied and certainly the best known Biologic/Regenerative modality in veterinary medicine involves the use of "Adipose-derived Autologous Mesenchymal Stem Cell" transplantation. It is important to note here that we are not talking about embryonic stem cells! "Autologous" means that the stem cells are the dormant ones isolated from the patient (from fat, "adipose" tissue) that are then subsequently placed ("transplanted") back into the same patient. The principle of this therapy is to concentrate stem cells and growth factors, activate them, and get them to damaged tissue to elicit a cascade of anti-inflammatory and healing processes. The advantages of this technology is that there is published literature supporting its use in osteoarthritis (dogs) and ligament injuries (horses), and can be administered intravenously in addition to local infiltration e.g. joints. Further, the stem cells can be frozen and even cultured so that theoretically, there remains available a supply of viable cells for repeating the transplantation far into the future. In fact, a new application offered is the opportunity to collect fat at the time of any other surgical procedure (for example, spay/neuter), then culture those cells for an indefinite supply and perpetual use at any point in life – even years later!
Platelets are normally known for their function of clotting blood, but recent research has revealed they also have hundreds of unique proteins and growth factors that have been shown to help manage inflammation and tissue degeneration. Because of its relative simplicity (isolated from a blood sample and injected into tissue), the ability of PRP to affect tissue healing and pain relief is an area of intense study. Dr. Epstein even has had PRP injections into his own arthritic shoulder joint!
ACS involves drawing a patient's blood sample, incubating it with special test tubes designed to active certain growth factors and anti-inflammatory mediators, then centrifuged to collect the now "conditioned" serum for injection into a joint or other tissue. There is one FDA-approved ACS product for horses, and similar products are being developed for dogs.
This involves taking tissue from another animal (usually small intestine or bladder from a pig) and removing all of the "live" cellular material from it. What is left are strands of collagen and associated molecules. Studies have shown that when this material is injected into and around damaged tissue, it forms a scaffold for cell proliferation, differentiation and integration…and possibly activating the area's existing stem cells. . You are probably familiar with this technology if you have heard about people that have been able to "grow back" damaged tissues and even growing "artificial tissue" (ears, bladders) in the laboratory. Its ability to treat the pain of osteoarthritis is just beginning to be explored, but anecdotal experience, and one pilot study, is encouraging. An advantage of this technology is that the material comes as a gel that can be stored until ready to use – no anesthesia or surgery to harvest tissue, no special equipment to process tissue or blood from the patient. When ready to implant, it is simply warmed to body temperature, pulled into a standard syringe, and then injected into the site and around areas of soft/hard tissue damage. Our hospital has been utilizing this modality since 2011 and consider it a viable option for many patients. Learn more at www.osteobioscaff.com. A disadvantage, it must be said, is that there is very little if any scientific literature at this time to support clinical use.
The "Holy Grail" of Biologic medicine is to learn how to instruct the body to click off certain DNA segments (genes) and click on others to teach the body to repair itself. While an area of intense research, it currently remains a hope of future therapy rather than anything we can apply clinically at this time.
As with all medical procedures, proper patient selection and evaluation prior to Regenerative Medicine procedures is extremely important. The doctor needs to set appropriate patient and pet parent expectations for any therapy option. This usually includes radiographs of affected sites, blood tests and urine tests for internal health – especially in older patients we are treating, that often will have other pre-existing conditions.
One KEY FACT about Biologic/Regenerative Medicine: None of these therapies will "fix" the actual underlying cause of genetic or traumatic damage that occurred in a joint. We are looking to Biologic/Regenerative Medicine to help manage pain and improve comfort, mobility, and ability. Because the actual "biomechanics" of an abnormal joint will still be there, some patients will need a repeat therapy in months or years following. In the meantime, the expectation is to see clinical improvement after treatment at the same time we reduce other systemic medications being given.
This frontier is exciting and challenging at the same time, for pet owners AND veterinarians. It is always best to consult with a veterinarian whom has studied and utilized Biologic/Regenerative medicine options in their practice, and Dr. Epstein at TotalBond Veterinary Hospitals & Carolinas Animal Pain Management remains one of a handful of veterinarians in the country with this type of expertise and experience.


Dr. P. L. Narayana, MBBS, MD (Psy) from AFMC Pune, FIPS, FAIPI, FIAPP, is a Senior Psychiatrist & Counsellor. He had served in the Indian Air Force for 23 years till the rank of Wing Commander and been The Professor & HOD of Psychiatry at various Air Force Hospitals across the country. He has also been on the faculty of Vydehi Institute of Medical Sciences (Bangalore), and later MVJ Medical College (Hoskote, Bangalore) as a Professor of Psychiatry. He has been a Recognized Post-Graduate Teacher and Guide to the MD students under Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences, Karnataka, since 2003.
With his long and considerable clinical & teaching experience he has established his own practice under 'Mind-Body Clinic' and is available for consultations only on prior appointment. He renders mind-body health services to all age groups, including Counselling for the Children & Adolescents with various problem behaviors.


Does not include chiropractic adjustment and other treatments.The cost of chiropractic care will vary in part upon where you live and the type of coverage you carry.The cost of chiropractic treatment with our chiropractors is based upon several different aspects including insurance coverage and your condition.
A 2005 Cochrane review concluded that chiropractic manipulation for neck pain helped when combined with exercise but not when done without.Chiropractic treatments can be aimed at spinal manipulation, posture rectification and various kinds of massage therapy or it can be a part of a larger treatment for a plethora of other medical or health conditions.
Neck pain and headaches are other complaints chiropractors commonly treat.
With a precarious economy and the unknown future of healthcare in the US, consumers need better options in relieving pain and promoting health.
Chiropractor Treatment JUST HOW MUCH Does It Cost?
Chiropractic often involves many expensive but quick treatments,15 16 and marketing and sales tactics that many people consider to be aggressive and distasteful, if not downright unethical, especially pre-paid treatment packages,17 and the hawking of many other services and products that are much more blatant quackery,18 like applied kinesiology,19 and ear infection treatment.
The treatment costs of chiropractors boost if they are accessible easily.The fees associated with chiropractic treatment are set by the individual practitioner, and will often reflect the experience and skill of the chiropractor.
The SpineUniverse Chiropractic Treatment Center provides you with everything you need to know about chiropractors and chiropractic care. Reported by: ProMatcher Research Team: 94086, Sunnyvale, California - June 14, 2018 Chiropractic Services.
Best Answer: Well it depends on whether you have health insurance or not.
Chiropractor treatment costs often increase with the length that a chiropractor has to travel in case of a house visit.
Most will often give breaks to those without insurance and charge.Our staff can verify your insurance benefits and cost will be presented with a recommended treatment plan from one of our great doctors.
Chiropractic care is widely recognized as one of the safest, drug-free and non-invasive form of treatment for various health conditions, injuries and disorders. At a minimum you are entitled to property damage reimbursement for your car, your medical and chiropractic bills, any out of pocket expenses including, but not limited to, the cost of prescription and over the counter medications, neck braces, etc.The financial burden of battling cancer can be overwhelming, and patients need to be aware of expenses associated with managing the disease.
Do you need coverage for chiropractic services due to back pain, stiff, aching neck.Learn about the education and training chiropractors receive and the spinal disorders they diagnose and treat. How much you can expect to pay out of pocket for acupuncture, including what people paid in 2018.Doctors of chiropractic, chiropractic patients and employees of insurance companies that provide coverage for chiropractic services have wondered for years how many visits to a chiropractor are needed to achieve maximum patient benefit for the conditions DCs treat most often—low-back pain, neck pain and headaches.
Cost of Vancouver Chiropractic Care at Vancouver Spine Care Centre Vancouver Spine Care Centre recognizes that price is a worry to some when it comes to you choosing your chiropractic care.If you have health insurance, check your insurance policies, since many insurers cover chiropractic care.Chiropractic is usually very affordable, and is certainly a cost effective way of managing and resolving pain and weakness.
This is illustrated by the significantly lower cost of malpractice insurance for chiropractors.However, the value of spinal decompression is much higher: it treats the root cause of symptoms while causing no discomfort or side effects andrequiring no downtime.
Insurance will cover treatment for spine problems, because it is medical treatment for a medical problem.It is our intention to make the financial process as easy as possible.
The treatments cost less than or on par with many conventional treatments, and, a growing number of insurance providers are providing coverage for chiropractic treatment.
Soft Tissue Therapy Many chiropractors provide soft tissue therapy either on its own or in preparation for adjustment.


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Cahan, Abraham
Cahan, Abraham kän [key], 1860–1951, Russian-American journalist, Socialist leader, and author, b. Vilnius, Lithuania. He emigrated to New York City in 1882, entered journalism, and helped found the Jewish Daily Forward (1897); as editor in chief after 1902, he made it the most influential Jewish daily in America. He was a founder of the Social Democratic party in 1897 and after 1902 supported the Socialist party. Active in spreading socialist teachings among Jewish workers, he encouraged the unionization of East Side garment workers and supported them in their strikes. Cahan's writings in English, particularly Yekl: a Tale of the New York Ghetto (1896), The Imported Bridegroom and Other Stories (1898), and The Rise of David Levinsky (1917), are recognized for their historical portrayals of the immigrant experience. He also wrote, in Yiddish, Blätter von mein Leben (5 vol., 1926–31), an autobiography.
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Super exciting training for our kids! They shared today our hills with Peter Prevc, another Slovenian Ski-Jumping Icon and role model in jumping technique.
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The Renault Modus 1.4 dCi with 89 HP first reminds me of a puppy 'cause it has those 'bug eyes', but on the highway it doesn't resemble a turtle and never stays at the back of the convoy. However, due to 5-speed transmissions gears are short and at higher revs unpleasant noise occurs. If driving at 70 mph it consumes 47 mpg. Of course it all depends on your driving style. As many times as I have driven it on the highway I always felt slight swing due to crosswinds. In general, it's a city car since it hardly develops high speed or could be characterized as very stable. No surprise to me that my girlfriend preferred driving it only in the city. Basically it is very comfy, spacious and convenient; there are plenty of compartments, due to large windows it's really bright inside the car. It also has a climate control, cruise control, board computer, ergonomic seats. As a vehicle of such class it really has a lot of equipment providing great comfort.
I have never repaired my car cause at that I bought it only 6.000 miles had been passed. Everything was working fine so not much can be said about my overall expenses. I only had to change filter and oil. Despite that I still had a bad feeling about this car as if it's not reliable enough. One of the reasons of my decision to sell it was strange noise appearing every time I was depressing the clutch – I'm almost sure that this was a clutch buzz annoying me. Having in mind low mileage, I'd say this problem appeared even too soon.
Maintenance cost is low as long as something breaks down. Nevertheless, having in mind all those gossip about enormous engine repair cost, short-lasting climate control system or problematic clutch bearing I made a decision to sell my car eventually. Generally, I'd say it's still a quite good and enough comfortable car useful for every woman.
Just take a closer look and do not rush to buy it.


Dr. Leonard O'Sullivan (PhD, MTech, BTech) is a Senior Lecturer in Ergonomics and Human Factors in the Department of Design and Manufacturing Technology at the University of Limerick, Ireland. He is a Fellow of the Irish Ergonomics Society, and a full member of the Institute of Ergonomics and Human Factors (UK), the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (USA) and the Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (UK). He is a member of the Council of the International Ergonomics Association. He has published over 40 peer-reviewed journal articles and delivered over 80 international conference papers primarily on work-related musculoskeletal disorders. He has participated in several EC projects on work related musculoskeletal disorders.
PS: despite sharing a surname, and publishing several papers, with the other O'Sullivan's from Pain-Ed, they are not related !
While musculoskeletal disorders are no longer thought to be caused simply by mechanical factors, such as lifting and bending, these activities are commonly provocative for people with musculoskeletal disorders such as low back pain. In industry, training in correct lifting technique remains a central focus in the prevention of musculoskeletal disorders to reduce absenteeism and associated costs. Occupational ill health is estimated to cost between 2 and 4% of GNP per annum in developed countries, and musculoskeletal disorders are often the most common reason for absenteeism. I was involved in a study of manual handling training effectiveness led by Dervla Hogan (PhD researcher, UCC) and Dr Birgit Greiner (Senior Lecturer, UCC). We recently conducted a systematic review to investigate the effectiveness of manual handling training on achieving training transfer, leading to a positive change in employee's manual handling behaviour and a reduction of work-related musculoskeletal disorders (WRMSDs) following training. After searching six electronic databases, 13 articles (mostly RCTs) were included in the review. While this review indicates that employees report enhanced understanding and awareness of the principles of manual handling following training, this does not always lead to the expected behavioural change. Overall, the evidence suggests manual handling training is often ineffective at causing a change in employee's manual handling behaviour and subsequently reducing musculoskeletal disorders. The findings of this could be interpreted in several different ways; manual handling training could (1) be very useful, but has not yet been integrated into practice sufficiently; (2) be better matched to the specific individual, and their unique task demands, at which point it might then be more effective; (3) continue to be ineffective unless it evolves to view pain from a truly biopsychosocial perspective, where pain is clearly differentiated from concepts of local tissue damage, with greater consideration given to a person's overall health and overall work environment (e.g. job satisfaction) (4) actually increase the risk of pain in some people if it reinforces beliefs that the body is vulnerable and requires considerable protection to prevent it becoming painful.
Preventing and treating musculoskeletal disorders remains difficult. Many biomechanical and psychosocial risk factors are similar for work and non-work related musculoskeletal disorders and this adds to the difficulty of determining whether an injury is work-related or not and also in prescribing treatment. This is not a new problem and one that will not be answered simply by further research.


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ABC Grant Funds Support Sheriff's Department Efforts
Stanislaus County Sheriff's Department Deputy Patrick McCulloch has announced that the sheriff's department was awarded a $65,154 grant from the California Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC) to battle alcohol-related crime.
"This is important to the Stanislaus County Sheriff's Department in order to increase protection for youth and to shut down problem ABC licensed locations that have contributed to an increase in crime," Deputy McCulloch said.
The grant will strengthen local law enforcement efforts by combining the efforts of local law enforcement officers and ABC agents. ABC agents have expertise in alcoholic beverage laws and can help communities reduce alcohol-related problems.
The GAP Program was created in 1995 to strengthen partnerships between ABC and local law enforcement agencies. The program is designed to put bad operators out of business, keep alcohol away from minors and bring penalties such as fines, suspensions or revocations against businesses that violate laws.
The funds will be used to reduce the number of alcoholic beverage sales to minors and obviously intoxicated patrons, the illegal solicitations of alcohol and other criminal activities such as the sale and possession of illegal drugs.
The GAP Program has distributed over $30 million to local law enforcement to combat alcohol-related crime. ABC is a Department of the Business, Consumer Services and Housing Agency.
For more information, contact Deputy McCulloch at pmcculloch@stanislaussheriff.com, call (209) 869-7162 or visit #AlcoholPolicingPartnerships.


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Liberal Economists Blast the 'Fantastical Claims' of Bernie Sanders' Economic Policies
by Joe Carter • February 18, 2016
The headline at CNN was surprising: "Under Sanders, income and jobs would soar, economist says"; the opening paragraph of their article even more so:
Median income would soar by more than $22,000. Nearly 26 million jobs would be created. The unemployment rate would fall to 3.8%.
Those are just a few of the things that would happen if Bernie Sanders became president and his ambitious economic program were put into effect, according to an analysis given exclusively to CNNMoney. The first comprehensive look at the impact of all of Sanders' spending and tax proposals on the economy was done by Gerald Friedman, a University of Massachusetts Amherst economics professor.
Like Sanders, Friedman believes in democratic socialism. He also believes an unlikely series of events could happen: Sanders becomes president (very unlikely), President Sanders is able to push his plan through a GOP-controlled Congress (politically impossible), and then median household income magically rises to $82,200 by 2026 (the current projection by the Congressional Budget Office is that it'll be around $59,300).
You would expect Republicans and conservatives to mock this type of wishful thinking. But some of the strongest criticism has come from a seemingly unlikely source: liberal economists who once chaired the President's Council of Economic Advisers.
Alan Krueger of Princeton University, Austan Goolsbee of the University of Chicago Booth School, and Christina Romer of the University of California at Berkeley all chaired President Obama's Council of Economic Advisers at different times during his administration, while Laura D'Andrea Tyson of the University of California's Haas School of Business was the chair under President Clinton. The four published a rather scathing open letter to both Sanders and Friedman. Here is the full text of the letter:
Dear Senator Sanders and Professor Gerald Friedman,
We are former Chairs of the Council of Economic Advisers for Presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton. For many years, we have worked to make the Democratic Party the party of evidence-based economic policy. When Republicans have proposed large tax cuts for the wealthy and asserted that those tax cuts would pay for themselves, for example, we have shown that the economic facts do not support these fantastical claims. We have applied the same rigor to proposals by Democrats, and worked to ensure that forecasts of the effects of proposed economic policies, from investment in infrastructure, to education and training, to health care reforms, are grounded in economic evidence. Largely as a result of efforts like these, the Democratic party has rightfully earned a reputation for responsibly estimating the effects of economic policies.
We are concerned to see the Sanders campaign citing extreme claims by Gerald Friedman about the effect of Senator Sanders's economic plan—claims that cannot be supported by the economic evidence. Friedman asserts that your plan will have huge beneficial impacts on growth rates, income and employment that exceed even the most grandiose predictions by Republicans about the impact of their tax cut proposals.
As much as we wish it were so, no credible economic research supports economic impacts of these magnitudes. Making such promises runs against our party's best traditions of evidence-based policy making and undermines our reputation as the party of responsible arithmetic. These claims undermine the credibility of the progressive economic agenda and make it that much more difficult to challenge the unrealistic claims made by Republican candidates.
For now let's set aside the partisan sniping (we'll come back to that in a moment) and any questions about their motives (sure, they most likely all support Hillary Clinton for president) and highlight something we can all agree on: Government decision making should be based on "evidence-based economic policy" and that partisans should call out their own side for supporting policy that is contrary to the evidence.
Most reasonable people will nod their head and agree that this is a reasonable standard. Yet it is a standard that is rarely used by either liberals or conservatives. Too often both sides allow the public to remain confused about the actual evidence in order to achieve a political objective.
Take, for example, the Democrats support of minimum wage laws. The clearest evidence we have is that it disproportionality affect African Americans. That's not really disputable.There is also almost a universal agreement that it won't do much at all to fix the problem of poverty. But economists do disagree about the effects of small increases in minimum wages (less than 20 percent), and whether it mostly helps or mostly hurts the working poor.
If it were truly the case that the Democratic Party is "the party of evidence-based economic policy," then we would have Democratic politicians admitting that while minimum wage increases harm African Americans and don't do much to fix poverty, we should nevertheless support small increases.
Instead, the party is fully behind an increase from $7.25 an hour to $15 an hour — a policy position that absolutely cannot be justified by an appeal to the evidence. So why do liberal economists mostly remain quiet about the damaging effect the increase would have? Because (a) the policy is popular with the party's voters, and (b) there is almost no chance the voters will realize that policy is economically destructive.
Even those who are affected the most — low-skilled poor workers — aren't going to connect the dots and recognize the reason they can't find jobs is because they have been priced out of the market because of a government-mandated wage floor increase. Unless liberal economists tell them the truth (assuming they won't listen to conservatives) they will remain blissfully ignorant about the real effect of the $15 minimum wage.
Similarly, conservatives have taken an evidence-based approach to taxes and skewed it for political reasons. Take, for instance, the Laffer curve, a representation of the relationship between rates of taxation and the resulting levels of government revenue. The concept, popularized by economist Arthur Laffer, seem rather obvious: no tax revenue will be raised at the extreme tax rates of 0 percent and 100 percent and that there must be at least one rate which maximizes government taxation revenue. Theoretically, that rate could be anywhere on the curve, but it's assumed that in the U.S. the rate is somewhere above 50 percent (and maybe even above 70 to 90 percent).
Another obvious implication of the Laffer curve is that if the rate is to the right of the optimal percentage, lowering the rate will increase government revenue. Yet somehow this conclusion was transformed and dumbed-down into the idea that "lowering taxes raises government revenues." Even now, when the marginal tax rates are below 40 percent (a rate far lower than most respectable Laffer curve enthusiasts would say is the peak rate), some conservatives still falsely believe that if the government would simply cut tax rates even more, it'd reduce the deficit.
Part of the reason this misguided belief persists is because some conservative economists (and economically minded conservatives) support lowering taxes for other reasons, and this mistaken idea, while wrong, is politically useful in achieving that goal.
This type of politically partisan expediency is something all Christians should reject. Whether we are on the left or right, Christians should be strong partisans for the truth. We may draw different conclusions about economic evidence or even disagree about what counts as evidence. But we should not make unjustifiable claims about what the evidence is or falsely present the implications simply because it increases the chances of our side winning elections.
Economic policy affects people's lives, which is why we should be careful to have solid reasons for the policies we support. If we truly love our neighbors, we won't support economic policies we know have no relation to reality.
Addendum: John Cochrane agrees the heart of the letter is "worthy, and commendable" but calls out the unnecessary partisanship of the CEA chairs:
Oh. I thought you were simply doing what all good economists, do, all good CEA chairs do, and you were working to make evidence-based policy a routine feature of all government policy under all administrations. I thought you were working for the benefit of the country, not just the Democratic party.
Joe Carter is a Senior Editor at the Acton Institute. Joe also serves as an editor at the The Gospel Coalition, a communications specialist for the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention, and as an adjunct professor of journalism at Patrick Henry College. He is the editor of the NIV Lifehacks Bible and co-author of How to Argue like Jesus: Learning Persuasion from History's Greatest Communicator (Crossway).
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While the Panasonic LUMIX S1 comes with a come with 24MP full-frame CMOS sensor, the LUMIX S1R camera has a 47.3MP full-frame CMOS sensor. Both the cameras are based on L-Mount standard, and according to the company, this means that the camera has an uncompromised imaging experience.
The company has claimed that Panasonic LUMIX S Series has an industry-leading video recording performance and an effective image stabilization. Furthermore, it is also supposed to give better results with rich gradation and superior colour reproduction.
Both the newly launched cameras offer a high-speed, high-precision AF system that is based on advanced control technology over the lens, the new 'Venus Engine' and the sensor. We should also point out that it is this that enables the user to capture the target in sharp focus using either of the two cameras.
The LUMIX S1R camera comes with a high-resolution mode and the company says that it is the first time that a mirrorless full-frame camera will be able to enable 187MP ultra-high precision picture with a pixel shift technology shooting.
The last few months have seen a number of launches from Panasonic but it has been quite a while since the company launched mirrorless cameras. Prior to this, the Japanese company was seen launching air conditioners in the country and other than that, it also expanded its Eluga range of smartphones.


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Today, Lufthansa and the pilot trade union Vereinigung Cockpit (VC) signed a new collective labor agreement (CLA) on all previously open issues. The signed contracts correspond to the agreement reached in March. The CLA is subject to approval of the trade union members in form of a ballot.
Among others, the parties have agreed on a framework collective agreement and a new remuneration agreement as well as agreements on pension and transitional payments lasting until at least June 2022. The parties have thus reached a long-term collective bargaining agreement and correspondingly long-term stable labor relations. The new contracts will result in a structural overall cost saving of 15 percent of staff costs in the cockpit – before wage increases to be paid in the future. At the same time, the agreement allows for the hiring of junior pilots at the above-mentioned airlines.
The pension scheme will be changed from a system of defined benefits to a system of defined contributions, as already agreed with ground and cabin staff. As a result, pension liabilities will be reduced by a high three-digit million euro amount, while EBIT 2017 will improve by a significant three-digit million euro amount.
Cockpit employees will maintain their previous level of old-age benefits in the future and can add voluntary contributions. The current transitional payment scheme will be retained in principle. However, until 2021 the average age at which pilots can retire from Lufthansa Passenger Services will be gradually increased to 60. This is already the current retirement age for pilots from Lufthansa Cargo and Germanwings, today. Pilots will also continue to have protective rights against permanent inability to fly.
The terms and conditions agreed on in the package to operate a minimum of 325 aircraft with pilots from Lufthansa, Lufthansa Cargo and Germanwings by the end of 2022, will create new and future career prospects. More than 700 junior pilots shall be hired and at least 600 positions for future captains shall be created.
Pilots at Lufthansa, Lufthansa Cargo and Germanwings will receive staggered pay increases totaling to 10.3 per cent and a one-off payment of up to 1.8 monthly salaries for the period of May 2012 until June 2022.
The entry-level and potential final compensations for future employees will continue to be based on today's current levels. The remuneration structures of current employees remain unchanged. More moderate increases will, however, reduce costs. Additionally, further measures have been agreed on in order to increase productivity.


I have found that most endeavors are easier if you work as a team—everything from splitting logs or catching fish to raising a family or running a business. It's the same for your electronics. Almost everything on your console is—or could be—a team player, working as part of an integrated system.
There are literally dozens of different ways that electronic devices can communicate with each other: through Ethernet, HSB, NavNet, SeaTalk, SimNet, Smartcraft, and USB, to name a few, but the grandaddy of marine instrument integration systems is NMEA 0183.
The talker produces information in the form of a string of short, low-voltage electrical pulses, rather like Morse code, which are transmitted to each listener through two cores of a multicored cable. Each talker can transmit to several listeners at once. A single GPS, for instance, might send information to an autopilot, a plotter, and a DSC radio. But that isn't really a network, because each pair of wires can carry messages from only one talker and in only one direction. It doesn't allow several talkers to share one pair of wires nor does it allow listeners to talk back.
NMEA 0183 is great for simple applications. It's so good, in fact, that an updated, high-speed version has been introduced to handle the information from AIS receivers. But a truly integrated system requires more than NMEA 0183 can provide.
And that's where NMEA 2000 comes in. It is completely different. For one thing, the NMEA 2000 rule book specifies which wires and cables should be used, making it much easier to connect equipment from different manufacturers. But a far more fundamental point is that it allows as many as 50 different devices to be connected to a single backbone. Any of them can pump data into the backbone, and any of them can take data from it. It's a true network.
The data, however, is still in the form of electrical pulses, and if two devices transmit at once, their pulses would mix together to produce gibberish. So it's important to make sure that only one device is talking at a time. To prevent simultaneous transmission, each talker breaks its message up into several pieces, called frames. Each frame includes a header that identifies what information the frame contains and how urgent it is.
Before it transmits, each talker listens to what is happening on the network. If everything is quiet, it goes ahead and sends its frame of information. If the network is busy, it waits. There's still a potential problem, though, if two talkers begin transmitting at the same moment. In this case, every device on the network, including the two that are trying to talk at the same time, recognizes that there is a conflict, and the one that is sending the lowest-priority message shuts down until the network is quiet again.
NMEA 2000 is 50 times faster than its predecessor, NMEA 0183, so it can handle data from up to 50 different devices, but it's still not the complete answer. That's because those message headers can occupy any amount of data up to half of each frame. The result is that NMEA 2000 is too slow and inefficient to be useful for complex data such as video images or cartography.
Most of us are already using a system that works around these problems in our homes and offices—it's called Ethernet, and even in its slow form, known as 10BASE-T, it carries information 40 times faster than NMEA 2000 and more than 2,000 times faster than NMEA 0183. Speed is important because it obviously affects the amount of information that can be carried, but there are a couple of other really big differences between NMEA 2000 and Ethernet.
The first is that each frame of Ethernet data includes "from" and "to" addresses in its header, so although it may be received by every other device on the network, each one can ignore information that it does not require.The other is that Ethernet uses a completely different system to avoid the "collisions" that occur when two devices transmit at once. It's called Carrier Sensed Multiple Access/Collision Detection (CSMA/CD). But it's best compared to the way conversation at a dinner party controls itself: People speak when there is a lull in the conversation, and if two people accidentally start talking at the same time they both stop. It's a very efficient way of carrying information between small groups of devices—say, as many as five—but the dinner-party protocol means that there is no guarantee that urgent messages will get through in time. For large groups, in particular, the sheer volume of traffic can mean that individual devices have to wait a long time before their messages get through.
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Raadha: The search for nothing
November 29, 2010 Veena Basavarajaiah
Raadha 2010, an annual dance and collaborative arts festival was organsed by Raadha Kalpa between the 29th of October and 15th November across various venues in the city.
Raadha Kalpa, founded by Rukmini Vijayakumar, a Bangalore based classical and modern dancer and choreographer, is an organization dedicated to the promotion of art and culture through performance, teaching and artistic collaboration. The Indian traditional ideals are communicated in Bharatanatyam, maintaining the purity of the classical form, and utilizing innovation within the classical context.
Rukmini, one of the most talented artistes of the city holds a degree in Modern dance and Classical Ballet from the Boston Conservatory. She is also a brilliant actress who is currently doing her MFA in Bharatnatyam under Padma Subramanyam at the Shastra University.
Radha 2010. Pic Courtesy: Raadha Kalpa Dance company.
The festival had Bharatanatyam pieces, modern dance performances and performances where dance shared space with poetry, theatre, painting, music and folk idioms. Spread across various venues in Bangalore, the festival engaged audiences across ages and genre.
The three pieces presented at Alliance Francaise de Bangalore on 29th of October as part of Raadha 2010 were Catch, Raadha Rani and Trouvaille. The first half of the performance was rooted in the classical form of Bharatnatyam with a few Karanas (series of movements inspired by the temple sculptures) woven into the choreography. It fell short in conceptualization and movement exploration.
Catch was a mere movement translation of a ball game between Krishna and gopikas. The compositions of Chitti Babu's album 'Temple Bells' was used for all the pieces. Though very melodic, the music was not apt for dance choreography and added to the monotony of the performance. Explanations between sections of dance pieces was irksome and unnecessary.
The second half of the performance named Trouvaille translated as 'to find' in french was a modern dance piece. An experimental work that explores the concept of Raadha who is in search of Krishna or 'the aatman' – a search for oneself. The music was harmonious with vocals by Pallavi Arun and Mahesh Swamy, on the flute and the veena along with Varun Pradeep on the Keyboard. The classical music was rendered with a contemporary touch as the musicians improvised with the dancers.
It was a piece based on six randomly chosen poems by different French poets that revolved around the concept of search recited by Aishwarya Chaitanya. The six movement pieces explored the poem's emotional content. This contemporary piece did not impress the audience due to inadequate research and loosely woven improvisational structure. The dancers looked more like melodramatic divas sashaying across stage with no idea of what was being recited in a different language.
The performers of the evening included Rukmini Vijayakumar, Parshwanath Upadhye, Ramya Nair, Alice Bordoloi, Sowmya Jaganmurthy along with students of Raadha Kalpa. The well trained dancers moved more like models displaying their clothes and jewelry with choreography that failed to showcase their talent, strength and dancing skills. While Radha Rani failed to go beyond the oriental exoticism coupled with a lack of experimentation in movement vocabulary and choreography, Trouvaille, the modern dance section was an object of ridicule in the name of collaboration using literature from a foreign language.
Raadha 2010 aimed at making dance an accessible medium to all sections of the society, reaching out to the audiences on a personal level. However the performance at Alliance Francaise was not the perfect showcase of Rukmini's dancing and choreography skills. The expectations of the audience to be taken on a journey of introspection with the concept of Raadha were not met. The performance failed to go beyond the superficial exterior and presentation.
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Once upon a time, in the middle of the night, there was a restless man pacing a residential street with a yellow tape measure in his hand. To the untrained eye, he appeared to be alone—some sort of compulsive insomniac bent on determining odd distances—but throughout the night he was kept company by visions of goblins, wizards and other enchanted creatures.
Like the protagonist of most fairy tales, if this man were to be evaluated mid-story he'd be deemed foolish, naïve or perhaps even insane. Interview Jack as he climbs up the beanstalk, and he's a poor barterer ascending to god-knows-where. Poll Pinocchio as he arrives at Pleasure Island, and he's the poster child for idealism run amok. That's just how it is, and how it's meant to be, because like most things in life fairy tales are a results-oriented business. The man with the tape measure knows this, but still he will persist. That's because despite the stakes, and the dangers of embarking on destination-defining journeys, attempts at happily ever after are made just about every day.
This is a story about three such flights of fancy. A trio of ventures—one in Seattle, one in Utah and one all the way in Sweden—who are not only trying to find success in pair of industries that supposedly died in the 90s, but whose recipe for doing so it based on combining those two thought-to-be-dead things: arcades and virtual reality.
VRCade Co-Founders Mark Haverstock, Jamie Kelly, and Dave Ruddell (Left to Right) show off an early prototype for their virtual reality arcade system.
So Kelly stayed away from any association with VR though, by his own admission, the original incarnation wasn't even really virtual reality. The initial idea that Kelly posed to co-founder Mark Haverstock was to create what amounted to Laser Tag 2.0. No headsets, no pixelated realms, but rather focused on crafting a uniquely malleable arena that could be programmed to somewhat mimic videogame worlds.
If you can't visualize exactly what this might look like, think of as something like a real-life version of the X-Men's Danger Room. Or don't bother thinking about it, because eventually that's what Kelly and Haverstock had to do. There were too many logistical issues (like price, safety and objects getting lost in the transformation) as well as problems associated with this not actually being a videogame (such as being able to equip players with a map of this volatile terrain).
Even so, they were still interested in exploring some version of this idea: maybe the room didn't need to transform, but instead players could wear glasses or a head mounted display that transformed the room. So they sought advice from a computer scientist friend (and future VRcade co-founder) Dave Ruddell. After initially nixing the idea, he grew more and more fascinated by the challenge—to create the real-life equivalent of a videogame that could be played together by friends—which, along with some breakthroughs in positional tracking, inspired the three guys to keep forging forward.
Given these seemingly unsolvable challenges, the guys had just about given up. Until one evening, very late at night, Kelly stumbled across some interesting information online: NaturalPoint, an Oregon-based company that specialized in optical tracking solutions, had just announced the release of their Prime 41 camera. Billed as the "largest volume motion capture camera in the world" and requiring no more than a perimeter-only setup, the Prime 41 claimed an ability to capture space of 75 x 150 feet.
Seeded with enough funds to finally give this thing a go, the guys were able to purchase the tracking equipment that they need. And in another fortuitous twist, the company Kelly worked for at the time had just acquired a floor in a rundown building that was going to be torn down and rebuilt. But that wasn't going to happen for six months, so they let him and co-founders set up shop in there. They set up cameras around the dilapidated space, wired up a pair of Vuzix video glasses and Ruddell wrote a program that enabled them to test it all out.
With former fantasies now readily within grasp, everything evolved in this fashion. The Vuzix video goggles became a homebrewed pair of suped-up ski goggles, the tangle of cords was replaced by a wireless video module, and years after the supposed deaths of both arcades and virtual reality, the guys were shooting zombies in their makeshift VRcade. This thing was awesome—no, it was absolutely amazing—but it was an amazement enjoyed solely by these three (and whoever they'd bring by for a demo) unless they could figure out a way to scale it.
Early concept images of The Void's Rapture HMD and vest.
James Jensen had big dreams, but he knew well enough not to spring them on Ken Bretschneider and Curtis Hickman right away. Especially because Bretschneider and Hickman were in the middle of some big dreams of their own: a 45-acre, $100 million ever-changing, interactive theme park called Evermore. Although the park would be located in Utah, its fantastical technology promised to usher patrons back in time to Victorian England.
It's hard to say when Jensen had come up with this idea himself. With a deep background in visual effects, motion capture and graphic design, he had been toying with the idea for over a decade but only just starting to believe—especially after seeing Oculus' head mounted display—that the technology existed to effectively bring his dream to life.
Although the optical tracking system wasn't perfectly ideal (the guys still uses an iteration for demos, but recently brought on a nuclear engineer to build a new system based on radio frequencies), the tracking on their prototype was enough to successfully demonstrate that this thing would work. Which, of course, begs the question: what the heck is this thing? VR? AR? Laser Tag 3.0?
We'll get to that shortly, but before addressing the what, it's imperative to first consider the who and the how. That's because the guys who Jensen co-founded this company with didn't come from any tech industries. Hickman had a background in magic and illusions, having previously worked with both Criss Angel and David Copperfield. "So when I told Curtis that he'd have full control of our users' eyes and ears—and everything they touch and see—he was like: oh my gosh, this is a magician's dream." Bretschneider had his feet planted in a few different worlds through the three companies he had previously founded: DigiCert, an SSL certificate provider, People Water, a philanthropic venture and Deep Studios, a full service production studio. Most importantly, however, Bretschneider understood the impact of storytelling on experience. He's the one who actually concepted the idea behind The Void's brand. And that's the how. That's a big part of what the company believes differentiates them from just about anything else on the entertainment spectrum.
Jamie Kelly at one of the first VRCade Openings at Dave and Busters.
Unlike The Void, with its amusement origins and narrative-focused experiences (more on that later), VRcade differed in that—at least initially—they viewed themselves as more befitting more of a traditional arcade model. As such, they were looking for a series of locations where they could try and grow their full-motion gaming platform to scale. But in an era where the power of consoles increasingly trumped the potential of co-operated games, finding such a venue was no easy feat.
Enter: Dave & Busters. Since founding their first restaurant/arcade in 1982, the Dallas-based duo of David Corriveau and James "Buster" Corley had opened over 70 more locations around the country. Though Dave & Buster's touts itself as the "only place to Eat, Drink, Play and Watch Sports!" most people—or at least those of us above 30—know D&B best as the "only place where you can play arcade games like we used to do as kids." Which made it even more of an ideal target for VRcade's Seattle-based thirtysomethings.
In the spirit of that experimentation, Dave & Busters partnered with VRcade to test their wireless wares this past July. Stationed near the entrance to D&B's location in Milpitas, California, visitors were immediately greeted by a black, aluminum structure—about 12 feet tall and 15 feet wide—where, for five dollars, players could don a headset and try to shoot their way to safety in a game called Time Zombies.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, the VRcade guys had expected to attract certain type of demographic: basically themselves, twenty years ago, when they used to roam arcades. But it ended up attracting an audience of all ages, genders and races. Which, along with its financial intake, explains why Dave & Busters is currently continuing to test VRcade systems at various locations around the country. Interestingly enough, they won't release those locations in advance because they want to see how well the setup does without any advertising.
"There is still a lot of research to figure out in order to make the best VR experiences," says Maeva Sponbergs, the Head of Operations and EVP of Communications at Starbreeze. Though it's important to note that even as she says this—even with that clack of cautionary italics—she couldn't sound more optimistic about the future of virtual reality. It's also important to note that she didn't always feel this way.
Like many employees, Sponbergs' upbeat confusion lasted until she sat in a wheelchair to demo an experience based on The Walking Dead and blasted her way through an undead virtual world. That was the first time she felt her brain and body were in tune—when it "really clicked in my brain," as she describes—and from that moment on she was convinced. Which meant that now, as a true believer, it was her job to pay that feeling forward; not only through the software that Starbreeze was and would be creating, but also—via an important acquisition—through a hardware device as well.
In June 2015, Starbreeze acquired InfinitEye VR—a French company who, since 2013, had received attention for its 210-degree HMD prototype—for $2 million. Just days after the deal was announced, Starbreeze introduced their new StarVR headset at E3 with a custom The Walking Dead VR experience. Following E3, Starbreeze continued the momentum by launching an RV tour that brought demos of the game to San Diego Comic Con, Walker Stalker, Pax Prime and other similar conventions.
One of the reasons it worked was because Curtis Hickman had created a key stage illusion that made it all possible. A proprietary redirected walking technique that Hickman calls it the "Infinite Hallway." It solves virtual reality's throughput issue and enables The Void to create infinite worlds.
Which enables The Void to achieve its ultimate objective—something that goes beyond the images and emotions associated with words like "virtual reality" and "arcade"—and transport users to a parallel world. All it takes is a headset and a lightweight backpack (equipped with customized computer) and then, with the flick of a switch, voila! Suddenly you are elsewhere.
It's amazing, it's intoxicating, and it's sci-fi come to life. But, superlatives aside, it also inspires a pragmatic question: How do Jensen, Hickman and Bretschneider entice the masses to visit audiences to visit their infinite worlds of elsewhere?
Like the fairy tales of yore, and like this article you're reading, The Void is counting on the power of story to relay a larger message. "Story," Jensen reiterates. "It's what people get emotionally tied to and excited about it." But he isn't simply referring to the story aspects of a game, experience or unique interaction. He's reverse-engineering entertainment back to its narrative foundation: backstory. And that starts, first and foremost, with The Void itself.
If all this sounds a little distant from arcades, games and virtual reality then, well, mission accomplished. In a way, that's kind of the point.
James Jensen: We're kind of even kicking the term "virtual reality" to the curb because we want to bring people to new worlds. What we're doing is more like a parallel world, because it blends together the physical world with an imaginary one. Whereas virtual reality, from what I saw that was being released, was really like glorified 3D movies. You couldn't do what everybody really wanted to do, which was walk around and go explore, you know?
Jamie Kelly: You need to be able to move; to run and jump and kick and punch and hide and stay still and hold your breath. And the technology that would allow that to happen is so expensive. But by putting it all out of home, there's a way for people to essentially rent it and get an experience that is better than anything they could get at home in this incredibly immersive way.
Maeva Sponbergs: The immersion is everything. It's about actually being able to fool the brain. And, you know, the backbone of Starbreeze is in games development. That's always where we start when we want to look at a project. And so we need to collect feedback from users in order to provide the best experiences.
James Jensen: It all really comes down to experience. That's what people want nowadays. Like people aren't satisfied with the normal movie experience any more, they want more. They want an IMAX theater, they want cushy chairs; they want a heightened experience. But the social part of a theater is really not going to go away. Everybody wants to go out with their buddies and do something.
Jamie Kelly: Even in this generation, people still like to get up and go places. For me, growing up, that place was the arcade or the mall. Even if you had nothing to buy and nothing to do, that's where we'd all go to hang out. And before that, it was soda fountains and libraries and basically whatever public place you could just go and be with friends.
So what we've created is this sort of trifecta of circumstances: We have a system that's wireless and actually works; it's rugged, it's clean, everything. Inside of a location that is public that allows people to just go or watch or consume a brand new medium, which is virtual reality.
Maeva Sponbergs: And it's not until now that we're getting on par with the technology and getting to where we need it to be. Because VR, as I'm sure you're aware, is an old technology. And if this is the second generation of VR, or the second installment of trying to make this work—all of us within the industry—we still feel that there are so many things left to do.
Blake J. Harris is the best-selling author of Console Wars and will be co-directing the documentary based on his book, which is being produced by Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg and Scott Rudin. Currently, he is working on a new book about VR that will be published by HarperCollins in 2017. You can follow him on Twitter @blakejharrisNYC.


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In my career I have met some amazing marketers. Among that group I include Kevin Roberts, CEO of Saatchi & Saatchi. Kevin is a branding visionary. His thinking on the power of lovemarks has inspired me over the years to be a even better brand builder.
In the last three years I've become convinced the concept of a lovemark is a great example of a product branding principle with important reapplication potential in place branding.
A lovemark creates "loyalty beyond reason". It establishes a strong emotional connection between a brand and a consumer. There are a number of consumer product brands that have achieved the status of lovemark. Brands that consumers identify so closely with that they cannot imagine living without them. Think of brands like Apple, Coke, Pampers, and Tide.
But, this isn't a concept that only applies to products, places can also aspire to become lovemarks. Check out the top 50 list of places that Kevin has compiled that have lovemark status. These places have successfully created a deep and positive emotional connection that can be leveraged to increase travel and tourism revenue and/or improved competitiveness for capital investment opportunities.
In my experience, the pursuit of transforming a brand into a lovemark is where you can derive real value because it will challenge you to make better choices on how to strengthen the relevance, competitiveness and authenticity of your brand promise. Deciding to invest in making your location a lovemark will place your community, region or state on a journey that will lead to accelerated job growth and economic prosperity. The journey is not easy, but the benefit of forward progress is definitely worth the work and investment.
What would you need to do to transform your location into a lovemark? Think about it and you will have taken the first step on the path to creating loyalty beyond reason among your citizens and business leaders that will lead to increased capital retention and expansion in your location.
Kevin has delivered a number of speeches on the subject and authored several books. These are great references to help you deepen your knowledge on the subject.
If you prefer, here is a video link of Kevin talking about the concept of lovemarks.
Would you judge your community's brand to be a lovemark? What cities, states or nations would you say have achieved lovemark status? What do you think holds communities back from becoming lovemarks? Share your thoughts by leaving a comment.
I agree that Lovemarks are the king of brands. I agree with almost all of Kevin's choices for the 50 Lovemark places except one – Beirut. Really? I thought this was a war-ravaged location. I understand it once was an oasis – have I missed a newscast or two?
Happy Valentines. It's a great day to think about love for the brands. Where I've been trying to get people to look is to link that love into more power and more profits for the brands. By finding ways to connect, whether it's through the promise, strategy, story, freshness or the experience, it all leads to more power which can then be leveraged into more profits.
I read "Lovemarks" a few years ago and really enjoyed the book. I think FedEx is probably one of my favorite LoveMarks. I wonder – if, any time an organization actually becomes a highly recognized and instantly understood aspect of our language, and the way we describe things – it's well on it's way to becoming a Lovemark, i.e. "…fedex your proposal" – or "…xerox a copy", etc.
As a tangent – In 2009 I had an opportunity to to participate in a branding initiative for a local community college. I created a "ThoughtMark", in conjunction with an identity toolkit (logotype and servicemark) as a visual means for underscoring the relevance of the college brand (knowing full well that logos themselves are not the brand – a brand is essentially a promise, a thought in the minds of consumers). All the market research showed this organization to be highly student centric. And, as the school was a service brand, I knew the brand could be diminished or enhanced at every point of contact. So I conceived a mark that would function as a call to action on the for faculty, administrators and staff to live the brand. This was the basis for the creation of ed.you. If interested, you can see more about what was involved on my Linkedin profile (Brand Standards, etc).


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Prince Andrew 'categorically' denies sex claims
Jeffrey Epstein death
media captionPrince Andrew: 'Going to Pizza Express in Woking is an unusual thing for me to do'
The Duke of York has "categorically" denied having any sexual contact with an American woman, who says she was forced to have sex with him aged 17.
Answering questions about his links to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein in a BBC interview, Prince Andrew said the alleged incidents "never happened".
Virginia Giuffre, one of Epstein's accusers, claimed she was forced to have sex with the prince three times.
The prince said he was at home with his children on one of the occasions.
Prince Andrew, who is the Queen's third child, has been facing questions for several months over his ties to Epstein – an American financier who, at the age of 66, took his own life while awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges.
media captionPrince Andrew says he has wracked his brains but cannot recall any incident involving Virginia Roberts.
Virginia Giuffre – then called Virginia Roberts – has said she was forced to have sex with Prince Andrew between 2001 – when she was 17 – and 2002, in London, New York and Epstein's private island in the US Virgin Islands.
Speaking to BBC Newsnight's Emily Maitlis, the prince said: "It didn't happen. I can absolutely categorically tell you it never happened."
"I have no recollection of ever meeting this lady, none whatsoever."
He said Ms Giuffre's account of him "profusely sweating" and "pouring with perspiration" when they danced at the club on the night in 2001 when she says they first had sex was impossible, because he had a medical condition preventing him from perspiring.
ANALYSIS: 'Little apology or remorse'
TRANSCRIPT: Read Prince Andrew's interview in full
AS IT HAPPENED: Newsnight interview
REACTION: Prince Andrew 'bulldozed' into interview
In an extraordinary interview, which you can watch in full on BBC iPlayer in the UK or YouTube elsewhere in the world, the duke said:
He had investigations carried out to establish whether a photograph of him with Ms Giuffre was faked, but they were inconclusive
He would testify under oath if "push came to shove" and his lawyers advised him to
He was unaware of an arrest warrant against Epstein when he invited him to Princess Beatrice's 18th birthday party at Windsor Castle
He does not regret his friendship with Epstein because of "the opportunities I was given to learn" from him about trade and business
Speaking out about his relationship with the financier had become almost "a mental health issue" for him
Addressing Ms Giuffre's claims that she had dined with the prince, danced with him at a nightclub, and went on to have sex with him at the house of Ghislaine Maxwell, a friend of the prince, in Belgravia, central London, he said "there are a number of things that are wrong with that story".
media captionPrince Andrew on Epstein: 'There was no indication, absolutely no indication'
He said the date when Ms Giuffre says he had sex with her was 10 March 2001, when he had taken his daughter Beatrice to Pizza Express in Woking for a party before spending the night at home.
"Going to Pizza Express in Woking is an unusual thing for me to do," he said. "I remember it weirdly distinctly."
Ms Giuffre described him providing her with alcohol at a nightclub, but Prince Andrew said: "I don't drink, I don't think I've ever bought a drink in Tramps whenever I was there."
BACKGROUND: Who was Jeffrey Epstein?
TIMELINE: Prince Andrew's links to Jeffrey Epstein
GIUFFRE: Prince Andrew 'was an abuser'
On claims he was sweating, he said: "I have a peculiar medical condition which is that I don't sweat or I didn't sweat at the time," he said, blaming it on "an overdose of adrenaline in the Falklands War".
He said he had only started to be able to sweat again "in the recent past".
Asked about a photograph of him and Ms Giuffre being taken at Ghislaine Maxwell's house, he said he had "absolutely no memory" of it.
image sourceVirginia Robertsimage captionThe duke was pictured with his accuser in Ghislaine Maxwell's London home in 2001
"Investigations that we've done" have been unable to prove whether the photograph was faked, he said, "because it is a photograph of a photograph of a photograph".
Prince Andrew said he did not recall going upstairs in that house, said he was not dressed as he usually would be if he was in London and added "we can't be certain as to whether or not that's my hand".
"I'm at a loss to explain this particular photograph," he said.
A thick skin
On the further accusation that he had sex with her in New York, the duke denied he was present at Epstein's home that day, although he had been travelling in the US.
He also denied the claim he had sex with her on Epstein's private island with a group of seven or eight other girls. "Absolutely no to all of it," he said.
Prince Andrew said he never suspected Epstein's criminal behaviour on his visits, describing the house as a busy place with staff like Buckingham Palace.
media captionFootage appears to shows Prince Andrew inside Jeffrey Epstein's New York residence in 2010
He said: "I live in an institution at Buckingham Palace which has members of staff walking around all the time and I don't wish to appear grand but there were a lot of people who were walking around Jeffrey Epstein's house. As far as I aware, they were staff."
But he denied that there were large numbers of underage girls present and said Epstein "may have changed his behaviour patterns not to be obvious to me".
Asked if he would testify under oath, the duke said: "I'm like everybody else and I will have to take all the legal advice that there was before I was to do that sort of thing. But if push came to shove and the legal advice was to do so, then I would be duty bound to do so."
'The wrong thing to do'
The duke rejected the perception of him as "the party prince" in the past, and said "going to Jeffrey's was not about partying, absolutely not".
He said he had first met Epstein through his girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell in 1999 but it was a "stretch" to say they were close friends and they saw each other "a maximum of three times a year".
Prince Andrew acknowledged he had stayed on Epstein's private island, visited his home in Palm Beach, Florida, and travelled on his private plane.
He said he wanted to learn more about the "international business world and so that was another reason" for going to visit the US financier in New York, as the prince became special representative for international trade and investment.
He invited Epstein to Princess Beatrice's 18th birthday at Windsor Castle in July 2006 but said "certainly I wasn't aware" that a warrant had been issued in May for his arrest for sex crimes.
But the duke said he ceased contact with Epstein later that year, until 2010.
Epstein was convicted of soliciting and procuring a minor for prostitution in 2008. The then 55-year-old Epstein received an 18-month prison sentence after prosecutors forged a deal with him.
image sourceNews Syndicationimage captionPrince Andrew said this meeting with Epstein in 2010 was to end their relationship
In July 2010, Epstein was released and in December, Prince Andrew went to visit him in his New York mansion.
Challenged on his decision to stay at the home of a convicted sex offender, he said: "I went there with the sole purpose of saying to him that because he had been convicted, it was inappropriate for us to be seen together."
He stayed several days and attended a dinner party, however. "It was a convenient place to stay," he said, but added "with a benefit of all the hindsight that one can have, it was definitely the wrong thing to do".
The duke denied an account by another guest that he had been seen receiving a foot massage from a Russian woman.
Asked about a picture of him and Epstein taken in Central Park in 2010, Prince Andrew said "somebody very cleverly took that photograph" but that they had not been able to "find any evidence" that Epstein had set it up.
'A sore in the family'
The fallout over Epstein's arrest had been "a constant sore in the family", the prince said.
Following the allegations made against him in a 2015 deposition, Prince Andrew said the wider Royal Family "couldn't be more supportive" and his immediate family "were at a loss".
media captionPrince Andrew: Epstein 'a constant sore in the family'
The duke denied the episode had been damaging to the Queen, but said "it has to me, and it's been a constant drip in the background that people want to know".
He said he would like to be able to give "closure" on the issue but "I'm just as much in the dark as many people".
He said that choosing to talk about the allegations was "almost a mental health issue to some extent for me", adding that "it's been nagging at my mind for a great many years".
Meeting Epstein after his conviction was "the wrong decision and the wrong judgement" but the allegations from Ms Giuffre were "surprising, shocking and a distraction", he said.
But he refused to entirely disavow his relationship with Epstein, saying it had "some seriously beneficial outcomes" that were unrelated to the accusations against them both.
"Do I regret the fact that he has quite obviously conducted himself in a manner unbecoming? Yes," he said.
After interviewer Emily Maitlis challenged him, describing Epstein as a sex offender, the duke said: "Yeah, I'm sorry, I'm being polite."
Prince Andrew & the Epstein Scandal: The Newsnight Interview was shown on BBC Two on 16 November 2019 and can be seen on BBC iPlayer in the UK and the full interview can also be seen on YouTube.
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Micromax Canvas Xpress 4G launched exclusively in Flipkart at Rs 6,599
Micromax has launched its 4G LTE smartphone, named Canvas Xpress 4G, at a price of just Rs 6,599. The smartphone will be exclusively available on the e-commerce website Flipkart.
The Micromax Canvas Xpress 4G features a 5-inch (12.7 cm) HD IPS display that boasts a pixel resolution of 1280 x 720. The handset is powered by a 1GHz Quad Core Mediatek MT6735 processor coupled with 2GB of RAM that ensure a seamless performance. It also comes with 16GB of internal storage which can be expanded up to 32 GB by using a micro SD card. The handset runs on the Android 5.1 Lollipop Operating System. The Xpress 4G comes loaded with a variety of apps such as Chaatz, Clean Master, Hike, Quikr and more.
The handset sports an 8MP rear camera and a 2MP front-facing camera. The Dual Sim (GSM+LTE) smartphone supports 4G LTE connectivity. Other connectivity options include 2G, 3G, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 4.0 and microUSB 2.0. The device is backed by a 2000mAh battery. The battery delivers up to 6.5 hrs of talk time and up to 182 hrs of standby time on 2G connectivity.
With a relatively low price of Rs 6,599, the Micromax Canvas Xpress 4G will compete against similar handsets such as Lenovo A6000 Plus, Xiaomi Redmi 2, YU Yuphoria, Samsung Galaxy J2 and Moto E 4G. The smartphone is available in blue colour variant exclusively via Flipkart.
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PBT Group eyes data and analytics in SA
Staff Writer7 December 2018
Business intelligence company PBT Group said Friday that it aims to position itself as a leading data and analytics company.
Reporting results for the six months ended September 2018, PBT Group said that total revenue from continuing operations for the period was R281 million (September 2017: R283.5 million) with profit before tax for continuing operations being R13.8 million (September 2017: R11.6 million).
The total profit after tax for continuing operations was R7.2 million (September 2017: loss of R1.6 million).
During the period under review, PBT Group finalised and implemented the disposal of two non-core assets, i.e. Prescient Capital and equity shares in Prescient Holdings. Accordingly, this has been accounted for as discontinued operations in the financial statements.
PBT Group said that operating expenses increased over the period mainly as a result of large once-off expenditures relating to the expansion into Europe and resultant setup costs. Due to internal restructuring some expenses were reallocated from cost of sales to operating expenses during the period.
Headline earnings per share (HEPS) was 0.23 cents per share, versus a prior loss of 0.33 cents per share.
South African market
Despite a challenging South African economy, the phasing out of the MEA business unit and adopting new learnings, all in the same period under review, PBT Group has positioned itself well for the future, the company said.
As a direct result of successful PoC's in Europe, projects have been secured on the three major cloud platforms, namely Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services (AWS), whilst we are also at the forefront with regards to Visualisation trends, it said.
PBT Group said that its local business is involved in two major initiatives. "The cognitive project at one of the leading financial institutions in South Africa is a stepping stone to strategically position ourselves as the leading data and analytics company, not only in South Africa, but potentially in Europe as well.
"The open source technology applied in this project is in high demand worldwide across industries."
Another project of importance is the renewal project in partnership with one of the leading global business consulting and audit firms, it said.
"The technology used in this instance broadens our industry scope to manufacturing, an industry with considerable AI possibilities. The reskilling of the existing PBT Group consulting base will inevitably require capital investment to adopt to new data trends. Our more traditional business remains stable and in demand and should remain as such for the foreseeable future."
PBT Group said that the capacity model for Europe is taking shape, which will not only create foreign revenue, but also opportunity to apply experience vice versa, as well as the prospect for consultants to work abroad. "Altogether, a period full of action, with a foundation having been laid for a new wave and exciting time ahead," it said.
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