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The Science Behind Discworld's Flat Earth on the Back of a Turtle
By Ian Stewart, edited by Gareth Jenkins
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The world is flat, and resting on the backs of four elephants who, in turn, stand upon the back of a giant, space-faring turtle. Welcome to Terry Pratchett's Discworld. How does it all work? Pratchett, along with Professors Ian Stewart and Jack Cohen, explain it all in The Science of Discworld IV.
Not everything made it into the book, and Stewart gives us a peek at some of the missing material:
Terry Pratchett, Jack Cohen and I recently completed the fourth book in the popular science series The Science of Discworld. The format of these books combines a fantasy short story, set in Terry's Discworld, with scientific commentary about the real universe. Discworld runs on magic (things do what people want them to—if they know the right spells) and narrativium (things do what the story requires them to). It is flat, supported on four giant world-bearing elephants which stand on the back of an even larger space-faring turtle. The turtle swims through space, so it needs no further support. Our own universe, or ambiguously our planet, appears in the story as the Roundworld Project. This is a magical construct inside which magic does not work and the rules of science, the laws of nature, apply instead. The wizards of Discworld have a different idea from us regarding which world is real, but that's their problem. They do find a world without magic puzzling: nothing seems to make sense.
This format has some very useful features for writing popular accounts of science. The main one is that since the scientific action always takes place inside Roundworld, the scientific chapters are genuine real-world science. Additionally, any scientific topic might in principle be discussed. There is no limitation to 'explaining' Discworld fantasy elements in terms of science, which is how most 'science of' books—Star Trek, Harry Potter, The X-files, Santa Claus—go about this kind of mixture. So there's no obstacle, in principle, to us eventually getting to The Science of Discworld 42, or whatever.
In the first Science of Discworld, the wizards of Unseen University accidentally bring Roundworld into existence, and witness the origins of the universe, the solar system, the Earth, bacterial life, complex life and apes. They, unfortunately, fast-forward through the entire history of humanity, returning to Roundworld just in time to see something fleeing an approaching ice-age, leaving behind the wreckage of its space elevators.
The second book of the series sees elves invade Roundworld and disturb the course of history. But when the wizards kick them out, humanity degenerates into a primitive state and nothing interesting happens. Eventually the wizards get William Shakespeare and Isaac Newton born, and the seeds of today's world are re-established. The third Science of Discworld relates to how interference by the Auditors of Reality, the ultimate cosmic health-and-safety officers, get Charles Darwin to write the wrong book: The Ology of Species, not The Origin. The creative tensions and debates between science and religion, which occurred in Victorian times, never happen, and humanity falls into a state of comfortable complacency. Which means they will not be inventive enough to escape that coming ice age. With difficulty, the wizards get Roundworld back on track.
The fourth, and most recent, book in the series hinges upon events in Discworld rather than Roundworld. On the Disc there is an ancient religion, Omnianism, which believes Discworld is round. Despite all the evidence, they do not believe in the turtle or the elephants. Seeing the Roundworld Project as an infringement of their theological property rights, they launch a legal case to gain custody. Naturally, the wizards dispute their claim.
This scenario allows us to examine, in the science chapters, a variety of issues. In particular, we look at how scientists can try to infer the shape of their world, or the universe itself, when they are unable to get outside it and take a direct look. For the Earth, we can now do that, but scientists mapped out the entire planet long before we could get into orbit. We still don't have that luxury for the universe as a whole, and it's hard to see how we could ever get it.
The commentary discusses a key feature of science, one that many non-scientists fail to appreciate: science is mainly about inference from experiments and theories, not direct observation. The ancient Greeks inferred the spherical form of the Earth thousands of years ago, by logical inference from phenomena that they could observe, such as the planet's shadow on the Moon during an eclipse and the way boats seemed to sink below the horizon as they headed out to sea. Today we infer the temperature at the centre of the sun from our understanding of nuclear reactions, but no person or instrument has ever been there to check. The majority of scientific knowledge rests on inference, not on direct observation. Indeed, that's what theories are for.
I don't want to give away the contents of the book, so I'll focus here on a short passage that we cut out, at a late stage, because the chapter about the shape of the Earth was getting too long. It illustrates how science often pursues ideas that eventually turn out to be wrong. Critics often try to convince us that this tendency means that scientists haven't got a clue, but actually it reveals their willingness to seek fresh evidence and adapt to it. As the saying goes: "You can't trust scientists. when new evidence comes along, they change their minds."
The topic that we deleted concerned the short-lived hypothesis that the Earth might be expanding.
On the Beagle voyage, Charles Darwin observed fossil shells at high altitudes, showing that the Andes mountains had been uplifted though thousands of metres. He suggested that this might be explained if the Earth were expanding, but he quickly changed his mind, proposing instead that as some land rose, parts of the seabed descended to compensate. Several early geologists noticed the way the west coast of Africa resembles the east coast of South America, suggesting that those continents have moved apart. Roberto Mantovani explained this as the effect of the Earth expanding, so that its surface area increased. Continental rocks of fixed area would necessarily break up, and the pieces would move apart. In 1889 and 1909, he proposed that originally the planet's entire surface was covered in a shell of rock. Internal heating caused the planet to expand, and the expansion was fastest at the 'rip zones' down the middle of the oceans. This led to today's geographical distribution of land and ocean.
Contrariwise, James Dwight Dana thought that the Earth contracted as time passed. This was caused by global cooling as our planet radiated its heat away into space. Dana's theory seemed to explain some puzzling features of our planet's geophysics, in particular mountains, which were wrinkles in its skin caused by shrinkage. Early in the 20th century, Eduard Suess explained earthquakes in terms of a contracting planet and Robert T. Hill wrote that
"…rocks are being folded, fractured and otherwise broken or deformed by the great shrinking and settling of the earth's crust as a whole... The prehistoric convulsions of the earth before man inhabited this planet were terrific, almost inconceivable."
The ring of fire round the Pacific ocean, riddled with volcanoes, could be explained in a similar manner.
The contracting Earth hypothesis is now considered disproved, by a variety of evidence. In particular we now know that radioactive elements inside the Earth provide a significant source of heat. And the occurrence of the same fossil species on either side of the Atlantic argues against contraction. Oddly, some geological ('hermeological'?) features of the planet Mercury, namely cliffs, are currently explained by global cooling, and the same goes for comparable features on the Moon. Neither body has a source of internal heat that is comparable to the Earth's.
Expanding Earth theories bear some resemblance to Alfred Wegener's continental drift, and seek to explain the same features. But Wegener did not think the planet was getting bigger. The discovery that the Earth's surface is composed of gigantic, moving tectonic plates provided a credible mechanism for Wegener's idea. Before the plates were found, continental drift was generally held to be at least as absurd as an expanding or contracting Earth.
Perhaps ironically, today's cosmologists have found strong evidence that the entire universe is expanding. It's pretty convincing, but there are some loopholes and some inconvenient observations that cast a small amount of doubt on current proposals for how the expansion got started and how it subsequently developed. Maybe in the future an expanding universe hypothesis will seem just as absurd as an expanding Earth. I think that's wildly unlikely, but because the expanding universe theory rests on inference from something that happened over 13 billion years ago, I wouldn't rule it out completely. Maybe we should send the wizards back to find out.
This article was originally published on The University of Warwick's Knowledge Centre and is reproduced here with their permission.
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Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa – Golden Oldies
November 24, 2013 October 2, 2014 / Reshoot&Rewind
Director: Jeff Tremaine
Writers: Jeff Tremaine, Johnny Knoxville
Stars: Johnny Knoxville, Jackson Nicoll, Greg Harris, Georgina Cates
Distributor: Paramount Pictures
Best part: Knoxville and Nicoll's chemistry.
Worst part: The bodily function jokes.
Normally, the most successful movies find an amicable balance of entertainment value and intelligence. With Oscar season approaching, we seek out particular movies to inspire and enlighten. However, this season also yields a crop of laugh-out-loud comedies. Sure, these two 'genres' clash over viewer interest. However, they each have their overwhelming benefits. This year, MTV's Jackass crew has returned. Whether their return excites or frightens audiences, its fair to say they've had a significant impact on pop culture. Specifically, the stunt crew launched careers and buried livelihoods. This series, appreciated and aped by adolescents throughout the mid 2000s, set records and defied logic. So where to next for this advantageous gold mine?
Johnny Knoxville & Jackson Nicoll.
To keep the phenomenon fresh and vibrant, Johnny Knoxville and the gang needed to take it in a new direction. Despite Knoxville's character Bad Grandpa already being a fan favourite, the latest cinematic Jackass instalment focuses on this golden oldie throughout its 90 min run-time. This premise is certainly a shaky one. Spending an entire Jackass movie with one character could've run this series into the ground. Fortunately, like its main character, Bad Grandpa maintains its high-spirits and enthusiasm. Despite the glorious humour, this instalment starts out on a low note (in a sense). Irving Zisman (Knoxville) sits in a waiting room to hear news of his wife's health. Creepily studying the suggestive pictures in a waiting room magazine, he is thrilled to hear of his wife(an unrecognisable Catherine Keener)'s passing. With his wife leaving him blue-balled since the 1990s, Zisman is eager to share his love with everyone in existence. This disgusting old-timer, however, is stuck with an irritating dilemma. Thanks to his daughter's up-coming jail-time, he's forced to look after his 8-year-old grandson Billy (Jackson Nicoll). Labelling him a "cock-block", Zisman must support his grandson's endeavours and needs. Striking a deal with Billy's shady redneck dad Chuck (Greg Harris) to obtain custody, Zisman drives Billy across America to drop him off. Along the way, Zisman and Billy encounter several colourful characters and destructive tendencies. Despite the uncomfortable familial situation (one of many difficult moments here), Zisman and Billy form a surreal and destructive bond.
The big, bad finale.
Part of the mid-00's surge of mockumentary-comedies, Jackass is a bonafide success. Along with the long-running TV series, the movies quickly reached critical and commercial success. Despite its 13 year existence, the masses turn out each time to witness these concerning individuals and sycophantic experiments. With Ryan Dunn's tragic death in 2011, Steve-O's comedy career in full swing, and Bam Margera prominently writing, directing, and skateboarding, the Jackass series was seemingly passed its prime. However, out of the ashes, Knoxville and co. have developed an interesting twist on the Jackass 'legend'. Believe it or not, a Jackass movie with discernible plot-points and multi-dimensional characters actually exists now! This courageous effort, marked by several baffling stunts and bold performances, may bring this series back into full swing. Despite the societal preconceptions and sickening toilet humour, this series commendably sticks to its guns. Sure to have many bored housewives up in arms ("Won't somebody please think of the children!?"), Bad Grandpa delivers yet another assault on the senses and brain cells. Despite its disturbing jokes and stereotypes, there is more to this gross-out comedy than meets the eye. Like Sacha Baron Cohen's material (Borat, in particular), Bad Grandpa aims to ruffle feathers, churn stomachs, and shorten fuses. Despite lacking a satirical edge, the movie explores society's tolerance levels. Despite social media's crippling cultural stranglehold, this beer drinking 8-year-old and perverted old-timer aptly test our behaviour toward these two contrasting age groups. Bad Grandpa also touches upon a bizarre and stupefying legacy. Dealing with physical, mental, and emotional turmoil, Bad Grandpa stresses Knoxville's distorted life perspective. Despite voiding the previous three movies' major stunts, Knoxville's optimistic outlook and maturity levels are placed in the spotlight here. The story, mixing zany stunts, a road trip, and a kooky buddy team-up, is filled with been-there-done-that concepts. Despite the predictability, the story soon becomes filler for this instalment's many elaborate set-pieces. Despite this, certain scenes are surprisingly touching (but not in a creepy way!). Funnily enough, a protective and well-meaning bikie gang provides this movie with some much-needed sincerity and heart.
"Nope! If I was fixing it you'd see me fixing it but, did you notice how I wasn't fixing it?" (Irving Zisman (Johnny Knoxville), Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa).
Grandpa & grandson.
Despite the humanistic moments and zippy characters, the humour is strangely hit and miss. Bad Grandpa, going up against Jackass 2's terrorist prank and Jackass 3D's portaloo flinging sequence, can't raise the stakes. With significantly fewer pranksters, Knoxville restricts himself to sustainable yet clever set-pieces. Here, Zisman preys upon class, gender, and race, and serves them up on a silver platter. His disastrous antics push boundaries and cause several heated debates. His behaviour, defined by outrageous gross-out humour, places Zisman on a pedestal whilst comparing him to the stunned faces and concerned citizens surrounding him. With Zisman penetrating a vending machine, shoplifting, and tricking people into carrying his wife's corpse, Bad Grandpa hurriedly launches into awkward moments and kinetic slapstick humour. One scene, involving a dingy strip club, will scar and debilitate viewers. Unfortunately, Bad Grandpa cuts several jokes short before they can reach their potential. In addition, the movie's marketing spoils several potentially intriguing gags. The Little Miss Sunshine-esque beauty pageant sequence (capping off this instalment) and kiddie ride stunt sorely lack punchiness and nuance. Courageously, Knoxville puts 110% into this slimy yet engaging character. Offering a "serving of Irving" to every black woman within his personal space, Zisman's inappropriateness and guile help deliver the movie's standout moments. Move over Bad Santa, Bad News Bears, and even Bad Boys, Irving Zisman now owns that word! Thankfully, Nicoll also provides a charismatic performance. Searching each city for a father figure (one of the movie's best gags), Billy proves to be a significant foil. Billy's wit-fuelled and questionable antics provide suitable relief from Zisman's saggy body-parts and curmudgeonly attitude. The lead characters' chemistry lifts Bad Grandpa above expectations.
With such disastrously unfunny comedies as Movie 43, The Incredible Burt Wonderstone, and Identity Thief released this year, Bad Grandpa is a breath of fresh air (somewhat). Refreshing, shocking, and heartening – the movie, saved by fun performances and clever gags, is a roller-coaster ride of bodily functions, sadistic pranks, expletives, and embarrassing pratfalls. Just avoid the trailers at all costs!
Verdict: A hilarious, surprising, and touching gross-out comedy.
Comedy, Franchise, Gross out humour, Hidden camera, Jackass, Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa, Jackson Nicoll, Jeff Tremaine, Johnny Knoxville, MTV Films
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No Lions on TV at Berkley American Legion post because of NFL protests
Wright Wilson
Special to the Detroit Free Press
Because football players are taking a knee, American Legion Post 374 is taking a stand.
The Berkley social club for military veterans is fed up with NFL players who refuse to stand during the national anthem, so the post officers are protesting the protesters.
The executive board passed a resolution -- posted throughout the club room and on the exterior of the building -- stating, "This post will not participate with any individual, group or organization that disrespects or knowing allows the disrespecting of our Constitution, United States or American Flag, or our National Anthem."
That means that the club won't show televised games involving teams on which players have outwardly demonstrated during the anthem -- specifically, the San Francisco 49ers, Seattle Seahawks, Denver Broncos, Miami Dolphins, Kansas City Chiefs and Los Angeles Rams.
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The Detroit Lions are playing the Rams on Sunday. And Post 374 won't show it, even though members realize they'll likely lose some business.
"We've watched customers walk out, and they'll go down the street (to a bar) where they can see a ballgame," senior vice commander Buddy Wells said. "I don't know what the right answer is. Maybe we don't air the national anthem. Maybe they shouldn't put (protesting players) on national TV."
"We do take a hit because people come in to our clubhouse to watch games; a lot of times, we'll have food specials and stuff. We can't do it right now," said post commander Tom Bustance, 74, who served four years in the Vietnam War as a tactical wing with the Air Force. "We're all veterans; we respect our country, we fought for our country, we respect our flag and our constitution."
San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick, who will start for the first time Sunday, started the movement and was singled out by Bustance.
"First, he was kneeling, then he was doing the fist up," Bustance said. "I just thought it was disrespectful to our country, so I got with our executive committee members, and we decided that we weren't going to show the games that those six teams play in. Unfortunately, it's now spread to at least 12 teams and now college football, and it's kind of put us in a bad situation that we're not having many games to watch. But we took a position on it, and you've kind of got to live with your position."
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Last week -- as the 49ers were playing the Arizona Cardinals on Thursday Night Football -- patrons socialized while the post showed the baseball playoff game between the Cleveland Indians and Boston Red Sox instead.
Post 374 can barely afford to take any more financial hits. Last year, it came close to having its building repossessed when it was determined that two former managers absconded with club funds. A gofundme.com campaign produced $88,000 -- enough for the post to settle up its mortgage and water bill, although the club is working out a plan to settle taxes still owed to the state.
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"We're doing a lot of fundraisers: Sunday breakfasts, on Friday night, we do a steak fry," Bustance said. "We're working a lot to dig our way out, but I don't think the NFL will send us a check for the money we've lost not airing their games."
One of the core American Legion objectives is to "foster and perpetuate a 100% Americanism," and Bustance says he realizes that players are exercising their constitutionally protected right to free speech. He just wishes that they would find some other way to do it that doesn't "disrespect the national anthem and our flag."
"I say you (protest), but you don't do it on the NFL stage where everyone has to watch it," he said. "I thought, 'How disrespectful that is to our servicemen.' What their cause seems to be is police brutality, which is not the armed forces, it's the local police departments. Look how many Americans died on 9-11 and how many first responders died going to save those people. I think that Kaepernick and every player deserves to have to stand, out of respect for those people who died."
Said the 45-year-old Wells, who served four tours of duty in Iraq as an Army battalion commander: "I think they forget there's still men and women serving in harm's way, and we have nothing but support for those people. That's what it's all about. Without them, they wouldn't be playing football for a living."


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Critical security measures government agencies are overlooking
By Kevin Pickhardt
Cyberattack vectors continue to multiple, and there are commonly overlooked security measures that government agencies and service organizations should be managing. (matejmo/Getty Images)
Cyberattacks can happen in any industry, but when a government agency is attacked, the consequences can be especially dire. Such fears recently came to light in Kansas when a cybersecurity firm tested the state's government security and discovered that a handful of printers accessible on its network weren't password protected. Using information from a single unprotected printer, the security firm was able to compromise the entire domain.
But better password implementation would not be enough to fully protect against even moderately skilled hackers. Creating a comprehensive shield against cyberattacks is a process that never really ends, and many areas tend to fall through the cracks. Here are three commonly overlooked security measures that government agencies and service organizations should be managing:
Secure your print environment
The U.S. government spent $28 billion combating cyberattacks in 2016, but despite these figures, print security is still too often overlooked. People tend to forget that modern printers are sophisticated network computers. If hackers break into a network printer, they can access any documents that machine processed or remotely print offensive material. Worst-case scenario: Hackers can roam freely through your network, steal data, install spyware or shut systems down completely.
On top of all that, significant privacy concerns often exist when something is printed. Too often, confidential documents are printed and then forgotten in the device output tray. When sensitive information is left on a printer for anyone to pick up, you can imagine the potential consequences.
Government agencies are seeking ways to function more securely while also managing financial pressure and higher efficiency expectations. This is why agencies are increasingly turning to secure pull printing solutions to improve printer security and document confidentiality while also reducing costs.
In an environment with secure pull printing, employees submit their print jobs to a secured queue and use their access cards or company credentials to "pull" their printed documents from whichever network printer is most convenient. This way, employees are always physically present at the device to collect their documents, which significantly improves confidentiality and reduces wasteful reprints. In addition to locking down printers and securing print workflows, this technology also improves efficiency and reduces printing costs.
Manage BYOD carefully
Managing work emails on personal devices is becoming more common. But a "bring your own device" (BYOD) culture introduces more opportunities for mistakes, such as unintentionally accessing malware on a device that may later be used for government work.
Crowd Research Partners recently reported that 39 percent of organizations utilizing BYOD have encountered malware in their networks. And 35 percent of organizations surveyed weren't conducting security checks on devices, so these problems were going unnoticed.
BYOD risks include inadvertently handing over access credentials or releasing data due to a lost or stolen device. One way to avoid these problems is to make use of remote control policies. When a device is lost, you can wipe sensitive data remotely. Android and Apple devices both have this capability as well as the option to track lost phones or tablets in case a full wipe can be avoided.
Protect against social engineering hacks
According to Inc., 12 out of the past 20 major attacks on corporations involved social engineering, the modern-day con. These attacks rely on human interaction, during which the hacker tricks someone into breaking normal security procedures in order to gain access to systems or sensitive information. One former Anonymous hacker said that every attack by the group involved social engineering in some form because a relationship with a person is the easiest way into an organization.
Government agencies need to refine their social media policies and get specific with employees about what not to share online. You can't make every employee keep everything about his or her life a secret, but you can educate employees about the dangers of careless social media interactions and the potential ramifications.
A security awareness education program can give employees the tools to understand and avoid these and other dangers. Additionally, a comprehensive security audit can help identify specific vulnerabilities within your organization so you can make the proper adjustments to your security protocols.
Everyone agrees that cybersecurity is essential in all areas of business and public service, but not everyone incorporates print security, personal devices, and social media activity into their security strategies. Don't let these often overlooked vectors leave you vulnerable to attacks.
Kevin Pickhardt is the CEO of Pharos Systems International, an enterprise print solutions provider based in Rochester, New York.
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Eosentomon madagascariense – gatunek pierwogonka z rzędu Eosentomata i rodziny Eosentomidae.

Taksonomia
Gatunek opisany został w 1978 przez Josefa Noska, a jego nazwa gatunkowa nawiązuje do miejsca występowania.

Występowanie
Gatunek ten jest endemitem Madagaskaru.

Przypisy

Eosentomidae
Pierwogonki Madagaskaru
Gatunki i podgatunki zwierząt nazwane w 1978 roku


The property consists of an old trullo which is set over two levels, each level housing a double bedroom, bathroom and kitchenette. This layout makes it a great option for groups who maybe travelling together but who are looking to enjoy a degree of privacy and independence at the same time. Onto this space the owners have added an extension comprising a large living area with comfortable sofas arranged around a central fireplace and a bar area to the opposite side of the room. There is also a well equipped kitchen here, two further bedrooms (one double and one which can be arranged as either a twin or double room) and two further bathrooms.
Outside, there is a lovely pool area with adjacent covered pergola, arranged with plenty of seating for al fresco dining as well as for more informal outdoor sofa and chairs. There is a BBQ for those that enjoy al fresco dining and guests are welcome to help themselves to any seasonal produce grown within the extensive vegetable patch within the grounds.
Just a kilometre from Ostuni and the nearest bars and restaurants, it's a great location from which to explore the beautiful region of Puglia. Ostuni enjoys a fantastic weekly market every Saturday which is great fun to visit. Don't forget to haggle to secure that holiday bargain!


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Earthquake hypocenters and travel time residuals have been analysed to constrain the geometry and physical state of the subducted Indian plate in the Indo-Burmese convergence zone. A critical analysis of earthquake hypocenters reveals the existence of a non-uniform Benioff zone, progressively shortening from north to south. The deepest level of seismicity is observed beneath the Naga hills (160 km) followed by that under the Chin hills (120 km) and Arakan-Yoma ranges (80 km). The region seems to be devoid of moderate sized shallow (< 40 km) earthquakes. Differential travel time residuals from pairs of shallow and intermediate depth earthquakes recorded at teleseismic distances show significantly faster travel time (up to l.2s) in the north-northeast and south-southwest azimuths, whilst slower arrivals (1.2 to 1.5 s) are recorded in the transverse direction. This observation points to the presence of a high velocity slab possibly linked to the subduction of the Indian oceanic lithosphere.
Guizhou is one of the dominating karst regions, where laterite is widespread, in China. Seventy-two laterite samples were taken from twelve laterite sections in the karst areas of Guizhou Province, which are possessed of typical subtropical karst geomorphological and ecological environmental features and have evolved completely from dolostones and limestones. In terms of the major, trace and REE data for the samples this paper discusses the geochemical characteristics of laterite in the karst areas with an attempt to disclose the geochemical process and evolutionary rule of laterite formation. There have been involved three important pedogenetic geochemical precesses in the formation of laterite in the karst areas: (1) enrichment of silicon and aluminum and depletion of calcium and magnesium; (2) enrichment of iron and manganese; and (3) enrichment of aluminum and depletion of silicon. During the formation and evolution of laterite, obvious enrichment and differentiation of trace elements such as Cu, Pb, Zn, Ni, Co, Cr, Rb, F, Cl, and As can be observed, but for the rare-earth elements, their enrichment is remarkable against a weak differentiation. The REE distribution patterns in the laterite are similar to those of its parental carbonate rocks.
The conditions under which gold and arsenic are enriched separately during mineralization in gold deposits in southwestern Guizhou Province were described and the thermodynamic calculations gave: 200–150°C at 400 × 10−6 -300 × 106 Pa (corresponding to a depth between 1.6 km and 1.2 km); lgf o2,−40 to -35 Pa; lgf s2, -20 to−16 Pa; pH 5.0 -4.2 and Eh -0.53 V.
In this study an overview is given of the time series analysis of monthly mean data of physical, chemical and biological parameters. The time series are available at eight locations on the Northwest European Shelf. The integrated evaluation of those time series gives the opportunity to look for connections between the different parts of the shelf. Temperature and salinity seem to be externally forced. For the nutrients and biological parameters the local forcing is dominating the time series. It is concluded that there are areas that are comparable to each other (freshwater dominated boxes along the Belgian and Dutch coasts and German Bight; Atlantic dominated boxes in the English Channel and off the Scottish coast), although significant cross-correlations are hardly found. The Irish Sea can be regarded as a separate ecosystem.
Near-bottom current meter data recorded between 0.6 and 500 metres above bottom (mab) at two manganese nodule sites in the deep Peru Basin are discussed with respect to the vertical current structure and the formation and variability of the benthic boundary layer (BBL) and its sublayers. The data reveal a weak current regime with great spatial and temporal variability and a bottom intensification at about 30–50 mab. The BBL height varies according to the daily mean values of flow above the BBL, reaching maximally 150 to 200 metres.
Laboratory and field experiments on the dissolution of oil showed that the quantity of the dissolved oil component in the seawater depends on its solubility, concentration in the pertroleum, and the environmental conditions. The vertical oil concentration in calm sea decreases exponentially with depth. The vertical diffusion coefficients and dissolution constants of the N-paraffin from C12 to C21, total iso-paraffin, cycle-paraffin and aromatic components in calm sea were calculated, and the oil dissolution into seawater was determined to be about 0.52% in 48 h for No. 0 light diesel oil.
Radiosonde data from Jodhpur, taken at 0530, 1730 and around 1100 hr IST during MONTBLEX 1990, reveal that the distribution of virtual potential temperature0v below about 500 hPa has a structure characterized by up to three layers each of approximately constant gradient. We are thus led to introduce a characterization of the observed thermal structure through a sequence of the symbolsN, S andU, standing respectively for neutral, stable or unstable conditions in the different layers, beginning with the one closest to the ground. It is found that, of the 29 combinations possible, only the seven classes,S, SS′, SNS′, NS, NSS′, USS′ andUNS are observed, whereS′ stands for a stable layer with a different gradient of0r. than in the layerS. It is also found that, in 90% of the launches at 0530 hr, 48% of the launches at 1730 hr and 69% of the launches around 1100 hr, the first radiosonde layer near the ground is stable; the classical mixed layer was found in only 11 % of the data set analysed, and, if present on other occasions, must have been less than 250 m in height, the first level at which radiosonde data are available. Supplementing the above data, sodar echograms, available during 82% of the time between June and August 1990, suggest a stable layer up to a few tens of metres 48% of the time. A comparative study of the radiosonde data at Ranchi shows that the frequent prevalence of stability near the surface at Jodhpur cannot be attributed entirely to the large scale subsidence known to be characteristic of the Rajasthan area. Further, data at Jodhpur reveal a weak low level jet at heights generally ranging from 400 to 900 m with wind speeds of 6 to 15 m/s. Based on these results, it is conjectured that the lowest layers in the atmosphere during the monsoons, especially with heavy clouding or rain, may frequently be closer to the classical nocturnal boundary layer than to the standard convective mixed layer, although often with shallow plumes that penetrate such a stable layer during daytime.
The marine chroococooid phycoerythrin-containingSynechococcus spp. cyanobacterium has been implicated as a substantial component of the photosynthetic picoplankton in the ocean. Although its importance as food source for heterotrophic nanoplankton is now recognized, information about the cycling ofSynechococcus biomass and its diel pattern is limited and study methodology varies among authors. The selective metabolic inhibitor method was used to simultaneously estimate growth and grazing disappearance rates ofSynechococcus in the English Channel where growth rates ranged from 0.25 to 0.72/d (mean ±SD=0.51±0.17/d) and grazing mortality rates ranged from 0.19 to 0.64/d (mean ±SD=0.48±0.17/d). Size-fractionated experiments demonstrated that up to 70% ofSynechococcus disappearance could be attributed to grazers going through a 2 μm Nuclepore filter.Synechococcus grazing mortality rates (mean=0.74 ±0.25/d) during the day were always higher than that (mean=0.2±0.20/d) during the night, while growth rates showed no clear diel pattern. A positive correlation was observed between growth rates andin situ temperature ranging from 9 to 17°C, while in contrast grazing was independent of temperature. The close similatiry between average growth and grazing rates suggests a rapid recycling ofSynechococcus biomass in English Channel coastal waters.


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Weekend Surprise: Unraveling Royal Descent
I received my eagerly-anticipated copy of Martin Hollick's revised edition of New Englanders in the 1600s. It now sits beside its well-used predecessor, and contains even more families, detailing all modern scholarship which has been performed on a given individual or family from 1980-2010. I use it constantly for work, but rarely ever sat down with it to review my own early New England lines, and became inspired to do so this weekend.
I'm always touting the significance of using current, scholarly research, since so many early genealogical works contained errors, small or large, which were then repeated ad nauseum throughout subsequent books – and then with the advent of the internet, exponentially spread far and wide. But then along comes a modern article published in a respected genealogical or historical journal which corrects those mistakes, or discovers brand new avenues of research. Thankfully, many of those articles are becoming available online, particularly through NEHGS, and are therefore easier to access. With that in mind, I am a bit sorry to admit that up until this point, I have never truly sat down to evaluate my early New England lines. The excuses? Sure! Working for the past five years at NEHGS, I often had clients and patrons ancestors running through my head instead of my own. And when I did have some time to work on my lines, I tended to focus on either the brick walls on my father's lines, or the complete unknowns on my mother's lines. Dad was lucky enough to come from several generations which had at least one or two people interested in genealogy, beginning with my great-great-great-grandmother Imogene (Everson) McClellan, and therefore I inherited a big chunk of work already "done" (especially those early New England lines) – whereas my mother, who descends entirely from Irish immigrants who ended up in Boston, had no idea what her roots were beyond the immediate family that she knew. And then of course I married and gained a whole new set of lines to research, since my husband's British father knew nothing concrete beyond his mother in London, and my husband's mother had only two generations back to Italy, with various details to be discovered. Add to that the fact that between me and many of my Great Migration ancestors are 13-14 generations. At 14 generations of ancestry, one has a whopping 16,382 ancestors – quite an overwhelming number of people to study exhaustively. So that's a few mea culpas to add to the mix!
Grandma Imogene's genealogical research, which largely dates from the first decade of the 20th century, was placed on the "someday" pile to review, and her beautiful fan charts were copied into my Rootsmagic software as tentative. Imogene's work deserves a full blog entry – or several – as I have been lucky enough to inherit several wonderful pieces of her research. Handwritten letters to and from town clerks across New England, her notes on various contemporary published genealogies, her ancestral charts, as well as primary documents from her father's line, including some of his deeds and probate (and those of his ancestors), as well as material culture such as quilts and silverware [which has been occasionally highlighted in previous entries].
Imogene descended entirely from early New England roots. And even after just one weekend of digging deeper at her research, it is quite impressive how much of her work holds up to this day. Many little red flags showed up, particularly around the identities of wives of Great Migration immigrants and other 17th century wives, who were falsely identified in genealogies dating to the 1800s – which of course is what Imogene would have been using as her reference works. I developed a folder for all the Great Migration sketches pertaining to her ancestors from Robert Charles Anderson's series. Imogene's work was essentially limited to mere names and dates, so works such as the Great Migration are a wonderful way to access modern scholarship which fully documents the lives of those immigrants (the good, the scandalous, and the mundane!).
So far, so good in terms of general accuracy. But then I worked my way to the Big Two: Imogene's two gateway ancestors to royal descent. Any wagers on the conclusion? Both lines were completely bogus, perpetuated by early authors hoping to connect early New England immigrants (with no known ancestry) to more noble families in England with the same surname.
BOGUS GATEWAY ANCESTORS:
1. John Dingley of Marshfield, Plymouth, Mass. Supposedly John's Dingley line connected to the Neville line, which connected to Beauchamp, and eventually to King Edward III, King Edward II, King Edward I, Henry III, King John, King Henry II, Empress Matilda, King Henry I, and William of Normandy. However, according to TAG 56:207-210 and 61:234-40, John Dingley was unlikely to be the son of the couple Francis Dingley and Elizabeth Bigge who descended from the Neville line.
2. John Churchill of Plymouth. Many attempts to connect him with the ancestry of Sir William Churchill, which ties into a royal bastard line. But his origins remain unknown.
That eliminated all of Imogene's royal lines. I wasn't all too surprised to discover it. And frankly I equally love discovering new lines as much as I love disproving false ones. At work I had a running log of bogus "Indian princess" lines as well as a log of particularly egregious 19th century historians who not only made mistakes, but outright fabricated lies and documentary evidence (including writing false vital records on a piece of paper and then dipping it in tea to make the paper seem historic!). But there was a certain appeal to claiming descent from Charlemagne.
Then I began thinking about my extended family. As I mentioned, Imogene's work has been known in the family since the early 1900s – that's quite a few generations who took some pride in their royal descent. In my father and grandmother's generations, quite a few uncles, aunts, and cousins have taken frequent trips to the British Isles, seeking out their "ancestral castles" along the way. Did I have the heart to break it to them?
I called it a night. On Sunday I went back to investigating a few more of Imogene's lines, to continue adding documentation to her lines, and discovered that an "unknown" wife in Imogene's time has subsequently been discovered and verified, and traced her line back to the Puritan minister Rev. John Maverick and his wife Mary Gye.
NEHGS genealogist Gary Boyd Roberts compiled The Royal Descents of 600 Immigrants, which includes Mary Gye as a true gateway ancestor. 12 generations between Mary Gye and Henry III, King of England and his wife Eleanor of Provence. Huzzah! The ability to tell the cousins that only some of the castles they visited were bogus connections… except Gary writes: "Further documentary proof of generations 7-9 would be desirable". That's because it looks like this:
1. Henry III, King of England, d. 1272 = Eleanor of Provence
2. Edmund Plantagenet, 1st Earl of Lancaster = Blanche of Artois
3. Henry Plantagenet, 3rd Earl of Lancaster = Maud Chaworth
4. Eleanor Plantagenet = Richard FitzAlan, 9th Earl of Arundel
5. John FitzAlan, 1st Baron Arundel = Eleanor Maltravers
6. Joan FitzAlan = Sir William Echyngham
7. Joan Echyngham, said to be married to Sir John Baynton
8. Henry Baynton = (_)
9. (said to be) Joan Baynton = Thomas Prowse
10. Mary Prowse = John Gye
11. Robert Gye = Grace Dowrish
12. Mary Gye of Mass. = Rev. John Maverick
Now, I haven't had a chance to review all the footnotes to get the full story of why, if generations 7-9 are considered sketchy in terms of evidence [though the two "said to be"s surely stick out], that they are accepted as more true than not. Gary had enough faith in the line to include it, but even he feels the connection could use additional documentation.
And of course, with Henry III as an ancestor, that also means we can claim again as ancestors his direct line of royal descent : King John, King Henry II, Empress Matilda, King Henry I, and William of Normandy.
So in the course of one weekend, I went from erasing all lines of Imogene's royal descent, to gaining one royal line, to discovering that line, while considered valid, is still a bit sketchy… call it a possible royal line? Martin has discussed the complications of medieval genealogy, but he has been able to document a line of royal ancestry from scratch – perhaps a more thorough review of the sources documenting the ancestry of Mary Gye could upgrade her royal descent from a possibility to a probability.
August 20, 2012 October 21, 2021 mblaussEverson, Hanson Mass., Massachusetts, McClellan, royal
2 thoughts on "Weekend Surprise: Unraveling Royal Descent"
Eaton Family Tree says:
I did not realize that John Churchill was a "gateway" but I severed him from the long line I had a while ago and it was always sketchy. I just found out that there is doubt about my royal gateway, Ellen Aston. Kinda Bummed out about it.
Finding the Gye/Maverick line has been so mind blowing for me(we decend from Moses Maverick & Remember Allerton – Mayflower). Even if it is sketchy, the probablility of being of royal decent is exciting. Mary Gye is also supposedly decended from an illegitimate royal. Do you know who that is?
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The event was attended by Motorcity management and staff, Isuzu Motors Middle East management including customers with their families. The Isuzu Family Day is held annually to appreciate customer loyalty and further build on a solid relationship.
Motorcity General Manager Commercial division, Mr. Arun Kumaar welcomed the guests at the park and thanked all Isuzu customers for their continuous support to help position Isuzu as one of the fastest growing brands and the market leaders.
Guests were treated to a VIP all access pass on all park rides as well as meals. On display were the Isuzu D Max and MUX, some of the most popular models from the Japanese commercial vehicle and diesel engine manufacturing company.


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Exceptional Stories of Care: Family Experiences Four Levels of Care at Concordia
Longtime Concordia resident George Boggs and his wife Mary (better known to friends and loved ones as Frances or Fran) first moved to Concordia at Cabot's Haven Apartments in October of 2001. Concerned for their wellbeing after Fran began having health problems, their children had suggested they consider moving someplace where assistance would be available to them whenever they needed it. Since they lived locally, they knew of Concordia through word-of-mouth and decided to check it out.
George and Fran's daughter Brenda stopped by the campus hoping for a tour of the facility, but at the time, they didn't realize that tours of the facility had to be scheduled in advance. As luck would have it though, Brenda ran into a couple they knew living in the apartments and was offered an informal, impromptu tour, ending with an invitation for George and Fran to come visit. And so they did.
"After that visit, my parents signed up almost right away," said daughter Bev. "Before we knew it, they were auctioning their house and getting ready to move in!"
Throughout the years, George has seen a lot of change at Concordia. After the Haven I fire, George and Fran moved into the newly constructed Lund Expansion and stayed there until an apartment became available in Haven II. George was hesitant to relocate again, initially wanting to wait until Haven I was reconstructed so he could move back to where his friends had been. It took a bit of convincing, but they finally moved into an apartment that was the exact same model as their apartment in Haven I. For the couple, it felt as though they had never left.
George and Fran worked together to complete everyday tasks and maintain their independence.
"Mom would let Dad know when it was time to shuffle the laundry from the washer to the dryer, and he would go and do it," Bev remembered with a smile. "But it was nice to know that someone was watching out for them, even when they were in Independent Living. The building coordinators are wonderful."
Bev believes that her parents' lives as international missionaries made it easier for the couple to transition into their lives at Concordia. Including the move to Concordia, Fran moved 56 times in her life.
Today, George resides in Lund Personal Care; Fran passed away in Nov. 2013. Even now, both Bev and Brenda are thankful for the care that their parents have received. Bev listed the facility's cheerful staff, cleanliness, security and variety of activities as some of the things she loves about Concordia, as well as the respect that is given to patients and residents. But perhaps what she loves most are the various levels of care that have been available to her family.
"My family has dealt with Independent Retirement Living, Personal Care, Skilled Nursing and Good Samaritan Hospice over the years," Bev said. "With every level, the care and commitment shown by the staff has been the same."
But Concordia wasn't the only gift to George and Fran's four children as their parents grew older.
"My parents' decision to move to Concordia was their own," Bev added. "It truly was a gift to my siblings and me. They made many important decisions for themselves while they could so that we didn't have to make them on their behalf."
To learn more about the services offered at Concordia and our continuum of care, visit the Care Levels & Services and Home & Community Services pages of our website. For general information, call our administrative headquarters at 1-888-352-1571 or message us through our Contact Form.


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Gottmik talks 'Pride Season,' Chucky, and what makes horror so queer
June 30, 2021, 11:27 AM ET
By Caitlin Busch
Credit: Emma McIntyre / Getty
Pride Month may be coming to an end for 2021, but for recent RuPaul's Drag Race Season 13 finalist and drag performer Gottmik, "Pride Season" is just getting started.
"Now that I'm touring and stuff... I have Pride events going into the next couple months," Kade Gottlieb, the performer behind Gottmik, told SYFY in a recent phone conversation. "This month was so cool because I was just on this tour... I'm with some of my favorite people I've ever met in my life just on a bus traveling around going from city to city and getting to see everyone's Pride, so it's everything."
The international tour, which will carry on through the end of October, has seen Gottlieb team up with friends and loved ones along the way to bring high-femme and often-horror-inspired looks to audiences across the U.S. and U.K. That he'll be taking the stage up until the Halloween season as Gottmik is no surprise given his life-long love for all things horror.
"In my family, Halloween is the biggest holiday ever," he explains. "We treat it like it's just full Christmas. And we got full props and did costume runs with multiple stores to figure everything out. And I just remember Party City would always have this crazy mask section with all the masks and Chucky always confused me. I was like, 'What is that one?' Being so little, it was always Pinhead was my one I was always staring at. And then Chucky, too. I was like, 'What are these and what is going on?'"
Gottlieb's self-admitted obsession with Chucky's memorable look eventually led him to incorporate elements from Don Mancini's Child's Play franchise into his drag. The biggest inspiration? The fourth film in the franchise, 1998's Bride of Chucky, which he credits as being one of his "favorite movies of all time." Like countless other fans, Gottlieb was especially enamored by Tiffany Valentine, as played by horror icon Jennifer Tilly.
In April of this year, Gottlieb was watching Bride of Chucky and tweeted that Tiffany was a number-one drag inspiration for him, and Tilly responded. "I was dying," Gottlieb enthuses, though his love for Child's Play doesn't stop with Bride.
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"I hadn't seen Seed of Chucky until, I don't even know, a few years ago," he adds. "I was watching and I was like, 'How have I never seen this before? This is the most queer horror movie maybe ever.'"
Franchise creator Mancini, who himself is a gay man, recently told SYFY that he intentionally began including "LGBTQ elements into the franchise" starting with Bride. So by the time Seed of Chucky rolled around in 2004, Mancini was fully invested in adding queer elements. This included Glen, Chucky and Tiffany's child who realizes in the film he has the soul of his dead twin sister Glenda caught inside his body.
"To create like fully this non-binary doll?" Gottlieb says. "I was obsessed with it… I feel like horror is queer, [queer] people love horror. I don't know why, but they just love it. And so when I take these iconic characters, and I make them drag queens, and they're really pretty, but also scary... it always hits from what I've seen. And it's so fun for me too, because it's my childhood fantasy mixed in with my current fantasy.
"I was actually thinking about this the other day, because there's these two drag queens that have a show together, Trixie [Mattel] and Katya [Zamolodchikova]," Gottlieb continues. "And they were literally talking about this the other day. Trixie was literally like, 'Why are queer people obsessed with horror?' And Katya said it's because we like to see straight people getting killed."
He pauses to laugh uproariously at the joke before adding, "I feel like for me, it's just because... a lot of these movies do have queer elements. And they're not in negative ways. They're always kind of just there and celebrated."
Non-horror movies, he explains, often don't celebrate queer stories in the same way as horror films. The artistry, the outfits, the over-the-top makeup, and dramatic storylines — horror is the drag of the film world. "It's gorg," Gottlieb says.
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Inside SOI Consortium's new IP program
March 24, 2010 – The SOI Industry Consortium and several partners are launching a new "Ready for SOI Technology" program to broaden access to and encourage adoption of silicon-on-insulator technology, which can provide substantial improvements in chip performance and power requirements vs. bulk Si.
The program's goal is to make available design building blocks to chip designers for new applications such as mobile and consumer products. "The vision for the program is to make the ecosystem visible to designers — to reach out and get the same level of support as they get with bulk IP," explained Jeff Wolf, director of membership development for the SOI consortium and project lead for the "Ready for SOI" program. More specifically, the project addresses one of the key messages gleaned from users: What would it take to adopt SOI? "One was lack of IP for SOI," he said. Formation of this IP program directly addresses this issue "and takes it off the table."
To that end, a "microsite" is now hosted on ChipEstimate.com to help chip designers gain access to those design blocks; the available IP in this program focuses on physical IP, which is typically more difficult to port to SOI than synthesizable IP using industry-standard tools, Wolf pointed out. (A training event, SOI Jump Start Training, will be hosted by Cadence on April 28 in San Jose, CA, both live and as a recorded Webcast.) Key technology partners include IBM, ARM, Boeing (some of which targets a Honeywell process), Cadence, and Synopsys. A quick scan of the SOI portal shows 46 different IP that are available to port to SOI.
Initially the SOI IP focuses on IBM's 45nm foundry process, since 45nm is mainstream for current foundry sales, Wolf noted. Both the goal is to expand both backward (65nm and 90nm) and forward (32nm), emphasized Wolf and Mendez. Last fall IBM prototyped a 32nm SOI chip and ARM, in fact, is working on SOI at the 22nm node, they pointed out. (Last fall ARM demo'd a test chip based on its 1176 processor using IBM's 45nm SOI process, with no prior SOI knowledge and using the same resources/timeline as a bulk design — more info on those 1176-on-SOI results are here).
Notable among the IP is IBM's eDRAM, tipped in late 2009, which offers potential for density and performance improvements. Horatio Mendez, executive director of the SOI Industry Consortium, noted that inclusion of IBM's eDRAM is key to enabling designs for applications such as data streaming (with stiff requirements for bandwidth capabilities and memory) and consumer applications like digital TV. These are "real-life applications — content that people can be using right away," he said.
Going forward, Mendez and Wolf say they want the program to expand the SOI ecosystem in two key directions: more IP providers, and more foundry support. GlobalFoundries and Freescale (both members of the IBM semiconductor technology alliance) build on SOI, and others have built prototypes on SOI; "virtually everyone has tried to work with it, but it's a business decision on how to market it," Wolf noted. He added that standard-space IP (e.g. bus interfaces) would probably emerge over time for SOI, following the trend of how general IP has been developed.


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Time Magazine online is currently running an interesting photo-essay detailing the events surrounding the demise of the world's greatest band. Click here to see and read their tribute, in this the 40th anniversary since the Beatles split. They say: "The band's internal feuds boiled over into public view on April 10, 1970, when Paul McCartney announced his intention to leave the group".
Time also has a special on the Top Ten Band Breakups, of which the Beatles (of course) are number one on the list.
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Q: Intersection of two compact subsets in a Hausdorff space Prove that if $K$ and $L$ are compact subsets of a Hausdorff space $X$, then $K \cap L$ is a compact subset of $X$.
I understand that since $K$ and $L$ are compact subsets, they each have finite coverings.  Do I have to show that the intersection of $2$ finite coverings is a compact subset?

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Theorem:Any compact subset of a Hausdorff space is closed.

You can find a proof here.
Let $\mathcal{A}$ be an open cover of  $K \cap L$. Since $K$ and $L$ are closed sets ,$K \cap L$ is also closed. So  ${(K \cap L)}^C$ is open. Then $\mathcal{B}=\mathcal{A}\cup {(K \cap L)}^C$ is an open cover of  $K$(and $L$). Since $K$ is compact,$\mathcal{B}$ has a finite subcover,say,$\{A_1,A_2,\ldots,A_n,{(K \cap L)}^C\}$. So $\{A_1,A_2,\ldots,A_n\}$ is a finite subcover of $\mathcal{A}$ that covers $K \cap L$. Hence, $K \cap L$ is compact.

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Hermès bounces back as H1 beats both 2020 and 2019
Hermès became the latest luxury group to announce a rebound on Friday as the upscale leather goods and fashion maker saw its sales soaring during Q2 and the first half as a whole.
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It was boosted by the easing or ending of lockdowns in key markets such as the US and Asia.
2020 was a tough year for luxury as lockdowns closed the stores that are still the lifeblood of the sector, even though it's increasingly embracing digital. Those lockdowns also meant the cancellation of the big social events that are so important for reminding consumers to buy something expensive.
Social activity may not be fully back on the agenda just yet, but as well as Hermès' sales rebounding against the weakness in 2020, they also leapt ahead of the more normal 2019 Q2 and H1. In constant currencies, Q2 sales rose 127% year-on-year to €2.15 billion ($2.55 billion) and on a two-year comparison, they rose 33%.
For the first half, consolidated revenue rose 77% year-on-year at constant exchange rates to €4.235 billion. They were up 33% over two years. Recurring operating income at 41% of sales was €1.722 million (a percentage that matched that of rival LVMH). And net income reached €1.174 billion from €335 million a year earlier and €754 million in H1 2019.
Clearly Q2 continued Q1's positive trends, but it also saw some acceleration in certain regions, with Europe starting its recovery.
The company said H1 sales in the group's stores increased by 81% at constant exchange rates compared to last year, and by 41% compared to 2019. Wholesale activities "bounced back" (+46%) but "remained penalised particularly by travel retail".
Sales in Asia excluding Japan rose 87% in H1 year-on-year and 70% compared to 2019. They were driven by the strong performance in Greater China and the acceleration in sales in Singapore and Thailand, "despite new restrictions in some countries in the second quarter".
In the Americas sales were up 115%, with a Q2 acceleration being noted, and they rose 25% over two years.
Japan was up 59% year-on-year and 22% over two years and "achieved an outstanding performance thanks to the loyalty of local customers, despite new measures introduced as a result of the health state of emergency".
And that European recovery? Well, European sales excluding France rose 52% and were down only 3% over two years. But while France was up 35% year-on-year, it was still down as much as 16% over two years.
Looking at the firm's individual product segments, it said Leather Goods and Saddlery sales rose 63% on the year and 25% over two years with demand "both for the reinvented classics and new models".
At the Ready-to-Wear and Accessories division, sales rose 98% over one year and 40% over two, and in Silk and Textiles, they rose 72% and 6%. Perfume and Beauty was up 65% on the year and 17% over two years and Watches were up 121% and 80%. Its 'Other' division rose 100% and 92%, thanks to Homeware and Jewellery.
Axel Dumas, the group's executive chairman, called the performance exceptional and highlighted that the company hadn't reined-in investment to save cash during the pandemic period. The company continued to upgrade stores and open new ones, as well as adding new staff, rather than shedding them as many companies did.
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Of the many and variegated attributes of sustained success, perhaps the least celebrated is the capacity to resist eating marshmallows - or to put it more conventionally, the ability to delay gratification.
I am referring of course to the seminal "Marshmallow Study" - a series of experiments first conducted in the late 1960's by Walter Mischel, a psychology professor at Stanford University.
In these experiments, pre-school kids were placed in a room, one at a time. An adult came in and placed a marshmallow in front of them and said: "I have to leave for a while. If you don't eat the marshmallow while I'm gone, I will reward you with a second marshmallow when I return." The adult then left the room and returned in 15 minutes.
It turns out that the ability to delay gratification, of your own free will, is a highly reliable predictor of long term success.
That's a 100% return for a 15-minute wait. But to pre-schoolers (and, sadly, to many of today's adults) 15-minutes is an eternity. Only 30% of the kids had the will power to resist eating the first marshmallow.
In follow-up studies, the researchers discovered that kids who didn't eat the marshmallow—and even those who resisted for a longer time—achieved higher SAT scores, had a healthier body mass index (BMI), got along better with others and managed stress better than the children who ate the marshmallow shortly after the adult left the room. In other words, the marshmallow-resisters turned out to be vastly more successful than the marshmallow-eaters. If you haven't already seen it, check out this TED talk on the "Marshmallow Study".
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I can't help wondering if I would have passed the marshmallow test as a pre-schooler, but by the time I became an investment banker (of all things) I seem to have developed the habit.
I was fortunate to start my career 20 years ago at Macquarie Bank, which at the time (perhaps even more so than it is today) was a highly entrepreneurial and ambitious workplace. It was typical in those days for the analysts to stay back working until 10:00pm every night, and on one such night we got to talking about our respective career goals.
Not the (politically) smartest thing to say perhaps – but I was merely repeating a proposition long drummed into me by my father that the right experience acquired at an early age would repay me tenfold later in my career. Dad was in effect telling me to play the long game … not to eat the marshmallow.
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As if getting pummeled by Michigan wasn't bad enough, Nebraska and coach Scott Frost got some serious shade from Wendy's on Twitter with a Frosty jab.
As if getting pummeled by Michigan in a Big Ten game wasn't bad enough, Nebraska got some serious shade thrown its way by a fast food restaurant on Saturday.
With the Huskers well behind the Wolverines during in the fourth quarter, Wendy's delivered a well-timed zinger to the Nebraska faithful, singling out coach Scott Frost.
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