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At CoworkingResources we aim to provide the most comprehensive guides and materials about the coworking industry in order to help owners and operators run more efficient spaces. Last year's study is now one of the most cited ones in the industry, and this year we are happy to introduce an even more comprehensive analysis of where the industry is headed. To achieve that, we have partnered with Coworker.com, the world's largest coworking listing platform, for our 2020 Global Coworking Growth Study.
This study explores the projected growth of the coworking industry as well as specific trends, providing you with a bird's-eye view of how the industry is developing across the world.
The number of coworking spaces worldwide is projected to reach almost 20,000 this year and cross over 40,000 by 2024. While the industry is set to grow at a slower pace in 2020, we expect growth to rebound and develop even more rapidly from 2021 onwards, with a yearly growth rate of 21.3%.
Estimates based on proprietary data from CoworkingResources and Coworker. More details in the methodology section.
We estimate that almost 5 million people will be working from coworking spaces by 2024, an increase of 158% compared to 2020.
These projections reflect not only the growth that the industry has experienced over the past few years, but also the dramatic increase in flexible and remote work practices adopted by businesses worldwide.
While in 2020 the coworking market is forecasted to grow at around half the rate as the previous two years, the overall outlook for 2021 and onwards is extremely positive, and so were coworking operators' sentiments before Covid-19.
Based on data from the 2019 Coworker Member's Choice Awards, before the coronavirus hit the world economy around 77% of the coworking operators surveyed said they plan to expand by opening new locations.
32% of operators said they planned to open one new location by 2020, and 38% said they plan to open 2-3 new locations.
What might be even more interesting is the forecasted growth of larger companies, given that almost 9% of respondents said they plan to open 8+ new locations by the end of 2020. This signals that many multi-location spaces are turning into small chains that serve entire regions.
Of the respondents, 52.03% of respondents operate one total location under the umbrella of their brand, while 28.61% operate two-three total locations, and 12.62% operate 8 or more.
How Big Are Coworking Spaces?
According to Coworker's Coworking Size & Capacity Report, Asia is the continent with the highest average capacity of 114 people, compared to spaces in South America which held the lowest average capacity of 54 people. Within Asia, China ranked as the country with the largest capacity, with a whopping 282 people on average per space, which is more than twice the average capacity of spaces in the U.S. - which is 105 people.
In terms of space size though, North America has the largest spaces in the world, with an average size of 9,799 sq.ft. per space, followed by Asia at 8,101 sq.ft., while smaller spaces are more commonly found in Europe and South America.
As more corporate companies embrace flexible work practices, we can expect capacity to continue to grow overtime as serviced offices and remote teams will become increasingly important for space operators.
According to a survey conducted in May 2020, 56% of professionals in the U.S. expect to work remotely at least part time, and around 29% expect to work remotely on a full time basis. Such insights reflect not only how work practices are changing for individuals, but also how businesses are embracing working with small remote teams regardless of their location.
The United States is still leading as the biggest market with over 3,700 shared workspaces across the country, followed by India (2,197 spaces) and the United Kingdom (1,044 spaces). In terms of yearly growth in 2020, out of the largest markets, Germany and India are the two fastest-growing, followed by the United States and Canada.
The chart below shows the 20 largest markets by number of coworking spaces and the corresponding share over all spaces worldwide.
The global average price per desk dropped by 2.14% between 2019 and 2020, which illustrates the increasing supply of new flexible offices, as well as how higher competition is leading to even more affordable options for companies and professionals.
As the coworking industry goes mainstream, the downward trend in prices is reflected across different regions in the world. The only exception is Europe, where prices have increased by almost 12% over the past 2 years.
Based on Coworker listings, the top 15 cities with the most expensive average monthly hot desk prices include 8 American cities and 6 European cities.
When comparing the world's most expensive cities for coworking, Palo Alto in California claimed the top spot in 2019-2020, with monthly hot desk prices of $511 on average. Zurich came in second place at $456 per month, with Santa Monica claiming third place at $404 per month. Interestingly, our data shed light on just how expensive real estate is in California — 8 of the state's top cities were among the top 25 most expensive cities in the world.
In terms of country rankings, Monaco took the top spot in 2019-2020 for most expensive monthly hot desk price, coming in at $397 per month. Switzerland came in second place at $395 per month, and Malta is third with $347 per month.
Post-COVID Predictions
Source: Google Trends (Worldwide search data)
After analyzing over 3,000 requests between February 2020 (pre-lockdowns) and May 2020 (post-lockdowns), space utilization is beginning to recover and shift toward private offices (as the type of space most commonly requested), longer-term contract durations, and higher capacities (of desks needed).
Such preliminary data shows:
26% higher number of seats per request
96% longer contract terms
76% higher share of requests for private offices compared to individual seats
In a post-COVID-19 world, these statistics make it easy to predict that coworking will become even more mainstream, especially since companies are shifting to remote-first workforces.
Demand will mainly come from larger organizations and enterprises looking to decentralize their workforces into smaller branch offices and remote teams into private flex offices. That demand will be led primarily by private offices, followed by dedicated desks, while hot desks and meeting rooms (for non-members) will take the longest to fully recover.
In the long run, all offices will potentially turn into flexible, on-demand spaces and in spite of the challenges faced by many operators in 2020, the potential for the coworking industry to grow and evolve has never been higher.
The study has been conducted using proprietary data from Coworker, CoworkingResources as well as external research. More information about the methodology applied is available below.
Number of Coworking Space Worldwide: Estimates based on proprietary data about coworking space opening announcements from CoworkingResources for the years 2018, 2019 and 2020. Projections for 2021-2024 are based on average yearly growth of Coworker's listings as well as Coworking Resources data.
Number of People Using Coworking Spaces Worldwide: 2018 data based on Deskmag's research. 2019-2024 estimates are based on proprietary data from Coworking Resources about coworking space opening announcements, growth forecasts from Coworker's listings as well as estimates on the seats/request growth based on Coworker data for 2020.
Coworking Size and Capacity: Data from Coworking Insights & Coworker's 2019 Coworking Size and Capacity report, based on square footage and density from 6,405 coworking spaces in 113 countries.
Geography: Data based on Coworker listings by country and adjusted to the total market size in 2020 as estimated in the chart "Number of Coworking Space Worldwide".
Hot Desk Prices: Data from Coworking Insights & Coworker's 2020 Desk Price Index report, based on pricing from 12,601 coworking spaces in 158 countries.
Search volume for 'coworking': Data based on worldwide search for the topic "coworking" on Google Trends, for a 5-year period until June 2020.
Post-Covid Predictions: Data based on 3,012 coworking requests collected by Coworker between February 2020 and May 2020.
For press inquiries about this study, you can get in touch at:
media@coworker.com
content@coworkingresources.org
All of the report's charts are available for download at this link.
Alberto Di Risio
Alberto is a coworking enthusiast and content contributor at CoworkingResources.
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Дэвин Поуп — профессор Чикагского университета, автор множества исследований в области поведенческой экономики.

Биография
Дэвин Поуп родился 12 декабря 1979 года. В 2002 году получил степень бакалавра экономики в университете Бригама Янга.
В 2007 году получил степень доктора философии по экономике в Калифорнийском университете в Беркли. С июля 2007 года по июнь 2010 являлся доцентом кафедры оперативного и информационного менеджмента в Уортонской школе Пенсильванского университета. С июля 2010 года по июль 2012 работал в должности доцента на кафедре поведенческих наук факультета Роберта Кинга Стила Чикагского университета. С 2012 вплоть до 2017 года занимал должность адъюнкт-профессора, с 2017 года по настоящее время является профессором поведенческих наук Чикагского университета. С 2011 года состоит в должности научного сотрудника факультета трудовых исследований в Национальном бюро экономических исследований. Дэвин Поуп работает в основном со статистическими данными, полученными на основе наблюдений, изучает, как психологические предубеждения проявляются в полевых условиях и на экономических рынках.

С января 2012 по январь 2018 года работал заместителем редактора в журнале Management Science. В 2010 году был заместителем редактора при подготовке специального выпуска журнала Journal of Marketing Research. C 2013 года по настоящее время работает заместителем редактора в изданиях Journal of the European Economic Association, Behavioral Science & Policy.

Владеет португальским языком. Женат на Линде Поуп, воспитывают 4 детей: Лорен, Адель, Элоиза и Мэрилин.

Научная деятельность
Совместно с Морисом Швейцером провел исследование по поведенческим стратегиям, связанным с избранием потерь. Впоследствии результаты исследования были использованы Даниэлем Канеманом в книге «Думай медленно...решай быстро». Автор исследования 2012 года, в результате которого была выявлена закономерность, по которой люди больше внимания обращают на цифры, которые расположены «слева», а не «справа» при совершении покупок (поэтому цифра «слева» всегда должна быть меньше, чем цифра «справа»). В соавторстве со Стефано Деллавинья, Ури Симонсоном, Морисом Швейцером, Джастином Волферсом опубликовал (и продолжает опубликовывать) множество исследований, посвященных различным вопросам поведенческой экономики. Антонио Вайсс использовал при написании книги «101 Business Ideas That Will Change the Way You Work: Turning Clever Thinking Into Smart Advice» результаты исследований Дэвида Поупа о том, что люди/группы/команды, имея немного более низкие результаты, обладают при этом большей мотивацией, которая зачастую приводит их к успеху. Индекс Хирша (h-индекс) у Дэвида Поупа равен 29, а количество цитирований его статей в 2020 году стало 855 (всего на его статьи ссылались более 4 тысяч раз).

Статьи
 DellaVigna, Stefano, Devin Pope и Eva Vivalt «Предсказать науку, чтобы улучшить науку» Forthcoming Science.
 DellaVigna, Stefano и Devin Pope «Predicting Experimental Results: Who Knows What?» Journal of Political Economy (2018), 126(6), 2410—2456.
 Pope, Devin, Joseph Price b Justin Wolfers «Осведомленность Снижает Расовые Предубеждения», Management Science (2018), 64(11), 4988-4995.
 Hirshman, Samuel, Devin Pope и Jihong Song «Mental Budgeting vs. Relative Thinking», American Economic Association Papers and Proceedings (2018), 108, 148—152.
 DellaVigna, Stefano и Devin Pope «Что Мотивирует Усилия? Доказательство на основе фактических данных и экспертных прогнозов», Review of Economics Studies (2018), 85(2), 1029—1069.
 Allen, Eric, Patricia Dechow, Devin Pope и George Wu. «Референтно-зависимые предпочтения: доказательство на примере марафонцев» Management Science (2017), 63(6), 1657—1672.
 Keys, Benjamin, Devin Pope и Jaren Pope «Неспособность рефинансировать» Journal of Financial Economics (2016), 122(3), 482—499.
 Lacetera, Nicola, Bradley Larsen, Devin Pope и Justin Sydnor «Участники торгов или маркет-мейкеры? Влияние аукционистов на результаты аукциона» American Economic Journal: Microeconomics (2016), 8(4), 195—229.
 Pope, Devin «Exploring Psychology in the Field: Steps and Examples from the Used-Car Market» Topics in Cognitive Science (2016), 8, 660—669.
 Pope, Devin и Justin Sydnor «Поведенческая экономика: экономика как психологическая дисциплина» Handbook of Judgment and Decision Making (2015).
 Pope, Devin, Jaren Pope и Justin Sydnor «Координационные центры и переговоры на рынке жилья» Games and Economic Behavior (2015), 93(C), 89-107.
 Fillmore, Ian и Devin Pope «Влияние времени и когнитивных заданий на успеваемость: доказательство на данных результатов экзаменов на повышение квалификации» Economics of Education Review (2015), 48, 30- 40.
 Busse, Meghan, Devin Pope, Jaren Pope и Jorge Silva-Risso «Психологическое влияние погоды на покупку автомобилей» Quarterly Journal of Economics (2015), 130(1): 371—414.
 Pope, Devin и Jaren Pope «Когда Walmart приезжает в город: всегда ли низкие цены на жилье? Всегда?» Journal of Urban Economics (2015), 87, 1-13.
 Kroft, Kory и Devin Pope «Вытесняет ли онлайн-поиск традиционный поиск и повышает ли эффективность сопоставления? Доказательства из Craigslist» Journal of Labor Economics (2014), 32(2), 259—303.
 Pope, Devin и Jaren Pope "Принятие Решений О Приеме В Колледж: Почему Спортивный Успех Колледжа Имеет Значение, " Journal of Sports Economics (2014), 15(2), 107—131.
 Busse, Meghan, Nicola Lacetera, Devin Pope, Jorge Silva-Risso и Justin Sydnor «Оценка эффекта заметности на оптовом и розничном рынке автомобилей» American Economic Review Papers и Proceedings (2013), 103(3), 570-74.
 Lacetera, Nicola, Devin Pope, and Justin Sydnor «Эвристическое мышление и ограниченное внимание на автомобильном рынке» American Economic Review (2012), 102(5), 2206-36.
 Small, Deborah, Devin Pope и Michael Norton «Возрастное наказание в расовых предпочтениях» Social Psychological and Personality Science (2012), 3, 730-37.
 Pope, Devin и Jaren Pope "Преступность и ценность собственности: свидетельства падения преступности 1990-х годов, " Regional Science and Urban Economics (2012), 42, 177—188.
 Pope, Devin и Justin Sydnor "Implementing Anti-Discrimination Policies in Statistical Profiling Models, " American Economic Journal: Economic Policy (2011), 3(3), 206—231.
 Pope, Devin и Uri Simonsohn «Круглые цифры, как цели: доказательство на примере бейсбола, SAT-тестов и данных лабораторных исследований» Psychological Science (2011), 22(1), 71-79.
 Pope, Devin и Maurice Schweitzer "Is Tiger Woods Loss Averse? Persistent Bias in the Face of Experience, Competition, and High Stakes, " American Economic Review (2011), 101(1), 129—157.
 Pope, Devin и Justin Sydnor "Что изображено на картинке? Доказательство дискриминации со стороны Prosper.com, " Journal of Human Resources (2011), 46(1), 53-92.
 Berger, Jonah и Devin Pope «Может ли проигрыш привести к победе» Management Science (2011), 57(5), 817—827.
 Pope, Devin и Justin Sydnor «Новый взгляд на стереотипные гендерные различия на основании результатов тестирования» Journal of Economic Perspectives (2010), 24(2), 95-108.
 Pope, Devin "Реакция на рейтинги: данные из «лучших больниц Америки» Journal of Health Economics (2009), 28(6), 1154—1165.
 Pope, Devin и Jaren Pope «Влияние спортивных успехов колледжа на количество и качество заявок студентов» Southern Economic Journal (2009), 75(3), 750—780.
 Pope, Devin «Преимущества владения 2 языками: доказательство на примере мормонских миссионеров» Economics of Education Review (2008), 27(2), 234—242.
 Croson, Rachel, Peter Fishman и Devin Pope «Суперзвезды покера: мастерство или удача?» CHANCE (2008), 21(4), 25-28.

Текущие исследования
 Совместно с Chen, Keith «Географическая мобильность в Америке: данные на основе сотовых телефонов».
 Совместно с Chen, Keith, Kareem Haggag, Devin Pope и Ryne Rohla «Расовые различия во времени ожидания голосования: на основе данных, полученных с помощью смартфонов».
 Obermeyer, Ziad и Pope «Погода для тестирования: влияние температуры окружающей среды на лабораторные результаты в Национальной выборке из 215 миллионов тестов на 4,9 миллионов пациентов».
 Meier, Armando, Ziad Obermeyer, Devin Pope и Kevin Volpp «Медицинские рекомендации и поведение врача».
 Bohren, Aislinn, Kareem Haggag, Alex Imas и Devin Pope. «Недостоверность статистической дискриминации» DellaVigna, Stefano, Pope «Стабильность экспериментальных результатов: прогнозы и доказательства».

Участие в конференциях
 2011—2012 гг. :Behavioral Economics Annual Meeting, Chicago (Booth and Harris), Cornell (Economics), George Mason (ICES), Harvard Business School (NOM), Northwestern
 2012—2013 гг. :Berkeley (Haas), Boston University (Business), Chicago (Booth), Kentucky (Economics), NBER Summer Institute (Labor Studies), Simon Fraser (Economics), Stanford (Marketing), The Wharton School (Decision Processes),
 2013—2014 гг. :Behavioral Economics Annual Meeting, Berkeley (Economics), Cornell (Cognitive Psychology and Economics), JDM Winter Symposium, RAND, Munich Natural Experiments Conference, Society for Experimental Social Psychology (SESP) Conference
 2014—2015 гг. :Carnegie Mellon, Central European University, Chicago (Booth, Med School), Clemson (Economics), JDM Winter Symposium, UCLA (Anderson), UPenn (LDI Health Conference)
 2015—2016 гг. :Bonn (Economics), Brandeis (Economics), Harvard (Economics), JDM Winter Symposium, JDM Preconference (SPSP), Society for the Study of Motivation (APS), UPenn (LDI Health Conference), University of Southern California (ESR Center)
 2016—2017 гг. :Behavioral Economics Annual Meeting, JDM Winter Symposium, Outcomes Research Health Workshop, Toronto (Rotman), UPenn (Wharton), University of Santiago (economics), Yale (Economics)
 2017—2018 гг, :ASSA Meetings, Chicago (Booth), Harvard (HBS-NOM), JDM Winter Symposium, Stanford (Economics), Sussex University (Economics), UC Los Angeles (Anderson), University of Melbourne (Economics), UC San Diego (Rady), University of Essex (Economics), University of Sydney (ABC Workshop), University of Virginia (Economics),
 2018—2019 гг. :Berkeley Forecasting Conference, Federal Reserve Board, Iowa State University (Economics), University of Michigan (Social, Behavioral, and Experimental Economics), University of Indiana (Kelley), Marquette University (Marburg Lecture), University of Ottawa (Economics), Purdue University (Economics), WFI Ingolstadt

Примечания

Ссылки
 https://www.nber.org/people/devin_pope?page=1&perPage=50
 https://www.chicagobooth.edu/faculty/directory/p/devin-g-pope
 https://faculty.chicagobooth.edu/devin.pope/assets/files/Pope-CV-Current.pdf
 https://faculty.chicagobooth.edu/devin.pope/
 https://review.chicagobooth.edu/behavioral-science/archive/leaning-left

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Etihad Airways aircraft's tyre bursts at Mumbai airport
July 31, 2017 by shameen
Mumbai: An Etihad Airways aircraft with over 200 people on board suffered a tyre burst on landing, forcing the Mumbai airport authorities to shut operations at the main runway this evening.
The operations were moved to the secondary runway after the plane from Abu Dhabi got stuck in the middle of the runway, an airport official said.
The incident took place at around 7 pm.
The aircraft had 196 passengers and 13 crew members on board, the official said.
A comment from Etihad Airways is awaited.
The Mumbai airport has a unique layout with two runways — the main runway and a secondary one – intersecting each other.
"Runway 14-32 (the secondary one) was in use as runway 09-27 (the main one) was taken over for inspection as Etihad Airways flight EY 204 had a tyre deflated after arrival on the main runway," the official said.
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Sergio Garcia shares Sanderson Farms lead, seeks first PGA Tour win since 2017 Masters
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JACKSON, Miss. – Don't look now, but Sergio Garcia may be on the verge of breaking out of his funk. The 40-year-old Spaniard posted a bogey-free 6-under 66 at the Country Club of Jackson to claim a share of the 54-hole lead at the Sanderson Farms Championship.
Garcia, who is seeking his first win on the PGA Tour since the 2017 Masters, improved to 14-under 202 and enters the final round tied with Cameron Davis and J.T. Poston.
Garcia is in the midst of a prolonged slump, with just one top-10 finish since February and he had missed three of his last four cuts. He failed to qualify for the FedEx Cup Playoffs and dropped out of the top 50 in the Official World Golf Ranking this week for the first time in nine years.
"He's just been really struggling as of late and it's hard to turn it around 180 and win," said NBC/Golf Channel analyst Notah Begay III on Sirius XM/PGA Tour Network earlier this week, noting that Garcia is anxious to find form before the Masters in November. "He's thinking if I can put together a solid week and find something it might jumpstart me into a good segment of weeks going into Augusta. It can happen at any moment."
It's happening as Garcia has put on a ballstriking clinic – he ranks first in Strokes Gained: Off the Tee and SG: Tee to Green this week – combined with an improved putting performance using an eyes-closed putting technique. Garcia, who ranked No. 187 in SGP last season, has gained strokes against the field on the greens in each of the first three rounds, and he ranked first in putts and greens in regulation and is 30-for-30 inside 3 feet. His performance with the flatstick on Saturday was his best yet.
"From 1 to 10 I would give myself at least a 9 or 9½," he said. "And I'm not giving myself a 10 because two or three putts could have gone in and then it would have been even better."
Count Brandt Snedeker among those who have been impressed with Garcia's strong showing on the greens with his eye closed. "If he keeps making putts, everybody else will be trying it out here, too," Snedeker said.
Garcia will face stiff competition if he wants to return to the winner's circle. Davis went out early and fired a tournament-low 9-under 63. Playing in the last group of the day, Poston drained a 13-foot par putt to maintain his share of the lead and shoot 3-under 69. It marks the first time that Poston, 27, has held or shared a 54-hole lead on the Tour. He came from behind to win the 2019 Wyndham Championship for his lone victory.
"Three guys tied for the lead and a bunch of guys right behind us, so I think you're going to have to go shoot something pretty low because out of that group somebody is going to shoot probably 6-, 7-under I would guess, maybe even lower," he said. "I think if I got to 20 (under par) I would feel pretty good."
Poston isn't the only wizard with the putter in contention. Brandt Snedeker (67) is tied for fourth with Kristoffer Ventura (68) and trying for his 10th Tour title and first victory since the 2018 Wyndham Championship.
"Probably as excited and confident as I've been about my golf game in a long time. I'm talking years," he said. "I'm really excited to see how it holds up tomorrow. I think it's going to hold up really well, and I can shoot another low one."
In all, there are 21 players within five strokes of the lead, including defending champion Sebastian Munoz, who will start five back. There's a mix of proven winners such as Garcia and Snedeker and 36-hole leader Keegan Bradley, who struggled to shoot 73 and will start two strokes behind, and youngsters Ventura, Denny McCarthy (69), and Davis, who would fit into the tournament's recent narrative of six straight first-time winners since the tournament began making its home at the Country Club of Jackson.
"I don't know why it's come down to every single one being a first-timer," Davis said, "but hopefully there's another one."
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Artist: Dwayne Davis, 2012
Funded by: Downtown Williams Lake BIA, Cariboo Friendship Society and support of the Cariboo Regional District and City of Williams Lake through the Central Cariboo Arts and Culture Society
The "What a Boy Wants" sign above the bike for sale is Dwayne's tip-of-the-hat to the biking community that was just starting to take off at the mural's painting in 2012. General Mercantile & Tack did not really exist, but it is the kind of store that would have been the hub of each community during the 1890's. Featured in the mural are the real historical figures Judge Begbie (1819 – 1894), standing beside the entry to the store, and Lloyd Cyclone Smith (1895 – 1932), standing in the doorway holding a saddle. The Dry Goods salesman, sitting with a cat, was painted from a photo of the property owner's grandfather.
Artistic Notes:
Dwayne chose to paint in sepia tones to give the mural a 19th century feel. The only detail not in sepia tones are the flowers in the window boxes, which Dwayne added to bring colour to the mural. Dwayne wanted to make this mural approachable and he capitalized on the empty space in front of the mural wall by creating a design that lends itself to interaction. His goal was to make the viewer feel they are part of the mural. The many people who pose in front of this mural, with vintage cars and clothing, or just for fun, are a testament to Dwayne's success. Two amateur artists, Miranda Fontaine (staff at Friendship Society) and Jamie Moore (summer student at Downtown Williams Lake BIA) helped to paint this mural. Dwayne likes to mentor amateur mural artists. Typically, he creates the mural design and then shows the artists how to paint rough work, or specific details. On this mural, the young artists had the opportunity to paint quite a bit, and Dwayne spent as much time mentoring as he did painting himself.
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In der Handball-DDR-Liga der Männer gewann in der Saison 1989/90 die BSG ZAB Dessau die Staffel Nord und kehrte nach sechs Jahren in die Handball-DDR-Oberliga zurück. Aus der Staffel Süd gelang der BSG Grubenlampe Zwickau nach 1986 zum zweiten Mal der Aufstieg in das Oberhaus. Wenige Wochen nach dem Saisonstart nahm in der DDR die politische Wende ihren Lauf, der tiefgreifende Veränderungen in Politik und Wirtschaft folgten. Erste Auswirkungen machten sich bereits in der laufenden Ligasaison bemerkbar, die zunächst die Sportvereinigung Dynamo betrafen. Die unter dem Dach der SV Dynamo agierenden SG Dynamo Halle-Neustadt löste sich im Laufe der Saison auf, sodass die Spiele deren Zweitvertretung annulliert werden mussten. Nach den Mauerfall am 9. November 1989 verloren auch die ersten Mannschaften Spieler ihres Kaders, die aus der DDR in die Bundesrepublik übersiedelten und zum Ende der laufenden Saison benannten sich die ersten Mannschaften um.

Staffel Nord
Die BSG ZAB Dessau sicherte sich den Staffelsieg mit vier Punkten Vorsprung vor dem Oberligaabsteiger der BSG Lokomotive RAW Cottbus und stieg nach sechs Jahren wieder in die Handball-DDR-Oberliga auf. Die Cottbuser kamen trotz zweier Siege gegen Dessau und einer blütenweißen Heimbilanz, nach fünf Auswärtsniederlagen nicht über den zweiten Rang hinaus. Auf den letzten beiden Plätzen kamen die beiden Aufsteiger aus der Handball-DDR-Bezirksliga die Betriebssportgemeinschaften (BSG) Stahl Eisenhüttenstadt und Schiffahrt/Hafen Rostock ein. Durch die Ausgliederung der Zweitvertretungen und dem freiwilligen Rückzug der SG Dynamo/Motor Staßfurt aus der DDR-Liga, stieg nur Rostock nach einjährigem Gastspiel in die Drittklassigkeit ab.

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 Aufsteiger in die DDR-Oberliga 1990/91   Ausgliederung der Zweitvertretungen aus der DDR-Liga   Rückzug bzw. Absteiger in die Bezirksliga  (A) Absteiger aus der DDR-Oberliga 1988/89  (N) Aufsteiger aus der Bezirksliga

Namensänderungen während der Saison
 SC Dynamo Berlin (1.–19. Spieltag) ⇒ 1. Polizei-Sportclub (PSC) Berlin (20.–22. Spieltag)

Kreuztabelle
Die Kreuztabelle stellt die Ergebnisse aller Spiele dieser Saison dar. Die Heimmannschaft ist in der linken Spalte aufgelistet und die Gastmannschaft in der obersten Reihe.

Torschützenliste

Staffel Süd
Die Südstaffel beendeten die Betriebssportgemeinschaft (BSG) Grubenlampe Zwickau und der Ostsächsischer Handball-Club Löbau Punktgleich an der Tabellenspitze. Zwickau, dass den direkten Vergleich für sich entschied, gelang nach 1986 zum zweiten Mal der Aufstieg in die Handball-DDR-Oberliga. Auf den fünften Platz kam der Absteiger aus der Oberliga die Spielgemeinschaft Lok/Motor Süd-Ost Magdeburg ein und verwies den besten Aufsteiger aus der Handball-DDR-Bezirksliga die BSG "Thomas Müntzer" Mühlhausen auf den sechsten Rang. Durch die Ausgliederung der Zweitvertretungen und dem freiwilligen Rückzug von Mühlhausen aus der DDR-Liga, reichten den beiden anderen Aufsteigern aus der Bezirksliga Motor Bernburg und Motor Zwönitz die Plätze zehn und elf zum Klassenerhalt.

Abschlusstabelle

 Aufsteiger in die DDR-Oberliga 1990/91   Ausgliederung der Zweitvertretungen aus der DDR-Liga   Rückzug bzw. Absteiger in die Bezirksliga  (A) Absteiger aus der DDR-Oberliga 1988/89  (N) Aufsteiger aus der Bezirksliga  (*) Die SG Dynamo Halle-Neustadt löste sich im Januar 1990 auf.

Namensänderungen während der Saison
 ASG Offiziershochschule Löbau (1.–16. Spieltag) ⇒ Ostsächsischer Handball-Club (OHC) Löbau (17.–20. Spieltag)

Kreuztabelle

Torschützenliste

Aufstiegsrunde zur 2. Handball-Liga (DDR-Liga)
In fünf Gruppen zu je drei Mannschaften, ermittelten die 15 Bezirksmeister bzw. aufstiegsberechtigten Vereine die Aufsteiger in die 2. Handball-Liga (DDR-Liga). Jede Mannschaft bestritt in ihrer Gruppe zwei Heimspiele und zwei Auswärtsspiele.

Staffel 1
In der Staffel 1 spielten die Meister aus den Bezirken Rostock und Potsdam sowie der Vertreter aus dem Bezirk Schwerin.
Abschlusstabelle

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Kreuztabelle
Die Kreuztabelle stellt die Ergebnisse aller Spiele dieser Aufstiegsrunde dar. Die Heimmannschaft ist in der linken Spalte aufgelistet und die Gastmannschaft in der obersten Reihe.

Staffel 2
In der Staffel 2 spielten die Meister aus den Bezirken Halle und Berlin sowie der Vertreter aus dem Bezirk Neubrandenburg.
Abschlusstabelle

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Kreuztabelle
Die Kreuztabelle stellt die Ergebnisse aller Spiele dieser Aufstiegsrunde dar. Die Heimmannschaft ist in der linken Spalte aufgelistet und die Gastmannschaft in der obersten Reihe.

Staffel 3
In der Staffel 3 spielten die Meister aus den Bezirken Frankfurt (Oder) und Dresden sowie der Vertreter aus dem Bezirk Cottbus.
Abschlusstabelle

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Kreuztabelle
Die Kreuztabelle stellt die Ergebnisse aller Spiele dieser Aufstiegsrunde dar. Die Heimmannschaft ist in der linken Spalte aufgelistet und die Gastmannschaft in der obersten Reihe.

Staffel 4
In der Staffel 4 spielten die Meister aus den Bezirken Magdeburg, Erfurt und Gera.
Abschlusstabelle

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Kreuztabelle
Die Kreuztabelle stellt die Ergebnisse aller Spiele dieser Aufstiegsrunde dar. Die Heimmannschaft ist in der linken Spalte aufgelistet und die Gastmannschaft in der obersten Reihe.

Staffel 5
In der Staffel 5 spielten die Vertreter aus den Bezirken Karl-Marx-Stadt und Suhl. Der Vertreter aus dem Bezirk Leipzig verzichtete.
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Spiele

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Handballsaison 1989/90


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The Listener wraps with fifth-season finale Monday at 9 p.m.
By Bill BriouxSpecial to the Star
Sun., Aug. 17, 2014timer4 min. read
If you thought The Listener had it easy over its five seasons, well, you just weren't listening.
The show's complicated early times were "legendary," admits executive producer and showrunner Peter Mohan. Anthony Lemke, who returned this season as Special Forces Inspector Brian Becker, remembers the jokes after that first rocky season at the Writers Guild of Canada awards. "Nice to see so many Listener writers in the room," cracked one speaker. As Lemke recalls, "everyone and their dog had written for The Listener in the first year when they were trying to figure out exactly what the show was."
Having reached the magic number of 65 episodes, making it eligible for syndication sales, CTV announced last week that the series will air its final episode Monday at 9 p.m.
"It was a hard show to write," admits Christina Jennings, who is chairman and executive producer of Shaftesbury Films, which produces The Listener. The series, she says, had to be "reinvented" after the pilot.
What stumped the creative team that first season was figuring out main character Toby Logan (played by Craig Olejnik). Jennings compares him to Spider-Man's Peter Parker. The idea of a reluctant hero who didn't want to use his gift — in Logan's case a form of telepathy — is what first intrigued executives at CTV. To a network rich in CSIs, a paramedic with telepathy seemed like a perfect formula for a homegrown police procedural. Yet early scripts wrote around the fact that the main guy was avoiding using his special listening skills. "Stories had to fall upon him," recalls Jennings.
Mohan, a seasoned Canadian showrunner with writing credits ranging from Night Heat to Lost Girl, was tasked with sorting out the series these last three seasons. Logan graduated from paramedic to police consultant to a member of an elite task force. The character became easier to write for, says Jennings, "once he embraced his gifts."
This season, the cast and crew moved into a state-of-the-art studio in Toronto's Port Lands. The Listener's Hollywood-style digs at Pinewood Toronto Studios housed spiffy new sets, including trendy kitchens and living rooms for newly domesticated Toby and crime reporter Tia (Melanie Scrofano) as well as new mom Sgt. Michelle McCluskey (Lauren Lee Smith) and husband Adam (Kris Holden-Ried).
Then there was the lavish bar built for Toby's best friend, Oz Bey (Ennis Esmer). Oz was originally Toby's paramedic partner; this season he was hosting off-duty cops at his cool new gastropub.
"It's like this soft science-fiction police procedural," Esmer says of The Listener's ongoing ambiguity, "and then I'm in, like, a little bar comedy."
Green-lit as far back as 2007, announced the same year as Flashpoint, The Listener was part of the one-two starting gun signalling a brave new era in Canadian television: a bold step up into Can-Am co-productions.
The Listener has always been a hit in Canada despite dozens of scheduling moves and disappearing acts. CTV programming boss Phil King called it his ultimate "bench player," a show that could be thrown into any night or time. Or channel: The Listener bounced between CTV, CTV Two and Bravo.
Yet fans always found it. No season averaged fewer than 1.1 million viewers, climbing to 1.4 in season three. This past Monday's second-last episode drew close to 1.2 million viewers in the overnight ratings and will surge to 1.4 million once viewers who PVR the show and watch later are counted.
The U.S. launch was not as successful, with NBC dumping the drama part way through the first season. The Listener had the misfortune to launch around the same time as other shows featuring characters with telepathic powers, primarily The Mentalist and True Blood.
A partnership with Fox International Channels, however, proved much more successful in worldwide sales. A new U.S. deal was eventually reached with the cable network ION, where Listener weekends, according to Mohan, have been a hit.
Jennings says reactions from Fan Expo cast appearances helped push the series back to its roots. "We kept getting feedback from fans asking, 'What happened with Toby's mother?' " she says.
Mohan took pains this season to "build back in some of the mythology of the first season." Lemke was brought back to revive his role as the disbeliever who never entirely bought into the idea of Toby as some sort of supernatural cop.
Jennings says her company was happy to meet their five-season goal with the show and a new regime at CTV indicated it was ready to move on to other projects. Still, Mohan did not know if the series was ending when he crafted the season finale. He designed Monday's episode to work whether the series went on or not.
Among other things, fans will finally learn secrets from Logan's past. "That's the thing that really makes me happy about the ending," says Mohan. "Hard-core fans will really feel satisfied by where it's come to."
Shaftesbury, on the other hand, had great success flipping another series, Murdoch Mysteries, from one Canadian network to another. Jennings indicates she's ready to move on to other projects in development at CTV. She feels cast members, including Olejnik, who has given seven years to the project, are also ready to move on. Olejnik himself indicated as much at the start of this season, saying he was "excited to hit the floor again — I haven't auditioned in years."
Still, the network that let Murdoch get away, along with all those Canadian content brownie points, could use a series with a fan base that has proven it will follow this show anywhere. Depending on who is doing the talking, fans may not have heard the last from The Listener.


Melt the butter in a small saucepan. Turn off the heat, add the garlic and soy sauce, and set aside.
Fill al arge, deep skillet with water. Add the sea salt and tea leaves and bring to a full boil. Add the shrimp, turn off heat, and let sit until pale pink and just opaque. The shrimps cook within minutes. Drain, transfew to a bowl. Pick off tea leaves, if desired. Toss with garlic butter and scallions, and serve.


WHAT IS THE MOVE IT PROGRAM?
The Move It Program is an effort of the State of Maryland to educate the motoring public on what to do when they are involved in a vehicle collision. A specific objective is to raise the public awareness of Maryland's law, Transportation Code, Section 20-103, which states in part that "the driver of each vehicle involved in an accident that results only in damage to an attended vehicle or other attended property immediately shall stop the vehicle as close as possible to the scene of the accident, without obstructing traffic more than necessary." Thus, if there are no injuries and the vehicles are still drivable, simply move the vehicles off the travel lanes, exchange information for insurance claims, and move on. Call the police if there is an injury, a vehicle cannot be moved off the travel lane, a driver appears to be intoxicated, a driver does not have a license, a driver tries to leave the scene without providing the proper information, or public property has been damaged.


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You've Got To Hide Your Love Away - Conrad Korsch
from Help! by The Beatles Complete On Ukulele
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"Hide Your Love Away is basically John doing Dylan" – Paul McCartney 1973
Well yeah, but no but, yeah, but… NO!
One month previous to when "Hide Your Love Away" was being recorded in London, Bob Dylan was in CBS Studios in New York recording "Bringing It All Back Home". This was his "Going Electric" album.
As Dylan was going electric The Beatles decided to go acoustic. Dylan wanted to sound more like The Beatles and The Beatles wanted to sound more like Bob.
And why not.
Bob is, was and always will be cool – with the exception of that terrible period from about 1984-88 when the whole world stopped being cool – Bob was and is as cool as it gets. John was definitely a big Dylan fan but when I listen to "Hide" my ears hear yet another Beatles/Irish ballad.
The song is in a folkish strophic form and uses a brushed snare and tambourine part over a 6/8 rhythm takes me back to the old country.
Dylan would never have written the lyric to "You've Got To Hide Your Love Away".
The words of "You've Got To Hide Your Love Away" is explicitly about the legal ramifications of being homosexual in Britain in 1965.
At the time of it's release of the movie "Help!" homosexuality was illegal.
The Buggery Act of 1533 identified anal intercourse and bestiality as offences punishable by hanging as a result. In 1861 section 61 of the Offences against the Person Act 1861 removed the death penalty for homosexuality. This legislation stayed on the books till 1967 and many, many men were convicted and imprisoned.
To come out of the cupboard could literally have you put in jail.
What does this have to do with any of The Beatles? Their manager, Brian Epstein was gay.
Epstein's homosexuality was not publicly known until years after his death, although it had been an open secret among The Beatles since they had known him.
In October 1964, Epstein's autobiography, A "Cellarful of Noise", was published. Lennon reportedly once quipped that the memoir should have been titled "A Cellarful of Boys". Although Lennon often made sarcastic comments about Epstein's homosexuality to friends and to Epstein personally, nobody outside their closed circle was allowed to mention it.
Ian Sharp, one of Lennon's art school friends, once made a sarcastic remark about Epstein, saying : "Which one of you [The Beatles] does he fancy?"
Sharp was sent a letter by Epstein's office within 48 hours that demanded a complete apology. Sharp apologized but was then ostracized by The Beatles, and was told by McCartney in a letter to have no contact at all with any of them in the future.
Lennon was fiercely loyal to Brian and "Hide Your Love Away" is written from Epstein's perspective.
How can I even try
I can never win
Hearing them, seeing them
In the state I'm in
Everywhere people stare
I can see them laugh at me
And I hear them say
Hey you've got to hide your love away
Brian Epstein had to hide his love fear of criminal prosecution. He died on August 27th 1967 after overdosing on Carbitral.
One month after he died The Sexual Offences Act 1967, which decriminalized homosexuality was passed.
Conrad Korsch is a New York City-based multi-instrumentalist / singer / producer / composer widely known for playing upright and electric bass with many iconic singers and songwriters, including an 8 year (and counting) stint with Rod Stewart's band. Through his "Scrumptious Music" production company, he released his own critically acclaimed singer-songwriter CD "Live Love Leave" at a sold-out CD Release Party concert in NYC in 2010, followed by tour dates throughout England, Germany and Norway. Other highlights since the CD's release include:
* "I'M LEAVING" was featured in an episode of the TV show "ROYAL PAINS"
* "FIREFLY" live performance on the Jerry Lewis Telethon (featuring a duet with KRISTINA TRAIN)
* "FIREFLY" (featuring a duet with ROSANNE CASH) was set to original choreography by Andrea Kramer and premiered at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center as part of "The Butterfly Project", a children's cancer charity
* "LOVE STORY OF A BLADE OF GRASS AND A PINE TREE" animated video as part of "Project 30 in 30" (can be seen on www.youtube.com)
* "WEEPING WILLOW" was chosen as the opening track for the Cape May Singer-Songwriter Festival's 2010 Compilation
For more information, please visit www.conradkorsch.com.
"Hide Your Love Away" recording notes
When I was experimenting with ideas for the arrangement, I noticed that I could sing the verses over the riff to "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds", and decided to feature the ukulele on that riff (doubled with Rhodes), then have it strumming behind the half-time 6/8 feel in the Choruses. I was able to make the melodic riff in the vamp/fade at the end of the song fit over the re-harmonized Chorus chord changes by simply displacing it by one bar!
from Help!, released August 14, 2012
Ukulele version #110 recorded December 2010
Conrad Korsch: vocals, ukulele, rhodes piano, upright basses, fretless electric bass, percussion, acoustic guitar
David Palmer: drumset
Engineered and Mixed by Conrad Korsch at Scrumptious Music Studio, NYC
Drumset recording engineered by Eric Isaacson at Kronos Recording Studio, Los Angeles
Mastered by Rick DePofi @ at NYNoise
Essay and more info at
thebeatlescompleteonukulele.com/2011/02/110-youve-got-to-hide-your-love-away-conrad-korsch/


The power of next generation sequencing is allowing us to gain a better understanding than ever before about how bacteria spread. We are interested in the role that urban livestock keeping plays in the spread of E. coli in low-income areas of Nairobi. Our analysis includes bacterial samples collected through many strands of the Urban Zoonoses project, from humans, livestock, food, wildlife and the environment.
We are using state-of-the art methods for integrating bacterial genetic sequence data with information about the time, location and host from which the bacteria were sampled. By combining epidemiological and demographic information with the genetic data, we will be able to understand the E. coli diversity within Nairobi, and how this differs across socioeconomic groups, in different housing types and in relation to livestock keeping practices.
From the bacterial genome sequences we can also look for genes of interest, such as those conferring bacterial virulence or resistance to antibiotics. By examining the set of genes carried by bacteria from different individuals, hosts or locations, we can make inferences about reservoirs of antibiotic resistance and pinpoint potential hotspots for disease outbreaks or the emergence of new pandemic strains.


The Gospel of this Sunday shows us two ways of healing from Jesus. The woman touches Jesus' cloak that cures her from a haemorrhage. The little girl is brought back from death by Jesus' touching. Either touching Jesus or being touched by Jesus bring the same effect.
We need to come to Jesus and let him touch us each day of our lives. Like the little girl, we also need Jesus to take our hand and say: "Get up." Get up from illness and death, so that we can live a life of joy and freedom as the children of God. Jesus still touches us every day through different ways, He still takes our hands to help us 'get up' from suffering and sin. Do we recognise that?
The Gospel also emphasises the importance of the woman and Jairus' faith. The woman manages herself to touch, even just, Jesus' cloak that is enough for her to be saved. However, in the little girl's situation, she gets healed because of the humble faith of her father, Jairus, that makes Jesus make his way to their home. If their faith is not shown, Jesus cannot have worked the miracles. With faith these people get what we want.
This Sunday's Gospel reminds us not forget to attach our lives to Jesus. He is the only One who can help us to be free from illness and death, and bring us to the life of eternal.
he takes no pleasure in the extinction of the living.
as those who are his partners will discover.
Our first reading today is a selection of verses from the Book of Wisdom. The selected verses remind us of two things. First, ours is a God of life who wondrously created all things to be! Second, God made each one of us according to his own image and nature! We have been chosen as children of the light, to be God's likeness in the world. The human spirit is lit by a divine spark. Nonetheless, we are confronted by challenges: the reality of illness and death and the powers of darkness in the world. The challenge is to face these realities with compassion and wisdom, seeking to be bearers of God's love in the world as we make space for bighearted creativity of spirit.
LORD, Adonai, you are a God of life! You are the Ground of our being! You created us in your own awesome image! You call us to be children of light, your likeness in the world! Help us grow in your likeness. Listen to our songs of gratitude and praise! We glorify your Name and acclaim your wondrous mercy and compassion. Raise up women and men to look after the created world for you! Show us how to leave behind the spores of darkness. Bless our creativity and show us how to live lightly and wisely on the earth. Amen.
Each one of us has surely experienced God's helping providence in times of need and difficulty. Can you remember moments when the right word or gesture came to you out of the blue? Or moments of turmoil when the wise way forward suddenly became obvious? Or healing blossomed in a time of need? The poet recalls times of rescue and deliverance, the gentle touch of God's favour in an hour of need, and times when tears were turned into joy and dancing. Now we have the opportunity to proclaim our gratitude to God and lift up heartfelt songs of thankful praise!
You always have the most of everything – of faith, of eloquence, of understanding, of keenness for any cause, and the biggest share of our affection – so we expect you to put the most into this work of mercy too. Remember how generous the Lord Jesus was: he was rich, but he became poor for your sake, to make you rich out of his poverty. This does not mean that to give relief to others you ought to make things difficult for yourselves: it is a question of balancing what happens to be your surplus now against their present need, and one day they may have something to spare that will supply your own need. That is how we strike a balance: as scripture says: The man who gathered much had none too much, the man who gathered little did not go short.
The background to our second reading is the collection that was taken up to help the community in Jerusalem. St Paul reminds us of the vast generosity of Jesus who gave everything for us. Such generosity is the spiritual basis of the Christian willingness to offer material relief to those in need. Paul focuses on balance here, balancing one's present surplus with another's present need. The practice of practical mercy does not call for exaggeration. It calls for wisdom, generosity and a compassionate heart. God has been good to us in our need and so we seek to be actively helpful to others.
Lord Jesus, you call us to be generous people. You invite us to be bearers of mercy in a world of poverty and need. Deepen our oneness with you. Give us a share of your compassion. Give us a share of your wisdom. You inspire us to be generous with material aid. Help us to be spiritually generous, too, with our prayer and our faith. May our hands never be empty! Give us compassionate hearts as we seek to build a humble, caring and helpful Church. Amen.
When Jesus had crossed in the boat to the other side, a large crowd gathered round him and he stayed by the lakeside. Then one of the synagogue officials came up, Jairus by name, and seeing him, fell at his feet and pleaded with him earnestly, saying, 'My little daughter is desperately sick. Do come and lay your hands on her to make her better and save her life.' Jesus went with him and a large crowd followed him; they were pressing all round him.
While he was still speaking some people arrived from the house of the synagogue official to say, 'Your daughter is dead: why put the Master to any further trouble?' But Jesus had overheard this remark of theirs and he said to the official, 'Do not be afraid; only have faith.' And he allowed no one to go with him except Peter and James and John the brother of James. So they came to the official's house and Jesus noticed all the commotion, with people weeping and wailing unrestrainedly. He went in and said to them, 'Why all this commotion and crying? The child is not dead, but asleep.' But they laughed at him. So he turned them all out and, taking with him the child's father and mother and his own companions, he went into the place where the child lay. And taking the child by the hand he said to her, 'Talitha, kum!' which means, 'Little girl, I tell you to get up.' The little girl got up at once and began to walk about, for she was twelve years old. At this they were overcome with astonishment, and he ordered them strictly not to let anyone know about it, and told them to give her something to eat.
The longer form of the gospel recounts two miracle stories, one concerning a little girl who is terminally ill and the other a woman suffering from a long illness. The short form focuses on the healing of the little girl, the daughter of a synagogue official named Jairus. Notice the importance of faith in both stories. Jairus opens the way for God to act in his daughter's life and the woman opens the way for power to go out of Jesus and liberate her from a debilitating condition. Notice how Jesus praises her courage in reaching out to touch what she needed. How do we care for those who are ill? How open are we to the gift of life? How generous are we? In both of these stories Jesus gives witness to a God of life. He also shows us the true generosity of compassion and mercy: Jesus allows himself to be touched and interrupted. Do we?
Lord Jesus, Jairus came to you openly in faith seeking life for his young daughter. You responded to his need and prayer. Then, surrounded by people, you felt the woman with the haemorrhage touch the hem of your cloak. Her faith and openness helped you to liberate her from years of suffering. We are amazed at your sensitivity and compassion! Jairus and the woman opened their lives to your loving presence and grace and healing flowed. Help us to imitate their faith and honesty. Help us honour life in all its fragility, in all its stages, and in all its forms as you did. Thank you. Amen.
Today's gospel sheds light on one of the great mysteries of human existence, one that we find difficult to understand, and the one that we fear most – the mystery of sickness and death. By healing a woman and raising a child from the dead, Jesus shows that he is the Lord of life and death. We should take this gospel passage seriously. What happened to the disciples of Jesus then, can happen again to today's believers. The disciples were always at his side, they had come to know him and to regard him above all others. And yet, they did not dare to ask anything special from him and they even found fault with those who did. It is possible that we too, who believe in Jesus as the Lord of life, do not think of him or have recourse to him, when we feel threatened by evil, even though we know well that, left to ourselves, we cannot free ourselves from evil, nor add one day or one minute to our lives.
The miracles worked by Jesus reveal his personal identity and also show the saving power of God at work among men. Mark summarizes the evangelizing work of Jesus in a discourse based on a parable (Mk 4, 1-34), and then shows how Jesus' ministry is fulfilled through a series of miracles (Mk 4, 35-5, 34). Jesus' power knows no limits. He has power over nature (Mk 4, 35-41) and death (Mk 5, 35-42). It reaches beyond the borders of Israel (Mk 5, 1-20). In Israel he is not deterred even by the internal obstacle of legal impurity (Mk 5, 24-34). The only witnesses of his unlimited power are his disciples. They are granted the privilege of knowing the secrets of the kingdom and a chance to see its saving power. Following Jesus always brings the reward of seeing the miracles he works.
Now Mark presents two miracles that deal with death. Death has already been victorious in the house of Jairus, and is about to claim victory in the case of the woman suffering from a haemorrhage. Mark relates the incidents in a way that highlights the struggle of Jesus against evil. He interrupts the account of the raising of the girl to tell of the healing of the woman. It is one single battle with death that is fought over two rounds. The first round begins with a request from a man who was not ill. The second comes from a woman who has been ill for a long time. In the first instance Jesus agrees to visit the dying girl. In the second case, he heals the woman from a distance, without knowing exactly whom he is healing. In both, Jesus found a desire for healing together with faith in him, either publicly expressed or held in secret. In all this there is, however, one notable difference: the woman suffering from a haemorrhage was healed because her "strategy of anonymity" was recognised by Jesus as a consequence of her faith in him. Jairus came to Jesus hoping for a visit from him, and was encouraged not to lose faith, even when his daughter was already dead. If we do not have faith in him, Jesus cannot overcome the evil that afflicts us or our loved ones.
Into the story of the resuscitation of a little girl, the evangelist inserts the account of the cure of a sick woman. In both cases blind faith is an indispensable condition, with no motive other than their own helplessness. In both cases, the situation is desperate. The family of the dead girl, and the woman suffering from a haemorrhage, were living without hope. The parents had lost their daughter and the poor woman had lost the savings of a lifetime. At her wit's end, and crushed by the crowd, the woman "stole" a miracle from Jesus. Jairus pleaded insistently for a miracle, even though his daughter had already died. His helplessness led him to put himself in Jesus' hands. His faith in Jesus was nourished by his own inability to restore his daughter's life.
Belief in Jesus helps us to realize that the evils that afflict us are passing and will not last forever. As long as we are still alive, they may seem like a bad dream from which we will awaken, if we have complete trust in the power of Jesus. But if we have not yet had a profound experience of our own helplessness, we will not know how much we need Jesus. Will we have to wait until we are powerless against evil before we turn to him for salvation? What a terrible waste of time that would be! But at least, we know we will not be overcome by evil.
What brought both the synagogue official and the sick woman to Jesus was the awareness that they were incapable of freeing themselves from the evil that threatened them. The father could not save the life of the child to whom he had given the gift of life. The woman had spent all she had, but found no relief. The former could not save the life of his own child. The latter knew that bit by bit she was losing her life. Neither of them could see anything but death awaiting them. They went to Jesus with their anxiety and their need. The father begged publicly for a miracle. The woman was afraid to do anything other than approach him secretly. One pleaded insistently for his daughter to be saved. The other believed that it was enough to touch his garment for her to be healed. In both cases a miracle occurred. The dying child "awoke" and the woman felt herself suddenly cured.
It was not, therefore, the manner of pleading, nor the request itself, that brought about the desired healing. They asked, each in the way they knew best – one with a loud plea, the other silently. Each of them wanted to obtain what they knew they needed. They prayed because they knew they were in urgent need of what they wanted, for they knew well the gravity of the evil that threatened. Why then do we, who are disciples of Jesus, not find reason to turn to him? Is it that we are so well off that we don't need anything from him? That we can cope so well with our ills that we do not need Jesus? We are aware of our needs and of our inability to save our own lives or the lives of others, but we have not yet resolved to come to Jesus with the faith of the man who feared for the life of his daughter, or of the woman who had lost everything she had in her search for a cure. If we do not turn to Jesus to touch him and be healed, or to plead with him to heal us, it cannot be because we are so completely healthy or so sure that we will not get sick. More likely, it is because we still do not recognise the ills that threaten us.
Although our life is gradually passing, and we know this life will end, we still do not turn to Jesus. If we do not cry out to him in our need, or seek to grab hold of him and touch his garments in silence, there is no hope of improvement in our situation. Healing was granted to those who knew they could not help themselves, and not to those who were close to Jesus but thought they had no need of him, and so did not ask for help. We should have no fear about approaching Jesus. It does not matter to him what prompts us to go in search of him, or what words we say. Even if our hands are empty and we have nothing to offer him, it is enough that we want to cling to him as our last hope. It is enough that our hearts are in anguish and we have no one else to turn to. If our ills weighed a bit more heavily upon us, we would surely turn with greater faith and greater frequency to Jesus. It may seem paradoxical, and indeed it is, but we have become comfortable with our ills, so much so that we do not bother to seek healing from Jesus. We have become so accustomed to our troubles, and so familiar with them, that we have ceased wanting to be better. We waste the opportunity given to us, as followers of Jesus, because we are not fully aware of how poorly we are, and what we stand to gain by asking him for healing for ourselves and our dear ones.
Death is all around us, and in our hearts we know with certainty that we cannot escape it. We know also the ills that surround us, even though we may try hard not to think about them. Yet it seems that we accept that we will be defeated by the evil that reigns in our world. We do not rebel against the threat of death. We do not make an effort to ask for our personal liberation. We are not concerned about the apparent victory of evil and death. We give up the struggle because we are already partly dead within. We have stopped praying because we do not believe that Jesus can save us from evil. Nevertheless, the follower of Jesus can face life with hope, and death with the certainty that it has already been overcome. "God did not create death nor does he take pleasure in the death of the living." This is our God and this is how he wants to be for us.
How often we complain that life is not worth living, or that we have not received from it all we desire! How often we think that everything leads to death, that our need for love is greater than our capacity for loving our dear ones! We forget that we mean something, at least in the eyes of God who desired us and made us out of nothing. In God's eyes, we are somebody. We exist as the product of his thought and the work of his hands and of his heart. The whole of our lives is a return to our beginning – God's thought, God's hands and heart. For that reason alone, life is worth living. We should not be surprised at difficulties, nor do we need to hide before suffering and death. God did not create death nor did he will death. The best proof we have of this is the reaction of Jesus to the father who was worried about the death of his daughter, and the woman whose life was slowly wasting away, seemingly without hope.
It is enough to have faith. We need to change the way we live our lives, and our attitude to the death we fear. Our life and our death, our incurable illnesses and unforeseen disasters, the evil we do and the evil we suffer, all acquire new meaning when seen with the eyes of God. They are a reason to turn to God and a reminder of tasks we must do. Believing in a God who does not desire death means in practice being sure that our lives and the lives of our loved ones, and indeed also the lives of our enemies, belong solely to God. It means too that any attack on life, our own life or that of others, is an attack against God, who is Lord of life and death. Our limitations and our little daily "dying", call us back to our responsibility to try to overcome them, because they are contrary to the will of God, who did not create death and does not take pleasure in the destruction of the living. The Christian loves life because he loves God. And he loves God, because it is God who has given us the gift of life and will save us from evil and death.
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3.5 Magnitude Earthquake Shakes Los Angeles, No Lives Damage Reported
by Kane Dane April 23, 2020, 12:00 am 0 Votes
Early Wednesday, a small earthquake shook Los Angeles, but there were no reports, authorities said.
The tremor was widespread across Southern California with Los Angeles International Airport tweeting to the airport, but LAX did not report any damage. NBCLA audiences and followers from Santa Monica, West LA, West Hollywood, Koreatown and Burbank, Whittier and Bellflower east, and Torrance from South Bay, report feeling stirred.
Minutes after midnight, the magnitude 3.7 quake happened, and it was located in the area south-west of downtown, the US Geological Survey said.
Did You Feel It? M 3.7 – 1km S of View Park-Windsor Hills, CA. Fill out the "Felt Report – Tell Us!" here: https://t.co/WZ0b3WmrnE#earthquake pic.twitter.com/88COaU7Gqr
— USGS (@USGS) April 22, 2023
Los Angeles Fire Department
Nicholas Prange, the Los Angeles Fire Department, carried out a city-wide survey and did not find any damage.
#EarthquakeModeIncident; INC#0005; 12:05AM; #LosAngeles; After a magnitude 3.8 earthquake lightly shook the LA area, LAFD conducted a citywide survey to assess for any possible damage. The earthquake mode survey has concluded … https://t.co/94rLEgpjwR
— LAFD (@LAFD) April 22, 2023
The website of the USGS group monitoring received some 17,000 comments that described the shaking from moderate to low.
The quake occurred at a depth of 7.2 miles (11.6 km) just east from the Inglewood Oil Field.
Seismologist Dr. Lucy Jones
I'm happy to have slept thru last night's little quake. It appears to be on the Newport-Inglewood fault, at almost the same location as 4 M3 quakes in April, May and June 2015. Those and today are all deep (~7-8 miles down), way below the oil fields.
— Dr. Lucy Jones (@DrLucyJones) April 22, 2023
"I'm glad to have slept through this small quake last night," tweeted veteran seismologist Lucy Jones. She said the shaking seemed to have occurred at the Newport-Inglewood fault almost at the same positions as four three-magnitude quakes in April, May and June 2015.
As per Jones, while retiring from the USGS, he remains a researcher at the California Institute of Technology and has developed a center to make communities more resilient to natural disasters.
The deadly Long Beach earthquake in 1933 brought about a dramatic shift in Southern California's thinking about earthquakes and buildings. In the earthquake of 1933, more than 100 people died.
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Creating a multi-state power market could bring efficiencies. Would property owners benefit?
A proposed regional power grid that would do away with barriers among western states' 38 independent systems is under consideration by lawmakers, regulators and utilities. The plan, which would constitute a fundamental reworking of the region's power delivery system, is attracting equally strong advocates and critics.
Backers argue that such a grid would bring cost-efficiencies and savings. The latter assert it would spur construction of costly transmission lines and put energy jobs in jeopardy. As the bill is being debated by the California assembly, commercial real estate stakeholders are asking how the proposal might impact the industry.
"What we're really talking about is an organized, wholesale electric power market," said John Tsoukalis, senior associate with The Brattle Group, a Boston, Mass.-based consulting firm. The key word is "wholesale," he adds.
Such a market tends to lower costs of procuring power for utilities. Via this centralized market, most utilities will be able to buy power at lower costs than if they self-supplied the power. The cost reductions would amount to 5 or 10 percent, Tsoukalis said.
Individual customers like commercial property owners pay a bill each month based on the regulated rate. The cost of procuring power is just one input to the regulated rate, he added. How customers' bills change will be dependent on the regulatory process.
Mariko Geronimo Aydin, a Brattle Group senior associate, cited considerable evidence that broader regional operations and coordinated markets provide substantial societal benefits. "However, these studies don't break out how those societal benefits will flow to individual parties," she said.
Beyond these points, there are a number of possible upsides for commercial property executives. Some of the existing U.S. regional organized markets provide greater options for small and large commercial owners to participate in demand-side programs, such as providing different types of demand response, Aydin said.
Commercial property owners could also benefit from a regional marketplace drawing more competition on the wholesale side, Aydin added. They would have a greater number of options and perhaps greater ease in obtaining power.
Also noteworthy: Renewable energy like solar, wind, hydro and geothermal is much easier to manage within regional markets, Tsoukalis said. Renewables are not as predictable as other energy sources, and when many utilities pool together in a regional market, the variability of that power source is easier to manage, he noted. Commercial property owners who want to be go green themselves, seek to lure green-minded tenants or want both will find these goals easier to attain in a regional market.


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in a crowded private label world, great design is not enough
This past Summer Kroger filed a suit against German grocer and new-comer to the US market, Lidl. The suit alleged that Lidl's private label name "Preferred Selection" had infringed on Kroger's private label moniker, "Private Selection". I watched this story closely because in an increasingly crowded private label space I was very curious about how a court would interpret trade dress and what metrics would be established to constitute differentiation.
Ultimately, the case was dismissed. Without knowing the full details of the dismissal I have to believe there was not enough evidence to prove that Lidl's private label branding infringed upon Kroger's private label products.
Many things come to mind from this outcome, but mainly: two private label grocers have similar products, similar names and similar design. With jet.com entering private label to take on Amazon and just about every grocer on the planet heavily investing in their own house brands—at what point is Grocer X's private label product more enticing than Grocer Z's?
What will define a successful program is going to come down to "if you remove the logo, can the customer still identify the brand?"
A typical private label life-cycle goes something like this:
A product goes through various stages of development and procurement. An in-house marketing team creates a design using the same typefaces being used by every other in-house marketing team. A photo is styled and placed on a nice, clean white background in the middle of the design. The copywriter crafts some saliva-inducing romance copy. And then, finally, the grocer's logo is placed on the package.
Amazon. Kroger. Stop-N-Shop. Publix. Albertson's. Lidl. Wegman's. Target.
Now take away the grocer's logo. A) Whose item is it? and B) Does it even matter?
The answers are A) Most likely no one can tell the difference and B) Hell yes, it matters.
Ultimately the game winner is going to come down to who has the better private label program—even if the customer is aware (or unaware) that the manufacturer that makes Albertson's cookie also makes Wegman's cookie. What will define a successful program is going to come down to "if you remove the logo, can the customer still identify the brand?" Impossible? No. For example, I know if I saw a Publix Oreo knock-off, and there was no Publix logo, I would still very easily be able to identify the quirky whimsical design as a Publix item.
Despite removing the logo of this package a customer can easily decode this item as uniquely Publix. The solid color field, simple type (often with little to no descriptor) and "reveal" of both the product and a shape visually tells the product's story resulting in a compelling private label success.
It's almost as if the actual product and package design need to become secondary to the X factor of an item–that is to say "the thing" that makes a bag of pretzels Instagramable. Why should Refinery29.com feature a private label grocery item from Kroger? What is the mechanism that encourages curiosity out of a customer? What might compel someone to tell their friend or family member about something as common as a bag of pretzels?
The private label industry is going to have to start thinking creatively and conceptually to be successful. Not just 'creatively' developing a product. Not just 'creatively' coming up with witty word-play or a fun design. Successful private label is going to have to dig deep to find solutions that create an authentic, meaningful, humorous and engaging narrative.
Ultimately, developing a creative and alternative approach to private label will provide the metrics needed to establish brand differentiation—(but maybe not in a court of law).


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Our opinion: Money for La. 1 is well-deserved investment
State lawmakers, at the urging of our local legislative delegation, are in a position to take a huge step forward for Louisiana and our region in particular by protecting La. 1.
A bill proposed in the ongoing legislative session would direct $25 million a year for six years to the La. 1 project. The money would come from BP oil spill money, and it would go toward offsetting some of the damage that has been done.
The highway is a vital cog in the economy of south Louisiana, linking southern Lafourche Parish and Grand Isle – and therefore the Gulf oilfield – to the rest of the nation.
Unfortunately, as the ground has continued to erode and sink and the seas have continued to rise, La. 1 has become increasingly vulnerable to high tides, tidal surge and other water hazards. The answer is to elevate and fortify the road, making our infrastructure more sound and secure.
The massive effort will protect the oilfield's ability to operate out of Port Fourchon and will give workers and residents a safer route for evacuation.
The sticking point, as it has always been, is getting enough money to make it happen. The La. 1 Coalition, which has joined the interests of government entities and private companies, has been successful in securing money and overseeing work as it has become possible. But a new infusion of money from the state would allow great strides of progress.
House Bill 578 is the work of Rep. Tanner Magee, R-Houma, co-sponsored by Rep. Beryl Amedee, R-Houma, Rep. Truck Gisclair, D-Larose, Rep. Dee Richard, I-Thibodaux, Rep. Jerome Zeringue, R-Houma, and Sen. Norby Chabert, R-Houma.
"The BP oil spill happened off the coast of Terrebonne and Lafourche. Last year we lost 2,500 jobs, that's 2018," Magee said. "Clearly that's economic damages, and it makes sense this money should begin with Terrebonne and Lafourche parishes as we move forward."
Understandably, there have been some concerns that this would benefit La. 1 and another project near Baton Rouge rather than going toward projects across Louisiana. But these projects are incredibly important, and they are both ready to proceed once they have the required money in place.
La. 1 is a crucial part of our economy. It means jobs, tax revenue and corporate well-being. Spending money on La. 1 is an investment in our future. It's an investment we need.
Let's hope our lawmakers are able to steer this important bill through to a successful finish.
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Friends JESUS commands that we LOVE each other. Friends we are all different, and all are blessed with a free will, heart, mind and soul, but we all need put our differences aside and LOVE each other.
I share this with you today "We need to put our differences aside and LOVE each other." Amen.


Balboa Bank & Trust, and Balboa Securities, two Panamanian companies linked to the Waked money laundering empire, and sanctioned by OFAC, have requested that the US agency's license, which has permitted them to continue to operate, be extended, according to reports from Panama. The OFAC license is said to expire on April 7, 2017.
The Waked money laundering operation, which allegedly cleaned Colombian and Mexican drug profits, was well known to the authorities in Panama, as well as US law enforcement agencies, for at least a decade, but there were no efforts made to shut it down until last year.


Personalized marketing depends on the ability to identify consumers. But how marketers go about identifying consumers is complex in today's ecosystem. An Advertising Week panel led by MediaMath VP of strategic business development Ellie Windle pondered this topic. With an eye to changes in 2019, panelists discussed the GDPR, connected TV and the dynamic nature of establishing identity. The panel included Michele McCray-Howard, director, media partner solutions at Macy's; Molly Parr senior director, data platform product management for Disney DTC; and Wendy Verschoor, product manager at Akamai Technologies.
Regarding the GDPR, Parr said, "I probably spend 40 percent of my time talking to privacy and legal. Everything needs to be put through that gauntlet and the lens of 'Will our guests be happy?'" Parr said the holy grail is to please both guests and advertisers.
Meanwhile, the topic of connected TV came up several times. Panelists noted a shift in media consumption in which viewers are seeing TV as a source of on-demand content rather than as a broadcast medium.
"Identity can help you serve better content and ensure that where you're buying your spots is where you want to be," said McCray-Howard. "What we've been learning from our tech partners recently is you could be buying on network and then find out you're on a kids' TV show." McCray-Howard said better data will prevent the serving of ads to inappropriate audiences.


I love to travel. There are so many places in the world I want to see, but whenever anyone asks me what I'd like to see most, these seem to top my list every time, especially #1. Of course, if money weren't an issue, pack me up with my pups and my hubby and set me on a cruise around the world with stops in every port possible. But, seeing as I currently live on a very tight budget, I'll settle for these glorious getaways. Who wants to go with me? Pack your suitcases and let's go!


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Q: Is Apache ReverseProxy to Passenger Standalone an acceptable production deployment? I have the need to deploy Rails 3 apps, using RVM and gemsets, and am expecting "public" traffic (i.e. this is not an internal-only app).  I also must use Apache as the public interface to my app.
I understand that Passenger Standalone can help accomplish the rails/RVM end, and I have successfully set it up in my development environment.
My question is how viable this setup is for a production deployment.  Is deploying via Apache configured to ReverseProxy to my passenger-powered Rails app going to create problems?  Since I'm designing the production deployment now, I want to understand if I should spend the additional time to set up Passenger connected to Apache and have that Passenger communicate with Passenger Standalone instance running my Rails app.
So, I'm looking for one of I guess three answers:

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*Apache Reverse Proxy to Passenger Standalone will be generally fine

*You should not use the Apache/Passenger Standalone configuration, but set up Passenger on the Apache side as well

*Your entire setup is just Wrong, please RTFM (and include link to "FM")

A: I haven't used that specific setup in production, though I've used Apache's reverse proxy for a lightly loaded site (no a different non-Passenger backend).
The only (mild) downside I found to Apache's reverse proxy was that if it detected the backend being down, it would take a short while after the backend was restarted before Apache would start forwarding requests to it again.
If you have the ability to configure the Apache server for Passenger, it's not difficult to do, and once configured you don't need to administer Apache any more than before (other than for Passenger updates). When you update your Rails app, simply touching the tmp/restart.txt file will restart the Passenger instance.

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Q: List items get aligned to the item with border on the line above I have a list of navigation tabs implemented using an unordered list and the active one will be highlighted with a border around it.
The issue with the tabs is that once an active item is set to take on a border:
border: 1px solid #ff0000;
the first item on the next line will be aligned after it.
This example will show you what I mean:
http://jsfiddle.net/stevenjs/JQawf/
If I remove the border, everything will be fine.
Can anyone help me please? Thank you very much!

A: i'm not sure if you have any restrictions here but you could add border: 1px solid transparent to all of your li's and that will keep them a consistent size
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