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In the introduction to his 300-plus page tome Ulster County New York: The Architectural History & Guide (Black Dome Press, $24.95), author William B. Rhoads writes, “Some of Ulster’s landmarks, like the early stone houses of Kingston, Hurley, and New Paltz, are relatively well known, but many others — ranging from brick houses in the Federal style to Gothic Revival churches, Arts and Crafts summer colonies, Colonial Revival libraries, and Bauhaus-influenced modern houses — have not received the attention they deserve.” In lively and entertaining prose, Rhoads, a professor of art history at SUNY New Paltz, expertly remedies our lack of knowledge.
Below, we excerpt Rhoads’s description of the little-known Payne Estate on Route 9W in Esopus. Built by the same architects responsible for the New York Public Library, it is Ulster County’s answer to the grand mansions of Long Island and Westchester. But whether it’s the section on the Gothic-style Wallkill State Prison or the school buses transformed into cottages, you’ll want to read more; the quirky charm of Ulster County shines through page after page.
Seekers of Great Estates should travel across the Hudson to Dutchess County or journey to Newport, Rhode Island. Ulster County was not favored by the plutocrats of 1900. Still, Ulster retains one showplace built for a robber baron of the period, Colonel Oliver Hazard Payne (1839-1917), and designed by a leading New York architectural firm, Carrere & Hastings… Colonel Payne, a Civil War veteran and self-described capitalist, made a fortune in iron, oil, and tobacco in Cleveland and New York. He was best known for his association with John D. Rockefeller in Standard Oil, but in 1913, late in his life, he was described as enjoying “the seclusion afforded by a carefully sheltered bachelor life.”
Saugerties Library: Built between 1914 and 1916 with funds from Andrew Carnegie, the Saugerties Public Library was constructed in a classical style. “The south wall of what was the Children’s Room is still enhanced by an important work of art, a fireplace faced with tiles illustrating Washington Irving’s tale of Rip Van Winkle, designed by Henry Chapman Mercer and made at his Moravian Pottery and Tile Works in Doylestown, Pennsylvania,” writes Rhoads
The gatehouse on Rte. 9W alerts the visitor to the refined good taste of Colonel Payne and his architects. The early Italian Renaissance is suggested in the semicircular arches resting on unfluted columns. The red tile roof and classical door and window frames also refer to Italy and its Renaissance of classical antiquity. Passing through the gate, two outbuildings appear that were once joined by a greenhouse, all designed by Carrere & Hastings. (Colonel Payne also had a formal flower garden and rock garden.) The larger of the two buildings was the gardener’s cottage, with living quarters on the upper two floors and white-tiled halls for garden and floral work on the ground floor. While the two structures resemble the gatehouse in their smooth, light-toned limestone walls and tile roofs, they are picturesque, not classical, in their steep roofs, asymmetry (notably of the turret and dormers of the gardener’s cottage), and lack of classical ornament. The cottage is reminiscent of a miniature French chateau of the late Middle Ages. Just beyond the farther and smaller of these two outbuildings are gates and a drive leading to the entrance façade of Colonel Payne’s mansion.
The Payne mansion replaced Waldorf, John Jacob Astor III’s somewhat less grand Renaissance-style residence that was razed in 1910. Colonel Payne’s façade is a stately and restrained interpretation of 16th-century Italian Renaissance palaces. Architectural historian Mark Alan Hewitt relates the Payne mansion to “the most exalted Italian Renaissance masters — Bramante, Vignola, Sansovino, and Palladio.” The low tile roof accords with the gatehouse, but the overall massing is comparable to the firm’s greatest work, the New York Public Library on Fifth Avenue (1897–1911), although on a smaller scale. While finely detailed and crafted, Colonel Payne’s residence lacks the grandeur of the earlier F. W. Vanderbilt mansion with its four giant, two-story porticos across the river in Hyde Park. Payne’s richest portico — six single-story Ionic columns set between rugged arched pavilions — faces east and is fronted by a balustraded terrace overlooking the river. Steamboat travelers were presumably impressed by this terrace and portico. They had no glimpse, however, of the enclosed courtyard at the center of the mansion fitted with a fountain and recessed loggias adorned with frescoes. And few would see the opulent interior, or Payne’s collection of fine paintings including works by Rubens, Turner, and Courbet (the colonel’s Venus and Adonis by Rubens is now at the Metropolitan Museum of Art).
Raymond A. Rich, an industrialist and business leader, purchased the mansion in 1986; in 2009 it was announced that Rich had bequeathed the mansion and 60 acres to Marist College, which will operate it as the Raymond A. Rich Institute, focusing “on developing the communication, interpersonal and social skills necessary to lead complex organizations in a global setting.”
Free sailing: The Payne boathouse is a rare survivor of its type on the river
A little north of the former gardener’s cottage and greenhouse appear other outbuildings grouped around a rectangular court. Colonel Payne’s stable, carriage house, and garage were located here, as well as housing for employees. Some of the structures were built to serve the earlier Pratt estate, notably the house at the southeast corner of the court, which was the home of Mrs. Pratt’s superintendent. The residence of Anna Pratt, widow of historian and Civil War hero Colonel George W. Pratt, stands just to the east of these outbuildings. The Pratt house — with porte cochère and lower story of stone, and upper story of shingles curving out over the first story — is characteristic of the late 19th-century Queen Anne style. In 1913 it became the residence of Payne’s superintendent, John Burroughs’s son Julian and his family. Julian had grown up at Riverby and in 1902 had built his own house there, a little south of the colonel’s place. Julian and his family were accustomed to Spartan quarters at Riverby (daughter Elizabeth recalled its outhouse and hand pump in the kitchen). On moving into the Pratt house, Julian wrote his father that they were “enjoying the advantages of electricity, bath rooms & toilets on every floor, three on the second floor alone, oceans of room & all that.”
Julian Burroughs, without professional architectural training, was able to convince his employer to allow him to function as architect and contractor for several building projects including a poultry plant with manager’s cottage built of native stone, and an elegant boathouse. Payne was an ardent yachtsman; the staterooms of his steam-powered ocean-going yacht, the Aphrodite, were designed by renowned architect Stanford White, and in 1913 Carrere & Hastings designed a boathouse and garden pavilion for the colonel.
It was Julian Burroughs, however, who actually designed and oversaw construction of the stone boathouse (1914-1915) for the Aphrodite’s launch. Her master, Captain Charles W. Scott, made a sketch of the proposed dock and boathouse as a basis for Julian’s design. Julian wrote his parents excitedly in 1914 about his grand plans for the boathouse: “I think about the boat house a good deal and if they let me build it my way it will be some boat house, I will make a steel and concrete roof covered with imperial red Spanish tile, the doors and windows and cornice will be of bronze, there will be a balcony on south end and east side with a bronze railing which I will design, inside I will have a faience wainscot with motifs of the Hudson done in colors by the Rookwood Pottery Company, the floors will be stone, there will be an inside balcony with a hand wrought iron railing, etc, etc. The concrete ceiling I will panel in oak. I am not estimating the cost but the picture wainscot of tile will alone cost $2000. My old head buzzes like a bee — I can shut my eyes any time and see patterns for railings, ceilings, designs for doors, etc., etc.”
Wallkill State Prison: “The prison at Wallkill was meant to resemble multigabled Gothic college dormitories, and the wooden doors to the cells, each occupied by just one inmate, were unlocked,” writes Rhoads about the Norman-style building on Route 208, which was erected in the early 1930s. “Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt took an active interest in shepherding the construction of the prison through the state bureaucracy, and he attended its opening in 1932. When president in 1934, he and Eleanor Roosevelt went by auto from Hyde Park to inspect the completed institution whose slogan, ‘rehabilitation through education,’ would have appealed to both Roosevelts”
Burroughs became accustomed to spending freely on the colonel’s projects, and on most design issues he also had a free hand. Payne’s trusted assistant, Emma Larson, wrote Burroughs about the boathouse: “do… as you think best. We can not help you because we do not know anything about architecture.” However, there were limits to the client’s tolerance for useless expense, and he did veto balconies on the east side and on the interior.
The boathouse, a rare survivor of its type on the river, is neither Italian Renaissance nor rustic, but somewhere between the two. A four-column classical portico with ornamental frieze graces the south façade, and the red tile roof also ties the building to earlier Carrere & Hastings buildings on the estate. But the textured stone walls and broadly projecting roof supported by brackets connect to the qualities of craftsmanship and solidity associated with the Arts and Crafts movement. Inside, tile wainscoting was interrupted by a fireplace of dubious practical value. Tiles painted with a seascape and historic sailing vessels, perhaps by the renowned Arts and Crafts tile maker, Rookwood Pottery, face the wall over the fireplace. An iron grill with a delicately worked peacock standing on a post functioned as a gate at the boat entrance; the peacock is repeated on a smaller scale in the railing over the south portico. Near the boathouse is an octagonal stone summerhouse with red tile roof, also built under Julian’s supervision in 1915.
Colonel Payne’s nephew, Harry Payne Bingham, inherited the estate in 1917. During the Depression, in 1933, he gave the deteriorating 484-acre property to the New York Protestant Episcopal City Mission Society for a “convalescent and work-training centre for men and boys.” The center, named Wiltwyck, was transformed from “the glorification of past elegance and vast expenditure upon luxury” to “an equally vast service to unemployed men and boys and convalescent boys.” The mansion’s “great salon” became the institution’s chapel. In 1937 the mission formed a school for neglected and delinquent black Protestant boys. In 1942 the school became more inclusive and was incorporated as the Wiltwyck School for Boys; its leaders included Eleanor Roosevelt, and its alumni included boxing champion Floyd Patterson. In 1942 Marist Brothers purchased the part of the estate between Rte. 9W and the Hudson for a preparatory school and later a retreat center. They carried out a number of alterations and additions, some designed by John Allan Ahlers about 1950.
William Rhoads speaks about his book at the following locations:
July 8, 4 p.m. The Beacon Institute for Rivers & Estuaries, Beacon
July 13, 7:30 p.m. Mountain Top Historical Society (in the train station), Haines Falls
July 18, 7 p.m. Hudson River Maritime Museum, Kingston
July 29, 3 p.m. Maple Grove Historic Estate, Poughkeepsie

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View from the Right: Dems' incompetence suppressing its own voters
Every issue isn’t —and shouldn’t be -- racial. That idea would surely irk Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg, who this week announced that “racism was physically built into” America’s highways. President Eisenhower promoted the Interstate Highway System as an escape system for all urban dwellers in the event of an impending nuclear war, not as a mechanism to take whites to the safety of lily-white suburbs. Those who had the means can’t be blamed for using those highways to escape urban decay.
In recent years Democrats have found such race-baiting to be a very effective political tool. Ironically, in the post-Civil War era they were the target of what was known as “waving the bloody shirt.” Election after election, issue after issue, Republicans beat them down by reminding voters that the Democrat Party had been pro-slavery and sympathetic to the Confederacy. Now the historic party of slavery and Jim Crow has turned the tables, framing every debate from disease control to infrastructure as a Republican effort to harm people of color.
The latest outrage is over efforts in some Republican states to reform election laws. Reforms in Georgia have generated the most Democrat anger, not surprising considering its recent transformation from a reliably red state to a purple one that went narrowly for Joe Biden in 2020 and elected two Democrat senators in January runoffs.
Democrats, especially President Biden, have been boldly lying about Georgia’s Election Integrity Act of 2021, alleging it is intended to suppress minority voting. Biden has repeatedly said the measure would close the polls at 5 p.m., “just as working people are leaving their jobs.” Even the liberal Washington Post’s fact checkers hit him with four Pinocchios for that one. The truth is that the change only codifies early voting hours, which the act now mandates be allowed weekdays as well as on Saturdays, adding Sundays as optional. Election Day voting hours are unchanged. Biden has also called the law “Jim Crow in the 21st Century,” suggesting that it surpasses in heinousness the generations of Democrat suppression of Black voting in the South by Ku Klux Klan intimidation, poll taxes and even intelligence tests. The state’s failed 2018 Democrat gubernatorial candidate, Stacy Abrams, who like former President Trump has refused to concede defeat there, called the law “a reminder of Georgia’s dark past.”
Democrats are outraged by a provision making it illegal to hand out food or beverages to people in poll lines. Again, this is proffered as evidence of voter suppression, apparently because Democrats don’t believe Black voters have the foresight to bring their own snacks. Water can still be provided by self-service stations, but not as a gratuity provided by a party operative or candidate to sway votes. The real outrage is that Democrat-run cities in Georgia and around the country feature hours-long lines in almost every major election. The party’s incompetence is so complete that it suppresses its own voters by failing to set up enough polling places.
Like most states and just about every voting nation around the world, Georgia has reiterated that a valid ID is needed to vote or to get an absentee ballot. That’s because elections held without an ID requirements are like a country without borders – a mirage.
Martin Fey is a member of the Quiet Corner Tea Party Patriots.

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Are you seeking the most effective pet dog bed for people’s best friend? In early 2020, Puffy introduced the much-awaited launch of the Puffy Dog Bed. This pet dog bed is developed to supply lavish assistance as well as comfort for all sizes of dogs. The California-based business is adding the pet bed to its fast-growing series of bed mattress and also room furnishings.
A quality canine bed can aid to encourage healthy rest practices, which can ensure a happy canine. Puffy’s pet beds are available in little, medium, and large sizes to accommodate puppies varying from Dachshunds to Dalmatians.
Let’s have a more detailed take a look at precisely why this pet bed is merely an essential.
What Is a Puffy Pet Dog Bed?
Developed by the exact same people that make the rest of their cushions, the Puffy Pet dog Bed rankings just as extremely for convenience as its human-sized predecessors. Composed of memory foam, the sofa-style pet bed is available in 3 dimension choices: little, tool, as well as big. Thanks to the different dimension selections, the Puffy can fit many pet types.
The polyester cover is detachable as well as totally machine-washable, excellent for dogs who often track dirt or shed. The polyester is also moisture resistant, so dogs susceptible to crashes do not soak through the entire bed. The padding itself is constructed from a high-density memory foam that must fit for specifically energetic or older dogs. The base has a no-slip hold to help the bed remain in area.
Orthopedic Pet Beds
Orthopedic dog beds are wonderful for pooches just like they are for human beings. They supply additional support for your pooch’s body when resting thanks to the memory foam mattress these beds are made from, providing ultimate convenience.
On the other hand, if your pet is experiencing problems that trigger discomfort in the joints and bones, an orthopedic bed is a must. Osteoarthritis, as an example:
” is a common issue in pet dogs, especially in elders and large types. Although there is no cure for this modern condition, determining the issue early and also starting appropriate administration can assist maintain your pet dog energetic and enhance lifestyle”, states Elizabeth Racine for AKC.
A fundamental part of managing such problems is a correct bed, so selecting an orthopedic dog bed with a high quality memory foam bed mattress is the most effective you can do.
The leading reasons that make Puffy Pet dog Beds the very best
101-Night Sleep Trial
Your dog can roll around on the Puffy Pet Bed for 101 nights before making a last bark. If you feel your buddy isn’t comfier than ever, you can return the canine bed for a reimbursement.
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For added convenience for both humans and also pet dogs, the Puffy Dog Bed includes a lifetime warranty. For as long as your furry good friend snoozes on the Puffy Pet Bed, it’s covered under guarantee.
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Order a little, medium, or huge Puffy Pet dog Bed today, and it will certainly be shipped within 1 – 3 organization days. Prior to you know it, your dog will be relaxing his paws on cloud convenience. We likewise offer complimentary returns and also a 100% refund if you’re not happy!
Get Rid Of And Also Laundry Cover
The Puffy Dog Bed features a removable cover that you just unzip and also include the cleaning equipment. It’s a wind to clean dog drool, dust, and also hair. Your dog will experience that new bed feeling over and over once more.
An Air Conditioning Pet Bed
The Puffy Pet dog Bed is crafted with special high-density high-end memory foam that will ensure your pet is kept one’s cool after a difficult day of play. Memory foam assists to take in and uniformly disperse weight, and it’s breathable, so your pup has the ideal arrangement for amazing and also rejuvenating rest.
The Puffy Pet Dog Bed is as comfortable as a cloud yet likewise has an ultra-durable boundary. Layered with high-density memory foam, you can be certain this is an undestroyable pet dog bed that is developed to maintain your canine comfy for several years to find.
Playing catch is effort. The pressure-relieving Puffy memory foam pet bed is made for rest and also recovery. The sturdy high-density 100% memory foam base is perfect for really energetic dogs. This distinct memory foam is designed to launch weight stress and carefully sustain speedy activities.
For Little, Medium, And Big Dogs
The Puffy Pet Bed can be found in 3 sizes and also appropriates for small, tool, as well as big canines. The lap dog bed is 25″ x 20″ x 6″. The medium pet bed is 36″ x 28.5″ x 9″. The big pet dog bed is 44″ x 34″ x 10″.
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A studded non-slip fabric base will certainly ensure your dog doesn’t slide and move as they rest or use the Puffy Canine Bed.
Soft And Helpful Sidewalls
Helpful foam reinforces will certainly caress and also support your pup’s head as they lay on their individual bed of clouds. The soft sidewalls produce a barrier for safe and sound sleep.
An Extravagant Sleep Treat
Your dog should have the best! The Puffy Dog Bed has a wise as well as helpful layout that is glamorous as well. The deluxe grey and also lotion fabric will quickly adjust to your house design. Countless convenience is the best reward for your ideal chum.
The Puffy Dog Bed has a 100% polyester anti-tear and scratch-resistant cover. The cover is soft-to-touch with a luxurious suede feel. The pet bedspread is so difficult that most spirited claws will not be able to damage the textile, even if they attempted!
Puffy Pet dog Bed’s finest attributes
- Second-to-none company plans like free delivery, a 101-night trial, as well as a life time warranty (this doesn’t typically occur with canine beds).
- Memory foam building and construction that can aid ease your dog’s hurting joints.
- Reinforced edges to assist support your doggo’s neck and head if they want to relax versus it.
- The cover is scratch-resistant, maker washable, and detachable, and it’s covered in Puffy’s trademark clouds.
- Three dimensions from Small (25″ L x 20″ W) to Huge (44″ L x 34″ W).

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Minnie was not my Queen, she came here for breeding and this is how I aquired Sebastian and Summer. Unneutered cats have resulted in quite a few unwanted litters that often end up being abandoned or subject to abuse. Savannah Cats are identified for their skill to leap from a standing place as excessive as eight ft to the tops of fridges and excessive cupboards.
Post your available cats and kittens for sale or adoption and let us convey loving dad and mom to you. Some researchers (Mair, 1973) prompt that longhair cats tend to be deaf more continuously than shorthair cats. Only a handful of those cats end up being rescued and are posted by dedicated fosters on this board.
Van University has by no means achieved even one single examine on deafness of white cats and never performed any critical hearing checks. He is neutered and declawed and is eating moist meals for diabetic cats and doing very properly on it so he did not even must go on insulin photographs, as he was doing so effectively.
But regardless of all of the hype relating to their ‘laid again’ nature, and the flexibility to adapt to living with almost any animal, keep in mind, identical to us, every cat is different, and can exhibit completely different traits, don’t just assume that the ragdoll cats personality will be the ‘typical’ or standardized one, prepare for individual differences and you wont be disillusioned.
We produce Traditional Siamese & Conventional Balinese cats in the following colour points: Seal Point Siamese and Seal Point Balinese, Chocolate Level Siamese and Chocolate Level Balinese, Blue Point Siamese and Blue Point Balinese, Lilac Point Siamese and Lilac Level Balinese.


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Bitcoin (BTC) price breached the crucial level of $ 35,000 and continued to rise above $ 40,000 on February 6, just days after MicroStrategy offered Bitcoin to more than 14,000 companies.
This break above $ 35,000 earlier this week was significant as it opened the door to a new test ever. A recent hurdle at $ 40,000 kept BTC from an all-new high, while several all-time highs were created by altcoins over the past week.
In fact, the cryptocurrency market is parabolic as most investors have seen significant increases in their portfolio sizes. However, the rally in DeFi alts, in particular, is at risk of overheating as momentum may swing back to Bitcoin as BTC returns in excess of $ 40,000.
Moreover, will the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (ETH) futures list change market momentum next week, or will Bitcoin continue its rally? Let’s take a look at the graphs.
Bitcoin should break the final resistance before new all-time highs
The 4 hour chart of Bitcoin shows an impressive breakout above $ 35,000, resulting in a healthy continuation towards the $ 40,000 mark. During this range, the $ 38,000 level gave a slight rejection but was not categorized as a huge resistance area
The $ 38,000 level took its test during Elon Musk’s pump, as Bitcoin’s price rebounded dramatically the same day. So, if Bitcoin breaks through $ 35,000 again, it is not surprising that we see a continuation to $ 40,000 rather than another reject at $ 38,000.
This $ 40,000 zone is the last hurdle to break before new all-time highs. However, this new strength in Bitcoin means that its market dominance recovers at the expense of most altcoins.
Is Bitcoin’s dominance ready to explode?
Bitcoin dominance chart is a nice diagram that shows how market cycles work. In recent years, bitcoin topped the dominance in December, followed by a rise in altcoin led by Ethereum. This was accompanied by a significant drop in BTC’s dominance in January.
This trend has been repeated again this year with altcoin trading parabolic, reaching all-time highs with Bitcoin standardizing into a range.
However, each half ends, and altcoins will correct. Historically, a temporary low was seen in February, after which bitcoin’s dominance rose slightly. This rise in dominance will be in line with a possible correction in ETH price.
Ether CME futures will begin Monday February 8th, after which the correction should not be surprising. This is exactly what happened with Bitcoin CME futures in December 2017. This list marked the top of a bullish cycle and the start of a bear market for several years.
Therefore, an Ether correction may also come as the focus shifts back to Bitcoin, especially as Ethereum gas fees reach ridiculous levels. This shift will significantly increase Bitcoin’s dominance.
What are the following points of interest for Bitcoin?
Bitcoin daily chart can be used to determine Bitcoin’s next price targets. If Bitcoin price can break through the $ 40,500 area, the following points of interest can be identified with the Fibonacci extension tool.
Using this indicator, the most popular Fibonacci level is the 1.618 Fibonacci level. This level puts the potential bitcoin price target of $ 50,000, once it breaks the last high.
However, bitcoin has seen a huge spike in recent months already. So a clear breakout above the previous all-time high should be combined with a clear support / resistance reversal of this level. Otherwise, a continuation of the limited-scale construction would likely occur, as history shows.
In the trolley above, bitcoin price tried to break above recent highs (after halving) but was unsuccessful, resulting in more range. However, a clear breakout above an all-time high above $ 42,000 should push Bitcoin’s price up to $ 50,000.
The opinions and opinions expressed herein are solely of those of author They do not necessarily reflect the views of Cointelegraph. Every investment and trading movement involves risks. You must do your own research when making the decision.

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|3D Museum of Aeronautics, Ibirapuera Park, São Paulo, Brasil|
The Museum of Aeronautics was created in 1959 for the Foundation Santos Dumont, who manages it until today. It occupies an area covered of five a thousand square meters, in two floors of the Governing Pavilion Lucas Garcez Walnut, in the Ibirapuera Park, São Paulo. Its installations include audience for films, lectures and conferences, room-safe armored for valuable parts and library with thousand of books, magazines and documents. Its quantity includes original airplanes, engines, parts, mockups in on scale and other objects to the history of aviation in Brazil and the world.
See with 3D Ibirapuera Obelisk and 3D Modern Art Museum.
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Learn 12 Ways How To Deal With A Narcissist Boyfriend
Developing a relationship with someone special can be a very exciting time in life. If a relationship is healthy, it can also be an emotionally rewarding experience. Characteristics of a healthy relationship include mutual respect and care for one another, avoiding self-serving behaviors, and nurturing healthy communication.
Unfortunately, not all relationships are healthy. Have you noticed your boyfriend has become more self-centered, that he doesn’t appear to have any empathy for your thoughts or feelings, or seems to be cutting you off from family and friends? He may be impulsive, seek attention and suffer from low self-esteem.
These could be warning signs that you are in a relationship with a boyfriend that is narcissistic, meaning he has narcissistic personality traits or a possible narcissistic personality disorder.
A trained mental health professional such as an online therapist can assess your loved one and diagnose them as having narcissistic personality disorder. Identifying your partner with this disorder should only come after a trained professional has given that diagnosis.
What Is A Narcissistic Personality?
Narcissistic personality disorder (NPD) is one of several types of personality disorders. NPD is characterized by an individual having an inflated sense of self-importance, lack of empathy for others, and a deep need for excessive attention and/or admiration. Some signs of narcissism in your boyfriend include: jealousy, lies, selfishness, envy, arrogance, aggression, hostility, defensiveness, stonewalling, gaslighting, criticism, contempt, deflection, grandiose, attention-seeking, lack of boundaries, or being exploitative.
Because those with NPD tend to have an air of superiority about them, they often have troubled relationships. Being in a relationship with a person with narcissism can feel very disheartening as it is almost impossible to deal with them or make them understand your feelings. In fact, it is not uncommon for a narcissistic person to dismiss their partner’s feelings altogether, especially if those feelings do not serve their own purpose. They also may have a lot of criticism or unprompted advice about how you are living your life, and are convinced that everyone around them has problems while everything they do deserves praise.
People with a narcissistic personality disorder often exhibit some of the following narcissistic traits:
- They Demand Excessive Admiration. The admiration a narcissist requires is usually focused on their fantasies of success, beauty, and/or power.
- Narcissists Love to Be the Center of Attention. They have no problem monopolizing conversations as they want to be seen as more special than others.
- A Person With a Narcissistic Personality Will Be Overly Concerned With the Opinions of Others. They pay close attention to their own self-image, and they feel a sense of entitlement.
- Confidence Is an Understatement. Self confidence about one’s ability to learn a skill and perform a job or to build friendships or relationships is usually a healthy thing. For the narcissist, however, arrogant and toxic behaviors begin to have negative effects on relationships, both personally and professionally.
- Takes advantage of others for their own personal gains. Other people’s emotions matter less to a person with narcissistic tendencies than their own needs.
- Shows a lack of empathy. Someone with a narcissistic personality disorder has difficulty placing themselves in others’ shoes.
Causes Of Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD)
One thing is clear: while the specific causes of narcissistic personality disorder are not completely understood, NPD is believed to be linked to genetic, biological, and environmental factors. Some researchers and co authors believe that NPD forms when infants and young children fail to experience normal bonding with caregivers, especially maternal figures. There is also some belief that there is a breakdown in the structure and function of the brain that predisposes some people to develop a narcissistic personality disorder. Narcissistic tend to rarely develop meaningful relationships with others that last for any significant length of time. This condition can often present itself through their words, rage, small comments they make to you, unsolicited feedback, or them even taking away some of your rights to gain control.
Wondering How To Deal With Your Narcissistic Boyfriend?
Being in an intimate relationship with a narcissistic person can be difficult, and identifying coping strategies is critical to sustaining the relationship. If you are relating to many of the information outlined in this article and are experiencing anxiety or distress in your relationship, it is important to remember it is always a choice to be in a relationship, and you deserve a healthy one. When considering different ways to interact with a narcissistic boyfriend (or significant other), it’s important to understand how a narcissistic person thinks. Narcissistic people are generally very manipulative and cunning. Coupled with their strong drive to have things their way, they will use manipulation to make situations and relationships remain on their terms.
Below are twelve ways to help anyone deal with a narcissistic boyfriend.
- Don’t Trick Yourself Into Thinking He Genuinely Cares.
Most narcissists rarely have genuine feelings for others. It can be difficult to accept this, especially if you have strong feelings for your boyfriend. However, acknowledging his emotional detachment is the first step in learning to live your life free of narcissistic control or abuse, and it is important to point out if you are living drastically different lives.
If you are facing or witnessing abuse of any kind, the National Domestic Violence Hotline is available. Call 1-800-799-SAFE (7233) or Text "START" to 88788. You can also use the online chat.
- Establish Clear Boundaries That You Are Comfortable With And Stick With Them.
Narcissistic people tend to want things their way—every time. If you don’t learn how to set clear boundaries and be specific about what behavior you will or will not tolerate, it will be easy to feel overwhelmed by your narcissistic boyfriend’s never-ending battle for power. If a narcissistic person wants to take up your time or keep your mind so busy with things that are about him, it can be difficult to say no. Nevertheless, for your own emotional well-being, learning to say no to things that take up too much of your time or that cause you to feel frustrated is an important step in gaining control over your life.
Narcissists generally use belittling as a form of manipulation to get their way.
- Don’t Argue…You Likely Won’t Win.
Many narcissists generally love to argue just to prove that they are right. Winning an argument against you is just one way a narcissist can show his mental superiority. The more you argue, the more a narcissist will find reasons to belittle you and make you question your own sanity and/or self-worth. By the way, the old “agree to disagree” method is not something a narcissist is going to buy. Remember, narcissists often see things in black and white, negatives and positives. You either agree with him or you don’t. Either way, arguing generally is not going to work.
- Accept Who You Are, Even When He Won’t.
People with narcissistic personality disorder usually lack empathy toward others. Your boyfriend may exhibit some superficial charm or even engage in love bombing, but in reality, he may not care about your desires or any personal motives you have.
- Don’t Take Things Personally Because He Won’t.
A narcissist may make you feel like things are personal and can often leave you feeling emotionally attacked. As frustrating as this can be, it’s important to remember that this is all part of the game for a narcissist. If you are willing to put up with the emotional turmoil that a loving relationship with a narcissistic boyfriend brings, you can play the game. However, when you decide that you don’t want to put up with this behavior anymore, he may find someone else who will.
- You Don’t Need To Justify Every Action.
Narcissistic people tend to love to make you question your own thoughts and deep feelings. If you begin to doubt the things that you perceive as right or wrong, he will likely begin to play the victim, which will cause you further frustration and doubt. You don’t owe your narcissistic boyfriend an explanation for why you believe any of your actions or behaviors are right or within reason.
- Ignore His Tantrums If You Can.
A narcissistic boyfriend usually thrives on getting reactions from you. By causing you to lose control, he gains control. One of the most effective ways to deal with this behavior is to ignore him. Don’t be fooled, though, a narcissistic person tend to be cunning and knows how to say and do whatever it takes to frustrate you. If you must leave the room or even go for a walk to get away and clear your head, ignore his tantrums when it is possible.
- Question Things That Don’t Seem Right.
Because narcissistic people don’t feel shame or regret like other people do, they have no problem lying, manipulating, and playing on your guilt or shame. If your narcissistic boyfriend tells you something that upsets you, take the time to find out if it is true or not. One way a person with NPD can control you is to make you question what others think about you or to sow seeds of doubt in your mind about your abilities. Don’t fall for it!
- Know When It’s Time To Get Away From Your Narcissistic Boyfriend.
As difficult as it may seem to think about, sometimes the best solution is to get away from your narcissistic boyfriend. Getting away may be a short-term separation so that you can evaluate your own emotional and mental well-being, and give yourself a chance to decide if continuing to pursue the relationship is a healthy option for you. On the other hand, if you know that your physical and/or emotional safety is at risk, a permanent separation and ending the relationship could be the best course of action.
Begin to partake in activities that are geared towards caring for your mental, physical or emotional health. Your narcissistic partner may tell you that you are acting selfishly by tending to your own needs; however, it is crucial in maintaining relationships. Caring for yourself helps recharge you to give back to the relationship. Your self-care may include getting enough sleep, eating well, and meeting with an individual therapist weekly to help process ongoing relationship issues and find support.
- Reality Testing.
A narcissistic partner may misguide you from time to time as they get caught up in their own personal fantasies or a strong need for admiration. The ability to reality test, an essential skill taught in therapy, can help you overcome this and avoid being side-swept by your partner emotionally. Reality testing is the ability to distinguish our inner world from the outer. It allows us to better judge situations and improves the way we react. When your partner gets upset with you because you didn’t fulfill their needs as their perception suggested, being able to challenge this by looking at the situation from different angles can help give you space to reflect. Otherwise, you might begin to think negatively of yourself or begin to blame yourself for actions that were truly created by your partner.
NPD is a serious mental illness. If you’re in a relationship with a narcissist, stay calm and develop a support system for the both of you. Think of it as making your relationship needs a priority, the same way your boyfriend puts his own needs first.
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Additionally, connecting with a counselor or other mental health professional can give you a safe outlet to discuss your concerns and create a plan of action to gain control in your life. If you think you would like to talk to someone, but you are unsure of talking in-person, there are a number of resources available.
There are a number of studies suggesting that online therapy is a beneficial form of treatment for those experiencing a number of mental health issues, such as narcissistic personality disorder. In one comprehensive report, researchers examined the efficacy of online therapy when helping manage symptoms form a number of mental health disorders. The review included over 90 studies, with almost 10,000 participants, and found that online therapy is as effective as in-person counseling. Researchers also note that online cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) was especially useful. CBT is a widely used method of online therapy that helps individuals—such as those in a relationship with a person with narcissistic personality disorder—better understand their thoughts and behaviors, so that they can foster healthier interactions.
As discussed above, online therapy is there for you when you or someone you love is living with narcissistic personality disorder. Without having to deal with traffic, sit in a waiting room, or miss your lunch break, you’ll be able to remotely attend therapy sessions. With BetterHelp, you can participate in therapy from the comfort of your home. The mental health professionals at BetterHelp know how to help you better understand and interact with someone with NPD. Read below for counselor reviews, from those who have sought help in the past.
Below are some commonly asked questions on this topic:
1. How do I respond to a narcissistic boyfriend?
2. What does a narcissist want in a relationship?
3. How do I survive a narcissist boyfriend?
4. Can a relationship work with a narcissist?
5. What type of woman do narcissists seek?
6. What a narcissist wants to hear?
7. What makes a narcissist angry?
8. What to say to a narcissist to break up?
9. How do you make a narcissist miserable?
10. How do narcissists treat their partners?
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The remaining tasks involving repairs to homes that were completely or partially flattened by the hurricane are due to be completed by September 5, to mark the 61st anniversary of the popular armed uprising in this city against the Fulgencio Batista dictatorship.
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The difference of electronic radiator from the material
Electronic radiators are the largest producer and major application country of heating radiators in my country. There are many types of radiators. They are divided into five types: steel, cast iron, aluminum, copper and plastic in terms of materials. Plate type, airfoil type, column airfoil type, plate airfoil type, flat tube type, string fin type, fin tube type, convection type, composite type, combined type, etc.
Energy conservation and environmental protection were issues that the whole world paid attention to at that time. my country's economy continues to develop at a high speed, and the goal of building energy saving is 50%. Some large cities like Beijing even require building energy saving of 65%. my country's heating energy consumption is now very large, about three times that of developed countries, and the energy-saving application of new radiators has attracted great attention. Now look at the characteristics of various radiators in my country from the perspective of energy saving and environmental protection.
From the material point of view, good thermal conductivity, fast heat dissipation, high thermal efficiency, and relatively energy-saving. The order of uneven thermal conductivity of various materials is: copper, aluminum alloy, cast aluminum, steel, cast iron, stainless steel, and plastic. In terms of thermal efficiency, copper is the best, aluminum is the second, steel is the best, and plastic is the worst.
In terms of production conditions, products with simple process, mechanization, high degree of automation, and low energy consumption are energy-saving. The production process of cast iron radiators is messy, and the total energy consumption is high. The production process of steel electronic radiators is simpler, mechanized, and highly automated, with low total energy consumption and low cost.
From the perspective of the metal heat intensity target, the number of energy savings is high. Metal thermal strength is the heat dissipation of metal per unit mass per unit temperature of the radiator under standard inspection conditions. The unit is W/KG°C. It is a technical and economic goal that reflects material saving and energy saving. Different materials and methods have different metal thermal strength values. Cast iron is 0.3-0.4, steel is 0.8-1.0 or more, aluminum is 1-3 or more, aluminum is the best, steel is the second, and cast iron is the worst.
The equipment thermostatic control valve can regulate the room temperature and save energy by more than 20%. The equipment thermostatic valve should use a radiator with fast heat dissipation and high thermal efficiency, otherwise the control is not effective and it is difficult to achieve a constant temperature.
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Nature Ignores Econ
A recent Nature article got lots of press:
We present an evolutionary model showing that, counterintuitively, overconfidence maximizes individual fitness and populations tend to become overconfident, as long as benefits from contested resources are sufficiently large compared with the cost of competition. In contrast, unbiased strategies are only stable under limited conditions. The fact that overconfident populations are evolutionarily stable in a wide range of environments may help to explain why overconfidence remains prevalent today.
They model pairwise contests over a discrete prize, won by the most able side. Each agent chooses if to fight, after seeing the other agent’s ability with error. If both agents fight, they pay a conflict cost. Agents can win by committing to overestimate their own ability, as this makes them fight more, which induces opponents to fight less.
I found that strategic commitment effect in ’06, in a paper that seemed too simple to publish in econ theory journals:
In a simple model of conﬂict, two agents ﬁght over a ﬁxed prize, and how hard they ﬁght depends on what they believe about their abilities. To this model I add “preagents,” representing parents, leaders, or natural selection, who choose each agent’s conﬁdence in his ability. Depending on the reason for such conﬁdence, I ﬁnd ﬁve different patterns in how conﬁdence varies with ability. Agents who estimate their ability with error have under-conﬁdence when ability is high and over-conﬁdence when ability is low, while strategic commitment incentives induce the opposite pattern. Agents who misjudge their value for the prize, relative to their cost of eﬀort, induce an over or under-conﬁdence that is independent of ability, while cooperating pre-agents choose extreme under-conﬁdence. Agents who use conﬁdence to signal ability have a relatively uniform over-conﬁdence.
I doubt Nature would have published my paper either. My paper used a few lines of math of simple game theory, while the paper Nature published used lots of evolutionary simulations, which don’t seem to add much beyond simple game theory. Based on this and other cases I’ve seen, I conclude Nature doesn’t care what econ theorists think about the social science papers they publish.


Comics and Wrestling, the classic combo
The morning of Wednesday, April 9th 2014, people everywhere woke up to the news that wrestling legend The Ultimate Warrior (real name James Hellwig) had passed away at the age of 54. The degree to which this news effected you depending on whether or not you were a wrestling fan of course, but it quickly became apparent from browsing through comic related chat groups and message boards that most comic fans were. In fact, it seems like the majority of comic fans either are or at some point in their lives were fans of professional wrestling. WWE even has a reasonable presence in comic books, having titles out chronicling the adventures of characters like The Undertaker, The Rock, and even the Ultimate Warrior. But what is it about wrestling that appeals to comic fans? Why do those two things go hand in hand? Particularly since so many comic fans are at best passive sports fans and at worst couldn’t care less about professional sports (not all of us geeks obviously, but enough that it’s noticeable).
The appeal of comics themselves have a great deal to do with it. We comic fans tend to get interested in comics at an early age, and more often than not the comics represent a nice form of escapism. We can hate the stereotype of the socially awkward physically unfit teenager huddled in a corner reading a comic book, and yes that’s certainly getting to be less and less common as comic books become more and more mainstream, but the fact is that for many people that was the case. Comics where a way to get away from the world for a few beautifully drawn pages. It wasn’t just about escaping though. It was about hope. When times were tough, when your home life was going to hell, when school was a place of harassment and unhappiness, you needed to believe that there were heroes in the world. Not regular heroes though. When you’re so small and the world is so big, you need super heroes. Ones who go above and beyond what mortal men can do, who can whisk you away from danger or fear, who can right the wrongs and save the day.
At some point, many comic fans discovered professional wrestling. And the magic of this sport for many of these kids was that it took that hope and made it somewhat real. These were people, real people that you were watching on live TV, who were doing the impossible. They were super heroes, capable of flying and coming back from the dead and defeating evil no matter what the odds were. Over time, you made them into more than the mere mortal men and women who came to you every week to battle each other over contrived storylines. They were legends in their own time, crashing through tables and plate glass windows, leaping off ladders twenty feet in the air to crash down on their opponents. When life was bad, it was never that bad, because you knew that there were heroes in the world, and one day you could possibly be one too.
The Ultimate Warrior was one of the greatest of these heroes. Hailing from Parts Unknown (because any great super hero needs a dark a mysterious origin), he was able to shrug off devastating blows that would destroy a lesser man. He was buried alive and poisoned by a deadly cobra, but could never be stopped. We loved him for the truth he gave to our stories, the knowledge he gave us that the world was a safer place because he was out there, fighting the forces of darkness. No bully was ever quite as scary, because if things truly got bad enough, the warrior would come and save day.
Yes, Virginia, there is a super hero. He is the Ultimate Warrior, and he exists as certainly as bravery and strength. Alas, how sad it must be to live a life where you do not believe in such things, to only believe in the plain and mundane. These are the people who will look down on wrestling and tell you “it’s not real you know”. Yes, we know what it is. It is the stuff of legends, made flesh and bones and (mostly) muscle. The Ultimate Warrior appeared on Monday Night RAW the day before his passing, and there is no more fitting end to this article than what he said there:
“No WWE talent becomes a legend on their own. Every man’s heart one day beats its final beat. His lungs breathe a final breath. And if what that man did in his life makes the blood pulse through the body of others, and makes them bleed deeper, and something larger than life, then his essence, his spirit, will be immortalized. By the storytellers, by the loyalty, by the memory of those who honor him and make the running the man did live forever.
You, you, you, you, you, you are the legend-makers of Ultimate Warrior. In the back, I see many potential legends, some of them with warrior spirits. And you will do the same for them. You will decide if they lived with the passion and intensity. So much so that you will tell your stories and you will make them legends, as well. I am Ultimate Warrior. You are the Ultimate Warrior fans. And the spirit of Ultimate Warrior will run forever!”


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London: Pakistani teenage rights activist Malala Yousufzai, shot in the head by the Taliban, spent a third "comfortable" night at a UK hospital, with doctors today saying they are "pleased with her progress so far".
The various specialist consultants from both the Queen Elizabeth hospital, where 14-year-old Malala is admitted, and Birmingham Children`s hospital continue to assess her on a daily basis.
"Malala Yousufzai`s condition remains stable. She spent a third comfortable night in the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham and doctors are pleased with her progress so far," the Queen Elizabeth Hospital said in a statement.
At this time Malala`s family remain in Pakistan, it said.
A spokeswoman for the hospital would not comment on reports that the girl was moving her limbs, saying doctors had to respect patient confidentiality and would release more information when possible.
The schoolgirl was flown to the UK on Monday following a surgery in Pakistan during which a bullet lodged near her spine was removed.
Doctors at the Birmingham hospital, with a decade`s experience of treating British military casualties, are now planning the reconstructive operations needed to treat her horrific injuries.
More than 600 people from around the world have posted messages of support for Malala on the University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust website.
British campaigners are also staging a vigil outside Birmingham Council House in Victoria to show their support for Malala.

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Well I guess if the regret is taken for granted the apology would no longer be necessary. It becomes more of a common sense thing when you know someone well. I do it more as a respect thing really. I know friends of mine know I would feel bad about certain things if I acted poorly towards them but still feels like I owe them the acknowledgement. Although the conversations would normally be pretty short. Like,
"hey man, about earlier..."
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With strangers that wouldn't know if it would bother me or not, I am probably more likely to put some effort into it
I don't like it
But I don't find Lacez as a particularly sympathetic figure as I feel he came here to stir just this kind of stuff up.
But that's about all I care to discuss about it. But I'm sure you know me well enough at this point where the actual conversation isn't required
Is that the key?
I don't know HU. I don't know Lacez. I know very few people here.
What I do know is this: Calling Lacez a phaggot was a stupid thing to do. It's just plain hurtful. Just like when BT called HFY a c*nt was the wrong thing to do. It's stupid and it's juvenile and and it show's that somebody is taking this too seriously.
BT apologized and I applaud him for that.
HU needs to do the same.
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Tsutomu Yasukawa, Hideya Kimura, Yasuhiko Tabata, Hiroshi Kamizuru, Hideki Miyamoto, Yoshihito Honda, Yuichiro Ogura; Targeting of Interferon to Choroidal Neovascularization by Use of Dextran and Metal Coordination. Invest. Ophthalmol. Vis. Sci. 2002;43(3):842-848.
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purpose. Bioactive proteins such as interferon (IFN) have been reported to be
combined with water-soluble polymers, such as dextran, through metal
coordination, without need for complicated procedures. In the current
study, the targeting and inhibitory effects of IFN combined with
dextran on experimental choroidal neovascularization (CNV) were studied
methods. Interferon (IFN)β was conjugated to dextran, which has
metal-chelating, diethylenetriaminepentaacetic acid (DTPA) residues.
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resulted from simply mixing both substances in an aqueous solution
containing Zn2+. The effects of IFNβ on the proliferation
of human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVECs) and bovine retinal
pigment epithelial cells (BRPECs) were evaluated. To evaluate the
activity loss of IFNβ by conjugation, the effect of the conjugate on
HUVECs was compared with that of free IFNβ. Experimental CNV was
induced by subretinal injection of gelatin microspheres containing
basic fibroblast growth factor in rabbits. The rabbits with CNV were
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substances were evaluated by fluorescein angiography and histology. To
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results. IFNβ inhibited the growth of HUVECs and enhanced the proliferation of
BRPECs. The conjugate seemed to preserve approximately 44% of IFNβ
activity. Although both doses of IFNβ-DTPA-dextran inhibited
progression of CNV in rabbits, longer term administration of a lower
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progression of CNV (P < 0.05). Histologic studies
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CNV. This conjugate prolonged the plasma half-life of IFNβ and
enabled IFNβ to accumulate in the CNV in rabbits.
conclusions. In this study, human IFNβ was successfully used to target CNV, an
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The courtyard at the Gainesville Salvation Army was covered with trash, and that bothered Corps Officer Karen Lewis.
“That area was just covered up in junk,” Lewis said. “I thought, ‘What can we do with this area to make it more attractive?'”
Florida Organic Growers turned the courtyard into a vegetable garden.
The Gainesville Initiative for Tasty Gardens, or GIFT Gardens, are sprouting up all over Alachua County. Florida Organic Growers builds them for low-income families and the institutions that support them.
“It’s a place for people to engage in their environment … and provide fresh, nutritious produce for people,” Community Food Program Coordinator Travis Mitchell said.
Florida Organic Growers has already planted 90 GIFT Gardens. The one at the Salvation Army is the latest to crop up, and while it is only a 14-foot-by-6-foot plot, the organizations hope it will fight a larger issue in the county: hunger.
GIFT Gardens’ monthly harvests include about $50 of produce. It might not seem like a substantial amount, but considering that the Salvation Army fed over 33,000 hot meals last year, it goes a long way.
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The GIFT Gardens will also be used to teach children from low-income families to use fresh veggies in their everyday diets.
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The French bank with an interesting approach to M&A
If you're wondering whether you'll be best off working in M&A for a specialist boutique advisor, or for a major bank, you could always stall the decision by choosing French bank Natixis. Over the last few years France’s Natixis has taken a different route to building an investment bank from its rivals by buying stakes in a network of M&A boutiques and striking an equities joint venture in France with Oddo. There are signs that the strategy, which is the brainchild of Marc Vincent, global head of corporate and investment Banking at Natixis, is starting to bear fruit.
Natixis has hoovered up stakes in seven specialist boutiques with a focus on different industry sectors and regions such as Vermillion Partners in China, Clipperton in France and Fenchurch Advisory Partners, which specialises on deals in the UK finance and insurance sector. Last year it added to the network with the acquisition of a stake in Azure Capital, an Australian boutique focusing on energy and natural resources sectors.
Natixis favours this approach because it enables the bank to build a presence in advisory without the burden of a big cost base. Natixis tends to operate in the mid-market, so it does not feature among the top firms in the deal rankings, but that could be about to change with a number of larger mandates.
“Our multi-boutique model is focused on the mid-market but large cap deals are useful to build credibility, “ Vincent says.
In December PJ Solomon, in which Natixis owns a 51% stake, advised Paris-based Banjjay Group on its $2bn acquisition of US production company Endemol Shine. Natixis acted as global co-ordinator for the financing as well as ratings and currency adviser. In the same month Fenchurch, which is run by Malik Karim, emerged as joint adviser along with Morgan Stanley to Swiss Re on the sale of its UK business ReAssure to Phoenix group in a deal valued at £1.2bn. Meanwhile in equity capital markets Natixis acted as global coordinator on the initial public offering of French lottery group Française des Jeux on Euronext in Paris in November.
When Natixis announced its fourth quarter results last week, it said its M&A revenues were up 3% year on year (compared to a reduction of 20% at Deutsche Bank and 1.3% at UBS).
“In M&A we maintained our position relative to 2018. In ECM it was a tough year in the European markets but we had some good wins like Française des Jeux along with sustained activity in the convertibles space,” says Vincent.
The Française des Jeux IPO is evidence that the partnership deal that Natixis struck with Oddo BHF in December 2017 is producing results. As part of the deal, which was a pre-emptive step to tackle MIFID II, Natixis transferred its cash equities sales, trading and research business to Oddo, which in turn transferred its equity capital markets business to the French bank.
Vincent added that Natixis will continue to look very selectively at further acquisitions. This comes as a number of smaller boutiques are up for sale and the sector is braced for consolidation as the M&A boom runs out of steam.
Last week Evercore Partners, which over the last decade has become something of a poster child for growth of the independent sector, announced it was cutting around 6% of its global workforce, and others could follow suit. Lazard posted a 10% drop in advisory revenues, while Greenhill’s revenues fell by 14%. Pressure is also coming from big banks like Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan and Citi which have beefed up their mid-market businesses.
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The shape of things: Patternity envisions ‘A New Way of Seeing’
Patternity’s first book envisions ‘A New Way of Seeing’
It’s been a busy few years for art director Anna Murray and surface designer Grace Winteringham, the masterminds behind the habit-forming online portal, Patternity. Between exhibitions, products and a delectable project for Wallpaper* Handmade last year - all the while amassing an online following of over 1.5 million – it seems now, with the launch of their first (and arguably overdue) book, there’s no telling how far their current trajectory will take them.
Published by Conran Octopus, and with forewords by the likes of Tom Dixon, Patternity: A New Way of Seeing offers a striking physical extension to the digital pattern-verse they have created. ‘The book is structured as a journey through the Patternity philosophies, the power of curiosity and how paying more attention to the everyday can make us more mindful and how we’re all connected to our environment and each other,’ explains Murray.
To wit, Murray and Winteringham have pieced together an indispensible visual compendium that gets ‘beneath the surface of how and why pattern is important and what we can learn from it to positively shape the future of design - and beyond.’ But it’s more than just a carefully curated collection of beautiful images, and their enthusiasm for pattern is simply infectious.
A New Way of Seeing is peppered with thoughtful quotes from philosophers, mathematicians, novelists, poets and even a Roman emperor (‘We are born for co-operation’, said Marcus Aurelius).
With clients and collaborators that include Apple, Google, Nike, Selfridges, Cos, and the Barbican, the breadth of projects featured, too, is as wide-ranging as the scholars they’ve referenced. (A dazzling fair-trade rug collection for non-profit social business Made by Node is a particular favourite).
The launch of the book serves as a prelude to the duo’s next major project: a Festival of Pattern that will take place during the London Design Festival, kicking off this week. From Thursday, Londonewcastle Project Space will play host to a retrospective of Patternity’s studio collaborations, products and special projects to date, as well as roundtable discussions, pattern-making workshops and pattern–spotting field trips.
Published by Conran Octopus, £30


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Following a less-than-stellar major missile test on Tuesday, a military official yesterday said that a second exercise would likely be held in the second half of this year.
Of the 19 missiles fired during the United Air Defense Fire exercise, held at the Chungshan Institute of Science and Technology’s Jiupeng missile testing base in Pingtung County, two misfired and four encountered various problems resulting in failure to detonate upon nearing their target.
Following the exercise, President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) told media he was “not satisfied” with the results and called on the military to improve its performance.
Among those that failed were the indigenous Tien Chien II “Sky Sword” (TC-II) and French-made Mica — both air-to-air missiles — as well as the US-made surface-to-air Sparrow, which misfired and plummeted into the South China Sea.
In all, 11 types of missile were fired — almost every air-to-air and surface-to-air missile in the nation’s arsenal minus the AIM-120 AMRAAM and PAC-2 missile systems, Defense News quoted an unnamed defense official as saying.
Citing unnamed sources, the Chinese-language Liberty Times (the Taipei Times’ sister newspaper) reported that the military would hold a second round of tests involving the TC-II, Mica and Sparrow later this year.
“[The missiles] may be tested again during another drill to be held in the second half of this year, but no final decision has been made,” a Ministry of National Defense official told Agence France-Presse on condition of anonymity.
A ministry spokesman told the Taipei Times prior to Tuesday’s exercise that a second exercise was already planned for later this year.
SPEEDING ELETRIC VEHICLES: Available without license requirements, the low-cost vehicles, especially if illicitly modified, can often reach a dangerous speed The government should crack down on illegal electric bicycles and scooters, the non-profit Consumers’ Foundation said on Friday, citing research on the potentially dangerous speed of the vehicles. Electric bicycles and lightweight electric scooters have gained popularity as they do not require registration and riders do not need licenses, the foundation said, adding that as many as 40 percent of them can reach speeds exceeding the legal limit of 25kph for non-licensed two-wheelers. Some consumers also purchased legal electric vehicles and modified them to reach higher speeds, it said. “If the government does not step up efforts to confiscate these
DIPLOMATIC MOVES: Beijing is reportedly pressing the state after reports of forming links with Taiwan, while the ministry is also planning to reopen its office in Guam soon A representative office is set to open in Somaliland at the end of this month, at the earliest, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) said yesterday amid reports that Beijing is sending a diplomatic delegation to the east African country. The ministry on July 1 announced that Taiwan and Somaliland would establish representative offices, following a report by the Somaliland Chronicle Web site. It said at the time that the two nations did not plan to establish formal ties. Somaliland President Muse Bihi Abdi has instructed close confidants to explore the possibility of “mutual recognition between Taiwan and Somaliland,” the Somaliland Chronicle reported
A Belgian man who tested positive for COVID-19 in Taiwan last week is likely to have contracted the disease in Taipei in late June, National Taiwan University (NTU) College of Public Health vice dean Tony Chen (陳秀熙) said yesterday. The Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) on Saturday reported that the man, who is in his 20s, came to Taiwan for work on May 3 and tested positive on Wednesday last week as he was about to depart. The man in March reported loss of taste and smell, the center said, adding that he worked in Changhua County, but visited Taipei several times,
NEW CASE REPORTED: A man who returned from South Africa on a flight with the nation’s 460th and 461st cases has now tested positive for the disease The Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) yesterday said that there is no need to test all arrivals to the nation for COVID-19, a policy the Executive Yuan supports. The center reported one new imported case, bringing the nation’s tally of confirmed cases to 477. The new case is a Taiwanese man in his 60s who on July 25 returned from South Africa, said Centers for Disease Control (CDC) Deputy Director-General Chuang Jen-hsiang (莊人祥), who is also the CECC’s spokesman. The man had returned to Taiwan on the same flight as cases Nos. 460 and 461, reported on July 27, Chuang said. On July 24,


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On March 27, 2020, Governor Wolf signed Act 9 of 2020 into law. This law amends Pennsylvania’s unemployment compensation law in several ways.
First, the Act requires employers to present a notice of unemployment rights to all separated employees. The notice must include the following information: (1) that unemployment compensation benefits are available to workers who are unemployed and meet the requirements of the Unemployment Compensation Act; (2) that an employee can file an unemployment compensation claim in the first week that work stops or work hours are reduced; (3) that assistance or information about unemployment compensation claims is available on Pennsylvania’s unemployment compensation website or by calling a toll-free number that the employer must provide; and (4) that employees filing a claim will need to provide information in order to file a claim, including: (a) the employee’s full legal name; (b) the employee’s social security number; and (c) if the employee is not a citizen or resident of the United States, the employee’s authorization to work in the United States. This requirement goes into effect once notice of the requirement has been posted in the Pennsylvania Bulletin.
The Act also amends the requirements for contributory employers filing for relief from charges, by increasing the time to file for relief from charges from 15 days to 21 days from the date of the earliest notice issued by the Department of Labor and Industry (“Department”) indicating that the employee is eligible for benefits. If the request is filed within this timeframe and relief is granted, relief will begin with the earliest week that the claimant was eligible for benefits.
The Act includes special provisions related specifically to the COVID-19 pandemic. First, it waives the one-week waiting period for the duration of any disaster emergency declared by the Governor because of COVID-19. Next, it waives the job search and registration requirements for the duration of any such disaster emergency. The Act specifies that claimants still must meet the definition of “unemployed” under the Unemployment Compensation Act, which means that the claimant either has not performed any work for remuneration during the week or the claimant is partially employed and receiving remuneration, but the remuneration is less than the claimant’s weekly benefit rate plus partial benefit credit. An employee will not be considered unemployed if the employer has a vacation shut down, and is providing vacation benefits to the employee.
The Act further provides that, to the extent a claimant’s unemployment is related to the COVID-19 outbreak, and to the extent permitted under federal law, the Department will provide relief from charges to any contributory employer whose account otherwise would be charged, and that this relief shall be provided automatically, without employers needing to apply for it. Employers entitled to relief from charges are entitled to relief for the duration of a disaster emergency declared by the Governor which is related to COVID-19.
For reimbursable employers during a disaster emergency declared by the Governor which is related to COVID-19, employers who have elected to pay the solvency fee will automatically receive relief from charges. For employers who have not elected to pay the solvency fee, payment of benefits shall be made within 120 days of the date of the statement of account notifying the employer of the repayment obligation. This deadline may be extended by the Department for up to 60 days if requested by the employer, and the employer can demonstrate financial hardship. The Department will offer interest-free payment plans to employers who demonstrate financial hardship. No interest on late payments will accrue or be charged until January 1, 2021.
The Act also empowers the Pennsylvania Secretary of Labor and Industry to put into place temporary regulations as needed to comply with federal requirements to receive federal funding for extended unemployment benefits. Temporary regulations will expire 120 days after the expiration date of the federal law authorizing the funding.
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Database Exports to EndNote Web
Exporting from PubMed to Endnote Basic/Web
1. In the PubMed search results list, click the checkboxes next to the citations you want to save. Then, click on the blue Send to link at the top of the page. Click the radio button next to Citation Manager under the Choose Destination heading, and then click Create File.
2. Go to EndNote Web. Click on the Collect button and choose the Import option. In the window that opens, click on the Choose File button and upload the citation file. Choose PubMed (NLM) from the Import Option dropdown, choose the folder you want to save the citation into, and the click the Import Button
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