About 99 percent of shareholders voted in favour of the union during a special meeting that was held virtually, a spokesperson told AFP.
The green light was the last step needed to finalize the tie-up scheduled for early January.
The parent to luxury brands such as Louis Vuitton, Dior and Moet & Chandon, LVMH announced its plan to acquire Tiffany and its iconic robin's egg blue gift boxes at the end of 2019.
But the French company walked away from its proposal in September after claiming a series of poor decisions by Tiffany's board.
The companies buried the hatchet in October after Tiffany agreed to a lower price to prevent the deal from collapsing.
The price was dropped by $3.50 a share to $131.50, lowering the value of the deal to $15.8 billion from the original $16.2 billion.
LVMH had already obtained authorisation from the authorities for the merger.
Tiffany will be removed from the New York Stock Exchange, but the French company has not yet said how it plans to transform the jeweller, which has suffered in recent years from competition from brands favoured by millennials.
Tiffany’s Blue Now Belongs To LVMH; Ambani, PeeCee, Gaga's Connections To The Iconic Brand
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French luxury giant LVMH, on Monday, acquired iconic American jeweller Tiffany for $16.2 billion. The acquisition, which took just over a month and three revised bids to get done, is the biggest-ever deal for the French group owned by Bernard Arnault.
According to a report in news agency Reuters, Tiffany was codenamed "Tea" and LVMH was "Latte" during the talks that led to the takeover.
Reuters also reported that LVMH's 70-year-old billionaire boss was himself 'focused on ensuring he was getting control of Tiffany's most valuable assets: all the patented elements that came with the Tiffany brand, notably its robin's egg blue boxes'.
The third-richest man in the world, Arnault, emphasised on the importance of the blue in an interview with the news agency, saying, "We're the owner of a colour. It's a pretty rare thing."
LVMH had forayed into high-end jewellery in 2011, when it acquired Italian jeweller Bulgari.


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There are so many stores right now who are selling tops with embellished collars. I love most of them, and I decided that I could attempt to do this myself at home. It’s so easy that it’s not even funny.
You’ll need: jewel glue, buttons/embellishments of your choice, and a collared shirt
1) Apply the glue to the back side of each of the embellishments.
2) Place where you would like and press down. It might be a good idea to lay out all of the embellishments beforehand so that you have an idea of what you’d like the collar to look like.
3) I mirrored the collars so they look alike. Let dry for a few hours.
4) After drying, this top has taken on a new life and is ready to be worn out.
Note: The glue is washable, but I have not tried this yet to test how it holds up. I’m prepared for the worst, but hoping for the best.

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The Blob, a 1950s science fiction B-movie, is about an alien amoeba that crashes to Earth and devours everything it touches. The movie is mostly remembered for the performance of a young Steve McQueen, but its title and plot live on in British politics today as the inspiration for Boris Johnson and his allies to reform government.
The first strike against “the blob” the Johnson government sees as its enemy was made on Sunday evening, when Mark Sedwill, head of the civil service and national security adviser, abruptly quit. Tensions had been rising between Mr Johnson and Sir Mark for months, but the announcement of his exit in September marks the start of an effort to overhaul the Whitehall establishment.
While Mr Johnson is supportive of the plan to reform the UK civil service, he is not spearheading the efforts. Instead it is his powerful adviser Dominic Cummings and the Cabinet Office minister Michael Gove who are leading the charge in tackling what they see as ineffective, pro-EU bureaucrats.
Mr Cummings started to refer to the blob in a political context when he was taking on the education bureaucracy during Mr Gove’s tenure as education secretary between 2010 and 2014. “The blob back then was the teaching unions, local authorities and anyone who got in Dom’s way. Now it’s the whole of the civil service,” said one Whitehall official.
Since leaving the Department for Education six years ago, Mr Cummings has written thousands of words on how he would like to reform the civil service. His general goals are well known: he wants fewer arts graduates and more scientists, data crunchers, mathematicians and physicists. Or, as he wrote in one blog in January, “misfits and weirdos”.
The agenda for reform was formally presented this weekend, as Mr Johnson plotted to sack his most senior civil servant. Delivering the annual lecture on Saturday evening to the Ditchley Foundation — the international relations institution — Mr Gove called for Whitehall departments to be dispersed around the country promising more room for innovation, a wider talent pool, and ending the merry-go-round of senior mandarins.
Core to the Gove-Cummings agenda is a belief that Whitehall is too disconnected from parts of the UK, especially those that backed Brexit in the EU referendum four years ago. “Almost every arm of government, and those with powerful voices within it, seemed estranged from the majority in 2016,” he said.
Channelling Franklin Delano Roosevelt — something the prime minister also did on Monday — Mr Gove said the Johnson government’s reforms in Whitehall would help those left behind by the political system. “FDR asked his government to remember the forgotten man. In the 2016 referendum those who had been too often forgotten asked to be remembered,” the cabinet minister said.
Not all independent observers were convinced. Jill Rutter, a former senior civil servant, said: “A lot of his critique was one that the civil service would recognise, but one that has been around for a long time. What was missing was what they are going to do different this time around to make it work.”
Whatever the merits of Mr Gove’s reform agenda, it clashes with another core instinct of the Johnson government: loyalty. “In Boris’s book, it comes above everything including competence,” said one ally of the prime minister.
An example of how these conflict has already been seen in the appointment of David Frost, Mr Johnson’s chief Brexit negotiator, as Sir Mark’s replacement as national security adviser. Although Sir David is rated highly by Mr Johnson’s inner circle, the defence and diplomatic establishment has poured scorn on the appointment, pointing to his lack of experience in security affairs.
“Michael spent the weekend saying he wanted people to stay in their jobs longer, then they moved out Sedwill, who is the shortest-lived cabinet secretary,” said one former cabinet minister, referring to Mr Gove’s speech.
“And all that stuff from Michael about getting experienced people into the top jobs, then they appoint Frost to national security adviser? It's all highly amusing.”
Whoever Mr Johnson chooses to succeed Sir Mark will say much about the reform agenda. Despite his hasty exit as the most senior civil servant in the country, there is no obvious successor. The Whitehall favourite is Chris Wormald, permanent secretary at the Department of Health and Social Care. But officials question whether he will be tainted by the handling of coronavirus crisis.
Another likely candidate is Antonia Romeo, permanent secretary at the Department of International Trade, who is also said to be interested in taking over as the head of the newly enlarged Foreign Office once it has merged with the Department for International Development.
But if Mr Johnson insists on an experienced civil servant who is an ardent Brexit supporter, Peter Schofield, head of the Department for Work and Pensions, is the obvious candidate as he has made it known he is the only permanent secretary who voted to leave the EU. Sarah Healey, currently leading the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, is also highly rated by Mr Gove and the Cabinet Office.
Two external candidates for the top job are rumoured at senior levels of the civil service. Melanie Dawes, head of Ofcom, may be a candidate, but officials again question whether her record as permanent secretary at the Ministry of Housing during the Grenfell Tower disaster may discount her.
The other notable external candidate being discussed is Sharon White, chair of the retailer John Lewis. Previously the second most senior civil servant at the Treasury and head of Ofcom, some in Whitehall wondered whether the reference to “former permanent secretaries” in the recruitment notice was made for her. But friends of Ms White said she is unlikely to apply.
Sir Mark’s replacement will be appointed by Mr Johnson, but the next head of the civil service will not be selected without the consent of his two allies in charge of the reform process. Government insiders said it is unsurprising that Mr Gove has been selected to oversee these reforms. His bond with Mr Cummings is as close as the prime minister’s, which some ministers said shows where the actual power of this government lies.
One senior Whitehall official said: “Boris is the chairman of this government, but Michael is the CEO” — a sentiment echoed by other officials. One well-placed Conservative added: “I hadn’t realised until the last couple of weeks that Michael actually won the Tory leadership contest. He’s the one really running this government.”
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At dusk they lie on recliners in her tiny patch of outside space, drinking mai tais and watching planes approach Heathrow. Jim’s got one of those apps that tell him where they’re coming from and what type of plane they are, and he calls them out to Lizzie – a fat 380 from Doha, a Dreamliner from Dallas, a 350 from Jo’burg. Lizzie imagines the people in them – excited tourists or weary homecomers, waiting nervously for the bump, bump, bump, unconcernedly dozing, or following the serpentine course of the Thames as it takes them to their destination.
Jim’s spent the summer lifeguarding at the lido, his body honed and sleek from early morning swims, the contours of the vest he wears imprinted on his torso in shades of bronze. He turned up today with a new tattoo, just below his hip, covered in cling film and leeching blood – it’s a compass Lizzie, he tells her, one day we’ll just point and follow wherever it takes us.
As the sun sets, the flight frequency falls. They’re four mai tais in now and pretty buzzed. Jim switches apps and picks out the constellations and planets piercing the night. The space station passes, glitching and shimmering as it circumnavigates at impossible speeds – Lizzie pictures the astronauts tumbling, weightless, and her loaded brain feels tumbling and weightless as her eyes droop, as awareness fades, as she sleeps.
When she wakes she’s alone, still in the recliner, stiff and cold. Jim is absent, the backdoor wide open, lights blazing. Lizzie struggles out of the chair, head thick, pounding like waves on a harbour wall. The TV is on, switched to a sports channel; Lizzie turns it off, dims the lights, struggles to her room, snuggles beneath the duvet, wondering briefly about Jim before she drifts away once more.
In his absence, she follows the usual routine, work, dinner, mai thais in the garden. She downloads the flight app, stargazer, lies in the recliner watching the darkening skies. Sometimes she senses Jim, at the edge of things, in the liminal spaces between twilight and blackout, as she’s floating into sleep or gazing unfocused through the kitchen window into the realm of bats and badgers, foxes and hedgehogs.
She begins to suffer nightmares – lucid dreams of planes going down, meteor strikes, and gangrenous skin, the points of a compass just visible beneath. One night she dreams herself at the lido, it’s desolate, derelict, the playschool coloured doors of the changing booths hanging half-cut like drunks. The water is swampy and full of debris. She swims through weeds and branches, past abandoned shopping carts until she reaches him, trapped beneath scrap metal, eye sockets empty and skin peeling, a water-wraith, a kelpie.
She makes posters, places them around the town – have you seen this man – receives no replies. She rings the lido – don’t know him love – realises that she’s never met his family, friends, acquaintances, knows nothing of his life before he came to hers. One evening, lying in the recliner, mai thai to hand, she scrolls through the photos on her phone. Jim is missing from each, those she remembers of them together lost. She begins to doubt her memories, but when she closes her eyes, she can still feel the angle of his hips pressing hers, the imprint of his lips on her collar-bone, the scent of him – sandalwood and salt and something sweet beneath.
One morning, as she wakes alone again, she rises, goes to the bank, withdraws her savings and buys a ticket anywhere – Australia, New Zealand, the South Pacific – she doesn’t care, just feels the need to flee, to point and follow the compass on Jim’s hip. She packs up the house, places all her things in storage, hands back the keys. As she closes the door for the final time she feels the house sigh, as if it’s been holding its breath, as if it’s coming up for air at last.
Author Bio: Maria Thomas is a middle-aged, apple-shaped mum of two. She has work in EllipsisZine, Funny Pearls, Levatio, Fiery Scribe Review, Paragraph Planet, VirtualZine, Free Flash Fiction, Punk Noir, Roi Faineant Press, Cape Magazine and (upcoming) Punk Monk. Maria won Retreat West’s April 2022 Micro competition. She can be found on Twitter as @AppleWriter.
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This is great. Super evocative, and I loved the lingering mystery.
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I loved this story. So glad she didn’t drown in Mai Tais.
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Great ghostly story. Finished so well, when she heads off and the house relaxes.
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Clydesdales/Athenas (200+ lb / 91+ kg) - Help! I sweat A LOT!
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07-24-11, 07:55 PM
I am almost out of the Clydesdale club---I have lost 32 pounds and am now down to 209---but I have a problems and I need some advice. I sweat a great deal, and on these hot, humid and draining days, the sweat pours into my eyes. I have to stop occasionally and wipe the sweat from under my helmet and from my eyes.
What do you folks use---plain old sweatbands, or other options---anything to help me out,please; Cleveland weather has been nasty hot this past week or two.
07-24-11, 07:59 PM
Any bike cap or head wrap will work.
07-24-11, 08:30 PM
I have headbands from Headsweats and Halo and they've gotta be the best investments for my bike yet. I thought about the cap style, but I think I'll stick with the bands until the fall when the weather cools down. I wear the bands fairly low on my forehead to maximize sweat catchability and I don't get even a drop of sweat on my face, even after 20+ miles in 100 degree heat..and I consider myself a moderate sweater.
07-24-11, 08:39 PM
+1 on the headsweats. I have a cap that I wear backwards under my helmet. not only does it absorb sweat the brim shades the back of my neck from the sun.
07-24-11, 09:01 PM
I sweat a lot, too. Lots of burning, sometimes I have to be careful because sweat and contacts don't mix at all. I wear a baseball cap, but I also mop my brow/eyes on the shoulder of my shirt when I need to. I don't usually wear tech fabrics, just a pain cotton tee. It's when you STOP sweating that you need to start looking out for other signs of dehydration/exhaustion. Congrats on the break you're giving your scale!
A buff https://www.buyabuff.com/
A Sweat GUTR http://www.sweatgutr.com/home.html
Are also a couple of options.
halo....wouldn't ride without it.
07-24-11, 10:47 PM
Been using a Halo recently... it works, mostly. When I get in the drops, though... sweat in the eyes.
I also use a regular old cotton bandana. It's a little on the hot side, but it works.
07-25-11, 03:52 PM
Well, I took your advice; I was out today and I had to stop several times due to the sweat---I stopped at a bike shop in Peninsula, Ohio and purchased a Halo---it did the job pretty well. I would give it an A-; it has a little "gutter inside of it that channels almost all of the sweat away from the eyes and the face. just a few crept in later on in the ride, but it did the job.
07-25-11, 06:07 PM
I picked up one of these under-helmet sweat bands from Performance last month when they had their big sale going on. Sure does help with dripping sweat onto my sunglasses. I don't have to use a bottle cage to carry a terrycloth towel anymore. Those Halo bands sound nice. Only thing is that I don't like how tight it is.
Headsweats Ultra Tech Headband (http://www.performancebike.com/bikes/Product_10052_10551_1103878_-1___)
07-25-11, 09:31 PM
I wear Sweatvacs. I pack 2. After the first is saturated (can be wrung out) I hang it on the left side of the handle bar and put on the 2nd. With luck by the time the 2nd is equally saturated the 1st one is dry and cool.
And for those in the Lone Star State there is a patriotic version! http://www.amazon.com/SweatVac-Skull-Cap-White-Texas/dp/B000G65U9Y/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1311647364&sr=8-1
07-26-11, 08:34 AM
I have two headsweats.
I bought one, used it for a month, and was devastated when I couldn't find it, so I bought another. This, of course, is the best way to find something lost: replace it.
So now I have two, and won't part with either.
They do more than just keep sweat out of my eyes. The also help regulate my head temperature and help keep the sun off my neck. They could do a better job on the neck protection.
On really hot days, soaking one with cold water before putting it on my head feels really, really nice.
I prefer the headsweats that have elastic in the back instead of being tied. I broke a helmet once with a bandana because the knot was underneath one of the rear plastic stays and popped it. So... no more knots if I can help it.
[QUOTE=JohnA42;12981028]Been using a Halo recently... it works, mostly. When I get in the drops, though... sweat in the eyes.QUOTE]
^^^ This is pretty much the same for me. Without the Halo, once my helmet pads are soaked; which doesn't take long in the Tampa heat/humitidy; the sweat would get all over my glasses. With the Halo, it's much better but not perfect. I'm going to stick with this for a while but may try the Gutr system soon.
Halos are a good place to start, but I'll still have to stop occasionally and wring them out. Squeeze the gloves out, too, while I'm stopped. Have some water and go ride some more!
07-29-11, 11:53 AM
I've used Sweat Gutr for about a year and like it, but like the other solutions mentioned above, it's not perfect. I started with Coolmax skullcaps and that's fine for shorter rides, but it saturates pretty quickly and there's nothing to stop the overflow from dripping down into my eyes and all over my sunglasses. The Gutr does a much better job and doesn't saturate since it doesn't absorb the sweat, it redirects it to the sides. It's sensitve to placement, though, so if it's too high or not tight then it's not as effective. I'd say it's worth a try.
Having said that, I'm gonna get a Halo and try it. I like what I've read recently---it absorbs and redirects, and if it does both well then it should be at least as effective as the Gutr, and maybe more so.
I use the Halo with a tail. (http://store.haloheadband.com/SOLAR_s/37.htm) The long tail helps wick moisture, and it works pretty well in the dry Arizona climate. The tail works great keeping the sun off the back of my neck.
It does make me look like I've joined the French Foreign Legion, though.
I wear two at once. The area from my helmet to my eyebrows is completely covered. I probably shouldn't post here any more -- 5'-6' tall and down from 225 to 178 and still losing.
07-29-11, 02:23 PM
Bought a couple of cheap head bands at wallyworld. Keeps the sweat out of my eyes and just throw them in the wash with socks.
07-30-11, 02:34 AM
Well ... based on some comments in this thread, I picked up a Halo yesterday and tried it out today on a 56-mile ride. It was a wee bit warm. My Edge 500 showed temperatures well above 100, but I doubt those readings very much. Maybe it is measuring street temperature? Once I got home, the thermometer only showed 100. I used the Halo on the ride, and will probably not ever use it again. It worked well enough for about an hour, but then the sweat started dripping onto my glasses, and when I lowered my head, it dripped down on the computer/bike/etc. I stopped for a short break at about the two hour mark, and took the headband in my gloved hand and squeezed a bunch of water/sweat out. Wasn't more than a few miles when the sweat started again dripping. I'm sure it is better than nothing, but the Halo did not absorb the sweat like the terry cloth band that I mentioned in an earlier post. Oh well, worth a try anyway.
I have to use a Halo when things are the slightest bit warm - I've felt the stinging in the eyes of pouring sweat (and irritation from trying to wipe it away) on long rides, and I don't want to do so again :-)
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What makes these two dogs so similar is that they are two of the top most popular breeds here in the United States. It has been said that dogs is man's best friend, and because of this, it makes them great companions. These two breeds, the Boxer and the American Staffordshire terrier fit very easily into family life. When an owner tells his dog that he is a good boy, the dog happily wags its tail. Then, there are those times when an owner has to discipline his dog, the dog, then creeps away with that sad puppy dog look on its face.
Although Buck is always a dog throughout the story, his predicament is highly relevant to the human condition in a novel beginning with concise patterns of description and moving toward an increasingly lyrical style (Williams). The protagonist of The Call of the Wild is a dog named Buck. He's part German Sheppard and half Saint Bernard, he's labeled the "hero" of the story. The story takes place primarily in the Klondike region of Alaska except for in the first chapter it takes place in the Santa Clara Valley of California. The story is centrally focused around Buck; if it wasn't for him not having any speaking parts the reader would think he was a human because of the personality traits he possesses.


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Another Euro political casualty
Boris is being pried out of Downing Street a similar casualty has been announced in Italy.
Italian prime minister Mario Draghi to resign after coalition partner pulls support
The former head of the European Central Bank has led a unity government since February 2021.
But Five Star leader Giuseppe Conte accused him of not doing enough to tackle the cost of living crisis.
Although there are talks oh his resignation being refused it seems it is all over for the Italian PM
It is just a question of who is next.
French President Emmanuel Macron warned his country’s people Thursday to prepare for a total cutoff of Russian natural gas by supporting alternatives, having public lights switched off at night and engaging in a period of nationwide energy “sobriety.”
In Germany a scandal involving alleged date rape drug use, could be setting the scene for heads to roll.
Several women reported being given date rape drugs on Wednesday at German Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s annual summer convention party for the left-wing Social Democrat Party (SPD).
Germany is looking at an energy crisis which will create major issues for the industrial juggernaut.
In the Netherlands the press are doing their best to play down the farmers protests, but this long standing feud is not slowing down. Fears are mounting over food shortages in the EU with all the climate based regulations being imposed on farmers.
Nothing gives more political security to leaders than cold and hungry people.
Brussels wants member states to turn down the heating and compensate industries for curbing gas use to prevent an energy crisis as Russia cuts supplies.
Finland has had the gas turned off, the Scandinavian country has long been a rival of Russia and it seems there is still not much love lost between the two
Meanwhile in Russia they are experiencing deflation after price hikes in March. High oil prices are set to keep money rolling into the energy rich country for years to come,and the warnings from Putin to the NATO countries remains as a warning to pull your head in.
The BRICS group of Countries is seemingly on the rise with Turkey, Egypt and Saudi Arabia wanting to join.
As summer inches closer in the Southern Hemisphere watch an increasingly angry European people. As the summer months roll into autumn.
On the other side of the Atlantic things aren’t looking much rosier for Biden. The official inflation rate may be a touch over 9% but the real inflation pressure is actually at 17.3%
Annual headline CPI Inflation jumped to 41-year high of 9.1%, up from 8.6% in May, while the June 2022 Annual ShadowStats Alternate “Corrected” CPI Inflation jumped to a new 75-Year high of 17.3%, from 16.8% in May, on top of resurgent energy prices.http://www.shadowstats.com
There are many things politicians can conceal, manipulate and down right lie about to bewilder the masses into a false sense of security that all is well. Rising cost of living and energy shortages are not one of those things.
Nothing like living through the post covid economical hangover by picking a economic war with a country the globe relies on for essential commodities.
What can we expect next?
“What can we expect next?” Im wishing for the overthrow of our own communist dictator, Adern, and her ship of fools government…….


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Today's miles: 8 (on Kearsarge Pass)
Total PCT miles: 789
We had breakfast this morning and checked out of the hotel at 11:00. There was a bus going back to Independence at 1:30, so until then we went to the grocery store and the bakery to kill time. At 1:30 we went to the KMart parking lot to catch the shuttle and found ourselves in good company with a whole slew of hikers: the Chain Gang, Games, Reason, Starfox and his respective gang of six (they call themselves the "Wolfpack"), Lighthouse and Sunset. We completely filled the bus when it arrived - the driver must not have known what to think. His whole trunk was filled to the brim with packs.
It took about an hour to get to Independence, and we all chatted in lively spirits as we went. The few regular passengers who were aboard seemed quite overwhelmed by the sheer number of hikers they were sharing a space with. Every time we stopped and picked up another hiker, the whole bus would cheer and yell their name. It was a riot.
Once back in Independence, we went to the post office to pick up packages for those who had sent themselves a resupply, and then we waited. We all needed a ride back to the trailhead, but hitches were once again hard to come by. Fortuitously, we met a lady in the post office who said she'd do three runs to the mountain and take four people each run. We split ourselves up into groups, but even with three carloads, there would still be hikers left over. While we waited and considered our options, our favorite trail angel Aloha showed up in town, having just dropped off his wife Toots Magoots and her hiking partner Tears for Beers. He offered to take Rotisserie, Sansei, Katie and I back up to the trailhead. We thanked him profusely, paid him for gas, and left the hot desert to returned once more to the 64 degree mountains.
It was 5pm by the time we reached the trailhead and we still had a long haul to get up to the pass. We trekked slowly - time in town always makes us lethargic on our first day out - and we were surprised by the sharp cold and the extreme wind. By the time we hiked the six miles to the top of the pass, the wind was so fierce that it was ripping our clothes and knocking us over. We hurried down the other side to escape its wrath. It seemed so strange that we were sweating this morning in desert heat and we were now bundled up in every stitch of clothing we had in the mountains.
We followed Kearsarge Pass down and passed by Wocka Wocka, Giddyup and Sneaks, who were just heading into Independence. We had a happy reunion before parting ways.
We found a sheltered tent site two miles further - though not quite back on the PCT - and set up tents for the night. The sunset over the mountains was beautiful and we had a great view into the valley below over the lakes. It was a cold and windy night.

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Half a Million Foreigners Overstay Their Visas
Potential terrorists are undoubtedly among them.
The Department of Homeland Security this week published its Entry/Exit Overstay Report For Fiscal Year 2015. The Visa Waiver Program study “provides data on departures and overstays, by country, for foreign visitors to the United States who were lawfully admitted into the United States for specific, temporary purposes, but overstayed their lawful admission period.” From the report: “In FY 2015, of the nearly 45 million nonimmigrant visitor admissions through air or sea ports of entry that were expected to depart in FY 2015, DHS determined that 527,127 individuals overstayed their admission, for a total overstay rate of 1.17 percent.” And “more than 90 percent of those who remained in the country illegally, a total of 482,781, were believed to still be present through the end of last year,” the Washington Examiner reports.
Even a fraction of that number would be concerning. Adds the Examiner, “[A] number of countries with ties to terrorism had significant numbers of nationals still in the U.S. accounted for by the federal government: 1,435 from Pakistan, 681 from Iraq, 564 from Iran, 440 from Syria, 219 from Yemen, 219 from Afghanistan, and 56 from Libya.” This particular study doesn’t take other significant visa programs into account, so the actual number of nonimmigrants who are still in the U.S. despite having expired visas is higher. Among the ways terrorists can slip through under the radar, none are more obvious than our broken visa system. After all, those overstaying visas account for somewhere between 40% and 50% of illegals in this country.
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New Art Collector's Forum
Fitler Club, Philadelphia
Tues., May 25, 2021, 6-7pm
Susanna Gold moderates the "New Art Collector's Forum" in a Q&A with guests Michael Forman, Mey-Yen Moriuchi, Ron Tarver, and Reginald M. Brown. Join us at this live event to hear from new and seasoned collectors about how and why they got started collecting, what kind of works they pursue, how to learn more about art and artists, and other thoughts geared specifically toward emerging art collectors.
Michael Forman is Chairman & CEO of FS Investments and has been leading the company since founding it in 2007, when it was known as Franklin Square Capital Partners. Prior to co-founding FS Investments, Forman founded a private equity and real estate investment firm. He started his career as a corporate and securities lawyer. Forman is a co-founder of Fitler Club. He is also a member of a number of civic and charitable boards, including Drexel University, The Franklin Institute, the corporate leadership board of the Barnes Foundation, and Philadelphia Center City District Foundation. He is Chairman of Vetri Community Partnership and Chairman of Philadelphia Contemporary. Forman has received a number of awards and honors. In 2017, Forman was honored by Mural Arts Philadelphia for his dedication to the City’s public art initiative. He received the 2019 Americanism Award from The Anti-Defamation League of Philadelphia for his commitment to advancing the causes of human rights, equal opportunity and diversity and inclusion. Forman lives in Center City with his wife and three daughters.
Mey-Yen Moriuchi is an Associate Professor of Art History at La Salle University where she specializes in cultural encounters and representations of racial, social, and national identities in colonial to contemporary Latin American art. She received her B.A. in History of Art and International Relations from the University of Pennsylvania, and her M.A. and Ph.D. in History of Art from Bryn Mawr College. Her book, Mexican Costumbrismo: Race, Society, and Identity in Nineteenth-Century Art was published by Penn State University Press in 2018. Her current research examines Asian-African-Latin American connections in the artworks of 20th century artists such as Wifredo Lam and Tilsa Tsuchiya. She is also co-editing a volume on Art and Activism in the Twenty-First Century which examines the role and breadth of contemporary activist art (Routledge, 2022). Prior to academia, Dr. Moriuchi worked at Sotheby’s auction house and Mary Anne Martin Fine Art, a gallery that specializes in modern Latin American art. She has mainly focused on collecting diverse, local Philadelphia-based artists like Karyn Olivier, Michelle Angela Ortiz, Ron Tarver, Trish De Masi, and Ed McHugh.
Ron Tarver received a BA in Journalism and Graphic Arts from Northeastern State University and an MFA from the University of Arts. He serves as Associate Professor of Art at Swarthmore College. Before Swarthmore, Tarver was a photojournalist at the Philadelphia Inquirer for 32 years, where he shares a 2012 Pulitzer Prize and numerous international, national, and state awards. He is co-author of the book We Were There: Voices of African American Veterans, published by Harper Collins, which was accompanied by an exhibition that debuted at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia. In addition to his career in photojournalism, Tarver has distinguished himself in the field of fine art photography. He is a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Pew Fellowship in the Arts, and has received grants from National Geographic, the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, and two Independence Foundation Fellowships. His work is including the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the State Museum of Pennsylvania in Harrisburg, Oklahoma Museum of History, Studio Museum in Harlem, and the National Museum of American Art of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC.
Reginald M. Browne, as a Principal of GTS, oversees Transaction Services for the firm. Mr. Browne has been at the forefront of the ETF Capital Markets since 1996, and he has played a major role in developing the ETF industry by launching early ETF funds for nearly all ETF sponsors, and by engaging institutional clients globally. A native Philadelphian, Mr. Browne earned a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from La Salle University where he serves as chair of the university advancement committee, and he serves as Vice of the Board at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and Chair of the Board of Governors of the PAFA Art College. Mr. Browne is also a Board Director for Creative Capital in New York.
Susanna Gold, Moderator, has been active as an independent curator, scholar, and educator in the Philadelphia area for over 20 years. She served on the Art History faculty at Temple University’s Tyler School of Art for nearly a decade, and has also taught at the University of Pennsylvania, where she earned her Ph.D. She has curated academic and community-based exhibitions for institutions such as Woodmere Art Museum, InLiquid, Drexel University’s Leonard Pearlstein Gallery, and Temple University's Tyler School of Art, and has curated several contemporary art exhibitions at NoBA Artspaces in Bala Cynwyd. She has presented papers and delivered lectures at professional conferences and museums internationally, including the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Barnes Foundation, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. She continues to work with private, corporate, and institutional clients to build their collections.
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Envoy Says Eritrean-Ethiopia Situation Delicate
UN Security Council Envoy Says Eritrean-Ethiopia Situation Requires Delicacy
New York, Nov 7 2005 4:00PM
At the start of a two-day tour of Eritrea and Ethiopia to dispel rising tensions, the Chairman of the United Nations Security Council Working Group on Peacekeeping Operations said today that the resolution of the border dispute between the formerly warring Horn of Africa countries called for "delicacy, skills and good judgement."
Japanese Ambassador Kenzo Oshima met for almost three hours in Ethiopia's capital, Addis Ababa, with the UN Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea (UNMEE), being given a political overview by mission chief Legwaila Joseph Legwaila and a briefing from Force Commander Maj.-Gen. Rajender Singh on the peacekeeping situation since the banning of UN helicopters from Eritrean air space on 5 October.
He also met with Ethiopian Foreign Minister Seyoum Mesfin for what he called "a very fruitful exchange" and later had an exchange with representatives of UNMEE's troop-contributing countries and other interested Governments, as well as members of the UN Country Team.
UNMEE has reported increased restrictions on the movements of its ground patrols in certain areas of Eritrea. Its mandate includes monitoring the cessation of hostilities, monitoring and verifying the positions of the two forces 25 kilometres apart, removing land mines in key areas to support boundary demarcation and providing administrative and logistical support for the Field Offices of the Boundary Commission.
Eritrea has accepted the Boundary Commission's decisions, but Ethiopia has expressed reservations.
Mr. Oshima told a news conference that the Security Council would continue to urge Eritrea to lift the helicopter ban and to call on both countries to exercise maximum restraint.
Mr. Mesfin explained his country's deployment of troops on its side of the Temporary Security Zone (TSZ) and stressed that Ethiopia had no intention of being the first to take action, he said.
The Council representative leaves tomorrow for the Eritrean capital, Asmara, for talks with President Isaias Afewerki and UNMEE representatives.


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Look at the Birdie by Kurt Vonnegut
Background: Two attractive and rich 17 y.o.’s had an experience where they were exposed to a poor man who, despite much education, had not managed to excel and therefore reward his dying mother who had sacrificed for him. They tried to help but their parents interrupted. Feeling the pangs of empathy and guilt at their privilege the youths wanted to visit the man again but the girl’s mother hesitatingly objected.
She was really saying that she could not stand the idea of Henry’s and Anne’s growing up – the idea of their ever looking closely at tragedy. She was saying that she herself had never grown up, had never looked closely at tragedy. She was saying that the most beautiful thing money could buy was a childhood a lifetime long –

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In 2011, T. radiata became the first natural enemy specie of the ACP to be released in California. The beneficial parasitic wasps are being reared by the millions in pristine conditions, for them, at one or more insectaries in Southern California. Their metered release will be a matter of news and progress as time goes on.
But the basis of research for this somewhat dramatic project is only one of 10 strategic research highlights and details covered in the current issue of California Agriculture. Other articles cover exhaustive research projects dealing with the benefits of planting hedgerows, the long term effects of climate on soil characteristics, a review of the state’s climate scoping plan and more.
University of California President Janet Napolitano’s introduction to this issue emphasizes the importance of recorded research as it was utilized by an Italian immigrant to begin growing wine grapes, a venture that has led to the vast E. & J. Gallo wine empire headquartered in Modesto.
Whether the research originates with the University of California, the other state universities, in a lab or on a tiny plot at the edge of an established farm, it can provide information and answers that current farmers and subsequent generations can apply to maintain and expand the vast agricultural empire that every Californian, on or off the farm, can and should be proud of.
They may not be aware of it, but all Californians can have access to the enormous body of agricultural research information through the university’s Cooperative Extension Service. Its nearest office might be just around the corner.

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In his religious biography of Woodrow Wilson, Barry Hankins notes that Wilson’s father—prominent southern Presbyterian minister and professor Joseph Ruggles Wilson—stated after his son’s election as a ruling elder that “I would rather that he held that position than be president of the United States.” Wilson served as a ruling elder in the Presbyterian Church. In 1913, he became President of the United States. Wilson offers an important insight in to questions of liberalism, orthodoxy, and orthopraxy precisely because he did not make any claims as an officer that marked him as a heretic or even specifically unorthodox, but neither did Wilson ever seem to take doctrine seriously. Hankins notes that in late nineteenth Century Princeton, theological conservatism, intellectual conservatism, and socio-cultural conservatism went hand in hand. Wilson was “not a systematic theological thinker, and he cared little for the battles over the Bible that took place in the late nineteenth and early twentieth Centuries. For him the Bible was inspiration and instruction for Christian living.”
The indifference to or rejection of historic doctrinal conformity separated Wilson’s own understanding of Christianity from creational or natural theological commitments that defined Protestantism and Christianity more broadly since the Reformation. Nature and creation, Wilson believed, were subordinated to morality. John Mulder argued that “Wilson understood the Bible as basically a rule book in which people could find a clear definition of the moral law for the world.” The older generation of Princetonians like Charles Hodge and Samuel Miller, however, believed that the “centerpiece of the Bible remained Christ’s incarnation, birth, death, and resurrection—in short, the life-transforming work of God in Christ.” Humans could not know truth without God’s assistance, and they remained limited in their abilities to create a perfect temporal moral order.
Wilson poured over his Bible regularly. He claimed, Hankins noted, to have worn out two or three Bibles and admonished his correspondents to “search the Scriptures, for in them ye think ye have eternal life.” None of his scriptural pursuits, however, led him to commit to historic Christian conceptions on natural law or the created order. He observed the social changes of the early Twentieth Century without questioning the nature of progress. Progress was inevitable, and good; humans and human society would have to change to meet it. There was, Wilson argued “one great basic fact which underlies all the questions that are discussed on the political platform at the present moment… nothing is done in this country as it was done twenty years ago.” Social changes from 1890 to 1913 meant that Americans were in the “presence of a new organization of society. Our life has broken away from the past. The life of America is not the life that it was twenty years ago; it is not the life that it was ten years ago.” Progress’s undeniable goodness, according to Wilson, was “synonymous with life itself, and yet men through many thousand years never talked or thought of progress.”
Instead of questioning the fundamental nature of progress, Wilson celebrated it. He and his fellow citizens were living in “nothing short of a new social age, a new era of human relationships, a new state-setting for the drama of life.” Years of reading the Bible diligently prepared Wilson to become the great moralist of the early Twentieth Century even as it prepared him to dismiss thousands of years of Christian tradition. In 2022, educated Christians with degrees from Evangelical colleges certainly know how to be like Wilson the great moralists of our own era; do they similarly dismiss thousands of years of Christian truth regarding the natural order?
 Hankins, Woodrow Wilson: Ruling Elder, Spiritual President (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2018).
 John Mulder, Wilson: The Years of Preparation (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2016), 49; Hankins, Wilson.
 Ray Stannard Baker, Woodrow Wilson: Life and Letters, I (New York: Scribner’s, 1946), 67–8; Hankins, Wilson; Woodrow Wilson, The New Freedom (New York: Doubleday, 1913), 4.

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The Internet makes it easy for just about anyone to call himself, for better or worse, a writer. Just open a Blogger or WordPress account, write a few posts and you’re in business. This kind of freedom has given a diverse host of writers and bloggers the opportunity to build loyal audiences and online communities with just their wit and words—and to do so without being tethered to a particular publication or a set of sponsors.
But there’s a bit of a dark side to the quickly growing popularity of digital content: It’s laid waste to traditional print outlets and their inflexible advertising models. Newsweek saw the writing on the wall (or screen, or whatever) in late 2012, and editor-in-chief Tina Brown made the decision to discontinue the physical version of the magazine after more than 80 years in print.
And now, Newsweek and its digital sister site The Daily Beast are starting 2013 by losing one of their most popular bylines, political writer and blogger Andrew Sullivan. Shortly after the start of this year, Sullivan announced that he and his blog, The Daily Dish, are going indie:
“For the first time in human history, a writer – or group of writers and editors – can instantly reach readers – even hundreds of thousands of readers across the planet – with no intermediary at all.”
This isn’t the first time Sullivan’s left a digital home to build a new one: He left Time for The Atlantic in 2007, and moved again to join The Daily Beast in 2011. But what makes this move so remarkable is that Sullivan plans to rely solely on his online community of readers to sponsor his work. For just $19.99 a year, readers get access to the same Daily Dish they got for free at The Daily Beast. This also means that he’s accountable only to the people who read his posts every day, not to any sponsor or advertiser. By offering premium content to readers willing to pay for it, Sullivan can afford to be daring and innovative.
So, how successful might Sullivan be as an independent blogger? And what could this mean for the future of premium content—and, for that matter, the power of advertisers to determine how and where content is consumed?
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Little Johnny watched, fascinated, as his mother smoothed cold cream on her face. “Why do you do that, mommy?” he asked. “To make myself beautiful,” said his mother, who then began removing cream with tissue.
“What’s the matter?” asked Johnny. “Giving up?”
An all-natural skin treatment formula with multiple benefits containing polyphenols and antioxidants, free of petrochemicals, fragrance, parabens and phthalates—it is certainly a cutting-edge product for today’s consumer. Incredibly it can be found in Galen of Pergamum’s ceratum refrigerans—cold cream—a 2,000-year-old blend, which proves that the more things change, the more they stay the same. Tracing the history of Galen’s cream through the millennia illuminates the way skin care evolved from crude concoctions to modern emulsion formulations.
Claudius Galenus (Galen of Pergamum A.D. 130–200), one of the greatest medical minds of antiquity, created the world’s first efficacious skin cream—ceratum refrigerans (“cooling wax”). It was made by mixing one part beeswax in three to four parts of olive oil and then adding as much rose water as possible. It wasn’t elegant and barely stayed together, but it was state-of-the-art skin care for more than a thousand years.
A Closer Look at the Ingredients
Galen’s formula contains another modern formulation positive: All the ingredients are good enough to eat. Beeswax isn’t exactly eaten, but it is food-grade and often used to coat cheese. Olive oil is a great staple in food preparation and is a key component of healthy diets—and rose water can be consumed for a variety of health benefits.
But it’s the complex chemistry of beeswax that made Galen’s cream effective. Beeswax contains approximately 300 compounds, and is not remotely like petroleum-based wax such as paraffin. The exact composition varies greatly from different sources, but all beeswax has a few things in common. And notably, for its use in a primitive formula such as Galen’s cream, it contains enough hydroxy groups to allow it to absorb some watery material.
Olive oil contains a rich brew of valuable components. The oil has vitamins A, E and K; phytosterols; the flavonoids luteolin, quercetin and squalene); and is rich in polyphenols—which are anti-inflammatory, antioxidant and anticoagulant. Then there is oleocanthal, a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory and antioxidant, and squalene—which helps regulate sebum. Also present is chlorophyll, an anti-aging substance that promotes the healing of skin conditions and wounds.
Rose water is the by-product of the production of rose essential oil through steam distillation. The residual material has an array of desirable components, the specifics of which depends on the origin and manufacturing method. It is rich in flavonoids and vitamins—including A, C, D, E and B3. Benefits include antibacterial, soothing, healing and antiseptic properties.
However, there are two critical problems with Galen’s ceratum refrigerans: emulsion instability and rancidity. The rancidity problem was addressed in the late 19th century by substituting mineral oil for olive oil. The stability was radically improved with the addition of borax (sodium borate).
Borax has a long and fascinating history of its own. Marco Polo introduced it to the West upon his return from Asia, and it remained a rare commodity in the West until it was discovered in Death Valley,1 where production began in 1882.
What did borax contribute to the cold cream formulation? It neutralized the cerotic acid in the beeswax (approximately 13% of beeswax by weight is cerotic acid), creating a conventional anionic emulsifier. When borax dissolves in water, it produces boric acid plus sodium hydroxide. The reaction of sodium hydroxide and cerotic acid produces sodium ceroate:
C25H51COOH + NaOH → C25H51COO-Na+
Sodium hydroxide alone produces the anionic emulsifier, but the boric acid buffers the system. For the chemistry geeks, the composition of beeswax2 and the stoichiometry of the neutralization reaction are in Composition of Beeswax.
One formulation note concerns the solubility of borax, which is 201 grams per 100 mL at 100°C but drops precipitously to 1.3 grams at 0°C. Consequently, excess borax in the cream can crystallize out, and also increase the pH of the system, which is already high. Phase volume is also critical for determining the type of emulsion produced: Less than 45% water creates a water/oil emulsion, greater than 45% an oil/water emulsion.
Today’s Cold Cream
The closest modern descendent of Galen’s invention is Pond’s Cold Cream. Unilever officially traces it to 1846. Theron T. Pond, a pharmacist from Utica, New York, introduced Pond’s Golden Treasure, based on witch hazel, but Pond’s didn’t actually market a cleansing cream until 1920. The ingredients of the classic Pond’s shows its close affinity for Galen: mineral oil, water, beeswax, ceresin, sodium borate, fragrance and carbomer.
The cleansing comes from the high dose of mineral oil, which allows it to dissolve sebum, grime and makeup without soap. Since traditional soap (not the gentle cleansing bars) is very harsh on skin, this is a great improvement. And because it also softens and moisturizes skin, a good case can be made for this being as close as one can get to an all-purpose skin product.
Besides solving the rancidity problem, the mineral oil makes it a cleansing cream, far better than olive oil for dissolving sebum and grime. The other classic cleansing cream is Noxzema (i.e. No Eczema), although its ingredients* are so far removed from Galen (and the original formula made in 1914 by Dr. Francis Townsend) that the trail has gone pretty cold.
However, it aptly illustrates how cosmetic trends go in cycles. In 300 BC, the ointment of Galen was innovative technology. When science reached a new plateau in the 19th century, improvements were made in stability, but this also resulted in the introduction of “chemicals”—petroleum derivatives, nonsustainable resources. The naturals trend, green movement and consumer desire for active ingredients from plants has completed the circle, and Galen is innovative technology again.
*Water, stearic acid, Linum usitatissimum (linseed oil), Glycine soja (soybean) oil, fragrance, ammonium hydroxide, camphor, menthol, Eucalyptus globulus leaf oil, propylene glycol, gelatin and calcium hydroxide.
- www.desertusa.com/mag05/jul/borax.html (Accessed May 9, 2011)
- AP Tulloch, The composition of beeswax and other waxes secreted by insects, Lipids, 5 2 247–258 (Feb 1970)
Steve Herman is president of Diffusion LLC, a consulting company specializing in regulatory issues, intellectual property, and technology development and transfer. He is a principal in PJS Partners, offering formulation, marketing and technology solutions for the personal care and fragrance industry. He is an adjunct professor in the Fairleigh Dickinson University Masters in Cosmetic Science program and is a Fellow in the Society of Cosmetic Chemists.

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Develop a Data-Informed Campus Culture
At a time when increased degree completion matters not just to institutions but also to state governments seeking to meet workforce demands and attainment goals, institutions use high-quality data to help them get students across the finish line. The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on postsecondary education cannot be understated. Institutions and states are facing the same goals with smaller budgets and the potential for a prolonged recession. Black, Latinx, Indigenous, underrepresented AAPI, and students from low-income backgrounds have borne the brunt of economic shocks in higher education.
As a result, recent research shows they may be more at risk of stop out or drop out in the coming year.
Information derived from high-quality data allows institutions to develop interventions that ensure the equitable success of students, especially during a crisis that has disproportionately impacted the very students who have been historically excluded from higher education. In fact, the work of institutions to identify and close gaps in access and completion is more important than ever. In this brief, we outline
recommendations from campus representatives about how to build a data-informed institutional culture to equitably improve student success. These recommendations also address how institutions can implement data-informed decision-making and foster the collaborative use of data.

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