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Las Vegas Sands’ eastern promise, Rank’s season to be cheerful, Lottomatica pre-close statement +More
Good morning. On today’s agenda:
Las Vegas Sands sees only upside in Macau.
Rank says it saw strong festive season trading.
Lottomatica and Sportech feature in earnings in brief.
LVS sees Macau promise
Las Vegas Sands remains bullish on Macau with “the right customers” coming through the door.
Macau ramp on: Despite the Macau adj. EBITDA loss of $51m and FY22 operating losses of $792m (up 15%), CEO Rob Goldstein said: “If you’re looking for a negative comment on Macau, you’re in the wrong earnings call.”
The Macau losses were offset by the Marina Bay Sands in Singapore delivering $273m in adj. EBITDA.
But with Macau’s reopening expected to ramp up in H2, Goldstein said the recovery trajectory had been very promising so far.
“They’re spending on retail, gambling and it’s the right customers showing up,” Goldstein said. “It’s been really gratifying for us and typical of recovery situations: people who want it more are there first and it’s very encouraging
He added that Macau’s capacity and base mass market are “very different to the US, with opening hands starting at a couple of hundred US dollars”.
Planes, trains and automobiles: The ease with which visitors could access Macau was another factor that explained why the region was showing strong signs of recovery. Grant Chum, CEO of Sands China, said 40% of LVS’s Macau visitors had come from Hong Kong vs. 30% from mainland China since reopening on 8 January.
“Macau can support visitation via air, land and sea,” he said. “Let’s see how visitation develops, but so far the Chinese New Year pattern supports much stronger revenues (going forward).”
He added that it was important to not get too stuck on the visitation numbers and that the “overall quality of visitation during Chinese New Year had been very high” from its premium/mass target audience.
Goldstein confirmed the group’s ongoing interest in building an IR in Thailand, but discounted Japan and Korea.
No small time: Goldstein noted the group was looking at making a $4bn-$5bn investment in New York should it win its bid to build a downstate casino in Long Island. He said an LVS downstate casino “will be a full-blown resort with entertainment, restaurants, theaters – no small-time investment”.
New York represents “an extraordinary and unique opportunity” because it’s “a huge market with limited capacity”, he added.
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Rank’s happy Xmas
The casino to bingo group saw strong trading over the Christmas and new year period.
Vitality: The decent current trading came even as Rank reported half-year profits diving 83% to £4.2m. John O’Reilly, CEO, said the downturn in operating profits was “wholly” down to the performance of the Grosvenor casinos business, the health of which is “vital” to the group.
Group underlying revenue rose 2% to £337.4m, driven largely by a 9% rise in digital to £100.8m.
The company maintained its previous guidance that profits for the year would be at between £10m and £20m.
Summer loving: O’Reilly predicted that international travel trends boded well for a “much more positive summer” for Grosvenor.
Analysts at Peel Hunt said there was “not enough in today’s statement – barely six weeks since the previous one – to support an upgrade, but trading is encouraging”.
The ice storm: In bingo, O’Reilly noted the decline among its older cohorts. “The land-based bingo business is under considerable pressure,” he said. “Snow and ice is not good for bingo.” LFL NGR was down 20% on pre-pandemic levels in H12019/20.
Weak become zeroes: He noted there were “too many bingo venues in the UK”. “The strong venues are performing stronger and the weaker venues become weaker quite quickly.”
“Human connection is what makes us most happy and for many of our customers what makes them happy is their weekly visit to the bingo,” O’Reilly added.
Patient: On the UK government’s upcoming gambling White Paper, O’Reilly said the conclusion of the process “can’t come soon enough”. “I do expect publication in the coming week and then we need good progress on the secondary legislation,” he added.
He noted that the “most important” decision would be on the issue of machine harmonization.
Earnings in brief
Playtech: The company said in a brief trading update that the business has performed well in H2 and it expected EBITDA for the year to come in up 26% at £400m. FY results will be published on March 23.
Lottomatica: The acquisition of Betflag enabled Lottomatica to reach record Q4 handle and 11-15% EBITDA growth. Revenues increased 7% to €377m, while EBITDA is forecast to reach €115m-€119m.
GoldBet’s parent company said online divisions had accounted for ~46% of Q4 EBITDA growth.
It also highlighted the 17% rise in betting handle to a record €6.7bn (+11% excl. Betflag), with online divisions up 18% and sports betting up 17%.
FY22 revenues are forecast at ~€1.4bn and EBITDA of between €458m and €462m.
Lottomatica listing: Earlier this month reports emerged that Lottomatica had hired UniCredit to work on an IPO valuing the firm at €5bn.
Sportech: In its pre-close update Sportech said it expects FY22 adj. EBITDA to come in “ahead of market consensus”, with sports betting and food and beverage revenues performing strongly and operational costs reduced significantly. FY22 results will be published in April.
Monte-Carlo Casino parent company Société des Bains de Mer saw revenues for the nine-month period to the end of December rise 27% to €556.5m. The increase was achieved despite Q3 revenues falling 18.5% to €43.6m.
Macquarie estimates that NFL hold came in at an above-average 11% for the week ending January 22. The divisional playoff games came in “under their respective total betting lines”, which generated strong margins on “game outcomes and single-game parlay bets”.
The analysts expect Q4 hold levels to be 50-100bps below the average of 8%, while the combination of SGPs, in-play, cash-out and lower promo spend will lead to ~20-30% NGR growth on a same-store basis.
Mississippi casino GGR was down 5.5% to $211.5m in December, while sports-betting GGR was up 248.8% to $11.3m with handle rising 30.8% to $74.3m. Nebraska casino GGR increased 5.7% to $4.3m, Virginia casino GGR rose ~18% to total $53.9m, while New Hampshire sports-betting GGR increased 225% to $7.9m, with retail betting GGR rising 96% to $390k.
The UK Gambling Commission has approved Allwyn’s £100m acquisition of Camelot UK Lotteries Limited from the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Board.
AGS will supply its range of online slots to Caesars’ Sportsbook in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, while BetMGM has gone live with White Hat Gaming’s online slots suite in Pennsylvania.
Skywind-owned mobile gaming operator In Touch Games has been fined £6.1m by the UK Gambling Commission for social responsibility and money laundering failings, the third time the company has been fined in the past four years.
Diary date: XLMedia will hold an investor day on February 1.
The second issue of Compliance+More was sent earlier this morning. In this issue:
Skywind-owned In Touch Games hit with third UK Gambling Commission sanction.
VLTs complicate Indiana’s online casino bill.
Bet365’s Raynham Park deal in Massachusetts falls apart.
Swedish operators share intervention data.
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Skating on thin ice? NHL stars and gambling endorsements under scrutiny.
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Carisbrook has further reiterated the point that it is the best side in the MCDFNL with a statement 91-point victory over Harcourt on Saturday.
The Lions announced themselves as contenders two rounds ago with a competent win over Natte Bealiba but Carisbrook bought into none of the hype on its home ground at the weekend, brushing aside Harcourt with devastating ease in a 16.15 (111) to 2.8 (20) result.
Such was the Redbacks’ dominance from the opening bounce the game was essentially dead in the water at the conclusion of the first quarter when Carisbrook led 6.6 (42) to nil.
Any chance of a Harcourt revival in the second was quickly shut down and the Lions went goalless for another quarter, despite threatening the goal mouth with more purpose. Carisbrook meanwhile kicked another four goals to lead 10.9 (69) to 0.3 (3) at halftime.
The second half was more of the same and while Carisbrook took its foot of the pedal as the game wound to a close, the Redbacks still won all four quarters of the match, partly due to some Harcourt inaccuracy in front off goal.
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The copper brazing alloy is forecast to continue rising steadly over the next four years. According to the WK-chem Research “Global Copper Brazing Alloys Professional Survey Report 2022, Forecast to 2027”, The continuous development of manufacturing industry is the main driving force to promote the development of copper brazing alloy market.The compound annual growth rate (CAGR) for the 2022-2027 period is projected to be 3.82% base on WK-chem Research regression analysis model.
“Affected by the epidemic, e-commerce is developing rapidly. Participants in the copper brazing alloys industry can consider developing the online market in an all-round way, so as to broaden their sales channels.”said Selena, Senior analyst, Chemicals Goods Market Research Center in WK-chem Research.
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High penetrance germline mutations in the CDKN2A and CDK4 genes account for susceptibility in ~40% of CM families, while mutations in the CDK4, MITF, TERT, POT1, ACD and TERF2IP genes are rare, each occurring in <1-2% of CM families. The latter four genes implicate telomere dysregulation as a major risk pathway for familial melanoma. Additionally, mutations in BAP1 have been associated with predisposition to both CM and uveal melanoma (UM), as well as susceptibility to mesothelioma and a range of other cancers. BAP1 is the most well-documented high penetrance UM gene, but is responsible for susceptibility in only ~5% of UM families. Germline mutations in CDKN2A and BRCA2 account for <1% of all susceptibility to UM. The genetic mutations underlying predisposition in the majority of CM and UM families is unknown.

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As the shopping experience becomes increasingly interconnected and accessible for the masses, it may also become more user-friendly for cybercriminals, writes Martin Walshaw, senior systems engineer at F5 Networks.
For consumers, Black Friday and Cyber Monday means bargains. For retailers, it means big customer service and revenue pressure.
To conquer the annual onslaught, and remain relevant and desirable throughout the shopping year, the onus is on retailers to deliver an intuitive, connected experience for consumers.
Against a backdrop of intense competition, digital transformation is inevitable and beneficial to both shopper and retailer. Unfortunately, it is not without risk. With banking cybersecurity becoming more sophisticated, retailers are often seen as easier prey for personal data. According to recent a report by law firm RPC, cyber-attacks on e-commerce sites have doubled in the past year.
Security as an afterthought
In the race for profit, devices and features designed for consumer simplicity are rife, usually with one-touch/easy-access sign-in mechanisms. Security is often an afterthought. As the shopping experience becomes increasingly interconnected and accessible for the masses, it may also become more user-friendly for cybercriminals.
The problem is only exacerbated during busy periods such as Black Friday and Cyber Monday.
Hackers tend to ramp up their activity during these busy periods as the sheer quantity of data flying around can be difficult for retailers to understand, tame and secure.
Working together is winning
A sustainable, functional and consumer-facing website needs to focus security efforts as closely as possible to the application. Retailers must adopt a multi-layered approach of on-premise and cloud to keep their online services live against DDoS attacks, as well as protecting the network, the session and the consumer. Security measures also need to be intelligent enough to determine legitimate transactions from malicious activity, which is becoming increasingly difficult as cybercriminals adopt new tactics.
Strong threat analysis measures should be in place to capture any irregularities from the outset. At the very least, online retailers should ensure they have “Trusted Shop Certificates”, which guarantees a minimum but standardised level of security and consumer trust.
To truly breeze through seasonal surges like Black Friday and Cyber Monday, retailers will need a scalable application infrastructure, both from a network bandwidth and app server perspective. On-premise solutions won’t cut it here in terms of speed, agility and cost-efficiency.
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The ability to scale into the cloud is emerging as an e-commerce prerequisite to ensure customer satisfaction, business continuity and profit. This calls for robust security measures at every juncture, including authentication/authorisation (IAM), encryption/decryption technologies (SSL), as well as anti-fraud and DDoS mitigation technologies.
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As the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and Protection of Personal Information (POPI) Act deadlines approach, retailers will also have to up their transparency standards. In time, those that are most compliant and secure will clearly stand out from the crowd. Consumers will only want to engage with those that take their personal data seriously. Retailers would do well to earn that trust today. Playing catch-up rarely works.

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NEW YORK (Credit.com) — Is it OK to lie to protect your personal information online? Apparently plenty of people think so. In one survey, 22% of “savvy” 8- to 17-year-olds claim, “I don’t give out my details online, I make up fake ones” according to Intersperience.
Creating an online persona can be one way to help protect yourself against the intrusions of a hyper-connected world. Here are three times an online alias is helpful:
You don’t want everyone knowing your secrets. It’s no secret that search engines, websites and apps often track your activities and use that information to target you for services or products they hope you may buy, or to serve up online ads. While government agencies figure out how involved they want to be in protecting consumers’ personal information, you can take some control by creating your alter ego for surfing the Net, signing up for coupons or online offers, etc.
You want to help protect yourself from identity theft. If you thought it was just too easy for Melissa McCarthy to steal Jason Bateman’s identity in the movie Identity Thief, think again. It’s just not that hard for crooks to gather the info they need to impersonate someone else. As my colleague Adam Levin has pointed out numerous times, most of us post way too much personal information online. All it takes is one incident where a site such as Facebook gets hacked for a cyber thief to have all the information they need to steal your identity. Heck, a site doesn’t even have to be hacked to expose your information; you may have already posted plenty of details on your online profiles.


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Oct 11, Helsinki: The representatives of the Confederation of Finnish Industries have said that they are willing to invest and explore business opportunities in Sri Lanka.
Finnish Industry representatives expressed their interest in doing business with Sri Lanka at a breakfast meeting held with visiting Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe on Tuesday (Oct 10) at the federation headquarters in Helsinki.
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The magistrate has called on the Ministry of Justice to move the hearings, which have been switched from Telford to Kidderminster, back to Shropshire.
The magistrate, who has served on the bench for nearly 30 years and spoke exclusively to the Shropshire Star on condition of anonymity, said it was "not good for justice and not good for people”.
He said the arrangement made it more difficult for families and solicitors to attend hearings, and for defendants to return to Shropshire afterwards.
The magistrate said: "By centralising the hearings in Kidderminster I think justice is not necessarily being dealt with effectively due to the difficulties people have attending elsewhere.
He told the Shropshire Star that under the current arrangements it was more difficult for families and solicitors to attend court hearings, and for defendants to get back to Shropshire after hearings.
"If you are caught up in a fist fight in Shrewsbury you should be dealt with as locally as possible and by centralising the hearings in Kidderminster I think justice is not necessarily being dealt with effectively due to the difficulties people have attending elsewhere," he said.
"There are a number of people who have difficulty getting to Telford already. How are they going to get to Kidderminster?"
He added: "Getting solicitors to travel to Kidderminster for one case is also not cost effective for the people providing the service."
The magistrate added: "It is not good for justice and it is not good for people.
"I need to speak up and make sure justice is available to people at a reasonable level and I do not think travelling another 30 miles for friends and family is reasonable.
"I would like to see, where practical, cases held locally within the county of Shropshire."
The issue of moving remand hearings to Kidderminster has proved controversial with local defence solicitors who have raised concerns over increased expense, travel distance, and the number of people occupying cells.
It has also led to people being held for longer at police stations after handing themselves in, because only one bus a day travels from Telford to Kidderminster at 7.30am.
Anyone handing themselves in after that time is held until the following morning.
The situation has led to suggestions from solicitors that police are having to "babysit".
Police in Worcester even put up a notice telling people "the best" time to hand themselves in. The note has since been taken down with police saying it had been put up in good faith but did not reflect official policy.
Responding to criticism earlier this month a spokesman for Her Majesty's Courts and Tribunals Service said: "Following a public consultation, remand cases were moved from Telford to Kidderminster Magistrates Court to improve listings and trial management at Telford.
"There is no evidence to suggest that there has been a significant increase in the numbers of defendants awaiting an available court, or that cases are not being heard within 24 hours.”


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A popular program by which homeowners can finance solar panels and pay off the costs on their property tax bills may have been needlessly suppressed by federal lenders, but a Tuesday announcement in Sacramento shows that the program can still work for energy efficiency upgrades at commercial properties.
RelatedWhat Are? PACE Loans, Feed In Tariffs, and Net Metering
Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) loans are an innovative program launched in California cities like Berkeley and Palm Desert that allowed homeowners to borrow money from local funds and use it to install rooftop solar on their buildings, with repayment set up by way of a recurring charge on the homeowner's property tax bill. The most popular PACE loan programs were set up so that each property owner would save more on energy costs than they'd repay in that same period on their tax bill, thus providing a financial incentive for the household.
Despite the Obama administration's explicit support for all things renewable, however, the Federal Housing Finance Agency, which runs the mortgage agencies "Fannie Mae" and "Freddie Mac," objected to PACE programs. Most state laws explicitly make property tax obligations come first when property owners have trouble paying off their debts. The FHFA decided that PACE loans paid back via property taxes thus constituted an "additional encumbrance" on properties, refusing to back mortgages for properties with PACE loans attached. That's despite the fact that those loans actually meant people had more cash on hand to do things like make mortgage payments. That pretty much shut down the whole program.
A final ruling on the FHFA's policy toward PACE loans is due in September.
In the meantime, the ruling doesn't apply to commercial properties in California, and as the Environmental Defense Fund's Kate Daniel reports, a commercial property owner in Sacramento just took the lead in Commercial PACE financing for energy efficiency improvements.
The property in question is Metro Center, four buildings in a suburban-style mixed-used business and residential complex just north of downtown Sacramento. Metro Center's owners, Seattle-based Metzler Real Estate, have secured $3.1 million in PACE funding for improvements to their heating and cooling systems, as well as upgrades to energy management systems that will save the property owners $140,000 on their utility bills each year.
That makes Metro Center's PACE loan the largest in U.S. history.
As Daniel explains, property owners like Metzler find distinct advantages in PACE-style financing arrangements for energy upgrades to their properties.
[T]he financing is tied to the property itself, rather than to the owner. This means that if the owner wanted to sell the building, it would not have to pay off the balance of the financing, but rather transfer to the next owner's property tax bill. By doing this, PACE addresses a key obstacle in commercial real estate markets: frequent ownership turnover where owners are hesitant to make long-term investments.
Seems to us that's a pretty good incentive for homeowners who want solar panels as well. With any luck, FHFA will get with the rest of the Obama administration's program and stop blocking PACE loans for home rooftop solar.


In-form Bay bowlers became the giant-killers at the Summerset national singles and pairs championship in Auckland from January 2-8.
Tauranga's Dan Dickison and Nick Tomsett upended multi-champions Gary Lawson/Andrew Kelly 20-17 en route to their glittering semi-final finish in the men's pairs.
After beating the New Zealand team members, Dickison/Tomsett powered past Palmerston North's Tim Hook/Terry Curtis 15-9 and Jerry Belcher/Hamish Kape 18-13 in the quarter-finals.
The hot Tauranga pairing, however, found despair in the semi-final against Royal Oak's Mike Bradshaw and John Carruthers. Ahead by two shots playing the last end, Carruthers drew three close bowls and Dickison and Tomsett were unable to reduce the count, losing 15-14.
Still, it was a meritorious performance, and Tomsett achieved his second successive third equal placing, after making the singles semi-final in Christchurch last year.
Tauranga's Graham Skellern, skipping his longtime friend Brett O'Riley, reached the last 16 of the pairs, after taking out New Zealand squad members Sheldon Bagrie-Howley and Taylor Horn in the first round of post-section.
Skellern and O'Riley made New Plymouth's John Garrud and Neil Candy concede on the 13th end and then met their own heart-break in the last 16.
They led all the way against South Canterbury's Tom Taiaroa and Marshall Stoddart and Taiaroa made some crucial late conversions to level the score 16-all playing the last end. Taiaroa then rubbed off a bowl and finished right behind kitty, and Skellern missed the drive to kill the end and lose 17-16.
Skellern then headed off to play the disabled events and came away with his second national title in two seasons - this time the pairs skipping Christchurch's Bruce Wakefield who collected the double by wining the singles over Waikato's Linda Bennett.
When Skellern beat Rotorua's Kevin Asplin and Bennett 18-8 in the pairs final at Sunnybrae at 8pm, it was his 20th exhausting game in six days.
Past national open titleholder Asplin was playing his first disabled tournament and beat the defending champion Skellern in the singles quarter-final before falling to Bennett 21-18 in the semi-final.
The Bay giant-killing continued in the men's singles post-section. National Gold Star holder Lance Tasker beat longtime international Mike Kernaghan (Dunedin) 21-18 before falling to Waikato's Raika Gregory 21-12.
John O'Shea proved too much for the world singles champion Shannon McIlroy (Nelson), winning 21-12, and O'Shea then lost to eventual finalist Rory Soden (Auckland) 21-15 in the last 32.
With the benefit of a bye, Tauranga's David Eades scraped past Auckland's Kevin Beasley 21-20 and then upset 15 times national champion Lawson 21-10. Eades finally went out in the last 16 to highly-promising Keanu Darby (Timaru) 21-17. Tauranga South's Dennis Duncan also had a strong run in the singles, making the last 32.
On the women's side, past national champion Mary Campbell (Tauranga) lost to Auckland's Rima Strickland 21-4 in the last 16 of the singles, and then combined with Ngongotaha's Mina Paul to reach the last 32 of the pairs before falling to the New Zealand squad members Taylor Bruce and Clre Hendra 19-24.
Tauranga's Gayle Melrose combined with fellow national coach Sharon Sims and also lost in the last 32 to Auckland's Karen Hema 16-13.
There were two other strong performances in the women's singles - Mount Maunganui's Raewyn Willis lost to former international Wendy Jensen 21-18, and Ngongotaha's Julie Kerry gave New Zealand representative and multi-champion Selina Smith a fright before losing 21-17.


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In a recent interview, Director Aditya Suhas Jambhale shares compelling details about his upcoming political thriller, ‘Article 370,’ featuring Yami Gautam in a pivotal role. The film promises to uncover the most significant covert operation in India, based on true events, and stands as a story every Indian must know.
Addressing skepticism surrounding the film, Jambhale emphasizes that ‘Article 370’ reflects his belief in the creation of ‘one India’ following the 2019 abrogation. He asserts that the covert operation portrayed in the film adds a powerful narrative to the story.
Jambhale reveals that the genesis of the film took place during the shooting of his supernatural project, ‘Baramulla.’ Producer Aditya Dhar’s trust in Jambhale’s ability to handle sensitive subjects led to the development of ‘Article 370.’ Reflecting on his experience shooting in Kashmir, Jambhale notes the positive changes in the region’s tourism and the booming film production.
Assured by producer Aditya Dhar’s faith, the National Award-winning filmmaker boldly shot scenes for ‘Article 370’ in unconventional locations, including Downtown Srinagar, with the support of local authorities and residents.
As the film delves into the subject of the abrogation of Article 370, a move considered a significant win for the current government, questions arise about the film’s balanced perspective, especially in an election year. Jambhale responds, “Article 370 deals with the local Kashmiri feeling. On the ground, it has impacted the life of a person selling things on a shikara on Dal Lake.” He further emphasizes the film’s focus on the fascinating covert operation that normalized the most militarized zone, portraying a powerful story of unity.
Regarding the film’s release in an election year, Jambhale states, “We have the right intent. It reiterates that India is one. People tell us that it’s for the sake of elections, and we tell them, ‘Go, watch the film.’ As a filmmaker, I want to have an opinion. I support the decision of Article 370 being made redundant and creating one India. Unless I believe in it, I cannot make it.”
‘Article 370’ is set to release on 23rd February, offering audiences a thought-provoking and riveting cinematic experience.

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NN Group and ING Groep terminate warrant agreement
NN Group today announces that it has reached an agreement with ING Groep to terminate the warrant agreement between the two parties for a consideration of EUR 76 million. This transaction eliminates potential share dilution.
NN Group and ING Groep entered into the warrant agreement on 10 June 2014 as part of the Initial Public Offering of NN Group. Under the warrant agreement, ING Groep was granted the right to exercise warrants for 34,965,000 newly issued shares (9.99%) in NN Group against payment of an exercise price of EUR 40 per share. The warrants would have expired in July 2024.
The consideration will be funded from existing cash resources and will be recognised as a reduction of NN Group’s equity and Own Funds in the fourth quarter of 2018. The transaction will not impact NN Group’s operating result and net result, and will not have a material impact on the Solvency II ratio of NN Group.
NN Group profileNN Group is an international financial services company, active in 18 countries, with a strong presence in a number of European countries and Japan. With all its employees, the Group provides retirement services, pensions, insurance, investments and banking to approximately 17 million customers. NN Group includes Nationale-Nederlanden, NN, Delta Lloyd, NN Investment Partners, ABN AMRO Insurance, Movir, AZL, BeFrank and OHRA. NN Group is listed on Euronext Amsterdam (NN).
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Add a handmade touch to decorative text by creating a dissolving text effect with blend modes and blur filters. Featured artist: Erica Larson. Check out more of her work here: https://www.behance.net/erica-larson
Start from scratch, or download practice files [https://adobe.ly/33dtQHY] for a head start. Steps below.
Prep your file:
1. Sync your favorite font from Adobe Fonts before you try this technique.
Tip: The font used in this tutorial is Blenny Black.
2. Use the Type tool to add an ampersand using the Blenny Black font with the anti-aliasing set to Smooth.
3. Right-click the type layer and convert it to a Smart Object.
4. Set the blend mode for the type layer to Dissolve. The change is not noticeable yet.
Apply spatter effects:
1. Choose the Field Blur tool (Filter – Blur Gallery – Field Blur). When you use the tool, Photoshop places the first pin automatically.
2. Move the pin, then add a second pin to the upper right and increase the blur amount.
3. Add multiple pins, each with different blur amounts, to emphasize the effect on the outer edges of the ampersand.
Create a distressed look:
1. Add a layer mask to the smart object layer.
2. Select the Brush tool to add a bit more detail. Choose a Soft Round brush and reduce its opacity.
Tip: We set the brush size to 300 and Opacity to 15%.
3. Paint with a black brush on the mask to reveal the dissolved pattern on parts of the Ampersand.
4. Right-click and convert the layer to a Smart Object.
5. Set the blend mode to Normal.
6. Apply a Gaussian Blur (Filter – Blur – Gaussian Blur) to soften the edges.
Tip: We set the Radius to .5.
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Were asked the question: ‘What cigarette do you smoke cigarettes?’ And more of them named Camel as their smoke cigarettes than any various other cigarette! Three independent research groups found this to become a known fact. You see, doctors too smoke for enjoyment. That full Camel flavor is just as attractive to a doctor’s flavor as to yours. That marvelous Camel mildness means as much to his throat as to yours.’ Big Tobacco’s suppression of scientific evidenceAt once that JAMA ran cigarette advertisements, it published in 1950 the first major research to causally link smoking to lung tumor.If the study is to command open public confidence, independent controls have to be preserved at every stage. Unlike other study funded by pesticide businesses, these studies have to be peer-reviewed and published completely also. EAC urges Defra never to oppose ban, concede that crop chemical substances are eliminating bees The European Commission is defined to examine the neonicotinoid ban following year, and EAC is usually urging Defra never to oppose the ban this the next time around. Because the ban was initially enacted, several new research have verified that neonicotinoids are harming bees and additional pollinators, no amount of market propaganda can transform this fact.


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On May 28 Justice Minister Gábor Gál submitted draft amendments related to the change of the election of Constitutional Court judges for interdepartmental review. Changes will be introduced through an amendment to the Constitution and amendments to four other laws, one of them a brand-new law on the Constitutional Court drafted by the Justice Ministry.
The constitutional change will require the qualified majority of at least 90 votes in parliament, meaning the ruling coalition will need some opposition votes to advance the changes. Nine out of the 13 judges of the Constitutional Court will end their terms as of February 2019. Parliament must elect 18 candidates for their vacant posts and the president has to appoint nine of them before then. Constitutional law experts deem the election one of the most important events of 2018 in Slovakia.Lawyers propose their own changes for Constitutional Court elections Read more
Under the proposed rules, the election of candidates for the post of Constitutional Court Judge will require a simple majority (76 votes) of all the present MPs, despite the original proposal requiring 90 votes in the first round for the candidates.
“It is going to be very hard to find even the 76 votes in the parliament,” Gál told journalists.
The ministry also wants to raise the age limit for eligible candidates from 40 to 45. Some experts have been critical of this intention in the past, saying that it disqualifies distinguished lawyers from the younger generation. Gál now says he does not deem the higher age requirement “all that problematic” and argues that the candidates will have five more years of practice.
"Practice is very much needed in legal professions," Gál said.
Contrary to the present system, the person who proposes a candidate for Constitutional Court Judge will have to submit a reasoning along with the candidacy proposal, explaining why they believe the candidate to be suitable for the post. The proposal will also have to be accompanied with a letter of motivation, in which the candidate will be required to explain why they have accepted the candidacy proposal.
The candidates should be distinguished personalities in the area of law and will need to have passed one of the professional exams (barrister, notary, judge…) as well as regularly publish or lecture and master a global foreign language.
"We are able to prepare much better, cleverer material from the legal perspective but at the end of the day parliament decides the outcome with 90 votes and we need to find those votes, first in the ruling coalition," Gál said, dismissing the discussed proposal to adjust the terms of the judges to secure greater variability in their tenure, to prevent too many judges ending their terms at the same time as is currently the case. "I can imagine a different proposal if Most-Híd ruled alone," added the minister.
Gál dismissed the proposal of some lawyers from last week for the election of Constitutional Court Judges to be public. Gál said he believes personal issues can only be freely decided in a secret vote.
The ministry also proposes that judges in all courts wrap up their term at the end of the year in which they reach the age of 68. Currently, the Judicial Council has to propose the dismissal of a judge due to age to the president. Gál maintains this is an unpredictable system that creates a lack of clarity.


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A charity that helps people with mental health problems on the road to recovery has been recognised for its volunteers.
Herts Mind Network, which provides mental health services from its centre in Borehamwood, has been presented with Hertfordshire Volunteer Centre's volunteer management award.
The award aims to raise awareness of good management in volunteer recruitment, involvement, support, training and recognition.
Herts Mind Network clinical director Carol Harris said: “We value the crucial work done by our volunteers across Hertfordshire, many of our services would not be the same without them.
“Volunteering can improve a person’s wellbeing and helps Herts Mind Network support as many people as possible.
“We’re delighted to be recognised by the Hertfordshire Centre and hope to continue to provide an enjoyable and fulfilling experience for all our volunteers.”
The organisation currently has 100 volunteers who help people suffering mental illness across the county.
Many of them have experienced similar problems themselves and have used volunteering to help them on the road to recovery.
The organisation says there is a rising demand for its services, which include support groups and courses, counseling and vocational advice, and is seeking more volunteers.
Anybody interested in volunteering with Herts Mind Network should contact Caroline McGoohan at the Ware Centre on 02037 273 600 or e-mail firstname.lastname@example.org

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Above: MGCCC nursing student Zully Rodriguez practices her skills at the college’s Healthcare Simulation Center in Gulfport.
Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College’s Nursing program has been ranked as one of the top five registered nursing programs in the state. The programs were rated by RegisteredNursing.org.
“Our nursing program is challenging with high standards and expectations,” said Dr. Joan Hendrix, dean of Nursing and Allied Health, “Students know the rigor is important, as are the clinical rotations, both preparing our graduates with the competences required to pass the national exam on the first attempt and care for patients in a confident and caring way. We are very proud of what we are accomplishing at Gulf Coast with this program and all of our other Allied Health programs.”
Hendrix said the program, which currently has more than 425 students, is expected to grow to over 700 students when the new Nursing and Simulation Center at Tradition welcomes its first class in January of 2018. “Nurses are always in demand and we want to make sure the hospitals and clinics in South Mississippi have safe and competent caregivers,” she said. “Our programs work very closely with industry partners to ensure we are meeting their needs with our training. And our students know they can get good jobs because the MGCCC reputation means something.”
Mississippi’s 2016 National Council Licensure Examination (NCLEX) scores for practical nursing (PN) and registered nursing (RN) students were recently released, with MGCCC receiving a 94 percent pass rate for RNs and 100 percent for PNs. All boards of nursing in states and territories of the United States require candidates to pass this exam for licensure
In the RegisteredNursing.org ranking, nursing programs in the state were assessed on several factors, including the NCLEX pass rate, which represent how well a program supports students towards licensure and beyond. Click here for more information about the methodology.

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Roosevelt forfeits to Clovis
July 20, 2004
CLOVIS — After thoroughly dominating the game, the Roosevelt County 9-10-year-old All-Stars were foiled by Little League rules Monday night.
Roosevelt County beat Clovis American 11-1 in the championship game of the double-elimination District 3 tournament at Beachum Field in a game called after 3 1/2 innings by the 10-run rule. But American lodged a protest because Roosevelt’s three subs, all of whom entered on defense in the top of the fourth, did not bat at least once as required by national Little League rules. As a result, Roosevelt was forced to forfeit.
Immediately after the game, District 3 administrator Mike Harris called the Little League regional office in Waco, Texas, which in turn called the national office in Williamsport, Pa., for a ruling.
“Nobody likes to win that way, but rules are rules,” American manager Thom Moore said. “You may not agree with it, but that’s the rule as it is.”
American, which put its three subs into the field in the bottom of the third, also had two players who didn’t bat before the game ended. But Harris said Roosevelt manager Randy Lee did not protest that, instead lodging a protest on his team’s behalf because of the shortened run-rule game.
Thus, Roosevelt County was charged with its first loss of the tournament, and the teams will play again at 7 p.m. on Wednesday at Dickenson Field — American’s home park — for the championship.
“We beat them fair and square, but we lost on a technicality,” Lee said. “I didn’t know we were going to 10-run-rule them in the fourth inning.”
Roosevelt outhit American only 5-4 in the game, but erased a 1-0 deficit with six runs in the bottom of the first on five walks, three hit batsmen and a fielder’s choice.
Catcher Raymond Martinez hit a run-scoring groundout in the second, and Roosevelt brought the run rule into play with a four-run third highlighted by Jesus Acosta’s two-run double.
David Rodriguez pitched a four-inning complete game for Roosevelt, striking out five. Dustin Provencio’s single drove in Donavan Johnson with American’s only run in the top of the first.
American reached the finals on Thursday by scoring 10 runs in the top of the first in a 12-1 win over Quay County.
“They put it to us,” Moore said of Roosevelt. “It was kind of the opposite of what happened to us the last game.
“Their pitcher was tough. We started hitting a little bit (late), but I don’t want to take anything away from the way (Roosevelt) played the game tonight.”


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My Son Thinks He’s Gay
“My 16-year-old son is severely lacking social skills. He has no friends, makes inappropriate, embarrassing comments and has no athletic interests. Recently, he has been chatting online to a teenager in the UK. The problem is that now my son thinks that he is gay like the teen. Should I let him continue this interchange or cut it off?”
Rather than emphasizing whether or not to try to cut off his interchange — there is, after all, nothing wrong with being gay — a more important, longer-term question would be, “How can I help him improve his social skills?”
Social competence is one of the primary determinants of adult success. Many with poor social skills find the Internet a great source of social interaction because it provides access to a wide range of people, and you have the ability to take your time to formulate responses. Some also find comfort in the acceptance they find on the net — particularly young LGBT people who struggle to feel accepted in their day-to-day lives.
I recommend that you try to identify the social skills that he is lacking and work with him on gaining the needed skills or obtain the help of a psychologist or coach to help him improve his social skills. He may also benefit from the help of a psychologist in sorting out his social difficulties and his questions regarding his sexual orientation.
By improving his social skills, he would be able to open a wider range of options for friends. This strategy would hopefully provide a long-term solution, whether or not he continues to identify as gay.


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The private equity fund BC Partners are considering buying shares in Inter, but why are Suning willing to sell a stake in the Nerazzurri.
The Beneamata’s CEO Beppe Marotta confirmed Suning are considering selling a stake in the club and Sky Sport Italia reported that BC Partners have started analysing the accounts and
Sky Sport Italia journalist Mariangela Pira clarifies that President Steven Zhang ‘cares about the team but needs an income of at least €200m’.
Therefore, the entry of BC Partners would be useful, as the 'investor believes in the club and considers it a solid project with enormous resources’.
Il Corriere dello Sport reports an extraordinary board of directors’ meeting will take place today, with Steven Zhang participating remotely from China, discussing the future of the club.


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Supreme Court: Arizona Citizenship Proof Law Illegal
Monday, June 17, 2013 @10:21 AMSupreme Court rules Arizona cannot add to federal voter registration requirements by demanding proof of citizenship.
Supreme Court Backs Oklahoma Over Texas Water District
Friday, June 14, 2013 @ 4:30 PMThe U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday issued a unanimous ruling for Oklahoma over a North Texas water district in a case over delivery of water from the...
Perry Signs Unemployment Drug-Testing Bill
Friday, June 14, 2013 @ 4:21 PMLt. Gov. David Dewhurst says he's heard from hundreds of employers across the state over the years about how hard it is for them to...
Senate Panel Approves Omnibus Abortion Bill
Friday, June 14, 2013 @ 4:10 PMAn omnibus abortion regulations bill is headed to the full Senate for debate after receiving tentative approval Friday from a panel of senators.
Gov. Perry Has Vetoed Equal Pay Bill
Friday, June 14, 2013 @ 3:59 PMGov. Rick Perry has vetoed a bill aimed at preventing pay discrimination against women, one of the bill's sponsors said.
Four Reportedly Killed in Shooting in St. Louis Building
Thursday, June 13, 2013 @ 2:44 PMFour people were shot dead inside a building in St. Louis, a police source told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
Blast Reported at Louisiana Plant
Thursday, June 13, 2013 @11:13 AMEmergency crews respond to powerful explosion in St. Gabriels, Louisiana.
NSA Chief Testifies on Scope of Surveillance Programs
Thursday, June 13, 2013 @10:41 AMNational Security Agency chief testifies on scope of surveillance programs.
Senate Blocks Sex Assault Reform
Thursday, June 13, 2013 @10:38 AMProposed bill would have put cases in the hands of independent prosecutors instead of military commanders.
NSA Whistleblower in Hiding
Thursday, June 13, 2013 @10:35 AMThe self-proclaimed whistleblower is in hiding as lawmakers learn more about the programs he exposed.
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When Oregon voters in 2014 approved the ballot measure legalizing recreational pot, they specified that pot use in public places would remain unlawful.
But as marijuana growing, processing, retailing and consumption have swelled in Oregon, so has the chorus pushing for the right to toke on pipes or joints or inhale from vaporizers in public — whether at pot lounges or in city parks.
Some Oregon lawmakers tried to push the public-smoking bubble in the legislative session that just ended. Senate Bill 307 would have allowed licensed marijuana lounges, where pot smokers and vapers could publicly partake in pot. It also would have allowed public marijuana use at temporary events.
But the bill died in committee, despite the backing of famous former Trail Blazer basketball player Cliff Robinson, now a pot retailer and advocate, and other notables, such as Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler.
Public use of pot remains one of the unresolved features of recreational marijuana legalization in Oregon. People do smoke pot in public, including on streets and in parks. But that’s a violation of state law, a Class B misdemeanor, punishable by a fine of up to $3,500 and six months in jail. [Read more at The Register-Guard]

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Sharp has good average ratings for its large TVs as well as across its entire television range compared to other manufacturers.
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Two Audio in Ports
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Full HD TVs have a resolution of 1920 x 1080 pixels.
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9 April 2014 – Unterföhring, Germany: Sky will remain the home of the most prestigious tennis tournament in the world. Sky and The All England Lawn Tennis Club, Wimbledon, have agreed to extend their coverage of The Championships until and including the year 2018.
This means that Sky will continue covering the Grand Slam tournament live and exclusively over the next five years.
In addition to the TV broadcasting rights, the new agreement – which was brokered on behalf of Sky by IMG Media – also includes the exclusive internet, IPTV and mobile rights.
As a further benefit for tennis fans in Germany, in the event of a German player reaching a singles final, coverage of the final will be available on channels of maximum audience reach.
Sky Sports boss Burkhard Weber: “With its unique mix of tradition and world class athleticism, Wimbledon is one of the highlights of every sports year. The continuation of our successful partnership over the next five years is proof of our editorial success and a major component of Sky’s strategy to offer customers exclusive programming. “
Mick Desmond, Commercial Director of The All England Lawn Tennis Club, said: “We are delighted to be extending our broadcast partnership with Sky. Germany and Austria continue to be an important market for us and we look forward to working with Sky again to bring viewers the best and most immersive viewing experience of The Championships.”
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Cunningham confirmed the deep gas well Kowhai-A1 in licence PEP 38742 was nearing its target depth but declined to comment further.
SENZ last month started its first onshore Taranaki deep gas well in conjunction with partner Ballance Agri-Nutrients, owner of New Zealand’s sole ammonia urea plant at Kapuni in Taranaki. Kowhai-A1 is targeting Eocene-aged gas in formations down about 4000m.
Cunningham also declined to comment on continued testing of some zones in the onshore Taranaki Goss-A1 and Trapper-A1 wells.
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BORN: 1899, Dublin, Ireland
DIED: 1973, London, England
NATIONALITY: British, Irish
The House in Paris (1935)
Death of the Heart (1938)
The Demon Lover, and Other Stories (1945)
Elizabeth Bowen was an Anglo-Irish author whose fiction typically attends carefully to realistic details of both character and place. In her best stories as well as in her novels, Bowen unobtrusively steers readers through the geography of motives and interactions on which human identity and human character depend.
Works in Biographical and Historical Context
Anglo-Irish Heritage Elizabeth Bowen was born in Dublin, Ireland, on June 7, 1899 to Henry Charles Cole Bowen and Florence Colley. Her family can be traced to Welsh, not English, ancestors, but critics and biographers have considered her heritage, as did Bowen herself, “classic Anglo-Irish.”
Illnesses Split Family Apart During her first five or six years of life, most of each year was spent in Dublin, where her father was first a lawyer in private practice, then an official of the Land Commission; during the summer the family moved to Bowen's Court, in County Cork, Ireland, which had been the Bowen family seat for years.
By the time she was seven, however, her father was hospitalized for mental illness, and she and her mother moved to England to stay with relatives while he recovered. In 1912, as the family began preparations to reunite, Bowen's mother was diagnosed with cancer; her death soon afterward left Elizabeth in the care of what she called “a committee of aunts” from her mother's large family. She was educated at Downe House, a boarding school in Kent, England, and at the London Council School of Art, which she left after two terms in 1919. Thus, her young years were somewhat sheltered from the turmoil that had engulfed Europe during World War I (1914–1919).
Short Stories, Marriage, and Increased Productivity It was when she was living on her own in London that Bowen began to write seriously. Her first short story collection, Encounters, appeared in 1923, the same year she married Alan Charles Cameron. Their move in 1926 to Oxford opened Bowen to a stimulating literary circle that included the critics C. M. Bowra and Lord David Cecil, and writers Evelyn Waugh, Edith Sitwell, Walter de la Mare, and Aldous Huxley. By 1929, she had published two more volumes of short stories and two novels, establishing a rate of production she would maintain much of her life.
Influential Associations Bowen published three other novels by 1935—Friends and Relations (1931), To the North (1932), and The House in Paris (1935)—and in 1935 Cameron and Bowen moved to London. This move, like the move to Oxford, enhanced Bowen's career. She began to associate with Virginia Woolf and the Blooms-bury literary circle in London, wrote reviews for the Tatler magazine in addition to her regular writing of fiction.
In 1937 Bowen was elected to the Irish Academy of Letters. The Death of the Heart, her sixth novel, was published in 1938. To many Bowen critics it represents the pinnacle of her achievements as a writer of fiction. Its narrative mode incorporates an expertly handled multiplicity of viewpoints that evoke a multiplicity of responses to a single event or situation.
Influence of the War Years World War II dominated much of Bowen's life in London and the writing she produced during this period. Her experiences living and working as an air-raid warden in London during World War II inspired what many critics consider her finest short story collection, The Demon Lover, and Other Stories (1945). In these stories she introduced a hallucinatory tone and supernatural themes in order to convey war's effect on the human mind.
Career Advances Despite Personal Loss In 1948, Bowen was made a Commander of the British Empire and, in 1949, she was awarded an honorary Doctor of Letters by Trinity College, Dublin. During the same year The Heat of the Day was published to glowing reviews. Before this novel was published, Bowen had produced two new collections of short stories, a selection of previously published short stories, a radio play, a critical study of the novel, two volumes of memoirs and family history, and a play (coauthored with John Perry and produced in 1948, although never published). She also continued to write the reviews and critical articles that appeared regularly in various periodicals. The Camerons moved from London to Bowen's Court in Ireland in 1952, which she had inherited in 1930. That same year Alan Cameron died. In 1957, Bowen was awarded a Doctor of Letters by Oxford University. Following her husband's death Bowen remained at the family home until 1959, when she decided to sell Bowen's Court and return to England.
In 1964, The Little Girls, a novel set in Kent, England, where she had lived with her mother during her father's illness, was published. Her last novel was Eva Trout (1969), for which she received the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 1970. During the last four years of her life Bowen was in declining health, suffering from repeated bouts of respiratory illness. In 1972, she learned that she had lung cancer, from which she died on February 22, 1973.
LITERARY AND HISTORICAL CONTEMPORARIES
Bowen's famous contemporaries include:
Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon (1900–2000): Queen Consort of King George VI of the United Kingdom, known as the Queen Mother after her husband's death; during the Blitz, Germany's bombing of London in World War II, she famously refused to leave London, winning the hearts of the British.
Robert Graves (1895–1985): British novelist and poet; well known for his memoir of World War I, Goodbye to All That (1929), as well as for his historical novel I, Claudius (1934), about the Roman emperor.
P. G. Wodehouse (1881–1975): English writer, many of whose short stories and novels center on a hapless aristocrat and his unflappable butler; he also wrote plays and lyrics for musicals, including Anything Goes (1934).
Virginia Woolf (1882–1941): English modernist novelist and writer, part of the influential Bloomsbury literary group; her essay A Room of One's Own (1929) argued that women must have private space in order to be able to create.
Works in Literary Context
Elizabeth Bowen's works are often compared with Katherine Mansfield's because of her extreme sensitivity
to perceptions of light, atmosphere, color, and sound. Like Mansfield, Bowen is considered expert at presenting the emotional dynamics of a situation and then swiftly illuminating their significance, particularly within the prescribed bounds of the short story. Her work also has been compared to that of Virginia Woolf, E. M. Forster, Henry James, and Jane Austen. Her work is also heavily influenced by her experiences in war-time London.
The Ghosts of War In his introduction to The Collected Stories of Elizabeth Bowen Angus Wilson notes that Bowen's stories may be some of the best records any future generation will have of London during the war and of the psychological violence and tenderness that the war evoked. Through the stories in The Demon Lover, and Other Stories readers may also gain an appreciation for Bowen's ghosts—spirits that are rarely malign but that seem to elucidate the “real” world. In “The Happy Autumn Fields” Mary prefers to dwell in a past peopled by ghosts inspired by letters that are more real than her own bombed house. London exists as its own moonlit ghost in “Mysterious Kor,” a story that superbly displays Bowen's painting with words and also shows the threads of feeling that may become entangled in times of war. And the title story, “The Demon Lover,” introduces the ghost or “demon” born of one woman's fickle nature.
Works in Critical Context
While acclaimed in her lifetime for both her short stories and novels, since her death Elizabeth Bowen has slipped from critical attention. Some critics suggest that her romanticism, wit, and sensitivity to both language and feeling have gone out of style; others assert that her writing is flawed by a too-simple style and narrow range of characters. Nonetheless, Bowen is revered by many for the radiance of style and subtlety of expression shown perhaps most assuredly in her short stories.
Angus Wilson notes that her stories may be some of the best records any future generation will have of London during World War II and of the psychological violence and tenderness that the war evoked. Some critics find that the short story seems an even more appropriate form than the novel for Bowen's psychological portraits and powerful sense of the period.
Bowen was “a highly conscious artist,” Walter Allen wrote in The Modern Novel (1954), who “evolved over the years a prose style that has the elaboration, the richness of texture, the allusiveness of poetry, a prose as carefully wrought, as subtle in its implications, as that of Henry James in his last phase.” A Publishers Weekly reviewer summarized her reputation by noting that “critics generally consider The Death of the Heart her best novel; some call it one of the best English novels of the century.”
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- Elizabeth Bowen was a prolific writer, often publishing a novel each year. Do you think this meant that she had more imagination than less-published authors, or was she simply more disciplined?
- After reading one of Bowen's novels, discuss what aspects of the novel's style or structure might seem to modern critics to be out of fashion. Did you find the novel old-fashioned? Point out specific passages to support your argument.
- Using your library and the Internet, research the Anglo-Irish during the early part of the twentieth century. Write an essay analyzing how their life in Ireland changed with the growing movement toward Irish independence. Do you feel sympathetic toward them? Explain your feelings.
- Bowen's life and work were heavily influenced by her experience of World War II in England. To find out more about the Battle of Britain (as the German attacks on Britain were called), read Stephen Bungay's The Most Dangerous Enemy: A History of the Battle of Britain (2001).
COMMON HUMAN EXPERIENCE
Some of Elizabeth Bowen's best-regarded works deal with the psychological effects of World War II. Here are some other works examining the human impact of war.
War Poems (1919), a poetry collection by Sigfried Sas-soon. The poems in this book echo Sassoon's own experience fighting in World War I and established him as an important British poet.
War Trash (2005), a novel by Ha Jin. This work examines the situation of a Chinese soldier during the Korean War, who is sent by his government to fight for the Communist side, but is captured by the enemy instead.
The Wind That Shakes the Barley (2006), a film directed by Ken Loach. This critically acclaimed movie traces the political development of an Irish student during the early days of the Irish Republican Army, which violently opposed British rule.
Half of a Yellow Sun, (2006), a novel by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. This story takes place in Nigeria in the 1960s, when a civil war was raging and traces its effects through the lives of a teenage boy and two sisters.
Allen, Walter. The Modern Novel. New York: Dutton, 1965.
Dunleavy, Janet Egleson. “Mary Lavin, Elizabeth Bowen, and a New Generation: The Irish Short
Story at Midcentury.” In The Irish Short Story: A Critical History. Boston: Twayne, 1984.
Glendinning, Victoria. Elizabeth Bowen. New York: Knopf, 1977.
Lee, Hermione. Elizabeth Bowen: An Estimation. London: Vision, 1981.
O'Faoláin, Seán. “Elizabeth Bowen: Romance Does Not Pay.” In The Vanishing Hero: Studies in Novelists of the Twenties. London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1956.
Prescott, Orville. In My Opinion. Indianapolis, IN.: Bobbs-Merrill, 1952.
Chessman, Harriet. “Women and Language in the Fiction of Elizabeth Bowen.” Twentieth Century Literature 29 (Spring 1983): 69–85.
Sullivan, Walter. “A Sense of Place: Elizabeth Bowen and the Landscape of the Heart.” Sewanee Review 84 (Winter 1976): 142–149.
The British writer Elizabeth Bowen (1899-1973) dealt with the strivings of the individual will to fulfill itself in an alien and hostile world. She is considered a major British novelist of the 20th century.
Born in Dublin on June 7, 1899, Elizabeth Bowen lived in Ireland until the age of seven, when her family moved to England. Her education completed, she returned to Dublin in 1916 to work in a hospital for World War I veterans. Two years later she moved back to England and enrolled in the London County Council School of Art. In 1923 she married Alan Charles Cameron and published her first collection of short stories.
In 1925 Bowen and her husband moved to Oxford, where she became friends with many literary intellectuals, among them Isaiah Berlin and Lord David Cecil. There she wrote her first four novels: The Hotel (1927), The Last September (1929), Friends and Relations (1931), and To the North (1932). The first two concern the dawning of romantic love in the young, innocent heroines, who eventually become aware of its futility, while the last two concern the destructiveness of illicit love.
In 1935 Bowen and her husband returned to London, where her friends included Cyril Connolly, Virginia Woolf, and many of the Bloomsbury group. In that same year she published her fifth novel, The House in Paris. Again the theme is the destructiveness of romantic excess. It depicts an affair which results in pregnancy, the suicide of the lover, and the heroine's rejection of her child, though in the end she begins to reconcile herself to the reality of her situation. In 1938 Bowen published her best-known and perhaps finest novel, The Death of the Heart, about an idealistic young girl whose demands for honesty and openness are met with hostility by her family.
During World War II Bowen worked as an air raid warden and wrote for the Ministry of Information. In her seventh novel, The Heat of the Day (1949), the society which in earlier novels was seen as inimical to romantic illusions has disappeared entirely in the chaos of war, and the protagonists float in a sea of their own confusion. After the death of her husband in 1952, Bowen returned to Ireland. Except for numerous trips to the United States as a lecturer, she remained there and continued to write, publishing A World of Love in 1955. The story concerns three women who become aware that their romantic fantasies about a man dead for many years have kept them from living in the present.
In 1960 she returned to Oxford. She published The Little Girls in 1964 and Eva Trout, or Changing Scenes in 1968. The latter concerns a heroine whose romantic passion blinds her to the reality of other people, causing them pain and bringing about her questionably accidental death at the hands of her illegitimate son. In addition to her 10 novels, Bowen published several collections of short stories, numerous reviews, and many other critical pieces. She died in 1973.
For the facts of Bowen's life, some sources are her own Bowen's Court (1942; 2d ed. 1964), about the Bowen family, and Seven Winters (1942), covering her childhood; and her chapter in John Lehmann, ed., Coming to London (1957), which gives her view of literary life in London in the early 1920s. For a detailed study of her novels, Andrew Bennett and Nicholas Royle, Elizabeth Bowen and the Dissolution of the Novel: Still Lives, St. Martin's Press, 1995; or Renee C. Hoogland, Elizabeth Bowen: A Reputation in Writing New York University Press, 1994, are useful. For information on her short stories, read Phyllis Lassner, Elizabeth Bowen: A Study of Short Fiction, Macmillan Publishing, 1991. □

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