For mountains and people
Mountain people already live in a fragile landscape. Their marginalization makes them even more sensitive to environmental degradation.
For mountains and people
Practices in farming and grazing that enabled people to thrive in the past may not continue to be effective as ecosystems degrade, population dynamics shift and a rapidly changing world puts pressure on communities.
Supporting mountain people in adapting to rapid and unpredictable change is an important area of work for ICIMOD. Researching and piloting programs on high value products, innovative livelihood options and rural income generation strategies lie at the heart of
efforts to help the people of the Hindu Kush Himalayas cope with the effects of socioeconomic and environmental change. Reducing poverty and improving the environment must be linked together if the livelihoods of mountain people are to be sustainable for the future.
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The Hindu Kush Himalayas are a hot spot of climate change. There is already evidence of major changes affecting mountain areas, with potentially devastating consequences for hundreds of millions of people in the mountains and downstream. Adaptation means reacting effectively to the impacts that are already being experienced, anticipating future impacts, and adjusting to them to reduce the harm for ecosystems and the people who rely on them.
Adaptation requires the sustainable use of land, water, energy and other resources, which means that it needs to be promoted in multi-pronged ways, from local practices to the policy level to global engagement. Vulnerability to socioeconomic and environmental change is highly contingent upon the social context, including social and power relations, class, gender, and ethnicity, so adaptation strategies must also reflect a nuanced understanding of these dynamics.
ICIMOD enhances resilience and supports the adaptation of vulnerable communities and ecosystems through initiatives that include livelihood diversification, promotion of adaptive strategies, disaster risk reduction, institutional strengthening, policy dialogue and participatory policy making, enhancement of regional cooperation, and mainstreaming climate adaptation as a component of development policy and practice.
What is an ecosystem worth? In one sense, the value can’t be calculated. But from tourism to agriculture to water, ecosystems provide crucial resources and services that underpin the economic life of the Hindu Kush Himalayas. Nearly 50 percent of the world’s biodiversity hotspots and 32 percent of global protected areas lie in these mountains, and they provide economic benefits at the local, national, regional and international level. But how, exactly, is this measured? How do we determine the economic value of natural resources, habitat and biodiversity?
As population growth, climate change and globalization put pressure on mountain ecosystems, we need to understand what’s at stake for the region’s economic health when ecosystems degrade, and we need to find ways to incorporate this understanding into the national policy and planning process. That’s what ICIMOD is doing by developing and testing frameworks and methodologies on economic valuation of mountain ecosystems and working to integrate the knowledge gained into policy decisions.
Mountain people endure the highest levels of food and nutrition insecurity in the region. Not only is it challenging to farm in the mountains, but farmers depend heavily on a few highly selective crops, agro-biodiversity is declining, and climate change is contributing to the depletion of natural resources. Those factors combine with socioeconomic pressures to make mountain people particularly vulnerable to poverty and food insecurity.
There are many plant species grown in the region with significant food and nutritional or industrial potential, such as millet, sorghum, buckwheat, sea-buckthorn, and wild fruits. But they remain under-utilized, without a clear strategy for their evaluation and development. With institutional support to intensify production and diversify farming systems, the region has considerable potential for agricultural production, from agro-forestry to fruit, vegetable and nut farming to the raising of fish, poultry and livestock.
A green economy creates growth while also improving the environment and people’s lives. It’s a key part of sustainable development, and can be pictured as being built with three pillars: social, economic and environmental. In a general sense, a green economy means an economy that is low carbon, resource efficient and socially inclusive. Public and private investments drive income growth and employment in ways that reduce carbon emissions and pollution, enhance energy and resource efficiency, and prevent the loss of biodiversity and ecosystem services. Conservation of ecosystems and provision of sustainable clean energy are at the heart of the agenda for a green economy.
ICIMOD is working to develop a well-informed and action-oriented green economy strategy for sustainable mountain development. Through research and policy support, we work on ways to harness elements of a green economy to improve the economy, society and environment of the mountain region.
The International Conference on Green Economy and Sustainable Mountain Development is a collaborative initiative to bring together international, regional, and national experts and policy makers to discuss the relevance and scope of the green economy in the context of sustainable mountain development. It will seek strategies, approaches, and options for enhancing the role and prominence of mountain systems in regional and international debates and discussions.
The diversity of climates, growing conditions and ecosystems in the mountains give them a comparative advantage for high-value niche products and service. One area may have an untapped wealth of medicinal plants; another may have potential for indigenous beekeeping and honey productions; others may be potential sources of soaps and lotions, bamboo or nettle. Even ruggedness and remoteness can be an economic advantage when an area can attract tourism. A range of activities, products and services have excellent potential to provide sustainable livelihood options for mountain people.
To enable this to happen, ICIMOD promotes a pro-poor value chain development approach to enhance income for mountain households. This means expanding access to information, financial services and micro-finance and strengthening farmers’ groups, cooperatives and agri-businesses. It involves value chain analyses of products and services and the identification of niche products. It’s about finding out what products mountain people can produce and sell, enabling them to find the finances to do it, and determining how to link these products to the market.
This video features the learning experiences of schools and school children that volunteered to pilot an initiative on 'Promoting Herbal Gardens in Schools' in Nepal, launched in observance of the International Year of Biodiversity 2010.
Farming alone can’t meet the needs of a growing population. Faced with environmental stress and limited economic opportunities, rural youth are finding it increasingly hard to make a living in the mountains, and choose to migrate to urban areas and abroad, leaving the women and old people behind.
Non-farm livelihood options are pivotal to the sustainable future of mountain people and communities. A wide range of alternative income sources needs to be explored, understood and promoted, including rural enterprise development, collection of medicinal plants and other herbs, tourism, wage labor and remittance work. From micro-finance for livelihood promotion to market linkages for mountain products to information community technology (ICT) for rural development, ICIMOD works to expand the opportunities for earning a viable livelihood in the mountains.
ICIMOD has been promoting kiwi farming among mountain farmers in the Hindu Kush Himalayan region by providing information about the fruit. It has also supplied the farmers with grafted saplings and helped build their capacity. Many farmers have benefited from these services and have taken up kiwi farming seriously.
What are the conditions that create a vibrant rural economy, and how can policies work to encourage this? What policies are likely to attract investment, generate employment, reduce risks and vulnerabilities and build capacities in mountain areas?
Mountains have comparative advantages in resources such as water, energy, biological resources, ecosystem services and local knowledge. But to develop these resources in ways that benefit mountain people, it’s important to craft sound policies that encourage inclusive, appropriate development.
ICIMOD is working to support national, regional and local policy-making in a variety of sectors. It’s devising ways to facilitate the adaptation of mountain communities to climate and socioeconomic change by promoting sustainable incomes and gainful employment, addressing the food, water and energy nexus, upscaling innovations into actionable programmes, and determining ways for policies to impact those goals.
Careful analysis and evaluation of existing policies and relevant options helps to identify policy gaps and provides the information that help policymakers make decisions. Ultimately, it enables mountain communities to harness their comparative advantages for a sustainable future.
Realising the Future We All Want: Why is Sustainable Mountain Development Critical for National Development Agendas?
Poverty in the Hindu Kush Himalayas can be traced in part to factors specific to mountain regions, which lead to higher and more persistent levels of poverty and vulnerability than in non-mountain areas. Poverty and vulnerability are closely related and mutually reinforcing. Vulnerability, which can be thought of in terms of aspects such as exposure, sensitivity and adaptive capacity, may influence household behavior and coping strategies, making it an important consideration for poverty reduction policies.
But one-dimensional income poverty measures have had limited success. It has become clear that we need to address mountain poverty and vulnerability in a holistic, multi-dimensional way. ICIMOD employs a range of tools to capture this nuanced picture, from conducting household surveys across five member countries to preparing datasets for a regional database to pioneering a Poverty and Vulnerability Assessment survey tool to identify pockets and location-specific drivers of poverty and vulnerability. Access to richer and more precise information means that practitioners can target and design development interventions to have a greater and more lasting impact.
The Conference aims to compile updated knowledge on the contours of poverty and enablers of a sustainable development approach for the HKH and thereby, provide inputs specific to the mountain context that can contribute to the formulation of the Post-2015 Development Agenda. The Conference also proposes to set the tone for forging and strengthening regional partnerships for sustainable mountain development.
The private sector is a fundamental partner in sustainable mountain development. Businesses lead economic growth, create jobs, provide reliable incomes and improve livelihood opportunities. The innovation and vision of the private sector will help point the way to a stable and equitable future for mountain people.
As users of mountain resources, the private sector plays a critical role in ensuring that economic growth has a future by engaging in practices that are green, sustainable and protect the region’s invaluable natural resources and biodiversity. ICIMOD works to increase understanding of the long-term economic payoffs of socially and environmentally responsible business practices and to open the doors for win-win collaborations with the private sector that benefit mountain communities, including mobilizing investments to pilot new and innovative approaches for mountain livelihoods.
A rural enterprise can be any economic unit engaged in producing and distributing goods and services, from individual households to larger operations, and they play a vital role in poverty reduction and economic development. But there are many things that businesses need to do to flourish in today’s complex, competitive world.
For instance, the interest in natural, handmade, fair-trade and green products opens up ways for rural enterprises to thrive – but they need access to urban and global markets. ICIMOD works to promote the products of rural enterprises, identify potential microenterprise opportunities, and build capacity in key skills such as business development, market orientation and leadership.
Rural entrepreneurs are linked with larger players in the private sector. Pathways are found for improving the flow of goods and services between rural and urban areas. Local resources and traditional knowledge are harnessed to improve lives, livelihoods and environmental sustainability in mountain regions.
By helping rural people to combine local knowledge, resources and creativity with broader skills and wider networks, ICIMOD helps to improve employment opportunities and adaptation strategies for mountain people across the Hindu Kush Himalayas.
Mountain households typically rely on traditional biomass such as wood for cooking and heating. That takes a heavy toll on the environment, human health and time, particularly for the women and children who must collect it, while the lack of access to affordable, clean and sustainable energy impedes development and entrenches poverty.
Caught between poverty and environmental degradation, mountain communities find it difficult to meet daily energy service needs sustainably. The cost of providing electricity is high in the numerous poor, off-the-grid communities scattered across the Hindu Kush Himalayas. Conventional approaches to rural electrification through a centralized power plant and power line distribution have been unable to reach these areas, which are often remote, rugged and dispersed.
ICIMOD aims to find sustainable energy solutions by addressing three broad criteria of sustainability: availability, affordability, and acceptability. It is currently working for a greener future through programs that include impact documentation of best practices, impact assessment, analysis of renewable energy policy and mainstreaming, and promoting decentralized renewable energy for rural mountain areas so that clean, sustainable energy can become available for every household.
While most of the people of the Hindu Kush Himalayas rely on subsistence agriculture and natural resources for their livelihoods, traditional agriculture alone can’t meet all their needs. On the one hand, high mountains are regions of great diversity – biological, climate, topographic and cultural – which gives them a comparative advantage for niche products and services. But they’re also remote, with poor transportation and little development of the methods used to collect, process and market products. Those challenges keep mountain people, particularly women and other marginalized groups, from benefitting from their potential resources.
ICIMOD works to increase options and adapt mountain livelihoods to climate and socioeconomic change in a number of ways, including developing and piloting innovative ideas and supporting the upscaling of good practices. Efforts also aim to develop and promote pro-poor and gender-responsive options and strategies for livelihood diversification; develop ways to unleash the potential of local products and services; and build the capacity of stakeholders to adopt, adapt and upscale.


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By James Lee Burke
This boxed set comprises the 3 newest novels that includes fan favourite Detective Dave Robicheaux, The Tin Roof Blowdown, Swan Peak, and The Glass Rainbow, plus an excerpt from the following Robicheaux novel, Creole Belle (publishing July 2012). Robicheaux’s author, New York Times bestselling writer James Lee Burke, is an extraordinary winner of 2 Edgar Awards and in 2009 was once named a Grand grasp through the secret Writers of America.
The Tin Roof Blowdown
In the waning days of summer time, 2005, a hurricane of unfathomable strength peels the face off southern Louisiana. this can be the ugly fact Iberia Parish Sheriff's Detective Dave Robicheaux discovers as he's deployed to New Orleans: storm Katrina has left the industrial district and home neighborhoods awash with our bodies, in addition to looters and predators of each stripe. the facility grid destroyed, New Orleans is decreased to the extent of a medieval society. there isn't any legislations, no order, no sanctuary for the infirm, the helpless, and the blameless. in the course of an apocalyptic nightmare, Robicheaux needs to locate serial rapists, a morphine-addicted priest, and a vigilante who should be extra risky than the criminals looting the city.
Swan Peak unearths Detective Robicheaux faraway from his New Iberia roots, fleeing together with his spouse and his outdated blood brother Clete Purcel from the tough, gritty panorama of post-Katrina Louisiana to a ranch in rural Montana. The serenity of the untouched desolate tract is quickly shattered whilst students are brutally murdered within the hills at the back of the ranch, and Clete and Dave are fast ensnared in a deadly secret with a twisted forged of characters together with a vicious oil multi-millionaire, a sexually deviant minister, an escaped con and previous state tune megastar, and a vigilante Texas gunbull out for blood. all of the whereas, Clete can’t shake the sensation that he’s being haunted by way of a ghost from his previous: Sally Dio, the mob boss he sabotaged and killed years ago.
The Glass Rainbow
Detective Dave Robicheaux and his companion, Clete Purcel, are at the path of a killer accountable for the deaths of 7 younger women—a path that often turns out to steer again to the infamous pimp Herman Stanga, whom they either despise. however the case takes a foul flip whilst Stanga turns up lifeless after a fierce beating through Purcel in entrance of various witnesses. including to Robicheaux’s problems is his daughter Alafair’s romantic involvement with the scion of a once-prominent Louisiana kinfolk whom Robicheaux suspects is taken with a few very shady enterprise. to guard his daughter and transparent his top friend’s identify, Robicheaux will desire each ounce of guts, wit, and investigative chops he can muster.
Creole Belle (excerpt)
Creole Belle starts off with Dave Robicheaux in a restoration unit in New Orleans, no longer rather certain what's actual and what could be the results of the painkillers he’s been taking. whereas there, he gets a evening stopover at from a Creole woman named Tee Jolie Melton, who leaves him an iPod with the rustic blues tune “Creole Belle” on it. Then she disappears. enthusiastic about the track and the reminiscence of Tee Jolie, Dave is going looking for her sister, Blue, who later turns up within a block of ice floating within the Gulf. in the meantime, an oil good blowout at the Gulf threatens the adored environs of the bayous. within the face of public indifference to either the blowout and Blue Melton’s homicide, Dave and Clete needs to locate their very own method to carry these dependable to justice.
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Still, I have never climbed Tenth Street in the dark again. I like the last two sentences of this best of any in here. They seem to me to be most what I was trying to say.
I already had on my white Castelli shorts, and had fixed the remote so it would talk to the television again, and had a bottle ready to go when I decided there had to be at least an hour of sunlight left.
I stripped the shorts off — they’re basement-appropriate only—and pulled on some old Nalini tights I was happy to find out still fit. I put on my brightest jacket, and on my way out to my bike shop grabbed a blinkie to supplement the one I leave on my seatpost this time of year, which had gone a little feeble last time I’d gotten caught out after dusk.
By the time got to the end of my driveway, I knew I’d estimated all wrong. The light on this Christmas Day was already failing. I dropped down my hill and turned right, then in a few more turns was in the Triangle, the center of Emmaus. The lights on the big tree were lit, more glowing than shining. The BMX kids were on the corner, ruining the curb with their pegs as surely as water carves canyons. I gave them a nod and they, I like to imagine, recognizing the apartness which was our only significant similarity, shot some fingerpoints and tipped-up chins at me. There was no traffic. I could hear my tires on the road.
At Second Street I turned right, to go back up the hill I’d just descended three blocks to the west, and it was only then that I knew I’d knock out a loop of 2-5-10, the ride that crosses South Mountain on Second, Fifth and Tenth streets. It’s a 10-mile loop that takes about 50 minutes at a patient pace. I’d never be more than a few miles from home, and could cut the ride short anytime I wanted.
In the first turn on Second, I stood up, and bobbed and climbed, and scooped at the pedals on my downstroke. After awhile, I looked over my shoulder and the sunset at the farthest mountain was pink and red and purple and yellow. It hurt something in me to see. It was that kind of beautiful. I ticked my feet and took the bar right and left in an opposition that seemed, anyway, not a resistance but a yielding. The physicists would tell me I’m wrong, the philosophers maybe not. There was no sunset when I looked back again.
There was no traffic, either. But I clicked both blinkies on, and dropped down the twisting backside of Second Street. All year I’d been hoping to see the albino stag that had begun haunting this side of the mountain. Now I figured, as these things go, it would run out onto the road in the dark and kill me into a local legend.
I lived. I climbed Fifth Street. For a few years of my life, no one had been faster up this hill than me. I was in the twenty-five today. My blinkies pulsed. So did my legs. There was a sputter in my blinkies, then in my legs. At the hard, steep half-switchback I took the wide line. I could still see the road markings, make out the branches of the trees beside the road. The failing blinkie died as I crested. I shifted to the big ring and gave the descent a few pedal strokes before tucking and leveling my feet, and in darkness I dropped with no need for brakes.
At the base of the hill on Broad Street there were streetlights again, and also traffic, and stop signs. I felt like I’d come a long way, ridden from some wild region back into civilization. The bar down there was open for Christmas Day, and in the lit windows I could see people who had another kind of apartness that, still, was maybe not so different from mine. I pedaled toward Tenth Street. I’d never ridden it at night, I realized. It was the toughest climb of the three, the steepest, and it would be the darkest. When I got there, I was going to reach back and click off my remaining blinkie. I wanted to be barely there. I wanted to be as much a part of the night as of the road.
Originally published in The Selection, December 27, 2011


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According to Jason Cole of Bleacher Report, the Philadelphia Eagles have given veteran guard Allen Barbre permission to seek a trade.
Barbre is 32 years old and has spent the last four seasons with the Eagles primarily as a left guard. Prior to that, he spent time with the Packers and Seahawks. He was drafted in the fourth round of the 2007 NFL Draft.
Of course, we ask this question because the Vikings recently released guards Mike Harris and Brandon Fusco and the offensive line was the weak point for the team in 2016.
Barbre has just one-year left on his deal for a cheap $1.75 million.
But would he actually be an upgrade for the Vikings?
According to Pro Football Focus, Barbre was the 23rd-ranked guard in 2016, 11 slots above Alex Boone who played left guard for the Vikings last season.
Sliding Boone or Barbre to right guard would seem to solidify that spot, at least more so than last season.
Of course, Barbre isn’t a free agent and the Vikings would have to give up something to get him, most likely a draft pick. And for a team already without its first-round pick, I wouldn’t think Rick Spielman would be too eager to trade another one.
Barbre is an unlikely option, but an option nonetheless.

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While power, cooling and cost control remain top concerns in the data center, new questions including Green IT, energy efficiency, PUE, utility negotiations and return on investment are highlighting the need for a new, business orientation to Data Center management. To truly drive complete Data Center performance with maximized availability and energy efficiency, a Data Center Management team requires integrated insight and control of the various electrical power, cooling, security, and physical IT infrastructure systems that compliment the traditional Enterprise management and network management systems.
StruxureWare for Data Centers is a mission-critical management software suite designed to address all aspects of the data center physical infrastructure needed to maximize productivity, availability and efficiency. StruxureWare for Data Centers combines Schneider Electric’s market leading Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) and Data Center Facility Management (DCFM) software tools to provide data gathering, monitoring and automation, as well as planning and implementation functionality enabling an integrated and multifaceted view of all the mission-critical physical systems of the data center.
Organizations struggling with the complexities of availability, server consolidation, virtualization and energy management are increasingly looking for more intelligent physical infrastructure management systems. Schneider Electric brings customers proactive data center management through integrated software applications enabling design, real-time monitoring, inventory management and planning through predictive simulation. StruxureWare for Data Centers’ end-to-end management approach allows data centers to run more smoothly on a daily basis, and its built-in business tools for short and long-term planning and budgeting help keep capital and operational costs and energy use in line.


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Listen to Dr. Rohima Miah's testimony as a practicing psychiatrist on the benefits of Improved and Expanded Medicare for All and how it will help address the inequities in our current system.
Why do we need Expanded and Improved Medicare for All now?
The US health care system is the most expensive in the world and is failing its patients and our country.
Despite the cost, the US has some of the worst health outcomes (life expectancy, infant and maternal mortality) of any industrialized nation in the world. - Currently, eligibility for insurance coverage will be taken away if one is unable to pay premiums due to illness, disability or unemployment.
Even under the Affordable Care Act, nearly 30 million are uninsured and 44 million are underinsured, meaning that while they have health insurance, their high deductibles and other out-of-pocket costs impede their getting the care they need.
Core pillars of the NC Medicare for All Coalition
We recognize that Expanded and Improved Medicare for All is needed to achieve equitable health care access for all residents of the US.
We will support strategic and coordinated actions across organizations within our state to achieve this policy change at the federal level.
We recognize that Expanded and Improved Medicare for All is a critical step towards achieving equity and justice throughout all areas of our society, addressing the long standing discriminatory systems that create less access for African American, Latinx and other communities of color, LGBTQ peoples, and those with low income.
How do I join?
Send an email to [email protected] to be added to the email list and receive information about our next meeting.
Visit www.ncm4a.org/form and fill out a brief survey to join a working group. We hope you'll join us in our campaign to achieve universal health care for all!

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A Swedish Instagram Celeb Does Yoga With A Goat, Obviously
Rachel Brathem, if you’re unfamiliar, is a Swedish yoga celebrity who has successfully published a book and has a devoted instagram following of over 1.8 million. Naturally, she’s upped her game by acquiring a pet goat that appears in yoga-grams with her.
She adopted her tiny goat Penny Lane this past Christmas with her husband, and ever since Penny and Brathem have become inseparable yoga partners, creating videos and instagrams that have only confirmed my deep fears that death has overtaken my soul, because I cringe in UGH at the triple threat of a white Swedish woman living in Aruba (Venezuela), who makes a living off teaching yoga and posts viral cute videos with A GOAT. Can people do cute things that don’t annoy me? Probably not — but that’s a personal battle to fight.
She even borrowed a cute baby for this one?! This is so morally and emotionally confusing for me.
Meanwhile, in the @yoga_girl household… 😳🐐😇❤ @penny_thegoat #pennythegoat #crowpose #babygoat #yoga #yogaeverydamnday A video posted by Rachel Brathen (@yoga_girl) on
Penny Lane has better balance than most of us can ever hope to emotionally achieve.
Here, Penny’s likely moderating all the instagram comments, lapping up all that sweet web fame.


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An Unsinkable Titanic/Chapter 7
HOW THE GREAT SHIP WENT DOWN
The Titanic, fresh from the builder's hands, sailed from Southampton, Wednesday, April 10, 1912. She reached Cherbourg on the afternoon of the same day, and Queenstown, Ireland, at noon on Thursday. After embarking the mails and passengers, she left for New York, having on board 1,324 passengers and a ship's complement of officers and crew of 899 persons. The passenger list showed that there were 329 first-class, 285 second-class, and 710 third-class passengers.The weather throughout the voyage was clear and the sea calm. At noon on the third day out, a wireless message was received from the Baltic, dated Sunday, April 14, which read: "Greek steamship Athinai reports passing icebergs and large quantity of field ice to-day in latitude 41.51 north, longitude 49.52 west." At about 7 P.M. a second warning was received by the Titanic, this time from the Californian, which reported ice about 19 miles to the northward of
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The Last Photograph ot the Titanic, Taken as She Was Leaving Southampton on Her Maiden Voyage
the track on which the Titanic was steaming. The message read: "Latitude 42.3 north, longitude 49.9 west. Three large bergs five miles to southward of us." Later there was a third message: "Amerika passed two large icebergs in 41.27 north, 50.8 west on the 14th of April." A fourth message, sent by the Californian, reached the ship about an hour before the accident occurred, or about 10.40 o'clock, which said: "We are stopped and surrounded by ice."
These wireless warnings prove that the captain of the Titanic knew there was ice to the north, to the south, and immediately ahead of the southerly steamship route on which he was steaming. The evidence shows that Captain Smith remarked to the officer doing duty on the bridge, "If it is in a slight degree hazy we shall have to go very slowly." The officer of the watch instructed the lookouts to "keep a sharp lookout for ice." The night was starlit and the weather exceptionally clear.
After leaving Queenstown the speed of the Titanic had been gradually increased. The run for the first day was 464 miles, for the second 519 miles, and for the third day, ending at noon Sunday, it was 546 miles. Testimony given before the Court of Inquiry under Lord Mersey, showed that the Chief Engineer had arranged to drive the vessel at full speed for a few hours either on Monday or Tuesday. Twenty-one of the twenty-nine boilers were in use until Sunday night, when three more were "lighted." It is evident that the engines were being gradually speeded up to their maximum revolutions. Both on the bridge and in the engine-room there was a manifest reluctance to allow anything to interfere with the full-speed run of the following day. This is the only possible explanation of the amazing fact that, in spite of successive warnings that a large icefield with bergs of great size was drifting right across the course of the Titanic, fire was put under additional boilers and the speed of the ship increased.
It was shown in a previous chapter on "The Dangers of the Sea," that one of the greatest risks of high-speed travel across the North Atlantic is a certain spirit of sangfroid which is liable to be begotten of constant familiarity with danger and a continual run of good luck. If familiarity ever bred contempt, surely it must have done so among the captain and officers of the Titanic on that fatal night. One looks in vain for evidence that the situation was regarded as highly critical and calling for the most careful navigation;—calling, surely, for something more than the mere keeping of a good lookout—an imperative duty at all times, whether by day or night. Yet the fate of that ship and her precious freight of human life hung upon the mere chance of sighting an obstruction in time to avoid collision by a quick turn of the helm. The question of hitting or missing was one not of minutes but of seconds. A ship like this, nigh upon a thousand feet in length, makes a wide sweep in turning, even with the helm hard over. At 21 knots the Titanic covered over a third of a mile in a minute's time. Even with her engines reversed she would have surged ahead for a half mile or so before coming to a stop. Should she strike an obstruction at full speed, the blow delivered would equal that of the combined broadsides of two modern dreadnoughts.
And so the majestic ship swept swiftly to her doom—a concrete expression of man's age-long struggle to subdue the resistless forces of nature—a pathetic picture both of his power and his impotence. As she sped on under the dim light of the stars, not a soul on board dreamed to what a death-grapple she was coming with the relentless powers of the sea. Latest product of the shipbuilder's art, she was about to brush elbows with another giant of the sea, launched by nature from the frozen shipyards of the north, and she was to reel from the contact stricken to the death like the fragile thing she was!
At 11.46 P.M. the sharp warning came from the lookout: "Iceberg right ahead." Instantly the engines were reversed and the helm was put hard a-starboard. A few seconds earlier and she might have cleared. As it was, she struck an underwater, projecting shelf of the iceberg, and ripped open 200 feet of her plating, from forward of the collision bulkhead to a few feet aft of the bulkhead separating boiler-rooms numbers 5 and 6. It was a death wound! How deeply the iceberg cut into the fabric of the ship will never be known. Probably the first incision was deep and wide, the damage, as the shelf of ice was ground down by contact with the framing and plating of the ship becoming less in area as successive compartments were ruptured.
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The Titanic Struck a Glancing Blow Against an Under-water Shelf of the Iceberg, Opening Up Five Compartments. Had She Been Provided With a Watertight Deck At or Near the Water Line, the Water Which Entered the Ship Would Have Been Confined Below That Deck, and the Buoyancy of That Portion of the Ship Above Water Would Have Kept Her Afloat. As It Was, the Water Rose Through Openings in the Decks And Destroyed The Reserve Buoyancy
Whatever may have been the depth of the injury, it is certain from the evidence that the six forward compartments were opened to the sea. Immediately after the collision the whistling of air, as it issued from the escape pipe of the fore-peak tank, indicated that the tank was being filled by an inrush of water. The three following compartments, in which were located the baggage-room and mail-room, were quickly flooded. Leading fireman Barrett, who was in the forward boiler-room, felt the shock of the collision. Immediately afterwards he saw the outer skin of the ship ripped open about two feet above the floor, and a large volume of water came rushing into the ship. He was quick enough to jump through the open door in the bulkhead separating boiler-rooms 6 and 5, before it was released from the bridge. The damage just abaft of this bulkhead admitted water to the forward coal-bunker of room No. 5, which held for a while, but being of non-watertight and rather light construction, must have soon given way; for the same witness testified to a sudden rush of water coming across the floor-plates between the boilers.
In spite of the frightful extent of the damage, the Titanic, because of the great height to which her plated structure extended above the water-line, and the consequent large amount of reserve buoyancy which she possessed, would probably have remained afloat a great many hours longer than she did, had the deck to which her bulkheads extended been thoroughly watertight. As it was, this deck (upper deck E) was pierced by hatchways and stairways which, as the bow settled deeper and deeper, permitted the water to flow up over the deck and pass aft over the tops of the after bulkheads and so-called watertight compartments. See page 129.Now, it so happened that for the full length of the boiler-rooms there had been constructed on upper deck E what was known as the "working-crew alleyway." On the inboard side of this passage six non-watertight doors opened on to as many iron ladders leading down to the boiler-rooms. Not only were these doors non-watertight, but they consisted of a mere open frame or grating, this construction having been adopted, doubtless, for purposes of ventilation. Unfortunately, although there was a watertight door at the after end of this alleyway, there was none at its forward end. The water which
Titanic: Single skin, 16 compartments; Maurerania: double skin, 34 compartments.
Comparison of Subdivision in Two Famous Ships
boiled up from the forward flooded compartments, as it flowed aft, poured successively through the open grating of the alleyway doors, flooding the compartments below, one after the other.
It does not take a technically instructed mind to understand from this that the safety elements of the construction of the Titanic were as faulty above the water-line as they were below it. The absence of an inner skin and the presence of these many openings in her bulkhead deck combined to sink this huge ship, whose reserve buoyancy must have amounted to at least 80,000 tons, in the brief space of two and one-half hours.
Not until the designer, Mr. Andrews, had made known to the captain that the ship was doomed was the order given to man the lifeboats. The lifeboats, forsooth! Twenty of them in all with a maximum accommodation, if every one were loaded to its full capacity, of something over one thousand, for a ship's company that numbered 2,223 in all. Just here, in this very fatal discrepancy, is to be found proof of the widespread belief that a great ship like the Titanic was practically unsinkable, and therefore in times of dire stress such as this, was well able to act as its own lifeboat until rescuing ships, summoned by wireless, should come to her aid.The manner of the stricken ship's final plunge to the bottom may be readily gathered from the stories told by the survivors. As compartment after compartment was filled by overflow from the decks above, her bow sank deeper and her stern lifted high in the air, until the ship, buoyed up by her after compartments, swung almost vertically in the water like a gigantic spar buoy. In this unaccustomed position, her engines and boilers, standing out from the floor like brackets from a wall, tore loose from their foundations and crashed down into the forward part of the ship. Probably it was the muffled roar of this falling machinery that caused some of the survivors to imagine that they witnessed the bursting of boilers and the breaking apart of the hull. As a matter of fact, the shell of the Titanic went to the bottom practically intact. One by one the after compartments gave way, until the ship, weighted at her forward end with the wreckage of engine- and boiler-rooms, sank, straight as an arrow, to
Photograph by Underwood & Underwood, N. Y.
Smaller rooms would admit of higher bulkheads and better fire-protection.
The Vast Dining-Room of the Titanic
bury herself deep in the ooze of the Atlantic bottom two miles below. There, for aught we know, with several hundred feet of her hull rising sheer above the ocean floor, she may now be standing, a sublime memorial shaft to the fifteen hundred souls who perished in this unspeakable tragedy!

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Micronutrient malnutrition is a serious problem in Guatemala, particularly in the Western Highlands. While it is known that the frequency of feeding and diversity of foods offered to young children are low, much less is understood about the extent to which the micronutrient content of the diet of children under 2 years of age and that of pregnant and lactating women can be improved using local foods and whether families are able to adopt improved dietary practices.
This brief reviews results from household trials to determine feasible and acceptable diets with local foods and analyses of nutrient gaps in these diets using Optifood, a software program designed to identify the best combinations of local foods to try and fill nutrient gaps. The results show that diets of pregnant and lactating women and young children in the Western Highlands are not able to meet micronutrient needs given current combinations of local foods and poor access to nutrient-rich foods, fortified blended flour, and/or micronutrient supplements. The brief provides implications that are relevant for improving national programs and policies as well as economic and market access to fortified foods and micronutrient supplements.

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The UK government has announced that people seeking asylum on the basis of their sexual orientation will no longer be asked sexually explicit questions.
The UK has been criticised for making it extraordinarily difficult for LGB asylum seekers from countries where they face persecution to convince officials that they are gay, lesbian or bisexual.
This has included subjecting them to inappropriate and sexually explicit questions.
A 2013 report revealed that a number of gay and lesbian asylum seekers in the UK had even been forced to present “photographic and video evidence of highly personal sexual activity to caseworkers, presenting officers and the judiciary” to “prove” their sexuality.
On Monday, the UK’s Home Office published new guidelines on “how caseworkers should conduct asylum interviews in claims made on the basis of sexual identity.”
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I started the role of Programme Manager within Chippenham Town Council last April to oversee the refurbishment of the former Neeld Hall and to put in place a strong artistic programming for the new venue. Coming from a theatre management and arts programming background in the commercial sector, it was a fascinating new challenge to embark in an artistic project within a local authority.
The Neeld has been at the heart of Chippenham for centuries – as its Corn Exchange and cheese hall, even a wartime hospital, then a community hall. Now it begins its latest life as an exciting new community and arts centre bringing great professional shows and local groups’ activities and projects.
The refurbishment is the most important the Neeld has ever had and the space benefits from a new tiered seating unit, a technical area, new professional sound and light equipment, a new bar area and obviously a good paint job! This revamp has also allowed us to reposition the venue with new branding, renaming it the Neeld community and arts centre.
We launched the new venue and our first new programme of professional performances on 9th October. The Neeld was opened by GBBO’s Mel Giedroyc in front of 300 people which was followed by a professional music show. We have had our first professional performances since then and the staff and I are really excited to see such great enthusiasm and interest for this new space.
The next step is now to make sure we have sufficient staff to drive the venue to its new high standard. While we are putting in place a box-office system, we are also very pleased to be able to recruit in new areas that will be vital for the future of the Neeld such as box-office and front of house! If you are interested in being part of the team, find out more and download applications packs here.
My artistic vision has always been to offer high quality shows but also to stay focused on the community by making sure we could put in place new projects where they could easily be involved. We want to make sure we are offering a wide range of mentoring services to community groups by using the expertise of people in place in various area ( event management / box-office / technical). We have also just started two new artistic community projects we are really proud of:
‘Take the Stage’ which is a music competition for local young bands in partnership with Riverbank Studios in Chippenham. It is a bi-monthly event where bands are playing on stage in a professional setting. The winner of this season will get an opening slot on the Neeld stage, free recording sessions at Riverbank Studios as well as being the main act for ‘Rock in the Park’ during Chippfest 2016.
‘Mind my Words’ which is a programme around spoken words through creative writing workshops for young people with learning disabilities. The project will start next month and is being mentored by two professional authors / poets Babs Horton and Hilda Sheehan. The programme is in partnership with Barnardos Wiltshire and we are delighted to already have a group of eight young people signed up.
It is definitely an exciting time for the arts in Chippenham and across Wiltshire, as we are also putting in place partnership projects with the Pound in Corsham and Wiltshire Music Centre in Bradford-on-Avon.
To keep in touch with what’s happening at the Neeld, subscribe to our newsletter by adding your email address in the dedicated space on the home page of our website.
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The insured unemployment rate increased to 10.6% for the week ending Aug. 1, which is above the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ July estimate of 10.2%, implying August nonfarm payrolls may be less robust than expected. The insured unemployment rate represents the number of people currently receiving unemployment insurance as a percentage of the labor force. This is a useful measure of unemployment because there is a verifiable action to track (the act of filing for unemployment insurance). During the past 21 weeks, 56.3 million people have filed for initial jobless claims.
As we enter week 22 of pandemic-induced job losses, the increase in the duration of unemployment is becoming worrisome. July nonfarm payrolls data show the median duration of unemployment had increased to 15 weeks last month, while the average had increased to 17.9 weeks. The Federal Reserve defines long-term unemployment as being without a job for more than 26 weeks. The consequences of long-term unemployment include an erosion of skills and the increasing potential for becoming permanently detached from the workforce.


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Visionary feminist artist finding recognition after 50 years
After five decades of making art, 75-year-old feminist and media pioneer Lynn Hershman Leeson is being discovered by U.S. audiences and her work hailed as prophetic.
Hershman Leeson moved from Cleveland to California in the early 1960s to study art at the University of California, Berkeley, but instead got involved in the free speech movement. She has been making art ever since, and now through May 21 San Francisco’s Yerba Buena Center for the Arts is showing her first retrospective in the United States, Civic Radar, which includes drawings, sculptures, performances, installations, and videos. The show is adapted from a larger one at ZKM Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe, Germany, on view in 2014. Many of the works had never been displayed before. With that show, the art world began to take notice of her.
In Civic Radar, we see how Hershman Leeson’s work explores feminism, identity, surveillance, and technology, in such pieces as Lorna (1983-84), the first artwork to use laser disc technology, allowing viewers to play an interactive story of an agoraphobic woman, choosing if she commits suicide, moves out of her small apartment, or shoots the TV; the Roberta Breitmore series, featuring a persona Hershman Leeson created in the 1970s, wearing a blonde wig and makeup and even getting her own driver’s license and credit cards; and Room of One's Own (1990-93), where the viewer looks into a miniature bedroom, and eye movements trigger scenes and sounds from the female “occupant.” In a recent large-scale installation, The Infinity Engine (2014-17), Hershman Leeson addresses bioengineering, with a fully functional replica of a genetics lab that can identify the genetic makeup of viewers through reverse facial-recognition software.
Hershman Leeson said she always wanted to be an artist, and for her, technology was the natural medium to work in.
“I could either compete with the past and do painting and drawing,” she said in an interview at the YBCA. “Or I could look to the future and do something new.”
Hershman Leeson considers all her work political, and examining how society treats women is a constant in her art.
“Roberta was a vehicle to mirror all the other women in the ’70s who were being rejected and couldn’t get jobs and were told to be blonde and wear makeup,” she said. “She was a way of marking the kind of decline of confidence and possibilities of a single woman. And with Lorna, it was about a woman who was afraid to leave her house because everything she hears from the media is fearful. Lorna lives by remote control, and you control her life.”
Being in the Bay Area, with a culture steeped in technology, has had a big effect on her work, the artist says.
“If I lived anyplace else, I wouldn’t have been able to do what I’ve done,” she said. “There are so many programmers here that are available. In Los Angeles, people talk about scripts. In the Bay Area, we talk about programs.”
Hershman Leeson is a visionary, says Lucía Sanromán, YBCA’s director of visual arts who adapted the San Francisco show from the one in Germany. That one was bigger and put together by themes, Sanromán says. For the exhibit at YBCA, she tightened it up and arranged it chronologically, to get the full scope of Hershman Leeson’s work and the progression of her exploration of how identity is shaped by technology and how it influences rights and privacy.
Sanromán first met Hershman Leeson two years ago when she was applying for the job at YBCA. Artist Suzanne Lacy introduced them, telling the curator that Hershman Leeson was a genius. After meeting her, Sanromán agreed and decided that if she got the job at YBCA, she would commit to organizing this show as well as to a series of shows focusing on women artists, including Lacey.
Although her work got acclaim in Europe, for decades, Hershman Leeson says she couldn’t get any attention in San Francisco, which made it difficult to get recognition elsewhere in the States. She just kept working, she says.
“You only have so much time in your life, and what else are you going to do?” she asked. “I don’t make my work for other people—I make it because it’s the right thing to do.”
Sanromán finds Hershman Leeson’s art—as well as her acclaim after so many years—hopeful.
“Anything that helps us deconstruct limits is helpful,” she said about Hershman Leeson’s work. “It’s like if you understand the matrix, you can move through the matrix. And Lynn, she was a female in the ’60s art world, meaning a male world, and she persisted—and that’s a really important thing, that energy of persistence—and she shows us what that means and the rewards of that.”
Along with everything else, Hershman Leeson makes films, including the 2010 documentary !Women, Art, Revolution, which began when she started interviewing women artists in her living room in the late 1960s. The New York Times’ Holland Cotter called it “the most comprehensive documentary ever made on the feminist art movement.”
Hershman Leeson’s newest film, premiering this summer, Tania Libre, explores the aftermath of Cuban artist and activist Tania Bruguera’s period of house arrest. It will screen at the 60th San Francisco International Film Festival, and Hershman Leeson will receive the Persistence of Vision award, which goes to someone working outside narrative features. SFFILM’s senior programmer, Rod Armstrong, says it’s hard to think of anyone who deserves it more.
“She works in so many different fields, and she’s a pioneer in digital cinema,” he said. “I like the way she brings in art and technology to tell female-centric stories with a good deal of wit. She really homed in on the challenges women artist face in male-dominated systems and structures.”
But that’s finally starting to change, Armstrong thinks. Hershman Leeson agrees. Now with this show, she says, museums and galleries are showing interest, and she sees other female artists getting more attention as well.
“Five of the artists in !Women Art Revolution got solo shows after the movie came out,” she said. “It took the next generation to appreciate my work.”
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After a dip in early trade the Australian share market managed to gain momentum and closed 0.5 per cent higher. SpeedCast International (ASX:SDA)
shares continue to slump after they announced a lower expectation for their EBITDA for its full year. The Consumer staples sector is leading the way and the Energy sector trailing behind.The S&P/ASX200 index
At the closing bell the S&P/ASX 200 index closed 32 points higher to finish at 6686.Futures market
Dow futures are suggesting a fall of 29 points.
S&P 500 futures are eyeing a dip of 3 points.
The Nasdaq futures are eyeing afall of 6 points.
And the ASX200 futures are eyeing a 20 point rise tomorrow.Economic news
In trend terms, the balance on goods and services was a surplus of $6,089 million in May 2019, an increase of $169 million on the surplus in April 2019. This caused the Aussie dollar to lift slightly.
For Building Approvals - The number of dwellings approved in Australia fell by 0.5 per cent in May, in trend terms, according to data released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) today.Company news
Investment company HUB24 (ASX:HUB)
entered into a trading halt today to address an article in The Australian Financial Review regarding interest rate cuts. The company says they maintain flexible fee arrangements with licensees for their clients. They say all clients of HUB24 are receiving a positive interest rate on their cash account, post yesterday’s RBA rate change. Hub24 told the ASX it needed to respond to some of the points made in the AFR published on Wednesday morning. Shares in HUB24 (ASX:HUB)
closed 4.41 per cent lower at $10.87.
The Woolworths Group (ASX:WOW)
plans to combine its drinks and hospitality business, Endeavour Drinks and ALH Group, with the idea to eventually demerge it. The single entity is expected to be referred to as Endeavour Group Limited with separation expected to take place in calendar year 2020. Woolworths Group and BMG have enjoyed a partnership in ALH since 2004.
Universal Coal plc (ASX:UNV)
report that Afrimat have withdrawn their nonbinding indicative offer to purchase the entire issued share capital of Universal. Meanwhile, Universal say they are on track to deliver the group’s EBITDA guidance for FY2019 of $93 million.
Financial services tech company GBST (ASX:GBT)
has received a revised non-binding indicative proposal from American investment management software company SS&C Technologies at $3.60 per share. This values the equity of GBST at approximately $244 million.Best and worst performers
The best performing sector was Consumer Staples adding 2 per cent while the worst performing sector was Energy, shedding 2.2 per cent.
The best performing stock in the S&P/ASX 200 was Nufarm (ASX:NUF)
, rising 7.4 per cent to close at $4.51. Shares in St Barbara (ASX:SBM)
and Saracen Mineral Holdings (ASX:SAR)
The worst performing stock in the S&P/ASX 200 was Speedcast International (ASX:SDA)
, dropping 16.5 per cent to close at $1.72. Shares in Beach Energy (ASX:BPT)
and Pilbara Minerals (ASX:PLS)
followed lower.Asian markets
Japan’s Nikkei has lost 0.5 per cent, Hong Kong’s Hang Seng has lost 0.4 per cent and the Shanghai Composite has lost 1 per cent.Commodities and the dollar
Gold is trading at US$1,426 an ounce.
Iron ore price rose 1.7 per cent to US$125.77
Iron ore futures are pointing to a rise of 1.7 per cent.
Light crude is US$2.77 lower at US$56.32 barrel.
One Australian dollar is buying 69.97 US cents.


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The subject of authenticity has been getting a lot of attention in leadership circles, and for good reason. As one of the 17 drivers of employee engagement
, authentic leadership plays a prominent role in how people view their employers.
The challenge? Authenticity is often viewed as one of the
most complex drivers to address. However, once you understand what it really means to create a company culture of authenticity, it’s not all that difficult to achieve.
What is authenticity in the workplace?
Authenticity refers to employees’ sense that leadership is honest about the business and themselves. Put simply: When a company culture is viewed as authentic, employees feel their leaders are being “real” with them.
On the other hand, when employees don’t feel authenticity at work they may doubt their leaders’ intentions and question their business decisions.
Psychologists say authentic leadership requires a great deal of self-reflection
, and describe it as being composed of four distinct components:
- Self-awareness of one’s own strengths, limitations, and values.
- Transparency that involves being honest and straightforward with others.
- Fair-mindedness in soliciting opposing viewpoints and avoiding hidden agendas.
- Internalized moral perspective that consistently leads someone to “do the right thing.”
Authenticity goes hand-in-hand with trust
, and can be strengthened by open and honest leadership.
Why authentic leadership is so critical
Studies have long shown how authenticity in the workplace
impacts employee engagement, job satisfaction, and performance. It can be remarkably easy to overlook — a frightening prospect for employee and employer alike. Why? Because inauthenticity is the enemy of innovation and progress.
Think about it: When it’s obvious that someone’s not being open and honest with you, how do you feel? For most employees, this type of interaction makes for uncomfortable relationships. The manager who frequently says things he or she doesn’t really mean is going to breed mistrust and apprehension within the team. Whether through body language or inconsistent actions, employees will
catch on to the disingenuousness. And when they do, they’re not likely to trust the boss with important information and ideas.
One of the most accurate portrayals of these consequences come from employee engagement specialist Kevin Kruse
“It continues to surprise me how many leaders attempt to be one way at work, while their ‘true’ personality emerges outside of work. Once a CEO reminded me, ‘Leadership is acting.’ And it surprises me when these same leaders seem shocked or confused when their employees don’t trust them, don’t like them, and can’t really wait to work elsewhere.”
So yes, authenticity is important. Every organization, regardless of industry or size, will benefit from people who inspire trust, confidence, and loyalty.
How to cultivate authenticity
No matter where your company stands on authenticity today, it’s a highly important engagement driver to measure for your future. At 15five, we frequently advise organizations to incorporate authenticity in employee engagement measurements and analysis.
Once you know where your company currently stands on this engagement driver, the next step is to look for ways you can encourage leaders to be more authentic. Provide plenty of opportunities for people to express what they truly believe, fearlessly own mistakes, and comfortably share differing opinions. Once you begin to cultivate a culture of openness and trust, amazing things can happen for your growth.

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reported Wall Street's second stellar quarter in as many days, saying profits in the three months to Aug. 31 rose 34% from a year ago thanks to strong stock trading and underwriting revenue.
The New York investment bank earned $378.3 million, or $2.69 a share, in the third quarter, compared with $283.3 million, or $2.09 a share, a year ago. Analysts were expecting earnings of $2.38 a share, according to the mean estimate compiled by Thomson First Call.
Net revenue rose 18% from a year ago to $1.81 billion, about $50 million ahead of the analyst consensus. By segment, capital market revenue rose 15% from a year ago to $1.4 billion; net revenue in clearing services rose 15% to $258 million; and net revenue in wealth management rose 21% to $169.6 million.
"Bear Stearns continues to perform well in every area," the company said. "Our fixed-income division is more diversified, our banking effort broader, our client relationships stronger and our talent pool deeper than ever before. The balanced nature of our business mix remains a driver of our excellent results throughout shifting market cycles."
Within capital markets, revenue in institutional equities, where Bear Stearns makes markets for clients like mutual funds and pensions, revenue rose 43% to $333.6 million. The performance reflected strong results in takeover speculation, equity derivatives and domestic and international sales.
Fixed-income revenue slipped 4% from a year ago to $774.0 million, as strong results marketing interest-rate derivatives were partially offset by slightly weaker credit and mortgage-related businesses.
In investment banking, revenue rose 65% to $229.9 million, as underwriting and merger services sold briskly.
Within its clearing business, where Bear provides back-office stock trading services to hedge funds and other institutional clients, higher margin debt and short-sale balances were partially offset by lower commission revenue from prime brokerage. Short balances averaged $81.3 billion in the quarter, up from $75.6 billion last year.
The bank did a good job holding down costs in the quarter, with compensation as a percentage of net revenue totaling 47.0% in the quarter, down from 48.4% a year ago. Bear's pretax profit margin was 32% in the third quarter compared with 28.9% a year ago.
Bear Stearns' stock, which is up 21% over the last year and 41% over the last two years, fell $2, or 1.9%, to $103.50 early Thursday. The price is 10.5 times this year's Thomson First Call earnings estimate and 10.3 times next year's.
Bear's report follows a
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Writing children’s picture books is a fun way to get enough writing done that you don’t feel guilty, and taking a break from your main work. Sometimes your characters (and maybe readers) are so mad at you – you killed the nice boy off, Pretty Blonde kissed the bad boy when she’s supposed to be with Hot Ginger, or you burned a city of innocent people – that maybe it’s best to stay clear of them for a while. Maybe you’d like to try a new genre! Or, maybe children’s books are your full-time writing pursuit.
Whatever the reason, here you are drafting a manuscript that will soon be in the hands of toddlers and kindergarteners across the country (in the best-case scenario). Illustrations and other details aside, one of the most important things about your book is that it has a character who children are going to enjoy reading about. When I was a kid, my mom read me book after book after book, and I can’t remember disliking any. Of course, since I was so young, I can’t really remember any to begin with – it was over ten years ago! But since then I’ve read children’s books to my little brother, to children at our church, and to myself when I was about five or six. Then I decided to try and write one myself, though I never published or even illustrated it. So without further ado, here are five things to keep in mind when developing a character for your children’s book
This is more important in children’s books than in real books, in my humble opinion. If you’re writing a full-length novel, maybe you can get away with taking someone OOC (out of character, that is) if you only do it once or twice. But think of how disappointed a kid would be if, say, Amelia Bedelia or whatever her name was, that crazy maid who has a million books written about her, suddenly did something right rather than misinterpret everything. It’s part of her character to make mistakes, because little kids think it’s funny. So always stay consistent!
My children’s story was called “The Adventures of Sir Alfred Vöttenshnooder”. Or maybe it was “The Tale of Sir Alfred Vöttenshnooder.” I can’t really remember. I wrote it when I was twelve. The protagonist was a German strudel maker named, as you may have guessed from the title, Sir Alfred Vöttenshnooder. My 14-year-old, German-student self is cringing at that name, but anyway, I wrote a lot of disconnected stories about Sir Alfred. One of the things I wrote was a little ditty that started out:
“Sir Alfred Vöttenshnooder is a man with female lips.
He makes a decent strudel and he’s given decent tips.”
I know, horrible. But there’s the quirk. Sir Alfred is a man with female lips. So if the book had been illustrated, he would always have been drawn with female lips. (And no, he is not a woman in disguise. He is really a man.) The quirk you give your character can be physical, or it can be in their personality. Maybe they say “Cheerio!” at the end of every sentence, or maybe they always skip up staircases. It can be anything you like, so long as it is something that makes them memorable.
#3. Skip Descriptions.
Since this is a children’s book, you don’t really need a detailed description of the character. There will be a picture of them right above the words you are writing. Also, children usually are not interested in hearing about raven tresses and moonlight skin like young adult readers might be. A quick summary of the appearance, one that matches the drawing, should suffice: “Emily had blue eyes and blonde hair – a very pretty little girl, except that her teeth were the most horrid shade of green you ever saw” is much better than, “Emily’s hair was long; it came down to about her waist. She was dressed in a pink dress, white socks, and black shoes. Her eyes were bluer than the sky, bluer than Elijah Wood’s eyes, so blue that anyone who looked upon them was stricken dumb… until she smiled, and they saw that her teeth were green as moss, green as grass, like a thousand emeralds…”
“Mommy, I don’t like this book.”
A lot of children’s books will feature characters with names that are sure to stick in your head – names like Amelia Bedelia, the Cat in the Hat, or The Paper Bag Princess – or, of course, Sir Alfred Vöttenshnooder. These sorts of name roll off your tongue due to their rhyming, alliteration, or quick, smart syllables. Other times, you’ll see normal names like Paul or Suzie. If you’re trying to tell a funny story, you might want to consider one of the first kinds of names. If your story is a little more focused and calm – the sort of story you read at bedtime, like Goodnight Moon, then you might want to opt for a name that seems a little more simple.
#5. Working Together
It’s really key to make sure your illustrations match the kind of story you want to tell. If you’re telling a story about a girl who picks up a seashell and uses it to hear the ocean, you’d prefer a beautiful watercolor image on each page than a cartoony one. The way you space out the pages matters a lot, too – pacing is key. If Max from Where the Wild Things Are went from whining and being sent to his room to sailing the ship on the same page, maybe children wouldn’t like it as much. There’s something sort of magical about hearing a page turn, examining the new illustration, and then wondering what will happen next.
So there you have it! Good luck with your children’s story. And who knows? Maybe your character and Sir Alfred will share a shelf someday! If I ever get that idea anywhere, that is…


A Naugatuck teenager was charged Friday with slashing a Southington High School student in the thigh during an attack on school grounds last month.
Iobey Hoggard, 18, of 20 Stanley St., was charged with first- and third-degree assault and breach of peace. He was released on $25,000 bond, and is expected to appear in Superior Court in Bristol July 21.
Three others, including a Southington High School student, were also arrested this week in connection with the June 6 attack.
Hoggard's arrest ends the investigation into the slashing, which occurred just as school was getting out.
Superintendent Louis Saloom said the four intruders came looking for a fight with a student, whom they never found.
Instead, the four taunted some students they did not know. Fists were raised, and then a student was slashed in the thigh, although not badly injured.
Police and school officials have released few details on why the intruders came to the school.
"It had to do with a disagreement, some hurt feelings," Saloom said. "It was your age-old boyfriend-girlfriend type of thing."
Saloom said a Southington High School student had arranged to have his brother and two friends come to the school for the fight.
Jared Martin, 17, and his brother George Martin III, 20, of 540 Berlin St., Southington, and Daniel Casillas, 16, of 214 N. Main St., Naugatuck, were each charged with accessory to first-degree assault and first- degree criminal trespass.
They were each released on $5,000 non-surety bonds, and are expected to appear in Superior Court in Bristol on July 21.
The attack has prompted school officials to make major changes in security.
When classes resume in the fall, a full-time uniformed police officer will be assigned to the school.
Police Chief William Perry said Friday the officer will probably be armed.
"Part of our uniform is a weapon," Perry said. "The officer we assign will be well-trained. He will have the discipline to know not to pull a weapon in school."
A second officer will patrol the parking lot in a cruiser each day as school is being dismissed.
"Our officer will be there to act as a deterrent to any acts of violence, and to enforce drug laws," Perry said. "But it is equally important to create a good rapport with kids. They need to build up some type of relationship so students can come to them to seek advice."


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Dallas Tree & Shrub Program
The goal of Addison GreenLawn’s Tree & Shrub Program is to offer assistance with all of the landscaping needs that you have. The company wants to do everything possible to give you healthy plants, trees and shrubs that will beautify the yard. There are some applications that are a part of the program that could change depending on the weather conditions and landscaping conditions. These applications change so that your trees and shrubs receive the best care based on the needs that they have. Addison GreenLawn offers supplements for your trees and shrubs with only the best care in mind.
This is a program that generally involves a few different applications. Dormant and horticultural oil is used with the program as it’s the best suited for a variety of trees and shrubs. This process helps to control insects that might build homes in the winter and those that travel through the yard in the colder months. Aphids and spider mites are examples of these pests.
|Controls overwintering insects such as scale, aphids and spider mites.|
|Spring Deep-Root Fertilization||Our specially formulated, deep-root, balanced fertilizer with iron/micronutrients encourages strong root and top growth; increases fruiting and flowering; and improves insect and disease resistance – thus making plants greener and healthier.|
|Spring Insect and Disease Control||Prevents and controls fungal diseases and insects such as powdery mildew, spider mites and aphids.|
|Early Summer Insect and Disease Control||Reduces disease impact, and controls insects such as cankerworms, bagworms and spider mites.|
|Summer Insect and Disease Control||Reduces disease impact, and controls insects such as aphids, spider mites, cankerworms, webworms, thrips and other sucking, chewing pests.|
|Late Summer Insect and Disease Control||Inspection and treatment to control seasonal insects and disease activity.|
|Horticultural Oil Insect Treatment||Controls stubborn insects such as scales and spider mites.|
|Early Winter Deep-Root Fertilization||The best time to feed your landscape’s trees and shrubs (after our summer’s devastating heat and drought stress) to help prevent winter injury.|
Spring Deep-Root Fertilization
Before the spring months, a rich fertilizer is used to ensure that trees and shrubs grow healthy and green. The product used is a special formula that offers a balance of iron and micronutrients that are needed for the health of the root system. As the trees and shrubs take in these nutrients, it will grow healthy from the inside out. The application assists in fruit bearing and flowering.
Insect And Disease Control
Just before the spring season, applications are used on the trees and shrubs in the yard to keep away insects before they have a chance to take over the plants. The application also prevents any kind of fungus from taking over the plants. Common types of fungus and pests include powdery mildew and aphids.
Early Summer Control For Insects And Diseases
This is a process that involves treating the plants and shrubs in the summer for common pests and diseases that are seen. Cankerworms and bagworms often come out in the summer, making their homes on tree branches and in shrubs. Addison GreenLawn can also monitor the trees and shrubs over the summer months to apply products that will further keep pests and diseases under control. Late summer treatments are also offered.
The company uses specialized oils to treat pests that are more stubborn than others, such as spider mites and scales.
Early Winter Deep-Root Care
Addison GreenLawn provides treatments before the winter season so that your trees and shrubs are protected in the colder weather. This is often the best time of the year to feed the roots to help them recover from heat and a lack of moisture.
Contact Addison GreenLawn for a free quote to take care of your tree and shrub needs.

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