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This edited volume traces the fortunes of liberalism in Egypt, not Egyptian liberalism, for almost a century and a half now. It examines the political positions of self-proclaimed liberals in the country and finds them consistently engaged in a feud against the Islamists to the extent that liberals in Egypt enforce the military, a completely illiberal force, principally to attack their political adversaries. Such an illiberal posture testifies to the contrast between rhetoric and liberal practice in Egypt, particularly when the fortunes of members of the Muslims Brotherhood are on the rise.
What triggers the research for this volume is how Egypt’s liberals could firmly stand behind the military coup of July 3, 2013, and further justify the bloodshed of hundreds in Rabaa and El-Nahda squares that followed a few weeks afterwards. For the editors and the contributors alike, the support and the justification are mind-boggling. Regardless of excuses, the book finds that in throwing all their weight and legacy behind the military establishment, Egypt’s liberals become themselves victims. How so? Given their biases against the Islamists, figures like Mohamed El Baradei, Alaa Al-Aswany, Ibrahim Eissa, Dr Saad Eddin Ibrahim, and Mohammed Abol Ghar, among others, grossly exaggerated the Islamists’ threat, mistook their target, and misread the motives behind calls to unseat President Mohamed Morsi. At heart, the military dictatorship was never against the Brotherhood or the Islamists as such, that is, for ideological reasons. General Sisi and members of the deep state were against the democratic experiment itself. The military establishment could neither fathom nor pardon whoever took part in the revolution of January 25, 2011, forcing President Mubarek, another deeply-entrenched military, to abdicate. As soon as General Sisi was done with the persecution of Islamists, he immediately turned his fury against the liberals, some of whom contributed to this volume. Even when all contributions in the book do not explicitly highlight the benefits of the liberal predicament in the country, the evidence each contribution brings specifies that anyone who dared to actively imagine a future for Egypt outside the immanent framework in favour of the military has been targeted. Given their predicament, the liberals have never ceased on this basic reality. That explains why liberals of Egypt keep crying over spilt milk. For it is precisely they who are completely passed over by the new order they helped to bring and sell as a national necessity for Egyptians.
The book contains four sections, counting exactly twelve chapters (the introduction included) and a conclusion. Like with all edited volumes, not all contributions merit the same attention, particularly when attending to the predicament of liberalism in Egypt. That explains why I am examining only those critical contributions that engage with that predicament.
Daanish Faruqi and Dalia F. Fahmy’s introductory chapter leads readers that the insurrection against President Morsi was a popular demand from the outset. Still, they think that liberals should have practised restraint and not fall in for supporting the counterrevolution, military or otherwise. By liberals, the editors trust in self-identification. Still, the book ensures that the liberals it refers to are not armchair intellectuals or fair-weather political activists (p. 4). Rather, most derided liberals have been outspoken individuals for democracy and the rule of law. Some suffered under the pre-2011 ruling establishment by languishing in prisons or being forced to exile. In order to make a case for the problematics of the book, the chapter contrasts such self-proclaimed liberals’ and democrats’ statements before and during the revolution against other statements and positions taken after the rise of the Brotherhood’s candidate to power in June 2012. Indeed, the chapter finds that the liberals’ substitution from initial commitments for civil society, freedom, and democracy has “emboldened the nation’s recidivism into authoritarian rule” (p. 10) despite a long legacy that calls for democratic order, freedom and the rule of law.
Chapter Two: Dalia Fahmy studies the structural illiberalism of Egyptian party politics. For the 2013 coup is now read as an instantiation of “an illiberal political order, enshrined and perpetuated at a systemic level.” (p. 31) As parliament under President Sisi becomes a rubber stamp for formalising the illiberal will of the executive, Fahmy is understandably enraged. That rage translates into the evaporation of decades-long liberal activism. She encourages readers to register the extent of civic and democratic regression. Indeed, the coup of July 2013 has turned “a healthy system of party politics not only absent but has been rendered constitutionally impossible.” (p. 53)
Following the structural approach that Fahmy starts, Hesham Sallam, in Chapter Three, examines how the illiberal practices during Nasser and Sadat’s rule, mostly characterised by pitting Islamists against liberals, have impacted contemporary liberals distrust of Islamists. A healthy polity can be founded—the chapter claims—by uniting the activism of both liberals and Islamists, and this can only be achieved by bypassing the preexisting and decades-long divide. Considering the period from the 1952 coup to 2011, Sallam finds that “the organisational asymmetries” (p. 83) between, on the one hand, the Islamists who clandestinely built their networks given their illegal status and the liberals, on the other, the state granted official status but simultaneously stifled their every move spelt in the long run that the Muslim Brotherhood stands in 2011 at an unparalleled advantage overall political actors including the military. Undoing an unhealthy and deeply polarising political arena can set the state for both Islamists and liberals to stop being pawns for the military, each time played against one another by giving the illusion at one point that it pampers the Islamists (between 2011 and early 2012) at another, the liberals (between late 2012 to 2013 and afterwards) while in fact, it approbates none but the eternalisation of its order.
Mohamed Elmasry, in Chapter Six, addresses the fortunes of civil society through the media. In particular, the chapter traces the illiberal turn of celebrity journalist and novelist Ibrahim Eissa who systematically demonises the Brotherhood through his live shows. Eissa’s example underlines how pretending liberals sold ordinary Egyptians the reductive image that President Morsi and the Brotherhood from which the latter emerged as incompetent and an existential threat to Egyptians: “outright treasonous to Egyptian state and society” (p. 176). Hysterical portrayals, entrenched in myths than in anything else and of the sort propagated by Eissa, led Egyptians to uncritically embrace those hegemonic narratives which paved the way for entrusting the military: finding no qualms with coup nor the massacres and other human rights abuses that followed.
In Chapter Nine, Ahmed Abdel Meguid and Daanish Faruqi find that both liberals and Islamists are more complicit in the climate of mutual distrust than what each is willing to admit. Worse, they both trusted uncritically in statism, the logic which finds only state a means of carrying out the presumed needful work of social engineering. Theoretically clouded, they both sought “a Hobbesian conception of the nature and role of the state as the sole and ultimate interpreter and implementer of the Egyptian social contract” (p. 254). This chapter finds the logic of statism that explains frenzied and depleted mindsets between ‘frenemies’ that naively handed the keys to the military-led counterrevolution. Elevating the state to the point of invisibility at the expense of the individual’s liberty results in illiberalism, pure and simple. And here comes the liberals’ historical alliance with elitist postures as they classically distrusted the populace, viewing common men as little more than mouths to feed and flesh to cloth. The two contributors find that well before Nasser’s coup of 1952, “liberal figures increasingly welcomed the idea of a left-wing reformist dictatorship, or a “just tyrant” (al-musta’bid al-‘adil) to emerge and create the conditions for a liberal civil society, purge the existing political order of its corruption and patronage networks, and then to forcibly inaugurate the modernist reforms they sought” (p. 263) Therefore, liberals’ reaction to Sisi’s coup of 2013 did not constitute a rupture, but rather a continuum, even a historical totality with earlier liberals’ firm and biased approach against ordinary Egyptians. Hence the chapter calls for an invigorating brand of liberal politics that goes beyond the constraints of state and statism because that logic can ruin the chances for a positive change, ushering in an era of post-statism.
Chapters Ten and Eleven can be read together as Emran El-Badawi and Joel Gordon contrast the careers of eminent liberal activists. El-Badawi compares the Egyptian Gaber Asfour and the Syrian Buran Ghalioun. This study finds that liberal activists’ public engagement remains opposed to their theoretical excitations regarding freedom and civil liberties. The contrast evinces severe limitations. How so? Liberal activists remain staunchly statist and vehemently against political Islam. This explains why they could not mobilise the masses (p. 297). For her part, Gordon juxtaposes Egyptian novelist Alaa al-Aswany with the satirist Bassem Youssef. Gordon finds, never falter from a long string of liberal luminaries in contemporary Egyptian history, such as Taha Hussayn and Muhammad Husayn Haykal, as they internalise secular versus religious binary division. Nowhere this internalisation manifests more than in how the counterrevolution of July 2013 capitalised on the presumed threats such as the “Brotherhoodization” of the state. Liberals’ flirtations with fascism during the 1930s (p. 318) come as a solid reminder that liberalism has not evolved much after all. When Bassem says in his final TV show: Egyptians, I apologise for misunderstanding you; you did not need a revolution, did not understand it, and did not deserve it. I will leave you this stagnant water that we tried to clear for your sake… (p. 333). In deriding his audience and people and with such bestiality, Bassem makes the book’s rationale and its zooming on the crisis of liberalism ever more pressing.
The editors deem Amr Hamzawy and Hossam Bahgat, among others, true Egyptian liberals as they vehemently condemned the ousting of the democratically elected President Morsi aside from their consistent opposition to his policies. With this background in mind, we read Hamzawy in Chapter Twelve, who counts five anti-democratic deceptions that the liberals fell into: “…contribut[ing] to the militarisation of Egyptians’ collective imagination, which began with the people’s search for a ‘military saviour'” (p. 338). These ‘liberal-made grand deceptions’ range from sequential (the entrenched belief that transition to democracy must be tenable only when poverty, illiteracy, and unemployment become past) to incremental prerequisites for the success of democracy (traced in slogans such as nothing is more important than…), national necessity, religion station of politics and politicisation of religion, state above all else. The deceptions do not stop as deceptions but degenerate toward emboldening the military to mount its coup, aborting the brief democratic experiment in the country and initiating “a break from history and human values.” (p. 339)
Emad El-Din Shahin brings the volume to its conclusion by recalling robust and renewed faith in liberalism. Towards this end, he reminds readers of the bleakest day for liberals where El Baradei stood with Sisi in the coup announcement on July 3, 2013. Shahin calls for a new brand of liberalism, “grounded in the nuances of particularities of Egyptian society, and construct an indigenous liberal model with its creative frame of reference” (p. 362). He recommends that in order for true liberals to reconstitute their project, they will have first to disavow neoliberal forces from their midst. At a second level, they will have to undo the religious-secular divide. Other than being misleading, the divide gives regressive forces leverage to exploit the dynamic forces of society, liberals, and Islamists.
Methodologically considered, the volume remains at its strongest when it sticks to its own proclaimed long durée approach, tracing the governing dynamic that dictated the work of the long liberal history in Egypt. To embrace this approach, none but Hesham Sallam underscores its utility: “Simply put, history did not begin on January 25, 2011” (p. 63). The statement is almost Hegelian in perspective; it brings that significant evidence has been amassed, and any approach worthy of its own has to interrogate that experience critically. The method serves students of social movements lest crude opportunism and a predisposition for clientelism become explanatory principles.
In Chapter Six, Mohamad ElMasry’s stipulations vis-à-vis the Egyptian press can be confusing for readers. One wonders if it is indeed the lack of professionalism on the part of the Egyptian news outlet that led to the sinister portrayals of the Brotherhood. How does this explanation corroborate/sit with the method of the long durée? The author keeps referring to technicalities such as the Egyptian press system, which stays receptive to this anti-Brotherhood discourse as if such a system or any other has an autonomous existence of its own. Arguments such as lack of sound journalistic training and journalists without journalism degrees translating “a completely servile media apparatus” (p. 179) do not explain how liberals went into bed with the military. The same applies to arguments that chase Morsi’s slips of the tongue or his alleged Brotherhoodization of the country. Elmasry does not broach upon the role of foreign influence and Gulf Sheikhdoms’ mortal fear of the success of the democratic experiment in Egypt. Indeed, the Sheikhdoms pumped their petrodollars behind the restoration of the L’ancien régime.
More troublesome, though and given his Islamist biases, Khaled Abou El Fadl, in Chapter Eight, remains fixated with what he calls the “secularly minded and secularised intelligentsia whose thinking on democracy and constitutionalism is hopelessly opportunistic and muddled.” (pp. 235-6) He does not say how much opportunistic and how much muddled because other contributors find more muddled thinking than pure grab or opportunism. With opportunism, one will be zooming on another category of the Egyptian elite, les arrivistes, but these are neither liberals nor truly influential. The military establishment knows that this category has no symbolic capital. Meanwhile, true liberals like El-Baradei or Aswany, referred to by name in the volume, cannot be dubbed as carpetbaggers or bootlickers. To keep counting them so is a methodological genocide. A purely legalistic approach, concerned solely with legitimacy and social contract as methodological armaments, happens to be the counter-revolutionists’ approach. Despite what looks like an incendiary critique of liberals in Egypt and the depleted human existence in the abstract, Abou El Fadl maintains that the elites are endowed with the power to generate ideas, not that material reality generates ideas and determines their circulation. But he is right to note, though, that “the actual coup was a mere formality” (p. 250) since what he calls the ‘secularised intelligentsia’ already had had power firmly in its hand, and the Brotherhood accepted to engage in a game lost well in advance. Precision is key. The secularised intelligentsia had nothing to do with the coup; it was the military with the global capitalists behind them that planned and carried out the restoration.
In his contribution, Hamzawy rushes to conclude that initially, Egyptians “wanted a true liberal order” (p. 340), and it was the military establishment that thwarted that popular demand. Nothing can be further from the truth since Egyptians massively voted for the candidate of the Muslim Brotherhood in 2012. Still, Hamzaway does not reject developmentalism as he criticises the liberals’ trust in linear approaches to modernity and their defence for an authoritarian order under the guise of waiting until the time Egypt scores a level of development conducive to democracy. This future is constantly postponed (p. 341). In outlining the final deception, Hamzawy overlooks how the state with classical national borders is no longer a viable player under the neoliberal global order. Specifically, it is precisely that powerful state that has to be liquidated for commodities to circulate and for capital to keep extracting value.
Emad El-Din Shahin, a professor at the American University of Cairo, was sentenced to death in 2015 on the alleged charges of destabilising the country, refusing domestication and elitism. Despite his credentials as a true liberal, and like other contributors, Shahin keeps fixated on the palliative. When some medicament is not working, the sensible policy is to seek a second opinion and try a new medicine. Perhaps worse than these confusions, the editors and contributors alike still believe in the existence of what is an extinct class, the Egyptian bourgeoisie (p. 365), a class which, after WWI, had universally gone extinct. In recommending disengagement from the authoritarian state, readers are left wondering why future liberals of Egypt would behave any differently? That explains how Egypt and the Contradictions of Liberalism cannot be a critical reconsideration or revision, as the editors want us to understand, but a re-legitimisation. Instead of a project for the future that Egyptians should axiomatically adopt, anyone reading the recommendation, in conclusion, cannot overlook an onerous retrenchment project of liberal democracy. The amount of indisputably historical evidence this volume brings amounts to how that conventional wisdom of a renewed faith in the liberal project has exhausted its utility.
Université d’Adrar (Algeria)
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Canavese is a historical-geographical area of Piedmont extended between the Serra di Ivrea, the Po, the Stura di Lanzo and the Graie Alps, that is, the territory between Turin and the Aosta Valley and, to the east, the Biellese and vercellese.
Its most important centers are the cities of Ivrea, considered the "capital" of Canavese, then Chivasso, Cuorgnè and Rivarolo Canavese.
The Canavese does not have a unique definition as neither history nor geography give it precise boundaries. Perhaps the most precise definition is that given by the Encyclopaedic Treccani, despite having the defect of not including the town of Villareggia, located beyond the Dora Baltea:
"With this name [Canavese] it is also known that part of Piedmont between the Serra d'Ivrea and the lower course of the Dora Baltea da Mazzè up to the confluence with the Po, the course of this river up to the vicinity of the confluence of the Stura di Lanzo, the left bank of the Stura, excluding a small part of the plain north of Turin (Settimo Torinese), then the peaks culminating in the Graie Alps from the Levanne to the Gran Paradiso massif (Valle del Malone, Val di Locana, Val di Soana and Val Chiusella) »
The territory,crossed by the rivers Dora Baltea, Chiusella, Soana, Malone and Orco, is dominated by the Morainic Amphitheater of Ivrea and the Gran Paradisomassif, which surround the vast flat area around Chivasso. There are numerous glacial lakes,among which the candia canavese and viverone lakes stand out, on the eastern border with Biellese.
The historical capital of Canavese is the city of Ivrea,a city of Celtic origin that became Roman Municipium in the first century BC.C., retaining the name of Eporedia, hence the Eporediesi term by which its inhabitants are defined.
Despite this, the toponym Canavese derives from the ancient town of Cuorgnè, Canava,located on the banks of the Orc stream or, more likely, on the slopes of Mount Quinzèina, where the town of Nava still stands today. According to some it could instead be linked to the ancient cultivation in the area of hemp. The inhabitants of the region are called Canaveians.
Canavese is generally divided into Alto Canavese (the surroundings of Cuorgnè, Rivarolo Canavese, Castellamonte and the Orco, Soana and Malone valleys), Eporediese (the surroundings of Ivrea, enclosed by its morainic amphitheater) and Basso Canavese (San Giusto Canavese, around Caluso, Mazzè, up to Chivasso, and Turin).
The Morainic Amphitheatre of Ivrea
Themorainic amphitheater of Ivrea (abbreviated AMI) is a moraine relief of glacial origin located in the Canavese and administratively affects the province of Turin and, more marginally, those of Biella and Vercelli.
The AMI dates back to the Quaternary period and was created by the transport of sediment to the Po Valley operated during the glaciations by the large glacier that ran along the Valley of Dora Baltea. With an area of more than 500 km² it is one of the best preserved geomorphological units of this type in the world.
The name amphitheater, usually given to these geomorphological structures, refers to their characteristic elliptical shape evident when it is reported as a plant on a map.
The AMI area includes some popular tourist destinations such as Lake Viverone and Lake Sirio, around which a decent network of accommodation facilities such as campsites, hotels and restaurants of various kinds has long developed. The waters of the two lakes are swimmable and, in the case of Viverone, a public shipping line connects the main inhabited centers of the coast.
More recently, some initiatives to promote tourism of the amphitheater as such have been taken by the Ecomuseum of the Morenico Amphitheater of Ivrea, a non-profit association established in 2008 and bringing together 14 municipalities in the area, the Mountain Community Val Chiusella, the Collinare Piccolo Amphitheater Morenico Canavesano as well as various associations and subjects of private law. In addition to the museum activity proper, various types of events such as theatrical performances, concerts, seminars and thematic excursions are organized and/or promoted.
There are numerous marked hiking routes in thearea; the one most closely related to the geological conformation of the MAI is undoubtedly the Upper Way of the Morainic Amphitheater of Ivrea, whose main trace, of the development of about 120 km, runs entirely along the outer hill circle of the AMI starting from Andrate and ending in Brosso. In support of the main route there are various connecting routes that allow you to reach the main track from the surrounding population centers. An extension of the trek in the area of the 5 lakes of Ivrea, some variants to the main track and various thematic itineraries have also been marked. All these routes can be covered on foot or on horseback and, in general, also by mountain bike. Another important hiking route that crosses the AMI in a north-south direction is the Via Francigena, which recovers the aforementioned itinerary of medieval pilgrims. The north-eastern part of the MAI is also affected by the GtB (Great Crossing of biellese).
There are also numerous sporting events. In particular, it is worth mentioning a classic of piedmontese podismo, the 5 lakes, which reached its 33rd edition in 2010. The competition, about 25 km long, takes place in the area of the 5 lakes and passes mostly on paths and dirt tracks. More closely connected to the hiking trails seen above is the Morenic Trail, an individual or relay trail that develops for 109 km following the main track of the Upper Way of the Morainic Amphitheater of Ivrea.

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Nervous Eaters | Interview | New Album, ‘Monsters + Angels’
One of the first Boston punk bands that formed in the 70s, Nervous Eaters became among the most influential bands on the scene.
Formed in the mid-70’s, the Nervous Eaters would eventually become the house band for the legendary Boston punk rock club The Rat, where they established themselves as a leading punk rock band in the Northeast, playing with a who’s who of punk and new wave luminaries, including The Police, The Ramones, The Cars, Patti Smith, Dead Boys, Iggy Pop, The Stranglers, Go-Go’s and many others.
The Cars’ Ric Ocasek produced the band’s original demos, which got the band signed to Elektra Records, and they went on to tour around the world. However, after a series of poor decisions on the part of the label, their major label debut album failed to deliver on the promise of their legendary live shows.
After dissolving the band, Nervous Eaters returned in the mid-80’s and has been revived over the years with various lineups.
The band, led by founder Steve Cataldo, also features an amazing lineup of players including other Boston rock vets. The current version of the Nervous Eaters formed in 2018 and includes three other Boston rock vets, bassist Brad Hallen (of Ministry, Ric Ocasek and The Joneses), drummer David McLean (of Willie Alexander’s Boom Boom Band) and guitarist/vocalist Adam Sherman (of Private Lightning), and between them, they have recorded and/or toured with such artists as Ministry, Iggy Pop, Aimee Mann, Jane Wiedlin, Susan Tedeschi, Jimmie Vaughan, Lenny Kaye and many others.
They have been working on a new album, ‘Monsters + Angels’, a new 10-track album, out November 11th, 2022 via Little Steven Van Zandt’s Wicked Cool Records.
“I don’t want to subconsciously pick up any ideas”
The Nervous Eaters are one of Boston’s first punk bands, forming in 1973. Would you like to share some background; what was it like in the early days in Boston?
Steve Cataldo: It was great, but being young guys we were kind of wild and didn’t even realize we were in the midst of the best times of our lives. We became very good friends with the owner of the Rathskeller, James Harold, after a while we had the run of the place, like the keys to the beer fridge and a practice room upstairs next to the boss’s office. We had parties upstairs in the front office when everyone was gone, and especially on the roof, almost across from the Citco sign (famous Boston landmark). My former boss and best friend passed away recently, on my birthday in fact. It is a real bummer and I will miss him forever.
If we would time travel to your teenage room, what kind of records, books and posters would we find?
My Link Wray And His Ray Men (Swan) record which I still have, worn down to the grooves but still plays. My first guitars, a Stella acoustic and Kent 6 string, they were both cheap. Once I improved my playing, I got my first Stratocaster. I had a Beatles collarless jacket and a bunch of Playboy mags stuff under my mattress. A picture of Elvis, man that was beautiful, that was art. He should have kept the 50’s look, man that was so cool, he had everything, guitars, drums, really cool songs, but then somebody stuffed him into that sparkling white jumpsuit, the colonel probably talked him into wearing it. I guess the fake jewels twinkling on that monkey suit were supposed to hypnotize the audience. It didn’t work on me. He could still sing for sure, but this taste in clothes left the planet. I had a cool Bogen record player that got a lot of use. I started out with instrumental albums, like Link Wray, The Ventures, Duane Eddy, surf music like Dick Dale and The Beach Boys. My dad has a large classical record collection, 33’s, 78’s. I dug Nelson Eddy for some reason. Luckily some of those RCA Victor albums had blues records stuffed in there, like Sonny Boy. I spent a lot of cold rainy days and nights in the arctic with that record player. However later on when The Beatles showed up, the party was on. I was caught in their whirlwind and never looked back. Funny thing about The Beatles, I didn’t have a favorite, I dug them all, equally. They are the greatest musical force that will forever be in the world, I don’t care what anybody says, and fans you heard that hear on W.–E.A.T.E.R. Dig it.
Were you in any bands before forming The Nervous Eaters and what kind of music did you play?
Yes a lot of bands, The CobbWebs, The B Street Runners, most of those bands had my good friend Alan Hebditch. We were too young to drive so we would walk down the streets sometimes through the snow carrying our guitars to get to his aunt’s house where we could play without being bothered. We learnt the songs of the day, music that we dug, instrumentals, then Beatles of course after they showed up. Later we added two more guys, we had all the instruments going into one amp. Two guitars, bass and a microphone, all into Fender Bandmaster. It worked for practice, no one played too loud then.
What were some of the must-go clubs in Boston for kids interested in underground music?
The Boston Tea Party, The Unicorn Coffee House, The Abbey, The Psychedelic Supermarket, The Rathskeller, Paul’s Mall, The Channel, Great Scotts. The Club. The Middle East and T.T. The Bears to name a few.
Tell us about The Rhythm Assholes, a group which backed Willie Alexander on his single ‘Kerouac’ and in concert. What was it like to work with Willie Alexander?
I had seen Willie Alexander many years before we actually hooked up with him. He was in a band on Capitol Records called “The Lost”, and I have to say, they were fantastic. Willie was a wild front man, with great hair and cool moves. They had a song named ‘Maybe More Than You’ which was starting to pick up momentum on the Billboard charts. We used to call WBZ (a major AM radio station at the time) to request their song. So when we saw him playing solo (singing with piano) at Sandys Jazz club in Beverly MA., I talked the band into asking him if he might need a backup band. I thought he was going to tell us to dry up, instead he said sure and we started rehearsing all his songs. Tunes that would go on to make up his first album. Willie had a lot of rock and roll knowledge and stories about the scene before we came along. He is an artist of sorts as well, a real bohemian. We all had a great time with Loco.
Tell us about your first single, ‘Loretta’, what was the deal with the Rat label?
Well we hung out at the Rat as did everyone, all the bands, and the fans that made up the Boston rock scene at that time. College DJ’s like Oedipus (MIT), fanzines like Boston Groupie News kept the scene alive. Everyone listened to Oedipus every week, and picked up BGN every time it came out. Jimmie had started a record label because he was really into the scene and his club the Rat was ground zero. Myself and the band became great friends with Jim. He managed us, recorded our first single at Northern Studio’s in Maynard MA, heck he even went on tour with us. We had a one page contract with Rat Records, we were just stoked to put out a 45 which sold pretty well. Unfortunately Jim passed away on July 31st 2022, July 31st is also my birthday. Kind of weird. I wish he hadn’t left the planet, but when the man calls us, we gotta go…
How did you get the name “Nervous Eaters”?
The band practiced in Jeff Wilkinson’s basement. Jeff was our drummer. Each member would blast up to the kitchen to nab something to eat. Jeff’s mom was great like that, always cooking up something for us so we would stay alive. One day she said to us, you guys are constantly running up and down those cellar stairs all day long, why don’t you boys come up at the same time and have one good meal, you’re a bunch of “Nervous Eaters”, thus the band was christened. Her name was Florence and her brothers were musicians in the Great Depression, late 20’s, they kept the family from starving because musicians could get work and would bring home a decent paycheck. She succeeded in getting us to eat lunch all at the same time and would tell us stories from her teenage years, god bless her, she was a trip
Your second Rat single, the new wave–style ‘Just Head’, appeared in 1979 and you became more and more popular with the local kids interested in underground music. Tell us more about it.
Well ‘Just Head’ was recorded in the same sessions with ‘Loretta’. ‘Loretta’ came back from the pressing plant stamped out correctly. However when ‘Just Head’ came back, they had cut the 45 hole off center, we couldn’t sell them so they just sat in Jimmie’s closet for months and months. While Jim was recording ‘Live at the Rat’, ‘Just Head’ got lost in the shuffle. A recut was never reordered that I know about. So if you have a wobbly version of ‘Just Head’, then you own a collector’s item, there were only 1000 of them made, many bootlegs are floating around these days.
After ‘Just Head’ release you brought in Jonathan Paley, second guitarist. The sound got enhanced. How did you get signed to Elektra?
We went on to make a demo with Ric Ocasek from The Cars. Some of The Cars even played on that demo. So between Rick, Fred Lewis (The Cars early manager) and Maxanne Sartori (WBCN DJ) they got us a deal with Electra.
Can you share some further words on how to work on it?
We should have released that demo, instead we made an LP with Harry Maslin, he had engineered the David Bowie album ‘FAME’, we were big Bowie Fans, who isn’t? So we thought it would be great. He played us some tracks he had cut and mixed with Eric Carmen (Raspberries) and it sounded great. Sadly Harry could quite get a bead on us, we shoulda, woulda, coulda, done a lot of things differently but we didn’t and the recording pooped. However Rick Harte came along and saved the day. We made a really excellent LP with him (‘Hot Steel And Acid’). It did very well and we left the Elektra album in the dust.
What were the circumstances around your first breakup in 1981?
Oh man, that’s ancient history, I’m lucky if I know what I did yesterday. Our first member was Stanley Clark, he loved rock ‘n roll, looked good and hung out with us, but he had no roots, had no knowledge of the blues. Prerequisite for joining the Eaters was knowledge of the blues. Both Jeff and Rob had played in a lot of blues bands and so had I. Their sound is basically hard rock mixed with Chicago blues, just like the Big 3, Beck, Clapton and Page. We let Stanley slide but not for too long, because he didn’t have a very good sense of rhythm. He ultimately became our chief roadie. He knew everyone everywhere so it worked out. We had a lot of 4th members until my buddy Alan Hebditch showed up to play for a while and then of course Jonathan took over after that.
The band briefly reunited in 1986, with Cataldo, Wilkinson, Hebditch, and Paley. They recorded a six-song EP, ‘Hot Steel and Acid’, for the French-based New Rose label; it was subsequently issued as well by Boston’s Ace of Hearts Records. How did you enjoy working together again
You have that backwards, we recorded that LP with Rick Harte who has it issued in Europe through New Rose, as The Real Kids had done with Red Star Records then New Rose. We had a blast doing that record, Rick Harte is an excellent producer, we learnt a lot from him and his attention to detail bigtime, and we cut as much stuff live as we could. If you can catch the feel of the song, I mean the groove, then you’re on your way to making a good record.
What can you say about ‘Eat It!’ compilation of tunes recorded between 1999-2001?
Billy Loosigian from the Boom Boom Band produced that record and did a great job. Released on the Spanish label No Tomorrow. It has a lot of good songs on it and a couple of bloopers but basically we made a good record.
“Life on the road is a young man’s game”
In early June 2013, the band went on the road again, supporting the Stranglers at Brighton Music Hall. How did you enjoy playing with Stranglers?
Yeah for sure, we had played with them a bunch of times, since Jimmie managed the Eaters and owned the club we opened for just about everybody. Greenfield (RIP) could be a little snappy sometimes, in fact all of em, but you drive 400 miles, soundcheck, then do the gig, then hit the road for another 400 miles and see how pleasant you are… These days they have a big ass bus and all that, unless you have big bucks jingling in your pocket, life on the road is a young man’s game.
In 2018, the Nervous Eaters and their old manager James Harold put out ‘Live at the Rat 2’ on DVD, and Rick Harte, owner of Ace of Hearts, issued a CD re-release of ‘Hot Steel and Acid’ with more songs added.
The Eaters didn’t have much input with ‘Live at the Rat 2’, however we did with ‘Hot Steel’. ‘Hot Steel’ #1 had 8 songs on it whereas the reissue had 14 and came in a really cool CD package. Fantastic job by Rick as always.
The band now consists of drummer David Mclean, Adam Sherman on guitar and vocals, Brad Hallen on bass and vocals, and songwriter Steve Cataldo on lead guitar and lead vocals. Are you excited to present the new album?
Yes, it was a super collaboration with myself and Brad Hallen working with Steve Berkowitz and Steven Van Zandt. Three Steve’s, so we had myself, Steve C, Steve B and Steve Z. We knew who was saying it. Keyboardist Brooks Milgate really lit that record up. I hope we can work with Brooks again in the future. He is one busy cat. Every month another single comes out until the LP is released, so we have some mileage to go, but looking forward to the LP release, as well as playing out and getting to do as many festivals as we can. I have to say everybody should catch this new version of the Eaters, we seriously rock the audience.
How was it to collaborate with Little Steven Van Zandt’s Wicked Cool Records?
Steve Van Zandt is a musical historian, really knows his stuff. The people that he surrounds himself with are top notch as well. Very helpful to us and we to them. It is really a pleasure to be with a record company like Wicked Cool.
They know what they are doing, we don’t have to bug them, and we have a great working and personal relationship with them all. David and Brad are in touch with them weekly. We were lucky if there was one person in Elektra that knew our name.
I can’t get enough of your latest single, ‘Wild Eyes’. Was there a certain story behind it?
It’s about a guy who is crazy about this girlfriend, captivated by her eyes and charm. He finds it hard to continue a relationship with her because she stays pretty much to herself. She is one of the strangest girls he has ever met and that is a big part of the attraction. He tries to interject as much of himself into her life as she will let him, which sometimes works and sometimes does not. “Well she moves, strangely lazy, unsure, kind of, maybe, she has wild, wild, wild, wild, eyes….
Let’s end this interview with some of your favorite albums. Have you found something new lately you would like to recommend to our readers?
Lana Del Ray, I dig her vibe and Greta Van Fleet, they are trying hard and are into the blues. Dylan, Beatles, Mose Allison as always, I listen mostly to old records, I can’t listen to much top 40 radio as it seriously blows, plus being a songwriter. I don’t want to subconsciously pick up any ideas. Ask Ray Davies, he will tell you the same thing. I pretty much stay to myself…sometimes I get lucky and someone from the great beyond sends me a song and it’s pretty much done in 20 minutes. It’s hard to take credit for something coming to me from the void of 3-6-9, dig me?
Thank you. Last word is yours.
Thank you everyone… I’d say get a dog and remember to pick up our Wicked Cool record ‘Monsters + Angels’. Sure would appreciate it and thanks for reading this.
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The wheat gluten used to manufacturer the Menu Foods pet food involved in the recall was from a supplier in China. The wheat gluten was contaminated somehow with rat poison. No one is sure how it got there. The recall was for canned and foil pouch food and involved over 90 brands.
Dr. Clint Chew Jr., the proprietor of Ferry Pass Animal Hospital, said two people have brought animals into his office for liver tests and dozens more have called, worried about their furry friends.
ï¿½If you fed your animals the food, you should have comprehensive blood work done,ï¿½ he said. ï¿½And follow up with more tests in five to six weeks.ï¿½
He said he has had no confirmed cases of animals that were affected by the food ï¿½ which contained a rat poison identified as aminopterin.
Veterinarians caution people to really research the food that they give their pets. The pet food has been linked to kidney failure in dogs and cats.

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I would like to begin this article with a simple question – did you realize that Jackfruit is the biggest organic product that develops on a tree? Well yes, obviously, and some have grown up to 100 lbs. That is truly astounding, isn’t that so? Jackfruits are secured in an bumpy, hard green skin, with a pale-colored flesh on the inside. As a result of its surface, flexibility, and vitamin content, jackfruit has been gaining popularity as a meat trade for veggans lovers. Yes, and you should likewise realize this astonishing and super solid organic product is the national product of Bangladesh!
Jackfruit – Health Benefits:
Initially, you should realize that this super solid organic product is contains high measures of potassium, fiber, vitamin C, vitamin B6, and magnesium. It’s likewise got a respectable measure of calcium, vitamin An, iron, and even a tiny bit of protein. One measure of jackfruit offers 25 percent of your daily B6, and as some of you know, B complex vitamins are rare in a vegetarian diet. The National Cancer Institute reports demonstrate that more than 1.17 million individuals had colorectal tumor in the United States in 2013. A muddled kind of tumor, it is hard to treat and can create numerous different sorts of complexities. Be that as it may, don’t stress, in light of the fact that the specialists say that there is a characteristic approach to battle and enhance colon cancer.Jackfruit, something of a delicacy fruit, grows widely in the tropical parts of the world. in South East Asia it is also used for making recipes.
But it is also a powerful anti-cancer food. In this article you will learn how it can prevent and fight this type of cancer.
- Colon Cancer Prevention
The medical advantages of jackfruit are because of its capable mixes: isoflavones, phytonutrients, lignans and saponins. Yes, and the specialists say that every one of these supplements have capable against growth benefits.These nutrients in jackfruit can help prevent the harmful free radicals that have been known to develop cancer and many other chronic diseases.
You should also know that the phytonutrients prevent the very initial stage of cancer cell formation. If you already have stomach ulcers, jackfruit can help in fighting them and improving the condition. Furthermore, you’ll be stunned when we let you know that phytonutrients can be sourced just from plants-based foods. Researchers have identified tens of thousands of phytonutrients and all of them provide lots of health benefits. Scientists have distinguished a huge number of phytonutrients and every one of them give heaps of medical advantages. Specialists are as yet directing studies worldwide keeping in mind the end goal to figure out how these 3 phytonutrients help in preventing and fighting cancer.
Saponins are likewise strong hostile to tumor operators. A late study, distributed in the Journal of Nutrition 1995, has found that saponins show colon disease deterrent properties. There is one more study where these phytonutrients have been found to prompt mitotic capture on account of leukemia cells. The concentrate additionally found that it encouraged at times to bring about abatement. Furthermore, you should likewise realize that saponins were found to respond to the external layers of growth cells. They bound the cells and kept their further development.
- Lignans & Isoflavones
The experts say that both these nutrients are phytoestrogens, which means that these phytonutrients bind to the receptors the estrogens do. A recent study has discovered that these nutrients help in reducing the risk of endometrial cancer. One such study was published by the National Cancer Institute in its journal in 2006. This study covered 500 women who were chosen on a random basis. The group that took the highest levels of isoflavones and lignans from jackfruit and other fruits were found to reduce their cancer rates compared to the control group.
- Protection of Cellular DNA
As we said, jackfruit is stacked with cancer prevention agents, which implies that it can help you in protecting your cellular DNA against direct harm from free oxygen radicals. It likewise helps in avoiding prompted transformations. .
- The anti-cancer properties of jackfruit don’t just stop there.
This super solid and astounding organic product is loaded with fiber. It likewise has an interesting sticky structure. Both these properties consolidate together to fill in as an extraordinary colon chemical. It helps in expelling poisons from your digestive tract.This further helps in reducing the risk of colon cancer.
- Strengthens Immune System
As we said some time recently, this super healthy organic product is pressed with vitamin C, as well as basic sugars which are considered to reinforce your immunity. A recent study, led on mice, including the investigation of the resistant boosting properties of the sugars present in jackfruit pulp, the analysts found that jackfruit has polysaccharides that helped in improving phagocytic cell function. These are cells in the immune system.
Nutritional Value of Jackfruit
Yes, and as we mentioned before – if you want to reduce the risk of colorectal cancer (significantly) and improve your digestive system, you should start adding this fruit to your diet.
There are many more reasons why you should eat more jackfruit:
- You’ll be amazed when we tell you that just 1 cup of the fruit has 155 calories with only 4 calories from fat.
- You should also know that the fruit has very low amount of saturated fats, cholesterol, and sodium.
- This super healthy fruit is packed with vitamin C, vitamin A, niacin, folate, thiamine, and riboflavin.
- You should also know that the Jackfruit has so many crucial minerals including potassium, magnesium, iron, manganese, calcium, zinc, selenium, copper, and phosphorus.
- Yes, and it also has simple sugars which are great for your health.
- Just 1 cup of jackfruit can supply you over 11% of you daily fiber allowance. But you can never stop yourself at just a cup of this delicious, pulpy fruit.
- Jackfruit has also been used in Chinese medicine for eliminating the effects of alcohol. So you have one more reason to eat more of it.
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BROWN DEER -- A Milwaukee man on April 15 pleaded guilty to one count of burglary of a building or dwelling, habitual criminality repeater, in connection with a December 2017 burglary in Brown Deer.
It happened Dec. 15, 2017 near 65th and Floral Lane. A woman called police to report the burglary, and believed the suspect was still inside.
Police responded to the home and found fresh footprints in the snow leading to the victim's home. The footprints led police roughly one block away, where they found a white Cadillac sedan in the ditch.
Officials attempted to make contact with Vonderrick Rayford, the man inside the car, and he fled on foot into a tree line, where police said he tried to hide. He was chased into the tree line, where he failed to comply with orders and physically struggled with the officers during the arrest. At one point, according to the criminal complaint, Rayford tried to grab an officer's firearm.
Rayford was taken into custody, and police found numerous items taken in the burglary located in his vehicle and in the tree line. The items included multiple televisions that were ripped off the walls, small electronics, a sound bar and even Christmas presents.

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Economic determinism is a socioeconomic theory that economic relationships (such as being an owner or capitalist, or being a worker or proletarian) are the foundation upon which all other societal and political arrangements in society are based. The theory stresses that societies are divided into competing economic classes whose relative political power is determined by the nature of the economic system.
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In the writing of American history the term is associated with historian Charles A. Beard (1874–1948), who was not a Marxist but who emphasized the long-term political contest between bankers and business interest on the one hand, and agrarian interests on the other.

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When it’s a rainy or cold day, sewing projects for kids can be a great way to keep them busy, pique their interest in something new, and help them bond with you! Together, you can create keepsakes that will bring up cherished memories for years to come. These easy crafts are some of our favorites and create beautiful, functional items your kids will be proud of.
Quilting for Kids
Yes, you heard right! Quilt panel kits can make simple starter sewing projects for kids who are just learning the ropes of the sewing machine. And to get your kids even more enthused about the process, Sit n’ Sew Fabrics offers novelty panel quilt kits in trendy movie and TV themes your kids will adore. Take for example this sweet purple My Little Pony Panel Kit! Each panel kit includes a single panel, borders, and binding fabric. It’s a simple matter of sewing straight lines to connect the pieces.
Throw pillows are classic sewing projects for kids. They can be done on the sewing machine, or by hand for kids who aren’t quite ready for the responsibility of the machine. Sit n’ Sew Fabrics has super unique cork fabric throw pillow kits in three colors that are precut and ready-to-sew. Each pillow kit comes with simple instructions and soft cork fabric that will create a stunning finished product. All you need to do is add your own stuffing. You could even reuse the stuffing from an old pillow you have lying around!
Face Mask Kits
Sit n’ Sew Fabrics has DIY cloth face mask kits that make great sewing projects for kids. They are sold in packs of four, so you can make them with all of your children, or have extras to make for their friends as gifts. Each mask is made from three layers of cotton fabric in colorful patterns your whole family will enjoy. They have optional filters and adjustable ear loops so even your pre-teen can get the perfect fit.
A Cute Stuffed Animal
What child wouldn’t love the chance to make their own adorable stuffed animal to add to their collection? Stuffed animal kits make the perfect sewing projects for kids, with a very satisfying finished product. We love this Joey the Shop Dog Plushie Panel Kit that has a simple design and super cute graphics. Helping your kid with this project will really boost their confidence level and may help foster a lifelong love of sewing!
Think outside the box and create your own projects with Sit n’ Sew Fabrics novelty fabrics by the yard! You’ll find all sorts of cute and colorful patterns that kids of any age will love. Patterns like cuddly animals, holiday themes, and fabrics in their favorite colors are sure to catch their attention and take any project you come up with to the next level!
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Hollywood Accounting is a controversial accounting practice that is used in the film industry to manage the financial reporting of a film's budget and profits (you may also know it as Hollywood Bookkeeping, or Hollywood Creative Accounting). The practice involves the use of complex accounting techniques and financial maneuvers to manipulate the financial statements of a film, often resulting in the film being shown as having little or no profit. In fact, some sources say 70-80% of films fail to ever make a profit, despite actually have massive box-office success. This has significant consequences for film investors, filmmakers, and talent, as well as for the film industry as a whole. There is a stigma that film is a "vanity investment" and it's time this changes.
How Hollywood Disguises Films’ Financial Performance
Usually, in a business, when profit-share contracts are created, there’s some standard wording that clearly identifies profit margins – usually a percentage of profits. In Hollywood, studios try to pay out based on a contractual definition of net profits instead of a percentage as a whole – this starts only after revenue exceeds 100% of expenses, and the expense tab just keeps on growing. This is why Hollywood stars tend to negotiate profits from the gross rather than net box-office revenue.
Your Favorite Movies Didn’t Make a Profit
Some of your favorite movies didn’t make a profit – according to Hollywood Accounting. Matt Rickard’s Hollywood Accounting post has a neat little list of movies that suffered under Hollywood Accounting:
Star Wars: Return of the Jedi (budget: $32mm, box office: $475mm)
Forrest Gump (budget: $55mm, box office: $683mm)
Men in Black (budget: $90mm, box office: $589mm)
Coming to America (budget: $36mm, box office: $288mm)
Bohemian Rhapsody (2021) (budget: $55m, global box office $911mm)
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (budget: $150mm, box office: $942mm)
Hollywood Accounting Consequences for the Film Community
One of the main problems with Hollywood Accounting is that it is used to mislead stakeholders about the financial performance of a film. This can result in investors putting money into a film that they believe will be financially successful, and then despite box office success, the expenses erase the revenues, resulting in a horrific financial loss. This limits the potential of investors being able to reinvest in new films, sustaining creatives in the film industry.
Another problem with Hollywood Accounting is that it can be used to avoid paying out profits to filmmakers, actors, and other talent. In many cases, the contracts for these individuals specify that they are entitled to a percentage of the film's profits. However, through the careful manipulation better known as Hollywood accounting, the film may be shown as having little or no profit, even if it has actually made a significant amount of money. This can result in filmmakers, actors, and other talent not being fairly compensated for their work on the film.
Finally, Hollywood accounting can have negative consequences for the film industry as a whole. By manipulating the financial statements of films, it can create an inaccurate portrayal of the financial performance of the industry. This can lead to a distorted view of the profitability of the film industry and can impact the funding and distribution of future films. Hollywood accounting is a problematic practice that can mislead investors, underpay filmmakers and talent, and distort the financial performance of the film.
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Dickson Hall (St Margaret of Scotland Episcopal Church)
Traditional Scottish, Irish and English Folk Music sessions at a slower pace. Ideal for beginner and intermediate players, but everyone wanting to play welcome!
Sheet music allowed. Friendly and welcoming atmosphere and without an audience and therefore beginner-friendly. Sets are pre-set around a week before the session by the two leaders. Suggestions for future tunes are always welcome!
Since November 2021 we have a new location: Dickson Hall, St Margaret of Scotland Episcopal Church, 27A Queen St, Tayport DD6 9JZ (parking on-street). The hall is behind the Church, the entry is after the small passageway left of the church.
The event is free but we would be grateful for a £2 contribution to lightening and heating of the hall if you can.
There is tea and coffee and you could even bring your own bottle if you are in the mood 🙂
Sundays 5:00 - 7:00 PM once a month (usually the 3rd Sunday).
We usually have between 10 and 16 musicians coming together for each Slow Session.
For additional information, link to dropbox with music sheets, list of sets, tips for beginners: please contact the organiser Heike (email@example.com).


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If your small business needs to proceed benefiting from web optimization, then you need to keep up-to-date with these adjustments. You also have to take action in case your website doesn’t meet the newest best practices for search engine optimization. Skip auditing your web site, and also you threat shedding your visibility in search outcomes. Then, you need to use your common weblog posts to drive visitors to that lead magnet to keep your lead-nurturing funnel full. Reach out to noncompetitors in your market by commenting on their posts and even messaging them to begin conversations.
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JotForm has a free plan that permits you to create beautiful decide-in types, and the service even lets you settle for payments immediately by way of the varieties, which may make a huge distinction in your conversions. If you want the visitors on your website to choose in or buy from you, having engaging and skilled-looking forms is important. Wistia allows accumulating e mail addresses on the videos themselves, using a more discreet hover-on decide-in form or pausing the video and requiring an decide-in to continue watching.
This may be a newbie’s tip, however it’s additionally one that 99% of firms appear to miss completely. The sooner you’ll be able to put a method into place, the sooner you’ll be able to flip it right into a force multiplier in your advertising finances’s ROI. On the one hand, you absolutely needed to have a presence on this social media platform. It was the one place on-line you could ensure your prospects visited.Everyone has a LinkedIn account, even when they’re not extremely active on it. If you’re sending the same LinkedIn advert to everyone who ever visited a web page on your website, that’s not personalised retargeting.
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Convertful is another glorious conversion optimization tool that provides a wide range of powerful options and has a free version that you could get began with. So it’s fully understandable why a tool ike ClickFunnels is so extremely in style proper now. Some of them don’t know the way to place their supply, however for a lot of, it comes down to the lack of understanding about tips on how to put collectively an interesting lead seize page. It may help you keep tabs on all information and key developments in regards to the corporations that you’re concentrating on, offering you with alerts on the predetermined triggers that you can customise. Whether it’s information about new technology being launched, or a latest rent, having these kind of insights may help you figure out precisely what the priorities are for that lead and place your offer accordingly.
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The finish result’s that both your lead will bounce or get lost to another page. Access Jumplead via our API to combine Jumplead’s advertising capability along with search engine api your current systems, or build new apps. With one click on they’ll see the entire element for every prospect that has visited our website.
With LeadGrabber Pro, you’ll be able to switch your leads to Salesforce, Excel, Outlook and other popular CRMs. Stay up to date with the most recent advertising, gross sales, and repair tips and news. With OptinMonster, you can even break up take a look at campaigns, show customized messages to returning visitors, and build a gross sales pipeline. Some don’t assist qualify the best prospects, others don’t garner attention, and many struggle to help you measure and doc lead generation success.
Intent information can help you identify how much influence each customer has, which role they play, where they’re at within the buying stage, and which other rivals they’ve researched. According to research from Think with Google, while 64% of senior execs have the final say, non-C suite members still have a massive affect within the buying process. Here are a few ways you can incorporate intent data into your general B2B personalization strategy.
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Instead, use options like matched audiences to choose specific ULRs a lead visited to personalize your ads. That leaves a huge hole with numerous companies not supplying the type of expertise their buyers search for. That’s not to say that face-to-face business is out of date, however it’s far from the only method to reach your prospects.
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HelpCrunch is another chat tool option that gives Customizable Live Chat, Email Marketing Automation, And Knowledge Base Software functionality, all in one place. All of which allow you to get the most out of every customer to your site and improve your conversions in the course of. In order to enhance your conversions, you should perceive what your website’s visitors respond to best.
Eventually, the goal is to begin partnering with other accounts for social-media campaigns that build authority and entice engagement . It a minimum of gives someinsight into what the record might be overlaying, nevertheless it was most likely also protected to imagine that topic can be the main target anyway. First, if your post resonates with a lead, that may be all it takes to have them visit your web site and attain out about possibly becoming a client. Include partaking content material like testimonials or even advertise that you’ve case studies in your profile.
Or, once they discover just how incredibly efficient pop-ups can be once they’re used the proper method and on the proper time. If you’re looking for essentially the most complete conversational advertising app available on the market, Drift may be precisely what you want.
What may go in a single industry won’t essentially work in another, so you need to work out one of the best method for your company principally by yourself. We also use different exterior services like Google Webfonts, Google Maps, and exterior Video providers.
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The number of farms sold in the three months to the end of June was down 18.9% compared to the same period of last year, according to the Real Estate Institute of NZ.
The REINZ figures show that 261 farms of all types were sold in the three months to June compared to 322 in the three months to June last year.
Dairy farm sales were hit even harder, with 24 sales in the three months to June, down 29% compared to a year earlier.
In the month of June only one diary farm sale was recorded, compared to eight in June last year (see interactive graph below for the monthly trends in farm sales by type of farm).
While the COVID-19 lockdown that was in place for much of April would have contributed to the low number of sales in the second quarter, it was not entirely to blame.
The REINZ figures show that the number of farms being sold has been declining for at least five years.
In the second quarter of 2015, 479 farms of all types were sold.
That declined to 472 in Q2 2016, 459 in 2017, 427 in 2018, 322 in 2019 and 261 in 2020.
Farm prices were also down overall.
The REINZ All Farm Price Index, which adjusts for differences in the mix of farms sold by type, size and location, was down 10.1% in the second quarter of this year compared to the second quarter of last year.
The REINZ Dairy Farm Price Index was down 8.6% compared to a year ago.
"The slide in sales numbers poses a pertinent question. Are numbers going to stabilise at the current level, or is the downward trend going to continue?" REINZ rural spokesman Brian Peacocke said.
"Should it be the latter, given the range of issues currently impacting on the rural sector, not the least being the need for youthful regeneration of the farm ownership structure, it could be that an avalanche of potential sales is building up behind an earthen dam.
"Should the dam burst, what is the likely impact on farm values? Will values increase, stabilise or decrease?
"Irrespective of the outcome, what is clear is that the current average return on investment for those with investment in the rural sector will need to improve or there will be a decreasing incentive for attracting much needed, affordable capital into the rural sector," he said.
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Bombshell report implicates high-profile actresses
Two prominent actresses are among those charged by federal prosecutors with participating in a multi-million dollar scheme to get their children into high-end colleges. The fraud involved helping these students receive the benefits of being admitted as athletes in the admissions process without actually being athletes, and assisting applicants in cheating on standardized tests.
Inside Higher Ed reports that the institutions involved include Georgetown, Stanford, Wake Forest and Yale University, along with the University of Southern California.
“Desperate Housewives” star Felicity Huffman and “Full House” star Lori Loughlin are two of the biggest names mentioned in court documents that were unsealed on Tuesday. They are officially charged with conspiracy to commit mail fraud and honest services.
Inside Higher Ed reports that benefits extended to standardized test taking:
The allegations also extend to cheating on the SAT and the ACT. According to the indictments those involved in the conspiracy encouraged students they were being paid to help to file papers with ACT or the College Board saying that they had learning disabilities. When they received permission to take the test under special circumstances (typically with extra time), these applicants were told to use one of two testing centers that one of the defendants said he could “control.” Those taking the tests were then told to come up with fake reasons, such as a family wedding, for needing to take the exam in one of these centers, which were far from their homes. Bribes were then allegedly given to have others take the tests.
NBC News reported that the operation, codenamed “Operation Varsity Blues,” found that the network of wealthy parents were paying a California man to improve their children’s chances of admission by paying individuals to take tests in place of their children, paying administrators to look the other way, and paying college coaches to identify their children as athletes on applications.
Forty-nine people have been charged so far, including 33 parents and nine coaches.
The man who orchestrated the scheme is named William Rick Singer, according to NBC News. He was paid between $15,000 and $75,000 to arrange for someone else to take a student’s standardized test.
He was also paid to bribe coaches and administrators to designate applicants as “recruited athletes or other favored admissions categories,” according to court documents quoted by NBC News.
One depressing detail in the Inside Higher Ed report: “In many instances, the students taking the exams were unaware that their parents had arranged for this cheating.”
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It all begins and ends with soil. Soil organic matter is the foundation of food security, biodiversity and climate change mitigation. Recent technical advances in soil science and microbiology have revealed hitherto unsuspected organic matter decomposition processes. Researchers from INRAE, the University of Lorraine and AgroParisTech have joined forces to develop an innovative mathematical model that incorporates these recent discoveries. Their work, published on 5 February in Nature Communications, sheds new light on the cycle of soil organic matter.
Soil, and more particularly the organic matter that composes it, is increasingly at the heart of research work, due to its capacity to capture atmospheric carbon and its major role in soil health. Soil organic matter (SOM) is made up of a wide variety of carbon molecules. Microorganisms, as multiple microscopic actors, work together to break it down using enzymes as their tools. The understanding of SOM has considerably advanced in recent years. It was previously assumed that most SOM consisted of recalcitrant compounds, whereas the emerging view considers SOM as a range of polymers continuously processed into smaller molecules by decomposer enzymes. This new vision challenges existing models for predicting carbon dynamics.
This is why researchers from INRAE, the University of Lorraine and AgroParisTech have joined forces to develop a model that takes into account new data in soil chemistry and microbial ecology. This model, called C-STABILITY, combines the mathematical approaches of existing models and successfully reproduces the processes of SOM dynamics. C-STABILITY reflects the transformations carried out by enzymes and soil microbes while emphasizing the accessibility of SOM.
The theoretical simulations carried out using this new mathematical model shed new light on the relationship between microbial decomposers, SOM chemistry and SOM stock. The flexible mathematical structure of C-STABILITY offers a promising foundation for exploring new hypotheses in SOM and for better assessing the capacity of soils to store carbon.
Sainte-Marie, J., Barrandon, M., Saint-André, L. et al. C-STABILITY an innovative modeling framework to leverage the continuous representation of organic matter. Nat Commun 12, 810 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-21079-6

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