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Fans of Frank Herbert’s Dune saga were in for a bit of a shock recently when it was revealed Blade Runner 2049 director Denis Villeneuve was not only moving forward with his re-imagining of the book, but would take two years to make a two-part film.

The upcoming movie will be the epic fantasy novel’s third live-action iteration following David Lynch taking the helm of a Dune film in 1984 and SYFY producing their own mini-series in 2000 (as well as the Children of Dune sequel in 2003).

Though I will be the first to openly discuss my distaste for reboots (I mean, if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it), I’m not entirely against this newest depiction of the 1965 tome — especially since our special effects have greatly improved in the last 15 years and will allot for a richer portrayal of the desert planet Arrakis.

Despite my acquiescence to the idea of yet another Mua’dib on the big screen, I would be apt to enjoy the film if Villeneuve’s vast change in interpretation included some POC casting. While previous films have been consistent in casting our fearsome fallen desert-dwelling aristocrats as Caucasian, it would be nice to change things up a bit.

For instance, when it comes to our hero Paul Atreides, wouldn’t it be awesome to see him played by actor Donald Glover? Given that he's also portraying a young Lando in Solo: A Star Wars Story, I wouldn’t mind continuing to see him work in the sci-fi realm. If not Donald, I could see How to Get Away With Murder’s Alfred Enoch stepping into the role.

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Additionally, Black Panther's Michael B. Jordan could take on another yet fictional baddie as Feyd, Paul’s competitor and distant cousin, with American Gods' Ricky Whittle playing Rabban, Feyd’s older, more brute brother.

As for the leading ladies of Dune, Tessa Thompson has the potential to transform into Chani, the Fremen lady warrior at Paul’s side (and in his heart). Playing her somewhat polar opposite could be Annihilation's Gina Rodriguez as Princess Irulan, the woman who is married to Paul for the means of a political treaty.

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales' Javier Bardem comes to mind to play Emperor Shadam IV, Princess Irulan’s plotting father. If not him, then maybe The Last Jedi's Benicio Del Toro or Doctor Strange's Benjamin Bratt.

It would be very hard to cast the role of Lady Jessica, as it would have to be an actress both stunning and commanding. Skyfall's Naomie Harris has played characters both beautiful and quietly lethal.

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Equally hard would be the casting of the wicked and sinister Baron Vladimir Harkonnen, but I have no doubt Hannibal's Laurence Fishburne could bring a great sense of sophistication to the sadistic character.

With Naomie Harris playing Lady Jessica, there’s only one man I can picture portraying her consort, the Duke Leto Atreides — Mr. Idris Elba. He’s handsome, suave, and can’t do much wrong in a film like this. This is really an “Idris For Everything” kind of moment that actually works, guys!

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There are so many other Dune characters that could use a twist, like Gurney Halleck (originally played by X-Men's Patrick Stewart in the '80s), Paul’s principal tutor from his homeworld of Caladan or Alia, Paul’s “abomination” of a sister. The only remaining character that I have a clear vision for, however, is the Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam: none other than The Expanse's Shohreh Aghdashloo with her silky voice and shade-throwing eyes to play the leader of the Benegeserit order.

Though I don’t expect most (or any) of this fan casting of mine to come to fruition, one can hope that there is a smidgen of color in this round — and I’m not talking about the true-blue eye color of the Fremen, either.

The world of Dune could certainly be set in a future where people of color are also flourishing and not just in the background. It’s my dream that at least one of the major houses of Dune 2020 is reinvisioned with POC casting, if not the Fremen natives of Arrakis. Let’s face it: diversity is prevalent in our everyday society, and it should be prevalent in space and time as well.

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After abuse allegations by actress Chloe Dykstra against her former boyfriend, talk show host Chris Hardwick, AMC has responded by putting its professional relationship with Hardwick on hold.

Hardwick hosts The Walking Dead aftershow for the network, which analyzes episodes and interviews stars from AMC's zombie dramas The Walking Dead and Fear the Walking Dead -- and was popular enough to spawn several similarly formatted imitators. AMC recently pushed the show to a year-round and more loosely focused format.

AMC, in a statement, noted that while the company has had “a positive working relationship” with Hardwick for years (Fish Ladder, Hardwick’s production company, signed a first-look deal at AMC Studios last year), they take the allegations “very seriously.”

That means that while the situation is being investigated, they’re taking matters into their own hands. “While we assess the situation, Talking With Chris Hardwick will not air on AMC, and Chris has decided to step aside from moderating planned AMC and BBC America panels at Comic-Con International in San Diego next month,” wrote AMC.

Hardwick is a well-known moderator and interviewer whose TV hosting duties have often been echoed at live events or on podcasts. AMC's decision to remove his show from its schedule and him from their panels seems to be a temporary measure, with more decisive action coming at a later date. Hardwick released his own statement denying the allegations.

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This is GB16V48922 blue checker hen that is Lot 37 in our Blackpool auction in January. She is a daughter of the great WAR DRUM that can without any doubt be called a top breeder being the sire of 13 first federation winners from 1500 t0 4500 birds in just four years when coupled to four different hens. As you can see from the pedigree and montage he is also bred in the ‘Purple’.

Dam of Lot 37 is SUNDAY GIRL a young hen that very quickly is responsible for winners in Club & Federations, National Section winners and birds to score very early in One Loft Races. She was bred by Jan Hooymans from his renowned Harry when he was coupled to the fantastic Last One a supreme breeding hen from Jan and Rik Hermans base breeding pair Jaarling Dondesteen and Janssen Hen.

Lot 37 is a late bred that was hatched in September and still carries all of her nest flights. She has a strong muscular body with tight vents and nice rich eyes. She has everything required to become a top class breeding hen for the Classics and National races up to 400 miles.

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The Paul Morgan Hall is named for one of Sywell’s much-missed personalities, an aviator and engineer, sadly killed in an accident in his Sea Fury on 12th May 2001.

We could not call ourselves the Sywell Aviation Museum without in-depth coverage of Sywell Aerodrome’s own history, so the Paul Morgan Hall is devoted to Sywell itself.

Opened in  1928, the airfield has seen many events in its own lifetime. Many famous faces have visited the aerodrome and it has been important in wartime and postwar aviation.

Aircraft construction and maintenance was and still is an important part of Sywell,  together with pilot training, scheduled passenger services, and historic aviation.

Housed within the Sywell Hall we have a trio of trainers – an original  “Link” trainer displayed with interesting artefacts from one of the original wartime instructors, a nose section from a post-war de Havilland Chimpunk T.Mk.10 and another nose section from a cold war de Havilland Vampire T.Mk.11.

The aerodrome’s civilian story during the 1930s and beyond is told as is the history of its resident wartime unit, No 6 Elementary Flying Training School.

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The cherry-red blazers worn by the boys at Arnold House are adorned with badges, won for their attitude to work, and citizenship bars for contributing to the life of the school. Here, it’s not competition that’s important; what matters are kindness and impeccable manners (we love the Social Graces section of the website and rather wish all schools had one)....
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Three years before the Soviets were experimenting with a single piece 122 mm shell, the Germans were already working on arming their wonder-weapons with a 150 mm cannon. They decided to use a single piece shell.

This is a one piece shell designed for use in the 15 cm L/40 cannon in the VK 70.01. The length of the shell is a whopping 1.6 meters, and the mass is an optimistically estimated 57.4 kg. Trying to load one of these would be like grabbing a short person and trying to shove them into the breech of a gun. Compare this to the Soviet 1210 mm shell with a 40 kg mass that was deemed too big and heavy, and the common idea that the Soviets did not care about their tank crews' well being disappears.

Here is a similar shell, drawn up a month later for the 15 cm L/37 cannon.

The length is somewhat reduced to 1530 mm, but the mass calculations are more realistic, up to 69 kg. No person could sling these kinds of shells for the duration of a battle. There was an automatic loader for the 150 mm AA gun, but as a scale sketch by LiveJournal user torsus_sd illustrates, it does not exactly fit into a tank.

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MARNE 180- Amarone della Valpolicella DOCG

About the name “Marne 180”: Marne means marl, the variety of soil on which we’ve planted our vineyards; 180 are the degrees of exposure of our vineyards, from south-west to south-east. This wine is made from grapes harvested in various vineyards located on hills in the Valpolicella area (Mezzane and Tregnago hills). Different sources and different grape varieties are important to obtain a well-balanced wine with the fine structure that only a few single areas in the Valpolicella zone can provide.

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Soil: clay and limestone with a strong rock structure.
Vine density: 5500 vines per hectare.
Vineyard age: 20 years.
Cultivation: Guyot.
Pruning: 12 buds/plant.
Production: 8000 kg/hectare.
Grape varieties: 35% Corvina, 35% Corvinone, 20% Rondinella, 10% Rossignola, Oseleta, Negrara, Dindarella.

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Grape harvest: end of September, beginning of October.
Grapes drying in fruit storage structure: controlled humidity 4 months.
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Alcoholic fermentation and maceration: 40/60 days/temperature 15-18° C.
Ageing: in Slavonian oak barrel for about 30 months.
Blending Bottling and bottle ageing: 6 months.

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Color: strong ruby red. Clear and transparent.
Bouquet: notes of vanilla and ethereal airs depending on the period of aging in the barrel; notes of sweet fruits such as currants, blueberries, cherries depending on the varieties of grapes.
Flavor: wine with a velvety, raisiny character combined with the structure and typical stylish bitterness to give it good balance. It has an enduring and persistent flavour.
Suited for ageing: it is a keeping wine.
Combinations: red meat and aged cheeses.
Serve at: 16-18° C.

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Alcohol (% in vol.): 16,5
Reducing Sugar (g/l): 3,5
Total Acidity (g/l): 6,6
Net Dry Extract (g/l): 42,5
Total Phenols (mg/l): 2500

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Stockholm - Tele2 AB, (Tele2), (NASDAQ OMX Stockholm: TEL2 A and TEL2 B) today announces its consolidated results for the third quarter 2017.

CEO comment:

“The third quarter was a test of our ability to operate in a dynamic environment, as we saw the full effect of Europe’s new roaming regime, the new Dutch consumer credit regulation and our new service offerings which we launched across our markets in the first half of 2017.”

Financial highlights:

  • Tele2 AB’s net sales for the third quarter amounted to SEK 7,542 (6,674) million and EBITDA amounted to SEK 1,848 (1,523) million
  • Mobile end-user service revenue growth of 9 percent, or 7 percent on a like-for-like basis
  • Free cash flow of SEK 2.3 billion YTD, providing the possibility of reaching full dividend cover for financial year 2017
  • Strong uptake of new mobile commercial propositions driving double digit end-user service revenue and EBITDA growth in the Baltics, Netherlands and Kazakhstan
  • In July, Tele2 agreed to sell its Austrian operation to Hutchison Drei Austria GmbH
  • 2017 financial guidance upgraded (see page 5 in the report)

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Tele2 will host a presentation with the possibility to join through a conference call, for the global financial community at 10:15 am CEST (09:15 am BST/04:15 am EDT) on Thursday, October 19, 2017. The presentation will be held in English and also made available as a webcast on Tele2’s website:

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The motives to join the eurozone have all but disappeared for good

Given recent experience, Wednesday night's Brussels accord on fixing the eurozone will fizzle out through inaction and disagreement just like the July 21 agreement did.

I can't imagine countries such as the Czech Republic, Denmark and Sweden rushing to persuade their electorate to join a project that amounts to a cleansing of their financially incontinent neighbours Credit: Photo: EPA

That would appear the most likely outcome, especially as none of the detail of how the European Financial Stability Fund (EFSF) will be leveraged up from €440bn to €1 trillion has been agreed.

Neither do we know where the €100bn of equity is going to come from to recapitalise eurozone banks. Not many institutions I know are ready to buy more shares in dodgy banks. Those same banks will also want something in return from the EU for working with its politicians and accepting a 50pc writedown on Greek debt because Athens can't afford to meet its IOUs.

But let's pretend the measures do become reality. What then? What will the significance of this week be?

The measures plug the euro back into a life support system. This is being powered by the oxygen of confidence thrown off by capital markets that believe politicians at least understand why action must be taken.

But keeping the currency alive on pumped up policies and political intervention is not the same as saving it. At best there's time for a long-term solution to begin to emerge. Either the almost impossible political reforms in the Club Med members are enacted to reinvigorate their economies. Or the current vegetative state is maintained for good. But that won't be acceptable to voters in solvent nations footing the bill, so there's a third fork of decline and deconstruction as the political will to maintain the euro ebbs from one generation to the next.

But surely we can say one thing for certain. And that is we've witnessed the eurozone's greatest extent. The motives to join have all but disappeared for good. Which of the EU's 10 members not in the single currency still wants to join? Ignoring the UK, received wisdom before the eurozone's debt crisis was that non-members had an obligation to join once conditions were met. But I can't imagine countries such as the Czech Republic, Denmark and Sweden rushing to persuade their electorate to join a project that amounts to a cleansing of their financially incontinent neighbours.

But this week should also therefore mark the emergence of Europe's other force: not the eurozone but the free zone of freely floating currencies. David Cameron should call a summit of the free zone in London to discuss further cooperation on trade and policies with the growth economies of the eastern and southern hemispheres, the US, Africa and the Middle East. The free zone should have the courage of its convictions. They are the ones that others should aspire to join, not the eurozone.

Banking on bank shares was a good idea

Observing the eurozone's troubles from this side of the Channel can risk a hubristic reaction, which is to be avoided.

For all his faults, Alistair Darling's efforts during 2008 as Chancellor of the Exchequer to make sure UK banks were adequately recapitalised, not just by the market but by taxpayers too, are looking like a success.

The European Banking Authority has said that our lenders won't need to add further capital to protect themselves against sovereign debt losses.

Shares jumped on Thursday as a result and in reaction to a general sense that the eurozone has embarked on the road to reform rather than ruin.

It seems sensible then to update you on my column of September 9 when I said that Friday was a chance to pick up some bargains in banking shares, coming before the Independent Commission on Banking's final report on the following Monday. "Tuck some bank shares away today and ignore the short-term volatility still to come" was the call. Well, the five are all up since then and together have risen an average of 15.8pc, helped the most by Barclays (32pc) and Royal Bank of Scotland (18.5pc).

Not a bad start to a long-term investment.

Strong October points to a stronger 2012

Lakefront Partners, a US hedge fund, posted an informative blog on October 21. It showed that if October had ended then, the S&P 500 would have risen 9.6pc, enjoying one of its strongest Octobers since 1928 and certainly the strongest since 1982, when the S&P was up 11pc.

Since then, the S&P has risen further, having a strong day on Thursday, giving an October rise of 13pc so far. If that rise holds, or continues, 1982's gains will be surpassed, and it might even challenge 1974's 16.3pc October.

Much of this is predicated not so much on a euro relief rally but on US corporate earnings. Half the S&P has now reported, 193 have surprised on the upside, with earnings growth averaging 16pc.

The point of all this? Strong Octobers have often seen a strong following year. A 20.5pc one-year rise followed October 1974 and a 22.3pc rise came after October 1982. Here's hoping.


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It was everything a championship game should be last Saturday at Harpeth Middle School where the William James and Charlotte Middle softball teams battled it out in the MTAC tourney championships.

The lead changed hands three different times with the game knotted up 7-7 going into the bottom of the sixth. That’s when Kristen Osborne earned a two-run single that put the Lady Colonels back on top as William James went on to grab the win 10-7 and the conference tournament crown.

“I’ve never been more proud of anything. They’re a great group of girls. They always stick together,” WJM head coach Ali Smith said after Saturday’s game. “Just like the last play, it’s an error but we turn it into the last out and that’s how the season has been for us. Even when we’re back down, they find a way to win.”

The two Dickson County teams went into the tournament as the top squads in the brackets with WJM as the undefeated regular season champs. Charlotte advanced to the finals after beating Hickman 11-2 in the semis while William James defeated East Hickman 11-1 in the first semis game Saturday.

Lady Colonels’ pitcher, Bailey Griffith, the team’s only eighth grader and MTAC tourney MVP was 3-for-4 at bat with five strike outs pitching and was the driving force behind WJM this season.

“Our team stayed together the whole time. Nobody gave up. We all picked each other up,” Griffith said. “This is the most amazing thing ever. We’ve all worked so hard for this. I know I’ve worked for three years for this…I know I couldn’t have done it without my team.”

It was the combination of Griffith earning two strikeouts in the top of the first inning and RBIs by teammates Lillian Boydston (two-run double) and Kristen Osborne in the bottom that helped WJM look to command the momentum early. Charlotte’s pitcher Lennon Spicer put the brakes on that though, striking out two Lady Colonel batters in a row to end the opening inning.

The Lady Tigers then went to work in the batter’s box and six players getting on base with four earning RBIs to put CMS on top, 4-3.

Meg Tomlinson got the bats swinging first with a single to get on base first. Jase Jackson stepped up after her with a double and Tomlinson scored the Lady Tigers’ first run of the game. Lennon Spicer would send Jackson across the plate off another CMS double and Lydia Edmondson would tie the game up with a triple that scored Spicer. An RBI by Lexy Gibbs would then put Charlotte up 4-3.

Charlotte didn’t hold the lead for long though as Sam Morgan tied the game back up off a single that scored Griffith. Scoring hits by Boydston and Samantha England would put William James back on top, 6-4, going in the bottom of the second. The Lady Colonels would add another run in the third off an RBI by Griffith and William James looked ready to roll things up.

Charlotte wasn’t done though. While the fourth and fifth innings bogged down into a defensive duel, the Lady Tigers came out swinging again in the top of the sixth.

Lydia Edmondson earned a double to start off CMS’s at-bat. She didn’t stay there long as Lexy Gibbs hit a single to send Edmondson home and the race was on for the Lady Tigers. Jase Jackson would hit a rocket into the outfield to score Gibbs and Shannon White to tie the game back up, 7-7. It looked like the Lady Tigers would keep that pace up, but the Lady Colonels settled back down on defense and sent CMS back into the field.

In the bottom of the inning, William James went back to work on offense with Osborne earning a two-run single to put her team back in the lead. Elizabeth Kilpatrick would give WJM a 10-7 lead off a one-run single. A double-play would help Charlotte put an end to the scoring run but the damage was done.

The Lady Colonels put out the first two Charlotte batters in the top of the seventh and Kristen Osborne would tag out a runner headed to third for the final out of the game.

“It was definitely an intense game, “ Charlotte head coach Crissy Cole said. “I think overall we had a great season. Some games we would come to play. Some games, it took us a while to get into the rhythm of playing…but overall a great season.”

MTAC All-Tournament Team

• WJM: Analeigh Coursey, Sam Morgan, Lillian Boydston and Kristen Osborne.

• CMS: Taylor Heath, Meg Tomlinson and Lennon Spicer.

• MVP: Bailey Griffith – William James


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President Trump has said he will nominate a woman to replace feminist icon Ginsburg. But it’s likely that nominee’s perspective will be far different from hers.

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When asked when there will be enough women on the U.S. Supreme Court, the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg famously said, “When there are nine,” noting that no one’s ever raised a question about nine men serving on the court.

It is likely that President Donald Tump will nominate a woman to replace Justice Ginsberg, who died last week. Amy Coney Barrett, a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit in Chicago has emerged as a front-runner on the president’s shortlist. If nominated and confirmed, she would be the fifth woman ever to serve on the high court.

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I booked a Sardinian holiday for June through Citalia and paid fully the amount of just under £2,600 by mid February 2020.
Citalia eventually cancelled the holiday and sent me a credit note for the amount I had paid. I rejected this credit note and asked for my money back. They replied with a load of gaff about what ABTA allowed them to do and advised me that I could not have a refund until January 2021. I once again asked for a refund and had a similar reply.
I then approached my credit card provider on 23 May quoting "section 75" but after hours on the phone and loads of letters and sending supporting evidence all I can get from them is to the effect that they will investigate the matter in due course. Disgraceful or what?
I now would like to send a warning letter Citalia before taking legal action through the small claims court. Does any member have experience or knowledge of what this final warning letter should say?

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Thanks Barry1010. That looks good, concise and to the point. I will use it.
Have you had to do this yourself?
If you are threatening to take someone to court, you’ve got to be prepared to do so if you‘ve not got what you want by your deadline. And what if you lose the case? There’s huge stress involved in litigation
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I may also pursue for compensation in line with the Key rights package travel regulations which states ‘ 10. Travellers are also entitled to a price reduction and/or compensation for damages where the travel services are not performed or are improperly performed.’
I've done it twice, never got as far as court but I have guided a friend through the small court process. It is fairly straightforward.

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American Photographer

Born: 1928
Died: 1984
Garry Winogrand Timeline

Progression of Art

El Morocco, New York

This photo depicts a close up snap shot of a couple dancing at the popular New York club called El Morocco in 1955. It stands out for the strangeness of the moment Winogrand chose to capture. Rather than selecting a more flattering shot of the dancing couple, this image instead reads as slightly terrifying. The close cropping of the image lends it a claustrophobic feel, and the perfectly pointed manicure of the woman reads as claws clutching the man's shoulder. The man's back is to the camera, making it unclear whether he shares his dance partner's exuberance. With the woman's face as the only visual cue, Winogrand creates an image charged with energy and desperation. The woman's wide open mouth, presumably captured mid-laugh, gives the image its unhinged and frenzied tone.

When this image was taken during the 1950s, there was a sense of optimism in America. The war was over, the Allies had won, and after decades of living through an economic depression, America was prospering once more. Magazines and periodicals were only interested in depicting this feel good, new American way of life. This photograph is a careful balance of representing the post-war enthusiasm that earned photographers spreads in Life Magazine (and thus assured photographers a way of living) and a subtle expression of the cynicism and social critique that came to define Winogrand's artistic style. The woman's manically happy face paired with her claw-like manicure captures the willfully ignorant tone of American media at this time, which was intent on glossing over the darker ills of society in favor of an overly exuberant optimism.

This image was taken when Winogrand was starting to think more artistically about his work. As the head of photographs at the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C., Sarah Greenough, explains "Winogrand worked at a moment when the boundaries between journalistic and artistic photography were less certain than they had ever been, yet it was also a time when the most advanced photographers were consciously abandoning journalistic values." The blurriness of the image and its chopped, tilted frame show the emergence of Winogrand's signature style that was reflective of his personal philosophy that it was more important for photography to capture a fleeting moment than to ascribe a particular meaning.

Gelatin silver print - The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Marilyn Monroe, New York City

Many know this iconic image of Marilyn Monroe, shot on the set of the movie The Seven Year Itch. Monroe's strategic positioning over the subway grate at Lexington Avenue and 52nd Street meant that as a train passed by underneath, the resulting air rushed above and sent her dress flying up. Monroe's thrown back head and gregarious laughter assured that this image captured her ebullient sexuality. The original photograph was taken as a publicity stunt for the movie, where over 20 photographers, including Winogrand, were invited to photograph Monroe, as the public also watched on adoringly. Take after take, Marilyn played to the lascivious crowd as much as to the cameras.

Winogrand's original photograph won the attention of the producers, despite the fact that Monroe's underwear was in full view of the camera lens. The scene was then reshot on a soundstage in Los Angeles because showing Monroe's underwear was deemed too risqué for the film. Despite its provocative content, this image was still used for promotional ads, helping make the film the biggest hit of 1955. Monroe's exposed legs that invited a desiring gaze of her body in this image solidified Monroe's sex symbol status, but it also signaled the end of her brief marriage to Joe DiMaggio. Present during the filming of the scene, DiMaggio couldn't tolerate Monroe's exhibitionism and the crowd's loud and approving response. He filed for divorce shortly after filming ended.

In terms of Winogrand's own work, this image shows that even early on in his career he was already a master at capturing the perfect candid moment, or what Henri Cartier-Bresson referred to as the 'decisive moment.' As Cartier-Bresson himself explains, "[photographers] work in unison with movement as though it were a presentiment on the way in which life itself unfolds. But inside movement there is one moment at which the elements in motion are in balance. Photography must seize upon this moment and hold immobile the equilibrium of it." As Winogrand's career progressed, he moved away from the foundational legacy of Cartier-Bresson, instead embracing slap-dash compositions and subject matter that came to embody a darker and more critical stance towards society.

Gelatin silver print - Museum of Modern Art

Hand Feeding Elephant Trunk, Zoo

Hand Feeding Elephant Trunk, Zoo is from Winogrand's first book, The Animals. Taken at the Central Park Zoo, the image depicts the long trunk of an elephant reaching over its enclosure to catch peanuts falling from the open hand of a man. Leaving out both the body of the man as well as that of the elephant, this image is reflective of Winogrand's unusual shooting style that would come to define his career. This image can also be read as a brilliant twist on Michelangelo's painting The Creation of Man from the Sistine Chapel, in which God's outstretched hand reaches for Adam's in a symbolic gesture to give him life.

However, in Winogrand's image, there is a darker side to the man's outstretched hand. As art historian, Janet Malcolm explains, "[Winogrand] shows the Central Park Zoo for the dirty prison it was, focusing on the bars, the concrete floors, the dispirited ugly animals, the dumb (for thinking they are enjoying themselves), ugly people, and the grubbiness and meanness..." In this particular image a wall divides the man and elephant, physically separating them and emphasizing the divide between freedom and the lack thereof. And while the gesture of feeding the elephant may seem like an act of kindness, the wall is a reminder that humans imprisoned this once wild animal - its survival now dependent upon us.

Gelatin silver print - Metropolitan Museum of Art

New York World's Fair

In this image, several men and women sit on a park bench consumed within their own lives. On the far left, a black man listens attentively to a white woman as she gestures emphatically with her hand. Next to them, two girls whisper conspiratorially to each other, while the third rests her head on her friend's chest. Meanwhile, in the far left two women look far beyond the frame of the photograph, with one lowering her sunglasses as if to get a better look, as the man next to them is instead preoccupied with his newspaper, seemingly unaware of those sitting next to him. Winogrand managed to capture the intimacy that only exists in a crowded city, here, people sit right next to each other but are absorbed in their own lives and conversations.

Shot during the time when Winogrand became more and more dissatisfied with capturing images that depicted the perfect life that magazines desperately wanted to portray. Rather, Winogrand saw life as infinitely more complex and sought to depict that in his images. He once remarked, "I read the newspapers, the columnists, some books, I look at the magazines (our press). They all deal in illusions and fantasies." So as a reaction against this oversimplified view, he captured moments depicting the nuances of life in order to create something authentic.

When this image was taken, during the New York World's Fair of 1964, the sense of optimism in America remained the primary focus of the media. But beneath this hopefulness there was also a sense of unease, especially as the 1960s progressed. Cold War fears were looming, and racial tensions were at an all-time high. Winogrand himself once remarked rather pessimistically, "I look at the pictures I have done up to now, and they make me feel that who we are and what we feel and what is to become of us just doesn't matter. Our aspirations and successes have become cheap and petty...I can only conclude that we have lost ourselves, and that the bomb may finish the job permanently, and it just doesn't matter, we have not loved life."

This cynicism also punctuated Winogrand's photographs that captured, on an intimate scale, these global dichotomist themes of both optimism and dread. This image exemplifies how he balances those two senses. World fairs, by their very nature, are hopeful places, full of bright possibilities for the future. And yet the people on the park bench symbolize an underlying sense of distrust. They are grouped together, ignoring the others around them. The two women in the middle whisper to each other as if to keep their conversation hidden from prying ears. As art historian, Jeff Rosenheim, explains, "there is anxiety in the pictures that suggests something else is going on, which was pervasive in the culture at the time."

Gelatin silver print - San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

New York

In this photograph, a well-dressed woman is captured mid-stride, her eyes focused beyond the frame of the camera lens. With her purse tucked neatly beneath her arm and a shopping bag clutched in her other hand, she looks too busy to notice Winogrand, who was standing very closely to her. The two businessmen walking behind her, however, look directly at the camera just as Winogrand releases the shutter. Their smirks are easily perceived, while the woman's wind swept hair partially covers the determined, stern expression on her face. While we are left to guess the reason behind the men's smirks, the juxtaposition of their grins with the woman's stern expression infuses the image with tension. This unease is also captured through Winogrand's framing of the harsh bright sunlight that help frame the woman and the dark shadows cast by the men.

Winogrand's most iconic works are his images that capture the energetic streets of New York City in the 1960s. He used a small-format Leica camera with a 28mm lens for most of his life. This allowed him to get wide frames, but also required him to be close up to his subjects in order to get his shots, which suited Winogrand's style perfectly. Unlike Cartier-Bresson, who tried to be invisible when capturing his subject matter so as not to corrupt the image, Winogrand immersed himself in the crowds, becoming an active participant in the scene. His photos, especially of women, are evidence of this technique. In this particular work the photographer intrudes in the woman's space, forcing her to quickly step aside to get out of his way. Another important departure from the tightly composed photographs of Cartier-Bresson is the loose framing of this image - one of the woman's legs is cut off abruptly at her knee, while the businessmen in the background collapse in compressed space of the photograph into her body. By Cartier-Bresson's photographic standards, a good photograph meant fully framing the main subject and assuring that it did not merge with objects (or people) in the background. However, the haphazard framing of this image contributes to the sense that the woman is unaware that her photograph is being taken, and heightens the sense of immediacy and intrusion.

In Winogrand's second book, Women are Beautiful, he captures most of the women unaware and without their consent. And just as in this image, all were captured up close. He even once remarked, "women interest me. How they look and certainly how they move. And their energy." He made no apologies for his interest in photographing and subsequently, objectifying women. He saw no issue with what he was doing because there was no malice behind it, just an attempt to capture an interesting shot. As if in defiance of Winogrand's physical intrusion into her space, the woman's hardened expression and determined body stance combat the idea of women as passive subject, and thus contributes to the image's overall dynamism. The tension, between viewing women as passive objects and the woman's body language that actively resists this assumption in this image, gets to the heart of the era's rampant sexism and the rise of the fight for gender equality. It is for this reason the power of Winogrand's images persist to this day.

Gelatin silver print - Collection of Randi and Bob Fisher

Central Park Zoo

In another of Winogrand's iconic works, Central Park Zoo, a young interracial couple each holds a chimpanzee dressed in children's clothes. Winogrand captures himself in this scene as well - his shadow falls over the man's torso, reminding the viewers of just how close Winogrand got to his subjects. They are impeccably dressed, as if the couple were aware that they would be capturing the attention of their fellow zoo goers.

Taken during the height of the Civil Rights Movement, their mere public presence is very much a political statement. Interracial couples were taunted with the idea that their children would be monkey-like, casting a more serious political statement to the seeming levity of the dressed up chimpanzees. Certainly aware of this, Winogrand presents them in a moment of passing by him, and their implacable facial expressions give this image an ambiguous tone: there is no easy or singular political statement offered here. As Winogrand explains, "there isn't a photograph in the world that has any narrative ability. They do not tell stories. They show you what something looks like to a camera. The minute you relate this thing to what it was photographed it's a lie...It's the illusion of literal description." In this work, Winogrand removes the context, showing just enough of the moment that the viewer can only describe what they are seeing in the image. The racial tensions inherent in this image are in the background, and in so doing, Winogrand normalizes what would have been a rare sight: an interracial couple in public, in addition to their well-dressed chimpanzees.

For Winogrand, photography was about transforming the real world into a distinct image, disconnecting it from its narrative. Because he believed photography's purpose wasn't to tell a story, it was simply to exist, or perhaps, in this image, the right to exist.

Gelatin silver print - Collection of Randi and Bob Fisher

New York City

In the image, activists gather to protest the shootings at Kent State University in Ohio, in which the National Guard killed four students protesting the Vietnam war. In the center of the image is a larger middle-aged man in a hardhat, his mouth open in an angry shout. The microphones of journalists and the American flags punctuate the image and lead the viewer's eye through this chaotic scene. The men in hardhats are part of the 200 construction workers who infiltrated the protest in disgust of the activist's critique of America. Tensions between the two groups quickly escalated, and Winogrand's image captures the moments just before the construction workers began to beat the activists, as the police looked on and did nothing. This event was later coined the Hard Hat Riot of 1970. This image, so indicative of Winogrand's crammed and chaotic aesthetic, became an important work from his third book, Public Relations, published in 1977. This book was an investigation into the effects of the media on turbulent events of the time.

The 1960s and '70s were periods marked by civil unrest throughout the country. African Americans and women were fighting for equality, while activists were protesting the Vietnam War. And for the first time the media was immediately reporting these events to the public, who were watching it all unfold on television. Winogrand, interested in this new phenomenon, set about examining the media's role at these public occasions. He once remarked, "nothing happens without the press. It's all done for it." So rather than capture just the event as a photojournalist would, Winogrand includes members of the media in his photos, making them focal points of the work. In this image, the reporter's microphones intrude into the increasingly tense showdown between the activists and the construction workers. The microphone's physical inclusion in Winogrand's image reminds viewers of the questions being called out by the reporters, which, most likely, incited the violent turn of events. Winogrand was one of the first to explore the relationship between the media and events, and his inclusion of reporters was a novel glimpse into the reality of the social turmoil that Americans watched unfold (primarily from the comfort of their own homes).

Gelatin silver print - Museum of Modern Art, New York

Fort Worth

In this image, a horse rears onto hind legs as two ranchers attempt to get it under control. The event is captured by the bright flash of Winogrand's camera. The flash freezes the action of the horse while leaving the background blurred by movement. The wild look of the horse's eye heightens the chaos Winogrand captured in this image. The scene, combined with the tilted frame and blurriness of the image create a feeling of primal instability. One gets the sense that while humans have successfully domesticated animals, they still cannot be completely controlled by us.

This image is from Winogrand's final book, Stock Photographs: The Fort Worth Fat Stock Show and Rodeo, (1977), which was a collection of images that showed the relationship between humans and animals. Lee Friedlander and Diane Arbus along with Winogrand became famous when MoMA curator John Szarkowski grouped them together in the 1967 exhibition called "New Documents," and Winogrand's final published work set him apart from his colleagues through its subject matter, while Friedlander and Arbus primarily captured scenes of people and their lived realities, with this work, Winogrand focused primarily on animals and their lived realities.

Winogrand's own rebellious and fast-paced energy often mimicked that of his subject matter. He would quickly look through his viewfinder and then just as quickly, click the shutter. The end result, like in Forth Worth, was an image detached from exactness and obvious design that had previously defined what a "good" photograph was. Rather, Winogrand's fast-paced and seemingly haphazard shooting style gave his works a sense of realism and prescience. Winogrand once remarked, "photography is not about the thing photographed. It is about how that thing looks photographed." This simple yet innovative way of thinking subverted the previous held beliefs about the photographic techniques needed to create a good photo.

Gelatin silver print - San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

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"Hiltonizing:" A New Verb in Continuing Starwood/Hilton Fight

We've been watching this lawsuit go forward with interest for some time now. As you'll recall, Starwood sued Hilton over two senior executives (Ross Klein and Amar Lalvani) who departed and managed to show up at Hilton with seemingly truckloads of confidential documents relating to Starwood's luxury brands. Hilton fired Ross and Amar and sent the documents back to Starwood but claimed they didn't really appear to be confidential documents. Denizen, Hilton's new luxury brand, bit the dust soon after the first lawsuit was filed. The suit even contains a quote from this blog describing the similarity of Denizen to W at the brand launch - what foresight!

As first reported in today's Wall Street Journal, Starwood filed an amended complaint in New York District Court alleging further wrong-doing by Hilton. Most shocking in the new complaint is the seemingly personal attacks against Hilton CEO Nassetta. Starwood is going for the jugular by attacking the senior management team at Hilton.

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It appears that the sheer amount of documents (and copies thereof) were truly enormous. Starwood (with just a touch of drama-queen) writes in the amended complaint:

"Hilton has delivered to Starwood hundreds of thousands of pages of documents and computer files retrieved from Hilton offices and the homes of Hilton employees around the world, and there is no end in sight. Deliveries of documents pursuant to the Preliminary Injunction continue, and documents were received as recently as yesterday, nearly a year later. This mountain of undisputed evidence...."

And many of the documents were sent by "Starwood employees used as corporate spies" recruited by Klein using personal email accounts with cute notes attached to the files like: "fyi, I do not ck this email from work so it is ok to send stuff on." Obviously, the computer science major who wrote these words didn't quite understand how nothing is really ever "ok to send stuff on"

And here is a great quote from an email from Lalvani regarding a potential W in Thailand: "Here’s an interesting one. . . . I have good connections with the owner. Lets discuss protocol during my transition on deals like this so we don’t miss them but also dealing with the fact we don’t have a lifestyle offering yet. This is going to be fun!!" Fun indeed.

And Hilton allegedly made it easy for all of the team to use the Starwood documents by uploading them onto Hilton's common drive:

“[W]ere you able to retrieve that strategic development list of cities/countries from Amar’s discs? Maybe you sent it and I missed it? We now need it urgently. Could you send to me or show me where to search?”

In response, Swierk informed Mani: "I asked Joy to put all of those documents on the s: drive so they are all located in s:HPP/HPP Development/W docs."

And "Hiltonizing" the stolen documents was a top priority:

"Further to our discussions earlier today, I think we need to have your team work with you ASAP on Hiltonizing this and sharing it with the Exec Group ASAP."

What Starwood asks of the Court in response to Hilton's actions is unprecedented, the best of which includes:
  • Court appointment of one or more "monitors" to assure Hilton’s compliance with all injunctions and Hilton's non-use, directly, indirectly or derivatively of any Starwood confidential Information or information derived therefrom;
  • Euthanizing Hilton's terminally infected Denizen Hotels brand;
  • Imposing a "penalty box" or "time out" enjoining for an appropriate time period any further development of Hilton's luxury and lifestyle brands, to compensate Starwood for Hilton’s unjust enrichment from its wrongful use of Starwood confidential information across all of Hilton's luxury and lifestyle brands
Starwood is asking for a baby sitter to watch over Hilton and is even suggesting a "time out" - obviously the drafting lawyer has children.

Still, our favorite has to be the request to "euthanize" the "terminally infected" Denizen brand. Again, spectacular drama.

As we mentioned, Starwood is clearly going in for the kill with this--but at what cost, we wonder? Lawsuits are not Starwood's core business; hospitality is. If the allegations are true, Starwood is clearly entitled to relief, but one wonders if such a nasty public feud is in the best interests of anyone.

These insights are excerpted with permission from Tom Botts' Hudson Crossing blog.


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EXCLUSIVE: More Candidates Back Team Paterson Ahead of Launch Party as Chairman Candidate Compared to Churchill.

TEAM PATERSON backers continue to line up after East Midlands Conservative Future (CF) Chairman candidate Sam Armstrong and London CF candidate Charlotte Kude joined the horde of endorsements publicly backing #TeamPaterson, TBG can exclusively reveal.

Alexandra Paterson has even sensationally been compared to "our nation's great leader", Winston Churchill, ahead of her launch party tonight, as a "figure of unwavering loyalty, impressive leadership and was ultimately magnificently sound".

Armstrong exclusively told TBG - "CF is about to be plunged into the deepest, darkest war of its existence. The General Election warrants a leader of extraordinary elasticity, tenacity and capacity. It requires a figure who was thrust into the limelight rather than seeking it.

"When Britain was in its darkest hour, its most dreaded war, it turned to a hardened battle-veteran with a legacy of delivery. Churchill was a figure of unwavering loyalty, impressive leadership and was ultimately magnificently sound. Alexandra Paterson is in many ways a reflection of our nation's great leader: up and down the Country she has fought before and won, her work in #Roadtrip2015 has demonstrated her unmatched capacity to lead and deliver and she is quite frankly one of the soundest right wingers in the CF today.

"I will be supporting Alexandra to the hilt - I am convinced she will go down as one of CF's greatest ever chairmen."

Charlotte Kude revealed to TBG: "Roadtrip2015 is the most ambitious campaigning project our party has ever developed. Alex, India, Stephen and Annabel have been working on it tirelessly since the very beginning to support marginal seats and we need to make sure that they are able to do so up until the general election. This is why I will be voting Team Paterson!"

Alexandra Paterson seems excited that she is gaining backers left, right and center - "I'm delighted that both are backing #TeamPatterson. What it shows is that we are a broad movement that appeals to everyone, and that echoes in the vision we have for a CF that is welcoming and open. If we campaign together, we will win together."


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Follow Finn: A Search-and-Find Maze Book

Author(s): Peter Goes

Mazes & Dot to Dots | Hardback Picture Books

The goblins are on the loose so Finn and his dog race after them. Follow the chase through Follow Finn--a fantastic journey full of fairytale characters and strange creatures, with a puzzle on every page and a new story in every scene.

Each image is packed with detail, and the text gives the reader tasks as it tells the story: help Finn gather his clothes, find the keys to match each lock, locate the beginning and end of each maze . . .

This magnificent search-and-find book of mazes and more is from the author of international bestseller Timeline.

Finn wakes up to find goblins on the loose - he and his dog Sep soon give chase...but first he has to find his clothes! And he needs the reader's help.

Each page contains a maze and lots of things to find as we follow Finn through a fantastical fabulous world. The very first thing to find is Finn and that's not always easy! Then you have to figure out where the maze starts and ends...

There are just so many cool things to see in the highly detailed pictures. I particularly love the lego ship in the grasp of a pumpkin-coloured kraken and the three-legged coffee pot being chased by a ravenous "Nice" biscuit. The more time you spend with this, the better it gets.

A beautifully illustrated book from the author-illustrator of last year's Timeline. Perfect for 7+ and a great book for the whole family.

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The Cloudcast #138 - Blocking on OpenStack's Storage Door

Ken Hui's Blog Series on Cinder:

Topic 1 - What is your background? What role does a PTL play in an OpenStack project? Block storage is a vendor-heavy segment of OpenStack - how do architectural decisions get made in Cinder?

Topic 2 - What is the state of block storage with OpenStack in Icehouse, and where do you expect it to go with Juno? What are the most common use cases are you seeing today?

Topic 3 - Now that there is such a range of ways to deliver block storage (all-disks, hybrid disks & Flash, All-Flash), does Cinder need to take this into consideration or is it agnostic to the storage media?

Topic 4 - At the OpenStack Summit, we heard quite a bit about deployments using Swift and Object Storage. Is that still the dominant use-case with OpenStack deployments, or are block and file (Project Manilla) growing as well?

Make sure to check out Ken Hui and Brian Gracely’s sessions at OpenStack Summit.

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Titular owner John W. Doull is understated about his 17-and-a-half-year-old business success. “There are several shops like ours in the city. We try to be somewhat funky.” Walking by the store’s Barrington Street windows, you might have the impression it’s a chaotic mess and be intimidated by the clutter. Not so, says Doull: “Despite appearances, it is highly organized, and more people are willing to come in than are scared away.” 1684 Barrington, 429-1652

1st runner-up: Trident Booksellers and Cafe, 1256 Hollis, 423-7100

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The sweaty people of Australia (and the world) have been loving the Woohoo All Natural Deodorant Paste since 2015 but along the way you’ve given us all sorts of incredible feedback about how we could make it even better.

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Cattle Council Welcomes Defence Land Acquisition Announcement

09 February 2017

AUSTRALIA - Cattle Council has welcomed the announcement from the Federal Government that there will be no compulsory acquisition of land in the regions of Charters Towers and Shoalwater Bay for defence purposes.

Cattle Council chief executive officer Duncan Bremner said that once the government had their boots on the ground consulting with landholders, the answer was clear.

“Once the government recognised there had been flaws in the consultation and negotiation process, they listened and understood that the negative impact of the forced acquisitions of productive land outweighed the potential benefits.

“Most importantly though, they acted,” Mr Bremner said.

Mr Bremner said Australian cattle producers and landholders recognise they are one of many cogs in the machine that is the Australian community and economy and would not seek to hinder the growth of the broader economy without due cause.

“And prime agricultural land is one of those examples. Whilst we have a vast country, we must preserve those areas that agricultural practice can manage, sustain, and produce from,” Mr Bremner said.

“As such, Cattle Council will continue to oppose the compulsory acquisition of prime agricultural land for non-agricultural purposes without appropriate consultation, consideration, and negotiation.

Mr Bremner also recognised the diligent and dedicated campaigning AgForce and the National Farmers Federation undertook to bringing the issue to the political forefront.

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Healthcare Spending Climbs at Slowest Rate in Years

Although healthcare spending expanded faster than the overall economy in 2007, it only increased from 16% to 16.2%, according to a study that was published Tuesday in the journal of Health Affairs.

The study also attributed the small growth to the extremely slow growth in prescription drug spending.

The reporters of an article in yesterday’s Wall Street Journal wrote, “While most health-care services grew at the same rate or faster in 2007 than in 2006, the pace of prescription drug spending slowed to its lowest rate in 45 years, climbing 4.9%, compared with an 8.6% increase the year before.”

The published study also noted that the government has been picking up more of the nation’s healthcare tab as well. The government paid for 46.2% of healthcare spending in 2007, which was up from 45.3% in 2004.

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ICT Dubai's 'greatest strength'

ICT Dubai's 'greatest strength'

Dubai's ICT infrastructure has been praised as one of its strongest assets during a major symposium.

Run by the Etisalat Group, it was entitled Connecting Minds, Creating the Future: Partnerships for Global Innovation and Sustainable Development and took place between October 22nd and October 24th.

This also saw a keynote panel session led by Etisalat Group's chief government relations and communications officer Nasser bin Obood called Drivers of Change: Mobility, Sustainability, Opportunity, where Mr Obood expressed the group's support for Dubai's bid for Expo 2020.

He said: 'Dubai is already the major convention and meeting hub for the Middle East, Africa and Asia. This is partially because of our great shipping and aviation companies, hotels and conference venues.

'But it is also due to the confidence the global community has in our ICT infrastructure and the ability of multinational corporations to collaborate effectively with colleagues and peers outside the country when they are here.'

Mr Obood stated that over 70 per cent of Dubai's homes are connected to fibre optic cables, while broadband is readily available on mobile devices.

The UAE has been named the country with the highest penetration of Fiber to the Home (FTTH) by the FTTH Council in both 2012 and 2013. Dubai, particularly, has a strong focus on modern technology and innovations.

Last week, Dubai's ruler Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al Maktoum announced the Smart Dubai City project, which is looking to further improve internet availability in the emirate. Aims include adding high-speed internet, live services and extra information in public locations. A council has already been formed, combining both public and private sectors in this goal.

As for Dubai's goal of hosting Expo 2020, the final decision will announced on November 27th, although many are suggesting the city has the best chance of winning out of the four bidders - the other three competing locations are Izmir in Turkey, Sao Paulo in Brazil and Yekaterinburg in Russia.

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Interview with an expert: Le Jardin

As event planners, we use flowers at an event to create a full sensory experience for our guests. Whether it’s for a splash of colour, to add to a theme, provide a fresh scent, or simply for the opportunity to include some beauty from nature. No matter what the main reason is, flowers have an immediate impact on happiness and have long-term positive effects on our mood. Can you relate?

What makes flowers an instant mood lifter? Studies show that chemicals in our brain such as oxytocin, dopamine, and serotonin are released when we’re around flowers. These happy brain chemicals trigger feelings of bonding, excitement and genuine happiness. Coincidentally, these are all reactions that event planners want to elicit from their guests at any event, so bring on the blooms!

As the pandemic continues, we thought this was a perfect time to sit down for a virtual interview, with one of our favourite flower studios in Cambridge, ON - Le Jardin. Given that flowers lift our spirits, we hope you enjoy thinking about them and seeing the beautiful creations by Le Jardin, as you learn more about flowers and events.

Thank you for taking the time for this virtual interview, Mary! We are looking forward to getting to know more about your company, Le Jardin, and how to work successfully with a florist.

1. Tell us a little bit about yourselves.

We’re two women-preneurs who’ve been friends for more than a decade and share a passion for flowers and all the beauty and joy they represent. We specialize in wedding and special events floral design and love creating and hosting a variety of classes and workshops.

2. When did you realize you had a passion for floral design?

Pretty much when we first met in 2008 while we were completing our Co-op terms at our first corporate job. We used to frequent and admire a cute flower shop in downtown Guelph and said that one day we’ll have our own. We spent the next several years pursuing careers, starting our families, while continuing to experiment with blooms and design for family and friends. We also completed formal training whenever we could.

3. What is your favourite flower right now?

So hard to choose! Each season provides a special bloom that we look forward to. But if we really have to pick, we love the spring peonies and summer dahlias. All year round favourites that never disappoint and ranunculus and lisianthus. Pretty much anything with soft, ruffly, high-petal count are lovely to design with.

4. When you reflect on past events, what are you most proud of?

How much we’ve learned, grown, and developed our own style in design which is more natural and organic. We’re especially proud of the relationships we formed along the way, the happy couples we’ve designed for, while keeping our team very small but mighty.

5. What is the most important piece of information you need to know about an event, in order to make it successful?

There is usually a lot more than meets the eye when planning florals for an event. Because we’re working with a perishable item, it’s important to know the setup whether indoor or outdoor to make sure the blooms are designed in a way that will last the whole event. It’s also important to know the venue and what they would allow in terms of delivery, setup, installation, etc. In terms of logistics, it’s important to know the itinerary of the day to plan the delivery, staging, and transportation to multiple venues if needed while being practically invisible to the guests.

6. What are some opportunities for clients to save money, yet still have an impressive arrangement, bouquet, or centrepiece?

Whenever possible, think local and seasonal. You don’t need to spend a fortune to make a statement with flowers. Seasonal blooms will often save you money especially if you can source them locally. They’re also guaranteed to be fresher and could last longer. Pick one or two focal blooms plus a few elements that add can add texture. These filler flowers tend to be less expensive and can add visual interest to your arrangements.

7. What kinds of events have you worked on?

Mostly weddings of all sizes and setups but we’ve also done a few anniversary parties, corporate events, bridal showers, and hosted various seasonal workshops.

8. What are some of the biggest misconceptions about adding flowers to an event?

There are two that we run into often. One is around using more greenery than blooms and the other is around only ordering a couple of items rather than a full suite in terms of cost.

More often than not, the cost of stems of the more popular and trendy greenery such as the eucalyptus varieties tends to be similar to the cost of an equivalent number of blooms.

Also, we sometimes are asked to just make one bouquet or one centrepiece of a particular kind. As an events-based flower studio, we still have to order each element in bulk so whether you’re ordering 1 or 5 centrepieces, we may be getting the same number of blooms and would have to factor that in the cost.

9. What are some tips you can give to potential clients, on how can you work together to make their event successful?

Try to plan ahead as much as you can to ensure date availability, time to secure the right variety or seasonal substitutions, and be open to suggestions. It’s great to have a vision and a general sense of colours and overall look, then be open to ideas and suggestions that can achieve a similar look, but potentially save you money. i.e. repurposing some elements from ceremony to use at the reception.

10. How has the COVID-19 pandemic impacted your business?

It’s been, well, … interesting. Like everyone and every business, we’ve definitely felt the impact of this pandemic in terms of event cancellations, postponements, and the rise of elopements rather than full or traditional weddings. The ripple effect also extends to our suppliers who have had challenges securing the right varieties and quantities of products, especially with border closures and delivery delays, which translates into an increased overall cost. All the more reason to really consider and support local farms and work with what’s in season.

11. You’re both mothers to very little ones, congratulations! What advice would you give to other working parents who are trying to balance it all?

Thank you! It’s definitely a challenge most days but loving what we do sure helps us manage. All we can say is, you have to tackle it one day at a time, give yourself grace, and make sure you focus on your health and family first. Flexibility is key and having a good support network is paramount. Set boundaries for yourself and set client expectations accordingly. We’d rather have fewer customers but make them really happy than overbooking and have many who are less than satisfied.

Thank you Mary, this was incredibly insightful! Although I am completely obsessed with flowers, and have been working with florists for years, there are some tips in here that will be helpful to me when working on future events. I'm hopeful that everyone reading this take away a few tips as well! You and Mel are incredibly talented and you should both be very proud of your flower studio!

To keep up with Le Jardin to see what they are working on and to learn about future workshops, follow along with them on Instagram and Facebook @lejardinfreshdesign.

If you’d like to work with Mary and Mel on your next event, their contact details are:

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Cambridge, ON N3C 2A7

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For centuries the sun has been considered the center of mankind’s existence. It is a cosmic power that has historically been found on many artifacts and writings in all cultures.

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19 May 2017 · 2 min read
Business in Dublin

Dublin is the economic heart of Ireland and the fastest growing economy in the World at the moment. Multinationals settle down here and a brand new high-tech quarter is developing at a fast pace. The workforce is educated, the location is perfect and the corporate tax is low. Here are some tips for the business traveller staying in Dublin.

Where to stay?

Stay central so you don’t have to fight your way through a busy route in the morning. Walking is the easiest and quickest way to travel through the city. Business quarters are around Merrion Square, St Stephen’s Green and of course the new high-tech area at the Grand Canal Dock. We suggest you stay as close as possible, book your executive room (with bathrobe and slippers) and use good Wi-Fi to prepare for your meetings ahead. O’Callaghan Collection Dublin Hotels are located right at Merrion Square and St Stephen’s Green which gives them ideal locations for you to get to work. All of our hotels feature several meeting rooms and have great capacities.

Where to eat and drink?

Dublin has a huge choice of eating out opportunities. Italian, Greek, Spanish or simply pub food, everything is available here. If you’re enjoying a bite on your own, we suggest you have a Guinness & beef stew at a local pub. However, when eating out with colleagues or business partners, Delahunt is a great choice with a small menu and three-course dinner option. The Winding Stair has an ideal location right next to River Liffey. How does a dry-aged Striploin steak with garlic truffle butter sound to you? A great place for after-business drinks is Lillie’s Bordello. The dress code is strict and the cocktails are great. Sounds promising for a colleague night out? However, if you’re up for some pints, there is plenty of choice throughout the city. Choose between the Porterhouse, the Bankers, Kennedy’s and plenty of others.

What to do on a day off?

When in Dublin for business, you should at least make sure to have one day off. The city has more to offer than meeting rooms and busy afternoons. If you’re a literature buff, Dublin’s Writers Museum is the place to go and has also an excellent restaurant. For the history fanatics, we suggest you take a Hop-on Hop-off tour as you probably don’t have much time and this is the only way to see as much as you can. For the sporty ones, Phoenix Park is a great place to run or cycle and see the President’s house and the Wellington monument at once. Another nice way to see the city can be to simply join the free walking tour, starting at Dame Street – Central Bank – each morning and afternoon. When spending an afternoon with colleagues, the perfect way to do so is enjoying a Gaelic football game at Croke Park or a rugby match at Aviva stadium.

Use the little time you have right!

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