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Nielsen Holdings PLC
|Traded as
S&P 500 Component
|August 24, 1923
|Arthur Nielsen
|United Kingdom[1]
Key people
James Attwood
(Executive Chairman)[2]
Mitch Barns
Steve Hasker
Jamere Jackson
Consumer information
Consumer research
Market measurement
|$6.2 billion (2015)[5]
|$975 million (2015)[5]
Number of employees
|44,000 (2015)
Nielsen Holdings PLC (formerly known as Nielsen N.V.) is a global information, data and measurement[6] company with headquarters in the United States. Nielsen operates in over 100 countries and employs approximately 44,000 people worldwide. Total revenues were $6.2 billion in 2015.[5]
The company is listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and is currently a component of the S&P 500.[6]
In 2016, American Marketing Association ranked Nielsen number 1 among top 50 Market Research Firms in the United States.[7]
Nielsen was founded in 1923 by Arthur C. Nielsen, Sr., who invented an approach to measuring competitive sales results that made the concept of "market share" a practical management tool.[6] The Company was originally incorporated in the Netherlands and later was purchased on May 24, 2006 by a consortium of private equity firms (collectively, the "Sponsors").[6]
Merger and listing
In January 2011, Nielsen consummated an initial public offering of common stock and, subsequently, shares started trading on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol "NLSN".[6] On August 31, 2015, Nielsen N.V., a Dutch public company listed on the New York Stock Exchange, merged with Nielsen Holdings plc, by way of a cross-border merger under the European Cross-Border Merger Directive, with Nielsen Holdings plc being the surviving company (the "Merger").[6] The Merger effectively changed the place of incorporation of Nielsen's publicly traded parent holding company from the Netherlands to England and Wales, with no changes made to the business being conducted by Nielsen prior to the Merger.[6]
Company information
Headquartered in the United Kingdom,[1] Nielsen is a leading[8] global, independent measurement and data company for fast-moving consumer goods, consumer behavior, and media. With a presence in more than 100 countries and services covering more than 90% of the globe's GDP and population, Nielsen provides clients with a comprehensive understanding of what consumers watch (programming, advertising) and what they buy (categories, brands, products) on a global and local basis and how those choices intersect.[9]
The company's operations span developing and emerging markets worldwide, in more than 100 countries. According to SEC records, on February 26, 2015, Nielsen N.V., announced that its Board of Directors unanimously approved a proposal that resulted in a change in location of the company's headquarters, from the Netherlands to the United Kingdom. Upon approval, the company became incorporated under English law and was registered as a public limited company to be named Nielsen Holdings PLC.[10]
James Attwood Jr. is Nielsen's Executive Chairman,[2] and Mitch Barns is Nielsen's Chief Executive Officer. James Attwood succeeded Dave Calhoun as Executive Chairman in January 2016. Prior to joining Nielsen as CEO in 2006, Dave Calhoun served as Vice Chairman of The General Electric Company and President and Chief Executive Officer of GE Infrastructure, the largest of six GE business units. He served as Nielsen CEO from to 2006 to 2014, when he was succeeded by Barns.[11] Barnes joined Nielsen in 1997 and has held various roles in Europe, Asia, and North America leading major parts of the business.[12]
While the Nielsen brand is most often associated with television ratings, those TV ratings services comprise approximately one-quarter of the company's business and revenues. After substantial work to simplify the company over the last several years, Nielsen today aligns its business into two reporting segments: Buy (consumer purchasing measurement and analytics) and Watch (media audience measurement and analytics).[13] The company measures performance, and helps clients improve and strengthen their market positions and identify opportunities for profitable growth with the use of its deep data assets and rich insights.
What consumers Buy
Nielsen's Buy segment (approx. 55% of global revenues) primarily helps packaged goods companies and retailers (and Wall Street analysts) understand what consumers are buying in terms of categories, brands and products. The company's aim is to measure all consumer purchases as buying behavior continues to fragment across channels and segments.[9] For example, it is Nielsen's data that measures how much Diet Coke vs. Diet Pepsi is sold in stores, or how much Crest versus Colgate toothpaste is sold. Nielsen accomplishes this by purchasing and analyzing huge amounts of retail data that measures what is being sold in the store, and then combines it with household panel data that captures everything that is brought into the home. These measures of sales performance also fuel a range of forward-looking analytics to help clients improve the precision and efficiency of their advertising spending, maximize the impact of their promotion budgets and optimize their product assortment. They also can provide insights into how changes in product offerings, pricing or marketing would change sales. Major clients include The Coca-Cola Company, Nestlé S.A., The Procter & Gamble Company, Unilever Group, and Walmart. While the United States is the company's largest market, Nielsen is a global company. In the Buy business, it covers 106 countries representing more than 90% of the world's population.[9]
What consumers Watch
Nielsen's Watch segment (approx. 45% of global revenues) primarily measures what consumers are watching (and listening to) across most devices: TV, radio, computers, mobile, over-the-top, etc. The company measures consumption of programming and advertising across all distribution points. The market is in the middle of an important transition: Consumers have a growing array of options for viewing their favorite content, and this is fundamentally changing the businesses of television, advertising and measurement. Nielsen's Total Audience Measurement system[14] enables media companies and advertisers to make the most of the evolving media landscape, providing them with a comprehensive view of their audience for both ads and content, in the form of independent, comparable, de-duplicated measurement across all screens and platforms. Nielsen's ratings are used by advertisers and networks to shape the buying and selling of advertising. Major clients include CBS, NBC Universal, News Corporation, and The Walt Disney Company.[15] Nielsen's Watch business measures media in 47 countries that together represent approximately 80% of global advertising spending. Nielsen's digital audience measurement capability is a rapidly growing part of this footprint.[9]
Company history
Arthur C. Nielsen and the invention of "Market Share"
Arthur C. Nielsen founded the AC Nielsen Company in August 1923[16][17] with the idea of selling engineering performance surveys. It was the first company to offer market research.[18] The company expanded its business in 1932 by creating a retail index that tracked the flow of food and drug purchases. This was the first retail measurement of its kind and for the first time allowed a company to determine its "share" of the market—the origination of the concept of "market share"[18] Arthur C. Nielsen is credited with coining this business term.
Radio and television
In 1936, Arthur C. Nielsen acquired the Audimeter, which measured which radio stations a radio had been tuned to during the day. After tinkering with the device for a few years, the company created a national radio rating service in 1942.[19] The company collected information on which stations were tuned to in 1,000 homes. Then, this survey data was sold to manufacturers who were interested in the popularity of programs and demographic information about listeners for advertising purposes. This was the birth of audience measurement that would become the most well-known part of Nielsen's business when applied to television.[19] Today, these are commonly referred to as "Nielsen ratings".
The company began measuring television audiences in 1950, at a time when the medium was just getting off the ground. Just as with radio, a sampling of homes across the U.S. was used to develop ratings. This information was collected on a device that was attached to a television that recorded what was being watched. In 1953, the company began sending out diaries to a smaller sample of homes ("Nielsen families") within the survey to have them record what they had watched.[18] This data was put together with information from the devices. This combination of data allowed the company to statistically estimate the number of Americans watching TV and the demographic breakdown of viewers.[18] This became an important tool for advertisers and networks.
In the 1980s, the company launched a new measurement device known as the "people meter". The device resembles a remote control with buttons for each individual family member and extras for guests. Viewers push a button to signify when they are in the room and push it again when they leave, even if the TV is still on. This form of measurement was intended to provide a more accurate picture of who was watching and when.[20]
In July 2008,[21] Nielsen released the first in a series of quarterly reports, detailing video and TV usage across the 'three screens' – Television, Internet and Mobile devices. The A2/M2 Three Screen Report also includes trends in timeshifted viewing behavior and its relationship to online video viewing, a demographic breakdown of mobile video viewers and DVR penetration.
Private equity
Nielsen was acquired by the Dun & Bradstreet Company in 1984.[22] In 1996, D&B divided the company into two separate companies: Nielsen Media Research, which was responsible for TV ratings, and AC Nielsen, which was responsible for consumer shopping trends and box-office data.[23] In 1999, Nielsen Media Research was acquired by the Dutch publishing company VNU (Verenigde Nederlandse Uitgeverijen).[24] VNU later acquired AC Nielsen and recombined the two businesses in 2001. In between, VNU sold off its newspaper properties to Wegener and its consumer magazines to Sanoma. The company's publishing arm also owned several publications including The Hollywood Reporter and Billboard magazine. VNU combined the Nielsen properties with other research and data collection units including BASES, Claritas, HCI and Spectra. VNU also acquired companies that added to its measurement capabilities.
Becoming a public company
Nielsen was a private company from 2006 through 2011. On January 25, 2011 the company listed itself on the New York Stock Exchange and issued an Initial Public Offering (IPO) that raised $1.8 billion in the largest private equity-backed U.S. IPO since 2006.[25]
Mergers, acquisitions, strategic alliances and divestitures
In 2004, Nielsen began a joint venture called AGB Nielsen Media Research with WPP Group's AGB Group, a European competitor which provides similar services.[26]
In 2006, VNU acquired a majority stake in Buzzmetrics, a company which measures consumer-generated media online. Under the new ownership, Nielsen bought the remaining shares of the company in 2007.[27] In the same year, Nielsen acquired Telephia, which measures mobile media,[28] and Bilesim Medya, a Turkish advertising intelligence firm.[29]
In 2006, VNU was acquired by a group of six private equity firms: the American Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, Thomas H. Lee Partners, Blackstone Group, Carlyle Group and Hellman & Friedman, and Dutch equity firm AlpInvest Partners[30] for £5bn.[31] In the same year, the group hired David L. Calhoun, formerly of General Electric, as CEO.[32] He renamed VNU as The Nielsen Company in 2007.
In 2006, VNU sold its business publications division for €320m (£210m) to venture capital group 3i, which then sold the UK division (VNU Business Publications Ltd) to Incisive Media.[31]
June 28, 2007, Nielsen acquires Telephia, the leading provider of syndicated consumer research to the telecom and mobile media markets. This transaction will accelerate Nielsen's strategy of providing clients worldwide with the most accurate measurement and analysis of consumer behavior and media use across all platforms.[33]
In 2008, Nielsen acquired IAG Research which measures viewer engagement with TV commercials.[34] The same year, Nielsen made a strategic investment in NeuroFocus, a California firm applying neuroscience brainwave techniques for consumer research. The firm was later fully acquired by Nielsen in 2011[35] In 2009 and 2010, Nielsen sold its business magazines; its well-known entertainment properties went to the new company e5 Global Media.
In 2009, Nielsen acquired The Cambridge Group, a management consulting firm headquartered in Chicago. The Cambridge Group works with CEOs and top management teams to drive growth. The firm researches latent and emerging consumer demand, and applies the information to product, service and marketing innovation.
In June 2010, Nielsen paired with McKinsey & Company to create the social media consulting company NM Incite.[36][37] NM Incite had operations in 13 global markets, including: US, UK, Germany, Spain, Italy, Australia, New Zealand, China, Japan, India, Brazil, Canada and Korea.[38]
In August 2011, Nielsen acquired Marketing Analytics, Inc. The acquisition strengthened Nielsen's marketing ROI and marketing mix capabilities.
In February 2012, Nielsen launched The Demand Institute in collaboration with The Conference Board. The Demand Institute is a non-profit, non-advocacy organization focused on helping business and government leaders understand how consumer demand is evolving and shifting around the world.
In July 2012, Nielsen acquired the advertising tech company Vizu. The acquisition was made so that Nielsen can better analyze the effectiveness of online advertisement.[39]
November 12, 2012, Nielsen acquired SocialGuide, a leading provider of social TV measurement, analytics and audience engagement solutions.[40]
On December 17, 2012, Nielsen disclosed that it would acquire Arbitron, a company primarily involved in radio audience measurement, for $1.3 billion. The successful acquisition completed on September 30, 2013.[41]
On June 17, 2013, Nielsen announced that Onex Corp (TSX: OCX) had completed the acquisition of Nielsen Expositions for $950 million in cash consideration. Nielsen Expositions operated tradeshows in the United States. The company was renamed Emerald Expositions Inc. after the transaction.
On February 3, 2014, Nielsen announced the acquisition of Harris Interactive, Inc. (NASDAQ:HPOL). This allowed Nielsen to take ownership of The Harris Poll.[42]
February 26, 2014, Nielsen acquires Nexium, a leader in retail in-store execution and sales analytics.[43]
On September 18, 2014 Nielsen announced the acquisition of Indicus Analytics Pvt Ltd. This helped Nielsen to grow footprints in micromarkets & economics
On October 8, 2014, Nielsen acquired Affinnova, an international media and marketing research firm. The Affinnova team joins Nielsen's legacy BASES team to form Nielsen's Innovation Practice area[44]
January 22, 2015, Nielsen acquires Brandbank, established world leader specialized in the process of digitally collecting, managing and distributing FMCG product and brand image content for retail syndication across in-store, print promotional and e-commerce platforms.[45]
On March 4, 2015, Nielsen announced the acquisition of Exelate, a provider of data and technology to facilitate the buying and selling of advertising across programmatic platforms.[46]
On May 27, 2015, Nielsen acquired Innerscope Research, which specialized in consumer neuroscience using biometrics, eye tracking and facial coding. Nielsen renamed its combined offering as Nielsen Consumer Neuroscience, and named Dr. Carl Marci as Chief Neuroscientist.[47]
March 3, 2016, Nielsen acquires Pointlogic, a global leader in marketing decision support systems that improve precision and allocation through innovative software.[48]
On March 10, 2016, Nielsen acquired Mumbai-based mobile usage measurer Informate Mobile Intelligence for an undisclosed amount, in a move that will help the US consumer research company improve mobile measurement globally.[49]
June 21, 2016, Nielsen acquired Repucom, the global leader in sports measurement, evaluation and intelligence, expanding the company's sports offerings globally, making the company the premier provider of analytics and insights within the growing sports industry.[50]
Key competitors
In retail measurement, Nielsen's principal competitor in developed markets is Information Resources, Inc. In its consumer panel services and analytics services businesses, globally, competitors include GfK, Ipsos, Kantar and local companies in individual countries.
In U.S. television audience measurement, Nielsen's competitors include Rentrak and Tivo. Nielsen's principal competitor in television audience measurement outside of the United States is Kantar, with companies such as GfK and Ipsos also providing competition in select individual countries. Nielsen's primary competitor in digital audience and campaign measurement solutions in the United States is comScore.
In audio audience measurement, which is predominantly a U.S. business, Nielsen's principal competitors include Triton and Kantar.
Corporate affairs and culture
FIFA has signed up with Nielsen to provide official market research for the 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup and the 2018 FIFA World Cup.[51]
- 1 2 Nielsen Proposes To Move Incorporation From Netherlands To United Kingdom Feb. 26, 2015
- 1 2 Nielsen Board Of Directors Elects James A. Attwood, Jr. Chairman Jan. 4, 2016
- ↑ Lynch, Jason Nielsen's New COO Explains Why Total Audience Measurement Is Taking So Long AdWeek. March 24, 2016
- ↑ Nielsen Announces Management Changes February 24, 2014
- 1 2 3 "Nielsen Holdings plc - Nielsen Reports 4th Quarter And Full Year 2015 Results; 38TH Consecutive Quarter of Revenue Growth". Ir.nielsen.com. Retrieved 2016-08-18.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "Nielsen 2015 Annual Report" (PDF). Nielsen Holdings PLC. Retrieved 24 October 2016.
- ↑ "The AMA Gold Report: 2016 Top 50 Market Research Firms". American Marketing Association. Retrieved 24 October 2016.
- ↑ "Nielsen named #1 of Top 50 largest market research firms in the world; American Marketing Association 2011 Honomichl Report" (PDF). Marketingpower.com. June 20, 2012.
- 1 2 3 4 Nielsen 2015 Annual Report
- ↑ SEC Record February 26, 2015
- ↑ Thielman, Sam (6 Nov 2013). "Nielsen's Own Mitch Barns Will Succeed Outside Hire David Calhoun as CEO". AdWeek. Retrieved 7 May 2016.
- ↑ Industry Veteran Mitch Barns To Be Nielsen's Next Chief Executive Officer November 6, 2013
- ↑ SEC Annual Report
- ↑ Total Audience Measurement
- ↑ Nielsen 10-K Report 2011 February 22, 2012
- ↑ "Nielsen Company 90 Years Celebration Reception In Chicago Wednesday August 21 - And The Ordinary People Said". ChicagoNow. 2013-08-20. Retrieved 2016-04-12.
- ↑ "Nielsen Celebrates Chicago Roots with 90th Anniversary Party - Splash Magazines - Los Angeles". Lasplash. 2013-08-20. Retrieved 2016-04-12.
- 1 2 3 4 Gillespie, Mary. "Nielsen makes viewers count by watching them watch TV." Chicago Sun-Times, April 9, 1989
- 1 2 Basler, Barbara. "A.C. Nielsen, Who Devised System That Rates TV Programs, Dead." The New York Times, June 4, 1980
- ↑ Kaplan, Peter W. "Nielsen to Try New Audience-Survey Device." The New York Times, October 16, 1985
- ↑ "Whichever Screen, People Are Watching". The New York Times. Retrieved 2015-11-30.
- ↑
- ↑ Deogun, Nikhil. "VNU Nears Deal to Acquire ACNielsen." The Wall Street Journal, December 18, 2000
- ↑ Pope, Kyle. "VNU to Buy Nielsen Media for $2.5 Billion — Accord to Help Dutch Firm Speed Up Its Transition To Information Concern." The Wall Street Journal, August 17, 1999
- ↑ Spears, Lee (January 26, 2011). "Nielsen Holdings, Demand Media Shares Gain After IPOs". Bloomberg.
- ↑ "AGBNielsen Research created". WPP. Retrieved 2015-11-30.
- ↑ Archived June 9, 2008, at the Wayback Machine.
- ↑ Dickson, Glen and Eggerton, John. "Nielsen Closes on Telephia Deal". Broadcasting & Cable August 10, 2007
- ↑ Plunket, Jack W. (2008). Plunkett's Advertising and Branding Industry Almanac 2008: Advertising and Branding Industry Market Research, Statistics, Trends and Leading Companies. Plunkett Research, Ltd. ISBN 1-59392-109-8.
- ↑ Singer, Jason and Berman, Dennis K. "VNU Gets Board Approval for Sale To Group of Private-Equity Firms." The Wall Street Journal, March 8, 2006
- 1 2 Incisive to buy VNU Business Publications, The Daily Telegraph, February 6, 2007
- ↑ Siklos, Richard. "Made to Measure". Fortune, February 20, 2008
- ↑ Nielsen Completes Acquisition of Telephia, Inc. PR Newswire, August 10, 2007
- ↑ Elliott, Stuart. "Nielsen's Latest Purchase is Audience Research Firm". The New York Times, April 8, 2008
- ↑ Holmes,Gary (February 7, 2008). "Nielsen Makes Strategic Investment in NeuroFocus, an Innovative Leader in Neuromarketing Research". Nielsen Media Research
- ↑ Archived July 1, 2010, at the Wayback Machine.
- ↑ Zach Hofer-Shall "Nielsen Joins Forces With McKinsey For Social Intelligence Consulting" "Forrester Blogs" June 14, 2010
- ↑ Archived August 18, 2010, at the Wayback Machine.
- ↑ Ha, Anthony. July 2, 2012. "Nielsen Acquires Vizu To Measure Online Ad Effectiveness"
- ↑ Nielsen, NM Incite Acquire Socialguide November 12, 2012
- ↑ "NIELSEN ACQUIRES ARBITRON". Nielsen. Retrieved 30 September 2013.
- ↑ "Harris Interactive Joins Nielsen". Nielsen.com. Retrieved 2015-11-30.
- ↑ Nielsen Bolsters Shopper Marketing Credentials With Acquisition Of Nexium February 26, 2014
- ↑ "Nielsen Acquires Affinnova". The Nielsen Company. Retrieved 27 May 2015.
- ↑ Nielsen Aquires Brandbank January 22, 2015
- ↑ "Nielsen Acquires Exelate". The Nielsen Company. Retrieved 4 Aug 2015.
- ↑ Dooley, Roger. "Nielsen Doubles Down On Neuro". Retrieved 2015-09-30.
- ↑ Nielsen Aquires Pointlogic March 3, 2016
- ↑ Nielsen buys Mumbai-based mobile usage measurer Informate Mobile Intelligence March 10, 2016
- ↑ Nielsen Completes Acquisition Of Repucom June 21, 2016
- ↑ "Nielsen to provide official market research for the FIFA Confederations Cup 2017 and 2018 FIFA World Cup". FIFA. Retrieved 24 October 2016.
External links
- Business data for Nielsen Holdings: Google Finance
- Yahoo! Finance
- Reuters
- SEC filings
- Nielsen Wire - Nielsen news blog
- Nielsen 90 Year Timeline


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David Lawrence Jr. retired in 1999 as publisher of The Miami Herald to work in the area of early childhood development and readiness. He is president of The Early Childhood Initiative Foundation. He leads The Children's Movement of Florida, aimed at making children the state's top priority for investment and decision-making. He is a member of the Governor's Children's Cabinet and twice chaired the Florida Partnership for School Readiness. In 2002 and 2008 he led successful campaigns for The Children's Trust, a dedicated source of early intervention and prevention funding for children in Miami-Dade. He is the "founding chair." In 2002-3 he chaired the Governor's Blue Ribbon Panel on Child Protection, and in 2011 he chaired a similar panel for the Secretary of the Department of Children and Families. In 2002, he was a key figure in passing a statewide constitutional amendment to provide pre-K for all 4 year olds. He is a board member and former chair of the Early Learning Coalition of Miami-Dade and Monroe. The David Lawrence Jr. K-8 Public School opened in 2006. An endowed chair in early childhood studies is established in his name at the University of Florida College of Education.
Before coming to Miami in 1989, he was publisher and executive editor of the Detroit Free Press. Previously he was editor of the Charlotte Observer, and earlier in reporting and editing positions at four newspapers. (During his tenure as Miami Herald publisher, the paper won five Pulitzer Prizes.)
He is a graduate of the University of Florida and named "Outstanding Journalism Graduate" and subsequently from the Advanced Management program at the Harvard Business School. In 1988, he was honored with Knight-Ridder's top award, the John S. Knight Gold Medal. His 13 honorary doctorates include one from his alma mater, the University of Florida. His national honors include the Ida B. Wells Award "for exemplary leadership in providing minorities employment opportunities" and the National Association of Minority Media Executives award for "lifetime achievement in diversity." His writing awards include the First Amendment Award from the Scripps Howard Foundation and the Inter American Press Association Commentary Award. He chaired the national Task Force on Minorities in the Newspaper Business, was the 1991-92 president of the American Society of Newspaper Editors and the 1995-96 president of the Inter American Press Association.
He was inducted into the Florida Newspaper Hall of Fame in 2010.
He has served the Miami Art Museum, United Way, the New World School of the Arts and the Foundation for Child Development in New York – each as chair — and is a life member of the University of Florida Foundation. He serves on the national boards of the Everglades Foundation and Americans for Immigrant Justice. He was the local convening co-chair of the 1994 Summit of the Americas. And he co-founded a non-profit vocational-technical school in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
He and Roberta, a master's graduate in social work from Barry, live in Coral Gables and have 3 daughters, 2 sons and 5 grandchildren. His honors include: "Family of the Year" from Family Counseling Services and "Father of the Year" by the South Florida Father's Day Council. He has been honored as a Miami Today Living Legend as well as with the Governor's Shine Award for Inspirational Teachers. His 2014 awards include the Bob Graham Center for Public Service "Citizen of the Year," the Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce M. Athalie Range Miami Pioneer for Progress Award, the James W. McLamore Outstanding Volunteer Award on National Philanthropy Day, and the Cervantes Outstanding Educator Award. Nationally, he has been honored with the American Public Health Association Award of Excellence, the Lewis Hine Award for Children and Youth, the "Children's Champion" award from the National Black Child Development Institute, the Fred Rogers Leadership Award from the Grantmakers for Children, Youth and Families, the Terri Lynne Lokoff Child Care Advocate Award, the CNC (Cuban American National Council) Lifetime Achievement Award, The National Center for Victims of Crime for "extraordinary leadership and service on behalf of abused children," the National Association for Bilingual Education for "building early literacy skills for all children," and a Spirit of Fatherhood Hall of Fame inductee by the National Partnership for Community Leadership.


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My theme for the Family History through the Alphabet is the Attributes we need as family historians: the skills, experience and talents we need to bring to our research. This week is the letter "V".
V is for VALIANT: perhaps this is a stretch but we certainly need some level of courage to keep plugging away at our research despite "brick walls", obstacles, confusion and all the new skills we need to learn. We also need to be courageous enough to approach unknown relatives to learn more stories or appeal for photographs.
V is for VEXED: This is how we feel when one approach after another fails to resolve our research mystery, or when an ancestor gave a glib answer like "County Clare" or "Bavaria" or when technology conspires to challenge us, or……
V is for VACILLATE: Do you do this too when you're not sure which family to research or which story to take up next? It's all too easy to be overwhelmed by the opportunities available to us for researching. Not to mention the potential distractions of social media (oh yes, and chores) rather than tackle the research problem on our check-list.
V is for VAGRANT: Let's hope that this obsession hobby of ours doesn't send us broke and we don't end up in the poorhouse like some of our distant ancestors.
V is for VACANT: You know, the look when you can't work out what they were doing or how to make sense of what you've just discovered.
V is for VAGUE: That's when one of our real-life family thinks we should engage with daily life while our minds are fully absorbed centuries ago with long-departed family.
V is for VOLUNTEERING: There are many ways to volunteer your knowledge and time to help with family history. You might provide advice to a genimate about a particular topic. You might transcribe records from microfilm, for Family Search etc etc. You could edit some articles in Trove. Or you might be involved with your local family history society, or give talks or, or, or…..
V is for VICTORIOUS: This is what we'll be if we bravely persist with our family history research despite all the stumbling blocks. I don't promise you won't gain two questions for every answer you find, but isn't that part of why we love it all?
And as for the Family History Through The Alphabet followers and bloggers, we'll soon be victorious when we reach the letter Z…only a few weeks to go now.


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Lucinda, a student from my school, sent me an email asking me to help her spread this message for Climate Change awareness week. Her sister Bethany helped with the editing process. It's fantastic – a credit to their amazing creativity and passion for the environment.
Lucinda was involved in Project Global Cooling, the global project our school was involved with two years ago. It's wonderful to see her still making an effort to raise awareness. She sent me the link to the video 'Catch the world before it falls' and a request to help her spread the message via my internet connections. Please help her by watching and playing this video in your schools this week. This is a wonderful example of what students can achieve off their own bat, motivated by a desire to make a difference to their world.
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The Works of President Edwards, Volumul 6
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Pagina 415 - At that day ye shall ask in my name : and I say not unto you, that I will pray the Father for you : for the Father himself loveth you, because ye have loved me, and have believed that I came out from God.
Pagina 397 - And saith unto him, Every man at the beginning doth set forth good wine; and when men have well drunk, then that which is worse: but thou hast kept the good wine until now. This beginning of miracles did Jesus in Cana of Galilee, and manifested forth his glory; and his disciples believed on him.
Pagina 460 - And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge ; And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness ; And to godliness brotherly kindness ; and to brotherly kindness charity. For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Pagina 462 - He maketh wars to cease unto the end of the earth; He breaketh the bow, and cutteth the spear in sunder; He burneth the chariot in the fire. Be still, and know that I am God : I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth.
Pagina 267 - Now the just shall live by faith : but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him. But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition ; but of them that believe to the saving of the soul.
Pagina 382 - Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God; To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.
Pagina 507 - But if all prophesy, and there come in one that believeth not, or one unlearned, he is convinced of all, he is judged of all : and thus are the secrets of his heart made manifest ; and so falling down on his face he will worship God, and report that God is in you of a truth.
Pagina 428 - In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation : in whom also, after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that Holy Spirit of promise, which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory.
Pagina 239 - Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost ; Which he shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Saviour ; That being justified by his grace, we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.
Pagina 71 - But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in. Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows' houses and for a pretence make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation.


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All fireworks are illegal in Alexandria, and the fire department says they patrolled the city and received 50 calls on the Fourth about people using fireworks of various kinds.
Evidently, it worked: The fire department says that "there were no injuries or fires resulting from the discharge of fireworks" in Alexandria during Independence Day celebrations this year.
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On the Road with Rick Holmes: Alaska: Russians, Americans and 229 tribes
EKLUTNA, Alaska – It's a small cemetery in a state indescribably vast, and it tells a story about this place so few Americans have visited.
The graveyard sits behind St. Nicholas Church, built by the Russian Orthodox missionaries who were among the first Europeans to enter interior Alaska. There are no headstones on the graves. Instead, they are marked by small wooden houses, decorated with Russian Orthodox crosses, in all states of decay. "Spirit houses," they are called, and they were a tradition among the Dena'ina Athabaskans centuries before the Europeans arrived. The Athabaskans believed the spirits of the dead lingered on earth for a year while their families mourned, a guide explains. The spirit houses were their temporary home, and as the houses gradually returned to the earth, the spirits moved on.
Unlike some other missionaries, the Russian Orthodox tried to accommodate, rather than erase, Alaska Native customs. In Eklutna, they brought the burial practices of their converts in line with Christian teachings, but they added the spirit houses to the local Russian Orthodox traditions.
The congregation at St. Nicholas is small, with the church used mainly on holidays. But there are Russian villages in Alaska of a more recent vintage, founded by religious refugees from the Soviet Union, known as "Russian Old Believer Communities." And the Eklutna graveyard is still active, with new spirit houses joining the old, their colors signifying the family of the deceased.
The Russian fur traders weren't as accommodating to the Natives as the missionaries. Russians – and later Americans – forced Natives to leave their homes to hunt sea otter, leaving their families to fend for themselves. Natives resisted, but they had no defense against the deadly infections carried by the Europeans, which decimated the indigenous population. As much as two-thirds of Native populations in some regions were killed by smallpox, typhus and other diseases for which they had no immunity.
The United States purchased Alaska from the Russian Empire in 1867 for the tidy sum of $7.2 million. Secretary of State William Seward negotiated the deal, which was ridiculed by critics as "Seward's folly." Grateful Alaskans named a city on the coast after Seward, and a spectacular highway that takes you between there and Anchorage, passing glaciers, Dall sheep and beluga whales along the way. Seward Highway ought to be on every motorist's bucket list.
The Americans' treatment of the Alaskan Natives was at least as harsh as the Russians'. The cavalry was never called in, but the U.S. government waged war on Native culture here, just as in the Lower 48. Native children were forced into schools where their language and customs were banned in order to "civilize" them. Adults had their land taken, their rights denied.
Native Alaskans won their most important battles in the courts. A lawsuit brought by Native activists won them right to vote in 1922. Other suits established Native ownership of their lands. And when oil was discovered on the North Slope and a pipeline had to be stretched from one end of the state to the other, across thousands of acres of Indian land, Natives had leverage and a seat at the table. Instead of negotiating treaties with each of Alaska's 229 federally-recognized "tribal entities," Congress in 1971 passed the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act. It gave Natives $963 million and the rights to 44 million acres. Twelve regional corporations were created to manage the land and money, which are now among the state's most profitable enterprises.
While traditional tribes and customs remain, the ANCS corporations completed an economic assimilation. For thousands of years, Alaska Natives thrived in a sustainable, subsistence economy. They used every part of the animals they hunted, taking no more than they needed. They let some salmon escape so they could spawn. The ANCS corporations made them capitalists, partners in resource extraction, receivers of dividends.
The Europeans brought an economy based on maximal exploitation of resources, one prone to booms and busts. Sea otters, seals and whales were hunted to the brink of extinction. Alaska had a gold rush, a copper rush and an oil rush. The oil is still rushing, and political leaders are now pushing for a new pipeline to get its abundant natural gas to global markets.
Alaska is a big state, bigger than you probably think. Mapmakers tend to put Alaska in a corner to save space, out of scale with the contiguous states. In reality, it's more than twice as big as Texas. That's large enough for eons of history, multiple cultural threads and countless natural wonders, more than enough for any traveler's bucket list.
— Rick Holmes can be reached at email@example.com. You can follow his journey at www.rickholmes.net. Like him on Facebook at Holmes & Co, on follow him on Twitter @HolmesAndCo.


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As my regular readers know, I've been set up in the Saint John City Market for the past three weeks selling books from our bookstore…this isn't my first time selling at the Market, but it is the first attempt at being a full-time vendor. Here's what I've learned so far:
1. Nothing is predictable. You can have an amazing sales day on Monday, but your sales on Tuesday might suck! There is no rhyme or reason to it…it completely depends on who walks into the Market that day with money in their pocket and a desire to buy a book. There was a raging snowstorm outside on one of my best sales days ever…I thought people would be holed up in their houses! Hopefully, it all evens out at the end of the week (or month!).
2. Listen to other people's suggestions, within reason. My friend, Scott, (who is also a Market vendor) suggested I change my display to a U-shape with individual books highlighted in the center instead of two straight rows. He was right…it looked much more inviting, and gave the illusion of having more books. Another Market vendor suggested I stick a price tag on the books so people wouldn't have to look for the price (inside the front cover in pencil)…no way…stickers are death on books!
3. Change is good. I change my display daily, and bring a new box of stock from the store every morning. The theme changes weekly. I learned this from a very successful Market vendor (and good friend), Becky. There are a bunch of people who go through the Market every day (it's part of a pedway system)…I want them looking at my stuff when they pass through.
4. Word travels fast. I mentioned to a couple of other vendors that we used tomato boxes to store our books, and pop flats to mail them in. Now cardboard and boxes magically appear under my bench!
5. The public can be a little too friendly sometimes. One day last week, I felt someone looking over my shoulder, turned away from my computer and was nose-to-nose with a little old lady who was staring intently at our bookstore logo on the screen, and giggling like a little girl. It is cute, but she was certainly old enough to have a sense of other people's personal space!
6. Customers usually fit in one of three categories. The first, buyer, is my favourite! The second, be-backer, may or may not come back, despite what he or she says (although I have been surprised more than once!). The third, bugger, will talk your ear off for fifteen minutes and leave without buying anything…if you're going to tell me about your Great Aunt Martha's hip surgery, at least reward me for the torture I've endured by buying a book!
7. Regulars are the best. My best customer so far bought seven books the first week, two the second, and one this week (he gets 20% off since he's bought five books from us). He walked by my bench at a fast clip on Wednesday muttering, "Stop tempting me…stop tempting me…stop tempting me!" I got a laugh out of it!
8. My bladder is stronger than I thought. I'm at the Market from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. I work alone, and the bench across from me is vacant most of the week. I depend on the kindness of my friends (and fellow vendors) to make pit stops. My record for "holding my water" so far is seven hours (I usually don't drink anything during the day, and wait until I get home at night to have tea). I'm hoping that I get a "neighbour" soon!
9. People are procrastinators. If I had a nickel for every customer I've talked to who's said, "I've seen your store, but I haven't gone in yet," I'd have a lot of nickels! It's been twelve years, people! It's time!
10. Boys will be boys, no matter how old they are. Last week, a fight nearly broke out in front of my bench because one guy failed to move to one side so that a man coming toward him could get past. Ridiculous! Luckily, a woman travelling with one of the men was able to talk him out of his idiocy.
I'm having fun at the Market…I've met some interesting people. I'm going to keep it up as long as I can make a bit of money…
I miss Blogland, but it's really hard to read and write when one is being constantly interrupted…and I do have to eat. I'll try to visit my blogging buddies once in a while, and post when I have a few minutes…


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Sherlock Holmes is focus of London museum show
LONDON | The Museum of London is turning its magnifying glass on the most famous Londoner who never lived - Sherlock Holmes.
The museum on Tuesday announced an exhibition devoted to Arthur Conan Doyle's Victorian detective, featuring everything from hand-written manuscripts to the coat worn by Benedict Cumberbatch in the BBC series "Sherlock."
It's the first time the history museum has built a show around a fictional character. But Holmes is one of those rare creations who has long outlived his creator and captured the public imagination for more than a century.
"There are people out there who think he's a real person," said Alex Werner, the exhibition's lead curator. "His profile has never been higher."
Werner said with a new generation discovering the character through the BBC's "playful and reverential" adaptation, the timing seemed right for a major retrospective.
"This is the moment to say: He is one of London's icons. He helped make London what it is," Werner said.
The exhibition - which opens Oct. 17 and runs to April 12 - examines the character's origins, in a series of stories by doctor-turned-writer Conan Doyle, and his evolution through myriad stage and screen adaptations.
Werner said the aim was to "peel back the layers" of a character who is simultaneously cerebral sleuth, forensic scientist, drug-taking bohemian and archetypal Englishman.
The show draws liberally from the museum's large collection of Victorian costumes and artifacts, including a 19th-century syringe; Holmes infamously relieved boredom with a seven-percent solution of cocaine in water.
The Free Library of Philadelphia has loaned pages from Edgar Allan Poe's handwritten manuscript for the 1841 story "The Murders in the Rue Morgue." It's often considered the first modern detective yarn and was a childhood favorite of Conan Doyle.
There's also an oil portrait of Conan Doyle, painted in 1897 by Sidney Paget, whose illustrations for the original stories in Strand magazine created the lean, hawkish Holmes of popular imagination. Pat Hardy, the museum's curator of paintings, prints and drawings, noted that the solid, moustache-sporting Conan Doyle looks distinctly Dr. Watson-ish.
And no modern Sherlock show would be complete without the flowing Belstaff overcoat worn by Cumberbatch in "Sherlock" - a garment that's something of a style icon in itself.
The artifacts will be set alongside paintings, prints and photographs of late 19th-century London, including the evocative but little-known illustrations of American artist Joseph Pennell, on loan from the Library of Congress. The images - like the stories - evoke a vast, polluted metropolis of foggy streets and horse-drawn hansom cabs, bustling crowds and screams in the night.
Hardy said the exhibition hoped to underline "the importance of London to the stories. It seems to have been taken for granted."
Werner said the exhibition will end with a "near-death experience" inspired by the detective's demise over the Reichenbach Falls in the 1893 story "The Final Problem."
Even then, Holmes did not stay dead for long. A fan outcry led Conan Doyle to revive him in 1903.
"Almost as soon as Conan Doyle created Sherlock Holmes he was trying to kill him off," Werner said. "He thought the Sherlock Holmes stories were a minor form of fiction."
History has proved him wrong.


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(This new post derives from my previous post, "Not mine, not yours, but ours: Penasco Upper Llano acequias," October 2011.)
From Amarillo, Texas, I drove to northern New Mexico in 1968. I traveled by way of Las Vegas, Mora, and Penasco, making camp along the upper watershed of the Rio Santa Barbara for a few days. I vividly remember a man plowing his field with horses near Mora and the narrow strips of farm land that bordered rivers and irrigation ditches. The narrow strips of irrigated land not only reflected a precise lay of the land by residents and survey crews, but the long lots reflected a community, a meshing of rural families alongside a water greenbelt. In later anthropological field trips, I took my Amarillo College students by the Pecos River irrigated plots along State Highway 3 that ran from Interstate 40 to Interstate 25 between Santa Rosa and the Pecos Pueblo. (Click to see Google map of the Pecos River plots.)
The system of irrigation is called acequia, referring both to the irrigation ditch and the association of members organized around it.
I have never owned land in New Mexico, but if I did I would buy a parcel of land that had water rights to an acequia, a system that stretches back in time to Native American communities before the arrival of the Spanish who brought laws respecting community water rights (riparian rights). Having land that possesses an acequia, one gains entry into a community that cleans, rebuilds and nourishes the ditches and, further, is granted rights to meet in a democratic association to discuss apportioning water and policies affecting owners that border the irrigation ditch.
Several weeks ago, I came across a piece of property near Penasco that if I could sell my ranchito, I would buy and move my horses and equipment post haste to Penasco Upper Llano. See the following Google map: This is the map-image of the Penasco Upper Llano property and other long lots of community property.
This particular piece of property with the house pictured above is located in the high country between Taos and Santa Fe and can produce 700 bales of hay a year. The water rights go back to 1789, the year that the United States inaugurated its first president, George Washington. The surveyor's plat looks like this:
Several good books and narratives have been written about the acequia culture. Stanley Crawford in his work, Mayordomo: Chronicle of an Acequia in Northern New Mexico (1988), writes of the acequia culture:
There are few other civic institutions left in this country in which members have as much control over an important aspect of their lives; relatively autonomous, in theory democratic, the thousand acequias form a cultural web of almost microscopic strands and filaments that have held a culture and landscape in place for hundreds of years….
Ditch-cleanings are all very much the same, and in this they often feel more like ritual than work. The crew varies from year to year: a couple of old men don't turn up each year, a couple of boys barely able to handle a shovel, fifteen- and sixteen-year-olds, take their places; the weather is better or worse than some vague notion of what is usual, mayordomos come and go and some are responsible and fair, others vindictive, punitive, almost military, others are lazy and heedless of the needs of the ditch; and the crew can be a good-natured, hard-working creature, or sullen and complaining and evasive, qualities perhaps dictated by the amount of pride or fear circulating through the hearts of both those in charge and those doing the actual digging….
Buddy Manzanares who, on one of my last perfunctory inspection tours half an hour from the end of the spring digging, calls on me to admire a meticulously dug out and cleaned up tarea [a grave-size chunk of the ditch], with the banks cleaned of grass and squared neatly where they end in the bottom of the smoothly shoveled-out channel….This man knows how to make this small thing, this chore, into more than we commonly imagine, and what can be more important to know in this life, than just that.
Mayordomo, pp. 176, 224, 228-29.
The deep thing about acequia that attracts me is the ready-made community that circulates around water rights that nourish subsistence crops and the growth of hay. The isolation of many Texas ranches and the people that tend them and steward their animals is not good; in fact, it diminishes the rancher to a coarse individuality that thins the possibilities of human endeavors, insinuates a obsessive pecuniary attitude about the land and narrows civic — read unselfish — behavior to the mere casting of a vote once or twice a year for politicians.
There are western ranching communities that transcend these deficiencies, I grant you, but the tendency has been to sell out or buy more land, thus expelling more people from the agrarian way of life. I have experienced this and have witnessed the deleterious affect upon my family.
I do not romanticize the acequia culture because it is a human community and there will be conflict and law suits. Nonetheless, there exists an association of men and women meeting about water and how to nourish their livestock, beans, alfalfa, corn, tomatoes, okra, flowers, lawns, chilis, vineyards, peaches, plums, apricots, coastal bermuda, roses, trees, and every other conceivable plant needing water that flourishes from the earth. Having an acequia culture forces upon us the lesson about sharing in real, material ways that no desk-bound, box-bound person will ever learn. The basic premise is: water is limited, we all need it, how will we share it? And, how are we going to keep it coming down the ditch? The answer: let's talk about it, let's vote on it, let's implement our decision, and we will meet again.
Like so many other things in life, the ditch is more than a ditch. The acequia and the water is not mine, not yours, but ours. Water is life, and in this case, Life is a Ditch.
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The language keyboard for Spanish and diacritical markings frustrates me. Hence, the Spanish diacritical markings for "Penasco" are missing, although about every 20 times, I can get the tilde above the "n" in Penasco. If anyone has any suggestions within the WordPress format to easily apply diacritical markings to writing, please comment or drop me an email at firstname.lastname@example.com. I am intent upon using proper markings, but I am not going to spend ten minutes every time I need a tilde to paste it on. Can Windows Vista do anything right? Of course they can, but you have to update your browser every five minutes. And, then restart.


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If you remember NOTHING else about my blog… please know that I HATE YOGA! I cant get down with it, my mind doesnt do silence. I hate, I hate it, I EAT, PRAY, LOVE to hate it kind of hate it! I will never be her finding peace with it… I just cant do it. Nope….. no meditation, no clearing of the mind…. IT SUCKS ASS!
I turned on the radio and muted Tony Horton just so I caould get through 45 minutes of it. It was the suckiest 45 minutes of my life. I couldnt finish the rest of it. I have no clue why I dislike it so much. Maybe because I know that at 30 minutes, I still have an hour left. Maybe it is mental mind play. SOOOOO what I plan on doing next week is doing 45 in the morning and 45 in the evening just to make sure that I can make it through. Does that work? As long as I work out for 45 minutes at a time isnt that great? Or do I have to suffer for 1.5hrs at a time? Please, someone, anyone… HELP ME!
This disc will be the death of me. Can I substitute? I cant do it. I'll quit the entire program if someone says that I have to do the yoga x dvd. I'll go into downward dog and let all the blood rush to my head until I pass out if yuo make me do it. I swear I will. I'll be the first person to die from death by chattarunga….or whatever the hell it is called. Vinyasa is like a cuss word now. I find myself yelling at people as I drive "Get the VINYASA out of my way you VINYASA head!!!" It is highly effective yet counter peaceful as i think the move was intended.
Also, I am finding that I am barely having time to exercise so I apologize if the blog version of my struggles are a few days later. I will try my hardest to stay on top of things. But I thank you for reading.
~*My Mother's Daughter*~


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I'll save my indepth thoughts on this till we see the whole thing, but here is a lot of interesting comments from CinemaBlend. Though, why are we seeing Iceman and Magneto together, I thought them rescuing Rogue together got cut?
Via CinemaBlend
Director Bryan Singer has revealed on Twitter that there are some very big promotional plans in store for the upcoming X-Men: Days of Future Past coming next week, and he has begun teasing those plans with the Instagram video you see above, featuring a surprising amount of new footage that wasn't seen in the trailer that was unveiled a few months back.
The tease features quite a few interesting quick shots, so let's take a much closer, in-depth look at them, shall we?
I can't seem to embed the video so here it the link.
The first shot that I picked up on is this one of Evan Peters as Quicksilver shattering some glass in super slow motion. He also seems to be disguised in a police officer's uniform, which is just a tad strange.
Next up we have Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) wrapped up in some kind of metal and sinking to the bottom of a body of water. Looking at the way he is bound, I would guess that Magneto is somehow involved here, but I can't be sure if it's the older version played by Sir Ian McKellen or the young version played by Michael Fassbender.
This third screengrab shows off three mutants who will be making their first appearance in the X-Men franchise. Up front is Booboo Stewart as James Proudstar/Warpath, to the left is Fan Bingbing as Clarice Ferguson/Blink, and on the right is Adan Canto as Roberto da Costa/Sunspot.
Our fourth shot seems to be an intimate meeting between Mystique (Jennifer Lawrence) and young Magneto (Michael Fassbender). At the end of Matthew Vaughn's X-Men: First Class the two of them became very close and Mystique even left her closest friend, Charles Xavier (James McAvoy), to be with him. It will be interesting to see how their relationship has developed since, given that their timeline in Days of Future Pasttakes place 11 years after the events in that film.
Here we have Mystique all by herself incognito in her "human" disguise. This isn't the first time we've seen the character in her pretty sundress and hat, as we got this behind-the-scenes photo a few months ago, but we're still curious what she's up to.
Lastly we jump back to the "future" timeline where we see two of Singer's original franchise players: Shawn Ashmore as Iceman and McKellen as Magneto. With the exception of a few scenes in X2: X-Men United, these two characters have classically been portrayed on opposing sides – X-men vs. the Brotherhood of Mutants – but it would seem that facing an apocalyptic future has convinced them to work together.
We're not 100% sure what exactly this is a tease for, but be sure to check back on Monday January 27th for even more X-Men: Days of Future Past awesomness.


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A unique new "reality television" series released last week featuring the daily lives of 8 full-time Mormon Missionaries. Created by BYUTv, and titled "The District", this program follows 8 Mormon Missionaries – 6 young men, and 2 young women (photo here) – serving together in San Diego, California as part of an area "team", aka "District". The show premiered on October 7, 2012, and will run 8 weekly episodes. According to news reports (referenced in "hat tips" below) this unscripted series was filmed "6 days per week over a 3 month period". The hundreds of resultant hours [over 800 to be exact] were originally intended to be used as training videos for new missionaries. However, the producers soon realized they had captured compelling stories that would appeal to a world-wide audience.
"[T]he series captures the highs and lows of mission life, documenting successes and disappointments… the series doesn't shy away from controversial topics, including tattoos, alcohol and chastity — all things that came up as the missionaries explained their beliefs."
My Thoughts:
This looks like it could be a very cool TV show and worth checking out! I personally love the heightened desire of the LDS church to show greater transparency and "get real" (as illustrated in the diverse "I'm A Mormon" ads). This new "reality TV show" is fresh, (clean!), and creative. It is the result of thinking "outside the box" (a habit I'm rather fond of). It's worth noting the courage it must have taken on the part of the young missionaries who participated – as well as all of the parents of the missionaries, and the non-Mormons who willingly allowed their interviews, comments, questions and lessons to be filmed. I certainly think this is a "must see" for any young Mormon thinking about serving a full-time mission, and it's good prep for their families and friends. This is an intriguing series for anyone simply curious about what Mormon missionaries actually do without having to actually interact with one of them . Here's your chance to see what it would be like to meet and talk to one, and hear their answers to all those "tough questions".
Perhaps best of all, this program humanizes Mormon missionaries in a way that has been attempted only in fictional portrayals such as the movies "Gods Army" or "The Best Two Years". Now, "The District" has the potential to take things up a notch. It makes a case for gently and solidly debunking the unfair and inappropriate depictions of Mormon missionaries made by Hollywood, or particularly of late by a certain popular Broadway stage play.
I say, kudos to BYUTv for "getting real". I look forward to watching the next episode.
Episode 1 Promo
Episode 2 Promo
This series airs Sunday nights at 8:30 PM ET/ 6:30 PM MT on BYUTv. or Watch The Series Online Here
Hat Tips
- New reality show follows Mormon missionaries (SLTrib.com)
- LDS Missionaries are stars of new reality show (Desnews.com)
- Reality TV Show About Mormon Missionaries (LDSMediaTalk.com)
Related articles
- Astonishing: Church Lowers the Age Requirement For Missionaries (meridianmagazine.com)
- Mormon Church Lowers Age Limit for Missionaries (abcnews.go.com)
- (Re)Conceptualizing our Gendered Missionary Image (bycommonconsent.com)


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I posted about Vogue 8728 a couple of weeks ago:
And since then I've actually made it up. (Twice, but I only have one photographed.)
Here's a better view of the bodice:
And the neck binding/gathers:
And the zipper (not the best job I've ever done, but serviceable):
And the back view:
And the inside of the midriff, which I underlined in silk organza to give it a little strength & anti-wrinkle mojo:
So: pattern notes. The gathers will make you look bustier than you are; decide whether this is a bug or a feature and act accordingly. This one is cut one size smaller in the neckline, but for the second version, I ended up cutting two sizes down in the shoulder/neck — either the neckline is very wide, or my shoulders are narrow, not sure which. I did a four-inch hem (folded two inches, folded again, blindstitched on the machine) because this voile fabric is so lightweight that you need a heavy hem to make it hang right … and it turned out to be the right length.
Oh, and I added pockets.
This dress is really fun to wear; it's light and airy and goes well with sneakers and with sandals, and it is PERFECT for Liberty Tana Lawn (I made a second one in Tana Lawn that I haven't photographed yet). The gathers would be trickier in heavier fabric — I think even quilting cotton would be too stiff. (I've also cut one out in dotted Swiss; we'll see how that goes.)
I've seriously had this flower fabric for one kajillion years, and probably part of my joy in finding this pattern is that it will work for several OTHER pieces of fabric of roughly the same geological era — all of which were too beautiful not to purchase, but too lightweight to make into shirtdresses. I feel so justified moving them all to California now …


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Hiring Your First Product Manager
As a technical or product-focused CEO/founder of a growing company, a challenge one eventually faces is making that first product manager hire. Like most founders, there's a good chance that you're seeing ongoing challenges balancing the ever-increasing workload as CEO and starting to feel that sense of distance from the product as the needs of sales, marketing, hiring, and more pull you away. You might be wondering how you can spend more time on what you love, the product, while recognizing as CEO you must grow the strength of the organization while also focus on the contributions that you can make uniquely from the CEO role.
This is where making the first product manager hire is necessary and also a unique challenge. Most of the time, this hire is postponed as long as possible. You can cover-up for this missing resource with additional late night mails, some extra last minute meetings, and so on. The time this really hits home is when feature work or decisions turn into re-work or re-thinking. That's the sign it is time to hire some help. Engineering resources are precious and timelines are always tight—being the founder-pm-bottleneck is no way to iterate your way to product-market fit.
The short answer to this next step is two-fold. First, at an emotional level this is extremely difficult for most every founder (btw, in a big company if you are starting a new product team it turns out this same dynamic applies). It is likely you will talk to quite a few candidates and no one will ever seem quite right. Second, you are going to have to trust your team a great deal on the fit and in doing so adjust your own approach to product management as part of the on-boarding process.
Every situation will be unique and there is no single rule for what type of skillset, experience, or seniority will be right for you and your company. The most important thing to think through before you start the process is to agree between your co-founder(s) and team on the profile of the role you wish the new PM to play in the organization.
Traditionally this would be framed along the lines of a job description:
Seniority. Are you looking for a VP, Director, Lead? Most typically you start here but these descriptions might fall short of really defining the role and so you end up seeing a lot of candidates.
Domain. Perhaps you are looking to fill in a specific technology background as part of this hire? As the product evolves you might be expanding into product areas that could use additional strength from product management. The question is really how much this will change the bottleneck you might be seeing.
Skillset. Are you looking for a candidate with more of a design, project management, or engineering background?
Each of these are examples of necessary but not sufficient criteria in kicking off the search for your first product manager. Because the first product manager hire is so unique for a product-focused founder, it is worth offering a framework or characterization of the role that you might start with.
Once you arrive at characterizing the role, then you are in a better position to narrow the search by more traditional experience and skills descriptors. Each of these below can work with the key being clear on hire and in management what the expectations are for the new product manager.
Extra hands. Most every founder I speak with starts the description of needing an extra set of hands, eyes, ears—someone to offload some work to, follow-up, track down, etc. This is often a positive stop-gap and can certainly work short term. Medium to long-term it can also starve you of the opportunity to grow the organization or might mean you set yourself up for yet another product management challenge down the road. If you go with this approach then the important thing to watch is that you did not solve you bottleneck problem by just moving it to another person or adding a level of bottleneck-indirection.
Process chief. Are you looking to offload the unpleasant or less intellectual aspects of product management such as the details of tracking, documenting, and other "process" issues? It is quite natural to be very narrowly focused in hiring the first product manager to want this set of skills added to the team. It isn't uncommon for engineering to also seek this addition. The good news is this is almost always helpful. The challenge is it also adds another person to the team for the short term but might not really reduce the load or bottleneck but could unintentionally add friction to the process. A careful balance is required.
Apprentice. Many times the goal of bringing on the first product manager is to reduce the risk of hiring a senior or experienced person and going with a relatively junior hire and working to grow him/her into the role that you actually need. This can often be the most comfortable approach for the team because there's a clear view of who the boss is and relatively clear expectations with the new PM. Generally the challenge can be down the road when you bring in more product managers and have to decide if the apprentice is "senior enough". To avoid this challenge the best thing to do is really put in place a true training and growing situation. You need to provide the right level of responsibility and feedback/mentoring. Sometimes the difficulty is in hiring at this level but expecting too much, too soon.
Mini-me. Another model I have seen is searching for that first PM that is a reflection of your own skillsets and experience—a mini-me. For many this younger-sibling approach can be comfortable and easy to model and understand. It is a matter of finding the candidate that shares your product point of view and vision, and then a way of getting it done. The interesting challenge with this approach is not the way it works, but the way it might not work. Will the new PM amplify not just your strengths but your weaknesses? Will this miss out on the chance to being more perspective, diversity of thought and approach, or new ideas into the team? Are you being imitated or copied?
Successor. The most difficult or bravest first PM hire is to hire your successor. In hiring this person you're bringing on a person who will simply be the final voice in product management. This is a scary approach and depending on the direct responsibilities you have and where you are in the product-market fit journey this might be the best approach for you and the team. The challenge I've seen most often with this first hire is that the seniority level doesn't quite match the organization yet. The new hire's first step is to build out a team and bring on more people. This might be exactly why you're bringing on the person (just as when you bring on less familiar functions) but generally isn't the case for product management as most often the first hire needs to be hands on and will buy you some time or runway. On the other hand, often the right candidate comes along—one who has the right level of person contribution, domain knowledge, and scale experience—and that might make for the right fit.
Of course hiring the person that fits this description as well as all the right product skills could turn into a unicorn hire, so definitely be careful about over-constraining the challenge. Of course, hiring is just the first step. As you onboard, assign and delegate work, and manage a new product manager you will also need to be incredibly deliberate in your own evolving role in product management. All too often the most-fitting hires can run into challenges when there is a mismatch between intention and execution of product management responsibility.
One word of caution. If you are concerned or even "afraid" of hiring a strong product person with a point of view, perspective, or just streak of stubbornness then think for a moment. Are you labeling the person a poor fit for "culture" or are you actually more concerned that they might make your own personal transition more challenging? If you're working to always bring on strong people, don't compromise at this juncture.
Hiring the first or early product managers for technical/product focused founder(s) is always a big step and a difficult one. When done correctly it can be a positive and rapid accelerator for engineering and a positive for the company overall as it makes room for you as that leader to focus on the work you can do uniquely.


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NEW YORK (Reuters) - A federal jury in New York on Wednesday found that video game company Nintendo Co infringed an inventor's 3-D display technology patent with its handheld 3DS videogame system.
The jury awarded the inventor, Seijiro Tomita, $30.2 million in compensatory damages.
The patent relates to technology that Tomita developed for providing 3-D images without the need for 3-D glasses.
In opening arguments last month, Tomita's attorney, Joe Diamante, told the jury in U.S. District Court in Manhattan that Nintendo used technology that Tomita developed for its 3DS. Tomita is a former longtime Sony Corp employee.
But Scott Lindvall, a defense attorney for the Super Mario Bros franchise creator, argued that the 3DS doesn't use key aspects of Tomita's patent.
Lindvall also said a 2003 meeting with Nintendo officials that Tomita cited in his argument was merely one of several the company held with vendors selling 3-D display technology.
Tomita, 58, sued Nintendo and its U.S. unit in 2011 for patent infringement. Tomita was not present in the courtroom on Wednesday.
"We are thankful to the jurors for their diligence and hard work," Diamante said in an e-mail after the verdict. "It has been a honor to represent Mr. Tomita and to protect his invention."
Lindvall declined to comment following the verdict. Nintendo officials were not immediately available for comment.
Reporting by Bernard Vaughan; Editing by Richard Chang
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Since having the toddler 3 years ago I've been shedding hair faster than a snake sheds its skin. Of course the doctor told me I was only losing the extra hair I'd gained during my pregnancy! He looked at me with a slight smile as I protested that actually my hair had began thinning during my pregnancy! Seriously, there were no luscious locks in need of shedding here! The look on his face said it all… He thought that I was overreacting… My panic, unjustified!
As a child, teenager and young woman in her early twenties, my hair was thick and healthy. During my later twenties and drawing closer to the big 30, my hair was struggling to keep up. Now as I write this, age 31, my hair is so thin you can just see my scalp. I have some noticeable patches to the front area of my head.
Another visit to the doctor almost 3 years following the first and my worse fears are confirmed… My hair is falling out! Why? I'm told its stress!
If I was going to lose eyebrows and lashes then it would have happened already… Well, I guess that's something positive at least!
I've read about this happening to both children and adults, both men and women. Some people lose all their hair in a speedy fashion and sadly experience no regrowth. Others are more fortunate and the hair comes out at a much slower pace and new hair continues to grow, only at a far slower pace (looks thin but not noticeably bald). I kind of fall within the latter, only now I'm losing the hair faster than ever before and I suspect that the regrowth of my hair is much slower!
Annoyingly, I don't over style my hair, I use heat defence spray when blow drying and despite owning GHDs straighteners I'm careful and don't use them on a daily basis! Whenever I do straighten my hair I do well to protect it by opting for a good heat protector and intensive conditioning treatment. So… Why do I consider the above to be so annoying? Its simple… I've taken steps to avoid damaging my hair only to discover I'm literally forcing it from my scalp with the power of my mind alone. As I sit worrying about certain happenings in my life somehow its my hair (whats left of it) paying the price.
Yes… I've felt somewhat stressed, more so these past few months for sure. There are a lot of things happening in life right now, not only I, but my family as a whole have been dealing with a lot stuff of late. Its the type of stuff that makes you sick with worry and no matter what you do its one of those situations that are way beyond your control. Yes, this is stress at its worse, the type fuelled by worrisome thoughts that when combined with other everyday pressures, they become extremely explosive! The end result… A 31 year old women preparing to wig shop!
As some may expect, I went through the motions… Checked the mirror every 20 minutes as so to ensure their was still hair on my head, brushed my thinning hair ever so gently and lastly… I used all the "miracle" hair treatments, the ones promising hair like that of Cheryl Coles.
But no more! I'm now just getting on with things! After all worrying about something that is caused by stress isn't going to get me anywhere now is it? I've decided that I'm going to have fun with what hair is left on my head, starting with colouring it pink… Yes pink! I'm using a less harmful colour treatment and may even throw in a little blue if I'm feeling adventurous. Why? You might ask? Well… Why not?
I've come to realise that in life there are much more pressing issues then that of my fading hairline. By adapting this attitude I could also be doing my hair some good. However do I expect to correct an issue caused by stress if I'm stressing even more as a result?
Its all about the inner issues and its them that I'm concentrating on banishing. We as parents, human beings even, will always be stressing about something! I've just got to learn to let it out and deal with things in a more productive way, rather then letting it go to my head… Literally!


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Home Help: Budget-friendly bathroom changes
Tip of the Week
Instead of a hefty investment in a full bathroom remodeling, some simple and affordable changes can make a noticeable difference. Here are some that can be done in a single weekend:
Enhance walls with color and pattern - Adding a color or design to just one wall in the bathroom can revive the space. Yellows and golds will warm it up, greens and blues are calming. Horizontal stripes will make the space look wider; vertical stripes elongate walls and give the illusion of a higher ceiling.
A mirrored statement - Framed mirrors are great, but they can be pricey. Check out garage sales, local flea markets and thrift stores to see if you can find a distinctive picture frame that could be transformed into a mirror. To make it really stand out, look for those with unconventional shapes, finishes or colors.
Dress shelves - Shelf liner can be both fun and functional for the bath. Non-adhesive shelf liners are available in an array of colors and prints to dress up shelving, countertops and racks.
— Brandpoint
Home-Selling Tip
Clean the closet
Closets and storage areas that are not completely full give the appearance of having more room. With storage space a priority for many home buyers, a half-filled closet can be a benefit to sellers.
Did You Know
Pricey bathrooms
The national average cost for a bathroom remodel is $10,142, according to the Cost Guide from HomeAdvisor.com.
— Brandpoint
Decorating Tip
Brighten up
Lighting in any room of the house is a great opportunity to inject flair and style into your space with ease. Switch out older ceiling lights with trendy lanterns or an inexpensive, vintage chandelier. For bathroom vanities, try sconces with unexpected shades or use tall tabletop lamps instead of wall-mounted styles.
— Brandpoint
Garden Guide
Go early or go late
The best selection and freshest produce at farmer's markets is available early in the day, so set your alarm if that is your primary shopping purpose. But the best prices are often found very late in the day, as many vendors prefers to discount prices rather than load the leftovers for the trip back home. If you're a bargain hunter and not looking for a particular type of fruit or vegetable, a late-day visit may be for you.


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1987 and 2015 Coo-ee March Re-enactments Reunion and unveiling of Coo-ee March Roll of Honour Plaque
Marchers from the 1987 and 2015 Coo-ee March Re-enactments met in Gilgandra for a special reunion over the October Long Weekend, in memory of the 1915 Coo-ees, and to mark the 30th Anniversary of the 1987 Coo-ee March Re-enactment.
Around 40 former marchers and support people gathered at the Tattersalls Hotel in Gilgandra on Friday evening, 29th September 2017, to begin the weekend's activities.
The main event was a street parade by the marchers on Saturday morning 30th September 2017 from Bridge Street along Miller Street (the main street), then, after a short stop for reflection at the Gilgandra War Memorial wall, the marchers marched along the Windmill Walk along the Castlereagh River to the Coo-ee March Memorial Gateway at the Coo-ee Heritage Centre, for a commemorative service.
The marchers formed up to begin the parade at the commemorative Cairn in Bridge Street at 10.45 am for a welcome by Gilgandra Shire Council Acting Mayor Ashley Walker.
This Cairn marks the spot where the Gilgandra to Sydney Coo-ee Recruitment March started 102 years ago, on 10th October 1915.
50 years later, in 1965 seven of the original Coo-ees reunited in Gilgandra, to unveil this commemorative Cairn.
The 1987 Coo-ee March Re-enactment and the 2015 Coo-ee March Re-enactment both started at this commemorative Cairn.
At the commemorative service held at the Coo-ee March Memorial Gateway, the names of the 35 Gilgandra Coo-ees were read out by Coo-ee descendant and 2015 Coo-ee March Re-enactment marcher Deborah Hitchen, and 2015 marchers Eric McCutcheon and Paul Mann.
A Coo-ee March Roll of Honour plaque, listing the name of the 41 Coo-ees who died while on active service overseas during the First World War, was then unveiled.
The plaque was prepared by Coo-ee March 2015 Inc. (Gilgandra Sub-Committee) in memory of the 41 fallen Coo-ees. It was unveiled by Gilgandra Shire Council Acting Mayor Ashley Walker, Gilgandra Historical Society President Graeme Purvis, Brian Bywater OAM, one of the organisers of both the 1987 and 2015 Coo-ee March Re-enactments, and President of Coo-ee March 2015 Inc., and myself (Helen Thompson, Researcher for Coo-ee March 2015 Inc. (Gilgandra Sub-Committee).
The plaque was blessed by 2015 marcher and local Anglican minister, Father Grahame Yager.
It was very moving when the MC Richard Salcole read out the names of the 41 fallen Coo-ees, and each marcher present from the 1987 and 2015 Re-enactments moved forward to lay a poppy in bowls of sand that were placed with the wreaths in remembrance of these men, as each name was read.
The red poppy wreath with the purple Coo-ee March 1915-2015 ribbon on it travelled with Stephen and me when we visited the graves of the fallen Coo-ees, or the memorials where their names are remembered, in France, Belgium and England last year.
This 1902 British Military Saddle, accompanied by an 1898 replica pattern bridle, on display at the service, was the type of saddle used by the Australian Light Horse during the First World War. It was donated to the Gilgandra Museum and Historical Society during the service. This saddle was used by Major Stewart Thompson (retired) OAM when he accompanied the marchers on his horse as an Australian Light Horse re-enactor on the 1987 Coo-ee March Re-enactment.
After the commemorative service, the marchers adjourned to the Gilgandra Bowling Club for a BBQ lunch. It was a great day to remember the 1915 Coo-ees, and catch up with the 1987 and 2015 marchers.
A special service was held at St Ambrose Church in Gilgandra, in memory of the Coo-ees, on Sunday morning 1st October, 2017.
The names of the 41 Coo-ees who died while on active service overseas during the First World War. Information about the 41 Coo-ees who died while on active service overseas during the First World War can be found on this website on the Honour Roll page https://cooeemarch1915.com/honour-roll/


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