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80/35 celebrates the resurgence of creativity and inspiration in Des Moines. While Downtown Des Moines struggled to find its voice in entertainment, the non-profit Des Moines Music Coalition was established as an attempt reenergize our music scene. Today, Des Moines is a major attraction on the national music map.
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- 2 teaspoons extra-virgin olive oil, divided
- 1 can (15 ounces) extra-long asparagus spears, drained
- 12 ounces skinned salmon fillet, cut in 1/2-inch thick slices
- Salt and pepper, to taste
- 1/4 cup canned, sliced mushrooms, drained
- 1/4 cup canned, petite-cut, diced tomatoes, drained
- Finely grated zest and juice of 1/2 lemon
- 1 teaspoon finely chopped parsley or dill
- 2 teaspoons extra-virgin olive oil, divided
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Arrange salmon slices in a single layer, slightly overlapping, in the center of the plate. The salmon will cover most of the asparagus stalks. Season with salt and pepper. Scatter mushrooms, tomatoes and lemon zest over all. Drizzle lemon juice and remaining olive oil over top.
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The Chinese New Year, or Spring Festival as it's been called since the 20th century, remains the most important social and economic holiday in China. Originally tied to the lunar-solar Chinese calendar, the holiday was a time to honor household and heavenly deities as well as ancestors. It was also a time to bring family together for feasting. With the popular adoption in China of the Western calendar in 1912, the Chinese joined in celebrating January 1 as New Year's Day. China, however, continues to celebrate the traditional Chinese New Year, although in a shorter version with a new name–the Spring Festival. Significantly, younger generations of Chinese now observe the holiday in a very different manner from their ancestors. For some young people, the holiday has evolved from an opportunity to renew family ties to a chance for relaxation from work.
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The ancient Chinese calendar, on which the Chinese New Year is based, functioned as a religious, dynastic and social guide. Oracle bones inscribed with astronomical records indicate that it existed at least as early as 14th century B.C., when the Shang Dynasty was in power. The calendar's structure wasn't static: It was reset according to which emperor held power and varied in use according to region.
The Chinese calendar was a complex timepiece. Its parameters were set according to the lunar phases as well as the solar solstices and equinoxes. Yin and yang, the opposing but complementary principles that make up a harmonious world, also ruled the calendar, as did the Chinese zodiac, the cycle of twelve stations or "signs" along the apparent path of the sun through the cosmos. Each new year was marked by the characteristics of one of the 12 zodiacal animals: the rat, ox, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, sheep, monkey, rooster, dog and pig.
The Traditional Chinese New Year
The Chinese New Year period began in the middle of the 12th month and ended around the middle of the first month with the waxing of the full moon. Observance of the New Year period was traditionally divided into New Year's Eve and the first days of the new year.
Traditionally for the Chinese, New Year was the most important festival on the calendar. The entire attention of the household was fixed on the celebration. During this time, business life came nearly to a stop. Home and family were the principal focuses. In preparation for the holiday, homes were thoroughly cleaned to rid them of "huiqi," or inauspicious breaths, which might have collected during the old year. Cleaning was also meant to appease the gods who would be coming down from heaven to make inspections. Ritual sacrifices of food and paper icons were offered to gods and ancestors. People posted scrolls printed with lucky messages on household gates and set off firecrackers to frighten evil spirits. Elders gave out money to children. In fact, many of the rites carried out during this period were meant to bring good luck to the household and long life to the family–particularly to the parents.
Most important was the feasting. On New Year's Eve, the extended family would join around the table for a meal that included as the last course a fish that was symbolic of abundance and therefore not meant to be eaten. In the first five days of the New Year, people ate long noodles to symbolize long life. On the 15th and final day of the New Year, round dumplings shaped like the full moon were shared as a sign of the family unit and of perfection.
Evolution of Spring Festival
The Western-style Gregorian calendar arrived in China along with Jesuit missionaries in 1582. It began to be used by the general population by 1912, and New Year's Day was officially recognized as occurring on January 1. Beginning in 1949, under the rule of Chinese Communist Party leader Mao Zedong (1893–1976), the government forbade celebration of the traditional Chinese New Year and followed the Gregorian calendar in its dealings with the West. But at the end of the 20th century, Chinese leaders were more willing to accept the Chinese tradition. In 1996, China instituted a weeklong vacation during the holiday–now called Spring Festival–giving people the opportunity to travel home and to celebrate the new year.
In the early 21st century, many Chinese families spent a significant amount of their discretionary income celebrating the Spring Festival with traditional symbols and food. They also spent time watching the televised Spring Festival Gala: an annual variety show featuring traditional and contemporary singers, dancers and magic demonstrations. Although the rites of the holiday no longer had religious value, people remained sensitive to the zodiacal animals to the extent that they considered what, for example, a year of the rat might mean for their personal fortunes or for a child born at that time.
A change in attitude toward the Spring Festival has occurred in China's young people, with Chinese college students reporting that they prefer surfing the Internet, sleeping, watching TV or spending time with friends to celebrating with family. They also reported not liking traditional New Year food such as dumplings and glutinous rice pastry. With its change of name from Chinese New Year to Spring Festival, for some members of the younger generation the holiday has evolved from an opportunity to renew family ties to a chance for relaxation from work.
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Last year, one of the last industry events I attended was a two-day event that took place in Miami at the Conrad Hotel. Ladenburg Thalmann Financial Services Inc. along with its principal subsidiaries, Ladenburg Thalmann & Co. Inc., Investacorp, Inc., Triad Advisors, Inc. and Securities America, Inc., hosted a special symposium for women in finance. I was honored to attend as an industry consultant and columnist for Financial Planning.
�The participants in this room are a highly-accomplished group of women,� said Jaime Desmond, chief operating officer at Ladenburg Thalmann Asset Management, who served as emcee and spokeswoman for the event planning committee. �Each of you was nominated for this inaugural event by your respective broker/dealer. You represent some of the best and brightest in our industry,� Desmond said.
Richard Lampen, president and chief executive officer at Ladenburg Thalmann Financial Services, Inc. emphasized the importance of the event during his opening comments: �In the past ten years, we have seen significant growth in the IBD industry due to key demographic trends such as the greying of America and the retirement of the Baby Boomers. The need for independent, unbiased advice has never been greater. There is a steady and unalterable shift of brokers and assets from the wirehouse channel to the IBD channel. But we�d like to see more women advisors within the Ladenburg family of broker/dealers. That�s why we are especially pleased to be hosting this first-ever symposium, the Ladenburg Institute of Women and Finance.�
Alexandra Taussig, senior vice president, marketing, for National Financial, said during her luncheon keynote that while women are currently significantly under-represented in the advisory space overall, more women have been entering the field. �According to Fidelity�s sixth annual Broker & Advisor Sentiment Index Study, the advisory profession continues to be male-dominated, with men representing 87 percent of respondents and women representing 13 percent. But female advisors who have fewer than five years of experience have increased by 40 percent since 2010. With women projected to account for over 50 percent of the increase in total labor force growth between 2008 and 2018 according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, women may become a stronger force in the industry and the overall percentage of female advisors may grow over time.�
Women have been proving their success as advisors. The Fidelity study showed that female advisors had 5 percent higher assets under management and were generally more satisfied than their male counterparts. Although women earned five percent less than men, they had a higher sentiment score and higher average account size. While both genders were adjusting their strategies in the past year to focus on gaining new clients and increasing their share of wallet, women were focused more on networking to generate new business by attending events and seminars and in expanding the types of services they offer. In addition, more women than men were working with clients on areas outside of traditional investments, including long-term care, health care financing, and trust planning.
�Something big has been happening in the United States and very few have picked up on it,� said Ann Hughes, M. Ed., founder of The Female Affect. �Women have been hard at work acquiring significant wealth and amassing massive spending power. In fact, today approximately 70 percent of women work outside the home. Women control 72 percent of the total spending in America. This creates an affluent force to be reckoned with and the trend is gaining momentum with today�s youth as 140 women are awarded bachelor�s degrees for every 100 men earning the same degree,� Hughes said.
Hughes emphasized that women have unique lifestyle differences. On average women live four to six years longer than their male counterparts and frequently find themselves �smack dab in the middle of a sandwich situation, supporting elderly parents while still raising children. Women are the exact demographic that need the assistance of the financial services industry but instead of flocking to females in droves, the industry seems to shy away from this growing demographic because it has been a traditionally male dominated industry. At the same time, many women feel that financial professionals don�t understand our unique needs and often talk down to us. In a study by MetLife, 32 percent of women left their financial advisor because they did not listen to their needs or because they did not trust them. The financial services� industry cannot continue on this path � the very demographic that has the largest need, wealth and spending power is being marginalized at best and often just plain ignored,� Hughes said.
Two successful women entrepreneurs shared their thoughts on building a business while balancing other life commitments. Persistence, passion and focus were three of the qualities they embraced. �My mother always told me to have an elephant�s memory,� said one of the consumer panelists. �Forgive, but never forget.�
The two consumer panelists also talked about how they found and why they chose their current financial advisors. Both panelists said they had once worked with brokers but that the incentives were bothersome to them and that they had eventually moved to working with an independent, fee-based advisor.
�I took a lot of time finding my advisor,� said one. �I wasn�t happy with my dad�s financial advisor, who due to the sale of our family business gifted a significant amount of money to me when I was only 25 years old. I interviewed 4-5 individuals, and while knowledge, experience and references were important, I needed someone I could talk to. My dad�s advisor was talking down to me; it was not a respectful relationship.�
On the topic of women in the workplace and women as entrepreneurs, on of the consumer panelists said, �For women to get ahead, we have to help each other.�
Author, professional speaker and sports agent Molly Fletcher, labeled the female �Jerry McGuire� by CNN, echoed many of the sentiments shared by the consumer panel during her speech, �Women Winning in Business.� She emphasized that the women in the room were in the relationship business and encouraged them to add so much value that their clients would enthusiastically refer them, let alone ever think of leaving them.
�Do your clients feel like they owe you or do you feel like you owe them? The goal is this: How could they possibly leave you after all you have given and given and given? Another tip: before people officially sign on with you, show them what is it is like to work with you. Have a sense of fearless urgency. Be intentional about how quickly or slowly you respond to things. We are all cognizant of the messages we send to clients � we tend to execute around things that make us money or don�t make us money. Show that sense of urgency around the work you do for your clients,� Fletcher said.
By the way, Fletcher said that not enough women advisors pitch her on becoming a resource for her professional athlete and celebrity clients. In the middle of that pregnant moment, a Securities America advisor stood up and quickly walked to the front of the room. Holding out her business card, she said, �Hello. I�m Amy Lipsitz. I�m an independent financial advisor. We work with athletes, affluent individuals and business owners at my firm. I�d love to be a resource for you and your clients. Can we have a quick side conversation when you�re done here?� The room erupted into laughter and applause. Fletcher gave Lipsitz a high-five.
During the �Women of the Ages Panel� moderated by Janine Wertheim, chief marketing officer of Securities America, advisors from Triad, Investacorp and Securities America, each representing a decade of life, shared their life and work experiences. All emphasized that building relationships with their employees and strategic partners was as important as building relationships with their clients. All relished the benefits of being an entrepreneur and the support that they received from their respective broker/dealer.
Triad advisor Laura Schilling, who represented the 30�s and 40�s age group on the Women of the Ages panel, has found the best employees are women who want to work part-time so they can be available for their kids. They are paid hourly and can work from home if they want, using a Citrix connection. Some come to the office but being a flexible employer is key. She also asks each of her employees, �What would make you feel appreciated � spas, retreats, time with the team, time for yourself, time with the kids? I look for what motivates them, and not only find but keep incredible women this way. Most of my staff comes from staff. They are extremely loyal and hard-working,� Schilling said.
When asked how she attracts new business, Kim Kropp, a Securities America advisor in her 50�s, said she does no direct marketing. Everything hinges on the soft sell. She gets all the business she needs through referrals from existing clients. As an example of how she builds relationships, Kropp talked about the holiday open house she�s held at her own home for the past 32 years. 100 people, mostly family and friends, came the first year. 400 people came through in 2011, many of them clients and their friends. She makes all the food, drinks.
But her main marketing initiative is Christmas in July. Sixteen years ago she delivered a special surprise to her top 30 clients, with her kids as delivery helpers. Now her staff goes out and delivers to 400 client homes and offices. The surprises are different every year. Pies. Cinnamon rolls. Magazines. Popcorn. Tortes. She tries to find specialties made in Omaha, where her office is based. She says it�s about getting into their homes. Seeing what their life is like.
�I try to touch everyone I meet in some way,� Kropp said. �They become friends first then find out I�m a financial advisor and come to me for that.�
Violeta Salud, an Investacorp advisor in her 60�s, lives in a small town, Lake Wales, Florida: population 15,000. �If you really want people to know who you are,� said Salud, �you have to get out there and repeatedly say who you are. I try to get free publicity every chance I get. I�ve been the PTA president, the chairman of the board for an organization that serves people with special needs, and so forth. I am very active in civic and community activities. I try to get in the headline as much as possible.�
Salud has held client appreciation events for 15 years but became bored speaking about investments, so started entertaining her clients and their friends. Changing from education to entertainment works for her gregarious personality and brings more clients to the fold. Examples: she brought in a dance troupe from Tampa; she collaborates with local colleges and the music departments to help them fundraise.
Like Salud, Kropp has also held women�s events�one where everyone gets a mani/pedi; and family events such as a ball game that�s open to family and friends. Kropp holds five educational events a year; for instance, she brought in a motivational speaker to talk about dealing with stress and sent everyone home with a long-stemmed rose. She hosted a Medicare event and asked clients to bring friends.
�The steering committee and I thought long and hard about the agenda for this conference,� said Desmond in her closing comments. �The feedback we received from the advisors attending was been overwhelmingly positive. Some of you are asking for an annual in-person forum, much like this one, and have given us your wish list of sessions for next year. In addition, many of you have expressed a strong interest in using digital communications such as webinars, teleconferences, a community discussion board and video, to keep the conversations and connections alive between institute meetings. We are extremely pleased with this response and will, as a steering committee, be discussing next steps,� Desmond said.
As I was finishing up this article for Financial Planning (some 34,000 feet high as I wing my way to another conference), I received an invitation from the committee. I�m happy to report that I�ll be one of the first webinar guest speakers for the Ladenburg Women and Finance Institute in 2013. My topic on the February 12th webinar will be �Demystifying Social Media and the Digital Reality.�
As always, if you�ll be attending any of the conferences below, tackle me and let�s chat. Otherwise, you can post your comments on the discussion thread below or interact with me on Twitter, LinkedIn or Facebook.
- Jan. 28-30: FSI One Voice in San Diego
- Jan. 30 - Feb. 2: TD Ameritrade conference in San Diego
- Feb. 6: Sourcemedia private client event in New York City
- Feb. 11-13: T3 Technology Tools for Today conference in Miami (use code T32013IC to save $50)
- March 27: FPA Kansas City social media workshop in Overland Park, Kansas
- April 9-10: Tiburon CEO Summit XIV in Manhattan, New York
- May 14: National Trust Company of America conference in Las Vegas
- May 19-21: Investacorp national conference in Puerto Rico
- June 9-12: Securities America national conference in Washington, D.C.
Marie Swift is a communications consultant in the financial services industry. Learn more at www.ImpactCommunications.org. Follow @marieswift on Twitter, �like� ImpactCommunicationsInc on Facebook, or search for Marie Swift on LinkedIn.


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A blender (liquidiser in British English) is a kitchen and laboratory appliance used to mix, puree, or emulsify food and other substances. A stationary blender consists of a blender jar with blade at the bottom, rotated by a motor in the base. The newer immersion blender configuration has a motor on top connected by a shaft to a blade at the bottom, which can be used with any container.
The blending container can be made of glass, plastic, stainless steel, or porcelain, and often has graduated markings for approximate measuring purposes. In cases where the blades are removable, the container should have an o-ring or gasket between the body of the container and the base to seal the container and prevent the contents from leaking. The blending container is generally shaped in a way that encourages material to circulate through the blades, rather than simply spinning around.
The container rests upon a base that contains a motor for turning the blade assembly and has controls on its surface. Most modern blenders offer a number of possible speeds. Low-powered blenders require the addition of some liquid to operate correctly. In these blenders, the liquid helps move the solids around the jar, bringing them in contact with the blades. The blades create a whirlpool effect which moves solids from top to bottom, ensuring even contact with the blade. This creates a homogeneous mixture. High-powered blenders are capable of milling grains and crushing ice without such assistance.
The hand-held immersion blender has no container of its own, but instead has a mixing head with rotating blades that can be immersed in a container. Immersion blenders are convenient for homogenizing volumes that are too large to fit in the bowl of a stationary blender or, as in the case of soups, are too hot to be safely poured into the bowl.
Some of the functions of blenders have been taken over by food processors. In particular, thicker mixtures such as mayonnaise and hummus are conveniently made in food processors.
Blenders are used both in home and commercial kitchens for various purposes, including to:
- Mix and crush ice in cocktails such as the Zombie, Piña Colada and frozen margarita
- Crush ice and other ingredients in non-alcoholic drinks such as Frappucinos and smoothies
- Emulsify mixtures
- Make smooth purées of semi-solid ingredients, such as cooked vegetables and meat
- Reduce small solids such as spices and seeds to powder or nut butters
- Blend mixtures of powders, granules, and/or liquids thoroughly
- Help dissolve solids into liquids
Blenders also have a variety of applications in microbiology and food science. In addition to standard food-type blenders, there is a variety of other configurations of blender for laboratories.
North America[edit]
The Polish-American Stephen J. Poplawski, owner of the Stevens Electric Company, began designing drink mixers in 1919 under contract with Arnold Electric Company, and patented the drink mixer in 1922[1] which had been designed to make Horlicks malted milk shakes at soda fountains. He also introduced the liquefier blender in 1922.[2]
In the 1930s, L. Hamilton, Chester Beach and Fred Osius, produced Poplawski's invention under the brand name Hamilton Beach Company. Fred Osius improved the appliance, making another kind of blender. He approached Fred Waring, a popular musician who financed and promoted the "Miracle Mixer", released in 1933. However the appliance had some problems to be solved about the seal of the jar and the knife axis, so Fred Waring redesigned the appliance and released his own blender in 1937, the Waring Blendor with which Waring popularized the smoothie in the 1940s. Waring Products [3] is now a part of Conair. Waring long used the spelling "blendor" for its product.
Also in 1937, W.G. Barnard, founder of Vitamix, introduced a product called "The Blender,"[4] which was functionally a reinforced blender with a stainless steel jar, instead of the Pyrex glass jar used by Waring.
In Europe, the Swiss Traugott Oertli developed a blender based on the technical construction and design style conception of the Waring Blendor, releasing in 1943 the Turmix Standmixer. Based on the blender, Mr. Traugott also developed another kind of appliance to extract juice of any juicy fruit or vegetables, the Turmix Juicer, which was also available as separated accessory for use in the Turmix blender, the juicer Turmix Junior. Turmix had promoted the benefits of drinking natural juices from fruits combined with other vegetables, beyond a sort of recipes using juices to promote its blender and juicer.
South America[edit]
In Brazil, Waldemar Clemente, ex-staffer of General Electric and owner of Walita electric appliance company since 1939, designed a blender based on the Turmix Standmixer and released in 1944 the Walita Neutron blender. Clemente also created the name liquidificador, which ever since designated a blender in Brazil. Soon thereafter, Walita acquired the Turmix patents in Brazil and also released the Turmix juicer, calling it the Centrífuga Walita as well the others Turmix accessories for use with the blender motor, as fruit peelers, grinder, crusher and batter mixer. Using the same marketing strategy as Turmix in Europe, Walita passed the million-blenders-sold mark a few years later in the early 1950s. Walita were the first manufacturer to release a wide range of blenders in the 1940s. In the 1950s, Walita made blenders for Siemens, Turmix, Philips, and Sears (Kenmore), among others. In the 1960s Royal Philips Co. approached Walita, acquiring the company in 1971, becoming Royal Philips' kitchen appliances developer division specializing in blenders, which are sold under the Philips brand outside Brazil.
In 1946 John Oster, owner of the Oster barber equipment company, bought Stevens Electric Co. and designed its own blender, which Oster commercialized under the trademark Osterizer. Oster was bought by Sunbeam Products in 1960.[5] which released various types of blenders, as the Imperial series and still make the traditional Osterizer blender.
The Austrian immigrant Hanz Arno, owner of an electric motor manufacturer in Brazil since the 1940s, released a blender in 1947, based on the blenders made by Hamilton Beach and Oster. The Liquidificador Arno was exported to other South American countries. As Arno had stocks of Electrolux, that brand was used on the blender in some countries. Later in 1997 Arno was bought by the SEB Group, owner of Moulinex, T-Fal, Rowenta, and other home appliance brands.
Television advertising[edit]
When television made its debut in 1949, Vita-Mix introduced the new and improved Vita-Mix using a 30-minute time slot on WEWS-TV in Cleveland and created the first-ever direct response commercial. This commercial, which ran for several years in many markets, made blender a household word. A copy of this early infomercial holds a special place in the Direct Marketing Association archives.
Increased versatility[edit]
With the introduction of the "Kitchen Center" in 1969, the Vita-Mix 3600, and later the Vita-Mix 4000, Vita-Mix extended what could be done in a blender. The large motor and friction cooking capability enabled these machines to freeze and dispense solid ice cream, grind grain, cook soup and make a creamy, smooth juice from whole foods.
With the rising popularity of smoothies, Frappucinos and other frozen drinks prepared in front of the customer, new models of commercial blenders often include a sound-reducing enclosures and computerized controls.[6]
Specialized blenders for making smoothies are becoming popular, chiefly resembling an ordinary model with a spigot added for quick serving. Some models also feature a gimballed stirring rod mounted on the lid, constructed so that mixtures can be stirred whilst the machine is running with no chance of the stirrer fouling the blades.
In 1996 Tom Dickson, founder and CEO of Blendtec, introduced the WildSide blending jar — a unique design that eliminated the need for stir sticks and plungers to make thicker blends. The technology was so effective that Vita-Mix decided to use the design in the company's commercial blending containers. In 2010 the United States court system concluded that Vita-Mix had willfully infringed the patents, ultimately awarding Blendtec $24 million in damages.[7]
Mechanical operation[edit]
A blender consists of a housing, motor, blades, and food container. A fan-cooled electric motor is secured into the housing by way of vibration dampers, and a small output shaft penetrates the upper housing and meshes with the blade assembly. Usually, a small rubber washer provides a seal around the output shaft to prevent liquid from entering the motor. Most blenders today have multiple speeds. As a typical blender has no gearbox, the multiple speeds are often implemented using a universal motor with multiple stator windings and/or multitapped stator windings; in a blender with electromechanical controls, the button (or other electrical switching device or position) for each different speed connects a different stator winding/tap or combination thereof. Each different combination of energized windings produces a different torque from the motor, which yields a different equilibrium speed in balance against the drag (resistance to rotation) of the blade assembly in contact with the material inside the food container.
See also[edit]
Look up blender, liquidiser, or liquidizer in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. |
- ^ http://www.google.com/patents/US1480914
- ^ Mary Bellis (2010-06-16). "The History of the Blender". Inventors.about.com. Retrieved 2011-04-12.
- ^ "Waring Retail". Waringproducts.com. Retrieved 2011-04-12.
- ^ "Vita-Mix Company History". Vitamix.com. Retrieved 2011-04-12.
- ^ Information from the Oster site; now only available at the Google cache.
- ^ "Blendtec® Announces Stealth™, the Quietest, Most Advanced Commercial Blender". PRWeb.com. Retrieved 10 April 2013.
- ^ US Court of Appeals. 2012.


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That a nice profit for buying in 2009. $1.35mm brand new vs the current sale of $2.55mm.
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2 things, 330M: (1) sponsor got stuck by a contract signed in 2007 (at $2.15mm?) that buyer walked away from (sponsor kept 10%?), (2) then brought it back to market Jan 2009. Sponsor was willing to deal, having sold most units before Lehman bankruptcy, and buyer was willing to buy when few others were = big discount.
Walked through this on my blog yesterday: http://www.realtown.com/sandymattingly/blog/loft-neighborhoods-chelsea/more-developers-remorse-scooped-by-curbed-over-246-west-17-street-loft-resale-89-in-3-years/
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sandy, great article. thanks.
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Tableaux Launchs the Disney Dream
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Religion and faith-based welfare
From wellbeing to ways of being
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"This book does so much more than the title suggests ... In many ways, this is the book on religion and social policy that we have all been waiting for." Social Policy & Administration
"The connections between religion and welfare are growing in importance almost by the day. Rana Jawad's contribution to the debate is particularly welcome: it is historically informed, theoretically grounded and abundantly illustrated. It will become required reading for academics and policy-makers alike."
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"For too long social services and the welfare state in the UK have been discussed without reference to religion. In a single volume, Jawad puts that right. She offers a comprehensive overview of religion's vital role in the past and present of social welfare, and shows what an important contribution faith can still make to its theory and practice in the 21st century." Linda Woodhead, Professor of Sociology of Religion, Lancaster University
About This Book
This original book makes a timely and potentially controversial contribution both to the teaching of social policy and the wider debates surrounding it in Britain today. It offers a critical and theoretically sensitive overview of the role of religious values, actors and institutions in the development of state and non-state social welfare provision in Britain, combining historical discussion of the relationship between religion and social policy in Britain with a comparative theoretical discussion that covers continental Europe and North America. Grounded in new empirical research on religious welfare organisations from the nine major faiths in the UK, the book brings together all of these perspectives to argue for an analytical shift in the definition of wellbeing through a new concept called 'ways of being'. This reflects the moral, ideational and cultural underpinnings of social welfare. Written in a readable style, the book will appeal to students and tutors of social policy, as well as policy-makers seeking to inform themselves about the key issues surrounding faith-based welfare in modern Britain.
Author Biography
Rana Jawad is Lecturer in social policy at the University of Bath. She has a long running interest in welfare theory and the role of religion in social policy. She is best known for her work on social policy and religious welfare provision in the region of the Middle East. She has conducted various pieces of research on religion and social policy both in the UK and overseas.Contents
Part one: Religious welfare in historical and theoretical context: Introduction: religion and wellbeing in the UK from historical context to contemporary social policy
Theorising religious welfare
Key concepts in religious welfare practice
Part two: Religious welfare practice: Education
Health support services
Housing and community regeneration
Social care
Social work
Cultural and recreational activities
Financial support and poverty-reduction
Conclusion: implications for social policy in the UK.
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Organizational rankings and top 10 prospects per team
December 18, 2010 Numbers On Ice The 1970's Canadiens
by Tom Awad
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When discussing the greatest NHL teams of all time, there are several obvious candidates. Among hockey fans who dont yet use walkers, the most fondly remembered teams are the New York Islanders and Edmonton Oilers of the 1980s and the Detroit Red Wings of the last 15 years. Fans with a more historical bent (I exclude from the characterization Iain Fyffe, who has always been partial to the Vancouver Millionnaires of the 1910s) will cite the Gordie Howe Red Wings of the 1940s and 1950s, who finished first overall in the regular season seven consecutive years, and the late 1950s Canadiens who won five consecutive Stanley Cups from 1956-1960. But if pressed, most hockey fans will agree that the Montreal Canadiens of the late 1970s, who won four Consecutive Stanley Cups and set a host of records that will never be beaten, deserve the crown.
While the 70s Canadiens won four Stanley Cups, the same as the Islanders and Oilers and one fewer than their brethren 20 years earlier, it is the degree to which they dominated the rest of the league that sticks out. From 1976 to 1978, the Canadiens regular season record was 177 Wins, 29 Losses and 34 Ties. They averaged over 129 Points per Season, over just 80 games and without the Bettman charity point; in fact, those are three of the four highest point totals ever recorded, joined only by the 131 points recorded by the 1995-96 Red Wings (over 82 games). They averaged (averaged!) a goal differential of +185 over those three seasons. Their playoff records were 12-1, 12-2, 12-3 and 12-4 during their four Stanley Cup runs. No team had been as clearly dominant before or has been since.
However, there is a fair question to ask: are we measuring those Canadiens against the same caliber of opponents that our other great teams had to face? Everyone understands that sports has changed dramatically over the last 50 years, and any notion of a head-to-head matchup between the 1956 Canadiens and the 1984 Oilers should be saved for video games and friendly arguments in pubs. The best we can do is compare teams to the competition that existed at the time. But by this measure, the Canadiens of the 1970s had a much easier task than any other elite team.
In 1967, the NHL had six teams, as had been the case for a quarter century. But the next ten years saw dramatic changes in the world of professional hockey: the NHL expanded from 6 to 12, and then to 14, 16 and 18 teams from 1967 to 1974. Meanwhile, in 1972 the World Hockey Association (WHA) was launched, and with money and fanfare, began poaching NHL talent. By 1974, there were 18 teams in the NHL and 14 in the WHA: 32 major league hockey teams in North America, where seven years earlier there had been six. To say there was a dilution in talent would not do justice to how much the level of competition eroded.
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I suspect you are prepared for the response from Canadiens faithful... Whenever I think of the 70s Canadiens' dominance, I'm reminded of how historically bad the Capitals were in that same period. It works both ways, sometimes. Just to add a little to the Canadiens performance at that time, from 1975-76 through 1977-78 they were outshooting their opponents an average of 34-26. Yikes. Great article, Tom.
Actually Tom, I might go for the Vics - either the Montreal or Winnipeg version, circa 1900.
Those 70s Habs teams wouldn't have been nearly as good without Chelios' veteran leadership.


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Countryside Council for Wales Landscape & wildlife Please note - A new body, Natural Resources Wales has taken over all functions and services previously carried out by Countryside Council for Wales. While the Natural Resources Wales website continues to be developed, some online services will continue to be provided on this web site.
HABMAP was initially partly funded by the INTERREG IIIA programme between 2004 and 2007. Following this the Countryside Council for Wales carried out further work between 2007 and 2010 to extend coverage of the project to include all of Welsh waters.
The HABMAP project has produced working habitat maps of the seabed of the southern Irish Sea using novel predictive modelling techniques. For more information about the modelling and mapping work, see the data collation and modelling pages...
If you would like a hard copy of the original HABMAP project reports (BIOMOR 5a and 5b), or a project DVD containing survey data and images, please contact Andy Mackie at the National Museum Wales email@example.com.
Two HABMAP survey cruises were carried out in summer 2005 on the RV Celtic Voyager.
Here you can find various images relating to the HABMAP project, each with a brief description of what you are looking at. Within the gallery are folders containing images of the multibeam survey areas, seabed features, seafloor photos and sediment profiles, as well as some photographs taken onboard the survey vessel.
A major part of the HABMAP project was to develop a model that used physical characteristics to predict the biological community (biotope) on the seabed. (A biotope is a combination of the physical characteristics of the seabed and the group of species living there.) This was a four stage process that involved collating physical and biological data, developing a model, testing the model, and validating the outputs. This was a new approach to mapping seabed habitats in the southern Irish Sea.
The main aim of the HABMAP modelling work was to use physical datasets to predict the occurrence of benthic habitats throughout the southern Irish Sea.
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Changing the Look & Feel of the Forums/Posts
So for my website, I have installed SMF 2.0 and I love it so far! I'm in the process of tweaking/finishing it up and I wanted to ask if there's a way to change the looks and feel of Topics/Threads. For example; If you look at a Topic/Post you can see the buttons for New Topic/Reply/etc at the top and bottom, and even in the post itself i'd like to change the look and feel of it.
Would I be looking for a Package/Mod? If so, where should I look at? I'm not entirely sure. :P
Depends what you want to do. You can change a fair bit just with css, if you know css well. For some changes, you'd need to recode the template as well. There aren't really any mods that deal with this sort if thing. Basically, you'll need to know how to code a bit. :)
Hmm. Well, if you see as you're reading this, there are Reply/Notify buttons (and more) at the top and below. That's one "big" thing i'm wanting to change.
Arantor Beeblebrox the First:
So that's what you're wanting to change - but what do you want to change it to, exactly?
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I was thinking of simply removing the bottom ones, but I guess i'll keep them. lol
Heh, is there a way to change the icons for Quote/Modify/etc? Or is that completely theme dependent?
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