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Liked on YouTube: Why We Secretly Want the World to End || https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGVe4Fju0P0 || We're kind of obsessed with the end of the world. But why? Let's investigate the apocalypse, and see what we can learn about ourselves, the world, and the power of hope. 00:00 - Intro 05:36 - Defining the Apocalypse 11:01 - The Myth of Apocalyptic Thinking 17:34 - The Myth of Preppers 24:30 - The Myth of Human Nature 37:22 - The Other Myth 44:04 - Three Ways to Change the World 58:29 - Conclusion 01:01:38 - Outro & Poem Human Restoration Project Resources: ------ Website: https://ift.tt/Nre4F2C ------ Conference Site: https://ift.tt/4bjtgGR ------ Educational Resources: https://ift.tt/DyUZ7rq ------ YouTube Channel (@HumanRestorationProject ): https://www.youtube.com/@HumanRestorationProject RELATED VIDEOS & PODCASTS: ------ “Live Like the World is Dying” Podcast: https://ift.tt/gCRqs4t ------ Human Restoration Project: https://ift.tt/Nre4F2C ------ @Andrewism 's Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@Andrewism ------ A Practical Guide to Systemic Change (@dr.fatima ): https://youtu.be/3NCSY85FqVQ ------ Autism, Anxiety & Misanthropy (@PonderfulYT ): https://youtu.be/GFvhaab3lfw ------ why are you so anti-human? ft. @elliotsayshello (@BABILA. ): https://youtu.be/cM7SQzsatYE ------ Who We Really Are... When Everything Goes Wrong (@LikeStoriesofOld ): https://youtu.be/vT_sKGbP1yY ------ InkSkinned Poem: https://ift.tt/Y9psOBP SOURCES: ------ #doomsdayprepper: Analysing the online prepper community on Instagram1, by Burgert Senekal in journal for cultural studies ------ “The Optimism of Uncertainty” by Howard Zinn ------ A Paradise Built in Hell, by Rebecca Solnit ------ Apocalypse and Heroism in Popular Culture, by Katherine E. Sugg ------ Apocalypse and Post-Politics, by Mary Manjikian ------ Apocalypse Man, by Casey Ryan Kelly ------ Bracing for the Apocalypse, by Anna Maria Bounds ------ Dancing at Armageddon: Survivalism and Chaos in Modern Times, by Richard G. Mitchell Jr. ------ “Elites and Panic: More to Fear than Fear Itself”, by Lee Clarke and Caron Chess ------ Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities, by Rebecca Solnit ------ “Hopeful Dystopias? Figures of Hope in the Brazilian Science Fiction Series 3%” by Michael Godhe in Routledge Guide to Dystopias in Popular Culture ------ “How to survive the end of the future: Preppers, pathology, and the everyday crisis of insecurity”, by Kezia Barker, in the TIBG ------ Humankind: A Hopeful History, by Rutger Bregman ------ Imaginable: How to see the future coming and feel ready for anything–even things that seem impossible today, by Jane McGonigal ------ Interview with Béla Tarr, Cineuropa ------ “Liberal Prepping as Apocalyptic Eco-Religion” by Juli Gittinger, in The Journal of Religion and Popular Culture ------ Life After Doomsday, by Bruce D. Clayton ------ “Making the End Times Great Again” by Carlen Lavigne in The Routledge Companion to Gender and Science Fiction ------ “Obamageddon: Fear, the Far Right, and the Rise of “Doomsday” Prepping in Obama’s America” by Michael F. Mills in Journal of American Studies ------ “Panic: myth or reality?” by Lee Clarke ------ Preparedness Now! An Emergency Survival Guide by Aton Edwards ------ Survival of the Richest, by Douglas Rushkoff ------ Team Human, by Douglas Rushkoff ------ Terrorism and Disaster: New Threats, New Ideas, ed. Lee Clarke ------ The America Syndrome: Apocalypse, War, and Our Call to Greatness, by Betsy Hartman ------ The Ends of the World, by Déborah Danowski and Eduardo Viveiros de Castro ------ The Last Myth: What The Rise of Apocalyptic Thinking Tells Us About America, by Mathew Barrett Gross and Mel Gilles ------ The Ultimate Suburban Survivalist Guide, by Sean Brodrick ------ The Unreality of Memory, by Elisa Gabbert ------ The Wall Street Journal Guide to Investing in the Apocalypse: Make Money by Seeing Opportunity Where Others See Peril, by James Altucher & Douglas R. Sease ------ We Survived the End of the World: Lessons from Native America on Apocalypse and Hope, by Steven Charleston ------ Who Would You Kill to Save the World? by Claire Colebrook * To Support Me: * ---Become a channel Member! ➤ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCecF2icZlEIJ__9XS6woPGw/join ---Join the Patreon! ➤ https://ift.tt/BW8haOo ---Make a one-time donation! ➤ https://ift.tt/UrR7O16 ---Join the Discord! ➤ https://ift.tt/uU1rSyI ---Check out my second channel! ➤ https://youtube.com/@zoecee ---Watch my Warrior Cats Podcast! ➤ https://ift.tt/w1fInhH ---Watch my D&D game! ➤ https://www.youtube.com/@thejaycorn ---Watch my Blades in the Dark game! ➤ https://ift.tt/KOuByeI

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SOLUTION AT Academic Writers Bay Assignment: Impact of Strategy on Successful Innovation Assignment: Impact of Strategy on Successful Innovation Although innovation as an abstract concept can play a pivotal role in the world of business, the successful implementation of innovation as a component of an organization’s business strategy can have a considerable impact. The use of innovation can vary among different organizations, and each case can provide useful knowledge and awareness. Not only should business professionals consider innovation as a specific concept to drive development, but they should also understand how it provides essential insight of the past, present, and future success of an organization. To prepare for this Assignment, select a business case from those provided in this week’s Required Readings and conduct further research on the featured company. Be sure to use scholarly, peer-reviewed resources from the Walden Library in examining the nature of innovation and effectively utilizing business strategy development.By Day 7Submit a 4- to 6-page evaluation of the role of business strategy in advancing innovation. Your evaluation must include the following:A brief description of your chosen business, including the organization’s name, mission, and visionA detailed explanation that includes a response to the following questions: How did the company capitalize on the value of the business strategy process?What approaches would you recommend for this business seeking to enhance strategic innovation? What data would you leverage within a business strategy?How might you utilize business strategy to further innovation within this organization?Required ReadingsDyer, J. H., Godfrey, P., Jensen, R., & Bryce, D. (2016). Strategic management: Concepts and tools for creating real world strategy. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons.Chapter 3: “Internal Analysis: Strengths, Weakness, and Competitive Advantage” (pp. 46–65)Case 02: “Coca-Cola and Pepsi: The Shifting Landscape of the Carbonated Soft Drink Industry” (pp. C-12–C-21)Business Owners Benefits Association. (2016). Retrieved from http://www.whyboba.com/ Chandrasekhar, R. & Schaan, J. (2014). Electrolux AB: Managing innovation (Case No. W14500). London, Ontario: Richard Ivey School of Business Foundation. Retrieved from https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/pl/53435998/53436… De Jong, J. & Winig, L. (2016). Innovating by the book: The introduction of innovation teams in Memphis and New Orleans (Case No. 2056.0). Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Publishing. Retrieved from https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/pl/53435998/53436… Edmonson, A. C. & Harvey, J.-F. (2016). Open innovation at Fujitsu (A) (Case No. 9-616-034). Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Publishing. Retrieved from https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/pl/53435998/53436… Lakhani, K. R., Hutter, K., Pokrywa, S. H. & Fuller, J. (2015). Open innovation at Siemens (Case No. 9-613-100). Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Publishing. Retrieved from https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/pl/53435998/53436… Mark, K., & Mitchell, J. R. (2014). General Mills Canada: Building a culture of innovation (A) (Case No. 9B14M015). London, Ontario: Richard Ivey School of Business Foundation. Retrieved from https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/pl/53435998/53436… Moon, Y. (2015). Uber: Changing the way the world moves (Case No. 9-316-101). Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Publishing. Retrieved from https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/pl/53435998/53436… Styles, C., & Goddard, J. (2014). Spinning the wheel of strategic innovation. Business Strategy Review, 25(4), 76–80. doi:10.1111/j.1467-8616.2014.01130.xNote: Retrieved from the Walden Library databases.Walden University. (2015). APA course paper template (6th ed.). Retrieved from http://academicguides.waldenu.edu/ld.php?content_i… Causes of change and change control system, management homework help Causes of change and change control system, management homework help Read the following chapters in Cost

and Value Management in Projects:Chapter 9: Change Control and Configuration Management Read the contents on the Scope and Change Control website, which provides a review of key concepts in change control with case studies and graphs to coincide with the readings and discussions for the week.DiscussionsTo participate in the following discussions, go to this week’s Discussion link in the left navigation.Causes of Change Choose any four ‘causes’ of change within a project in table 9.1 in the text. Provide a project example and scenario, and describe the impact of each change. Was there a level of change control in the project examples that tracked ownership, documentation and approval of these changes? Respond to at least two of your classmates’ postings. Change Control System The identification of all changes to a project is only the first step for ensuring a control system is in place. Describe the detailed steps you would implement for your project to ensure an entire change control process is in place. Consider the following topics in your answer: documentation, analysis, approval and implementation. Why is the baseline configuration important to this topic? Respond to at least two of your classmates’ postings. CLICK HERE TO GET A PROFESSIONAL WRITER TO WORK ON THIS PAPER AND OTHER SIMILAR PAPERS CLICK THE BUTTON TO MAKE YOUR ORDER

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And The Nominees Are… (Part 2/2)

#younghowzetheatreawards

By Ricky and Dana Young-Howze

Mays Landing, NJ

Venmo: @rndyounghowze

The nominations for the first ever Young-Howze Theatre Awards are finally here! We have been working hard since March of 2020 reviewing over a hundred and forty digital productions. We have been poring over them all since January to bring you these categories and the shows vying for them.

Let’s remind everyone what our criteria were: Because of the pandemic this year every show that we have reviewed was nominated for at least one category. We picked winners by a very specific set of criteria: What was this show attempting to do? Was it successful? Was it the most successful of all the shows that tried to do this? We apologize to anyone who thought that we would be announcing winners today. We decided that we wanted to save all of the spoilers for the live show on February 21st at 8PM EST. Please remember that even if you only get one nomination it is because we wanted to honor everyone who worked hard this year (every theatre artist who did a show this year deserves a medal). However we understand that specific nominations are useful for theatre creators in their resumes, grant applications etc.

All Nominees should receive a nomination email from us. If you haven’t gotten an email by Monday 11:59pm PST email is at rndyounghowze@gmail.com

Congratulations everyone! We are so proud of your accomplishments and amazing work. We’ve already seen shows this year that are award worthy. You all exceeded our expectations. Without further ado...

Solo Performance

“Chewie Award” For Team Behind A Solo Performance

“Blood/Sugar” by Diana Wyenn in Los Angeles, CA

“Kristina Wong For Public Office” by Kristina Wong in Los Angeles, CA

“Disenchanted: A Cabaret of Twisted Fairy Tales” by Eliane Morel at Melbourne Fringe

“All By Myself Award” For Solo Performance Of The Year

“The Bassoonist” by Sean P. Mette and Autumn Kaleidoscope at Cincinnati Fringe Cincinnati, OH

“Kristina Wong For Public Office” by Kristina Wong in Los Angeles, CA

“Sarah Palin: Rogue None” by Amanda Nicastro in NYC, NY

“What Would John Hughes Do?” by Telia Nevile at Melbourne Fringe

“Campfire Award” For Storyteller Of The Year

“Right Now” By Martin Dockery at Minnesota Fringe Minneapolis, Minnesota

“Life Underground” by Brad Lawrence at FRIGID NY in NYC, NY

“Pumpkin Pie Show” by Pumpkin Pie Show at FRIGID NY in NYC, NY

“UnterClub” by Juan Sebastian Peralta in Uruguay

“Full of Woe” by Genevieve Yosco and Sour Grapes Productions at FRIGID NY in NYC, NY

Seasons, Series and Festivals

“BIPOC HERO” For The BIPOC Creative Team Of The Year

TBA

“Worldwide Award” For Collaborative Work Of The Year

“The Art of Facing Fear Brazil” By Os Satyros in São Paulo, Brazil “The Art of Facing Fear US” Os Satyros and Company of Angels and Rob Lecrone, in co-production with Os Satyros and Darling Desperados. “The Art of Facing Fear Africa/Europe” Os Satyros and Cie Kaddu, Crown Troupe of Africa, Darling Desperados, Oddmanout Theatre Company, Portuguese Cultural Center of Mindelo, Tell-a-Tale, The Kwasha! Theatre Company, The Market Theatre Laboratory, Village Gossip Productions

“Macbeth #6” Os Satyros São Paulo, Brazil and the Center for Interdisciplinary Performance Art - Royal Birmingham Conservatoire

Enough Plays to End Gun Violence at Mile Square Theatre in Hoboken, NJ

“Down the Stream” For Digital Season of The Year

Frigid NY in NYC, NY

Combined Artform in Los Angeles, CA

“There’s No I in Theatre” For Non-Profit Theatre of The Year

Elm Street Cultural Arts Village in Woodstock, GA

Sour Grapes Productions in NYC, NY

Opal Theatre in Boise, Idaho

Know Theatre of Cincinnati in Cincinnati, OH

Mill Mountain Theatre in Roanoke, VA

“Deja Vu Award” Recurring Streaming Series Of The Year

“Tilted Frame” by Combined Artform in Los Angeles, CA

“Bingewatch and Friends” by Diana Brown and Dan Wilson in San Francisco, CA

“Reparations Show” by Kevin R Free at Frigid NY in NYC, NY

“Monologues For Us By Us” By Cincinnati Black Theatre Artists Collective in Cincinnati, Ohio

“Bard Brunch” by Sour Grapes Productions in NYC, NY

“On The Fringes” Fringe of the Year

Minnesota Fringe

Halifax Fringe

Melbourne Fringe

Montreal Fringe

Cincinnati Fringe

“The Shortie“ Short Form Festival Of The Year

“48 Hours in Harlem” By Harlem 9 in Harlem, NY

“Overnight Sensations” by Hollins Playwrights Lab in Roanoke, VA

Estrogenius Festival by FRIGID NY in NYC, NY

Fire This Time Festival at FRIGID NY in NYC, NY

Single Shows

“Weird and Worth It” For Experimental Production Of The Year

“Paul And Erika’s House Show” By Theatre Mobile at Cincinnati Fringe

“Hivemind” by Solasta Theatre at Cincinnati Fringe

“#TXT Show” by Brian Feldman at Minnesota Fringe and Melbourne Fringe

“Butterfly Effect” by Unnatural Disasters at Halifax Fringe

“New Normal” by Os Satyros in São Paulo, Brazil

“One Man Nutcracker” by Chris Davis in Philadelphia, PA

“Cabaret De Profundis” By Buntport Theatre in Denver, CO

“So Nice We Saw It Twice” Touring Show Of The Year

“Desperately Seeking The Exit” by Peter Michael Marino and PM2 at Cincinnati Fringe And Queerly Festival and Show Up, Kids! In NYC!

“Paul and Erika’s House Show” by Theatre Mobile at Cincinnati Fringe and Minnesota Fringe

“Love and Other Lures” by Dr. Dour and Peach at Cincinnati Fringe and Minnesota Fringe

“Killjoy, Ohio” by Queen City Flash at Cincinnati Fringe and Minnesota Fringe

“TXT Show By Brian Feldman at Minnesota Fringe and Melbourne Fringe

“Kristina Wong For Public Office” by Kristina Wong in Koreatown and Kirk Douglas Theatre in Los Angeles, CA

“Before Times” For Pre-Pandemic Recording Of The Year

“Petunia and Chicken” by Animal Engine at Cincinnati Fringe Cincinnati, OH

“Unrepentant Necrophile” by The ColdHarts at Cincinnati Fringe Cincinnati, OH

“Knife Slingin’” By Motz at Cincinnati Fringe Cincinnati, OH

“Occupy This!” By Rev Nuge at Cincinnati Fringe Cincinnati, OH

“Stow You Baggage” By Alexx Rouse at Cincinnati Fringe Cincinnati, OH

“Butcher Holler” by Ad Hoc Economy at Cincinnati Fringe Cincinnati, OH

“Lady Macbeth and Her Pal Megan” by Megan Gogerty at Cincinnati Fringe Festival Cincinnati, OH

“Dammit, Jim!” by Polly Esther in Toronto, CA

“A Night With The Dead” by Martha Preve and Something From Abroad at Hartford Fringe in FRIGID NY in NYC, NY

“A Christmas Carol In Harlem” by Classical Theatre of Harlem in NYC, NY

“Forbidden City” by Martin Dockery at Cincinnati Fringe Cincinnati, OH

“Practical Game Changer” For Practical Effects Of The Year

“Killjoy, Ohio” by Queen City Flash at Cincinnati Fringe Cincinnati, OH

“Zoo Motel” By Thaddeus Phillips in Columbia, South America

“A Light Touch” by Mind of a Snail at Minnesota Fringe Minneapolis, Minnesota

“Digital Game Changer” For Digital Effects Of The Year

“M-O-U-S-E” by Rory Sheridan at the Cincinnati Fringe Cincinnati, OH

“King Lear” by SF Shakes in San Francisco, CA

“War Of The Worlds” by Ben Hernandez at Cal State in Los Angeles, CA

“Claws Out! A Holiday Drag Musical” by City Theatre in Pittsburgh, PA

“18+ Allowed” For Adult Variety Of The Year

“Disenchanted: A Cabaret of Twisted Fairy Tales” by Eliane Morel at Melbourne Fringe

“Creepy Boys” by Scantily Glad at Melbourne Fringe

Red Mill Revue at Melbourne Fringe

Queers On The Fringe at Melbourne Fringe

“Reach Out“ For Immersive Production Of The Year

“Feast” by Megan Gogerty at Know Theatre of Cincinnati in Cincinnati, OH

“In Lak’Ech” by No Peeking Theatre in Jersey City, NJ

“Twelfth Night”” by Food of Love Productions in NYC, NY

“Grace Notes” For Musical Production Of The Year

“Dream &” By Sarah Willis and The Queer Feminists Next Door at Cincinnati Fringe Cincinnati, OH

“Colony” by Psophonia and Aura at Cincinnati Fringe Cincinnati, OH

“TV Tunes” by Leslie Vincent at Minnesota Fringe Minneapolis, Minnesota

“The In-Between Years” By The Champagne Drops in Minneapolis, Minnesota

“Love and Other Lures” By Dr. Dour and Peach at Cincinnati Fringe Cincinnati, OH

“Hollow” by David Kent at Edinburgh Fringe

“One Vote Won” by Nashville Opera in Nashville, TN

“Meet Me In St. Louis” By Irish Rep in NYC, NY

“Power” For Fifth-Wall Breaking Show Of The Year

“Matriarch” by Sandy Greenwood at Melbourne Fringe

Chanukahmunication by the Feldman Dynamic in Washington, DC

“Proof Of Love” By Chisa Hutchinson and BLBW in Chicago, IL

Individuals

“Magician” For Press Contact Of The Year

Emily Godfrey For FRIGID NY in NYC, NY

Liz Carman For Know Theatre of Cincinnati in Cincinnati, OH

“Tech Witch” For Tech Person Of The Year

David Svengalis for “Tilted Frame” by Combined Artform in Los Angeles, CA

Henry Bateman for Know Theatre of Cincinnati in Cincinnati, OH

“Extensions“ For Movement Artist Of The Year

“Proximity” by Pones at Cincinnati Fringe Cincinnati, OH

“Definition of Man” by DConstruction Arts at Halifax Fringe

Marina Calendar For Tree She at Estrogenius Festival NYC, NY

Nick Daniels For “Folk Dances of A Nucleic Village” at Pittsburgh Fringe Pittsburgh, PA

“You Oughta Be In Pictures” For Film Of The Year

“Proximity” by Pones at Cincinnati Fringe

“Opinions Of Men” by Ben Dudley at Cincinnati Fringe Cincinnati, OH

“Macbeth” by Gorilla Repertory Theatre in NYC, NY

“Black Emperor of Broadway” by Vision Films Inc and Egeli Productions in Provincetown, MA

“Concord Floral” by Jordan Tamanelli at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Colorado

Zoom

“Pioneer” For Innovative Achievement Of The Year

Waiting for the Host” by Mark Palmieri in NYC, NY

“Desperately Seeking the Exit” by Peter Michael Marino in NYC, NY

“Long Zoomie” For Long-Form Zoom Play Of The Year

“3 Way Lovve” by Marcus Ma’at Atkins at Minnesota Fringe Minneapolis, Minnesota

“Im Ur Hamlet” By Genevieve Yosco and Sour Grapes Productions in NYC, NY

“Rideshare” by Reginald Edmund and BLBW in Chicago, Illinois

“Disrobed” by Steven Vlasak and Troy Peterson at Hollywood Fringe Hollywood, CA

“Sons of Liberty” by Cris Eli Blak in Louisville, KY

“Call For The Wailing Women” by Katrina D. RiChard and BLBW in Chicago, IL

“Jump!” By Charly Evon Simpson at TSU in Nashville, TN

“Short Zoomie” For Short-Form Zoom Play Of The Year

“Soup” by Rachel Carnez at Project Y Theatre in NYC, NY

“Missing Ingredient” by Colleen O’Doherty at Project Y Theatre in NYC, NY

“Pas De Deux” by Kevin Ferguson at Missouri S&T in St. Louis, Missouri

“Scaramouche and Pinochle” by Mike Moran Missouri S&T in St. Louis, Missouri

Screen Manager Of The Year

TBA

Stream Yard

“Duck“ For Streamyard Production Of The Year

“Infemous” by Infemous at the Queerly Festival and Montreal Fringe Festival

“Romeo and Juliet Virtually” By Miles Beyond Entertainment in Los Angeles, CA

“Day of the Dead Variety Show” by Something From Abroad at FRIGID NY in NYC, NY

“Latina Christmas Special Special” by Latina Christmas Special in Los Angeles, CA

Staged Production

“The Globe“ For Staged Production of The Year

“Quit While You’re Ahead” By Alexx Rouse and A-Z Productions at Cincinnati Fringe Cincinnati, OH

“Dreary Dearie” By Caitlyn Waltermire at Cincinnati Fringe Cincinnati, OH

“Hellish Reunion” by The Feral Theatre Company at Minnesota Fringe Minneapolis, Minnesota

“Polka Dots: The Cool Kids Musical” by Melvin Tunstall III at Mill Mountain Theatre in Roanoke, VA

“Titus Andronicus” by Shakespeare by the Sea in San Pedro, CA

“She Kills Monsters” by Qui Nguyen at Elm Street Arts Cultural Village in Woodstock, GA

Please Be Sure To Tune In To The Live Show on either our YouTube Channel, FRIGID NY’s YouTube, or you can go to Combined Artform’s Channel. Also follow their Facebook pages for live updates. Our social media will be taken over before and during the show by Saturday Lawson of Punchline Loading and Genevieve Yosco of Sour Grapes Productions! We can’t wait to see you there!

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Audiobook Reading List 2017

Another year gone by, Another Reading list completed. Not as many as last year, but quite empressive all the same in my opinion.

 Here goes!

  Michael Phillip Cash Monsterland

Larry Correia Grunge

Larry Correia Sinners

Carrie Fisher Postcards From The Edge

Melinda DuChamp Fifty Shades of Alice in Wonderland

Terry Goodkind Nest

Mark Cain Hell's Super

Mark Cain A Cold Day in Hell

Mark Cain Deal with the Devil

Mark Cain The Reluctant Demon

Kevin J. Anderson Resurrection, Inc

Joseph John The Eighth Day

Jonathan Ryan 3 Gates of the Dead

Andr Alexis Fifteen Dogs

Michael McDowel The Elementals

Clayton Smith Apocalypticon

Luke Smitherd Kill Someone

Luke Smitherd In The Darkness, That's Where I'll Know You

Jonathan Mayberry Beneath the Skin

John K. Addis The Eaton

Jeremiah Knight Hunger

Jeremiah Knight Feast

Jeff Strand Pressure

Jason Arnopp The Last Days of Jack Sparks

James Patterson Zoo

James Patterson Zoo 1.5

James Hankins Drawn

Mary Roach Stiff

John G. Hartness Demon Hunter collection 1-4

John G. Hartness Heaven Sent

John G. Hartness Heaven’s Door

John G. Hartness Night at the Museum

John Cleese So, Anyway

Jack Ketchum The Girl Next Door

Ilsa J. Bick Draw the Dark

Paul Tremblay Disappearance at Devil's Rock

Mark Tufo Immortalitys Touchstone

Mark Tufo Marks Merry Mayhem

Neil Gaiman The View from the Cheap Seats

Misha Burnett Book of lost doors 1

Misha Burnett Book of lost doors 2

L. X. Cain Bloodwalker

Larry Correia Detroit Christmas

Larry Correia Hard Magic

Larry Correia spellbound

Larry Correia Warbound

Larry Correia Murder on the Orient Elite

Larry Correia Tokyo Raider

A. American Going Home

A. American Surviving Home

A. American Escaping Home

A. American Forsaking Home

A. American Resurrecting Home

A. American Enforcing Home

A. American Avenging Home

A. American Charlie's Requiem

Ania Ahlborn The Shuddering

Adam Vine Lurk

Alan Black Metal Boxes

Alan Black Trapped outside

Alan Black Rusty hinges

Alan Black At the edge

Ambrose Ibsen Transmission

Jenny Lawson Furiously Happy

Clifford D. Simak Way Station

Mark Tufo Those Left Behind

Mark Tufo Zombie fallout 0.5

A.R Wise Deadlocked 1

A.R Wise Deadlocked 2

A.R Wise Deadlocked 3

A.R Wise Deadlocked 4

A.R Wise Deadlocked 5

A.R Wise Deadlocked 6

A.R Wise Deadlocked 7

A.R Wise Deadlocked 8

Tony Vigorito Love and Other Pranks

Richard Kadrey Butcher Bird

Andrew Michael Hurley The Loney

John G. Hartness Midsummer

John G. Hartness Moon over Bourbon street

John G. Hartness Oh Bubba, where art thou

Richard Roberts I Did NOT Give That Spider Superhuman Intelligence

Jim McDoniel An Unattractive Vampire

Jake Bible Stone Cold Bastards

David Rhodes Written in Stone

Neil Gaiman Norse Mythology

Alexander McCall Smith The Finer Points of Sausage Dogs

Chris Bucholz Severance

Barry J Hutchison Space Team

David M. Salkin Forever Hunger

Drew Hayes Going Rogue book 3

JM Guillen The Herald of Autumn

Craig Spector The Light at the End

Ted Dekker Eyes Wide Open

Ted Dekker Water Walker

Robert Bevan Critical Failures IV

Richard Kadrey Dead Set

Richard Kadrey The Wrong Dead Guy

Thomas Olde Heuvelt Hex

Glenn Bullion Jack Kursed

Drew Hayes Super Powereds 01 - Year 1

Drew Hayes Super Powereds 02 - Year 2

Drew Hayes Super Powereds 03 - Year 3

Brett J. Talley That Which Should Not Be

Richard Kadrey The Everything Box

Jane Harper The Dry

Emma Geen The Many Selves Of Katherine North

Alan Dean Foster For Love of Mother Not

Alan Dean Foster The Tar Aiym Krang

Alan Dean Foster Orphan Star

Alan Dean Foster The End of the Matter

Alan Dean Foster Flinx in Flux

Alan Dean Foster Mid-Flinx

Alan Dean Foster Reunion

Alan Dean Foster Flinx's Folly

Alan Dean Foster Sliding Scales

Alan Dean Foster Running from the Deity

Alan Dean Foster Bloodhype

Alan Dean Foster Trouble Magnet

Alan Dean Foster Patrimony

Alan Dean Foster Flinx Transcendent

Stephen Kozeniewski Billy and the Cloneasaurus

Robert Jackson Bennett Mr Shivers

Richard Kadrey Sandman Slim

Richard Kadrey Kill the Dead

Richard Kadrey Aloha from Hell

Richard Kadrey Devil in the Dollhouse

Richard Kadrey Devil Said Bang

Richard Kadrey Kill City Blues

Richard Kadrey The Getaway God

Richard Kadrey Killing Pretty

Richard Kadrey The Perdition Score

Joe Haldeman Buying Time

D. M. Pulley The Buried Book

M. R. Carey; The Boy on the Bridge

Sally Slater Paladin

J.R. Rain The Dead Detective

J.R. Rain Deadbeat Dad

Eric Padilla Unfurled Heroing Is a Tough Gig

Claire North The End of the Day

Alan Dean Foster Spellsinger

Alan Dean Foster The Hour of the Gate

Stephen King Gwendy's Button Box

Ron Ripley Berkley Street

Ron Ripley The Lighthouse

Ron Ripley The Town of Griswold

Ron Ripley Sanford Hospital

Ron Ripley Kurkow Prison

Ron Ripley Lake Nutaq

Ron Ripley Slater Mill

Tim Lebbon Predator Incursion

Tim Lebbon Alien Invasion

Tim Lebbon Armageddon

Emma Geen The Many Selves Of Katherine North

Jen Calonita Flunked

Will McIntosh Faller

Lincoln Child Deep Storm

Lincoln Child Terminal Freeze

Lincoln Child The Third Gate

Lincoln Child The Forgotten Room

Lincoln Child Full Wolf Moon

Diana Rowland Mark Of The Demon

Diana Rowland Blood Of The Demon

Diana Rowland Secrets Of The Demon

Diana Rowland Sins Of The Demon

Diana Rowland Touch Of The Demon

Diana Rowland Fury of the Demon

Diana Rowland Vengeance of the Demon

Richard Laymon Flesh

Elizabeth Anne Hull Gateways

The yellow wallpaper

Garth Nix A Confusion Of Princes

Diana Rowland Legacy of the Demon

Christopher Moore Bloodsucking Fiends

Christopher Moore A dirty job

Rick Gualtieri Bill the Vampire

Rick Gualtieri Scary Dead Things

Rick Gualtieri The Mourning Woods

Rick Gualtieri Holier Than Thou

Rick Gualtieri Sunset Strip

Rick Gualtieri Goddamned Freaky Monsters

Rick Gualtieri Half a Prayer

Rick Gualtieri The Wicked Dead

Rick Gualtieri Shining Fury

Rick Gualtieri The Last Coven

Ron Ripley Borgin Keep

Nick Cutter Litlte Heaven

Steve Alten The Loch

Steve Alten Vostok

Richard Kadrey The Kill Society

Dean Koontz The Silent Corner

Christopher Moore A Dirty Job

Joseph Fink Welcome to Nightvale 1-110

Peter Meredith The Apocalypse Revenge

Scott Meyer Run Program

A. G. Riddle Pandemic

Seanan McGuire Down Among the Sticks and Bones

Scott Sigler Earthcore

Peter Clines Dead Men Can't Complain

Keith C. Blackmore Breeds 3

Jeff Strand Cyclops Road

Eleanor Lerman Radiomen

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WordPress 5.4 “Adderley”

Here it is! Named “Adderley” in honor of Nat Adderley, the latest and greatest version of WordPress is available for download or update in your dashboard.

Say hello to more and better.

More ways to make your pages come alive. With easier ways to get it all done and looking better than ever—and boosts in speed you can feel.

Welcome to WordPress 5.4

Every major release adds more to the block editor.

More ways to make posts and pages come alive with your best images. More ways to bring your visitors in, and keep them engaged, with the richness of embedded media from the web’s top services.

More ways to make your vision real, and put blocks in the perfect place—even if a particular kind of block is new to you. More efficient processes.

And more speed everywhere, so as you build sections or galleries, or just type in a line of prose, you can feel how much faster your work flows.

Two new blocks. And better blocks overall.

Two brand-new blocks: Social Icons and Buttons make adding interactive features fast and easy.

New ways with color: Gradients in the Buttons and Cover block, toolbar access to color options in Rich Text blocks, and for the first time, color options in the Group and Columns blocks.

Guess a whole lot less! Version 5.4 streamlines the whole process for placing and replacing multimedia in every block. Now it works the same way in almost every block!

And if you’ve ever thought your image in the Media+Text block should link to something else—perhaps a picture of a brochure should download that brochure as a document? Well, now it can.

Cleaner UI, clearer navigation—and easier tabbing!

Clearer block navigation with block breadcrumbs. And easier selection once you get there.

For when you need to navigate with the keyboard, better tabbing and focus. Plus, you can tab over to the sidebar of nearly any block.

Speed! 14% faster loading of the editor, 51% faster time-to-type!

Tips are gone. In their place, a Welcome Guide window you can bring up when you need it—and only when you need it—again and again.

Know at a glance whether you’re in a block’s Edit or Navigation mode. Or, if you have restricted vision, your screen reader will tell you which mode you’re in.

Of course, if you want to work with the very latest tools and features, install the Gutenberg plugin. You’ll get to be the first to use new and exciting features in the block editor before anyone else has seen them!

Your fundamental right: privacy

5.4 helps with a variety of privacy issues around the world. So when users and stakeholders ask about regulatory compliance, or how your team handles user data, the answers should be a lot easier to get right.

Take a look:

Now personal data exports include users session information and users location data from the community events widget. Plus, a table of contents!

See progress as you process export and erasure requests through the privacy tools.

Plus, little enhancements throughout give the privacy tools a little cleaner look. Your eyes will thank you!

Just for developers

Add custom fields to menu items—natively

Two new actions let you add custom fields to menu items—without a plugin and without writing custom walkers.

On the Menus admin screen, wp_nav_menu_item_custom_fields fires just before the move buttons of a nav menu item in the menu editor.

In the Customizer, wp_nav_menu_item_custom_fields_customize_template fires at the end of the menu-items form-fields template.

Check your code and see where these new actions can replace your custom code, and if you’re concerned about duplication, add a check for the WordPress version.

Blocks! Simpler styling, new APIs and embeds

Radically simpler block styling. Negative margins and default padding are gone! Now you can style blocks the way you need them. And, a refactor got rid of four redundant wrapper divs.

If you build plugins, now you can register collections of your blocks by namespace across categories—a great way to get more brand visibility.

Let users do more with two new APIs: block variations and gradients.

In embeds, now the block editor supports TikTok—and CollegeHumor is gone.

There’s lots more for developers to love in WordPress 5.4. To discover more and learn how to make these changes shine on your sites, themes, plugins and more, check the WordPress 5.4 Field Guide.

The Squad

This release was led by Matt Mullenweg, Francesca Marano, and David Baumwald. They were enthusiastically supported by a release squad:

Editor Tech: Jorge Filipe Costa (@jorgefelipecosta)

Editor Design: Mark Uraine (@mapk)

Core Tech: Sergey Biryukov (@sergeybiryukov)

Design: Tammie Lister (@karmatosed)

Docs Coordinator: JB Audras (@audrasjb)

Docs & Comms Wrangler: Mary Baum (@marybaum)

The squad was joined throughout the release cycle by 552 generous volunteer contributors who collectively worked on 361 tickets on Trac and 1226 pull requests on GitHub.

Put on a Nat Adderley playlist, click that update button (or download it directly), and check the profiles of the fine folks that helped:

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Many thanks to all of the community volunteers who contribute in the support forums. They answer questions from people across the world, whether they are using WordPress for the first time or since the first release. These releases are more successful for their efforts!

Finally, thanks to all the community translators who worked on WordPress 5.4. Their efforts bring WordPress fully translated to 46 languages at release time, with more on the way.

If you want to learn more about volunteering with WordPress, check out Make WordPress or the core development blog.

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Prince Albert came to cheer the competitors

The first edition of the Princess of Monaco Cup took place at the Monte-Carlo Golf Club under beautiful blue skies on October 3, 2019, in the presence of Prince Albert II and Gareth Wittstock, General Secretary of the Princess Charlene of Monaco Foundation.

The funds raised through this solidarity sportive event sponsored by Richard Mille, will support a part of the renovation works of the Princesse Charlène de Monaco municipal swimming pool of La Turbie and a swimming program at Awutu-Winton High School in Ghana.

The ambassadors of the Princess’ Foundation, Charles Leclerc (F1) and Bjorn Maaseide (Beach Volley), were joined by other athletes as leaders of the 18 teams composed of 3 players each: José Cobos (football), David Coulthard (F1), Jérôme d’Ambrosio (Formula E), Richard Dunne (football), Mika Hakkinen (F1), Rudi Keil (rugby), Juandre Kruger (rugby), Tony Lloyd (golf), Diana Luna (golf), Caroline Mohr (golf), Percy Montgomery (rugby), Gilles Panizzi (rally), Stiliyan Petrov (football), Sophie Sandolo (golf), David Tanner (cycling), Mark Webber (F1).

Gareth Wittstock, Eddie Jordan, Prince Albert II, Charles Leclerc , Sean Wittstock @Eric Mathon:Palais Princier

Charles Leclerc (Ferrari, F1) at the Princess of Monaco Cup, Octobere 3, 2019@ Philippe Fitte/Fondation Princesse Charlene de Monaco

Caroline Mohr @Philippe Fitte/Fondation Princesse Charlene de Monaco

Tony Lloyd @Philippe Fitte/Fondation Princesse Charlene de Monaco

Mika Hakkinen @Philippe Fitte/ Fondation Princesse Charlene de Monaco

Mark Webber @Philippe Fitte/Fondation Princesse Charlene de Monaco

David Coulthard @Philippe Fitte

Let’s Scramble! 

The 18 teams played on a Scramble format, an unofficial and very friendly form of the game that is not covered under the official Rules of Golf.  Two or more players form a team, with the rules emphasizing fun without the pressure of players keeping individual scores. Each player hits a tee shot on each hole, but everyone plays from the spot of the best shot, subject to certain criteria. Rules for playing in a scramble are informal, with tournament organizers modifying basic rules as they wish. For example, organizers may require a group to select each player’s tee shot at least twice. Starting from of the 18 holes, each player of the team plays a ball, and the team will choose which ball is in the best position

The trophy winners

The Power Properties team, led by M. David Tanner, claimed the first place on the podium. The teams Amalgam and Serenity lead by Diana Luna and Juandre Kruger, reached the second and the third place respectively.

(Photo: Eddie Jordan, David Tanner and members of Power Properties team, Michael Wittstock & Prince Albert II @Eric Mathon/Palais Princier)

The Official Draw

The official draw pairing the athletes to the sponsoring teams had been organized on Wednesday, October 2, at the Yacht Club of Monaco. Eddie Jordan, accompanied by Victoria Silvstedt, was hilarious as the super Master of Ceremonies, emphasizing the importance of this first edition of the charity golf tournament in raising funds for the different programs carried out by the Princess Charlene of Monaco Foundation.  After the draw everybody was treated to a festive cocktail party.

Eddie Jordan, R. Keil, T. Lloyd, Percy Montgomery, D. Tanner, S. Petrov. Standing ( to R) R. Dunne, Diana Luna, Viictoria Silvstedt, Sophie Sandolo, Caroline Mohr, Bjorn Maaseide, Mark Webber, José Cobos, Gilles Panizzi @Eric Mathon:Palais Princier

The official Draw at the Yacht Club of Monaco, October 2, 2019 @CelinaLafuentedeLavotha

Princess of Monaco Cup Partners

The Princess Charlene of Monaco Foundation gives heartfelt thanks to its generous partners that made this event possible.

Saving lives by putting an end to drowning

Launched back on December 14, 2012, the primary objective of the Princess Charlene of Monaco Foundation is to save lives by putting an end to drowning.Its mission is to raise public awareness about the dangers of water, teach children preventive measures and teach them to swim.

The World Health Organization estimated that 360,000 people drowned worldwide in 2015 (1):

–  More than 40 fatalities every hour

–  More than half the victims are under the age of 25

–  Children under the age of 5 are the most affected

When a drowning is non-fatal, often the victim is left with severe aftereffects, in particular neurological.

A number of “Learn to Swim” and “Water Safety” programs have been implemented around the world in order to fight against this scourge.

The Foundation’s actions are also based on the values of sport such as discipline, self-respect and respect for others, determination and team spirit.

The Sport and Education program uses sporting activities as tools to contribute to the wellbeing and development for all children no matter their origin or circumstances.

Since the Foundation’s creations more than 590,000 people, mainly children, have benefited from these three programs in 34 countries. (2)

(1) Reproduced with the publisher’s permission – Fact Sheet N°347, May 2017, published by the World Health Organization http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs347/en/

(2) Australia, Bangladesh, Burkina Faso, Canada, Chile, Dominican Republic, Fiji, France, Gabon, Ghana, Greece, India, Indonesia, Japan, Kenya, Macedonia, Madagascar, Malaysia, Monaco, Morocco, Nepal, Nicaragua, Peru, Philippines, Senegal, Serbia, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Thailand, Turkey, U.S.A., Vietnam and Zimbabwe.

Today’s Quote

“Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.” Plato

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Graphene Battery Market 2020- Forecast 2020-2023

Market Analysis

The global paper dry strength agents market is predicted to grow at a 3.50% CAGR between 2016- 2023, reveals the new Market Research Future (MRFR) report. Paper dry strength agents, simply put, are multifunctional chemicals that are extensively used for enhancing paper or paperboard strength like internal bond strength, tensile, compressing, and bursting and also improving retention and drainage of filler, fines, and fiber. It is used in paper mills for increasing the strength of paper and can be used in combination or individually. Amphoteric polymers, starch based polymers, glyoxylted polyacrylamide, polyacrylamide, and polyvinyl amine are the different types of paper dry strength agents.

Various factors are adding to the global paper dry strength agents market share. These factors, as per the new MRFR report, include increased filler content and recycled paper, increasing demand for paper from developing economies, increasing production innovation, preference towards the use of paper over plastics, growing paper industry, rising population, and changing lifestyle.

On the contrary, rising power & energy cost, fluctuating prices, and availability of advanced technology as a replacement of paper are factors that may limit the paper dry strength agents market growth over the forecast period.

Market Segmentation

The MRFR report provides an inclusive segmental analysis of the global paper dry strength agents market based on type.

By type, the paper dry strength agents market is segmented into amphoteric polymers, starch based polymers, glyoxylted polyacrylamide, polyacrylamide, and polyvinyl amine. Of these, the polyvinyl amine segment will lead the market over the forecast period followed the polyacrylamide segment. Polyacrylamide is mostly used in paper making to boost the dry strength. This polymer is utilized as a strength-enhancing agent. It is water soluble, thus resulting in improved dispersion within pulp suspensions as well as uniform molecular adsorption on the fiber surface. Besides, it is made in different molecular weights. Starch based polymers meanwhile is likely to grow at a steady rate. It is used in different industries yet has maximum application as a natural strength agent in the paper making industry.

Regional Analysis

Based on the region, the global paper dry strength agents market covers the growth opportunities and recent trends across Europe, North America, the Asia Pacific (APAC), and the Middle East & Africa. Of these, North America will dominate the market over the forecast period. As per the US environment protection agency, writing and printing papers usually found in the office or school environments like notepads, computer printouts, and copier paper has the highest paper production consumption, which is adding market growth.

The global paper dry strength agents market in Europe is predicted to have the second-largest share over the forecast period for its increasing consumption in office and school environments such as notepads, computer printouts, and copier paper.

The global paper dry strength agents market in the APAC region is predicted to grow at a fast pace during the forecast period owing to burgeoning demand in different applications like the tissue industry, and printing & writing paper in China, India, and Japan. Besides, the growing demand for paper industry owing to the increasing population in South Korea, Taiwan, Indonesia, and India, is also adding market growth.

The global paper dry strength agents market in the MEA is predicted to have the smallest share over the forecast period.

Key Players

Eminent players profiled in the global paper dry strength agents market report include Richards Chemicals & Electricals Pvt. Ltd, Seiko Pmc Corporation, Solenis, Applied Chemicals International Group, Harima Chemicals Group, Inc., Kemira, and BASF SE. Industry players have used strategies such as contracts, geographic expansions, strategic alliances, new product launches, joint ventures, and extensive R&D to create a niche in the market.

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Angelus Announces its First Dive Watch

https://wp.me/p9IwKp-x7 With Baselworld 2018 right around the corner, there are plenty of new watches to discuss. One that has already caught our eye is the Angelus U50 Diver Tourbillon, which has the distinction of being the brand’s first-ever dive watch.

The Angelus U50 Diver Tourbillon

This isn’t the first time a tourbillon has been included in a dive watch — both Richard Mille and MB&F have done it before — but it’s still a rare look and speaks to the sort of high-concept horology that Angelus has strived for since it was brought back to life by Manufacture La Joux-Perret (now owned by Citizen) in 2011.

The 45 mm watch is made of titanium and has two screw-down crowns; the one at 4 o’clock controls the time and the one at 2 o’clock controls the interior uni-directional rotating bezel. Opposite the crowns is a helium escape valve allowing the watch to reach saturation-diving depths of up to 300 m. The skeletonized dial has a polychromatic aesthetic. Blue and yellow lacquer dominate the interior bezel, hands, and seconds subdial. The indices and the middle of the hands feature white SuperLuminova. The Angelus team spent four years of R&D building the A-300 Caliber specifically as a skeleton instead of opting for a  cut-out version of an existing movement. This allowed a greater reduction in total weight which, aided by the titanium case, helps make the watch quite lightweight overall while still appearing substantial on the wrist. Having the wheels and barrel securely fastened between two plates and the use of beam-type bridges has aided in the movement’s overall rigidity. Maximizing the total mechanical resistance of the movement was a major focus for Angelus here. It’s further strengthened by the Angelus in-house six-spoke design, which reinforces the wheel train and protects the skeletonized ratchet and barrel. However, the big surprise here is the exact size of the movement. With most dive watches — and tourbillon watches, for that matter — you expect a robust caliber. For the A-300, Angelus was able to keep the movement to a thickness of only 4.3 mm total. It also features detailed finishing such as snailed black ADLC coating and chamfered edges. As the brand’s first attempt at a dive watch, it’s impressive how Angelus didn’t follow a typical nautical look and instead engineered and produced a watch that is distinctly a product of their design ethos. Four years of development is a lot of time to invest but, in the end, this watch has a lot going for it and I’m excited to see it in the metal at Baselworld next week. The Angelus U50 Diver Tourbillon comes on a black rubber strap with a titanium pin buckle. It’s priced at 29,700 CHF (approximately $31,437 at time of publishing). Source link

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Here's who could be in the running to replace Trump's nominee for drug czar

Reuters/Gretchen Ertl

Rep. Tom Marino is no longer President Donald Trump's nomination for the top drug-policy position after an explosive invesgitation from "60 Minutes" and the Washington Post.

Among the potential candidates to take Marino's place are members of the opioid commission Trump started, Stat reports.

Gov. Chris Christie, Frank Guinta, and Bertha Madras are all possible picks. 

  WASHINGTON — The Trump administration has gone nine months without a permanent drug czar. But within hours of the announcement that Rep. Tom Marino (R-Pa.) had withdrawn his name from consideration on Tuesday, the D.C. rumor mill was up and running.

Potential candidates, according to administration officials, Capitol Hill staffers, and others in the world of drug and addiction treatment policy, include a who’s-who of players in the current battle against the opioid crisis.

Among the figures rumored to be in contention to run the Office of National Drug Control Policy are members of the opioid commission that President Trump established.

Here’s a look at those possible candidates and others:

Frank Guinta

The White House considered the former Republican congressman from New Hampshire for the position earlier this year. With Rep. Annie Kuster (D-N.H.), Guinta co-founded the Bipartisan Heroin Task Force in 2015. That group, which began with only a handful of legislators, has since expanded to 90-strong and unveiled an ambitious legislative agenda earlier this year.

Guinta, however, comes with baggage that extends beyond the campaign finance scandal that dogged him throughout his losing re-election campaign in 2016.

He also once viewed treatment for substance use disorder as an afterthought, preferring instead to focus on the opioid crisis from an enforcement perspective.

Then again, Guinta has a proven track record on the issue that now includes fostering medically supported approaches to addiction treatment; his enforcement-side background would likely still satisfy Republicans more hawkish on drug policy.

Guinta did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

Bertha Madras

A psychiatry professor at Harvard Medical School, Madras currently serves on the presidential commission empaneled to determine the guiding principles for the federal government’s response to the crisis. She once worked as ONDCP’s deputy director for demand reduction, a role focused on addiction treatment and prevention.

The presidential commission’s interim report on the crisis, for instance, was insistent that overdose reversal drugs like naloxone should be made widely available. But nearly a decade ago, Madras — and much of the medical community — held a different view.

“I don’t agree with giving an opioid antidote to non-medical professionals. That’s No. 1,” she told NPR in 2008. “I just don’t think that’s good public health policy.”

Madras is a widely respected figure on drug policy who, beyond her work at ONDCP, now has experience working with governors from both parties, and her nomination would likely not meet with much resistance in the Senate.

Asked by email whether she would be interested in the position of drug czar, Madras said: “As much as I would like to carve a considered response to your question,  I am currently focused on an unrelenting responsibility for the final Opioid Commission report. 62,000 deaths haunt me daily and nightly to say nothing of the families affected by the disease of addiction. When November 1 comes I will be able to clear my mind and attend to the future.”

Chris Christie

The Trump administration has been without a permanent drug czar since Inauguration Day. So why not wait until January?

That’s when Chris Christie, serving his final months as governor of New Jersey, would become available. In February, he avoided expressing interest in the position after joining Trump for lunch.

“Let me be very clear, we did not get into any discussion of me joining the current administration in some type of drug abuse role, some type of czar or God forbid surgeon general,” he told reporters then.

But this time, the timing might work — if Christie is willing to step down a few months early or, more likely, if the White House is willing to wait. Christie has chaired the president’s commission on the crisis since March, and last month he unveiled a $200 million program in his state that has been billed as a potential national model for addressing the epidemic.

Christie ran Trump’s transition team for a time, has drawn praise from fellow commission members for the way he has handled the crisis, and is seen as being supportive of evidence-based policies that doctors and drug industry groups alike can support.

Christie’s office didn’t respond to a request for comment.

Long shots

Pam Bondi: Florida’s attorney general was added to the Christie commission in September (but thought she had been a commission member since March). She has worked on curbing drug abuse in Florida, but her confirmation would likely resurface pay-to-play allegations that dogged her and then-candidate Trump before the 2016 general election.

Richard Baum: The acting ONDCP director, Baum is a long-tenured career staffer at the office whose policy bona fides are widely acknowledged. But Baum is also seen as an institutionalist unlikely to change the office’s direction in a major way, and is not seen as a likely candidate for longer-term consideration.

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This Is the Secret Room Where the Ford Model T Was Developed

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Big inventions are often created in small spaces. A classic example of that can now be seen in Detroit: specifically, on the third floor of the brick building at 461 Piquette, which housed the assembly plant of the Ford Motor Company from 1904 to 1910. More significant, it was the birthplace of the Ford Model T, a car that put automobile ownership within reach of people of average means and as a result accelerated America’s transition from a rural to an urban society.

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In the northeast corner of the third floor, an L-shaped room measuring 870 square feet has been set aside and refurbished to replicate its state when it was the exact space where the Model T evolved from concept to production readiness.

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Now known as the “secret experimental room,” the space was originally partitioned off from the rest of the factory floor in January 1907, with a padlock on the door when the room wasn’t in use. Only a trusted few of Ford’s workmen had access to the space.

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1907 R&D

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Set up by foundry boss Charlie Sorensen, the room was established for what Henry Ford described as a “completely new job.” At that point, Ford’s Model N, together with its sportier R and S variants, was the top-selling car in America, and the experimental-room team embarked on the job with the anticipation that they’d be crafting an evolution of the Model N.

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But Henry Ford’s concept was more revolutionary. As his autobiography, My Life and Work, records, Ford intended the T to be “a motorcar for the great multitude,” a car big enough for family use that was light, durable, and affordable. Based on physical evidence in the building, surveys by industrial archaeologist Richard Anderson, and 1950s interviews with workers employed at the plant at the time the Model T was birthed, a team of experts and volunteers brought the experimental room back to life. This included appointing it with the equipment the T team employed in 1907 and 1908: a drafting table, a chalkboard, a camera to record design ideas, a workbench, tool boxes, workers’ lunch pails, and a 250-volt DC motor turning an overhead line shaft that powered belt-driven machine tools—a lathe, a drill press, and a milling machine.

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The space is illuminated by reproductions of the original GE arc lamps, fabricated by Detroit’s Kirlin Lighting, using a 3D printer and an authentic original lamp purchased from a Canadian collector. Piquette insiders note that the purchase of that vintage lamp cost more than the price of the original Model T. An old rocking chair duplicates the rocker Henry Ford occupied while directing operations, and a Model N chassis represents the starting point of the T project.

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1908 Prototypes

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The ideas and brainstorming burgeoned in early 1907, and by the spring of 1908 the first of several running prototypes rolled out of the secret experimental room and onto public roads, whereupon the T was not so secret anymore.

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Production began on September 27, 1908, with the formal public debut occurring on October 1. The T was an instant success—not so much because of its price, though, at least at first. With a base price of $850 for the original five-passenger touring car, it was less expensive than many contemporary automobiles but some $250 more than the Model N. Irresistibly low prices came later, with the economies of scale that set in after Ford established the moving assembly line in 1913.

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What set the T apart was innovation, simplicity, and exceptional ruggedness. For example, Ford specified vanadium steel for a number of stressed components such as the crankshaft, axles, and wheel spindles, reducing weight and enhancing durability. Developed in Europe, vanadium alloyed steel had been tested in earlier Ford models and was used more extensively in the Model T, contributing to low curb weight (about 1200 pounds) and a chassis capable of surviving the then primitive U.S. road system.

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Other innovations included a one-piece engine block (most contemporary engine cylinders were cast in pairs) and a removable cylinder head that made maintenance and repair infinitely easier. The magneto, which sent juice to the spark plugs, was integrated with the flywheel, the flexible frame helped the T survive on deeply rutted dirt highways, and the planetary transmission made the car easy to drive.

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Today, the walls of the experimental room are cut away on two sides to give visitors a close look at its historic appointments. The room itself is augmented by backlit panels that trace the story of the T’s gestation from concept to running prototype, as well as a video kiosk with five short descriptions of the key elements that made the Model T stand out from the crowd.

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Piquette Museum

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In addition to serving as the home to the re-created experimental room, the Piquette plant is itself a museum, its top two floors home to a wide variety of cars from the T and pre-T era. Piquette was Ford’s first purpose-built factory. Before the T, it was the source of models B, C, F, K, N, R, and S. As with the previous models, T production at Piquette was based around single stations—where one team assembled the entire car.

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Ford and his staff kept tweaking the process to speed production, but station-style assembly, which was then common to all vehicle production everywhere, continued up to and beyond the time that Ford left Piquette for a vast new factory in nearby Highland Park in January 1910. Still, during those 15 months some 12,000 Model Ts rolled out of Piquette.

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Ford sold the Piquette plant to Studebaker, which produced vehicles there until 1933. Subsequent tenants were Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing (3M) and the Cadillac Overall Company, among others. In 2000—with the impending prospect of demolition facing the facility—the property was acquired by the Model T Automotive Heritage Complex, a private group dedicated to preserving the Piquette factory and commemorating its singular historic significance.

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In its Model T heyday, Ford was just one of 22 different carmakers in the area, which was then called Milwaukee Junction for its proximity to rail transportation. Recognized as a National Historic Landmark in 2006, the Ford Piquette Avenue Plant is open to visitors 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesday through Sunday from April through November. From December through March, the plant is open 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday through Sunday.

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This Is the Secret Room Where the Ford Model T Was Developed

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Big inventions are often created in small spaces. A classic example of that can now be seen in Detroit: specifically, on the third floor of the brick building at 461 Piquette, which housed the assembly plant of the Ford Motor Company from 1904 to 1910. More significant, it was the birthplace of the Ford Model T, a car that put automobile ownership within reach of people of average means and and as a result accelerated America’s transition from a rural to an urban society.

-

In the northeast corner of the third floor, an L-shaped room measuring 870 square feet has been set aside and refurbished to replicate its state when it was the exact space where the Model T evolved from concept to production readiness.

-

Now known as the “secret experimental room,” the space was originally partitioned off from the rest of the factory floor in January 1907, with a padlock on the door when the room wasn’t in use. Only a trusted few of Ford’s workmen had access to the space.

-

-

1907 R&D

-

Set up by foundry boss Charlie Sorensen, the room was established for what Henry Ford described as a “completely new job.” At that point, Ford’s Model N, together with its sportier R and S variants, was the top-selling car in America, and the experimental-room team embarked on the job with the anticipation that they’d be crafting an evolution of the Model N.

-

But Henry Ford’s concept was more revolutionary. As his autobiography, My Life and Work, records, Ford intended the T to be “a motorcar for the great multitude,” a car big enough for family use that was light, durable, and affordable. Based on physical evidence in the building, surveys by industrial archaeologist Richard Anderson, and 1950s interviews with workers employed at the plant at the time the Model T was birthed, a team of experts and volunteers brought the experimental room back to life. This included appointing it with the equipment the T team employed in 1907 and 1908: a drafting table, a chalkboard, a camera to record design ideas, a workbench, tool boxes, workers’ lunch pails, and a 250-volt DC motor turning an overhead line shaft that powered belt-driven machine tools—a lathe, a drill press, and a milling machine.

-

-

The space is illuminated by reproductions of the original GE arc lamps, fabricated by Detroit’s Kirlin Lighting, using a 3D printer and an authentic original lamp purchased from a Canadian collector. Piquette insiders note that the purchase of that vintage lamp cost more than the price of the original Model T. An old rocking chair duplicates the rocker Henry Ford occupied while directing operations, and a Model N chassis represents the starting point of the T project.

-

1908 Prototypes

-

The ideas and brainstorming burgeoned in early 1907, and by the spring of 1908 the first of several running prototypes rolled out of the secret experimental room and onto public roads, whereupon the T was not so secret anymore.

-

Production began on September 27, 1908, with the formal public debut occurring on October 1. The T was an instant success—not so much because of its price, though, at least at first. With a base price of $850 for the original five-passenger touring car, it was less expensive than many contemporary automobiles but some $250 more than the Model N. Irresistibly low prices came later, with the economies of scale that set in after Ford established the moving assembly line in 1913.

-

-

What set the T apart was innovation, simplicity, and exceptional ruggedness. For example, Ford specified vanadium steel for a number of stressed components such as the crankshaft, axles, and wheel spindles, reducing weight and enhancing durability. Developed in Europe, vanadium alloyed steel had been tested in earlier Ford models and was used more extensively in the Model T, contributing to low curb weight (about 1200 pounds) and a chassis capable of surviving the then primitive U.S. road system.

-

Other innovations included a one-piece engine block (most contemporary engine cylinders were cast in pairs) and a removable cylinder head that made maintenance and repair infinitely easier. The magneto, which sent juice to the spark plugs, was integrated with the flywheel, the flexible frame helped the T survive on deeply rutted dirt highways, and the planetary transmission made the car easy to drive.

-

-

Today, the walls of the experimental room are cut away on two sides to give visitors a close look at its historic appointments. The room itself is augmented by backlit panels that trace the story of the T’s gestation from concept to running prototype, as well as a video kiosk with five short descriptions of the key elements that made the Model T stand out from the crowd.

-

Piquette Museum

-

In addition to serving as the home to the re-created experimental room, the Piquette plant is itself a museum, its top two floors home to a wide variety of cars from the T and pre-T era. Piquette was Ford’s first purpose-built factory. Before the T, it was the source of models B, C, F, K, N, R, and S. As with the previous models, T production at Piquette was based around single stations—where one team assembled the entire car.

-

Ford and his staff kept tweaking the process to speed production, but station-style assembly, which was then common to all vehicle production everywhere, continued up to and beyond the time that Ford left Piquette for a vast new factory in nearby Highland Park in January 1910. Still, during those 15 months some 12,000 Model Ts rolled out of Piquette.

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Ford sold the Piquette plant to Studebaker, which produced vehicles there until 1933. Subsequent tenants were Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing (3M) and the Cadillac Overall Company, among others. In 2000—with the impending prospect of demolition facing the facility—the property was acquired by the Model T Automotive Heritage Complex, a private group dedicated to preserving the Piquette factory and commemorating its singular historic significance.

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The Race of the Centuries: Tesla Model S vs. 1915 Ford Model T!

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How Ford’s Assembly Line Really Put the World on Wheels

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10 Cars (including the Model T) to Drive before You Die

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In its Model T heyday, Ford was just one of 22 different carmakers in the area, which was then called Milwaukee Junction for its proximity to rail transportation. Recognized as a National Historic Landmark in 2006, the Ford Piquette Avenue Plant is open to visitors 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesday through Sunday from April through November. From December through March, the plant is open 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday through Sunday.

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This Is the Secret Room Where the Ford Model T Was Developed

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Big inventions are often created in small spaces. A classic example of that can now be seen in Detroit: specifically, on the third floor of the brick building at 461 Piquette, which housed the assembly plant of the Ford Motor Company from 1904 to 1910. More significant, it was the birthplace of the Ford Model T, a car that put automobile ownership within reach of people of average means and and as a result accelerated America’s transition from a rural to an urban society.

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In the northeast corner of the third floor, an L-shaped room measuring 870 square feet has been set aside and refurbished to replicate its state when it was the exact space where the Model T evolved from concept to production readiness.

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Now known as the “secret experimental room,” the space was originally partitioned off from the rest of the factory floor in January 1907, with a padlock on the door when the room wasn’t in use. Only a trusted few of Ford’s workmen had access to the space.

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1907 R&D

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Set up by foundry boss Charlie Sorensen, the room was established for what Henry Ford described as a “completely new job.” At that point, Ford’s Model N, together with its sportier R and S variants, was the top-selling car in America, and the experimental-room team embarked on the job with the anticipation that they’d be crafting an evolution of the Model N.

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But Henry Ford’s concept was more revolutionary. As his autobiography, My Life and Work, records, Ford intended the T to be “a motorcar for the great multitude,” a car big enough for family use that was light, durable, and affordable. Based on physical evidence in the building, surveys by industrial archaeologist Richard Anderson, and 1950s interviews with workers employed at the plant at the time the Model T was birthed, a team of experts and volunteers brought the experimental room back to life. This included appointing it with the equipment the T team employed in 1907 and 1908: a drafting table, a chalkboard, a camera to record design ideas, a workbench, tool boxes, workers’ lunch pails, and a 250-volt DC motor turning an overhead line shaft that powered belt-driven machine tools—a lathe, a drill press, and a milling machine.

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The space is illuminated by reproductions of the original GE arc lamps, fabricated by Detroit’s Kirlin Lighting, using a 3D printer and an authentic original lamp purchased from a Canadian collector. Piquette insiders note that the purchase of that vintage lamp cost more than the price of the original Model T. An old rocking chair duplicates the rocker Henry Ford occupied while directing operations, and a Model N chassis represents the starting point of the T project.

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1908 Prototypes

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The ideas and brainstorming burgeoned in early 1907, and by the spring of 1908 the first of several running prototypes rolled out of the secret experimental room and onto public roads, whereupon the T was not so secret anymore.

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Production began on September 27, 1908, with the formal public debut occurring on October 1. The T was an instant success—not so much because of its price, though, at least at first. With a base price of $850 for the original five-passenger touring car, it was less expensive than many contemporary automobiles but some $250 more than the Model N. Irresistibly low prices came later, with the economies of scale that set in after Ford established the moving assembly line in 1913.

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What set the T apart was innovation, simplicity, and exceptional ruggedness. For example, Ford specified vanadium steel for a number of stressed components such as the crankshaft, axles, and wheel spindles, reducing weight and enhancing durability. Developed in Europe, vanadium alloyed steel had been tested in earlier Ford models and was used more extensively in the Model T, contributing to low curb weight (about 1200 pounds) and a chassis capable of surviving the then primitive U.S. road system.

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Other innovations included a one-piece engine block (most contemporary engine cylinders were cast in pairs) and a removable cylinder head that made maintenance and repair infinitely easier. The magneto, which sent juice to the spark plugs, was integrated with the flywheel, the flexible frame helped the T survive on deeply rutted dirt highways, and the planetary transmission made the car easy to drive.

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Today, the walls of the experimental room are cut away on two sides to give visitors a close look at its historic appointments. The room itself is augmented by backlit panels that trace the story of the T’s gestation from concept to running prototype, as well as a video kiosk with five short descriptions of the key elements that made the Model T stand out from the crowd.

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Piquette Museum

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In addition to serving as the home to the re-created experimental room, the Piquette plant is itself a museum, its top two floors home to a wide variety of cars from the T and pre-T era. Piquette was Ford’s first purpose-built factory. Before the T, it was the source of models B, C, F, K, N, R, and S. As with the previous models, T production at Piquette was based around single stations—where one team assembled the entire car.

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Ford and his staff kept tweaking the process to speed production, but station-style assembly, which was then common to all vehicle production everywhere, continued up to and beyond the time that Ford left Piquette for a vast new factory in nearby Highland Park in January 1910. Still, during those 15 months some 12,000 Model Ts rolled out of Piquette.

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Ford sold the Piquette plant to Studebaker, which produced vehicles there until 1933. Subsequent tenants were Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing (3M) and the Cadillac Overall Company, among others. In 2000—with the impending prospect of demolition facing the facility—the property was acquired by the Model T Automotive Heritage Complex, a private group dedicated to preserving the Piquette factory and commemorating its singular historic significance.

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In its Model T heyday, Ford was just one of 22 different carmakers in the area, which was then called Milwaukee Junction for its proximity to rail transportation. Recognized as a National Historic Landmark in 2006, the Ford Piquette Avenue Plant is open to visitors 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesday through Sunday from April through November. From December through March, the plant is open 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday through Sunday.

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Inside the Automotive Extravagance of the Chantilly Arts & Elegance Concours

Not far from the bustle of Paris is an idyllic, lake-encircled swath of old world opulence. Chantilly, France is home to a sprawling château, painstakingly manicured gardens, and the Chantilly Arts & Elegance Concours, which descends upon this haven of serenity every September (the 2017 edition runs this weekend), dotting the grounds with an abundance of classic automotive excess, from remarkably preserved turn-of-the-century relics and elegant sleds from the golden age of coach building to 20th century supercars and future concepts.

Chantilly challenges the world’s top Concours d’Elegance— think, Pebble Beach, Villa d’Este, Amelia Island—with an alternate spin on the celebration of classic and vintage automobilia. But does the world really need another high-end car gathering, and can the French newbie compete with the big boys? We embedded into the annual event and rubbed elbows with automotive aristocracy to get the scoop on this historic car gathering and find out.

Posh Proceedings

A world-class concours would be nothing without a strong sense of occasion, and Chantilly is no exception to that unwritten rule. In fact, the guidelines are practically spelled out in the printed program, which includes a rather explicit dress code: “A tight and/or short leather dress won’t make the woman wearing it the most noticeable guest,” the text advises, “neither will a deep cleavage nor nails painted in three different colors.” I witnessed a sloppily dressed fan turned away at the gate, proof that Chantilly’s dress code was not meant to be broken, much in the same way the U.K.’s Goodwood Revival adheres to its mandate of period-correct garb.

That said, Chantilly is closer in mood to Lake Como’s oh-so-Italian Concorso d’Eleganza Villa d’Este than events like The Quail and Pebble Beach, which combine elements of dress-up with a certain sense of California casual. The delta makes sense; Chantilly’s backdrop is Domaine d’Chantilly, a centuries old château that makes Hearst Castle look like a quaint guesthouse.

As the weekend gets underway, cars fill the property by parading past the tranquil waterway and occupying various sections. From rows of natty car club stalwarts like evocative Mercedes-Benz convertibles and midcentury Jaguar sedans to auction offerings that include Bentleys, Porsches, Rolls-Royces and the like, the early arrivals are alluring yet relatively attainable.

However, the main attraction comes Sunday, when a head-turning array of classic exotica makes its way onto the impeccably manicured Le Nôtre Lawns for a dozen or so classes, including the Belles Voitures du Monde (“Most Beautiful Cars in the World”) Concours d’élégance. A black tie-clad crowd assembles on Saturday evening, and a quick survey will reveal familiar faces. In 2016, that crowd included Former Scuderia Ferrari and FIA boss Jean Todt and his wife, actress Michele Yeoh, actor John Malkovich, and sprinter Wayde van Niekerk, who had come fresh off his gold medal winning sprint at the summer Olympics. The glitterati is not surprising; after all, this is automotive event formed by a company that makes watches that can cost as much as half a million dollars.

Exceptional Automotive Eclectica

Chantilly draws a remarkably eclectic field of cars, one that reflects a broad swath of collectors and enthusiasts. Random samplings from last year’s lawn: A row of Schumacher-era Ferrari Formula 1 cars offset by a several 1960s-era Prancing Horse F1 examples; a smattering of Group B rally cars; pre-war beauties from Alfa Romeo, Bugatti, Osca, and Talbot-Lago; a coven of Citroens including a gorgeous 1965 Citroen Henry Chapron-bodied DS19 Majesty Spécial; a row of Zagato-bodied road cars, which were part of a Zagato retrospective.

Manufacturers also peddled their not-so-ordinary wares: Mercedes-Benz Classic brought out its restored 540K Streamliner while the modern division showed off its outlandish Maybach 6 concept; BMW dusted off their Mille Miglia Concept Coupe and their fired up an evocative Bimmer plane with their logo projected onto the prop; Bugatti, McLaren and Rolls-Royce also showed off their latest and greatest.

Motorcycles were on hand too, including a smattering of classic and modern Beemers, the debut of the Zagato-bodied MV Agusta F4Z concept, and Midual’s imaginatively ambitious Type 1 naked bike.

While the spectrum of participants is varied enough to offer something for every classic motorhead, the serious contenders for the top spot are often the same players you’ll find competing at Villa d’Este, Pebble Beach, and Amelia Island—there are only so many places for these one percent of one percent cars to end up. Case in point: 2016’s winner, Jon Shirley’s stunning 1938 Alfa Romeo 8C 2900B Berlinetta by Touring, also took the top prize at the Pebble Beach Concours in 2008.

(Very Expensive) Watch Origins

Chantilly was launched in 2014 by watchmaker Richard Mille, whose horological creations have been worn by athletes like Felipe Massa, Bubba Watson, and Rafael Nadal. Mille’s wristwatches are wonders of advanced engineering that were developed using real world R&D: they are put through the ringer by athletes during training and competition until they break, enabling Richard Mille’s team to find the weak spots in the tiny movements and re-engineer the watch until they’re durable enough to sustain extraordinary forces like the swing of a golfer’s club, the violence of a Formula 1 driver’s track battle, or the snap of a tennis player’s racket.

“I love to do extreme watches for extreme conditions,” Richard Mille told Automobile. “Philosophically, my watches are very complex but they can be worn in any condition. They are not pieces to be put in the safe waiting for the next generation, they’re watches you put on the wrist and you live with.”

As such, Mille demands that a sponsored athlete doesn’t just pose with the watch for podium and PR photos; he or she must wear them while training and competing. Michael Schumacher famously wanted to partner with Mille until he was told he must wear the watch while driving. With that stipulation, the notoriously rigorous racer opted out and stuck to his tradition of only wearing gloves on his hands.

Richard Mille’s watch movements are remarkable exercises in form and function. Nadal’s timepiece, for instance, is so seemingly weightless, it can float in water and enjoys its status as the world’s lightest automatic wristwatch. In a business where the average mechanical (i.e. self-winding) watch is accurate to within 4 to 8 seconds per day, Mille managed to engineer a piece that keeps time to a remarkable 1.03 seconds per month. By using nanotechnology, ultra-low friction finishes, and techy materials like titanium and carbon fiber—many of the techniques you’ll find in a Formula 1 engine—Richard Mille’s watches are remarkably accurate while also being able to sustain as many as 5,000 Gs of force. They can also be dizzylingly expensive; prices for a Richard Mille wristwatch can easily reach into six figures, and offerings top out with three sapphire tourbillon models priced at $1.9 million apiece.

Room For More

Even if you’re a globetrotting bon vivant who regularly makes the rounds at the world’s top automotive events, it’s hard not to become intoxicated by the Chantilly Arts & Elegance Concours experience. Beyond the predictable champagne-sipping, pinkies-out scene, the beauty of being surrounded by exceptional vehicles in this gorgeous setting is seductive for virtually anyone with a pulse, let alone a hankering for automotive extremes. Add Chantilly to your concours bucket list, where you can witness one of the most elegant automotive events the world has to offer. But be sure to pack accordingly; those dress codes aren’t messing around.

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The way forward

Innovation, in the watch industry, drives the most spectacular breakthroughs. Whether inspired by F1, material research, astrophysics or medical discoveries, R&D is a game changer.

Hublot - Ingredients used to make magic gold.

“The RM 50-03 is a very small object but the density of innovation in it is just incredible,” said Richard Mille, speaking last January at the Salon International de la Haute Horlogerie in Geneva, where, flanked by scientists from the University of Manchester, he unveiled his newest mechanical wonder, the “RM 50-03 tourbillon split-seconds chronograph ultra-light McLaren F1.”

To call it a “small object” may be the ultimate understatement. The highly complex wristwatch weighs less than 40 grams, strap included, making it the world’s lightest mechanical chronograph.

Near weightlessness has been achieved by marrying the micro-mechanical skills of Mille’s eponymous company with cutting-edge materials science accessed through Formula 1 racing team McLaren-Honda, which signed a 10-year collaboration and product development deal with the watchmaker last year.

It is a partnership that perfectly illustrates the two-way bond that increasingly links the worlds of luxury watchmaking and advanced technology.

The highly skeletonised movement, built of titanium and a thin-ply carbon fiber laminate known as TPT Carbon, weighs a mere seven grams. The TPT Carbon case and the rubber strap are lightened and strengthened by an injection of graphene, a honeycomb-structured carbon lattice just one atom thick that is 200 times stronger than steel and five times lighter.

“Graphene is very strong material, the kind you would want in high-performance applications like aerospace and Formula One - and for the cases of very light, high-performance watches,” said Robert Young.

HYT - A priming tool used to fill in a glass tube, or glass “capillary;”  Side view of a priming tool.

Professor of Polymer Science and Technology at the University of Manchester. High-end watchmakers have always pushed scientific and technological boundaries. Now, facing a double challenge of falling sales and rising competition from electronic smart watches, they are innovating as never before. Richard Mille is one of a handful of watch brands for whom investment in new materials is a key component of overall innovation strategy. It works closely with research facilities or relies on processes in use in the automotive, medical and aerospace industries.

Hublot is another that invests heavily in new materials research and development, while other brands are focusing on other scientific fields to counter the digital revolution. HYT (Hydro Mechanical Horologists), for example, is developing sophisticated fluidics – the use of fluid dynamics to do things in place of electronics – while Vacheron Constantin is pushing the limits of astronomical horology with mind-blowingly complicated micro mechanics. For luxury watchmakers, inventiveness is a matter of professional pride and intellectual curiosity. It is also a matter of hardheaded economics. Innovation is seen as a lifeline.

HYT: H2 watch, two “V” shaped bellows. 

Hope against declining figures

Last January, when issuing its statistics for 2016, the Federation of the Swiss Watch Industry confirmed sharply declining watch exports for the second year in a row.  According to those statistics, last year, Swiss watch exports fell by 9.8 percent to 18.3 billion Swiss francs, wiping more than 2 billion francs from foreign sales. “With this result,” the Federation noted, industry sales had “returned to 2011 levels” putting “an end to the growth of 15 percent achieved between 2011 and 2014.”

Still, industry observers remain optimistic that innovation can help to power a recovery. “Regardless of challenges, the fundamentals of the Swiss watch industry such as the attractiveness of the Swiss Made label, the undisputed leadership of Switzerland in the luxury watch market as well as its innovation capacity all remain strong,” noted the consultancy firm, Deloitte, in its 5th annual Swiss watch industry study titled “Will the Swiss watch industry turn around in 2017?”

On the cutting edge of science 

A healthy dose of curiosity and a pioneering spirit combined with a longstanding love of racecars led Mille to discover graphene. Together, Mille and McLaren looked into research being conducted at the University of Manchester’s National Graphene Institute, a facility set up in 2015.  Graphene was first isolated in 2004 by Professors André Geim and Konstantin Novoselov at the University’s School of Physics and Astronomy, work which earned them a 2010 Nobel Prize in physics. The national institute’s researchers were looking for new applications for their revolutionary nano-material. Mille and McLaren found them an unexpected application in watchmaking.

“Until Richard Mille approached us, we were not aware of the use of composite materials in the watch industry,” Professor Young said.  “Now, we can see the possibilities of graphene to improve the properties of composites used in luxury watches.”

Richard Mille - Titanium-aluminum from raw material to final design: bezel of the RM 50-02 with titanium-aluminum case.

World-class research with local impact 

Hublot meanwhile has been exploring new materials in its own facilities, expanding in recent years its in-house R&D departments and establishing a close partnership with the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, also known as the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology.

In its metallurgy department and high-tech foundry, set up at its manufacture in Nyon, Hublot has been working on experimental refractory ceramic sintering and high-pressure metal casting. Hublot shoulders the risks and costs while the technology institute brings in world-class researchers and access to a global pool of academic knowledge.

Among the materials that have emerged from this partnership is a new alloy of gold and boron carbide, patented by Hublot as “Magic Gold.” Graded 18 carat by the Central Office for Precious Metals Control, Magic Gold is exceptionally tough and scratch-resistant. It has a hardness rating of about 1,000 on the Vickers hardness scale, as compared to 400 for 18-carat gold or 700 for high-grade steel.

Traditionally, according to Mathias Buttet, Director of R&D at Hublot, watch brands have picked up materials developed in other industries and found applications in their own. Magic Gold marked a definite shift.

“Materials like titanium or aluminum-lithium made their way into watchmaking from the aerospace, automobile or armament industries,” Buttet explained. “We have done our own research since 2009, focusing on the needs of  watchmaking. We have invested time and money to come up with our own materials.”

“We were the inventors of Magic Gold,” he added. “We made it first.”

At Baselworld this year, Hublot will introduce a watch range in brightly coloured ceramics, the product of another patented process resulting from two years of in-house development.

“Ceramic powders require high heat for particles to combine, but colour pigments cannot tolerate high heat levels,” Buttet said. “We have now discovered a solution using pressure to sinter the ceramic while preserving the color pigments.”

The partnership with the Lausanne school along the way has been a win-win deal, Buttet added, insisting that both Hublot and the industry at large benefit from relying on the scientific resources available locally.

“We have set up a programme with the École Polytechnique that allows us to bring in researchers and hire graduates full-time after school,” Buttet said. At the same time, he continued, “We contribute to the development of the industrial fabric of our region. We are not just addressing the needs of watchmaking, we are also helping the local economy.”

Richard Mille: A view of Graph TPT™, TPT™ Carbon and graphene.

Reaching out to the celestial bodies

On the more traditional side, Vacheron Constantin has over the years focused its innovative efforts on precision timekeeping, miniaturisation and predictive recording of the movement of celestial objects.

Two years ago, the brand presented its reference 57260 pocket watch, the world’s most complicated timepiece, with 57 complications that took three master watchmakers eight years to produce. This year, Vacheron Constantin has come up with its “Les Cabinotiers Celestial Astronomical Grand Complication 3600,” a double-sided wristwatch incorporating 23 mostly astronomical complications. The one-off watch was developed in Vacheron Constantin’s bespoke workshop, the Atelier Cabinotiers.

“This is a landmark in the field of astronomy and one of the most advanced astronomical watches ever made,” Vacheron Constantin said of the piece. Among its remarkable features are three different time indications – civil, solar and sidereal – displayed via three separate gear trains, not to mention a sunrise and sunset indicator and a semi-circle dial displaying the zodiac signs, seasons, solstices and equinoxes. The watch’s astronomical moon phase display will need a one-day correction just once every 122 years.

At 11 o’clock on the dial, a rarely seen mareoscope function uses a tide level indicator and a 3D depiction of the earth-moon-sun alignment, to indicate the gravitational attraction and centrifugal forces of those heavenly bodies as they impact tides. “From anywhere on earth, you can set the current tide level where you are, and then follow the timing of changes in tide levels,” the watchmaker said.

Vacheron Constantin - Les Cabinotiers Celestia Astronomical Grand Complication 3600.

What price innovation?

Vacheron Constantin’s Reference 3600 is priced $1 million, explained by the fact that a master watchmaker developed its movement from scratch for a collector instead of taking the shorter route of adding complication modules onto a pre-manufactured base calibre.

The price of its reference 57260 pocket watch with 57 complications, kept under wraps, was reported to have been more than $10 million.

Outside the niche of bespoke watches, other factors, not least the risks inherent in experimental R&D, are factored into the price of high-tech watches. For every innovative design that reaches the market, others fall by the wayside.

“Our product was developed with the help of Nobel prize-winning scientists and a process perfected by University researchers,” Mille explained, referring to the RM 50-03. “We paid to acquire the exclusive right to use the process in jewelry and watches. Nobel prize-winning technology does not come free.”

Mille also spent one year developing the means to apply the product to his own watchmaking needs, and three more years developing the movement. The RM 50-03, in an edition of 75, is priced $980,000.

“We cut no corners, use the best technology available, and make no compromises,” Mille explained. “We also have a high average ‘rejection rate’ of about 35 to 40 percent of our products in development.”

“Our prices reflect the investment of blood, sweat and tears that goes into this type of development,” he said.

For Hublot, the risks are even greater because its processes are worked up in-house from scratch.  “We have no idea what will fail or succeed when we start a project,” Buttet said. “Out of every 10 projects, five produce a return on investment, and five are abandoned.”

Astronomical functions, 23 horological complications, Hallmark of Geneva certification; Sidereal time is read on the back of the watch. 

Moving science forward

High-priced products aside, innovation in watchmaking is a horological high-wire act. The best example is offered by HYT, a brand whose appetite for exploratory risk sets it apart from others.

Since 2012 when it was founded, the young brand has collaborated with researchers in a number of scientific disciplines to create mechanical watches that incorporate liquids to store and transmit energy and to indicate time. But that research is moving beyond those parameters.

HYT works with a sister company, Preciflex, that develops devices using micro-fluidic modules for indicating, injecting, diffusing or managing power. The collaborative goal of both companies in exploring the unknown is to advance science.

“When your challenge is to build fluidic modules, there is no ‘fluidic-master’ like a master watchmaker to take the lead,” said Gregory Dourde, chief executive of HYT. “We have no textbook to go by. We are writing the textbook ourselves.” Though R&D is at the heart of its organisation, HYT has expanded its capacity through partnerships with scientists around the world, including PhDs at Stanford University and others in the fields of medicine, aerospace, robotics, chemistry and optics.

“We look at other disciplines because contemporary watches must capture what the most advanced sciences are doing today,” Dourde said.

Those partnerships have enabled HYT to see the world not as divided regional markets, but as a network of research hubs to be tapped.

“Scientists looking into the brain’s neuron activity are interested in ways to displace liquids in the brain without electrical interference,” Dourde said. “Our technology does that, and it can potentially contribute to the advancement of science in other areas.”

Last year, HYT and Preciflex obtained new financing of $23 million to fund further research. The amount may seem outsized by watch industry standards, but not for a brand whose ambitions extend beyond the terrains of watchmaking.

“Our investors come from outside the watch industry,” Dourde said. “What they see in our brand is its potential beyond that industry. We are not looking to the past to build the future. We are inventing the future.”