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If you are considering a Units Moving and Portable Storage franchise, don't get blindsided by these 23 important franchise fees (from the initial franchise fee, to the royalty fee, to 21 other fees found in Items 5 and 6 of Units Moving and Portable Storage's 2020 FDD).
1. Initial Franchise Fee: $18,500 times the number of contiguous markets you agree to purchase (minimum of three contiguous markets)
- You must pay an initial franchise fee ("Initial Franchise Fee") equal to $18,500 times the number of contiguous markets you agree to purchase (each, a "Market").
- Each Market will contain approximately 100,000 people and you must purchase a minimum of three contiguous Markets (for a minimum population of 300,000) within which to operate the Franchised Business, which equals a minimum Initial Franchise Fee of $55,500.
- The Initial Franchise Fee is payment, in part, for the franchisor's expenses in furnishing assistance and services to you and for its costs, including general sales and marketing expenses, training, legal, accounting, and other professional fees.
2. Units Containers and Units Equipment: $301,322 to $565,322
- The franchisor is an approved supplier for trucks, proprietary Units Containers, Units Moving and Portable Storage Delivery Systems, other equipment, and inventory items such as packing and moving supplies, as well as certain inventory items and signage.
- Your estimated additional payments to the franchisor prior to opening for Units Containers and other Units Equipment range from $408,000 to $636,000, based on the number of Units Containers or other Units Equipment you are required to purchase from the franchisor.
- All initial fees are deemed fully earned upon payment, non-refundable, and must be paid in lump sum.
3. Royalty Fee: 8% of Gross Sales per month
- Due Date: Monthly.
- This fee is payable to the franchisor.
4. National Advertising Fund: 2% of Gross Sales
- Due Date: Monthly.
- National Advertising Fund contributions will be collected in the same manner as the Royalty Fee.
- This fee is payable to the franchisor.
5. Local Advertising: $3,000 to $4,500
- Due Date: Monthly.
- The franchisor must approve all advertising prior to use.
- This fee varies upon the size of the franchise business.
6. Cooperative Advertising: any portion or all of the National Advertising Fund Contribution may be re-designated for Cooperative Advertising
- Due Date: As directed.
- The franchisor may establish a cooperative within your regional marketing area.
- Payable to the Cooperative Advertising escrow account which the franchisor will open.
7. Ongoing Purchases of Units Containers and Equipment: will vary under the circumstances depending on size of territory
- Due Date: Time of purchases.
- You will regularly purchase packing and moving supplies from the franchisor or its pre-approved suppliers.
- Periodically, you may need to replace or increase your inventory of mobile, modular self-storage containers, Units Portable Storage Delivery System equipment, trucks, trailers, marketing and advertising materials, and other items the franchisor furnishes.
8. Software and Support: $200 to $400
- Due Date: Monthly.
- This fee is payable to the franchisor's designated third-party supplier.
9. SiteLink: $150 to $200 (subject to increase with each order of 48 or more containers)
- Due Date: Monthly.
- This fee is payable to SiteLink for use of their software. The franchisor reserves the right to require you to pay this fee to it directly at any time.
10. Audit Expenses: reasonable costs and expenses of audit
- Due Date: Upon demand.
- You will reimburse the franchisor for all the cost of an audit only if the audit shows an understatement in amounts due of at least 3%.
11. Late Fees: 18% per annum or the highest rate allowed by law (whichever is less), plus collection
- Due Date: Upon demand.
- Applies to all untimely Royalty Fee payments or National Advertising Fund contributions for revenue received by you directly, and any past due amounts for purchases from the franchisor or its affiliate. Also applies to any understatement in amounts due revealed by an audit.
- This fee is payable to the franchisor.
12. Supplier or Product Approval: all reasonable costs of evaluation
- Due Date: Time of evaluation.
- You must pay the franchisor for all expenses it incurs in evaluating new suppliers or products you wish to use or purchase that it has not previously approved, regardless of whether it subsequently approves such supplier.
13. Insurance Policies: amount of unpaid premiums, plus the franchisor's expenses in obtaining coverage for you
- Due Date: Upon demand.
- Payable only if you fail to maintain required insurance coverage and the franchisor elects to obtain coverage for you.
- You must also participate in any captive insurance program designated by the franchisor.
14. Renewal Fee: $1,000
- Due Date: 120 days before expiration of the Franchise Agreement.
15. Transfer Fee: $15,000, as well as any commission, broker, or referral fees or charges incurred
- Due Date: Time of transfer.
- This fee does not apply to any transfer under Section 17.3 of the Franchise Agreement.
- This fee is payable to the franchisor.
- In addition to the transfer fee: (i) if a third party acts as a broker, agent, or consultant in connection with the sale or transfer, as a condition of transfer, you must pay the franchisor the greater of: (a) Thirty Thousand Dollars ($30,000.00), or (b) the amount the third party charges the franchisor, including any and all third-party commissions and charges assessed in connection with the sale or transfer; or (2) if the franchisor refers or otherwise places you in communication with the transferee, you must pay the franchisor the greater of (a) Thirty Thousand Dollars ($30,000.00), or (b) actual costs and expenses incurred by the franchisor in connection with referring, identifying, or otherwise placing you in contact with transferee, including any and all lead generation costs.
16. Additional Training and National Conference: market rates as published in the Manual; plus the franchisor's expenses and your expenses as well as your employees' expenses in attending
- Due Date: As invoiced.
- The franchisor conducts a one-week initial training program for your Designated Manager, which is you if you are an individual, and one additional person. The cost of this initial training program is included in the Franchise Fee.
- You pay for additional training if you request it and the franchisor agrees to provide it, or if the franchisor determines that your Designated Manager turnover is excessive.
- You must also attend any national convention that the franchisor designates.
17. Additional Assistance: market rates as published in the Manual; currently $400 per day, plus the franchisor's expenses
- Due Date: Time of service.
- The franchisor provides one of its representatives to assist you for five days at the beginning of operations of the Franchised Business.
- You pay the franchisor for the additional assistance if you request it.
18. Ongoing Training: you must pay your expenses as well as your employees' expenses in attending these programs
- Due Date: Time of program.
- The franchisor does not charge for ongoing training programs, but you must pay your own expenses in attending.
- These fees are payable to third parties.
19. System Modifications: you must pay all costs associated with any modifications to the System which the franchisor may specify periodically
- Due Date: As required.
- You may incur costs associated with any System modifications, including new equipment, fixtures, software, trademarks, etc.
- These fees are payable to third parties.
20. Cost of Enforcement: all costs, including attorneys' fees
- Due Date: Upon demand.
- You will reimburse the franchisor for all costs in enforcing obligations if it prevails.
21. Indemnification: all costs, including attorneys' fees
- Due Date: Upon demand.
- You must defend lawsuits at your cost and hold the franchisor harmless against lawsuits arising from your operation of the Franchised Business.
- These fees are payable to third parties.
22. Post-Termination and Post-Expiration Expenses: costs and expenses associated with your ceasing of and de-identification with the business
- Due Date: When incurred.
- Upon termination, expiration, non-renewal, and/or transfer of the Franchised Business for any reason, you must pay for all costs and expenses associated with ceasing operations and de-identifying yourself with the Franchised Business and System.
- These fees are payable to third parties.
23. Failure to Attend Units' Bi-Annual Leadership Conference: $1,000
- Due Date: As required.
- In the event you fail to attend the Bi-Annual Conference, you will incur a fee of $1,000 payable to the franchisor upon demand.


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** UNDER OFFER ** €1,050,000 Ski Chalet Meribel
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Rare opportunity - beautifully presented 5-bedroom chalet with ample outside space in a quiet location with stunning views over the entire Méribel valley and easy access to skiing in the 3 Valleys
Property Features
- In ski resort
- Mountain views.
- Garage or covered parking.
- Private parking
Property Description
Situated in a quiet corner of the charming village of Les Allues, this well finished 5-bedroom chalet is a real find. Constructed in 2006 on flat land, a rarity in the valley, the chalet boasts a generous garden area, elevated south-facing terrace ideal for outdoor living and a spacious open-plan living/kitchen/dining area. With a total of 5 double bedrooms and 3 bathrooms, the chalet is ideal as a family home or for welcoming groups of friends. The chalet comes with a garage and ample external parking and is equipped with a lost cost, environmentally friendly pellet-burner heating system. Located only a few minute's walk to either the free shuttle service (650m) or the Olympic gondola (800m) which links directly to Méribel centre and skiing in the Three Valleys
On the ground floor is an entrance hall (7.6m2), a laundry area (7.9m2) containing the pellet burner heating system, garage (21.4m2), studio (19.7m2) with shower room (4.5m2).
On the first floor is a bedroom (9.9m2) that is currently used as an office, a shower room (4.4m2), a pantry (1.8m2), and the open plan kitchen (9.8m2) dining (15.8m2) and living area(13m2). Access to the south-facing terrace (6.5m2) is from the dining area.
On the top floor is a double bedroom on the north-west side (10.2m2 + 6.3m2 less than 1.8m in height), a double bedroom on the south-west (9.6m2 + 5m2 less than 1.8m in height), a double bedroom on the south-east corner (9.7m2 + 6.9m2 less than 1.8m in height). The 2 bedrooms on the west side share a west-facing balcony (5m2). There is also a shared bathroom (6.9m2 + 4.6m2 less than 1m80 in height) along with a dressing room (3.4m2).
Les Allues has the role of the administrative centre for the valley of Méribel. The village benefits from busy year-round activity with shops, bars and restaurants open 12 months of the year. The village is linked directly to the skiing centre of Méribel by the free bus service, which runs both Winter and Summer seasons, and during the Winter by the Olympic bubble. Méribel is only a 2hr drive from both the airports in Lyon and Geneva and only 1hr during the winter to Chambery and Grenoble. Eurostar services come directly into Moutiers during the Winter season located only a 20-minute drive from Méribel centre.
Three Valleys Ski Area
A beautiful place all year with highly defined seasons and quiet and tranquil out of the ski season when the crowds have gone home, and then suddenly once again each winter the mountains of the Three Valleys come alive with people enjoying this vast ski area..... the largest linked skiing in the world.
The Three Valleys ski domain provides more than 600km of runs and probably the same again off-piste. In fact it should now be called the Four Valleys with the link into Orelle (Maurienne Valley) which can be accessed by ski from Val Thorens. This has also opened up some extraordinary off-piste runs. The Three Valleys provides direct links between the ski resorts of St Martin de Belleville, Les Menuires, Val Thorens, Méribel, Mottaret, La Tania, Brides les Bains and the four Courchevel resorts, la Praz, 1550, 1650 and the world famous 1850 – and now Orelle, in the fourth valley - all under one ski pass offering on-piste skiing from 1300m all the way up to 3200m. As these figures show the Three Valleys ski area offers huge altitude differences favouring long run skiing.
It has an ultra efficient, state of the art ski lift system, quality piste preparation and a dense artificial snow making system (1920 snow cannons) complementing the excellent natural snow cover. However, if you are not a fan of downhill skiing or like some variety during your stay then you can also roam the domain at your leisure on foot, hiking along the marked trails, or using the pedestrian ski lift passes. Many trails have been created especially to enjoy the increasingly popular snowshoeing sport and to discover the valleys from a new perspective: flora, wildlife, monuments, and spectacular scenery.There are also many cross-country skiing tracks that are prepared and maintained each day. These allow you to take in the breathtaking scenery and provide the opportunity to appreciate the beauty of the mountains away from the pistes.
An interesting and wonderful area all year round, there is much more here than the snow sports.
Meribel Ski Resort
Meribel is one of most popular resorts in Europe for English-speaking skiers along with Courchevel and Val d'Isere.
Meribel is the central valley of the largest ski domain in the world, Les 3 Vallees.
With 600 km of groomed pistes, 85% of which are above 1800 metres, 25 accessible summits, 174 modern lifts and over 2090 snow cannons covering 43% of the ski area the statistics are impressive as is the skiing. However Méribel is much more than the 5 month winter ski season and an extended stay in summer or during the colours of autumn are needed to appreciate this.
The initial development of the ski resort in the late 1930's was a British and French partnership and this acceptance of English speakers continues to this day. Meribel is now a much more diverse international community with a large percentage of residents or visitors speaking English as their main or second language.
The main village of Meribel is built on the eastern side of the valley between 1450 and 1700 metres and because of this it is surrounded by forests or grass & timbered slopes. The strict architectural codes of alpine sloping rooflines, timber and stone cladding compliments this setting and makes it one of, if not the most, attractive of all the large high altitude French ski resorts.
The other major "resort villages" are Meribel Mottaret (1750 m), Meribel Village (1400 m), Les Allues (1100m) and the spa town of Brides-Les-Bains (600 m) at the very bottom of the valley. There are many smaller villages or hamlets so the range of property covers all tastes from barn conversions & village houses through to ski apartments and super luxury ski in ski out chalets with private swimming pools. As well as the normal range of hotels, bars, restaurants & shops Meribel boasts a range of facilities and activities.
The Meribel Olympic Centre is home to a full size ice rink, indoor climbing wall, 25 metres indoor heated pool and water slide, conference centre, gymnasium and wellness centre of spa, steamrooms, etc.
There is a spectacular 18 hole Golf Course at 1700 metres and a huge range of other outdoor activities such as tennis, hiking, mountain biking, road cycling, paragliding, fishing, etc which are enjoyed in the warmer months. Meribel property is generally more expensive than other French resorts but not yet at the dizzy heights of Courchevel 1850 with perhaps the exception of a few of the most prestigious pockets.
As Meribel continues to become ever more popular with the big spenders of the world the strong capital growth experienced over many many years is likely to continue.
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This image of children peeking into my camera lens was shot in a village-like setting in Karrare Camp for Internally Displaced People (IDP) on the outskirts of EINyala.asmalltownin southern Darfur.
It was my third trip to Sudan, in November 2004. On a completely different assignment there little more than two years previously, it had looked totally different. At that time Darfur was not on the world's emergency list, so few people had heard of it. I was taken to a village near El Nyala and left on my own with a Sudanese family to document a day in the life of Mahasin, a nomadic girl. There was no army, no government officers checking credentials, not even any NGO workers. By the time I came back at the end of 2004, everything felt different and charged up, with dozens of flights landing daily, some with emergency food supplies, some with NGO workers and some with government officials, VIPs and international celebrities. …


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Is there a harder job in football than being a top flight goalkeeper? The job of standing between the sticks for a club the size of Liverpool must be the toughest of the lot. You are either great or a liability. Many have tried, many have failed. With recent events, let's take a brief look at Liverpool goalkeepers in recent times…
David James managed to hang on the Number 1 jersey for a lot longer than many expected during the 90s. Calamity James was his nickname during his time at Anfield, but he managed to remain at Liverpool for seven years despite constant blunders.
Brad Friedel is perhaps the one that got away. After three years and just 31 appearances, the American left, only to become a very dependable keeper for several clubs in the Premier League, playing into his forties.
Sander Westerveld, who played his part in the 2001 treble winning season, knows all too well how harsh life can be at one of Europe's elite football clubs. In the August following that treble winning season, Westerveld made a blunder against Bolton and by the next game, Gerard Houllier had signed Jerzy Dudek and Chris Kirkland. The Dutchman was never seen again!
Dudek himself was prone to errors, like the costly ones against Man United… But Jerzy, with his wobbly legs, became an eternal Anfield legend after our night in Istanbul, but this was the end for the likeable Pole.
Rafa Benitez signed Pepe Reina that summer and Dudek became reserve goalkeeper, rarely used again.
Reina was an excellent stopper for the Reds, staying at Liverpool through Benitez's Golden Era. After a blunder in the 2006 F.A cup final, he recovered to save three out of four penalties and all was forgotten.
At one point, he was right up there with the best keepers in the world but his peak didn't last as long as we'd hoped and eventually, he was chopped too…
Brendan Rodgers decided he wanted his own man in 2013 and that was the end for the Spaniard.
Next was Simon Mignolet. Saving a 90th minute penalty on your debut to earn 3 points is a great way to endear yourself to the Anfield crowd. The former Sunderland man could never quite get to grips with corners and crosses though, something which still plagues him. Dropped for Brad Jones on occasion, the Belgian never really won anyone over despite starting every game in our 2013/14 title challenge.
There were others; Chris Kirkland was plagued with injuries during his years at Anfield and could never retain the Number 1 spot for too long. Scott Carson was a promising young English talent, even playing his part in the lead up to Istanbul but his Liverpool career never got off the ground.
Loris Karius is the latest to try his hand, a 23-year-old rookie who recently replaced Mignolet. When the Belgian was finally dropped by Jürgen Klopp, there were few complaints..
But after a couple of months, Karius is the latest Red keeper chopped following some dire performances and a media frenzy, although he hopefully still has a lengthy future at the club.
The good thing for Karius is, that his replacement has already had his time. Mignolet looked good against Middlesbrough but he had little to do. Nobody wants him to make a mistake, but everyone knows he's that prone to them, that it's inevitable they will come.
When they do, the young German needs to be ready. David De Gea was dropped early on in his Manchester United career, but nobody said that was the end for him. The Spanish stopper has gone on to become one of the world's best, usually showing so against us, most frustratingly.
Today, David James would not last as long as he did back in the 90s. The media is different now to what it was then. With the emergence of Twitter, everyone's an expert. When a goalkeeper makes a mistake, we see it from every angle.
Gone are the days of Ray Clemence, too. Make a mistake in 2016 and everyone sees it. Randolph, in goal for West Ham on Karius's last appearance arguably made the worse mistake that day, but the story though was about our German goalkeeper. The difference is, Karius plays for Liverpool.
He'll get his chance again and will receive a decent run of games at some point, but the knives will be out in preparation. Time on the sidelines should do him some good, even though he doesn't see it that way. To remain between the sticks for Liverpool, you must be really, really good. Football and Liverpool can be ruthless. Just ask Sander Westerveld.
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Cycling is sexy: women who ride bikes have a better sex life. SEX AND MEN: THE VIDEOS
Sex and women, riding a bike is good for sex life
The more kilometers women travel by bike , the better their sex life and there are no risks of sexual dysfunction and urination problems as many fear. The new research by the University of California do San Francisco, published in the scientific journal Journal of Sexual Medicine, unveils it. Improved sexual functionof women has a small "price" to pay, or the greater probability of contracting bladder infections and saddle sores, less serious consequences than women fear, such as sexual and urinary dysfunction. The new research, which involved more than 3,100 women, should please the many women who have been attending spinning and hydrobike courses for years now. These cycling courses are not only good for the physical appearance and health, but also for sexual life . And fortunately there is no relationship between cycling and sexual and urinary dysfunction .
Sex, anti-aphrodisiacs from the oceans: from seaweed to sea cucumber
From rabbit fish to sea cucumbers. The food of the future comes from the oceans and has numerous properties: aphrodisiac, antioxidants and rich in natural anti-inflammatories. This is explained by the 'Food from the Oceans' report, drafted for the European Commission by marine biologists from the Member States' Academies of Sciences.
"We need to find new ways to feed a fast-growing global population, which is estimated to rise from the current 7 billion people to about 10 billion by 2050," he told ANSAA Roberto Danovaro, from the Polytechnic University of Marche and president of the Anton Dohrn Zoological Station of Naples. "The challenge is twofold, because these new strategies will have to be corrected both qualitatively and in the way they will use the planet's resources, ie without eroding them." In the oceans there are many resources that are not exploited: from the alche, rich in protein, to edible marine herbivores such as rabbit fish, parrot fish, holoturias, that is sea cucumbers, which have a high nutritional value because "
Sex, Jennifer Lawrence confesses: "I do not have sex, I'm afraid". THE VIDEOS
Fear of having sex . Jennifer Lawrence unveiled it in an interview with the British newspaper 'The Sun': she only had sex with men she was engaged to because she was too afraid to take sexually transmitted diseases. The 27-year-old actress, at the cinema with 'Red Sparrow', admitted: "I always talk about sex , but the truth is that if I look back, my sexual experiences have always been only with boyfriends". "I talk as if I have sexI liked it, but – he added – I do not actually do it. "" I also have the phobia of germs ", he confessed, underlining that sex is" dangerous "." If I put myself in a position to take a sexually transmitted disease, this means that the doctors have already been involved. At this point I am afraid of germs ".
Premature ejaculation, alarm if the sexual intercourse lasts less than 2 minutes
How to understand if you suffer from premature ejaculation? As part of the awareness campaign on this problem – which affects 4 million men in Italy and which occurs when a sexual relationship lasts on average less than two minutes – here are two videos of about 30 seconds each dedicated to the theme, short protagonists of a viralization campaign through Social Network. The clips are designed to provide the user with a brief but effective overview of the average duration of a sexual relationship; the "actors" are ordinary people who have been asked to answer the question "How long does a sexual relationship last?". The final invitation is to go to the specialist to find the solution to the problem.


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A Brief Commentary on the Anthropology of Aeschylus' Oresteia
Introduction: Aeschylus, the Cosmos and the Cosmion
A great gulf lies between the Minoans and Mycenaeans of the 2nd millennium B.C, on the one shore, and the Hellenes of classical times on the other. Nor is this gulf purely temporal, nor only indicative simply of an abyss of memory that already seems to have separated the civilizational descendants from their precursors. The passage of a thousand years and the intervention of a great Time of Troubles (to borrow Arnold Toynbee's term), which is hinted at in Homer's epics and attested to starkly by the disappearance of written language (in the forms of Linear A and Linear B) is well known.
What is less well attested-to or recognized in our own time and place, is the leap in being (to borrow from Kierkegaard and Eric Voegelin) which differentiates the very form of civilization of the Minoans and Mycenaeans from that of the Hellenes of Socrates' place and era. I shall follow Voegelin in terming the former cosmological and the later anthropological forms. Furthermore, it should be understood, for our purposes and for brevity's sake, that the cosmological form of political order and the quintessence of the cosmocentric experience of existence which informs the same, is that in which the city is conceived as the cosmos writ small. Thus, they stand in contrast to the anthropological form and the anthropocentric experience, in which the city is understood as the psyche writ large. By so understanding, in both instances, we are merely recollecting and paraphrasing the Socratic dictum which structures the Politeia, and which Voegelin too adopts.[1]
What stands, then, as one of the sharper points of contrast between the two types of experiences, is that, in the former case, the ordering of one's being is thought to be found through participation in a correctly ordered cosmion – a concrete society which is held to be a miniature image of the cosmos at large. In such cases, the right ordering of one's existence is also held to be dependent upon collectively representing or reimagining the order of the cosmos in a concrete society. One's proper place in the immanent order of being, therefore, would be as a "part" in the "whole" of the cosmion, through which's myths, cults, and institutions one participates vicariously in the greater order of the cosmos. Conversely, the failure of the cosmion to correctly mirror cosmic order would leave one floating rudderless in a chaos. Order is collective order; disorder is collective disorder.
On the opposite side of this, one then has the anthropocentric experience of being, as pre-eminently articulated in the works of Plato and Aristotle. It is defined by what may be termed the conjoint discovery of the psyche as the sensorium of transcendence (as Voegelin terms it) and its innate tension to an intelligible ground of being beyond the being things of the world. In broadly Socratic terms, the anthropocentric experience of existence is characterized by the discovery of the soul and the Noos as the fundamental grounds of conscience, beyond the bounds of the city, its cults, and nomoi. This remarkable discovery establishes the grounds by which such a strange fellow such as Socrates, a philosopher, could find the spiritual and intellectual resources to oppose the city with spiritual-moral authority – even while being himself condemned.
It is this element of transcendent individual conscience which goes unrecognized within the bounds of a cosmocentric experience of reality, and one notes in the history of Hellas that it emerges gradually. That experience of transcendence, or that leap in being, becomes quite obvious and is fully illuminated in the time of Socrates, and is well articulated in the writings of Plato. Between the eras of the imperial cosmioi of the Minoans and Mycenaeans, lost in the Time of Troubles, and the Suffering Servant Socrates, however, lie certain transitional forms. Among them, one should speak of the mythic poetry of Homer and Hesiod, and the cult of tragedy in Athens. In this essay, I shall be using Hesiod's poetry, on the one hand, and Plato's dialogues on the other hand, as foils by which to analyze Aeschylus' Oresteia, with a view towards demonstrating that Aeschylus comes quite close to fully articulating an anthropocentric experience of order and existence.
Hesiod's Work and Days
To begin then, in Hesiod's Works and Days, one may hear a certain sharp edge poke out in the midst of the rhapsode's admonishment of his shiftless brother, at lines 238-247, and again at 267-275. On the one hand, the poem as a whole is set-up as an admonition of "foolish Perses," who, we gather, has fallen into certain false and viceful practices – these including prosecuting a civil suit against his much-suffering brother and bribing the judges, though one gathers that sloth, ignorance, and paedophilia might also be included in the list of bad habits. On the other hand, in the passages cites above, Hesiod also laments that it shan't be possible for he or his son to stick to the path of Dike in a bad city. Rather, compulsion, he feels, will eventually throw them down into the mire as well, if the social corruption becomes sufficiently widespread. The apparent paradox of moral admonition and moral fatalism can be made clearer by understanding that the admonition itself is not aimed (as we might think) at inspiring a conscientious response to the transcendent ground of being and its demands upon individuals, through which response or grace foolish Perses may be justified (to use the Christian formulation). Nor, to use the Socratic formulation of the same, is Perses being drawn into the psychogoge, and the periagoge through which he is to be set on the zetema eis ten archen epekeina tes ousias, and the flourishing of arete and dikaiosune which comes along with the journey.
No, Perses is neither being admonished to turn his heart to Christ that he may be filled, not to open his soul to the pursuit of the Good and the Beautiful. As Hugh Lloyd Jones too notes, the archaic conception of Dike was deeply tied to the prevailing, pre-philosophic and pre-scientific understanding of the natural order.[2] That is as much as to say that following the path of Dike, in such a view as Hesiod's, consists in conforming to the natural order and rhythms of the cosmos, and is dependent upon taking part in a society conforming with that order. There is, moreover, no effective way of appealing beyond society for righteousness (let alone beyond the immanent cosmos or its gods). Within the limits of a cosmocentric horizon, when the general social situation has indeed passed a point of irremediable decay, every man will indeed tend to think himself doomed along with it. Hesiod can only hope to provoke his audience into conforming with the image of order as it presents itself to common-sense experience, in the necessities of the cycles of nature, and in whatever social customs and forms which reflect them.
Aeschylus' Oresteia: Paradise Lost
The action and symbolism of the Oresteia break with the moral fatalism which follow naturally from the more compact experiences of order, and of which Hesiod is a self-reflective example. Aeschylus's trilogy pivots on many interwoven themes, e.g., the opposition between Heaven and Earth, the old gods and the younger gods, light and dark, matriarchal/Telluric and patriarchal/Olympian orders, to name a few. The central theme of the oppositions, in any case, remains to the end, the opposing divine claims to Dike. (Eumen, 415-469) It is this opposition of right orders of existence and of praxis which forms the backbone of the drama. But it is the very apperception of a cosmos in tension between irreconcilable forces of right – a tension to be surmounted through the representative suffering of the tragic hero Orestes – which signals that the author is both possessed of a more differentiated experience of the order of things than the author of Works and Days, and has been given an audience at least potentially capable of resonating with and understanding the issue. One may say that the cosmos of Aeschylus' Oresteia is a cosmos in a breeched condition – a condition to be overcome through tragedy and suffering, and lived in the reflective imaginations of the audience.
In terms of the drama itself, throughout the trilogy, the opposing, compact claims to Dike can be found articulated in a concentrated form, in the mouths and actions of the choruses. In one instance, one has the chorus of elderly men of Agamemnon, who ultimately come down on the side of the dike of the father and the laws (1407-12, 1650-71), but whom also one finds to be strangely unable to take independent action, in speech or in deed, not unlike Hesiod's fears. (545-550, 1346-71) Any preventative measures that the old men might conceivably have engaged in to stem the corruption at court during Agamemnon's absence goes undone, though, when the deed of murder is done and they challenge the murderers, they reveal that they are not truly afraid of death or retribution, per se (1650-55). In a second instance, one has the chorus of Trojan women of The Libation Bearers, who also come down on the side of the patriarchy and echo the Hesiodian moral fatalism, but now also side with the telluric blood-justice of the Erinyes (75-80, 106-64). The barbarian slaves (for both "barbarians" and slaves they are, under the House of Atreus) call not for the law of the established civic order, but for the perpetuation of the cycle of murder for murder which has haunted the house for generations – the blood-justice of the ancient gods from an age before Zeus.
In the third and final instance, one has in The Eumenides the baying chorus of Erinyes themselves, notably and openly taking the case of the mother and of the primordial dike of the telluric gods against that of the heavenly immortals (140-235). As the trilogy unfolds, one thus witnesses a steady degeneration in civilized life as the common, public order of the kingdom's nomoi is, first, libidinously broken, then contracted into the cycle of private dike of family and Earth. One also witnesses a progressive descent of the paradigmatic source of justice from the immanent, Olympian Heavens, to the underworld of the Earth. To put the matter another way, the cyclical order of Heaven is symbolically supplanted by that of the Earth in immediate human affairs.
In either case, however, the order remains essentially cosmological, and becomes increasingly fractured at that, for neither Heaven nor Earth are destined to disappear. This fracturing is of such a serious nature that one cannot even properly speak of a cosmos while it prevails, but rather only of an environment of conflicting forces which have lost their balance. The disorderly state of the relationship of heaven, earth, and humanity can be sensed symbolized, not only in the contradictory demands for action placed upon Orestes (honor thine Mother, but avenge thine Father), but also in the threat of open warfare between Olympian Apollo and the Daughters of Night. Meanwhile, the common order of humanity has been lost with the breach – for from within the logic of cosmocentric experience, humanity has no reference point or paradigm for right action which is independent of that of the cosmion and its existential/sacerdotal representative (e.g., a king or pontifex rex).
Hence, the chaffing ineffectiveness of the chorus of old men, who should recollect to one's mind Hesiod's lament that he and his son may be compelled to conform to the adikia of the times, may be understood as expressing precisely a cosmological understanding of political order and being which is in the midst of breaking down completely. To break with the impasse between Heaven and Earth, symbolized by their competing claims of dikai upon Orestes, the son of Agamemnon undergoes representative suffering in which wisdom is found and a new order established, beyond the old. And, it bears emphasizing that this is indeed a sharp break, or leap, beyond the limits of the cosmological understanding of an Hesiod.
Aeschylus' Oresteia: Paradise Regained
We may highlight the achievement through further contrast with Plato's works. In the fully differentiated symbolism and vocabulary of Plato's dialogues, the search for the grounds of order and justice in the cosmos are ultimately expressed in such terms as the ascents and descents of the psyche in its search for its ground, the impassioned search for the good beyond being, knowledge of ignorance, and the discovery of the metaxy quality of existence: that all of humanity participates in the tension between the Agathon and the Chora (Politeia 509a; Timaeus 49a), preeminently so through the vehicle of noos. Within the drama of the Oresteia, the issue of fundamental moral deliberations and decisions comes fully to the fore in The Libation Bearers, where Orestes' aforementioned moral paradox ends with a gross violation of the dike of the chthonic gods in compliance with, and under the compulsion of, Olympian Apollo.
That small matter may well have been brought to reconciliation by Aeschylus in any number of ways which would have upheld the right of Heaven and subordinated the Earth, i.e., re-affirmed the cosmological status quo ante bellum. Apollo – sun-god and immediate representative of the forces of the heavens – is not, however, confirmed by the playwright, not in his overweening authority, nor in his ability to bring what has been sown to issue. Rather, the son of Leto is only scarcely able to stall the forces of the underworld through the force of his charms (and then only briefly), and is further shown to be too wholly implacable to weave a reconciliation with them. (Eumen. 149-234) For his part, Orestes is then compelled to seek refuge at the knees of Athena, goddess of wisdom and strategies, when the competing representative of the two dikes fail to reconcile at the site of the sacred omphalos.[3]
Once the scene has changed to Athens, the action takes an interesting course. Rather than decide the case herself, Pallas moves for a jury of old men to hear the case, a case which cuts a predictable path as the plaintiffs and witnesses make their pleas (not to mention threats).[4] Orestes, for his part, points out that he is caught between the consequences of irreconcilable demands. Apollo speaks in favor of upholding the prerogatives of Heaven. The chorus of Erinyes demand the timai that they are rightfully due, and, just to press home the stakes for both Athens and the natural order, the Kindly Ones pronounce that they will unleash unholy Hades, if they are not honored. (409-515) The final scenes serve to make the symbolism of the situation intelligible: Heaven and Earth remain utterly opposed in their demands. Heaven's sun-god – the Apollonian Apollo – for all of his charms, trickery, and sophistic argumentation, cannot re-establish the archaic order which has been broken by the Trojan War, its aftermath, and the flood of acts which have stemmed out of them. Humanity, dramatically concentrated in the figure of Orestes, finds itself caught in-between, even as it is the metaphorical "site" of the conflict.
Into this situation steps Wisdom and her Persuasion, her polis and Areopagus. The polis and its court serve as Wisdom's practical and concrete representatives, but Athena reserves the tie-breaking vote for herself. Wisdom thus supplements and completes the law and its inevitable impasses, even as she allows herself to be guided by that which she has established. Moreover, the goddess announces beforehand how she intends to cast her vote, if the jury finds itself deadlocked: Wisdom will vote in favor of mercy. (735) However, she signals too that she is not heedless or unsympathetic to the dread goddesses of the Earth. (460-86)
And, Athena proves better than her word. In the name of her Father, the dread Zeus Dike, the unseen steersman of the cosmic drama, Pallas gives new honors and place in her polis to the newly lauded Eumenides. They, she pronounces, shall be honored and dreaded divinities who loom protectively over her court and city. In the end, Heaven, Earth, and Humanity are reconciled to each other upon a new foundation through the mediation of Wisdom, her immediate representative institutions, the representative suffering (which, after all, teaches men wisdom) of Orestes, and the inscrutable dispensation of the unseen Lord of All, whom Wisdom serves. In this, one sees none of the moral fatalism of Hesiod, nor indeed of the choruses of old men and slave women. In Aeschylus' rendering of affairs, men's moral characters are not so clearly bridled by the necessity of the immanent cosmos or a cosmion – not even in the extreme case of cosmos which has broken-down into divine stasis.
Much like when one clearly apperceives the meaning behind the cosmic myths told in Plato's dialogues, when one perceives the Oresteia keenly, one witnesses the author pushing the traditional cosmological symbols of the gods and so forth, to the point of becoming transparent signs of an unseen Measure beyond the immanent cosmos itself – a Measure which steers it aright. Zeus' invisible presence somewhere just beyond understanding or perception, and Athena's status as mediator between the here and now and the unseen, come close to being symbolically equivalent to the meaning of the Agathon and noos in the Politeia and The Symposium, for instance.
While it is the case that, in the Oresteia, a strong emphasis is placed upon the will of Zeus, the accent remains that of a Zeus transcendent, and on the matter of humanity's responsiveness – as the timely intervention of Pylades in The Libation Bearers can be taken to underline. Under the rule of the mature Zeus, human beings are free to kick against the grain, and preference is given to persuasion over compulsion. Justice compelled, thus, is deprecated to the status of justice incomplete – or so one may gather as a final message. Thus, while we remain some distance from espying in Aeschylus' trilogy, the nearly completely independent conscience circumscribed by Plato's Socrates, we may be compelled to conclude that it is proper to assess that, in the tragedian's work, as opposed to Hesiod's, we can perceive evidence of a psyche animated by a fully anthropocentric experience of being.
Cordner, Colin. "Trust, Understanding, and Paradigms in the Works of Michael Polanyi and of Plato." Appraisal, The Journal of the British Personalist Forum. Volume 11, No. 3 (Autumn, 2017): 26-40.
Lloyd-Jones, Hugh, trans. The Oresteia,. (University of California Press: United States of America. 1979).
Plato. Complete works, ed. by John M. Cooper. Indianapolis, Ind. : Hackett Pub, c1997.
Voegelin, Eric. The New Science of Politics in Modernity Without Restraint, Collected Works, v.5. (University of Missouri Press: United States of America. 2000).
[1]. I have written more extensively of the matter of the city as a symbol of the psyche, in "Trust, Understanding, and Paradigms in the Works of Michael Polanyi and of Plato." Appraisal, The Journal of the British Personalist Forum. Volume 11, No. 3 (Autumn, 2017): 26-40. For more on Voegelin's exposition on the varying essential forms of representation, see Eric Voegelin. The New Science of Politics in Modernity Without Restraint, Collected Works, v.5. University of Missouri Press: United States of America. 2000.
[2]. See Jones' footnotes to lines 773, 781 of Agamemnon, as well as those of line 948 of The Libation Bearers, in The Oresteia, trans. Hugh Lloyd-Jones. (University of California Press: 1979).
[3]. The choice of a naked application of power remains at hand, however. Athena exhibits no shyness, in spite of some circumspection, in pronouncing that she will subject the Eumenides to her Father's thunderbolt, if they refuse to listen to wisdom's persuasion. The accent, however, has by that point changed to one of power wielded to punish libidinous rebellion, against the pull of reason. (Eumen. 825-36)
[4]. Note the opposition of the useless old men of the Agamemnon's chorus, and those of Aereopagus of The Eumenides.


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David Cassidy will be Bray Wanderers' player-caretaker manager at Drogheda United tonight.
It's also believed that chairman Denis O'Connor will be involved in team affairs for the clash after it emerged that Trevor Croly won't be coming in – at least for the time being.
Meanwhile the battle for control of the club is still on-going between O'Connor and the rival McGettigan Group - with claims the latter had decided to give up their bid dismissed by insiders last night.
Muddying the waters further it is also claimed that a consortium of local businessmen are willing to come forward with a cash investment for the club's shareholding and a possible promise of some extra funding.
Club skipper Cassidy takes charge on the pitch in the wake of caretaker boss Maciej Tarnogrodzki stepping away after Monday's humiliating 8-1 defeat.
The Bray board thanked Tarnogrodzki for his contribution in a statement yesterday and it was hinted that he could return, but the club have not given up hope that Croly will accept the hot-seat role.
The Bray players were under the impression at training on Wednesday night that the ex-Shamrock Rovers boss would be in charge for the Drogheda game.
But that has been put down to crossed wires by a source close to the negotiations.
Earlier in the day O'Connor was summoned to FAI Headquarters in Abbotstown for talks with League chief Fran Gavin.
A club insider insisted that the meeting was pre-arranged but the FAI wanted a resolution to the power struggle as quickly as possible.
If the McGettigans do gain control, it could signal a return for Alan Mathews and his coaching staff – who resigned in late March.
Despite an initial upturn in the club's fortunes, heavy defeats at the hands of Galway United and Dundalk leave them in 11th position in the Premier Division table.
"The process of getting a new manager in place took longer than expected and the club prevailed on Maciej and his team to continue indefinitely," read a club statement.
"This he agreed to but pointed out the risks involved in the post and that caretaker managers have in reality a very short life span.
"That recent results did not go his way are far from a reflection on Maciej – rather a reflection on us in not getting a new manager in place.
"Maciej has asked for time out to reflect – and of course he has earned that. We hope to have him back in action in the near future."


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Edward picked up a rock. Simple, right? Wrong. That rock was a Time Fetch, a mysterious rock that is home to some Time Foragers, little beings that eat time. Normally, it only eats the little time that won't be missed, but now that they are awoken from their deep slumber and escaped, they unravel the very fabric of time and space. The whole world will be unraveled... or will it?
This book has a really good sci-fi concept. Sci-fi lovers will love the action and suspense.
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The Art of Voice with Dr. Kay Cosgrove and her students
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At this event, Dr. Cosgrove, Visiting Assistant Professor of English and her creative writing students will read selections from The Art of Voice: Poetic Principles and Practice. Written with wit and style, this craft guide approaches poetry through that vital and mysterious literary element: voice. Bring paper and pen to do a writing exercise from the book.
Tuesday, April 16th
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"A Love Letter to Gerard Manley Hopkins, Jesuit Poet: On the Centennial of His First Book of Poems"
An internationally renowned Hopkins scholar and Emeritus Professor of English at Saint Joseph's University, Joseph J. Feeney, S.J. is a lively and engaging speaker. Please join us as he presents "A Love Letter to Gerard Manley Hopkins, Jesuit Poet: On the Centennial of His First Book of Poems"
March 5, 2019
Post Learning Commons, 2nd Floor
Wachterhauser Seminar Room
Gerard Manley Hopkins, S.J. was a little-known English priest and poet during the latter part of the 19th Century. It was not until 1918, almost 30 years after Hopkins' death, that his friend, Robert Bridges, Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom, compiled and edited the first collection of his poems. Since that time, Hopkins has been recognized as one of the major poets of the Victorian Era. Today, his poems, such as, "The Wreck of the Deutschland," "The Windhover," and "God's Grandeur" are printed in numerous languages and enjoyed around the world.
To compliment Father Feeney's personal insights into Hopkins' poetry, two first edition copies of The Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins will be on view before and after the presentation. Saint Joseph's University is privileged to own four copies from the limited printing of 700. The volumes are housed permanently in the Gerard Manley Hopkins, S.J. Specials Collections located in the Post Learning Commons.
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This program is co-sponsored by SJU Library, the Jesuit community, and the Department of English.
Library Speaker Series with Owen W. Gilman, Jr., Professor of English
The Hell of War Comes Home: Imaginative Texts From the Conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq comes to a hard conclusion, with solace for none:
"There's plenty of good literature and film from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and in the aggregate, these texts present war as Homer knew it–albeit without any interference from the gods. War in the real is complex. It is hell. But most of the texts explored in the middle and late chapters of this study will be consigned to the fringes of American culture. Sure enough, looking ahead, there will be situations (at least one per generation) that boil down to the "acquiesce in the necessity" moment of decision. Shall we measure up to the standard established in the Declaration of Independence–or shall we fail to honor the past? With repeated practice, nearly incessant experience, the pattern becomes habitual. Habits are hard to break, especially those reinforced by the mythology of America's origins and all the righteousness that attends the sustenance of myth. We are trapped. There is no way out–except one. There will be war. The hell of war becomes the hell of home. We have seen the past. We know the future."
Tuesday, September 11
Wachterhauser Seminar Room
2nd Floor Post Learning Commons
Please join us for what we expect to be an engaging presentation and discussion with Dr. Gilman.
Light refreshments will be served.
Chew on This: Eleanor Stanford
Our April "Chew on This" features Eleanor Stanford, adjunct professor in Creative Writing. Stanford will read from her book of
poetry, Bartram's Garden.
This event will take place on April 27, 2016 from 12:30-2:00 PM in the Drexel Library CMC Room, 2nd Floor.
Please bring your lunch and join us for what we hope to be an engaging presentation! Cookies and drinks will be available.
Chew on This: Eleanor Stanford
WHAT: Eleanor Stanford, adjunct
professor in Creative Writing, will be
reading from her book of poetry, Bartram's
WHEN: March 16th 12:30 PM – 2:00 PM
WHERE: Post Learning Commons, Wachterhauser Seminar Room
Please join us for this engaging presentation!
We will provide cookies and drinks.
Ron Wendling Booktalk
WHAT: Ron Wendling, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus of English, will discuss his recent memoir, Unsuitable Treasure: An Ex-Jesuit Makes Peace With the Past.
WHERE: Post Learning Commons Wachterhauser Seminar Room
WHEN: Monday, September 14th at 3:30 PM
All are invited. Light refreshments will be served.
Please plan to join us for what we anticipate will be an engaging presentation and discussion!
Celebration of Scholarship: Department of English
Please join us for a reception to celebrate recent scholarship from the English Department. A selection of work is also on display in the first floor Café Area, from faculty such as Thomas Brennan, S.J., Ronald C. Wendling, Amy Lewis, and Joseph Feeney, S.J.
Location: CMC 2nd Floor, Francis A. Drexel Library
Time/Date: Thursday, October 21, 5:00p.m.
Refreshments will be served.
What if Jane Eyre fell in love with a rock star?
Thursday, October 21, 11:30am
Associate Professor of English April Lindner will read from her new novel, Jane, a contemporary retelling of the classic Jane Eyre.
View the book trailer: Jane, by April Lindner
Praise for Jane:
" I couldn't put Jane down! Whether you love literature, romance, thrillers, or anything in between, you'll get swept up in Jane all the way to its scrumptious, satisfying end." – Sara Shepard, New York Times bestselling author of Pretty Little Liars series
"There's nothing plain about Jane. April Lindner executes the cool trick of being stubbornly loyal to the well-loved original while creating something totally new and captivating" – Ceciily van Ziegesar, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Gossip Girl Series
Copies of Jane will be available for purchase by cash or check.


text: NASDAQ:UPLD Upland Software Stock Forecast, Price & News Adding Choose a watchlist: Adding You have already added five stocks to your watchlist. Upgrade to MarketBeat Daily Premium to add more stocks to your watchlist. Adding Upland Software Inc Please log in to your account or sign up in order to add this asset to your watchlist. Log In and Add $45.42 +0.60 (+1.34 %) (As of 10/20/2020 09:47 AM ET) Add Compare Share Today's Range$45.30Now: $45.42▼$45.4450-Day Range$34.43MA: $38.98▼$44.6652-Week Range$20.75Now: $45.42▼$45.99Volume523 shsAverage Volume284,262 shsMarket Capitalization$1.34 billionP/E RatioN/ADividend YieldN/ABeta1.02 ProfileAnalyst RatingsChartCompetitorsEarningsFinancialsInsider TradesInstitutional OwnershipHeadlinesOptions ChainSEC FilingsShort InterestSocial Media Upland Software, Inc. provides cloud-based enterprise work management software in the United States, Canada, and internationally. The company offers a family of software applications under the Upland brand in the areas of information technology (IT), process excellence and operations, finance, professional services, and marketing. Its software applications address enterprise work challenges in various categories comprising project and portfolio management, professional services automation, IT financial management, knowledge engagement, enterprise secure document capture and fax, workflow automation and enterprise content management, supply chain visibility and collaboration, Website management and Web visitor insights, and mobile engagement. The company sells its products through a direct sales organization, as well as through an indirect sales organization that sells to distributors and value-added resellers. It serves customers across a range of industries, including financial services, retail, technology, manufacturing, legal, education, consumer goods, media, telecommunications, government, food and beverage, healthcare, and life sciences, as well as non-profit organizations. The company was formerly known as Silverback Enterprise Group, Inc. and changed its name to Upland Software, Inc. in November 2013. Upland Software, Inc. was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in Austin, Texas. Upland Software, Inc. is a subsidiary of Silverback Enterprise Group Inc.Read More Beat the Market (BTM) Rank™ 2.5 Analyst's Opinion Consensus RatingUpland Software has received a consensus rating of Buy. The company's average rating score is 3.00, and is based on 7 buy ratings, no hold ratings, and no sell ratings.Price Target Upside/DownsideAccording to analysts' consensus price target of $49.38, Upland Software has a forecasted upside of 8.7% from its current price of $45.42.Amount of Analyst CoverageUpland Software has been the subject of 5 research reports in the past 90 days, demonstrating strong analyst interest in this stock. Previous Next 2.7 Community Rank Outperform VotesUpland Software has received 319 "outperform" votes. (Add your "outperform" vote.)Underperform VotesUpland Software has received 275 "underperform" votes. (Add your "underperform" vote.)Community SentimentUpland Software has received 53.70% "outperform" votes from our community.MarketBeat's community ratings are surveys of what our community members think about Upland Software and other stocks. Vote "Outperform" if you believe UPLD will outperform the S&P 500 over the long term. Vote "Underperform" if you believe UPLD will underperform the S&P 500 over the long term. You may vote once every thirty days. Previous Next 0.0 Dividend Strength Dividend YieldUpland Software does not currently pay a dividend.Dividend GrowthUpland Software does not have a long track record of dividend growth. Previous Next 1.0 Company Ownership Insider Buying vs. Insider SellingIn the past three months, Upland Software insiders have sold 484.32% more of their company's stock than they have bought. Specifically, they have bought $337,200.00 in company stock and sold $1,970,334.00 in company stock.Percentage Held by InsidersOnly 10.60% of the stock of Upland Software is held by insiders.Percentage Held by Institutions80.41% of the stock of Upland Software is held by institutions. High institutional ownership can be a signal of strong market trust in this company. Previous Next 0.0 Earnings and Valuation Earnings GrowthEarnings for Upland Software are expected to decrease by -8.64% in the coming year, from $0.81 to $0.74 per share.Price to Earnings Ratio vs. the MarketThe P/E ratio of Upland Software is -16.95, which means that its earnings are negative and its P/E ratio cannot be compared to companies with positive earnings.Price to Earnings Ratio vs. SectorThe P/E ratio of Upland Software is -16.95, which means that its earnings are negative and its P/E ratio cannot be compared to companies with positive earnings.Price to Earnings Growth RatioUpland Software has a PEG Ratio of 2.15. PEG Ratios above 1 indicate that a company could be overvalued.Price to Book Value per Share RatioUpland Software has a P/B Ratio of 5.39. P/B Ratios above 3 indicate that a company could be overvalued with respect to its assets and liabilities. Previous Next Analyst Opinion: 2.5Community Rank: 2.7Dividend Strength: 0.0Insider Behavior: 1.0Valuation: 0.0 5 -4 -3 -2 -1 -Overall Beat the Market Rank™1.24 out of 5 stars Industry, Sector and Symbol Stock Exchange NASDAQ Industry Prepackaged software Sub-IndustryN/A SectorComputer and Technology Current SymbolNASDAQ:UPLD Previous Symbol CUSIPN/A CIK1505155 Webuplandsoftware.com Phone512-960-1010Employees667 Debt Debt-to-Equity Ratio3.49 Current Ratio1.32 Quick Ratio1.32Price-To-Earnings Trailing P/E RatioN/A Forward P/E Ratio56.07 P/E Growth2.15 Sales & Book Value Annual Sales$222.64 million Price / Sales6.00 Cash Flow$3.74 per share Price / Cash Flow12.16 Book Value$8.43 per share Price / Book5.39Profitability EPS (Most Recent Fiscal Year)$1.41 Net Income$-45,370,000.00 Net Margins-25.50% Return on Equity18.31% Return on Assets4.09%Miscellaneous Outstanding Shares29,395,000Market Cap$1.34 billion Next Earnings Date11/5/2020 (Estimated) OptionableOptionable $45.42 +0.60 (+1.34 %) (As of 10/20/2020 09:47 AM ET) 30 days | 90 days | 365 days | Advanced Chart Receive UPLD News and Ratings via Email Sign-up to receive the latest news and ratings for UPLD and its competitors with MarketBeat's FREE daily newsletter. Upland Software (NASDAQ:UPLD) Frequently Asked Questions How has Upland Software's stock been impacted by Coronavirus? Upland Software's stock was trading at $27.70 on March 11th, 2020 when Coronavirus reached pandemic status according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Since then, UPLD stock has increased by 64.0% and is now trading at $45.42. View which stocks have been most impacted by COVID-19. Do Wall Street analysts recommend investors buy shares of Upland Software? 7 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Upland Software in the last year. There are currently 7 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy." View analyst ratings for Upland Software. When is Upland Software's next earnings date? Upland Software is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, November 5th 2020. View our earnings forecast for Upland Software. How were Upland Software's earnings last quarter? Upland Software Inc (NASDAQ:UPLD) announced its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, August, 6th. The software maker reported $0.60 EPS for the quarter, beating the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate of $0.44 by $0.16. The software maker had revenue of $71.10 million for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $60.59 million. Upland Software had a negative net margin of 25.50% and a positive return on equity of 18.31%. The firm's quarterly revenue was up 34.2% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the prior year, the firm earned ($0.24) earnings per share. View Upland Software's earnings history. What guidance has Upland Software issued on next quarter's earnings? Upland Software issued an update on its third quarter 2020 After-Hours earnings guidance on Thursday, August, 6th. The company provided EPS guidance of for the period. The company issued revenue guidance of $68-72 million, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $65.18 million. What price target have analysts set for UPLD? 7 brokerages have issued 1-year price targets for Upland Software's shares. Their forecasts range from $43.00 to $60.00. On average, they anticipate Upland Software's share price to reach $49.38 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 8.7% from the stock's current price. View analysts' price targets for Upland Software. Are investors shorting Upland Software? Upland Software saw a decrease in short interest in September. As of September 15th, there was short interest totaling 2,720,000 shares, a decrease of 9.9% from the August 31st total of 3,020,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 333,400 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 8.2 days. Approximately 11.2% of the shares of the company are short sold. View Upland Software's Short Interest. Who are some of Upland Software's key competitors? Some companies that are related to Upland Software include Q2 (QTWO), Nutanix (NTNX), The Descartes Systems Group (DSGX), National Instruments (NATI), Bandwidth (BAND), Everbridge (EVBG), Agora (API), CyberArk Software (CYBR), LogMeIn (LOGM), Pivotal Software (PVTL), Sailpoint Technologies (SAIL), Jamf (JAMF), Varonis Systems (VRNS), Qualys (QLYS) and LivePerson (LPSN). View all competitors. What other stocks do shareholders of Upland Software own? Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Upland Software investors own include Alibaba Group (BABA), NVIDIA (NVDA), Twilio (TWLO), Micron Technology (MU), Square (SQ), Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), Okta (OKTA), salesforce.com (CRM), Roku (ROKU) and Splunk (SPLK). Who are Upland Software's key executives? Upland Software's management team includes the following people: Mr. John T. McDonald, Founder, Chairman & CEO (Age 56)Mr. Timothy W. Mattox, Pres & COO (Age 53)Mr. Michael D. Hill, CFO, Treasurer & Sec. (Age 51)Mr. Sean Nathaniel, CTO & Sr. VP (Age 42)Mr. Rochelle Delley, VP of Security & Compliance What is Upland Software's stock symbol? Upland Software trades on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol "UPLD." Who are Upland Software's major shareholders? Upland Software's stock is owned by a variety of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include Wedge Capital Management L L P NC (2.16%), Summit Creek Advisors LLC (0.96%), Scout Investments Inc. (0.70%), Hodges Capital Management Inc. (0.28%), Envestnet Asset Management Inc. (0.07%) and Juncture Wealth Strategies LLC (0.05%). Company insiders that own Upland Software stock include David May, John T Mcdonald, Michael Douglass Hill, Rodney C Favaron, Stephen E Courter and Timothy Mattox. View institutional ownership trends for Upland Software. Which major investors are selling Upland Software stock? UPLD stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Summit Creek Advisors LLC, and Envestnet Asset Management Inc.. Company insiders that have sold Upland Software company stock in the last year include John T Mcdonald, Michael Douglass Hill, Rodney C Favaron, Stephen E Courter, and Timothy Mattox. View insider buying and selling activity for Upland Software. Which major investors are buying Upland Software stock? UPLD stock was bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Hodges Capital Management Inc., Scout Investments Inc., Wedge Capital Management L L P NC, Cadence Capital Management LLC, First Dallas Securities Inc., Juncture Wealth Strategies LLC, and Mesirow Financial Investment Management Inc.. View insider buying and selling activity for Upland Software. How do I buy shares of Upland Software? Shares of UPLD can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Fidelity, and Charles Schwab. What is Upland Software's stock price today? One share of UPLD stock can currently be purchased for approximately $45.42. How big of a company is Upland Software? Upland Software has a market capitalization of $1.34 billion and generates $222.64 million in revenue each year. The software maker earns $-45,370,000.00 in net income (profit) each year or $1.41 on an earnings per share basis. Upland Software employs 667 workers across the globe. What is Upland Software's official website? The official website for Upland Software is uplandsoftware.com. How can I contact Upland Software? Upland Software's mailing address is 401 CONGRESS AVENUE SUITE 1850, AUSTIN TX, 78701. 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We present new stable (C, O) isotopic, biostratigraphic and organic geochemical data for the Vigla Shale Member of the Ionian Zone in NW Greece, in order to characterize organic carbon-rich strata that potentially record the impact of Cretaceous Oceanic Anoxic Events (OAEs). In a section exposed near Gotzikas (NW Epirus), we sampled a number of decimetre-thick, organic carbon-rich units enclosed within marly, locally silicified, Vigla Limestone (Berriasian–Turonian). All these units are characterized by largely comparable bulk geochemical characteristics, indicating a common marine origin and low thermal maturity. However, the stratigraphically highest of these black shales is further distinguished by its much higher total organic-carbon (TOC) content (28.9 wt%) and Hydrogen Index (HI) (529), and much enriched δ13Corg value (−22.1%‰). Planktonic foraminiferal and calcareous nannofossil biostratigraphy indicate a lower to middle Albian age for the strata immediately above, and a lower Aptian age for the strata below, the uppermost black shale. In terms of molecular organic geochemistry, the latter black shale is also relatively enriched in specific isoprenoidal compounds (especially monocyclic isoprenoids), whose isotopic values are as high as −15‰, indicating a substantial archaeal contribution to the organic matter. The striking similarities between the molecular signatures of the uppermost Vigla black shale and coeval organic-rich strata from SE France and the North Atlantic (ODP Site 1049C) indicate that this level constitutes a record of the Paquier Event (OAE 1b).
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