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Tesla: new technologies need new ways of thinking
Published 5 March 2016 economy and finance , politics and government , urbanscape and environment 10 Comments
My mind wanders a lot. There have been idle moments when, presented with a slice of birthday cake on a plastic or paper plate, I have wondered about the environmental-friendliness of the plate. Reading about Joe Nguyen’s travails in getting his Tesla model S licensed in Singapore, I started to wonder about cake on disposable plate again.
Joe Nguyen’s story can be found on Stuff.tv, in their 1 March 2016 article Be prepared for these roadblocks if you want to drive a Tesla in Singapore. It’s further carried on mothership.sg here. The bottom line was that Nguyen ended up not enjoying the $15,000 rebate that eco-friendly cars are expected to receive, but was charged an extra $15,000 as tax for a non-fuel efficient car.
It was found to be non-fuel efficient based on tests conducted in Singapore. It appears that the testing authority first worked out how much electricity the car uses, and then converted it to carbon dioxide emission. The published stories indicate that there are questions to be asked about the methods used in testing; Nguyen did not think the finding of 444 watt hour per kilometre to be correct if the tests had been conducted properly.
I am no expert on these highly technical things, but I thought that the story also highlights some conceptual issues which are worth discussing. Primarily, they should never have taken this approach of looking at energy consumption and converting it backwards to emissions.
An electric car is not just another car
True, even electric cars consume energy. You want to move a hunk of metal or plastic composite from point A to point B, you need energy. It’s not as if a “green car” like the Tesla uses no energy at all. But using energy is not actually the issue when it comes to environmental impact. It is what sort and quantity of emissions are released into the environment when the energy is generated.
For a “normal” car with an internal combustion engine, the energy is generated within the car itself, and so measuring the emissions the car produces is a straightforward and accurate measure of the environmental impact of the car.
(Actually, not quite. The car needs to run on refined petroleum products. The refining process itself can generate emissions, as does the transportation of both the crude and refined petroleum product, well before it is pumped into the car’s gas tank. To be complete, we need to add in the environmental impact of these prior processes. But how do we measure these elements? Much depends on what sort of crude was first used — some are dirtier than others — and how far the petroleum product had to travel before it got to the petrol station.)
Electric cars draw their energy from mains supply. So the question that needs to be considered is this: what sort of emissions were put out by the power plants when they first generated the electricity? Immediately, you’ll realise that it will probably vary greatly from one country to another. Some countries still generate electricity from coal, particularly brown coal (very dirty!). Other countries produce much of their mains electricity from wind or solar power. (Wikipedia page on fossil-fuel power stations).
Nitrogen oxides
Emissions aren’t all of the same kind. There are different substances we must consider. Carbon dioxide is a biggie, but there is also nitrogen oxides among others.
The internal combustion engine (with diesel the worst offender) certainly produces nitrogen oxides; yet I don’t know if in testing Nguyen’s car and denying it eco-friendly status, this was taken into comparative consideration. Power plants produce nitrogen oxide too when generating electricity, but if the source fuel is natural gas — which is the case in Singapore — emissions are relatively low.
If the testing authority only measured (or converted to) carbon dioxide emission without factoring in nitrogen oxides, it would not have been a fair measure of the Tesla’s environmental impact/benefit. At this juncture, I don’t have any information what exactly they did at testing.
The means that the same Tesla, when driven in different countries, will have different environmental impacts. But it’s not the Tesla’s fault. It is entirely due to the upstream power producers.
Tax the source
This leads us to see that taxing the energy-consuming product (e.g. the electric car) for environmental impact is not the smartest thing to do. By the same token, giving rebates to the consuming product is not smart either. The thing to tax is the hydrocarbon fuel itself, based on its carbon (and perhaps nitrogen) content, and the machine that burns it (the energy-producing product), based on its efficiency and output of emissions.
Some countries have implemented a carbon tax. The details vary from one place to another, but generally it is a tax on the fuel based on its carbon content and/or its energy content.
But the same fuel can lead to different levels of emissions depending on the machine that burns it. Properly therefore, there should be a second tax on the machines, calibrated to the “clean-ness” of the burning. For example, machines fitted with catalytic scrubbers release less toxic emission. Thus, a tax on the internal combustion engine, or the boilers in power stations and factories can be justified.
However, in the case of an electric car, or an electric rice cooker or electric fan, asking the appliance what its emissions-equivalent is, and taxing it, is a rather roundabout way of doing things. An across-the-board tax aimed at the source (the fuel and the machines that did the burning) and based on a simple principle is far less distorting than a variable series of different taxes on different end-user appliances. A simple, clearly conceptualised tax is also better able to cope with new inventions coming on stream.
Unable to cope with the new
Readers who have read the original story on stuff.tv and mothership.sg about Joe Nguyen’s tussle with officialdom would have grasped the point: the bureaucracy here does not score well when it comes to coping with anything innovative. This is true as much with objects as with ideas.
I won’t belabour this point too much — it is obvious to most people living here — except to say that a lot of it has to do with with the top-down nature of authority and decision-making in this place. Junior officials don’t feel they have the freedom to be making creative decisions, or don’t have the self-confidence to even propose any. Anything out of the ordinary is thus pushed upwards for direction, but the upper levels — as in anywhere else — have only limited bandwidth to deal with the many issues reaching them.
Worst of all, a suffocating blanket of conservatism sits on the whole state apparatus, resulting in a huge bias towards incremental change rather than being bold and creative. But as this Tesla case shows, when there is presented a conceptually new product, you need a conceptually new approach to grapple with it. You can’t just apply or merely extend old measures and methods to it.
Back to the cake-on-a-plate problem. The prevailing orthodoxy is that plastic is environmentally unsound. We even extend the same negative perception to paper plates. Of course, paper plates have their own problems: the source of pulp can be troubling, and the surface of the plate may still be coated with a thin film of plastic to make it water-resistant.
Both plastic and paper plates create a trash problem, which in turn leads to either a landfill or incineration issue.
The “greener” glow is usually cast on ceramic plates, reusability and washing, but I wonder about that too. Water isn’t free. It takes energy (from fossil fuel mostly) to make clean water and to pump it around. And what about the detergent we use to wash the plates? It takes more energy in the sewage plants (and to make the chemicals injected into the process) to clean the water up again. Every time we use energy, we tend to burn hydrocarbons causing more emission.
So what does the balance sheet really say? Is it so bad to use a disposable plate? I honestly don’t know, but while my hunch remains that disposable plates are greater sinners, I wouldn’t assume that the prevailing orthodoxy is always right.
As with electric cars, it can be difficult to pinpoint how much greener one thing is compared to another.
Addendum, 6 March 2016
I see a report in Channel NewsAsia wherein the Land Transport Authority was quoted for its explanation.
“As for all electric vehicles, a grid emission factor of 0.5 g CO2/Wh was also applied to the electric energy consumption. This is to account for CO2 emissions during the electricity generation process, even if there are no tail-pipe emissions. The equivalent CO2 emission of Mr Nguyen’s car was 222g/km, which is in the CEVS surcharge band,” the spokesperson added.
Under the revised CEVS, Mr Nguyen’s Tesla falls in the C3 band, which accounts for cars with 216 to 230 g/km, and carries with it a S$15,000 surcharge.
— Today, 4 March 2016, LTA on Tesla: CO2 emissions for electric cars start at power grid. Link.
The authorities applied the test finding of 444 watt hour per kilometre (Wh/km) to a grid emission factor of 0.5 grams CO2/Wh to obtain the result of 222g/km.
Moreover,
[The LTA spokesperson] added that the Tesla is not the first fully electric car where grid emission factor was applied. A Peugeot Ion, for instance, was registered in July 2014 and received the maximum CEVS rebates, the spokesperson said.
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“This is the first time a Tesla Model S has been tested for emissions,” the spokesperson said.
— ibid
A few things become clearer in the light of this statement, but more questions remain. If the Peugeot Ion managed to get a full rebate, and the same test method was applied to the Tesla, how credible is it that vastly different results were obtained? This supports Nguyen’s contention that the testing itself was questionably done.
Secondly, it is apparent now that only carbon dioxide emission is taken into account. Nitrogen oxides emission, for which petrol and diesel cars are greater culprits than natural-gas burning power stations, were not in consideration. Omitting this angle creates a bias in favour of the internal combustion engine.
Thirdly, and the very point of my article, why apply the tax onto the appliance? If we apply it on an electricity-using car, why not on the electric kettle or on every installed air-conditioner? Applying it at source (i.e. on the electricity generator) is so much less distorting.
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1 ape@kinjioleaf 5 March 2016 at 23:12
I’m no expert in this either but I read in Straits Time online that Peugeot Ion and BMW i3 were given rebates of $20000 and $30000 respectively based on the same standard of tests.
Does this mean the car owner should’ve checked before he commit to purchase?
2 Jason 6 March 2016 at 00:42
I think this isn’t the best case to describe government red tape. First, the authorities were probably unhappy to see that an individual (as opposed to an established dealer like Borneo Motors) has imported large electric equipment that poses a potential fire hazard without first receiving some form of certification. I think a precautionary approach is well warranted.
Second, if petrol cars are being regulated based on fuel economy due to concern over emissions, then electric cars held to the same standard should certainly have the power stations’ emissions taken into account. The Tesla should not be considered a zero emissions car. So again the authorities are on the right track.
What is surprising is that the Tesla used much more power in the tests than expected.
3 yuenchungkwong 6 March 2016 at 00:44
EPA rating for the Nissan LEAF is 30 kWh per 100 miles. A Tesla Model S 60 is rated at 35 kWh per 100 miles. So an environmentally conscious person should go for the Nissan. Of course, Tesla is more expensive and prestigious.
4 Tim Walton 8 March 2016 at 03:47
According to my calculator, 35 kWh/100 miles (from the EPA rating above) equates to approx. 218 Wh/km. This is just less than half the figure used by the LTA.
Converted to CO2 emissions, this would then become 109 g/km, which would put the car into the A3 band and qualify it for a S$10,000 rebate.
The big question which needs answering is why is there such a huge difference between the EPA and LTA figures.
5 an0n 6 March 2016 at 10:07
… the bureaucracy here does not score well when it comes to coping with anything innovative.
Hopefully we may yet improve. GPS-based Electronic Road Pricing, probably a first-in-the-world implementation, is coming on-line in the near future.
I’m sure it will be a spectacular success.
6 Coern 8 March 2016 at 10:26
The Peugoet Ion is about half the weight of a Tesla. It’s like comparing the consumption of a VW Polo with that of a BMW 7 series. Conceptually no one would expect the BMW 7 series to be as carbon efficient as a VW Polo.
7 heex 9 March 2016 at 15:00
A brief look at Mr Joe Nguyen’s Facebook suggests a man living quite the high life and being pretty promiscuous about that. As such, I have my doubts about why he wants to make life hard for himself by trying to import the Tesla that was bought in Hong Kong and then blowing the whole thing up on social media. The main bulk of the $380k cost of him buying this Tesla wasn’t due to the carbon emissions tax anyway, so a lot of non-official sources are perhaps over-sensationalizing this issue. I have read somewhere that the Tesla consumes electricity equivalent to the monthly household consumption (also, I suspect the weather in Singapore might play a part in reduced efficiency of the Tesla) – which is not that environmentally friendly after all.
Also, there is a difference with taxing a trophy toy like Mr Nguyen’s Tesla and your regular man’s rice cooker, hence taxing at the source will be a very regressive tax, which I am sure you would not actually support. (P.S. rich men can go eat at restaurants and not use kettles or rice cookers!)
8 SIN Pariah 9 March 2016 at 15:09
To me, it is perfectly logical to apply the tax on the equipment itself – such as a car as the environmental impact could be due to its manufacturer’s technical specs of fuel efficiency or due to the vehicle owner’s sub-par maintenance of the equipment.
The equipment tax is the 2nd level of tax as the 1st level of tax is already on the fuel itself (eg, the petrol duty).
For other equipment such as household appliances – I reckon that due to enforcement obstacles, the “pain” is levied at the 1st level of electricity tariffs (so if one buys a non-energy efficient air-con or doesn’t maintain the air-con for years, it will be reflected in the higher electricity billings).
The sticky question is why isn’t a surcharge imposed on household appliances with 3 or less ticks under NEA’s energy rating scheme? Probably it is to help the companies clear their old inventory and allow consumers to buy such old-model appliance at cheaper outlay cost despite having to pay more for water/electricity usage during the equipment life span.
9 Rajiv Chaudhry 9 March 2016 at 21:30
“If the Peugeot Ion managed to get a full rebate, and the same test method was applied to the Tesla, how credible is it that vastly different results were obtained?”
The Peugot and the Tesla could be of different weights and have different power consumption. Bit like a 1.5 litre car versus a 3 litre one.
10 cy 11 March 2016 at 16:42
“TEV Project highways would have an electrified metal strip embedded into the middle of the road which provides a constant source of power to the vehicle. Just like streetcars and subway trains do in today’s cities, cars on a TEV highway could charge as they drive”
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-03-10/here-s-one-answer-to-electric-cars-lack-of-range-electric-road
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In Corner’s own words ,“This album is about connecting, and it’s a pain in the ass to do it through an album. Each time I do this, I feel exhausted but it’s an impulse I can’t stop. If you write your pain out, there’s a venting. Happiness is a skill. I’m happiest activating skills that keep you balanced.”
The highly private, yet deeply thoughtful creative singer has gone through much emotional turmoil and mental ups and downs and has found a way to funnel all of his psychological explorations into his creative passions. Corner celebrates his breakthroughs through music and film and captures his transformations to share with his loyal fan -base.
Alive In New Light,’Stardust’ is a Corner’s creative escape from some of his darkest shadows and leaving them behind (even if temporarily) as he is able to release his more sensitive side with tons of lyrical feeling which starts off gentle but escalates into familiar IAMX’s sounds.
‘The Power And The Glory’ brings the listener back to brink of depression and then back again to exhilaration. A mix of emotions that have been suppressed or long forgetten ooze out of this album.
Chris Corner AKA IAMX Alive In New Light, is new creation with lighter colors yet still mixed with some dark.
LA’s celebrated artist slash tattooist Kat Von D, who provides vocal support on ‘Stalker’ amongst four out of nine tracks.
LA’s celebrated artist slash tattooist Kat Von D, who provides vocal support on ‘Stalker’ amongst four out of nine tracks does a helluva of a job singing, who knew. She is all around artist, tattooist designer, maker up creator extraordinaire.
IAMX’s eighth album, Alive In New Light, was released on February 2, 2018. The lead song, “Alive in New Light”, and “Mile Deep Hollow” were featured on episodes 9 and 8, respectively, of season 4 of How to Get Away with Murder.
IAMX has braved bus breaks downs and tornados and had to cancel a few shows along the way, but you better believe they will be in L.A. at the Fonda Theatre May 9th, 2018. How much better can it get?
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Strong Winds Batter Roker - Sunderland
The weathermen called it the Pest from the West, following on from the Beast from the East. Strong westerly winds hit north east England, but the accompanying sunshine was a welcome break from the recent grey skies.
Swirling sandstorm surrounds dogwalkers
Blown spray over crashing waves before Roker pier.
Canon 5DII 70-200 f4
Herrington Park - Sunderland
When the sun shines you can get some lovely shots of Penshaw Monument, seen across the various lakes in Herrington Country Park. But when it is dull, you need to adopt a different strategy, in this case some Photoshop gimmickry.
My eye was taken by this row of terraced houses with the flags flying in the gardens. Sited not far from where the pithead once stood, presumably they were originally miners' dwellings.
I suspect that a supporter of Sunderland football club might live here.
The shot of the monument is available to purchase on Alamy D1CC1F
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Floods in Durham City
Actually at the end of November, but I have just got around to uploading these photos
A police officer checks the depth of the water alongside the ministry building. Some members of staff had their cars within the car park - safely out of reach of the water, but unable to get out through the flood.
Flooding seen from the other side of the river
These and similar photos are available for purchase at Alamy
Tynemouth Flea Market
The newly restored station roof at Tynemouth allows much more space for the weekend market that is held there.
It's worth going just to see the roof!
Exotic cheeses
Nice roof but no central heating!
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B R E T T S I M P S O N
A Full-throated Approach Choral leader Beth Willer aims for total participation in the creative process
By Paula Franken
The questions Professor Michael James, political science, asks his students to explore are sometimes challenging — How do minority groups get their interests fairly represented? What counts as fair representation? — but James says discussing these questions helps students learn to think critically and reflectively.
“In order to facilitate discussion across divergent or conflicting perspectives, you must let people speak and understand what they are thinking before you critique it,” he explains.
These subjects are debated thoroughly and openly in
James’ Race, Ethnicity and American Legal Thought class.
James argues that racial and ethnic identities, such as African-American and Hispanic, are social constructions, yet are still meaningful and have real effects on people’s lives.
James’ goal is for his students to think about where these
types of identities come
from. With these questions
explored, the conversation
can then move to policy
and institutions.
“I break each issue down into three questions — constitutionality, legality and morality,” he says.
“By giving students a chance to see the best arguments I can find that oppose each other, I expose students to different viewpoints to allow them to construct not an opinion, but a judgment — something that they can understand and defend in light of empirical facts, history and counterarguments.” — Matt Beltz
Research&Inquiry
s director of choral activities, Professor Beth Willer, music, leads the Bucknell University Choir and Camerata.
“I’m especially interested in exposing
students to progressive contemporary
repertoire by living composers and jux-
taposing those with lesser-known and
standard works of the choral canon,
dating back to medieval manuscripts,”
she says. “By making connections
between the ancient and new, sacred
and secular, we will be able to bring our
music to a larger audience.”
The Camerata specializes in the
performance of contemporary and early
repertoires, including concerted and
secular works, while remaining commit-
ted to the sacred a cappella tradition
that spans the last 10 centuries.
“The challenge, and the opportunity, with choral music is that most of it was written for the church — but music becomes more relevant when we present sacred and secular music side-by-side, pulling new meaning from both,” she says.
The newly formed University Choir is the cornerstone ensemble of the choral program, performing a repertoire ranging from the 16th through 21st centuries. The ensemble performs in venues across the country and the globe, collaborating with vocal and instrumental ensembles of diverse musical backgrounds and repertoires.
“It’s important to me that both ensembles go out and perform in the community, each serving the campus in a unique way,” she says, noting that singing has always been one of the most accessible and portable of art forms.
“People sing in churches, basements
and auditoriums,” she says. “Students’
experiences in these ensembles should
prepare them for singing on any level,
in any venue — professional or ama-
teur, in any community.”
Willer brings her expertise to the
classroom in courses that range from
Arts Entrepreneurship to an advanced
seminar in chamber music.
“My priority is to enable students to be both independent and collaborative in their music-making,” she says. “I want them to feel that they’re actively participating in developing this phenomenal art form.”
For more on Willer and her recent work on Anthracite Fields, see Page 18. Follow the University Choir’s global tour @bucknelluchoirs on Instagram.
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By Dabney Lyles
Fewer Funds for Women Entrepreneurs
Can ladies lunch their way to investment?
Women entrepreneurs receive less funding than men. According to Biz2Credit, small business loan approval rates are 15-20% lower for women than they are for men. Additionally, research has shown that women-led businesses consistently receive less venture capital funding than their male counterparts, partly because venture capital firms tend to rely on their established networks, which are predominately male. The fact is: fewer women entrepreneurs receive investment then men. There are indications that this trend holds true in Chicago as well. Consider, for example, the fact that none of the 19 companies in Chicago that raised over one million in funding last quarter were founded by women.
Professor Ellen Rudnick, Executive Director of the University of Chicago Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship, and Board Member at Hyde Park Angels, is not surprised that women receive less venture capital then men.
“Venture capitalists primarily look for companies that have the ability to scale and build substantial enterprises,” says Rudnick. “While there are a few women who are trying to build these types of enterprises, there are many more women who are building ‘lifestyle’ businesses which are of less interest to venture capitalists.”
Rudnick says women may find a solution to this problem in angel investment and, when looking for investors, Rudnick says it’s important to build and push your network to get access to resources — not just money but also potential services, vendors, and customers.
Networking to success is one of the ideas behind Ms. Tech, a Chicago-based community for women in technology or business. Ms. Tech runs a ‘mastermind lunch’ at 1871 to help women build better networks. If you’re a women in technology who is interested in business, Ms. Tech is one way to meet like-minded individuals.
Lisa Russell, co-founder of Ms. Tech, says a strong network can raise an entrepreneur’s profile and lead to funding.
“You want the angel or VC groups to be able to see that you have mutual connections, to be able to ask around about you and to learn about your previous experiences before you’re even sitting in front of them,” says Russell.
The City of Chicago Technology Plan, released in September, 2013, outlines other solutions for women in business. The Plan, which contains 28 initiatives for integrating technology and improving business and employment in Chicago, includes a commitment to diversity and “ensuring that women and minorities have access to the opportunities technology affords.”
A Tech Diversity Council was convened to develop strategies for the Technology Plan that will increase the percentage of minority employees at technology firms, increase the percentage of minority owned and operated firms, and create a pipeline for Chicago Public Schools and City Colleges of Chicago students to enter the technology sector.
The Diversity Council only reached conclusions on students, however. The team, composed mostly of Chicago-based entrepreneurs, made recommendations like adding computer science to the core curriculum, providing 1:1 tablet or computer access to Chicago Public Schools students, and summer learning opportunities in technology.
Technical education in high school isn’t the only barrier to entry when it comes entrepreneurship, however. Access to capital, networks, and procurement contracts are other barriers that women face in owning and operating businesses.
Emilia DiMenco, CEO of the Women’s Business Development Center (WBDC) sees barriers between women and capital as well.
“Although outcomes have improved over the last 30 years, the number of contracts and loans going to women are still less than what the opportunity is,” says DiMenco.
Qualifying for bank debt is a focus at the Women’s Business Development Center as is securing government contracts. DiMenco wants to see more investment in women-owned businesses, regardless whether they are in the technology sector. Her colleague Frieda Curry, Director of the Illinois Procurement Technical Assistance Center at the WBDC, says women need stronger political power.
“More of my clients are service oriented than not,” says Curry. “These contracts tend to be smaller and its still difficult for women to access income. We need stronger political power to make that happen.”
So there are several theories on why women-led businesses receive less venture capital funding and fewer small business loans then men. Perhaps women are starting more “lifestyle businesses,” or, businesses that women want to run without selling equity to venture capitalists or pivoting to meet a VC firm’s demands. Or maybe women are starting more service-oriented businesses then men are and banks are less interested in taking on their company’s risk.
In any case, women entrepreneurs receive fewer funds then men, and our financial system is failing to fully meet their demand. ❒
[Photo: Members of Ms. Tech network at the weekly “Ladies Who Lunch” on Wednesdays at 1871. Photo by Nicole Yeary courtesy of Ms. Tech.]
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Five-star Al Ahly too strong for Simba
Egyptian giants Al Ahly scored five goals in 39 minutes to go top of Group D. The Red Devils proved too strong for their Tanzanian visitors Simba as they thrashed them 5-0 in Alexandria on Saturday as the mini league stage reached the halfway mark.
Despite being hit by a series of injuries to no less than 11 key players, Ahly produced an outstanding first half performance to score all five goals in the opening 40 minutes. The record eight time champions top Group D charts with seven points, three clear of second placed AS Vita of DR Congo. Simba have three points and Algeria’s JS Saoura on two points in that order.
Ahly needed just 130 seconds to break the deadlock. A corner kick from Ali Maaloul found Hussein Elshahhat whose cross was met by Amro Elsoleya’s header for the opener.
Tunisian Maaloul thought he had doubled Ahly’s lead after 15 minutes but his free-kick kissed the side net. Nigerian-import Junior Ajayi produced a beautiful back-heel kick that was saved by the visitor’s goalkeeper Aishi Manula.
Maaloul scored Ahly’s second after 23 minutes, finishing a brilliant group play that saw him scoring after Nasser Maher’s through pass. The Tunisian left back later turned from scorer to provider when he sent a calling cross that found Ajayi to make it 3-0 at the half hour mark.
And just four minutes later Karim “Nedved” added his name to the scorers list when he finished Elshahhat’s cross to score Ahly’s fourth. Nedved returned on 39 minutes to complete his personal brace while Elshahhat completed his hat-trick of assists as the Red Devils went into the break leading 5-0.
The second half was a story of scarce chances as both sides slowed down the pace, while both keepers had almost no work to do. All the damage were already done for Simba in the first half while Ahly was happy to hold on to victory.
Both sides will meet in the reverse fixture on Tuesday 12 February 2019 in Tanzanian capital Dar es Salaam.
In the other Group D match, AS Vita were held to a 2-2 draw by visiting Saoura in Kinshasa.
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June 19/18 22:16 pm - Finn Iles on His Journey from Ski Slope to MTB
Interview Courtesy RedBull
Finn Iles catapulted himself into the men's downhill elite with a superb 2017 junior season where he won six out of seven UCI Mountain Bike World Cup races.
The Canadian, who rides with Loic Bruni on the Specialized Gravity Team, is now pushing hard to move up the senior rankings. Here, the 18-year-old explains his life on the tour and his switch from skiing to MTB:
2016 Jr World Champ
2016 Jr World Cup winner
How has the 2018 season been so far for you?
I have been riding really well and feeling comfortable on my bike, but I am just pushing a bit too hard. I have got to get my head in a better space for racing. In Fort William, I finished top 20 even though I was still pretty stiff on my bike.
I was pretty confident going into Leogang, but I had quite a few crashes. I pushed myself too hard again because I was like, "I feel so good on my bike and I can win!" I crashed really hard the day before the race and qualified 16th, which I was pretty happy about it, but then crashed in the first corner on race day. I need to stay within my limits and go 90 percent instead of 110. It has been a good learning curve so far.
Do you set yourself specific goals and targets?
I always set result-based goals and goals that are more personal for myself. I am not doing as well as I wanted to with results as I am trying to ride too fast. I need to gain experience and get better as a rider instead of rushing things to win right away.
How is riding with your hero Loïc Bruni?
I have looked up to Loïc before I even knew him because he was such a good junior rider and then did well straight away in the seniors. He is a good friend of mine. He takes time to do things right instead of rushing them and having him as a team-mate and mentor is really good for me. I thought it might be different now we are racing against each other, but he has been really kind. He helps me with lines and we do laps together.
2018 Fort William
It hasn’t always just been biking, can you talk about your junior ski career and the subsequent change?
I really liked skiing and playing ice hockey when I was younger. Biking wasn't the biggest sport in my childhood until 14 when I had to make a decision to quit skiing and keep riding. The decision came around when I was ski racing in March and I was supposed to go to a camp in May and June and I got on my bike before the ski camp, went home and I was like, "I don't want to ski race anymore, I want to race bikes". It was just something that happened.
The decision to leave skiing for biking was made almost instantly?
I raced giant slalom and slalom, and it was crazy. I was so stuck. I knew at that point I had to make a decision. I was provincial champion at both skiing and biking, and I had to choose a path. I chose mountain biking because I loved it more. Mountain biking is the coolest thing. It is so much fun. I was 14 when I made that decision.
Do you ever think about what your career may have looked like if you had chosen skiing?
I think a little bit, but Canada doesn't have the support like the European countries or even America have. It is a bit harder to make it and costs a lot of money. With mountain biking, I immediately got into a European team and ever since then it has been amazing.
What were you like growing up as a young kid?
I was born in Banff and lived there until I was nine. I was doing hiking, skiing, riding, soccer, ice hockey and basketball. As I got older, I started dropping sports. We moved to Whistler because we used to go there for two weeks in the summer and two weeks in the winter. It got to the point where we said as a family, "We love this place and we have to move here now!". Since then it has just been skiing, biking and ice hockey. I dropped ice hockey, then skiing and now just do biking. Whistler has one of the best ski resorts in North America and, possibly, the best bike park in the world. Accessing these amazing resources has been amazing for me.
Do you get inspired by athletes in other sports?
I have favourite teams in ice hockey, basketball and soccer but not favourite athletes as such. Honestly, I watch every sport. My Dad is a bit the same, so I got it from him. I support teams like Calgary Flames in ice hockey because it was so near to where I grew up in Banff. I went to an ice hockey game when I was six. Toronto Raptors too in basketball as they are the only Canadian team in the NBA. Lots of playing fantasy league in other sports. I play basketball and ice hockey in the winter, when the lakes are frozen.
When you see the amount of time downhill rivals like Aaron Gwin put in at the gym, does it motivate you to do the same?
When I was younger I tried to copy what riders like Aaron were doing, but you get to a point where you need to do what works for you. I need to train as hard as I can to where it is effective so I am not overtraining or undertraining. I have got a good programme going on and my trainer is super helpful. I do gym circuits and strength work but I also do cross-country skiing, cross-country mountain biking, basketball and ice hockey. If I just work out in the gym, I become too static. I try to stay athletic and mobile for downhill mountain biking. You are moving your whole body and staying active. You have got to keep it fun. I enjoy the gym, but you have got to spice it up a bit too.
You have a fascinating background in Crankworx after winning Whip Off aged just 14. How cool was that?
I gave up skiing in May 2015 and the same year I won the Crankworx Whip Off World Championships at Whistler two days before I turned 15. It was crazy. Pretty special. I am very competitive, even in gym class at school. It is ingrained in me!
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Novel targets for Alzheimer's disease treatment
380843-75-4 IC50
Directional autoreactive Compact disc4+ T cell migration into the central anxious
Victoria Harper Main November 26, 2017 380843-75-4 IC50, p300
Directional autoreactive Compact disc4+ T cell migration into the central anxious system plays a essential role in multiple sclerosis. illness (Randall et al., 2009, 2011; Lambe et al., 2011; Jabara et al., 2012). Significantly, human being mutations or SNPs are connected with immunodeficiency and mental retardation (Griggs et al., 2008; Zhang et al., 2009). Despite this, it is definitely unfamiliar whether Boat dock8 is definitely involved in Master of science, and which bad government bodies restrict Boat dock8 GEF activity to prevent immune system cell migration. In this scholarly study, we recognized LRCH1 as a book joining partner to sequester Pier8 from Cdc42. Upon chemokine excitement, Boat dock8 is definitely phosphorylated by PKC to independent from LRCH1 and move at the leading advantage for Capital t cell migration. By era of transgenic, knockout and mutant rodents, we shown their essential part in managing the advancement of p300 EAE in vivo. Outcomes Boat dock8 appearance is definitely improved in the severe stage of murine EAE Great attempts possess been produced to determine essential signaling healthy proteins included in Capital t lymphocyte adhesion and migration (Wang et al., 2010; Wang and Zhang, 2012; Yu et al., 2015). Some of these signaling protein, including VAV1, ADAP, SKAP55, Hip hop1, RapL, Mst1, 380843-75-4 IC50 and Boat dock8, also regulate Capital t cell service, apoptosis, or swelling (Wang et al., 2003, 2004, 2007, 2009; Jo et 380843-75-4 IC50 al., 2005; Katagiri et al., 2006, 2011; Rudd and Wang, 2008; Li et al., 2015a,m,c). Taking into consideration the central part of myelin-specific Compact disc4+ Capital t cell service and infiltration into the CNS in the pathogenesis of Master of science, we asked whether the appearance amounts of these substances had been connected with human being Master of science individuals. The mRNA amounts of Hip hop1, WASP, VAV1, ADAP, talin, RapL, Mst1, or Pier8 (but not really SKAP55) had 380843-75-4 IC50 been considerably improved in PBMCs from Master of science individuals likened with age-matched healthful volunteers (Fig. 1 A, remaining). In contract with our statement, earlier research recommend that a insufficiency of VAV1 or ADAP ameliorates myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein peptide (MOG 35C55)Cinduced EAE, a mouse model that mimics human being Master of science (Korn et al., 2003; Engelmann et al., 2013). Because Mst1 binds to the RapLCRap1 complicated, whereas Pier8 is definitely the important downstream effector of Mst1 (Mou et al., 2012), we asked whether Pier8 inspired the pathogenesis of Master of science/EAE. First, we verified that the mRNA and proteins amounts of Boat dock8 had been considerably raised in the PBMCs from Master of science individuals, likened with those from healthful settings and neuromyelitis optica (NMO) individuals who shown related symptoms to those of Master of science, but with a unique etiology (Fig. 1 A, ideal). Furthermore, during the advancement of murine EAE model, we observed that even more Compact disc4+ Capital t cells distributed in the bloodstream and infiltrated in the CNS at the maximum stage than those at the presyndrome or remission stage (Fig. 1 M). Pier8 amounts in the bloodstream Compact disc4+ Capital t cells had been considerably improved at the maximum stage of EAE likened with at the presymptom or remission stage (Fig. 1 C). This suggests that Pier8 appearance amounts are related with EAE intensity. Number 1. Boat dock8 appearance is definitely 380843-75-4 IC50 favorably connected with the maximum stage of murine EAE. (A) The comparable mRNA appearance amounts of the applicant genetics in the PBMCs from Master of science individuals and healthful volunteers (best remaining; = 4). Boat dock8 mRNA amounts in the PBMCs (best correct) … Next, we elucidated whether Pier8 was a vulnerable gene for the induction and advancement of EAE. As previously reported (Randall et al., 2009), rodents contain a serine-to-proline replacement in the DHR-2 (Pier homology area 2) website of Pier8, which abolishes the GEF activity for Cdc42 service. In response to immunization with a MOG (35C55) peptide, all of the rodents created EAE, whereas much less than half of the rodents demonstrated EAE symptoms, which also decreased the disease intensity (Fig. 1 M). Regularly, hematoxylin and eosin (L&Elizabeth) or luxol fast blue yellowing exposed a.
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Home › Central Data Catalog › BWA_2016_WBCS_V01_M
Botswana, 2015 - 2016
Public Opinion Research Group
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BWA_2016_WBCS_v01_M
Botswana BWA
The Country Opinion Survey in Botswana assists the World Bank Group (WBG) in gaining a better understanding of how stakeholders in Botswana perceive the WBG. It provides the WBG with systematic feedback from national and local governments, multilateral/bilateral agencies, media, academia, the private sector, and civil society in Botswana on
1. Their views regarding the general environment in Botswana.
2. Their overall attitudes toward the WBG in Botswana.
3. Overall impressions of the WBG's effectiveness and results, knowledge work and activities, and communication and information sharing in Botswana.
4. Their perceptions of the WBG's future role in Botswana.
Stakeholders of the World Bank Group in Botswana
v01 - edited anonymous dataset for public distribution
Coding schemes of output data:
- Single-choice questions: Response options are coded according to corresponding numbers in the questionnaire.
- Multiple-choice questions: When a response option is checked, it is coded as "1," when a response option is not checked, it is coded as "0."
- 10-point scale questions: "1" corresponds to the lowest value, "10" corresponds to the highest value. "Don't know" is coded as "11."
- Yes/No questions: "Yes" is coded as "1," "No" is coded as "2."
Gaborone, Maun, Kanye, other
Opinion leaders from national and local governments, multilateral/bilateral agencies, media, academia, the private sector, and civil society in Botswana.
Public Opinion Research Group The World Bank Group
The World Bank Group WBG
From November 2015 to February 2016, 300 stakeholders of the WBG in Botswana were invited to provide their opinions on the WBG's work in the country by participating in a country opinion survey. Participants were drawn from the office of the President/Prime Minister, office of a Minister, office of a Parliamentarian, employees of ministries/ministerial departments/ implementation agencies, Project Management Units (PMUs) overseeing implementation of WBG projects or consultants/contractors working on WBG-supported projects/programs, local government office or staff, bilateral/multilateral agencies, private sector organizations, private foundations, the financial sector/private banks, NGOs/community-based organizations (CBOs), the media, independent government institutions, trade unions, faith-based groups, youth groups, academia/research institutes/think tanks, and the judiciary branch. A total of 256 stakeholders participated in the survey (85% response rate).
The results of this year's Country Survey were compared to those in the Country Survey conducted in FY '13 (response rate is 80%, N=241). The data were weighted to reach similar stakeholder compositions across the two survey years, allowing for more statistically reliable comparisons. There were too few respondents from local government in either year to be included and stakeholders who identified themselves as "Other" in the stakeholder category options also were not included in these comparisons. As a result, mean ratings, percentages of respondents, and the total number of respondents in both years are slightly different from those of the original data reported in the FY '13 COS report and the non-weighted data presented in this report. For the weighted stakeholder breakdown and year comparison results, please refer to Appendix D (see page 97).
Mail Questionnaire [mail]
Botswana Institute for Development Policy Analysis
Public Opinion Research Group (The World Bank Group). Botswana World Bank Group Country Survey (WBCS) 2016, Ref. BWA_2016_WBCS_v01_M. Dataset downloaded from [URL] on [date].
Svetlana Markova ECRWS, The World Bank Group smarkova@worldbankgroup.org
Jing Guo ECRWS, The World Bank Group jguo1@worldbankgroup.org
DDI_BWA_2016_WBCS_v01_M_WB
Development Data Group DECDG The World Bank Group Study documentation
Web and Social Media ECRWS The World Bank Group Study documentation
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Teatro Tivoli
Avenida da Liberdade,
Functions: Live Theater
Styles: Neo-Classical
Previous Names: Tivoli Cinema
Sao Jorge Cinema
Teatro Capitólio
Cinema Odeon
Condes Cinema
Cinema Olympia
News About This Theater
Mar 2, 2010 — Happy 45th, "The Sound Of Music"
Plans were drawn up for the new Tivoli Cinema in 1918 but it didn’t open until 1924. The architect was Raul Lino who designed what was by then the most up to date ‘De-Luxe’ cinema in Lisbon.
The entrance is located on a corner and has an imposing classical facade, topped by a cupola dome. Inside the auditorium seating is on orchestra level with two balconies above, each of which have long side slips extending towards the proscenium opening.
Since closing as a cinema in around 1988, it has been beautifully maintained and has found use as a live theatre venue, mainly as a playhouse for Brazilian based productions.
Contributed by KenRoe
kencmcintyre on September 20, 2008 at 3:50 pm
Scroll to the bottom of this page for some photos of the Tivoli:
http://tinyurl.com/4rvkr4
Ian on October 9, 2011 at 1:06 am
Two photos of the Tivoli in 1985 – the theatre is hidden from view on Streetview above.
Ian on October 9, 2011 at 12:36 pm
Update – just discovered the location on Streetview and corrected the image. Has the stage been demolished?
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Guardians of the Galaxy Telltale Ep1 Tangled Up In Blue Review
Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy Telltale Ep1 Tangled Up In Blue review and gameplay based on characters from the Marvel comics and Disney movies.
By James| 2017-04-19T14:43:34-07:00 April 19th, 2017|Categories: Reviews, Video (Other)|Tags: GOTG, Guardians of the Galaxy, guardians of the galaxy ep1 tangled up in blue, guardians of the galaxy telltale ep1 tangled up in blue, guardians of the galaxy telltale game, james, marvels guardians of the galaxy, review, Telltale|Comments Off on Guardians of the Galaxy Telltale Ep1 Tangled Up In Blue Review
Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy Telltale Game Confirmed
Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy The Telltale Series video game was confirmed today during The Game Awards presentation
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CORE--Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party Congressional Challenge - Memoranda, 1964 Dec.-1965 Sept. (Congress of Racial Equality. Mississippi 4th Congressional District records, 1961-1966; Historical Society Library Microforms Room, Micro 793, Reel 3, Segment 38)
sume that this decisive step will he
The Administration, too, may decide that there is more to be lost
well as the Administration itself,
intervention—will not tolerate Negro disenfranchisement, Negro dis-
enfranchisement will really begin
Title CORE--Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party Congressional Challenge - Memoranda, 1964 Dec.-1965 Sept. (Congress of Racial Equality. Mississippi 4th Congressional District records, 1961-1966; Historical Society Library Microforms Room, Micro 793, Reel 3, Segment 38)
Folder Description All the documents in this folder address the Congressional Challenge. Included in it are: Mendy Samstein's notes on plans and the rationale for the Congressional Challenge. A typed calendar for the Congressional Challenge. An MFDP pamphlet on the subject. Martin Luther King's statement of support for the Congressional Challenge. Newspaper clippings on the subject. An MFDP fact sheet about it. MFDP legal documents on the legal validity of the challenge and on the history of contested elections. William Fitts Ryan's December 22, 1964, statement on the seating of the Mississippi congressional delegation. Lawrence Guyot's outline of steps to be taken in the Congressional Challenge. Fannie Lou Hamer's legal challenge to the election of Jamie Whitten which includes statistics on the disproportionate voter registrations of whites vs. blacks in Mississippi and a listing of various violent acts (including Hamer's own police beating) under a "reign of terror" designed to intimidate African Americans from participating in elections. An MFDP reprint of James Roosevelt's statement in the January 4, 1965, issue of the Congressional Record whose headline is "They Cannot Win 'Elections' from a System Based on Murder." William Colmer's statement on the Congressional Challenge. A January 17, 1965, MFDP progress report on the challenge. Rules for taking depositions from officials involved in suppressing the African American vote in Mississippi. A description and transcription of a documentary on the Congressional Challenge. A March 1965 MFDP progress report. March 1965 statements by Lawrence Guyot, denying that the MFDP wants to be a third party. On May 17, 1965, James Farmer offers CORE's support for the Congressional Challenge, Martin Luther King offers SCLC's support, and John Lewis offers SNCC's. A May 17, 1965, press release by the MFDP on the submission of its 600+ depositions about obstacles placed in the way of African American voters in Mississippi. An MFDP reprint of an article from the Nation by a lawyer who had taken some of the depositions. A July 1965 MFDP progress report details Clerk of the House of Representatives Ralph R. Roberts' obstruction of the challenge by refusing to print the depositions in a timely fashion, his refusal to meet with MFDP representatives, and finally, his order to have all the MFDP visitors arrested. Sample MFDP ballot for the August 17, 1965, election. A press release from a California congressman announcing that he and several other congressmen had set a deadline of September 21 for resolution of the congressional challenge; a list of congressional representatives supporting the challenge is included. An indignant, but unattributed, document about a 5-member Committee on Administration, meeting in secret, on the Mississippi Challenge's effort to dismiss the charges. A September 1965 MFDP document called "The Mississippi Challenge Trip: A Primer" details the obstacles to the Mississippi Challenge so far and announces a mass lobbying effort and vigil in Washington D.C. by African Americans from Mississippi. James Farmer's September 9, 1965, memo to CORE members urges them to call their representatives to support the Congressional Challenge. Similar missives come from the National Council of Churches' Robert W. Spike, Martin Luther King, and MFDP's Mike Thelwell. The September 14, 1965, statement on the Congressional Challenge by the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights urges the House to vote against the motion to dismiss the challenge. A reprint of the September 17, 1965, Congressional Report on dismissing the five contested congressional elections. Lists of the congressional representatives' votes on this issue. An MFDP report, following the Congressional Challenge's defeat, on the events in Washington of September 13-18, 1965. A copy of Freedom Primer No. 3--The Right to Vote and the Congressional Challenge--concludes the materials in this folder.
State Washington, D.C.; Mississippi; Alabama;
Place Jackson; McComb; Vicksburg; Liberty; Amite County; Canton; Laurel; Tallahatchie County; Hattiesburg; Meridian; Batesville; Panola County;
Subject Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party; Democratic National Convention (1964 : Atlantic City, N.J.); Council of Federated Organizations (U.S.); elections; voter registration; lawyers; murder; United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation; boycotts; arson; church buildings; bombings; intimidation; threats; Democratic Party (Miss.); Democratic Party (U.S.); police brutality; assault and battery; cross burning; freedom schools; National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; Americans for Democratic Action; White citizens councils; Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission; Republican Party (U.S.); segregation; Mississippi State Penitentiary; courthouses; veterans; agriculture; sheriffs; literacy tests (election law); United States. Voting Rights Act of 1965; National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America; Congress of Racial Equality; Southern Christian Leadership Conference; jail experiences; Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.); eviction; unemployment; civil rights workers; American Civil Liberties Union; Freedom Vote;
Personal Name Samstein, Mendy; Hamer, Fannie Lou; Adams, Victoria Gray, 1926-2006; DeVine, Annie; Whitten, Jamie; Williams, John Bell; Walker, Prentiss, 1917-1998; Colmer, William Meyers, 1890-1980; King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968; Goodman, Andrew, 1943-1964; Chaney, James Earl, 1943-1964; Schwerner, Michael Henry, 1939-1964; Morris, John D.; Pearson, Drew, 1897-1969; McCormack, John W., 1891-1980; Ryan, William F., 1922-1972; Kunstler, William M. (William Moses), 1919-1995; Winstead, William A.; Abernethy, Thomas Gerstle, 1903-1998; Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963; Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973; Delaney, James J.; Russell, Richard B. (Richard Brevard), 1897-1971; Vaughs, Cliff; Kinoy, Arthur; Smith, Benjamin Eugene; Higgs, William; Stavis, Morton; Guyot, Lawrence, 1939-2012; Turnbow, Hartman; Roosevelt, James, 1907-1991; Burleson, Omar; Lindsay, John V. (John Vliet); Celler, Emanuel, 1888-1981; Albert, Carl Bert, 1908-2000; Coleman, J. P. (James Plemon), 1914-1991; Katzenbach, Nicholas deB. (Nicholas deBelleville), 1922-2012; Rainey, Lawrence A.; Lynd, Theron C.; Dabbs, Wallace; Cauthen, Jack; Jones, Daniel Bryant; Price, Cecil; Minor, William; Johnson, Paul B., 1916-1985; Quinn, Aylene; Cox, Harold; Eastland, James Oliver, 1904-1986; Farmer, James, 1920-1999; Johnson, Earl, Jr.; Morphew, Richard; Johnson, George; Lewis, John; Slaff, George; Reeb, James, 1927-1965; Miles, Robert; Waltzer, Bruce C.; Lewton, Mike; Jackson, Roy; Darby, Ross; Hubbard, Earl; Williams, Chris; Kuykendall, William; Williams, C. J.; Thomas, Lamarr; Seals, Ira; Kuykendall, Linda; Middleton, W. G.; ; Gardner, Charles; Perry, Clara; Milam, R. L.; Patch, Penny; O'Connor, Claire; Lester, Charles E.; Shankle, Ike; Henry, Aaron, 1922-1997; Pemberton, John de J.; Roberts, Ralph R.; Patterson, Joseph Turner; McClendon, B. B.; Burton, Phillip; Green, Edith, 1910-1987; Cosey, Mildred; Applewhite, Nellie; Willis, Lillie; Washington, Ernestine; Hawkins, Andrew; Vaughn, Roosevelt; Graham, James; Cattlin, David; Reed, Herbert; Guthrie, Benjamin; Adams, Brock, 1927-2004; Fraser, Don; Cohelan, Jeffery, 1914-1999; Thompson, Frank; Ashmore, Robert; Peart, William; Spike, Robert W. (Robert Warren); Goodell, Charles E.; Evers, Charles, 1922-; Hawkins, Augustus; Johnson, Allen;
Event Date 1964-12; 1965-01; 1965-02; 1965-03; 1965-04; 1965-05; 1965-06; 1965-07; 1965-08; 1965-09;
Month December; January; February; March; April; May; June; July; August; September;
Format reports and surveys; pamphlets; clippings; legal documents; correspondence; press releases; forms; memoranda;
Folder Description A black and white drawing showing three men standing wearing hats and carrying guns. Used in the newsletter with the title, 'The Nation'.
Subject intimidation; violence
Event Date 1965-05-17
Month May
Page Text confessed, in reply to the first question I put to him, that he had not the slightest idea of what a bill of attainder was, although the prohibition against bills of attainder is contained in the Bills of Rights of at least thirty-four of the fifty states. He admitted that if that were a part of the Mississippi Constitution he would not be able to interpret it—and that when he had first registered he had not been asked to interpret any section of the Constitution, but had merely "gone down to the courthouse and signed the book." For a day and a half Shankle sweated on the stand, trying to explain why he did not consider "No one should be convicted for the same things twice" to be a reasonable interpretation of the "double jeopardy" section of the Mississippi Constitution; why he had closed down one of the two voter-registration offices in the county and forced a large part of its Negro residents to trek an additional 25 or 30 miles to register; why he refused to appoint any deputy registrars to handle applications, with the result that Negroes were prevented from registering during the two months when he was acting as clerk of the circuit court, while he was on vacation, or during the many other times when he was away from his office; why he had denied a Negro applicant the right to register because, although she had answered perfectly the twenty-one questions on the application, including the constitutional interpretation and the final question requiring her to write her understanding "of the duties and obligations of citizenship under a constitutional form of government" she had signed the application in only one of the two required places; why, indeed, he had refused to certify the names of registered voters on a petition to place Mrs. Fannie Lou Hamer on the ballot to contest the Congressional seat in the last election, and to place the name of Aaron Henry, president of the Mississippi NAACP, on the ballot for the United States Senate. Sheriff Hubbard, following Mr. Shankle to the stand, spun a fanciful tale of trying to intercept moonshiners as the reason for a four- road block last September by which he and his deputies and the district attorney secured the names May 17, 1965 of all who attended a voter-registration meeting. The district attorney's presence, he explained, was not an attempt to intimidate potential voters; he had "happened" to meet the D.A. that evening and Mr. Finch was just "taking a ride with me like he often done." Finch, a filibusterer to put Senator Claghorn to shame, swore to the same thing, although he could not recall where or when he "happened" to meet the Sheriff that evening. He admitted writing down the names of occupants of cars coming from the meeting, but denied that this had anything to do with the fact that they were organizing to vote. Plantation owners, called to the stand, piously denied intimidation, threat, harassment, as they reluctantly agreed that voting and registering to vote were duties and obligations of citizenship which they recognized and which should not be denied to Negro citizens. At 11:15 A.M. on Friday, February 12, the hearing ended and as it did, 200 people stood in the hearing room, joined hands and burst out with We Shall Overcome. It was an unforgettable moment for those of us who had come from far away to help the Negro people of Mississippi. The lawyers for the Congressmen gathered their papers and left the room followed by the dozen or so white witnesses and spectators. C. J. Williams mounted a table and exhorted everyone in the audience who had not yet registered to "Go down to the courthouse and register now—not tomorrow or the day after but now! You heard them say it's all right for you to register. Go ahead and do it. Now! Now! Now!" But while such emotional fulfillment is all very well, the important matter is the effect, and the effectiveness, of the Challenge. So far the results have been valuable in two respects. First, the evidence at the hearings is more than enough to provide a solid basis for Congressional action to oust the Mississippi Congressmen. Second, the hearings have provided a tremendous boost to the morale of the Negroes over the entire state, both leaders and rank and file. There remains to be accomplished the third and final result— the actual ousting of the five pretenders. It would be naive to as sume that this decisive step will he taken strictly from an impartial weighing of the evidence by individual Congressmen. The Southern bloc of approximately 100 votes will be cast almost solidly against the Challenge. Political considerations of every sort will, in varying degrees, enter into the determination of the rest of Congress. Some Congressmen will satisfy their consciences by voting for the voting-rights bill and then against the Challenge, on the theory that "enough is enough" and why rock the boat of Congressional privilege. The Administration, too, may decide that there is more to be lost than gained by creating further antagonism among the white population of the South. The soft pedal may very well replace the blazing anger that President Johnson displayed in his voting-rights address. In fact, a great deal could be gained by ousting the five Congressmen, and there is every reason for the Administration to give its full force to the effort. All possible steps must be taken by every interested person and organization to see that their own Congressmen and as many others as can be reached, as well as the Administration itself, support the Challenge wholeheartedly when it reaches the floor of Congress. A successful answer to the Mississippi Challenge will go further toward shaping the course of democracy in the South than the voting-rights bill and a half dozen Supreme Court decisions, important as those are. Once the principle is established that Congress itself—without the need for Court intervention—will not tolerate Negro disenfranchisement, Negro dis- enfranchisement will really begin to disappear from America. 529
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CORE--Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party Congressional...
Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP): Congressional Challenge Memoranda, December 1964-September 1965
FDP challenge- Samstein
Calendar of the congressional challenge
The Congressional Challenge pamphlet
Statement by Martin Luther King
Congressional challenge fact sheet
A memorandum on the legal validity and propriety of the MDFP challenge to Mississippi Congressmen
Memo on the history of contested elections statute and on race, intimidation, and other grounds for voiding House elections
Statement of Congressman William F. Ryan concerning the seating of the Mississippi congressional delegation
MFDP challenge to the seating of the regular Mississippi Delegation
Notice of intent to challenge election addressed to Jamie L. Whitten
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Congressional Record vol. 111 no. 1
Help unseat the Mississippi Congressmen
Letter from John V. Lindsay to Omar Burleson concerning Mississippi challenge
Congressman Coleman slams efforts by phony liberals
Mississippi challenges: progress report and future action
Liberals force roll call
Delegation joyful at House decision
[List of trial rules]
The congressional challenge: a documentary
Congressional challenge progress report
Statement by Lawrence Guyot
Statement by James Farmer, National Director, CORE
Statement by Lawrence Guyot, Chairman Executive Committee
Statement by John Lewis, Chairman
Help us to unseat the Congressmen we never voted for
Five seats in congress: the Mississippi challenge
[List of organizations that support the Mississippi congressional challenge]
Report of the Mississippi challenge
Sample Official Ballot for Mississippi constitutional amendment
Press release from congressman Jeffrey Cohelan concerning Mississippi challenge
[Handwritten note]
The Mississippi challenge trip: a primer
Letter from Lawrence guyot to the House of Representatives
MFDP challenge
National Council of the Churches of Christ letter concerning the Mississippi challenge
House Committee schedules hearing on Mississippi cases
Statement concerning plans to dismiss Mississippi seating challenge in U.S. House of Representatives
Statement on the Mississippi challenge
List of Congressmen
Congressmen who voted against the Albert Resolution
The right to vote and the congressional challenge
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Home Insurance Private Equity Giant KKR Buys 10% Stake in Max Financial
Private Equity Giant KKR Buys 10% Stake in Max Financial
Private equity firm KKR bought a 10 per cent stake in India’s Max Financial Services for about $140 million, the latest foreign investor to bet on the country’s booming life insurance market.
The investment was made from KKR’s Asian Fund II, the company said in a statement that did not disclose the value of the deal. The stake, purchased from a group of investors including Max Group founder Analjit Singh, would be valued at nearly $140 million, given the company’s market capitalisation of $1.35 billion.
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KKR said it sees “robust growth” in India’s life insurance market, given the low penetration, rise in savings in the country and as the 1.3 billion population ages.
Max Group split several of its businesses last month into three separately listed entities – Max Financial Services, Max India – which have businesses in healthcare and health insurance, and Max Ventures and Industries Ltd, which makes specialty film for the packaging industry.
Max Financial Services owns a 72 per cent stake in India’s fourth-largest private life insurer Max Life.
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Home | National | IAF inducts first four heavy-lift Chinook helicopters
IAF inducts first four heavy-lift Chinook helicopters
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Imago Imperii- Fate of a King (Self-Released)
Thursday, 4th July 2019 By Matt Coe
Born to forge metal based on stories and myths of the past, Imago Imperii hail from Bologna, Italy and have been a part of the power/epic scene since 2011. They’ve released a demo, EP and full-length during that time – also navigating natural growth/lineup shifts in the process. Vocalist Gwarner and keyboardist Ivanhoe are original members – while bassist Nick came into the fold last year. Fate of a King is the group’s second full-length, intertwining eight songs and three instrumentals spread out over the course of the track listing – sure to conjure up comparisons to the work of Blind Guardian, Iron Maiden, Stratovarius, and even Yngwie Malmsteen, although there are minor deficiencies that could leave them in the ‘cult’ category for a following.
Straddling the lines of speedy Teutonic power metal with bombast/uplifting choruses against some forward-thinking bass mechanics and neoclassical arpeggio-led guitar sweeps during the lead breaks, there’s plenty to appreciate on the musical front when taking in the spirited “Kingdom’s United”- while the doomy side of things takes over a la Candlemass / Memento Mori for the title track, Ivanhoe sprinkling in haunting ivory strokes to add proper ambiance. Additional old-world chants supplement the straightforward double kick-nature for “Conqueror”, although the instrumental section travels down an epic landslide featuring strange frantic guitar activities and wild keyboard tones. Flexing some progressive muscle in the longest cut “Harold Rex”, it’s where the maniacal warble of Gwarner makes things choppy and difficult to enjoy – he’s no King Diamond, or close to Hansi from Blind Guardian. It’s an area that definitely needs to improve if they hope to gain a wider reach beyond Italian shores – as there are too many uncomfortable vocal moments that could cause listeners to dismiss Imago Imperii, despite the obvious seasoning in the musical department.
The ancient garb the band adorn plus the throwback cover art tells you that the lyrics and imagery represent historical/legendary fare – a perfect match to the epic, power, symphonic metal style. When it comes to this genre, people expect quality in every aspect, and Fate of a King delivers only on a quotient of its potential.
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Gumball: Dino Donkey Dash
Gumball: Dino Donkey Dash is a game built with Aardman Digital for Cartoon Network to run alongside the popular kids show. Take control of Gumball and Darwin to steal Anais’ favourite toy back from Tina the dinosaur.
Play Gumball: Dino Donkey Dash.
All three games within the suite can be played alone or with a friend, at the same keyboard. There’s not enough two-player around-the-keyboard Flash games these days!
The first minigame is Sneak. You have to press the up/down keys as directed, in step with the symbols. Get it wrong and you’ll make more noise, and eventually wake up the sleeping dinosaur.
Beat the Sneak game, and you’ll move on to Poke. Use a long wobbly pole to tease the stuffed toy from Tina’s sleeping snuggle. Miss too many times, and you’ll inadvertently wake her up and incur her wrath…
So you’ve got the toy back, but Tina is chasing you through the junkyard where she lives. You’ll have to run and jump to avoid her, passing the donkey back and forth between the characters to escape. Survive the Catch game to get to the end.
This suit of three minigames was built to work in 15 separate languages simultaneously. You can actually switch between them dynamically in-game if you know the special cheat keys! Russian, Bulgarian and especially Arabic presented unique technical problems, with Flash not supporting right-to-left scripts very well (we weren’t using the new TLF capabilities due to their performance being terrible).
The translator supports progressive font fallback per textfield – so if the original font doesn’t contain the right characters it will be swapped with a similar looking one that includes more European accents and characters. If that still doesn’t support the right characters, it will be swapped again for Arial. The translator contains an embedded version of each language, which can be replaced by a loaded file at runtime. That can even be reloaded dynamically on a cheat-key. It will also auto-shrink fonts to fit in their given space, so text is never cropped unintentionally.
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Australia Trade Deficit Largest in 5 Months
Australia reported a trade gap of $1.26 billion in February 2015, an increase of 25 percent on the deficit in January 2015. It is the largest shortfall since September 2014, as imports grew faster than exports.
Between January and February 2015, in seasonally adjusted terms, exports of goods and services rose $282 million (1 percent) to $27,874 million. Non-rural goods fell $218 million (1 percent) and non-monetary gold rose $98 million (8 percent). Rural goods rose $390 million (11 percent) and net exports of goods under merchanting remained steady at $34 million. Services credits rose $11 million.
Between January and February 2015, imports rose $534 million (2 percent) to $29,129 million. Intermediate and other merchandise goods rose $284 million (3 percent), capital goods fell $116 million (2 percent) and consumption goods rose $192 million (3 percent). Non-monetary gold rose $96 million (36 percent). Services debits rose $78 million (1 percent).
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Australia Posts Largest Trade Surplus on Record
Australia's trade surplus widened sharply to AUD 5.75 billion in May 2019 from a marginally revised of AUD 4.82 billion in the previous month and beating market expectations of a surplus of AUD 5.25 billion. It was the largest trade surplus on record, as exports rose by 4 percent to an all time high of AUD 41.59 billion, while imports advanced at a softer 2 percent to AUD 35.84 billion.
Australia Trade Surplus Smallest in 3 Months
Australia's trade surplus slightly narrowed to AUD 4.87 billion in April 2019 from a downwardly revised of AUD 4.89 billion in the previous month, and below market consensus of AUD 5.1 billion surplus. This was the smallest trade surplus since January, as exports rose 2 percent month-over-month while imports increased at a faster 3 percent.
Australia Trade Surplus Narrows in March
Australia's trade surplus narrowed to AUD 4.94 billion in March 2019 from an upwardly revised of AUD 5.14 billion in the previous month, but easily beating market consensus of AUD 4.25 billion surplus. Export fell 2 percent month-over-month to AUD 39.34 billion while imports dropped at a softer 1 percent to AUD 34.39 billion.
Australia's trade surplus surged to AUD 4.80 billion in February 2019 from a downwardly revised of AUD 4.35 billion in the previous month, easily beating market consensus of AUD 3.8 billion surplus. It is the largest trade surplus on record, as exports hit a fresh all-time high and imports fell.
Australia Trade Surplus Second Largest on Record
Australia's trade surplus surged to AUD 4.55 billion in January 2019 from an upwardly revised of AUD 3.77 billion in the previous month, easily beating market consensus of a surplus of AUD3 billion. This was the second largest trade surplus on record, as exports jumped 5 percent month-over-month to a new all-time high of AUD 39.94 billion while imports grew at a softer 3 percent to AUD 35.39 billion.
Australia Trade Surplus Largest in 2 Years
Australia's trade surplus widened sharply to AUD 3.68 billion in December 2018 from an upwardly revised of AUD 2.26 billion, easily beating market consensus of a surplus of AUD 2.3 billion. It was the largest trade surplus since December 2016, as exports fell by 2 percent to AUD 37.92 billion, while imports declined at a faster 6 percent to AUD 34.24 billion.
Australia Trade Balance Narrows in November
Australia's trade surplus narrowed to AUD 1.93 billion in November 2018, below the downwardly revised AUD 2.01 billion in the previous month (vs 2.32 billion preliminary) and market expectations of a AUD 2.23 billion surplus. Both exports and imports hit all-time highs.
Australia Trade Surplus Narrows in October
Australia's trade surplus narrowed to AUD 2.32 billion in October 2018 from a marginally revised AUD 2.94 billion in the previous month, and well below market consensus of a AUD 3.2 billion surplus. Both exports and imports hit all-time highs.
Australia Posts Largest Trade Surplus in 19 Months
Australia's trade surplus widened to AUD 3.02 billion in September 2018 from an upwardly revised AUD 2.34 billion in the previous month, far above market consensus of a AUD 1.70 billion surplus. It was the largest trade surplus since February 2017, as exports rose 1 percent to an all-time high of AUD 37.50 billion while imports declined 1 percent to AUD 34.48 billion.
Australia Trade Surplus Larger than Expected
Australia's trade surplus widened to AUD 1.60 billion in August 2018 from a marginally revised AUD 1.55 billion in the previous month, above market consensus of a AUD 1.40 billion surplus. Exports rose 1 percent to a near record while imports were virtually unchanged at an all-time high.
Australia Trade Surplus Narrows 20% in July
Australia's trade surplus narrowed by 20 percent month-over-month to AUD 1.55 billion in July of 2018 from an upwardly revised AUD 1.94 billion in the prior month and above market expectations of a AUD 1.4 billion surplus, as exports fell while imports showed no change.
Australia June Trade Surplus Largest in 13 Months
Australia's trade surplus widens sharply 158 percent to AUD 1.87 billion in June of 2018 from a downwardly revised AUD 0.73 billion in the prior month and far above market expectations of a AUD 0.9 billion surplus. It is the largest trade surplus since May last year, as exports rose to an all-time high while imports declined.
Australia Trade Surplus Widens Sharply in May
Australia's trade surplus widened by 75 percent to AUD 0.83 billion in May of 2018 from a downwardly revised AUD 0.47 billion in the prior month but below market expectations of a AUD 1.2 billion surplus.
Australia's trade surplus narrowed by 44 percent to AUD 0.98 billion in April of 2018 from an upwardly revised AUD 1.73 billion in the prior month and matching market expectations. It is the smallest trade surplus since a deficit in last December, mainly due to a decline in exports.
Australia Trade Surplus Largest in 10 Months
Australia's trade surplus widened by 13 percent to AUD 1.53 billion in March of 2018 from an upwardly revised AUD 1.35 billion in the prior month and far above market expectations of a AUD 0.7 billion surplus. It is the largest trade surplus since May 2017.
Australia Trade Surplus Beats Estimates
Australia's trade surplus narrowed by 13 percent to AUD 0.83 billion in February of 2018 from a downwardly revised AUD 0.95 billion in the prior month but above market expectations of a AUD 0.7 billion surplus.
Australia Trade Balance Swings to Surplus in January
Australia posted a trade surplus of AUD 1.06 billion in January 2018, reversing from a downwardly revised AUD 1.11 billion gap in a month earlier and way above market estimates of a AUD 0.3 billion surplus. It was the largest trade surplus since September 2017, as exports jumped 4 percent from a month earlier to AUD 33.92 billion while imports declined by 2 percent to AUD 32.87 billion.
Australia Posts Largest Trade Gap in 16 Months
Australia's trade balance posted a AUD 1.36 billion deficit in December 2017, compared with a AUD 4.41 billion surplus a year earlier and missing market expectations of a AUD 0.2 billion surplus. It was the biggest trade gap since August 2016, mainly due to a jump in imports.
Australia Trade Gap Widens in November
Australia' trade deficit widened to AUD 0.63 billion in November of 2017 from a downwardly revised AUD 0.30 billion in the prior month and missing market expectations of a AUD 0.55 billion surplus. Imports rose slightly while exports were unchanged.
Australia's trade surplus narrowed 93 percent to AUD 0.1 billion in October of 2017 from a downwardly revised AUD 1.60 billion in the prior month and way below market expectations of AUD 1.4 billion. It was the smallest trade surplus since April, as exports declined by 3 percent from a month earlier to AUD 31.87 billion while imports went up 2 percent to AUD 31.77 billion.
Australia Trade Surplus Largest in 4 Months
Australia's trade surplus doubled to AUD 1.75 billion in September of 2017 from a downwardly revised AUD 0.87 billion in the prior month and beating market expectations of AUD 1.2 billion. It was the largest trade surplus since May, as exports increased by 3 percent to AUD 32.96 billion while imports was flat at AUD 31.21 billion.
Australia Trade Surplus Larger than Expected in August
Australia's trade surplus widened 22.4 percent to AUD 0.99 billion in August of 2017 from an upwardly revised AUD 0.81 billion in July and above market expectations of AUD 0.88 billion.
Australia's trade surplus unexpectedly narrowed 48 percent to AUD 0.46 billion in July of 2017 from an upwardly revised AUD 0.89 billion in June while market estimated AUD 0.88 billion. It was the smallest trade surplus in three months, as exports fell 2 percent from a month earlier to AUD 31.07 billion and imports declined by 1 percent to AUD 30.61 billion.
Australia Trade Surplus Narrows More Than Estimated
Australia's trade surplus narrowed 58 percent to AUD 0.86 billion in June of 2017 from a downwardly revised AUD 2.02 billion in May. The figure came in below market expectations of AUD 1.8 billion, as exports fell 1 percent from a month earlier to AUD 31.78 billion while imports rose 2 percent to a record high of AUD 30.92 billion.
Australia Trade Surplus Widens 2,646% MoM In May
Australia's trade surplus widened 2646 percent to AUD 2471 billion in May of 2017 from a downwardly revised AUD 0.09 billion in April. The figure came in above market expectations of AUD 1.1 billion as exports strongly bounced back after cyclone disruptions last month reduced coal supplies.
Australia's Trade Surplus Lowest in 6 Months In April
Australia's trade surplus narrowed 82.5 percent to AUD 0.555 billion in April of 2017 from an upwardly revised AUD 3.169 billion in March. The figure came in below market expectations of AUD 1.95 billion after a cyclone in Queensland sharply reduced exports of coal.
Australia's trade surplus narrowed 15 percent to AUD 3.11 billion in March of 2017 from an upwardly revised AUD 3.66 billion in February. The figure came in below market expectations of AUD 3.40 billion as exports rose less than imports.
Australia Trade Surplus Surges In February
Australia's trade surplus widened 138 percent to AUD 3.57 billion in February of 2017 from an upwardly revised AUD 1.50 billion surplus in January and beating market expectations of AUD 1.8 billion. It was the second-largest surplus on record, as exports rose 1 percent from the prior month while imports fell 5 percent.
Australia Trade Surplus Narrows To 3-Month Low
Australia's trade surplus unexpectedly narrowed 61 percent to AUD 1.30 billion in January of 2017 from a downwardly revised AUD 3.33 billion surplus in December and missing market expectations of AUD 3.8 billion. It was the smallest surplus in three months, as exports fell 3 percent from the prior month while imports rose 4 percent.
Australia's trade surplus widened 72 percent to AUD 3.51 billion in December 2016 from an upwardly revised AUD 2.04 billion surplus in November and beating market expectations of AUD 2.20 billion. It was the largest surplus on record, as exports rose by 5 percent from the previous month while imports advanced at a slower 1 percent.
Australia Posts First Trade Surplus in 32 Months in November
Australia unexpectedly reported a trade surplus of AUD 1.24 billion in November of 2016, compared to a downwardly revised AUD 1.12 billion deficit in October and beating market expectations of a AUD 0.5 billion gap. It was the first trade surplus since March 2014, mainly driven by a surge in exports while imports were flat.
Australia Trade Deficit Widens in October
Australia reported a trade deficit of AUD 1.54 billion in October of 2016, an increase of 21 percent from an upwardly revised AUD 1.27 billion deficit in September. Figure came below market expectations of a AUD 0.80 billion gap, as exports rose less than imports.
Australia Trade Gap Smallest in 21 Months
Australia reported a trade deficit of AUD 1.23 billion in September of 2016, a decrease of 35 percent from a downwardly revised AUD 1.89 billion deficit in August and below market estimates of a AUD 1.70 billion gap. It was the smallest trade deficit since December 2014, as exports rose while imports fell.
Australia Trade Gap Smallest in 4 Months
Australia reported a trade deficit of AUD 2.01 billion in August of 2016, a decrease of 5.0 percent from a downwardly revised AUD 2.12 billion deficit in July while market estimates a gap of AUD 2.30 billion. It was the smallest trade deficit since April as exports and imports were flat.
Australia Trade Deficit Narrows in July
Australia reported a trade gap of AUD 2.41 billion in July of 2016, a decrease of 26 percent from an upwardly revised AUD 3.25 billion deficit in June while market estimates a deficit of AUD 2.80 billion. It was the smallest trade deficit since May as exports rose while imports were flat.
Australia reported a trade gap of AUD3.19 billion in June of 2016, an increase of 32 percent from an upwardly revised AUD2.42 billion deficit in May and missing market estimates. It was the largest trade deficit since January as exports fell while imports rose.
Australia reported a trade gap of AUD2.22 billion in May of 2016, an increase of 24 percent from an upwardly revised AUD1.79 billion gap in April and missing market estimates. It was the largest trade deficit since February as imports rose more than exports.
Australia reported a trade deficit of AUD1.58 billion in April of 2016, a decrease of 20 percent from a downwardly revised AUD1.97 billion gap in March, above market estimates. It was the smallest trade deficit since February 2015 as exports rose while imports fell.
Australia Posts Smallest Trade Deficit in A Year
Australia reported a trade gap of AUD2.16 billion in March of 2016, a decrease of 29.0 percent from a downwardly revised AUD3.04 billion deficit in February and below market expectations. It is the smallest trade deficit since March 2015 as exports rose more than imports.
Australia Trade Deficit Widens in February
Australia reported a trade gap of AUD3.41 billion in February of 2016, an increase of 8.0 percent from an upwardly revised AUD3.16 billion deficit in a month earlier and missing market expectations, as exports fell while imports remained unchanged.
Australia Trade Deficit Narrows in January
Australia reported a trade gap of AUD2.94 billion in January of 2016, a decrease of 17 percent from a downwardly revised AUD3.52 billion deficit in a month earlier and better than market expectations, as exports rose while imports fell.
Australia Trade Deficit Largest in 6 Months in December
Australia reported a trade gap of AUD 3.54 billion in December of 2015, an increase of 30 percent from a downwardly revised AUD 2.73 billion deficit in a month earlier and missing market expectations. It is the largest deficit since June, as exports fell more than imports.
Australia Trade Deficit Narrows in November
Australia reported a trade gap of $2.90 billion in November 2015, a decrease of 11 percent from a downwardly revised $3.25 billion deficit in a month earlier and below market expectations, as exports rose while imports fell.
Australia reported a trade gap of $3.30 billion in October 2015, an increase of 38 percent from a downwardly revised $2.40 billion deficit in a month earlier and below market expectations. It is the largest deficit since April as exports fell while imports remained unchanged.
Australia Trade Deficit Narrows in September
Australia reported a trade gap of $2.32 billion in September 2015, a decrease of 15 percent from an upwardly revised $2.71 billion deficit in August 2015 and beating market consensus, as exports grew more than imports.
Australia Trade Deficit Widens in August
Australia reported a trade gap of $3.10 billion in August 2015, an increase of 11 percent from an upwardly revised $2.79 billion deficit in July 2015 and missing market consensus, as exports remained flat while imports rose.
Australia reported a trade gap of $2.46 billion in July 2015, a decrease of 19 percent from a revised $3.05 billion deficit in June 2015 and beating market consensus, as exports grew while imports remained flat.
Australia Trade Deficit Widens in June
Australia reported a trade gap of $2.93 billion in June 2015, an increase of 10 percent from a revised $2.68 billion deficit in May 2015 and slightly above market consensus as imports grew more than exports.
Australia Trade Deficit Narrows in May
Australia reported a trade gap of $2.75 billion in May 2015, a decrease of 33 percent from a revised $4.14 billion deficit in April 2015, as exports grew while imports fell.
Australia Trade Deficit at Record High
Australia reported a trade gap of $3.89 billion in April 2015, an increase of 216 percent from a revised $1.23 billion deficit in March 2015 and touching a record high, as exports fell while imports rose.
Australia Trade Deficit Narrows in March
Australia reported a trade gap of $1.32 billion in March 2015, a decrease of 18 percent from a revised $1.60 billion deficit in February 2015 as exports and imports fell at the similar pace.
Australian Trade Deficit Widens in January
Australia reported a trade gap of $980m in January 2015, an increase of 95 percent on the deficit in December 2014 as imports grew faster than exports.
Australia's Trade Deficit Smallest in 9 Months
Australia's trade gap was reported at $436m in December 2014, a decrease of $580m (57%) on the deficit in November 2014 as exports rose for a fourth month in a row and imports fell.
Australia's Trade Gap Widens in November
Australia reported a trade deficit of $925m in November 2014, an increase of 5 percent compared to the previous month, as both exports and imports rose by 1 percent.
Australia's Trade Deficit Narrows in October
Australian trade gap declined to $1,323m in October 2014, a decrease of $912m (41%) on the deficit in September 2014 as exports rose and imports dropped.
Australia Trade Deficit Widens in September
Australian trade gap increased sharply to AUD 2261 million in September of 2014 from a revised AUD 1013 million gap a month earlier, as growth in imports far exceeded the pace of exports. The shortfall came in far above market forecasts, reaching the highest since November of 2012.
Australia Trade Deficit Continues to Narrow in August
Australian trade gap decreased further to AUD 787 million in August of 2014 from a revised AUD 1075 million gap a month earlier, as exports fell 2 percent while imports shrank 3 percent.
Australia Trade Deficit Narrows Further in July
Australian trade gap narrowed to AUD 1359 million in July of 2014 from a revised AUD 1564 million deficit in June, the fourth consecutive monthly trade deficit since April 2014, as exports grew while imports were almost unchanged.
Australia Trade Deficit Narrows in June
Australian trade gap narrowed to AUD 1683 million in June of 2014 from a revised AUD 2043 million deficit in May as exports remained flat and imports continued to fall.
Australia Trade Deficit More Than Doubles in May
Australian trade gap widened to AUD 1911 million in May of 2014, compared with a revised AUD 780 million in April, mainly due to a fall in agriculture and mining exports.
Australia Reports Trade Deficit in April
Australia reported trade deficit AUD 122 million in April 2014, compared with a revised AUD 902 million surplus in March, mainly due to fall in agriculture and mining exports. It was the first deficit in the last five months and far lower than analysts’ expectations.
Australia's Trade Surplus Narrows in March
Australian trade surplus narrowed to AUD 731 million in March of 2014, compared with a revised AUD 1257 million in February, mainly due to a fall in mining exports. It was the fourth straight monthly surplus but missed analysts' expectations.
Australia Reports Third Monthly Trade Surplus in February
Australia's trade surplus narrowed in February when compared to a downwardly revised result in the previous month, but performed better than analysts had expected.
Australia's Trade Surplus Hits 29-Month High in January
Australia's trade surplus surged to $1,433m in seasonally adjusted terms in the first month of 2014, the highest value since August of 2011 as exports grew faster than imports.
Australia Reports Trade Surplus in December
Australia posted an unexpected trade surplus of $468m in December 2013, an increase of $385m (464%) on the surplus in November 2013. Exports rose 4% supported by the weakened Aussie dollar, while imports grew 2%.
Australian Trade Deficit Down to 8-Month Low in November
In November, Australia's seasonally adjusted trade balance on goods and services registered a deficit of A$118M, a decrease of A$240M (67%) on the deficit in October. Exports grew A$94M (1%) to A$27.4B and imports fell A$146M (1%) to A$27.5B.
Australia's Trade Deficit Widens in October
Australia's seasonally adjusted balance on goods and services was a deficit of AUD529m in October 2013, an increase of AUD258m (95%) on the deficit in September 2013. Exports fell AUD26m to AUD27.27B and imports rose AUD231m (1%) to AUD27.8B.
Australia's Trade Deficit Narrows in September
Australia reported a trade deficit of $284m in September of 2013, a decrease of $409m (59%) on the deficit in August of 2013. Compared to the previous month, imports declined 1 percent and exports remained almost the same.
Australian Trade Deficit Narrows in August
In August, Australia's seasonally adjusted balance on goods and services registered a deficit of $815 million, a decrease of $560m or 41 percent on the deficit in July. In August of 2012, Australia's deficit was registered at $2088 million.
Australia Posts Trade Deficit in July
In July, Australia's seasonally adjusted balance on goods and services registered a deficit of A$765 million, down from a A$243 million surplus registered a month earlier. In July of 2012, Australia's deficit was registered at A$1568 million.
Australian Trade Surplus Widens in June
In June, Australia's seasonally adjusted balance on goods and services registered a surplus of A$602 million, an increase of A$95 million or 19 percent on the surplus registered a month earlier.
Australian Trade Surplus Widens in May
In May, the seasonally adjusted balance on goods and services registered a surplus of $ 670M, an increase of $ 499M (292 percent) on the surplus in April and up from a $ 871M deficit in May of 2012. The increase was driven by non-rural goods sales, in particular by metal ores, minerals and fuel.
Australia Trade Surplus Narrows in April
In April of 2013, Australia recorded a trade surplus of $28 million, a decrease of $527 million (95 percent) on the surplus in March 2013, according to data published by the Australian Bureau of Statistics.
Australia Posts Trade Surplus In March
In March of 2013, Australia recorded a trade surplus of 307 million AUD, the country's first surplus in fifteen months.
Australia Trade Deficit Narrows in February
In seasonally adjusted terms, the balance on goods and services was a deficit of A$ 178M in February 2013, a fall of A$ 1,037M (85 percent) on the deficit in January 2013.
Australia Trade Deficit Widens in January
In seasonally adjusted terms, the balance on goods and services was a deficit of $1,057m in January 2013, a rise of $369m (54%) on the deficit in December 2012.
Australia Trade Deficit Narrows In December
In seasonally adjusted terms, the balance on goods and services was a deficit of $427m in December 2012, a fall of $2,361m (85%) on the deficit in November 2012.
Australia Trade Deficit Widens in November 2012
In seasonally adjusted terms, the balance on goods and services was a deficit of A$2,637m in November 2012, a rise of A$194m (8 percent) on the deficit in October 2012.
Australia Trade Deficit Widens in October 2012
In seasonally adjusted terms, the balance on goods and services was a deficit of $2,088m in October 2012, a rise of $668m (47 percent) on the deficit in September 2012.
Australia Trade Deficit Widens in July 2012
In seasonally adjusted terms, Australia's balance on goods and services was a deficit of $556m in July 2012, a rise of $329m (145%) on the deficit in June 2012.
Australian Trade Deficit Widens in May
In seasonally adjusted terms, the balance on goods and services was a deficit of $285m in May 2012, a rise of $259m on the deficit in April 2012.
Australian Trade Deficit Narrows in April
In seasonally adjusted terms, the balance on goods and services was a deficit of $203m in April 2012, a fall of $1,079m on the deficit in March 2012.
Australia Reports Trade Deficit for Third Month
In seasonally adjusted terms, the balance on goods and services was a deficit of $1,587m in March 2012, a rise of $833m on the deficit in February 2012.
Australia Reports Trade Deficit in February
In seasonally adjusted terms, the balance on goods and services was a deficit of $480m in February 2012, a fall of $491m on the deficit in January 2012.
Australia Reports Trade Deficit in January
In seasonally adjusted terms, Australia reported a trade deficit of $673m in January 2012, a turnaround of $1,998m on the surplus in December 2011.
Australian Trade Surplus Widens in December
In seasonally adjusted terms, the balance on goods and services was a surplus of $1,709m in December 2011, a rise of $366m on the surplus in November 2011.
Australia's Trade Surplus Narrows in November
In seasonally adjusted terms, the balance on goods and services was a surplus of $1,380m in November 2011, a fall of $38m on the surplus in October 2011.
Australia's Trade Surplus Shrinks in October
Australia's trade surplus narrowed by more than expected in October as imports outpaced a flat export performance, and further slippage looms as Europe's crisis hits trade finance while China's growth cools.
Australia's Trade Surplus Narrows in September
In seasonally adjusted terms, the balance on goods and services was a surplus of $2,564m in September 2011, a fall of $389m on the surplus in August 2011.
Australia's Trade Surplus Widens in August
Australia's trade surplus surged in August as exports of coal and other minerals increased despite concerns of a global slowdown.
Australia's Trade Surplus Widens in July
Australia posted its fifth monthly trade surplus in a row in July, after a small deficit in February linked to floods and other weather-related disruptions.
Australia's Trade Surplus Widens in June
In seasonally adjusted terms, the balance on goods and services was a surplus of $2,052m in June 2011, a fall of $647m on the surplus in May 2011.
Australia's Trade Surplus Widens in May
Australia's balance of goods and services was a surplus of $2.333 billion in May, seasonally adjusted, compared with an upwardly revised surplus of $1.617 billion in April, the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) said on July 5.
Australia's Foreign Trade Shows Recovery
In seasonally adjusted terms, the balance on goods and services was a surplus of $1,597m in April 2011, a fall of $94m on the surplus in March 2011.
Australia Reports Trade Surplus in March
Australia's balance on goods and services in seasonally adjusted terms was a surplus of A$1,740m in March 2011, a turnaround of A$1,827m on the revised deficit in February 2011.
In seasonally adjusted terms Australia recorded a trade deficit of $205m in February 2011, a turnaround of $1,638m on the revised surplus in January 2011.
Australian Trade Surplus Narrows in January
In seasonally adjusted terms, the balance on goods and services in Australia was a surplus of $1,875m in January 2011, a decrease of $143m on the surplus in December 2010.
Australia's Trade Surplus Drops in December
In seasonally adjusted terms, the balance on goods and services was a surplus of $1,981m in December 2010, a decrease of $97m on the surplus in November 2010.
Australia's Trade Surplus Decreases in November
In seasonally adjusted terms, the balance on goods and services was a surplus of $1,925m in November 2010, a decrease of $636m on the surplus in October 2010.
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Dear White People Addresses Problems That Also Exist In Germany
Written by Kemi
Art by Coco
When Netflix released the trailer for Dear White People, the Internet’s right-wing commentators went livid, calling for a boycott of the show that allegedly promotes “reverse racism” and white genocide. The incredibly upsetting message of the 0:34 second long trailer that made people lose their shit: blackface is not acceptable.
Based on Justin Simien’s film of the same name, the series is set in the imaginary Ivy League campus of Winchester where the protagonist Sam hosts the radio show Dear White People in which she addresses race issues. In one episode she is asked a question that also appears all over the Internet: How would everyone react if there was a show called Dear Black People? Sam’s dry response is that there’s no need for such a show, as that’s exactly what Fox News is already doing.
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Black people… such reverse racists!
The title may be controversial and racism is a central theme – but the series is everything but racist and the problems it addresses are just as prevalent in Germany and beyond. Berlin is popularly considered to be Germany’s progressive hope but ask a Black person living here and they will have many story to tell about strange encounters with white people – from being stared at on public transport to terrified women holding tighter to their handbags when they see Black men, to being told to speak quietly in clubs or restaurants – the list is pretty long.
Blackface
The aftermath of a blackface party that got crashed by the BSU dominates the conversation in the first episodes. US college campuses have a history of racially insensitive costume parties but the practice is widely seen as problematic. In Europe, however, blackface is still seen as an acceptable way of celebrating “traditions”. From carnival parades to Black Piet to the Three Wise Men to various theater and TV performances – Black people are still seen as a legit source of inspiration for “costumes” and shows that are meant to entertain white audiences.
Yes, hair. Even post-Solange there’s still a lot to be discussed. From Afros that are explored by white hands to jokes about natural hairstyles vs. weaves, Dear White People, proves that something as normal as hair can still be exotified, politicised or ridiculed when it belongs to Black people. In Germany, meanwhile the news has spread that it’s impolite to just reach for the hair of a stranger but everyone living here who wears their hair the way it naturally grows out of their head has heard some kind of comment about how that’s an act of rebellion or resistance – which is just plain stupid.
The Black ambassador for absolutely everything
There’s a scene where Sam is the only Black student in the lecture hall. She’s busy taking notes while her professor begins to talk about slavery. While looking at her, he repeatedly asks if there is anyone in the room who has a special connection to the subject until everyone stares at her expectantly. Situations like these are totally normal for Black people in white societies like Germany, but on top of that there’s an annoying tendency to be made the ambassador for Black culture globally. Another common thing institutions such as universities like to do is including Black students in PR pictures as a living proof of them being “international”.
Colourism
Unlike Sam, her former friend Coco tries her best to fit in and be accepted by her white peers and the world they stand for. She is also the one who calls out Sam’s light-skin privilege, arguing that Sam isn’t a “real sister” and can get away with murder because she resembles the white people she’s bashing in her radio show. Of course colourism isn’t just an American phenomenon. The few Black people in German film, TV and ads are usually light-skinned, female and thrown in to spice things up a little bit – and the emphasis is on a little bit.
Even Winchester isn’t safe from gun-wielding assholes. In its most intense episode, Dear White People shows how hard it is to dust yourself off, carry on as usual and get ready for the next blow after a completely unnecessary, excessively aggressive encounter with the campus police. Germany, like many other European cities, has a history of racially motivated police violence against Black people. N’deye Mareame Sarr, Oury Jalloh, Laye Conde, Christy Schwundeck, and Ousman Sey all died under police custody in Germany. Their deaths prove that failure to properly investigate deaths of Black people under police custody isn’t just an American problem, it’s an international one.
Dear White People launched on Netflix at the end of April and if you’re immune to the humour of the show, you might just be a part of the problem.
This article originally appeared in i-D Germany.
If you live in Berlin and are interested in discussing what it means to be white and woke, make sure to visit Him Noir’s workshop White on the outside, woke on the inside on May 20th.
June is Black Lives Matter month. Visit their website for infos on what’s happening in the capital, and their international site for events in other cities.
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10 Questions With... Alberto Alfonso
By Andrew Stone
Cuban-born architect Alberto Alfonso, AIA, helms his eponymous, 30-person firm from Ybor City, Florida. Alfonso and team have captured significant industry awards and captivated the design world with their thoughtful work. The 16,000 acre Streamsong Resort and Conference Center in Polk County, Florida is one of the most talked-about U.S. hospitality projects of recent years. Meanwhile his team has displayed diversity, prudency, ecological responsibility, and innovation with the Tampa International Airport terminal, Nielsen Media Research campus, Tampa Covenant Church , USF nursing college building and health centers. They are currently at work on the Museum of the American Arts & Crafts Movement in St. Petersburg, Florida, expected to open in 2017.
Here, Alfonso shares his take on organic collaboration, Florida sunlight, liturgical construction, and his refusal to compromise.
Docservis: The Museum of the American Arts & Crafts Movement in St. Petersburg, Florida has tapped you—with your modernist ways—to create a vast space for its collection. How did this partnership come to pass, and what can people expect?
Alberto Alfonso: My client had seen an installation gallery I had completed for Dale Chihuly and just walked in cold one day, announcing he wanted to design a museum for his nationally significant Arts and Crafts collection. He is Italian, and as I have a second home there we sort of understood each other immediately. Sometimes that chemistry just pops. He instantly understood the position that the art is the art and the building is the building, which could be deadly territory when considering the stylistic repercussions of the movement. I had just returned from Vicenza on one of my many Carlo Scarpa runs over the years, and we discussed Castelvecchio and the Canova Gipsoteca and how Scarpa handled the art, presenting it in nontraditional ways. Similarly, our project is a museum where the objects are permanently fixed, so we are designing the object placements with the architecture in very specific ways, in reference to natural light, materiality, and sequence. It is a very intense and collaborative process between Rudy and I; we review every decision together.
ID: What are some of the considerations you take to heart when taking on a high-traffic project—be it retail, industrial, hospitality, or ecclesiastical?
AA: I assume “high traffic” meaning moving large volumes of people frequently, yes? Pragmatically, there is always the consideration of wear and abuse over time when selecting materials. Our work leans toward a direct and clean aesthetic, which if we are not thoughtful can age poorly. I was thrilled to be in our Southwest Airlines terminal recently and it looks like the day we opened almost ten years ago.
Additionally, materials with durability usually are in conflict with acoustical quality in these large and loud spaces. We try to avoid parallel walls and incorporate one receptive surface.
ID: Can you let us know about some of the other projects on your plate that are adding interesting new realms to your practice?
AA: I am constantly amazed at the diverse scales and building typologies in the studio. I’m currently finishing a poured-in-place concrete house that I call the little brother to the museum. Houses are wonderful testing grounds for other work. Following our resort, Streamsong, which you published, we have picked up three boutique hotels in Antiqua, Palm Springs, and Ybor City. I never wanted to do so many of a type, but the settings and artistic boutique vibe of each is quite exciting—an island, a desert, and a historical district.
I’m also designing a large cancer facility that is both rewarding and challenging to implement our standard of process in that building type. Lastly, we are in a competition to design the St. Petersburg Pier, which I had struggled over entering after the difficult and tragic overturn of my friend Michael Malzen’s project last year. We are one of the only firms doing a new proposition.
ID: How does your evident “anthropological savvy” serve the projects worked upon by your firm?
AA: One could say that being Cuban and owning a home in Italy brings a cross-cultural anthropological influence to our work. Our American pace, the temporal aspect to our built environment, consumption of technology and media, and the speed at which we find ourselves processing new information all seem to be counterpointed to my Cuban-Italian models. We seem to be in a period of resistance, subconsciously slowing down our processes and getting to a timeless essence in the work. The economy is roaring back, and we seem to be more careful and wary in the design process, trying to bring an experiential depth and silence to the work. It’s impossible to self-critique your architecture without thinking anthropologically.
ID: With your liturgical projects, these sacred spaces, you’re inevitably dealing with tight financial considerations and durability issues as well as great passion about the resonance of the space itself… What are some of the questions that must be asked to successfully consummate an ecclesiastical project?
AA: Our budgets have been very tight on these projects. This has led to a primary design focus of natural daylight to edit less on materiality and activate the spatial conditions. Tampa Covenant became a thesis in the studio on the use of direct and indirect light to support program and ceremony. Florida light is intense, and needs to be handled carefully or it will blow out a liturgical space like the overexposure of a photograph. As a painter I’ve always been drawn more to the Chiaroscuro handling of light and shadow to support sacred space.
ID: What are some of the common traits among the members of your team? How do you identify an ideal employee to come work with you?
AA: There is a longstanding inner core of the studio that dates back to our education at the University of Florida. My brother, Carlos, and I joined my father and two of my classmates over 30 years ago. My father has since passed, but that core still remains. So there is a Florida philosophy of design, and the way we make buildings has remained true to that ethos. We still rely on model-making and physical hand drawing to develop the projects. We design until the last day of construction. Our employees are very loyal, and stay for long career stints. There is a continuity and clarity in our process that we all share. I would hope that the fire that drove us to become architects still burns in the studio, 30 years later.
ID: What would you say are the great opportunities and responsibilities of individuals working within the design world today?
AA: It is great to see America moving into a higher social consciousness, where good design is celebrated and talked about. Blogs and the Internet have pushed the debate and there is now social dialogue about civic architecture and the qualities of our cities. That said there are still many troubling buildings going up around us that give pause… missed opportunities. So I feel institutions like the AIA and other governance boards have the responsibility to remain relevant in the discourse.
ID: Your firm is recognized for its smart, reverential sense of site-specific design. How do you familiarize yourself with the climate and area-specific needs of a particular project, and how do you guide your staff and collaborators to stay aware of these needs?
AA: “Reverential” is a great way to describe our focus on site and its role in our process. We are constantly looking for the poetic driver to the project, that definer of the soul. Many times that is drawn from the site, whether it is the history of the place as memory, or the physical aspect of the site from a climate and environmental bent. There are obvious grounding principals to site, such as sun and wind that the architecture will always react to. The intangible discoveries are what give the projects their individual, non-formulaic characteristics that keep the work fresh.
ID: How does your life as an exhibiting artist lend itself to your architecture practice? Does having these complimentary disciplines round out your life and times, or keep you balanced?
AA: My father was a gifted artist, and I’ve always had that desire in me. It is an interesting reflection on balancing my life as an architect and a painter. I purposely try not to paint to support the architectural investigations, and let those linkages happen intuitively. I tend to go on long runs of an idea almost as a meditation exercise. My dear friend, the poet Ed Mayes, and I exchange poems and paintings daily for over a year. I just completed over 200 paintings for Streamsong over a two-year period. I feel the painting has enriched the architectural process by pushing me in directions I wouldn’t otherwise creatively have gone.
ID: What inspires you today, and how does this inspiration hearken back or diverge from the inspiration you took at the start of your career?
AA: I think our work is still wildly optimistic, and remains as inspired as when we began. We are now being recognized for our body of work, and our clients now expect a certain something special. There is less convincing required. Charlie Gwathmey told me early, “Never compromise, never bend the knee.” We have always felt like we pushed hard, and drew inspiration from our mentors, our professors, our elders. Additionally, I am always inspired by the talented people I have the privilege to collaborate with daily.
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I don’t like obscenities, and I don’t speak obscenities, but the right to use obscenities hits on a fundamental right that Americans hold dear.
As background, first came the US Supreme Court decision in June 2017 in Matal v. Tam when the court struck down the Lanham Act’s prohibition of registering “disparaging” marks as a violation of the First Amendment’s free speech clause. In that case, an Asian-American rock band called “The Slants” was originally denied trademark registration based on the name being disparaging. As a result of this case, the Washington Redskins, whose longstanding trademark registration was cancelled in 1999 for being disparaging after having been registered 40 years earlier was reinstated.
Okay, now for the obscenity.
A certain trademark application was rejected by the US Patent and Trademark Office based on a determination that the mark was obscene and therefore a violation of the Lanham Act’s ban on “immoral or scandalous” trademarks. Specifically, the trademark examining attorney found that the mark was vulgar and scandalous. The US Federal Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in In re Brunetti on December 15, 2017 that based on the Supreme Court decision mentioned above in Matal v. Tam, the “immoral and scandalous” ban of the Lanham Act was an unconstitutional violation of the right of free speech. Specifically, the court reasoned that “the immoral or scandalous provision [of the Lanham Act] targets a mark’s expressive message, …” Therefore, obscene words, though objectional by many, are a protected expression under the First Amendment.
The two cases referenced above overturn 70-year old restrictions on trademark registrations. The likely outcome? Prepare to be affronted by many new “objectional” marks that will surely, and quickly, be registered. Such marks will include obscenities, sexual innuendos, drug use references, negative religious figure references, and for other possibilities, just use (or don’t use) your imagination.
So, if you’ve read this post this far, you are probably a bit curious just what was the obscene mark under discussion. Well, if you read the beginning of this post, you also know that I don’t use obscenities. However, to satisfy your curiosity, if you must, you can follow this link to the case: http://www.cafc.uscourts.gov/sites/default/files/opinions-orders/15-1109.Opinion.12-13-2017.1.PDF
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Social Media Predictions Wrapped Up in 13 Oxymorons
December 29, 2013 Social Content Marketingcontent marketing, social media predictionsjmbarry
Had your fill of Social Media Predictions? Some say this is the age of advocacy and experience marketing. Others say it’s the year of proprietary audience, content purpose, content quality and SoLoMoPro. One thing is for certain. This is the year of the oxymoron.
Definition of an oxymoron: two opposing words or concepts.
If you assume that most social media experts are correct in their predictions, then we are likely entering a year of:
Personalized Anonymity
Erasable Relationships
Paid Trust
Unwinding Fatigue
Longer but Shorter-Form Content
Smaller Use of Big Data
Interrupting Permission Marketing
More Exact Estimates
Acting Naturally
A Pretty Ugly Facebook
In summary brands should focus on building lasting, but ephemeral relationships using outbound techniques for inbound marketing in an anonymous, but highly personal media. What’s wrong with this picture?
Call it social privacy, the term itself is a contradiction. But consider this paradox in objectives. Organizations today are arguably more concerned about data security than ever before. From Edward Snodan’s Big Brother NSA revelations to HealthCare.gov’s security concerns and Target’s massive data leaks, security breaches have made more brands sensitive to their domain privacy.
At the same time, they are embracing cloud resources more than ever to help scale their social media participation. It sounds like they are taking measures for their public space to be private and their private space to go public?
Following the Weinergate saga and other public snafus, consumers are also getting sensitive to their social privacy. The early successes of Snapchat and Whisper are testimony to the rising popularity among Millennials to erase any potential of wrongdoing or less than desirable make-up.
At the same time, we expect high-context content to reach these audiences with hyper-targeted precision that is now possible from knowing what they like, where they are, what they are doing and who they are with. So are we trying to find out as much as we can about anonymous fans?
And don’t forget to build lasting relationships and lifetime value with these folks before the media expires. You have 6 seconds to make that happen on Vine. If they are using ephemeral media, you better hit the resend over and over and over.
Ephemeral Media: This Tape will Destruct in 5 Seconds
This tape will self destruct in 6 seconds.
Most agree we now have to pay-to-play for fans to notice our posts in their News Feeds. But wasn’t the purpose for maximizing organic reach to reward routine engagement of communities with relevant content? In return, these brands would be rewarded high exposure from those that supposedly know, like and trust the brand. So doesn’t ”pay-to-play” imply “buy my trust?”
A common complaint cited in many 2014 social media predictions relates to social media fatigue. The reduced attention span of consumers is pressuring brands to consider shorter bursts of video based content.
But wait. Don’t forget to pack more into our audience’s decompression time. Podcasting and wearable computer technologies are expected to rise in popularity as burned out content users seek more ways to cram in content at the gym, in the car and on the couch.
Do you remember the early definitions of inbound marketing or permission-based marketing? We were avoiding the use of interrupting and non-permissive advertising techniques which were more about “telling us” rather than “inviting us.” The concept relied on the use of social media and content marketing to earn the attention of prospective customers.
This contrasted to the more interrupted style of broadcasted, outbound marketing. But with a deluge of competing content, many brands are quickly resorting to the promotion of links and social ads to their content. i.e., we are using outbound approaches to trigger our inbound marketing.
Longer but Shorter Content
Many experts predict 2014 will be the year where attention span deterioration forces a greater consumption of short-form, video content. Consumers will expect 15-second Instagram videos and other micro-content. And many experts agree that short-form will trump long-form in viewership and engagement.
At the same time, top social media forecasters are predicting an inordinate rise in longer-form content as brand publishers response to what Google’s search algorithms prefer in their high quality content assessments. So the long and short of it is: ”Tweet a teaser to your richer media experience and more complete brand story where and when Google’s Hummingbird and a more available audience will give you the time of the day.”
Big data is the arguably the most cited trend in 2014 social media predictions. We have reached a point where massive amounts of contextual, historical and real-time data will be married to predictive behavior models for the perfectly hyper-targeted and behaviorally matched content. And all of this will be consumed on a smartphone, wristband or tiny watch.
Big Data for Smaller Screens
Marketing in the year 2014 is often referred to as the age of engagement, entertainment and education. So we are being entertained and educated at the same time? How cool is that? Why couldn’t Sister Jolene understand that? We were only disrupting her teaching in response to the entertainment value she apparently didn’t recognize.
Almost every 2014 social media prediction claims this is the year we crack the social ROI code. Really? So through native ad tracking and other big data revelations, we will now know the return on influence?
Granted our measurement methods are far more precise than what we could muster up from traditional advertising. But even the most trackable content marketing program requires a great deal of time to get real data. The most we could probably expect from recent advances in closed loop analytics and big data are more exact estimates.
This is perhaps the ultimate oxymoron. If anything, the emergence of wearable and other social technologies has hijacked relationships and promoted an anti-social atmosphere. If we are truly saddened by the hyper-texting culture witnessed during Thanksgiving dinner, imagine the deterioration of intimacy and conversation when Google glasses hit the market.
With videos taking over content marketing as perhaps the most often cited 2014 prediction, brand publishers will have to develop a personal touch. One way to avoid the often criticized “corporate-speak” demeanor is to make a personal connection through a likeable persona. And to do this effectively, many social video experts suggest that we simply act naturally. Got it?
But aren’t we then acting? Or are we being natural? Or perhaps we are innately acting out our alter egos in a staged enactment of who we really are not but could be in a contrived natural setting. Maybe we should just be ourselves.
Pretty Ugly Facebook
We knew it was a matter of time before the once darling of the social media world lost its luster. Millennials, in particular, are flocking to Tumblr, Snapchat and even Twitter as their distrust and dissatisfaction with Facebook grows. And by earning the lowest score in the business value, marketers have expressed their disappointment in Facebook as well.
And with the recent strides made by Pinterest, a revamped Google+ and a LinkedIn Pulse/Slideshare/Hootsuite make-over, it’s no wonder Snapchat refused to bite on a $3 billion offer from Facebook. Only time will tell if pay-to-play will be the bane of its legacy. But for now, Facebook is looking pretty ugly.
So what can you add to this year’s social media oxymorons?
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40 thoughts on “Social Media Predictions Wrapped Up in 13 Oxymorons”
I think there is not so much to do with so many social media companies around the world now. Unless, companies will think about redirecting their profile into database like their do before, that will help a better relationship among social media. Another oxymoron I noticed from social media prediction planning is that all social media will certainly one day unify them to a better communication system. Wilt the emerging technology, we may see that Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn will have a closer relationship, for better communication
brittany Middlemiss says:
The future of TV is very connected with the future of mobile. Once brands can figure out how to sync messaging across the TV experience to the mobile experience, that’s when things will start to get interesting. On the Go Viewing HBO was one of the networks to recognize how viewers habits are changing, resulting in the launch of the HBO GO app, which enables subscribers to watch its programming from a variety of devices. Mobile users have also embraced services such as Hulu to access TV programming from their mobile devices. Privacy is always the biggest concern, when you hear stories of people being hacked. Every time you search online for the best restaurant deal, share good news or bad with your Facebook friends, or tweet to your followers, your “audience” is bigger than you know. That’s because you’re every online move leaves cyber footprints that are rapidly becoming fodder for research without you ever realizing it. Using social media for academic research is accelerating and raising ethical concerns along the way, as vast amounts of information collected by private companies — including Google, Microsoft, Facebook and Twitter — are giving new insight into all aspects of everyday life.
Adriana Gioia says:
Public Privacy
What I can add is finding a solution for privacy. Nowadays, you try to be within the social media, but at the same time you do not want all your stuff to become public because of the majority of hacks, so everybody sees it and you are not able to get it private again.
Thank you, Tyson. You response as well as your sharing to others is greatly appreciated.
Thank you, Matthew. I greatly appreciate the accolades.
Jacob Brett says:
Privacy is becoming increasingly more public in a number of avenues.
Within social media many platforms like Facebook, Instagram, Linkedin and
Snapchat have options to keep content within a set group public while this
information remains private to those outside the group. Even if your intent is to
keep you information private, the NSA spying, an increasing number of hacks and
Social Platforms leaking information during software updates it’s making private
information more public. And once this information becomes available it’s very
difficulty to make public information private once again
Daniel Cohen says:
As we enter in to the New Year 2014, most social media market experts predict new oxymoron will change the way companies use social media marketing right now, specifically on the way social media users express their feeling and thoughts towards companies, products and services. The idea is to create a stronger relationship between brands and costumers by making their message disappear on the web after a short period, which obligates costumers to keep posting their opinions again and again on the social media channels. However, other schools of thought fell that in contrast, the year 2014 will witness more confusion on this area because this focus will make users less brand royal and with it will lead to more erasable relationship between costumers and brands making them change their brand loyalties and switching to other competitors brands easier.
I share your sentiments, Daniel. It is difficult to see how disappearing media will allow enough history evidence to support a lasting relationship.
maria luisa chamma braga says:
Who doesn’t check reviews before buying a product or service? Social media serves as a tool to guide and make up consumers mind, through what friends, fan and followers say and do. Everything is linked to the accessibility of the social medias and their influence. Free contend is here for everybody, and this mean companies have to pay attention to each detail.
Nancy Casimir says:
In addition to the already existing facebook, twitter and instagram, an influx of new social media apps allow for the term humble narcissism to take place among users. Many users tend to keep the trend of over exposing themselves with the veil of appearing humble or holding some type of humility that can be hidden through their words. Allowing the user to post an abundance of pictures of themselves but yet talk about how ugly, they feel pushes the audience to post positive comments or even add more likes to make the user feel good about themselves, when in fact they may be vain in nature and just seeking more attention. Most of the existing social media only allow for “likes,” and comments can always be erased, so therefore feeding the narcissist nature of some users.
Gordon Henry MKT 5955 says:
With so many people in today’s society concerned about the scrutiny of web security, one oxymoron comes to mind – secure database sharing. Many organizations and companies used web based worksites to share, manipulate, and transfer data throughout their many departments and chambers. While most companies have benefitted greatly from their use of database sharing thanks to the ever changing web technologies that make jobs and people more efficient, the security of it can still be highly compromised. The more eyes that have access to any database will always pose a threat to the security of a companies data.
Miya Morris says:
I agree with the social oxymoron. Now a days people in general are asking for privacy through privacy agreements on social cites. Yet most people post Instagram images on everything that they do or make FaceBook posts about the way they are feeling and why they feel this way. There is no way privacy and social media can go hand and hand because there are reposts and posts about everything at the touch of a button. These posts and hashtags have a huge impact on the pay for play marketing because companies and strategically place ads and surveys on where the most users are that relate to their content
Saffira Issa says:
I agree with social technology being a big oxymoron. People are becoming more and more anti-social due to all the social media and technology. It is so common now to walk by a restaurant and everyone at the table is on their phone and not communicating with each other. Eating is also not the same since Instagram came along. Before you would get your food and started eating. Now when the server comes with the food, people start taking a bunch of pictures, upload to Instagram or any other social media and when they are finally done posting they decide to start their meal. There is barely any networking going on now a day everyone is just on his or her phones. My parents are pretty strict about phones; we are not allowed to use them while eating at the table or when we are out in restaurants. So whenever I go to have lunch or dinner with friends it is already a habit to put my phone away. But my friends are constantly on their phones and when you talk to them they do not even hear you, which can be really frustrated.
Reina Webb says:
Limited free speech has become a social media oxymoron. Individuals that represent brands tend to use social media to speak up for or against certain social issues must tread water very lightly. Their personal opinions too often are associated with their brand associations. These days we are experiencing limited use of free speech in open social media outlets. With social responsibility becoming more of an expectation, consumers want to hear how their brands are supporting such efforts. However, being too vocal or negative can tarnish or become a detriment to a brands image, as it may offend opposing or liberal supporters of that brand.
Adrien Alexander says:
Unwinding Fatigue is probably this year’s biggest oxymoron! Social media audiences once turned to social sites like Facebook and Twitter to unwind from the daily tension of their lives, however, now these sites have become battle grounds for brands seeking to win popularity amongst these innocent consumers. Social audiences think they are going to set down, relax and check out what content, pics and videos their friends have posted or twitted for the day, instead they get lost in all the non-permissive advertising and sign off of these sites with more mental exertion than when they signed on.
MIYA L BROWN says:
The Social Media oxymorons your presented made very good sense…when you sit and really absorb the information presented. Last year we saw an increased instance of Cyber Bullying, which translates into another oxymoron…Social Media and Civility or Courteousness or Consideration or Respect or Politeness or Good Manners. Enough already, you get the point? 2014 will present more of the same.
When many of us were youngsters, bullying happened on the way to school, at school, on the way home from school, and in our neighborhood. Now, individuals are experiencing “cyber bullying”. Somehow these individuals don’t identify stalking and posting nasty rumors or comments on an individual’s page as bullying! It’s easy to post comments anonymously…Many states have adopted laws against cyber bullies called “Anti-bully laws”. These laws are bullying the bullies instead of attacking the problem head-on.
In essence, when we read comments for the various articles we can see traces of our lack of civility. These individuals hide behind bogus screen names and attack the writer, blogger, or individuals that are identified in the article. This is all backed by “free speech”, but someone has to pay! We no longer Respectfully agree to disagree or give anyone else’s opinion Consideration. Social Media and Civility are like vinegar and water. When the bottle is opened it can lead to instances of Cyber Bullying. What is an oxymoron anyway?
WILLIAM MCBRIDE says:
“Imprecise Science”
Social marketing is a fascinating yet imprecise science. Science is understood to be a reliable and teachable body of knowledge. In social marketing, there are no absolutes that are transferable. The world is fascinated with social media; and businesses are obsessed with developing a social marketing strategy, yet it does not lend itself to a precise and teachable understanding of its impact on business. It is therefore, an imprecise science; a project in development. The dynamics of infrastructure, technology, SEO and efficacy measurements are so fluid that they do not lend themselves to finite guidelines that are transferable from person to person. Therefore learning is a limited to a sharing of past experiences; hopefully recent ones given the segments rapid evolution.
Recent trends in social marketing indicate effectiveness will depend upon personalized, hyper focused and contextual relevant messaging. True learning may only come from applying prior experiences to the specific task at hand. One must have a grasp of general social trends and apply them in a creative, personalized and authentic way. What is more important, the art or the science of this process?
Roberta Shepherd says:
Passive aggressive behavior can be generally described as a non verbal aggression that sometimes results in to negative behavior. Passive aggressive do not always mean you are angry and resentful. One can appear as if they are friendly, polite, kind, and down to earth. When marketing online with consumers you do not want to exemplify passive aggressive behavior like: non communication when there is something problematic, procrastinating with consumers updates, suggestions, and feedback, and ambiguity not fully engaging in conversations with targeted online consumers. The reason why you do not want to demonstrate passive aggressiveness when communicating with consumers online because you do not want whatever you are trying to say at the time come off as being rude or just not helpful to the consumer. Its can possibly destroy one’s business.
Christina Kitterman says:
Cloud Control.
The glaring oxymoron in 2014 is the push for data storage on secure “cloud” servers. Cloud-based applications and/or data storage companies claim that the information you store on their “cloud” will be safe, secure and solely in your control. The problem is that no one really knows what the “cloud” is and where the “cloud” is located. One thing is certain, you are not in control of the “cloud.” Without complete control of your cloud data, don’t be surprised if the cloud causes a catastrophic thunderstorm dispersing your data throughout the online universe.
Kraig Washington says:
Stagnant Content Maturation
Call it the age of (flashback of the Viagra commercial) what is old is new again. Myspace out, Facebook in. Facebook is now old, replaced by Instagram and twitter. Instagram vitality is ending; Snapchat is the new rage. Wait 10 seconds later and Snapchat disappears overtaken by Vine. In present form, social media has reached its maturity. Old applications are just being refurbished and repackaged under a different name/app. Entirely new content is not being created. Social media is in a trough. Like a high-rise one floor built on top of the other, old content is being built upon, but entirely new content/ideas are not being created. We are living in an age of stagnant content maturation.
Kelly Johnson says:
An oxymoron for online marketing would be the Inconspicuous sales pitch. I’m an avid follower of fashion and music blogs/ communities, and I can’t help but dissect an editorial and try to piece together the ways I’m constantly being promoted material or coereced to buy a product. It’s not necessarily a negative thing; it goes hand in hand with “Acting Natural”. For this reason, I think that more “under the radar” communities like Tumblr, and Soundcloud for music consumption are going to have to work hard to maintain that “share-what-we-love for free” model. Although recently, tumblr has adopted paid ads, and promoted blogs; it is still not a part of everyday life the way Twitter and Instagram, or Pandora is for its users.
Darnell Ho-Koon says:
A New Classic
Does this not remind you of the saying, “out with the old, and in with the new”? In the case of the following a new classic, we can think of this as an innovation to the wheel. As this generation looks into the future, we must learn to create imaginative strategies that enrich the lives of others, build a relationship with our audience, and symbolize the companies brand image; however, one still must start with the foundation of marketing. According to an article posted on Marketing TechBlog, Classic and Digital Marketing were compared in 10 different ways. Although they were similar in engagement they had a different approach.
Oren Mor says:
As society transitions into a more technologically advanced, smartphone-dominated world, the marketing channels through which consumers are targeted will gravitate towards a seemingly “virtual reality.” With longer workdays, shorter breaks, and the challenging task of maintaining an adequate work-life balance, marketers in 2014 must create brief, attention-grabbing advertisements that leave a mark in the consumers mind.
It is estimated that over 91% of American adults have a cell phone. Will we begin to witness the next wave of marketing and consumer outreach through these means? Can companies get their messages across effectively while provoking consumers to make desired purchasing decisions? Companies in today’s competitive market will face these new challenges and must generate effective solutions.
Leanna Amarsingh says:
Today a lot of people are so immersed with modern technology. I believe that virtual reality is going to become a new trend in 2014. People always want to be in an environment with which they can be in control of and feel as if it is real. Now since Google is coming out with the Google glass, it will become a new trend and become popular. Google glass allows you to take pictures, record videos, and get directions to a location. Instead of wearing a helmet, you get to wear a pair of glasses with an optical head-mounted display. These glasses are considered to be a wearable computer.
Everything is becoming so technology based that eventually people would not know what reality is. It is already happening because people are always on their phones or tablets.
Jose Libos says:
Social media = less results and filled airtime.
Now a days social media sites are basically the same. They are filling airtime. By filling airtime I mean they truly just aren’t helping individuals with the task of making a name for themselves. People often do this in order to make a long lasting impression and get an audience “hooked” on their personal brand.
As opposed to cyber friends or followers, real friends can actually aid you in performing a physical task. An example of this would be make you food when you are sick, get you a cup of water when you are thirsty, or take you out when you are upset. Social media connections can act as friends too. You can inform a brand of a potential client or about a job opening in specific work fields.
I think this would be a good week go through your friends/ followers and see if there’s anything you can do for anyone. You might end up with a real friend which in turn could just be more valuable right now than the financial ROI we’re all waiting to see come from personal branding and social media hype of 2014.
Danny Rogover says:
Exclusive Mass-Marketing
I personally believe exclusive mass marketing will be a social media oxymoron for 2014. In todays society customers a very fickle; it is no longer effective to send out hundreds of thousands of standardized news letters, e-mails, offers and etc. Today customers want to feel somewhat important and not just like another number. This can be done through personalized emails or special deals, granted some retailers do this to their top clients. However, at the same time retailers will not what to alienate potential new customers by making them feel like their just another number.
Johanna Mejia says:
A new oxymoron for 2014 social media will be the way people login to different website. Technology is on the rice and it’s hard for people to keep track of all their user names and passwords which is why most new websites are allowing you to login with your social media login information. For example, when logging in to a game (candy crush) they will ask you if you would like to connect through Facebook and that’s how they capture the customer information. It’s basically more convenient for customers not having to enter their home address or email address; everything is capture in their social media account. As the years go by, many businesses will start using this form of logging in their websites. But it make me question what happens to those individuals that don’t own any social media, it won’t be convenient for them.
open circuit
With so much to speculate about changes in the way society views social media, one oxymoron that comes to mind is “encrypted file sharing”. Organizations at every level now use supposedly secure database websites to share, exchange, and transfer data. Although this form of data file sharing is essential, and most organizations go to extensive lengths to secure these files, the more people that have access, the less secure it becomes.
Brian Cahill says:
Certain Uncertainty:
We encounter constant technological advances and new changes quickly become obsolete. It has become extremely difficult for people, even experts, to correctly predict and anticipate the direction of new trends. The only thing that we can safely say is that we will not be able to determine, with great certainty, what the future of social media holds. Analysts can track patterns and trends but realize that there is no way for anyone to fully predict the precise direction of social media in the near future. Certain uncertainty describes how we can try to anticipate the future but must understand that all predictions are merely conjecture and nothing is for certain.
Devon Nicholson says:
I would argue that the “Original Copy” is an oxymoron worth adding. In this year we can expect lots of small companies and start-ups attempting to capitalize on the revival or expansion of old ideas. The influx of YouTube product review channels, the indie development craze are essentially taking what was once red and painting it blue. I believe branding is taking on a new form and it’s no longer about creating something that is “new” but ‘improved.” A more specific example would be a social networking application that allows users to upload and share content. The “original copy” would be if a competitor offered the same feature, but the user could also edit and create new content in addition to uploading.
Tiffany O. says:
Another oxymoron I would argue is Closer Further relationships. Social media develops relationships between people of all kinds and from all around the world and allows them to communicate through social media. It has gotten to a point where people post their thoughts and feelings on Twitter or Facebook instead of picking up the phone and telling their family and friends how they feel , or parents spying on their kids seeing what they are up to instead of just sitting down with their child and having an honest conversation. Although social media brings peoples together developing closer relationships it furthers people from one another. People are avoiding direct communication and looking to social media to express themselves therefore developing closer further relationships.
Neil Kendall says:
Passive Aggression is my new oxymoron for the 2014 Social Media Predictions. It was stated that marketing is going to be narrowed and more focused in 2014. As opposed to a company blasting their product or information onto the market and hoping for a positive response, companies will go after smaller, more specific demographics that fit their audience profile or buying trends. While companies are backing off in their approach (increased emphasis on emails as opposed to “in your face banners and ads”), they are making a more aggressive approach in emphasizing focus on a smaller, more targeted audience.
Omar Olortegui says:
Imposed Suggestions
Facebook paid- ads are presented as suggestions on your News Feed but they cannot be removed from it. They make the “suggestion” for you to like a page but do not give you the option to close or delete the ad. Also there is no option for not receiving this kind of advertisement. Since the beginning Facebook made a big effort to protect the privacy of its users by allowing them to customize privacy settings. However now they violate this trust by forcing you to see advertisement that was not requested in the first place. Time will tell if people can adjust to this imposition or Facebook will reconsider its strategy and looks for smarter ways to become profitable.
Giana says:
I find the oxymoron “social media privacy” becoming extremely more relevant as social media networks continue to alter their settings to make privacy options less available to users. Consequently, this is occurring at the same time as users are starting to realize the consequences of the content they share. Facebook has been especially focused in attempting to make user’s pages more visible than they would like. This can be attributed to the fact that it is contradicting for users to expect to keep their pages private when the objective is to be social. Because of this, it is becoming increasingly more important for users to pay attention to the content they are sharing and should assume anyone can see it.
Patty Strulovic says:
“Social media marketing” is THE oxymoron. Social media is supposed to be about connecting people and sharing common ideas. It is also to maintain existing relationships. Its about creating a bridge of communication between people. Social media is supposed to be used to create relationships based on trust.
Marketing to me is the complete opposite. Its about creating a “relationship” with a hidden agenda. Its about creating some sort of fake trust, to later try to persuade you to buy their product or service.
But for some reason, it works, people love to be a part of a group or niche in some social media platform, whether it is facebook, twitter or instagram; there will always be people who will bite the hook.
Tatiana Smidi says:
Another oxymoron, which I noticed from your work in “2014 Social Media Predictions from a Strategic Planning Perspective,” is Hyper-Focused Multi-tasking. You predicted that brands will be looking to develop and use dashboards or multi use applications that allow them to manage all the different social media outlets to reach their clients everywhere via each particular customer’s favorite platform type. Yet, these interactions are to be focus and highly tailored to the individuals and the platform itself. As demand for seamless, personalized interactions increase, so will the need for the proper technology tools to implement such conversations. Thus the creation of the Hyper-focused Multi-tasking enabling apps.
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Physicists Build Super-Powerful Tabletop Particle Accelerator | Popular Science
Physicists Build Super-Powerful Tabletop Particle Accelerator | Popular Science: "We have accelerated about half a billion electrons to 2 gigaelectronvolts over a distance of about 1 inch," Mike Downer, professor of physics says in a statement. "Until now that degree of energy and focus has required a conventional accelerator that stretches more than the length of two football fields. It's a downsizing of a factor of approximately 10,000..."
In order to create electrons of the energy level required to produce these X-rays, the team employed laser-plasma acceleration, which involves firing a brief but intensely powerful laser pulse into a puff of gas, using the Texas Petawatt Laser. Though the method was conceived of in the 1970s, a lack of sufficiently powerful lasers to perform it has kept scientists limited at 1 GeV accelerators.
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THE SMELL OF DEFEAT
We’ve Fought the NRA for Decades—We’ve Never Seen It as Panicked as It Is Now
There is a reason the Parkland survivors are being attacked so viciously.
Jim Kessler
Jon Cowan
Nicholas Kamm/Getty
In the immediate aftermath of the Parkland shooting, we drew on our combined 50 years of experience battling the National Rifle Association to predict that nothing would change on guns.
Those same 50 years of experience now tell us we were wrong. Why? Because we have never seen the NRA more vulnerable.
The NRA derives its power on one thing and one thing only: their ability to determine outcomes at the ballot box. In 1993, it knocked off Democratic Governor Jim Florio after he banned assault weapons in gun control-friendly New Jersey—a warning shot to blue state Democrats that even they could be beaten. In 1994, the group beat boll weevil House Democrats like Jack Brooks for supporting a crime bill that included gun restrictions, sending the message that even 30 years of pro-NRA votes didn’t mean jack if you crossed the gun lobby. Heck, even Bernie Sanders owes his first election for Congress to the NRA who called him the “more honorable choice for Vermont” when Republican incumbent Pete Smith bucked them. A Socialist is better than a Republican who messes with us, the group said.
This electoral lock now looks to be in jeopardy. The leadership at the NRA and the right wing are in a dither because Parkland teens have exposed that the NRA has a 20th century battle plan for a 21st century fight. Thanks to Parkland teenagers, everyone can see that the NRA made the wrong bets on geography; that it’s been complacent on technology; and that it may have lost an entire generation of future voters and office-holders.
This explains why the NRA, which has never been particularly modulated in its rhetoric, and many of its conservative media defenders, look especially unhinged today—from insisting that these teenage kids learn CPR instead of push for gun control, to mocking their college rejection letters, to comparing them to Nazis.
Losing breeds panic. And for the first time in a long time, the NRA is actually losing.
On geography, the NRA has always banked on winning solid rural support, breaking even in suburbia, while withstanding drubbings in urban America. The support is still there, but rural America is shrinking, with 1,351 rural counties having seen a population decrease since 2010.
With mass shootings claiming suburban victims, the NRA could have solidified its appeal by moderating on a handful of commonsense measures that even most of their members would support. Instead they stiffened their stance, worried about being outflanked by the even more extreme gun rights movement on the furthest right.
It was the wrong choice. Congressional districts will only become less rural when 2022 maps are drawn with the new census. Suburbanites who often have firearms in the home and who the NRA could count on to not really care that much about the gun issue, instead have flocked to rallies. Their geography is shrinking.
On technology, here’s one of the NRA’s many dirty little secrets. Among the five million members they claim to have, only an estimated 650,000 are politically active. That’s the number of dues-paying NRA members who subscribe to their activist magazine America’s First Freedom, and—not coincidentally—their number of Twitter followers. The NRA’s trick is to make those activists feel like five million when they flood officeholders with calls and threats.
The NRA probably thought 650,000 followers was a good army to amass over nine years on Twitter. Then Parkland survivor Emma Gonzalez took seven weeks to attract her 1.5 million followers. Each of her followers—as well as fellow survivor David Hogg’s 700,000—are putting pressure on officeholders every bit as effectively as the NRA did in the past.
And this led to their third miscalculation. They panicked after Parkland, and in so doing may have lost an entire generation of young people.
Before Parkland, the gun movement—on the right and on the left—was mostly middle-aged or older. When the NRA and their supporters belittled Parkland survivors with insults, conspiracy theories and threats, they unwittingly ignited an entire generation. There are 15 million kids in high school alone. For millions of them, their activism on this issue will stay with them forever.
Even before Parkland, cracks were starting to show in the NRA fortress. Pennsylvania Republican Pat Toomey won re-election to the Senate in 2016 because of, not in spite of, his authorship of a universal background check bill. NRA-backed Republican Senator Kelly Ayotte stuck with the NRA and lost to Democrat Maggie Hassan in New Hampshire with guns a major issue. And in the wake of Parkland, Florida Governor Rick Scott’s support of modest gun restrictions will more likely help, not hurt him in his anticipated Senate run against Democrat Bill Nelson as rural areas shrink.
When Republican officeholders in places like Georgia, North Carolina, Ohio and Indiana come to realize that an A-rating from the NRA is a liability, not an asset, the NRA’s Maginot line will break. The NRA has faced difficult times before, but from our vantage point this is the most vulnerable they’ve been in our professional lifetimes. That’s why they are flipping out.
Jon Cowan is President and Jim Kessler, @thirdwaykessler, is Senior Vice President for Policy at Third Way, a center-left think tank.
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Air Commodore Charles Clarke
If she will pay tribute to Air Commodore Charles Clarke OBE.
Mr Steve Baker
<p>Air Commodore Clarke was a great friend and ambassador of the Royal Air Force and a truly remarkable man.</p><p> </p><p>Air Commodore Clarke was a member of a World War Two Lancaster aircrew, and one of the last surviving prisoners of the Stalag Luft III Prisoner of War camp in Poland at the time of the great escape.</p><p> </p><p>Following a distinguished career in the RAF, he worked tirelessly as Chairman of the Bomber Command Association, not to mention his support for the RAF Association, RAF Benevolent Fund and the Air Cadets. His courage in the face of adversity is an inspiration to us all, and I know he will be sadly missed by all those who knew him.</p>
Penny Mordaunt
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Weedkillers: Cancer
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of whether the weedkiller RoundUp is a potential cause of cancer.
<p>Like all pesticides, Roundup (a range of weedkillers containing glyphosate) is subject to strict regulation to ensure that its use will not harm people or have unacceptable effects on the environment.</p><p> </p><p>The European Commission decided in December 2017 to approve glyphosate for continuing use until December 2022. The decision followed a scientific risk assessment by the European Food Safety Authority, which included a very close scrutiny of the evidence on whether glyphosate causes cancer. UK experts participated in that assessment and supported its conclusions.</p><p> </p><p>All pesticide products, including Roundup, are tightly regulated by the Health and Safety Executive. They are only authorised for use if scientific data demonstrates that they will not harm people or have unacceptable effects on the environment.</p><p> </p><p>We will continue to keep an active watch on the scientific evidence on glyphosate.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p>
Scarborough and Whitby
Mr Robert Goodwill
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Agriculture: Subsidies
To ask the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, what recent discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs on support for farmers after the UK leaves the EU.
Giles Watling
<p>The Secretary of State continues to have regular conversations with ministerial colleagues across Government on all aspects of exiting the EU.</p><p>To provide certainty to farmers and landowners, the Government has pledged to commit the same cash total in funds for farm support until the end of this Parliament. This commitment applies to the whole UK.</p><p>The Agriculture Bill will allow us to break from the Common Agricultural Policy and help our farming sector become more profitable whilst sustaining our precious natural environment.</p><p> </p>
Mr Robin Walker
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Wales Office
Origin Marking: Wales
What recent assessment the Government has made of the economic effect on producers of protected geographical indications for Welsh products.
Linlithgow and East Falkirk
Martyn Day
<p>I recognise the economic and cultural importance of geographical indications to all parts of the United Kingdom. There are 16 current Welsh products covered by the scheme, ranging from Halen Môn sea salt to Welsh lamb.</p><p> </p>
Alun Cairns
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Tourism and Foreign Investment in UK
What recent steps the Government has taken to promote (a) inward tourism and (b) foreign direct investment in Wales; and if he will make a statement.
<p>Last year, over 3000 jobs came to Wales through Foreign Direct Investment, through 57 projects of which 93% were supported by both my department and the Department for International Trade.</p><p>Between 2015 and 2018, the UK attracted more foreign direct investment in capital investment than France and Germany combined.</p>
Kevin Foster
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Carol Monaghan
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Department for Transport: Staff
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the distribution of local recognition awards in the last financial year was by (a) protected characteristic and (b) grades in his core Department.
<p>The information requested is not held centrally.</p>
Hereford and South Herefordshire
Jesse Norman
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Immigrants: Detainees
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what information contained in medical records from an individual in immigration detention can be shared with National Referral Mechanism Competent Authorities for purposes other than law enforcement.
Paul Blomfield
<p>Home Office Immigration Removal Centre staff have a duty to refer potential victims of modern slavery into the National Referral Mechanism.</p><p>Only data that is required to enable the Single Competent Authority to make a reasonable grounds decision may be shared. All data, including that held within medical records, can only be shared with an individual’s consent.</p>
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To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what data collected by Immigration Removal Centre staff on an individual in immigration detention can be shared with National Referral Mechanism Competent Authorities for purposes other than law enforcement.
Multinational Companies: Taxation
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to Answer of 29 April 2019 to Question 247155 on Multinational Companies: Taxation; for what reason Jersey, Guernsey and the Isle of Man were not included in the list of countries with a full tax treaty with the UK; and whether these jurisdictions will be covered by the offshore receipts in respect of intangible property rule.
Anneliese Dodds
<p>The scope of the legislation “Offshore Receipts in respect of Intangible Property” is limited to territories with which the UK does not have a full tax treaty. A “full treaty territory” is defined in the legislation as a treaty containing a non-discrimination provision. A non-discrimination provision is defined by reference to nationals of a state. Jersey, Guernsey and the Isle of Man are not “states”, they are territories for which the UK is responsible and so cannot meet that condition.</p><p> </p><p>It follows that the Crown Dependencies are within scope of the legislation. The government has committed to respecting its international obligations in respect of this measure. As such the provisions of the relevant treaties will apply to any arrangements involving the Crown Dependencies that are subject to the legislation, and the UK will provide for treaty relief where applicable.</p>
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Mineworkers' Pension Scheme
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps he plans to take following the agreement by the House on Monday 10 June 2019 to the motion on the Mineworkers' Pension Scheme.
<p>I have received a letter from Andrew Stephenson MP outlining the changes the Scheme Trustees have requested. I am currently considering these and will respond in due course.</p>
South West Norfolk
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Public Sector Debt
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the public sector net debt was in May 2017; and what estimate he has made of level of that debt by May 2022.
East Londonderry
Mr Gregory Campbell
<p>In May 2017 public sector net debt was 85% of GDP.</p><p>Forecasts for the level of debt are produced by the independent Office for Budget Responsibility. The OBR forecast debt levels at the end of March in each year, and do not provide an estimate of the debt level for each month.</p><p>Debt has begun its first sustained fall in a generation, three years before required by the fiscal rules. At Spring Statement 2019 the OBR forecast the level of public sector net debt in March 2022 will have fallen to 74.9% of GDP.</p>
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Treasury: Chief Scientific Advisers
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many meetings he held with his Department’s Chief Scientific Adviser between 1 March 2019 and 31 May 2019.
Norman Lamb
<p>HM Treasury is committed to ensuring that we access the very best scientific expertise. The Director for the Enterprise and Growth Unit, who is responsible for public science funding, acts as HM Treasury’s Chief Scientific Adviser and meets with the Chancellor of the Exchequer regularly.</p>
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Public Sector: Procurement
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to oral contribution of the Chief Secretary to the Treasury at the House of Lords Economic Affairs Committee meeting on 4 June what the selection process will be for the appointment of the delivery expert; and when that appointment will be announced.
Sir Patrick McLoughlin
<p>The Treasury will conduct a zero-based review of capital at the next Spending Review. It will include an assessment panel of Chief Economists from across government departments, who will provide technical assistance and expertise to Treasury officials scrutinising capital spending bids. These top economists will bring significant experience and expertise in appraising investment in many different sectors, covering economic and social infrastructure. The panel will also draw on the IPA, and functional expertise built up since 2015.</p><p> </p><p>The assessment panel will be formed ahead of the Spending Review.</p><p> </p>
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Winter Fuel Payments
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make an assessment of the administrative cost of means testing winter fuel payments.
<p>The Confidence and Supply Agreement with the Democratic and Unionist Party, sets out that there will be no change to the universal nature of the Winter Fuel Payment.</p><p> </p>
Children: Social Services
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether his Department has plans to ensure local authorities ringfence any future investment into children's services over the next five years.
Sir Mark Hendrick
<p>Individual local authorities have flexibility to set their own budgets and spend on services according to local need, priorities and to meet their statutory duties. Decisions on future funding for local government will be made in the round at the next Spending Review.</p>
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EU Grants and Loans: Easington
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much in EU funding Easington constituency has received in each of the last 10 years.
<p>The recently published Annual Statement on European Finances includes detailed information of the UK’s receipts in Annex D. It can be found online at: <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/806613/HMT_2018_Annual_Statement_on_European_Finances_web.pdf" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/806613/HMT_2018_Annual_Statement_on_European_Finances_web.pdf</a></p><p> </p><p>HM Treasury does not hold information on the total level of European Union funding awarded to individual constituencies.</p>
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will make it his policy to guarantee funding allocations to Easington constituency after the UK leaves the EU which (a) match or (b) exceed the current level of EU funding.
<p>The Government has highlighted the UK’s intention to explore a future relationship with the European Union, as well as a commitment to consider programmes which are in line with the UK’s priorities on science, education and innovation such as Horizon 2020 and Erasmus and which will benefit all parts of the UK.</p><p>The Government has also pledged to domestically replace some EU programmes such as structural funds, fisheries and agriculture if/when needed. The Government has committed to establish the UK Shared Prosperity Fund (UKSPF) after we have left the European Union and EU Structural Funds. The Government will put in place new, domestic, long-term arrangements to support the UK’s fishing industry from 2021, through the creation of four new schemes comparable to EMFF to deliver funding for each nation. Details of the operation and priorities of both Funds will be announced following the Spending Review.</p>
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what processes his Department uses with further education institutions to verify a child's full-time attendance in education in relation to the eligibility for child benefit payments.
Birmingham, Ladywood
Shabana Mahmood
<p>HMRC does not approach education institutions to verify information regarding eligibility for child benefit payments. The claimant is required to provide all the information necessary to support their claim. Details on how to claim can be found on <a href="https://www.gov.uk/child-benefit/how-to-claim" target="_blank">GOV.UK</a></p>
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To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the effect of the No Recourse to Public Funds condition on local authority budgets by local authority area.
Stella Creasy
<p>I have regular discussions with the Home Secretary and the Communities Secretary about their budgets, including the impact of any government policy that may affect local authority finances.</p><p> </p><p>We need to make sure our immigration system is fair, while also protecting the taxpayer. There are already exemptions to the ‘no recourse to public funds’ condition for those in genuine need, such as those facing destitution or to protect the welfare of a child. I would expect the relevant departments to raise any issues at the Spending Review, where we can consider how we fund our priorities across government.</p><p> </p><p>Local Government Core Spending Power is increasing in real terms this year. We have provided an additional £650m for social care in 2019-20.</p>
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Veterans: Northern Ireland
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what plans she has to bring forward legislative proposals to protect veterans accused of historic allegations relating to service in Northern Ireland.
Mr Marcus Jones
<p>The Ministry of Defence (MOD) intends to undertake a public consultation on legal protections measures for personnel deployed on operations overseas, including a statutory presumption against prosecution of current or former personnel for alleged offences committed in the course of duty abroad more than 10 years previously. Prosecutions in such circumstances would not be considered to be in the public interest, except in “exceptional circumstances”. The presumption measure would not apply to historical alleged offences in Northern Ireland. The Secretary of State for Defence will continue to work with the Northern Ireland Secretary on the proposals for addressing Northern Ireland legacy issues. The MOD provides veterans, including those who served in Northern Ireland, who are subject to investigation and potential prosecution with legal, welfare and pastoral support.</p>
Mark Lancaster
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Veterans: Prosecutions
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether her Department plans to introduce new protections to safeguard veterans from prosecution in relation to historic killings.
Veterans: Limitation of Actions
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if her Department will introduce a statute of limitations covering potential offences committed by veterans.
Veterans: Criminal Investigation
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of the pastoral support provided to veterans subject to historic investigations.
<p>Within the Army's Personnel Services Group (APSG), the Operational Legacy team coordinates welfare and pastoral support to Army veterans and serving personnel who are subject to historical investigations. APSG has drawn together all stakeholders (Including those in the Ministry of Defence, the appropriate Regimental Headquarters and Associations, the Confederation of Service Charities and 'ABF - The Soldiers' Charity') to ensure coherent pastoral support to veterans, under the primacy of the MOD's Veterans UK. This is incorporated into the recently announced UK-Wide Veterans' Strategy and is supported by £10 million of funding overall. I am confident that this demonstrates that the Department has a clear strategy and is meeting its obligations to veterans subject to historical investigations, whilst also protecting the Army's reputation for future generations of soldiers.</p>
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if her Department will ensure that all veterans who are under investigation in relation to historic cases in Northern Ireland are made aware of her Department's welfare and pastoral support.
<p>It is a very high priority for Defence to ensure that all personnel involved in Northern Ireland Legacy matters are offered, free, appropriate legal and pastoral support, taking account of individual circumstances, including health and wellbeing. For both inquests and criminal investigations, we contact every veteran as soon as we have been made aware of their potential involvement. This contact will signpost points of contact within the Ministry itself, (including the MOD's 'Veterans UK'); the Army, including the Army Personnel Services Group and Regimental Associations or equivalent organisations and relevant charities and third sector bodies. In addition, MOD officials are in frequent contact with veterans' organisations and other interested bodies and make every effort to publicise this support through appropriate channels, to ensure that the wider veterans' community has a channel through which they can contact the Department if appropriate. We also have appropriate points of contact so that those of whom we are not initially aware, can initiate contact with the right people.</p>
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, which local authorities in England collect recycling (a) weekly and (b) more than once a week.
<p>The attached spreadsheet sets out which local authorities in England collect recycling (a) weekly and (b) more than once a week.</p>
Dr Thérèse Coffey
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Council Housing: Standards
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what proportion of council homes meet the decent homes standard in each local authority in England.
<p>Everyone deserves a decent and safe place to live. We have seen clear improvements in decency in recent years. As at 1 April 2018, 4 per cent of local authority owned dwellings were non-decent across England. Over 516,000 local authority homes have been bought up to the Decent Homes Standard since 2010.</p><p>The Department publishes data on the proportion of local authority owned non-decent homes in each local authority area at the Local Authority Housing Statistics (LAHS) section F question 17, which can be found at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/local-authority-housing-statistics-data-returns-for-2017-to-2018" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/local-authority-housing-statistics-data-returns-for-2017-to-2018</a>.</p><p> </p>
Retail Trade: Urban Areas
What fiscal steps he is taking to support the high street.
<p>Budget 2018 announced Our Plan for the High Street, which will provide £1.5bn to support high streets as they adapt to meet the changing needs of shoppers.</p><p> </p><p>The Plan includes a £675m Future High Streets Fund, planning reform, a High Streets Taskforce and support for community assets.</p><p> </p><p>It also includes one third off small retailers’ business rates bills for two years from April. [This is worth almost £900m to businesses.]</p>
Housing: Nuneaton
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how much has been allocated in new homes bonus payments to Nuneaton and Bedworth borough council in each year since 2011.
<p>The table below sets out the New Homes Bonus allocations to Nuneaton and Bedworth Borough Council in each year since 2011. In December 2018, Government announced the provisional New Homes Bonus allocations for 2019/20 due to be paid over the next four years. Consideration about the overall quantum of funding available to the local government sector will be a matter for the next spending review but Government remains fully committed to incentivising housing growth and will consult widely with local authorities on how best to reward delivery most effectively.</p><p><strong>Table: Nuneaton & Bedworth Borough Council New Homes Bonus allocations</strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Year</p></td><td><p>Amount</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Year 1 (2011-12)</p></td><td><p>167,589</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Year 2 (2012-13)</p></td><td><p>591,015</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Year 3 (2013-14)</p></td><td><p>891,705</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Year 4 (2014-15)</p></td><td><p>1,280,232</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Year 5 (2015-16)</p></td><td><p>1,470,955</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Year 6 (2016-17)</p></td><td><p>2,033,352</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Year 7 (2017-18)</p></td><td><p>1,857,926</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Year 8 (2018-19)</p></td><td><p>1,304,546</p></td></tr></tbody></table>
North West Hampshire
Kit Malthouse
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To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether new homes bonus payments secured by Nuneaton and Bedworth borough council in 2018-19 will be guaranteed for four years; and if he will make a statement.
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– Posted on April 19, 2019Posted in: Conventions, EVENTS
The exclusive two-day fan convention features the best in geek and pop culture, including movies, TV shows, gaming, Sci-Fi, books, comic creators, artists and fantasy
FanX® Salt Lake Comic Convention™’s (FanXSaltLake.com) Spring event is back and better than ever with 30 celebrities from top fandom favorites including Star Wars, Harry Potter, Marvel, DC, Disney, Doctor Who, Willow, and The Office, authors, artists, comic creators, more than 30 hours of panels, a special Lynda Carter musical concert, mega stars Alice Cooper, Zachary Levi, Clark Gregg, Tom Felton, Val Kilmer, Tye Sheridan, Warwick Davis and John Cleese, expanded Kidcon activities, a Cosplay Contest, the FanX Bash and much more.
FanX Spring 2019 is an exclusive two-day fan convention featuring the best in geek and pop culture, including movies, TV shows, gaming, Sci-Fi, books, comic creators, artists and fantasy. FanX was designed to provide fans with a more intimate fan experience than the larger scale FanX events that are typically held in September.
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CpnnBoard » DISARMAMENT AND SECURITY - DESARMEMENT ET SECURITE - DESARME Y SEGURIDAD » DISARMAMENT - DÉSARMEMENT - DESARME » Can we abolish all nuclear weapons?
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Question: Can we abolish all nuclear weapons? CPNN article: Sir Joseph Rotblat: A Legacy of Peace (1908-2005)
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Posted: Dec. 31 1999,17:00
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Posted: Sep. 04 2005,05:31
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Joseph was for many years the General Secretary of the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs, and later served as president of the Pugwash Conferences. In his work with Pugwash, he was instrumental in bringing together scientists from East and West, so that they could find common ground for ending the Cold War with its mad nuclear arms race. In 1995, Joseph and the Pugwash Conferences were joint recipients of the Nobel Peace Prize.
He began his Nobel acceptance speech by saying, "At this momentous event in my life…I want to speak as a scientist, but also as a human being. From my earliest days I had a passion for science. But science, the exercise of the supreme power of the human intellect, was always linked in my mind with benefit to people. I saw science as being in harmony with humanity. I did not imagine that the second half of my life would be spent on efforts to avert a mortal danger to humanity created by science."
In his speech, he reasoned that a nuclear weapon-free world would be safer than a world with nuclear weapons, but the danger of "ultimate catastrophe" would still exist. He concluded that war must be abolished: "The quest for a war-free world has a basic purpose: survival. But if in the process we learn how to achieve it by love rather than by fear, by kindness rather than compulsion; if in the process we learn to combine the essential with the enjoyable, the expedient with the benevolent, the practical with the beautiful, this will be an extra incentive to embark on this great task."
When Joseph came to Santa Barbara in 1997 to receive the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation’s Lifetime Achievement Award for Distinguished Peace Leadership, I asked him, "What gives you hope for the future?" He responded, "My hope is based on logic. Namely, there is no alternative. If we don’t do this [eliminate nuclear weapons and engender more responsibility by scientists as well as citizens in general], then we are doomed. The whole existence of humankind is endangered. We are an endangered species now and we have to take steps to prevent the extinguishing of the human species. We owe an allegiance to humanity. Since there is no other way, then we must proceed in this way. Therefore, if we must do it, then there is hope that it will be done."
Earlier this year, Joseph made an appeal to the delegates to the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference, held in May at the United Nations in New York. "Morality," he wrote, "is at the core of the nuclear issue: are we going to base our world on a culture of peace or on a culture of war? Nuclear weapons are fundamentally immoral: their action is indiscriminate, affecting civilians as well as military, innocents and aggressors alike, killing people alive now and generations as yet unborn. And the consequence of their use could bring the human race to an end." He ended his appeal with his oft-repeated plea, "Remember your humanity."
I visited Joseph at his home in London just a few months ago. He had been slowed down by a stroke and was disturbed that he wasn’t able to be as active as he’d been accustomed. But his spirit was strong, and he was still smiling and looking forward. He was as committed as ever to his dual goals of achieving a world without nuclear weapons and without war – goals to which he had devoted the full measure of his energy, intellect and wisdom.
Joseph has left behind a strong legacy of peace. It is our job now to pick up the baton that he carried so well and passionately for so long, and continue his legacy.
Posted: Oct. 12 2005,14:53
I think we all should join efforts to promote a culture of peace between people and groups, developing strategies in our area of influence to make people sensible about the importance of peace around the world.
As a teacher, educator and researcher on education for peace, I do believe in the importance of education to contribute to promote a culture of peace.
I think educational policies may promote peace through curricular and pedagogical practices, which value cultural plurality and diversity including race, class, religion, gender, ethnic problems and all kinds of categories related to these.
I hope we may discuss more and I would appreciate the opportunity to exchange experiences with all involved with this issue.
jhon foundation
Posted: July 05 2011,13:16
The answer is YES we can. The majority of countries, especially, the least developed, do not possess these mass destructive weapons. The culprits who encourage proliferation of nuclear weapons are those that have them. If the super powers like USA and Russia decided to rid themselves of these weapons many other countries like India could destroy what they have and others could be discouraged to acquire them. The riddance of nuclear weapons depends on political will from the haves. For as long as some have the weapons, those that do not possess feel threatened and hence become eager to acquire them. Why should some possess them and others forbidden to acquire them? The Fukushima Disaster of Japan has opened peoples’ eyes and had seen how destructive and sophisticated the problem nuclear can cause. Some countries have started considering to shutting down some of the facilities that produce nuclear power for civilian use. If the Security Council of the United Nations looked at this issue with open and unselfish mind, the answer to this world threatening weapon could be found and implementation could not be a problem since stakeholders will be willing to destroy them. The scenario now is that big powers that have them stop others to acquire them at the pretext that they may use them indiscriminately against them or neighbours. This is promoting proliferation of the weapons secretly.
'THE WORLD IS OVER-ARMED AND PEACE IS UNDER-FUNDED'
30 August 2012 — The following opinion piece by Secretary-General BAN Ki-moon has appeared in leading newspapers in Argentina, Bangladesh, Burundi, China, Germany, India, Iran, Italy, Japan, Lebanon, Malaysia, The Philippines, Republic of Korea, Russia, Serbia, Turkey, Ukraine and European weekly publications and has been translated into 10 languages.
Last month, competing interests prevented agreement on a much-needed treaty that would have reduced the appalling human cost of the poorly regulated international arms trade. Meanwhile, nuclear disarmament efforts remain stalled, despite strong and growing global popular sentiment in support of this cause.
The failure of these negotiations and this month's anniversaries of the atomic bombings at Hiroshima and Nagasaki provide a good opportunity to explore what has gone wrong, why disarmament and arms control have proven so difficult to achieve, and how the world community can get back on track towards these vitally important goals.
Many defence establishments now recognize that security means far more than protecting borders. Grave security concerns can arise as a result of demographic trends, chronic poverty, economic inequality, environmental degradation, pandemic diseases, organized crime, repressive governance and other developments no state can control alone. Arms can't address such concerns.
Yet there has been a troubling lag between recognizing these new security challenges, and launching new policies to address them. National budget priorities still tend to reflect the old paradigms. Massive military spending and new investments in modernizing nuclear weapons have left the world over-armed -- and peace under-funded.
Last year, global military spending reportedly exceeded $1.7 trillion – more than $4.6 billion a day, which alone is almost twice the UN's budget for an entire year. This largesse includes billions more for modernizing nuclear arsenals decades into the future.
This level of military spending is hard to explain in a post-Cold War world and amidst a global financial crisis. Economists would call this an "opportunity cost". I call it human opportunities lost. Nuclear weapons budgets are especially ripe for deep cuts.
Such weapons are useless against today's threats to international peace and security. Their very existence is de-stabilizing: the more they are touted as indispensable, the greater is the incentive for their proliferation. Additional risks arise from accidents and the health and environmental effects of maintaining and developing such weapons.
The time has come to re-affirm commitments to nuclear disarmament, and to ensure that this common end is reflected in national budgets, plans and institutions.
Four years ago, I outlined a five-point disarmament proposal highlighting the need for a nuclear weapon convention or a framework of instruments to achieve this goal.
Yet the disarmament stalemate continues. The solution clearly lies in greater efforts by States to harmonize their actions to achieve common ends. Here are some specific actions that all States and civil society should pursue to break this impasse.
* Support efforts by the Russian Federation and the United States to negotiate deep, verified cuts in their nuclear arsenals, both deployed and un-deployed.
* Obtain commitments by others possessing such weapons to join the disarmament process.
* Establish a moratorium on developing or producing nuclear weapons or new delivery systems.
* Negotiate a multilateral treaty outlawing fissile materials that can be used in nuclear weapons.
* End nuclear explosions and bring into force the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty.
* Stop deploying nuclear weapons on foreign soil, and retire such weapons.
* Ensure that nuclear-weapon states report to a public UN repository on nuclear disarmament, including details on arsenal size, fissile material, delivery systems, and progress in achieving disarmament goals.
* Establish a Middle East zone free of nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction.
* Secure universal membership in treaties outlawing chemical and biological weapons.
* Pursue parallel efforts on conventional arms control, including an arms trade treaty, strengthened controls over the illicit trade in small arms and light weapons, universal membership in the Mine Ban, Cluster Munitions, and Inhumane Weapons Conventions, and expanded participation in the UN Report on Military Expenditures and the UN Register of Conventional Arms.
* Undertake diplomatic and military initiatives to maintain international peace and security in a world without nuclear weapons, including new efforts to resolve regional disputes.
And perhaps above all, we must address basic human needs and achieve the Millennium Development Goals. Chronic poverty erodes security. Let us dramatically cut spending on nuclear weapons, and invest instead in social and economic development, which serves the interests of all by expanding markets, reducing motivations for armed conflicts, and in giving citizens a stake in their common futures. Like nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation, such goals are essential for ensuring human security and a peaceful world for future generations.
No development, no peace. No disarmament, no security. Yet when both advance, the world advances, with increased security and prosperity for all. These are common ends that deserve the support of all nations.
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Evaluating Schumi's legacy
Pole2Win
Post subject: Evaluating Schumi's legacy
I feel very uncertain when someone speaks of Schumacher. I have a great deal of respect for him and his unquestionable talent. IMO he really is the best F1 driver ever and would've beaten Senna had the Brazilian survived the Imola GP in 1994. Of course, Benetton were blatant cheaters that season but it's difficult to speak of what would've happened, what Senna would do if he confirmed his suspicions, and so on.
However, I can't really forgive Schumi for various episodes throughout his career. 1994 was one thing, the attempt to take JV out in the 1997 decider was another, then obviously the later Ferrari days which were probably more due to the team than Schumi himself, and I don't think Barrichello is completely innocent either as I do believe he was bound by contract to playing the backup role and he accepted it willingly.
Even then, I found myself cheering for Schumi against Alonso in 2006 and again in 2010 when he came back driving for Mercedes. It's really weird, how Schumi went in my head. He was really bad (1994), then worse (1997), then I was awed by his performances (1998-2000), then I was bored by him (2001-2004), and finally began cheering for him again (2006, 2010 and beyond). It's a sign that there are definitely multiple facets to him and how complex he is. He was also never as ruthless in his private affairs as he was in racing either.
So, in the event that the current generation of Vettel and Hamilton doesn't overtake his 7 WDC record, how do you think Schumi will go down in history 10, maybe 20 years from now?
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SnakeSVT2003
Post subject: Re: Evaluating Schumi's legacy
It's ok to not forgive Michael for those incidents. He is a superhero to me, but I won't forgive what he did to Villeneuve and what he did in Monaco in 2006. I will always consider the collision with Hill a racing incident, as he wasn't even turning into Hill when they collided (in the collision with Villeneuve, he had the wheel turned hard right even after the collision, demonstrating clear intent), and Hill himself said right after he got back to the pits that he would've done the same thing had he been the one in front. I also wish he had let Barrichello through in Austria, even though I understand that he was only doing as he was told by the boss, Todt.
I should also mention that Barrichello was on Top Gear a few years back and said the equipment was the same, only that Michael was given the best strategy, which IMO is normal since Michael was faster, and there is only one pit box and one optimal strategy. I will forever respect Rubens greatly, as he is the only teammate that could consistently get within half a second of Schumacher in Schumi's prime.
In any case, time is kind to sports heroes. His legacy will be brighter as time passes. The negatives fade or seem smaller, and the records and victories remain as remarkable achievements.
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MistaVega23
He'll go down as arguably the greatest ever, irrespective of his transgressions during his career. Senna did the same and look how he's been revered since his death.
Schumacher changed my following of F1. After starting to watch the sport during 1992 I then became a massive Damon Hill fan and detested the young, cocky German who was beating my guy. Then he joined Ferrari, Damon won his WDC and then I suddenly found myself rooting for Schumi, first against Villeneuve and then against Hakkinen.
His speed and commitment stood out more than anything for me. Sure, watching Mika stick the McLaren on pole was great to watch, but witnessing Michael fighting with his cars and ending up on the front row simply took my breath away. I was bitter about Adelaide '94 obviously, but I forgave him for Jerez for the sole reason how desperate he wanted to win the title for Ferrari.
Being a fan through 1997-2000, I ended up enjoying his domination from 2001-2006 (2005 notwithstanding) purely because I watched him fight all those previous seasons, and that he now deserved his success. If the other teams couldn't compete, then tough luck.
I wish he hadn't come back in 2010 (apart from my being able to watch my hero at Silverstone in 2012) but you could tell he was a completely different character from his Ferrari days.
As time passes, we'll remember him for changing the face of Formula 1 forever. They constantly changed the rules just to stop him from winning. And no other driver can claim that tag.
Pole2Win wrote:
It's really weird, how Schumi went in my head. He was really bad (1994), then worse (1997), then I was awed by his performances (1998-2000), then I was bored by him (2001-2004), and finally began cheering for him again (2006, 2010 and beyond).
For me it's not entirely the same, but rather comparable. I thought he was OK before Australia '94 even though I was rooting for Hill. But then that happened, and I didn't quite like him anymore - and that intensified after Jerez '97. I pretty much rooted for whoever could challenge him. First Hill, then Villeneuve, then Hakkinen, then Raikkonen. Got bored for a while between 2000 and 2004. Then, it started changing a bit. While memories of Adelaide and Jerez hadn't faded, people change over time, and he gradually became more likeable to me again. And that coincided with Alonso, being the new coming man, showing quite a bit of unsportsmanlike behaviour which I took a particular dislike for. So I actually ended up rooting for Schumacher in 2005 and 2006. When he came back, I always followed him and wanted him to do well.
Yes, I know, I made terrible choices in who to root for when it came to actually see your favourite winning
All this while, though, I have always realized he was the best out there (well, maybe not during his Merc-period). Maybe that is why I took to liking him in the end - because gradually I also came to the conclusion that I got to watch history in the making. I like human exploits, I like records, and who else embodies that more than Schumacher?
Our children will envy us for having got the chance to see Schumacher race. That's how he will go down in history.
Go Vandoorne - Verstappen - Vettel!
speedy_bob
I always seem to root for the one putting in the most (& smartest) effort.
Senna, Schumacher, Vettel...hoping for Verstappen and Vandoorne.
Alonso for his completeness.
Schumi's fitness was excellent. I always like it when drivers stay disciplined. For most, it's only years later that you happen to read small bits in books left and right, giving an insight into which driver was REALLY putting in the effort, the hard work and the late hours. All of that ànd not getting frustrated, so being able to cope with disappointments is a maturity thing too.
As long as those characters rise to the top, I still enjoy F1.
Schumi was legendary for putting in his fitness routines daily, even when traveling only allowed him to start doing it at 22h in the evening for instance.
Senna (different era) also gave full commitment, especially later in his career when physical fitness was getting pro.
Vettel seems the same.
I also still have problems with 94, Jerez 97 and Monaco 2006, but who is 100% perfect?
Still, that doesn't mean I would not have penalised it.
Stuff like pole in Monaco '12 just doesn't happen by accident.
Blinky McSquinty
Four. Currently there are four active German Formula One drivers. Rosberg, Vettel, Hulkenberg, and Wehrlein. There have been others such as Heidfeld, Glock, Ralf, and Sutil who joined Formula One after Michael Schumacher start to make headlines. Germany has four drivers in Formula One, the most of any nation.
The most dominant team currently is Mercedes, German. Of note is the fact that another German manufacturer, BMW, had a team of their own too.
Michael Schumacher set many records and won many races and titles. But his legacy is that he inspired his fellow countrymen to believe that they too can be successful in Formula One.
Only dogs, mothers, and quality undergarments give unconditional support.
For me, I think his historic achievement was bringing back Ferrari to win titles after a 2decade drought.
I must admit that one must admire his determination and motivation to stay the majority of his career battling it out for the top position. (Disregarding his Mercedes come back).
People can speak of Adelaide and Jerez, but he also had his fair share of bad luck that arguably lost him championships.
POBRatings
Schumacher has to go down in history as one of the greatest.
Imo it is wrong to downplay his 2010-2102 return: he was 41, had been out for 3 seasons and came back to new tyres, no testing, different race strategies (fuel, tyre), simulators which he hated, and to his strong, but younger rival drivers Alonso, Hamilton and Vettel, plus fast team-mate Rosberg.
Looking at how well Nuvolari, Villoresi, Sommer, Farina, Fangio did when aged in their forties, I thought Michael would beat Rosberg immediately. In December 2009 ex-F1 driver Peter de Klerk told me Michael would struggle in a comeback; he proved right. But by the third season Michael was as fast as Rosberg, and could have won Monaco (from pole) and scored a fine second in Canada when Button won after Vettel went off. All this in a Mercedes that was not yet fully sorted and not the fastest car. Seeing how close Rosberg has been to Hamilton in 2013-2016 makes one realise how good Schumcaher was in 2012.
Of all the great drivers, the two I'd like to have seen paired in same-team cars: Senna and Schumacher. Would have made Senna-Prost seem like Sunday School.
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Schumacher could always do an incredible stint during the refuelling era.
His ability to pull out a stint of near full qualifying pace, for multiple laps, is the best I've seen in 25yrs watching the sport.
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Surely our appreciation of a skill set doesn't alter because a record gets overtaken? I think 10 or 20 years from now people will still think he was one of the best drivers in the history of F1.
I do think that if/when the time comes when a driver also scores 7 championships, the matter of cheating will resurface, and he/she might be considered the true record holder. And rightly so.
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Siao7
He had some awesome performances before the '98 season. People argue about the '96 or '97 being some of his best driving. And rightly so.
the incident in 94 with hill was a racing incident! are you having a joke - Schumacher lost control in the corner. hit the Armco damaged his car and purposely drove into hill who did not lose control but was rammed by schmacher who had a broken front suspension and his race was finished - watch it again without your blinkers on I will never consider he had 7 titles
it worked so well for him he bashed jv too , but it didn't work that time , and the parking up on the corner in Monaco was completely false and cheating , but the sad thing is he had the talent to not have any need to cheat like this - he ruined his own legacy/history with these 3 incidents -did I miss any naughty moments
Posted: Wed Mar 01, 2017 12:06 pm
I also love Schumi. He made me a passionate F1 fan for life. Yes, I hated what he did to JV that day, and it made me think less of him, but as the years pass that fades and my strong memory is of the greatness. I wish he was well.
Retro-Virus
As time progresses on, people tend to forget his misdemeanors, so he will be remembered as one of the true greats.
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Alienturnedhuman
Schumacher is clearly the driver of his generation, in fact, he defined it so much it was basically called "The Schumacher Era" - and he has all the records - most notably the 7 WDCs to cement his legacy as one of the contenders for Greatest Of All Time.
However, while there is nothing to call into doubt the quality of Schumacher as a driver, there is an argument to question the quality of his competition.
Whereas Schumacher dominated his time in the sport and it was not until he retired that a new generation filled that void, the period before that, the one Schumacher followed on from, had a host of great drivers, most notably Senna and Prost, with Mansell and Piquet following.
And while Schumacher did indeed outpace Nelson Piquet, that was a Piquet in his final season.
Piquet retired, then Mansell retired, then Prost retired, then Senna died. All the big names went one year after another meaning the 1994 was the only championship since the first where there was not a WDC in the field (first three races excepted)
That left Schumacher vs Williams, as as underrated as Damon Hill may well be, few are going to claim he was even close to level of the likes of Schumacher, Senna or Prost in talent.
The only driver which could be considered an equal during Schumacher's reign was Hakkinen, meaning until Alonso came along and did to Schumacher what Schumacher did to Piquet, Schumacher was either largely unchallenged by his peers, or was picking up WDCs as the next generation of Alonso and Kimi found their feet in the sport.
This is not to try and diminish Schumacher's legacy, but more, put into context the playground he had to set the multitude of records he holds.
I mean, let's say Senna had not died in 1994, it's likely Schumacher would hold at least 1 if not 2 less WDCs than he does today - he'd certainly have less wins. That could even have impacted his ability to attract the attention needed to take his team of people to Ferrari and operate with an unlimited budget.
Although, if he did fail to attract Ferrari's attention, that could have set into motion an even more dominating set of events for him:
The reason Ferrari funded the Schumacher project was because they recognised his skill differential to the rest of the grid - that might not have been as a apparent against Senna. Ironically, without the Ferrari interest, that could have seen Schumacher move to McLaren (as they were very interested in him,
and Mercedes would have definitely have financed him for marketing reasons) meaning Schuey and Newey would have got together - so maybe after Senna retired we could have have seen Schumacher walking away with nearly every WDC and mentoring Hamilton to replace him....
Anyway, while Schumacher is an all time great - maybe even the greatest - I think Alonso or Hamilton or Senna or Prost would have produced similar results against the competition he had.
[...]Ironically, without the Ferrari interest, that could have seen Schumacher move to McLaren (as they were very interested in him,
I'm not disagreeing with anything you wrote, although I do think that Senna would have struggled to carry anything but the 1994 Williams to a title that Schumacher won (and given Senna's start to the year, I'm not convinced he'd have been able to claw back the deficit without pushing the machinery beyond its tolerances, but that's a whole other debate). But I wanted to highlight this section, because I think it's worth exploring properly.
Let's assume that McLaren hired the two best drivers they could in 1996, and that there was no friction that caused a hugely different driver market to reality, so in effect Coulthard and Schumacher are the only changes we make to the 1996 line-up. DC alongside Irvine at Ferrari, who don't go on a massive spending splurge, a Benetton team who still fall a little behind Williams largely due to having a poorer chassis and drivers who were never quite WDC material (Alesi's legendary poor career choices notwithstanding), and Schumacher partnering Hakkinen at McLaren. 1996 will still be a lost year - as I recall, Ilmor hadn't yet got their hands on the Mercedes engine, and it was overweight and underpowered. So Hill takes that title - or maybe Senna does, retiring as champion and handing his car to the rookie Villeneuve for 1997. Hill sticks around at Williams because his lack of WDC means he doesn't demand more money than Williams are willing to pay. The 1997 title goes to Hill, although Villeneuve pushes him close. Without Schumacher, Ferrari finishes a distant second in the WCC, while McLaren struggle to score wins with their ongoing development.
The Newey effect comes in for 1998, and with him the MP4-13 is born. Schumacher and Hakkinen win every single race the car can finish between them, and Schumacher takes the title. A repeat occurs the following year, although for 2000 Williams is starting to develop into a force once more courtesy of BMW. Hakkinen retires a year earlier than he otherwise would have due to the stress of racing Schumacher in equal machinery, and Heidfeld is promoted in the interests of maintaining team harmony. Williams closes a little during 2001 but Schumacher takes his 6th title and a 7th in 2002, though Heidfeld manages a couple of wins as the McLaren's reliability lets him down. Come 2003, with Raikkonen swapping seats with Heidfeld, Schumacher is relying heavily on the appearance of the MP4-18, while the '17D just can't match the '18's potential. Montoya and Ralf Schumacher are setting the world on fire as well and both Williams drivers ensure the WCC goes to Grove rather than Woking, although Michael might be able to take the title despite reliability issues. So that's 8. For 2004, both McLaren and Williams get it wrong on the chassis front, and despite a valiant effort from Schumacher, along with Raikkonen who isn't that far off his pace, Button and BAR take the WDC while Sato's reliability woes (and, sorry to his fanatics, his relative lack of talent doesn't help - he's good, but not WDC material) also send the WCC to McLaren with Renault coming a close second.
2005 looms. Schumacher is very much the elder statesman, but he and Raikkonen are both lugging the McLaren around as the dominant car in about two thirds of the races, though reliability is woeful. Alonso, probably the best driver on the grid at this point, has a slower but more reliable car, and takes the 2005 crown. The same happens in 2006, only more easily as McLaren drop off the pace a little and there is no all-powerful Ferrari to take the fight to them.
Schumacher, deeply admiring Raikkonen in the same way as he did with Massa, elects to step aside for Hamilton for 2007, remaining as a team ambassador as he did with Ferrari in reality. Raikkonen lacking Alonso's ability (and desire) to blow up a team when things aren't going his way, and of course Spygate simply not happening since it's not worth stealing from Ferrari, Hamilton takes his first of two back to back titles, although Alonso replaces Raikkonen for 2008 after Renault disappoint in 2007. After two years at McLaren, the first in which the title could go either way and the second unfolding as it did in reality, Alonso heads to Ferrari to rebuild the team and Button goes to McLaren with the title. And history settles back into its natural order.
OK that went on a lot longer than I expected, sorry! I'm curious though, would this chain of events be more or less impressive than reality? What would it do for his legacy? And would he have returned in 2010? I'm thinking yes to the last of these, but the other two I'm not so sure.
That's a fantastic narration Tufty!
I am wondering though, why did you exclude Ferrari so much out of the equation? Todt was at Ferrari, so you could bet your bottom dollar that he'd lure someone like Kimi or dare I say JV to race in his late father's team?
And where would Brawn and Byrne end up? They were game changers in their days...
Siao7 wrote:
In reality they followed Schumi to Ferrari, so realistically they would have gone to McLaren as well. However, I don't think they'd have had as much influence as they liked under Dennis. I can see Todt going back to rallying, Brawn butting heads with Dennis but the two being a formidable pairing, and Byrne and Newey having a lot of arguments that may have resulted in compromises that allowed the MP4-18 to actually compete.
Bernie orchestrated a lot of the transfers to Ferrari, from memory [please correct me if I'm wrong there] so I think he'd have done the same to get McLaren back to the front of the field. I do agree though, just one of those people going somewhere other than where I suggested would have changed the theory dramatically. I just assumed the dream team either went to McLaren instead of Ferrari, or they ended up dispersed and none of them really able to use their talents as freely as they had when they were given free reins under Briatore.
Tufty wrote:
Hmm, I agree. On paper, Newey, Brawn and Byrne sound like an even better dream team than Ferrari's. However, I think that as you say there could be problems, they'd have too many roosters basically... It may have backfired spectacularly. It may have also done the perfect season, with a 100% wins. We'll never know! How fascinating.
Todt would have done his part and I bet he would have brought the right people at Ferrari. Basically, the people that would have been dropped from Macca. It could still be a good car after all.
One thing that may have hampered Schumie would be the no No1 policy at Macca. Would he be at loggerheads with Dennis or would Macca have changed their policy? I mean, they did with Hamilton and Heiki, so why not?
Todt wouldn't have got the big names, except maybe Byrne alone. I'll check when he retired and maybe amend my theory accordingly.
I don't think the equal treatment policy would have bothered Schumacher, he'd relish the challenge I think. And Dennis would have loved it, having the two best drivers of the time in Mclaren cars.
I think Byrne retired and then came back at some point. I too think that Schumacher wouldn't mind the challenge, but we may have had more sparks than Senna & Prost, especially as Mika and Michael already had run ins since their lower formulae categories (didn't Schumacher block Hakkinen in Macau or something?). But Dennis had the experience of two divas in his cars, much bigger than Hakkinen and Schumacher at the time, so he would have dealt with it.
Aaaah, what it could have been!
Right. Radical re-interpretation coming up - Byrne was at Ferrari between 1996 and 2006, so:
Let's assume as I said originally that Byrne goes to McLaren instead for 1996, but with Newey joining in 1997 tensions become intolerably high. These are kept just in check by the title in 1998 but by mid 1999 Byrne has had enough. As a result he joins the only other potentially competitive team in F1, Williams, before they get their new BMW engines. Working alongside Patrick Head, he brings Williams closer to the front of the field than they would have managed with just Head, but while they can make life difficult for Schumacher, McLaren and his various teammates, probably stealing a WCC here and there during the early years of the new millennium (sorry Heidfeld, you're not a strong enough driver to compete with Williams in this scenario) they ultimately can't beat Schumacher armed with some of Newey's finest work.
Of course, I could very easily be wrong here, all it takes is a tiny mistake by either team and it would flip everything on its head, but I'm having to play the odds here and assume that with such a high profile team there would be enough checks, balances and money to ensure no wrong turns.
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Massacre in Uzbekistan
by John Quiggin on May 14, 2005
The news on the massacre in Uzbekistan is sketchy, but it seems clear that troops fired on a protest meeting, killing dozens.
The massacre followed violent protests in which government buildings were taken over, and prisoners, including alleged members of Islamist groups, were set free, but it appears that the protestors were simply listening to speeches when the troops attacked them .
The best information seems to be at Registan, which I found through the relatively new system of Technorati tags
The US currently has an air base and around 1000 troops in Uzbekistan. They can’t be regarded as neutral, and their presence clearly supports the mass murdering and torturing dictator Karimov, someone who appears indistinguishable from Saddam circa 1980. A literal reading of Administration rhetoric would suggest that the US should use its power to overthrow Karimov , but there’s zero possibility that this will happen (the official US response is an appeal for restraint, directed mainly at the protestors). But the troops should be withdrawn immediately, and all ties with this evil regime broken.
mrjauk 05.14.05 at 4:57 am
Karimov may be a son-of-a-bitch, but at least he’s our son-of-a-bitch.
Did Michael Jackson really molest some young boys at his ranch?!?
RSL 05.14.05 at 6:27 am
But John, we can’t remove the base in Uzbekistan. Where else would the folks we’re flying over there to be tortured land?
Your friend Rummy . . .
Amardeep 05.14.05 at 7:30 am
I found this on the Karimov government on Counterpunch:
Specifically, the government has arrested and tortured thousands of independent Muslims, including minors. HRW and other human rights organizations estimate that there are between 7,000 and 10,000 prisoners held on religious and political charges. Most recently, forensic evidence has been revealed suggesting that Karimov’s government boiled to death two Muslim prisoners after they refused to stop praying.
Those boiled to death were probably terrorists and bad people all around. Maybe even the worst of the worst. And why don’t you ever mention Nick Berg’s beheading, uh?
Ancarett 05.14.05 at 8:42 am
A friend of mine is on her way back from a Peace Corps posting in Nukus. From her accounts, I would say that Karimov counts as little more than a grandstanding thug who’s learned that branding his opponents as Islamic extremists will do well to strengthen his standings in the outside world.
Uzbekistan is hopelessly impoverished, in part through the situation of the environment and resource but much more due to the policies of its current government which stifles enterprise and funnels much of what revenue is generated into the hands of a few rich relatives and hangers-on of the current regime.
Andijon doesn’t seem to be a centre of Islamic extremism, but is arguably the centre for smuggling from countries on Uzbekistan’s eastern border. The uprising there can be pegged directly to Karimov’s attempt to shut down the smuggling which is a vital lifeline for the country’s economy (look at what Uzbekistan really produces — nearly nothing!) or bully from merchants an impossible share of their revenues.
The saying is “Better the devil you know than the devil you don’t” but our ignorance of what’s really going on in Uzbekistan has robbed us of a chance of understanding what real alternatives exist to Karimov’s corrupt regime.
Tim Worstall 05.14.05 at 8:46 am
I believe the ex-UK Ambassador had something to say about this. Got fired for saying it too didn’t he?
Noah 05.14.05 at 9:08 am
It sounds like you’re anti-Uzbek. What’s happening in Sudan is much worse, and what about Tibet, damnit?
Tom Warn 05.14.05 at 9:19 am
You seem to be suggesting that speaking out against Uzbekistan’s Karimov, world class fingernail extractor extrordinaire, should only be allowed if one is willing to invade the Sudan and go to war with China. Remarkable position to say the least.
Uncle Kvetch 05.14.05 at 9:48 am
Hey, Freedom can’t be On The March everywhere at once, y’know.
The always indispensable Billmon puts things in perspective.
Nathan 05.14.05 at 10:36 am
Thanks for the link, but,
But the troops should be withdrawn immediately, and all ties with this evil regime broken.
is a prescription for throwing to the wolves a lot of people and organizations — civil society groups, students, etc. — who benefit from the US presence. It may satisfy the soul, but it hangs Uzbeks out to dry.
ed_finnerty 05.14.05 at 10:45 am
When the US effort in afghanistan was bogged down mostly for lack of proximate airbases the Uzbeks allowed the US to establish an airbase. This turned the war. The US will not move against the devil they made this deal with.
Tom Warn 05.14.05 at 10:47 am
“The US will not move against the devil they made this deal with.”
Which of course makes a mockery of all Bush claims he stands for.
am 05.14.05 at 10:59 am
In 2002 a group of Chavez party thugs fired on opposition marchers killing approximately twenty and wounding approximately one hundred. Vainly have I searched crookedtimber.org for even mention of this, let alone condemnation.
Please explain?
P O'Neill 05.14.05 at 11:06 am
Now we know why Pootie-Poot and Dubya got on so well last week despite the little Yalta blow-up — Karimov may be a SOB, but he’s their SOB. It’s as if when the leaders of big nations get together to cut deals, the people of small nations are the ones who suffer.
Brendan 05.14.05 at 11:08 am
Sorry which massacre in Venezuela were you talking about?
‘Friday’s military coup came on the heels of enormous anti-government protests sponsored by a coalition of military and business forces. Thirteen people died under circumstances that still remain murky. Eyewitness sources describe a band of opposition snipers firing into a crowd of pro-Chavez demonstrators, killing at least 10.’
Was that the one you meant? Or was it this one?
‘By contrast, coup leaders describe government troops shooting into a crowd of opposition protesters. It is this version that is most often told in US newspapers.’
Amardeep 05.14.05 at 11:26 am
CNN is now putting the death toll in the hundreds… Does that change things?
Scott Martens 05.14.05 at 12:28 pm
One wonders if the next colour-coded revolution will be against a US ally? It would make the perfect follow-up to Bush’s speech in Georgia. Anybody chosen a colour yet?
Daniel 05.14.05 at 12:31 pm
Possibly because none of s are Latin American experts and it is extremely difficult to piece together from local news sources an accurate and unbiased account of what happened during the coup in Venezuela.
But mainly because Crooked Timber was founded in June 2003.
Marc M 05.14.05 at 12:53 pm
This Uzbek post is kinda silly though got here from another site to this crooked timber link, the comments are not working.
Shelby 05.14.05 at 12:57 pm
Back to Uzbekistan —
As someone whose brother is there right now, flying a C-130 out of that US airbase, I’m of course concerned. I suspect the best thing the US government can do in the short term is what it’s already doing: hunker down, condemn violence on all sides, and probably try to conduct some urgent diplomacy behind the scenes. By the way, how does John Quiggin read the official US press release as “directed mainly at the protestors”? Looks pretty even-handed to me.
Longer-term, should we try to install a more democratic regime in Uzbekistan? Hell no. We should, though, try to promote the development of a civic culture that can organically give rise to democracy. We should be finding serious ways to put pressure on the current gov’t there to give up torture. While to an extent we’re stuck with Karimov, he’s also stuck with us. We need access to airbases in that neighborhood; he needs US money and legitimacy.
In the long run, the area is moving democratic, thanks largely to the current US actions. Eventually we will not need an airbase in Uzbekistan, but they will still need our money and legitimacy. This is not an overnight thing, and pulling out now will in no way help the rebels, unless they are organized, funded and armed. That is, incidentally, the description of the terrorist organization the US is worried about there.
Surely advocates of a slower, non-military approach in Iraq would support that same approach in Uzbekistan? But recognize that it really is years slower.
I should probably clarify that, if there’s a quick, reasonably secure means to help Uzbekistan establish a democratic government, I’m all for that. My impression is that that is not likely soon; if I’m wrong, so much the better.
Tom T. 05.14.05 at 1:14 pm
Obviously, the foreign policy disaster that should be on American planners’ minds is the Shah of Iran, but there have been contrary examples of a U.S. ally making the transition from an authoritarian government to a democracy while retaining close ties to the US. The Philippines, South Korea, and Greece come to mind. A revolution in a U.S. ally can thus be an opportunity for American foreign policy as well as a potential black eye. I agree with Quiggin that the U.S. response thus far seems much too tepid, and I may come around to his view entirely, but as yet I’m not convinced that disengagement is called for.
ed_finnerty 05.14.05 at 1:37 pm
The airbase in Uzbekistan was proximately obtained to fight the taleban – it is necessary for the longer term (50 years) central asian strategy of containment of china and control of chinese alliances with other central asian/middle eastern partners. That is, Iran/Pakistan etc.
Despite the outward show of neo-con idealism the underlying moves are real-politic all the way. Bush may believe otherwise but nobody else does. Think about it – is Cheney an idealist.
Tom Warn 05.14.05 at 2:04 pm
With these guys idealism and realism is the same thing, as their only ideal is world domination.
Marc M 05.14.05 at 2:21 pm
When I said this Uzbek post is silly I meant the idea that a simple literal interpretation of some rhetorc makes much sense.
comments in that link still don’t work
production line 12 05.14.05 at 3:14 pm
As I mentioned over at Quiggin’s site, people seem to be forgetting that the country with the most military, diplomatic, and economic influence in the region is not the US, it is the Russian Federation. The broader consequences of a western nation trying to forcibly alter the regimes of CIS member states are not worth the lives of a few Uzbeks. If you want to spray invective around, why not spray it Putin’s way?
John Quiggin 05.14.05 at 3:23 pm
Umm, marc, the phrase “literal interpretation” is normally an indication that the actual meaning of the rhetoric differs from the apparent one.
I think (at least I hope), that Noah was joking, though I can’t be quite sure since “am” came in with an egregious example of exactly the same fallacy. But as it happens, a search of this site for “Tibet” and “Sudan” will not be in vain.
I understand what the word ‘interpretation’ means and that is exactly the point since the literal interpretation you provide in the original post is what I was dscribing.
Noah 05.14.05 at 4:04 pm
Sorry, yes, that was sarcasm. Never mind.
Steve Burton 05.14.05 at 4:56 pm
Henry Farrell:
OK, you strongly disapprove of America’s current cooperation with the government of Uzbekistan, which you campare to America’s previous cooperation with Saddam Hussein.
You also strongly disapprove of America’s more recent military overthrow of Hussein, so you would presumably feel the same way about any attempt to *overthrow* Karimov.
So what do you really want?
Pure realism? Pure neutralism? Pure pacifism?
Or just the *very* slightly different mix of realism & Democracy promotion that you would get with a Democrat administration as opposed to a Republican one?
KCinDC 05.14.05 at 5:23 pm
Are support and overthrow the only possible choices?
Would the Democratic administration be claiming that we were supporting a torturing dictator as part of an exciting new program of promoting democracy and a dramatic break from the immoral old realpolitik?
Steve, since Henry hasn’t posted or commented, I’ll assume this is meant for me.
I want no military co-operation or other friendly dealing with regimes like those of Karimov and Hussein. This doesn’t seem to raise any issues of neutralism or pacifism, and does imply a break with the policies of most past US administrations, though the Dems have gradually moved in the direction I favor.
There’s a question of where to draw the line here, and it seems necessary to deal with Musharraf for example. But any reasonable line would exclude Karimov.
As regards overthrowing governments, a whole post is needed for that, but, for the record, an attempt to overthrow Karimov would be a silly idea, at least in present circumstances.
“directed mainly at the protestors”
I was referring mainly to this point “It’s not just the violence the U.S. is expressing concern about. State Department spokesman Richard Boucher said there is another worry — that among those freed in the jailbreak were members of an Islamist group designated terrorist by Washington. “
It seems pretty clear from my reading that the administration is more concerned about the protests than about the government’s repression.
That is indeed the only line in the release that seems to refer to the protestors and not the government. Two points, though: (1) The protestors aren’t actually mentioned in it, and (2) there are certainly Islamist terrorist-designees running around in that part of the world, some of them in jail. I don’t know who’s “better” or “worse,” them or Karimov. I also don’t know how confident the State department (or CIA or whomever) is in so designating them, or whether it’s a reasonable designation. The point is, unless you’ve got remarkable access, you don’t know either. Your post slurs the US statement by indicating it’s taking sides. All it does is note a particular issue that’s of serious concern for the US government, which seems reasonable to me.
george 05.14.05 at 11:06 pm
John Q, a couple points. First, you say that the rhetoric of this Administration “would suggest that the US should use its power to overthrow Karimov.” This is mostly speculation on my part, but my guess is that American intelligence and/or other government elements have had some role in some or all of the “color coded” revolutions in recent months: Ukraine, Lebanon, etc. That probably includes helping to trigger the turmoil in Uzbekistan. Though Karimov hasn’t folded as easily as some, I’ll bet the US is, in fact, trying to use its power (in this case non-military) to overthrow Karimov. The US has a lot of tools in its foreign policy quiver, and the military is only one of them.
Second, the US did in fact withdraw all or most of its non-military aid to Karimov’s regime sometime about a year ago, after he failed to progress on any of numerous human rights issues. (Karimov promptly turned to the Russins, who happily picked up the slack.) I know that’s not good enough for you, but it does bear on the discussion here. As you say, it’s a subjective question: where do you draw the line? Bush appears to have decided that Karimov is not bad enough to end all strategic cooperation — but not good enough to merit any other help. I think that’s a defensible position. Others may differ, of course.
Marc M 05.15.05 at 12:15 am
yes the last two interpretations by george and shelby seem reasonable given the information in the report
given the information in the report could you explain how you arrived at your reading?
Steve Burton 05.15.05 at 12:24 am
John Quiggin: sorry, I can’t figure out why I thought this was an HF post.
I look forward to hearing more about the direction that you favor and in which the Dems have gradually been moving.
John Quiggin 05.15.05 at 1:31 am
Steve, the direction I refer to is refusing to deal with brutal dictators as opposed to the traditional view that “he may be an SOB but he’s our SOB”. Carter was the first to shift away from this to any significant degree, and Clinton was at least better than Reagan and Bush 1. Karimov provides a clear test for Bush 2, and he appears set to fail it.
As regards the Administration’s attitude to Karimov, I think Billmon provides enough evidence that we don’t need any further parsing of the press release.
Procrastinator 05.15.05 at 2:48 am
[i]Quoth Ancarett:[/i]
>> (look at what Uzbekistan really produces—nearly nothing!)
Oh, that’s too easy… tainted spices of course…
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4530643.stm
Darren 05.15.05 at 6:29 am
“if there’s a quick, reasonably secure means to help Uzbekistan establish a democratic government, I’m all for that.“
But democracy in its current form is the most powerful form of tyranny devised. It gives a voice to the majority who have nothing to say while it murders the minority who have something to say. See … Academics targeted as murder and mayhem hits Iraqi colleges by Robert Fisk.
A blog from a Peace Corps volunteer stationed in Andijon: http://noughsaid.blogs.com/wanderluster/
Uncle Kvetch 05.15.05 at 10:12 am
Doesn’t anyone who bought into the “humanitarian” argument for invading Iraq pretty much have to call for invading Uzbekistan forthwith, if in fact they’re consistent? Or are we going to start hearing about the relative evilosity of boiling political prisoners alive vs. rape rooms?
Hektor Bim 05.15.05 at 11:09 am
Uncle Kvetch,
While I agree that the US government is far too cozy with Uzbekistan, I don’t think Karimov and Hussein’s governments are comparable. As far as i know, Karimov doesn’t practice genocide or ethnically-based oppression. He also doesn’t make a habit of invading and attempting to annex portions of neighboring countries. So I think your comparison is wrong. There is no counterpart as far as I know in Uzbekistan to the mass graves of Kurds and Shiites in Iraq.
I’m glad to see this under discussion, and it is nice to see a denunciation of Karimov, but it is interesting that as far as I can tell, Karimov’s actions are far less odious than Putin’s, for example. Would you, John Quiggin, suggest a paring back of engagement with Putin, for example?
I’m for it, along with a reduction in aid to other despts, like those ruling Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, China, and Russia, but I don’t see it happening in the near future.
Another interesting place is Vietnam. They continue to torture and detain dissidents, and there have been killings in the Highlands. Should we not engage with them?
I’d also like to point out that torturing and killing political prisoners is relatively common in authoritarian countries. Here’s a short list of governments that currently engage in it as far as I know:
Lebanon (though this may soon change)
Israel (arguable)
and I’m sure other people can add to this.
Shelby 05.15.05 at 11:39 am
Darren:
Yes, that’s why Britain, France, the US, Norway and Japan are clearly the most tyrranical countries to their own minorities.
bi 05.15.05 at 2:31 pm
Hektor Bim, I didn’t know that US has air bases in Russia, China, and Vietnam.
Steve, the direction I refer to is refusing to deal with brutal dictators as opposed to the traditional view that “he may be an SOB but he’s our SOB”. -john q
john your silliness continues since you don’t specify what you mean by dealing with
pointing to problems is easy enough but providin specific alternativs is the issue
like answern the first question only on a test and expectinv to get an ‘A’ because you get the first question right
silly and no wonder ct attracts some of the custormers they do, like darren
Matthew Mullins 05.15.05 at 4:05 pm
You can add France to the countries listed for torturing and killing political prisoners. You can verify this by checking Amnesty International’s Annual Reports. I recall hearing recently that the UK was refusing to extradite terror suspects to France due to reports of torture by Frances Anti-Terrorism units.
george 05.15.05 at 4:32 pm
Remarkable that Billmon decides to elide out, in an item about continuing US aid, the fact that the aid is for decommissioning Soviet-era WMDs. Could it have been because that fact might put the Bush White House in a slightly less-bad light? Just guessing.
Also remarkable that his exhaustive list omits this, from July of last year: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48018-2004Jul13.html Here’s an excerpt, for those who don’t have time to cut and paste the url:
“In a rare rebuke of an ally, the Bush administration announced yesterday that it will cut $18 million in military and economic aid to the authoritarian government of Uzbekistan because it has failed to take a series of promised steps to improve its human rights record. The decision will not affect funding Uzbekistan receives from the Nunn-Lugar project to secure nuclear weapons material. Programs that support democracy groups and health care will also be exempt.”
Again, it’s certainly legitimate to argue that this is not enough, that the US should end all cooperation with Karimov’s regime so as not to sully our American ideals. But neither of you (Billmon or John Q) seems prepared to argue that; rather, you simply ignored this item as weakening your case. And it’s not as if it was a hard piece of information to find. I remembered reading it in the NYT at the time, and a few minutes ago it was the 8th item on a Google search for “uzbekistan aid”.
In short, I have a hard time accepting even legitimate arguments from those with weak intellectual credibility.
George, my post didn’t mention US aid to Karimov, and as far as I can see, neither did Billmon’s.
John Q, your post does not, but Billmon’s certainly does. Your comment (no. 39 above) cited Billmon’s post as “provid[ing] enough evidence” “[a]s regards the Administration’s attitude to Karimov”. Yet Billmon’s post omits, most likely deliberately, significant evidence. The most generous conclusion is that you ought not assume Billmon’s postings to be authoritative on any subject touching Bush.
On a more careful check, Billmon’s post contains exactly one reference to aid , in a Reuters report far down the page after the numerous quotes and photographs I was alluding to. It’s absurd to suggest that the post was “an item about continuing US aid”.
Billmon’s post shows lots of friendly contacts between the Bush Administration and the Karimov regime.
liberal 05.15.05 at 7:21 pm
george quoted, “In a rare rebuke of an ally, the Bush administration announced yesterday that it will cut $18 million in military and economic aid to the authoritarian government of Uzbekistan because it has failed to take a series of promised steps to improve its human rights record.”
That’s a pretty meaningless statement, because (a) it doesn’t express the quantity as a percentage, (b) it doesn’t describe whether the cut is to come quickly (hence harder felt), or smoothed over many years, (c) it doesn’t take into account that such cuts are often announced and then in essence circumvented.
Hektor Bim 05.15.05 at 9:11 pm
bi,
But we do have an air base in Turkey, for example.
jet 05.15.05 at 11:27 pm
liberal,
It doesn’t appear that Uzbekistan qualifies for any US aid for the last two years.
http://www.registan.net/?p=3907
That is also an interesting article in that is says Bush is worrying more about how governments treat their people rather than previous foreign policy considerations.
So we have Bush cutting off all aid to Uzbekistan, leaving US soldiers there, and actively trying to calm matters down. The two parties involved are a Old School Communist and unknowns, but probably hard core muslim revolutionaries of the not nice type. And what does John want? Apparently he wants magic fairy dust from Bush to resolve this, cause I don’t see how Bush could act differently. Uzbekistan is important to other theatres, and if the US were to pull out, exactly how would that lower hostilities there?
Between Henry’s post on the unsourced, or incredibley poorly sourced, Newsweek item and this blaiming Bush for not being God article, I’m thinking CrookedTimber had a rough weekend.
No, Billmon’s post as a whole was not an item about continuing US aid. The post was a set of news items and quotes, one of which was about US aid, and which had been carefully edited to put the US in the poorest light possible.
The matter here is the degree to which the Administration supports the Karimov regime. It is glaringly obvious that a diplomatic rebuke and a cut in aid is relevant to that assessment; are you really saying it is irrelevant? In the context of these other quotes, it seems perfectly clear (to me, at least) that the US position on Karimov’s regime is (a) we will deal with him on matters of strategic necessity, and (b) we will upgrade our relationship if and when Karimov improves his human rights record, but not before. The US has clearly put its money where its mouth is, in a way few nations ever do. And I’ll say this again, it’s perfectly legitimate to think that the US position is not good enough. But for Billmon (who certainly must be aware of it, if he’s researched the matter to this extent) to leave such an important bit of info out of his list shows exactly what his agenda in this matter is: not anything like the truth, but just to make George W Bush look bad.
Really, John Quiggin, you have a solid reputation as an economist, so I can only assume that you are not this transparently dishonest and/or dumb in your professional work.
buermann 05.16.05 at 3:13 am
The 18 million suspended July of 04 was by the State Department over State Department funds. The Pentagon and State Department have their own foreign assistance budgets. The Pentagon has not filed its disclosure for 04 yet, but a month after the SD suspended aid the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Richard Meyers pledged $21 million in military aid to Uzbekistan. The aid suspension didn’t really phase anybody in charge in Uzbekistan, they’re probably getting more lectures than new toys from State, and it seemed to be mostly a PR exercise that didn’t phase the Uzbek foreign ministry.
On the Congressional side if you look at the congressional budget request for 2006 for Eurasia [pdf] the Foreign Military Financing aid figure (actual) is null for 04 and (estimated) 11 million for 05. The Uzbek item discusses the torture situation and how the US is spending X amount of dollars to try to stop it, while off in reality somewhere we find out the US is sending people there to be tortured. The boilerplate looks nice though.
Shelby:
Is it possible for an individual to secede from “Britain, France, the US, Norway and Japan.”
Hektor,
I’d like you to use your deflecting talents to compare our friend Karimov’s regime in Uzbekistan (6000 political prisoners, wide-spread torture, etc, according to amnesty.org) with the terrible, absolutely intolerable regime in Cuba (75 poitical prisoners who are, arguably, foreign enemy’s agents).
MFB 05.16.05 at 5:36 am
I don’t quite get a lot of the critical posts here. Some people appear to be saying that Karimov ought to be overthrown — I suspect that this would be a big technical problem and cause immensely more problems than they are worth.
On the other hand, some people appear to be saying that US government support for the Karimov government is unimportant and/or irrelevant, and that anyone pointing out that this support exists or has existed should be dismissed. It seems to me that this is very silly, since even if US government support no longer exists, the fact that the US government has offered support for a vicious dictatorship which is now killing people in reasonably large numbers, and is decidedly qualifying its criticism of those killings, is obviously relevant in terms of (for instance) how well resistance to that dictatorship is likely to succeed.
As to those people saying that Russia should do something about Uzbekistan, I do believe that one should not try to hold the United States by the same standards by which one holds Russia, unless one really believes that the Republicans are as corrupt as Putin’s minions. However, objectively speaking, Russia may have little special interest in keeping Uzbekistan under its thumb (unlike the situation in, say, Georgia) and may be prepared to look the other way while the country goes to hell. It has happened before.
Hektor Bim 05.16.05 at 8:29 am
Abb1,
I’d like you to be serious for once, just once, when talking about something besides the Israel/Palestine issue.
The American position toward Cuba is ridiculous. Castro is a tin-pot dictator who does not maintain large numbers of political dissidents in prison. It’s pretty clear that the situation in Turkey is worse at this moment in terms of human rights than the system in Cuba, though the system in Turkey may rapidly improve. You seem to want to put me into a specific category, which I don’t understand. I don’t like the Castro regime, but it’s pretty clearly going to see great changes in the next few years when Castro dies and his only designated successor, his equally decrepit brother, takes power. It’s in a transitional phase right now, and the US embargo has been stupid for many years. Of course the Uzbek government is much worse than the Cuban government. Duh!
We’ll see how conditions in Uzbekistan play out, but it seems Karimov may be moving into the Chinese model of dealing with political demonstrations: “kill them all”. If that happens, then we may see a lot of bloodshed very quickly, and there may be a need for some sort of UN intervention force to prevent widespread killings.
I’m no friend of Karimov, but I don’t like this selective denunciation. Putin has been killing Chechens for years, and Chancellor Shroeder is constantly kissing up to him and describing him as a “true democrat”. It’s ridiculous.
moni 05.16.05 at 9:16 am
Hektor, everyone’s been playing Putin’s best buddies since well before 9/11 actually, and before the war-on-terror international alliances that turned a blind eye to all these little contradictions. Putin and Musharaf being the two biggest recipients of the benefits of that alliance.
The first political leader who actually welcomed Putin into the club was Tony Blair. In 2000, I think, before the summer… I recall demonstrations as he greeted Putin on a visit to London. After that, slowly but surely, there was an increasing acceptance, at least at higher political level, that Putin was an ally. More so after later terrorist attacks in Russia, the theatre siege, the Beslan siege, etc.
So it’s hardly fair to single out Schroeder as the hypocrite in regard to Putin and the Chechen issue. It’s every single European leader plus the morally irreprehensible Blair-Bush duo. Part of it ordinary real-politik and economic interests, part of it co-optation into the war-on-terror agenda, via the usual enemy of my enemy stuff.
They even get Russia get away with some spying and meddling in Iraq on behalf of the baathists during the early stage of the US intervention there, apparently…
MFB, I don’t know if you pegged me as one of those minimizing or dismissing US support for Karimov, but if I’ve been unclear let me clarify: that is certainly not my aim. But any attempt to paint the US-Uzbek relationship as one of unadulterated support is omitting some significant facts, out of either ignorance or (at least as often) willful deceptiveness.
Incidentally, diplomacy and hypocrisy are practically synonyms. The one nation that I’d say is completely unhypocritical in their foreign affairs is North Korea. Kim Jong Il hates everybody, and says so.
this has nothing whatsoever to do with Israel because Israel is in a totally different category. Neither Uzbekistan nor Cuba nor North Korea nor any other country on earth post-WWII has been holding millions of people under military occupation for several decades. That’s an enormous violation of international law, as opposed to various violations of human rights committed by many (probably all, in fact) governments.
Otherwise, where Cuba and Uzbekistan are concerned, I think I pretty much agree with you. Except, I’m not sure what you mean by ‘UN intervention force’. Diplomatic and economic pressure – sure, of course, but not military; after all Uzbekistan is a sovereign country, so they’ll probably have to fight it out among themselves somehow. This isn’t within UN jurisdiction.
So what was the point about this then, anyway? Stop trolling for once.
You’re just wrong about this, unfortunately. The Israel/Palestine issue is not unique. But why this is the worst possible outcome in your view is to me strange. Would it be better in your view if Israel absorbed Palestine directly and then ethnically cleansed all of the inhabitants, like what the Soviet Union did to East Prussia and parts of the Baltic states and Poland? Or if they absorbed the West Bank and Gaza into the country and expelled and/or massacred Arabs whenever they attempted to speak up politically or follow their religious traditions, like China does in Tibet?
Why is military occupation worse than murder or expulsion worse for you? Would you prefer ethnic cleansing, since you seem to consider that an internal state matter? Invasion, annexation, followed by ethnic cleansing is ok, but military occupation is bad?
Why is international law more important to you than human rights?
George, we seem to be talking at cross-purposes here. I said “the troops should be withdrawn immediately, and all ties with this evil regime broken.”
You’re objecting, as far as I can see, because a news report linked in a Billmon post, linked in turn by me (though only in the comment thread), doesn’t give a full picture of US aid policy, though the post accurately documents many friendly links with the Karimov regime.
Your objection does not seem relevant to the point I was making.
John Q, you are correct as regards your original post. (And I retract my insinuation about your intellectual credibility. That was over the top; sorry.) But my first comment came after your comment linking to Billmon. Though my main charge of bias lies with Billmon, I do think you are incorrect in stating that the Billmon post “provides enough evidence” “[a]s regards the Administration’s attitude to Karimov.” It does not; it omits, for partisan reasons, evidence that weakens Billmon’s claim.
I am no apologist for Karimov, but it irks me that Uzbekistan has become a favorite whipping boy for those who wish to be critical of Bush. See here, the narrative goes, Bush talks loftily but then supports this awful thug. Few critics mention that the US has in fact used many levers, diplomatic and financial, to express disapproval of Karimov’s regime and try to get him to progress (in vain, apparently).
Assuming that you have considered all this, your position puts you in the odd company of certain conservative Republicans in the US, who regularly denounce any ties or engagement with unsavory regimes (China in particular). If you restrict your argument to military ties only, that still leaves you in some awkward spots. What to do with our troops in the Phillipines, for instance? They’re not exactly the Netherlands either.
Moni,
Schroeder is the loudest and most insistent that Putin is a democrat, that Russia is a democracy, and everything there is peachy-keen. So I definitely single him out. You never see Schroeder denouncing the occupation of the Baltics during and after World War II.
I think Bush is probably the least pro-Putin major Western leader at this point, though of course at one time he “looked into his soul”. He certainly lets Condoleeza Rice say a lot of remarkably frank things about Russia that you would never see ol Joschka say.
John Quiggin 05.17.05 at 12:35 am
I’ve got no problem lining up with the conservative Republicans on this one, George. China is a great, nuclear-armed power which implies a need to keep on speaking terms, but I don’t think we should more friendly to the Chinese dictatorship than we have to be. As regards the Phillipines, I favored withdrawing US troops when the Marcos dictatorship was in power, and Karimov is far worse than Marcos.
As well as withdrawing the bases and ceasing extraordinary renditions to Uzbekistan, Bush could easily have included Karimov in his condemnation of Belarus during the recent visit to the region. The baby steps he has taken have been offset by the accompanying winks and nods.
Why is military occupation worse than murder or expulsion worse for you? Would you prefer ethnic cleansing, since you seem to consider that an internal state matter?
No, I would prefer none of it. What ethnic cleansing are you talking about? I am not aware of any ethnic cleansing in Uzbekistan. What’s happened so far is police/military shooting at demonstrators, not unlike, say, Kent State 1973 incident in Ohio; where is ethnic cleansing and why do you think military intervention is warranted? And besides, I don’t advocate any military intervention in Israeli/Palestinian case either.
BTW, George, retraction accepted with no hard feelings. We all go a bit OTT from time to time.
george 05.17.05 at 8:54 am
That’s a fair position — one I disagree with, but fair. What is not fair is leaving any mention of these “baby steps” (an $18 million baby step?), which might allow the reader to make his own judgment about where to draw the line, out of the analysis.
What would be the practical effects of immediately removing all US troops and cutting all ties? The US air base supports activity in Afghanistan — is it readily replaceable, or do we write off part of that country as well? Do some of our ties to Uzbekistan help would-be democrats or promote civil society there?
It’s easy to see the harm in the current (Karimov) regime, but what side effects can we expect if the US follows John Q’s prescription? I don’t know, and am reluctant to take such dramatic steps until I do. (That doesn’t preclude stronger condemnations of Karimov and an immeidate end to most aid, though.)
e sciaroni 05.17.05 at 10:48 pm
An interesting Central Asian view is at:
http://enews.ferghana.ru/
Why does the US put up with this regime? We should be able to prevent such blatant slaughter. I would think we have enough influence there ($100 million per year according to a Guardian estimate}. Fiscal 2004 non-military aid of $50.6 million according to the State Department. Military aid is harder to track (I only found $32 million this year in a quick search), but it is surely more.
The American reputation of standing up for freedom is on the line here.
Shelby 05.18.05 at 1:01 am
Here’s a decent overview, which concludes near the end that “disengagement would be a poor choice. This may be morally satisfying to those outraged by Uzbek government repression, but it would sever the fragile bonds to civil society groups, students, and Uzbek citizens who benefit from western assistance and contacts.”
http://www.opendemocracy.net/debates/article-6-28-2511.jsp
jaqved 05.19.05 at 1:44 am
i think what is happning in uzbkistan under the karimove regim , it is anti human . this event show that current regim dont have any affection with there citizen , only imposing the dectetership is the final goal of karimove. no doubt that these killings were suported by u s and west.i think karimove must resign immediatly. u n should call special meeting on that and should take right action .
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I wrote this on January 11 of this year:
I said this a year ago or so, but I believe that the next big step in gaming will be 3D displays. The big step after that, though, will be 3D projections from the console itself, and we will interact with those projections.
I think this will be huge within the next decade--3D projections where we are physically inside the projected game world.
So take a look at this article from Business Week. An excerpt:
Intel has talked to console video game makers about using chips that can perform in excess of 1 trillion calculations per second (BusinessWeek.com, 2/12/07) in future products that use cameras to track body motion to control the action, instead of using buttons or joysticks. "We imagine some future generation of [Nintendo's] Wii won't have hand controllers," says Justin Rattner, Intel's chief technology officer. "You just set up the cameras around the room and wave your hand like you're playing tennis."
We're still a long ways away, but I think people are starting to understand what's possible.
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David V Stewart May 2, 2016 May 2, 2016 Fantasy, Fiction, Promethean Dreams
Charlotte felt uneasy as the moments passed by and Rone had not returned. Compulsively, she put her hand into her bad and rummaged until she found the leather bag that was stuffed with her gold. An itch in her mind had made her believe that somehow, in the rush out the door of the inn, she had left it behind. There would be no getting off of the Green Isle without that long-hidden cache, and feeling its immense weight, the majority of what she shouldered on her flight from Cataling.
Rone had proven his word to her with that bag of money, enough to buy himself a title if he so desired, though the test had been unexpected. A day out of Cataling, while still climbing into the dry highlands, he had discovered it while repacking their bags, convinced that she was struggling too much with the weight. He had nodded to her and told her to hold onto it until he earned it; Charlotte knew he could have quite simply killed her for the money and never bothered with her promise of payment by her uncle.
“Charlotte the Red, I presume?”
Charlotte flinched at the soft-spoken voice, and looked up to see a plain-clothed man with a well-trimmed beard sitting down across from her. She reached for the pistol, folded in her lap amidst her skirts. Trying to calm herself, she eased back the hammer and pushed up the frizzen, feeling for the grit of the prime.
“My name is Dem. I am not here to return you to your husband, so please don’t shoot me.”
“You work with the other man, then?”
“I don’t know who the other man is to you,” Dem said, raising his eyebrows. “I’m just here to get you out of the cook pot, so to speak. Vindrel’s company should be getting here soon, but I know of a few ways out of this particular social area.”
“Vindrel?”
Dem looked at her and frowned. “It doesn’t matter. We need to get you out of-” Dem flinched and cut off his words.
“You make interesting friends when I’m not looking,” Rone said. He was standing behind Dem’s chair, his pistol, mostly obscured by his open jacked, was pushed up against the man’s neck.
Dem put his hands on the table. “I have a safe house for you, at least until you can get aboard a ship and get out of here.” He turned his head to look at Rone. “You’re running out of options, sir.”
“You work for the count as well?”
“Not directly. I aim to keep you out of Vindrel’s hands, and that should be enough.”
“So that was him, and he’s he knows we’re here.”
“Who?” Charlotte said.
“A captain of the Cataling garrison,” Rone said. “You never met him?”
“No,” she said. She looked to Dem. “How will you help us?”
“He won’t,” Rone said.
“I’ll slip you out the back door and take you somewhere safe. There are a few ways to cut through to the Garden Wall that you likely don’t know about.”
“I have a room upstairs,” Rone said. “We’ll need to change our clothes.”
“That can wait,” Dem said. “It must wait, really.” Rone stood still for agonizing few moments. Dem turned to him and said, “I wish I could say it doesn’t matter to me if you come or not, but my ass is on the line here too.”
The crowd cheered as the musicians finished a song.
“Let’s go,” Charlotte said. “Sitting around is worse than running.”
“Fine,” Rone said. He tucked the pistol back into his belt and picked up his bag. “Lead the way…”
“Dem.” He gave Rone a disingenuous smile and stood up.
They followed the lanky man past the fireplace and around a corner to small room with tables overflowing with food stuffs. A short door stood at one end. Dem casually flipped it open and ducked in, lowering himself down a steep stair into darkness. Charlotte went next with the musket.
“I can’t see anything,” she said.
As Rone began to duck in, a sharp voice rang out.
“Hey! What are you doing with my larder?” It was the barkeep, and he came stomping up to Rone, picking up a small club from beside the entryway.
Without hesitation Rone kicked the man in the belly, doubling him over before he could wield his club. Rone then tipped over a table of vegetables onto the man and ducked into the cellar. A serving woman that was walking by cried out as she saw the scene and ran away. Voices in the common room answered her.
Before he shut the door Rone yelled at the barkeep, “Your kitchen is slow as shit. I ordered soup half an hour ago!” He slammed the door and looked for a latch for a moment before descending down the stair. At the landing a small cellar, stone floored, spread out. A dim light cast by a small lamp illuminated the low-ceilinged room. Barrels and kegs leaned against one wall, and bags of flour against another.
“That your idea of a joke?” Dem said.
“You bet,” Rone said with a chuckle. “If you don’t laugh, you’ll cry.”
Dem scoffed and moved toward the far end of the cellar. He stood on a barrel and pushed against the ceiling, revealing a trap door. Moonlight spilled onto the floor as Dem reached down and picked up a crossbow, then threw it up into the light. He pulled himself up and out of the cellar.
His hand stuck down. “Give me your bags.”
Rone pulled his bag off and handed to Dem, who lugged it out and set it on the street beside him. He followed with Charlotte’s bag.
“The girl next,” he said.
Rone ignored him. He handed his pistol to Charlotte, who, lacking anywhere else to stash it, stuffed it between her breasts, and then pulled himself up and out of the cellar. When he was clear Charlotte came and stood on the keg, her arms uplifted, and Rone quickly grasped her elbows with two hands and lifted her up. Dem had already moved to the corner of the inn and was gazing away, reloading his crossbow. He looked back to Rone and held a finger to his lips, then motioned for them to come.
They both quickly shouldered their burdens and came forward. The sound of boots and voices filled their ears as the passed out of cover of the building. A quick glance down the side of the building revealed men armed with long guns and pikes laying hands lightly on modestly clothed men and women as they exited a bar. Occupied as they were, they did not notice the trio as they slipped into another alley.
“Here,” Dem said. He pointed to an opening in the alley that seemed to beneath one of the buildings. Stars, wet with condensation and slime, were going down into a darker pathway.
Charlotte covered her mouth with her hand. Rone motioned her down, and she followed Dem. She had to keep her hand against the side of the stairwell to keep from slipping, and she had to kick out with her feet on each step to stop herself from tripping on her skirts. At the bottom Dem swung open a small iron gate, revealing a long open sewer that ran perpendicular to the alleyway before curving away some yards ahead. The entire thing sat some six feet below the level of the street, with small bridges and even entire buildings going overhead, blacking out sections of the path.
“Don’t worry, we won’t be down here long,” Dem said. They followed him through a short, straight tunnel that ran under a building before revealing star and moon on the other side. Openings from the street cut into the walls here and there, with water and other refuse dripping from them. When they could, they walked along the dry edge, but in a few places obstructions forced them to step quickly through a few patches of sewage. They passed two more stairs and walked along a long curve before Dem motioned them to step up and out. When they reached the top of the stair they found themselves in an unfamiliar street. A long ivy-covered wall lined one side. The street was quiet, nearly soundless, and their footsteps echoed loudly.
“I hope you’re up for a bit of a walk,” Dem said. “My place is down this lane. Almost to the outer wall.”
Dem turned away, and at that moment, Rone struck. He swiftly kicked at Dem’s back leg, striking the back of the knee. Dem began to collapse, but even with his heavy pack, Rone was already moving swiftly to bind the man. He twisted Dem’s arm causing the crossbow to drop to the street. It released as it hit, sending a bolt flying against the ivy-covered wall with a dull thud. Rone’s dagger was instantly in his right hand and against the small of Dem’s back, his other arm wrapped about the man’s neck.
“Stop!” Charlotte cried, fumbling the musket to the ground. “No, Rone!”
Rone did stop, but did not remove the knife, which bit still slightly into Dem’s jacket, tearing the cloth. Dem, still struggling against the hold, had his back arched and was kicking to stop himself from falling onto the blade.
“Why should I stop?” Rone’s voice was cold and distant.
“He helped us.”
“Only to help himself, or the count, who is his employer, I reckon. He killed for that employer little more than an hour ago, and he will kill me if he gets the chance. We have no friends here. You should know this.”
“I don’t care. Please.”
Rone took a deep breath, but whatever thought he had brewing, whatever rebuttal he was stewing up, was lost as the sound of hooves echoing filled the silent street. He pulled away his dagger and struck Dem on the temple with the pommel. Dem collapsed with a groan.
“Quickly!” He grabbed Charlotte’s hand and pulled her down the street. They ran with all the speed they could muster.
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Africa Africa Cup of Nations 2015 CAN Football Ghana Reports Senegal Sport Tunisia Zambia
All not lost for Zambia after Tunisia defeat on day six of CAN
By Paul Myers in Equatorial Guinea Issued on 23-01-2015 Modified 23-01-2015 to 16:39
Rami Bedoui (R) of Tunisia with Zambia's Emmanuel Mayuka AFP
Zambia squander their chances against Tunisia, they’re already preparing CAN 2017 and Ghana’s coach falls out of love with Equatorial Guinea on Day six of the African Cup of Nations (CAN).
Don’t upset the coach. Zambia’s players had chance after chance to build a big advantage over Tunisia in their second game in Group B. But time after time after
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time, they fluffed the opportunities. After taking the lead, Zambia squandered even that and lost 2-1. Boss Honour Janza was less than chuffed. He said his players had been selfish. “Playing as a team in the last third is the most important thing,” he observed “We created more chances, could have scored maybe four goals but, because of selfish egos, it's difficult.”
How to stay in with an upset coach. The Zambia skipper Rainford Kalaba emerged from the egorama with a man of the match award. “I think we need to change the mentality, because the mentality is not good,” he complained. Kalaba won the title three years ago with a Zambian team that was such a honed collective that even The Borg would have been asking for tips.
The bigwigs at the Confederation of African Football, the organisers of the CAN extravaganza, have come up with the format for the 2017 competition. The host country will be announced on 8 April after a meeting of the top brass in Cairo. Qualifiers will begin in June 2015. Essentially 52 teams will be divided into 13 groups of four and the first from each group will qualify for the final stage, as well as the best two runners-up.
Group B will go down to the wire. Well there’s a cliché we haven’t used yet. But we had to give in to the dark side. Zambia’s defeat to Tunisia on day six means they prop up Group B with one point. Cape Verde and Democratic Republic of Congo both have two points while Tunisia lead with four points. All’s not lost for Zambia though. They can still reach the quarter-finals by seeing off Cape Verde in the final group game on Sunday. They’ve then got to hope Tunisia beat the DRC.
A week is a long time in football. Ghana coach Avram Grant was asked on his arrival about the facilities and organisation in Equatorial Guinea. He was complimentary about it. That was before the debacle against Senegal. On the eve of the crunch Group C game against Algeria, Grant ranted about a bus that drove like a ship, a training session that was scheduled late and far away from the hotel and having to go and talk to journalists instead of being with his players. Woe, woe and thrice woe!
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UN official says Bangladesh can halve poverty by 2015 Md Fazlur Rahman / The Financial Express
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Rome, July 7, 2009: On the eve of the G-8 Summit, the United Nations Millennium Campaign and Global Call to Action against Poverty (GCAP) in Italy organized a stunt in Piazza del Popolo in Rome in order to grab the attention of G-8 leaders. The stunt was part of the “Press the 8” campaign which encourages citizens to pressure G-8 leaders to deliver on their promises at this week’s summit.
G-8 MINISTERS REMINDED NOT TO BE INDIFFERENT TO NEEDS OF POOR DURING DEVELOPMENT MEETING
Rome, June 12, 2009: On the occasion of the G-8 Development Minister’s Meeting that took place at the Foreign Ministry in Rome on June 11-12, GCAP Italy organized a stunt in Piazza del Popolo in order to grab the attention of G-8 leaders. A huge weight with the word “crisis” crushed southern poor people while representations of G-8 leaders remained indifferent and kept on drinking coffee and reading the newspaper. The stunt occurred as development ministers met to discuss the impact of the financial crisis on developing countries and sustainable development.
LITTLE AUTHORS ASK THEIR LEADERS TO KEEP PROMISES
Rome, May 29, 2009: The award ceremony for the creative competition “Little authors of great thoughts: G-8 children write to the big leaders” today took place at Villa Wolkonsky, residence of the British Ambassador in Italy, in the presence of British Ambassador Edward Chaplin, actor Colin Firth, Italian Millennium Campaign Coordinator Marta Guglielmetti and Tavola della Pace Coordinator Flavio Lotti. Even the President of the Republic of Italy sent a message to the young authors.
Anti-Poverty Campaigners Vow to Keep Pressure on Leaders At Civil G-8
Rome, May 4-5, 2009: The City of Rome today hosted 260 delegates from over 40 countries at the Civil G-8, the forum where representatives of civil society and the most industrialized countries have gathered to tackle some of the most important issues on the agenda for the upcoming G-8 summit. Issues on the agenda include global governance, climate change and the environment, funding for development, health, education, employment, gender equality and the fight against poverty.
Interview with Amnesty International in Lisbon
“We’re not a charitable organization. We’re not going to help the poor to escape poverty. What we’ll do is lobby, holding governments accountable so that poverty might be eradicated”, says Lucília Justino, president of Amnesty International Portugal. Amnesty is currently running a worldwide campaign for Human Dignity. This advocacy effort focus on poverty, violence against women and education for all.
Interview with Caterina Furtado
Portuguese actress and TV presenter Catarina Furtado is UNFPA ambassador. After travelling extensively through Africa, Catarina has always found “deep injustice and social inequalities”. Guinea-Bissau is the country that, in her view, best represents “total injustice” – and it’s precisely in that country that she is currently contributing for a project on child mortality and maternal health.
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(star's supposed to be white… it's the best I could find on short notice)
Also known as Coma, or BC. This world, despite it's harsh environment and closeness to it's star, is the most heavily inhabited solid world in the Sirius Star System with over 200 million inhabitants. It's name is derived from the massive tail of water vapor which results from the solar wind blasting away it's atmosphere when the planet makes a close approach in it's eccentric orbit.
The eccentricity of the orbit is thought to be caused by the frequent close approaches of the Pup, Sirius's smaller stellar companion who's orbit shifts between 20 and 10 AUs every 50 years or so. It is thought that Coma originally formed much further away from Sirius, as evidence from it's high concentrations of water, and was flung into it's current semi-stable orbit some 10 million years ago. This is a relatively short time, on cosmological scales, which explain why not all of the water has been blown away. Simulations suggest that in “only” a few more millions of years, the planet will become quite dry.
Though this timescale is ludicrously long for human refference, this countdown has sparked a healthy competition among water hunters, with the frequent joke that they had better mine the water “before it's all gone”.
Distance from primary: 3.2 AU
Orbital Period: 1648 days (~4.5 T-years)
Rotation Period: 25.5 hours
Sattelites: 3 naturals, 4 diverted asteroids
Population: 204 million
Major Exports: Water
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The School determines its teaching and research policy, and organizes the means to implement it, in line with the relevant regulatory framework and its contractual commitments.
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The president is appointed by French presidential decree for a five-year term. He or she is chosen from among leading academics in fields taught and researched at the School.
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It comprises 31 members, including suitably qualified lay members, representatives of partner institutions and elected staff and student representatives.
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The Student Life Committee plays a special role in the running of the School.
The committee advises the president of the School on all matters related to normalien students' study, working and living conditions. It makes recommendations regarding the extra-curricular activities run by student clubs and associations and on financial issues affecting student life.
It is composed of voting members and non-voting members.
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A VM Renaissance: VM and Linux
by Philip H. Smith III in z/Journal on March 1, 2003
For mainframe folks, this means realizing that this is, indeed, a brave new world and that there isn’t always a wellknown set of time-tested procedures for a given situation. The Linux group must recognize that more than 30 years of mainframe operations have resulted in best practices worth examining. Systems programming isn’t a matter of doing things the way you like to do them, or the way that’s most convenient. It’s doing things right, where “right” is defined by those who have come before, and have scars from past mistakes to prove it.
Another area of conflict lies in documentation. IBM has, for decades, produced the best documentation in the computing world. IBM documentation is generally so complete and coherent that third-party books on IBM topics are relatively rare. Linux folks, on the other hand, are used to having three levels of documentation:
How-to documents written by users who have fought the same battles before
Books they can buy at any bookstore
The source code itself (typically written in C).
So, when Linux users are first exposed to the mainframe, their first reaction often is, “Where’s the documentation?” They find few how-to materials. Then they visit Barnes & Noble and don’t find any books. If they even have access to VM source, they find that it’s written in Assembler, with which they’re unfamiliar! No wonder they’re frustrated. Having paper manuals handy and files in Adobe Acrobat PDF is essential for helping folks learn to navigate the IBM documentation.
The mainframe team is often surprised at the poor quality of Linux documentation. Books accompanying commercial Linux distributions are often wildly incomplete and poorly indexed.
Internet sites such as SlashDot, LinuxVM, LinuxDoc, and IBM’s VM and Linux on zSeries Resources pages can help answer questions and resolve specific problems. The Linux-390 mailing list, hosted by Marist College, is also helpful. IBM and other vendors offer classes on VM and Linux on zSeries. A more economical choice is attending SHARE, the national user group for IBM users. SHARE meets twice annually, each meeting offering a full week of sessions on various topics. Refer to the resources section for more details.
Installations with separate networking groups and mainframe groups often encounter problems integrating the Linux guests with the rest of the network. These are not technical issues, and can be overcome with effort on both sides. Networking folks are used to the mainframe being a single host. With Linux on the mainframe, there are suddenly whole networks “hiding” inside the zSeries black box. Since the networking folks cannot see or manipulate the cables, routers, etc., they’re often uncomfortable with this situation.
This can lead to difficulties setting up guests. External routers must be reconfigured to add new routes; traffic over the OSA or other real hardware connecting the mainframe to the LAN may increase dramatically, etc. As with any networking project, it helps to draw a diagram. This lets the network group see that there isn’t anything dramatically new. The new LANs are inside the box and may come and go without external intervention. It’s helpful to show the network team the output of VM NETSTAT and CP QUERY LAN commands, so they can see that it’s similar to what they’re used to.
Mainframe Linu x in Action
So how many organizations have worked through the cultural and technical issues, and migrated important applications to Linux on zSeries? Numbers are difficult to pinpoint. Some companies are reluctant to share information because they feel they’ve gained competitive advantage and don’t want competitors to follow them.
Linux on zSeries success stories include:
Winnebago Industries, which migrated its corporate mail system
Korean Airlines, which uses Linux on zSeries for its flight schedule inquiry system, revenue accounting system, and other strategic applications for maintenance and customer service
Boscov’s Department Stores, the fourth largest retailer in the U.S., which runs large parts of its back-end operations on it.
Universities, a traditional bastion of both VM and Linux, are also heavily using Linux on zSeries. Marist College uses it for classes. Each student can be given a virtual machine, and can build and modify the Linux environment without affecting others.
Several financial organizations on Wall Street are known to be running quiet but extensive pilot programs, as are some large insurance companies. A big surprise is that the expected early uses of mainframe Linux were for infrastructure applications: Web, file, and print serving, e-mail, etc. While these applications are frequently seen, usage has quickly expanded to include business applications such as WebLogic, WebSphere, and DB2 Connect. This suggests customers are realizing the value of Linux on zSeries even faster than Linux fans hoped!
With Linux for zSeries and System/ 390, VM was indeed reborn, although its new role — hosting multiple copies of another OS — is strikingly similar to that for which it was first created. No longer is VM the “poor cousin” to its MVS-derived brethren, with hardware support lagging by months or years. In fact, VM has supported the latest IBM hardware advances ahead of z/OS!
Linux on the mainframe forces mainframe, distributed systems, and networking teams to converge. As the groups learn from each other, companies will realize value far beyond that which Linux itself brings.
Linux is young and dynamic. Employees are finding something new to learn and enhancing their value while adding to their companies’ bottom lines. Linux is a part of every IT installation’s future. With z/VM’s added value, Linux on zSeries is likely to be a part of the most successful companies’ futures! Z
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If shipping items, a manifest is required as well as the actual value of the contents by Italian Customs.
State museums are open every day except on Mondays.
Church or religious museums such as the Vatican Museums are closed on Sundays and on religious holidays.
Limited reservations are accepted by most major museums.
Some museums offer evening summer hours.
Shops are open from 9:00AM to 1:00PM and from 3:30PM to 7:30PM.
Major department stores operate on continuous hours. Shops in main tourist destinations are also open on Sundays.
Beach resorts offer evening hours during the summer.
The Italian Government offers a tax refund for store purchases.
You are eligible for the Tax Refund Service if:
You are domiciled or resident outside the E.U.
You make your purchases in an Italian store and spend at least €154,94 on the same day
You show your purchases at the Customs’ Officer and obtain the Customs’ Stamp on your Tax Refund yellow form upon departure from the last E.U. country you have visited within the end of the third month following the month of purchase (i.e. if you shop on January 15th, you must obtain the Customs’ Stamp by April 30th). If you leave by plane, you must go to Customs before check-in bringing the merchandise you have purchased and your yellow Tax Refund Form with you.
You mail back your Form, duly stamped by Customs, to Tax Refund as soon as possible.
Refund Offices are available at the following locations:
Bergamo Airport – Departures Area – Open Daily 7AM – 9PM
Bologna Marconi Airport– Check in area – Open Daily 6AM – 10PM
Catania Downtown – Viale Africa, 14 – Monday –Friday 9AM –1PM+ 4PM-7PM Saturdays 9AM -12 Noon
Catania Bellini Airport – Arrivals Area – Open Daily 7AM – 9PM
Cortina D’Ampezzo – Piazza Roma 1 – Open 930AM – 1PM & 230PM-730PM Monday-Saturday / Sundays from 10AM-1PM
Florence Porcellino – Piazza del Mercato Nuovo 2/R - Open Daily 830AM-900PM
Florence Avelli –Via Degli Avelli 10/R – Open Monday-Saturday 10AM-6P
Florence Borgo dei Greci 10/R – Open Dally 10AM – 8PM
Florence Calzaiuoli Best and Fast – Via Calzaiuoli 120r Open Daily 830AM-900PM
Florence Piazza San Giovanni – Piazza San Giovanni 7/8 R – Open Daily 830AM-9PM
Florence Amerigo Vespucci Airport – Best and Fast – Open Monday-Sunday 500AM – 1000PM
Florence Ponte Vecchio – Lungarno Accaiuoli, 6 r – Open Monday-Saturday 9AM-550PM & Sundays 9AM-4:50PM
Forli’ Airport – Hotel Paradise – Open Monday – Sunday 24 Hours
Genoa – Via Sottoripa, 32 – Open Monday-Saturday 830AM – 730PM
Jesolo – Via San Trentin, 69 – Open Monday-Friday 9AM-1230PM & 3P)M-7PM
Messina – Via Vittorio Emanuele II, 40 – Open Monday-Friday 9AM-1PM & 430PM-730PM
Milan – Corso V. Emanuele – Via Larga, 4 – Open Monday – Friday 9AM-530PM
Milan Linate Airport – Departures Area – Open Daily 6AM – 8PM
Milan Malpensa Airport – Terminal 1 – Check In Floor – Open Daily 7AM-10PM
Milan Malpensa Airport – Terminal 1 – Schengen Departures Area - Open Daily 7AM-10PM
Milan Malpensa Airport – Terminal 2 – Departures Area – Open Monday-Sunday 630AM-10PM
Milan – Via Montenapoleone – Via Bigli, 10a – Open Monday – Saturday y 10AM-7PM
Naples Capodichino Airport – Departures Area – Open Monday-Sunday 530AM-10PM
Olbia Costa Smeralda Airport – Arrivals Area – Open daily 920AM – 8PM
Palermo Borsellino Airport – Check in Area – Hours not posted
Pisa Rail Station – Open Daily 10AM-6PM
Pisa Galilei Airport – Departures Area – Open Daily 8AM-10PM
Porto Cervo Marina – Piazza Clipper, 14 – Open Monday – Friday 9AM-1PM & 230PM – 630PM
Rome Via Veneto – Via Lazio, 10 – Open Monday – Friday 930AM – 7PM and Saturdays 930AM-1PM
Rome Fiumicino Airport - Terminal 3 – Check In Area – Open Daily 7AM-10PM
Rome Fiumicino Airport – Terminal 3 – Departures Area – Open Daily 7AM-10PM
Rome Fiumicino Airport – Satellite Gate C20 – Departures Area – Open Daily 730AM-1200PM
Rome Piazza di Spagna – Piazza di Spagna, 38 – Open Monday-Friday 9AM-530PM and Saturdays 9AM-1230PM
Rome Piazza di Spagna – Piazza di Spagna, 80 – Daily 930AM – 800PM
Rome Via Condotti – Via Fontanella Borghese, 35 – Open Monday-Saturday 930AM-730PM
Rome Via della Conciliazione – Via della Conciliazione. 23/25 – Open Monday-Saturday 10AM-6PM, Sundays 10AM-5PM
Sanremo – Corso Mombello, 6 – Open Monday-Saturday 9AM-1230PM & 315PM-715PM
Siena – Via di Citta’ 80/82 – Open Daily 10AM-630PM
Sorrento – Via S. Cesareo, 26 – Open Daily 10AM-10PM
Turin Airport – Departures Area – Hours not posted
Treviso Airport – Departures Area – Open Daily 730AM-10PM
Trieste Rail Station – Open Monday-Saturday 730AM-7PM
Venice Canaregio – Sestriere Canaregio, 228 – Open Daily 8AM-9PM
Venice Mercerie – San Marco, 4852 – Open Daily 9AM-830PM
Venice Tessera Airport – Departures Area – Open Daily 6AM-8PM
Venice Ponte di Rialto – Riva del Ferro, 5126 – Open Monday – Friday 10AM-6PM, Saturdays 930AM-3PM (WINTER HOURS 10AM-3PM)
Verona – Via Cappello, 4 – Open Daily 9AM-830PM
EXPORTS FROM ITALY
There are no restrictions on gifts purchased in Italy except for antiques and works of art that are over 100 years old. These items require authorization from the Minstero dei Beni Culturali e Ambientali .
U.S. Regulations on Purchases Abroad
Each U.S. tourist may bring back to the U.S. duty-free $400 worth of goods purchased abroad. The goods must accompany the traveler. A flat rate of 10% is assessed on the next $1,000 worth of goods purchased. Parcels containing gifts may be sent from abroad to the U.S. duty-free, providing the total value of such parcels received by one person, one day does not exceed $50. Each package should be marked "Unsolicited Gift". The amount paid and the contents of the package should be declared.
As part of our ongoing commitment to ensure the safety and security of travelers, the Italian Government Tourist Board strongly recommends that tourists do not, under any circumstances, attempt to purchase any counterfeit items, as this may end up costing them well more than an authentic product.
As of May 2005 a new legislation was implemented (which carries fines of up to 10,000 Euros for people caught purchasing counterfeit products, and criminal charges for anyone caught selling counterfeit goods.) It aims at a national wide crackdown on the sellers and buyers of counterfeit items, i.e. purses, sunglasses, watches, belts, etc bearing luxury labels such as Prada, Gucci, Fendi only to name a few.
Luggage is examined on entering and leaving Italy.
Free entry is allowed for personal effects: clothing (new and used), books, camping and household equipment, fishing tackle, 1 pair of skis, 2 tennis racquets, computer, CD player with 10 CD's, tape recorder or Dictaphone, baby carriage, 2 still cameras with 10 rolls of film for each camera, 1 movie camera, binoculars, personal jewelry, portable radio set (subject to a small license fee), 400 cigarettes and a quantity of cigars or pipe tobacco not exceeding 500 grams (1.1 lb).
All items mentioned above may be imported duty-free only on condition that they are for personal use and are not be sold, given away or traded. A maximum of two bottles of wine and one bottle of hard liquor per person may be brought in duty-free. The bottles must not be open. A maximum of 4.4 lbs. of coffee, 6.6 lbs. of sugar and 2.2 lbs. of cocoa are allowed duty-free.
Overseas tourists arriving in Italy after visiting other countries are allowed to carry with them souvenirs purchased in other countries up to a total value of $500 and only a verbal declaration is required. Purchases may include up to a half litre of perfume.
As of October 2, 2004 a new European Union regulation (EC 998\2003) applies for the non-commercial movement of pet animals (cats, dogs, and ferrets) in the European Union Member States.
Pets may enter Italy only if accompanied by their owner or a person responsible for them on behalf of the owner during their movement in Italy, and are not intended for sale. Up to a maximum of five pet animals are permitted.
In accordance with the above EC Regulation, it is mandatory to obtain, for each pet, a European Community Veterinary Certificate, issued, in the country of origin, by a certified veterinarian, containing information about the pet's general state of health and proving there is an effective vaccination protection against rabies: animals under the age of three months may not travel to Europe since the anti-rabies vaccine is not administered before the pet is three months old.
Pet animals must be identifiable by a clearly readable tattoo or an electronic identification system(microchip/transponder), which provides the pet owner's name and address. The certificate (issue date not to exceed 30 days prior to the departure date) is valid for 4 months from the date of the official veterinarian's signature or endorsement by the competent Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service(USDA U.S. Department of Agriculture's) or Canadian Food Inspection Agency, and is equivalent to the EU Pet Passport. The certificate forms are available from Italian diplomatic of consular representatives, whose authentication or certification is not needed.
To introduce pet animals in Italy from third countries, it is not necessary to subject the animals to tick or echinococcus treatments. Parrots, parakeets, rabbits and hares also require health certificates, and, upon entering Italy, are subject, to examination.
In Italy, it is mandatory to use a muzzle for dogs that walk on the streets or any open space without a leash, and a muzzle and a leash for dogs in public places and public transportation.
Passport Regulations
A visa is not required for a U.S. or Canadian citizens holding a valid passport unless they expect to stay in Italy more than 90 days.
Registration for Tourists
The formality of registering with the police within 3 days of a tourist's arrival in Italy is attended to by the hotels one stays with. If staying with friends or in a private home, the visitor has to register in person at the nearest police station within a 3-day period. In Rome there is a special police information office to assist tourists.
Catholic churches where mass is celebrated in English
Santa Maria del Fiore
Church of the Hospital of San Giovanni di Dio, Borgo Ognissanti 16
SS. Martiri Canadesi, Via G. B. De Rossi 46 (the national church of Canada)
San Silvestro in Capite, Piazza San Silvestro (The national church of England)
Sant’Isidoro, Via degli Artisti 41 (The national church of Ireland)
Santa Susanna, Via XX Settembre 14 (The national church of the USA)
All churches’ opening hours are generally from 7AM-12 Noon and from 430PM – 6PM.
Major catholic churches are open from 7AM to 6PM.
Non-Catholic churches
Methodist-Presbyterian Church, Via dei Mille 4
St. James American Episcopal, Via B. Rucellai 9
Church of England, Via Maggio 16,
Anglican Church of All Saints, Via Solferino 12
Christ Church, Via del Bollo 5,
Methodist Church, Via Porro Lambertenghi 28
Anglican, Via San Pasquale 18
Baptist, Via Foria 93
Lutheran, Via Carlo Poerio 5
Methodist, Via Vaccaro 20
Anglican Church of All Saints, Via del Babuino 153
Baptist, Viale Jonio 203
Baptist, Pizza San Lorenzo in Lucina 35
International Protestant, Via Chiovenda 57
Methodist Church, Via Firenze 38
St Andrew's Presbyterian Church of Scotland, Via XX Settembre7
St. George Anglican, Campo San Vio 870
Lutheran Evangelical, Campo SS. Apostoli 4443,
Evangelical Waldensian and Methodist, Santa Maria Formosa 5170
Via Milano 7, Alessandria 15100
Via Fanti 2, Ancona 40123
Via Combruti 9, Bologna 40100
Vicolo Salomone Olper 44, Casale 15033
Via Mazzini 95, Ferrara 40100
Via Farini 4, Florence 50121
Via G. Bertora 6, Genoa 16122
Piazza Elia Benamozegh 1, Livorno 57123
Via G. Govi 11, Mantova 46100
Via Schiller 14, Merano 39012
Via Eupili 6, Milan 20145
Piazza Mazzini 26, Modena 41100
Via Cappella Vecchia 31, Naples 80121
Via SS. Martino e Solferino 5, Padua 35122
Vicolo Cervi 4, Parma 53100
Via Palestro 24, Pisa 56100
Via Lungotevere Cenci, Rome 00186
Via S. Pio V 12, Turin 10125
Via S. Francesco 19, Trieste 34133
Canareggio 2899, Venice 30121
Via Foà 70, Vercelli 13100
Via Portici 3, Verona 37121
Size Tables
United States & Italian Sizes
This is merely a guide. Sizes are not standardized. Always try on if possible.
MISSES’/WOMEN’S SIZE CHART
United States 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16
WOMEN’S LARGE SIZES*
United States 18 20 24
Italy 52 54 56
United States 5½ 6½ 7 7½ 8 8½ 9 10
Italy 35 36 37 38 38½ 39 40 41
WOMEN’S HOSIERY
United States Petite Small Medium Large
Italy I II III IV
MEN’S SIZES** Suits, Overcoats, Sweaters and Pajamas
United States 34 36 38 40 42 44 46 48
United States 14 14½ 15 15½ 16 16½ 17 17½
United States 6 6½ 7 7½ 8 8½ 9 9½ 10 10½ 11-11½
Italy 39 40 40½ 41 41½ 42 42½ 43 43½ 44-44½ 45
MEN’S HATS**
United States 67/8 7 71/8 7¼ 73/8 7½ 75/8 73/4
CHILDREN’S SIZES**
United States 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14
Italy 35 40 45 50 55 60 65 70 75 80 85 90 95 100
United States 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 10½ 11 12 13 1 2 3 5 6
Italy 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35
* In most cases Italian women’s wear items are cut smaller than domestically produced items.
** Sizes are not standardized.
*** Several U.S. importers note that in most cases Italian children’s wear items are cut larger and wider than domestically produced items, resulting in Italian items being numbered improperly, i.e., too low for this market. As a consequence, the importer/retailer is often forced to add 1-2 numbers to the Italian sizes indicated, to obtain what they consider to be the correct size for the American market. Thus an Italian “2” will often be considered a “3” or even “4” by an American retailer.
The Mediterranean climate is hot, but not humid, during the summer and comfortably warm in the spring and fall. Casual cottons and easy care clothing is recommended. For Papal Audiences, inside church visits, women should dress modestly, with arms and head covered, no mini skirts or shorts, and men should wear short sleeves (no tank tops) and pants (no shorts). It is also customary for men and women to dress in a casual elegant fashion for dinner. Formal attire is not required.
When visiting casinos, there is a dress code in place (jacket and tie for men, skirts or dress pants for ladies).
Italy is a country of extremely varied landscapes and consequently experiences a similarly varied climate. Between the north and south there can be a considerable difference in temperature, particularly during the winter. In Milan it could be −2°C and snowing, while at the same time 8°C in Rome and 20°C in Palermo. The differences are less extreme in the summer.
The coastal regions, where most of the large towns are located, have a typical Mediterranean climate with mild winters and hot and generally dry summers. The length and intensity of the summer dry season increases towards the south. The coastal areas throughout Italy experience largely similar conditions from north to south with mild winters and hot, dry summers. The western side of the country experiences more rain than the eastern side which is windier, especially north of Pescara where Italy is subject to the strong, Bora wind that gusts across the Adriatic from Central Europe.
In contrast to the settled days of summer, the weather throughout Italy can be very changeable in the autumn, winter and spring. This unpredictable weather can continue until the end of May and can start anytime after the beginning of September. The winter months tend to alternate between clouds and rain and warmer, sunnier weather.
Inland, throughout the peninsula, the weather is often colder and wetter with frequent snow on the mountains during the winter.
In the extreme north, the climate can drop to below freezing in the winter and rise to 30° in the summer. This is a similar climate to that of Alpine Switzerland and Austria, although the Italian side tends to experience more precipitation and also slightly warmer weather in both summer and winter. In this area, summer tends to be the rainiest season and thunderstorms are frequent in spring, summer, and autumn. Lower down, the lake area in Lombardy tends to experience the mildest winter weather and the warmest, sunniest summers. Sunshine levels here are around 3 to 4 hours a day in the winter and around 9 hours a day in the summer.
The area of the Po valley and the Padan Plain has its own distinctive climate and can experience rain at any time through the year. Although the winter months can be surprisingly cold, and can experience fog, frost and snow, the summer months can be almost as hot and sunny as southern Italy. Thunderstorms are frequent in the summer and autumn but the rain falls infrequently.
The south of the country, particularly Sardinia and Sicily, can get very hot indeed, with long periods of settled weather and continuous sunshine. During the daytime, sea breezes can lower the temperatures on the coast, but in the evening and overnight it can be extremely hot and humid, especially inland. As can be imagined, the south of Italy has the least rain and the most hours of sunshine of any other area in Italy. In Sardinia and Sicily, there is an average of 4 hours of sunshine a day during the winter and 9 hours a day in the summer.
Average temperatures, sunlight hours, and rainfall statistics
Here are average temperatures, sunlight hours, and rainfall statistics.
Climate in Abruzzo
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Climate in Aosta
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Climate in Basilicata
Climate in Calabria
Climate in Campania
Climate in Emilia-Romagna
Climate in Friuli-Venezia Giulia
Climate in Lazio
Climate in Liguria
Climate in Lombady
Climate in Marche
Climate in Molise
Climate in Piedmont
Climate in Puglia
Climate in Sardinia
Climate in Sicily
Climate in Trentino-Alto Adige
Climate in Tuscany
Climate in Umbria
Climate in Veneto
LAUNDRY AND DRY CLEANING
Most deluxe and first class hotels offer laundry and dry cleaning services for guests.
If hotel does not provide these services, the front desk staff can direct you to a nearby laundry mat, tentoria, lavanderia, or lava secco.
ITALIAN CASINOS
Italy has a long history of gambling, dating back to the days of the Roman Empire, when the predecessor of today’s Backgammon was a very popular form of gambling among the Roman soldiers. The first public gambling establishment was opened in Venice in 1638. It is also said that the games of Baccarat and Bingo were invented in Italy towards the end of the 15th century. Italian gambling has also strongly influence the development of betting throughout Western Europe. In fact, the word “casino” is Italian in origin.
It is surprising, then, that today there are only five land-based casinos in Italy, none in the capital city of Rome. Casino de la Vallee, located in Saint Vincent, a summer holiday resort in the north of Italy, close to the Swiss border, is the largest casino in Italy, with nearly 100 game tables and some 500 slots machines. Other casinos can be found in Venice, Sanremo and Campione d’Italia.
Italian casinos offer all the classic casino games, such as Roulette, Blackjack Punto Banco / Baccarat and Poker. You may also enjoy the game of Trente et Quarante (Thirty and Forty, also known as “Red and Black), a French card game dating back to the 17th century, popular with the locals.
The minimum gambling age in Italian casinos is 18, and a valid photo ID is required. The dress code and opening hours vary significantly.
AMERICAN EMBASIES & CONSULATES IN ITALY
U.S. Citizen Services in Italy
Rome: The U.S. Embassy in Rome offers a full range of services for U.S. citizens in the regions of Lazio, Marche, Umbria, Abruzzo, and Sardegna.
Non-emergency services (e.g. renewal of U.S. passports, Consular Reports of Birth Abroad and notarials) provided by the American Citizen Services Unit at U.S. Embassy Rome are available through an online appointment system. Please click here to schedule an appointment.
Contact Information and Office Hours
Milan: The U.S. Consulate General in Milan offers a full range of services for U.S. citizens in the regions of Valle D'Aosta, Piemonte, Lombardia, Veneto, Trentino-Alto Adige, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Liguria, and Emilia-Romagna (Provinces of Piacenza and Parma only).
Non-emergency services (e.g. renewal of U.S. passports, Consular Reports of Birth Abroad and notarials) provided by the American Citizen Services Unit at U.S. Consulate General Milan are available through an online appointment system. Please click here to schedule an appointment.
Florence : The U.S. Consulate General in Florence offers a full range of services for U.S. citizens in the regions of Tuscany, and Emilia-Romagna (all except the Provinces of Piacenza and Parma).
Non-emergency services (e.g. renewal of U.S. passports, Consular Reports of Birth Abroad and notarials) provided by the American Citizen Services Unit at U.S. Consulate General Florence are available through an online appointment system. Please click here to schedule an appointment.
Naples: The U.S. Consulate General in Naples offers a full range of services for U.S. citizens in the regions of Campania, Molise, Basilicata, Puglia, Calabria, and Sicilia.
Non-emergency services (e.g. renewal of U.S. passports, Consular Reports of Birth Abroad and notarials) provided by the American Citizen Services Unit at U.S. Consulate General Naples are available through an online appointment system. Please click here to schedule an appointment.
Genoa (Consular Agency): Limited consular services provided.
Palermo (Consular Agency): Limited consular services provided.
Venice (Consular Agency): Limited consular services provided.
Citizens with lost or stolen passports must go in person to apply for a same-day emergency passport at one of the following Consulates General in Italy: Rome, Milan, Florence or Naples. Consular Agencies in Genoa, Palermo and Venice are unable to accept or process emergency passport requests.
Americans staying in Italy over three months are encouraged to sign up with the Consulates. See the "Smart Traveler Enrollment Program" webpage for information.
Marriage of U.S. Citizens in Italy
Disclaimer: The list of documents provided here is for general guidance only. The applicable law on marriages is one and the same all over Italy. However, local town halls may interpret the law in slightly different ways and waive certain requirements. Please contact the Registrar’s Office of the town hall where you intend to get married to obtain a definitive list of documents as well as to learn how many days prior to the date of the ceremony you need to submit them. A complete list of town halls in Italy is available here.
Please note: Marriages involving U.S. citizens cannot be performed by American consular officers or take place on the premises of the U.S. Embassy or Consulates General.
1. Valid U.S. passport (active duty members of the U.S. Armed Forces can present their military ID card instead).
2. Birth certificate (original or certified copy).
3. Evidence of the termination of any previous marriage/s if applicable (e.g., final divorce decree, annulment decree, or death certificate of former spouse). If you are a female whose previous marriage was terminated within the last 300 days, you must obtain a waiver from the Italian District Attorney's Office (Procura della Repubblica presso il tribunale) at the court in the city where the new marriage will be performed. The waiver is issued upon presentation of medical evidence that you are not pregnant.
4. Affidavit or “Dichiarazione Giurata” sworn to before an American consular officer commissioned in Italy, stating that there is no legal impediment to your marriage according to the laws of the U.S. state in which you are a resident. Your legal status must be such that you can legally marry under both Italian and U.S. law. (Note that a pending divorce, for example, would be an obstacle.) You will need to schedule an appointment for a notary service with one of the U.S. Consulates General in Italy or with the U.S. Embassy in Rome to obtain the “Dichiarazione Giurata.” Please click here to schedule your appointment in Milan, Florence, Rome or Naples. Please contact the Agent in Genoa, Venice or Palermo directly to schedule an appointment at one of the Consular Agencies.
The “Dichiarazione Giurata” is valid for six months and costs $50 or the equivalent in euro.
Where will you be going to obtain your Dichiarazione Giurata?
· Marriage Dichiarazione Giurata Consulate MILAN
· Marriage Dichiarazione Giurata Cons Agent GENOA
· Marriage Dichiarazione Giurata Cons Agent VENICE
· Marriage Dichiarazione Giurata Consulate FLORENCE
· Marriage Dichiarazione Giurata EMBASSY ROME
· Marriage Dichiarazione Giurata Consulate NAPLES
· Marriage Dichiarazione Giurata Cons Agent PALERMO
Please select the appropriate Post and complete the form before your appointment in order to save time, but do not sign it as it must be signed in front of the consular officer.
If one of the parties is an Italian national resident abroad and registered with an Italian Embassy or Consulate (Anagrafe Italiana Residenti all’Estero - AIRE), please contact the nearest Italian Embassy or Consulate for specific instructions.
Once the “Dichiarazione Giurata” has been issued, you must bring it to the Legalization Office (Ufficio Legalizzazioni) of the local prefettura to legalize it. You will need to purchase a €16 revenue stamp (marca da bollo) from any tobacco shop (tabacchi) and present it to the clerk of the Legalization Office (Ufficio Legalizzazioni) at the Prefettura (an Italian government office) for each document to be authenticated. A complete list of Prefettura offices is available here.
5. Atto Notorio: This is a declaration, in addition to the “Dichiarazione Giurata” described under point 4, stating that according to the laws to which you are subject in the United States, there is no obstacle to your marriage. This declaration is to be sworn to by two witnesses (who may be of any nationality, must be over 18, possess valid photo identification, and know the applicant; they cannot be family members, future family members or affines) before an Italian consul outside Italy or, in Italy, before a court official in the city where the marriage will take place. If you are coming to Italy to be married, you should obtain this declaration at the nearest Italian Embassy or Consulate before leaving the United States, as some courts may have long waiting lists for this service. If you decide to request the Atto Notorio in Italy, you should contact the Notary Services Office (Ufficio Atti Notori) of the court (tribunale ordinario) having jurisdiction over the city where you intend to marry, or any other court in Italy, and make an appointment in advance. If the applicant or even only one of the witnesses does not speak Italian, the presence of an interpreter is required. You, as well as the witnesses and the interpreter, must show proof of your legal presence into Italy by presenting, for example, your plane ticket, visa or permit to stay (permesso di soggiorno). You will need two revenue stamps of €16 each and one of €10,62 to apply for the Atto Notorio, which generally will be ready for pick up after four to 10 days. For an urgent Atto Notorio, issued on the spot, you will need two revenue stamps of €16 each and one of €31,86.
Contact information for the Notary Services Office in Milan, Venice, Genoa, Florence, Rome, Naples and Palermo is available at the Getting Married in Milan, Venice and Genoa, Getting Married in Florence, Getting Married in Rome, and Getting Married in Naples and Palermo links below.
Declaration of Intention to Marry: You should present all the above-listed documents to the Marriage Office (Ufficio Matrimoni) of the town hall (municipio) in the city where the marriage will be performed, and make a "Declaration of Intention to Marry" (Dichiarazione di Matrimonio) before a civil registrar (ufficiale di stato civile). If you do not speak Italian, an interpreter should accompany you. When all this is completed, you can finally set the date of the wedding.
Civil banns must be posted at the town hall for two consecutive weeks, including two Sundays, before the marriage can take place. Please note that banns are posted only after the Declaration of Intention to Marry has been filed. However, if neither party to the marriage is an Italian citizen or a resident of Italy, banns are automatically waived or posted for a shorter period of time which may vary from one day to a week depending on the town hall regulations.
Civil Ceremony: A civil ceremony is performed by the mayor or one of his deputies. Two witnesses and, if necessary, an interpreter must be present at the ceremony. Witnesses may be of any nationality, but must be over 18 and possess valid photo identification. A witness cannot serve as interpreter. You will have to pay a rental fee for the marriage hall, which varies according to the location, the season and the day of the week. The fee ranges from a minimum of €500 to a maximum of €9,200.
Religious Ceremony: A religious ceremony is considered valid if performed by a Roman Catholic priest. A separate civil ceremony will not be necessary, as the priest will register the marriage with the civil authorities.
The Roman Catholic Church requires baptismal and confirmation certificates in addition to the documents listed above. For complete information, you should check with your priest.
For English-language marriages at the Vatican, also known as the Holy See, contact the parish priest of Santa Susanna Church by visiting their website at www.santasusanna.org. Marriages at the Vatican will be registered with the Vatican civil authorities, and marriage certificates are issued by the Civil Registry of Vatican City (Ufficio di Stato Civile, Anagrafe e Notariato, Governatorato, Citta del Vaticano). Because the Vatican is a separate State and not part of Italy, the notarized “Dichiarazione Giurata” is required but does not need to be legalized by an Italian prefettura office.
A religious ceremony performed by non-Roman Catholic clergy requires that a civil ceremony be performed prior to the religious one to ensure the legality of the marriage. If you are planning such a religious ceremony, you should consult with the priest, minister, or rabbi far in advance of the actual ceremony.
Important Note on the Validity of Foreign Documents in Italy: All documents originating outside of Italy (birth certificate, divorce decree, etc.) must be legalized for use in Italy and must be translated into Italian.
To legalize a U.S. document for use in Italy, you need to have it stamped with a so-called Apostille stamp by the secretary of state in the state where the document was issued, in accordance with The Hague Convention on the legalization of foreign public documents.
· What is an Apostille
· Where to get an Apostille stamp in the U.S.
Under Italian law, all public documents originating from outside the EU are considered valid for only six months from the date of issue. Therefore, you should make sure that all documents to be submitted to Italian authorities have not been issued more than six months ahead of the marriage.
Important Note on the Validity of the Italian Marriage Certificate in the U.S.: A foreign marriage that is valid in the country where it is performed is automatically valid in the U.S. An Italian marriage certificate is sufficient to prove your marriage and it is considered valid once legalized through the Apostille procedure. The Apostille stamp can be obtained from the Legalization Office of the Italian Prefettura having jurisdiction over the area where you were married. A complete list of Prefettura offices is available here.
Additional Information: U.S. consular officers are not trained in Italian law and consequently are not qualified to interpret Italian marriage requirements. If you wish more detailed information, you should consult the appropriate Italian authorities, such as an Italian consular officer in the U.S., civil registrars at town halls, or a lawyer licensed to practice in Italy.
Please note that you may need several days to complete all of the procedures so you should plan ahead. The timing will vary depending upon the number of marriages to be performed by civil authorities. Waiting lists are not uncommon, particularly in more popular towns and at certain times of the year, such as May, June or September.
Specific information for marriages performed in Milan, Venice, Genoa, Florence, Rome, Naples and Palermo is available at:
· Getting Married in Milan, Venice and Genoa
· Getting Married in Florence
· Getting Married in Rome
· Getting Married in Naples and Palermo
SUGGESTIONS ON TIPPING
Tipping at hotels in Italy is not required but appreciated. You can tip the porter, usually no more than 5 Euros. You can tip the concierge, 1 – 2 Euros if he provides good service. You can tip the housekeeper, in which case 0.75 – 1.50 Euros per day is appreciated. It is recommended you tip around 0.50 Euros for a valet and the same for room service.
You are not expected to tip in Italy. A service charge is sometimes added to the bill, ranging from 1 to 3 Euros, or 10% - 15%. This charge must be indicated on the menu. Some may also add an extra charge for the diner ware and extras (tablecloth, silverware, plates, bread, etc.), this is normal. But check your bill!
Tipping isn’t expected in Italian Spas, but if the service exceeds your expectations, you can tip up to 10%.
Tipping tour guides is very much appreciated but not expected. Common practice is in the range of 5 Euros for half a day, or 10 Euros for a full day, per person.
In Italy you can tip your cab driver, but it isn’t expected nor is it common. Feel free to tip if they are extra helpful, they will appreciate it. It is good practice to agree a final fare before the journey begins.
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Internationally Produced Playwright • 2010 & 2016 O'Neill Finalist • Heidman Award Finalist
Drew is a 2019 Writer-in-Residence at Key West Literary Seminar and the Djerassi Resident Artists Program.
THE CANNIBALS OF MCGOWER COUNTY
2015 Asolo Theatre Workshop Recipient & 2016 O'Neil Finalist
Big hair, big plates of barbecue and big personalities are at the heart of McGower County in small-town Texas where Lindalyn, Viola and Sarah Nell congregate at the Spit Pit for a late night birthday celebration. The party is abruptly interrupted by Stun, Lindalyn's ex, a domestic abuser who goes on a rampage and as a result is shot dead three times. Drastic measures are taken when all three women decide to dispose of the body the best way they know how and the truth about their lives, the choices they've made and the revenge they long for culminate in a frenzied, unknown and primal face-off.
About the Play » (Courtesy of the O'Neil)
Featuring Cathy Curtin (ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK), James Kautz & Jordan Geiger
When Vic returns to his childhood home on a remote island in Maine, he struggles to make sense of his mother's sudden death while a surprise visit from Kaye Fagan, a fisherwoman with the mouth of a sailor, brings up complicated questions of his past, origins and family history.
Check out the teaser for the upcoming Drew's upcoming series JANICE GUNTER, GHOST HUNTER, right here »
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U.S. Masters Swimming Discussion Forums > General > General Swimming-Related Discussions > Arena Carbon Pro Mk 2 Kneeskin Closed Back Sizing
View Full Version : Arena Carbon Pro Mk 2 Kneeskin Closed Back Sizing
Varna01
February 3rd, 2015, 01:34 PM
Dear Forum members,
FYI: This tread is mostly addressed to female swimmers with personal experience of ownership of Arena Carbon Pro suits, due the type of equipment, however valuable advices from male swimmers are also welcomed.
I bought for my daughter's upcoming competition Arena Carbon Pro Mk. 2 for bunch of money. Her sizes are 164 cm height, 89 cm hips, 85 cm chest and 62 cm waist, the body length is 142 cm.
We followed the size chart table and ordered a size 24. However it didn't fit at all. Then we've exchanged it for size 28 and it didn't fit again as she was even unable to pull it over her hip bones and we have noticed that if she continues to pull further the stretches were going to be ripped.
We've returned the suit today and we need to exchange it for different size. Therefore based on your own experience and probable similarities, could you advice which size we should order?!
Advices such as return the suit and get your money back and/or buy Speedo (I don't like the brand) are not suitable. Only practical advices to solve the size dilemma are welcomed.
Allen Stark
I only know about the men's jammer,but that is definitely not a suit one can size down in.I wear a 30 of every other racing suit I have owned for meets and a 32 polyester suit for workouts.In the Carbon Pro jammer I wear a 34 and it is very tight.I don't know how much this helps,good luck.
laineybug
My granddaughter is a 24 in most suits. She wears a 30 in her arena pro carbon. In addition, her mother has to assist her into the suit--helping get it over her bum--and my granddaughter doesn't have a bum!
I've worn the Arena Carbon Pros for years. I'm bigger than your daughter and wear the 30. Sure, it takes awhile to get on -- especially the first time or two. But if I bought the next size up, it would be way too big in the chest. As it is, I find the 30 a little big in the chest and and I am bigger than your daughter's 85 cm (around 35 inches). I would think size 28 would fit her fine. Size 24 would only fit a tiny 10 year old.
Thanks a lot for all previous answers, but dilemma is still there. I sent back the size 28' and now I have to indicate which new size I want them to send back to me. I surfed a lot through the internet before ordering and after (now), unfortunately opinions and reviews are quite different. Some say that sizing should be as same as practice suit (her practice suit size is 30"), others say that it should be even bigger than practice suit size. But there are also people who say that arena size chart is true. Luckily most people say that the size feels too small.
Now I wonder should I need to try to order Open back suit, instead of the Closed back kneeskin suit. Perhaps this would make change... or should I turn to Carbon Flex?!
My Arena carbon pro is a size smaller than my practice suit size. I guess I am willing to squeeze into a suit for the value you get from the compression. It should be difficult to wedge over the hips.
I haven't tried my carbon flex yet, so can't comment. But here is an interesting review of the flex: http://www.swimoutlet.com/blog/top-tech-suits-compared-the-gangloff-review/#womenscarbon. It seems that it may run a bit bigger than the Mark 2 and may be easier to get on because of the placement of the taping. The review claims that it has less compression, especially on top, which would be a downside to me. The compression is the feature that I like best about the Arena suits.
Arena also just released the Carbon Air, which is supposed to be it's most comfortable suit.
I like the closed back best. The more coverage the better.
There are only two sizes larger than the 30. I'm hard pressed to think a tiny girl would need a size 32 based on the sizing chart, though I think the suit does run smaller than those measurements indicate. Remember, though, that the suits stretch out quickly. The last time I put my carbon pro on, it only took a couple minutes as opposed to 20+ the first time.
I'd like to say thank you, to all of you, for trying to help me with the sizing issues we've been facing. I suppose just as Fortress mentioned my daughter was just "new" for technical suits with no experience of wearing them.
At the end the solution was to order the new Carbon Air size 28. It arrived and it fit well. Needed only 10-15 minutes (as a newbie) to wear. A second suit (same Carbon Air, but size 26) should arrive soon, which we shall try to use it for more compression and one of those 2 suits shall serve as a backup suit or both of them to be used based on distances she'll be swimming.
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An Israeli ground incursion into Gaza?
Israel continues to build up its ground forces on the borders of the Gaza Strip in preparation for a probable ground incursion into the Gaza Strip.
The Israeli Air Force has effectively exhausted its preplanned campaign targets list, and is now striking targets of opportunity as they are identified by manned and unmanned surveillance aircraft. Israel likely has all the forces in place now for a ground operation in Gaza.
One of two things will happen in the coming days. Either Hamas will offer a ceasefire that includes a commitment to cease rocket launches into southern Israel and a statement that recognizes Israel's right to exist, or the Israeli leadership will order the Israeli army to move into Gaza. That order, at the minimum, will be to eliminate Hamas's ability to fire rockets into Israel, or may go so far as to attempt to destroy Hamas.
United Nations map of Gaza (click for larger image)
Barring Hamas's decision to come to terms with the Israelis - and I do not see that happening - the Israeli military will enter Gaza in force. As I have said before, the Israelis will not repeat the mistakes of 2006 when they did not use overwhelming force against Hizballah in Lebanon. That ill-fated decision by Ehud Olmert has resulted in a much stronger Hizballah. When Israeli troops enter Gaza, it will be with with tanks and infantry backed by artillery and aviation. Hamas is not Hizballah - they may be as committed, but not as proficient.
Israel has been cited by some misguided critics for use of what they label "disproportionate force" in Gaza. These critics do not understand military conflict. They would have you believe that if Hamas kills an Israeli, then the Israelis should kill one Hamas militant. That's not use of force, that's merely vengeance. If Hamas is systematically killing Israelis, the Israelis should use any force required to eliminate Hamas's capability to kill more Israelis. In military conflict, there is no such thing as disproportionate response. You use what you think you need to prevail and accomplish the objective.
Just as Hamas is not Hizballah, Gaza is not southern Lebanon. The narrow Gaza Strip can easily be segmented by Israeli armored thrusts, possibly into as many as three sectors. Israeli forces could initially isolate the northeastern part of the Strip, in effect cutting off the city of Gaza and the sprawling Jabaliyah refugee camp. Israeli troops can move from Israel to the Mediterranean, a distance of less than five miles, and cut off this area. The area north, east and south of Jabaliyah are the "launch basket" for the Hamas rockets that have been used against Sderot, Ashkelon, Ashdod and Beersheba.
The goal of the initial thrust will be to isolate the Gaza-Jabaliyah pocket from resupply and reinforcements from other area of the Strip. All of the weapons that enter Gaza do so via the porous border with Egypt into the Rafah area, and Islamic militant fighters are easily recruited amid the squalor of the Khan Yunis refugee camp. Separating the fighter pool and weapons supply route from the launch area should begin decreasing the number of rockets being fired into Israel.
After the initial thrust, the Israelis should concentrate on two areas: clearing the "launch basket" around Jabaliyah and sealing the border with Egypt. Clearing the launch basket is obvious: closing the border with Egypt prevents the escape of Hamas leaders and the introduction of additional weapons into the Gaza Strip.
This will not be easy. Hamas is a committed foe. Gaza is a densely populated urban area that will require difficult house-to-house urban warfare. The Israelis have probably determined that they have no choice - the time has come to address the issue of Hamas. It will not be long now.
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Hamas - The Iranian Connection
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General Game News
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TTYT
Re: General Game News
Duke Nukem Forever and Deus EX: Human Revolution are now up for pre-order on Steam!
Duke: http://store.steampowered.com/app/57900/
Deus Ex - HR: http://store.steampowered.com/app/39170/
Deus Ex - HR Augmented Edition: http://store.steampowered.com/app/901655/
Quote from: TTYT on May 09, 2011, 12:27:25 PM
Keep in mind, if you invested the $45 it costs to pre-order Duke Nukem, you would have $137,000 by the time the game actually comes out.
Scribblesense
I use every color in the box. At once.
Video Games are now legally recognized as art by the NEA, Roger Ebert told to suck grapes:
http://gaming.icrontic.com/article/nea-video-games-are-an-art-form/
"Hey, you kids! Those boxes are for shipping! Not for creating a world of pure imagination!"
Got an email from the Duke Nukem First Access Club (if you have Borderlands on Steam, check your CD keys, you probably have a First Access Club code - enter it here) today - they wanted me to re-confirm my platform preference for the demo by May 15th. Methinks the demo is imminent...
Happy 11th Birthday, Synch Issues!
Well, some stealth news here-
Yesterday, Direct2drive, one of the larger digital download sites, announced that they had been acquired by game rental place Gamefly. Hmmm. I wonder if some European outlet might snag Gamersgate next.
Worst...avatar...ever!
In anticipation of releasing Skyrim soon, there's going to be a special version of Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion released June 28th called the "5th Anniversary Edition," which will have a $10 off coupon for Skyrim included.
Basically, I'm assuming if you have the PC version with all the add-ons, all you'll really get is a nice Steelbook case and maps of the explorable area, but if you have the consoles it may (but not necessarily) mean that they'll fix that damn vampire bug once and for all.
And if the box on Amazon is to be believed, PS3 owners rejoice...the back cover art shown there says it adds trophy support. If that is, in fact, the official artwork for the box and not some mock-up crap, that's pretty nice. If they also include Vile Lair and all the other $1.99 apiece silliness (horse armor, anyone?) that everyone else got, that might mean PS3 owners finally don't get the shaft when it comes to Oblivion. Only took 'em five years, right?
Now, if Ubisoft gets around to re-releasing Assassin's Creed for the consoles with the Director's Cut edition the PC got with all the attendant bells and whistles, we'll be in business. And yes, I'm fully aware that it's, like, 3 additional missions or something, but hey, getting to play that again for any reason would be nice.
One Man Band Riffs. 18 riffs, over 600 served, since 2009.
OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG: http://www.sega.com/alienscolonialmarines/
No Predators in sight, it's being developed by Gearbox - and is a "true sequel" to Aliens (in other words, it ignores Alien 3. Whoo!):
http://kotaku.com/5807389/aliens-colonial-marines-a-true-sequel-to-james-camerons-classic-aliens-out-in-2012
« Last Edit: June 01, 2011, 12:19:40 PM by TTYT »
Nice. I'd heard that this had been in limbo for a long time with little hope it'd see the light of day.
One problem, though: considering the colony was, well, sort of NUKED in the second movie when the reactor blew up, wouldn't it be a little hard to go back to it and walk around? I'm just saying they could've more believably set up shop someplace else and it would've been just as much fun.
Quote from: SJP on June 01, 2011, 01:00:17 PM
Or they could've just done a sort of remake of Aliens. I think the story for that would provide a great backbone for a game.
The trailer seemed to imply it takes place on the Sulaco - or at least starts there. Dunno, exactly. Although I'd assume there'd be hazard suits involved if it went back to LV-426.
Quote from: Scribblesense on May 09, 2011, 02:12:29 PM
Why is everyone always hating on Ebert?
He doesn't think video games are art,so what?
I am not sure if they art are not myself,and I am a die hard gamer.
He still does his job well,I think he is still the second best critic out there.
The way some people act you would think he had murdered their mothers or something.
Quote from: Doctor Who? on June 01, 2011, 06:06:27 PM
I've got nothing against Ebert...I often don't agree with him (and when we do agree, it's always on the weirdest movies), but the main reason people have a beef with Ebert is that he has gone on record defending movies as art. People see it as a little odd, then, that he'd say such harsh, negative things about video games, when his own beloved media of choice has gone through roughly the same thing in its lifetime.
To compare, it'd be like Michael Crichton telling people how movie adaptations, especially say, video games to movies, are horrible, pointless things to do, when he made millions on adapting his own books to film for years.
Michael Crichton never did anything of the sort in real life, mind you; I'm just pointing out how Ebert's position seems so odd and confusing considering the business he's in. Heck, it's almost like a video game murdered HIS mother, when you get right down to it.
Look I like games but I will be the first to admit they have not reached anywhere near the level of story telling that films have. I mean even the best video games feature characters that are barely 2d and plots that if they were films would be Micheal Bay movies.
There has yet to be a video game Citizen Kane or even The King's Speech. Once games have produced something with that level of character depth and amount to say then you can complain about people saying they are not as good as films until then I do not know what the big deal is.
He doesn't think they are as good as films he has that right. It doesn't make him a bad person and I sure don't think he should be personally attacked.
Look I like games but I will be the first to admit they have not reached anywhere near the level of story telling that films have.
But I bet you know the difference between have not and can not, right? Because he claimed can not. And that is dumb.
He does his job well, and has made a very good career for himself, I'll give him that.
The problem is people listen to him, even when he is obviously running his ignorant mouth about subjects he himself claims he knows nothing about (re: video games). When he makes claims like that, the thousands (if not hundreds of thousands) of people working in the video game industry, who have devoted their careers to making video games, have their work and passion completely invalidated. These people are invested in the industry and moving the industry forward - innovating outwards and upwards to create truly compelling and emotionally involving games.
There's a thing about art - when it's great, the people who have experienced it immediately want to share it. Art unifies people and cultures through shared experiences, and when somebody as high-profile and well-educated as Ebert makes methodically picks apart a medium to conclusively prove it is not art, people are going to listen and it will halt the progress and innovation the video game industry is trying to advance.
The man has never played a video game for more than fifteen minutes. To claim you can know every goddamn thing about a rapidly growing medium through outside observation is just pure arrogance.
What's amazing about games is they can tell a story and reveal character without consciously doing either. I got more attached to Yorda, Epona, Leliana and the fucking Companion Cube more than any character in any movie ever. Silent Hill 2 has plot elements more psychologically compelling and disturbing than Black Swan (or at least just as so). And Metal Gear Solid - well, it certainly has tons upon tons to say about everything.
Nobody is above criticism, especially when it's their job to know better and their opinion can be so damaging.
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FCG INTERVIEW | German Sustain Concept (messe frankfurt)
“Sustainable fashion is fun too”
Messe Frankfurt has a new sustainable baby: Neonyt, a new sustain platform at the interface between trade fairs, fashion shows and conferences, will be launched parallel to the Berlin Fashion Week in January. In addition to showroom.de and Bikini Berlin, Neonyt is therefore also the ideal partner for the sustainable, two-year promotional programme Fashion Sustain Concept, initiated jointly with the Fashion Council Germany, which starts in 2019. We spoke to Thimo Schwenzfeier, Head of Neonyt and responsible for Marketing and Communications for Messe Frankfurt’s Textile Division, about the new Sustain platform, the promotion of young talent, cooperation with the FCG – and why sustainability is so important in fashion at all.
Mr Schwenzfeier, with Neonyt Messe Frankfurt has just created a new platform where everything revolves around sustainability.
Neonyt is practically not even born yet – in January it will take place for the first time as a successor to the Greenshowroom and the Ethical Fashion Show parallel to the Berlin Fashion Week, as an interdisciplinary sustain platform and a programme consisting of trade fair, fashion show, conference and panel discussions. With Neonyt we want to show that a new era has now begun for fashion in the context of sustainability.
How is this to be understood?
The tradition of commitment to sustainability has existed at Messe Frankfurt since 2004. Back then, the Ethical Fashion Show was still held in Paris, initially as a contact point for ethnic and ethical fashion. In Paris, the mother of all fashion cities, the aspect of sustainability was not yet well received, at least not yet. There, the prejudice prevailed that sustainable fashion was more textile than fashion – often rightly so: “eco-fashion” was more a political statement and the aesthetic side was usually neglected. Messe Frankfurt, which itself has a more textile than fashion background, found the link between fashion and sustain very exciting, however, which is why we took over Ethical Fashion in 2009 and transferred it to Berlin.
Why Berlin?
Green fashion, such as natural cosmetics, has a long tradition and culture throughout Germany. Berlin in particular has long been much more progressive, open and transparent than Paris. And it has a completely different scene with different lifestyles. The vegan scene also plays its part, as does the upscale “green” middle class, which consciously wants to consume and do good. In addition, the Green Showroom was launched, which was later taken over by Messe Frankfurt and shown under the same roof as Ethical Fashion. We are now merging both platforms to form Neonyt.
What is so special about Neonyt?
Sustain is of course our basis – at least 70 percent of the labels we show must meet our sustainable criteria – at the same time we clearly focus on the design language: What doesn’t meet our aesthetic requirements is screened out. This means that dealers who come to us have the great advantage that they no longer have to worry about sustainability and can fully engage with fashion. So no one can get past us anymore. (laughs)
Why is sustainability being talked about everywhere right now?
Although the topic has been in the spirit of the times since the mid-1990s, it was less tangible: At that time, people were talking about environmental protection and child labour. In my childhood, the hole in the ozone layer was the great spectre of horror. Today, however, I can inform myself much more quickly and directly about the consequences of the negative impact. Companies have to follow suit. Until recently, it would have been unthinkable for a global conglomerate like Kering to announce that luxury would be unthinkable without sustainability – or for a fashion house like Chanel to do without fur in the future. I am firmly convinced that companies that do not adapt to sustainability will not survive the next 15 years.
Why is sustainability so important for the fashion industry?
Cotton production, water consumption, genetic engineering. Waste that is not cleaned but flows unfiltered into rivers and oceans. Dyeing processes using toxic chemicals whose vapours workers inhale unprotected. Precarious safety standards as well as the exploitation of textile workers in general – there is no need to kid yourself: We are the second dirtiest industry in the world! The fashion industry urgently needs to rethink its approach.
How can companies imply sustainable standards?
We often hear from larger companies that as a small design label it is not a problem to no longer be able to produce fairly once a certain size has been reached.
Full Interview in German
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Classes regularly scheduled in West Duke 101 for Spring, 2000
09:10 AM-10:00 AM, SP 76.01 (Staff)
10:30 AM-11:20 AM, FR 22.01, Dawn Fulton
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02:20 PM-03:35 PM, PHL 106.01, Martin Golding
05:30 PM-06:45 PM, ENG 28S.02 (Staff)
08:00 AM-08:50 AM, MSC 12S.01, Departmental Staff
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10:55 AM-12:10 PM, PS 157D.01, Albert Eldridge
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Ordinance in Chicago Could Make Restaurants Mandatory Gun Free Zones
September 6, 2013 by Guns 'n' Freedom
The Chicago City Council is once again fighting against the 2nd amendment and the concealed carry laws that were just passed in Illinois. According to ABC news, Council members are discussing an ordinance that would require any restaurant that serves alcohol in the city to post signs declaring a firearm-free zone.
So what happens if they don’t want to make their restaurant a gun free-zone? They lose their liquor license and could possibly face other penalties as well.
“There’s a lot of us that simply believe that booze and bullets don’t mix and we don’t think that the concealed carry law should permit people patrons in restaurants to be armed,” Ald. Ed Burke, 14 Ward, said.
Alderman Ed Burke is the one sponsoring this possible ordinance for Chicago as the finance committee makes its considerations.
Many gun advocates are screaming “foul” as the windy city tries to infringe on gun rights yet another time. An NRA lobbyist, Todd Vandermyde is questioning the legality of this ordinance saying,
“The legislature was very clear when they passed a right to carry law that the jurisdiction and the regulation of carrying a firearm or carrying a handgun when in public is the exclusive jurisdiction of the state, and as much as Ald. Burke wants to stomp his feet and have his little tantrum it’s beyond the power of the city council to regulate this.”
The new concealed carry law in Illinois already bans guns from bars and any other establishment that gets more than 50% of it’s sales through alcohol. This new attempt by the city council is going after any other establishment that sells alcohol, which could eventually even include grocery stores or other businesses that sell the substance.
Burke says he is not trying to add any new regulations to the gun law, but simply wants to regulate liquor licenses. Which is just a clever way of trying to make this a “non gun issue”. But gun owners are not buying it and see this as another way for the city to fight the 2nd amendment rights of its citizens
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Bobo says
Ohio had a similar attachment to it’s CCW laws at one time.
They’ve since lifted the “ban” on allowing carry in places that serve alcohol, but still require those carrying to not imbibe. Other states have had similar laws, some don’t allow carry where alcohol is served, some it’s the Over 50% rule, and in some, you can drink, but are held to the same standard as DUI/DWI laws.
While I agree that alcohol and firearms don’t really mix, I’m torn on the subject because I don’t feel that one looses the right to self defense just because they’ve been drinking, however if you have been drinking and do use your firearm you’d better be Damn Sure that you’re in the right.
Dr. Fred Young says
This is an example of an unnecessary ordinance. Any establishment can refuse service to anyone, carrying a gun or not. Moreover, if people who concealed carry do so intelligently, no one will know unless there’s an emergency, and then the restaurant owner will be glad they ignored his wishes.
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Questions about the alleged Iranian plot
A number of Iran analysts are expressing doubt over the alleged plot to kill the Saudi Ambassador to the United States. Here are some excerpts:
Former CIA operative Bob Baer expressed his skepticism about the allegation that Iran was behind the plot to kill the Saudi Ambassador to the U.S. Robert Baer is a former Middle East CIA field officer and TIME.com's intelligence columnist. He is also the author of See No Evil, The Devil We Know and The Company We Keep. Here's what he had to say:
"There are very few groups operationally better than Iran’s Quds Force. They know what they are doing. The only proxies they use are ones they’ve vetted. They don’t let their own citizens get involved. They send other people to do it for them from Hezbollah to Bosnian Muslims. It would be completely uncharacteristic for Iran to be caught red handed."
"So why were they all of a sudden so sloppy? Why would they take this risk now? Who cares about Saudi Ambassador to the U.S. Ali Jaber, anyway? He’s not a royal. He’s probably not the main interlocutor between the United States and Saudi Arabia. Why not go for Saudi Prince Bandar in London? Many other targets would serve Iranian interests better."
"Everybody is looking for evidence that there is going to be a confrontation with Iran. Everybody is jumping on this as a sign of conflict to come. But there are many questions here that need to be answered."
Gary Sick is a senior research scholar at Columbia University’s Middle East Institute and an adjunct professor at the School of International and Public Affairs. Sick served on the National Security Council under Presidents Ford, Carter and Reagan. He was the principal White House aide for Iran during the Iranian Revolution and the hostage crisis. In the following blog post, Gary Sick reiterates some of Baer's questions:
"I find this alleged Iranian plot very hard to believe. In fact, this plot, if true, departs from all known Iranian policies and procedures. To be sure, Iran has plenty of reasons to be angry at both the United States and Saudi Arabia. They attribute the recent wave of assassinations of physics professors and students, as well as the intrusion of the Stuxnet worm, to the U.S. and Israel. And the king of Saudi Arabia is reliably reported to have called for the U.S. to bomb Iran."
"Iran has reportedly been involved in past assassinations in Europe and bombings in Argentina and elsewhere. But the assassinations were of Iranian counter-revolutionaries in the 1980s, and the bombings were always carried out by trusted proxies — normally a branch of Hezbollah. Iran’s fingerprints were always concealed beneath one or more layers of disguise."
"Iran has never conducted — or apparently even attempted — an assassination or a bombing inside the U.S. And it is difficult to believe that they would rely on a non-Islamic criminal gang to carry out this most sensitive of all possible missions. In this instance, they allegedly relied on at least one amateur and a Mexican criminal drug gang that is known to be riddled with both Mexican and U.S. intelligence agents."
"Whatever else may be Iran’s failings, they are not noted for utter disregard of the most basic intelligence tradecraft, e.g. discussing an ultra-covert operation on an open international line between Iran and the U.S. Yet that is what happened here. Perhaps this operation is just as it appears. But at a minimum both the public and the Congress should demand more detailed evidence before taking any rash or irreversible action. If Iran is really as stupid and as incompetent as this case implies, then perhaps they are their own worst enemy and not the clever and determined adversary that they are made out to be."
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First of all, what would Iran's motivation for assassinating this Saudi ambassador anyway? Secondly, why would the Quds bureau fool with the members of the Mexican drug cartels? This whole story doesn't even hold water as it's just another U.S. govenment ploy to get peoples' minds off the sorry state of the current economy!!! Just when are the people in this country going to wise up???
"We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way." - George S. Patton
mklsgl
He's not just 'anyone,' Bob Baer is 'that guy'–remember Syriana? I'd take his opinion as gold.
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"When the Nazis came for the communists, I remained silent; I was not a communist.
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After a decade of American blood and treasure lost in Iraq, that country is aligning itself with Iran.
So, what to do?
Attack Iraq again? No.
Go after Iran.
“More than six months after the start of the Syrian uprising, Iraq is offering key moral and financial support to the country’s embattled president, undermining a central U.S. policy objective and raising fresh concerns that Iraq is drifting further into the orbit of an American arch rival — Iran.
Iraq’s stance has dealt an embarrassing setback to the Obama administration, which has sought to enlist Muslim allies in its campaign to isolate Syrian autocrat Bashar al-Assad. While other Arab states have downgraded ties with Assad, Iraq has moved in the opposite direction, hosting official visits by Syrians, signing pacts to expand business ties and offering political support.”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/iraq-siding-with-iran-sends-lifeline-to-assad/2011/10/06/gIQAFEAIWL_story.html
Voltairine
Show the American people and the world the evidence. I don’t trust Iran either, but the U.S. government has decimated the public’s trust too many times. We have engaged in one military campaign after another, like an Empire of old, throwing yet more money and, “targets”, at the military industrial complex, while our people remain in financial agony. This smacks of “our” government champing at the bit to attack another nation, especially Iran, and unless evidence is released and imminent danger to the U.S. or its allies is made clear and is indeed present, I hope that the American people will resist. Show the evidence or stop rattling the saber ceaselessly that we the people provided.
"All murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets."
You have to ask yourself who has the most to gain. An action like this will only bring more pressure on Iran, which has plenty already, and further increase the Saudi attention toward radical Islam. The links must be examined, but when it all shakes out I will not be surprised to find out the "Quds" contact which pushed the actors into motion was a Mossad agent.
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It was a Saudi Arabian ambassador who was targeted. Let Saudi Arabia attack Iran for retribution.
nsaqib
Sometimes war is the only solution to the domestic problems and this act perfectly fits that analogy. The war takes peoples focus away from the economic issues and daily struggles of life and keeps them preoccupied with security issues. In current world economic situation a war is bound to happen to deflect the economic tensions and peoples woes i.e. 1st it was Pakistan and now Iran. We have thrown the line into the water lets see which fish catches the hook.
Yeah, Im not buying this. Smells fishy. Im betting this is a completely manufactured crisis/plot/conspiracy to get us to hate iran moar. And in any case, do we really care about saudi arabia? If it werent for the oil, would they be such buddies? Im surprised Obama didnt break up over the phone as soon as he was elected.
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On the one hand, this could be a ham-handed Iranian plot by one faction of their government to discredit another.
On the other hand, this could be a ham-handed CIA plot to justify a increased budgets and power, etc.
But the fact that it is ham-handed (i.e. that no one cares about the Saudi ambassador, that Quds never gets caught or uses unreliable proxies, etc.) is not evidence for either argument. Either side could have been DELIBERATELY ham-handed for precisely the purpose of claiming their innocence ("If WE had wanted him dead, he'd BE dead! Therefore it WASN'T us!"). Wheels within wheels.
Everyone should stop armchair quarterbacking. If we can't trust our own government, then we have bigger problems than Iran. And we will NEVER know the truth with certainty. Everyone is too damned clever for that, and ambiguity serves everyone's interests in this, except the interests of the American and Iranian people.
Shaif YirBoosh
Oh yeah...right...sure...wait'll the news breaks that this was another sting job set up by the FEDS to entrap dumb & dumber.
The FBI couldn't catch a cold in a SARS ward.
Vanilla Gorilla
just an exercise by the WH to deflect attention from their ineptness and corruption
the Saudi in question is a nobody in the grand scheme of things
could be a positioning move to set up the long anticipated conflict with Iran
we live in a world of misinformation
ask yourselves what motivation cnn has for attempting to minimize this terrorist plot. The answer is simple. CNN has been pro obama and obama is pro muslim. Obama has made iran outreach his platform since he was inaugurated and to admit it hasn't worked is to admit that the policy is a failed one...and CNN does not want to cover ANYTHING that hurts his chances for reelection.
How is obama pro muslim?
bowing to saudi king
approving of ground zero mosque
asking NASA's bolden to make muslim outreach its number one priority(really? NASA the space agency should be pro muslim?)
sending repeated wishes to iran for new years etc
not doing a thing during irans oppostion movement
going to cairo, ankara and saudi arabia for speeches but not to israel his "unshakeable ally"
treating netanyahu like an opponent in previous washington meets
unfair handling of israel, his ally, during the peace process
making outreach to hamas and hezbollah a FP initiative
making outreach to erdogan's turkey which has been islamicizing rapidly and jailing journalists.
removing missile shield in czech repub and poland in return for x-band missile shield about to be put in turkey? insiders say this will create a hole in the shield where it concerns israels defense as turkey cant be trusted to share incoming launch data with israel.
foolishly apologizing to the muslim world for americas past
wiki this clown ! must be high on G13 he stashed when he was working for the CIA .
In an interview with Thom Hartmann on June 9, 2006, Baer was asked if he believed "that there was an aspect of 'inside job' to the September 11, 2001 attacks within the U.S. government". He replied, "There is that possibility, the evidence points at it."[5] However, he later stated, "For the record, I don't believe that the World Trade Center was brought down by our own explosives, or that a rocket, rather than an airliner, hit the Pentagon. I spent a career in the CIA trying to orchestrate plots, wasn't all that good at it, and certainly couldn't carry off 9/11. Nor could the real pros I had the pleasure to work with."[6]
should have kept on skiing .
Enough American soldiers have died in the Middle East; we don't need to waste anymore lives...
Bob Baer is completely wrong in his assessment. The FBI got it right however, the now-retired CIA Officer Bob Baer (trying to justify his salary from Time and CNN) is attempting to spin it in his own fashion. Just because he was the CIA Station Chief for Middle East Affairs back in the 1990's does not make him the authority on Iran's intentions these days. Bob–let the FBI do their job and stay out of the mix!!!
I suspect this is mostly the FBI's doing – they found a willing fool and led him down a series of foolish agreements to an illogical conclusion. Using Mexican assasins in DC to target a Saudi non-royal? Baer is right that such a move would be out of step with their normal operations.
so all you idiots are trusting Ahmadinejad's spokesman before our own government? Thats messed up.
Yes it is james
Unfortunately our government's track record isn't very good...
Indigotime
For once i see almost complete agreement on a CNN board and i'm with you... AMAZING!..We must speak out not just on the boards but to our congressman and senators now. Tell them this is BS and we will vote every last stinking one of them out if they go after Iran for this crap. As everyone has pointed out all this serves is the oil companies, the defense industry, our real enemies etc. etc. etc.Don't let them do it to us again. We ned jobs dammit not more war!
I am not really in to conspiracy theories but if someone wants to advance one it would this – the Saudis were behind the plot in the hopes of getting the US to do something drastic against Iran because Iran scares the crap out of them (and others).
we should remember before the Iraq war everybody told us that they (Iraq) has weapons of masdestructions, which we now know was false information and a reason for Bush jun. to start a war with Iraq, which was totally useless causing losses of life on both sides, however it shifted the focus of bad domestic policy towards a war. maybe it is a time to start a new war, things are bad on the homefront and the US needs an enemy to distract the people and voters from the real problems?? ever thought of that? preperation of a new invasion and new oil fields, very sad, we have learned nothing in many years!!
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What is really sad, and it comes through in the commentary here, is how much damage the Bush administration did to the credibility of our government with our own people. Even when we replaced them with an administration that has (admittedly with mixed success) tried to reverse some of their destructive policies, we still have too many Americans willing to believe the worst. Even more amazing, they will side with the government of Iran against their own. Sad!
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You have got to be kidding, You are still blaming bush, obama can take credit for this, notice how no one is afraid of obama, he will replace jimmy carter as the worst president in history.
The transparency he talked about turned out to be smoke and mirrors.
Grow up and realize not everything is bushes fault. Take responsibility.
Israel and the oil cartels control the foreign policy of America, people can rant all they want in the comments above but there is absolutely nothing they can do about it. If Israel wants America to attack Iran, and if the oil companies want to raise the depressed oil prices then that's what will happen. This is not a democracy by any means, it's the new fascism where corporations dictate what happens, it's what I call " Corportacracy " Please prove me wrong
I tried but i can't. I guess u r right
So many things that the american government has said in public have turned out to be false. Now it is very hard to believe any thing that it says...
I do not believe this 'plot' – it is either entrapment to justify the big bucks to our wonderful homeland security racket or it is an outright false story to be used to justify some nefarious action in the middle east.
Troops Home Now
No one with any sense believes this so called assasination plot is anything other than an attempt to justify an attack on Iran. There is only one person who will bring ALL our troops home withing six months of taking office; saving us trillions. And by putting some of those troops on the border, he will also keep out the wage crushing, job stealing illegals:
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This is clumsy! At least the previous theater's were packaged better.
Remember the Iraqi Ambassador's daughter posing as a nurse in front of the Congress telling them that he was in the Kuwaiti hospital and saw Iraqi soldiers through babies out of their ventilators? We now know she was not a nurse and she was not in Kuwait at that time. But, she played it so well that it took a long while before anybody caught on.
This one is not well-packaged!
I ought to read before I say send!
First line should be "theaters" not "theater's"
Third line should be "throw" not "through"
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why are saudis our buddies? they don't even let their women drive and they only just gave women the vote (the kingdom decided to do that–how nice, we are only in 2011). a prince recently punished someone by driving his suv over him and got off even though it was videotaped–put the guy in the hospital for months. frankly, i agree this stinks of an invention. why would the mexican cartels give a damn about the saudi ambassador? gee–if the cartels are doing this–why not declare war on mexico? more misinformation to empower the fools at the pentagon and in the gov't. obama–go back to chicago.
LiberalNN
Wow I've totally forgotten Operation Fast & Furious and Eric Holder's disgraceful incompetence and numerous lies as a result of this new Iran / Saudi story!
Just becuase there was a botched operation where the AG may have in fact lied to Congress (it is never the act that causes the real trouble but the cover up) doesn't make me question what is going on here with Iran ...yet. I will still believe Holder before I believe anyone from the Iranian Gov't until someone shows me otherwise.
I don't really care, It made no sense. Thank god for the FBI/DEA or I would have turned it into South Lebanon, not now how it will look in the future. A Mexican Cartel bomb a US city, a restaurant. He is just a corpse among many. The FBI/DEA got in early.
Your paying for it; maybe you should care...
whatever2War
You guys still don't get it. Remember Murder on the Orient express??? .....too many clues......to many leads...... But they all killed him! War is smelling and you small citizens cant do anything to stop it. Better go home and CONTINUE watching TV and ENTERTAINMENT!! This stuff is too hard for you...........
Just saying. Don't hang me ...please!
Obama is not smart enough as Bush to fabricate a story, at least Bush made us believe 9/11 and WMD.
CNNReviewer
No, Bush did not convice Americans. He LIED and reported what Dick Cheney told him to say. However, the inplausiblity, doubt, and irrational behavior was evident. Americans tentatively gave Bush spport out of patriotism for our troops. We knew the truth would eventually be known.
Keep telling your self that sweety m'kay....if that is what helps you sleep at night.
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CHAPTER TWO –THE PIONEERS
By Dave Diehl & Harvey Addengast
Harvey Gatlin was our founder and along with Tony Broncato, a beginning was established. What then about the pioneers? Those very early breeders of Indian Fantails, in the 1960’s, even the 50’s? If the “blood history” of the Indian Fantail is a bit fuzzy, so may be our complete listing of just who they were; dedicated breeders in the early years that contributed to breed improvement and the firm establishment of Indian Fantails not only in California but also across the United States. Ted Golka was right in 2002 when he said, “if we don’t get our earlier history down on paper soon, it will be lost.” After the beginning, covered in chapter one, we have chosen to break the reporting of history into decades. Chapter two highlights what happened in the 1960’s from a people standpoint; autobiographies and biographies of our pioneers, those who became active breeders before 1970.
Note: I have biographies or partial biographies on a few. I need your help so as to include all those who should be listed, serious breeders of Indian Fantails who started before 1970. Some of these people are no longer with us. We are counting on you, as a reader, to provide information on them. It can be a few paragraphs or a few pages. What you provide can be combined with material from others to help present a more complete story. The list below is not meant to be complete or correct. They are suggestions, a beginning, to help our thinking and recall.
If you belong in this chapter we particularly need your autobiography now. In some cases we have picked up from breed literature and correspondence and listed the year a person first obtained Indian Fantails and even when they died. In most cases we are unsure.
NOTE; IF YOU OR ANY OF THE NAMES LISTED BELOW FIRST OWNED INDIANS AFTER 1970 WE STILL NEED AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY. IT WILL GO INTO CHAPTER EIGHT, “WHO’S WHO IN INDIAN FANTAIL IN THE SEVENTIES.
Thank you to Rick, Dennis, Joe and Ron who responded to my first request several years ago. They may now want to update their autobiographies. Just as important, Harvey would like a photo to include with each story.
Rick Norgaard, Pochello, ID
I started with Indian Fantails in 1959
Story submitted in 2005
I got my first Indian Fantails during the summer of 1959; a blue bar cock and a powdered blue hen. By today’ (2005) standards they would be culls. I earned the birds by spending an entire Saturday scraping, cleaning and hauling pigeon droppings from the lofts and pens of Mr. Bill Knowles, Pocatello, ID.
Mr. Knowles was a retired police officer that lived near my school. Editor’s note – I have learned little more about Mr. Knowles; understand he was a breeder of many varieties of fancy pigeons. During lunch I would spend my time visiting with Bill and watching his beautiful pigeons. As time went on I would work odd jobs, collect pop bottles, just anything I could do to earn “pigeon money”. I even skipped lunches and saved the money for pigeons. In 1962, at the ripe old age of twelve, I got a job on a farm about eighty miles from home. My little brother agreed to feed the pigeons. I had a mix of about two dozen birds by then. Within a few weeks homesickness really started setting in and I got to go home for a weekend. When I went back to the farm I sneaked the pair of Indians with me. At first the boss wasn’t too agreeable but he finally let me convert a small A-frame hog house into a loft. What a grand summer it turned out to be! I raised four babies that year, my first real success as a breeder. As time went on the desire for pigeons waned, other things replaced them, hot-rods and girls.
I went into military service in 1969. I always had pigeons in the back of my mind. It wasn’t until 1984, when I was stationed near Bremerton, Washington, that I happened into a farm store and there was the most beautiful pair of Indian Fantails I had ever seen, I was mesmerized. I had never seen such magnificent tails. The cock was black and the hen was kite. I went home via the lumberyard and by the next noon I had a 6X6 foot loft built and was headed back to the farm store, fearful that the birds may have been sold. They were still there, along with a pair of black splash. I didn’t even ask the price, just handed over my credit card! Within three months I had another loft constructed and filled with about a hundred pigeons. The next few yeas I bounced from one breed to the next but always had the Indians.
I retired from the military in 1990 and went home to Idaho. During the first year home the pigeon bug was biting hard again. I constructed a loft and went pigeon hunting. Within a few days the name of Dennis Briggs was passed on to me. I called Dennis and made arrangements to meet him. He lives only about one and a half hours from me, very near Yellowstone National Park. What a treat I was in for; I had never seen a loft such as Dennis’. The entire upper floor of a huge, neat old style gambrel roofed barn was packed with more pigeons that I had ever seen in one place in my life. By the time negotiations had finished I left with 49 pigeons; everything from Rollers to Pouters, to Frillbacks and of course, the most beautiful Indians imaginable. I got almonds, kites, whites, saddles and selfs in colors I didn’t know existed.
I met Ernie Newsom a short time later. He introduced me to pigeon shows – what fun. He took me to the Salt Lake City Premier Show. Since then I have been to a lot of shows in the West, including the NPA Grand Nationals at Salt Lake City, San Bernardino and Tacoma. I helped set-up a 4-H pigeon club for a group of juniors that was quite active in pigeons for a few years. I sponsored a couple swap meet/pigeon shows at my home that were quite successful. There were fanciers from Idaho, Utah, Montana and Wyoming present. It is amazing how far a dedicated fancier will travel for a cheap hot dog and some pigeon talk! Dennis, Ernie and I all raise Indians and have been very active in our local fair. It has gone from a few pigeons in the dark corner of the poultry barn to about 20 exhibitors and over 200 birds of various breeds entered in 2004; with lights and new cages it made a very nice display. The last five years I have concentrated mostly on blue-based Indians, powdered blues. I have saddles in black, red, lavender and yellow along with a couple pairs of almond/kite selfs. Most of my stock comes from top breeders around the country, via Dennis. This year I bred from eleven pair and it looks like I will have about twenty keepers. I am going to increase the Indian Fantail numbers as I am reducing the number of or eliminating other breeds completely. Rick Norgaard
Dennis Briggs, Sugar, ID
First Indians in the early 1960s
Some of you will recall that during the period I was editor of the IFCA newsletter, 1981-87, I often carried a column called “Spotlight On Members”. In the fall 1985 issue of the newsletter Dennis was one of the members I spotlighted. Then in 2002, as I was beginning work on this history of Indian Fantails, Dennis was one (of the few) who responded to my request for profile information from our oldest members to the IFCA. The following profile on Dennis is a mix from these two sources plus his answer to my request for details on the trophy that he made and offered in the 1980s…he was too modest to include it in either of his earlier responses – Dave Diehl
I live in Sugar, ID (in 1985 it was Sugar City, guess it is not growing real fast). I have raised pigeons since I was seven years old. I got my first Indian Fantails from Leo Rosco, Pipestone, MN in the early 1960s. He had an “order through the catalog” business. The quality was pretty bad, in fact they could have been crossbreds but I still worked with them for a couple of years. Then I sent for some Indian Fantails from Strombergs, another catalog house, in Fort Dodge, IA. These were better quality, two pair of saddles, one black and one red. I worked with these birds along with several other breeds. I was out of pigeons for a period of three or four years, including the time I spent in Vietnam, 1968-69. After returning from military service I found that all of my birds had been destroyed. I didn’t immediately get back into pigeons – I was struggling with post war stress. I waited a couple years, went to school and then got married. Once we got a place I wanted to get back into pigeons. In addition to Indian Fantails I raised Rollers, English Trumpeters, Oriental Frills, Voorburg Shield Croppers, a few pairs of Frillbacks, West of Englands and Modenas. I just really like a lot of breeds of pigeons.
In the early 1970s my wife and young family took a trip to California, the family to visit Disneyland, myself to visit Harvey Gatlin! I had corresponded with him and was after the best birds I could get. His birds were great; beautiful ribbontails and red, black, blue and yellow tailmarks. There were also selfs in black, white, red and yellow. By the time I arrived Harvey had gotten rid of most of what he wanted to get rid of for that year. However, if you ever knew Harvey, you would know that he could always find something for you to take home. He was very generous that way. I got two pair, one mismarked ribbontail with pretty good color and a saddle and a blue tailmark. I was on cloud nine! I still have pictures of that visit to Harvey Gatlin’s.
My stock is mostly from California; in addition to Harvey, Stan and Monty Luden, Werner Schmidt and Tony Brancato. I have however also obtained birds from Joe Ceaser, Darrell Mueller, Garry Glissmeyer and Brent Schmutz, maybe a few others. I don’t consider myself to be much of a breeder, mostly an admirer of pigeons. The weather in this state is not very conducive to raising fancy pigeons. And, I get lost in so many varieties that I probably don’t do each much justice.
In the mid 1980s Dennis reported working on what he called a black spot tail, as in Oriental Frills. He began with a spot-tail Oriental Frill hen and a black self Indian Fantail cock from Stan Luden. Today in Indians he breeds almonds, andalusions, blacks, whites, browns, creams and reds. His stud carries indigo, powdered and opal modifiers along with ribbontails, saddles and tailmarks.
Okay Dennis, tell us about those traveling trophies that you made and presented in the 1980s, I asked. I would first note that back in those years many of us donated monies for specific trophies at our national shows. It was part of a campaign carried out by the IFCA. Dennis went a step further. He made four or five of them. They went to the winners of new colors being introduced into Indian Fantails, mostly at the Pageant of Pigeons. I saw one at a Grand National, beautiful. They were made from a two-inch thick wood burl in which he routed out an Indian Fantail silhouette in the middle and covered it all with a thick glossy liquid plastic. Finally he added a clock to the center. We understand that winners included Stan and Monty Luden and Joe Ceaser. He discontinued making them after changing jobs and no longer having access to the wood products. The IFCA is indebted to him for this special effort in promoting the breed.
Dennis has shown Indians at the Pageant of Pigeons: “Had best AOC in 1984”. He also shows at the Salt Lake City Premier Show. “We are right on the way to Yellowstone National Park he wrote, pigeon fanciers are always welcome.”
Note: Dennis’ reference to buying birds from a catalog house caught my attention. Growing up in Iowa, I am somewhat familiar with Strombergs. In 2006 I corresponded with Loyl Stromberg, one of the senior members of the family. The company now operates from Pine River, MN. I was hoping to learn whom in the early 1960’s the company might have obtained Indian Fantails from in order to fill requests. While I did learn that Strombergs followed that practice, never having actually bred Indian Fantails themselves, Mr. Stromberg, now in his 90’s, had no knowledge of who their suppliers may have been.
Darrel Henry, Sioux City, IA, Started in ??
(by Dave Diehl)
Part of the reason I pursued Stombergs for information, which ended in a dead end, was on a chance to learn more about our early breeders. Darrel Henry, Sioux City, IA in particular came to mind. Ron Ewing writes of him in his autobiography. I visited Darrel once, probably in the early 1980’s. He had a lot of Indian Fantails, most of them free flying. I particularly remember one big AOC cock. Tails were a bit scooped partly due to their being allowed to fly free outside. So far, I have not been able to discover additional information on Darrel. From correspondence with several pigeon fanciers in Iowa I leaned that he had passed away in 2003 or earlier. He was described as “a super guy” and “a horse trader”. I was told that if anyone wanted pigeons, not just Indian Fantails, that he would locate them for that person. I understand that he bought and sold a lot of pigeons. I still wonder if Darrel Henry sold Indian Fantails to Strombergs? The geography is right; Fort Dodge and Sioux City are not that far apart! Was Darrel one of our pioneers?
Bill Babb, Arleta, CA, Started in 1961
This taken from an article that Bill wrote for the June 1979 Pigeon Review magazine.
In 1961 I met Harvey Gatlin and bought some saddle marked Indian Fantails from him and started breeding and showing at local shows. At first it was only Harvey and I showing. We got some of the men in central and northern California showing such as Dave Helm and Gene Machado who were the top promoters in this area and still are. My first saddle Indian Fantails were very light on muffs and small in size. I would mate a pair and wait for the surprise which most always was not a saddle. After about eight years of breeding I though I had my saddles under control as far as pattern and muffs but in 1976 my stud started producing mismarks and throwbacks. I was ready to throw up my hands and give up but Stan and Monty Luden told me to keep on and so the last two years I am doing good again. This to tell you not to give up to soon. Brighter days will come gain.
Ron Ewing, Blue Springs, MO
First Indian Fantails in the early 1960s
Submitted in 2007
This recounting of Ron’s involvement with Indian Fantails is a result of Ron writing some of his history, writings and conversations with Garry Glissmeyer, and Dave Diehl, plus personal visits to Ron’s lofts in Kansas City, Kansas. It has not been updated since 2007.
Ron has been around show animals since his youth. His father bred and showed cattle and Ron was involved with that as a kid. Showmanship and winning were in his blood. At about age twelve Ron began raising pigeons, Homers and Kings. As with many of us in the hobby, he gave up pigeons for a period of time, joining the military (Marine Corps), then returning, getting a job, getting married and beginning life as an adult. But his love for pigeons was still there. He wanted to breed and raise them again.
This was in the early 1960s; he was living in Orange County, California. Not far from his home was a pet business called the Magnolia Bird Farm. During one visit Ron noticed some unusual pigeons on display. They had four recessive red splash Indian Fantails that were said to have come from Harvey Gatlin. Ron bought all four birds. He noted they were small, snaky-necked, and grouse-muffed. But he liked the over all look of the birds. Shortly after the purchase of these birds opportunity arose and he moved to Kansas City, bringing along his few Indians.
After settling in Kansas, he heard of an Indian breeder up in Sioux City, Iowa, named Darrel Henry. They made contact. Darrel said he’d sell Ron six birds for $300 dollars. This was in the early 1970s. Darrel not only sent six, but sixteen birds. Ron said he had never seen such clean markings, bars and checks. The birds were yet even smaller than what he had, which was a disappointment. After looking them over he only retained three to breed from and work into his stud. (It should be noted that at this time, Ron did not know of the IFCA, nor had he seen a Standard. He just liked the style of the Indian and its possibilities.) Henry’s birds also had no real muffs, as we think of them today, and some didn’t even throw crests consistently.
The showman in Ron, from his years showing with his dad, moved Ron to start building a better Indian. He wanted bigger muffs to help balance the bird’s proportions. He wanted a bigger body, better crests and a broader, fuller breast area. He knew he would have to outcross to get there. He bought a white Bokhara Trumpeter, and crossed his best few Indians into that Trump. Ron was now on his way to building a new bird.
Before this Trump outcross, Ron had already been working with what he had. As an example, during the late 1960s, he had developed some whites. He had noticed a few birds with a hint of color in a tail feather here, and one there. He bred those together to begin his tailmark line. The Bokhara was grizzle under the white, and it then contributed to the stork mark tailmarks that Ron became so well known for, and still is today.
During this same 1970s period, Ron also heard of and eventually met another Indian breeder in St. Louis, Irv Bayreau. Irv was using Indians to cross into Jacobins, Bokharas, Tumblers, and Saints trying to develop a new breed he was calling the St. Louis Arch Angel. Ron recounts he had never seen such vivid, intense colors. He purchased three birds from Irv, with good bodies, crests and muffs. One was a tortoise shell, another black, and an ash red. These three went into his bloodlines and from them he started developing ash reds, ribbontails, tortoise shells, blacks and almonds. Through other acquisitions and use of genetics, Ron had many other colors come and go in his loft, too numerous to mention.
This mixture of genetics, from Gatlin on forward, and through careful selection and line breeding, now produced an Indian that Ron found pleasing to the eye. (He still had no idea of an Indian Fantail Standard.) He started to show in local and regional All Breeds Shows. And he started winning Best of Show.
At this time he had also started breeding Hungarian House Pigeons, and was also winning with them. He had powerful white Hungarians. (The thought never occurred to him to mix the Hungarian into the Indian until the 1990’s and that would be to develop both a larger body, and a more impressive tail.)
Along with his pigeons, Ron had also been breeding and showing Chow dogs. And not surprisingly, winning with them as well. After several Best of Show wins with his Chows, Ron moved full tilt into breeding and showing his dogs. He decided to really commit to his dog showing, and parceled out most of his Indians to two local-area breeders he had met at local shows: Clarence Bacon, in Olathe, KS. And Bill Stimek, a policeman from Kansas City, KS.
His focus on his Chows immediately paid off, with one dog in particular emerging as one of the all-time best Chows ever, even today (2006). Named Ro Don’s Mr. Chips, this outstanding dog was one of the top winning dogs in the nation for three years in a row, of all breeds! In 1979 Ron was voted and named National Breeder of the Year. Even at age ten, Mr. Chips went back into the show ring and won Best of Show, unheard of in dog circles at that time.
Garry Glissmeyer and Ron met around this time. Garry wrote, “You didn’t have to be a dog breeder to see that Mr. Chips was a champion. He just looked quality, from his size, his legs, how he stood on his feet, how he moved and carried himself.” Dave Diehl also had a chance to see the then-retired Mr. Chips, on his first visit to Ron’s loft. Ron’s Chows produced over 100 Champions! Ron was born with a breeder’s and showman’s eye. For dogs…and birds. He quickly recognizes style and balance in animals.
Shortly before his 1979 Breeder of the Year honors, Ron set about reclaiming some of his Indians from Clarence and Bill, including some of the babies they had raised. He went back to work on his birds. He had decided to end his dog showing and wanted to kick back and relax, and work with his Indians. But his own self-imposed standards of perfection caused him to end up working as hard with his birds as he had with his dogs.
In the late 70’s, while at an All Breeds pigeon show, he heard of Mary Parrott. She lived in Fenton, MO and was at the time president of the IFCA. He drove to St. Louis to meet her. She then introduced him to Bill Titter, O’Fallon, IL. Bill and Ron developed a long and close friendship, with Ron saying that Bill became one of his favorite people to be around and he recognized in Bill that “…he was one of the best pigeon breeders I had ever met.” Bill had some of the best recessive red and yellow Indians Ron had ever seen. They exchanged birds for many years. Bill was also a mentor of Rich Sheedy. Bill passed away several years ago.
It was at this time Ron first saw a written Standard and a Drawing of the Indian Fantail. Mary Parrott showed them to him. He was surprised how close his birds were to this Standard, but there were some differences. Ron returned home and culled those birds that looked least like the IFCA Standard. However, he felt his birds with the longer muffs (longer than two inches, which the Standard called for), looked better balanced, so he retained them and continued breeding for nicely sized muffed birds.
In 1979, another bird friend of Ron’s, Ralph Cole (now deceased), told Ron about a man in Cincinnati who had some nice Indians. That man was Frank German. Ron contacted Frank and they met the next year in Louisville at the National Young Bird Show, 1980. An instant friendship developed.
Frank had some larger birds and they were the style Ron wanted to mix into his own line. Characteristic of Frank, he parted with a few of his best birds, and these birds really clicked with Ron’s. For years thereafter, Frank would visit Ron in Kansas City, usually in August. Frank brought along young Ricky Leimann. Ron said he always looked forward to the visits, and some of his most enjoyable times were those visits, spending hours and hours looking over birds in his backyard, and basement, culling down and talking birds. Ron always sent them off loaded up with whites, tailmarks and whatever else he was raising at the time.
Another friendship that developed through Indian Fantails was with Garry. Thru a mutual friend, a fellow pigeon breeder, Don Livengood (Muffed Tumblers), Garry heard of Ron. Garry contacted Ron in late 1978. Garry had just started breeding Indian Fantails a year or so earlier. Garry said at that time he had not yet seen an Indian Standard but loved the look of the bird. When he finally visited Ron and saw his birds, it wasn’t but a few minutes and Garry said to Ron, “One of us is breeding the wrong style Indian, and I don’t think it is you.” Living only thirty minutes apart, they became close friends and traveled together to shows all through the 1980s, until Garry moved to Colorado. Ron said it was the luckiest couple of years of his life, “to meet two of his best friends, Frank and Garry.”
Ron tells of a trip he made to California in 1980. He visited a number of well known California Indian breeders. He brought back four birds: a white from Gene Machado, which he used in his existing stud of whites; a saddle from Bill Babb for my line; and two birds from Stan Luden. One of them he used a time or two to bring a new gene into his tailmark line.
Garry further writes: “About this same time, Ron showed up at my place to look at my birds. Just before Ron left he told me he had a bird he had raised just for me. My love was saddles, and I had a good stud started, but still didn’t have that “one” bird to build on. Ron came back from his car with a box. I opened it and there was a slightly undermarked, but powerful ash red saddle hen. It was out of Ron’s winning stud of whites. Ron had inspected every white in his loft, looking at each bird’s wings, under the wings… for any spec of color on a feather. He found a cock and a hen that each had the tiniest specs of color under the wing. He mated them together. And one of the babies was this saddle hen. I put that hen on every cock in my loft for three years, and then mated those half-brothers and sisters to each other. I was never beaten in saddles up until a bear wiped me out in the early 1990s, in Colorado. My winning was due mainly to that one pivotal hen from Ewing; her genes were everywhere in my loft.
Ron loves the National Young Bird Show. There was good competition there, lots of birds (some shows over 200), and a lot of breeders to meet and mingle with. In 1982 Ron won Louisville’s NYBS with a white. That began a long run of show champions, not only at the NYBS, but anywhere Ron showed. There were only two times Ron didn’t win champion where he showed between 1982 and 1986. In 1983 one of Garry’s saddles was champion at the 1983 Lincoln Grand National. In 1985 Ron did not show, but judged the NYBS and awarded the Champion to a white Indian bred by Butch Woods, a bird that was bred out of a pair of whites Ron had sold Butch the previous year! Again, at the NPA Grand National in Houston, January 1986, a young man of 15, Jim Abbott from Woods Cross, Utah, won champion at that show with a white OC … as he stood trembling, almost near tears with joy, accepting the trophy, he said to everyone there, “I have to give credit for this trophy to Ron Ewing (Ron was not there), he gave me this bird.” Darrold Mueller was standing in the crowd, and said out loud, and with admiration, “Goll darn it, Ewing isn’t even here and he still beats us!” Later that same year Ron again won the NYBS with a magnificent tailmark cock. That was the last time he showed his Indians as of 2006. Ron won those myriad shows with whites, tailmarks, and blacks. By this time in his life, Ewing had been showing either cattle, horses, dogs or birds for most of 37 years. He was 50 himself. Some exhibitors started grumbling a bit about Ron always winning, “what’s the use of going,” etc? In 1986 a few even asked Ron if he would quit showing for a while so someone else could win. Not so much for that reason, but it was just time…he did quit showing. But not breeding.
His show ring accomplishments during this period, gave him two Hall of Fame birds and Breeder of the Year in 1982 and 1983. His culminating award was when the IFCA recognized him as its first National-level Master Breeder. This was in 1987 just after Honorary Awards had been given the previous year to Harvey Gatlin and Dave Helm.
Ron says his fondest memories have not been winning shows but hearing from people over the years, new breeders he helped, who appreciated the top quality birds he helped them with. In the end, he noted, “the show memories mean very little, it is the friends, like Garry, Frank, Mary, Bill, Ricky, Rich, James, Darrel, Bill, Steve, Jim, Spud, Ron, Ed, Dave Helm, Dave Diehl, Stan, Gene, Joe, Harvey, Keith, Ken, Lonny, Bob, Jerry, Ted, Tim and many many others – that’s what it’s all about.”
Over the many years of actively breeding and showing, Ron sold and gave away literally hundreds of top-level birds. In many, many colors and marks. He took pride in the quality he passed around, saying his reputation was too valuable to give anything out other than what he would work with himself. Dozens and dozens of breeders improved their lofts with Ewing genetics. Dave Diehl told us that in November 1988 he brought home from a visit to Ron’s, two white self nestmates. They were still in the nest in August of that year when Rick Leimann purchased nearly all of Ron’s birds. They were spared. These two whites were to go to Walt Studte in Delaware. Walt asked him to keep them for a while, as he was trying to clear up a sickness in his loft. Dave crossed one into his saddles and used a near-white hen in his breeding program. He related that, “he even showed her as she had only one colored feather under her right wing.” So, he continued, “my saddles had a taste of Ron’s whites in them!”
Currently, 2006, Ron is breeding out of only three pair of whites, and three pair of tailmarks. He continues to breed his Indians as if to win another championship and shares this love of his birds with the love of his life, Peggy.
Bill Titter, O’Fallon, IL
Started with Indians in 1964 (died in 200_)
As Ron Ewing noted in his story, he met Bill in the late 70’s when he drove to St. Louis to meet Mary Parrott and also got to meet Bill. They developed a long and close friendship, with Ron saying of Bill “…he was one of the best pigeon breeders I ever met. Bill had some of the best recessive red and yellow Indians I had ever seen.” They exchanged birds for many years. Bill was also a mentor of Rich Sheedy.
Edward Bischel, Fresno, CA
Started with Indians in the late 60’s (?) Died in 200l(?)
Stan Luden told me in 2003 that Ed had pigeons until the day he died. He bred Archangels and Russian Tumblers as well as red self Indian Fantail. By Dave Diehl
Monty Luden, Norwalk, CA
Ralph Sisson, Panorama City, CA
Terry and Nickie Loft, Diamond Bar, CA
Eric Zwolsky, Cleveland, OH
Art W. Kehl, WI
Mike & Patty Treanor, Broken Arrow, OK & Irving, TX
Mike Cobb, TX, 1964
Sandi Augsburger, Dillon, MT
Brownie Zabela, Bell Gardens, CA
A. “Eric” Ericson, Tujunga, CA
John Dougherty, Sylmar,CA
Bernard Tennyson, Petaluma, CA
Kathy Howard, ______________,CO
Bill Rice, Sepulveda, CA
Jerome Morkin, San Lorenzo, CA
Clarence Bacon, Olathe, KS
Joseph C. Pellettieri, Oakland, CA
First Indians in 1965
Joe is one of my long time acquaintances within the fancy but one with whom I have had little contact with in recent years. He is one of “those few” early breeders who responded to my request for information in 2002. Here is most of his interesting letter, he writes –
Checking my records, I first banded Indians the breeding season of 1966…and lastly banded them the year of 1974, a period of nine years. When Levi’s book, Encyclopedia of Pigeon Breeds, came out (1965), Diane Machado got a copy for Gene as a Christmas present. When Gene saw the ribbontails he went “bananas”. I was going to the Los Angles Pageant that November and he made me promise to get a hold of Harvey Gatlin and try to get him a pair. I collared Harvey and spoke to him about getting some birds. If you knew Harvey, with his enthusiasm to spread Indian Fantails around, he was happy to get us some birds. The outcome was he sent me three pairs and an extra hen. One pair went to Gene Machado and one pair went to Walter Faria, a Roller breeder and close friend to Gene and I. I kept the third pair and the following year we switch the hens. From then on we were on our own. After a while Walter gave up on his Indians as he had a small yard and kept about 150 Rollers.
After a year or so we learned of a fancier who was a top Jacobin breeder who also had Indians. It was 1968 and his name was Jerome Morkin. He lived in San Lorenzo, CA, only about ten minutes from my house. Walt, Gene and I visited him to see his Indian Fantails. He had some of the most beautiful colors that we had ever seen. I’m not sure of all the modifying factors his birds carried. He had the Ice pigeon factor, fade, pale and more. We all went “bonkers”, we had to get some of his birds…and we did. I believe Morkin’s original stock came from Harvey Gatlin and perhaps some others, I just don’t remember. These birds were way ahead of their time, good quality. In those days the Indians were scoop tailed with shaking necks and odd eyes. They had thin necks and many had shell crests or no crest at all. Also in those days, many Indians would bring their tail over the top of their head. Sometimes their head would poke up through their tail!
Those first Indians that we got, from Harvey Gatlin, were ash red checks, blue checks, ribbontails, shield marks, grizzle and pied. They carried recessive red and what I called a wine color, a blue bird but with something else modifying it. I raised a few with a gold or yellow fleck in their feathers, they were beautiful. I don’t see any like that anymore.
I also believe it was Jerome Morkin, perhaps someone else, who caught a scooped tailed blue bar pigeon in a warehouse. There were no blue bar Indians and by crossing it into the Indians in a few years there were blue bar Indians.
For a few years we had quite a number of people breeding Indians in this area, but as sometimes happens and with the finish of the Oakland Pigeon Club, it all ended. I hope this information will be helpful to the history of Indian Fantails. You might also contact Bob Nolan, as a boy he was at Harvey’s all the time and I’m sure he could be of help.
That was good advice! In the 2004 NPA directory Joe is listed as breeding Birmingham Rollers, American Show Racers and Tipplers.
Gene Machado, Oakland, Fresno and Merced, CA (died in 1985)
Got his first Indians in 1965 – Notes assembled by Dave Diehl
As detailed in Joe Pellettieri’s biography, Gene got his first Indian Fantails late in 1965, at the time of the Pageant of Pigeons. They came from Harvey Gatlin.
Connie Meis, CA, responded to my 2002 request with the following information about Gene. “I first met Gene in about 1953-54. He had just given up his baseball career and moved his wife and baby, Skip, back to Oakland. At that time he was breeding Rollers and was great friends with Walt Faria, the West coast Roller great. Before long, Gene had spread the Indians around to several local fanciers and had a small interest going. Gene was always a good breeder and willing to spread good birds around to new people. He and Dave Helm were the backbone of the Indian Fantail fancy in the Bay Area in the 1960s and 70s.
In some correspondence with Dave Helm in 1994, Dave confirmed what Joe Pellettieri reports in his biography. Dave tells that Gene was breeding Modenas when he first heard of him, blue gazzis. And, that he also had Rollers – this in the late 50’s or very early 60s. Gene told Dave that he also had some Ice Pigeons and that could be where the powdered/milky factor came in. Dave went on to tell that Gene’s break-through came when he got a hen of Harvey’s from Carol Hamman, Oakland, CA. It had come from a loft of Harvey’s that “no body got birds from”. Dave wrote that he had seen that special loft, “mostly white, AOC birds and most were big with power to burn”. He indicated to some other Indian Fantail breeders that he would have traded all his birds for the ones in that special loft of Harvey’s, even up! I know that by then Dave was already winning with his own birds. The story goes that this hen, mostly white, went from Harvey to Carol and then to John Perry. Finally, from John to Gene and Gene “knew what to do with it”. Dave said Gene had a powdered blue cock that he called “Big Eagle”; the bird would parade back and forth on the landing board with his wings held high. Gene had some beautiful tail marks, Helm noted. He was unsure of where that original mark came from, Harvey Gatlin or the Luden. “I always thought that the Ludens developed the showable tailmarks but Harvey had them as well,” wrote Dave Helm.
Ken Swars wrote in the spring 1992 IFCA newsletter that by 1969 Gene was a strong force to be reckoned with. He said that while Gene was best known for whites, powdered blues and tailmarks, he had many other colors and projects. He noted that his uncanny ability to pair just the right birds and his generosity to fellow breeders was legendary. Almost all of Northern California owed their success in the breed to Gene and that he received his Master Breeder Award in 1985…his death in that same year left a void impossible to fill.
Upon Gene’s death, many of his birds were stolen. Diane, Gene’s wife, was going to give the pigeons away. Ken Swars, then CA, suggested that a group of the breeders in northern California each take some birds and contribute to a fund for Diane. That was done; the group included Ken, Bruce and Carl Rodegerdts, Jim Looper, Curt Medders and Dave Helm. Each took two or more pairs. Some of Gene’s Indians also went to a friend of his who policed the canal that ran behind the Machado home.
(Following is a reprint of the biography prepared by Dave Helm for the July/August 2008 Purebred Pigeon magazine)
Remembering Gene Machado
By Dave Helm
It seems fitting at this time when the Indian Fantail is being featured, to take a moment to reflect on one of the important figures in the history of the Indian Fantail.
When I met Gene in the 1960’s he was still living in Hayward, California and was the past president of the Oakland Pigeon Club. When he moved to Fresno he became an active member of the Fresno Pigeon Club. Gene was an important force in getting the NPA to hold the Grand National in Fresno in 1976 and was superintendent of that show. And yes, he won champion at that show with a very outstanding young white cock.
Gene was very active in the all-breed clubs and was a strong supporter of the California Indian Fantail Club. For many years he was an officer in the CIFC.
Although Gene Machado was not one of the original breeders of Indians, he developed a strain of whites and powder blues that were very successful in the 1960’s and 1970’s. Later he added tailmarks, blacks and almonds to his stud. Early Indians had tended to vary in size and type, but Gene was able to establish a more uniform line of birds that were greatly admired.
Gene’s show record is well established. In this story I would like to comment on some of his personal attributes as a breeder and exhibitor. Personable, friendly, with a wonderful sense of humor – these were hallmarks of Gene’s personality. At the same time, he was the most intensely competitive person that I have ever known. Once the birds were brought up for judging, all the chitchat stopped. I had wondered about this characteristic until I learned that Gene had been a professional baseball player. He was a shortstop and for a time played with one of the Major League teams (I believe it was the Saint Louis Cardinals) and later played with a Minor League team in Arizona for a number of years. I think his intense competitiveness was cultivated during his years as a baseball player. When judging was completed and the winning birds were announced, Gene was always gracious whether he won or lost. I never heard him criticize the judging. This trait may also have come from his days in professional baseball.
Gene was such a dominant force within the Indian Fantail breed in California that it is difficult to convey the sense of loss that his sudden death brought to all. The brief information contained in an obituary notice does not tell adequately the influence that he had on the Indian Fantail and on the pigeon fancy that he loved and supported. The formal notice stated that Eugene Machado, a native of San Leandro, passed away in Merced, California on May 11, 1985, following a brief illness. He is survived by his wife Diane, son Eugene Machado Jr., and three grandchildren. He was 55 years of age. His death leaves a void among his many friends in the pigeon fraternity that will be impossible to fill.
Gene had a life-long love for and interest in pigeons, and over the years he raised many different breeds successfully, but for the last twenty years or so he had concentrated his efforts on improving and promoting the Indian Fantail. He was a tower of strength in this breed and did more single handedly to promote the Indians in Northern California than any other person. For many years Gene would give a beginning fancier a good pair of Indians free, on the condition that the person join the Indian Fantail Club. His goal was to move the Indian into the mainstream of the pigeon fancy, and he was successful in this. Gene worked very hard to put the Indian forward and he was always ready with advice or some helpful suggestion to those who asked. He was extremely generous with his birds and shared his best willingly.
Gene was a breeder and showman with an unsurpassed record with his Indians in the state. Over his show career he had won more “Champion Indian” than anybody else all up and down California. He achieved his California Indian Fantail Club Master Breeder Award accumulating the necessary one thousand points against all comers. He won Breeder of the Year and High Point Bird honors more often than anyone during his years of exhibiting.
Gene’s interest in Indians was aroused when Levi’s “Encyclopedia of Pigeon Breeds” was first published. He fell in love with the colored plates of Harvey Gatlin’s Indians and was determined to secure some of those birds. This was in 1965, and it so happened that Gene’s good friend Joe Pellettieri of Oakland was going down to the Pageant that year. Joe contacted Harvey and arrangements were made to get some birds up to the Bay Area. Harvey sent seven birds and as nearly as is known, those were the first Indian Fantails in Northern California. Joe relates that the birds were divided with one pair gong to Gene, one pair to Walt Faria, and Joe keeping one pair. The idea was for each of them to breed a couple of rounds and then to switch cock birds and breed a few more rounds. Joe cannot remember what colors all were, but he recalls from his records that four of these birds were a red check, yellow check, red check shield mark and a red check with bar in tail. Also one was wine red with a black bar. All were grouse-legged and some were crestless while others had shell or needle crests. In 1967 they were breeding ribbontails, yellow checks, red and yellow mottles and whites. This was how Gene began in Indians and how his stud was started according to Joe Pellettieri’s records. We thank Joe for the use of this photo of Gene taken back in 1973.
By 1969 Gene had branched out and was breeding lavenders, silver bars, and he even had blue bar saddles. Gene got some of these then rare colors from Jerome Morkin and especially significant was the introduction of the power blue (milky factor), which became a standout color in Gene’s loft. The red and yellow birds as well as the saddles were apparently phased out in the early 70’s and Gene concentrated mostly on whites, blues and powder blues. There were two significant additions to Gene’s loft sometime during this period. Hans and Carol Hamman had visited Harvey Gatlin and brought back at least one bird or possibly a pair. Gene acquired this stock or offspring of these birds either from the Hammans or from a third party. The addition of this new blood put more size and power into Gene’s line. In fact, he called one particularly large cock “Big Eagle” and carefully fostered the size and power that he got from him. The second important acquisition for Gene was a bird that he got from Harvey Gatlin on one of Gene’s visits to Harvey. It was a small very young tailmark hen that Harvey gave to Gene, and Gene’s whole line of tailmarks was based on this bird crossed into other stock.
Gene was best known for his whites, powder blues, and tailmarks, but he worked with other colors also. He developed a line of dilute powder blues (silver) that were very beautiful, showing a lot of gold on the breast and neck, somewhat similar to the color seen on a Goldkrogen. When Conrad Meis developed the first Almond Indians in Northern California using Almond Chinese Owls as a base, Gene became interested and took up this color. Within three years he had improved the type and increased the size of these birds to the point where he won Reserve Indian at the San Jose Grand National with an Almond cock. Even Gene was surprised that the Almonds were among the largest birds in his loft. Another color that Gene worked with was Black. Werner Schmidt, Navato, imported the first black Indians from Hong Kong. Then Ron Bordi of San Leandro crossed Oriental Frills to Indians and threw some jet-black youngsters. Gene took one of these birds and put it to a black from Werner. Working back and forth Gene developed some very fine blacks that had good large muffs, a characteristic that the original birds had lacked. Gene’s last project was to develop recessive red and yellow Indians. His untimely death ended this project, but had he lived, Gene would have had these colors before too long.
This account does not show adequately the truly wide-ranging scope of Gene’s work with Indian Fantail. He had great skill as a breeder and an almost uncanny ability of knowing just how to pair the birds together to get the best results.
The Indian Fantail lofts in Northern California are almost without exception built from a foundation of Machado birds. We owe whatever success we have had to the breeding skill developed by Gene, and to the fact that he shared his birds with fellow fanciers.
It may not be quite as well known that his birds have went farther a field than Northern California. The white cock that won the Ohio Grand National in 1977was bred by Gene and sold to Bill Rice, who disposed of it at the show. When Eric Zwolsky came out to judge the Fresno National in 1976 he took Machado birds back to Ohio with him. Texas, too, got a fair number of Gene’s stock. However, the numbers involved here were not great. A larger number of birds were dispersed in the early 70’s when Gene and a few others that were breeding mostly Machado stock disposed of their surplus birds to someone and these were subsequently shipped all over the country. The total number of birds involved was somewhere between 400 to 500, so a number of people all over the country received Machado birds, even if they were not aware of it. The impact that Gene had on the Indian Fantail breed therefore goes far beyond the local level of Northern California.
Gene was a skilled breeder, a good loft manager and a keen competitor. Last but not least, he was enthusiastic and always fun to be with. The Indian fancy lost a great friend with his passing in 1985.
Stan Luden, Hemet, CA
I have been breeding Indian Fantails since 1966
Attention Stan -These are just some notes I’ve picked up here and there and I’ve reproduced copy from your web site along with your note of 5/4/07. Please review, correct and expand this incomplete biography and provide Harvey Addengast with copy, as you would like it to read for our history.
I have been bestowed the Master Breeder award by the California Indian Fantail Club and am a Certified Judge of the Indian Fantail Club of America. I began showing my Indians in 1968 and have participated in every Pageant of Pigeons since then. I have been instrumental in the introduction of the Andalusian and many other colors and marks in the Indians. In 1982 I began work on the barless blue and in 1993 I started on the barless and barred brown. My browns have been shown at the Pageant of Pigeons and at the Grand National held in Milwaukee, WI in January 2000.
In my desire to improve the color and mark in the Indian Fantail I have given away many more birds than I have ever sold. This year alone I have given over 50 birds to other fanciers to help them improve on their color projects. I am proud of what I have accomplished in my hobby but I am neither looking for platitudes or gratitude. My desire is to continue adding new colors and marks into the beautiful pigeon we know as the Indian Fantail.
Colors that I am now breeding include black, tailmarks in blue and black, blue bar, blue barless and blue check. Also, brown bar and brown barless, bodymark in black and indigo, reduced in blue bar along with blue saddles and brown saddles (project). I also working to improve harder feather and wider feather width on whites.
Best regards to all my pigeon friends and those friends still to be made!
Ken Swars, then of Hayward, CA, in the Spring 1992 IFCA newsletter, wrote that Stan was the first ever to obtain 1000 points enabling him to receive the Master Breeder award from the IFCA in 1981, when the awards program was just getting underway.
Dave Helm has indicated that he believed that Stan developed whiteside, almond and recessive red – not listed above. Apparently Conrad Meis and Stan Luden worked on almonds at about the same time, independently. Conrad and Stan are from the same home town, __________________________.
Stan first sold birds to Mike and Patty Treanor of Texas in 1972. They were all tailmarks. He sold them birds off and on until the late 1980s and gave Mike the first indigo back in 1976.
I first heard from Eric Zwolsky, OH, in 1973 after he bought the champion at the NYBS in Louisville. I had sent a young cock and hen to the show to help Mary Parrott, MO, in her effort to get more good Indians into the Midwest and East. I believe it was in 1974 that Eric showed up on my doorstep. He wanted to buy all of my blue checks and black selfs. I said “no”. He went to Gene Machado’s and tried to buy all of Gene’s white selfs. It was at that time that Gene got Eric to come back to California in January of 1976 and judge the Indians at the Fresno Grand National. Bill Rice, CA, later won back East with birds that Gene sold Bill at that Fresno show. Eric then got birds from Bill and they all ended up with Frank German and Rick Leimann in Ohio when Eric got out of Indian Fantails.
I’ve shipped birds to Australia two different times, four times to England (Mal Watts), two times to the Netherlands where I won champion and reserve at their national show. I also shipped to France, Spain Portugal, South Africa, Hawaii, Guam and Japan.
Conrad Meis, ____________, CA
First Indians in ______
I reminded Connie that his name appeared on the IFCA membership lists from 1976 almost continually through 1985. I visited his loft once in the 70s when he lived in the Bay Area. At that time he did have Indians in his loft along with some other breeds. Connie responded as follows:
My personal involvement in Indians was minimal. I think that my name on the membership lists must have come from some kind of honorary membership or something. I was doing a lot of juding of Indians at about that time and someone paid my dues. I was on the approved Indian Fantail judges list and then they made the requirement that the judges must be a club member. Please feel free to use any part of the little history of my almonds that was in the Almond issue of the Pigeon Debut ( NEEDS TO BE ADDED HERE)
Darrold Mueller, Bessie, OK
Indian Fantail Recollections and Reflections
By Dave Helm, Sierra Madre, CA
Submitted July 2009 – First Indians in 1967
As the title suggests, this is a narrative of the time I spent breeding the Indian Fantail. My first Indian Fantails were actually a gift from Gene Machado to my two young daughters. This pair consisted of an ash red T-pattern cock and a blue T-pattern hen. As happens sometimes, my young daughters lost interest in the Indians and I took them over.
At this time in 1967 our family was living in Walnut Creek, California and the birds were housed in six-by-eight wood-floored shed-roofed portable lofts in our back yard. Later, when we moved to St. Helena, California, I was able to build a larger permanent loft, but I took the portable lofts with me as well.
The pair from Gene bred well and produced some nice young, but I had always liked the saddle mark and wanted to breed saddle Indians. I purchased three saddles, a pair and an extra hen. These were very clearly marked but were small and too high in front. What I wanted were saddles that looked more like the large powerful whites that Gene was breeding. To do this I knew I needed to make an outcross and so bought a very large strong almost white A.O.C. cock from Gene and paired him to my best saddle hen. This pair produced a lot of mismarks, a few nice whites and one well marked saddle cock that was as large and powerful as his father. This bird was champion at three shows until it dawned on me that he was much more valuable to me in the breeding pen. So I brought him home and he became the foundation of my saddles. The whites from this cross bred true and that established this color in my loft. A black tail marked hen bought from Gene crossed to one of my large A.O.C. cocks gave me tail marks in blues and blacks.
I mention the above because the Indian was gaining popularity in the early 1970’s and more were being shown. But there was still quite a variation in size and type. Therefore, I felt that if I wanted a certain “look” in all my Indians I would have to work on it myself. The aim was type and size first, then color and mark. I had learned that if not watched for, the Indian had a tendency to get smaller. So size was the priority along with type.
The following is another example of how I added new colors and marks to my stud. One year I noticed a young red saddle hen that had a shoeing feather, the last outer tail feather that was a rich red with a white band in it. She was a nice bird, so I set her aside. That fall at the Fresno show, Gene had an almost solid red cock bird that had only a few white feathers around his head and muffs, and he had a solid rich red tail. Gene told me the bird was Gatlin bred and that Harvey said it carried the red form of Lebanon bronze, recessive red, and was split for dilute. I bought this bird for ten dollars and took it home and paired it to the red saddle with the one red tail feather. They produced a lot of mismarks, but with selection I was able eventually to breed ribbon tails in both red and yellow. The bonus was that the yellow mismarks bred back into my saddles gave me some nice recessive yellow saddles.
For anyone starting in a breed of pigeons it is recommended that you buy the best birds you can afford from an experienced breeder. This is still solid advice, but I had wanted to see what I could do with birds that were not champion quality and ones that the owners had for sale at the shows. So I took this approach which involved a lot of time, a lot of patience and an incredible amount of luck and some skill, but eventually I was able to breed some fairly descent Indians.
During the time I was breeding Indians, the larger pigeon shows in California were the Pageant of Pigeons in southern California, the Fresno Pigeon Club Show, the Santa Clara Valley Pigeon Show in San Jose, and the Sacramento Pigeon Club Show. I exhibited at all these shows and was fortunate to win champion at the Pageant on a white young cock. Over the years I won champion at the other shows also. It was always gratifying to win with a saddle. But I never won champion with a ribbontail. Mine were just not good enough and Werner Schmidt had such beautiful red ribbontails that he was almost impossible to beat.
Prior to my having Indians I was a member of the Santa Clara Valley Pigeon Club for many years and served on the Board of Directors. Shortly after I joined the club, Conrad Meis also joined. This was a real bonus for me because Connie and I were, I believe the only two members who bred both fancy pigeons and exhibition chickens. Connie was not an Indian Fantail breeder, but he did create the almond Indian. The odd coincidence was that at the same time, Stan Luden was working on the same project. I am not certain, but I believe that Stan used almond long faced English Tumblers for his cross while Connie used almond Chinese Owls. Which of them exhibited the first almond Indian Fantail I do not know, but the almonds were a nice addition to the Indian.
By 1984 I had accumulated the necessary 1000 points and was awarded my California Master Breeders Certificate. By coincidence Stan Luden had done the same, and so we both became Master Breeders that year. This was a gratifying accomplishment after years of working with the breed.
When I began to breed Indians I joined both the Indian Fantail Club of America and the California Indian Fantail Club. I served as District One Director of the I.F.C.A. from 1979 through 1982 when we had only three directors. During that period and later I wrote many articles for the bulletin. I did much the same thing for the C.I.F.C. and was editor of that club’s newsletter from July of 1978 through December of 1981. Much of that time was with assistance from Malcolm Fife. For clubs such as the I.F.C.A. where the membership is spread across the whole country, the bulletin becomes sort of the glue that holds things together and keeps the membership in touch. That is why the bulletin is important. In my experience I found that most of the membership enjoyed receiving the bulletin but few actually contributed articles. My guess is that this would be the lament of all bulletin editors everywhere.
I remember during this time appreciating articles that Tony Brancato wrote for the (former) American Pigeon Journal. I think he titled his column “Indian Fantails, News & Views” and it was the first thing I read when the magazine arrived each month. I am sure that I am not the only one who enjoyed Tony’s articles. It is this kind of effort that is so helpful to a club.
As most breeders know if you show your birds you will get calls from people who want to see them. I will relate two such events. After the Alameda show I received a call from a Dr. Pham who asked if he could visit my lofts. When he arrived he was delighted and told me that he had not seen birds like that since he was a young boy growing up in Thailand. He picked out a pair of whites and took them home with him.
On another day around the same time, I got a call from a man who asked if he could bring his sons to see the birds. When they arrived they too liked the Indians and each of the boys bought some birds. But it turned out that the father was the one who became really interested and on a subsequent visit, he bought a pair of saddles. This is how I met Dave Diehl and we have been friends now for over 30 years – a friendship that would not have taken place were it not for the Indians.
In 1978 Mary Parrott was the president of the I.F.C.A. and Richard Hunderfund was president of the C.I.F.C. or California Indian Fantail Club. They decided that the Indian standard needed a revision and that it would be good to have it done jointly by the two clubs. Therefore they wanted the committee to be made up of people who were members of both clubs. They appointed Bill Babb, Tony Brancato and myself to the committee and asked me to chair it.
The committee worked well together and we solicited input from as many people from both clubs as we could. One member who was particularly helpful was Dave Diehl. He had worked for the National Holstein Association and was familiar with standards. His familiarity and past experience developing concise descriptions for a breed were very useful to the committee as we worked on the Indian Fantail revision.
As we neared the final draft the committee ran into a concern. Bill Babb wanted a much smaller bird, 10 to 12 ounces, whereas many members followed Harvey Gatlin’s view of “the larger the better”. The committee finally settled on a medium size bird, with Bill dissenting. Tony and I prepared the final draft of the revision and it was presented to the membership for their vote. The members voted to approve the revision, and the I.F.C.A and the C.I.F. C. had a uniform standard for both clubs.
One morning in the late summer of 1987 I was doing my usual morning feeding and eventually got back to the last two pens in the yard. There I noticed that birds were missing from both pens. I finished feeding and got my loft register and sure enough there were a total of 18 birds missing. However, since it was late summer I had separated the birds and those pens held only cock birds, mostly saddles. So in an ironic sort of way the joke was on the person who stole them. Little did I realize how much nerve the individual had because two nights later 20 hens were stolen from the hen pens.
Our home was located on a small acreage in a semi-rural area and was somewhat isolated. I did not travel much but was away overnight at times and my wife did not like the idea of being alone when someone might be creeping around out there in the dark. Since the Indians were the attractions (none of my other pigeons or chickens having been stolen) I disposed of all the Indians and that ended my time breeding Indian Fantails.
Looking back after 30 years to the time I spent breeding Indians, I find that it was a positive and enriching experience. I met some very nice people who were dedicated and knowledgeable about the breed, and I am grateful for the friendships that continue to this day. Showing the birds and winning was satisfying, but I have come to the conclusion that in the end it was not the most important thing. Being a member of the pigeon fraternity and participating in the various activities related to our hobby was the most significant thing.
One activity in particular that I found very satisfying and enjoyable was working with others on the revision of the standard. My involvement in this was time well spent and I believe those of us on the committee made an important contribution to the Indian breed. Many years have passed since then, and I am very aware that the Indian has improved and moved beyond the existing standard, thus a revision is necessary. But I also feel that the standard having been in place for so long has allowed the breed to progress to its present state.
In closing I would say that the time devoted to breeding and showing the Indian Fantail made for a tremendously rewarding and worthwhile experience. I appreciated the many hours spent with other breeders of Indians and to this day am grateful for the friendships cultivated over the years.
Tim Kvidera, Minnesota
Started in Indian Fantails 1968
Submitted March 2009
As a ten year old, my introduction to pigeon keeping occurred while visiting a cousin on a family trip. Mike had some pigeons that he had captured from various area barns and had them kept in a portion of my uncle’s garage. He even had them trained to fly and return to the garage. When I expressed an interest in them a different uncle came buy one day with a couple 3 – 4 week old squabs that he pulled from a barn and gave the two gaily splashed birds to Mike and me. Mike agreed to keep my bird until our next trip out to South Dakota and I had a chance to build accommodations for the bird. After getting parental approval, about a month or so later I had an apple crate based cage ready at the back of our house in St. Paul, MN and we were on our next trip to Big Stone City. Alas, upon arriving at Mike’s place I was told that he had lost both of the young birds. BUT, he would gladly give me a bishoped blue check (all terms I would come to learn later which neither of us knew then) to take home if I still was interested in pigeons. I was a bit disappointed in the more bland looking bird than the brightly splashed original, but took him up on the offer, the summer of 1958, and have had pigeons ever since.
I fed and watered the bird daily and discovered a few other kids in the neighborhood also had pigeons. After demonstrating that I could dependably care for the single bird, one night at supper my dad asked if I was seriously interested in raising pigeons. When I said yes, he mentioned that there was a guy in his office who raised pigeons and that Bob would be willing to give me, and my down the block friend Rayme, a couple pairs of Rollers. Bob Clark was a big time Roller flyer who had just received a foundation shipment of Pensom Rollers and was getting rid of all the other Birmingham Rollers that he had been breeding for years. What a treat it was to be able to walk into Bob’s loft and have our choice of four birds each. Rayme had a few racing Homers, but these were my first banded, purebred pigeons.
Bob also filled us in on the local pigeon club, the Minnesota State Pigeon Association, which held its monthly meetings only a couple miles from our house. And then there was the pigeon show at the Minnesota State Fair, a mile and a half walk to see 1,200 birds in dozens of different varieties. We would go each of the four days and volunteer to feed, water and steward birds for the judges and even showed. Won champion young Flying Roller in 1959, but did not get the trophy as I had not joined the club yet. Have been a member ever since though.
Caught my first Flying Tippler on a rooftop of a neighborhood house one night in 1959, a banded 1958 bird that I had until a cat got in the loft and killed him while he was protecting his babies in 1974. Been active in competitively endurance flying Tipplers ever since, earning many diplomas and occasionally holding some FTA records. Over three decades of holding offices in the Flying Tippler Association ended a couple years ago with the dissolution of the FTA. I now compete with the CNTU.
During my pre-teen and early teen years I tried many different breeds, but by 1963 I decided that I wanted to get into a fancy breed with stiff competition and good people. That is when I got rid of everything but my Flying Tipplers and Pheasant Pigeons and started in Fantails. I have tended to concentrate mostly on non-traditional colors in Fantails with many decades in reds, yellows and almonds to which brown has been added 15 years ago. I actively compete in many club annual Fantail meets and have been on and/or chaired many committees for the Central Fantail Club – Awards, Constitution, Show Standard, Walking Surface, etc.
As we were courting I would often bring Lynn along to various pigeon shows. She decided that she wanted something to show while I was busy with my Fantails and she chose Indian Fantails in 1968. There were a few Indian Fantails around the Midwest then, not a lot to choose from and I only had room for a couple pair in the small 8 x 10 loft in my parent’s backyard. We found an unbanded red check in the sales area of one of the shows and later obtained a young white “cock” from Dennis Bickel of Waseca, Minnesota. Contrary to Dennis’s feeling on the gender, my thoughts were confirmed when the white laid eggs and Lynn became an Indian Fantail breeder.
Uncle Sam “invited” me to play soldier in 1970. After completing basic training and being assigned to Fort Campbell, KY Lynn and I rented half a duplex in Hopkinsville and lived off post. We attended some of the local pigeon shows when we could to satisfy my pigeon fix while we tried to continue breeding the Fans, Indians and Tipplers from 750 miles away, after hiring a younger brother to care for the birds in our absence. We met Floyd Ashby at one of those shows and would occasionally drive to Sacramento, Kentucky to visit him and look at his birds. Think we may have even brought one of the Minnesota Indian Fantails down to him on one of our trips.
After discharge from the army in 1972 I took a position using my chemistry degree in the personal care industry – shampoos, conditioners, hair sprays, etc. – and Lynn and I found an acre in Ham Lake, mailing address Anoka, to make our home. The loft was trailered from my parent’s place and the Indians were shifted to a portion of the garage to allow them to expand some. Lynn joined the IFCA shortly thereafter, not sure when I officially became a member, but not much after that.
After a few years of keeping the birds in the small loft and garage the dreams and sketches I had made while in Kentucky started to take shape in the form of what we named Tip – In – Tail Loft which provided the birds much more room and the fancier more creature comforts. The loft is 16’ x 24’ and two stories high with a 10’ x 12’ walk out deck on the second floor. Nine different community loft sections and 24+ individual breeding cages for the scientific work. In 2001, upon taking a job with a different firm, house movers brought the loft 50 miles south to Prior Lake. Was quite a trip through the night with 400 birds inside the loft being pulled right down main street, over the rivers, up and down hills, etc.
Eventually Lynn decided to turn her energies more toward raising our family than the birds and withdrew from active participation in the Indian Fantails in the early 1980’s. Since we had created our blues and almonds from scratch I decided to keep those and parted with the various other colors that Lynn had in her flock in order to concentrate on them. A yellow was crossed in to make silvers out of the blues and I have been working with barless also for many years. A silver hen stock bird from James Anderson crossed onto my silver line resulted in a huge tailed silver cock dubbed “Norm” by Harvey Addengast. Norm was champion Indian Fantail at the 1999 Milwaukee NPA Grand National.
In the 1970’s through late 1990’s I did quite a bit of business travel. When possible I would try to spend nights visiting pigeon fanciers in the area rather than watch TV in the motel room. I was fortunate enough to use these trips, and judging assignments from coast to coast and in-between, to see many Indian Fantail breeders like Addengast, Anderson, Barnhart, Champion, Clayton, Ewing, German, Glissmeyer (while in KC), Larson, the Liemanns, the Ludens, Lynch, McCoy, Mueller, Schmidt, Skiles, Swars, the Wamhoffs. For years the Central Fantail Club annual meet was held in Omaha and I used that opportunity to utilize Janice’s Bed & Breakfast on the way to the Fantail meet and spent many enjoyable hours looking at Indian Fantails and solving the world’s problems with Ted Golka, while consistently bringing winter weather to their area.
My organizational activities with the IFCA have included three stints as vice president; 1985 – 1986, 1991 – 1992 and 1997 – 2008. The latter being while teamed up with president Ted Golka. I was included in the inaugural class of certified judges when the program was launched and had the honor of being the first IFCA Master Judge, am recognized by the National Pigeon Association as a Certified Judge of Indian Fantails as well as Archangels and have judged many regional and national Fantail meets. Participating on many IFCA working committees has always been a pleasure. It was a bit disappointing though when the efforts put in with Dave Diehl and Bill Larson on the Show Standard Committee, using the input from the membership, did not result in ratification. Apparently a relative definition of the parts defining overall balance was too progressive.
In addition to the above I have had a very strong interest in pigeon genetics ever since high school when I worked in a reference library and had access to all the published information on pigeon genetics from the early 1900’s on – when the professionals were using pigeons, before they went to mice, then fruit flies, and now bacteria and recombinant DNA analysis. This interest has me working numerous different projects in the loft, using any breed as part of my palette needed to get what I am after. Many of the birds in the loft would qualify to be, as W. F. Hollander would have termed them – “hybrid American Genetic Stock.” There is also a large colony of rare colored Racing Homers in the loft with a few pair of gold blackwing Archangels, copper Show Tipplers and Pheasant Pigeons.
Beyond my interests in pigeons I enjoy our family activities. Being the oldest of nine, with all but one living in the area, it is easy to have a huge crowd for any family activity on the Kvidera side. Lynn comes from five, all of which are in the area and plenty of extended family around too. We do an annual Fourth of July picnic at our place that brings in over 50 of the in-laws. Son Aaron has blessed us with 4 fantastic grandkids. Daughter Sara is most of the way to her PhD in psychology (think she is devoting her life to trying to figure out her dad) and is getting married the summer of 2009.
Lynn and I both like gardening and yard work. She is the “green thumb” and does the flowers; I am the strong back/weak mind type who does the veggies. Having an organic fertilizer factory helps the plantings do well everywhere. Lynn trains and competes with her Shelties in agility trials.
I also enjoy fishing, but now that we live nearer some great lakes rarely get out as often as I would like. I play competitive volleyball year ‘round a couple nights a week to keep from atrophying into “old age.” As long as I can keep up with most those half my age I guess I am doing ok.
ORGANIZATIONS SPONSORING THE INDIAN FANTAIL – CHAPTER THREE
HISTORY OF THE INDIAN FANTAIL IN THE US – CHAPTER ONE
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Me Talking About Marco Talking About Vesper
June 13, 2013 James Valaitis
I like Marco Arment, and even if you don't, one of the things that I respect about his personality is that he doesn't allow you not to have an opinion of him. If that opinion is strong dislike, then at least he inspires something in you. I have read his blog; marco.org; for a while now and there have undeniably been times where I have disagreed with him. One such time (and I had to find a way to bring this up and reveal myself to be the over-caring internet troll I really am) was his blog post about the Playstation 4 reveal conference. I really don't enjoy people talking like experts about a subject they are completely ignorant on. Glad I got that off my chest.
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why aren't more apps like instapaper?
May 25, 2012 James Valaitis
In starting, I want to outright state that I do not want every app to be an offline reader of articles. I do, however, seriously think that app developers could learn rather a lot from Instapapaer about what and what not to do in developing and promoting their iOS app. I'm not speaking as a hardened iOS developer, but as a consumer who's asking for more.
I genuinely remember the first time I opened Instapaper, which is odd in itself, and the immediate acknowledgement of the attention to detail. I could start even sooner than that, and discuss the icon. Crisp, recognisable, and beautifully designed; it already gives away just how carefully crafted the experience will be.
Admittedly, upon initial viewing of the menu, I felt there to be a lack of colour. The deeply contrasting themes are slightly one-dimensional for my tastes. However, the simplicity and playful nature of the icons allowed me to warm to the interface quickly, and after a quick scan of the UI, everything is immediately obvious. The buttons used are instantly recognisable and self-explanatory, and the work without any issue or hidden complexity.
Now, before this article consists of just me talking you through Instapaper, and why it’s such a brilliant example of a considered experience, I’d rather skip to arguably the most important part; the reading. At first, it may seem like just a well-done offline reader, however, after using it for a mere few days; you begin noticing the endearing features which combine to complete the entire experience.
One of the first things that I personally noticed was the rotation lock; not because I went searching through menus; but because I accidentally rotated the screen, and upon rotating back around, it asked me whether I would like to lock the rotation; genuinely incredible. A small and useful feature presented in a genius manner. I then went on to spend time customising the font, testing tilt scrolling, playing with pagination, building up a folder of articles I’ve enjoyed, and even sending an article to my friend; all working towards building up a platform to read articles in which I actually felt connected. Finishing an article is handled just as delightfully aforethought as everything else, with a simple diamond at the bottom, and a link to the source website.
Checking out “The Feature”, I was only further pleased as I scrolled through a list of popular articles, and actually found a satisfactory amount of them to be interesting. This may sound like a redundant comment, however, on too few occasions am I recommended anything by an algorithm which I’d actually like. Amazon and Instapaper may be among the very few.
As you use this app, more and more you notice the things you had been taking for granted. The fact that the screen doesn’t instantly lock after not being interacted with for a few minutes. The way the app will consistently provide you with the text you want, and hardly anything that you don’t. How it frames and positions the photo perfectly, without interrupting any thread of text.
Indeed, I am rather taken with Instapaper, and I can’t help but wonder if it’s because this is the work of one man. How important is the fact that this app is Marco Arment’s career? How much does that dictate and influence all of the extra attention and love that goes into this app? I would argue that it all contributes to the final product in a bigger way than you would initially believe.
This is what I really wanted to focus on; the mystery behind how much each app on you iDevice improves if it was the baby of a single developer; their career; their work; their experience. A lot of large companies are out there, developing immensely wonderful applications, but unfortunately they’re among the minority. Instapaper is for anybody seeking an elegant offline reader, but Instapaper is also for the people who can respect the passion, who share it, and who feel better supporting a man who actually gives a damn.
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Gulf Air appoints first Bahraini female country manager
Gulf Air, the national carrier of the Kingdom of Bahrain, has appointed Ms. Shams Al Doseri as a Country Manager for its Addis Ababa station. This appointment makes Ms. Al Doseri the first Bahraini female to run a Gulf Air station. With eight years of airline sales experience in Gulf Air’s hub station in Bahrain, Ms. Al Doseri was selected to represent Gulf Air in Ethiopia and manage the airline’s office in its capital.
The airline operates flights to and from Addis Ababa in Ethiopia since 2011 and with this appointment, Ms. Al Doseri will take on the challenge of further strengthening Gulf Air’s growth in Africa. Ms. Al Doseri has been part of the Gulf Air family for eight years, in which she started as a sales executive and then promoted to a sales manager before her recent appointment as country manager abroad.
“I am very proud and delighted to take this challenge and be the first Bahraini woman in Gulf Air to represent the national carrier outside the Kingdom.” Ms Al Doseri added at the announcement of her promotion, “This assignment is of a national nature to me as I will not only promote my airline but also promote my beloved country to the world by encouraging more passengers to fly Gulf Air to or via Bahrain.”
Gulf Air is committed to invest in its Bahraini workforce and their career development and as such, it continues to provide opportunities for Bahraini nationals to take over senior positions in the company. Earlier this year Gulf Air welcomed the return of its Country Manager UK to its headquarter in Bahrain to take on the role of Senior Manager Sales managing the entire Europe and Asia Pacific regions. With 90% of employees that are based at the headquarters in Muharraq being Bahraini along with nearly 70% of its pilots, Gulf Air is a leader in the Bahrainisation programme in the Kingdom as it provides the opportunity for local talents and experienced personnel to work in its various areas of the airline’s business.
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I recommend "King Winter", by Anonymous
The sky is dull and grey,
Piercing and chill the blast,
Each step resounds on the frosty ground,
Winter is come at last.
Mamma sits by the fire
Her little ones round her knees.
"How cosy we are, Mamma," they cry,
"Tell us something, if you please."
"Tell us about King Winter,
And about Jack Frost, his man;
We'll not be noisy or naughty at all,
But as good as ever we can."
"Well then;" says mamma, "you, Jenny,
May knit and listen, my dear;
And Johnny may split up wood, to make
The fire burn bright and clear."
I recommend "Christmas Comes but Once A Year Showing What Mr. Brown Did, Thought, and Intended to Do, during that Festive Season. Author: Luke Limner Illustrator: (Bros.) Dalziel
VERY cold, very bleak; the thermometer and snow are falling fast; eggs and suet are rising faster; everything at this season is “prized,” and everybody apprizes everybody else of the good they wish them,—“A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!” Even the shivering caroller, for “it is a poor heart that never rejoices,” is yelling forth the “tidings of comfort and joy.” The snow that descends, making park and common alike—topping palace and pigsty, now crowns the semi-detached villas, Victoria and Albert. They were erected from the 2designs of John Brown, Esq. and his architect (or builder), and are considered a fine specimen of compo-cockney-gothic, in which the constructor has made the most of his materials; for, to save digging, he sank the foundation in an evacuated pond, and, as an antidote to damp, used wood with the dry-rot—the little remaining moisture being pumped out daily by the domestics. The floors are3delightfully springy, having cracks to precipitate the dirt, and are sloped towards the doorways, so that the furniture is perpetually trying to walk out of the rooms; but those apertures are ingeniously planned to prevent the evil—the doors obstinately refusing to open at all, without force. That the whole may not appear too light, few windows are introduced. By casual observers the Victoria and Albert would be taken for one—so united are they; and had we not seen the parting division, we should have doubted also. Of the entrance lodges, we have noticed one of the chimneys smoking periodically; and, from the mollient white vapour issuing over the window at such times, presume Victoria is washing, whilst Albert is locked up and doing nothing.
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onsdag 1 januari 2014
I recommend "The Angel Over the Right Shoulder" by Elizabeth Wooster Stuart Phelps
The Angel over the Right Shoulder
"There! a woman's work is never done," said Mrs. James; "I thought, for once, I was through; but just look at that lamp, now! it will not burn, and I must go and spend half an hour over it."
"Don't you wish you had never been married?" said Mr. James, with a good-natured laugh.
"Yes"—rose to her lips, but was checked by a glance at the group upon the floor, where her husband was stretched out, and two little urchins with sparkling eyes and glowing cheeks, were climbing and tumbling over him, as if they found in this play the very essence of fun.
She did say, "I should like the good, without the evil, if I could have it."
"You have no evils to endure," replied her husband.
"That is just all you gentlemen know about it. What would you think, if you could not get an uninterrupted half hour to yourself, from morning till night? I believe you would give up trying to do anything."
"There is no need of that; all you want, is system. If you arranged your work systematically, you would find that you could command your time."
"Well," was the reply, "all I wish is, that you could just follow me around for one day, and see what I have to do. If you could reduce it all to system, I think you would show yourself a genius."
When the lamp was trimmed, the conversation was resumed. Mr. James had employed the "half hour," in meditating on this subject.
"Wife," said he, as she came in, "I have a plan to propose to you, and I wish you to promise me beforehand, that you will accede to it. It is to be an experiment, I acknowledge, but I wish it to have a fair trial. Now to please me, will you promise?"
Mrs. James hesitated. She felt almost sure that his plan would be quite impracticable, for what does a man know of a woman's work? yet she promised.
"Now I wish you," said he, "to set apart two hours of every day for your own private use. Make a point of going to your room and locking yourself in; and also make up your mind to let the work which is not done, go undone, if it must. Spend this time on just those things which will be most profitable to yourself. I shall bind you to your promise for one month—then, if it has proved a total failure, we will devise something else."
"When shall I begin?"
"To-morrow."
The morrow came. Mrs. James had chosen the two hours before dinner as being, on the whole, the most convenient and the least liable to interruption. They dined at one o'clock. She wished to finish her morning work, get dressed for the day, and enter her room at eleven.
Hearty as were her efforts to accomplish this, the hour of eleven found her with her work but half done; yet, true to her promise, she left all, retired to her room and locked the door.
With some interest and hope, she immediately marked out a course of reading and study, for these two precious hours; then, arranging her table, her books, pen and paper, she commenced a schedule of her work with much enthusiasm. Scarcely had she dipped her pen in ink, when she heard the tramping of little feet along the hall, and then a pounding at her door.
"Mamma! mamma! I cannot find my mittens, and Hannah is going to slide without me."
"Go to Amy, my dear; mamma is busy."
"So Amy busy too; she say she can't leave baby."
The child began to cry, still standing close to the fastened door. Mrs. James knew the easiest, and indeed the only way of settling the trouble, was to go herself and hunt up the missing mittens. Then a parley must be held with Frank, to induce him to wait for his sister, and the child's tears must be dried, and little hearts must be all set right before the children went out to play; and so favorable an opportunity must not be suffered to slip, without impressing on young minds the importance of having a "place for everything and everything in its place;" this took time; and when Mrs. James returned to her study, her watch told her that half her portion had gone. Quietly resuming her work, she was endeavoring to mend her broken train of thought, when heavier steps were heard in the hall, and the fastened door was once more besieged. Now, Mr. James must be admitted.
"Mary," said he, "cannot you come and sew a string on for me? I do believe there is not a bosom in my drawer in order, and I am in a great hurry. I ought to have been down town an hour ago."
The schedule was thrown aside, the workbasket taken, and Mrs. James followed him. She soon sewed on the tape, but then a button needed fastening—and at last a rip in his glove, was to be mended. As Mrs. James stitched away on the glove, a smile lurked in the corners of her mouth, which her husband observed.
"What are you laughing at?" asked he.
"To think how famously your plan works."
"I declare!" said he, "is this your study hour? I am sorry, but what can a man do? He cannot go down town without a shirt bosom!"
"Certainly not," said his wife, quietly.
When her liege lord was fairly equipped and off, Mrs. James returned to her room. A half an hour yet remained to her, and of this she determined to make the most. But scarcely had she resumed her pen, when there was another disturbance in the entry. Amy had returned from walking out with the baby, and she entered the nursery with him, that she might get him to sleep. Now it happened that the only room in the house which Mrs. James could have to herself with a fire, was the one adjoining the nursery. She had become so accustomed to the ordinary noise of the children, that it did not disturb her; but the very extraordinary noise which master Charley sometimes felt called upon to make, when he was fairly on his back in the cradle, did disturb the unity of her thoughts. The words which she was reading rose and fell with the screams and lulls of the child, and she felt obliged to close her book, until the storm was over. When quiet was restored in the cradle, the children came in from sliding, crying with cold fingers—and just as she was going to them, the dinner-bell rang.
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Company Aims To Become âAmazon Of Sharing Economy’ With Blockchain App
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Company Aims To Become ‘Amazon Of Sharing Economy’ With Blockchain App
A company is building a Blockchain-based system
to eliminate fragmentation in the sharing economy – and creating a single app that gives users access to “any available asset they wish to rent, borrow or share.” ShareRing claims the current market is extremely inconvenient for consumers. Although thousands of companies exist, many of them are specialized in one particular niche, such as caravans or office space. This forces users to go through the arduous process of registering multiple accounts – and, given the fact that some of these small businesses only operate in a heavily localized area, there’s no guarantee that the items they need to borrow will be available where they live.
The Australian company has the goal of becoming the “Amazon of the sharing economy,” enabling users to lease “assets” from a broad range of categories through a single smartphone app. They would be connected to individuals nearby who have items they are willing to share, while rental companies would be able to develop their own “mini” app within ShareRing to reach greater numbers of prospective customers. ShareRing is already exploring deals with big brands, and the latest partnerships will be announced on its website.
In its white paper, the company lists areas where its technology could prove useful. Some examples include renting cars, trucks and trailers, as well as booking delivery drivers, sharing gardens, swapping books, co-housing, car sharing and social dining. ShareRing’s Blockchain platform, known as ShareLedger, is already in development. “Highly customizable” smart contracts will be used to complete transactions, with the company stressing that typical users are not going to require advanced technical knowledge in order to use the platform.
“Taking things to the next level”
The team behind ShareRing already have experience in this industry after starting the vehicle-sharing brand Keaz in the middle of 2013. Offering solutions for both corporate users and consumers, the company now has offices in five countries – and its main technology, KeazACCESS, was launched in May 2015. Executives say they have “decided to take things to the next level” through Blockchain because a company is yet to help this industry achieve its full potential. Their white paper argues that most people are even unable to name five businesses operating within the sharing economy – and the two examples most commonly used as answers, Airbnb and Uber, only cover two types of assets available to the public.
ShareLedger is also going to feature a dual token mechanism. Whereas SharePay is the currency that customers will use to rent assets, ShareToken allows providers to pay for access to the Blockchain. All users will be able to access their balances for these tokens in a lightweight wallet accessible from PCs and smartphones. “Small transaction fees” are charged to providers who use ShareRing. There are one-off charges whenever individuals or businesses add an asset to the platform. Providers are also charged if “attributes” need to be added, allowing extra bits of information such as a Vehicle Identification Number to be linked to the asset. Finally, they will pay a fee every time their asset is rented out to a ShareRing user.
Growing the ecosystem
At the heart of ShareRing’s system will be a “clever, integrated app” which uses geolocation to show users which services are available nearby – and within two years, the company hopes that up to 1 mln assets will be available to share around the world. Its Blockchain system will be publicly available by Sept. 2018, and KeazACCESS will be the first “client” integrated into ShareLedger. ShareRing’s token sharing event is set to take place in May, with the company planning to run token hunts and several other competitions to spread the word and raise awareness of the project.
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Vexanium, a Marketing Platform To Benefit Both Retailers and Users
—SINGAPORE, April 11, 2018 —
An innovative decentralized marketing ecosystem called VEXANIUM, which helps to cut costs and improve efficiency and transparency for commercial businesses, is being launched by Danny Baskara and team. The blockchain based ecosystem which VEXANIUM creates will solve the major pain points that this industry faces today. The VEXANIUM platform will also naturally serve existing blockchain businesses in their user acquisition, activation and retention. This makes it attractive for both businessmen, crypto-enthusiasts and ordinary users.
In Asia, a majority of retailers use online promo marketing platforms such as Groupon, Dianping or Meituan to win new customers. Promo marketing strategies rely heavily on campaigns on these platforms which provide substantial traffic and sales. These platforms charge an average of 15% – 20% in commission per transaction through a CPA (Cost Per Acquisition) or CPS (Cost Per Sale) structure. An increasing number of retailers struggle because these commissions together with the discounts offered represent too high a proportion of their margins. To protect margins, retailers often end up giving lackluster promotions that are either unattractive or with unrealistic terms. Meanwhile, customers are often frustrated when trying to utilize a voucher or redeem their gift cards and coupons. Common difficulties include using vouchers that have already been utilized, expired, are lost or with unreasonable T&C requirements.
“By using the VEXANIUM platform, companies can create points in loyalty program applications in the form of digital tokens, "said Danny Baskara. "Typically such incentives are rewards to customers in Cost Per Acquisition (CPA) activity. The tokens can also be converted into coupons or points that can be used in corporate applications, " A study conducted by GfK concluded that 49% of consumers would gladly switch brands for savings in the form of a coupon. In the retail market, South-East Asia and Indonesia, in particular, are some of the fastest growing markets globally, with the latter boasting a population of over 260 million people. The importance of vouchers and coupons for retailers to attract new customers in those regions is significant.
VEX token will be listed on Tokenomy upon launching of the platform. Partnering with fIndodax.com (former bitcoin.co.id), the biggest digital asset exchange in Southeast Asia, Tokenomy helps VEX access to 1,000,000+ potential investors and traders. The VEX app features an integration with selected crypto exchanges in order to allow users to directly trade their VEX token balance on the exchange. Also, the VEX Exchange will allow consumers to trade vouchers among themselves and set their own prices. Customers will be able to store and redeem their voucher tokens via VEXANIUM app.
One game-changing use case of the VEX Platform is the lucrative “airdrop” market, which will allow blockchain companies to create airdrop campaigns for acquiring new customers and rewarding existing ones, using the VEX token. "For companies that want to take advantage of the VEXANIUM platform and want to create digital tokens on their applications are required to purchase a large number of VEXANIUM digital tokens, VEX, because each transaction is using the token, included in transaction fees," Danny states. This will be facilitated via the VEX web and mobile apps.
In an exciting move, the VEXANIUM marketplace plans to be fully functional and open to merchants and individual users in Indonesia by Q4 2018. VEXANIUM will complete the establishment of the ecosystem by launching VEXchange and VEXplorer by Q2 2019. Merchants and enterprise users can create voucher tokens and start their marketing campaigns all seamlessly via the one-stop mobile app. VEXANIUM founder and CEO Danny Baskara previously built and sold Indonesia’s largest voucher and couponing platform Evoucher, which was with more than 2 million active users. After 7 years of building Evoucher, the founders realized that the blockchain can solve the fundamental problems of this industry. The idea for the VEXANIUM ecosystem was born.
VEXANIUM will revolutionize this space by bringing the voucher and couponing industry on-chain. The immutability, liquidity and decentralized nature of VEXANIUM will revolutionize this market while introducing a whole new wave of retailers and users to the blockchain era. A number of angel investors are already backing VEXANIUM, such as Marcus Yeung, founder and CEO of SEAbridge, and Joseph Aditya, CEO of Ralali, the largest B2B marketplace portal in Indonesia. VEXANIUM VEX token pre-sale starts on April 14th, 2018.
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Bitcoin Price: Experts Weigh in on Cryptocurrency Price Recovery Amidst Institutional Interest
Bitcoin looks like it will end the week with a 15% price increase
and all but four of the top 100 cryptocurrencies by market capitalization are still showing green. Investors are demonstrating increased confidence illustrated by trading volumes. Experts have shared their predictions and explanations for the increase, which may well indicate a recovery for the cryptocurrency market after months of trepidation. Thursday’s sudden price increase for Bitcoin is the result of what experts term a “short squeeze” and it sparked a frenzy of activity in the charts.
“This is what’s known in the markets as a short squeeze. When a lot of people are short on heavy leverage, a small movement up can trigger someone’s stop-loss,” said Mati Greenspan, Senior Market Analyst at eToro. “Keep in mind that when a short position gets closed it actually creates a buy order. After a prolonged period of moving within the range, stop losses start to pile up. And so, even a small movement in the market can trigger a chain reaction of stop losses all at once and lead to a breakout on the charts.”
The orange and blue dotted lines represent the tight range, between $6500 and $7500, that bitcoin has been trading in for the
past two weeks.
“We would normally look for a test of the blue line before moving forward. However, should the excitement start to come back into this market, it might not need to.” Said Greenspan. “The ratio of short margin trades versus longs has been increasing recently,” said Nick Kirk, quantitative developer and data scientist at Cypher Capital. “Buying volume ticked up today and a lot of these short trades got liquidated, helping fuel the rally.”
In an earlier interview with Bloomberg on April 11th, 2018, Greenspan predicted that Wall Street was “building bridges” and would “at least even things out” in the cryptocurrency markets by injecting new liquidity.
On April 6th, 2018, news broke that hedge fund legend George Soros might begin to invest in cryptocurrencies. According to reports, Adam Fisher, head of macro investing for Soros Fund Management received internal approval to trade cryptocurrencies. Hedge Fund Research indicates the average return on funds that started investing in cryptocurrency at the beginning of 2017 is 2,908%, compared to 9% gains for traditional hedge funds over the same period. On April 10th, 2018, Venrock, the Rockefeller family’s venture capital businesses announced a partnership with cryptocurrency investor group
CoinFund.
“We wanted to partner with this team that has been making investments and actually helping to architect a number of different crypto economies and crypto token-based projects,” said Venrock partner David Pakman
The Rockefeller family has an estimated net worth of over $1 trillion, with Venrock reportedly holding $2.6 billion in managed assets. Venrock made significant gains with early investments in Intel and
“There are a lot of crypto traders in the market,” continued Pakman. “There are a lot of cryptocurrency hedge funds. This is different. To us, it looks a little bit more like venture capital.”
There are also disputed rumours that the Rothschild family now hold cryptocurrency related investments. Commenting to Bloomberg, leading Wall Street strategist Tom Lee describes Bitcoin’s sudden price hike
as “overdue”.
“We still feel pretty confident that bitcoin is a great risk-reward and we think it could reach $25,000 by the end of the year,” said Fundstrat co-founder Lee.
It’s not just Bitcoin that is seeing health price increases. Only a handful of coins in the top 100 are still showing declining prices. A number of coins have 24-hour average price increases of 20% and more. Ripple (XRP), with the third largest market capitalization after Bitcoin and Ethereum, is currently trading at $0.67 after a 21% increase. This is directly compared to a current rate increase of 5% for Bitcoin today. Ripple’s increase is likely fuelled by the announcement that Santander is launching an international payments service “OnePay FX” based on Ripple’s xCurrent blockchain technology. With the move, Santander becomes the first bank to offer a blockchain-based international payments service across a number of countries
at the same time.
“One Pay FX uses blockchain-based technology to provide a fast, simple and secure way to transfer money internationally – offering value, transparency, and the trust and service customers expect from a bank like Santander.”
Other notable price increases include IOTA (MIOTA), currently 10th by market capitalization at 21%, NEM (XEM) at 17% and Vitalik Buterin backed OmiseGO at 18%.
Realities That Will Rock The World Of Marketing In 2018
The digital marketing industry shows few signs of slowing down
as brands continue to adjust to the pace of change in data, technology and measurement. As marketing shifts away from the classic model of mindless spending, there are new opportunities and emerging technologies that can better trace the correlation between spending and engagement with prospective customers. From fake news to Facebook algorithms to Google and other tech giants changing the game, the industry landscape continues to force brands to adapt to new consumer behaviors and innovate to get the win. Based on my experience as the CEO of a digital marketing agency, here are four realities that I see shifting the world of marketing this year.
Every aspect of marketing is in the midst of an automation transformation.
Technology has introduced new kinds of marketing tools that take the guesswork out of advertising. For some firms, this has been a game changer, and for others, it has been a death sentence. Driven by emerging technologies, analytics and better data, marketing plans are shifting every day to match media consumption changes and platform updates. Yet, one of the biggest opportunities out of the digital transformation in marketing is reimagining the strategy in itself. Brands need to evolve their thinking to a process that observes the behavior of consumers through unique customer journeys and optimize efforts accordingly. Gone are the days when marketers can look at the last click in the funnel and make campaign-based decisions.
Digital transformation is not as straightforward as a one-touch fix. To deliver consumers a personalized marketing experience, brands need better control over their channels and performance. The rise of machine learning and automation has given way to incredible platforms for attribution modeling and optimization. By using these technologies, marketers can now track and measure their interaction with customers across all mediums to see where their ad spend is most effective and how customers are receiving and interacting with their marketing message.
Marketers must mine the endless mounds of data.
Across the board, companies increasingly understand that a “one-size-fits-all” approach to marketing can’t win anymore. Brands will be connecting with consumers in a more innovative, data-driven environment — especially in retail — by tapping into marketing technology platforms for better insights into consumer buying habits. Those brands with campaigns that are data-driven with location intelligence and analytics are more apt for stronger data and greater personalization. In this strategically intricate dance, consumers will be continuously touched by brand messaging, experiences and influencers that, when optimally layered together, drive better results.
Besides easing operational processes and increasing efficiency, marketers must leverage the potential of artificial intelligence-driven tools to power through data and effectively engage with their customers — and with better success after every instance. AI can also help identify the best engagement points in the buying journey. Innovations in AI like chatbots and augmented/virtual reality are changing the way brands plan campaigns, envision touchpoints and enhance customer experiences, all while generating actionable data insights throughout the process.
The power of search has voice.
Last year marked a huge shift in the power of voice in search marketing. If consumer brands haven’t gotten on board with SEO strategies catered to voice search, they need to get in the game before it’s too late. Google insights reveal that, on a daily basis, more than half of American teenagers and 41% of adults are talking to their phones via voice search. Amazon is said to have sold more than 20 million Echo units to date, with Google Home gaining ground and taking up to 24% of market share since it entered the game in 2015. By 2020, ComScore predicts voice search could account for up to half of all queries. This trend has been happening in the SEO world for some time, and with the growing appetite for search bots (i.e., Alexa, Cortana), the transition to a voice-search world is progressing every day.
SEO marketers should make note of this, given that optimizing for voice search requires different tactics compared to the traditional method and having insight into this new normal could help brands provide better customer experience. Optimizing for voice search technology allows for marketers to create more conversational campaigns and provides a natural way for people to interact with brands. Voice search will continue to explode as more predictive machine learning technologies advance this particular AI evolution. Looking forward, the voice search market is wide open and it’s possible that the strongest user group hasn’t even been born.
Content transformation will be king.
By 2021, an eMarketer report (registration required) predicts there will be more than 2.7 billion people around the world using mobile phones, with more than 87% of those using smartphones for internet access. The report also described the dominance of tech titans Google and Facebook in the U.S. digital ad market and digital ad revenue worldwide. In this attention-driven duopoly, with ever-changing algorithms and updates, businesses are competing against friends and family for attention. The demand for mobile-ready, shareable content has never been more relentless. Every aspect of content marketing will become more user-centric and personalized, and brands must be willing to adapt.
In order to scale authenticity in this crowded environment, some brands are heavily investing in video to connect with customers to help share ideas, products, purpose and personality. Likewise, influencers will continue to play a role in content but with a new requirement of stronger return on investment. No matter the industry, your brand must steer away from vague, overly expensive programs and partnerships and opt for relevant, data-driven influencer strategies. The challenge in digital content for today’s marketer is to remain authentic while achieving campaign goals. Brands that create experiences that inspire, educate or entertain through content and messaging efforts will continue to win in 2018.
What marketers need to know about Facebook’s updated Business Tools Terms
The updates are largely guided by GDPR and go into effect May 25, 2018.
As Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg faced Senate and House committees in Washington, DC,
this week, the platform introduced new terms around the use of customer data, tracking and measurement. Zuckerberg reiterated to lawmakers that Facebook will, in effect, apply the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) standards to its business globally. Not surprisingly, the Terms changes are timed to go into effect on May 25, 2018, the same date the GDPR’s sweeping set of rules governing the handling of consumer data will go into effect.
A new “Facebook Business Tools Terms” consolidates the “Conversion Tracking, Custom Audiences From Your Website, and Custom Audiences From Your Mobile App Terms” and “Offline Conversion Terms,” and the Custom Audience Terms have been updated. Here’s a rundown of the key changes to the terms that apply to any website owner, publisher, developer, advertiser, business partner (and their customers) and any other entity that integrates with, uses and exchanges information with Facebook. Note that Facebook Business Tools encompass a lot: APIs and SDKs, the Facebook Pixel, social plugins such as the Like and Share buttons, Facebook Login and Account Kit, as well as other platform integrations, plugins, code, specifications, documentation, technology and services.
New terms for GDPR compliance
In section 5.1 of the Facebook Business Tools Terms, a note to EU and Swiss data controllers specifically on
GDPR states:
To the extent the Customer Data contain personal data which you process subject to the General Data Protection Regulation (Regulation (EU) 2016/679) (the “GDPR”), the parties acknowledge and agree that for purposes of providing matching, measurement, and analytics services described in Paragraphs 2.1 and 2.2 above, that you are the data controller in respect of such personal data, and you have instructed Facebook Ireland Limited to process such personal data on your behalf as your data processor pursuant to these terms and Facebook’s Data Processing Terms, which are incorporated herein by reference. “Personal data,” “data controller,” and “data processor” in this paragraph have the meanings set out in the Data Processing Terms.
What this means:
This section clarifies that the Facebook Marketers are considered data controllers from a GDPR standpoint and Facebook the data processor. A third-party data processor is an entity that processes personally identifiable information (PII) on behalf of a controller. A controller is defined by the GDPR as an entity that determines how that data will be processed and for what reason. Both controllers and processors must comply with the EU regulation. The Terms for using Facebook Pixels and SDKs have also been updated for GDPR.
Section 3.3 states:
In jurisdictions that require informed consent for the storing and accessing of cookies or other information on an end user’s device (such as but not limited to the European Union), you must ensure, in a verifiable manner, that an end user provides the necessary consent before you use Facebook Business Tools to enable us to store and access cookies or other information on the end user’s device. (For suggestions on implementing consent mechanisms.
Site and app owners must obtain and manage user consent for Facebook to access, gather and store their data. This is a critical piece of GDPR that pertains to any company controlling or processing data on EU citizens, regardless of where they reside.
Requirement to notify Facebook of any actual or ‘threatened’ complaints about personal data
Another important change in the terms that marketers need to be aware of is in section 1.5.
The provision states:
You will notify us promptly in writing of any actual or threatened complaint or challenge related to the use of personal data under these Business Tools Terms and will cooperate with us in responding to such complaint or challenge.
Advertisers must take any user’s complaint (even threatened) about the use of personal data seriously. You must be prepared to report to Facebook, in writing, any suggestion of a complaint or challenge over the handling or use of personal data when you’re made aware of it.
Keep reporting internal
Want to share a case study about your Facebook ad campaign? Think again. Section 2.2.2 of the Facebook Business Tools Terms explicitly states that advertisers are not allowed to share Campaign Reports or Analytics unless they have Facebook’s written consent:
We grant to you a non-exclusive and non-transferable license to use the Campaign Reports and Analytics for your internal business purposes only and solely on an aggregated and anonymous basis for measurement purposes. You will not disclose the Campaign Reports or Analytics, or any portion thereof, to any third party, unless otherwise agreed to in writing by us. We will not disclose the Campaign Reports or Analytics, or any portion thereof, to any third party without your permission, unless (i) they have been combined with Campaigns Reports and Analytics from numerous other third parties and (ii) your identifying information is removed from the combined Campaign Reports and Analytics.
All Campaign Reports and Analytics need to stay internal and include only anonymized, aggregated data. Keep screen shots and charts out of presentations, case studies and social media unless you have permission from Facebook. However, Facebook retains the right to use your unidentified reporting data when aggregated with that of other advertisers
No pixel sharing
This is a change. Section 3.1 of the Facebook Business Tools Terms states:
You (or partners acting on your behalf) may not place pixels associated with your business manager or ad account on websites that you do not own without our written permission
You may not gather data for ad targeting or measurement by placing your or your clients’ pixels on other sites you may have access to or any other site unless Facebook OKs it. This has been a not-so-secret Facebook marketing tactic for some time. If you currently have pixels on other sites, it’s time to revisit those placements and either get Facebook’s permission or remove them to stay in compliance with the Terms.
Facebook Business Tools Terms
Some of the terminology has also changed with this update.
As of May 25, 2018:
“Sales Data” now is called “Customer Data.”
“User Information” now means “Contact Information.”
“Sales Transaction Data” now is “Event Data.”
“Matched Data” now means Event Data that is combined with Matched User IDs.
“Unmatched Data” now means Event Data that is not combined with Matched User IDs.
“Reports” is now “Campaign Reports.”
“OC” is now referred to as “Offline Conversions.”
Those are the main takeaways that we pulled from the updated terms. There are other changes, but they don’t appear to impact the day-to-day of marketers as much as the above. If you have any other items that stood out, please let us know on social media.
Billionaire Tim Draper Sets $250,000 Bitcoin Price Target for 2022
Tech billionaire Tim Draper, an avowed cryptocurrency bull,
has set a $250,000 bitcoin price target for 2022. Draper made the bold prediction April 12 at the 2018 Block (Chain) Party at his self-named Draper University in San Mateo, California. “I’m thinking $250,000 a bitcoin by 2022,” Draper said (via Reddit). “Believe it. They’re going to think you’re crazy, but believe it. It’s happening and it’s going to be awesome!” Draper has a fairly good track record for predicting bitcoin price movements, so market observers aren’t taking his bullish forecast lightly. In 2015, the venture capitalist accurately predicted that bitcoin would top $10,000 by the end of 2017. BTC prices soared above $13,000 on December 31, 2017.
‘Blockchain Is Transformational’
Draper also predicts that blockchain will disrupt and transform finance, healthcare, and many other industries. “It’s honest, it’s straightforward, it’s incorruptible, and it’s fair,” he said. Shortly before the Block (Chain) Party, Draper signaled his unwavering confidence in blockchain, the technology undergirding cryptocurrencies. “The blockchain is one of the most transformational technologies that has happened in the history of the world,” he told the San Mateo Daily Journal. “And it is totally worth celebrating.”
Draper isn’t the only billionaire who’s betting big on blockchain. The Rockefeller family (estimated net worth: $1 trillion) has partnered with the cryptocurrency investor group CoinFund to help entrepreneurs launch blockchain-based businesses. David Pakman, a partner in Venrock — the venture-capital arm of the Rockefeller family — said his VC firm is not interested in turning short-term profits, but in making a long-term investment in blockchain. “There are a lot of crypto traders in the market,” Pakman said. “There are a lot of cryptocurrency hedge funds. This is different. To us, it looks a little bit more like venture capital.”
Purchased 30,000 Bitcoins For $600 Apiece
Tim Draper has an undergraduate degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University and an MBA from Harvard. He comes from a long family line of venture capitalists. In 2014, Draper made headlines after buying 30,000 bitcoins for $600 apiece (total price paid: $18.5 million) at an auction by the U.S. Marshals Service, a law-enforcement arm of the Department of Justice. The Justice Department frequently auctions off property seized during criminal raids.
At today’s bitcoin price of roughly $8,000 a token, Draper’s stake is now worth about $240 million. That’s not a bad return for a four-year investment. The entry of Old Money like the Rockefellers and Silicon Valley’s stamp of approval is another signal that cryptocurrencies and blockchain — the technology behind bitcoin — is here to stay, despite the daily protestations from skeptics that “bitcoin is dead.”
World’s Second Largest Crypto Exchange OKEx Moves To âBlockchain Island’ Of Malta
World’s Second Largest Crypto Exchange OKEx Moves
To ‘Blockchain Island’ Of Malta
Malta, which has recently passed regulatory legislation concerning Blockchain,
cryptocurrencies, and Initial Coin Offerings (ICO) in a bid to become a crypto-friendly “Blockchain island,” is welcoming major crypto exchange OKEx to the country, according to an OKEx press release published today, April 12. Crypto exchange Binance, the world’s largest exchange by trade volume, also reported at the end of March that they were planning on opening at office in Malta, after receiving a warning from Japanese regulators. Crypto trader and Twitter personа WhalePanda tweeted the news of OKEx’s Malta move earlier today, writing that Malta is “getting crowded”:
Malta is getting crowded.
As part of their plan to attract Blockchain and crypto-related business to the country, Malta released a document in February entitled, “Malta – A leader in DLT Regulation,” as well as proposed the establishment of several regulation-supporting organizations, like the Malta Digital Innovation Authority Bill and the Virtual Currencies Bill. OKEx writes in their press release that after meeting with Maltese regulators about the regulatory crypto framework, they are “confident in the Malta government’s approach and decided to make Malta a foundation for further OKEx growth.”
OKEx CEO Chris Lee stated:
“We look forward to working with the Malta government as it is forward thinking and shares many of our same values: the most important of which are protection of traders and the general public, compliance with Anti Money Laundering and Know Your Customer standards, and recognition of the innovation and importance of continued development in the Blockchain ecosystem.”
OKEx is the number two ranked cryptocurrency exchange by 24 hour trading volume on CoinMarketCap, currently trading around $1.6 bln over a 24 hour period.
Is Snapchat Worth It For Local Marketing?
When we pass by one another, talk to each other
or just live our lives, moments fade into distant memories. Nothing lasts forever, and that is the sentiment echoed on Snapchat. The concept is simple: Look now or miss out entirely. Its seduction is evident in the data: Snapchatters open the app an average of 18 times per day, contributing to the platform's 3.5 billion snaps per day. For those who want their business to reach new heights, Snapchat provides billions of opportunities every day. Yet, many local store marketers are hesitant to expand their social presence as it’s still an up-and-coming advertising platform. However, it’s typically the early adopters that receive the most substantial return on their investment. As channels become more established and proven, costs increase due to competition among other advertisers vying for the same consumers’ attention. The cost of digital advertising is up 12% and is rising five times faster than inflation.
To help decide if Snapchat is right to add to your social media strategy, here are a few ways marketers can use Snapchat to grow their business:
Create Experiences, Not Just Stories
Viewable for 24 hours, Snapchat Stories are collections of images and videos. Use them to provide personable content such as demos, fun facts, live events, special offers, teasers or testimonials that give a behind-the-scenes look at your business. This authentic, uncut content shows your team as they are — not the perfectly polished Instagram photo version, helping to establish trust with followers.Keep your stories succinct and create impact in the shortest possible time by giving viewers just a glimpse. This will not only keep their interest to watch the entire story but provide them with a reason to come in for more. For example, NASA uses Snapchat to give followers an out-of-this-world experience by taking them into space. It also provides followers behind-the-scenes tours, interviews and trivia to keep its audience engaged while educating them on various topics.
Stories only last for 24 hours and Snaps disappear after they’ve been viewed, providing a quintessential opportunity for flash sales and promotions. In fact, Snapchatters are 68% more likely to make impulse purchases. Try promotions such as “Only 25 tickets left, order now” or “Screenshot this snap and show it at the register for $10 off today.” These enticements appeal to more than just discount shoppers — there’s a psychological effect on the recipient. Scarcity incites urgency by its nature. If you're running a one-day special or only have 100 tickets available, there’s a limited supply. Fear of missing out on an opportunity causes people to take action: 56% of people feel the desire to live more extravagantly because of the content on their social networks.
Create A Call To Action
Including your website links in Snaps and Stories is one way to turn followers into potential customers. Add links to encourage newsletter signups, directs fans to products, blog posts, contact forms or additional information about your brand, allowing them to take the next step in your sales cycle. By creating a simple landing page and using the “Auto-Fill for Web View Forms,” Snapchatters’ appropriate contact information will be automatically populated, similar to Facebook’s Lead Gen Ads.
Measurable Offline Advertising
Affordable advertising formats have been released since Snapchat became a public company. Ad objectives include brand awareness, website traffic and app installs. There is a $50 per day minimum advertising spend, but the campaign can last for as long as you'd like. One of the biggest struggles many local businesses have with social media advertising is knowing if their ads drive foot traffic. Snap to Store can play an integral role in solving that dilemma. This feature allows advertisers to see how many Snapchatters visited a physical location within one week after seeing a Snap Ad and subsequently visited.
The caveat is, ad recipients are only tracked if the app is open while they are in the location, so not all foot traffic will be accounted for. However, thanks to Snapchat’s high engagement rate, it’s frequently used throughout the day: 80% have used the app while dining out, 67% at a shopping mall and 50% at the gym. Help circumvent this by encouraging people to open the app while at your location with signage, offering incentives such as, "Show us you follow us on Snapchat for a special offer" or with geofilters.
Filters In A Snap
A Snapchat filter is a design that you can overlay on a photo you take within the app. Geofilters are filters that are available within a geographic area you designate. It allows marketers to contextualize snaps, letting followers on your account know what’s going on that would be of interest to them. These are a great way to promote an event, promotion or new launch. For example, if you’re holding an event, you may designate a geofilter to be available only at the venue. When attendees use the filter and share their photos, their friends will see your event details, generating more awareness. Make sure to promote your geofilter at your designated location — without being prompted, attendees may not look for your filter and you will have wasted money and opportunity.
Pricing depends on various factors including the size of the area in which you would like your filter to be visible and how long you want it to be available. As an estimate, it’s about $5 per 20,000-square-feet per day. In the end, Snapchat can provide immense opportunities for marketers to connect with fans unmirrored by other platforms. It comes down to knowing where to direct your efforts. If your ideal customer skews to a younger crowd, it can indeed be advantageous to your marketing strategy. As with all marketing, experiment, analyze the results and continually optimize. By entertaining and building relationships in an authentic way, you will capture your audience’s attention, loyalty and wallet.
Ways Machine Learning Can Boost Your Marketing
Ways Machine Learning Can Boost
Your Marketing
Marketing success depends on many factors.
You need accurate consumer research to build your branding strategy, engaging content to delight your audience, a firm grasp of behavioral economics, and a near-mystical ability to intuit how people will weigh your message against those of your fiercest competitors. In the digital age, marketers can't win without mastering data, analytics, and automation. Fortunately, machine learning (ML) can already improve marketer performance on common tasks like customer segmentation, generating branded collateral, extracting and classifying relevant content, customer communication, and overall productivity and output. In the new economy, a marketing unit without machine learning mastery operates at a serious handicap.
But wait. Adopting an ML solution without understanding what it truly does can do more harm (usually expressed in wasted hours and dollars) than good. Machine learning is NOT magic and won’t automatically move the needle unless your team selects and configures the right ML solution for specific marketing challenges. Many Martech companies shamelessly claim that their solutions are "AI-powered" or "use the latest breakthroughs in AI." Some indeed exhibit cutting-edge technologies, while others use commonplace and easily replicable techniques. To help you know the difference, here's a primer on the top applications of machine learning for marketing:
Common Applications of Machine Learning in Marketing
Because marketing is a multifaceted field, machine learning can be applied in many ways using various combinations of techniques.
Clustering For Customer Segmentation And Discovery
Not all customers are the same. Unsupervised machine learning can help marketers group their audience into dynamic groups and engage them accordingly. Affinio’s platform, for example, analyzes billions of consumer interest variables, identifies specific customer’s interests based on their social media activities, then generates a visual report grouping people with similar interests. You then gain insight on which of your customers are die-hard foodies, who follows which series on Netflix, or who among them have similar travel plans.
Multi-Arm Contextual Bandits For Content Optimization
A/B tests are effective ways of finding out which content option (email tone, web page layout, visual elements in an ad, article headline, etc.) resonates better with your audience. However, A/B Testing involves a period of “regret” where you lose revenue while using the less optimal option. You have to wait and finish the countdown before learning which option — the final answer — is better. In contrast, bandit tests mitigate regret (opportunity loss) through dynamic optimization where it simultaneously explores and exploits options, gradually and automatically moving towards the better option.
Regression Models For Dynamic Pricing
The right pricing scheme can make or break a product. Regression techniques in machine learning allow marketers to predict numerical values based on pre-existing features, which in turn enables them to optimize different aspects of the customer journey. Regression can also be used in sales forecasting and in optimizing marketing spend.
Text Classification For User Insight And Personalization
Using natural language processing (NLP), a machine learning system can probe text- or voice-based content, then classify each content based on variables such as tone, sentiment, or topic to generate consumer insight or curate relevant materials. IBM Watson’s Tone Analyzer, for example, can parse through online customer feedback and determine the general tone of users reviewing a product.
Text Extraction And Summarization For Trending News
Marketers can leverage ML to extract relevant content from online news articles and other data sources to determine how people view their brand and/or react to their products. The Protagonist platform enables companies to gain full visibility into their customers’ values and motivations and how these attributes affect their buying decisions. Tech-savvy marketing teams can also build their own ML algorithm using APIs such as AYLIEN for relevant news aggregation, social media sentiment monitoring, and other purposes.
Attentional Neural Networks For Machine Translation
Attention mechanisms in deep learning help improve machine translation and empower your marketing assets for the global stage. Translation work for a brand’s entry into a new, linguistically different market used to be a major marketing spend but advances in AI enable machine translation to achieve near human parity. To rationalize costs and speed up the process, many companies opt to just have a human translator review and sign off machine translation output.
Recurrent Neural Networks (RNN) For Text Generation
If your branding creatives are constantly pressured to come up with great names for new products, campaigns, and companies, you can use generative models like RNNs to serve up loads of plausible-sounding names — some catchy, some weird, and a few surprisingly on the spot. We challenged several branding agencies on an AI vs. human naming competition. Guess who won?
Dialog Systems For Chatbots And Customer Experience Automation
Bots and chatbots represent one of the most ubiquitous applications of AI, but most marketing bots you see in the wild are completely scripted and use minimal natural language processing and machine learning. The more sophisticated dialog systems are able to reference external knowledge bases, adapt to unusual questions, and also escalate to human agents when required. Quite a number of companies have already adopted chatbots to engage customers throughout their lifecycle, from when they first learn of a brand to after they've already made purchases and require customer support.
Text-To-Speech (TTS) And Speech-To-Text (STT) To Power Voice-Based Search
Considered part of the conversational AI domain, voice-enabled and voice-only platforms introduce a new paradigm and new user engagement possibilities into our software and hardware interfaces. With the rising adoption of voice-based digital assistants such as Amazon Echo and Google Assistant that enable touch-free shopping and search, marketing executives need a conversational AI strategy to future-proof their marketing.
Computer Vision For Branded Object Recognition
Computer vision is a rapidly advancing field in AI that lends itself to a wide range of applications. Marketers can use ML-powered computer vision for product recognition and to extract user insight from unlabeled images and videos. Solutions like GumGum allow marketers to identify when their brand logos have appeared in user-generated content and quickly calculate earned media from video analysis. More tech-savvy marketers can use an API like Clarifai to build custom solutions for content moderation as well as search and recommendation engines based on visual similarity.
Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) For Original Media
Nvidia stirred the business community and created a buzz around its methodology for generating photorealistic images of fake celebrities. While these images make look like photos of real people, they are entirely AI-generated. Using generative adversarial networks (GAN), Nvidia’s system progressively becomes more adept at creating fake but ultra-realistic images. GANs involve two competing networks — a generator and a discriminator — that spar and learn from each other, steadily becoming better and better at detecting and creating fake images. Other technologies use GANs for creating logos, generating photorealistic images from sketches, and another for generating voices.
Robotic Process Automation For Marketing Operations
Digital marketing is replete with automations aimed at making work easier for hard-pressed practitioners. Automated processes for reading emails, opening and analyzing email attachments, data entry for templated reports, and tracking/engaging social media triggers help marketers stay ahead of the curve. For online ads, the AI platform Albert reduces the need for human involvement in large-scale media buying, quickening the pace of required analytical computations and optimizing paid ad campaigns.
Automated Data Visualization For Superior Reporting
Images speak louder than words. AI is a lot faster and more efficient at transforming data into visual insight than any human expert. Analysts usually use tools like Excel or Tableau to manually create visualizations, but automated enterprise analytics solutions such as Qlik can centralize data sources and generate useful dashboards and reports for your marketing teams. Many platforms now use data analytics and advanced machine learning algorithms to vividly clarify market trends, people’s behavioral patterns, and other information that are otherwise hidden from plain view and not readily convertible to practical insight.
Reinforcement Learning For Sequential Marketing Decisions
Some of the most complex decisions we make are not single predictions, but rather a series of decisions made over a long time horizon. Balancing short-term tradeoffs versus long-term gains is challenging even for the smartest humans. Reinforcement learning has been used successfully in cases like DeepMind's AlphaGo to beat human decision making in such complex scenarios. While business cases are usually far more complex than games, the success in narrow domains suggests promise for larger ones. A notable study by IBM researchers explores how reinforcement learning could be used to optimize targeted marketing.
Machines Go Where Humans Point
Artificial intelligence and its subfields such as deep learning, computer vision, and natural language processing have become incredibly powerful in the past ten years due to big data and the rise of computational power. The problem is, some “experts” sell AI products like snake oil, promising an elixir to cure all your marketing woes. Take their claims with a grain of salt and do your homework. Be sure to first clearly identify your business goals and metrics of success before evaluating AI and automation solutions. Also remember that not all problems are best solved by machine learning!
Ripple invests $25 million worth of its own cryptocurrency into a blockchain-focused fund
Blockchain Capital is a venture capital firm dedicated to blockchain technology.
Ripple said the investment would allow it to develop inroads with entrepreneurs and other firms in the blockchain space.
Ripple has struck several partnerships with banks and other financial firms, with the intention of enabling faster payments.
Blockchain firm Ripple, whose digital currency has seen huge volatility
in recent months, is investing in a $150 million blockchain-focused fund. Ripple, which owns about 60 billion of the 100 billion ripple, or XRP, tokens created, said Wednesday that it would invest $25 million into the fund, created by Blockchain Capital, a venture capital firm dedicated to blockchain tech. Blockchain is the technology that underpins cryptocurrencies. It records a continuously growing list of transactions across a distributed network. The original blockchain was used as the foundation for bitcoin. Ripple said its investment would allow it to develop inroads with entrepreneurs and other companies in the blockchain space.
"This is the first fund that we've contributed to, and it won't be the last," Patrick Griffin, senior vice president of strategic growth at Ripple, said in a statement Wednesday. "We plan to be major players in shaping the future generation of blockchain or crypto companies." Ripple seems to have shown increasing interest in investing in other companies as of late. CEO Brad Garlinghouse told TechCrunch in March that the firm wanted to invest in more start-ups that want to use its cryptocurrency.
Ripple has struck several partnerships with banks and other financial firms, with the intention of enabling faster payments. Those partnerships have rarely included the use of its digital asset, but earlier this year the company announced deals with both Western Union and MoneyGram. Its cryptocurrency, which hit a record high of $3 in January, has pulled back significantly to around 50 cents. It rose shortly after the announcement, and was up almost 0.9 percent, according to CoinDesk data. CoinDesk's price indexes track prices from several cryptocurrency exchanges.
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POLL: Canadians Are Turning Against Trudeau’s Carbon Tax
#LSN_Opinion
WINNIPEG, MANATOBA - February 4, 2018 (LSN) A majority of Canadians now oppose the carbon tax Trudeau is trying to force on the country
That’s what has been revealed in a new poll by Angus Reid which shows support for Trudeau’s carbon tax is collapsing.
According to the survey, a combination of resentment to Trudeau’s imposition of the tax on the provinces and concern over Canada being disadvantaged economically compared to the United States, is damaging support for the carbon tax nationwide. Not to mention the fact that Canadians don’t want to see even more of our money stolen by the government.
Here are some of the key poll results:
The number of Canadians supporting a national carbon tax has dropped from 56% in April of 2015, to just 44% in June of 2017.
56% of Canadians are opposed. A majority oppose the tax in all provinces except B.C. – where it’s a 50/50 tie, and Quebec, where 55% support it and 45% are against it.
Opposition is highest in Alberta (68% opposed, and Saskatchewan (71% opposed). Even in Ontario, a clear majority (59%) are against the Trudeau government carbon tax plan.
People want their provinces to fight
The poll notes that when given three options (come up with provincial plan, let the Trudeau plan be implemented, or fight the federal carbon tax), more Canadians pick fighting the tax.
43% say fight, 38% say bring in a provincial plan, and only 19% say implement the Trudeau plan.
Economic competitiveness fears
55% of Canadians say “Canada should hold off on carbon pricing to avoid having a competitive disadvantage with the U.S.”
45% say “What the U.S. does shouldn’t matter – Canada should implement carbon pricing now.”
Keep up the pressure against Trudeau’s dangerous carbon tax
As Canadians see more of Trudeau’s carbon tax plan, they are turning against it. As Angus Reid says, “Canadians liked carbon tax in theory, but support declines as plan becomes a reality.”
That’s why we need to keep up the pressure and keep fighting. Trudeau must be constantly held accountable for forcing this economically damaging and dangerous plan on Canadians. This needs to be a big election issue. As the numbers show, running on getting rid of Trudeau’s carbon tax can be a winning position.
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Warren Jones is a local political icon. He was term limited from the city council, twice and he spoke truth to power at the city council meeting Tuesday.
From the Times Union,
Jones said during public comments in the Rules Committee meeting that as someone who previously served 28 years on the City Council, he has seen council members engage in maneuvers to disguise the real reason for opposition.
“All that is smokescreen,” he said. “We know what the reality is. You know what the reality is.”
He said charter school advocates want a dedicated funding source for charter schools from the sales tax.
“Over 100,000 students are by choice attending traditional public schools, but yet we are being held hostage because we won’t share $250 million off the top to charter schools for the 16,000 [charter] students when many of our students are in schools that desperately are in need of safety [improvements] and repair,” Jones said.
“I pray as a City Council member you break those chains that are holding you hostage and prevent you from doing what is right and fair for all of our students, and most of all for those who by choice have chosen traditional public schools,” Jones said.
https://www.jacksonville.com/news/20190716/city-council-defers-duval-school-referendum-decision-2019-vote-in-peril
250 million dollars, much of would go to for profit charter schools, and a big chunk to a school that owes Chartrand and Baker millions.
Some of you might be think well that's just Jones's opinion, well nope, this is an excerpt from a secret memo the Civic Council sent the city council, several of their members used it's talking points when fighting against the referendum.
The civic council is demanding a proportionate cut of the tax referendum not a cut based on needs.
That's not how things are done, but I guess if you own a city council and a mayor you can get away with extortion.
at July 18, 2019 1 comment: Links to this post
IDEA coming with 12 schools starting in 2022
Um what?!?
After Bowman said IDEA planned to bring 15 schools to Jacksonville and the media had reported 4 and in an exchange with board chair Hershey they said 6 I decided to ask IDEA and their response was a little troubling.
Here it is,
Mr. Guerrieri,
Thank you for reaching out. We are indeed coming to Jacksonville, starting in 2022, though we are only set on launching 12 schools.
Here is a link to where they told the Times Union they were bringing just six,
https://www.jacksonville.com/news/20190626/idea-academy-confirms-setting-its-sights-on-jacksonville
Deep breaths, deep breaths, wooshaw wooshaw...
I have to say Dan got back to me quick. Don't expect that from the City Council and I want to give him the benefit of the doubt that maybe things changed since his interview with the Times Union, I mean who could have predicted the massive resistance to our school from the mayor and council. they may have said, 6, heck lets do 12, if things work out with the council there won't be much of DCPS left by then and we might have a tax windfall.
at July 18, 2019 No comments: Links to this post
Lenny Curry attempts to bully and intimidate the school board chair
We are at a low point in city politics. We aren't being led by Lenny Curry we are bring ruled by him on behalf of his super donors. The little king isn't above trying to bully and intimidate either.
I mean how dare the school board chair thank the two members of the council who have stood up and supported our public schools!!!
Um, and is he talking to the city council or the civic council, I ask because the city council are more like his lackeys, rather than colleagues.
There no other interpretation of Curry's tweet, he thinks pointing out Board Chair Hershey's appreciation is something to be chided and ridiculed, and should have ramifications.
I hope she uses this as a wake up call. The board is not having a gentile policy debate with the mayor and the city council. It's a knife fight with the future of our schools on the line.
This past fall when the beaches had a choice between anti-public education businessman Nick Howland and teacher Elizabeth Anderson, the beaches overwhelmingly chose Anderson. Yet somehow Diamond was elected to the city council and this past Tuesday he showed how ignorant and corrupt he was.
From Florida Politics,
Rory Diamond, who introduced the motion, noted that the Finance deferral meant that the bill was deferred, “not structured to move along.”
Diamond is concerned about enrollment declines, “school choice” and the overall costs of the plan, questions echoed by the portion of the donor class represented by the Jacksonville Civic Council.
“The only place I see kids getting a chance,” Diamond said, is a charter school, not a public school.
https://floridapolitics.com/archives/301130-duval-school-tax-deferred
The only place kids are getting a chance is charter schools, let that sit in.
Mr. Diamond represents the beaches area which has not just some of the best schools in the city but in the state. I feel like those kids are getting a chance. Those are schools by the way that would benefit from the referendum.
Diamond doesn't care about facts or decency for that matter, and why should he when his doors reward him for bashing our public schools.
At about the hour seven mark Diamond started to speak from what was apparently a set of talking points provided by the civic council. He spoke fondly of the the kids in charter schools complaining that the district hasn't provided charters public money for construction or equipment which is not their job by the way. That's like Winn Dixie demanding Public provide them their meat.
Then he demanded a guaranty to share tax money with charters (something the district has said they plan to do over and over) saying the only place that kids get a chance are in public charter schools ,saying he would die on that mountain.
http://jaxcityc.granicus.com/player/clip/860?view_id=1
This is what we are fighting against, people who despite tons of evidence to the contrary think are schools or failures that and people who are paid to say it. Diamond is either ignorant, corrupt or both,
The city's plot to privatize our schools explained (draft)
The school district was literally one percentage point away from an A grade, it's a B plus plus. Now are things perfect everywhere? No to many of our schools in neighborhoods wracked with poverty still struggle with the state test. That being said, you would think most city's would rally around the school district to get it over the hump, that they would leave no stone unturned to make sure it was successful but not Jacksonville, here a bunch of businessmen and politicians have conspired to turn our schools over to charters.
In May at an incredible state board of education meeting state commissioner Richard Corcoran chided superintendent Green to give our schools to the IDEA academy, saying the district had failed it's children. He even said he wants the authority to take over schools.
https://www.tampabay.com/blogs/gradebook/2019/05/22/florida-education-commissioner-suggests-takeover-authority-for-long-struggling-schools/
Scott Shine since a memo to all the city council members saying the IDEA charter chain is coming soon and bringing 15 schools with them, He wrote, Last week, Idea Charter Schools announced they will bring 12 to 14 schools to Jacksonville – mostly in the urban core. How are charters recognized as an impact to student populations?
http://jaxkidsmatter.blogspot.com/2019/06/scott-shines-lies-and-half-truths-about.html
The thing is they announced no such thing, announced anyways and when TU editorial reporter Emily Bloch reached out to them she told me they seemed upset that any news had leaked out and they were in talks to bring 4 schools here in 4 years.
In the article they said they met with the super and board chair and several city leaders, one of who was Aaron Bowman.
Yesterday when giving one specious reason after another to not support the City's schools, at the 41st minute mark of yesterdays city council meeting he said, that he met with their board members and administration and that they have offered to come in and open 15 schools and that has been agreed to by their board.
This is the same group that told the TU 4 in 4 years. Did Bowman just lie to the people of Jacksonville of did IDEA lie to the the Times Union?
So somebody lied, Bowman to the people of Jacksonville or IDEA to the Times Union, either should be unacceptable.
Corcoran, Shine, Curry, Chartrand, Bowman, I don't think it should be lost on anyone that these affluent white men who don't live in communities of color are fighting to have their public schools replaced. They are meeting with charter chains, they are saying that 15 IDEA schools is a done deal.
We were less than a percentage point away from an A and instead of saying, hey lets rally together to get us over the hump, city leaders are saying lets replace our public schools with charters and deny them the resources they definitely and desperately need, how is that right? How does that make any sense?
And for my friends who live in more affluent areas of town, who don't think they have to worry about charters replacing their public schools, first they came the schools in the poor areas of town but make no mistake they will come for your schools as well.
Aaron Bowman specious reasons for throwing the city's children under the bus
Aaron Bowman loovvvess public schools, loves them so much he has done everything to make sure they don't have the resources they need.
He starts talking at about the 37 minute mark
http://jaxcityc.granicus.com/player/clip/856?view_id=1&fbclid=IwAR1p20IggR3haVagtlISkpWyoqjom1zmRLB1g7EyBoKfWKHQ7DXxoDR3uWA
First he has concerns about low voter turnout which is rich because the city's power structure benefits and plans elections when turn out will be low, and see this past spring as example number one. regardless I am pretty sure everyone knows about the tax referendum by now and will have the opportunity to weigh in should they choose.
His next concern was OPPAGA, it's very important and he just learned about it last week. Oy vey, I can't I just can't, to learn more about it click the link.
http://jaxkidsmatter.blogspot.com/2019/07/its-time-for-school-board-to-sue.html
Next he wants DCPS to hire people to build buildings and then lease the buildings from them. Um...
He says IDEA schools have come and agreed to open up 15 schools, well not according to the paper with said they had plans to open 4 in four years, but um shouldn't DCPS be in charge of our schools run our schools?
Bowman brings up a mysterious developer to take over the DCPS school board building. You know, one of his pals. They should get rid of that building because reasons.
Ron Salem tells the school board, listen to the Civic Council or else
At 24:38 Ron Salem with a wink says listen to the Civic Council or else.
He says any organization that wants input into this process and obtain and consider their comments, he has got a lot of analysis that makes a lot of sense to him.
Gary Chartrand and the Civic Council are fighting against our schools getting the resource they need Ron Salem is more than happy to carry water for them.
If you want to check his donors, the civic council is well represented.
https://www.duvalelections.com/Candidates-And-Committees/Search-Local-Contributions-And-Expenditures
Labels: gary chartrand, the Civic Council
Whatever happened to the Hazouri rule?
When Hazouri was on the school board he brought up rule from time to time. Not a rule in the books but a rule he had to promote collegiality on the board.
If there was a district specific issue he would support that districts representative regardless of his feelings. The thought being they were elected to represent the people of that district and they would know best. Well he has thrown that noble notion out with the bathwater as he has done all he can to usurp the school boards authority. Hey Tommy they were elected to take care of our schools, not you and the board.
He knows better than most the issues that DCPS has as a former board member and he also knows what is happening with the city is plain wrong but rather than do what is right and defer to the duly elected school board he has joined the city and their efforts to usurp their authority. He know that's wrong but it hasn't stopped him.
He says he wants the referendum to pass, I don't believe him.
He says they are almost there too, and I don't believe that either.
What I do believe is Hazouri has traded his values for one last go around. Maybe that's good for him but it turns out it has been terrible for the city.
A summary of the rules committee meeting, specious reasons and questions dominate the meeting
It's time to sue. There is nothing the district can do short of giving away its schools and all the tax money to charters that would satisfy the majority of the city council. This meeting just reemphasized that.
First props to Joyce Morgan and Matt Carlucci who supported the tax referendum.
The rest well...
Tommy Hazouri, if you could just answer some more questions maybe we could get behind the referendum. Face palm
Leanna Cumber, I work with a lot of engineering firms so I know engineers, so can you give me a list of every project and when it will take place, for $%#s sake, how do these people get elected.
Randy Defoor, the school board needs to map out every cent, and every move for the next 15 years or she can't support it.
Micheal Boylon points out how desperate our public schools need money and it should be up to the school board to make the decision what to do because that is the job they were elected to do, but, he can't support the referendum.
Despite millions in PECO money and dozens of school choice programs in DCPS schools, Rory Diamond wants money guaranteed for charter schools which are the only schools giving kids a chance. He's the rep from the beach by the way which has some of the best public schools not only in the city but the state. He's a joke.
Warren Jones vice chair of the school board calls out the City Council for blackmailing the district over charter schools. I don't want to say I told you so but...
Speaker calls out City Council for dissuading democracy by having comments at the end of the meeting. She asks, shouldn't we have the discussion before the vote. Amen!
Elizabeth Anderson points out how much has been cut from school district.
Tracie Davis points out the referendum would cost a buck fifty five per month for the average person. The last four are great points that should have probably come up before the vote.
It's time to sue. There is nothing the district can do short of giving away its schools and all the tax money to charters that would satisfy the majority of the city council.
It's time for the school board to sue.
From today's meeting,
City Council, what did OPPAGA say about your plans?
School Board, sorry we haven't asked them because we can't until the referendum has been approved.
City Council, well we won't consider approving your referendum until OPPAGA (the Office of Program Policy and Government Accountability) weighs in.
School District, well they can't weigh in until the referendum has been approved. It's kind of the law.
City council, we aren't approving it until they do, takes bite of an apple.
School District oh for %$#@s sake, lets sue
The last line was what I would wish the SB would say.
There is nothing the board can do which will appease Bowman who is on record saying he wants to replace our public schools with charters. Nothing.
If, lots of letters government advisory body, would have weighed in he would have wanted something else. Unless the board goes okay we will give our schools to charters and all the tax money to, the referendum isn't going anywhere and its time we stopped pretending it might.
The board should be applauded for trying to go through the process despite the deck being stacked against them They should be, but it should be obvious by now that this is over.
It's time to get the lawyers involved.
Well it's out there. After years of people saying, hey guys they are coming for our schools, Aaron Bowman and several other city council members during today's finance meeting made it official, they want our school district privatized and the public schools replaced with charters. No more beating around the bush, no more lies about them supporting our schools, not even smiles to the districts faces while they stabbed them in the back. Nope, they want charters and more money for them and the districts public schools can wither on the vine for all they care.
I don't have a link to the video which isn't up yet but at the meeting he said he wanted our public schools to be given to the IDEA charter chain which recently announced plans to open several charter schools here in 4 years.
Why wait though right? I mean we have schools, why not just move the district staff out and the IDEA staff in. Who wants to bet they will find money to fix up the schools if that happened?
Bowman, fix our schools, nah, support the school district, forget about it, now replace them with charters who pick and choose who they take and keep, staffed with Teach for America, now that is the ticket.
He wasn't the only council member either,
LeAnna Cumber despite the millions charters already get, wants them to get even more, as does Ron Salem. Think about that, instead of helping our public schools, they want more money to go to often for profit schools.
So much for being less than a percentage point away from being an A district.
This is shameful. City Council members fighting against the improvement of our public schools. This was a dark day for education in Jacksonville.
at July 16, 2019 2 comments: Links to this post
Richard Corcoran believes in the golden rule, he who has the gold makes the rules.
While visiting Duval some of whose schools are literally crumbling, when asked about a special tax referendum they local board is trying to get on the ballot, he commented that Jacksonville doesn't need mini-Taj Mahals for their children and they would do just as well if they were taught under trees.
https://floridapolitics.com/archives/301071-corcoran-casey-jacksonville
This is a picture of his wife's charter school, why do I feel like they want for nothing.
This is a picture of the public school down the street from former board member Becki Couch
Um which looks more like the Taj Mahal? That's black mold on the walls by the way.
We are not being led in Florida we are being ruled.
DCPS is strongly considering bringing back Teach for America
This from a draft contract that the board will discuss at its August meeting,
Previous Outcomes TFA teacher performance based on Florida DOE Valued Added Model (VAM) score was reviewed for TFA teachers in TFA cohorts 2013-2015 to 2016-2018 using VAM data from 1415 to 1718 school years. There were 473 TFA teacher scores during those years. Of those, 53.9% were Effective or Highly Effective and 46.1% were Needs Improvement or Unsatisfactory.
Um if almost half were considered needs improvement or unsatisfactory why for goodness sake would we even be considering bringing them back?
Well maybe its because they cut their initial asking price of 14 k to nine grand per teacher. Also from the draft contract.
Um 9 k per TFA teacher?!? Why don't we have somebody going to the states education colleges and offering graduates that money? You know people who were trained to be teachers and who will have a much greater probability of staying more than two years.
Last year we had 18 TFA teachers and the district didn't have to pay a dime. They applied just like anyone else would.
I hate to think this is a quid pro quo to get the Bully and TFA supporter Gary Chartrand to support the tax referendum but regardless this is short term thinking. It allows TFA to remain a presence in the city until those 10-15 IDEA schools get here. Do you know who works at IDEA schools? Teach for America that is who.
Teach for America was an expensive and terrible program that did the exact opposite of what we know our most vulnerable children need and the district should not entertain for one moment bringing them back.
I am not saying we don't need more teachers, we do, I am saying this solution makes things far worse not better.
Come on DCPS you are better than this.
Education Commissioner Richard Corcoran comes to town and promptly embarrasses himself, me, you, everyone, ugh
Ugh,
Sigh,
I guess I will just let his words do the talking for him, from Florida Politics,
Corcoran is not sold on the performance of Duval County Schools in terms of certain turnaround schools. In that context, we asked Monday if Corcoran approved of the proposal.
The Commissioner does not seem to back the school tax as proposed.
“I’ve been on record: You can teach Plato under a tree,” Corcoran said. “That’s what I say all the time.”
Regarding the capital tax question, Corcoran suggested the money would be better spent on operating expenses.
Um what?
Maybe you can teach Plato under a tree (come on you know he read that is some privatization manual) but can you teach Miguel who doesn't speak English, Emily, who is in a wheelchair or thirty kids from neighborhoods wracked with poverty who don't want to be there under a tree?
Also I want to remind you Corcoran is the education commissioner. how does he know tax referendum's can't be used on operating expenses, they have to be used for maintenance, construction and technology. Um shouldn't he know that?
Corcoran however didn't stop there, also from Florida Politics,
“Every single resource that any local entity has should be going into the classroom. Quality teachers,” Corcoran said. “That’s what’s going to change the outcomes for these students.”
Regarding the referendum, “it’s not going to change” those outcomes, Corcoran predicted.
“You can put every single one of those kids in a ‘Taj Mahal’ and he’s not going to suddenly go from a poor student to a great student,” Corcoran said. “I’ve been very vocal in my opposition to two billion dollars to build new ‘Taj Mahals.’ That’s not a solution.”
Is anyone amazed he mentioned resources? Resources which have been systematically taken away by the state. District's get about a thousand dollars less per student when you factor in inflation from 2007, and that doesn't include all the unfunded mandates that Tallahassee has burdened districts with.
Then Taj Mahals, what the %$#& how about schools with air conditioners or that don't have mold? This guy is a travesty.Also his attack seems really specific against Jacksonville. 23 other counties have special taxes to help them because Tallahassee has been absent with the resources.
Corcoran whose wife manages charter schools, who has voted on legislation that benefits him and his family has long been a foe of public education, yet because we live in Florida and here we put foxes in charge of hen houses he was made education commissioner but today's embarrassing display just once again showed he has no business being anywhere near our schools.
Floriduh
Lenny Curry shows he is pulling the strings in the referendum fight
Earlier in the day Times Union education reporter Emily Bloch tweeted that after a meeting last week Curry was willing to support a referendum being put on the 2020 ballot.
Lenny Curry pushed back
I don't want to call the mayor a liar but at this point he has attempted to deceive the public dozens of times about the referendum, saying the district hasn't answered questions,provided information or included the community and they have done all three.
It's my bet he was embarrassed that Hershey wanted to include the board in any decision making process, you know, do her job, unlike Curry who planned to just tell the council what to do, because that's what Curry does, he pulls the strings of the council. The thing is he has strings too and they are being pulled by his rich donors to the detriment of the city.
Notice he mentions commitments to charters, um the board over and over again, to my chagrin, has spoken of their commitment to charters. Curry's problem is they have also spoken of commitments to be good stewards of the public's money making sure it is spent on public property, something Curry and his donors don't want because it takes money out of their pockets.
Curry is not fighting for the best interests of the city, he is fighting for the interests of a handful of rich donors and it is shameful.
Labels: Lenny Curry
Lenny Curry, Gary Chartrand and Tallahassee don't want public schools to be able to compete against charters
One of the many dubious reasons given for the need of charter schools was they would foster competition. Since that is the case why are Gary Chartrand, Lenny Curry and Tallahassee handcuffing our public schools ability to compete?
It started with Tallahassee systematically under funding and hamstringing public education something they have done for over a decade now. Here is the thing you might forgive them for cutting budgets during the great recession, but the great recession ended 7 years ago and you could argue right now we are engaged in economic prosperity but when you factor in inflation we are almost a thousand dollars below the per pupil funding of 12 years ago. How is that acceptable?
To make matters worse. Tallahassee has limited how much money school boards can raise through property taxes while giving them a pittance of PECO funds while giving charters the lions share to charters. Then they exempt charter schools from hiring and building requirements while providing tax breaks and grants like they were water coming from a broken hydrant.
Also did you know Charters use both public money to advertise for their schools and are allowed to use district resources to recruit students?
Here is a post about charters using the district's computer system to recruit then board member Becki Couch's son.
http://jaxkidsmatter.blogspot.com/2015/05/how-local-media-is-letting-us-down.html
They have stacked the deck against public schools, so how does that foster competition?
Tallahassee is anti-public education, I think we got it, and since that is the case something like 23 other districts have passed referendums to support public schools. The reasons given vary, safety, the arts, technology, construction and maintenance but the real reason is so they can compete against charters which don't have to supply basics like lunch, busing and covered walk ways.
So what happens when DCPS decides they need to have the resources to compete against charters? A charter loving mayor and businessmen with close ties to charters fight against them, giving one dubious reason after another. Why because they know if DCPS is allowed to compete they will blow charter school performance away.
You can't say you want public schools to compete with charters, something by the way charters were never meant to do, and then prevent public schools from being able to compete, well you shouldn't be able to anyways and if we had a decent mayor he would know that and ignore his donors and fight for our public schools.
Competition, saving children from zip codes, both just canards the school choice movement uses to sell their snake oil and to hide their true purpose which is to replace public ed.
Labels: gary chartrand, Lenny Curry
Mike Clark, apparently believes anything the civic council says.
First a little background. My mother worked for the Times Union for 29 years. She was hired shortly after we moved here in 1974 until she retired in April of 2005, she passed away in May of 2005.
I grew up reading the old Jacksonville Journal when we had two papers, morning and afternoon editions. Then some of my fondest memories were going to these awesome parties the RailRoad which owned the paper would throw. I say parties but they were more like festivals where you could eat and drink as much as you wanted while playing a whole hose of games. As a child it was better than Christmas.
It was even a Times Union editor Phill Frentz that suggested I start the blog. He would print me twice a month like clockwork. One letter to the editor and one point of view piece. The problem was I was sending him 20 pieces a month and he said to me, Chris start a blog get it out there. He believed in public ed, something the editorial board has not done since he retired.
So I have a little history with the Times Union.
I believe the local media has constantly dropped the ball when it comes to education. That if we had fierce advocates fighting for our children, teachers and schools we wouldn't be where we are at. You know what some of the biggest problems Jax has? It's apathy and ignorance. With the referendum being in the news recently I can't tell you how many times somebody has said, what about the lottery. The lottery!?! That hasn't truly helped our schools in over a decade. Or why is the district opening all these charter schools if these other schools are falling apart. The people of Jax, a good number anyways. don't realize that the district doesn't have a choice in the matter. The bottom line is the media in Jacksonville has all to often treated education like an afterthought. Except the Times Union's editorial board who has joined the war against public ed and the teaching profession.
Now you might be saying, they are editors doing opinion pieces and that's true, but the thing is they have an undeserved credibility because they are in the paper. If Mike Clark says KIPP is good, despite the data saying its not and ignoring the fact it receives millions extra, it is suddenly good to a large swathe of the city. When Mike Clark says Teach for America, despite it being both expensive and doing the exact opposite of what poor children need, is good, it's suddenly good to a large swathe of the city. Throw in their ridiculous attack on the school board building, charter schools, their love affair with Gary Chartrand and the civic council, and they are consistently misinforming the people of Jacksonville, contributing to the peoples apathy and ignorance.
This is what the Times Union's editorial board wrote about the Civic Council just the other day.
The Civic Council, said CEO Jeanne Miller, has identified improving K-12 education as its top priority. Getting rid of public schools is not the Civic Council’s agenda, Miller emphasized; instead the priority is to recognize that we already have a system of schools and a widespread array of choices.
https://www.heraldtribune.com/article/LK/20190711/OPINION/190719558/SH/
Oh she says its not on their agenda. Once again, the rep for the civic council says it's not their agenda. One more time, the well paid rep for the Civic Council says its not their agenda. Mike Clark says, well okay sounds good.
He doesn't mention all the civic councils close ties to charter schools, including one that owes two members 11 plus million dollars.
He doesn't mention that the civic council doesn't seem to have any other priorities, They haven't weighed in on anything else in years.
He doesn't mention Gary Chartrand's 8 years on the state board of education where public schools and the teaching profession endured withering attacks while charters despite hundreds failing were allowed to expand and gain power.
He doesn't mention the packing of the charter review commission with a bevy of both dubious and pro school choice people.
He doesn't mention the huge drain on the public education system that charters have been.
He doesn't mention all the contributions the civic council has given the mayor who regularly tweets pro charter sentiment while fighting against a referendum that would bring economic prosperity and improved schools to the city.
He doesn't mention that we have a school board who is elected to make education choices and that the civic council when you break it down are just a bunch of guys who prefer through their history and actions charter schools.
he doesn't mention all the times Gary Chartrand has been less than truthful, and attempted to bully the school district to get its way.
He just says, oh okay, sounds good to me.
Clark closes with a disingenuous talking point that the pro privatization crowd often use, again from the editorial.
Indeed about half of all students in Florida don’t attend their neighborhood schools, and it’s not because of force — it’s by choice.
Friends there is a huge difference between the myriad of options the elected school board gives and charters and schools that take vouchers. They are not the same. He should know that, and he probably does but repeats their talking points anyways.
We have not had the media we needed in Jacksonville, and we are not where we should or could be and a big part of that falls on the Times Union's editorial board's shoulders.
Scott Wilson City Council President aww shucks leadership is wearing thin.
Scott Wilson a few days ago,
• On the sales tax referendum, he admits he knows little about the school system. At a neighborhood meeting, there was a clear lack of information on the subject.
“Everyone I have talked to among business leaders agrees that they need the money,” he said.
Though one poll shows support, Wilson is convinced the referendum would not pass this year.
Wilson says the community needs a lot more information, so he doesn’t support a referendum this fall.
“I just think there needs to be more public participation,” he said. “We should hold hearings on the schools they’re talking about closing. People should really understand this plan before they vote on it.”
He also wondered about the school district’s plans on their riverfront administration building. The School Board has been passive about moving off the river.
“All of this should be part of the equation,” he said.
https://www.jacksonville.com/opinion/20190707/sundays-editorial-scott-wilson-is-ready-to-lead?fbclid=IwAR0TuCUM8HtXwJJXQY2_1nT4_rG-YSKglJpdB_CbDQ8T_kLeR7OyXRAiR_A
Oy vey, all the people he has spoken to, you know Curry, Chartrand, Baker. Okay deep breaths.
This from the Times Union yesterday,
Wilson said if the discussion is about a referendum in November 2020, there would be time for City Council members to dig into the School Board’s plan for using a half-cent sales tax lasting 15 years.
“For me, since day one, I’ve said that the schools definitely need additional dollars,” Wilson said. “I’ve never wavered from that. I have had concerns about how much or what projects or what schools.”
https://www.jacksonville.com/news/20190712/school-leaders-upbeat-after-curry-meeting
Um has he been on board since day 1? How many times since Wilson got to city hall has he said schools need more money, any?
But now this man who admitted just a few days ago he didn't really no much about the school system and as a member of the city council why would he (sic) has concerns about how much or what schools. Oh for &$#s sake! It's insulting that he thinks we are that dumb.
I hope we all understand Wilson is just making it up as he goes along while trying to serve his masters on the Civic Council. We deserve much better than Scott Wilson and it's going to be a long year if his first 12 days are any example of what we can expect.
Oh and Scott the school board doesn't work for you, why don't you do your job and let them do theirs.
Did Ju'Coby pittman make a deal with the devil, err mayor, to fight against the sales tax referendum.
This post was inspired by the following comment left by a reader,
Listening to councilwoman Jacoby Pittman today on first coast connect I thought I heard Lenny Curry's talking points. She's all for the referendum in 2020 as long as specific questions are answered to her satisfaction. Questions that have already been answered. She just doesn't like the answers.
Ms. Pittman is also in charge of the Clara White mission whose funding was cut by thr city. Curiously she failed to criticize the mayor's office for doing so. Now she's dependent on the kindness of strangers to make up that shortfall. I wonder if those donations will come with strings attached? No conflict of interest there. This whole thing wreaks like a bad 3rd grade play.
Oy vey, so I listened to her on the first coast connect program,
https://news.wjct.org/programs/first-coast-connect-melissa-ross
You should really listen to her fumble for answers at about the 12 minute mark.
You know she was appointed by Rick Scott to the City Council before inexplicably winning a seat.
I want to pause real quick and just say Jacksonville Sucks, as a populace we vacillate from willfully uninformed to apathetic. Most people who vote R do so reflexively even if it is against their self interests and most people who vote D, don't unless it is a big national election and then bitch about how bad the city has become.
Back to Pittman, so she may not care about our public schools to begin with, she wouldn't be the only D not to do so, Just look at Kimberly Daniels. She isn't just a pretend democrat she is a corrupt one, or so the ethics office keeps saying over and over again, too.
So the city cuts the Clara White Mission's budget and Pittman shrugs her shoulders, but that school board better come correct with reams of data, and answers to whatever questions no matter how obtuse or how many times answered and they better do so with hat in hand.
Is there some quid pro quo, fight against the school referendum and we'll get you back later? I don't know but this is Jacksonville and that is how the sausage is made here.
I will give Mrs Pittman one Kudo, she takes home only 94 thousand dollars as director of the mission, most non profit directors and Eric Mann I am looking at you and your 330 thousand Y salary, take home a lot more.
Let me explain to you how Florida's charter schools ARE NOT public schools.
Mike Clark of the Times Union editorial board says charter schools are public schools, and they don't deserve the criticism they can get. He is either profoundly ignorant or complicit in the privatization agenda, but either way, he is wrong and let me explain how.
Can you sell a public school and make a huge profit? No, but in south Florida an Imagine Charter school recently sold for 19 million dollars to a hedge fund outfit who sees "tremendous growth in the sector.". This school had received PECO or maintenance and upkeep money from the state which undoubtedly increased the value of the school. Did the sellers kick back some of their windfall, to the public? No, the answer is no.
Charter schools can pick who they and they know who through the application process where they ask about income, arrests, and other socioeconomic factors. Now you might be thinking what about the lottery that charter schools are supposed to have if they have too many applicants. I asked the Duval County School Board what oversight site they had on the lotteries to make sure they are done fairly, and they replied “none, charter schools conduct them on their own”. Public schools, meanwhile, have to take whoever shows up at their doors.
After an expose in the Palm Beach Post about Charter Schools USA hiring subs and temps, I asked DCPS for information on the teachers in the city's charter schools:, how many were temps, subs, and average years of experience. They told me once again that was information they did not collect or keep. That hiring was up to the charter schools.
A chief complaint of charter schools is they council out students with behavior problems, or academic issues. You hear all the time that students arrive back too public schools from charters after the money counts or before testing begins.
School boards have lost the ability to say no to charter schools. Mandarin, in Jacksonville, has ten public schools and nine charter schools. Mandarin is a fairly affluent area of town where all the public schools received A or B grades from the state. It doesn't need one charter school, but since charter operators see dollar signs, they have moved in en masse, and DCPS is powerless to say no except in the most extreme situations, because charter operators can appeal to the state board, which rubber stamps their approval. If a district still says no and goes to court, the legislator has made it so they will be on the hook for the charter operator’s legal fees. Most boards have given up fighting because the game is rigged against them.
Speaking of the game, this past year, Tallahassee allocated 158 million in PECO funds to the state’s 650 plus charter schools and zero PECO dollars to the states 3,000 plus public schools. Then in Jacksonville, republican state legislators inserted millions in the budget for two charter schools operated by their donors. All this has happened as Tallahassee has starved our schools for over a decade.
Many charter schools are for profit, and there is "tremendous growth in this sector". What happens is a so called non profit secures a charter, and then contracts to a construction company to build the school and a management company to run the school., iIn the case of Charter Schools USA, all three share the same office.
Charter schools pay rent that is often above market value to the management company that runs them, and it is here, friends, where charter companies rake in money hand over fist.
What do you need to open a charter school? A degree in education? A history of running a school? An idea for some ground breaking innovation? No, none of that, all you need is to be able to fill out a couple applications. Then you don't even need much money because there is so much public money out there in the form of grants from Tallahassee and the Trump administration who want to replace public schools.
Then finally, charters by and large serve fewer children in poverty, so much for saving children from their zip codes, and fewer ESOL and ESE students because its hard to make money off of them.
I guess the bottom line is charter schools bottom line is to make money, not to educate children, you can't say that about public schools.
So no, Mike, there is plenty to criticize and be outraged about. there is plenty to criticize. Charter schools are a blatant example of crony capitalism and in reality are nothing more than publicly funded private schools that have to take the Florida assessment.
Why is the Times Union covering for Gary Chartrand
I have to say for years I have not been impressed with the Times Union's education coverage. That being said with Emily Bloch the new education reporter and Nate Monroe tearing it up I was considering a digital subscription. Unfortunately the Times Union's editorial board blows away any consideration of that happening. A broke clock is more accurate and informed than them. They are truly an embarrassment to the city and their recent editorial where they anointed Gary Chartrand king of education is just the latest example.
Meanwhile, Gary Chartrand of the Jacksonville Civic Council said the group strongly supports additional funding to meet our school district’s maintenance and construction needs.
“We do believe that all students deserve safe, secure and comfortable learning environments,” Chartrand said. “We are just engaging in the public dialogue to make sure that we have the best plan going forward.”
Mayor Lenny Curry released a statement of support for a “prudent” plan while seeking a level of detail on expenditures that may not be available immediately.
“I am a father of public school students,” Curry said in a news release, “so I know the needs that our community schools will face. I want every single child in every single neighborhood to learn in a school that is safe and reflects the commitment to future success.”
Curry and the Civic Council have said that charter schools must be included in the facilities plan; charter schools, after all, are public schools.
The Civic Council wants the facilities money to be apportioned on a per-student basis, but that just doesn’t make sense for buildings that are leased and relatively new. And Greene has already said that the charters would receive a 5 percent share of the money for security and safety upgrades, and that the district would work closely with the charters.
The Civic Council has also questioned what it calls overly optimistic enrollment projections, which it fears may lead to some schools being built larger than needed — or more schools being built than are actually needed.
https://www.jacksonville.com/opinion/20190711/thursday-editorial-jacksonvilles-high-poverty-neighborhoods-need-school-facilities-program
Oh the civic council says all that? Well who gives a ^%#$ what the Chartrand and the Civic Council think. They are not the lords of education, two of three of their anointed candidates lost so the city isn't exactly buying what they are selling either and if you believe he cares about our public schools then like the TU"s editorial board your are straight up dumb. I am sorry but I can't say that any nicer.
Chartarnd was on the state board of education for 8 years after he paid off Rick Scott, donated to the Scott Campaign. During that time teacher pay fell, school budgets fell, the state doubled down on high stakes testing, school boards had their authority eroded and charter schools despite hundred, literally hundreds, failed where allowed to greatly expand. You know because Chartrand cares about our schools.
Hey Mike Clark, Chartrand is not the king of our schools, his voice should not be louder than any other citizen. If he wants to run our schools, he should sell his mansion and move to Jacksonville, that is right friends he doesn't even live in Duval and run for school board.
Wouldn't it be nice if we had an editorial board that stood up for our schools rather instead of being nothing but a shill for a millionaire?
For shame Times Union, editorial board, for shame.
I guess I shouldn't be surprised that the KIPP school raked in the most money. They have a gift for taking in public money.
Below are the PECO (maintenance and construction) allocations from the state for the 18-19 school year to the districts charter schools.
http://www.fldoe.org/core/fileparse.php/7501/urlt/1819CapitalProjectsPlan.pdf
I didn't go through everyone one of them to see if they were for profit or not, but the Charter Schools USA schools are definitely run by a for profit company and they took in a little over 3.1 million dollars in PECO funds. That is public money spent on a for profit companies property. That was also only 7 schools too, while all of Duval's public schools, all 168 of them, recieved a little over 2.6 million in PECO dollars.
I hope you have let that sink it.
Now DCPS can raise money through millage to pay for maintenance just Tallahassee has severely limited the amount of money it can raise.
Is this what we should be doing? Why is crony capitalism and picking winners and losers only bad if democrats do it?
How much money has the Civic Council given Lenny Curry? It's a lot!
Did you know that CC members Baker and Chartrand, in addition to having close ties to charter schools and fighting against the tax referendum have given Curry's campaign thousands of dollars, and gave his super pac Jacksonville on the Rise, tens of thousands of dollars.
Civic Council Members- Curry campaign and Pac Donations
Douglas Baer- 2,500
John Baker- 3,000- 75,000
Edward Burr- 1,000- 4,000
Gary Chartrand- 2,000 - 50,000
Tim Cost- 1,000
Susan Wiles- 1,000- 500
Steven Halverson- 1,000
Preston Haskell- 2,000- 10.000
Rusty Newton- 2,500
Peter Rummell- 2.000- 50,000
I just wanted to leave this right here as well.
from the most recent tax returns available on guidestar one of the three charities that take care of the KIPP school.
Unless the City attorney changed the meaning of the word due, that money is owed to Baker and Chartrand.
The fight against the referendum isn't an idealistic policy debate, it is about the greed of several rich donors and a mayor willing to do their bidding, and noting else.
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J Cancer 2019; 10(16):3842-3850. doi:10.7150/jca.33989
RAG1 high expression associated with IKZF1 dysfunction in adult B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia
Qi Han1,2, Jinlong Ma1,2, Yan Gu1,2, Huihui Song1,2, Malika Kapadia3, Yuka Imamura Kawasawa2,4, Sinisa Dovat2,3, Chunhua Song2,3, Zheng Ge1,2,
1. Department of Hematology, Zhongda Hospital, Medical School of Southeast University, Institute of Hematology Southeast University,Nanjing 210009, China
2. International Cooperative Leukemia Group and International Cooperative Laboratory of Hematology, Zhongda Hospital, Medical School of Southeast University, Nanjing 210009, China
3. Department of Pediatrics, Pennsylvania State University Medical College, Hershey, PA17033, USA
4. Genome Sciences and Bioinformatics Core Facility, Institute for Personalized Medicine, Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey, PA17033, USA
This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY-NC) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/). See http://ivyspring.com/terms for full terms and conditions.
Han Q, Ma J, Gu Y, Song H, Kapadia M, Kawasawa YI, Dovat S, Song C, Ge Z. RAG1 high expression associated with IKZF1 dysfunction in adult B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia. J Cancer 2019; 10(16):3842-3850. doi:10.7150/jca.33989. Available from http://www.jcancer.org/v10p3842.htm
The recombination mediated by recombination activating gene (RAG) is not only the dominant mutational process but also the predominant driver of oncogenic genomic rearrangement in acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL). It is further responsible for leukemic clonal evolution. In this study, significant RAG1 increase is observed in the subsets of B-ALL patients, and high expression of RAG1 is observed to be correlated with high proliferation markers. IKZF1-encoded protein, IKAROS, directly binds to the RAG1 promoter and regulates RAG1 expression in leukemic cells. CK2 inhibitor by increasing IKAROS activity significantly suppresses RAG1 expression in ALL in an IKAROS-dependent manner. Patients with IKZF1 deletion have significantly higher expression of RAG1 compared to that without IKZF1 deletion. CK2 inhibitor treatment also results in an increase in IKZF1 binding to the RAG1 promoter and suppression of RAG1 expression in primary ALL cells. Taken together, these results demonstrate that RAG1 high expression is associated with high proliferation markers in B-ALL. Our data for the first time proved that RAG1 expression is directly suppressed by IKAROS. Our results also reveal drive oncogenesis of B-ALL is driven by high expression of RAG1 with IKAROS dysfunction together, which have significance in an integrated prognostic model for adult ALL.
Keywords: RAG1, IKZF1, adult, acute lymphoblastic leukemia
The recombination-activating gene 1 (RAG1) is the member of a recombination-activating gene family which play an important role in the rearrangement and recombination of the genes of immunoglobulin and T cell receptor molecules and is critical for the generation of T and B cells. However, the abnormalities in RAG family members are observed quite commonly in lymphoid malignancies [1-7]. The RAG-mediated gene deletions and translocations have been reported in acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) [8-13]. RAG and activation-induced cytidine deaminase (AID) together drive leukemic clonal evolution due to chronic exposure to inflammatory stimuli, parallel to infections noted in children during their childhood [13]. It is also reported that a higher RAG1 mRNA level predicts shorter relapse free survival and overall survival in patients with ALL [13]. These reports suggest RAG1 is involved in the oncogenesis and relapse of ALL.
IKAROS, a kruppel-like zinc finger protein is encoded by the IKZF1 gene, and it plays an essential role for normal hematopoiesis and acts as a tumor suppressor in ALL. The genetic defects of IKZF1 in a single allele are associated with the development of human acute lymphoblastic leukemia, which is characterized by an increased risk of relapses and poorer prognosis. Recently, we reported the global binding profiling of IKAROS in ALL cells and found that IKAROS regulates the expression of gene targets through chromatin remodeling in ALL [14-20]. Our data from chromatin immunoprecipitation followed by sequencing (ChIP-seq) showed IKAROS binding peaks in the promoter region of the genes in multioncogenic pathways. We also observed that CK2 inhibitors increased the tumor suppressor activity of IKAROS and act as a functional activator of IKAROS [14-20]. However, it still remains unclear whether IKAROS regulates RAG1 expression.
Here we examined RAG1 expression in an adult patient with B-ALL and analyzed the correlation of RAG1 expression with clinical features. We observed that high expression of RAG1 correlates with high proliferation markers in adult ALL. We also identified RAG1 as a direct target of IKZF1-encoded protein, IKAROS. Deletion of IKZF1 was significantly associated with increased expression of RAG1 in adult B-ALL. Our findings reveal that IKZF1 deletion may be responsible for the high expression of RAG1 in B-ALL. High expression of RAG1 may work in conjunction with IKZF1 deletion to drive oncogenesis and relapse in B-ALL.
Patients and samples
Subjects with newly-diagnosed B-ALL (age12-77 years old) were recruited between June 2008 and June 2016. There were 131 patients who were recruited at the First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University and Zhongda Hospital Southeast University. The patients' diagnosis was based on the WHO Diagnosis and Classification of ALL (2008). The approval for this study was received from the Ethics Committee of the First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University and Zhongda Hospital Southeast University, Nanjing, China.
Cytogenetic and molecular analyses
Cytogenetics and detection of most common IKZF1 deletion, Ik6 [27], CRLF2 rearrangements [28-30], BCR-ABL fusion gene/Ph chromosome [25, 31], PAX5 mutations [26] and SH2B3 mutations [17] etc. were performed as previously described. The StepOne Plus Real-time PCR system (Applied Biosystem-Thermofisher, Foster, CA, USA) was used for qPCR. Expression values of genes of interest (GOI) were calculated in each sample by a formula derived from a scatter graph of Ct values from serial dilutions of a template standard as described [16, 18, 20, 25]. Expression levels of GOIs were expressed as gene expression value of GOI/18s rRNA by normalized to the housekeeping genes. Subjects were allocated into high or low RAG1expression cohorts (3rd-4th quartiles vs. 1st-2nd quartiles) with a cut-off value determined by SPSS 20[16, 20].
The qPCR for RAG1 expression was similarly performed as above in Nalm6 cells. The results were n presented as fold induction over vector controls after normalized to those obtained with 18sRNA. Primers: 18s RNA, Sense: 5'-GTAACCCGTTGAACCCCATT-3', Antisense: 5'-CCATCCAATCGGTAGTAGCG-3'; RAG1 Sense: 5'-CGAGGAACGTGACCATGGA-3', Anti-sense: 5'-GGCAGTGTTGCAGATGTCACA -3'.
Plasmid construction, retroviral gene transfer,and cell culture reagents
The Nalm6 [32] has been previously described. RPMI 1640 medium (Cellgro, USA) supplemented with 10% fetal bovine serum (Hyclone, USA) and DMEM (Cellgro) supplemented with 10% fetal calf serum and 1% L-glutamine (Cellgro) were used for culture of Nalm6 and HEK293 cell, respectively, incubated at 37°C in a humidified atmosphere of 5% CO2. Primary human B-ALL were cultured in RPMI 1640 medium (Cellgro) supplemented with 10% fetal bovine serum (Hyclone). CX4945 was obtained from Sigma (St. Louis, MO, USA). Cells were cultured with or without CX4945 and collected for total RNA isolation. Human IKZF1 retroviral construct and retroviral production were described previously [14, 15, 19, 20].
Quantitative Chromatin Immunoprecipitation (qChIP)
For the qChIP assays, the chromatin was incubated with antibodies against IKAROS [14, 15, 19] or normal rabbit IgG (Abcam) as a control [14, 15, 19, 20]. The enrichment of the ChIP sample was evaluated over input with the qPCR data obtained in three or more replicates, using specific primers in the promoter region of RAG1 (forward: 5'-GCAACCAACCAACTCTGTTCAC-3', reverse: 5'-ACTGGTTTGTTTTGGACTTTCCTT-3'). The relative concentration of the qPCR product was presented as the fold change of the level of DNA-IKAROS samples in comparison to controls.
Luciferase reproter Assay
The promoter of RAG1 was cloned into the pGL4.15 vector (Promega, WI, USA), and transiently expressed in HEK293 cells for luciferase reporter assay. The promega luciferase assay reagents were used to measure the result on the luminometer following the manufacture's instruction [14, 16]. The firefly luciferase activities were expressed as a percentage of pcDNA3.1-IKZF1 transfection-induced luciferase activity versus that of the pcDNA3.1 vector. All transfection for reporter assays were performed independently, in triplicate, at least three times.
IKZF1 shRNA knockdown
The humanIKZF1 shRNA constructs in the GFP vector (pGFP-v-RS) (Origene) was transiently transfected into Nalm6 cells using the Neon Transfection System (Invitrogen, USA). The scrambled 29-mer shRNA cassette in the pGFP-v-RS vector was used as a control. IKZF1 Knockdown efficiency was confirmed by measurement of IKZF1 mRNA level with qPCR [14, 15, 19, 20]. Primers: IKZF1-F: 5'-GGCGCGGTGCTCCTCCT-3', IKZF1-R: 5'-TCCGACACGCCCTACGACA-3'.
The Mann-Whitney U-test was used for evaluation of median differences between the cohorts. Univariate and multivariate Cox models were performed for frequency differences with SPSS version 20.0. Mean values with bars representing the standard error of the mean (SEM) was used for data presentation. The shown data was the representative of 3 independent experiments. Statistical significance was determined by Student t-test for comparison of two groups or analysis of variance (ANOVA) for comparing more than two groups.
RAG1 is highly expressed and associated with high proliferation in adult B-ALL
Firstly, we detected the RAG1 mRNA expression in 131 newly diagnosed adult B-ALL patients. We found that the RAG1 mRNA levels were significantly higher in patients with B- ALL compared to that in the normal controls (Fig 1). We also examined the RAG1 expression in microarray cohorts and found that RAG1 is highly expressed in the cohort studies of B-ALL patients (Supplemental Fig 1).
RAG1 expression in adult B-ALL. Comparison of RAG1 mRNA level in B-ALL with normal BM control by qPCR.
(Click on the image to enlarge.)
We further divided the patients into two subgroups based on the high (Quartile 1-2) or low (Quartile 3-4) RAG1 mRNA levels. The relationships between the RAG1 expression and clinical characteristics in this cohort of B-ALL were analyzed (Fig 2 and Supplemental Table 1). RAG1 high expression group demonstrated a significantly higher percentage of white blood cell (WBC) ≥30x109/L (67.7% vs. 38.5%, P<0.001) and higher median WBC (47.9×109/L vs. 17.0×109/L, P=0.025), which are markers of poorer prognosis in B-ALL (Fig 2A and Supplemental Table 1). In addition, patients with high RAG1 expression had a higher rate of blasts in peripheral blood (PB) (75.0% vs. 61.0%, P=0.026) (Fig 2B and Supplemental Table 1), indicating the higher proliferation of leukemic cells in patients with high RAG1 expression.
We did not observe the significant association of mutations in PAX5 and SH2B3 with RAG1 expression (Fig 2C, Supplemental Table 1); however, the percentage of CRLF2 mutations, which includes R186S in exon5, F232F in exon6 and A11A in exon 1 is significantly higher in the patients with RAG1 high expression compared to that of low expression (Fig 2C). Also, the rate of IK6, the most common deletion form of IKZF1 is significantly higher in patients with RAG1 high expression (Fig 2C). These data suggest RAG1 high expression associates with CRLF2 mutations and IKZF1 deletion.
IKAROS binds to the promoter of RAG1 and regulates its expression in B-ALL
To further address the potential link between the high RAG1 expression and high proliferation of B-ALL cells, we analyzed the motifs of transcription factors in the promoter region of RAG1. As we expected, certain core IKAROS binding motifs (GGGA or GGAA) were identified in the promoter region of RAG1 (Fig 3A). Notably, our chromatin immunoprecipitation followed by sequencing (ChIP-seq) data showed the strong binding peaks for IKZF1 in the RAG1 promoter region in B-ALL cell lines and primary cells from the B-ALL patients (Fig 3B and Supplemental Fig 2)[14, 15]. To further confirm, quantitative ChIP (qChIP) assays were performed and showed significant binding of IKAROS at the RAG1 promoter region in both B-ALL cell line Nalm6 (Fig 3C) and primary cells (Fig 3D).
Correlation of RAG1 expression with clinical features in adult B-ALL. (A-B) Correlation of RAG1 mRNA level with WBC count and blast in peripheral blood in B-ALL. (C) RAG1 expression with deletion and mutations in adult B-ALL.*P<0.05, ***P<0.001.
IKAROS binds the promoters of RAG1. (A) RAG1 promoter region with conserved IKZF1 core binding motifs (GGGA or GGAA, red). (B) IKAROS binding peaks in the RAG1promoter region identified by ChIP-seq. (B) qChIP data for IKAROS binding on RAG1 promoter in Nalm6 B-ALL (B) and primary B-ALL cells (C).
Moreover, we addressed whether RAG1 is the direct target of IKAROS and how IKAROS regulates RAG1 expression in B-ALL cells. We observed that IKAROS suppresses the promoter activity of RAG1 by luciferase reporter assay (Fig 4A). By over-expression of IKAROS in Nalm6 B-ALL cells, we observed that IKAROS could suppress RAG1 mRNA levels (Fig 4B). Conversely, efficient IKZF1 knockdown increased RAG1 expression in Nalm6 cells (Fig 4C).To further demonstrate that IKAROS negatively regulates RAG1 expression, Nalm6 B-ALL cells were treated with CK2 inhibitor (CX4945) which functioned as IKAROS activator. Significantly, CX4945 could suppress RAG1 expression in a dose-dependent manner (Fig 5A). Similarly, CK2 knockdown with shRNA could reduce RAG1 expression (Fig 5B). It worth noting that the CX4945-induced decrease of RAG1 expression could be blocked by IKZF1 knockdown with shRNA in Nalm6 cells (Fig 5C). These data indicate that RAG1 is the direct target of IKAROS and IKAROS suppresses RAG1 expression in B-ALL cells.
IKAROS suppresses RAG1 expression. (A) The promoter activity of RAG1 promoters measured by luciferase reporter assay following transfection with IKAROS or control vector in HEK293 cells. (B) Effect of expression of IKAROS in Nalm6 cells. The cells were transduced with a vector containing IKAROS as compared to the control vector. (C) qPCR of RAG1 and IKZF1 expression in the Nalm6 cells following IKZF1 shRNA treatment as compared to scramble shRNA cells. Gene expression is evaluated by RT-qPCR using total RNA isolated from the cells transfected with scramble shRNA (siControl) or IKZF1shRNA (siIKZF1) for 2 days.
CK2 inhibitor CX4945 suppresses the expression of RAG1 in an IKAROS-dependent manner. (A) Effect of CK2 inhibitor CX4945, which functions as IKAROS activator, on the expression of RAG1 mRNA level in Nalm6 cells with CX4945 treatment for 2 days. (B) Effect of CK2 knockdown on the expression of RAG1 in Nalm6 cells. (C) IKZF1 knockdown rescues the CX4945-induced change of RAG1 in Nalm6 B-ALL cells. Cells were treated with 10mM CX4945 for 2 days.***P<0.001.
Correlation of IKZF1 deletion with high RAG1 expression in patients with B-ALL
To explore the clinical association of IKAROS and RAG1 expression, we observed the significantly negative correlation of RAG1 mRNA level with IKZF1 expression in the cohort of B-ALL and B lymphoma patients (Supplemental Fig 3). More importantly, we analyzed the correlation of IKZF1 deletion with RAG1 expression in patients with B-ALL. A higher incidence of IK6, the most common protein produced by IKZF1 deletion was observed in B-ALL patients with the high RAG1 expression group (45.5% vs 26.2%, P=0.021) (Supplemental Table 1); and RAG1 mRNA level was significantly higher in patients with IKZF1 deletion than those without IKZF1 deletion (Fig 6A). These data indicate that IKZF1 deletion is associated with upregulation of RAG1 expression in primary B-ALL cells.
We have shown that CK2 inhibitor (CX4945) suppressed RAG1 expression in Nalm6 cells. To further demonstrate the potential clinical significance, we treated the primary cells from the patients with B-ALL. CX4945 could increase the binding of IKAROS on the RAG1 promoter region in primary B-ALL as compared to untreated controls (Fig 6B). In addition, CX4945 treatment inhibited expression of RAG1 mRNA in a dose-dependent manner in primary B-ALL cells (Fig 6C). These results indicate that IKZF1 binds to the promoter of RAG1 and that treatment with CK2 inhibitors, which can restore IKZF1 tumor suppressor activity, results in suppression of RAG1 expression in primary cells from B-ALL patients.
Correlation of RAG1 high expression with IKZF1 deletion in primary ALL cells. (A)Comparison of RAG1 expression in patients with or without IKZF1 deletion presented as RAG1/18s rRNA. The detection method for Ik6 (the most common IKAROS deletion) was done as our previously reported [23]. (B) CK2 inhibitor-CX4945 increased the IKZF1 binding to the promoters of RAG1 in primary B-ALL cells. (C) Effect of CK2 inhibitor-CX4945 functioning as IKZF1 activator on the expression of RAG1 in primary B-ALL cells with CX4945 treatment for 2 days.
We observed that RAG1 is significantly higher in patients with B-ALL. Higher expression of RAG1 is associated with proliferation markers in B-ALL. IKAROS is crucial for the development of the hematopoietic system and its genetic deletion/mutations have been linked to the development of lymphoid leukemia. In particular, IKAROS functions as a major tumor suppressor involved in human B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia. In addition to a genetic defect, we also found that CK2 mediated-phosphorylation of IKAROS is another key reason leading to IKAROS dysfunction in ALL. Here, we found IKAROS directly suppresses RAG1 expression in B-ALL cells; CK2 inhibitor-CX4945 could suppress RAG1 expression by restoring IKAROS function in B-ALL cells. IKZF1 deletion is significantly associated with RAG1 high expression in B-ALL patients. These data reveal that RAG1 high expression together with IKAROS dysfunction may be responsible for the oncogenesis in B-ALL.
RAG1 is the key component of RAG complex which is the predominant driver of oncogenic genomic deletion and translocation, and also the cause of the clonal expansion in ALL.RAG complexes are constitutively expressed in pro- and pre-B cells and target recombination signal sequences (RSSs) in both Ig and non-Ig genes. Motif analyses show that deletion breakpoints in the tumor suppressor genes such as IKZF1, etc. have RSSs motif and RAG complex target to the RSS motifs [12, 13, 23]. The patients with IKZF1 deletion and mutations have increased risk of relapses and poor prognosis. Here we observed that RAG1 high expression is associated with IKZF1 deletion and patients with RAG1 high expression have a significantly higher detective rate of Ik6, the most common isoform of IKZF1 deletion. These data suggest RAG1 high expression may also affect IKZF1 deletion in adult B-ALL. Therefore, both RAG1 high expression and IKZF1 deletion may work together to amplify the oncogenic signaling responsible for oncogenesis in B-ALL (Supplemental Fig 4).
It is also reported that RAG-mediated recombination is the predominant driver of oncogenic rearrangement ETV6-RUNX1 in ALL [12] and plays critical roles underlying clonal expansion in pediatric ALL [12, 13]. Particularly RAG complex drives leukemic clonal evolution with repeated exposure to inflammatory stimuli, paralleling chronic infections in childhood under the same conditions [13]. We did observe the RAG1 high expression is associated with a high frequency of CRLF2 mutations in addition to IKZF1 deletion (Supplemental Table 1, Fig 2C). It is reported that both IKZF1 deletion and CRLF2 rearrangement are the drivers of high-risk ALL particularly the Ph-like ALL [17, 23-26]. Thus, these data suggested that high RAG1 expression may be also through oncogenic CRLF2 rearrangement to drive oncogenesis in B-ALL, although the association and underlying mechanisms of RAG activity with CRLF2 rearrangement need to be further determined.
Constitutive Rag expression is observed in a large portion of B-ALL cases [33]. Transcription factors such as FOXO1, FOXP1, NF-κB, PAX5β, E2A and Ikaros are reported to regulate Rag1 expression [34,35]. Here our data showed the Rag1 high expression in subsets of B-ALL and RAG1 high expression is associated with the cell proliferation markers in B-ALL, and also Rag1 expression is directly regulated by Ikaros in B-ALL. The RAG1 high expression may result in the Ikaros deletion and CRLF2 rearrangements, and then Ikaros dysfunction and may result in the Ikaros suppression on RAG1 expression and further induce the RAG1 high expression. This might be a positive feedback loop to amplify the oncogenic signaling in B-ALL (Supplemental Fig 4). Restoring IKAROS function by CK2 inhibitor can suppress the RAG1 expression and block the oncogenic amplification loop.
In summary, we for the first time reported RAG1 is a direct target of tumor suppressor gene IKZF1. We found that IKZF1 deletion (characterized by IK6 expression) is significantly correlated with high RAG1 expression. RAG1 is highly expressed and significantly correlated with high proliferation markers in a cohort of adult B-ALL patients. Our data suggested RAG1 high expression work together with IKZF1 deletion may drive the oncogenesis in B-ALL.
Supplementary figures.
This work was supported in part by Milstein Medical Asian American Partnership (MMAAP) Foundation Research Project Award in Hematology (2017); The National Natural Science Foundation of China (81770172, 81270613); The Key Research & Technology Projects in Jiangsu Province (BE2017747); The Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (2242017K40271, 2242016K40143); Jiangsu Provincial Key Medical Discipline (Zdxkb2016020); Jiangsu Province Key Medical Talents (RC2011077); The Scientific Research Foundation for the Returned Overseas Chinese Scholars; State Education Ministry (39th); China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (20090461134); Special grade of the financial support from China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (201003598); The Six Great Talent Peak Plan of Jiangsu (2010-WS-024) (to ZG). This work has also been partially supported by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Cancer Institute (NCI) grants (R01CA209829, R01CA213912), Hyundai Hope on Wheels Scholar Grant, the Four Diamonds Fund of the Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine (to SD and CS); Bear Necessities Pediatric Cancer Foundation, Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation, and the John Wawrynovic Leukemia Research Scholar Endowment (to SD).
The written informed consent from all the patients was obaitned in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki before enrollment in the study. The Institutional Review Board of the Nanjing Medical University and Zhongda Hospital Southeast University, Nanjing, China approved this study.
The authors have declared that no competing interest exists.
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Corresponding author: Zheng Ge, M.D., Ph.D., Zhongda Hospital, Medical School of Southeast University, Department of Hematology, Institute of Hematology Southeast University, Nanjing 210009, China. Telephone: 86-25-83262468; FAX: 86-25-83262471; E-mail: Janege879com
Received 2019-2-11
Accepted 2019-5-30
Published 2019-6-9
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Ukrainians have got a lot of energy and inspiration to do new things,” Ihor Pidruchny, CEO of the Ukraine-based IT outsourcing company Letzgro for ibtimes.com
Political uncertainty in Ukraine may cripple one of the country’s fastest-growing sectors, information technology (IT) — but not if entrepreneur Ihor Pidruchny has anything to do with it. He is launching a media campaign this week to convince the world that the standoff between Russia, Ukraine, and Western nations is not hurting the world’s fourth-largest IT industry.
Ukrainians have got a lot of energy and inspiration to do new things. We can be a self-sufficient partner in the economic world, and we can develop great software. … We just need some support and some belief from the U.S. companies.
Ihor Pidruchny, also an assistant to one of the leaders of the Ukrainian parliament’s majority, Oleh Tiahnybok, is touting Ukrainian IT companies this week to U.S. and Canadian companies through a social media campaign on Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn.
Over the weekend, he spoke to IT specialists in the Ukrainian city of Lviv who gathered for an international forum on IT outsourcing. Pidruchny is trying to foster collaboration between IT activists and the new Ukrainian government.
He’s also been promoting reforms that would ease regulations on IT startups, a mission he’s had for a year working for one of the three parties that have now formed a majority, Svoboda. That mission is only now becoming fruitful because “before the revolution … the government was not interested in development at all. They were only interested in stealing,” he said.
Setting up an IT company in Ukraine currently takes an average of three to four weeks, a process Pidruchny knows from experience founding what’s now known as Letzgro in 2003 and renaming it in 2012. The company now has about 50 employees in Kiev, Lviv, and Ivano-Frankivsk. Pidruchny wants to speed up and simplify the registration process and ensure Ukraine’s IT education programs can compete with those in other countries. He was also involved in protests against Ukraine’s former government, and “a lot” of friends in the IT industry donated money to the revolution, he said.
Despite the nation’s relatively small population, Ukraine’s IT industry ranks fourth in the world for number of employees, behind the U.S., Russia, and India, according to an annual report published last April by the country’s leading IT association, Ukrainian Hi-Tech Initiative.
About 25,000 Ukrainians worked in IT in 2011, making the industry one of the fastest-growing sectors, though with the country’s overall labor force of 22 million people, the IT sector has much room to grow, according to research from IHS Global Insight. Precise data on more recent employment is “very difficult” to give, Lilit Gevorgvan, senior economist for IHS, said.
“The country has been successfully championing its image as an IT services outsourcing destination, although the brain drain has remained a persistent problem for the sector,” Gevorgvan said.
This year Ukrainian companies will export IT services worth $764.2 million, up last year from $464.2 million, according to the Central and Eastern European Outsourcing Association. The group predicted last year that the Ukrainian IT industry would grow 20 percent in 2014, but the evolving political landscape may alter that growth.
With Russia’s annexation of Crimea, IT companies there must decide whether to move to Ukraine’s mainland or figure out how to operate under the Russian government. Many are choosing Ukraine, and many IT employees are fleeing Crimea to work for Ukrainian companies, according to Pidruchny.
But he insists business in Kiev, where he lives, is normal. Without office space in Kiev, where only a handful of Letzgro employees work, Pidruchny and his colleagues often work from a co-working space in Maidan Square. The violent unrest there earlier this year didn’t affect business, and people have continued working normal schedules, he said.
Especially in the IT industry … in the IT industry, we always understand that our efficiency is important. Our industry supports the economics of Ukraine.
Thomas O’Malley, CEO of digital focus group facilitator Convetit, outsources IT operations to Pidruchny’s Letzgro from Palo Alto, Calif., and said services have continued normally in recent months.
O’Malley used to outsource to India, risking power outages rather than a Russian invasion, but “they say yes to everything, and you’re never really sure what’s going to happen,” he said.“In Ukraine, you get very straight answers, whether or not you’re going to like it.” And the young men he speaks with in Ukraine are passionate about the projects for Convetit, sometimes taking their work home, he said.
Pidruchny has been chatting on Facebook with Ukraine’s minister of economic development, Pavlo Sheremeta, whom he met 12 years ago at Kyiv Mohyla Business School. Sheremeta is friendly to the proposed reforms for the IT industry, Pidruchny said, giving him hope that the new government can improve the business climate and reduce corruption.
“When I think of Ukraine I have this analogy with Israel,” Pidruchny said. He sees a parallel between the oppression the Jewish people have experienced in the Holocaust, and the independence they gained, and the oppression Ukrainians have experienced, invaded by countries for centuries and dying from famines during Soviet rule before gaining independence.
“If we can continue that history and go in the similar way where Israel made education one of their priorities and generated a new generation of people that are now the startup nation … that would be good,” he said.
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Gun Owner Saves Pregnant Pizza-Delivery Woman from Assault
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An armed neighbor is being praised for coming to the rescue when a pregnant pizza delivery driver was attacked and robbed Wednesday night in Southwest Atlanta, GA.
The woman, who’s eight months pregnant, was delivering a pizza Wednesday night. But no one was at the house when she got there. Then three suspects came behind her — and one of them was armed with a handgun, she told police. Atlanta Officer Jarius Daugherty says the armed teen began to strike the victim with the weapon and demanded the keys to her car, reported the Atlanta Journal Constitution. She tried unsuccessfully to get away from the suspects by running to a nearby home, police said. The suspects kept assaulting her, authorities said.
That’s when neighborhood resident and gun-owner Dennis Madaris jumped into action. “I told them, ‘Drop the gun or I’ll drop you,’ and they threw the gun down and all three of them took off,” Madaris told WSB-TV.
Police say a boy and a girl, both 16, were later caught and arrested on charges of criminal attempt to commit robbery and other offenses. The boy is also charged with having a firearm during the attempted robbery, authorities said, AJC reported. Police are looking for a third suspect. Officials said the victim (who’s name has not been released) suffered cuts and bruises on her face and was taken to the hospital as a precautionary reason due to her pregnancy. Police told Channel 2 Action News she was alert and breathing.
A textbook example of a good guy with a gun deterring a bad guy with a gun, fortunately this is not a rare occurrence. All too often we see stories of the Dennis Madaris’ of the nation protecting their friends and neighbors from the malicious thieves, rapists, and murderers of their communities. But the left won’t touch this story. Because the left-wing media doesn’t care about people being saved by guns. They desperately want stories of people’s lives being destroyed by guns. The left-wing media would’ve preferred those teenagers shot the woman in the head and robbed her to back up why guns are bad, than the reality of a gun-owning Good-Samaritan saving her life and the life of the unborn child with his legally owned firearm.
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Indonesian Muslims perform an evening prayer called 'tarawih' marking the first eve of the holy fasting month of Ramadan, at Istiqlal Mosque in Jakarta, Indonesia, Sunday, May 5, 2019. During Ramadan, the holiest month in Islamic calendar, Muslims refrain from eating, drinking, smoking and sex from dawn to dusk. (AP Photo/Achmad Ibrahim)
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Iranians pray at the shrine of the Shiite Saint Imam Abdulazim in Shahr-e-Ray prior to the month of Ramadan, south of Tehran, Iran, Sunday, May 5, 2019. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)
People buy dates, a favorite food for Muslims' fasting month of Ramadan, at a wholesale market in Karachi, Sunday, May 5, 2019. Muslims across the world will be observing Ramadan, when they refrain from eating, drinking and smoking from dawn to dusk. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan)
An official of the Pakistan Metrological Department searches the sky for the new moon that signals the start of the Muslims' fasting month of Ramadan, in Karachi, Sunday, May 5, 2019. Muslims across the world will be observing the Ramadan, when they refrain from eating, drinking and smoking from dawn to dusk. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan)
A painter gives finishing touches to an outer wall of the Mamon Mosque in preparation for the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, in Karachi, Sunday, May 5, 2019. Muslims across the world will be observing the Ramadan, when they refrain from eating, drinking and smoking from dawn to dusk. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan)
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Muslims in Southeast Asian countries like Indonesia and Malaysia, and much of the Middle East, including Egypt, Iraq and Saudi Arabia, will fast on Monday for the start of the month of Ramadan.
Millions more, however, in India, Pakistan and Iran, will likely be marking the start of the lunar month on Tuesday based on moon sightings there.
Muslims follow a lunar calendar, and a moon-sighting methodology can lead to different countries declaring the start of Ramadan a day or two apart. Traditionally, countries announce if their moon-sighting council spots the Ramadan crescent the evening before fasting begins.
Across the world, Muslims fast each day for the entire month of Ramadan, abstaining from food and drink from dawn to dusk. That means around 15 hours without food, water, cigarettes or caffeine.
Fasting is aimed at drawing worshippers closer to God through self-control, remembrance and humility. The challenge of fasting for many is also a chance to reset spiritually and physically, kick bad habits and purify the heart.
During the day, Muslims must also abstain from sex, gossip and cursing, and are encouraged to focus on meditative acts like prayer, reading the Quran and charity.
It's common practice across many Muslim-majority nations for liquor stores and hotels to curb the sale of alcohol during Ramadan. Often, restaurants shutter their doors during the day.
Those exempt from fasting include children, the elderly, the sick, women who are pregnant, nursing or menstruating, and people travelling.
The Ramadan fast begins with a pre-dawn meal called "suhoor" to prepare hungry stomachs for the long day ahead. A typical suhoor often includes bread, vegetables, fruits, yogurt, tea, as well as lentils and beans.
At sunset, when it's time to mark the end of the daylong fast, families and friends gather for an evening meal known as "iftar."
Muslims typically break their fast as the Prophet Muhammad did some 1,400 years ago, by eating sweet dates and drinking water, followed by a sunset prayer. Then, the iftar meals are enjoyed. These are often lavish affairs of home-cooked platters of rice, stews and meat, as well as spreads of desserts and other sweets.
While Muslims around the world welcomed the start of Ramadan with traditional greetings and messages of peace, the start of the Muslim holy month in the Gaza Strip was marked by sounds of outgoing Palestinian rockets and incoming Israeli airstrikes.
Families often shop for food items in the days before Ramadan, but most shops and markets in Gaza were closed due to the heavy round of cross-border fighting.
"We got used to this situation, we don't care anymore," said Rushdi Anbar, a 42-year-old architect, as he hurried through one of the few markets still open.
In 2014, the latest of three deadly wars between Israel and Gaza's Hamas rulers began in the second week of Ramadan and lasted for 50 days.
Anwar Zeydieh, a mother of three, said she fears a similar scenario this Ramadan. "I don't think we are ready to endure all this suffering again."
Associated Press writer Fares Akram reported from Gaza City.
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The National | Gig Reviews | London
by Ben Crisp | Jan 13, 2014 | Gig Photography and gig reviews | 1 comment
Hunter S. Thompson once stated “music has always been a matter of energy to me, a question of fuel. Sentimental people call it inspiration, but what they really mean is fuel,” Despite being invariably true, it fails to distinguish the key part: the music. So much of today’s music cannot even begin to be described as “fuel”. Nowadays endless monotonous tat lines the airwaves, a world away from the roaring sounds in Thompsons’ ears; the music that compels you onwards, that even in an existence of drudgery it can transform outlooks and hide apprehensions. The National are this. The National are fuel.
On June 26th they played to over 5,000 people at the Roundhouse in London. Reviewing a band live, whom you openly profess to love, can be a difficult task. In some ways it can blind you to how good the performance was, so inundated with enthusiasm for the artist that they can do no wrong. This certainly was the case when, as a fresh faced 15 year old, I saw Ryan Adams. I constantly lauded its brilliance for weeks after, Adams’s skill on stage, his charisma and voice. With hindsight however, it was a stale showing, a karaoke performance. Equally going to a gig with such high expectations can mean that when the performance is only a little off cue, it seems all the more disappointing. When watching Fleet Foxes a few years back, they no doubt a put in a well executed performance, but one that put me off the band for a good part of the year, purely because I went in with such lofted imaginations of what the gig would entail. Therefore last night I tried to go in with a level head so I could accurately describe the performance and not be swept away by my love for the band, for better or for worse. I am still not sure if I failed at this task, or The National really were just that great.
Much has been made of The National’s rise in the music industry; the classic hard working band who toured the hell out of their records and saw their fan base increase with each release. Their newest LP Trouble Will Find Me, has been swamped in similar critical acclaim to the previous and it is from this that the majority of their set at the Roundhouse is comprised. As with any band, when touring on a new album you inevitably gig your newest numbers to advertise the release as well as having something fresh and new to play. This is always the case and will carry on being, yet if there is one criticism of their performance last night it was the dominance of these songs. This is not to say they are bad songs, cause they’re really not. In fact some are arguably the best songs written this year and are conveyed fantastically live. However, when put in comparison to some of their earlier stuff, you notice less of a spark in the crowd. Maybe this is due to nostalgia or connection to the older songs due to time, but it is noticeable, however slight. They are strong songs but never special.
The band start with album opener I Should Live in Salt, followed by Don’t Swallow the Cap. It’s a sturdy beginning made all the more atmospheric by the venue itself and the impressive graphics and lighting that litter the backdrop behind. When they then break into High Violet’s Bloodbuzz Ohio does the tempo suddenly lift as the band begins to loosen and perform. Musically they’re fantastic. The Dessner and Devendorf brothers complement each other perfectly, a wonderful blend of instruments swimming within one another. Centre stage stands Matt Berninger. Whilst the others hold place, the pillars behind, Berninger is the glorious, staggering, sweat clad face of the band. Pint of wine swinging from his wrist, he lunges around the stage, looking lost yet completely at home. His voice an instrument at the fore, his persona the driving force. When they hark back to 2005 release Alligator with Secret Meeting, Berninger begins to unleash, his raw screams a reminder of the development of the band over the last decade. This is the ignition to the crowd, the chance to scream back his words of self doubt and vulnerability. Demons comes and goes in a flurry, 5,000 people delighting in the chance to euphorically cry, “when I walk into a room, I do not light it up, FUCK”. Wonderful irony.
What follows, Afraid of Everyone, Conversation 16 (off High Violet) and Squalor Victoria (off Boxer), just acts to highlight the depth of their catalogue. A return to Trouble, sees the two best songs from that album on the night, the calm plea of I Need My Girl before the swirling, This Is The Last Time. The moderate relaxation of the former is breached by the growing finale of the later. This is then further usurped by Abel; Berninger’s painstaking cries of “My minds not ready” are greeted with riotous cheers as the crowd breaks into a frenzied sweat.
This review continues to trail on, the superlatives beginning to run embarrassingly thin amidst the eulogy, but this is merely testament to the band and the two hour show they produced; 22 songs each treated with the dedication of a band who clearly love their job.
England is the next highlight, the building crescendo making you question why the band were apparently denied a performance at Glastonbury this weekend, as revealed last night by Berninger. About Today follows and was the most changed live from the original recoding, as the normal acoustics grew into orgy of noise. Fake Empire ends the set, the purely musical finish a fitting tribute to the men behind Berninger.
When they return for the encore the audience are in raptures, with Heavenfaced and Humiliation both strong (especially the ending to Humiliation) but dominated by what follows. For Mr. November, the bands’ staple anthem, Berninger breaks free, swanning into the audience to be engulfed by a sweaty mass of euphoria, whilst the brothers play on, guitars aloft in the air, reverberating around the room. He repeats the move on Terrible Love to a similar response, a hurtling end to dramatics before the band reform centre stage. The instrument count suddenly drops as the acoustics are pulled out for the finish, a campfire like sing-along of High Violet closer, Vanderlyle Crybaby Geeks. There’s something bewitchingly touching about a congregation crying out on repeat “I’ll explain everything to the geeks” with growing, unrivalled passion. The ambiguous lyrics so indecipherable that it’s hard to understand what you’re singing so hard about. But you don’t understand because you don’t need to. It’s whatever you want it to be. It’s fuel.
Stuart Westwood on January 15, 2014 at 9:54 pm
Great review
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Weeklies May 7, 2017
Survivor: Game Changers Give Me Five! Episode 11
By Brent Sullivan
Brent Sullivan breaks down the top five influential moments from Episode 11 of Game Changers.
Welcome to Give Me Five! Each week, Brent Sullivan will look at the top five moments from the latest episode that could influence the rest of the season.
1. Sarah admits to flipping. As soon as Debbie gets voted off and the tribe gets back to camp, Sarah openly admits to flipping on the six. This is surprising for two reasons. Firstly, you have to imagine that the remaining four had to figure it out anyway without her telling, and secondly, I think that this makes for a silly game move. If Sarah makes it to the final three and the jury is made up of Brad, Sierra, Troyzan, and Tai, are any of them going to vote for her now? I would have thought that Debbie was a good choice to sit with at the end. If she is so intent on playing like a villain, then play like a villain all the way and blame the flipped vote on Tai (which is something that they might believe).
2. Sarah tells Cirie about her advantage. So here is Sarah still in a group of six, only now it is a different set of six. Let me start by saying that I think that Sarah is playing a great game, but I really don’t know why she told Cirie about her vote steal advantage. I know that she thought that it would earn her some good will or make her more valuable to her new group, but now they have ammo against her if she flips again. Cirie is an excellent social player and will easily use that to her favor if and when she needs to. Sarah has been doing a lot; we will find out soon if it is going to pay off for her or not.
3. Sarah wants Zeke to stay, but… This was a very heavy Sarah episode, so I have one more for her. Sarah was adamant about keeping Zeke around. They have been together since Day 1, she trusted him, and they worked well together. Sarah stated her case very strongly during confessional of why she wanted to keep Zeke around. The big thing that I took away from this was that she was able to put her feelings aside and do what other people wanted instead of pushing her own agenda. Even though she admitted to flipping and told Cirie about her advantage, it appears that she is still thinking clearly enough not to rock the boat or put up a strong fight against her alliance. This will do her game justice in the short term and quite possibly the long term if they all stay strong together.
4. Andrea shows how strong she is. Andrea showed off her skills both strategically and physically in this episode. As impressive as she was during the immunity challenge, (where she won her second individual immunity), she was equally impressive gathering votes before tribal council. I can’t say enough about how fun it was to watch her gather enough votes to vote off someone in her own majority alliance without ever having to go to one of the four on the bottom to make it happen. I know that her name has been brought up multiple times as being a threat. The more that she shows how strong she is, the better the chance of her being seen as a threat to win challenges and ultimately, the game.
5. Votes were everywhere. This goes back a little bit to the fourth point about Andrea gathering up votes to vote out Zeke. Her and the rest of her alliance either told the others who to vote for or they all just guessed because they weren’t told who the target was. We end up with Sierra getting votes from Zeke and Tai, Tai getting votes from Brad, Troyzan, and Sierra, and everyone else voting for Zeke. It will be interesting to see how this breaks down next episode and how the “deck will shuffle” afterward and onward to the next vote. Will they continue moving around or will the two sides settle back down with Sarah back in the middle?
There you go. What moments from this week do you think made an impact?
Brent Sullivan
Brent is a 39-year-old Survivor super fan from Muncie, IN. He is married with two kids and does IT work at a local non-profit organization. He has been running in-person and online Survivor contests since season 7.
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Oh, I don’t think for a second that anyone guessed who to vote for. I believe that this was one of the best orchestrated moves ( read next phrase in a Russell voice) “of all time”. This has Cirie written all over it, and it was a thing of beauty to watch.
Kass S
I agree, Cirie was the one who first executed the 1, 2, 3 vote. This was right in line with one of her key strengths, the misdirect.
I think the 5th point about Tai and Sierra receiving votes from there own allies. I hope this causes some tension
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Accueil du site > Activités scientifiques et techniques > Physique et Radiochimie de l’energie Nucléaire > Radiochimie > Publications > Publications
J. Serp, O. Benes, S. Delpech, V. Ghetta, D. Heuer, D.E. Holcomb, V. Ignatiev, J.L. Kloosterman, L. Luzzi, E. Merle-Lucotte, J. Uhlir, R. Yoshioka, "The molten salt reactor (MSR) in generation IV : Overview and perspectives", Progress of Nuclear Energy, publication on-line, 2014
S. Delpech, "Possible routes for pyrochemical separations : focus on the reductive extraction in fluoride media", Pure Applied Chemistry, 85 (2013) 71-87
S. Fabre, C. Cabet, L. Cassayre, P. Chamelot, S. Delpech, J. Finne, L. Massot, D. Noel, "Use of electrochemical techniques to study the corrosion of metals in model fluoride melts", J. of Nuclear Materials, 441 (2013) 583
C. Le Naour, D.C. Hoffman, "Fundamental and experimental Aspects of Single Atom-at-a-Time Chemistry", in The Chemistry of Superheavy Elements, 2nd ed., 2013
S. Leguay, T. Vercouter, S. Topin, J. Aupiais, D. Guillaumont, M. Mirguiditchian, P. Moisy, C. Le Naour, "New insights into the formation of trivalent actinides complexes with DTPA", Inorg. Chem, 2012, accepté
K. Sebbari, J. Roques, E. Simoni, C. Domain, H. Perron and H. Catalette, Surface Science, 606 (2012) 1135-114
B. Hy, N. Barré-Boscher, A. Özgümüs, B. Roussière, S. Tusseau-Nenez,C. Lau, M. Cheikh Mhamed, M. Raynaud, A. Said, K. Kolos, E. Cottereau, S. Essabaa, O. Tougait, M. Pasturel, "An off-line method to characterize the fission product release from uranium carbide-target prototypes developed for SPIRAL2 project", Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research B 288 (2012) 34–41
G. García-Rosales, F. Mercier-Bion, R. Drot, G. Lagarde J. Roques, E. Simoni, Journal of luminescence, 132 (2012) 1299-1306
Samir Safi, Marie Christine Charbonnel, Gaelle Creff, Aurélie Jeanson, Sarah Mostapha, Jerome Roques, Eric Simoni, Pier Solari, Claude Vidaud, Christophe Den Auwer, "Actinide Complexation with Biomimetic Phosphorylated Molecules", MRS Online Proceedings Library, 1444, pp mrss12, (2012)
K. Sebbari, C. Domain, J. Roques, H. Perron, E. Simoni and H. Catalette, Surface Science, 605 (2011) 1275-1280
S. Jaskierowicz, S. Delpech, P. Fichet, C. Colin, C. Slim, G. Picard, "Pyrochemical reprocessing of thorium-based fuel", Proc. of ICAPP2011, (2011) Nice, France
F. Mercier-Bion, R. Drot, J. J. Ehrhardt, J. Lambert, J. Roques and E. Simoni, Surface and Interface Analysis, 43 (2011) 777-783
J. Molina, S. Lectez, S. Tazi, M.Salanne, J.-F. Dufreche, J. Roques, E. Simoni, P. A. Madden and P. Turq, Journal of Chemical Physics, 134 (2011) 014511-014516
C. Lacaze-Dufaure, J. Roques, C. Mijoule, E. Sicilia, N. Russo, V. Alexiev and T. Minevad, Journal of Molecular Catalysis A-Chemical, 341 (2011) 28-34
G. Dupouy, I. Bonhoure, S. D. Conradson, T. Dumas, C. Hennig, C. Le Naour, P. Moisy, A. Scheinost, E. Simoni, C. Den Auwer, "Local structure in americium and californium hexacyanoferrates. Comparison with their lanthanide analogues", Eur. J. Inorg. Chem. 10 (2011) 1560-1569
M-O. Sornein, C. Cannes, C. Le Naour, M. Mendes, C. Hennig, "Electrochemical behaviour of tetrachloro and tetrabromo uranyl complexes in room temperature ionic liquids", J. Electroanal. Chem., 661 (2011) 49-56.
D. Tarrio, L. Tassan-Got, L. Audouin, B. Berthier, I. Duran, L. Ferrant, S. Isaev, C. Le Naour et al, "Neutron-induced fission cross section of (nat)Pb and 209Bi from threshold to 1 GeV : An improved parametrization", Phys. Rev. C 83 (2011) 044620
C. Paradela, L ; Tassan-Got, L. Audouin, B. Berthier, I. Duran, L. Ferrant, S. Isaev, C. Le Naour et al., "237Np(n,f) Cross Section : New Data and Present Status", J. Korean Phys. Soc. 59 (2011) 1908-1911
D. Tarrio, L. Tassan-Got, L. Audouin, B. Berthier, L. Ferrant, S. Isaev, C. Le Naour et al., "High-energy Neutron-induced Fission Cross Sections of Natural Lead and Bismuth-209", J. Korean Phys. Soc. 59 (2011) 1904-1907
E. Beuzet, J.-S. Lamy, A. Bretault, E. Simoni, "Modelling of Zry-4 cladding oxidation by air under severe accident conditions using the MAAP4 code", Nuclear Engineering and Design 241 (2011) 1217
A. Tigeras, M. Bachet, H. Catalette, E. Simoni, "PWR iodine speciation and behavior under normal primary coolant conditions : an analysis of thermodynamic calculations, sensibility evaluations and NPP feedback", Progress in Nuclear Energy, 53 (2011) 505
V. Sladkov, Y. Zhao, F. Mercier-Bion, "Capillary zone electrophoresis for U(VI) and short chain carboxylic acid sorption studies on silica and rutile", Talanta, 83 (2011) 1595-1600
G. Lefevre, F. Mercier-Bion, Y. Zhao, V. Sladkov, J. Roques and E. Simoni, "Ternary surface complexes probed by attenuated total reflection-infrared spectroscopy",Mineralogical Magazine, 75 (2011) 1289.
Aurélie Jeanson, Michel Ferrand, Harald Funke, Christoph Hennig, Philippe Moisy, Pier Lorenzo Solari, Claude Vidaud, Christophe Den Auwer, "The Role of Transferrin in Actinide(IV) Uptake : Comparison with Iron(III)", Chemistry-A European Journal 16, (2010) 1378-1387
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01The first round of anime production by MINDOL: “Sora no Oshigoto”
Official website is here.
It is a play of the youth group about girls who aim for pilots in the pilot training school, which carefully writes a real and gentle daily life story. We will use the engine sound and flying sound of primary practice aircraft at the Air Self Defense Force under the collaboration with the Ministry of Defense to seek for a reality without fans expectation in the category of aviation animation, which is now mostly expected in the animation market. The project to make animation and game of “Sora no Oshigoto” has just started, which is expected to be a big hit of aviation animation exceeding 10 billion yen revenue from anime and game of marine works “Kantai Collection” and also exceeding a mega hits of land work “Girls and Panzer”
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Tag: Tehran
BA suspends London Heathrow – Tehran
British Airways has suspended its route from London Heathrow to Tehran from Saturday 22 September 2018.
London Air Travel » Tehran
British Airways has suspended its route from London Heathrow to Tehran.
The last outbound flight (BA153) will operate from London Heathrow on Saturday 22 September 2018. The last inbound flight (BA152) will operate from Tehran on Sunday 23 September 2018.
The route was relaunched in September 2016 having been suspended four years earlier. Whilst no reason has been given for the suspension, it is likely that the imposition of sanctions on Iran by the United States has had an impact.
This follows similar suspensions by Air France and KLM. Austrian and Lufthansa continue to fly to Tehran from Vienna and Frankfurt respectively. Iran Air will also continue to fly from London Heathrow to Tehran.
Rebooking Options
Passengers whose flights are cancelled are entitled to a refund or to change their dates of travel before the route is suspended.
BA is in the process of discussing rebooking options with other airlines. When routes are suspended it normally takes at least a few days for BA to secure rebooking agreements. In addition, options with more airlines tend to progressively become available.
As such, unless it is urgent, we would recommend waiting at least a week to see what rebooking options are available. We will update this page with rebooking options as they become available.
Update: Tuesday 28 August 2018
BA has secured a rebooking agreement with Austrian and Lufthansa via Vienna and Frankfurt.
In all cases, passengers must connect to/from a BA operated flight between London Heathrow and Vienna or Frankfurt. It should also be noted that Austrian does not operate a premium economy cabin on this route. This option applies for travel up to Saturday 30 March 2019.
Update: Wednesday 5 September 2018
BA has also secured a rebooking agreement with Turkish Airlines via Istanbul.
In all cases, passengers must connect to/from a BA operated flight between London Heathrow and Istanbul for travel up to Monday 30 September 2019.
Also note, not all of the above options may be available to passengers who have made bookings using Avios or group bookings.
Author LondonAirTravelPosted on 23 August 2018 27 April 2019 Categories British Airways, British Airways London Heathrow Long-HaulTags Iran, TehranLeave a comment on BA suspends London Heathrow – Tehran
BA delays launch of London Heathrow – Tehran to Thursday 1 September 2016
British Airways has delayed the relaunch of its route from London Heathrow to Tehran, Iran from Thursday 14 July to Thursday 1 September 2016.
No specific reason has been given for the delay. However, we surmise that the delay is either due to a shortage of suitable long-haul aircraft or operational and regulatory delays in establishing operations in Tehran.
Affected passengers have the option of an indirect reroute on the following airlines: Lufthansa (via Frankfurt/Munich), Alitalia (via Rome Fiumicino), Turkish Airlines (via Istanbul), or Aegean Airlines (via Athens). Connections to the aforementioned airlines flights will be via British Airways operated flights from London Heathrow.
BA has also revised its schedule for London Heathrow – Tehran which is now as follows:
London Heathow – Tehran
Flight BA153 Depart London Heathrow 20:30 – Arrive Tehran 05:45 (Daily, except Sundays)
Tehran – London Heathrow
Flight BA152 Depart Tehran 08:35 – Arrive London Heathrow 11:10 (Daily, except Mondays)
(Timetable is indicative and may vary by season.)
Author LondonAirTravelPosted on 29 June 2016 27 April 2019 Categories British Airways, British Airways London Heathrow Long-HaulTags Iran, London Heathrow, TehranLeave a comment on BA delays launch of London Heathrow – Tehran to Thursday 1 September 2016
BA returns to Tehran from Thursday 14 July 2016
British Airways Tailfin (Image Credit: Nick Morrish/British Airways)
British Airways has today announced that it is to return to Iran with the launch of a six times weekly direct flight from London Heathrow to Tehran (Imam Khomeini International Airport) from Thursday 14 July 2016.
Flights will depart from London Heathrow Terminal 5 and will be operated using a four class Boeing 777 aircraft (First Class, Club World business class, World Traveller Plus premium economy and World Traveller economy). The flight will not operate from London Heathrow on Sundays.
That BA is launching the service using a twin-aisle long haul aircraft six times a week is clearly a sign of confidence that there will be strong passenger and cargo demand.
Flights are on sale now at ba.com.
This route is also currently operated by Iran Air on a 3x weekly basis. The last British airline to serve Tehran was bmi British Midland which operated the route until October 2012. It was suspended following the acquisition of bmi by International Airlines Group. bmi was later merged into British Airways.
London Heathrow – Tehran
Flight BA153 Depart London Heathrow 21:10 – Arrive Tehran 06:25
Flight BA152 Depart Tehran 08:35 – Arrive London Heathrow 11:10
Author LondonAirTravelPosted on 3 February 2016 29 April 2018 Categories British Airways, British Airways London HeathrowTags Iran, London Heathrow, TehranLeave a comment on BA returns to Tehran from Thursday 14 July 2016
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Edinburgh Review: Ricky Gervais
Upstaged by both his support act and the stage design, Ricky Gervais fails to find the winning formula for Science, says Julian Hall. It seems that Ricky Gervais’ Hollywood career is getting in the way of his stand up. At least that is the only conclusion one can draw to explain why Science fares so(…)
Edinburgh Review: Penny Dreadfuls
Julian Hall is disappointed with The Penny Dreadfuls’ first show they ditched the Aeneas Faversham series. By comparison to last year’s show from these Edinburgh favourites, The Never Man is a crushing disappointment. Gone is the binding narrative and engrossing atmosphere of 2008’s Victorian romp, and part of the Aeneas Faversham series, only to be(…)
Edinburgh Review: Kevin Bridges
Kevin Bridges’ long-awaited solo debut lives up to expectation and even has a greatest hits feel to it, writes Jay Richardson. After five years of performing, Kevin Bridges has finally brought a debut solo show to the Edinburgh Fringe. The burden of expectation upon the Glaswegian will have been tempered by the fact that there(…)
Edinburgh Review: Simon Amstell
Simon Amstell lays bare his private demons in a show that is impressively candid but less funny than previous offerings, says Jay Richardson. From self-deifying arrogance to morbid vulnerability, advocating consequence-free sex to desperately cuddling himself after masturbation, Simon Amstell’s stand-up explores some emotional extremes, yet the disparity between his confident onscreen persona and his(…)
Edinburgh Review: Andrew Maxwell
Andrew Maxwell has set high standards over the years, says Julian Hall, and The Lamp doesn’t live up to them. Since covering my second festival in 2004 no Fringe has been complete without a trip to see the feted Irish comedian Andrew Maxwell – the Perrier winner that got away. Generally a banker (in the(…)
Edinburgh Review: Andrew Lawrence
Andrew Lawrence’s 2009 show is a hate list that, while being hugely funny, is just a hate list, and not much more, says Paul Fleckney. You pretty much know what you will get from an Andrew Lawrence gig. Bile. Bile as fluent as birdsong. Whereas other comics shock in the same way a tabloid headline(…)
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30 Minutes Shot in 16mm Video Friday, July 14 – 8:05 PM
The story of a man who questions his faith in God, due to his neighborhood decaying from greed and drugs. Through the death of a little girl and the strength he draws from the woman at his side, he renews his faith in God, which gives him the strength to fight for his neighborhood. A Weintraub Entertainment and Nancy DiMartino Film, produced, written and directed by Fred Carpenter of Shirley/Floyd Harbor. Shot in Long Beach, Bellmore, Babylon and Stony Brook. Adult situations.
AGHA JOON
30 Minutes 16mm Thursday, July 20 – 7:00 PM
Zohreh Shayesteh, an Iranian native, now a filmmaker in New York City, is the director, producer and writer of this story. Agha Joon is the story of an aging father and his children living in America. Agha Joon arrives to take up residence with his son living in New York. All too soon, his presence creates conflict within his family as it grapples with the traditions of the old homeland and the life they have struggled to build themselves in the new. Subtitled, quality piece.
80 Minutes 35mm Sunday, July 16 – 7:00 PM
Marco, 24 years old, still lives at home and still has his high school job working in a local fish market making minimum wage. His boss, Red, has never offered him a managerial position, not even a raise, only constant abuse. Why doesn’t Marco quit and get a real job, you might ask? One day Red pushes him too far. Marco has a plan: He knows Red keeps an obscene amount of dirty money is his office safe; he thinks he can get it. And this is where it gets interesting. Directed by Tommy J. SaSorsa, Produced by Christopher Lynn, Tommy J. LaSorsa, Robert Alfano, Cara Buonincontri and Howard Simon. Written by Christopher Lynn and Tommy J. LaSorsa. Nomis Entertainment is located in Brooklyn. Stars Ray Garvey (Smalltime Crooks) and Anthony Mangano (NYPD Blue). Language, adult situations.
ALMOST HOLLYWOOD
53:15 Minutes Video Monday, July 17 – 9:15 PM
Ken Gardiner claims that he’s been on more national television shows that he hasn’t been paid for than anyone else. He makes comedy shorts. He’s made almost 100. They’ve won numerous national contests. They’ve been featured on several different national television shows. They’ve even been shown internationally. But he’s never been paid a dime. In this documentary, Ken intercuts his humorous (and sometimes painful) narration with examples of his award winning comedies. Ken is from Tucson, Arizona.
85 Minutes 16mm Friday, July 14 – 10:05 PM
Three loser guys pretend to be filmmakers, hold “auditions” to meet girls. They ultimately pay the price for their posing. Producer Judy Quinn and screenwriter/director Michael Tierno live in New York City. This is an Existing Light Production. Language, adult situations.
BAYMEN
56:30 Minutes Video Wednesday, July 19 – 2:00 PM
This documentary follows several bay fishermen in New York’s Long Island area, over a year in their lives. It highlights their work, their frustrations, and especially their love of the bay. This documentary is about an endangered way of life, being forever altered in the shadows of New York City. Baymen is about the bay fisherman on Long Island, but really speaks of traditions and the need to preserve those traditions. Director/CoProducer: Glenn Gebhard. CoProducer: Mario Congreve. The filmmaker, previously from Merrick, shot this documentary in Freeport, Merrick, Bay Shore, Fire Island, Bethpage Village Restoration, Islip and the Great South Bay.
BETWEEN US
52 Minutes Video Wednesday, July 19 – 4:30 PM
Documentary. When veteran filmmaker Mary Katzke was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1992, her only experience with the disease was watching her mother die from it nine years earlier. Through the voices and faces of a cross-section of women of all ages, ethnic and economic backgrounds, we hear the inside story of facing treatment and recovery. This video developed into a complete “First Aid Kit for Your Heart and Soul.” Mary Katzke directs and co-produces with Joanne Singer. Touching. Mary Katzke, the Director of the Between Us Project, will speak about breast cancer survival after this film.
BILLY’S BALLOON
5:30 Minutes 35mm Friday, July 14 – 8:00 PM
Animated. A hyserical and twisted animated piece about a baby hating balloon. Bitter Films Don Hertzfeldt directed/produced and wrote this piece.
BOB’S ROLLING REEFER
67 Minutes Video Thursday, July 20 – 9:15 PM
Documentary filmmaker Leslye Abbey hails from Bellmore New York. Meet Bob, professional tractor-trailer driver, and American’s newest folk hero. We experience what it’s like to be an over the road truck driver as we ride along with Bob. Our journey begins in Ida Grove, Iowa with a tour of Mau Truck, Inc., then on to pick up a refrigerator trailer full of port of be delivered in Seattle Washington for a Monday morning delivery. Along the way we meet interesting people, see magnificent western scenery, and hear Bob spin homey whimsical stories about his life and the road.
BUT ENOUGH ABOUT ME
24:58 Minutes 16mm Thursday, July 20 – 7:00 PM
Columbia University graduate film. Catherine Grey has been summoned and when Wall Street mogul/TV financial commentators Erich Fieldstone calls, Catherine, for one, listens. It helps that she and Erich used to work together and even more that they used to be an item. But when the issue of his always-pending divorce kept things from completely merging, she left. Mystery involved. Stars Missi Pyle from Galaxy Quest. Director/screenwriter M. George Stevenson. Producer Michele Herholzer.
13 Minutes 16mm Wednesday, July 19 – 9:15 PM
Student film. A quirky clerk with an unusual obsession for snack foods, an old-fashioned father losing the reins on his child and a free-spirited daughter who defies traditions; there are the characters who work in an inner city convenience store where imaginations run amok and nothing is what it seems to be. This Taiwanese born filmmaker, Augustine Ma, sends in this submission from California. Adult situation.
DEADLY SIN
70 Minutes 16mm Friday, July 14 – 8:05 PM
In the tradition of John Woo and Sam Pekinpah, Deadly Sin is the story of married undercover Police Detectives Lisa and Anthony Scaduto (Donna DeCianni and Fred Carpenter), who when their cover is exposed, the mob crosses the line in retaliation and takes vengeance on their children. Violence, vulgar language. Written and directed by Fred Carpenter. This is Long Islanders Fred Carpenter and Leonard Weintraub’s ninth independent. This was shot in Baldwin, Merrick, Babylon and Stony Brook. Language, adult situations. Since accepting Deadly Sin into the festival, it has been picked up by Cinevest Entertainment Group for future distribution.
DEATH OF A CORNER DRUGSTORE
This heartfelt documentary tells the story of how one offbeat drugstore in Milwaukee was loved by its community, yet couldn’t survive the 1990s. Through interviews with longtime customers and employees, independent filmmaker Brooke Maroldi expresses the community’s deep sense of loss while articulating broader issues.
10:30 Minutes Video Sunday, July 16 – 9:30 PM
Deception is the story of one woman who is faced with her own mortality. It is the story of friendship and denial. It is the story of how she faces her fate, only to discover that she has been deceived. A triangle of lust tragically entwines three people in the snare of the AIDS virus. This is the story of the urban African American professional, sexuality, friendship, and denial. Nudity, adult situations.
DID YOU IRON YOUR DREAMS?
3.5 Minutes Video Monday, July 17 – 9:15 PM
Student film. This black and white experimental short film explores the business and glamour of the academy awards through the point of view of a young filmmaker. The filmmaker reevaluates his dreams and discovers that his life’s goal is to make films, not to receive an academy award. Lindenhurst native, James Cook, shot this film in Garden City and Lindenhurst.
THE DISINVITED
7 Minutes Video Monday, July 17 – 9:15 PM
Lindenhurst native, James Cook, shot this documentary which follows the activities of the Lavender and Green Alliance, a gay and lesbian organization in their quest to March in the Saint Patricks Day parade.
81 Minutes 16mm Tuesday, July 18 – 7:00 PM
Would you bet your life just to break even? Meet two people who have no choice. This is the story of a young couple that lost the American dream – and their one last chance at getting it back”¦and it may surprise you. Because it appears to be the story of two desperate people who take to the road to free themselves from a mobster’s odious obligation. There is a reason they call it Dog Story, and that’s the part that will surprise you. Language, adult situations. California’s Adam Golumb screenwrites and coproduces, Jian Hong Kuo directs and coproduces. Christopher Hatton coproduces.
7:45 Minutes Video Wednesday, July 19 – 4:30 PM
A rich, beautiful woman leading the “good life,” the “perfect life,” in America’s 1950’s and 1960’s find out that cancer does not discriminate. A short documentary shot in Hewlett and Woodmere by Eddie’s son-in-law, Barry Kivel.
11 Minutes Video Sunday, July 16 – 2:00 PM
Sal, a lonely limousine driver meets Shirley, a disenchanted woman who desperately needs to get across country to pay for the bail of her delinquent child. Having no money, Shirley is forced to sell her body in the frequent truck stops and gas stations she finds on the way. Trouble ensues as they encounter a deranged cowboy. Partial nudity, adult situations. California’s Joao Machado writes, directs and produces this piece.
THE FANATICAL TEACHINGS OF JULIAN TAU
This comedic film about a ficticious religious cult stars Nancy Glass (former host Inside Edition), Lorin Diodato (Zelig), Brent Hankins (As the World Turns) and Scot Willingham (Sex in the City).
A FEELING CALLED GLORY
24:22 Minutes 35mm Friday, July 14 – 8:00 PM
A delightfully and life-affirming story about a quirky summer friendship between two oddballs who have unique and opposing outlooks on coping with loss and each other. Director/producer/screenwriter Coreen Mayrs is from Canada. Lovely.
FOO’S ALL MAIL
6:50 Minutes Video Sunday, July 16 – 7:00 PM
Animation. Foo’s mission is simple: Deliver the office mail without getting sidetracked. However, when he stumbles into the office supply cubicle and spots the Xerox machine, the phone lines, and the shredding machine..the temptation is a little overwhelming for Foo. Director and producer Brian Selzer, and coproducer Brad Foxhoven sent this film from California.
FRIENDS AT TWILIGHT
33 Minutes Video Tuesday, July 18 – 9:20 PM
A cinematic dreamscape. A vampire/ghost story. Rich in vivid images utilizing elements of Poe, Wilde and the best in silent movies when they were at their visual peak in the late 1920’s. Produced by Michael Russo. Written and directed by Rockville Centre’s Joe Marzano. Shot in Planting Fields Arboretum and at a studio in Deer Park.
THE GEORGIA PEACH BOY
Student film. In a small Georgia town, one very large woman wishes only for one thing, a baby. But when her wish is magically found in the pit of a giant peach, Tonya Little soon finds that she’s not the only one wanting her baby. To keep him, she must prove her worth over cruel town gossips. Writer/Director Mamie McCall. Producer Michelle Eisenreich. Well done.
GIGANTIC YOUTH
11:45 Minutes Video Saturday, July 15 – 2:00 PM
A short film about a single aspect of childhood: Size. It reminds adults and informs children of the way which the world appears to change simply because one gets physically bigger. This Crystal Productions film comes to us from the United Kingdom. Joint director/writer/producer/editor and director of photography Alastair Evans. George Young also codirects, coproduces and cowrites.
45 Minutes Video Friday, July 14 – 10:00 PM
Haunted is a faux documentary that examines the perils of rock and roll, the cult of celebrity and what happens when a star goes too far. Stars Astrid Young, sister of singer Neil Young. Julian Grant directs and produces. Astrid Young screenwrites. This film comes to us from Canada. Robert McNamara is associate producer.
24 Minutes 16mm Saturday, July 15 – 9:30 PM
Garden City native, Joseph Biancanello, wrote, directed and produced this clever, comedic short film. This is a powerful story of three friends and their journey into themselves. Mike is torn between his faith is God and his lust for his friends, girlfriend. Well done.
I’M CONNECTED
4 Minutes Shot in 35mm to be screened in Video Friday, July 14 – 8:05 PM
A night at the disco where a wannabe wants to be a somebody”¦..until he meets the real deal and has to face the consequences. Produced, edited and directed by Long Island resident, Fred Carpenter. This Weintaub Entertainment production written by Gary Aumiller and Fred Carpenter, shot in West Hampton. Language – adult situations.
I WANT TO DIE – QUIERO MORIR
14:55 Minutes 35mm Sunday, July 16 – 9:30 PM
Jou, a psychopath assassin in a paraplegic state, is lying in a hospital bed. He dreams about dying since he cannot stand such agony anymore. Marc, the cop whose life has been ruined when his wife and only child were killed, is Jou’s last chance to be “disconnected.” Marc will have to struggle with himself and with Jou in a psychological war where revenge and his morality, which favors life over death, play opposite roles. Toni Meca directs/produces and screenwrites. This film comes to us from Spain. Subtitled. Professionally done. Dark.
JINGLE HELL
Garden City native, Carter Anne McGowan, produced and wrote this comedy which filmed in Quogue, Smithtown, Saint James, Mattituck and Hampton Bays. Hampton Bay’s, Will Tully, directed and it was cowritten by Kelly Bryan. It’s that time of year once again”¦the wreath on the door, the ornaments on the tree, the cookies burning in the oven”¦..the grown children struggling to make it to Mom and Dad’s house for the holidays, bringing all of their problems home with them. It’s time for that particular kind of jingle hell that only Christmas can bring. Funny.
JONNI NITRO: A LONG WALK OFF A SHORT F– USE
Animation. Heroine, secret-agent extraordinaire, Jonni Nitro is rushed into the hosptial for a mysterious condition that renders her defenseless. But before doctors have a chance to treat her, ominous-looking men in toxic suits haul the nearly dead Jonni to an unknown facility. Here, Jonni wakes in sudden clarity; she regains her vigilance. Using her physical prowess to outsmart and outbeat her captors, Jonni attempts a heart-racing escape. Stars Olivia D’Abo as Jonni Nitro. This film comes to us from California. Marc Silvestri directs. Brad Foxhoven and Brian Selzer produce. Scott Lobdell writes.
105 Minutes Video Tuesday, July 18 – 9:20 PM
The portrait of a reclusive home improvement salesman who grapples to understand the grim reality behind the murder of his boss; a reality that threatens to “murder” him as well. In an atmosphere charged with farce and black humor, he is hounded by a demented sales manager, an incompetent detective, and the specter of his dead boss. This first feature film by writer/director/producer David Stern is co produced by Michael Grogan. This Detroit Yard Film Company feature comes to us from Michigan.
THE MARTY SHOW WITH GUEST LARA CROFT
Marty, an animated green monster, is the host of a 3D interactive/variety comedy show. In this special holiday episode, his guest is Tomb Raider’s Lara Croft. Marty’s raunchy sense of humor and playfulness gets him into trouble and he finds out that a few kicks and punches are coming his way. Director Dann Tarmy. Producers Brad Foxhoven and Mark Yahiro. The Marty Show comes to us from California.
MIDNIGHT CONFESSION
Horror film. A psychologically tormented priest hears the confession of a young man with uncontrollable problems of the flesh. Violence. Stars Thomas G. Waites (And Justice for All, The Warriors, Clan of the Cave Bear, NYPD Blue and Buffy the Vampire Slayer). Filmed at various graveyards in Nassau County including Trinity/St. Johns in Hewlett and St. Mary’s Star of the Sea in Lawrence. Camera Person/Producer/Editor Philip Snyder lives in Lawrence. Writer/Director Robert Snyder is also a Long Island native.
NEEDLE IN A HAYSTACK
7 Minutes 16mm Saturday, July 15 – 4:30 PM
1999 Long Island International Film Expo winner Eva Saks (Best Video), directs, produces and writes this delightful short, silent film about a young woman who is torn between pleasing her leather clad fiancee or her fantasy love, Fred Astaire. This is an NYU student film.
An ex-police officer wrongly convicted of murdering his wife and daughter, adjusts to life after prison with an over possesive childhood friend and a new relationship. John Reidy, a Massapequa Park native, shot this film in Massapequa, Seaford and many other areas in Nassau County. Language, violence.
Tyler Morgan just made a big boo-boo. He cheated on his girlfriend Paige with a 19 year-old stripper from the Big Easy, and now he has to cover his tracks. Sure enough, no sooner has Tyler stumbled out of the youth hostel then everyone knows exactly what he was up to. Stars Gabrielle Anwar (Scent of a Woman) and Jennifer Milmore (from NBC’s Jesse). Adult situations, language.
NOW CHINATOWN
107 Minutes 35mm Saturday, July 15 – 7:00 PM
A young girl from China is sent to work in LA’s Chinatown and struggles to stay honorable to her traditions while realizing her desire to be someone that can make a difference on her own. Written, produced, directed and starring Steven Dunning of Los Angeles, California. Stars Chao Li Chi (Joy Luck Club). Touching story, beautifully done. Check www.nowchinatown.com
OF ONE BLOOD
29:56 Minutes Video Thursday, July 20 – 9:15 PM
Documentary. An American husband and wife, who have embarked on a pilgrimage to Ghana, West Africa, present a special gift of dance to the Asante people, symbolizing their ancestral kinship with Africa and their gratitude for all the beauty and wisdom Africa has given the world. Nana Kwasi Scott Douglas Morrow and Nanahemaa Kosua Brenda Berg-Morrow of Astoria produce, direct and edit this documentary.
OUR HO– USE:A VERY REAL DOCUMENTARY ABOUT KIDS OF GAY AND LESBIAN PARENTS
56:40 Minutes Video  Monday, July 17 – 9:15 PM
What does it mean to grow up with two mothers or two fathers instead of a mother and a father? What happens when your mother or father leaves a heterosexual marriage for a same sex union? Until ten or twenty years ago these questions rarely, if ever, arose. Today in the United States, there are an estimated two million gay and lesbian parents raising between three and five million children under their age of eighteen. Meema Spadola, the producer/director and writer grew up in Searsmont, Maine, studied in Paris, and now resides in New York.
90 Minutes 35mm OPENING NIGHT FEATURE Friday, July 14 – 8:00 PM
Director/Producer Greg Pace, a previous native of West Islip and Bay Shore, worked with coproducers Dean Garvin and Eric Fisher and screenwriters Glen Trotiner, Dean Garvin and Eric Fisher on this well-done feature film. Matthew Wells, a young writer and loner, quits his job as a production assistant on studio films so he can head out to the Sundance Film Festival to seek a buyer for his hot-off-the presses screenplay. Matthew expects a Mecca of art and independence, but finds that the festival is more about business than it is about art. This top notch film stars Maxwell Caulfield (Grease 2), Mark Goddard (Lost in Space) , Sean Dugan (Oz), Seth Meyer (For Love of the Game), Harold Perrineau (The Edge), Markus Flanagan (Melrose Place) and Edie Falco (The Sopranos). Language, adult situations.
Student film. An unlikely meeting of misfits in the heart of New York City. Directed, produced and written by Brooklyn’s Nara Garber (Topiary Productions).
Student film. A young artist suffers from a creative block. He is unable to work until a traumatic event in his life triggers his creativity and allows him to paint again, however, that work serves as a constant reminder of what happened to him and it drives him over the edge. Director/writer Nick Brzoza resides in Patchogue.
90 Minutes Video Monday, July 17 – 7:00 PM
The Pretenders is the story of Charles and Annie, an estranged brother and sister who never considered that life lessons could actually come from each other. Charles, the responsible one, stayed home to manage the family restaurant when his parents retired to Las Vegas. His older sister, Annie, on the other hand, got married right out of high school and left town, escaping the local family legacy. One summer weekend will force Charles and Annie to face the things they dislike about each other, and ultimately dislike about themselves. Writer/director Matt Morillo is a Hicksville native. Matt runs Kings and Desperate Men Productions with Richard Barbadillo Jr. This was filmed in Hicksville, Massapequa and in Long Beach.
7 Minutes 16mm Friday, July 14 – 10:05 PM
A lonely man walking on the boardwalk encounters a woman in distress. However, he turns out to be not the savior he seemed to be. Shot on the Long Beach Boardwalk. Camera Person/Producer/Editor Philip Snyder lives in Lawrence. Writer/Director Robert Snyder is also a Long Island native. Adult situations. Violence.
REEL NUTS
Reel Nuts is a first time feature based on true events, about three friends attempting to make a film about a correction officer who is talked into doing a hit on a drug dealer for a mob inmate. The movie slowly drains them of all their creativity, patience, and money, until they all meet their own personal demise. The movie combines documentary style footage with the actual film footage of their original movie. Together, they tell the story of the thin line that exists between the healthy ambition to fulfill a dream and the self-destruction of a dysfunctional obsession. Produced, written and directed by Island Park’s Vincent Lou Cappella. Rated R by the producer. Dark but funny. Filmed on Long Island in Massapequa and Muttontown. Filmmaker lives in Island Park. Long Island premiere. Language, adult situations.
THE REMEMBERER
10:00 Minutes 35mm Saturday, July 15 – 7:00 PM
This movie tells the story of a young woman coping with the loss of her lover, whose melancholy view of our modern, though-ridden world leads to his mysterious physical transformation. This film, which is based on the short story by Aimee Bender, was produced under the auspices of a Vancouver International Film Festival program called Crazy 8’s, wherein three emerging directors were given $80CDN, 800 feet of film and 8 days to prep, shoot and post-produce a short film. As a result, most of the shots in the film were done in one take and in many cases, no more than two. Produced/directed and screenwritten by Coreen Mayrs of Canada.
SECOND GENERATION: ITALIAN AMERICAN PSYCHOTHERAPY
This short film is a comedic look at the issues surrounding the cultural transition that take place after two generations of assimilation. This filmmaker previously lived in Mineola. This was shot in Mineola and at Long Beach. Directed, produced and screenwritten by Michael Lupinacci. Scott Hillier is the DP. Language, adult situations.
A SEPARATE VOICE:LIVES OF THE TRADITIONAL ORTHODOX AND CHASSIDAIM
54:50 Min Video Wednesday, July 19 – 7:00 PM
A Separate Voice explores the personal lives of a group of people who remain mysterious to outsiders: Traditional Orthodox and Chassidic Jews. The inherent conflict between pleasure and the prohibitions imposed by their strict religious observance is an undercurrent in this documentary. Personal stories of humor and pathos clarify this theme. Basic tenets of Judaism are presented as well as the music and songs that reflect different aspects of their lives. Producers and directors are Carla Blair and Janice Michaelson
A country girl looks for a job in the big city. Things are not always what they seem. Adult situations. Language.
STORM WARRIORS
Hampton Bays resident, director/producer/writer Tom Garber of Third Wave Films, shot this documentary in Hampton Bays and at the Long Island Marine Museum. This documentary tells the underexamined story of the United States Life-Saving Service. From 1871 to 1915, before the advent of radios, motorized rescue boats, and the modern Coast Guard, in brutal storm conditions, thousands of men put their lives on the line to rescue otherwise doomed sea goers. It was a time when feats of unprecedented humanitarianism were combined with iron courage and self-sacrifice, a time when a select crew of men rescued the lives of many.
TAMMY & ME
15 Minutes 16mm Saturday, July 15 – 2:00 ( in video – nonvoting) and
Tuesday, July 18 – 7:00 PM (in 16mm – voting)
Student film. What does a girl from Long Island have in common with Tammy Wynette? According to thirteen year old Matilda Goodman, a lot. Matilda dyes her hair and changes her name to be more like her idol. And, when the feeling of being trapped by her suburban existence becomes too much for her, Matilda decides to run away to Nashville to follow in Tammy’s footsteps. When trying to leave her driveway, Matilda comes to some realizations about Tammy Wynette’s family life that leads her to a better understanding of her own. Writer and director Jessica Sultan grew up in Old Westbury and filmed a portion of this film in Merrick.
13 Minutes 16mm or Video Saturday, July 15 – 4:30 PM
Entertaining student film. Tasty is the story of one man’s pursuit of the perfect sandwich, and the adventures of that sandwich. Can the sandwich make the world a better place? Will the sandwich get eaten? And by who? Billy Hulkower of California directs, produces and screenwrites.
TELEPORTER – TIME AND AGAIN
In 2525, the Earth is an environmental disaster. Time travel is controlled by “the Company,” the only remaining corporate power in the world. When Mary discovers that the Earth’s pollution and the Company’s secret to success is a product of altered history through time travel, she decides to go back in time and fix the past. Writer/Producer/Director Lou turner is from Riverhead and shot this film in Deer Park and Riverhead.
TERMINAL UNIQUENESS
11 Minutes 16mm Weds, July 19 – 9:15 PM
In a world of conformists, it is difficult for the “unique” to find their place. It can be a cruel and hard life for the individual labeled as something different. The “Hero” of the story is followed from birth and on through adolescence. A special boy to his mother, he is considered strange in the reality of the outside world. With each attempt to fit in, our Hero manages to come across as awkward and different. We follow this tale from the Hero’s sense of worthlessness to acceptance. Johnny Boston from RawFilms of NYC directs, writes and coproduces this film. Mario Romeo coproduces. Language, adult situations.
THAT STRANGE PERSON
4:40 Minutes 35mm Saturday, July 15 – 7:00 PM
An animated piece. When you catch your face in the mirror and wonder “Who is that strange person looking at me.” Eileen O’Meara of California writes, directs and produces this animation.
David Alaimo, a gutsy and legendary street criminal, now gone straight, is forced to confront the dark world of his past in order to rescue his kidnapped niece and his pregnant wife. A modern Cain and Abel tale of love, power, murder and redemption. Language, adult situations. Howard Simon of Brooklyn coproduces. Anthony Costa directs, writes and coproduces.
THUNDER ON THE BLUE RIDGE
26.5 Minutes Video Saturday, July 15 – 2:00 PM
The story of a rural Virginia family as told against the background of the Civil War. Mary Kate, a 14-year old farm girl who worries about the fate of Andrew, a 17-year old Confederate soldier, whom she grew up with in the small Blue Ridge town of Jefferson, Virginia. Mary Kate’s father, the town doctor, had disappeared into the swamps of southern Virginia to conduct secret abolitionist activities. Uncle Robert, the town minister, tries to protect Mary Kate, by guiding her away from involvement in the moral conflicts of the time. This 25-minute film was written and produced by students of the 8th grade ACE program at JHS 210. Karl Heidenreich directs. Mercedes Armstrong (age 14) produces. Written by (all age 14) Nicholas Gklotsos, Tawana Guillaume and Jennifer MacGregor. Filmed at Old Bethpage Restoration Village, Belmont Park, United Methodist Church in Babylon, and Queens Farm Museum in Floral Park.
101 Minutes 16MM Wednesday, July 19 – 9:15 PM
A romantic comedy that follows the adventures of three friends after college. Johnny, the protagonist, overcomes his fear of commitment only after he is betrayed by his best friend. Set against the background of a group house, and filled with many wacky characters, this Shootyoudown Production, was directed and produced by Washington DC’s Glenn Friedel. Adult situations, graphic language.
The Waiting Game is an ensemble piece about how the star-crossed lives of a group of Broadway star wannabes collide when they work together at a Manhattan restaurant. There’s lots of amusing interaction as these characters fall in and out of love, sometimes with each other. But there’s also a whimsical tone that can lead to some downright outlandish situations. Director, co-producer and screenwriter, Ken Liotti, grew up in Farmingdale. Mirjan Goldbert coproduces. Film stars Terumi Matthews (Knots Landing, Touched by an Angel), Will Arnet (TV Movie, Grant and Lee), Michael Raynor (Wolf, Law and Order, From Earth to the Moon), Eddie Malavarca (Oz, Law and Order), and Taylor Stanley (Spin City, All My Children).
WEEKI WACHEE GIRLS
Best friends forever, Katie and Maura have dreamed of being part of the live mermaid show at Weeki Wachee Spring for as long as they can remember. It’s the summer of ’79, they’re fifteen and everything is changing; especially when Katie discovers Maura kissing another girl. Writer/director Kim Cummings is from Jackson Heights. Craig Austin produces.
WHITE DUST AND LIES
Documentary. A flash through 50 years as a daughter asks questions as to her father’s death, of Mesothelioma, a cancer caused by asbestos exposure. This is not an uncommon story. As well as workers, hundreds of women and children have been unknowingly exposed to asbestos, and rarely diagnosed. Although living in the United States for a short while, writer/director/producer Barvara Hush was born in and now resides again in Sydney, Australia.
A man breaks out of his quiet existence and embarks on an adventure on the “wild side.” It is a comedy about personal dating, personal undergarment, personal obsessions and”¦.self-discovery. Writer/director/photographer/editor and coproducer Augustine Ma was born in Taiwan and immigrated to the United States as a child. He now resides in Los Angeles. Linda Graves coproduces.
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San Rafael, California, November 6, 2017 – NewGen Surgical, maker of sustainably designed medical devices and surgical products, announced the appointment of new board member Ajmal Noorani. Mr. Noorani, an international business executive, brings experience in a variety of private sector backgrounds.
“As NewGen Surgical sharpens our focus on our core mission of reducing plastic waste in operating rooms by redesigning single-use disposal products, we welcome the addition of this outstanding new board member,” said Rob Chase, Founder and President of NewGen Surgical. “Ajmal’s global experience and expertise in business management and strategic alliances will strengthen NewGen Surgical’s ability to take product innovation to scale and increase our impact internationally.”
Mr. Noorani has over 25 years of experience in rapidly accelerating company growth through sales leadership, business P&L management and strategic alliances in the technology sector on a global scale. Most recently, he played a key role in making GlobalLogic a sizable market leader in Product Engineering, and creating enormous value for investors Sequoia Capital, NEA, and Apax Partners.
In his role as Senior Vice President, Mr. Noorani built and managed strategic relationships with some of the world’s largest technology companies in Silicon Valley and around the world. He has held C-level roles at publicly traded iGate (acquired by CapGemini) and Packeteer (acquired by Symantec), and has led M&A transactions in North America, Europe and Asia. He also helped early stage startups raise funding from venture firms as part of Garage Technology Ventures. Early in his career, he was a Management Consultant at Accenture and AVP Corporate Finance at Mellon Bank. Mr. Noorani holds an MBA from Carnegie-Mellon University and a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering.
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Newsletter-199-September-1987
Newsletter 199: September, 1987 Sept. Editor: Deirdre .Barrie
MINIMART -FUND RAISING - MINIMART - FUND RAISING SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 26 - PLEASE NOTE THIS DATE IN YOUR DIARY NOW:
PROGRAMME NEWS.
Fri-Sat-Sun Sep 11, 12 & 13 Weekend in Abergavenny with John Enderby. We have had, a couple of cancellations, so would very much like to fill these places if any members are interested. All-in price £76, which includes transport, food; accommodation guides, entrance fees and lecturer. Please phone Dorothy Newbury 01-203 0950.
Sat Sept 26 MINIMART 11.30 - 2.30 at St. Mary's Church House, top of Greyhound Hill, Hendon NW4. Please see the enclosed leaflet giving details of goods required and help needed, and names of stallholders. TO ALL MEMBERS: please help in some way. This is our one annual fund-raising project which is open to the public, and which over the years has become a social event as well.
Sat Oct 17 An extra outing has been added to our programme, organised by Mary O'Connell. This will be to Southside House, Wimbledon, for an afternoon visit. We will try to arrange a stop at an excavation on the way if possible. More details and application form will be included in the October Newsletter.
OUR. LECTURE SEASON STARTS ON WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 7
Wed Oct 7 'Medieval Parish Churches in Middlesex' Bridget Cherry
Wed Nov 4 'Late Celtic Art in Britain and Ireland' Dr Graham Campbell
AN APPEAL FROM OUR MEMBERSHIP SECRETARY
I am sorry to report that on going through my records recently there are at least 80 members who have not renewed their subscription and are still receiving the interesting Newsletters each month.
Please send your subscription to my new address: Miss PJ, Fletcher, 31 Addison Way, London. NW11 6AL
Full member £5.00
Additional members same family £1.00 each
Senior Citizen £3.00
Junior Members £3.00
Schools, Corporate members etc. £6.00
Cheques: Hendon & District Archaeological Society
OUTING TO ROYSTON - THERFIELD - STANSTED MOUNTFITCHET by JOYCE CORLET
On 15th August 38 members of HADAS made the visit to 'Royston, Therfield Barrows and Stansted Mountfitchet organised by Peter Griffiths..
Our first stop ws at Royston, a small town at the crossing of Ermine Street and Old Icknield Way. Here the party was split into three to visit Royston Cave while the rest of the party explored Royston itself.
We were met at the entrance to the cave (cave being in the singular) by Mr. F. John Smith, a member of the Royston Historical Society.
We walked down a narrow, steep path cut out of the chalk which led down to a large bell-shaped structure about 28.ft deep and 17 ft across. Carved on every available space round the walls were religious figures and scenes very impressive. The carvings were all stick-like figures and scenes almost, as if they might have been carved by a talented child. The majority of the figures are saints marked by a cross as they are not easily identified. Three figures which have been identified are St Lawrence, who was roasted alive on a red-hot grid, St Katherine who was martyred upon a spiked wheel, and St Christopher with the child Jesus upon his shoulder.
The cave was discovered in 1742. No one knows exactly its significance but it has been suggested it was dug for the Order of the Knights Templar.
We were lucky we had a path to follow as, until fairly recently, the only means of access was being lowered by a rope from the roof or descending vertical ladders.
It is the only Grade One Listed 'hole' in Britain.
Royston also has an excellent little museum mostly composed of fairly recent history like the rules printed for railway passengers in 1851. Among them are such gems as 'Never sit in an unusual place or posture' and special trains and excursions should be avoided. More unsafe than ordinary or usual trains'. The last notice reads 'Without danger, danger cannot be surmounted!
Our next stop was at Stansted tower brick windmill which is celebrating its two hundredth anniversary. It was built in 1787, continually used until 1910 (though for the last fifty years it was only used for grinding animal foods) and was restored in 1966. The more energetic of the party climbed to the top, conducted by Mrs. Honour of the Windmill Committee.
Our next stop was at 'Mountfitchet Castle', the only reconstructed Norman wooden motte and bailey castle built on its original site The original motte and bailey castle was built by a cousin of the Conqueror, on what is believed to have been the site of an early Iron Age Fort and then a Saxon and Viking settlement.
The reconstruction brings to life what life must have been in the 11th Century. Two of the spikes on the protecting walls were topped by heads cut off invaders as a warning to other attackers. Inside the walls are all the ingredients necessary to sustain village life even under siege: the kitchen, the dove-cotes, rabbit warren, a pond in which carp swam, the homes of the villagers, the church, weaving and dyeing house, the blacksmith, the two wells, and then the darker side of life the man left hanging on the gallows, and the prison.
In those days life expectancy was only around 40 years with causes of death being given as Viking raiders, being killed by wolves, wild boar or cholera.
Maybe it was a bit 'twee', but I am quite sure it would awaken an interest in history in many of the children in the School parties which regularly visit it. An excellent outing as usual. Thank you, Mrs. Newbury.
Marion Newbury joined the Society in 1972 at the age of 12 with the job of finds washing at the Burroughs Gardens dig. Although she left Hendon in 1978 to train as a physiotherapist, she has remained an active member and organised several day trips for us in recent years. She is leaving England in September to spend a year in New Zealand.
Hendon Aerodrome The 'Hendon Times' of 6 Aug mentioned that author David Oliver has been asked by the RAF to write a book about the history of Hendon Aerodrome from 1910 up to April 1987. Anyone who worked at or near the airfield or has information or photographs should contact him on 01-449 8607 or write to him at 36 Barnet Gate Lane, Arkley, Hertfordshire.
WESTHORPE - A RUSSIAN CONNECTION-(Continued) (See May and August Newsletters)
I have had a reply from Mr. Clarkson Webb in Surrey. He states that his grandfather, R .P. Elworthy, died in April. 1925. The house was then sold and his grandmother (presumably Helen M. Elworthy) moved to Ranulf Rd Hampstead. She died in 1948.
R.P. Elworthy had business in Russia and after the Revolution both of them gave a lot of help to those who returned from Russia, without means or livelihood.
Mr. Clarkson Webb has never heard of the organisation which was at the top of the notepaper which sparked off this enquiry.
THAT PIPELINE
As the Brockley Hill dig gets under way, we offer a summary of points raised at the Symposium by Graham Sutton, representing the agents of the Lea Valley Water Company.
In the 1960s the company decided to combine with the Colne Valley Co and Rickmansworth and Uxbridge Co to lay the pipe which crosses our borough, in view of a projected rise in demand for domestic and industrial water. Only the first section of the pipe, from Iver to Denham, has so far been completed. It is now proposed to complete the 17 miles extra length, finishing at Arkley reservoir. The cost of laying the main will be enormous and so will the compensation to landowners and other interested parties, which will need to be carefully assessed.
Mr. Sutton provided a 6-inch to 1-mile map of the area on which areas of archaeological interest already identified were shown in pink. The 4½-mile section from Arkley Reservoir to Heriots Wood is not likely to be laid before 1990 and the exact date will depend on demand for water, which has not so far increased as predicted.
When the 24" diameter pipe is laid, a 60-foot wide working strip will be fenced and all topsoil stripped and stacked on one side. A. trench with a minimum width of 3 feet will then be excavated mechanically. The depth will vary between 6 ft 6 ins and 10 ft approximately and it is anticipated that this section would be completed within 12 months. In sections of known archaeological interest, 100 yard sections of the trench would be left open for 24-48 hours when safety allowed. Backfilling would then take place as the main was laid and the topsoil would be relaid when the whole pipe had been laid and tested. A more detailed map of the Brockley Hill area was provided, and sections showing the exact position of the trench in the working strip.
Mr. Sutton pointed out that any delays in the process would increase the compensation element considerably so his clients would not allow progress to be seriously interrupted by archaeological research. Access to the site would be supervised and would be entirely at our own risk: a trench 10 feet deep, into which pipes weighing 9.3 metric tons are being lowered, must be approached with due caution. Nevertheless, the water company will be pleased to co-operate. All drains cut by the trench are accurately recorded end reconnected after the pipe has been laid and pipelaying operatives are skilled in the handling of any unearthed items of interest.
This extremely lucid account of the water company's plan concluded with an offer to keep in touch and provide an update on progress during the next few years. Members who were present at the Symposium will agree that we were very fortunate in having Mr.Sutton as our channel of information.
VOLUNTEERS NEEDED FOR BERMONDSEY ABBEY DIG
Volunteers, please, for the Museum of London dig at Bermondsey Abbey, where part of the site has to be cleared for redevelopment by October 1st.- Experience welcome but not essential. Over-16s only, no upper limit: Any days you can spare would be useful. Work will probably go on during weekends as well in this urgent period. Nearest tube: London Bridge. Contact David Beard (site supervisor) and colleagues on 01-407 1989.
THE BURROUGHS DEVELOPMENT BRIAN WRIGLEY
In connection with this development, referred to in the last Newsletter, the Excavation Working Party recommended that we should seek to make at least a resistivity survey of the land adjoining Greyhound Hill, in the grounds of Sunnyfields School. Under the proposals part of this land, at present open grass, would become a car park. The Borough readily granted permission, and the survey is proceeding.
A team of Marjorie St Clair, Alan Simpson, Alan Lawson, George Sweetland, Victor Jones and Brian Wrigley have been taking turns in this exercise. Our initial wide-spaced grid (not yet quite complete) is beginning to show some patterns, in particular a wide curving band of higher resistances which seems to be beginning to show up as an elliptical shape. The shape, so far revealed, does not seem to accord with it being a buried track - it doesn't look as if it's going anywhere except back on itself! - And we are extending our grid to see what happens to it. We shall no doubt need to do more detailed grids over interesting parts, when we have finished the overall, widely spaced one.
A TUDOR BRICK WALL IN HENDON
HADAS member Mr. Kelly Haughton has been investigating the possibility of preserving an ancient wall in Brent Street, Hendon. He has written to the Borough Librarian, who has sent him the following information:
'It seems that the stretch of wall to which you refer could well be part of the wall enclosing the former St Peter's Ouvroir and before that Brent Lodge.
There appears to have been a house on this site since the mid-18th century; there are four surveys of the Manor and Parish of Hendon, in which the following are described on the site:
1754 Mr Michael Howard, a house and land at Braint Street. Mr. Philimore, tenant
1796 Mrs Hannah Coomes, a dwelling house with yard, barns, gardens,etc. at the corner of Butchers Lane (This is now Queens Road)
1800 The same.
1828 - Heriot Esq.,
At Brent Street Corner of Butchers Lane.
A brick dwelling house with outbuildings yards and gardens
Hitchen-Kemps “Notes on a Survey of Hendon in 1754” made in 1929 mentions "a house at the corner of Brent Street, now a church home called St Peters Ouvroir. The widening of Queens Road about 1925 necessitated cutting part of the garden off and additions and alterations have been made to the house:"
The house was sold in 1903 and was occupied by the St Peter's Home and Sisterhood until its final sale and demolition in 1957. Heriot Road was named after Dr Heriot and his family who were the former occupiers of the property in the 19th century.
The wall facing Brent Street certainly seems to be the same as that shown on our maps round the property since 1754 indeed, at the time planning application was made in building St Peters Court, the minutes of the Building and Town Planning Committee of. 21 October 1957, page 545, item no 32, state:
"The Borough Engineer and Surveyor ... informed the Committee that, in accordance with their previous decision, the Mill Hill and Hendon Historical Society had been consulted but did not consider that the Council could justifiably be asked to secure the preservation of the existing building on the grounds of architectural interest or known historical associations. They add, however, that the wall which bounds the property in Brent Street contains Tudor bricks and is of great interest to those who recognise its antiquity. The Borough Engineer and Surveyor advised the Committee that the present prospective developers intended to retain the wall although part of it would be set back and result to a reduced height of 3 ft and 6 inches.'
Should you wish to see any of the original maps on which the property is shown, they are available for consultation at the Local History Library, by appointment only with the Archivists. Telephone 01-202 5625 extension 55.
Mr. Haughton adds, 'Alas, the beautiful dark red Tudor bricks are crumbling but very, very slowly, thank goodness.'
HADAS OCCASIONAL PAPERS
Victorian Jubilee 1987 marks the hundredth anniversary of the Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria. -
Our booklet Victorian Jubilees published in 1977 has at once a relevance. It deals with events in the Borough of Barnet in the years 1887 and 1897. Its 48 pages are today a great bargain at a. selling price of 50p plus 25p postage: There is something on most parts of the present Borough by various members, the whole edited by Edward Sammes.
ANOTHER BOUQUET FOR 'PINNING DOWN THE PAST -FINDS FROM A HENDON DIG PRICE £1.50 + 25p Postage
The summer number of the 'London Archaeologist carries in its book reviews one by Patricia Clarke of 'Pinning Down the Past’
'This handy little booklet has a title which rather disguises the interest of its contents. A quick riffle through its pages reveals a. number of short articles, illustrated by drawings, dealing with some of the more noteworthy finds from a dig at the site of the former parish clerk's cottage near the Church of St Mary, Hendon. It was carried out in 1973-74 by Hendon & District archaeological Society.
... What could so easily have been fitted deadeningly into an account of one or two pages has here been extended over many pages in a pleasing and enlightening way. In describing the finds, Mr. Sammes tells us not only what each is, but how or where it originated, how it was used, and whether it was commonplace or unusual - in effect, putting each into its full setting much as do the better museum displays. If you are not an expert; you will learn great deal from these articles. They surely represent considerable research by the author.... I like this book. It is interestingly conceived, and its style is so light and digestible that one can take the whole book at virtually one gulp. The non-expert like myself will come away with knowledge and understanding considerably enlarged.'
Both the above are available by post from J. Slatter, 5 Sentinel Square, Hendon, NW4 2EN
SITE-WATCHING
Sites of possible archaeological interest that I would ask members living in the locality to watch, taken from recent Planning Applications:
164 East End Road, N2 Tesco's site,, junction of Circular Road and Colney Hatch. Lane, N12
Plot 60, Priory Gardens, Hale Lane, Edgware
Brockley Cottage, Pipers Green Lane, Edgware
26 Barnet Gate Lane, Arkley
48 Strafford Road; Barnet
1412-1420 High Road, N20
Old Brewery Site, Gt. North Road, Barnet
Rear of 36-38 Kings Rd. Barnet
Hadley Memorial Club, Hadley Highstone
Land at rear of St Stephen's Church, Bells Hill, Barnet
42 Union Street, Barnet
Please contact me on 203..26349 anything of interest is noticed.
GRAHAME-WHITE HANGER - Bill Firth
The Borough planners have issued a draft planning brief for acceptance as a basis for consultation with the Property Services Agency (PSA), the Ministry of Defence and other interested bodies. This envisages retention and preservation of the listed buildings including the officer’s mess, which is at present only recommended for listing.
The East Camp site where these buildings are situated is considered suitable for commercial, educational/institutional or leisure/recreational use.
Acceptance of the brief by the Town Planning and Research Committee as well as the other committees which have an interest in the development of the site would be a big step forward in the preservation of the historical buildings.
We also understand that the PSA has put the site in the hands of agents for sale, subject to whatever planning constraints are put it.- If this is so, it is also good news since it means that any
Buyer is aware of the restrictions before buying. In the meantime, no maintenance is being done on the hangar, which in this summer's weather must be deteriorating further.
Overall there is hope for the future of these buildings, but no room for complacency yet.
EXHIBITIONS AT THE BRITISH MUSEUM AND THE MUSEUM OF LONDON
TED SAMMES
I never cease to be pleased and amazed at the wealth of exhibitions in London.
Ceramic Art of the Italian Renaissance This free exhibition at the British Museum shows the fine painted pottery of the 15/16th century from Italy. There are 276 exhibits - one would be hard-pressed to find such a show elsewhere. While much of the exhibition comes from its own collection's, there is material from ten other sources. I was interested to find six pieces from Reitlinger Collection in Maidenhead on show.
The exhibition is well spaced, and the cases allow both the front and rear of plates etc to be seen. These carry not only designs but dating information. There is also one case devoted to the details of producing a tin glaze plate. This is well worth a study, especially if one realises that mistakes in painting cannot be corrected.
This exhibition is open until September 20 and is free. For the deeply interested, there is an illustrated book at £10.
Palaeolithic - Also at the British Museum is a small exhibition from the Boxgrove, Nr. Chichester dig of the Institute of Archaeology. It displays fossilised bones and flints. Also there is a modern hand-axe which took 10 minutes to make. Perhaps we are not the only throw-away age. The exhibition also contains a tribute to Sir Mortimer and Tessa Verney Wheeler who devoted 10 years to getting the Institute set up. This little exhibition is part of the 50 years celebration of the Institute.
Museum of London I was lucky to see the exhibition 'Londoners the Way We Were' before it closed on August 2. Mostly devoted to pictures, both drawn and painted, it gave a very wide cross-section of London life.
I was amazed to see a potter making sugar moulds at Childs Hill, Hendon in a picture painted by John Thomas Smith (1766-1833). Would someone like to follow this up as a research project to find where this pottery was? Under the title 'Londoners' there is a very fully illustrated book by D.V. Celina Fox, Keeper of Paintings, Prints and Drawings at the Museum.
Marking-Time--This exhibition is open until October 4 (remember the Museum of London does NOT OPEN ON MONDAYS) weekdays 10 am - 6pm, - Sundays 2
This exhibition aims to explore the photograph as an historical document, (a feature of which HADAS has been well aware over the years). It presents both amateur and professional work and suggests that such photography is accessible today to any camera user. A section that specially caught my eye was that devoted to the evolution of the simple camera. This starts with the original Kodak' 'Brownie' in 1901 and ends up with today's disc camera. So nice to see ordinary cameras instead of the expensive ones on show. I particularly noted the Kodak 'Hawkette' in brown mottled bakelite, made about 1930.
PRESS CUTTINGS L.SAGUES
HADAS members who followed the Roman road to Chichester some years ago with Raymond Lowe and visited the villa at Fishbourne on the way must have been delighted with the story of Mrs Lorna Chatfield, now aged 61, who made the first discovery on the site and kept it secret for 49 years. As a child Mrs Chatfield lived in one of the houses which hem in the famous, palatial house and gardens, none of which were visible in 1938. She was learning at school about the Romans, and told her sister and a friend that they were going to dig for Roman remains. They dug by the garden wall with a plasterer's trowel, and at a depth of one foot found three shallow stone steps and an area of black and white mosaic. Their delight and excitement was tempered by the disapproval of the farmer next door, under whose paddock the mosaic obviously extended. He told them to keep quiet; he wasn't going to have any archaeologists nosing about on his land.
Now the land has been sold and Mrs Chatfield has already shown the exact place where she made her discovery. A large area of mosaic has been exposed. As David Rudkin, directing the excavation, says: 'it is an incredible story ... The chances must have been about a million to one:'
The Independent of July 20 carried a long, persuasive article on the plight of medieval wall-paintings in the country churches. David Keys explains, 'The wall-paintings and the churches that house them are not the specific responsibility of English Heritage ... nor are they viewed as a great priority by the Church Commissioners or the General Synod. For most hard-pressed Parish
Churches, the priority for fund-raising is to ensure that the fabric of the church - the stonework and the roof - is repaired'. Meanwhile paintings are flaking off and plaster disintegrating. £37,000 a year is all that can be spared for restoration work for the entire country and the only course for training conservators, at the Courtauld Institute, is likely to close for lack of funds by the end of next year.
David Keys has drawn our attention to a worthy cause. His article, and the superb photographs of Otley and of Hardham Churches (by Suresh Karadia) make one want to rush forth and organise a pressure group. Save England's Heritage is spending money and time on restoring the fabric, of nineteenth century follies. Surely they or some equally public-spirited body, could spare a thought for these ghostly fragile splendours.
COURSE FOR TOURIST GUIDES
HADAS Members who recall Mary O'Connell's fascinating Clerkenwell walks will be interested to learn that she is one of the tutors on a Clerkenwell/Islington Guiding for Tourists Course (Anthony Weaver is the other Tutor). The course begins on October 7 and is on Wednesdays 6:30-830, plus 4 Saturday mornings TBA, 10 am - 1 pm, £35.20 per term. There will be written and practical exams which could qualify for a Clerkenwell/Islington Guides Badge - however the 2-term course is open to non-guides and the examination is not compulsory.
Dept of Extra-Mural Studies, City University, Northampton Sq. EC1
01-253 4399 ex 3268
DAY AND EVENING CLASSES 1987-88.
The Living mast - A Practical Guide to Archaeology G. Williams,
The Institute, Central Square, Hampstead Garden Suburb (01-455 9951) A one-term course on Mondays 7.15-9.15 £20.50 (Senior Citizens, students, half price), enrolment Mon-Fri 9-4.45 from 7.9.87, evenings Mon-Thurs 6-8.30 from 16.9.87
WEA, The Library Golders Green Starting 29.9.87, Tuesdays 8-10 pm Archaeology of Ancient Egypt. David Seaton BA. Two terms, £40 (retired/unwaged £30),
The City University, Northampton Square, London EC1V ORB runs numerous courses on archaeology and local history.- the prospectus contains two-pages of archaeological courses alone (in small print!). Tel 01-253 4599. Most of these courses begin in October or 1988.
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Post-Election Forum Reaffirms Tech’s Core Values
Samira Bandaru on December 6, 2016 in Life
Photo by Samira Bandaru
With the atmosphere a bit uneasy post-election, more-so than after most elections we’ve had in the past, International Ambassadors at Georgia Tech (GTIA) hosted the 2016 Election and Diversity Discussion Forum on Thursday, November 17. The discussion was moderated by Dr. Tia Jackson-Truitt, the Assistant Director of the Center of Engineering Education and Diversity (CEED), and called together various departments on campus to participate in a discussion where students and administrative representatives could express their concerns, discuss how Tech should move forward, and remind the community of Tech’s core values.
Perhaps the most important message to cross the forum was the obvious yet necessary reminder that Tech’s campus values have not changed. The racist, homophobic, sexist and xenophobic comments that have been thrown across the political spectrum, prompting people to feel empowered to act on their hatred, do not give anyone in the Tech community the permission to act the same way and compromise Tech’s core values. Bigotry, discrimination, and hateful rhetoric have and never will be tolerated on Tech’s campus, and doing so will result in disciplinary action or criminal charges.
The Technique spoke with Maithili Appalwar, third-year IE and Vice President of Outreach of GTIA for more insight into the purpose of the 2016 Election and Diversity Discussion Forum. “Post-elections, international students were feeling a lot of uncertainty on campus about their rights as minorities, visa and sponsorship statuses and their place on campus given the current rhetoric. We just wanted to create a place where they could vent,” said Appalwar. “Our events tried to target international and minority students but were open to anyone because we wanted to encourage healthy dialogue between diverse people on campus. I don’t think we anticipated [holding this event]. I’ve always wanted to hold some kind of event to promote diversity on campus, but I never imagined that the rhetoric around the country would be so bad after the election that we’d have to do it on a emergency level. I’m thankful for the support that we received from different administration departments, especially OIE and CEED.”
With regards to how Tech intends to tackle the issue of mollifying students’ worries concerning their rights, a variety of resources are available to allow students to voice their concerns. “The presence of administrative representatives from various departments at our events is a pretty good start and shows their willingness to understand our concerns and guide us to the right resources if they exist or help us create new ones if they don’t,” said Appalwar. “ We had people from the Office of International Education (OIE), CEED, Dean of Students, Office of Minority Educational Development, Office of Hispanic Initiatives (OHI), and Center for Student Diversity and Inclusion (CSDI), Undergraduate Admissions and New Students and Sophomore Programs, which was an amazing turnout given their busy schedules. President Peterson’s heartfelt message during International Education Week is also immensely supportive. That being said, I would have liked if there was an institute wide email that just reminded students of our values and ideals as a Yellow Jacket Family.”
In addition, educating the student body on the consequences of potential new policies relieve some uncertainty. “It would be nice if OIE could explain to international students what the power of the government really is with regard to previously issued visa statuses – none of us can predict the President-Elect’s policies, but it would be great if we understood what effect potential policies could have on us. It would just help in reducing the uncertainty for international and minority students. Since uncertainty often breeds fear, I think this would have been a great step.”
The discussion affirmed Tech’s shared core values and reminded the community that regardless of our political views, hateful action and rhetoric will never be tolerated.
Copyright 2018 Samira Bandaru, Editor-in-Chief, and the Georgia Tech Board of Student Publications
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Reader Submission by Bill Thornton
About twelve months ago, I was invited down to have a look at the Live Well, Eat Well allotment run by Pendle Leisure Trust at Hodge House Allotments, Nelson.
Upon arrival at the allotments, the first thing that grabbed me was the sheer size of the operation. The area is taking up by more than a hundred self contained allotments. Each allotment has its own unique character with a variable amount of sheds, caravans, polytunnels and greenhouses adorning each plot. One allotment in particular housed a homemade greenhouse constructed entirely out of recycled plastic bottles and it soon become apparent that life in allotment world is very much waste-not, want-not. An old bath or toilet can quickly be transformed in to a floral masterpiece or strawberry haven. My colleague Chris and I quickly quenched our thirsts with some wonderful ice cold Elderflower juice which we were presented with and at that point we decided that we wanted a slice of life on the allotment. Upon making enquiries we were informed that there was a large waiting list but our application would be considered should any plots become available (highly unlikely as waiting lists across the country are growing by the day) then in May of this year we got the call….
Due to work/life commitments, Chris and I had already decided that we were going to share at an allotment as spare time was of the essence and our prior knowledge was limited (I had previously tended to a small blueberry bush and Chris had helped his mum pull up a few onions from her garden!) After having a little tour of the available allotments, we ended up selecting a plot that appeared to need less work and was south-facing to maximise the power of the sun. We soon realised that this year was all about preparation for next year. We have missed the majority of the growing season so our intention was (or still is) to prepare the land, fix the fences, get the necessary greenhouses and polytunnels in place and maintain the leaky caravan. Now bearing in mind that our allotment had been dormant for about three years, you can probably imagine the size and depth of the weeds and grass. We purchased a petrol strimmer (the lack of electricity on the allotment is something that you quickly get used to) and Chris got to work with the powerful beast and soon revealed five beds that had previously been constructed as well as a pathway that went right down the middle of the allotment.
My main role was now to fork the soil, removing the myriad dock leaves and assorted weeds and prepare a bed fit for planting. We had been donated several plants and seedlings so decided to plant them and hope for the best. Chris was now concentrating his efforts on the deconstruction of the chicken coop that we had been left with. Our allotment neighbours had informed us that the previous tenants had been contacted by the local RSPCA and subsequently evicted due to the condition of the would-be egg making factory and its inhabitants. This monstrosity of a shack made with corrugated iron, kitchen cabinet doors and any other bits of wood was proving a real nightmare for Chris but he eventually got through it, separating the good wood from the rotten. It was now time to plant for the first time. We were both excited at this prospect because at the end of the day that was why we were there. Our fellow allotmenteers busied themselves with pigeons, chickens and bees but our intention is primarily to grow. After only a couple of months in the business I can definitely see the benefits of having an allotment. It is a ‘safe haven’, somewhere to go to reflect, take away the stress of modern life and more importantly quite literally see the fruit of your labours! I suppose only time will tell whether all the effort is worth it or if it’s easier to simply visit the fruit and veg aisle of the local supermarket.
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Seeking Undiscovered Music
By Damin Spritzer
One of the things that most fascinated me when I was an organ student at conservatory was my classes in organ literature. They introduced me to hundreds of composers whom I would otherwise likely have never had the opportunity to encounter in regular church or concert life. The number of musicians who have been inspired to write down their compositions and improvisations over the past centuries is astonishing when we stray off the beaten path.
In my organ literature teaching at UNT and OU, I feel it’s imperative that all my students be exposed to, and familiar with, the canon repertoire: those great musicians upon whose shoulders Western musicological history is built. They are vital to understanding the trajectory of music, culture, religion, and history. But I confess – I truly delight in my classes when I start sharing the music of the innumerable composers who surrounded these giants. The composers who worked with them, studied with them, served as scribe or amanuensis, confidante, student, colleague, correspondent, or inspiration, all have played a role in the trajectory of the development of organ music. The joy of the classroom when all lean in and say, “I’ve never heard this before!” is special, and my hope is that it will continually give rise to new scholarship and research. And I truly hope that my own story will be useful and encouraging.
It will come as no surprise that such an experience was transformative for my personal musical life as scholar and performer. After having spent some years on another composer only to learn that other excellent projects had already been undertaken and released, I felt a little bereft until I had the opportunity to spend some time with our beloved Michael Barone, whose repository of organ knowledge is exceeded by almost none! I told him of my dilemma and that I was seeking a new doctoral project, and without hesitation he said, “Becker!” I said, “Who?” But my exposure to the largely unknown music of René Louis Becker at that critical academic moment completely changed the trajectory of my studies. My fervent hope is to provide similar pivotal moments in the lives of those whose studies in organ coincide with my time as one of their professors.
I feel incredibly lucky – the Becker family, headed by Julius (Jay) Becker, was utterly kind and receptive, and it turned out that they had spent a number of years looking for someone to help bring his father’s music back into the public eye. As a student and scholar, it was a stunning surprise to discover box upon box of manuscripts in their basement home, waiting for opportunity.
I cannot help but include the fact that the road has been long, and occasionally, difficult. I imagine many of you will identify with this deeply. We know that scholarship is a labor of (hopefully) love and (sadly) funding. My trips to study the scores, interview Jay, and speak with the family were limited to what I could afford (once or twice annually). The scores ultimately contained as many questions as answers, and much primary source material may be lost to the ravages of time. My love for the music was unstinting, however. And I try to share that with my students in a way that is both realistic and encouraging.
That initial conversation with Michael has led to a doctoral dissertation, two worldpremier recordings in France on significant historic instruments with a third disc planned to be recorded in the states, a monograph-in-progress, lectures, and a series of critical editions of Becker’s music (both previously-published and in manuscript) with Volume I having been released in the summer of 2016 through Wayne Leupold. The next two volumes will be devoted toccatas both published and still in manuscript. And the preface contains information from my dissertation as well as an important section from Charles Echols on performance practice in that era.
Though I do feel astonishingly fortunate, this has been intense labor over the last decade. But I would not trade a single moment of it, and I hope that the music continues to be well-received because I believe that it has a very significant place in present times for study, liturgy, and the concert stage.
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Spotlight on CMF artist: Madisen Ward & the Mama Bear
This week, we are highlighting some of the artists playing the 10th annual Crossroads Music Fest. For more info or ticketing information, please visit cmfkc.com.
Madisen Ward & the Mama Bear quietly released their first album, We Burned the Cane Field, in 2012 (recorded/produced by Joel Nanos at Element Recording). It was relatively unknown and received very little press (The Deli KC published a review in 2013). The mother/son duo of Ruth and Madisen Ward continued performing week to week in coffeehouses and smaller venues, gaining a reputation for its profound songwriting, having two intriguing powerhouse voices, and an earnest charm that connected with audiences.
Mostly by word of mouth, Madisen and Ruth’s music has captured the attention of many in the KC area and beyond. We talk a bit with Madisen Ward about how the band came to be and what they have planned.
The Deli: How would you describe your music in one sentence?
Madisen Ward: An organic tribute to imperfection.
The Deli: Give us some background on the band. Why did you and your mom decide you would play together?
Madisen: We have been a band for 4 years now. My mother started singing at the age of 19; living a semi-nomadic life, singing in coffeehouses throughout the US. I grew up listening to her sing in coffeehouses, never realizing the impact her music and inspirations would have on me in the future. I picked up the guitar in my later teens and started singing even later. After high school, we discovered how much we enjoyed performing together, so I began writing music for both of us to sing in coffeehouses. We've been playing wherever we can, and as much as we can ever since.
The Deli: Madisen, what’s it like to be in a band with your mom? And Ruth, what’s it like to work with your son?
Madisen: It's a very interesting and unique experience working with my mother. We were already connected as mother and son, so connecting as musicians was a very natural process.
Ruth: It's a great experience, and I'm learning a lot from my son while enjoying the process as well. I feel like we're tackling music in ways I never have before.
The Deli: Your first album, We Burned the Cane Field, came out in 2012. Do you have any new stuff in the works?
Madisen: We have lots of new material. Songs that we're real excited to share with everyone, but the actual recording date is undetermined at this time. We're looking forward to recording as soon as possible!
The Deli: What has been your biggest accomplishment as a band?
Madisen: We just recently announced that we'll be opening for the legendary B.B. King on October 1 at The Midland (Facebook event page). This is probably our greatest accomplishment so far. It is a humbling honor to share the evening with such an amazing blues icon!
The Deli: What does the future hold for Madisen Ward & the Mama Bear?
Madisen: Touring and recording is what we're wanting to accomplish for the upcoming months. We just recently signed on with the William Morris Endeavor Agency, and we couldn't be more excited to embark on this journey!
The Deli: Who are your favorite local and non-local musicians right now?
Madisen: A couple of Mama Bear's favorite musicians are Tracy Chapman and John Gorka. A couple of mine are Nick Drake and Tom Waits. Kansas City has a very unique and vibrant music scene; we'd rather not pick any one local musician as our favorite.
The Deli: Who are you looking forward to seeing at Crossroads Music Fest this year?
Madisen: I'm excited to see many bands, including The Philistines whom we're sharing a venue with. Me Like Bees is a band I'm excited to see as well.
The Deli: Where can we find you on the web?
Madisen: http://www.facebook.com/MadisenWardAndTheMamaBear
The Deli: Always go out on a high note. Any last words of wisdom for the Deli audience?
Madisen: No matter what you pursue; respect others while pursuing it. With all due respect, We're all due respect.
Madisen Ward & the Mama Bear will be playing at The Tank Room for Crossroads Music Fest on Saturday. They will be playing at 10:00 pm, right after Maria the Mexican and right before The Philistines.
--Michelle Bacon
Michelle Bacon is editor of The Deli KC and plays in bands.
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Post by tommygormanxenu » Thu Jul 13, 2006 4:43 am
Hello I want to know of any more deaths that scientology caused by people not getting to take the medication that was needed to keep them heathy and well . I know of the guy that stabbed his mom 77 times on LRons bday. The 17 days of lisa mcphersons death and how the cult settled out of court cause they were wrong. Please write any others you know of thanks everyone.
This is my own opinion. I'd rather die speaking the truth about the harms of the cult of scientology than hide and be afraid.
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Post by d1684 » Wed Feb 16, 2011 4:52 am
Have you read "The Fable"? It lists dozens of them.
> Flo Miller, David Miscavige's mother-in-law died of several gunshot wounds after she reportedly had an argument with him
>James Stewart , OT III Class VII auditor, jumped to his death. He was executive director of the Durban Org.
> A woman from Switzerland jumped to her death while going through OT levels in Clearwater. Several people were sent to RPF
>John Colletto became psychoitc and sucidal while on OT III in 1979. He shot his wife to death and later killed himself. This occured in front of ASHO in LA.
>David Sandweiss was murdered after refusing to commit suicide by orders from the GO (R2-45).
>A woman "drowned" in a bathtub at Flag
>A girl on Hubbard's Sea Org back in the 60's "shot herself", which is odd since Hubbard was the only one on the ship with guns (That one's in A Piece of Blue Sky, I think).
>And the list goes on and on.
"[If] anyone wants a monopoly on Dianetics, be assured that he wants it for reasons which have to do not with dianetics but with profit." —Dianetics by L.Ron Hubbard..who made $640 million dollars from Dianetics. Just a Coincidence.
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Post by skeptic2girl » Wed Feb 16, 2011 8:49 am
d1684 wrote: Have you read "The Fable"? It lists dozens of them.
from "Bare-Faced Messiah":
http://www.clambake.org/archive/books/bfm/bfm18.htm
Susan Meister, a twenty-three-year-old from Colorado, had joined the crew of the Apollo in February 1971, having been introduced to Scientology by friends while she was working in San Francisco. When she arrived on the ship she was a typically eager and optimistic convert and wrote home frequently, urging her family to 'get into' Scientology. 'I just had an auditing session,' she wrote on 5 May. 'I feel great, great, great and my life is expanding, expanding and it's all Scientology. Hurry up! Hurry, hurry. Be a friend to yourselves - get into this stuff now. It's more precious than gold, it's the best thing that's ever ever ever ever come along. Love, Susan.'
By the time of her next letter, on 15 June, the Commodore's conspiracy theories had clearly made an impression. 'I can't tell you exactly where we are. We have enemies who . . . do not wish to see us succeed in restoring freedom and self-determination to this planet's people. If these people were to find out where we were located they would attempt to destroy us . . .'
Ten days later, when the Apollo was docked in the Moroccan port of
Safi, Susan Meister locked herself in a cabin, put a .22 target revolver to her forehead and pulled the trigger. She was found at 7.35 pm lying across a bunk, wearing the dress her mother had sent her for her birthday, with her arms crossed and the revolver on her chest. A suicide note was on the floor.
Local police were called, but the death of an American citizen inevitably alerted US consular officials and exposed the Apollo to the kind of attention that Hubbard had been trying to avoid for years. Following the Commodore's oft-repeated doctrine, the Sea Org went on to the attack. Susan Meister, who had seemed a rather quiet and reserved young woman to her friends, was portrayed as an unstable former drug addict who had made previous attempts at suicide; Peter Warren, the Apollo's port Captain, hinted that compromising photographs of her had been found.
These smear tactics were soon extended to embrace William Galbraith, the US vice-consul in Casablanca, who had driven to Safi to make inquiries into the incident. On 13 July, he had lunch with Warren and Joni Chiriasi, another member of the crew, at the Sidi Bouzid restaurant in Safi before being taken to look round the ship. Afterwards, Warren and Chiriasi both signed affidavits accusing Galbraith of threatening the ship - 'He said that if the ship became an embarrassment to the United States, Nixon would order the CIA to sink or sabotage it.' Galbraith also allegedly referred to the Church of Scientology as a 'bunch of kooks' and speculated that the ship was being used as a brothel or a casino or for drug-trafficking.
Next day, Norman Starkey, captain of the Apollo, forwarded copies of the affidavits to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in Washington, with a covering letter complaining that Galbraith had threatened 'to murder the vessel's company of 380 men, women and children, many of whom are Americans'. Letters were also sent to John Mitchell, the Attorney General, and to the Secret Service, all with copies to President Nixon, who was yet to be engulfed by Watergate.
A few days later, Susan Meister's father arrived in Casablanca to investigate his daughter's death but found it impossible to make headway with the disinterested Moroccan authorities, who were somewhat more concerned with a recent attempted coup d'état than a lone American making inquiries about his daughter. Meister, who refused to believe that Susan had committed suicide, could not even discover where her body was being kept and in desperation he turned to L. Ron Hubbard for help.
He later wrote a dispiriting account of his visit to the ship, escorted by Peter Warren: 'Passing the guarded gates into the port compound, we had our first look at Hubbard's ship Apollo. It appeared to be old
and as we boarded it, the girls manning the deck gave us a hand salute. All were dressed in work-type clothing of civilian origin. Most appeared to be young. Upon boarding, we were shown the stern of the ship, which was used as a reading-room, with several people sitting in chairs reading books. The mention of Susan seemed to meet with disapproval from those on board . . . we were shown where Susan's quarters were in the stern of the ship below decks where it appeared fifty or so people were sleeping on shelf-type bunks. Susan's letter had mentioned she shared a cabin all the way forward with one other person. Next we were shown the cabin next to the pilot house on the bridge where the alleged suicide had taken place . . . We were not allowed to see any more of the ship. I requested an interview with Hubbard as he was then on board. Warren said he would ask. He returned in about half an hour and said Hubbard had declined to see me.'
After his return to America, Meister discovered to his anger and astonishment that his daughter had been buried even before he arrived in Morocco. He arranged to have the body exhumed and returned to the United States, but before the remains of Susan Meister were put to rest, a final dirty trick was played: Meister's local health authority in Colorado received an anonymous letter warning of a cholera epidemic in Morocco that had so far caused two or three hundred deaths. 'It's been brought to my attention,' wrote the poison pen, 'that the daughter of one George Meister died in Morocco, either by accident or cholera, probably the latter.'[12]
There's also "The Unfunny Truth about Scientology," a video on youtube. However, I think d1684 might have covered all of the deaths that are detailed there.
"The truth is out there."
Post by d1684 » Wed Feb 23, 2011 2:45 pm
I found this website: http://www.whyaretheydead.info/
What someone should do is compile all the mysterious deaths (Which would include Elron's), suicides, and murders connected to Co$ and call it "The Scientology Book of The Dead".
Post by Ladybird » Wed Feb 23, 2011 3:33 pm
This is a good article: Death of a Scientologist http://www.scientology-lies.com/press/c ... ogist.html
I recently read "Stolen Lives: Twenty Years in a Desert Jail" by Malika Oufkir, her father was General Oufkir who was executed during the turmoil that was going on in Morocco at the time Hubbard brought the ship there and tried to meddle in politics, offering his "lie detector/e-meter" to identify those unloyal to the King. This is also when and where Susan Meister supposedly commited suicide. I think there is more to Susans story and I hope someone who was there at the time will tell what really happened.
Looking at it from a historical perspective; it was incredibly irresponsible and totally insane for L. Ron Hubbard to take a rusty old ship full of inexperienced young men, women and children to such a dangerous place. It would be todays equivalent of taking a ship of kids to Somalia to recruit the pirates.
"Fools rush in where Angels fear to tread."
[i]"There is nothing as wild in the books of Man as will probably happen here on Earth...it will happen and be allowed to happen simply because all this is so incredible that nobody will even think of stopping it until it is far, far too late"~LRH[/i]
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Post by tamasin-sp » Fri Mar 04, 2011 9:07 pm
Thanks for posting this Ladybird.
I knew of Greg Bashaw, but had not read such a detailed account. Unfortunately, this seems to be all too familiar from so many different people.
I met a man, or should I say he approached me, as if he knew who I was, at one of the pickets in London, we didn't speak for long, but he told me a similar tale about his brother. I never got a name and I have have never seen him since, but he seemed sincere and also nervous of scientology.
This is very tragic.
Look at our brokenness.
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Only the human family
Has strayed from the sacred way.
Teach us love,compassion,honour
That we may heal the earth
And heal each other.(part of an Ojibway prayer)
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Post by The Great Zorg » Sun Apr 10, 2011 3:45 pm
Liam wrote: http://www.whyaretheydead.net
Dead link with clam promo.
The cult of scientology is a mind controlling poison that if not universally recognized as such will poison the world.
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Post by Really?? » Thu Apr 12, 2012 2:21 am
Can someone send more info on the book The Fable? I have tried to locate info on it but I'm not having any luck
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Post by another123 » Thu Apr 12, 2012 3:55 am
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1) whyaretheydead.info seems to be timing out.
2) shortcut that still works: whyaretheydead.has.it
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Post by RobertPaug » Fri Mar 04, 2016 11:34 pm
I know your intentions are good, but do you seriously expect any American politician to hold hearings on a church?
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Welcome, RobertPaug. Get two more posts approved and you can be a regular poster.
The IRS is perfectly empowered to grant or deny charity status, and judges and juries are empowered to judge guilt or innocence in a wrongful death. The legislature and executive branch in the US would only get involved to approve or deny budget handouts to "faith-based charities," to regulate the e-meter's obvious medical effects, and to prevent false advertising.
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Fear was palpable. Or hardly ever. Is he afraid it will see inside him? Duch talks to heaven, which in this case is a white ceiling. He explains his position to me. He makes phrases. I catch him lying. I offer precise information. He hesitates. When in a difficult situation, Duch rubs his face with his damaged hand. He breathes loudly. He massages his forehead and his eyelids, and then he examines the neon lighting. I stare at his irritated, bristling flesh. And he needs to talk to me. To continue the discussion. To win me over. A man who stalks his humanity. A disturbing man. Should we go on? A soldier walked up and, without a word, signaled that we should get moving again.
The losers would do. Vann Bbe and my favor crew stood beside me. A check trapped up and, without a level, signaled that we should get real again.
My father sighed and clenched his fists. The scene was repeated twice more. The Khmer Rouge spoke a rather odd language, using words I knew little or not at all. We set out on foot, and then the sun sank behind the rice fields. He reflected upon them. Observed them carefully. What theory? My father disappeared into the forest, ties in hand, and came back after hiding his former life. Under the white-hot sky, sweating and suffering, they excavated a ditch. How many of them were there? They were executed. Nothing remains of those mass graves, some of which may have been immense. As the years passed, the Khmer Rouge planted cassava root and coconut palms, which have since consumed bodies and Bbw party salt in kampong cham.
Duch Bbw party salt in kampong cham Phnom Penh with his entire crew: Some of these men were also former professors. Mam Nay had been in prison with Duch, his friend, his double. They both spoke French fluently, and they had an almost intuitive mutual understanding. The new history had begun; the murderers were waiting in the outskirts of the capital. Later I show Duch a photograph of Bophana before she was tortured. Black eyes, black hair. She seems impassive. Already elsewhere. He holds the photo a long time. He seems moved. Is it compassion? Is it memory? Is it his own emotion that touches him? Most necessities were unobtainable: Prices skyrocketed. For my thirteenth birthday on April 18, my mother had bought a ham on the sly and had it caramelized.
It must have cost tens of thousands of riels. Vendors started refusing to take banknotes. The effect was devastating. How could we eat, how could we drink, how could we live without money? Bartering had sprung up again as soon as the evacuation began, and now it was widespread. The rich became poorer; the poor stripped themselves bare. My provident mother had brought away with us a quantity of sheets, which she exchanged for food. Those big pieces of fabric were very useful. My mother was able to obtain some mess tins, some American army spoons, a bucket, a pan, and a boiling kettle so that we could drink, risk-free, water from the Bassak River.
We came to realize that this trend was irreversible. Years later I looked at some extraordinary archival photographs; they show the Central Bank of Cambodia right after the revolutionaries blew it up. Only the corners of the building remain, sad pieces of metal-reinforced lace-work standing over rubble. The message is clear. Is it the money that disgusts them? Or the desire to consume that it reveals? Exchange is supposed to have unrecognized capabilities. Free exchange, which is the term used for barter. A gift is something else. I lived for four years in a society without currency, and I never felt that the absence of money made injustice easier to bear.
Nothing could be estimated, or esteemed, anymore—not human life or anything else. Nothing could be assessed anymore? Well not exactly nothing, because throughout that whole period, gold never stopped discreetly circulating. It had extraordinary power. With gold you could cause what had disappeared to appear again—penicillin, for example. Rice, sugar, tobacco. The Khmer Rouge were full participants in such trafficking. Other archival images: Nailed wooden crates, discovered in a warehouse. Inside, under sheets of transparent plastic, the official banknotes of the new country. So it seems that Democratic Kampuchea had its currency ready to circulate after all.
What happened? Logistical problems? Further doctrinal radicalization? The new currency was never used. We bartered what we could—in the beginning, exchanges of that sort were tolerated—but very soon, we had nothing left to exchange. What to call it? Organized exodus? Forced march? Or that the American bombers were already circling over the capital. Those centers of commerce, of corruption, of debauchery, of every sort of trafficking were to be emptied. Hospitals and clinics were to be emptied too. The evacuation of the capital prefigured the overall plan that we now know was in place. The first political decision of the new order was to shake up the society: The forced evacuations took place at the same time all over the country, and no cities were excepted.
And so the complete overthrow of society began. Very quickly, as one may imagine, there were thousands of deaths and a great many sick and starving people. The hypothesis is, unfortunately, absurd. Why would the revolutionaries protect members of the class they hated? And they got what they wanted: I called her Aunt Tha. She and her husband, Uch Ven, had studied in France and then returned to Cambodia. He died of malaria, Duch informed me. His wife lived in Phnom Penh with their children. I liked to go to visit her because they had an electric train.
The police had her under constant surveillance. Nothing in her past or present seemed to trouble my father. He appreciated the woman—her intelligence, her life story, her courage—and she was a frequent guest in our home. She was like one of the family. And then he told me this story: The important man and his son left, no doubt gratified by the thought of what awaited the other pupil. Now run on home. I knew about it. Moreover there was nothing left in the capital but the government, the administration, a few embassies whose personnel were sequestered, a few rare factories, and S prison. Nothing could approach that vast, secret complex.
Duch continues: She knew everybody. Duch, everybody knew you! By mentioning this report, Duch affirms his humanity and his solidarity with his suffering fellow Cambodians. The famine spared no one. It comes in a murmur that requires careful attention on the part of the listener. I put his last sentence into logical form: And we believed our lie. They are not him. The revolutionary is the other guy. My family on the road: He was a poor orphan whom my parents, in accordance with Cambodian tradition, had taken in; they were feeding him, clothing him, and giving him a proper upbringing.
Phal did his share of the household chores. We all took turns collecting eggs, feeding the ducks and the dogs, washing the floor, and doing the laundry. This was only to be expected in a house where some fifteen people lived. We stopped for two days in a pagoda at Koh Thom, not far from an immense automobile graveyard where displaced persons had abandoned their vehicles. We were shut up inside the pagoda, and it was there that the first count was made. After that the counts never stopped. How many of us were there? Where did our family come from? The Khmer Rouge were insistent, almost aggressive. Then—together with our luggage, which seemed to be getting heavier and heavier—we were put on a boat at night, and we approached the Vietnamese frontier.
Phnom Penh was far away. Everything was mysterious. Up until then the idea of Buddhist monks engaged in rice production would have been unthinkable, but bonzes from that pagoda were hard at work in the paddies. Others were being consulted by all sorts of people. We learned that a general was under house arrest. We could barely make out his silhouette. He seemed immobile. One evening the Khmer Rouge demand that we unpack our baggage. Without a word we spread out all our things, flat on the ground and spaced well apart. The Khmer Rouge want to know who we are. They find no document, no sign of collaboration with the enemy.
The fifteen-year-old child soldiers were like men. And we were, so to speak, naked. One of them took apart a little notebook in which my sister had glued various souvenirs and removed an old visiting card. He showed it to us without a word: We were terrified. Nothing at all. I discovered a harsh world where you had to plunge into cold water bristling with reeds, feel around the muddy bottom, and empty the fish traps. We planted rice, corn, and cassava root. Phal suffered from terrible attacks of diarrhea, one of which nearly killed him in the course of a few hours.
I can still remember my eldest sister washing his soiled pants in the river several times a day. We were close, the two of us, and I was very sad, but he finally recovered. Phal was familiar with peasant life, and so he gained a sort of ascendancy. Topics of discussion: In a month Phal changed. He became bitter. His consciousness had been raised. Or was it his resentment? The man jotted down everything in his notebook. And the way everyone takes care of you! You ought to be ashamed of yourself! Its flooding waters, muddy and lugubrious, reached the edge of the forest.
That river was the center of our existence. The school year was lost, but my father was apparently the only one of us who still gave any thought to that. Because I was only thirteen, I was allowed to remain with my parents. The old man entrusted his oxen to me.
Those enormous beasts, which would breathe down my neck and come to sudden stops for no reason at all, made me uncomfortable. They would disregard me like divinities gazing dry-eyed upon the earth. A child told me I should partty behind them and strike them with a stick. I ate my meals, for example, Bbw party salt in kampong cham my praty parents and my niece and chaam no one else. When a pig was slaughtered each family in attendance would be called by name and given a bit of fat. Food distribution always took place in two stages: Money was still refusing to disappear, and some among us were dreaming of on millionaires.
Then everything stopped. The atmosphere of those first months, as I perceived it, was characterized more by distrust than by fear. Everything surprised me. Around the same time, we received some sacks of hard corn, an official gift paarty our Chinese comrades. The kernels were huge, pale, and infested by insects. In the old days, ;arty corn was usually fed to pigs, but we picked over those kernels, one by one. A peasant who saw how hungry I was offered me some dog. A man eats a dog, I thought. What an idea. Two friends and I spotted a peninsula, and I swam out to it. I found fish and shellfish there: I tied my catch around my partu and swam back, nearly drowning from sheer fatigue in the process.
The river was ferrying along parts of trees, great blocks of earth, exhausted animals … Why deny it? It was an adventure. I discovered peasant life in all its harshness and power. When I describe how I caught fish with my bare hands? Soon the prohibitions and vexations began to multiply. Communal living grew harder. One morning I saw a harrowing sight: I thought about the famine and all the fighting. Weeks passed. More bodies appeared in the river. Some of them got caught on steel-hard roots near the bank. We went closer. There was no blood, but the bodies had large purple bruises and deep cuts. Those men and women had been executed.
Revolutions are hungry. The prospect of telling my great adventure story began to fade in my mind, as did the hope of returning to my former life. Militiamen hid under the bamboo floor to listen in on our conversations. They heard my father wondering about Ieng Sary. Where was he now? Was he aware of the turn the revolution was taking? Would the two of them meet again? That celebrated name petrified the Khmer Rouge, who spared my parents. The cold season came, heralded by the north wind and the subsidence of the big river. I went home in tears, trembling with fever and staggering in the clayey mud. The rice ripened, the cassava matured, and all the plants gave their fruits.
But the Angkar decided that we had to leave. So we went on foot from Koh Tauch to where a motor boat was waiting for us, and we were taken to the other bank of the Bassac. Frequently these were invented words based on existing ones; they mixed up sounds and meanings in disconcerting ways. Everything seemed to glide. To slip. Why did they use santebal, not the traditional wordnokorbal, to designate the police? Another new word I discovered was kamaphibal. The Khmer Rouge made many families, including mine, climb into these vehicles. We drove into the suburbs of Phnom Penh.
Everything looked empty. But many of the passengers in the trucks rejoiced, thinking they were going to return to their homes and—why not? The convoy of trucks made a sudden turn. We were hungry and thirsty. The truck we rode in rattled along a dirt road that seemed to have no end. It stopped at last in the middle of the rice fields. The trucks discharged their passengers—the air was heavy with dust and gasoline vapors—and the convoy drove off. I tried to make out a village or some kind of shelter, but in vain. The old people, the women, and we children sat down on the road.
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You could hear people murmuring and sighing. Nobody dared to speak. From time to time a Khmer Rouge came out of nowhere, made sure we were all there, and left without a word. I remember the night was starry. Rustling, hissing, croaking sounds rose up from all around us.
The countryside seemed to be in heat. Then the terrible sun began to climb the sky. A soldier brought us some bread and left us there in the middle of the immense rice field. A few days later, we got into some cattle cars in a rail yard. She also harbors a secret, known only to her and her faithful companions. Will her everlasting quest for love ever come to an end? The elections represented a special milestone for Afghan women, who had endured secondclass citizenry their entire lives. Numerous links between past venues in Long Beach, Californiaand Phnom Penh and its artists continues.
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The one on Wilshire near the Ambassador Hotel
At one point, there were several of them in Los Angeles but only one (the one on Wilshire opposite the Ambassador Hotel) was constructed so that when you walked in the front door, it looked like you were walking into a giant hat.
That was the original Brown Derby, which opened on Valentine’s Day of either 1926 or 1929 (accounts differ) and moved one block away in 1937. The other main locations were (1) near Hollywood and Vine, (2) near Wilshire and Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills, and (3) at Los Feliz Boulevard and Hillhurst in the Los Feliz area. There were also a few short-lived ones in other spots. All served mostly American fare in a semi-plush manner with very attentive service.
Apart from the gimmick of the name and pretty good food, they had two things going for them. One was the Cobb Salad, which was invented at the Brown Derby, which was owned by the Cobb family. As the delicacy caught on in other eateries, there was much publicity as to where it had begun, and many people wanted to go and try the original. Many people also wanted to dine where the stars ate, and that was an even better reason to dine at the Derby. Like many restaurants where the big attraction is celebrity clientele, the proprietors advertised their famous patrons by covering the walls with their caricatures.
The one near Hollywood and Vine
The Brown Derby near Hollywood and Vine was situated in area from which many network radio shows were broadcast, so stars were always eating there. It was not uncommon for the cast of a program to do a performance for the East Coast, then repair to The Derby for food and libation before returning to the studio for the West Coast transmission. This caused the Brown Derby to be mentioned often on their shows. When TV shows began to emanate from some of the same studios in the fifties, there were occasional live remotes from that Brown Derby. The Ralph Edwards show, This is Your Life, always began by surprising some celebrity, often in a location very close to the studio from which the program was telecast. During the years that This is Your Life came from the Pantages Theater on Hollywood Boulevard, they often used the Derby, which was right around the corner. The night Edwards surprised Harold Lloyd there, Groucho Marx was in the next booth (on a break from filming You Bet Your Life at NBC’s nearby Sunset and Vine studio) and Marx began heckling Edwards as the latter attempted to hustle Mr. Lloyd across Vine Street. Well, who wouldn’t want to eat in a place where that kind of thing happened?
The Sunset-Vine Brown Derby also had a lovely banquet room and courtyard so it was the scene of many wrap parties and show biz press gatherings. All that “in” spot mystique spilled over to the Beverly Hills location and gave it a similar rep. On I Love Lucy, when Lucy, Fred and Ethel arrived in Hollywood and wanted to go somewhere to see the stars, they went to the Brown Derby…where Lucy caused a plate of food to be dumped on the head of Brown Derby regular William Holden. That was probably good for another five years of tourists flocking to the place.
The one on Wilshire in Beverly Hills
Eventually though, business declined and Brown Derbies began closing down. I was an occasional patron of the Hollywood/Vine one in its last years, largely because I was working on a TV show that taped at the Sunset-Gower Studio a few blocks away. I recall being impressed with the history but unimpressed with the food…and somewhat bothered by the obsequious service. The host and waiters fawned over everyone who walked in the door like they were royalty and it seemed awfully antiquated and phony, at least to me. In any case, it was no longer the kind of place where Groucho and Bill Holden might drop by for a bite, so its main attraction was gone.
That Derby closed in ’85, the same year the Los Feliz branch turned into a night club. In the last few decades, much effort has gone into preserving the giant hat from the Wilshire location as a historical landmark. The only remaining Brown Derby is located at the Disney-MGM Studio theme park in Florida. I don’t know why they don’t buy the big hat and just ship it on down there.
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Another classic lost to time. When I was a child in the 60s, my great aunt resided, in her dotage, at the nearby at the Gaylord Hotel. We would sometimes eat at the Brown Derby when we visited her. I think the place was past its prime by then. On other occasions we would eat at The Bounty (roast beef of olde England and such) that I recall was on the ground floor of the Gaylord. The Derby has a very storied history, but my memories were those of a child. I don’t think I ever ventured back after she passed away in 1969.
Della Ware says:
In the early to mid seventies I used to work at the Huntington Hartford Theater & have lunch at the Brown Derby Coffee Shop across the street on Vine. On a rare occasion I might dine in the Restaurant for Dinner with my Mom & or Dad. In those days the food was Great, the service was too. However, if a Celebrity was there the attention went to them First! Since then, other restaurants & coffee shops have tried to duplicate Derby’s Famous Salad, but it will never be quite the same. They had A+ Quality Match Books worth keeping, as my Dad said then. The Good Old Days!
Marylee says:
Anyone looking for a postcard with the one on Wilshire, got one for $5
Susan Murphy says:
In fact, the original Brown Derby was locates in Malverne, NY – a small village on the south shore of Long Island. Founded and frequented by a number of the era’s most popular vaudevillians, the west coast version was founded in tribute to the east coast establishment they had frequented before heading to Hollywood. My father, Ray Murphy, was the fourth owner/operator of the original from 1980 until his passing in 1999. My brother and I closed the business but I still own a section of the original bar.
If I had lots of Money I would of loved too get a nice Trailer & travel with my Sister to Hollywood . But I’m broke I am disable as well I was born 1. It’s hard for me too get around my Sister is so sweet she drives me around. I know I’m a pain to her alot. But She s a very great Cook very much better then I. She though me how too do your owne Salir Dressing & think up some new Resicpes. Her name is Mia. She s very smart very great in Bartendenr She s wow in drinks I wish I was as smart at my 3 Sisters where. My other Sister is dead so is my Oldrer Brother very sad too say. I thank you.
Charlie Barry says:
My brother Jim was the mgr. of the Wilshire Blvd. BROWN DERBY opposite the Ambassador Hotel. The night Bobby Kennedy was murdered- – June 4, 1968 in the Ambassador – – the press covering his campaign came running into the Derby shouting “Kennedy has been shot in the Ambassador” and rushed to the Derby’s 3 pay phones to call in the news.
Buddy C says:
That Cobb Salad is always a must when at Disney Hollywood Studios at Walt Disney World. I’ve never found one elsewhere that is as good, sure wish Disney would open one at Disneyland Resort.
David P says:
When I was in college I lived in an apartment on Alexandria. That was the side street next to ref Derby. It had once been “the” neighborhood with many mansions remaining. I was in a small place in a house once owned by Myrna Loy. It was two or three blocks from the Derby.
Every month my godmother would send me $20 to spend on myself – not books or school supplies. I took that money and went to the famous Brown Derby for dinner (this was in the 60’s – $20 would buy dinner) It was a real treat eating in the famous hat shoes restaurant. I went back several times and the waiter remembered me. He used to treat me to a glass of wine with my meal. Of course I had the famous Cub Salad and heard the story of its creation.
Fond memories of my dinners at the Derby. I tried the one on Vine st later, still good food and celebrity drawings but I missed eating in a hat.
sujaata says:
There were also a few short-lived ones in other spots. All served mostly American fare in a semi-plush manner with very attentive service. For more info visit here – http://thestuart.com/
Skip Cuevas says:
My first job out of college in 1967 was across a side street from the original Derby in the Equitable Building…My boss had standing lunch reservation for entertainment purposes…whenever he did not have a business lunch scheduled he would take one of his employees with him…I was one of the several times…great Cobb salad and martinis!
Al Donnelly says:
A Times article from 1967 on Derby history (also notes to right side the change in ownership of the largely forgotten [?] Cameo Room on Sunset): https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/164897567/
I ate at the one on Wilshire which was on the opposite side of the street from the Ambassador.
My Great Uncle James Wellington Warren was employed at the Hollywood and Vine restaurant for many years. He was born in Canada and emigrated to the USA in the early 1930’s. I believe he was in some sort of management position.
I have a picture taken some time in the early 1950’s of my Aunt and Uncle (from Manitoba, Canada) sitting in a restaurant booth with her Uncle Jim and his wife Catherine. I also have a full dinner service from the restaurant from this time period.
I would love hear from any source that could provide information about my Great Uncle and his association with the ” Brown derby”.
I really adored the crabmeat/cheese appetizer. I would drizzle lemon on top, so yummy! Maybe I’ll try to recreate the dish.
NOBLE says:
THE DERBY LOS FELIS HAD A BORWN PAINTED DOME ROOF AS I REMEMBER. GAVE THE SUGGESTION OF A DERBY. TOOK A DATE OR 2 THERE IN EARLY 6Os. IMPRESSED ME CANT REMEMBER IF IT DID HER;-)
marvelcharm.com says:
The Hollywood Brown Derby closed for the last time at its original site on April 3, 1985, as a result of a lease dispute.
Bob of the Village of Los Ranchos (NM) says:
Yo Jeremy (12/6)…Lucy/Holden: http://tinyurl.com/qcqw6q5 ):-)
Mariya says:
The Sunset-Vine Brown Derby also had a lovely banquet room and courtyard so it was the scene of many wrap parties and show biz press gatherings. All that “in” spot mystique spilled over to the Beverly Hills location and gave it a similar rep.
Jeremy E Smith says:
I am so glad that the Broen Durby really existed. I am watching an Episode of I Love Lucy, Hollywood at last where Ethel, Fred and Lucy are having Lunch at the Brwon Durby!
Lane Stripe says:
@Jeannine Adidge: In Kurt Vonnegut’s book titled “Palm Sunday,” he jokes that “Love was invented by a chef at the Brown Derby Restaurant in Hollywood, California, in 1939. It consists of overripe jumbo peaches with San Fernando Honey and chocolate jimmies on top. It is traditionally served in heated purple bowls.”
Was there ever such a recipe in the Brown Derby cookbooks?
In his book titled “Palm Sunday,” (1981) Kurt Vonnegut joles that “Love” was invented by a chef at the Brown Derby Restaurant in Hollywood, California, in 1939. It consists of overripe jumbo peaches with San Fernando Valley honey and chocolate jimmies on top. It is traditionally served in heated purple bowls.
Is there such a recipe in the Brown Derby cookbooks?
Jeannine Adidge says:
My father Maurice was a chef at the Derby in the 60’s. I still have the original cookbook. He really enjoyed working there but then went on to other famous restaurants.
Steven Root says:
My grandfather – Richard Wiggins – and I used to have lunch at the Brown Derby when I was 6 to 8 years old. He seemed to know many of the staff and they always brought him a telephone to our booth so he could make phone calls.
I loved the place. It isn’t the same going to the BD at Disney Hollywood Studios, but, it is the closest I can get to those great memories!
Brad Hall CPA says:
I was the CPA for the Original Brown Derby and was there to announce the closure of the restaurant in 1980. We did save the hat. It was a very sad day as most of the employees had been there for 40-50 years.
PSO says:
Mark, I have a Souvenir Menu for the 30th anniversary — 1959.
Let me know if you would like it.
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Charri Strong says:
I have a cookbook I bought in the 1970s, 50th Anniversary of the Brown Derby Restaurant. If anyone has a great desire for a specific recipe I can check my book. I loved the Vine and Sunset location with the drawings, photos etc. Growing up in the Los Angeles area during the 50s and 60s was the best. I’ve got some interesting encounters with various celebrities during those decades. Mom always said that I should write a book. Remember the yummy cakes? One of my favorites recipes is the French Pancakes! Aaahh, those were the days.
I purchased the 50th Anniversary Cookbook of the Brown Derby, Hollywood in the 1970s. it has the famous Grapefruit Cake recipe and I love the French Pancakes. If someone has a great desire for a specific recipe, I can check out my cookbook. I loved the place and the ambience there. Vine and Sunset. Growing up in the Los Angeles area in the 50s and 60s was the best. I’ve got a lot of interesting stories about various celebrity encounters during those decades. Mom used to tell me to write a book!
Kathi Ward says:
The Brown Derby on Wilshire Blvd had the best Eggs Benedict I’ve ever eaten! In the 60’s we went there often for lunch as it was down the street from my husbands office. Good memories!!
The link to the menu doesn’t work! Would you correct it please? Thank you! PS: Love your website providing us with The Brown Derby history. If anyone is sharing Derby recipes my family would love to have a copy.
Mary Butler (Duarte) says:
It would be nice if you had a listing of ALL Head Chefs, the year, and Chefs that worked under them, and menu specials. My grandfather Thomas Franklin Duarte was a head chef throughout the 50’s & 60’s
Michelle Sobel says:
I remember when my mother Becky Armstrong worked in the Brown Derby back in the early 60’s and she would sneak me into the bar area while she worked. My mother most likely in the year of 1963/64 dated Chris Shankles “sportscaster”. If anyone who remembers my mother Becky, I would love too hear from you. She was approx. 5’4, long blonde hair and had a look of Marilyn Monroe.
Linda Koynock says:
I too along with Heather ^ would also like the crab meat appetizer receipe from the 80’s-90’s that came in a foiled shaped shell. It seemed to have a mild cheese flavor to it. Any ideas?
Recently found a 1947 luncheon menu from the Brown Derby. Has a map on the front showing the location of the restaurant and various Hollywood landmarks. Jumbo shrimp cocktail was $1.20 !!! Any interest? Does this menu have any value? Thinking of putting it on eBay. Thanks.
Brown Derby menus online at LAPL database: http://dbase1.lapl.org/dbtw-wpd/exec/dbtwpub.dll
My “other” childhood neighborhood from Capitol Record to Music City. Aunts at the Derby. Dad at the Plaza, later Roosevelt. Mom at The Broadway. And what do I remember most? The train models outside the Santa Fe ticket agency just across and down Vine from Derby!
Doris Law Bagley says:
Their Sardines and Sour Cream recipes was served in the 1940- My parents took me to the Brown Derby and we saw several 1930 film stars. The sardine side dish had white onions and the sour cream was fluffy.
C. J. Chesser says:
Today: Feb 5, 2017…..Brown Durby Chili receipt …. please e-mail receipt to:
cjchesser@bellsouth.net
I lived on Oxford just a few blocks away….would like to have Brown Durby
Cobb Salad, Crab and Shrimp Baked appetizer.
Armida..use the Restaurantware Collectors Network (RWCN). If it is not already identified, they’ll go to work ferreting out the facts for you. There are lots of resources there to help you with restaurant china.
Armida says:
Hi. I am a big fan of the brown derby. My father worked there when he was a young man. I bought an expresso cup and saucer on eBay from the royal porcelain co. And am wondering if it is authentic.
Hector, what you have is from the late 70’s
Hector Acuna says:
When did the name change to , The Hollywood Brown Deby ., Instead of , The Brown Derby ?
I have a dinner plate and want to know if it’s original or was it made once they started Franchising the restaurant ?
My dinner plate has the image of the Derby Hat on top of the plate and inside it say’s , The Hollywood Brown Derby …
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Ben Judd, can you show me a photo of the painting.
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Shirley Hatch says:
I am looking for two recipes from the Brown Derby.One was a drink called a”Grogg”.The drink took a special created syrup mix.I am also looking for their bar cheese recipe.My husband reminisce about the foods often.If anyone can help,please do.
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I have a painting of swans with a bamboo matte and frame painted by the artist Annette Honeywell. On the back my maternal grandmother had written that it was from the original Brown Derby on whilshire blvd. The back ground I have from my mother, who is now 83years young that connects with the Brown Derby is my grandfather’s sister Harriet Horton was married to Charlie Yager who opened the first auto garage on the corner of Hollywood and vine. They (charlie and Harriet ) lived in the same apt building as Gloria Swanson and at that time husband Wallace Beery. They were all friends and would play cards together. My grandfather would drive the cars back to the owners, He told of delivering Spencer Tracy’s car. My grandparents lived in Hawthorne all of my life and I am 59. I am positive that what my grandmother wrote on the back is true, But I am trying to authenticate somehow. The colors and framing match the décor of the bamboo room. Idon’t know how long it hung at the Brown Derby or if it was used for the opening. I am trying to locate any pictures from inside the bamboo room at that time that might have the painting in it! Does anyone have any of these photos? I have had a hard time finding any from the inside! I once spoke with chris Nicholes from LA Magazine and none of his contacts reconized it. My Grandfather loved history and passed that on to me. If this painting is from the Brown Derby I would hate for it to lose it’s place in history. Will be happy to send a photo to anyone interested. P.S. I spoke to one of Annette Honeywell’s granddaughters, who knew nothing of the painting, But had fond memories of her grandmother taking her to the Derby for lunch after the beach. Thanks and any help would be greatly appreciated!
Jean McGrath says:
The recipe for chili was on the label of the Spice Islands chili powder. I have lost my jar and would appreciate having the recipe again.
Christian Anderson, the entire bldg on Vine did not burn down in 1966. Most of it remained until the mid 90s (’93?) when it was demolished. The link you posted showed what it looked like after the 90s demolition. I lived in it in 1992- it was definitely there. ;)
I am very deeply sadden by this I never have money too go see it or other things there I’m not rich I support my Elderly Parents & my small puppy I would love too bye a used RV class c too take my Parents my Mother & Father on a trip before they pass on????????????????
Why in the world they took down the Brown durby why I though it was very sweet lovely too be there i never ever got too see it????????????????????????????????????????????????why did it leave why????????????????????????????????????????????this makes me very sad .
Hello there, I am DESPERATELY searching for the crab and shrimp bake appetizer/ side dish that can in the little foul sea shell. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE!!!
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LEGO Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom Dilophosaurus Outpost Attack review
Poor value for money on the face of it, ingenuity in design rescues 75931 Dilophosaurus Outpost Attack from critical eyes
Price: £44.99 / $39.99 / €49.99 Pieces: 289 Available: Now
If you have not yet worked out that the sets from the LEGO Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom range have generally higher price-per-piece ratios than almost everything else currently available, then 75931 Dilophosaurus Outpost Attack will surely help your maths. For £44.99, you get 289 pieces and in stark terms that’s not good value for what is already an expensive toy. Certainly, considering the sheer quantity of LEGO you get (or rather, don’t get) for the money, 75931 Dilophosaurus Outpost Attack shouldn’t be a set to truly take into consideration until it hits an inevitable sale. Yet, I am reviewing this set because I felt utterly compelled to purchase it, even at full price and in spite of having already built most of the rest of the LEGO Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom range. Or perhaps it is because of having built most of the rest of the LEGO Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom range.
Indeed, where the range of sets released to tie in with the June film offer a plethora of dinosaurs both new and re-coloured in scenarios both new and re-imagined, few have truly captured the simplicity of dinosaurs loose in a park or urban environment running rampage and causing peril for the unfortunates in their way. It’s the set-up that defined Jurassic Park 25 years ago, and what should be driving Jurassic World as a franchise, but isn’t quite working in a number of the LEGO JW:FK sets released this year, and that’s in spite of individual strong points across each set. For one reason or another, releases such as 75929 Carnotaurus Gyrosphere Escape and 75930 Indoraptor Rampage at Lockwood Estate may offer fantastically designed creatures and large scale builds, but, as complete sets they lack true cohesiveness. The Carnotaurus in 75929 doesn’t marry well when put next to the tree and gyrosphere setting or the truck, whilst the Indoraptor and Velociraptor in 75930 will look just as relevant and at home in any Creator house as they do at LEGO Lockwood Estate.
And that’s where 75931 Dilophosaurus Outpost Attack is different, and where, in spite of its high price, it offers something that perhaps arguably only the £10 cheaper 75927 Stygimoloch Breakout can match – a simple yet cohesive play and display scenario. The set-up in 75931 is uncomplicated – three unnamed minifigures are manning a gate whilst also seemingly transporting an un-hatched dinosaur egg (or baby dinosaur, which you can swap in), as a Dilophosaurus is ready – presumably as the set name suggests – to attack. All you get is a fence, but, place the minifigures on one side of it and the Dilophosaurus on the other and the entire scene comes together. It is simple, but also plausible.
What makes this set-up work so well is the clear and clever design of the three-part modular fencing. With acknowledgement to the limited number of pieces available, it is simple to put together. Yet, at the same time, such thought has been put into its design that not only is it surprisingly robust (and ready for a Dilophosaurus attack, actually) but it also brings substantial size and play value into the LEGO Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom line-up. It’s just a fence, but importantly it’s rather believable in scale, structure and design, particularly when put up against the included dinosaur. It makes for a basis of display and play that not a lot of the other location-based builds in this year’s range nor in the 2015 Jurassic World range can match.
Long flexible tubing makes for an effective main electrical barrier that measures 22 studs long, with three connecting towers that add height and thickness to the construction without compromising scale – it’s not too thin, nor too short. The watchtower is surprisingly brought together by quick details such as the recessed screen on the inside, and a sloped roof at its top, whilst the main gate has a robust nature and ‘built-deep-in-the-mud’ style to it thanks to a nice studs-not-on-top design at its base. Details across the three sub-builds such as the crane, the ladder and the lighting demonstrate how efficient the limited number of bricks included in 75931 Dilophosaurus Outpost Attack have been used.
Whilst the minifigures are notably nameless, they beef up numbers for those looking for more guards, and also offer collectors some very good diversity. Focus, though, is rightly pulled by the eponymous dinosaur included, the Dilophosaurus, which whilst of the same fantastic mould as three years ago, has been coloured as per its Jurassic Park appearance, making for a far more complete and desirable dino design. It’s one of the best in a range packed with new and re-coloured LEGO dinosaurs.
Ultimately, 75931 Dilophosaurus Outpost Attack remains an expensive purchase at £44.99, but, one that thanks to its design offers substantially better value for money than a number of the other sets in the LEGO Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom line-up. Whether you pick this up at full price or not, this is a must-have set for Jurassic World and LEGO dinosaur fans alike. Be wary in considering waiting for a price reduction in case this proves to be the 75920 Raptor Escape of the 2018 range – in short supply and high demand.
Source: www.brickfanatics.com
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Vintage Pulp Sep 26 2018
Whatever he's advertising, we're buying.
Today we've brought back French illustrator Raymond Brenot, aka Carols, a genius of the visual arts. These were all magazine ads, but he also painted album sleeves, pin-ups, and the occasional paperback cover. If these don't brighten your day nothing will.
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Vintage Pulp Apr 8 2018
Bilateral cooperation produces great results.
Above are assorted scans from Paris-Hollywood #109 published in 1951. The cover is an Ektachrome photo credited to Mac Arthur, who's a new name for us. The centerfold déshabillable (undressable)—which is the main selling point of this magazine—was painted by Raymond Brenot under his pseudonym Carols. The rest of content features photos by Serge de Sazo, Stephen Glass, and others, of French cabaret dancers, nearly all of them forgotten today, but fondly memorialized thanks to this magazine. We have more. Just click the keywords below.
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Raymond Brenot proves he's one of the top album sleeve artists of his era.
Above, more pin-up style vinyl sleeves from French artist Raymond Brenot, aka Pierre-Laurent Brenot, for records pressed in France during the 1950s and 1960s. We have a previous sleeve from him here, and you can see more of his art in general by clicking his keywords below.
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Best ever reason to brave crosstown traffic.
Sultry Puerto Rico born actress Rita Moreno, who many remember from her role as Anita in the 1961 Hollywood adaptation of the 1957 Broadway musical West Side Story, is one of the few performers to have won all four major annual American entertainment awards—i.e. the Oscar, the Emmy, the Grammy, and the Tony. She's also won a Golden Globe, been awarded a Presidential Medal of Freedom and a National Medal of the Arts, received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and been bestowed the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award. There are even more awards, too numerous to list, and on top of all of them, she was also awarded some awesome genes, because not only is she very beautiful in the top photo from around 1960, but she still looks good today at age eighty-five.
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Tiki bra offers support where others fear to venture.
Last month we showed you a piece of art by Raymond Brenot and noted the eclectic industries for which he worked. Well, he also painted advertisements. The ad above is a very nice piece of tropical themed art, apparently for the technologically advanced Tiki bra, designed according to LOU guidelines, whatever those are, and incorporating innovative side straps, whatever those are. No, we don't know much about bras. But thanks to this ad we learned that one would be called in French a soutien-gorge. At least back then. To us that sounds like some sort of surgical procedure you have on your digestive tract. And in fact if you break the word apart, soutien translates as “support,” which is encouraging enough, but gorge translates as “throat,” which raises terrifying images. Love this piece of south seas island art, though. It's, erm, gorgeous.
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French illustrator Raymond Brenot, aka Pierre-Laurent Brenot painted many magazine covers and pin-ups, and a few paperback fronts, as well. He also painted sleeves for numerous records. You see a beautiful example above for French trumpeter Fred Gérard's Si nous dansions... en 16 tours. The close-up image shows the unique aspect of the art—its mise en abîme element, or what the Dutch call a Droste effect, an identical image within the image, with infinite repetitions implied.
The title of the record translates to “If we danced... 16 turns,” which is weird because there are actually twenty songs. The tunes cover various dance styles, such as mambo, Charleston, foxtot, etc., and we know what you're thinking. You're thinking sixteen dance styles must be covered. No—only nine styles are played, so the 16 tours part of the title is a mystery to us. If you know the answer to the riddle, you know how to reach us. But don't expect an immediate response—we'll be busy foxtrotting.
Update: It is incredibly informative having readers from all over the world. The answer came from Jo B. in France, who informed us: "16 tours is the rotation speed of the record in 1 minute."
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Vintage Pulp Apr 28 2016
Like Shakespeare wrote, what's past is prologue.
This unusual poster was made to promote the Spanish run of Retorno al pasado, a movie better known as Out of the Past. The title says it all. A man who thinks he's left his sordid past behind sees it rear its ugly head and threaten to ruin the good future he's planned for himself. Starring Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer, and Kirk Douglas, this is one of the top noir thrillers, in our opinion. Certainly it's one of the most beautifully shot, thanks to director Jacques Tourneur and cinematographer Nicholas Mesuraca. Like the poster art by Macario Gomez, the film is richly textured and lushly black, which makes for a nice sense of gathering danger, especially in the pivotal fight sequence about forty minutes in. Plus it has the always compelling Mexico connection used by many excellent noirs, as well as nice location shooting around Lake Tahoe and Reno. Highly recommended, this one. After opening in the U.S. in November 1947 it had its Spanish premiere in Madrid today in 1948.
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Some are on the left and others are on the right, but her position on guns is in the middle.
This image of German born French actress Dorothée Blanck appeared on the cover of France's Cinémonde magazine today in 1965. Blanck died in January at the age of 81 after decades in cinema, including roles in Jean-Luc Godard's Une femme est une femme, Jean Renoir's Elena et les hommes, and Jacques Demy's Les parapluies de Cherbourg. She came from the humblest of beginnings—born in prison in Aichach, where her mother was serving time for political crimes like numerous leftists resistant to the rising Nazis; shuttled around to various orphanages and institutions; not even given an official name for the first two years of her life. Her film career began in 1953 and, with occasional lulls, she worked often throughout her life, appearing in some forty films. Her last project, entitled Jours de France, or Days of France, is in post-production and is slated to hit cinemas sometime this year.
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Hollywoodland Jan 15 2014
There’s no business like snow business.
Today in 1932 Los Angeles suffered what was called the first real snowstorm in its history when two inches of accumulation settled downtown and the Hollywood Hills became a winter wonderland. It had snowed at least once before in 1882, but the 1932 storm remains even today the heaviest snow ever recorded in Southern California. Did scientists suggest the polar vortex had something to do with it? Possibly, since they had known about it for decades, but in the absence of politics you can bet the general public didn’t care at all. The above member of the general public is named Judith Wood, an actress who appeared in The Vice Squad, Road to Reno and other films. She regards the scene with amusement and/or amazement from her hilltop home.
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Vintage Pulp Jun 9 2013
Everybody loves Raymond’s art.
We’ve mentioned artist and fashion designer Raymond Brenot, aka Carols, aka Pierre-Laurent Brenot a couple of times before in relation to the French magazine V. This is the first time we’ve seen his work on a book cover. It’s a copy of Journal d'une chambre de femme by Jean-Albert Foëx, and it was published by E.D.I.C.A. in 1958 as part of their Collection Le Mauvais Oeil, or Evil Eye Collection. Brenot’s cool cover also wraps onto the rear of the book, as you can see below.
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1966—Sinatra Marries Farrow
Superstar singer and actor Frank Sinatra marries 21-year-old actress Mia Farrow, who is 30 years younger than him. The marriage lasts two years.
1925—Mein Kampf Published
While serving time in prison for his role in a failed coup, Adolf Hitler dictaes and publishes volume 1 of his manifesto Mein Kampf (in English My Struggle or My Battle), the book that outlines his theories of racial purity, his belief in a Jewish conspiracy to control the world, and his plans to lead Germany to militarily acquire more land at the expense of Russia via eastward expansion.
1955—Disneyland Begins Operations
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1959—Holiday Dies Broke
Legendary singer Billie Holiday, who possessed one of the most unique voices in the history of jazz, dies in the hospital of cirrhosis of the liver. She had lost her earnings to swindlers over the years, and upon her death her bank account contains seventy cents.
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1941 Thunderbolt (N25) HMS Thunderbolt fires torpedoes at the German submarine U-557 in the North Atlantic. The torpedoes miss.
1942 Umbra (P35) HMS Umbra fires torpedoes at the Italian battleship Littorio but the torpedoes miss the target. Later HMS Umbra torpedoes and sinks the Italian heavy cruiser Trento.
1943 Ultor (P53) HMS Ultor sinks the Italian auxiliary minesweeper Tullio/No.92
1944 Satyr (P214) HMS Satyr sank the German submarine U-987 in the North Sea west of Narvik.
1945 Taciturn (P334) HMS Taciturn sinks a Japanese air warning picket hulk and the Japanese auxiliary submarine chaser Cha 105 with gunfire in the Madoera Strait to the north of Surabaya, Java, Netherlands East Indies.
1954 Porpoise (N14) Laid Down
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British Royals 19th February 2019
The Sussex Service: Harry on hand to help kids in half term
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The half-term break is usually a source of excitement, but for the estimated three million children across Britain who rely on school to provide meals, a week off means going hungry.
Prince Harry visited an organisation working to overcome this problem when he stopped by the Fit and Fed half-term programme at the Streatham SYCT John Corfield Centre today.
Run by StreetGames, the Fit and Fed initiative aims to give young people free access to fun physical activities and a nutritious lunch during school holidays.
Children attending today’s half-term event came across quite a different face in the lunch line when Prince Harry grabbed a pair of latex gloves and served up a meal of salad, pasta, and garlic bread.
He also watched a Jui-Jitsu demonstration and trampoline games whilst speaking with staff and volunteers at the Streatham SYCT to learn more about how they provide a safe place for children to go during school breaks. The centre is open six days a week and provides services to young people in Streatham and the surrounding areas.
Before departing the event, a group of children from the centre presented the Prince with a gift for Baby Sussex: an oversized teddy bear.
According to StreetGames, 73 percent of the poorest families cannot afford to feed their children during school holidays. Not only do families go hungry, but they cannot afford to go on days out or pay for activities. With nowhere to go, inactivity and isolation become massive issues for these children.
During the summer 2018 Fit and Fed initiative, 146,260 meals were served and 15,511 participated in activity sessions.
Today’s engagement is the seventh time Prince Harry has supported StreetGames. The organisation was one of the charities named as a royal wedding donation recipient, and he attended prior Fit and Fed events in Newham in 2017 and Brent in 2018.
StreetGames work to empower disadvantaged young people through sport, providing access to physical activities to help children become healthier, safer, and more successful.
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FreePress wants transparency for everybody but FreePress
Submitted by Scott Cleland on Fri, 2009-10-02 17:14
FreePress' standard gameplan is to avoid engaging issues on the merits by constantly attacking opponents as biased corporate "shils" or "astroturf" that no one should listen to. I have long been up front that I represent broadband interests. FreePress, and their supporters, however, do not live up to the transparency standard that they demand of others.
For example, FreePress' urged Washington Post reporter Cecilia Kang to post that The Washington Post editorial opposing net neutrality "The FCC's Heavy Hand" should have disclosed the Post's ownership of cable properties. On that basic point of transparency/disclosure I agree.
However, when it comes to the news, Ms. Kang appears to have failed to disclose her increasingly obvious bias for promoting FreePress and their net neutrality agenda.
First, in Ms. Kang's post "Readers ask for disclosure that Washington Post owns Cable Co." Ms. Kang focused on, and quoted only, FreePress' Derek Turner's comments, when there were several other varied comments to highlight.
Second, Ms. Kang was selected by the FCC Chairman's press spokesperson, Jen Howard, (who just joined the FCC from FreePress) to moderate a high-profile panel immediately following FCC Chairman Genachowski's net neutrality speech on 9-21-09.
Third, Ms. Kang wrote a major puff piece that lionized Ben Scott, FreePress' point man on net neutrality: "Net Neutrality's Quiet Crusader -- Free Press's Ben Scott Faces Down Titans, Regulators in Battle Over Internet Control." The piece reads more like hero worship than journalism.
People should ask why is FreePress so intent on distracting people from focusing on FreePress' lack of transparency? What is FreePress hiding?
Take their deceptive brand -- "FreePress." They claim to stand for freedom of the press, but not the "free press" most Americans understand or the freedom of the press in the First Amendment. A real "free press" is one that is not limited by Government.
Ironically, FreePress is an activist proponent of the opposite -- more government control of the press! (Am I the only one that sees the irony that the press is often unwittingly advancing FreePress's agenda to take away true freedom of the press?)
FreePress co-founder and board member, Robert McChesney quoted" on government intervention in journalism: "Only government can implement policies and subsidies to provide an institutional framework for quality journalism...The democratic state, the government, must create the conditions for sustaining the journalism that can provide the people with the information they need to be their own governors."
McChesney quoted in Monthly Review: “Advertising is the voice of capital. We need to do whatever we can to limit capitalist propoganda, regulate it, minimize it, and perhaps even eliminate it."
Josh Silver, FreePress' co-founder and Executive Director, proposes new federal taxes to fund more government-subsidized media:"Barring the creation of a trust fund, Congress must find a significant steady revenue stream that is not subject to annual appropriations. One such possibility is a tax of 0.5 percent of the purchase price for every home electronic device: multimedia players, cable and satellite set-top boxes, video game systems, televisions, etc. Those devices that entertain America would in turn be supporting programming to inform, educate and enlighten."
In short, it amazes me how people who constantly listen to FreePress demand transparency for its opponents, aren't interested in demanding the same transparency from FreePress.
What is FreePress hiding?
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Parks and Gardens, Statues and Monuments, Weird, Xinbei
Trina and Xinbei’s Blue Men
April 20, 2016 richristow Leave a comment
In Changzhou, “Trina” is a name often associated with Xinbei. One of the major schools expats send their children bares this moniker. It’s also at the center of a huge scandal, as the school was allegedly built on toxic and polluted land — as reported by China Daily. The name Trina, however, is not exclusive to the school. You see it in a few places once you are north of Global Harbour Mall on Tongjiang Road. It’s because it’s the name of a major industry in Changzhou and around the world. Trina Solar is a player in the global international green energy sector. It develops and manufactures solar power components, and it’s traded on the New York Stock Exchange. It’s that big of an industrial deal.
The name is also associated with Trina Photovoltaic Industrial Park 天合光伏产业园 on Tongjiang Road. It’s a little south of Xinlong Ecological Forest. Like that nature preserve, there a plenty of concrete paths to ride bikes. Although, parts of Xinlong are more lovely to look at. Since this is a wide open space, you can see people flying kites here on windy days. The park itself dates back to April, 2008, and it is in a place the municipal government zoned as a “high tech industrial area.”
The strangest thing, however, is the monument here. It made me think of the Blue Man Group in America. For those who do not know, this is a performance art / musical troupe. They often play outlandish, weird, and alien looking instruments. Oh, and each member is completely painted blue. It the park’s center, there are a group of unisex blue figures standing in a circle. They are holding up a globe of planet earth. When looking at this, I got to thinking that the association was purely coincidental. However, the outlandishness of both are too hard not to notice.
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Shopping, Tianning
Finding Deals at Jiuzhou Digital Plaza
The digital plaza downtown. Do no confuse this with “Computer City.”
When I lived in Wujin’s College Town, I once realized I was paying too much for computer hardware and digital devices. How? I would always buy stuff like external hard drives at Hutang’s RT Mart. Sure, buying stuff there is convenient, but that convenience comes with a mark up. Other places in Changzhou stock tech devices for a lower price tag. I am talking about the computer city and the digital plaza.
成龙 aka Jackie Chan shills for Canon at my go-to kiosk.
The two are close to each other. One mostly just sells computer and their internal parts. This would be a four story shopping center near the new Wandu Mall on Heping Road. It’s easy to spot, because it has a big black orb prominent in its ground-floor architecture. I have bought two laptops and an Asus tablet here. The other is a big, orange building. This also has like three to four floors.
The only difference is that computer city features shops and storefronts, and the Jiuzhou Digital Plaza 九洲数码城 has open-space floors with vendors behind glass display cases. Typically, I have come here for SD cards, memory cards for a high-end Canon camera, and external hard drives. I have also bought camera filters and a zoom lens here.
As for any market situation in Changzhou, if you are buying something extremely expensive, you should always bring a good Chinese friend with you. They have a talent for haggling and verbal combat westerners and just don’t. But, for smaller things, like SD Cards, the prices are still cheaper here than RT Mart even when you don’t try to argue the cost down.
Coming here is extremely easy. The 302 bus runs from Wujin’s College Town to Xinbei’s Dinosaur Park. This stop is in the middle of that route, right before a bridge that crosses into the city center.
Open floor market space.
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Plates, Restaurants, Xinbei
My Introduction to Indian Kitchen
Located on Hanjiang Road aka 汉江路
For a year and a half, I went without Indian food. I had always heard Xinbei had a great Indian restaurant, but I lived in Wujin and I was in no mood to do hour long B1 bus rides to do anything. Then, Kaffe opened near Xintiandi Park and the Wujin TV Tower. Kaffe sported a streamlined menu, but everything thing they offered from Tandoori chicken to paneer and more all tasted great. In truth, I never really had a bad meal there. And if you live in Wujin, you need to support this restaurant.
Times change, and now I am in Xinbei. Kaffe is now an hour away, and I live only a few blocks from Indian Kitchen. I was wondering if the place lived up to the hype, or if it was been given a pass because it was the only Indian place in Xinbei. I can say now that the place lives up to its reputation.
Indian Potato Salad.
The time I went there, I had two dishes: mutton masala and potato salad. Mutton and lamb are easy to do do wrong; if overcooked, both can be tough and chewy — like if you were trying to eat shoe leather. The mutton in the dish was cooked perfectly. It was very tender, and the masala sauce didn’t seem overly spicy.
The potato salad, on the otherhand, was a bit of a surprise. When I ordered it, I was sort of expecting the potato dish at Kaffe. I little bit spicy with chickpeas and veggies. This so wasn’t that. It was like eating a mayonnaise-rich American potato salad. It wasn’t a sort of taste I was expecting from Indian food. Then again, my experience with Indian food comes from eateries in New Jersey and West Virginia. It was very good, but it is something I likely will not order again. And that is not necessarily a bad thing. Indian Kitchen’s menu is fairly long. The vegetarian section takes up two pages, for example. Some dishes are bound to be more exciting than others.
Indian Kitchen is located on Hanjiang Road 汉江路 near Dinosaur Park 常州恐龙园. The B12 passes it. Getting there from Wujin might be a little more difficult. That likely entails taking the 302 to Dinosaur Park and either walking a couple of blocks or taking a taxi. However way you get there, the food is worth the trip.
Mutton Masala
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Downtown, History, Nandajie, Parks and Gardens, Zhonglou
Strolling Qianguo Lane
红星桥 aka Red Apricot Bridge
Somethings in Changzhou are hidden in plain sight, and this definitely the case for Qianguo Lane 千果巷. It’s right next to Nandajie, which is the busiest area in the city center. Even more so, it runs parallel to the bar street where all the dance clubs are located. A Walmart, a Starbucks, and a McDonald’s are also across the street. I happened upon this because I was at Micky D’s, saw how crowded the place was, and got my Big Mac as take out. I walked across the street thinking I sit on a park bench and eat my lunch.
The hamburger was, of course, unsatisfying, as McDonald’s usually tends to be. Afterwards, I went for a walk. There is a small canal here that’s an offshoot of the famous Grand Canal 京杭大运河 — which runs from Beijing to Hangzhou, and it basically cuts through Changzhou’s downtown.
There are two bridges here in the ancient style. In looking at them, I noticed historical markers. Quickly, I snapped photos of them and sent them to a Chinese friend. Thankfully, he read them, summarized them for me. During the Ming Dynasty, an official named Hu Ying built a house on a wharf. Another bridge inspired a Tang Dynasty era
poem, which is written on the marker itself.
In this small area, there are three walking routes to be had. Two are on both canal sides. Another is a narrow, subtly winding foot path. This is the one closest to the bar street. that makes up the southern edge of the Landmark Mall in the greater Nandajie area. Here, you can find a few benches like where I ate my lunch. You can also find bamboo and the large, weathered, water-eroded rocks that seem popular in this region as public sculptures.
Nandajie — the road itself — cuts this area in half. Once you cross the street, this small canal area continues on for a bit. There is large rock here with 千果巷 in the ancient, reversed reading order of 巷果千. The rock itself, my Chinese friend reported, also has a blurb about a cannon crafted during the Ming Dynasty.
Something more curious caught my attention behind this rock. There stones with symbols on them that I couldn’t understand. Since my friend was so generous with his help, I didn’t want to pester him anymore. So, I took to Wechat and posted photos. My thoughts, possibly, were that these were some sort of old, oracle bone Chinese characters. I was dead wrong.
Warring States Era Currency
A host of Chinese friends, via social media, nearly immediately informed me that these are representations of ancient money. Before unifying into one nation, China used to be seven kingdoms. Six of them eventually went down to defeat, as the Qin consolidated everything and everyone into an empire. Each of these seven states had their own form of currency that cam in irregular shapes. I should have expected this because the more familiar, round ancient coin design were placed in the ground amidst polished and black river stones.
Thousands of years later, and it seems fitting, given its location. Nandajie is the commercial center of the city. There are a lot of shops, boutiques, restaurants, and more here. A lot of money is spent here, and these carvings are a subtle reminder of that.
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Culture, History, Jintan, Museums and Galleries, Parks and Gardens, Statues and Monuments
Jintan’s Genius
In the memorial hall at Yuchi Park.
If humankind ever receives a signal from an alien species, that signal would likely be in something like prime numbers or an equation of some sort. This is something that scientists often argue, especially the ones at SETI. Math, it has been said, is the only universal language. While true, it’s also one of a many clever ways math nerds can argue the importance of the their academic field. As for me, simple arithmetic can be agonizingly frustrating. I have trouble with numbers when I don’t have a calculator nearby. Even then, I’m still pretty stupid. I realized this because, well, mathematics from a humanities perspective is still fascinating. Recently, I was confronted with this while trying to figure out a prominent figure in Jintan’s history.
Huo Luogeng hailed from Changzhou’s Jintan district. He made significant contributions to number theory, but trying to figure out what “number theory” actually is made my head spin. Eventually, I gave up and just started doing Google searches on SETI’s hunt for aliens, instead. Once I regained courage to look at math theories again, I found myself distracted more by Huo Luogeng’s biography. Again, this would be looking at academic field from a humanities perspective.
The statue in a park named in Hua Luogeng’s honor.
Huo was born in Jintan in 1910. Like most prodigies, he excelled early and was nurtured by a teacher. He then went on to teach himself math and the corresponding advanced theories. The word for this type of person is “autodidact.” Huo was an autodidact. Most of these people, in my reading and studies, have been writers. The famous American playwright Arthur Miller, for example, had no formal training or college education. Same with Huo. He never got a PHD in mathematics, but he went on to make significant contributions.
Think about that. He never got a doctorate. And he ended teaching at Tsinghua University in Bejing. That’s China’s Ivy League. Speaking of that, he also taught at Princeton in the USA. And Cambridge in the UK. Over his career, he was lauded with many honorary degrees, but he never really earned a real one. Eventually, he died from a heart attack after finishing a lecture in Japan.
Jintan remembers this man well. There is a park named after him in the district’s center. There, you can find a statue of him sitting and holding a mug of some hot beverage. This is Hua Luogeng Park 华罗庚公园, and it’s not that far from the district’s intercity coach station. And, by the way, it takes an hour to get there from Changzhou’s downtown station on an express bus.
Much farther away, you can find a memorial hall in his honor. Its in a different place altogether — Yuchi Park愚池公园. In theory, you can walk there from the bus station, but its a long distance and a taxi would be much easier.
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Downtown, Plates, Restaurants, Zhonglou
Bellahaus’ Best and Worst
In the Beidajie Parksons.
Bellahaus, by far, is my favorite western restaurant in downtown Changzhou. It’s in the nearly empty mall Parksons built and then abandoned. This is on Beidajie, which is esentially Nandajie once the street crosses Yanling. So, when you are downtown, it is super easy to walk to. Typically, you might find me here on Saturday having lunch.
That being said, I feel the need to point out the worst thing there that I had. And if the owners or the chefs end up reading this, I am not being mean; this is constructive criticism. I once had a
Too much goat cheese.
terrible goat cheese salad here. By terrible, it was nearly all goat cheese and nearly no vegetables. There was nearly two slices of tomato, some cashews and walnuts, and a lot of sweet goat cheese slightly drizzled with balsamic vinegar. It felt like I was eating a desert, not a health conscious salad. A good friend of mine had this many months ago and recommended it. My guess was her salad was prepared differently and didn’t have goat cheese scooped onto lettuce as if it were ice cream.
Even though I hated that dish, i still standby my firm recommendation of the restaurant as a whole. For example, the “cordon rouge” is something I eat there all the time. Think of it as a cordon blue dish, but substitute pork for the chicken. Yes, that means you get a breaded pork cutlet stuffed with bacon and cheese. There are usually sliced mushrooms in there too. It’s a simple, filling dish that is worth the money.
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Wujin
Wujin Has Arms!
April 14, 2016 richristow 3 Comments
Wujin looks like an amoeba! It’s getting its psuedopods around Tianning, Zhonglou, and Xinbei! Nobody is safe! It already ate Qishuyan!
It’s actually wrong to think of Wujin as Changzhou’s southern district. True, a good bit of it is in the south of the city, but if you look at a map, district lines have Wujin surrounding much much of the city. For instance, you can stand in Xinbei, drive west, and find yourself in Wujin. The same will happen in you drive east. So, if you’re trying to describe Changzhou to somebody, you have to be specific when you are talking about Wujin. I have devised my own
system for the two northern parts: the “west arm” and the “east
arm.” In the USA, such map irregularities
are called “panhandles.” Because, well, they are shaped like panhandles. For non-native speakers, the metaphorical use of the word might be difficult — hence my “arm” preference.
For a little added perspective, the blue dot in both Baidu Maps screenshots is me. I am at my computer in my apartment at Hohai University. This is on Hehai Road. Xinbei Wanda Plaza is in walking distance. Dinosaur Park is four kilometers away. Downtown is about 20 minutes away when I am doing 60 kph on my eBike.
Xinbei’s district lines
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Plates, Restaurants
Last Resort Breakfast Eggs
When you are travelling, and you don’t know Chinese food all that well, there is one place you can always count on in an emergency: Pizza Hut. To be honest, the place is way over priced, and the quality of the food isn’t all that great. However, here is a scary thought: Pizza Hut in China is actually better than Pizza Hut back in America. One of the only selling points is the convenience. In this part of China, Pizza Huts are nearly everywhere.
The other thing is breakfast. Pizza Hut is one of the places where you can get western style eggs, including omelettes and bacon. Sure, diners back in Jersey do this much, much better. But this obviously isn’t New Jersey, and thank the lord for that. If you are in Xinbei, it might be better to check into OK Koala first — especially if it’s a Sunday morning.
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Downtown, Statues and Monuments, Temples, Tianning
Tianning’s Stations of Guanyin
When you are a Catholic, “The Stations of the Cross” are immensely important. It’s not the same for other Christians — especially American Protestant Evangelicals. For Roman Catholics, it’s part of the decor of every church. It’s either the art of in all of the stained glass windows, or it’s a series of paintings and bass relief sculptures. So, you may ask, what are these “Stations?” It’s a series pictures of Jesus Christ being put to death and being nailed to planks of wood. The more exact term is “crucifixion.”
Every Easter, Catholics recreate this scene as a religious drama and watchable spectacle, but the artistic depictions are there in Church throughout the year. The idea is to visit every moment of Christ’s
death for a moment of prayer. For the sake of clarity, let me emphatically say I am not a Christian. My reasoning is intensely personal, and I will not offend people by getting into it here. The subject is also actually a little touchy between me and my father. You see, I was raised in Catholicism. I then walked away from that faith very early in my adulthood.
Yet, prior religions follow you the rest of your life, even when you don’t want them to. I am not being cynical, either. For as much as I am not a Catholic, Roman Catholicism has still shaped the some of the ways I think. It’s just who I am. I thought about this a lot, recently, when confronted with some Buddhist imagery in Changzhou‘s Tianning Temple.
It’s part of Hongmei Park in a district the bares its name. The chief attraction there is the pagoda. One day, however, I visited the temple to just as a way to kill time. It was Easter Sunday, and I was meeting a close friend for dinner in Wujin. Only, she had a lot of grading to do before becoming available. Tianning Temple has two ticket prices, and since I wasn’t interested in going into the Pagoda, I opted for the cheaper 20 RMB fare.
In one corner of the temple grounds, there is a garden filled with Guanyin Sculptures. Guanyin is a often considered a goddess of
mercy. She’s a Bodhisattva in Buddhism, and as is the case with the Chinese variety of that faith, she’s shared with other religions. In
Taoism and folk religion, she is considered a mercy goddess. Some have even drawn parallels with the Virgin Mary.
And so that brings me to the Stations of the Cross analogy. As I walked around, I stopped at each of the dozens of Guanyin sculptures. Most of them feature her reclining or sitting. Some have her with dragons, and other with birds with ornate plumage. Incense sticks burn at each statue. At many of the sculptures, people have left coins or other mementos. It wasn’t the statues themselves that reminded me of the Stations of the Cross. It were the people who came here to pray. Many stopped at each and every statue to be mindful in thought. So, the stories are drastically different, but the method of worship is very similar.
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Supermarkets, Xinbei
Way To Delicious 味和氏
The store near Changzhou’s Dinosaur Park
“If you can’t find it at Metro, you probably will not find it in Changzhou.”
I used to say these words all the time, but lately I realized how fundamentally I was wrong. On the surface, it seems logical and plausible. Some supermarkets carry items that others do not. For example, I routinely can’t find German pickled red cabbage at Metro, but it’s on the import shelf at the Xinbei Wanda Walmart. Metro basically has most of what a westerner may want an need, but often items show up in other places all the time. Yet, that superstore is only convenient if you live in Xinbei or near the nothern end of Changzhou. Wujin is set to get its own sometime this year, and that will be in the Coco City shopping center near Injoy Mall. Coco City is still under construction.
Snapple!
I recently discovered this at a small import shop / supermarket called Way To Delicious 味和氏. This is likely a chain, as Baidu maps lists several locations when you search using the Chinese name. I have only been to three. There used to be a small one in Hutang, right across the street from Tesco. However, it closed. The two others I have visited were in Xinbei. One is near Changfa Plaza and the Xinbei TV Tower and media center. The other was closer to Indian Kitchen and Dinosaur Park.
The one thing, however, is that they don’t seem to carry the same products. For example, I found Polish plum juice at one, but no Snapple. The other had Snapple, but none of the Polish beverages. The unpredictable nature of the stocking means, well, you don’t make special trips to them. You just go there because you live or work near one, and its convenient. So, what am I judging Metro on, here? The Polish plum juice. I know because I check the last time I went to Metro. And by the way, Way To Delicious may be out of plum juice. I bought all five last time I was there.
Tarczyn. The Polish equivalent of Snapple?
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Jeremy’s Interview: Lance Edmands, Award-Winning ‘Bluebird’ Writer/Director
Posted on February 27, 2015 by Melissa Hanson — 1 Comment ↓
If you followed my coverage of the Indy Film Fest, you might remember I was able to catch (review here) the Grand Jury & American Spectrum Prize-Winning Bluebird, written and directed by Lance Edmands. You also might remember that it was my favorite of the films that I saw at the festival. I was curious to learn more about the film, its evolution and its journey to the screen so I reached out to Lance and he was kind of enough to give me 45 minutes of his time. Here’s what he had to say…
I know you are from Maine originally. Did you grow up knowing people like Richard, Lesley, Paula and Marla?
Definitely. Particularly in the emotional sense, there was something that was unique to Northern Maine, a certain amount of stoicism. There is/was a great sense of don’t complain too much, fight through things. Keep your head down. In the film, it serves to alienate [Richard, Lesley and Paula] from each other in a way, in a sense of not admitting that there is a problem. I knew that sensibility, my family is like that. With regards to the logging and bus driver aspects – I needed to do research. A logger helped introduce us to the people in that world, minutiae of the world. With the bus driver – I needed to know how does the day goes. I wanted to get those details right.
Did you start the project with one character in mind, writing from his or her point of view?
The film started as sketches, primarily centered around location. Mountains, remotely located – failing dying mill towns. I wanted to capture the feeling of being there, incredibly close presence to nature, cut off/isolated/economic depression. What characters inhabit this world? What about this place really resonates? I drew from stories of my own – my brother once fell asleep on a bus and was left behind. There was a momentary panic and he was found later that day, but it’s simple events like that can which have such big repercussions, which is obvious in the film. All these different ideas spooled together to make up the story.
Was there a particular character that was hard to nail down in the writing process?
As a writer, I have one life experience and I’m embodying these other experiences, the characters’ experiences. I was a a moody teenager, a young adult feeling self-centered and angry, but I’m not a father (I looked to my experience with own dad) and feeling powerless when you can’t do what you’ve always done, who am I? But the most challenging character to write was Lesley. I tried thinking of my own mother. Also, digging into the psychology about what has gone with this character, her feeling responsible for not seeing Owen and the state of his health afterwards…it can lead you down a wormhole.
I was curious about the title – a bluebird is typically associated with happiness and are the bearers of happiness in mythology in cultures ranging from the Chinese to Native Americans. Given the content of the film, it seems like an ironic title – why did you choose to use it?
The title comes from a lot of different things – the idea of the “bluebird of happiness”, this thing that you chase, but you can never reach, it flying away. To me it signifies that happiness is elusive and fleeting. Is it real? It’s the personification of what [Lesley] is going through. The bluebird that lives in Maine is migratory, flies south for the winter. It’s not supposed to be there [in the bus]. It, too, was trapped on the bus, left behind like Owen. Another wrinkle is the most common type of school bus is one made by Chevrolet called the Bluebird.
You shot Bluebird on film – will you continue to make future projects on film especially in light of the announcement in recent weeks that Kodak, with urging by people like Martin Scorsese, Quentin Tarantino, and Christopher Nolan, will continue to make film stock?
YES. I would love to keep doing it. If you had talked to me three years ago, I would have gone on a rant about how great film is…but I’ve been beaten down lately about how depressing the (film) situation is. If budget and resources are there, I will always shoot on film. I like the way it looks better, I like the process better – when it comes back after being developed, it’s like magic. When I went to film school, it wasn’t comparable to the situation now with technology. It’s just a feeling that is impossible replicate. I do think it looks cooler. We really did want to exaggerate the look of it with Bluebird – very granny, left the dirt in, tactile analog nature we left in there.
Did you and the actors rehearse at all? The dynamic between them was amazing, especially between John Slattery and Amy Morton. If so, how long did you have with them?
There was rehearsal, a week or two. I keep it pretty loose –readthroughs, having conversations about relationships and the characters. I try not to say too much and let the actors take hold of the characters. I told them to run with it – history of the characters. With John and Amy, they asked, “What is our marriage like?” It’s great if you can get your actors to agree with it. We would read script and talk about it so we could change lines if they weren’t organic enough.
Do you think that you’ll ever direct a film that you don’t write or do you think that the two processes go hand-in-hand?
I would direct something that I didn’t write. However, it would depend on the material. I’m working with other writers, adapting a novel right now. I don’t feel that I need to personally generate the material. Once I have it, I would take ownership of it, doing my best to make it my vision.
At the screening at the Indy Film Fest, you did a Skype Q&A. One of the questions that was asked was about the ending and I felt like I just wanted to punch the guy who asked it because he wanted you to defend why you ended the film the way you did. Any thoughts on that?
People are not used to ambiguity. We are seeing more and more independent movies starting to emulate big budget endings, wrapping up everything neatly and sometimes you just can’t do that. You have to trust your audience that they will do the work to figure out the direction these characters go after the credits roll.
And that’s that. I want to thank Lance Edmands for taking the time to talk with me about this film. Like I said in my review of Bluebird, this is one of the strongest debuts for a filmmaker I’ve seen in quite some time. I truly hope it gets the release it deserves and people flock to see it. I also look forward to Edmands‘ future projects as from this first film he appears to be a major talent.
http://www.bluebird-movie.com/
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