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OTHER YEARS 2018 2016 2015 2014
SOUTH RACING’S FORD RANGER CREW OF BULACIA AND BUSTOS CROSS BACK INTO ARGENTINA INSIDE THE DAKAR TOP 20
SALTA (ARGENTINA): Marco Bulacia and Claudio Bustos overcame a difficult eighth competitive section of the 2017 Dakar Rally between Uyuni in Bolivia and Salta in Argentina to enter the top 20 in their South Racing Ford Ranger.
Adverse weather conditions on the Altiplano and in other areas of Bolivia again forced rally officials to modify the route for stage eight – the second half of the Marathon stage. Rising water levels in a river bed due to be crossed by competitors forced officials to stop the first section of the stage at PC1, after 171km.
Crews then headed to the second half via a neutralisation section of 176km that also included the crossing of the frontier between Bolivia and Argentina at Piscuno. The second part of the competitive section started on the Argentinean side of the border, was unchanged and ran for around 248km and preceded a liaison of around 350km to the overnight halt in the city of Salta. The first section reached heights of in excess of 4,300 metres before the border and dropped to between 3,400 metres near the stage finish.
Bulacia revelled in the last competitive section of this year’s Dakar in his native Bolivia and reached the end of the first part in 19th position. That was sufficient for the Ford Ranger driver to move up to 21st overall. He reached the finish in a time of 4hr 50min 39sec and that was the 19th quickest time of the day to move him into 20th overall at the expense of the Argentinean driver Alejandro Yacopini in the standings.
Bulacia’s latest generation South Racing Ford Ranger was prepared by Neil Woolridge Motorsport (NWM) with collaboration from South Racing. Bulacia has additional backing from YPFB, Vialco, Hard Rock Santa Cruz, BOA and Ende for his second Dakar with South Racing.
Tomorrow (Wednesday), the ninth special stage of the Dakar heads from Salta to the punishing heat of Chilecito. It’s a massive day in terms of liaison distances, with a special stage of 406km sandwiched between liaisons totalling 571km on the longest day of the entire event. What has been termed the ‘Super Belén’ stage by rally officials is reported to feature daunting navigation and many tricky off-road sections.
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The nature of the atomic-level structure in the binary Cu-Zr metallic glasses and the ternary Cu-Zr-Al(Ag) metallic glasses
Dr. SHA Zhendong
E-mail address: shaz@ ihpc.a-star.edu.sg
Institute of High Performance Computing, 1 Fusionopolis Way, 16-16 Connexis 138632, Singapore
Ab initio simulations on the basic clusters in the best glass formers of Cu-Zr metallic glasses (MGs) provide the most straightforward evidence that a gap in the density of states (DOSs) at the Fermi level is observed. We establish a direct connection between the electronic structure of the basic clusters in MGs and the glass-forming ability (GFA) of MGs, providing a new avenue to examine the GFA of MGs. [1]
Their further ab initio simulations on the basic polyhedral clusters in the best glass formers of the ternary Cu-Zr-Al(Ag) MGs have also been performed. The one thing in common of these basic polyhedral clusters in the binary Cu-Zr system and the ternary Cu-Zr-Al(Ag) system is the electronic stability, instead of the traditional viewpoint of topological stability. [2]
Their findings provide a check for the atomic structural models of MGs, and have implications for understanding the formation and properties of MGs.
1: Z. D. Sha, et al., Intermetallic (2012) in press
2: Z. D. Sha, et al., under review
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Copyright and Collective Authorship
Locating the Authors of Collaborative Work
Part of Cambridge Intellectual Property and Information Law
Author: Daniela Simone, University College London
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As technology makes it easier for people to work together, large-scale collaboration is becoming increasingly prevalent. In this context, the question of how to determine authorship – and hence ownership - of copyright in collaborative works is an important question to which current copyright law fails to provide a coherent or consistent answer. In Copyright and Collective Authorship, Daniela Simone engages with the problem of how to determine the authorship of highly collaborative works. Employing insights from the ways in which collaborators understand and regulate issues of authorship, the book argues that a recalibration of copyright law is necessary, proposing an inclusive and contextual approach to joint authorship that is true to the legal concept of authorship but is also more aligned with creative reality.
Incorporates four case studies to exemplify the mismatch between creative norms in environments in which collaboration evidently flourishes and copyright law's rules on authorship
Provides a fresh perspective on the doctrinal problem of applying the joint authorship test
Identifies the ways in which collaborators understand and regulate authorship between themselves, and then applies this insight to provide a critically evaluation of copyright law's approach to authorship
1. Copyright law and collective authorship
2. Authorship and joint authorship
3. Wikipedia
4. Australian Indigenous art
5. Scientific collaborations
6. Film
7. Characteristics of collective authorship and the role of copyright law
8. An inclusive, contextual approach to the joint authorship test.
Daniela Simone, University College London
Daniela Simone is a Lecturer in Law at University College London, where she is also a Co-Director of the Institute of Brand and Innovation Law. Dr Simone holds BC.L., M.Phil. and D.Phil. degrees from the University of Oxford. She was awarded a B.A./LL.B. (Hons I) degree from the University of Sydney, was admitted to the Supreme Court of New South Wales and worked as a lawyer for a global commercial law firm in Sydney.
The Copyright/Design Interface
Past, Present and Future
Drafting Copyright Exceptions
From the Law in Books to the Law in Action
Art and Modern Copyright
The Contested Image
Film Copyright in the European Union
Public Rights
Copyright's Public Domains
Copyright Exceptions
The Digital Impact
Piracy in the Indian Film Industry
Copyright and Cultural Consonance
Licensing and Access to Content in the European Union
Regulation between Copyright and Competition Law
The General Exception Clauses of the TRIPS Agreement
Promoting Sustainable Development
International Journal of Cultural Property
International Journal of Cultural Property provides a vital, international, and multidisciplinary forum for the broad…
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I Stopped Working For Free And Guess What Happened?
By Chadia Mathurin • 3 years ago
I had my first company while I was a student at University. It was a company where I provided my hall mates with the convenience of ordering their clothes, shoes and tech gadgets online without a deposit. I would clear the items from customs, pay all fees and they would pay when the items were delivered to their door.
With Order Up, I provided a service which didn’t need me to showcase too much experience or too much skill. However, the company that I started off after University was largely reliant on me showing off. People needed to know that I had the ability to do what I was claiming I could do.
I had studied International Relations and a lot of Economics at University. Nothing in my courses said that I would be good at strategic branding or building websites. I needed to find a way to scream from the mountain top that I was good. I needed to build a portfolio of work that would allow me to charge for my time and expertise in the future.
To accomplish this, I scouted companies that I felt needed my services and I offered them for free. This allowed me to practice my craft and to settle on my signature but it also established a bad habit: Chadia does FREE work.
I can’t say if it’s a Caribbean thing or if it’s a human thing. What I can say is that people will try to milk free work from you for as long as you allow it. What I can say is that establishing that Chadia does FREE work made people unwilling to come to me expecting to pay in exchange for my services.
So how and when did I tell someone that I actually ked and wanted to work for or with that if they needed particular things from my company that it would be on an exchange basis; that it would be a service/product in exchange for a monetary payment?
The turning point for me came when I found myself grossly behind on loan payments. I wasn’t lazy. I wasn’t idle yet I wasn’t making enough to meet my financial requirements. I quickly realized that I was doing too much free work. More poignantly, I realized that I had to find a way to establish that I was an Entrepreneur and not a Non-Profit Organization.
I had claimed entrepreneurship the moment I had started to produce valuable work. But I realized that I really could not have laid claim to the title until I began to charge for my work. I am not anti-free work because I believe that free work has its place: Philanthropy, Charity, Internships, Strategic Partnerships, sometimes for friends and family but definitely not Entrepreneurship.
Chadia Mathurin
Chadia Mathurin is a serial entrepreneur and marketing enthusiast hailing from the island of Saint Lucia. During her down time Chadia loves writing music, playing the piano, reading and writing articles and books on Content Creation and Entrepreneurship, watching spy shows, and playing Scrabble and Monopoly.
I Met The One
The #BYOB (Be Your Own Boss) Movement is Now Televised
The Power of Accountability in Achieving Set Goals
Finding Accountability Partners
Entrepreneurial Lessons From A Lagos Bus Conductor
Gregory Rockson: At the Forefront of Africa’s Digital Healthcare Sector
Elevating African Writers & Musicians: Chidi Nwaogu & Publiseer
Use What You Have: Scovia Ngarambe & Her Poultry Farm
The Four Pillars of Branding You Should Never Ignore
The Stages of Team Development
A Memo to the African Entrepreneur
African Entrepreneur
We are cultivating a culture of entrepreneurship on the African continent.
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Art as Critique conference: March 1
This entry was posted in ARC Past Events Past Events on March 7, 2019 by Lauren Pearson.
Art as Critique conference
Geballe Room, Townsend Center for the Humanities
Please enjoy an event summary here as well as videos of Panel 1, Panel 2, Panel 3, and Panel 4.
ARC’s March’s conference Arts as Critique seeks to prompt the question of the relationship between art and criticism from the standpoint of social and political exigencies of our times, and to do so by thinking scholars and curators thinking from and about the global margins and zones of acute transition often called the “Global South”–from Africa, Latin America, South East Asia and the Middle East, to U.S. Latino, African American, Native American and Asian American communities.
Arts as Critique is interested in the extent to which contemporary art, art criticism and curating wield a transformative capacity to actively condition or mobilize collective imaginaries and struggles. How do feminist, queer, postcolonial/decolonial, postnational perspectives and interventions call attention to, and reclaim, the political implications of art as critique beyond Eurocentric ramifications? What kinds of (un)belongings and displacement, figured through tropes of gendered, sexualized, ethnicized and racialized vulnerability, could allow us to think (with) the limits and the resistant potential of art?
Featuring Victor Albarracin, Neda Atanasoski, Natalia Brizuela, Tarek Elhaik, Adriana Johnson, Koyo Kouoh, Anneka Lenssen, Leigh Raiford, Kriss Ravetto, Pedro J. Rolón, Poulomi Saha, and Kalindi Vora.
8:30am: Door Open to the Public
9:10am: Welcome by ARC Director Natalia Brizuela
9:30am – 10:45am: Panel 1
Future Remake: On the Uses and Abuses of Representation for Life
Tarek Elhaik, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, UC Davis
Kriss Ravetto, Professor, Cinema and Digital Media & Science and Technology Studies, UC Davis
Response by Poulomi Saha, Assistant Professor, English, UC Berkeley
10:45am-11:00am: Break
11:00am-12:15pm: Panel 2
Surrogate Humanity: Race, Robots, and the Politics of Technological Futures
Kalindi Vora, Associate Professor, Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies, UC Davis
Neda Atanasoski, Professor, Feminist Studies Department, UC Santa Cruz
Response by Anneka Lenssen, Assistant Professor, Art History, UC Berkeley
12:15pm-1:45 pm: Lunch Break
1:45pm – 3:00pm: Panel 3
An Expanse of Water: Ways of Knowing
Adriana Johnson, Associate Professor, Comparative Literature,UC Irvine
Response by Pedro J. Rolón, Ph.D. Candidate, Comparative Literature, UC Berkeley
3:15pm -5:15pm: Panel 4
Art, Knowledge, Action, Society: Curatorial Practices from the Global South
Presentations by Koyo Kouoh from RAW Material, Senegal, and Victor Albarracin, from Lugar a dudas, Colombia
Response by Natalia Brizuela, Director, Arts Research Center; Associate Professor, Spanish & Portuguese, and Film & Media Studies, UC Berkeley, and Leigh Raiford, Associate Professor, African American Studies, UC Berkeley
5:15pm-5:45pm: Break
5:45pm-6:30pm: Poetry Readings, and Performance
Poetry readings by 최 Lindsay and Jared Robinson
Multimedia Performance with alex cruse
Co-sponsored by the Arts Research Center, UCHRI, the Department of History of Art Curatorial Initiative, Townsend Center for the Humanities, BCNM, Department of Spanish & Portuguese, D-Lab, Digital Humanities, and the Center for Latin American Studies.
ARC’s 2018-19 program is a collaboration between ARC Interim Director Natalia Brizuela (Film & Media and Spanish & Portuguese), Tarek Elhaik (Anthropology, UC Davis), Anneka Lenssen (History of Art), Leigh Raiford (African American Studies), and Poulomi Saha (English), supported by a generous grant from the The University of California Humanities Research Institute (UCHRI).
This project was supported in part by the University of California Office of the President MRPI funding MR-15-328710.
← Artist & Curator: Silvia Gruner in conversation with Tarek Elhaik: February 20
9/13/18: The Politics & Poetics of Imagination in the Black Mediterranean with SA Smythe →
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Kosztolányi Dezső
Anna Édes
Bolti ár: 5120 Ft (Az MNB aktuális árfolyamai szerint)
Méret: 20.4
Kiadó: Norton
Fordító: Szirtes György
Kategóriák: Magyar irodalom idegen nyelven, Szépirodalom, Magyar irodalom
This long out-of-print novel by Hungarian writer Kosztolanyi (1885-1936) takes place in Budapest just after the end of WW I. The city is occupied by Romanian troops after having undergone two brief social revolutions. The novel focuses on the plight of a young peasant woman who comes to work as a maid for the Vizys, a pathologically self-absorbed middle-class couple who are struggling to maintain their social standing amidst the ever-changing political climate. Pleased with Anna's almost robotic work ethic, Mrs. Vizy becomes obsessed with maintaining her servant's loyalty through psychological manipulation. A metaphor for the inhumanity of Hungary's precarious bourgeoisie, the novel follows Anna's victimization by her employers, her fellow servants and the Vizys' dissolute nephew as she struggles to achieve even the slightest emotional connection. Kosztolanyi's characters are ironic to the point of caricature, except Anna, whose inexplicable simple-mindedness limits the reader's sympathy for her. The novel nevetheless provides fascinating insight into a volatile period in Europe's history, laying bare the barbarism and hypocrisy inherent in all strata of society.
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Gary Dowsett asks ‘Why do we need an age of consent at all?’
Category: Safe Schools (Paedophile) Program
Created: Thursday, 07 June 2018 23:38
Written by Michael Foucault – Sexual Morality and the Law
From the video below: “There used to be a spicy element in gay and lesbian liberation… demands that we can and should f*** anything that moves, as long as it said yes freely. Do we still aim for that? That we can and should f*** anything that moves, so long as it said yes freely. Do we still aim for that? Do we still see the queering of all sexuality as possible? Desirable? Inevitable? The same kind of problem occurs with those other kind of thorny sexuality issues of the day…
The age of consent, intergenerational sex, pornography and other sexual health issues.
Why do we need an age of consent at all? Are there diverse kinds of intergenerational sex? And are they always harmful?
Might there be benefits in pornography? How do we deal with alcohol and drug use? What is the impact on body culture of gay men’s sexual relations and practices? Is there an ethics in gay sex that might help us understand risk taking and continuing HIV incidents?
Instead of these issues, one often gets the sense, while reading gay newspapers and magazines today, that our only function is form. We prefer chic to critique. Having achieved a lifestyle, rather than liberation.
Sure, it might be far less painful than police raids, imprisonment and harassment but it might simply that we have been sedated.
Karl Marx said that religion was the opiate of the people. Maybe equality is our SSRI…” – Dowsett, Gary. (2013, April). Rethinking HIV in the Future of Gay Men. Presented at Beyond Behaviours: Uncovering the Social Production of HIV Epidemics Among Gay Men, Vancouver, Canada.
The following video comes with a STRONG LANGUAGE WARNING:
“This might continue to provide a small basis for a challenge to the normalising of intimate citizenship as it plays out currently in marriage equality. It might still provide a basis for pursuing that challenge Foucault saw possible in gay men’s sexuality, for the universal market is notoriously amoral.” Gary Dowsett – Abjection. Objection. Subjection: rethinking the history of AIDS in Australian gay men’s futures. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13691058.2016.1273392#
So, what does Foucault say…? As well as being an enthusastic advocate for sadomasochistic sex, Foucault argued for something far more sinister.
Wikipedia: Sexual Morality and the Law is the transcription of a 1978 radio conversation in Paris between philosopher Michel Foucault, playwright/actor/lawyer Jean Danet, and novelist/gay activist Guy Hocquenghem, debating the idea of abolishing age of consent laws in France.
In 1977, the issue was brought to public attention in France by a petition against age of consent laws addressed to the Parliament, defending the decriminalization of all consented sexual relations between adults and minors below the age of fifteen (the age of consent in France).[1] Foucault stated that the petition was signed by several philosophers including himself, Jacques Derrida, Louis Althusser, pediatrician and psychoanalyst Françoise Dolto, and also by people he described as belonging to a wide range of political positions.[1]
Read the full transcript here: https://www.ipce.info/ipceweb/Library/danger.htm
“Now, where children are concerned, they are supposed to have a sexuality that can never be directed towards an adult, and that’s that. Secondly, it is supposed that they are not capable of talking about themselves, of being sufficiently lucid about themselves. They are unable to express their feelings about the whole thing. Therefore they are not believed. They are thought to be incapable of sexuality and they are not thought to be capable of speaking about it. But, after all, listening to a child, hearing him speak, hearing him explain what his relations actually were with someone, adult or not, provided one listens with enough sympathy, must allow one to establish more or less what degree of violence if any was used or what degree of consent was given. And to assume that a child is incapable of explaining what happened and was incapable of giving his consent are two abuses that are intolerable, quite unacceptable.” Michael Foucault – Sexual Morality and the Law
Source : http://youreteachingourchildrenwhat.org/2018/06/gary-dowsett-asks-why-do-we-need-an-age-of-consent-at-all/?fbclid=IwAR0t5SVFpaLvKsNNRYgVSb0SrNgITSTPhaqlZ1KuMknJ_y8GMyFii3ifJF8
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OUR CAST OF CHARACTERS
Meet the team behind the scenes.
Ryan Hanson
Chief Visionary
He’s been called a rainmaker, a reveller and a storyteller but it’s Ryan’s ability to walk into a blank space and, with his client’s script in mind, paint a vivid vision no one else expects that’s built a tribe of loyal clients. For over a decade Ryan’s been dreaming up and making happen some incredible events. Not to mention he’s won over a dozen International Awards for Event Design, Corporate Event Planning and Event Marketing, secured his own column in an industry publication and has been a sought-after speaker for industry events around the planet.
Jack Strawn
When you’ve got many moving parts and need to get stuff done, you find a Jack-of-all-trades. And finding Jack is pretty easy…just visit your local State Fair. There he’ll be, map in hand – which he’s populated with the year’s list of ‘can’t miss’ food vendors. Corn dogs, BLTs on a stick, fried chocolate bars; he’s tried and loved them all. Former server, live product demonstrator for “As Seen On TV” gizmos and gadgets, graphic designer and savvy online treasure hunter, cross-stitcher and craft cocktail mixologist, Jack can and has done everything. That’s what makes him our, never-say-never, I’m-on-it, get-er-done Project Coordinator.
Alissa Bemis
Experience Rockstar
For Alissa, music is embedded in her DNA. From when she was a little girl, playing Frosty the Snowman repetitively on her mini vinyl record player, to 12 years of piano lessons to making it one half of her double major in University, music has always been close to her. It’s the emotional connection and significance behind the lyrics and notes that resonate with her the most. That’s why events have been her chosen career path. The parallels between music and events allow her to create a heart-stirring experience, full of meaning, for our clients and their guests.
We’re also very proud of her for being awarded Up-and-Coming Special Events Planner for Minnesota Meetings + Events’ Hall of Fame. What a rockstar!
Libby Silverman
Bits ’n Bobs Manager
Many years ago, as a part of her degree in Global Business, Libby had the chance to study abroad in London. And it’s there that she fell in love – with the languages, the diversity of foods and the people. She’s re-visited four times, including interning at an Event Planning company, and each time she brings back some very important lessons that have greatly influenced her role as Project Coordinator. Her taste of British work and life culture have opened her eyes to fresh, new concepts that we don’t see here in America, encouraging her to try new things. Tip ‘o the hat to our dear, Libby. It’s those very ideas that allow us to push the boundaries of design and strategy.
Ashli Murschel
Office Ranger
As an Executive Administrator, Ashli’s mission is to make everyone’s lives run as smooth as butter. Perhaps that’s why she’s been in an administrative role for over 10 years. But back to butter. Did you know that Ashli’s favorite past-time is camping? And her favorite thing to cook over an open fire is buttery popcorn? Besides being outdoors, being one with bugs (not) and hearing the sounds of nature, Ashli loves all of the prep work that goes into packing for a weekend in the woods. It’s that finely-tuned craft of staying on budget, never packing too much and thinking through every detail before you arrive that makes her the perfect fit for her role.
Photography Credits:
Steve Allen Photography, Dan Norman Photography,Noah Wolf Photography, Studio Laguna, Lauren B Photography
Copyright © 2017 BeEvents. All Rights Reserved.
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Belly Dance Classes East Bay
Belly Dancing Lessons
During a hearing several days later, the belly dance clothes were brandished as evidence of the party's debauchery. The dancers are not protected from the police either. A belly dance inspection unit monitors the premises to apply the strict dress code introduced as a pommel to religious conservatives in the 1980s. The bare midriffs, the décolleté and the skirts revealed women are banned, and many dancers have told me stories of throwing themselves into closets and stopping to change into more modest clothes when the police arrive.
If you are the tyFor those who usually order the dance floor, be it swing dance or pole dance, then you will want to watch this class. Instructor Salit, who has played for many years, will teach you Egyptian-style belly dance moves and alluring combinations. You will also work on flexibility, tone, core strength, posture, flow and confidence. Then, at the end of the class, all the movements are put together and you have a chance to perform the newly learned routine.
Enter the world of gothic belly dancing, where the hip rollers meet sword and steampunk. Mavi Clay with blue hair, one of the pillars of this scene, is a "dark belly artist of fusion", known for his dramatic performances. Her costumes embody her slogan, "Mayhem's Maven" she belly-dancing with horns and body painting, sometimes balancing sharp scimitars on her head. His arms are adorned with tattoos, wreaths and swirls that twist on his skin.
If the bad weather pushes you inside, take a seat in the brewery. With rustic wooden benches to sit on and exposed brick walls, this bar and restaurant has a modern German aesthetic. Guests can taste beer from Weihenstephaner, the oldest brewery in the world, and 11 other German-inspired breweries. Kolsch, hefeweizen, lager and IPA this beer garden has it all. Not in the foam? There is also a wine list and a full bar available.
Generally, we see women shaking and rolling different parts of their body without focusing on the belly muscles. The dances are not unique and, frankly, look more like striptease shows. It also disturbs me that customers expect the money to be in the costume of the belly dancer, just as one would do in a strip club in the United States. I guess it is possible that this practice has evolved as a method to compensate for these dancers, but I think it reduces the performance.
Samira Dawn doing a tradition belly dance routine. Samira is the director of Shimmy Dreams Belly Dance and offers classes in Lafayette Ca.(East Bay of San Francisco for belly dancers of all levels.
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Founded in 1898, Biscayne Engineering has a deep and rich history as one of South Florida’s pioneer companies. Today, BE remains dedicated to our founding principles and driven to create innovative solutions for the changing demands of both our clients and the environment.
Enjoy Biscayne Engineering’s timeline as we honor some of our past leaders and notable project throughout our history.
Biscayne Engineering begins when J.S. Fredrick and W.E. Brown form a partnership.
In 1905 J.S. Frederick makes the first official Miami Map. In 1908, the company is first named Frederick Brown Engineering Company.
The present name of Biscayne Engineering Co. is adopted. The company is named after the building they occupied in the former Bank of Bay Biscayne. J.S. Fredrick
This professional association becomes known as Biscayne Engineering: W.E. Brown, President John A Moore, Vice President Earl E. Harvey, Secretary-Treasurer
Biscayne Engineering receives its corporate charter and records the ownership of the corporation Biscayne Engineering Company, Inc.
Construction begins on Villa Vizcaya – a villa built in a North Italian sixteenth-century style for James Deering. Biscayne Engineering’s responsibilities include the building and road
Carl Fisher selects Biscayne Engineering for the development of Miami Beach
The U.S. Corps of Engineers gives Mr. Deering authorization to dig a channel to Vizcaya and he retains Biscayne Engineering Company’s services for the design and
The firm is retained during the construction of Star Island- the first man-made island on Biscayne Bay. Work was also done on Bell Meade Island.
Biscayne Engineering is hired to help with the development of the Flamingo Hotel.
The company early work includes engineering and surveying of the Miami streets, later extending to Dade County Streets.
Biscayne Engineering is hired to lay out the design for the University of Miami campus.
Biscayne Engineering receives payment for services performed after the 1926 hurricane.
Biscayne Engineering is contracted to help convert Tropical Park from a dog track to a horse track.
Norman C. Harvey -son of Earl E. Harvey – acquires interest in the company and later becomes Vice President.
During World War II, Biscayne Engineering is granted security clearance to provide reproduction materials for the war effort – including blueprints and photo stats.
Notable clients and projects include Howard Hughes • Senator Claude Pepper’s home in the Keys • Congressman Dante Fascell • President Nixon – Helicopter Pad and
Biscayne Engineering is involved in the construction of the Florida International University campus, which is developed on a portion of the land known as the Graves
J.J. Bennett becomes President of Biscayne Engineering.
Biscayne Engineering is involved in the development of Bayfront Park.
Biscayne Engineering is involved in numerous projects located throughout the State including Punta Gorda Isles, Port Charlotte and Marco Island
George Bolton buys Biscayne stock from his uncle, Norman C. Harvey.
The 15,000 acres of land now comprising the City of Weston was first amassed in the 1950’s by a gentleman named Arthur Vining Davis, the original
A.B. Mohr, who joined Biscayne in 1946, becomes president of Biscayne Engineering.
George C. Bolton, grandson of Earl E. Harvey, becomes president.
Mary Bolton joins Biscayne Engineering to oversee the Accounting Department.
Biscayne Engineering Company begins its involvement with the renovations and updates of the historic Art Deco Hotels in Miami Beach.
Biscayne is selected to perform professional services for plat of the Welleby Subdivision. Biscayne performs engineering and surveying for the extension of Hill and Hiatus Road
Biscayne Engineering works with Dade County Transit on full surveying and layout work for the Metro Mover. Biscayne Engineering later works on the extension of the
The firm performed professional services for the construction of Centrust Tower.
Biscayne Engineering is hired to work on the development of Bayside Marketplace.
The First 100 Years Biscayne Engineering Recognized as a Pioneer Company by the Miami Centennial Committee The following are excerpts from the Miami Centennial Calendar – The
Biscayne Engineering Company is responsible for the construction layout of the Carnival Center for the Performing Arts.
The firm is hired to handle engineering and surveying services for the planned renovation and expansion of the Miami Beach Convention Center.
Biscayne is selected to perform professional services for the Flamingo Apartments, coincidentally on the same site as they worked in 1920 (see timeline).
Biscayne provides engineering and surveying for design and construction for a multi-story building at the campus of the University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine and
Biscayne Engineering is responsible for surveying and scanning for the MET Square archeological site to prepare Topographic Survey with contours and include a detailed survey of
Biscayne celebrates 120 years in business!
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Vol. 11, Issue 189 - Saturday, July 8, 2006
S | S | M | T | W | T | F
Lingle names Public Safety director
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Gov. Linda Lingle appointed First Deputy Prosecuting Attorney Iwalani White yesterday to serve as director of the state Department of Public Safety.
The post, which oversees the state's Corrections and Law Enforcement divisions, was left open in November 2004 when then-Director John Peyton resigned so he could return to work in Bosnia-Herzegovina.
If her appointment is confirmed by the Senate, White will be responsible for state prisons and community correctional facilities as well as the Narcotics, Protective Services and Sheriffs divisions beginning Aug. 1.
Lingle said White's background as a prosecutor and Family Court judge would "contribute to her ability to effectively manage" the department because she "understands Hawaii's criminal and judicial systems."
White has been first deputy prosecuting attorney since 1997. She joined the city Department of the Prosecuting Attorney in 1982, and has specialized in Family Court issues, particularly juvenile justice and domestic violence.
From 1992 to 1997, White served as a District Family Court judge and has served on the Board of Bar Examiners for 19 years. She previously was on the board of the Hawaii State Bar Association.
She received her law degree from the University of Hawaii William S. Richardson School of Law and a bachelor's degree in sociology from UH-Manoa.
Jim Propotnick and Frank Lopez served as interim and acting directors of the department following the resignation of Peyton and interim Director Rick Bissen, who was sworn in as Circuit Court judge in April 2005.
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TopShots #4 - Bf 109G-6
The book is printed in a pamphlet style - 24 x 16.7 cm - and consists of 36 page walkaround with 103 colour photos, plus an introduction, a set of 1/72 scale drawings and profiles & decals for two aircraft.
One could really say this books isn't so much about the Bf 109G-6, as about a particular Gustav. The subject of the book really quite unique; Messerschmitt Bf 109G-6 W. Nr. 163306, which crashed into Lake Trzebun on the morning of 28th May 1944, carrying Feldwebel Ernst Pleiness to his death.
The brief service history of the aircraft and its subsequent recovery in 1999 and restoration by the Polish Eagles Association is well described in the English introduction to the walkaround.
All the photos are printed to a very high standard, usually three or four per page, and are ideally sized for modellers' references. The aircraft is shown during restoration and the authors, Miroslaw Zelechowski and Jakub Plewka, have been granted exceptional access to the airframe in its part-disassembled state. This means that many areas normally hidden in other walkarounds are fully visible in these photos. The pictures are grouped into the following sequence:
The basically complete airframe on display at Krakow.
The fuselage, minus the wings and tail assembly with exposed details of the attachment points.
The propeller assembly, including pitch adjustment gear.
The engine - under restoration with some parts missing.
The cockpit - again incomplete.
The wings, including details of the slats and radiator baths. The radiators themselves were destroyed in the crash.
The tail assembly - disassembled, showing its construction clearly.
The undercarriage.
As you can see, some parts of the airframe are incomplete - and this is perhaps the only weakness in the book. As it stands, TopShots 11004 represents a fascinating study of W. Nr. 163306 under restoration, but if the authors had also included some comparison shots from original manuals or other restorations, it would have provided a more complete reference for modellers.
The walkaround is finished off with a 1/72 scale 4-view plan of the Bf 109G, which will be useful to modellers and, finally, the rear cover of the book has two excellent side-profiles, along with detailed English/Polish captions describing the camouflage and other painting:
Messerschmitt Bf 109G-6, II/JG 77, Sicily 1943
Messerschmitt Bf 109G-6 - W. Nr. 163306, 2/JGr West, May 1944 - the subject of the walkaound photos.
Kagero have included a very neat little set of decals printed in 1/72, 148 and 1/32 scales to accompany the profiles. The decals are printed by Techmod and look excellent; thin, glossy and printed perfectly in register. They are intended to be used in conjunction with donor kit-sheets, so no national insignia or stencils are included.
This should be a useful book for anyone wishing to add more detail to their Bf 109G. The fact that the airframe is under restoration provides a unique opportunity to see the innards of the Bf 109, but it does also mean that modellers will require addition references to fill in the gaps of the incomplete areas.
The restoration is testimony to the care, expertise and respect devoted by the Polish Eagles Association to the aircraft of a former foe and serves as a reminder of the human tragedy of war. Recommended.
Thank you to Kagero Books for kindly supplying the review sample.
Kagero Books are distributed in the US by MMD-Squadron.
Please remember, when contacting retailers or manufacturers, to mention that you saw their products highlighted here - on ARMORAMA
People would be forgiven for asking if we really need anotheer book about the Bf 109; well, on the basis of Kagero's TopShots 1104, the answer is a resounding Yes - and it proves proves that there's always more to learn about a subject, no matter how well you think you know it.
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Browse > Home / Marketing, Microsoft, News, Open source, Search, Technology / On the Prevalence of Open Source
On the Prevalence of Open Source
Who would have thought, two decades ago, that open source code was going to dominate the software field? Vallified’s Philip O’Toole meditates on “The Strange Economics of Open-Source Software.” Though the industry gives so much away for free, it’s doing quite well for itself.
O’Toole notes that closed-source software is still in wide use, largely in banks’ embedded devices and underpinning services. Also, many organizations are still attached to their Microsoft and Oracle products. But the tide has been turning; he writes:
“The increasing dominance of open-source software seems particularly true with respect to infrastructure software. While security software has often been open-source through necessity — no-one would trust it otherwise — infrastructure is becoming the dominant category of open-source. Look at databases — MySQL, MongoDB, RethinkDB, CouchDB, InfluxDB (of which I am part of the development team), or cockroachdb. Is there anyone today that would even consider developing a new closed-source database? Or take search technology — elasticsearch, Solr, and bleve — all open-source. And Linux is so obvious, it is almost pointless to mention it. If you want to create a closed-source infrastructure solution, you better have an enormously compelling story, or be delivering it as part of a bigger package such as a software appliance.”
It has gotten to the point where developers may hesitate to work on a closed-source project because it will do nothing for their reputation. Where do the profits come from, you may ask? Why in the sale of services, of course. It’s all part of today’s cloud-based reality.
Cynthia Murrell, November 11, 2015
Written by Stephen E. Arnold · Filed Under Marketing, Microsoft, News, Open source, Search, Technology
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Last.fm allows you to play music for free
Although not the complete answer, it *is* an answer and this could easily cause a big shift in online music. Here is the press release:
A few days ago we sent out some cryptic invitations to a press conference in New York that Felix and Martin are presiding over. We’ve had fun in the office reading the rumors and speculation, but it’s time to spill the beans:
As of today, you can play full-length tracks and entire albums for free on the Last.fm website.
Something we’ve wanted for years—for people who visit Last.fm to be able to play any track for free—is now possible. With the support of the folks behind EMI, Sony BMG, Universal and Warner—and the artists they work with—plus thousands of independent artists and labels, we’ve made the biggest legal collection of music available to play online for free, the way we believe it should be.
Full-length tracks are now available in the US, UK, and Germany, and we’re hard at work broadening our coverage into other countries. During this initial public beta period, each track can be played up to 3 times for free before a notice appears telling you about our upcoming subscription service. The soon-to-be announced subscription service will give you unlimited plays and some other useful things. We’re also working on bringing full-length tracks to the desktop client and beyond.
Free full-length tracks are obviously great news for listeners, but also great for artists and labels, who get paid every time someone streams a song. Music on Last.fm is perpetually monetized. This is good because artists get paid based on how popular a song is with their fans, instead of a fixed amount.
We will be paying artists directly.
We already have licenses with the various royalty collection societies, but now unsigned artists can put their music on Last.fm and be paid directly for every song played. This helps to level the playing-field—now you can make music, upload it to Last.fm and earn money for each play. If you make music, you can sign up to participate for free.
We’re not printing money to pay for this—but the business model is simple enough: we are paying artists and labels a share of advertising revenue from the website.
Today we’re redesigning the music economy. There are already millions of tracks available, and we’re adding more every day. We will continue to work hard to bring this to everyone in the world.
Take it for a spin.
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Shingeki no Bahamut: Virgin Soul Review — B+
September 30, 2017 Reviewsanime, reviewdraggle
It’s like the first season but with a girl in love.
It’s really good, but I didn’t love it to quite the same extent I loved the first season. I feel like things slowed down with the extra episodes, and it never achieved the same level of comedy as I recall the first season achieving. (Keep in mind, it’s been a while, so maybe I’ve just forgotten.) There’s no Anima and Rita has much less of a role this season, which is probably the main reason.
I’m also not too sure about Nina, the main character of this season. Sometimes I feel that I like her, but usually I’m just, “why?” She’s a very goofy character, but unlike the previous goofy characters this show has had, for the vast majority of the time she’s goofy but not actually funny. And I thought her whole romance story was kind of dumb. The only reason she likes the guy is because he’s hot. It wasn’t very compelling.
But don’t get me wrong, it’s still a great show. I love the sense of style. A superb soundtrack too. Some of the best OPs and EDs of the year. And I love the direction the story took, with how the oppressors became the oppressed. Room for plenty of interesting directions which this show didn’t fail to pursue.
Storytelling – B – Great change from first season!
Voice – A – Love the style and world.
Characters – B – Not entirely sure about Nina.
Attention Grab – B – Kept my attention throughout for the most part.
Production – A – Looks great.
Overall – B+
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2 thoughts on “Shingeki no Bahamut: Virgin Soul Review — B+”
In no way was Nina the biggest weakness of this show, as its biggest weakness was the genocidal maniac that Nina loved. For some completely unfathomable reason, the writers decided to wholly redeem King Charoice by the show’s end with nary a word about all of the murderous havoc he wreaked to attain his supposedly worthy goal. Virgin Soul started out strong, but around the middle became a something of a stultifying mess, and by the end was truly just embarrassing.
You’re absolutely right. I just sort of mushed them together mentally since that stupid king is barely a character at all more than a hot love interest for Nina. That guy didn’t make a single lick of sense.
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Big Five Presents Luxury Tours in Boutique Hotels in Colombia
Last updated on November 15th, 2016 by Amy Lombard
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Discover Colombia in exquisite boutique hotels from Big Five luxury travel company. Big Five Tours & Expeditions is a premier luxury travel company specializing in individualized vacations worldwide and now debuts new luxury tours to stay in Anandá Hotel, the newest luxury hotel in Cartagena, Colombia.
“Colombia is undergoing a remarkable renaissance,” states Ashish Sanghrajka, president of Big Five. “It now offers a wealth of cultural and historic attractions as well as superb boutique hotels such as the Anandá Hotel Boutique in Cartagena. This is a brand new luxury hotel, and typifies the incredible strides Colombia has made in recent years to become the new star on the international travel scene. This new breed of luxury boutique hotels says a lot about the new spirit and energy of this country.”
For example, the Anandá is an intimate and elegant restored colonial mansion, which has been updated to exceed modern standards of style and comfort. Its 24 suites are part of the original house, and include 16 suites, four double suites and four grand suites. The interior design, the furniture, the linens and extra touches meet the highest standards in luxury accommodations.
Inside the walled city, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, in the heart of the historic district, Anandá Hotel is within walking distance of important historical buildings such as the Cathedral, San Pedro’s Church, the Naval Museum and Santo Domingo Square. Guests can also enjoy exotic beaches, water sports, golf courses, shopping and fine dining in the surrounding area.
Big Five has luxury tours ranging from 8-13 days that delve into Colombia’s rich culture and the traditions around Colombia’s renowned coffee. Starting from $2450 per person, land only, double occupancy, the itinerary includes Cartagena. The Anandá Hotel Boutique can easily be incorporated into this or other Colombia getaways.
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Shopping Precincts in Ho Chi Minh
by Fiona | Where to Shop
Ho Chi Minh may not be the capital city of Vietnam, but it definitely deserves the title of shopping capital! A modern metropolis in the making, Ho Chi Minh City or Saigon as it is still known to locals, has managed to shed its image as a war-torn city to become the bright beacon of economic freedom in Vietnam, gradually catching up to booming Asian cities like Singapore, Bangkok and Kuala Lumpur.
Numbering in as one of the top things to do in Ho Chi Minh, shopping can be found on every street and corner in Ho Chi Minh. Ho Chi Minh’s shopping scene is small, but what it lacks in terms of volume, it certainly makes up for in quality. The city’s top billing local designers jostle for space with international names on the glitzy street of Dong Khoi, whilst little lanes are crowded with an interesting array of local boutiques that draw attention to Saigon’s talented artisans and craftspeople.
Although Ho Chi Minh is made up of 24 districts, tourists rarely venture beyond districts 1, 3 and 5. And why would we need to? These districts alone are ample hunting grounds for luxury boutiques, cool concept stores, sprawling markets, antique streets, souvenir shops and more! Want to get on intimate terms with the city’s culture, people and hidden gems? Then get those walking shoes ready and read our quick breakdown to the key shopping precincts in Ho Chi Minh.
The locus of city life in Saigon, District 1 is where majority of the city’s commercial activity is concentrated. Home to most of the major sights and historical monuments such as the Reunification Palace and the Ben Thanh Market, the two most important items in your itinerary (shopping and sightseeing, in that order) can be conquered in one convenient sweep.
At the heart of it all lies Dong Khoi, a wide, picturesque street strewn with an intriguing mix of high-brow international stores, distinguished local designer boutiques and humble artisanal gift shops. Just off Dong Khoi, Mac Thi Buoi is a trendy little street housing some of Saigon’s top-notch local designers. Running perpendicular to Dong Khoi are the two main threads of Le Thanh Ton and Ly Tu Trong, both popular shopping grounds. One of the longest streets in the city, Hai Ba Trung runs from District 1 into District 3 and is riddled with shops and restaurants. Saigon’s renowned antique street – Le Cong Kieu, is also situated in District 1. Then there are a number of smaller shopping strips like Ton That Thiep and Thi Sach Street spread in fitful bursts all over town.
A largely residential enclave, District 2 offers a break from the non-stop frenetic bustle of District 1. A mere 20-min drive from the city centre, leaf-arched residential villas and large gated terrace houses dominate the scenery in District 2. Drawn by a healthy expat population, an outcrop of tasteful and contemporary shops has surfaced around the district’s popular international schools. Anchoring the area is the commercially busy street of Xuan Thuy. Here you will find a host of refined furniture and homeware stores and children’s and women’s fashion boutiques scattered along the street’s length. Trail off into Thao Dien Street and the neighbouring street of Le Van Mien for more of the same.
Read the guide to shopping in District 2.
Close enough to be considered District 1’s backyard, District 3 enjoys a quieter pace of life than its overcrowded neighbour. Similar to District 1, leafy avenues skirt around a sprinkling of French colonial buildings and historical relics such as the War Remnants Museum, Jade Emperor Pagoda and Xa Loi Pagoda. Fashion boutiques and multi-label stores are a dime a dozen in District 3. The main arteries of Vo Van Tan, Le Van Sy and Nguyen Dinh Chieu offer plenty of great alternatives to shopping at the malls. Unfolding across District 1 and 3, Truong Dinh is worth an amble for its pretty lifestyle shops and jazzy cafes.
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Interaction of VIF Delegation with China Institute for International Strategic Studies at Beijing
A VIF delegation led by Mr. Ajit Doval and comprising of Gen. (Retd.) NC Vij, Amb. PP Shukla, Lt. Gen. Ravi Sawhney and Brig (Retd.) Vinod Anand visited China Institute for International Strategic Studies at Beijing on 15th March 2013 and interacted with their faculty. The topics discussed were Sino-Indian relations and the emerging scenario in Afghanistan.
Mr. Ajit Doval highlighted the importance of bilateral relationship between the two countries. He was of the view that there are plenty of commonalities between the two nations as far as threats and challenges to the two countries are concerned. There was a need to look for innovative ways to improve the relations between the two. Mr. Zhao Ning, the leader of the Chinese delegation agreed with the observations made by Mr. Doval and stressed that both are emerging economies and if we like the current century to be described as Asian century then cooperation between India and China was very important.
Amb. Zhao Gang, a former Ambassador to India deliberated upon Sino-Indian relations. He opined that Chinese government was satisfied with the present state of China-India relations; he highlighted the frequent exchanges between high level leaders from both the sides. There was cooperation in multilateral organizations/institutions, enhanced economic exchanges, cooperation in anti-terror efforts etc. Yet, he said that there were problems in some areas; peace and tranquility has been maintained on the border and there was a need for a resolution. However, his remark that Sino-Indian border is 2000 KM in length was promptly questioned by Amb. PP Shukla and Gen. NC Vij. Amb. PP Shukla further stressed that this claim of border being 2000 KM long was of recent origin and the solution to the boundary question should be found at the earliest. Amb. Shukla also remarked that the question of trade imbalance between India and China also needs to be addressed. Further, China was similar to India culturally and emotionally and Beijing should leverage this goodwill.
Gen. NC Vij spoke about his official visit to China and remarked that so far as boundary issue was concerned not much progress has been made in the last 13 years; he was of the view that if China has been able to solve its boundary problems with 13 countries then why can’t it be solved with India. He also remarked on China’s unconditional friendship with Pakistan with which India is uncomfortable. Further, there was a need to enhance mil to mil relations between the two countries.
Afghanistan issue was also deliberated upon and Chinese perspective on ‘possible scenarios of post-2014 Afghanistan’ was articulated by Mr. Lin Yu. Main concern was the spread of terrorism in case of unstable conditions in Afghanistan. There was a need for an Afghan national reconciliation otherwise a civil war scenario was a distinct possibility. Mr. Mu Changlin also observed that China was very worried about the situation. Mr. Ajit Doval and Lt. Gen. Ravi Sawhney gave out the Indian perspective on evolving situation in Afghanistan and possibilities of cooperation between the neighbours of Afghanistan including China and India. There was a general consensus that there were many uncertainties in the emerging Afghan scenario and regional cooperation was necessary for a positive outcome.
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Jerry Ragovoy in the Cathedral Of Soul
by Andy Schwartz
When Howard Tate died on December 2, 2011, most obituaries for the great soul singer mentioned the name of another man who’d passed on in July of this year. Jerry Ragovoy (September 4, 1930 – July 13, 2011) was a songwriter, producer, pianist, and the studio Svengali behind Tate’s career masterpiece, the 1967 Verve album originally issued as Howard Tate and later retitled Get It While You Can.
Arguably, Ragovoy never made a better album in his career. In fact, Rags didn’t make that many albums: Much of his most influential music appeared on singles released before 1967, when Sgt. Pepper broke the “album market” wide open. Howard Tate/Get It While You Can features superb vocal performances by Tate, whether singing church–flavored ballads (the title track, “I Learned It All The Hard Way”) or blues standards (“How Blue Can You Get”); sturdy arrangements by Ragovoy, frequent partner Garry Sherman, or Artie Butler; and tough, committed playing by a cast of NYC session players including pianist Paul Griffin and guitarists Cornell Dupree and Eric Gale.
Finally, Howard Tate/Get It While You Can contains the original versions of some of Ragovoy’s best and most–covered compositions including “Ain't Nobody Home” (B.B. King, Bonnie Raitt), “Get It While You Can” (Janis Joplin), and “Look At Granny Run Run” (Grand Funk, Ry Cooder). Several notable non–LP singles emerged from the Tate sessions including “Stop,” written by Ragovoy with Mort Shuman, later covered by both Sam Moore and Jimi Hendrix.
But if Jerry Ragovoy had never worked with Howard Tate…had never written “Get It While You Can” or “Ain’t Nobody Home”…we’d still be hanging his name in the Soul Hall of Fame. Here are some of the reasons why:
GARNET MIMMS & THE ENCHANTERS – “Cry Baby” mp3
Written by Jerry Ragovoy (as “Norman Meade”) and Bert Berns (as “Bert Russell”) Released July 1963 as United Artists 629. No. 1 Billboard R&B (three weeks), No. 12 Pop. available on Cry Baby
In his liner notes for the 1993 CD Cry Baby: The Best of Garnet Mimms (all 25 tracks produced by Jerry Ragovoy), Robert Pruter wrote that prior to the July 1963 release of this landmark single, the sporadic soul hits of the period were “mainly easily digestible songs by Sam Cooke and Chuck Jackson that fitted well into the pop mainstream of the day, so that nothing seemed alien or new about them. ‘Cry Baby’ was different. The song was a gospelized production so full of the soul–saving, fire–and–brimstone ecstasies of the black sanctified church that it singularly stood apart…Never had the public heard anything so intense and so emotional on Top 40 radio.”
Ragovoy told Pruter he’d worked on the song “on and off for about two years” and, in his efforts to place the finished master, had been given the brush–off by executives at various labels: “Typically, in the record industry, if it doesn’t sound like anything the record executives are familiar with, they turn it down.” With Jerry as writer and producer, Garnet Mimms placed eight more songs on the Billboard R&B Singles chart. The consistent excellence of their output was such that even Mimms’ commercial misfires later became ideal cover material: “Look Away” for the Spencer Davis Group with Stevie Winwood, “My Baby” for Janis Joplin.
ERMA FRANKLIN – “Piece of My Heart” mp3
Written by Jerry Ragovoy and Bert Berns
Released 1967 as Shout 221. No. 10 Billboard R&B, No. 62 Pop.
available on Piece of Her Heart: Epic & Shout Years
Ragovoy co–wrote this soul classic with frequent collaborator Bert Berns and probably played the piano part that forms the bedrock of the arrangement. One of only two singles ever charted by Aretha Franklin’s older sister, “Piece Of My Heart” is probably Rags’ best–known song thanks to Big Brother & the Holding Company (with Janis Joplin), whose cover version reached No. 12 in 1968 and has remained a staple of classic rock radio ever since. Erma’s original was nominated for a Grammy Award in 1968; twenty–five years later, in 1992, after renewed exposure in a British TV commercial for Levi’s, her recording entered the UK Top Ten.
THE ENCHANTERS – “God Bless the Girl and Me” mp3
Written by Samuel Bell & Lorraine Ellison. Produced & arranged by Jerry Ragovoy. Released March 1966 as Loma 2035.
Garnet Mimms and Sam Bell were members of a Philly vocal group, the Gainors, who left to form the Enchanters. The success of “Cry Baby” pushed Mimms to the forefront, however, and soon the other members (including Zola Pearnell and Charles Boyer) were cutting tracks without him. The Enchanters’ “I Wanna Thank You” struggled to No. 91 R&B in the fall of ’64, but with Ragovoy producing and Sam Bell as a contributing writer, the group came up with two more deep–soul stunners, “I Want To Be Loved” (Loma 2012, released February ’65) and “God Bless The Girl and Me.” I’m pretty sure Sam Bell is singing lead on these sides; if so, then he’s nearly the equal of Garnet Mimms for church–bred intensity and passionate articulation. The combination of piano and organ is another key element derived from gospel music and a trademark of Ragovoy’s sound in this period.
MIRIAM MAKEBA – “Pata Pata” mp3
Written by Miriam Makeba & Jerry Ragovoy. Produced by Jerry Ragovoy.
Released 1967 on Reprise 0606.
available on Pata Pata
Ragovoy’s biggest crossover hit of the Sixties after “Cry Baby” was also among his least typical. Thanks to the support of Harry Belafonte, by 1967 South Africa’s Miriam Makeba was already established in the US: She had released several LPs on RCA and been nominated for a Grammy the previous year. I’m not sure if Makeba was signed to Reprise at the time she recorded “Pata Pata,” or if Ragovoy independently produced and then shopped the master.
In any case, singer and producer retooled a South African folk song (that Makeba had first recorded in 1956) and the result was a sui generis hit that reached No. 7 R&B/No. 12 Pop in 1967. “Pata Pata” was the first song of South African origin since “Wimoweh (The Lion Sleeps Tonight)” to make a major impact on American audiences. Makeba’s hit preceded by about a year the Number One success of “Grazing In The Grass” as recorded by her then–husband, trumpeter Hugh Masakela.
LORRAINE ELLISON – "Stay With Me" mp3
Warner Bros. LP 182, released 1969. Produced by Jerry Ragovoy.
available on Stay With Me
Along with Howard Tate/Get It While You Can, this is the other great Jerry Ragovoy album.
Its creation began with the title single, “Stay With Me,” co–written by Ragovoy and George David Weiss. Sometime in 1966, Frank Sinatra canceled a New York recording session, potentially leaving his label Warner Bros. with the bills for a 46–piece orchestra and no music to show for it. On two days’ notice, Ragovoy, arranger Garry Sherman, and singer Lorraine Ellison (born 1931, Philadelphia PA) hustled into the studio and recorded “Stay With Me” – a towering, operatic ballad that many consider the pinnacle of East Coast “uptown soul.”
“To many people, ‘Stay With Me’ still typifies the basic idea of what real soul music is all about,” wrote UK soul music maven David Nathan in a 1974 article for Blues & Soul. “And there aren't too many soulful people around who don't get that spine–chilling tingle when they hear it, even to this day.”
“‘Stay With Me’ was a song that Jerry Ragovoy had written with Mr. Weiss, and I thought it was going to be a monster smash,” Lorraine Ellison told Nathan in Blues & Soul. “It certainly looked that way – the record had twenty-six national breakouts in the States, and it did make it onto the soul charts and made some headway onto the nationals.
“But at that time, Warners was just not into black music, period. They really had no idea how to promote the record and they had no real way of getting into the R&B market.”
The single made it to No. 11 R&B/No. 64 Pop, and these stats – along with some positive reviews and a certain underground buzz – were enough for Warner Brothers to green–light a full album. Heart and Soul: Introducing Miss Lorraine Ellison was released as WB 1674 in 1966. Produced by Ragovoy but arranged and conducted by jazz man Oliver Nelson, it was an uneven set that found Ellison singing familiar standards (“Cry Me A River”) and other people’s hits pop (“A Change Is Gonna Come,” “If I Had a Hammer”). “Stay With Me” was buried in the middle of Side Two, and only one other song, “When Love Flies Away,” bore a Ragovoy writing credit. Heart and Soul did not chart and was soon deleted.
“Then interesting things began to happen,” West Coast rock critic John Mendelsohn wrote in his liner notes for Stay With Me – the second Lorraine Ellison album, unexpectedly issued by Warner Bros. in the fall of 1969. “[Such] diverse musical figures as Laura Nyro and Carl Wayne [of The Move] listed Lorraine Ellison as their favorite female vocalist. And in Harlem...an enterprising pirate tape–duplicating operation found mobs of takers when they offered tapes of ‘Stay With Me’ at the somewhat outrageous price of $5.00 apiece.”
“… Having realized that they had an artist of almost limitless potential, both commercial and artistic, sitting around their house, [Warner Bros.] got Jerry Ragovoy busy producing a straight–ahead album of gospel–based soul, the music that Lorraine had been doing for years with such unrewarded brilliance.”
Indeed, this was the album that should have followed the single. Stay With Me is eleven tracks of pure uptown soul, with an unswerving stylistic focus and the sustained mood of a secular cathedral. Ragovoy arranged and produced the entire set; he co–wrote seven songs with (variously) Mort Shuman, Doc Pomus, Sam Bell, Bert Berns, and Ellison herself. The title song closes Side One with a bang, in a manner analogous to the placement of “Get It While You Can” on Howard Tate.
It was all too little too late, however, and Stay With Me followed Heart and Soul into the cut–out bins. But Janis Joplin must have gotten hold of a copy: She later covered “Try (Just A Little Bit Harder)” on Pearl, along with four other songs co–written by Jerry Ragovoy.
LOU COURTNEY – “What Do You Want Me Yo Do” mp3
Written by Lou Courtney. Arranged by Jerry Courtney. Produced by Lou Courtney & Jerry Ragovoy. Released 1973 as Epic/CBS 5–11062. No. 48 Billboard R&B in spring 1974.
available on I'm in Need of Love
By 1973, hardcore Southern soul was pretty much a spent force, commercially if not inspirationally. Otis Redding had been dead for years, Atlantic had dropped Wilson Pickett, and Aretha Franklin was cutting jazz–flavored material with Quincy Jones. Ragovoy hooked up with R&B journeyman Lou Courtney, whose biggest chart record – the quasi–Motown dance novelty “Skate Now” – was six years behind him. Together they came up with a flute–flavored, proto–disco sound that was closer to Johnny Bristol’s “Hang On In There Baby” than to the glories of Garnet Mimms or Erma Franklin. Still, “What Do You Want Me To Do” is a genuinely infectious record with an arrangement that positively pops, and Courtney sings the hell out of it. The single crawled to No. 48 R&B and died, but not before singer and producer managed to squeeze out a pretty good album, I’m In Need of Love, also on Epic/CBS.
“Open Up Your Soul” mp3
by Erma Franklin, 1968.
“I Want To Be Loved” mp3
by Loraine Ellison, 1969.
Garnet Mimms – “Look Away”
by Garnet Mimms, 1964.
available on Warm & Soulful
"Malayisha" mp3
by Miriam Makeba, 1967.
“Ain’t Nobody Home” mp3
by Howard Tate, 1967.
available on Get It While You Can
“Stop” mp3
Posted by Ted Barron at 4:34 PM
Labels: Andy Schwartz, Bert Berns, Erma Franklin, Garnet Mimms, Howard Tate, Jerry Ragovoy, Lorraine Ellison, Lou Courtney, Miriam Makeba
"Stop" was also recorded by the James Gang for their first Yer Album and Ragovoy plays piano with them on it.
H.M.S. said...
Wow, thanks to Andy for this detailed piece on Jerry Ragovoy's production career, much appreciated and admirably done!
allen vella said...
That was an awesome 7 days of great posts..thank you!
Bruce said...
Norman Meade=Jerry Ragovoy & Bertrand Russell Berns should be in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. These two great songwriters have a impeccable resume. May they both rest in peace.
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Opinion Duel, Day 2
Today, Gustavo Coronel fires his rebuttal in the first Venezuela Opinion Duel.
Going head to head with Gustavo Coronel
Gustavo Coronel has been writing about NiNis.
So have I.
I don't agree with a single thing he has to say about them.
So I challenged him to an Opinion Duel.
He accepted.
Click here to read the results...
Roberto Smith in his own words...
I'm translating selected excerpts of Venezuela de Primera leader Roberto Smith's online forum at Noticiero Digital. The questions are posed by Noticiero Digital readers.
Q: What's different in your offer from what we've seen and lived before?
A: We offer something no one has ever offered, not the bolivarian generation, nor the generation of '28, nor that of '58, nor those in power today: to build a first-world country economically, socially, politically and culturally, within one generation. To be the first country in Latin America to be a first-world country, like Singapur, South Korea, Taiwan and Lebannon did, among others.
I'll transcribe the opening of our statement of principles:
"Never in our history has a generation set out to turn Venezuela into one of the best countries in the world. We take on that challenge and we begin here a new era in the history of our people: the era of the construction of a first world Venezuela, a people known as one of the greatest in the world.
Our starting point is clear: all Venezuelans hope for a First World Venezuela, a society like the most successful in the world in all areas of human life, prosperous and poverty-free, with work for everyone without exclusion or marginalization, free, pluralist and republican, free of populism and authoritarianism, with an effective and just government, free of mediocrity and culturally creative. There is no other acceptable destiny, and so a First World Venezuela is the only national project that can truly unity all Venezuelans on a great common enterprise."
There is no country in the world with our potential for prosperity and social justice. We refuse to accept a mediocre destiny. That is VERY DIFFERENT from the offers that the Venezuelan people has heard before.
Q: Are you Rodolfo's son?
A: I am not related to journalist Rodolfo Schmidt, whom I admire. My father is Roberto Smith Camacho, from Churuguara, Falcon State, an engineer and first rate man, and my grandfather Juancho Smith, who was a peasant.
Q: If, right now, unity is the most important thing, what's the point of coming out to compete at this time? Doesn't it just strain the atmosphere and atomize the opposition even more?
A: I agree with you that unity is key, but I mean the unity of ALL Venezuelans around a new project to turn us into a first-world country. That, in my humble opinion, is the only "unity" that's worth anything. The idea that the country is split in two chunks is wrong. There is a huge majority of Venezuelans who don't want what we have now or what we had in the past. Together we should build that more transcendental unity, which will eventually encompass everyone. I don't see what could be bad about setting out to compete by proposing a project for real national unity.
Q: Don't you think the Opposition's possibilities for success would be more realistic if they recognized the lies and errors they've imposed on their followers over the last seven years?
A: I agree with you.
Q: Will you be the leader to recognize once and for all that there was no fraud in the referendum, that April 11th was a planned coup and that the opposition has been in the minority in Venezuela since 1998? Or are you scared of being rejected like all those who have gotten "close" to the government?
A: I don't identify with the Opposition, but rather with a new proposal (in spanish "proposición") to build a first world country. I think the Opposition allowed itself to lose the referendum ("se dejó ganar"), with or without fraud. I have severely criticized the events of April 2002. I marched peacefully along with hundreds of thousands and I was infuriated by the violence that day, but I was much more indignated by what happened afterwards.
I believe most Venezuelans today are not on one side or the other, but that they aspire to a new proposal for a First World Venezuela, without conflict, with national unity. In the past, a large majority systematically backed a project for change that offered much that was positive. But time passes, while the people still suffer and wait...
I want to unite 100% of Venezuelans, not just one part.
Q. The opposition has suffered 10 defeats since 1998. Every defeat has been decisive. Isn't that a sign that in Venezuela today there is an irrefutable rejection against everything that has to do with the political past and a firm determination not to go back?
A: I endorse the idea that THEY SHALL NOT RETURN (NO VOLVERAN) - that includes much from the not-so-recent past, but also lots from the recent past. I share the predominant concern with the excluded and the poor in the current discourse, but I am very worried about the inefficiency and corruption that are a consequence of public mismanagement.
Q: Since you are part of that political past (reference to his stint as communication minister in the early 90s), how do you intend with the stigma?
A: The only thing no one can change is their past. I am proud of my career, marked by efficiency, honesty, social commitment and good management.
Q: Do you think of yourself as right wing or left wing?
A: Part left, part right...I'd rather think of myself as first wing, like all Venezuelans. The right-left axis isn't very meaningful anymore because we live in the century of diversity, of creativity, and that axis is too simplistic.
Q: Do you think the alliance with Cuba is a positive thing?
A: I love Cubans, I hate their dictatorship. It's a historical anomaly, and I dream of helping Cuba find the liberty, the democracy and the prosperity they don't have today.
Q: Do you think CNE is legitimate? If not, why do you participate in the elections put together by an illegitimate CNE?
A: The electoral system, on the whole, is "depressing", not "First World" ("deprimente, no de primera"). We believe in elections, not in abstention, but we're demanding CNE to allow the people to count all the votes, and to get rid of the thumb-print scanners and electronic rolls that undermine the secrecy of the vote, and to clean up the electoral registry. We will keep on demanding those things until they are achieved. If they are not, we will take other steps in due course.
Q: Do you believe in Twentyfirst Century Socialism?
A: I've been studying social and political doctrines since I can remember. I was a democratic socialist (read MAS supporter) when I was at university, but I've left such simplistic views behind. Today my heart is full of solidarity and justice, but my head is focused on efficiency, that's why I believe in a proper balance between market and state, between solidarity and efficiency - I think "isms" work only to justify systems of domination. I believe we should shift from the hegemony of domination to the predominance of cooperation.
Q: Do you really think you have enough support to become president?
A: Our project for a First World Venezuela has the overwhelming support of the population, they want full employment, zero crime, a home for everyone and a First World democracy. Turning that into a vote for president demands, nonetheless, a huge effort. But history is full of election surprises. Fujimori had 0.6% in the polls 8 months before he was elected. Uribe was at 6% just 6 months before his election. Kennedy was on 3% a year before his election. And the current president had 2.5% 10 months before his election. (Note how he NEVER mentions Chavez by name, even when he - exceptionally - talks about him. -ft) Nothing is settled until the people make their choice.
The main tool I use to reach the people is to be there, to live , suffer and share with the poor people of this country. There is no other way to understand the problems of the majority except from inside the poor barries and the most misery-stricken towns. In those barrios and those towns you find the First World people of Venezuela. Those who long for a first-world country, those who want to improve their lives together, those who want to leave the fighting aside and reconnect once again in a world of opportunities for all.
Q: I want to live like they do in the Nordic countries. Will you achieve that? It's impossible: nobody wants Venezuela to be like that. Why did they take down Carlos Andres Perez? He had that goal and they wouldn't let him.
A: We Venezuelans want to live like the richest and most prosperous people on earth...but keeping our culture, identity, originality, beauty. The idea isn't to copy anyone, but to be better than everyone. How? Just two examples:
1. We will become the biggest energy superpower on earth, producing 10 to 12 million barrels of oil and gas per day, processing them to maximize their added value. That will allow us to finance the projects for First World education, First World health care, and others, as well as generating over 1.5 million new productive jobs.
2. We will become a tourism powerhouse, bringing 15 million tourists a year (not the mere 300,000 who come now) on the basis of our biodiversity, our coasts, our mountains, and especially our beautiful and gentle people. That way we would create over 2.5 million jobs with good wages.
Those are just two examples, but I could go into our plans for new export industries, for a knowledge society, for modern agroindustry. Finland is a good example of a country that went from being really backward to being one of the most successful, because they rode the wave of the information society. Why can't we do something similar or better?
Learning the Lessons of the Opposition Debacle
Over the last ten days, I’ve written a series of short posts trying to summarize what has gone wrong with the Traditional Opposition, and pointing to Venezuela de Primera as a group that seems to have learned the right lessons from the Opposition debacle. Looking back, it strikes me that they read more like subsections of one long essay. So, breaking again my pledge to post only shorter pieces, I’ve stitched together those posts into an Epic Post of Opposition Bumbling and Suggestions for Making it Right Again.
1. Understanding NiNis
My starting premise was that the debate on the trustworthiness of CNE is largely misplaced – the basic reason the Opposition can’t beat Chavez at the ballot box is not fraud, it’s that most Venezuelans prefer voting for Chavez than for the Opposition. To have any hope to reverse that trend, we need to understand why.
The startling fact is that seven years into the Chavez era of furious political polarization, about half of the Venezuelan electorate remains politically non-alligned - the so-called NiNis. As a matter of simple arithmetic, it is not possible to construct an antichavista electoral majority without winning over a large chunk of this sector. But Venezuela’s Opposition faces major obstacles in winning over the politically non-alligned; basically because they don’t understand them. So, first, I want to discuss why the Opposition can’t seem to understand the NiNis, as a starting point for a broader discussion of how the Opposition has managed to alienate the broad political center where elections are won.
Obviously, a lot of Opposition supporters are extremely frustrated by the NiNi position. I've come to think the heart of the problem is confusion about the word "opposition."
There are two ways to understand the word in a political context, and the subtle difference between the two has given rise to endless misunderstanding...
Princeton WordNet renders them as:
opposition (n) : a body of people united in opposing something
Opposition (n) : the major political party opposed to the party in office and prepared to replace it if elected (e.g. "Her Majesty's loyal opposition")
The first definition is generic: anyone who disagrees with something is in opposition to it. In English, at least, this generic meaning is conveyed by writing it with a little "o". The second meaning - often capitalized in English - is specific: the Opposition is the particular set of parties and leaders that leads the opposition to the government.
The point about NiNis is that they are in opposition but not in Opposition.
When pollsters ask NiNis "are you part of the opposition?" what NiNis hear is "are you part of the Opposition?" They interpret it specifically, not generically.
Not surprisingly, they say no. The word brings to mind the old Coordinadora Democratica, what I've been calling the Traditional Opposition - and the one thing NiNis are agreed on is that they hate the Traditional Opposition. They reject its radicalism, its Chavez fixation, its obsession with incomprehensible detail, its negativism...they have lots and lots of perfectly good reasons to be upset with the Opposition .
But Opposition supporters usually think of the word generically - and so they can't fathom how anyone who is opposed to Chavez could possibly be a NiNi in good faith.
This is why Opposition supporters get so frustrated with opposition-minded NiNis. "If you oppose the government," they say in exasperation, "then - by definition - you must be part of the opposition! Otherwise you're either a fence-sitter, an opportunist or an idiot!"
"Not at all!" reply the NiNis, "we don't have to be in the Opposition to be opposed to Chavez!"
Thing is: they're talking about subtly different things, but this isn't immediately apparent. So the misunderstanding drags on and on and on...
What the polling data show, though, is that the Opposition has lost the support of large chunks of the opposition. My last few posts just express my anger at the Opposition's inability to grasp this, and its unwillingness take drastic action to reverse the trend.
If the Traditional Opposition doesn't realize it has to change to win back the opposition, then the opposition will have to find a way to form a New Opposition - one embodying the message of optimism and renewal they constantly tell the pollsters they are hungry for.
2. Antichavismo without Chavez
The Opposition, as we've known it, has failed. On this, we're all more or less agreed. It's failed on so many levels it's hard to know where to start. But, to my mind, the most basic failures have been tactical.
Time and again, Opposition leaders have centered political debate on issues that play to Chavez's advantage. Chief among these is the issue of Chavez himself.
It baffles us, angers us, dismays us and infuriates us, but most Venezuelans kinda like Chavez. A good 30% idolize him, another 40% have mixed feelings about him, but only a relatively small minority positively detest him like the Opposition leadership does. In poll after poll, Chavez personally gets much higher marks than "the government", "the cabinet", or anything else associated with Chavez.
How might a tactically savvy Opposition respond to this polling trend? You'd think it would try to refocus debate away from Chavez the man and towards his government's incompetence. But this hasn't happened. Opposition leaders' visceral horror at his caudillismo and autocratic zeal prevents it. With remarkable singleness of purpose, they work to keep debate centered on the one aspect of Chavismo that's most popular with the electorate at large.
Not surprisingly, it hasn't exactly worked. So maybe it's worth trying something different. Maybe the smart way to go about this is to put together an anti-government discourse that scrupulously avoids even mentioning Chavez.
Impossible?
Venezuela de Primera doesn't think so...
3. Discipline, Optimism, Renewal
More than its failures, what exasperates the opposition grassroots is that the Opposition leadership doesn't seem to learn from those failures. Today, I want to go deeper into the Opposition inability to put together a message that people might want to vote for.
The Opposition's main message problem leading up to last year's Recall Referendum was its inability to communicate in a disciplined way. The old Coordinadora Democratica was an absolute gallinero, a loose confederation of politically very diverse groups brought together only by visceral antichavismo. It's not surprising that such a disaggregated coalition could not settle on a limited, deliberately chosen set of key themes and stick to them. The CD members never accepted a single leader, or even a strong central secretariat, with real power to impose some "message discipline."
Not surprisingly, the CD's communications quickly degenerated into an incoherent potpourri of anti-Chavez bile, with spokesmen competing to out-do one another in a game of "quien-es-mas-antichavista". What passed for a "communication strategy" wasn't much more than a string of anti-Chavez rants carried live on Globovision and Union Radio, each stressing different themes in different ways. There was no message discipline at all, largely because there was no organization to impose message discipline.
This combination of message indiscipline and Chavez fixation made it impossible for the CD to put forward an optimistic message. This is important. A pile of social science research shows that voters respond much better to optimistic messages. Even after seven years, Chavez's relentless optimism is a big part of his electoral draw. But an opposition held together only by distaste for Chavez could only talk about how bad things would be if Chavez stayed in power. Their message came over as relentlessly negative: a major turnoff for voters.
A related failure was the CD's inability to put forward a message of renewal. This was also a function of CD heterogeneity. The perceived imperative for "unity" inside such a varied organization meant melding together the fourth republic dinosauriat with sixth republic reformism. The prominence of fourth republic figures in the CD made it an easy target for government attacks. How on earth do you convince the voters that Henry Ramos Allup is really going to go for a forward-looking reformist government? That Antonio Ledezma is the future?! Those are some tough sells!
If the Traditional Opposition had had the guts to accept defeat in last year's referendum, it might have launched a serious internal debate about these problems. Instead, they decided to duck behind a fraud claim on evidence that couldn't convince anyone outside the hardcore base. The claim put a stop to any serious consideration of the CD's message problem. The Traditional Opposition, today, has made exactly zero progress on message discipline, or on forging an optimistic message of renewal.
Again, I can't help but notice that there's only one political group out there that seems to have clearly understood the need to put out an optimistic message of renewal in a disciplined way: Venezuela de Primera. I can see no reason to think that anyone else has quite learned the lessons of the CD failure.
4. Talking to the NiNis
Another area where the Coordinadora Democratica failed disastrously was in thinking through its target audience. By and large, the Traditional Opposition was happy to talk to hardcore antichavistas only. It never really put together a message to attract the political center. It still hasn't.
This is a serious problem. For all the talk about polarization, both hardcore antichavismo and hardcore chavismo have remained minority positions in Venezuela over the last two years. The largest single piece of the political cake has remained the the politically orphaned people who question both Chavez and the opposition – the confusingly dubbed NiNis. According to survey and focus group data gathered by Hinterlaces, 51% of voters were politically non-alligned in March 2005. In the 20 months preceding that study, the NiNis averaged 47% of the electorate.
According to the study, 30% of the Ni Nis identify with some of Chavez's values, but would welcome new political alternatives. They don't consider themselves chavistas, but they voted against revoking Chavez. Half of NiNis broadly question Chavez, but see a few positive aspects in his discourse and his government. 60% of this group voted against Chavez in the referendum. The remaining 20% of NiNis oppose the government radically, but don't identify with the Traditional Opposition. In fact, the one thing that brings NiNis together is that they all reject a Traditional Opposition they see as a holdover from the despised fourth republic.
So the Traditional Opposition has pretty successfully alienated a vast political center. The good news is that 69% of the people Hinterlaces interviewed in March ardently wished for a credible alternative to Chavez. They wanted a fresh face, one that isn't fixated on Chavez, with a positive vision for the future, and free from the stench of puntofijismo.
If the polling data can be believed, the country is ready and waiting for a group like Venezuela de Primera. Run by a frighteningly bright guy, disciplined in its message, free of cuarta republica dinosaurs, armed with an optimistic message of renewal taylor made to the demands of NiNis, fully conscious of where the Traditional Opposition went wrong and determined to learn from those mistakes.
5. Picking Themes that Resonate
The Opposition’s amazing ability to turn off the political center needs to be carefully considered. Part of the problem I’ve gone through already: its negativism, Chavez-fixation, and fourth republic bedfellows have alienated precisely the people they most need to defeat Chavez. But the Opposition’s choice of political themes has also been a major problem. The Traditional Opposition consistently alienates the political center by focusing on particularistic, nitty-gritty matters, often technical in nature, which baffle even many experts and leave the NiNis totally cold. While Chavez leans on themes that resonate with people's aspirations, the Opposition keeps getting bogged down in incomprehensible detail.
There are a million examples of this. In 2001, the Opposition spent months arguing that Chavez should be tried for misallocating FIEM funds. Now, personally, I agree what happened with FIEM was a scandal - the guy more or less admitted to a criminal offense in public. Politically, alas, that's beside the point. The explanation of the crime hinged on a detailed understanding of macroeconomic stabilization legislation, budgeting laws and parliamentary procedure, issues most people neither understand or care about. As a matter of law, the accusation was spot on. As a matter of political communications, it was just silly.
At different times, this Opposition penchant for droning on at great length about incomprehensible details has latched onto topics as varied as data transmission patterns to and from CNE voting machines, the macroeconomics of central bank reserve management, the doctrine of the "Estado Docente," the aplicability of Benford's Law to elections data, juridical doctrines on the relative competence of different chambers within the Supreme Tribunal, the geological dynamics of heavy crude well management, and many, many others. Say what you will about each case on its own merits, but it was always absurd to expect these sorts of topics to "catch fire" politically.
Meanwhile, Chavez limited his political rhetoric to crisp, clear, emotionally resonant themes that anyone at any level of education could understand. Which of these is smarter politics?
What the Traditional Opposition failed to see is that the vast majority of voters care about symbols and they care about their day-to-day lives. You can mobilize them with emotionally resonant, symbolically dense discourses - Chavez's specialty - and with messages about their day-to-day problems - the Opposition’s great wasted opportunity. But you can't mobilize them if they can't understand you.
Tactically, the Traditional Opposition failed calamitously at the basic, emotive trick any politician needs to pull off to get votes: connecting with voters' aspirations. Connecting, in an emotionally meaningful way, with their hopes for the future, their desires, their fantasies even.
At the very least, voters need to be convinced that those who aspire to lead them understand them in some basic way. That they get it, they sympathize, that they feel their pain, to borrow that awful Clintonian formulation. Chavez is a genius at this sort of thing. The Traditional Opposition never even tried to compete, retreating instead into arcane debates that made them seem utterly out of touch. Seen in this light, it's not really a surprise we kept getting our butts kicked at the ballot box.
We need to learn from those mistakes. A renewed Opposition needs to learn to play the game of aspirational politics. Again, I'll point to Venezuela de Primera as a group that seems to have learned this lesson. On their homepage, you read this little blurb from the current Miss Venezuela:
"Today I'm the happiest woman in the world... With the money I get I will help my family: I want to fix up my mom's room, and my brother's, get rid of the leak in the roof... I don't picture myself driving the BMW I won - it's a great car, but it's too risky to drive it around town. They'll think I'm rich and I don't want to risk my life. I have enough for the basics, and I do need a little car to get around. For sure I want to save, to work hard to make sure my kids can get work. I want my own house, so I can give my kids everything I couldn't have."
It's a simple message, really. Modest, optimistic, realistic and forward looking. It speaks to people's aspirations. Speak consistently, optimistically to these themes in a disciplined way, and maybe you can get people to identify with your message. Drone on and on about some technical detail they can't understand, and they certainly won't.
Before closing this essay, I want to stress that I don’t actually know Roberto Smith or anyone else in the Venezuela de Primera team – and I am not actually a VdP zealot. Roberto may well turn out to be an electoral dud. The movement may not catch on at all. What concerns me – as I’ve tried to stress again and again – are opposition tactics. At the level of political communications, of political marketing, I think VdP has a very interesting approach. Ideally, I wish the Traditional Opposition would sit up, take the polling data seriously, think through their past mistakes carefully, and start copying VdP’s approach. What I will say, though, is that VdP is the first group I see that gets serious about the Opposition’s message problem and makes drastic changes to address it. It’s a promising sign…but, for now, it’s nothing more than that.
The Coming Venezuela-Mercosur-EU Free Trade Area
I'll take a break from opposition bashing and write about economic issues for a change. Believe it or not, I'm still writing a Ph.D. dissertation, and believe it or not it has nothing at all to do with Venezuelan politics. It's about trade policy making and the WTO. So the second part of this item about the EU electoral mission caught my eye.
Foreign Minister Ali Rodriguez assured EU Commissioner Benita Ferrero-Waldner that Venezuela's decision to join Mercosur (which is baffling on its own merit) would not delay ongoing Mercosur-EU negotiations to launch an Interregional Association Agreement.
What does that mean, exactly?
Since 1998, the EU and Mercosur have been negotiating a preferential trade deal. Under WTO trade rules, preferential trade deals must liberalize "substantially all trade." And, indeed, the EU says its negotiations with Mercosur aim at the "liberalization of trade in goods and services, aiming at free trade, in conformity with WTO rules."
So - and hardly anyone seems to have caught on to this - by joining Mercosur Venezuela would be joining a Free Trade Agreement not just with Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay, but also with the whole of the EU...in a few years' time.
Sumate Will Play Ball with the EU
Sumate, which has taken a very hard line against CNE recently, today welcomed the EU's decision to send an elections observation mission, calling it a chance to expose CNE irregularities.
Great! They've had a year to fine-tune their theory of what CNE is doing wrong. They should have it licked by now. Unless Europe is somehow unable to rise to the level of technological sophistication of Plaza Caracas, any electronic fraud will almost certainly be detected.
Very good! Now we can get down to campaigning!
...erm...anyone...anyone...
When opposition is not Opposition
A lot of Opposition supporters are extremely frustrated by the NiNi position. I've come to think the heart of the problem is a misunderstanding about the word "opposition."
(I didn't know this rule of capitalization - so I haven't been using it consistently in my last few posts - but it's quite useful, so I'll adopt it.)
This, I think, is the reason so many Opposition supporters get so frustrated with opposition-minded NiNis. "If you oppose the government," they say in exasperation, "then - by definition - you must be part of the opposition! Otherwise you're either a fence-sitter, an opportunist or an idiot!"
This just in: European Union will Monitor Dec. 4th Parliamentary Elections
It's official: the EU will send 150 monitors to oversee the December parliamentary elections.
So now we have credible monitors, and a CNE commitment to count the ballots from a third of the voting centers - which makes massive fraud a statistical impossibility. If the Supreme Tribunal votes to outlaw the "Twins" - the only thing missing will be...erm, an actual campaign by the opposition!
Debating the NiNis
Today, I've decided to post the little back and forth between Daniel Duquenal and myself from yesterday's comments section. Being the Sunday Supplement, it runs a bit longer than my pledge allows. I'm insisting on the NiNi topic because I think the opposition as a whole has a real problem understanding their position, and it's really hurt us. Daniel, btw, is the guy behind Venezuela News and Views, better known as Daniel's blog. For newbies, I go by my nickname "Quico" in the comments section.
Are you bent on dicovering warm water?
All this is fine, and known for quite a while, starting with the opposition failure to connect with its own constitutency, even its hard core one.
One thing that you might want to look at is the NiNi voting intention no matter what. I bet you that you would find really interesting results there...
The problem in your argument is that after February 27 2004, you cannot be a NiNi anymore: you are with Chavez, you are against him or you do not give a crap. NiNi is actually a code name for people who do not give a crap about politics, human rights or whatever. They only care about what they can get now, in the present tense. If Nini are swelling again it is because they are not getting as much as they were getting or not as much as they were hoping.
NiNi are the product of nearly 50 years of crass populism. Until they do not go hungry they will not take a stand. Convincing them is an expensive and risk laced enterprise. The NiNi were agaisnt Chavez in 2003 and had a great time in the oppo highway bailoterapia, but came back to him in 2004 when Misiones were more fun, and are drifting again and wil go for again and so and so no matter who is in charge in Venezuela.
No, I think that what is better than VdP (by the way VdP sounds kind of VenDe Patria you know) is to create a party of the democratic right and accept that it will take at least 5 years until any possible long lasting electorate is built, amen of winning even the election of alcalde de Tucusiapon. Only when the debate gets back on concrete values and populism failure becomes more apparent (with 25 millons of us in here it should not be long until we run out of money) we will not be able to effect any positive change. The best chance for a real efficient social democracy in Venezuela passes through the previous construction of a real right (this is what happened in Chile by the way as the succes of Lagos is due to the existence of a true right wing opposition).
In other words, if you want to do something with the NiNi once and for all, a little bit of forcing the issues might be more difficult to do but might have better long term results. VdP, I do not see them doing it.
By the way, I love this debate. Something you will never see in a chavista page.
daniel | Homepage | 10.22.05 - 9:21 am | #
Alas, Daniel - this is just not what the polling data shows! Hinterlaces, which has done more careful study of these guys than anyone, goes to pains to differentiate NiNis from indifferents, which are a different group altogether. And their focus groups show clearly that NiNis very often have very clear, very definite political ideas. Being skeptical of chavismo in no way stops them from rejecting the TRADITIONAL opposition.
I think a lot of the problem we have here is with Language. NiNi is a misleading label. It seems to hint at indifference, or political confusion. I think no-chavista-antioposicion is more accurate, though obviously far less snappy.
Still, for sure it's good to have this debate...the problem is that it's taking place in the comments section of a blog that nobody reads instead of the pages of El Universal...
Quico | 10.22.05 - 10:49 am | #
I have to confess that the Hinterlaces polls and whole stuff was when I was very busy preparing trips etc. So I have not followed that closely. If there are still some alive links I would be glad that you send them to me.
This being said, if Hinterlaces used focus groups it would be a good approach. In particualr to test the resolve of NiNis. After the Tascon list I suspect that a lot of the so called NiNi are in fact oppo types that are scared. Eastern Europe circa 1980 was Nini land, an era where people were allowed not to show everyday support to communism but were certainly not allowed to express any opposing view. We all know how this ended a decade later.
They are also like all of these Cubans painted in the movie Havanna blues...
But perhaps you are right. We should start by defining what a NiNi is and how important a group it is based on an accurate definition of the group. I can advance you one thing: I will have a hard time in accepting the "ideological definition" of NiNism. You cannot be a NiNi in Venezuela after 02/2004. If you are you are either lying for for survival reason or you are stupid or you do not give a crap or you are dramatically misinformed. NiNi could exist again if the regime were to allow forms of dissent that could lead to questioning its hold on power. Then perhaps there would be real NiNi that would in fact wonder whether they want Chavez to remain, warts and all. Right now, this is not an option: chavistas have stolen too much money, violated too many things to risk to lose power and be investigated. It is always important to keep this last fact in mind when specualting on how the oppo can manage a credible challenge.
daniel | Homepage | 10.22.05 - 7:24 pm | #
The latest Hinterlaces study is here.
One thing you could do is go and talk to Oscar Schemel while you're in Caracas. Really engaging guy; knows more about NiNis than anyone.
I think a big part of our problem with imagining that NiNis really can exist after the reparos just expresses our personal bias - we find Chavez so execrable that we can't possibly imagine how someone could establish a kind of moral equivalence between him and the traditional oppo...but the voters are crazy, man, every pollster knows that! I mean, por dios, 45% of chavistas describe MVR as a rightwing party! En serio!!! The stuff you find when you actually go out there and talk to people about their beliefs is always screwy as hell...so I have no problem at all believing that 40-50% of the voters are real NiNis - politically engaged, lukewarm-to-angry at Chavez, and at the same time totally unwilling to put themselves under oppo leadership.
We might not like it, but the thing is reality really doesn't care how angry we get at it...that's ONE message we should've learned from the last few years...
Quico | 10.23.05 - 5:03 am | #
So we agree at least on the stupidity parameter (I beleive you used the term "crazy" but I am not as gentle as you are).
Whatchoogonna do, though?! Get pissed off that the voters are so dense? OK, well, I understand the frustration, but in the end you'll still need their votes.
I think the pataleta has gone on long enough. It's time to come to grips with the fact that like it or hate it, for whatever historical/sociological/political reason, right or wrong, crazy or sane, stupid or brilliant, THIS is what the voters think and this is what we have to work with.
What they're saying, in the end, isn't so crazy. The way Luis Vicente Leon puts it in his column today, they just want someone who is moderate, compassionate, effective and free of the stench of the cuartarepublismo. They want a forward looking message, a message of renewal and optimism. They're sick and tired of the oppo's negativism and fixation with Chavez.
OK, sure, we can keep on picking apart the regime's excesses per secula seculorum...but, to what end? Why bother comissioning all these polls and focus groups if we're not going to pay any attention to the results?
When oppo pollsters go out and ask NiNis what they want from an alternative leader, they get clear, crisp, consistent answers...and they have for a long time. So, crazy idea here: why don't we try giving it to them?
This just in: European Union will Monitor Dec. 4th...
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Douglas Eric Clegg takes space at 421 Nottingham Road (Ilkeston); the premises are approved for ‘Builders workshop and office’. D.E.Clegg & Co Ltd begins trading
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D.E.Clegg awarded a £250,000 contract, their largest to date, to build new offices and factory in Giltbrook, Nottingham. Works also on site include a new public house for the Home Brewery Company and retail outlets for Boots in Leicester
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After almost 70 years in Derbyshire, D.E.Clegg relocates to Nottingham, further developing and buying offices in The Lace Market they previously refurbished in 1989. With a current turnover of £32million, all existing 23 staff pack up the office and make the ambitious move to the Lace Market
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CLIMATE FOOLS DAY PIERS CORBYN SAMMY WILSON PHILIP FOSTER MATTHEW SINCLAIR YOUTUBE
MUST SEE YOUTUBE: Climate Fools Day 2011
Sunday, October 30th 2011, 2:05 PM EDT
Climate Fools Day 2011
Weather Action Climate Fools Day Video taken at the House of Commons on Wednesday 26th of October 2011
Many apologies for the poor sound quality, we had one cameraman, but no soundman. This YouTube is still worth it's weight in gold for climate information. Well done to all those who came, pity the AGW media and Government reps (apart from our very own Sammy Wilson) did not take time out. It may have helped them to understand how the tax payers money is being thrown down the drain. GR
JAMES DELINGPOLE PHILIP FOSTER UPDATED MEETINGS ANDREW ORLOWSKI
James Delingpole: Climate Change: an emetic fallacy: Updated by Andrew Orlowski
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I attended this and below are a couple of blogs by, repectively, James Delingpole and Bishop Hill. In many respects I would agree that the event did have a lot of talking across each other.
What was of some interest is just how little the AGWers really have in their locker. They have been aware of the severe holes in their position, but really haven't managed to invent any good replies. Eg the issues of the ice cores showing warming leading CO2 was sloughed over Prof Eric Wolff (Scott Polar Inst.) suggesting it didn't really matter which came first did it? Well I suppose not if time has no meaning, but most of us fairly simple souls have a vague intuition that cause generally precedes effect, but, hey, we can be flexible surely!
Ian Plimer's comment to me during the coffe break was, "well if that's all they can do I can put away my canon and use a pea-shooter." P.F.
Yesterday I was at Downing College, Cambridge, for a Climate Change conference organised by Professor Alan Howard, the scientist/philanthropist/entrepreneur known, inter alia, for having devised the Cambridge diet and for funding the magnificent lecture hall in which the event took place. (For more reporting – and some brilliant cartoons from Josh who sat right next to me sketching in a most impressive way – see Bishop Hill; and many, many thanks to the Howard Trust for organising it.)
Updated below by Andrew Orlowski
Source Link: blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole
PHILIP FOSTER CLIMATE FOOLS DAY YOUTUBE
MUST SEE: 'Carbon tax-hungry govt, media ignore true facts about climate' - RT with Reverend Philip Foster
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Global warming sceptics in the UK have gathered to mark what they've dubbed 'Climate Fools Day'. On this date two years ago, snow fell in London as the British Parliament was debating a bill to tackle global warming. It was the first such early snowfall for over eighty years. Activists claimed the ironic coincidence was just more proof that the bill is a waste of billions of tax-payers' pounds. One of those doubting the reality of climate change is Reverend Philip Foster, who joins us now live from London.
REPEAL THE ACT PIERS CORBYN PHILIP FOSTER LORD MONCKTON HEADLINE STORY
A Very Heated Debate by Bryan Appleyard, Sunday Times (Pay Wall)
Tuesday, March 8th 2011, 3:32 AM EST
As the world is gripped by extreme weather, the global warming sceptics are gaining ground. Who is winning the battle for our hearts and minds?
Global-warming sceptics are gaining ground, but are they full of hot air? (Jasper James)
In a basement in London, in probably the smallest office in the world, an American television crew is demanding to know what the weather will be like on April 29, the day Prince William marries Kate Middleton. Any mainstream meteorologist would tell them their question is unanswerable so far in advance. But Piers Corbyn is not mainstream.
“It looks like being a cool day with blustery showers, although we do have to see if there will be a blocking high pressure to keep things away. But to do it properly we need a little more time.”
Corbyn, who is the brother of the Labour MP Jeremy Corbyn, has the air of a Dickensian clerk — crazy hair, disordered clothes, and he sniffs persistently through a giant nose. “He comes across,” muses one climate scientist, “as mad as a hatter, but he’s not daft.”
Source Link: thesundaytimes.co.uk
MEETINGS REPEAL THE ACT PHILIP FOSTER PIERS CORBYN
Meeting: ‘Climate Change? Who is Paying? And for What?’
Thursday, March 3rd 2011, 9:34 AM EST
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Also: ‘Climate Change? Who is Paying? And for What?’ – a landmark conference, March 19, 2011
March 01, 2011, Cambridge, UK. Press Dispensary. The price of misjudging the global response to climate change theories could be catastrophe: economic for developed nations and life-threatening for the world’s poorest people. One prevailing scientific view of climate change dominates world policy-making, leading to radical law-making of seismic significance. But is this view proven beyond reasonable doubt or is it just one theory among many, driven by vested interests? And if wrong, at what cost is it being followed ... and who will pay?
On March 19, 2011, ‘Climate Change?’, a landmark international one day conference in St Ives, Cambridge, questions the most fundamental tenets of prevailing climate change theory and digs below the sound-bite headlines. Held on the weekend running up to Climate Week, it will feature a range of experts in the field, with international scientific reputations, and will reopen a debate which has yet to be settled but which has slipped from media attention now that governments are beginning to set policies, however misguided those policies may be.
Under the full title of ‘Climate Change? Who is Paying? And for What?’, the conference will see the launch of a nationwide campaign to repeal the Climate Act 2008, the legislation responsible for committing the UK to a massive and costly carbon reduction programme, not to mention the present flood of wind farms. The ‘Campaign to Repeal the Climate Change Act’ ( www.repealtheact.co.uk ), which soft-launched on Facebook in 2010, is headed up by Fay Tuncay, who is an expert speaker at the conference. There will also be a call to establish a "Climate Change Truth Commission" with the brief of fully and impartially assessing the true state of climate change science.
PHILIP FOSTER MET OFFICE VOLCANIC ASH ADVISORY CENTRE
Rev Philip Foster: The Met Office does it again!
Once more Britain's airspace has been thrown into chaos by the Met Office's computer models (which cost the taxpayer £30 million and goodness knows how many billions in terms of lost economic activity).
We know that the Met Office doesn't bother much with evidence, witness Prof John Mitchell's unguarded remarks at the Downing College Conference (at which I was present).....
People underestimate the power of models. Observational evidence is not very useful,... Our approach is not entirely empirical.‘
This explains why they produced ridiculous projections, yet again, about the volcanic ash 'cloud' which bore no relation whatever to reality. Ryan Air and BA both conducted experiments (do the Met Office know the meaning of the word?) to find out where the ash might be and if it presented any threat. Both correctly measured its virtual non-existence and corrected concluded that it presented no danger to aircraft.
Also See Volcanic ash disruption: UK flights set to resume - BBC News
GREEN CARS PHILIP FOSTER BBC
Should electric cars be made to go 'vroom'? by Nick Holland BBC News: Updated by Philip Foster
With whisper-quiet electric cars set to proliferate, the motor industry is under pressure to give them an artificial noise for safety purposes, but should they sound like traditional petrol vehicles?
It is an unsettling experience watching a car drive around, hearing little more than the whisper of the wind it generates as it glides down the road.
There would have been little time to get out of its way had it gone unseen.
Such a moment is the essence of the debate over how electric and hydrogen fuel cars should sound in the future.
The answer could determine how different cities could sound in 10 or 20 years. The rise of the electric car presents a rare opportunity to tackle the persistent roar of traffic that many city dwellers are used to.
Source Link: bbc.co.uk
PHILIP FOSTER VIDEO LINK
MUST SEE VIDEO LINK: Rev Philip Foster - Global Warming Con is a Tool of Control
Sunday, April 17th 2011, 4:45 PM EDT
Reverend Philip Foster discusses the other side of the Global Warming Issue...the side that shows quite different scientific results...global warming is inflenced by the sun and not especially by mans activities. St Matthew Publishing Ltd. PF.SMP@dial.pipex.com (Disclaimer: Views and opinions presented here are for informational and educational purposes only and may not necessarily be those of the makers of this video.)
Click source to see MUST SEE VIDEO LINK [1:12] of Rev Philip Foster taken from 2008
Source Link: spike.com
New pdfs by Philip Foster
Sunday, April 4th 2010, 1:59 PM EDT
Citizens!
Attached some great A5 leaflets from Philip Foster.
The one called WhatGreenH.pdf was produced after Philip and I met two weeks ago at the UKIP conference. Philip understood the issue of counting the same energy twice over instantly and also grasped the fact that the so-called greenhouse gases actually make the earth cooler rather than warmer.
It is these two issues that are not even grasped by the majority of skeptical academics and are the major stumbling block to being effective in stopping the ongoing madness over emissions.
Also see TheTrick.pdf
Note: Please use the "clockwise" position to see the PDF files in FULL as they are "sideways" on.
Philip Foster: Hot Spot pdf
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Leonardo da Vinci was the son of Ser Piero and Caterina. Ser Piero later married to Alberia Amadori and took Leonard to live with him. Ser Piero and Caterina had seventeen children together even though they were not married to each other. When Leonardo was older, he was accused of having intimate relations with a 17 year old male. It was later said that Leonardo was a homosexual, because of the lack of female friends he had and because he had always been around young men his whole life. Leonardo was known to be introverted and kept to his works, he was also had high integrity and was very receptive to moral issues. Leonard also lived a vegetarian style of dieting. His view on beauty and elegance were greatly respected by people of the Renaissance.
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Bail extended in fake degree case
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Justice Mazhar Ali Akbar Naqvi of the Lahore High Court on Wednesday extended till November 6 the interim-bail granted to former federal minister for overseas Pakistanis Ghulam Sarwar facing charges of securing graduation degree on the basis of fake intermediate certificate.
The judge directed the investigating officer to produce the all-case record till next date of hearing.
The anti corruption establishment (ACE) had lodged a case against Ghulam Sarwar for obtaining a fake degree of F.A to appear in B.A examination to meet the graduation condition in general elections of 2008.
It was alleged that Ghulam Sarwar, son of Muhammad Hayat Khan, had obtained duplicate diploma originally issued to another candidate of namesake but his father’s name was Abdul Hameed Khan.
Ghulam Sarwar used the duplicate diploma for appearing in graduation examinations and obtained BA degree eventually.
Death sentence: Additional District and Sessions Judge Chaudhary Tariq Javed on Wednesday awarded death sentence to Hazrat Bilal involved in murdering his colleague, a security guard, over distribution of meat on Eid ul Azha in 2009.
Convict Hazrat Bilal, a security guard in PCSIR colony, gunned down his colleague, Abdul Aziz, on November 30, 2009. It is stated that the convict had gunned down the deceased over distribution of meat on the eve of Eid ul Azha.
Later, the complainant, real brother of the deceased, Muhammad Rafique got registered an FIR in Sattokatla police against the convict under section 302.
The police declared guilty the convict in challan. The judge after hearing detailed arguments, awarded death sentence to the convict after the prosecution established his guilt in the murder case.
At the moment of the announcement of the verdict, the convict told the judge that he was innocent and he had not gunned down anyone. However, arguments of prosecution and other available evidences established Bilal’s involvement in the crime.The court has also imposed a fine of Rs. 200,000 on the convict.
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