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Pilot Locker for Pongo
Callsign: Pongo
Wing Status: Wing Technical Officer
Squadron: VMFA-321 Hells Angels
Total Flights:  85
Combat Flights:  7
Pongo's Basic Training Progress (completed)
Pongo's Last 10 Missions
01/12/20 Yoda F/A-18C Training Code I 1 01:20 00:00 00:00 VFR 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Flew on the CAW1 Training Server as a Flight Lead in the Pilot seat.
01/12/20 RedFrog F/A-18C Training Code I 0 01:00 00:00 00:00 VFR 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Flew on the CAW1 Training Server as a Wingman in the Pilot seat.
01/11/20 Casimir F/A-18C Strike Code I 2 02:00 00:00 02:00 VFR 1 0 1 (C1) 0 0 0 13 0
Flew on the CAW1 Combat Server as a Wingman in the Pilot seat.
01/11/20 BoneDust F/A-18C Escort Code III 0 01:15 00:00 01:15 VFR 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0
Flew on the CAW1 Combat Server as a Flight Lead in the Pilot seat.
01/08/20 Nomad F/A-18C Training Code I 0 01:05 00:00 00:00 VFR 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Flew on the CAW1 Training Server as a Flight Lead in the Pilot seat. Rockets and guns at the range.
12/09/19 T.Rex F/A-18C Training Code I 0 01:00 00:00 00:00 VFR 2 0 2 (C1) 0 0 0 0 0
12/04/19 T.Rex F/A-18C Training Code I 0 01:10 00:00 00:00 VFR 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
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Curiosity keeps me creative. I relentlessly browse the web for inspiring piece of news or work.
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Why Globalists Want to Contain Iran
June 3, 2018 vitalanon
By Chris Kanthan
Forget the hullabaloo about Iran’s nuclear program—Netanyahu and the Neocons have been screaming about the imminent demise of the globe by Iran’s non-existent nukes for more than twenty years. The truth is that Iran is in the crosshairs of globalists for four main geopolitical reasons:
Oil competition
In terms of world’s proven reserves, Iran is #4 in oil and #2 in natural gas. Thus, a free Iran will endanger Saudi Arabia’s role as the leading oil producer.
To give some historical context, the only reason that Saudis are so rich now is that Iran has been virtually isolated by crippling US sanctions since 1979. For decades before that, Iran was #1 in oil production and refining, but everything changed when Saudis colluded with international financiers to create the oil-for-dollar (“petrodollar”) scheme in the 1970s during the dollar crisis. In return, globalists turned Iran into a global pariah. Thus, in 1970, Iran was producing more oil than Saudi Arabia; however, by 1980, the Saudis were producing six times more oil than the Iranians!
A resurgent Iran will also mean competition to US oil and shale companies which have been ramping up production since 2011 (when Libya was destroyed!).
Challenge to Israel
Israel wants weak Arab neighbors that it can kick around and grab oil/land from – a prime example being Golan Heights, that has huge oil reserves. There are Israelis who dream of a Greater Israel, which encompasses land from many neighboring countries. Iran is strong and independent; it helped defeat Al Qaeda and ISIS jihadists in Syria; it’s very likely helping anti-Saudi rebels in Yemen; and it arms Hezbollah who can punch Israel in the nose if the latter meddles in Lebanon.
Divide and Rule; Weapons Sales
If everyone in the Middle East got along with one another, there will be no need for US military bases, and Saudi Arabia won’t be binge-buying US/UK weapons. That would be terrible! For the military-industrial complex, the Middle East has been a cash cow for the last two decades. Perpetual wars mean enormous war-profiteering for private contractors and defense corporations.
Then there are geopolitical elites, for whom controlling nations and regions is imperative. For them, divide and rule is an essential strategy. Hence they fuel the Sunni-Shiite, Saudi-Iran, Arab-Persian conflict and keep it just short of a full-fledged war — after all, corporations don’t want their pipelines and refineries to get destroyed. In geopolitics, this playbook is called “controlled chaos.”
Eurasian Alliance of Iran-China-Russia
There’s a huge struggle for the control of Eurasia, and Iran is a key piece in that geopolitical chessboard. As long as Iran was isolated and weak, it didn’t matter. But now Iran is getting into all kinds of military and economic alliances with Russia & China — the two countries that have been labeled by the Trump administration as “rival powers” and “revisionist powers” that have heralded an era of “great power competition.”
Iran is also key component of China’s Silk Road (also called Belt and Road Initiative or One Belt, One Road) — freight trains from China have to go through Iran on their way to Africa and the Middle East. Destabilizing Iran means sabotaging China’s Silk Road, and that would be very desirable for globalists.
However, if the Iran-Russia-China coalition survives, it will mean the following for the West:
** Unable to conquer Syria & Lebanon.
** Possible loss of Iraq, since there’s a huge Shiite majority. This, in turn, will lead to the formidable Shiite Crescent — four contiguous nations of Lebanon-Syria-Iraq-Iran. (*Lebanon = Hezbollah, in the minds of Israel/USA)
** Partial loss of Turkey, a pivotal NATO member. Erdogan-US relations are already on the rocks and Turkey is steadily moving into Russia’s orbit. Turkey is buying anti-missile systems (S-400) from Russia, partnering with Putin to build TurkStream pipelines that will bring Russian oil/gas to Europe, getting close to Iran, and planning on joining China’s One Belt, One Road.
** Partial Loss of Qatar as a vassal state. Qatar works hard to please the US/EU establishment and hosts a huge US military base. However, Qatar also shares the world’s largest natural gas field with Iran, which has become even more of a strategic and indispensable ally after the Saudi blockade last year.
** Possible eviction of US military bases from Afghanistan, a country that borders Iran and now wants to join CPEC — China-Pakistan Economic Corridor — that’s so promising that Pakistan is giving the diplomatic middle finger to Washington, DC.
Basically, the US is on the verge of losing its hegemony in a contiguous string of countries from the Middle East to China. The four leaders who’re actively working on this are the powerbrokers in Russia, Iran, Syria and Lebanon. China is quietly helping in the economic front, while being careful not to militarily challenge the US.
These are the reasons why globalists are fervently trying to topple the current Iranian regime. Neocons such as Bolton are partnering with MEK, a cult-terrorist group that was conveniently deemed innocuous by the US government in 2012, the same year when the US illegally seized $100 billion of Iranian assets and imposed devastating sanctions. Trump pulling out of the Iran nuclear deal (JCPOA) gives the hawks one more chance to crush the Iranian economy through sanctions, which will also force EU companies to pull out of Iran.
Warmongers don’t care much about what happens after a regime change. If Iran is embroiled in a bitter civil war between Islamists & secularists for the next decade, it will just be splendid. The chaos can actually be used to chop up Iran into pieces — Baluchistan on the east, Khuzestan on the south and Kurdistan on the northwest. This will ensure that Iran will never be an influential regional power again. Of course, all this would also mean millions of refugees rushing into Europe and America, but geopolitical machinations are ruthless.
Chris Kanthan is the author of a new book, Deconstructing the Syrian War. Chris lives in the San Francisco Bay Area, has traveled to 35 countries, and writes about world affairs, politics, economy and health. His other book is Deconstructing Monsanto. Follow him on Twitter: @GMOChannel
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An Expansive New Fantasy
An Unfolding tale is a new and serialized online fantasy fiction, published in short, easily digestible chapters. Because new content is being added on a regular basis, so there's always something fresh to read. No more waiting months or years between novels.
“Great new ideas from the author to keep the dedicated, and virgin fantasy reader, enthralled from the start… The best part of "An Unfinished Tale" is that I get a new chapter every few days; the worst part is that I only get a new chapter every few days!” — Seth Wyga, Early Reader
The primary story arc of An Unfolding Tale will be found right here on this website. However, other related content will also be published through other media. Currently, we have two story arcs for your enjoyment
Shadows of a Fallen Prince
In a world threatened by shadows, his death is just the beginning…
When the crown prince of Relen'kar is suddenly and unexpectedly struck down, a diverse cast of characters from across the Realm—and beyond—find themselves cast into a struggle that will change the world forever. Haunted by the prince's far-reaching presence and threatened by an the shadow of an ancient enemy, they will find themselves drawn together in a struggle to find and protect the one power that could save them all.
And the one power that could destroy them.
Some will not survive and others will wish they had not, but none will escape the shadow of the fallen prince.
Set nine months before the events of Shadows of a Fallen Prince, Blue Amber follows the adventures of young Layne Calefar—a shipwright's son working in Stormholt.
When a chance encounter with the mysterious but fatally wounded ranger named Tamnar leaves Layne in the possession of a strange sun-shaped medallion, he suddenly finds his simple life turned upside down. Pursued by the same inhuman assassins who murdered Tamnar, Layne finds himself fleeing the safety of Stormholt with only a drunken mercenary for protection.
Together, they will undertake a journey which, while no more than fifty miles, might just as well have taken them across the Endless Sea. Compelled by both the medallion and his ill-conceived promise to Tamnar, Layne finds himself drawn to the very edge of the Shimmering—and beyond, into the wondrous and dangerous world of the Fey.
What he finds there will shake him to the core.
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Jami' ibn Tulun
This mosque was built for Ahmad ibn Tulun, son of a Turkish slave of the Abbasid caliph al-Ma'mun. He was sent to Egypt in 868 as governor of al-Fustat, but within two years he had been made governor of the whole country. Shortly thereafter, by refusing to send the annual tribute to the Abbasid court, he established himself as an independent ruler of the province. His family ruled in Egypt for 135 years, until 905. Ibn Tulun founded a new royal city on an outcrop of rock called Jabal Yashkur near the Muqattam range to the northeast of al-Fustat, razing the Christian and Jewish cemetery that was located on the hill to do so. This was a site to which many legends were attached: it was believed that Noah's ark had landed here after the flood, and that here God had spoken to Moses and Moses had confronted Pharaoh's magicians; nearby, on Qal'at al-Kabsh, Abraham had been ready to sacrifice his son to God. The city that Ahmad ibn Tulun built was called al-Qata'i', 'the wards,' descriptive of the allotments in which each group of his followers settled. In 905, when the Abbasids reestablished control, the city was destroyed and plowed under. Of its magnificence and scale all that survives is the mosque that formed its center. The mosque served as the new congregational mosque, replacing the Mosque of 'Amr, which was too small to accommodate the troops of Ibn Tulun.
Directly from his palace, or Dar al-Imara, which once stood adjoining the mosque on the qibla side, Ibn Tulun could enter the sanctuary via a door to the right of the minbar. This mosque was used for Fatimid ceremonies during the month of Ramadan. It was damaged when used as a shelter for pilgrims from North Africa to the Hijaz in the 12th c., but restored and refounded with madrasa-type functions by 'Alam al-Din Sanjar al-Dawadar at the behest of Mamluk Sultan Lajin in 1296. (Lajin had been one of the accomplices in the assassination of Sultan al-Ashraf Khalil ibn Qalawun, and while hiding in the deserted mosque, he vowed to restore it should he escape.)
The mosque is a rare architectural expression of the cultural hegemony of Samarra, Ibn Tulun's home. It is built entirely of well-fired red brick faced in carved stucco; it has ziyadas and a roof supported by arcades on piers.
The present off-center, spiral stone minaret with a mabkhara finial (the ribbed helmet carried on an open octagonal structure) is a rebuilding by Sultan Lajin of 1296.
The ablution fountain and dome were built on the site of the fawwara or fountain built by Ibn Tulun and destroyed by fire in 986. The fawwara, whose function was purely decorative, was housed in a pavilion comprising a dome carried on gilded marble columns. The original ablution facilities and a clinic were housed in the ziyada for hygienic reasons.
What remains of the roof of the room behind the mihrab is supported by wooden corbels, a local version of similar elements found in many buildings in North Africa and al-Andalus. The Andalusian influence is also manifested in the use of double-arched, horseshoe windows on the shaft of the minaret, in the entrance to the minaret's staircase, comprising a horse-shoe arch with a rectangular molded frame, and in the stone corbels supporting the cornice from which the tunnel vault carrying the bridge between the roof of the mosque and the minaret springs. This influence is accounted for by the resettlement in Egypt of Andalusian Muslim refugees who were driven out of their homeland by the Christian Reconquista (1212-60).
Since its renovation in 1999 little remains of the original plaster work, the courtyard has been paved and the fountain refaced in black marble.
See also the site record for the 2005 restoration of the mosque.
'Abd al-Wahhab, Hasan. "Al-Jami' al-Tuluni." Majallat al-'Imara 2 2 (1940): 105-112.
Berchem, Max van. "Notes d'archéologie arabe II. Toulounides et Fatimites." In Opera Minora I, 203-233. Geneva: Editions Slatkine, 1978.
Creswell, K.A.C. Early Muslim Architecture. n.p.: Oxford, The Clarendon Press, 1940.
Cuneo, Paolo. Storia dell'urbanistica: il mondo Islamico. Rome-Bari: Laterza and Figli, 1986.
Hoag, John. Islamic Architecture. New York: Rizzoli, 1987.
Jarrar, Sabri, András Riedlmayer, and Jeffrey B. Spurr. Resources for the Study of Islamic Architecture. Cambridge, MA: Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture, 1994. Resources for the Study of Islamic Architecture. Cambridge, MA: Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture.
Karnouk, Gloria. "Form and Ornament of the Cairene Bahri Minbar." Annales Islamologiques 17 (1981): 113-139.
el-Masry, Kamal. "Die tulunidische Ornamentik der Moschee des Ahmad Ibn Tulun in Kairo." PhD diss., Johannes-Gutenberg-Universität, 1964.
Riegl, Alois. "The Arabesque." In Problems of Style, 229-305. Princeton University Press, 1992.
Swelim, M. Tarek. "The Mosque of Ibn Tulun: A New Perspective." Ph.D. diss., Harvard University, 1994.
Williams, Caroline. Islamic Monuments in Cairo: The Practical Guide, 46-49. Cairo: American University of Cairo Press, 2002.
Mosque of Ahmad ibn Tulun (Translated)
Masjid Ahmad ibn Tulun (Alternate transliteration)
Jami' Ahmad ibn Tulun (Alternate transliteration)
Ibn Tulun Mosque (Variant)
Mosque of Ibn Tulun (Translated)
Mosque of al-Maydan (Variant)
Ahmad ibn Tulun Mosque (Variant)
مسجد إبن طولون (Original)
876-879/263-65 AH; renovated 1077-1088/470 AH; rebuilt 1296-1297/696 AH; expanded 1882/1299 AH; renovated 1918/1330 AH and 2005/1425 AH, 876-879/263-65 AH; renovated 1077-1088/470 AH; rebuilt 1296-1297/696 AH; expanded 1882/1299 AH; renovated 1918/1330 AH and 2005/1425 AH
Tulunid
Shari' al-Saliba, al-Basatin, Cairo, al-Qahirah
Aḥmad ibn Ṭūlūn (Governor of Egypt and Syria) (patron) (b.835-d.884/220-271 AH)
Cairo (place) (969 CE/358 AH [Fatimid Foundation of Cairo])
Ibn Tulun Mosque Restoration
Exterior wall, northeast façade
Nasser Rabbat (photographer)
Nasser Rabbat
MIT Libraries, Aga Khan Visual Archive
IHC0163
Early Islamic Architecture in Cairo
Doris Behrens-Abouseif
The Rise of Islamic Archaeology
Gülru Necipoğlu, Stephen Vernoit
Restoration of Ahmad Ibn Tulun Mosque On-site Review Report
Mohammad al-Asad
Floor plan of Ibn Tulun Mosque, Cairo
Lesson 06: Architecture of Empire The Abbasids
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What will be the future of the 2016 traditional foreign trade advantage?
With the opening of the program, the combat model is officially launched in 2017.Looking back at 2016, our economy is still developing smoothly, but the world economy is still recovering.In this economy, our traditional foreign trade advantage is also weakening, and the new competitive advantage remains to be formed.
Look back to the development of foreign trade in 2016
Back in 2016, our foreign trade development form remains uncertain and unstable.The economy is complicated.The country is also vigorously promoting the favorable development of foreign trade economy and achieving good results.
Our country foreign trade import and export value significantly decreased in the first quarter, second quarter to achieve stabilized, continue to achieve positive growth, three or four quarter the year before the present low after high and steady in the right direction.
According to the customs statistics, China's total goods exports totaled 24.33 trillion yuan in 2016, down 0.9% from 2015.Of these, the export of 13.84 trillion yuan, down 2%;Imports of 10.49 trillion yuan, up 0.6%;The trade surplus was 3.35 trillion yuan, closed at 9.1%.
We look forward to the development of foreign trade in 2017
As 2017 opens, the outlook for the world economy remains underpowered this year.Especially trump, foreign trade environment is faced with many uncertainties and destabilizing factors, however, as the G20 consensus gradually implement, the renminbi to join the SDR, and foreign trade supporting policies takes effect factors will support the smooth running of foreign trade.
The 2017 foreign trade structure will be continuously optimized
All the way in the "area" strategy implementation, as well as supply side to speed up structural reform policy, under the impetus of the development of foreign trade in China since 2016 in the import and export trade mode structure, the main product structure, market diversification, main body structure, the trade structure optimization and improvement, 2017 will continue and will continue to optimize, mainly manifested in the following five:
The first is that international market diversification has steadily advanced.Our country on the "bric" countries as well as other countries along the "area" rapid export growth and thus to be of great importance to the business development of foreign trade in the emerging world;
Second, the proportion of general trade is rising;
Third, the export of private enterprises is further promoted.Private economy is an important part of the national economy development, the development of the socialist market economy plays an important role, become a vital force to promote the growth of foreign trade, is an upgrading and implementation of trade products, promote trade patterns, the innovation of the important carrier of the formats.The higher proportion of private economic and trade, which means that the innovation capacity, the active level and the quality benefit of the foreign trade in our country;
Fourth, the export of a complete set of large equipment is accelerated.As the world's first manufacturing power in our country, along with the "going out" strategy implementation and strategy of "area", the enterprise large-scale foreign investment, overseas engineering construction, in the process of the implementation of the international cooperation capacity, effectively promoting the equipment manufacturing and high value-added products export;
Fifth, the new mode of foreign trade is actively developing.Cross-border e-commerce, market procurement and trade, foreign trade integrated service enterprises continue to maintain rapid growth, "production - service" one-stop industry alliance pattern begun to take shape.These emerging models are becoming new sources of growth in foreign trade.
The 2017 services trade will accelerate development
New trend appears in recent years, international trade and investment, China's foreign trade development entered the new stage, the domestic and foreign economic trade environment requires the transformation of the development mode of foreign trade in our country, promote foreign trade to accelerate the upgrade, vigorously promote the development of trade in services.
China's service trade has been growing rapidly since 2016.Export structure to optimize, trade in services innovation pilot areas good service import and export growth, the approval of the state council to carry out the trade in service innovation and development during the first half of the pilot of the 15 provinces, municipalities, regional service trade import and export accounts for the proportion of 47.5%, an increase of 0.8% over the previous year.
The new growth areas will be fostered by 2017
One is, to adapt to the international Internet, big data, intelligent manufacturing rapid development trend, choose smart appliances, smart phones and other products as a key product in the future China's trade in goods exports, through policy guidance and financial support, innovation, subsidies and other measures to vigorously support;
Second, encourage enterprises to actively implement the "going out strategy", the construction of the international marketing network, increase government funding support, and give play to the role of Canton fair and other platforms, strengthen economic and trade exchanges, industrial cooperation, swap park construction, promote the foreign trade from quantity expansion to quality improvement, strengthen trade great-power status.
2017 will support the development of emerging industries
2017 will vigorously implement the optimal into optimal out of foreign trade strategy, circulation upgrade strategy, domestic and international market integration strategy, speed up the development of foreign trade comprehensive service enterprises, cross-border electricity, overseas warehouse, market procurement mode and new trade commerce, improve the efficiency of traditional trade.
One is, to promote cross-border e-commerce construction, strengthen the construction of business related customs clearance service platform system, improve the management of electronic payment system, speed up the development of cross-border e-commerce logistics services, and promote the development of cross-border e-commerce industry cluster, enhance the level of foreign cooperation of cross-border e-commerce;
Second, encourage the development of key cross-border e-commerce enterprises, attaches great importance to the new mode of foreign trade industry association, etc, comply with the foreign trade industry development trend, service enterprises as the core, build procurement, production, service integration, electronic information platform.
Three is, build a new type of "integration of foreign trade" system, foster internal combination, the management mode in line with international standards of commodity trading markets, in the main regional trade center has strong international influence of large-scale exhibition, supporting the construction of enterprise overseas marketing, logistics and warehousing for settlement of the network.
2017 will continue to use "One Belt And One Road" to boost exports
First, promote rational and orderly flow of various resources and configuration, stimulate the vitality of enterprises and potential, to support high-speed rail, nuclear power and other key areas of major engineering project cooperation, in order to increase the export of related equipment manufacturing goods;
Second, combining with our country enterprise development needs, and further intensify policy innovation, service innovation and regulation innovation, strengthen enterprise enhance the level of product quality, brand, technology, service consciousness, tries to build up a new foreign trade growth, improve product added value, a new competitive advantage and business models, improve the ability to develop the international market.
Facing the whole, in 2017 China's foreign trade environment is complex, but the tiger think breakthrough and innovation, beyond the traditional trade forms, is necessary to cope with the complexity of the environment strategy.Foreign trade enterprises need not only in terms of products, logistics, upgrades, more need to be in service, website experience, upgrade optimization on the marketing strategy.
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VOA explains non-coverage of Antifa attack on U.S. journalist Andy Ngo
BBG - USAGM Watch > Featured News > VOA explains non-coverage of Antifa attack on U.S. journalist Andy Ngo
BBGWatcher July 9, 2019
Featured News, Hot Tub Blog, Waste & Mismanagement
Amanda Bennett, Andy Ngo, Antifa, BBG, Doug Bernard, John F. Lansing, John Lansing, Press Freedom Editor, USAGM, VOA
BBG – USAGM Commentary
“VOA says that it is ‘uncertain if or how we might approach it’“
In comments to The Daily Caller, Doug Bernard, identified as Voice of America Press Freedom Editor, explained why U.S. tax-funded media outlet, which is managed by the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM) and funded by U.S. taxpayers, did not cover under his watch the violent left-wing Antifa attack on conservative journalist Andy Ngo which happened in Portland, Oregon several days ago. Doug Bernard, who has been with the agency, previously known as the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), since 2002, was appointed several months ago to his press freedom reporting and editing job by VOA Director Amanda Bennett who previously praised his work as a reporter. The Daily Caller reporter pointed out that multiple other news organizations “have reported on the violence against Ngo, including Fox News, CNN, The Hill and more.” “2020 Democratic candidates Andrew Yang and former Vice President Joe Biden condemned the violence against Ngo. Eric Swalwell, who announced his departure from the race Monday, also condemned the attack,” the article said. The Voice of America and the U.S. Agency for Global Media did not initiate coverage of the incident.
VOA Press Freedom Editor Doug Bernard Quoted by The Daily Caller: “‘I’m familiar with the story; uncertain if or how we might approach it. Sort of lost the ‘news’ angle with time,’ Doug Bernard, VOA press freedom editor, told the Daily Caller News Foundation when asked if a statement had been released on the attack.
‘Hands more than full today with new report targeting dozens of Turkish journalists and groups, including BBC and VOA,’ Bernard continued. He did not respond to further questions asking to clarify why no report was issued on Ngo’s assault.”
Organizations For Journalists Not Reporting On The Attack On Andy Ngo After A Week By Shelby Talcott, The Daily Caller, July 8, 2019
Organizations For Journalists Not Reporting On The Attack On Andy Ngo After A Week
Multiple organizations that aim to protect freedom of the press and journalists have stayed silent on the Andy Ngo attack.
Doug Bernard who was quoted by The Daily Caller as saying that he is uncertain “if or how we might approach” the beating of U.S. journalist Andy Ngo story, had received generous praise from VOA Director Amanda Bennett at the time of his appointment as VOA Press Freedom Editor earlier this year.
In an email sent to staff on April 1, 2019, Ms. Bennett wrote: “You all know how important our new Press Freedom initiative is to VOA — so I am pleased to announce that Doug Bernard has been appointed VOA’s new Press Freedom Editor.”
The Voice of America central news division did not cover the Andy Ngo story on its main English-language website. Now VOA’s Doug Bernard says that he was “uncertain if” the violent attack on a U.S. journalist by a radical left-wing group deserved coverage from the Voice of America. VOA regularly reports on right-wing-inspired violence in the United States and has reported repeatedly charges that President Trump’s criticism of “fake media” inspires violence toward journalists, as well as comparisons of Trump’s criticism of “fake media” to suppression of the press by Lenin, Stalin, and Mao.
Amanda Bennett and USAGM CEO John F. Lansing, both appointed during the Obama administration, were informed on July 3, 2019 by a former VOA and BBG manager that the Voice of America was not covering the Antifa attack on journalist Andy Ngo story and generally ignoring mainstream conservative Americans and their organizations. They did not respond to the e-mail and did not initiate coverage.
Under Bennett’s and Lansing’s watch, several VOA journalists were posting multiple anti-Trump social media posts and memes, some of them of obscene nature. These postings continued for many months even after Bennett issued a weak warning that they should stop. The same VOA reporters did not post any anti-Antifa or anti-left-wing content on their social media accounts, some of them clearly linked to their VOA work, or posted any substantial criticism of liberal groups. VOA quoting and reporting on liberal advocacy groups has been vastly greater under Bennett’s watch than quoting and reporting on mainstream conservative advocacy groups even though the VOA Charter, which is U.S. law, requires a balanced presentation of American viewpoints.
Earlier this year, USAGM refused to answer a media media inquiry whether VOA journalists responsible for reporting on press freedom issues are severely biased. One such inquiry, which received no answer, was sent to both Bennett and John Lansing on April 3, 2019 when obscene anti-Trump posts apparently uploaded by and linked to a VOA reporter were still seen on social media. Most such posts by other VOA reporters were by then removed by them after remaining online for many months and in some cases for over two years.
Screenshot 2019-04-05 of a 2016 Facebook post attributed to VOA reporter
Screenshot (edited) taken on 2019-04-05 of a 2016 video reposted on Facebook by a person believed to be a VOA reporter.
In an e-mail to Bennett sent last week, a former VOA journalist pointed out that responsible mainstream conservative groups and individuals have practically no voice on the Voice of America while American Communist Angela Davis does.
Searches of the VOA News site for “Candace Owens” and for “Angela Davis,” or for “Robert DeNiro” and “James Woods,” show that VOA rarely quotes or mentions conservative American voices among political or entertainment celebrity figures. Bennett and Lansing did not respond to an e-mail inquiry about non-coverage by VOA of the Antifa attack on journalist Andy Ngo story. A search of the VOA English News website showed only one report about U.S. actor James Woods who became known for expressing his conservative views. The VOA report only referred to his film career. At the same time, VOA News had dozens of reports about another U.S. actor Robert DeNiro who is known for his liberal views and severe criticism of President Trump. In 2016, a VOA foreign language service posted without any balance a Robert DeNiro partisan political campaign video in which he called Trump “dog,” “pig” and similar names. Versioned in a foreign language, the VOA video could have targeted ethnic American voters. It included audio in English. The VOA video was eventually removed but without any apology or explanation from either VOA director Bennett or USAGM CEO Lansing. VOA and another USAGM media entity under Mr. Lansing’s watch, Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty (RFE/RL), were accused in a New York Times report and by Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA) shortly before his retirement as chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee of illegally targeting Americans with Facebook ads.
USAGM CEO John Lansing has been reeling from numerous scandals under his watch, including the theft of tens of thousands of dollars by his ex-right-hand man at the agency, Dr. Haroon Ullah, whom Lansing had hired in 2017 and promoted as his spokesman on programming strategy. There are also new reports of a fake news video allegedly used by the Office of Cuba Broadcasting (OCB) under the watch of the OCB director selected by Lansing. Bennett was also selected by Lansing to her VOA director’s position. Her appointment was in 2016. Lansing has been USAGM CEO since 2015.
New Scandals Rock Government’s Foreign Broadcasting Service
The United States Agency for Global Media is facing intensified scrutiny after two new cases raised questions about journalistic and financial management.
USAGM CEO won’t apologize for hailing ex-top aide who was a thief
BBG Watch - USAGM commentary In a much delayed and highly misleading message to employees of the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM), CEO John Lansing used half-truths and omitted many material facts to avoid making an apology for hiring and heavily promoting his former top aide Dr. Haroon Ullah. Lansing’s former Chief Strategy Officer…
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty is mostly restricted by law from promoting its content in the United States except on request.
Ed Royce on USAGM Illegally Targeting Americans with Facebook Ads
OPINION Issues in the News: Royce Report on USAGM Illegally Targeting Americans with Facebook Ads U.S. International Media: Information War Lost by USAGM By The Federalist “…Oversight is not a game. It is a core constitutional function, a cornerstone of the structural checks and balances on which our federal government is built.…
Juri July 9, 2019 at 7:58 pm
Amazing hypocrisy and arrogance.
2016 Vote Alan Heil Amanda Bennett Andy Lack BBG bias Cold War Radio Museum Donald Trump employee morale fraud Haroon K. Ullah Haroon Ullah Hollywood Howard Fast human rights Hunter Biden Iran Jeff Shell Joe Biden John F. Lansing John Lansing journalism Mahtab Farid Masih Alinejad Myroslava Gongadze Nancy Pelosi Natalia Clarkson NPR propaganda Robert De Niro Russia Sandy Sugawara Soviet Union The Federalist theft Twitter U.S. Congress Ukraine USAGM Vladimir Putin VOA VOA Charter VOA Extremism Desk VOA Extremism Watch VOA Persian
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Bay Area / California
Labor & Education
Mid-Market / Tenderloin
Soda Tax/Food Politics
Reviews From CAAMFest 37
by Peter Wong on May 7, 2019
Cai Chengjie’s Rotterdam Film Festival award-winner “The Widowed Witch” shows that computer graphics aren’t necessary to make a film intriguing. All that’s needed is a mix of entertaining ambiguity married to some tart insights about human nature.
Er Hao, the titular supernatural being in question, proves a morally ambiguous heroine. Losing three husbands makes her either a black widow or a victim of a continual bad luck streak. The death of most recent husband Dayong seems a life-breaker as his passing has left her homeless and destitute. Finally, she gets raped by a relative under terrible circumstances.
Given what’s happened to her in the past, perhaps it’s understandable why Er Hao doesn’t believe she’s gained any supernatural abilities. She offers mundane explanations for what other villagers call her magical powers. Surviving getting publicly shot in the gut is possible if the gun isn’t loaded. If a slap to the face relieves neck stiffness, magical powers aren’t needed to accomplish that.
Yet Er Hao soon finds advantages to claiming she has magical powers. The powerlessness brought on by destitute widowhood gets replaced by leverage via the rural villagers’ superstitions. A supposed friend who refuses to pay back 2000 yuan borrowed from Dayong may be angered by Er Hao’s “accidentally” running over his cart. But when the ex-friend believes his neck stiffness resulted from a curse, he sings a different tune to the widowed witch. Most dramatically, a tough beating up someone stops quickly once Er Hao displays some uncanny knowledge of his personal life.
To be fair, Cai uses an inventively subtle way to show that the supernatural does exist and that the film’s protagonist does have magical powers. The extended opening color sequence featuring Er Hao trudging with Dayong through the snow feels like a non sequitur. The change from color to the black and white stock that characterizes most of the rest of the film shocks the viewer. It’s much later that it becomes clear the color images that pop up in the film are examples of the supernatural or at least supernormal intruding on Er Hao’s life. What opened the film was essentially the lead character’s near death experience, which she escaped by symbolically being brought back to life by the shaman.
The reason later supernatural occurrences are shown in black and white is quite simple. They show that the extranormal world has become a normal part of the widow’s life.
Despite Er Hao’s using her supernatural powers to her advantage, she doesn’t do so by scamming others to enrich herself. She uses these powers to help people. One guy, for example, gets advised to bulldoze the shabby vacation cottages he’s renting. He does and discovers a humongous gold nugget unearthed by the bulldozer.
Ironically, Er Hao’s advice soon causes her to discover her powers’ limits. The law of unintended consequences cannot be skirted by her powers. More importantly, human greed and callousness prove the equal of supernatural abilities. These cumulative truths wind up leading to tragic results.
Hearing a Spanish song being played at full blast in a Chinese restaurant setting may not be the most unusual moment seen at this year’s CAAMFest. But hearing that song while a quartet of young Chinese scuffle with someone in a bunny suit….that’s strange. It’s also the climax of Athena Han’s entertaining short “Bunny Man.”
A discussion on racial terminology provides the lead-up to the scuffle. Four Chinese friends are having a late-night dinner in a Canadian Chinese restaurant. They’re talking about whether the terms FOB (fresh off the boat) and CBC (Canadian Born Chinese) are offensive or rather a way of classifying people in a generally tolerant city.
The rhythms of the discussion are nicely rendered. Various rhetorical points verbally slide between Chinese and English, as if both languages are equally valid. Having Hong Kong film-like subtitles in both English and Chinese also buttress this point. Yet the discussion eventually reaches a rhetorical logjam, with nobody being persuaded or conceding anybody else’s divergent point of view.
How does the bunny suited figure provide resolution on this discussion? The figure’s presence seems initially unrelated to this debate. Yet the scuffle first provides a release for the Chinese diners’ frustrations.
However, what does it mean that the song “El Gatito” plays on the soundtrack during the scuffle? Is it really just a ridiculous non-sequitur? Or does that juxtaposition symbolize the absurdity of the personal intolerances displayed during the diners’ earlier argument ? Han wisely leaves it to the viewer to puzzle out the answer.
“Ten Years Thailand” gives a Thai spin to the near-future dystopia film begun with Hong Kong’s “Ten Years.” Filmmakers Aditya Assarat, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Chulayarnon Siriphol, and Wisit Sasanatieng use everything from understated drama to out-and-out fantasy (particularly in “Planetarium”) to generally depict the faces of openly secret repression. Weerasethakul’s short may seem the exception as no figurative jackboots can be seen. Yet it feels as if government repression is baked into a city’s very stones.
Gretchen Carvajal and Violet Wang’s short “Baraha” bills itself as a visual chapbook. Its raw materials encompass home movies, symbolic dance, poetry, and Tarot symbology. Following Carvajal through the phases of “Deception,” “Death,” and “The Moon,” the film sees her deal with the challenges of retaining her Filipino heritage while coming into her own personal power.
The opportunities represented by moving to America feel in Carvajal and Wang’s eyes to be not worth the shortcomings involved. They include not measuring up to a mother’s expectations, being ashamed of one’s own heritage, and even losing the ability to love oneself. In this regard, Carvajal’s father appears more supportive, tellingly feeding her fire ants to help her preserve her voice.
“Baraha” winds up being more than a survivor’s story. The fable told in “The Moon” metaphorically relates how Carvajal learns to rediscover her own inner light and share it with the world. If the life lesson in Carvajal’s short feels familiar, at least it’s expressed in a style that requires several views to unpack its lesson.
Director Justin Chon (the acclaimed “Gook”) returns with the autumnal and moving “Ms. Purple.” Semi-estranged siblings Kasie (Tiffany Chu) and Carey have been traumatized in different ways by their mother’s abandoning them in childhood. Their father’s slow lingering decline brings the two back together. The backdrop of downbeat classical music suggests their painful past keeps both siblings stuck in Los Angeles’ Koreatown in different ways. Chu particularly shines as someone trapped by other men’s priorities.
In Anna Mikami’s short “Bed and Breakfast,” a spacious snow country bed and breakfast suddenly feels very cramped for the two couples staying the night there. Lena, who’s there with her boyfriend Charlie, once had a serious relationship with Sam, her then-poetry teacher. Now the butch Sam has come with her lover Terri. And it’s not clear Lena and Sam’s feelings have been totally forgotten.
The fun in this straightforward short is seeing the supposedly banked passions between Lena & Sam slowly roar back to life. It hasn’t been that long since their relationship ended. Significant glances and stares asking such questions as “do you still love her” remain unsaid. By the time Lena and Sam finally have a moment alone together, their passion can no longer be denied.
Yet the unexpected encounter between the former lovers forces them to finally lay the ghosts of their former relationship to rest. Sam probably ended the affair because she realized it crossed a couple of very large ethical lines regarding fidelity and teacher-student relations. Lena finally accepts her reasons for doing so. Mikami captures Lena’s acceptance of that emotional truth with a nice visual metaphor.
Far less straightforward but far more satisfying is Becca Park and Jun Shimizu’s “Speak Easy, B.” It can be called a cinematic crawl through the wreckage of a terminated affair with a supposed soulmate.
B has gone for an initial consultation to a therapist for depression related to the end of her lesbian relationship. Through B’s imagination, symbolic clues to the causes of her depression can be found. These clues include a home in the desert, a photograph knocked off a wall, dancing waitresses, and even a basketball game with a boy.
Park and Shimizu don’t throw in odd moments such as B’s vomiting a meal solely for the sake of startling weirdness. These visual symbols offer ambiguous answers regarding the reasons for B’s unhappiness. The desert locale, for example, could represent B’s generalized feelings of emotional isolation.
The film’s images may capture what B cannot express in words. However, the context from B’s life associated with these images, such as whether friction between B and her ex-lover contributed to the break-up, is missing. Obviously finding the connections between these images will require a lot of therapeutic work. What’s not clear is how much B is intended to be a semi-fictional construct of director Becca Park.
Andrew Stephen Lee’s “Manila Is Full Of Men Named Boy” turns a father’s birthday celebration into an exercise in quiet humiliation for his estranged son.
Rodrigo Manatad is celebrating his birthday on the day Michael Jackson’s funeral is being telecast in the Philippines. Rodrigo’s estranged son Boy has returned from Los Angeles to Manila for his father’s birthday. However, Boy’s buying a teen named Bing Bong to pass him off as Rodrigo’s grandson. But what happens when Bing Bong makes a better impression on Rodrigo and his friends than Boy?
The reason for Boy’s ruse is hinted at by the film’s title. When lots of men share your name, how do you personally stand out? It’s probable that Boy’s failure to achieve success makes the younger man look in Rodrigo’s eyes like a mediocrity or even someone who’s failed at life. Instead of being a doctor, Boy’s just a nurse. Being childless and not even in a relationship count as more strikes against Boy. Finally, having strangers express their sorrow for Michael Jackson’s death grates on Boy because he doesn’t even personally know the deceased King of Pop.
Rodrigo’s treating Bing Bong more like a son than Boy winds up pushing the adult son’s last buttons. Sharing a love for smoking and drinking provides a bonding moment between the older man and his supposed grandson that’s denied the American visitor. Perhaps that’s why Boy interrupts Bing Bong’s karaoke performance with Rodrigo so that he can use the karaoke song lyrics to express the agonies of his bruised relationship with his father.
By the end, the only mourning Boy Manatad does will be for losing any hope for earning Rodrigo Manatad’s respect.
CAAMFest’s heartbreaking Closing Night Film “Geographies Of Kinship” rips off the benevolent veneer covering the decades-long international adoptions of Korean children. As Deann Borshay Liem’s documentary shows, humanitarianism proves less relevant to this industry than sexism, global politics, economic privation, moralism, and even racism. Her film traces both the history of this international adoption industry and the human cost represented in the stories of four adoptees.
Fighting in the Korean War may have created war orphans. But it was the American military entertainment districts known as Company Towns that would play a bigger role in boosting South Korea’s international adoption trade. More than a few struggling Korean women who worked in those towns produced kids from their sexual relations with foreign troops.
The presence of those kids became a multi-level embarrassment to Korean society. Thanks to the hojuk system, the kids’ lack of a Korean father made these mixed race kids non-citizens. Single motherhood was frowned upon in Korean society. The presence of mixed race kids also undermined Korean president Syngman Rhee’s drive to make a racially pure Korea. In this cultural context, sending mixed-race kids off for international adoption provided a quick and dirty solution for South Korea.
Liem shows how economic considerations also helped the Korean child adoption trade continue for decades. For the orphanages, foreign adoptions became a cash cow. When the Korean War ceasefire took hold in 1953, there were 317 orphanages. By 1968, there were now 600 orphanages which needed a steady supply of “orphans” to stay in business. Thanks to the absence of a social safety net, poor Korean families gave up their kids to reduce the number of mouths they had to feed. South Korean president Chun Doo Hwan used the population reduction made possible by foreign adoptions to help the country’s economic development. Even the 1990s’ Asian Financial Crash helped keep the adoption trade going through creating what were called IMF (International Monetary Fund) orphans.
The horrors of the history behind the Korean child adoption trade gets balanced out by the personal stories of several international adoptees. They include Estelle Cooke-Sampson, who was a bi-racial orphan; Dae-won Kim, who had to learn about his Korean heritage in secret; and Jane Jeong Trenka, whose fascination with family histories pushed her to find out about her birth mother.
Contrary to the rosy images of a better life outside of South Korea, these international adoptees led lives which were not fully emotionally satisfying for crucial reasons. Estelle, for example, thought of herself as primarily African-American thanks to a lack of exposure to Korean culture. More seriously, the hostility of Dae-won’s Swiss adoptive parents to their adopted son’s efforts to learn about his Korean heritage left him near-suicidal and suffering from PTSD.
The last third of the film follows attempts on both the personal and political level to rectify the wrongs brought about by the Korean child adoption system. On the personal level, the adoptees seen in the film work to find their roots or get reconciled to their Korean heritage with bittersweet results. At least one interviewee moves to South Korea to help other international adoptees reconnect with their birth parents. Estelle’s journey in particular proves the hardest emotional lift as she seeks both her actual Korean relatives and her birth name.
On the political level, things begin promisingly with adoptee LenaKim Arctadius’ public question to future South Korean president Kim Dae Jung. Her question sparks efforts to rein in the abuses of the international adoption system. But it would take nearly a couple of decades before South Korea’s government finally took effective action to begin curbing the factors that fueled the system.
One adoptee interviewed in the film states the long term goal of fellow adoptees very plainly: the return of their nationality, so they can belong to South Korea too. Estelle’s story shows just how long this journey may take to reach its end.
(“The Widowed Witch” screens at 9:10 PM on May 15, 2019. “Bunny Man” screens as part of the Altered States shorts program showing at 9:50 PM on May 10, 2019. “Ten Years Thailand” screens at 9:45 PM on May 11, 2019. “Baraha” screens as part of the “It Runs In The Family” shorts program showing at 5:00 PM on May 10, 2019. “Ms. Purple” screens at 7:30 PM on May 10, 2019. ”Bed and Breakfast” and “Speak Easy, B” screens as part of the “Out/Here” shorts program showing at 6:30 PM on May 13, 2019. “Manila Is Full Of Men Named Boy” screens as part of the “Flip The Script” shorts program showing at 12:30 PM on May 11, 2019. All these screenings take place at the AMC Kabuki Theatre (1881 Post, SF). “Geographies Of Kinship” screens at 7:20 PM on May 19, 2019 at the Roxie Theatre (3117-16th Street, SF) . For further information about tickets and the films, go to http://caamedia.org .)
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6 Days Tour with Paro Festival
Day 1: March 18th Arrival in Paro
Welcome to the land of happiness, also known as Druk Yul (country of the Drukpa Lineage, the Dragon People, or the Land of the Thunder Dragon.) Upon arrival at the Paro International Airport, you will be greeted in our traditional style by our guide and driver, who will be accompany you throughout the tour.
After that, we will gradually start with the tour and drive towards Thimphu (capital city, 1hr drive). On the way, we will stop for a short sightseeing at Tamchog lhakhang (Temple built by the famous saint from Tibet called Thangtong Gyalpo in 13th century.)
Then we will be moving directly towards the capital. First we will visit the Memorial Chorten (Built in the year 1974).
Then the famous 51.5m Buddha point (built in the year 2006). The Changangkha Lhakhang (built in 12 century).
Lunch will be at Folk Heritage (to experiment the traditional life style of the Bhutanese).
After that you will go visit National institution of Zorig Chusum (13 traditional arts and crafts).
Royal Textile Academy of Bhutan (is a national textiles museum)
Tashichho Dzong (Tashichho Dzong has been the seat of the government since 1952)
Day 2: March 19th Punakha
After breakfast, you will then start moving to Punakha. While going to Punakha, you will need to go across the Dochula Pass (3100m). Over there you will stop for a short sightseeing and tea break, while having tea, you can also see the beautiful Himalayas across.
Then visit Chimi Lhakhang (Madman’s temple)
Lunch at the Local Restaurant
Visit Punakha Dzong (fortress of glorious religion. It’s also known as Punthang Dechenphodrang, Legend says that Zhabdrung made the carpenter trulpizow balep made to sleep in chamber and he had been taken to paradise /zangtopelri of Guru Rinpoche and he got at the sketch and the model of the dzong)
Visit to the long suspension bridge in Punakha.
Day 3: March 20th Paro
Before starting your journey to Paro, for go for a short hike at Khamsum Yuelley Namgyal Chorten (Built by the third Queen Mother, Ashi Tshering Yangdon Wangchuck. This beautifully designed chorten took nine years to complete, using only religious scriptures to construct the four- story temple. Have to hike for 40minutes through the paddy fields and vegetable fields, into the chir pine forest.
Then start your journey to Paro. When you reach there, visit the National museum / Ta Dzong / Watch tower. (Ta Dzong actually means a watch tower to look after the province of Paro valley and served as a regional administrator as well as a store house which would ensure supplies in the event of warfare.)
Kichu lhakhang (Kichu it actually means the peaceful palace. The first temple was built by a 1st Dharma king of Tibet Songtsen Gampo in 7th century.) Then you can also visit the Late Dilgo Khyentse Rimpoche’s Museum next to Kichu Lhakhang.
Day 4: March 21st Paro Festival
After having a good breakfast, you will then drive to Paro Dzong to witness the last day holy mask dance festival and see the Thongdrol (Liberation at sight).
Day 5: March 22nd Tiger’s Nest
Today you will be visiting the most iconic structure in the valley of Paro, the Tiger’s Nest. The cave on the rock was there before 750 million years ago during the formation of the earth. It was only known after the arrival of Guru Padmasambhava in 746 A.D.
Day 6: Departure from Bhutan
Our guide and driver will bid farewell to you all and have a pleasant flight back home. We will be looking forward to seeing you again in future for another place to tour around.
Thank You & Tashi Delek!
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You are here: Home / LIFESTYLE / Automotive / Top 9 Cars for Women in Australia
Top 9 Cars for Women in Australia
March 5, 2019 by Ilias Hassani
Pictured: 2019 Toyota Corolla hatch. Source: Toyota.com.au
We’re always on the lookout for something better than we already have. And why not? Especially our vehicles! Cars in 2019 are getting better technology every day, with improved safety features that make more sense. Women all over Brisbane are getting rid of their old, unwanted cars for more efficient alternatives that assist better with driving and more.
Let’s have a look at the top 9 vehicles that we think you should get in case you’re planning to sell your scrap car for cash and make space for better things in life!
9. Mitsubishi Triton
According to the makers of Mitsubishi, the Triton has been ‘engineered beyond tough’. The superiority of the external features is owing to the sports bar, 18” alloy wheels, LED Daytime Running Lamps and an array of MiTEC safety and connectivity features. WIth the highly impressive torque, you can be assured that your vehicle will move with ultimate ease irrespective of the kind of load you put on it. It’s available with a different range of features to suit the standards of female drivers like 4X4 and 4X2 drives. The price range lies between $24,000- $50,000
8. Toyota RAV4
Did you know cars can be hot, too? But wait, we’re not talking about the Rovers or the Lambos. We’re talking Toyota! The refreshing new colours of the all-new Toyota RAV4 will give you enough reason to get one for your home. It has completely practical features like a power back door for when you have 10 bags of groceries in your hands and need to open the boot. Not just that, you can refuel your vehicle with the hybrid fuel economy – which basically means it has the perfect combination of electrical efficiency and the power of petrol.
7. Mitsubishi AXS
‘Buolt for owning the city’. This Mitsubishi beauty is the celebrity of cars for women. It’s got stacks of storage with assistive technology that can be handled without having a diploma in car mechanisms. It is also stylish and has LED daytime running lamps that make the model look even better. For black lovers, there’ a special 2WD Black Edition featuring black alloy wheels and black mirrors. If you want to feel like Emma Watson from ‘Perks of Being a Wallflower’s tunnel scene, there’s a panoramic glass roof with mood lighting. It also has urban friendly driving and the basic MiTec safety features that make it one of the top 10 cars for women in Australia! The price range lies between $23,000–$33,000.
6. Hyundai i30
The car that defines itself as ‘comfortable, luxurious, sporty.’ Are all of these three characteristics possible to be put together in a small car? Hyundai proved it can! With more variants that Uber itself, it gives you exactly what you want. I30 is like a customised car with remarkable features while being cost-effective. The safety features are looked after with Hyundai SmartSense advanced safety technology. The Hyundai AutoLink keeps you connected to your vehicle via an app! The final feature that made us drool over the car was the Australian Tuned Suspension that makes the car deliver the performance of a dynamic, comfortable and localised car.
5. Mazda CX5
An active driving display and rearview mirror with an auto-dimming function are two standard features of this fuel-efficient car. Ladies, now you don’t need to have great lighting in the car because the vanity mirror is illuminated already! With front heated seats and a seating capacity of 5, the Mazda CX5 has made its place in the Top 5 cars for women in Australia. You won’t have to worry about parking right anymore with smart city brake support, front and rear parking sensors and a 360 degree View Monitor.
4.Toyota Corolla
The all-new Toyota Corolla is not a surprise to this list. Every Australian, man or woman, will know the reliability of this car. The 2019 model has even more safety technology involved now, with every variant having seven airbags, active cruise control that will bring the car to a full halt by the use of the Autonomous Emergency Braking.
Toyota Corolla has been the epitome of affordability in cars with improved features every time. It is also cheaper to maintain than most cars and outlives most cars in its segment as well. It’s a win to buy this one, every time!
3. Ford Ranger
‘Designed for Purpose, the Ford Ranger is full of innovation and dynamic features. With variants for every need and its 5-star safety features, the Ford Ranger is among the top 3 this year! Leather trim and leather seats with an 8-inch colour touchscreen add to the comfort of the passengers and the driver. There is also a wide range of benefits available to all Ford customers like the 5-year unlimited kilometre warranty that offers servicing of your vehicle by a factory trained technician. Undoubtedly one of the best buys for working women who need to get work done faster and hassle-free.
2. Mazda 3
Available in Hatchback and Sedan, Mazda 3 is one of the two popular car choices amongst Australian women. With the Smart City Brake support and reverse camera, it offers assistance to drivers, much more than most car models in this segment. It also has the blind spot monitoring feature and satellite navigation for some additional driver assistance. It’s advance key-less entry and auto on-off headlights give greater convenience to the driver as well. WIth an awful lot of convenience and safety features, this almost tops the list of best cars for women in Australia.
1. Toyota HiLux
Toyota has always been a brand that you can trust. But what is special about the Toyota HiLux? Why is it part of the top ten cars a woman in Australia can buy? The noteworthy features of this car such as the advanced technology of Vehicle Stability Control make it more reliable. Toyota is famous for its durability and with Hi-rider underbody protection, this car is built for years of safe driving without spending excessive amounts on its maintenance.
Life is too short to drive an old, boring car for too long! If you want to sell your old car without any hassles and get one of these top cars, get in touch with the best car removal service in Brisbane, Swift Cash for Cars. They will pick your car up for free, and do your paperwork for you! They also offer cash up to $8,999 for old cars in any condition.
Wait no more, let’s go shopping!
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A TV documentary made allegations connecting Australian Crown Casino to organized crime. Their claims included human trafficking and money laundering. Moreover, the gambling firm published newspaper ads to deny the claims.
Although there are documentaries on how does a pay per head work and another topic, Australia was rocked with a hard-hitting one about a major gambling firm. Australia’s Channel Nine TV network and two newspapers investigated Crown Casino’s links to organized crime. In fact, they based their stories on leaked documents from within the company.
At present, Australian Crown Casino has casinos in Perth and Melbourne. In addition, it is planning to have one in Sydney. There are no plans to start a sportsbook pay per head operation.
Australian Crown Casino Investigation
The documentary stated Crown turned a blind eye to money laundering happening within its casinos. In addition, the company exploited loopholes in the immigration processes to get rich Chinese gamblers into the country without going through the proper procedures.
In addition, there are claims that Crown has connections with a brothel that was investigated for human trafficking. An independent Member of Parliament wants an investigation based on the documentary.
Andrew Wilkie told the parliament that the casino firm acted above the law in Victoria. He added that there were three police officers who stated that Crown was like an independent sovereign state in Victoria. The laws of the Commonwealth didn’t apply to them.
Although Wilkie failed to have parliament start an investigation, Attorney-General Christian Porter sent the allegations to the Australian Commission for Law Enforcement Integrity. However, the agency can only look into the behavior of federal law enforcement officials and not the casino firm.
The state of Victoria launched its own investigation on the claims. Some people want AUSTRAC, the country’s anti-money laundering regulator, to look into the cash going through Crown Casino.
However, Crown denied all allegations. In paid newspaper ads, the company said that it wants the deceitful campaign against them to stop. They accused the documentary of trying to damage their reputation. Also, it takes its legal obligations seriously. The best bookie pay per head providers will continue to monitor the developments of this case.
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Bronx artist's bagel cartoon wins Trader Joe's contest
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A cartoon that he drew about bagels titled "Tis the Seasoning" recently won him the Trader Joe's Fearless Flyer Cartoon Contest on Instagram.
Now his cartoon, which features the Trader Joe's Everything Bagel Spice, will be featured on the store's holiday guide.
And Carr has been on a roll this fall. He recently got his first cartoon printed in the New Yorker.
Carr says he carries notebooks wherever he goes, using his surroundings as his muse.
"My inspiration comes from daily life. I love living in New York City," he says.
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Economic diplomacy brief: infrastructure and trade
By Greg Earl, Deputy Editor of The Australian Financial Review
If infrastructure building is the new Great Game in the Indo-Pacific, the question is whether this week’s developments represent a warm-up for the main match or the creation of a junior league.
Some sort of cooperation between the US, Japan, and Australia to provide an infrastructure development pathway in contrast to China’s sprawling Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has been touted in unattributed ways on the sidelines of various events for months.
This sotto voce approach has meant that an announcement was eventually needed just to maintain some credibility. But the trilateral partnership announced by Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop this week leaves as many questions unanswered as answered, not least what sort of financial resources are really envisaged. The same applies to the Trump administration’s commitment of a modest new US$30 million for regional infrastructure (See Jonathan Pryke and Richard McGregor’s 'The new US–Japan–Australia infrastructure fund'.)
And this raises some questions about whether the countries should have persevered with the more organic things they are doing rather than creating inflated expectations.
China’s capacity to inject a mooted trillion dollars into the BRI from disparate funding sources is coming under pressure from its own domestic growth challenges and some regional pushback led by the new Malaysian government.
But there is little sign that the trilateral partnership will be marshalling resources anywhere near the US$200 billion being touted by the China Development Bank alone.
Instead, the challenge is to embark on a consistent and gritty long-term process of proselytising transparent tendering procedures, proper post-construction maintenance programs, and prudent debt profiles.
Australia is already doing good work here, following the recent Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Summit in Sydney, with the smart cities program, pulling ASEAN countries into the Global Infrastructure Hub, and supporting an ASEAN infrastructure pipeline.
Japan could usefully join the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank and help take up the challenge of getting some of the Asian countries that most desperately need infrastructure investment, such as Indonesia and Vietnam, to agree on standards that would become a benchmark for everyone, including the BRI.
In the Mekong, where the Laos dam collapse has underlined the parlous state of water resources management, there are now three competing pieces of regional water diplomatic architecture that require better coordination.
Taking a non-confrontational approach to the BRI is sensible. But refusing to even concede that the BRI has changed the regional development landscape, as the Asian Development Bank’s latest 2030 strategy does, seems to be taking circumspection too far. The 30-page document, which otherwise sets out quite reasonable new directions, doesn’t even mention what is the biggest new presence in global development spending since the Marshall Plan and World Bank.
The only acknowledgement of the changed landscape comes in a passing concession to the rise of new institutions, after the ADB talks up the potential for partnerships with corporate and philanthropic foundations. Only then does it concede it will “strengthen its collaboration with new multilateral partners such as the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank and the New Development Bank”.
Some reserve about the ambitions of its member country China is understandable. Yet it’s the ADB’s widely quoted forecasts for the unfilled need for new infrastructure in Asia that provide one of the best prisms through which to view the potential challenge of the BRI.
Those ADB forecasts suggest that even if the BRI is seen as a trillion-dollar investment exercise over a decade, with less than half of that funding committed by Chinese players so far, there is plenty of unfilled infrastructure demand for others – including the US, Japan, and Australia – to fill.
Those concerned about the BRI should be pointing this out to the many countries which need the infrastructure, rather than overstating the BRI phenomenon. The problem is, that requires both diplomacy and cash.
Trade twists
This week, the World Trade Organisation’s latest report on trade barriers provided an interesting context for a major speech by Australian Trade Minister Steven Ciobo backing freer trade and a parallel regular gathering of his Trade, Tourism and Investment Policy Advisory Council (TTIPAC).
The WTO has fingered Australia as an enthusiastic user of anti-dumping actions, up there in the company of the US, India, and China, producing headlines such as this. The investigation scorecard was US (54), India (49), China (24), and Australia (16).
Anti-dumping investigations and actions have been creeping up in the past couple of years as the government has lauded its global free trade leadership with successes including the TPP-11, and somewhat overhyped opportunities such as post-Brexit Britain.
This under-the-radar protectionist action wouldn’t have come as any surprise to the TTIPAC gathering of business figures because they get the latest readout from the government’s unreleased polling on how the domestic mood towards foreign trade and investment is turning sour.
India to the rescue
After the Australian Federal Government’s surprisingly lacklustre launch of former Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade chief Peter Varghese’s weighty report on economic engagement with India (which we noted here), Ciobo has now embraced part of the core strategy and dropped any reference to a trade deal.
He has even refined Varghese’s innovative, but potentially sensitive, idea of focusing on selected Indian states rather than the whole country. Indeed, while Varghese picked 10 out of the 36 states and territories for attention, Ciobo has zeroed in on only three: Maharashtra, Karnataka, and West Bengal, although they are pretty obvious targets.
And perhaps in a canny way to make this palatable to those turning sour on foreign trade in the TTIPAC polling, Ciobo has revealed that Indians are the second highest tax-paying diaspora in Australia.
While Japan may well be the only deep-pocketed member of the three amigos now limbering up to provide an alternate Indo-Pacific infrastructure offering to the BRI (see above), its companies are notable for only playing a modest role in Australia’s domestic infrastructure construction boom. Europeans, Koreans, and Chinese competitors seem to play a bigger role.
A Japanese government–backed mission last month represented the latest effort to redress this hole in the bilateral business relationship, with Ambassador Sumio Kusaka ruefully noting how Japan’s low birth rate meant that its big and skilful construction companies now had to go abroad to survive.
Perhaps with an eye to the Chinese companies facing questions about their long-term maintenance of infrastructure projects, Kusaka argued that “one of the great strengths of Japanese businesses is that they are overwhelmingly very dependable and keen to develop long-term, mutually advantageous partnerships”.
There was a time when Australian companies would argue they could not penetrate the opaque nexus between government and business decision-making in Japan. So it was ironic to see potential Japanese investors and builders trying to get their heads around the curious new Australian policymaking process in the infrastructure sector known as the “unsolicited proposal”.
After being told that these insider deals without normal tendering arrangement were going to become more common, it will be fascinating to see whether or not corporate Japan will regard Australia as more like home.
This article was first appeared in The Interpreter, published by the Lowy Institute. Please click to read full report.
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How Fox News Pushes Trump to Make Every Bad Decision
No story has demonstrated the power of this unending Trump-Fox feedback loop like the partial government shutdown.
Matthew Gertz
Updated Feb. 03, 2019 2:59AM ET / Published Feb. 02, 2019 9:25PM ET
President Donald Trump’s announcement last Friday that he would end the longest partial government shutdown in U.S. history without securing funding from congressional Democrats for his long-promised border wall came after weeks of brutal headlines and sagging poll numbers.
But when Trump arose the following morning, he did not devote his time to convening his White House advisers to figure out what went wrong or reaching out to Republican congressional leaders to plot their next move.
Instead, he did the same thing he’s done on countless days of his administration: He turned on his television, tuned in to his favorite program, Fox & Friends, and started tweeting about what he saw.
For more than a year, I’ve studied this Trump-Fox feedback loop, the president’s habit of live-tweeting his favorite shows on the right-wing cable news network. I’ve tracked several hundred of the president’s often-hyperaggressive tweets back to particular segments on Fox News and its sister network, Fox Business, that caught the president’s eye.
Fox helped build Trump’s political brand and fuel his electoral rise, and in recent years has remade itself as a propaganda outlet in support of his presidency. Trump, in turn, has long been obsessed with the network. His worldview and decision making are shaped by the former network personalities with whom he has stocked his administration, the “Fox cabinet” of current stars he reaches out to for advice, and the hours of Fox programming he reportedly watches each day.
Having a superfan in the White House has given Fox outsized influence over both the news cycle and federal policy. The network’s efforts to infuriate its audience—over everything from NFL players kneeling in protest during the national anthem to a caravan of migrants slowly approaching the U.S. southern border—can trigger outraged presidential tweets, instantly turning the network’s particular fixations into national news.
And because Fox’s staff and guests are aware that Trump could be watching at any time, they often use the network’s platform to try to reach him directly, seeking to shape his decisions on political strategy, legal tactics, pardons, personnel, and more.
No story has demonstrated the power of this Trump-Fox feedback loop like the partial government shutdown.
Trump’s incessant craving for validation from the network’s conservative commentators triggered his initial refusal to sign any legislation funding the government that did not include money for a border wall, and then that need sustained his intransigence over the following weeks. His eventual cave shows the limitations of prioritizing the whims of right-wing infotainers during congressional negotiations. But there is no evidence Trump has learned anything from the crushing defeat, suggesting that he will continue trying to make policy with respect to the wall and other issues, on the basis of whether it pleases Fox hosts.
In September, I argued that Trump’s Fox affinity made a government shutdown inevitable. The same pattern kept playing out: House and Senate leaders would agree to a spending bill, Fox commentators would claim the bill betrayed the president’s base because it didn’t include wall funding, Trump would angrily tweet about the Fox segments and send Washington into chaos, and Mitch McConnell and Paul Ryan would have to talk him into supporting the legislation. With Trump publicly declaring that a shutdown was a “great political issue” and explicitly citing Fox hosts as his inspiration for the tactic, the situation seemed untenable.
Three months later, it finally came to a head. As the December deadline to renew government spending loomed, Fox personalities again began urging Trump to shut down the government rather than sign a spending bill that didn’t include money for the wall. Once again, Fox’s influence was matched against that of Republican congressional leaders, who warned the president that a shutdown would be a grave tactical mistake.
But this time, Fox News won.
When the White House signaled that it was backing away from its wall-funding demand, furious network commentators insisted that Trump reconsider and instead shut down the government. The calls were loudest on Fox & Friends, the president’s favorite morning cable show. “If there's not a shutdown,” declared co-host Steve Doocy, “he’s going to look like a loser.”
Goaded by those he typically counts on for support, Trump reportedly “seethed and panicked” about the criticism, and then took their advice.
The president’s propagandists were jubilant. As portions of the government shuttered and hundreds of thousands of federal employees worked without pay for weeks, Fox’s airwaves were filled with cheers for the president and exhortations for him to remain firm. The hosts gave little indication of Trump’s grave political peril—to the contrary, they urged the rest of his party to stick with him regardless of the consequences. “If this takes 150 days, I think the Republican Party needs to stand united with the president,” argued Sean Hannity.
Trump made clear throughout the shutdown that he was prioritizing the support of Fox’s hosts over all other considerations. He consulted with Hannity and Dobbs for strategic advice about how to handle the shutdown, gave a national address in which he ripped language from their shows, and showed up on Fox programs to make his pitch directly to their audiences.
And as federal workers missed paychecks and his poll numbers plummeted, the president kept his television turned to the fawning reports of his favorite network and his iPhone open to Twitter. Trump sent at least 60 tweets parroting the network’s programming over the course of the shutdown.
The president trumpeted the polls Fox cherry-picked to suggest he was winning the shutdown:
He cribbed statistics the network aired about “Walls Around The World”:
He claimed that “Only a Wall” could protect Americans from a caravan of migrants the network repeatedly reported on:
He pushed Fox’s attacks on congressional Democrats who refused to support wall funding:
And he promised Doocy that he wouldn’t “cave”:
Cozying up to Fox News may have made Trump president. But as a legislative strategy, it was a total failure. It proved impossible for Trump to simultaneously ensure the support of far-right media figures accountable only to their audience and make a deal that attracted Democratic votes.
Fox’s own personalities understood the dynamic at play: During one heated debate, political analyst Juan Williams declared that Hannity was one of the right-wing commentators “running the government.” And Republican senators knew it too: One told Axios that Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner’s reported effort to try to end the stalemate with a major deal was impossible, saying, “Trump can withstand Ann Coulter. He can't lose Hannity and the rest.”
Hampered by these tensions, the president’s strategy eventually collapsed. With Democrats refusing to negotiate until he agreed to reopen the government, some federal workers beginning to revolt, and Republican senators on the verge of abandoning him, Trump finally gave in after 35 days, agreeing to reopen the government for three weeks while Congress attempts to negotiate an immigration package.
Trump’s decision to fold divided his Fox allies—even the hosts who had counseled the president on his shutdown strategy. Hannity offered a vigorous defense of his decision, arguing that “anyone out there” who is “thinking President Trump caved today, you don't really know the Donald Trump I know.” For Dobbs, however, the news was “a victory for Nancy Pelosi... and to deny it is to try to escape from reality.”
But neither Dobbs nor the president appeared to hold a grudge—by Thursday morning, Trump was tweeting about the previous night’s episode of Dobbs’ show, using the Fox host’s talking points as evidence that a border wall is necessary. Based on that program, Trump argued that Republicans negotiating an immigration deal “are wasting their time” because Democrats will not provide money for the “DESPERATELY needed WALL.” “I’ve got you covered,” he ominously added.
That seemed to be a reference to Trump’s likely endgame: declaring a national emergency in order to divert previously appropriated federal funds to wall construction. Ever since Trump first suggested that he might take that step in early January, Fox hosts have been urging him to do it, claiming that, in Dobbs’ words, the “only way forward” is for Trump to “simply sweep aside the recalcitrant left in this country” and do so.
Republican congressional leaders keep warning Trump that declaring a national emergency is a terrible idea that won’t serve his ends, and up until now, he’s listened to him. But we’ve seen how this played out before. The president will continue to wallow in Fox’s programming, as night after night its hosts tell him that the declaration is his only way to win. And eventually, he will listen.
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Welcome to The Official Clarinet Pages Harry Pedler Thread.
Here you will find what will hopefully become the most comprehensive collection of Serial Number data on the Harry Pedler marque in cyberspace, as well as historical insight into the marvelous, mysterious maker who excelled as a pioneer and innovator--Mr. Harry Walter Pedler, himself. Many very thoughtful and motivated people are to thank for the information thus far accumulated, and herein documented.
I offer my most sincere appreciation to Phil Pedler for making all of this possible in the first place, and for his tireless dedication to the preservation of clarinet history in its many forms across a multitude of spectrums, our own Silversorcerer for initially getting me interested in Pedler clarinets, his insistance that I start a HP thread, and his vast initial contribution of serial number data that enabled me to cobble together a noteworthy and legitimate list "out of the gate", Dean McMakin for his phenominal collection of Elkhart data and tremendous, personal dedication to the incredible Indiana musical instrument industry at large, and our own Rocket350 for his insight, personal notes on Harry Pedler serial numbers and model designations, photographic contributions of warranty cards, and assistance in finding legitimate sources of information on the internet, scanned from the original sources dating from the beginning of the last century. I thank those, too, who selflessly went to the trouble to make such information available to us. AND I thank all of you who have engaged this thread with your insights and contributions. There will no doubt be a good many more who offer future contibutions for which we will be forever thankful.
Please keep in mind that this thread is a work in progress, and while fact, or presumed "fact" will be stated as fact, there will be many instances where factual data is not, or "not yet" available, and it will be stated as such. As it is, there shall be many amendments to original posts, going forward. It is my hope that we can develop a timeline with an accumulation of serial numbers, random bits of data, advertisements and with good fortune, a sales receipt or two. I appreciate EVERY contribution of information, as this list will serve all who seek information on this topic. I will accept folklore, readily, and present it as such, until such information can be confirmed as fact, maintained as folklore, or easily disputed. The way we grow and learn is through the sharing of information, so I invite each knowledgeable reader to share what (s)he knows, or thinks (s)he knows. Understand that we are "writing history" right now, presumably based upon honest representation and careful calculation of all we glean. It is our inherent responsibility to be as accurate as available information will allow. This is exciting and dangerous territory. Readers beware:
What we think we know for certain:
Born 21 January, 1872 in London, Harry Walter Pedler Sr. was "cherry-picked" from his native England by William J. Gronert (AKA: "Tommy Atkins", born 30 December, 1851 in Hastings, England) --a fellow Englishman, and associate of Charles Gerard Conn in July of 1905, at which point he was already considered a master clarinet craftsman, having been taught the trade by his tenure with Rudall, Carte and Co., LTD from the age of 13 (1885) first as an apprentice. At the age of 28 (1900), he reportedly left Rudall, Carte and Co., LTD, and began his own clarinet manufacturing business under his own name, until being ushered to the United States by Gronert with his wife, Louisa Hughes Pedler, and 5 year old son, Harry Junior. Pedler worked for and with Conn until 1914, when, yearning for home, he left Conn's employ. Bags in hand, his return to London was abruptly hampered by the outbreak of WWI, and was unable make the voyage. Whether or not he ever returned to England is unknown. In 1916, Harry Pedler and William J. Gronert founded the American Manufacturing Company. It is interesting to note that Gronert worked for Conn until 1911, and "then organized the Elkhart Musical Instrument Company which merged with the Martin Band Instrument Company, of which he was the secretary and general manager at the time of his death". (Taken from his obituary posted in The Elkhart Truth, 26 July 1919). This information raises more questions (and eyebrows) than it answers, as it would imply he worked concurrently with Pedler and the MBIC. Any contract that may still exist, written up between any of the aforementioned fellows during their tenure with one another, would perhaps tell us about the hierarchical culture that existed at the time.
Upon Gronert's death on 25 July, 1919, Harry Pedler re-branded the company (see: Presto; February 12, 1920, for announcement) under his own name, and in March of 1930, Harry Pedler sold his company to The Martin Band Instrument Company (MBIC), but continued on in senior management capacities, and oversaw the perpetuation of his legacy until his departure, reportedly in April of 1931, (Thanks to 350 Rocket, we have an account from an April 1931 edition of Music Trade Review, confirming Harry Pedler Sr's and Jr's resignation from MBIC. The same article also mentions Harry Pedler founding his business in 1914, which is an oversimplified interpretation of actual events) when he and his son, reportedly displeased with the direction of production under MBIC left the company abruptly and ultimately went to work with Ferdinand August "Gus" Buescher (of saxophone fame at the time, though he also dabbled in clarinets) on 23 July, 1932, making brasswind instruments.
By December of 1937 (and one account I have states 1936) MBIC-made Pedler clarinets would no longer be stamped, "Harry Pedler and Co.", and were instead ALL stamped "The Pedler Co." when Harry Pedler changed the name of his joint venture with Buescher from Art Musical Instrument Company and re-branded the company "Harry Pedler and Sons", directly after Gus Buescher's death on 29 November, 1937. This is significant, because there was a 6+ year window after Harry Pedler's departure from MBIC, where his name DID, INDEED adorn production clarinets in its original form, without his own influence. I consider this April 1931-December 1937 window of time "transitional".
To complicate matters, some true Harry Pedler clarinets made prior to April 1930 were also stamped "The Pedler" and other similar variants, but to re-iterate, no clarinets after December 1937 were authorised to be stamped "Harry Pedler and Co.", as Harry Pedler had re-secured rights to his name by this point.
Thus far, evidence showing that any true Harry Pedler clarinets (1919-1930) were adorned with a serial number is scarce, and a good many clarinets were not even engraved at all--even with his name, sometimes, during the earliest years. The standing exception is that BBb models may have been serialized early in their production, and 350 Rocket makes mention of serialization starting in 1928 with the Premiere model, and noting that all metal Pedler clarinets have perhaps always been serialized. I now have in my possession what most clearly appears to be a post-1923/pre-1931 Albert System top joint, Model 1544, myself, which bears a serial number. Until further evidence surfaces, however, it is a cautious measure to operate under the calculated assumption that the serial number process officially began when Martin Band Instrument Company took the reins in March of 1930, but I look forward to disproving this, if such factual data is made available.
Several different materials were used in the construction of both Harry Pedler and The Pedler Co. Clarinets: Rosewood, Grenadilla wood, Hard Rubber (Ebonite), "Gren-O-Lite", and Silver-plated brass. It has been reported that the early heavy guage metal clarinets were not manufactured of silver-plated brass. Rather, they were constructed entirely out of solid nickel-silver. I cannot substantiate this claim, but I would appreciate the insights of those who may know and/or own such instruments. The professional model, heavy guage, single walled metal clarinets have been recorded at 914 grams (see reference, this site). It has been said that Harry Pedler preferred Hard Rubber, and made clarinets in metal or wood upon request or demand.
At the height of production, Harry Pedler expanded his business to keep up with the demand for his clarinets. It has been (incorrectly, I believe) reported that he could manufacture over 500 clarinets per day (The music Trade Review, June 23, 1923) and then reported 6 months later that he could manufacture 600 clarinets per month (The Music Trade Review, December 29, 1923). The manufacture of 7200 clarinets, per year--Pre-Martin, is a lofty, but plausible expectation from a medium-sized shop of 10,000 square feet and 70 workers (Presto-Times, March 1930), whereas the projected manufacture of 180,000 clarinets per year is most certainly not.
In 1937, upon MBIC relinquishing the rights to the Harry Pedler brand, the name "Harry Pedler" would never adorn another woodwind; only brasswinds. While a good many of the MBIC clarinets produced after April 1931 were designed and intended primarily for the student market, high-end professional models were also made. Harry Walter Pedler Sr.'s legacy primarily resides in his own, fantastic self-branded clarinets made prior to 1931, and the truly exceptional, laboriously hand finished, carefully and cleverly executed professional level clarinets manufactured by MBIC that were simply a more refined, direct extension of Harry Pedler's original designs.
Harry Walter Pedler Sr. died 25 September, 1950, in Elkhart, Indiana. At the time of his death, His son, Harry Walter Pedler Jr. took over as chief of their brasswind venture, and ultimately sold the business to Selmer in 1958.
« Last Edit: March 10, 2018, 06:08:18 PM by Windsong »
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Re: Harry Pedler and Co./The Pedler Co. Serial Number List
HARRY PEDLER/THE PEDLER, CO. SERIAL NUMBER LIST:
* All clarinets, unless listed otherwise are Bb Sopranos in the BOEHM SYSTEM. While Harry Pedler made clarinets in the keys of A, C, and Eb, I have only ever seen one Eb in metal. I have in my possession, literature published by Harry Pedler from 1924 verifying their existence, however.
** All clarinets listed are deemed or known to be Low Pitch (A=440Hz). I have never seen a HP Harry Pedler, and firmly believe none exist. I have come across no literature stating any were ever made—even in the Albert system.
*** All clarinets listed were made between 1919-1956. When specifics on dates are made available, especially as they relate to prefix model range, they will be posted.
**** I have personally examined a good many of the clarinets on this list, either from handling the clarinets personally or careful scrutiny of photographs from internet auctions, and conversing with owners and sellers in cyberspace whom I will likely never actually meet. Quite literally, thousands of hours have been spent in the culmination of data (including the time of generous others who have selflessly contributed to this project for purpose of historical preservation of often fleeting information) recording and examining clarinets to ensure accuracy, but no claims are made to 100% accuracy. If you know of reported data that is incorrect or seems incorrect, please make it known, and it will be investigated/corrected. If you own (or come to own) any clarinets listed, and can provide further details of any kind, I'd be most obliged.
HARRY PEDLER CLARINETS, SANS SERIAL NUMBER
No S/N...Hard Rubber..."Harry Pedler & Co." In oval with lyre crown...17/6 Boehm with "Pedler Appliance" ( no crow's foot)..."A" hand scribed key batch marks under LH pinky keys.
No S/N...Grenadilla wood..."Harry Pedler & Co." In oval with lyre crown...17/6 Boehm with "Pedler Appliance"
No S/N...ALBERT SYSTEM SOPRANO...Model 152 (2-ring, non-roller pinky keys)...Hard Rubber..."Harry Pedler & Co." in diamond logo (stamped on mouthpiece, barrel and bell)...50/50 case...over/under thumbrest screws..."wrap-around" register key. ("KESSELMAN-O'DRISCOLL Co. MILWAUKEE, WISC. DISTRIBUTORS" stamped on bell underneath diamond logo).
No S/N...ALBERT SYSTEM SOPRANO...Model 1544 (4-ring, roller pinky keys)...Hard Rubber..."Harry Pedler & Co." in diamond logo (stamped on mouthpiece, barrel and bell)...over/under thumbrest screws.
No S/N...Hard Rubber..."Harry Pedler & Co." in oval with lyre crown...50/50 case...18/7 ( Augmented model 177?)...over/under thumbrest pinning..."Pedler Appliance" (i.e. no crow's foot)..."D" stamped key batch marks under LH pinky keys...G#/A adjustment screw.
No S/N...Bass Clarinet, Model 201A...Rosewood..."Harry Pedler & Co."..."USQMC" (United States [ARMY] Quartermaster Corps)...(see photos, this thread)
No S/N...Bass Clarinet, Model 201A...Rosewood..."Harry Pedler & Co."..."USQMC"...open ring at LH1.
NON-METAL CLARINETS, SANS PREFIX
1103...BASS CLARINET, Model 201A...Rosewood..."Harry Pedler & Co.".
1105...BASS CLARINET, Model 201A...Rosewood..."Harry Pedler & Co."...open ring at LH1...(possibly pre-1931)
1126...BASS CLARINET, Model 201A...Rosewood..."Harry Pedler & Co."...complete plateau upper joint...(likely pre-1931)
3762...Hard Rubber...top joint only...Model 1544 (15 key, 4 ring) ALBERT SYSTEM SOPRANO
14911...Grenadilla Wood..."The Pedler Co." In oval w/ lyre crown...top joint only (split through register key)...cannibalized for a few keys...RIP (ODD, but in personally examining the on-line photo, I see no prefix)
P2910...Grenadilla wood..."Pedler Special" (no oval)...Geib style “Pedler” branded case...18/7...over/under thumbrest screws...crow's foot.
P3397...Grenadilla wood..."Pedler Premier" (no oval)... knurled adjustable top barrel ring...Geib style tan case.
P4217...Grenadilla wood..."Premier By Pedler"...17/6...over/under thumbrest screws...crow's foot...Authentic, branded Geib case, also with Pedler tag.
P8706...unknown composition..."Premier By Pedler"...17/6...over/under thumbrest screws...crow's foot.
P9218...Wood..."Harry Pedler & Co. Premier"..18/7.
P10354...Wood..."The Pedler Co."...17/6.
P11172...Wood..."The Pedler Co." in oval with lyre crown...17/6...crow's foot...over/under thumbrest screws...original Geib style case...individual upper joint trill key posts.
P11297...Wood..."The Pedler Co."...17/6
P11664...Wood..."The Pedler Co."...17/6...conventional "Pedler" branded case...crow's foot.
P11807...Wood..."The Pedler Co." in oval with lyre crown...17/6...crow's foot...twin under thumbrest screws...individual upper joint trill key posts.
P11825...Wood..."The Pedler Co."...17/6...hard rubber bell and barrel with "Harry Pedler and Co." logo in oval w/ lyre crown.
P12138...Wood..."The Pedler Co." in Oval with lyre crown...4 upper joint trill key posts...17/6...crow's foot...twin, "under-thumbrest" screws...silver plated keys...Pedler-branded Geib style case.
P13800...Wood...The Pedler Co." in oval with lyre crown and "Premier"...17/6...crow's foot...
P14718..."The Pedler Co"...4 upper joint trill key posts...17/6...Geib case.
P14776...wood..."The Pedler Co."...17/6...crow's foot...twin “under-thumbrest” screws.
P15168...Wood..."The Pedler Co." in oval with lyre crown...17/6...crow's foot...Pedler branded Geib style case...twin under-thumbrest screws.
P16116...Wood..."The Pedler Co." in oval with lyre crown...17/6...crow's foot...4 upper joint trill key posts...silver plated keys...S/N on UJ and LJ.
P19356...Wood..."The Pedler Co." in oval w/ lyre crown...17/6...crow's foot...early 1940s Pedler-branded case...over/under thumbrest screws...S/N on UJ and LJ.
P19631...Wood..."The Pedler Co." in oval w/ lyre crown...early 1940s Pedler-branded case...17/6...crow's foot.
P19805...Wood..."The Pedler Co." in oval w/ lyre crown...unbranded, mid-to-late 1940s case (medium brown, rectangular w/ rounded corners)...twin under-thumbrest screws...4 trill posts...new "T-style" bridge key (post WWII)...S/N on UJ and LJ...crow's foot
P22229...Wood..."The Pedler Co." and "Pedler Pennant"...
E1136...Guarantee Bond only...Hard Rubber...Professional Model...Signed by Sid Pedler.
E1352...Hard Rubber...17/6.
E1430...Hard Rubber...Hoosier model...17/6...With Guarantee Bond signed by Sid Pedler.
E3089...Hard Rubber..."American, The Pedler Co." (no oval)...Geib case w/o Pedler brand...S/N on LJ prominently, and faintly on TJ...factory lyre band on LJ socket ring...17/6...over/under thumbrest screws...crow's foot.
E3253...Hard Rubber..."Premier, The Pedler Co."...18/7.
E6781...Hard Rubber..."Pedler Hoosier, Elkhart, Indiana" (open logo)...17/6...Crow's foot...over/under thumbrest screws...shared throat trill posts...Pedler-branded flat, rectangular, snake-skin 50/50 case.
E13866...Hard Rubber..."The Pedler Co."...17/6.
E14613...Hard Rubber...Pedler Hoosier, Elkhart, Indiana" (open logo)...17/6...Crow's foot...over/under thumbrest screws...shared throat trill posts...Pedler-branded Geib case.
E15301...Hard Rubber..."Art Craft Symphony" bell engraving...17/6...crow's foot...unusual 50/50 case.
E15828...Hard Rubber..."The Pedler Co." in oval w/lyre crown...50/50 snakeskin case w/Pedler brand...17/6...S/N on UJ (and perhaps on LJ?).
E16298...Hard Rubber..."American, The Pedler Co." (no oval)...Geib style Selmer case...17/6...S/N on UJ and LJ...factory lyre band on LJ socket band...crow's foot.
E16299...Hard Rubber..."The Pedler Co." in oval w/lyre crown...50/50 case...17/6...factory lyre band on LJ socket ring...17/6...Single(!), under-thumbrest screw...crow's foot.
E16705...Hard Rubber..."The Pedler Co." in oval w/ lyre crown...17/6...no case...factory lyre band on LJ socket ring...crow's foot.
E17423...Hard Rubber..."The Pedler co." In oval w/lyre crown...17/6...original Geib style case...crow's foot...shared upper joint trill key posts...bell is grenadilla, and stamped "American".
E17772...Hard Rubber..."The Pedler Co." In oval w/ lyre crown...17/6...crow's foot...individual top joint trill key posts.
E19190...Hard Rubber..."The Pedler Co." in oval w/ lyre crown...Geib case w/o Pedler brand...S/N on UJ and LJ...18/7..twin under-thumbrest pins..."Pedler Appliance" (i.e. no crow's foot).
E20675...Warranty card..."The Pedler Co."...Bb...Model 157...(date of 8/21/47 handwritten on top of card. Penmanship is notably different on 2s and 7s, as is ink color. Added after the fact for posterity, perhaps.)
E21640...Hard Rubber..."The Pedler Co." in oval w/lyre crown...17/6.
E22104...Hard Rubber..."The Pedler Co." In oval w/lyre crown...17/6...Geib case, original ligature.
E22124...Hard Rubber..."The Pedler Co." in oval w/lyre crown...17/6...Geib case...4 upper joint trill key posts.
E24581...Hard Rubber..."The Pedler Co." In oval w/lyre crown...17/6...Geib style "Pedler" branded case...4 upper joint trill key posts...twin under-thumbrest screws.
E28067...Hard Rubber..."The Pedler Co." without oval logo...17/6...50/50 case with storage slot...4 upper joint trill key posts...correct single screw ligature and mouthpiece.
E30525...Hard Rubber...17/6...individual upper trill key posts...twin under-thumbrest screws...original Pedler case.
E30970...Hard Rubber..."The Pedler Co." in oval w/ lyre crown...17/6...Pedler-branded Geib style case.
E31115...Hard Rubber..."The Pedler Co" in oval with lyre crown...17/6...Pedler flat case...ringless bell.
E31699...Hard Rubber..."The Pedler Co"....17/6.
E32334...Hard Rubber..."The Pedler Co" in oval with lyre crown...17/6...crow's foot...Lyre holder socket ring...original, Pedler-branded, Geib style case in medium brown...thin plating on keys...original mouthpiece
E33152...Hard Rubber..."The Pedler Co"....17/6...bakelite bell?
E34363...BASS CLARINET...Hard Rubber..."The Pedler Co." in oval with lyre crown...S/N on UJ and LJ.
E36489...Hard Rubber..."The Pedler Co." in oval with lyre crown...17/6...twin, "under-thumbrest" screws...4 upper joint trill key posts...Pedler branded Geib style case in tweed (dark brown leatherette is standard, though they are found in tan and medium brown, too)...lyre holder socket ring.
E37071...Hard Rubber..."The Pedler Co."...conventional "Pedler" branded case...17/6...crow's foot.
E38008...Hard Rubber..."The Pedler Co." in oval w/ lyre crown...17/6...twin, under-thumbrest screws...4 upper joint trill key posts...crow's foot.
T6178...Wood..."Trophy" in script on top front of upper joint, "Pedler" above a trophy cup and "Elkhart Indiana" below it, engraved on barrel...17/6...crow's foot.
T6510...Wood..."Trophy" in script on top front of upper joint, "Pedler" above a trophy cup and "Elkhart Indiana" below it, engraved on bell...17/6...crow's foot...Pedler branded case.
N24803..."The Pedler Co."...17/6 (UNICORN of the bunch. Mis-recorded, or rarest of the Pedler breed?)
W-SERIES:
W267...Grenadilla wood..."Harry Pedler & Co." In oval with lyre crown...17/6..."Pedler Appliance" (i.e. no crow's foot).
W709...Grenadilla wood..."Harry Pedler & Co." In oval...17/6..."Pedler Appliance".
W3211..."The Pedler Co." silver keys...adjustment screw at crow's foot.
W8007...Wood..."The Pedler Co."...18/7..."Pedler Appliance" (i.e. no crow's foot)...matching serials on UJ and LJ...pinned top joint.
W8267...Wood ..."The Pedler Co."...18/7...articulated C#/G#..."Pedler Appliance" (i.e. no crow's foot).
W8862...Wood..."The Pedler Co." in oval w/lyre crown...19/7...articulated C#/G#..."Pedler Appliance".
W11407...Wood..."The Pedler Co." In oval with lyre crown on top joint and bell...S/N on top rear of top joint, and bottom rear of bottom joint...short barrel and long top joint...silver-plated keywork...blue, forged needle springs...17/6...4 upper joint trill key posts..."Pedler Appliance" (i.e. no crow's foot)...no case.
W14830...ALTO CLARINET...Wood...complete plateau.
W17337..."The Pedler Co."...adjustment screws at crow's foot.
W17392..."The Pedler Co."...Silver keys..."screw ring key adjustment"
W17490...BASS CLARINET...wood..."The Pedler Co." in oval with lyre crown, and "Custombuilt" art deco bell.
W19822...BASS CLARINET...Wood..."The Pedler Co." in oval w/lyre crown...S/N on UJ and LJ.
A850...Grenadilla wood..."Harry Pedler & Co." In oval...17/6...over/under thumbrest screws...crow's foot...matching S/N on UJ and LJ.
A2915...Grenadilla wood..."American, The Pedler Co." (no oval)...Pedler-branded Geib case...s/n on LJ only...17/6...over/under thumbrest screws...crow's foot...original "The Pedler" mouthpiece.
A3395...Wood...17/6...crow's foot..."The Pedler Co." In oval with lyre crown...original Pedler branded Geib style case..."Sgt. Bob Mitchell, HQ 4th Army" tag in case liner, and "US" stamped into barrel.
A3666...Wood..."American, The Pedler Co." (no oval)...Pedler branded Geib style case...17/6...over/under thumbrest screws...crow's foot...lyre mount on lower joint tenon socket ring.
A3893...Grenadilla...UNBRANDED...17/6...crow's foot...lyre mount on lower joint tenon socket ring...50/50 case.
A4522...Wood..."American, The Pedler Co." (No oval).
A5793...Wood..."American, The Pedler Co."...17/6.
A6909...Wood..."The Pedler Co." in oval with lyre crown, and "American By Pedler" on bell...individual top joint trill key posts...lyre mount on lower joint tenon socket ring...Geib style Pedler branded case.
A6937...Wood..."American, The Pedler Co. (No oval)...17/6...crow's foot...individual top joint trill key posts...factory lyre mount ring...Geib style "Pedler" branded case.
A7934...Wood..."American By Pedler" on Bell, and "The Pedler Co." on barrel...17/6...crow's foot...Geib style Pedler branded case.
G2028..."Pennant” (Grenolite)...Lower joint only.
G2440...”Pennant” (Grenolite)...Upper joint only.
G5962..."Pedler Grenolite" (on barrel)... "Pennant" on top front of top joint...("Pedler" in banner on bell)...17/6...4 upper joint trill key posts...crow's foot.
478...Metal..."The Pedler Co." In oval w/ lyre crown...and "U.S." underneath...17/6.
7348...Metal..."Made by Harry Pedler & Co., Elkhart Ind."...with elaborate rosette motif engraving...17/6.
7672...Metal..."The Pedler Premiere, Elkhart Ind." in oval...17/6...early, bar-type crow's foot..."F" batch marks under lower trill keys...long, fully assembled case.
8565...Metal..."The Pedler Premiere, Elkhart, Ind." in oval...17/6...crow's foot...long, fully assembled case.
10033...Metal...Eb..."Harry Pedler Inc." (very unusual!)...rough, fully assembled case.
10728...Metal..."American, Harry Pedler & Co."...17/6...Fully asembled long Pedler case...open logo...crow's foot.
10906...Metal..."The Pedler Premiere, Elkhart Ind." In oval, WITHOUT lyre crown...17/6 with thin bar "crow's foot...original long style case.
10992...Metal..."The Pedler Premiere, Elkhart, Ind."...17/6.
11XXX...Bass Clarinet...all metal..."Harry Pedler & Co."...Low Eb...Ornate engraving on bell with "goldwash" inside.
11141...Metal..."American, Harry Pedler & Co."...17/6...open logo...crow's foot.
11551...Metal..."American, Harry Pedler & Co."...17/6...Fully assembled long Pedler case...open logo...crow's foot.
11754...Metal..."American, Harry Pedler & Co."...17/6...Fully assembled long Pedler case...open logo...crow's foot...original Harry Pedler replacement spring card with springs.
13150...Metal..."American, Harry Pedler & Co"...17/6...Fully assembled long Pedler case...open logo...crow's foot.
13693...Metal..."American, Harry Pedler & Co."...17/6...Fully assembled long Pedler case...open logo...reported date of manufacture is 1935-1936 (plausible, though unsubstantiated)...crow's foot.
13769...Metal..."American, Harry Pedler & Co."...17/6...Fully assembled in long Pedler case...open logo.
E13935...Metal..."Precision Hand-Made Harry Pedler & Co. Elkhart, Ind." engraved on bell...detachable bell...17/6...Pedler Appliance. (ODD metal clarinet with confirmed E-Prefix).
15365...Metal..."American, Harry Pedler & Co."... "fully assembled" long Pedler case...open logo...17/6.
23603...Metal(?)…Warranty Card..."Harry Pedler and Co., Inc....Bb clarinet...Model: 167.
28300...Metal..."Student Made by Pedler"...17/6...crow's foot.
29825...Metal...open "Pedler HOOSIER Elkhart Indiana" on bell...17/6...crow's foot...fully assembled long Pedler case.
34566...Metal..."Pedler Custombuilt"...17/6...crow's foot.
35890...Metal..."Pedler American" in ornate Art Deco engraving...17/6...fully assembled long Pedler case...crow's foot.
36066...Metal..."The Pedler Co." in oval with lyre crown...17/6...fully assembled long Pedler case...crow's foot.
36070...Metal..."Student" and "Made By Pedler"...17/6...fully assembled long Pedler case...crow's foot.
37665...Metal..."Pedler Hoosier" (elaborate art deco bell engraving)...17/6...fully assembled long Pedler case...crow's foot...S/N stamped on underside of LH pinky key.
37927...Metal..."Pedler Hoosier" (elaborate art deco bell engraving)...17/6...fully assembled long Pedler case...crow's foot...S/N stamped on underside of LH pinky key and above bell solder ring.
38213...Metal..."Pedler Custombuilt, Elkhart, Ind." (elaborate art deco bell engraving)...17/6...crow's foot...fully assembled Pedler-branded long case.
41082...Metal..."Student (in script) Made By Pedler"...17/6...crow's foot...long, "fully assembled" case.
46588...Metal..."Pedler Custombuilt, Elkhart, Ind." (elaborate art deco bell engraving)...17/6...crow's foot.
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Quote from: Windsong on April 25, 2017, 06:32:58 PM
It has been said that Harry Pedler preferred Hard Rubber, and made clarinets in metal or Grenadilla wood upon request or demand.
Windsong, I find this statement rather intriguing. If you could state your source of this info, it would be greatly appreciated!
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I think this is on another thread. It might be hard to read the section on ebonite. Harry was quite a proponent of ebonite. Grenadilla was special order on sopranos, rosewood appears to have been standard on basses and altos which were produced in much lower numbers.
« Last Edit: April 26, 2017, 02:22:29 PM by Silversorcerer »
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Airflyte,
Sorcerer's brouchure is just one example, and I have read it elsewhere, as well, but admittedly, I think it was in another link I had to translate. I will have to check. I am not the consummate record keeper, but I have a decent memory, not that this helps with providing evidence. I have read that Grenadilla was at times scarce and embargos and tariffs at the time made it more expensive to procure in America, so it is entirely plausible that this drove Harry Pedler to find a sustainable product.
While just a strong hunch that will require more research, I firmly believe Pedler and Conn both had an inside line on solid rod rubber from their friend and fellow co-worker Jessie James Babbitt.
Grenadilla mostly came from France, but the French took it from African colonies. It was only difficult to get when wars made trade difficult. U-boats, I suppose? It is also true that import tariffs financed the US government before the Federal Reserve/Income tax era began. Imported grenadilla was taxed. Rubber is also imported to the USA, so the tariff problem would apply to either material.
In any case the French themselves priced Ebonite clarinets higher than ebony or grenadilla in 1902. Good wood was readily available and hard rubber was the new technology;- more durable and stable, particularly well suited for use in military bands and after many decades hard rubber clarinets still retain their original acoustic properties, if not always their dyed color.
When Pedler was making primarily hard rubber clarinets, many other USA makers were making them from grenadilla. It is not clear that the availability of grenadilla was a major factor in his material choice. I am certainly not inclined to repeating unsubstantiated rumors. That is the problem with the historical record in any division of the record. Over time, legends are taken as truths and should not be. The tendency to repeat an oral tradition should be discouraged. Without sources for a memorized oral tradition, or where we might have read something, we should be cautious. What is that adage? History is the lie most universally agreed upon. That is what happens without searching or re-searching sources. Any rumor can be written down, and that does not increase the veracity of the rumor. A great number of these rumors are in history text books at this point.
For some reason we do not see many early wood Conn clarinets. In fact I can't really remember seeing even one that was properly identified. We know that during part of that period of hard rubber Conns, Pedler worked for Conn. During that same period Bettoney and Penzel-Mueller and Pruefer were making plenty of wooden clarinets. Maybe they had a grenadilla stock pile? We really don't know.
What we do know is that the Harry Pedler catalog is a historical document, not a legend or rumor. We also know that the large number of wooden Pedler clarinets are from the Martin BIC / Pedler Woodwinds period of production. I have seen one genuine wooden Harry Pedler. I passed on it because of the number and severity of the repairs coupled with the high price. It had a diamond logo, similar to the diamond logo on the rosewood basses;- I don't think I saved any photos of it because the photos were not very good. I figured I would eventually see another one. Well;- not yet.
Solid post, Sorcerer, and firmly rooted in the presentation of fact, at that.
We don't really know *why* Hard Rubber was Harry's "material of choice". For all we know, it may well have initially been a suggestion or even a directive from Conn to Pedler that was well received, and warmly embraced. It may well have been Harry's idea, entirely, as well, and perhaps it was Conn who realised that Harry was onto something. It is common knowledge that Conn was a risk taker in business endeavors, and he thrived (and dare I say, suceeded, quite often) in the chaos of uncertainty.
I have seen no documentation, anywhere which describes the desire to move away from traditional materials to Hard Rubber, and any theories drawn from any set of given circumstances without more data can only be seen at this time as entirely speculative--though speculate I will, to be sure.
There is precious little information out there on this topic, and it's garbled, indiciferable nonsense, ofttimes, regurgitated from site to site, and presented as "the truth", when it may, or very well may not be so.
We have no choice but to all begin with folklore, and work to disprove it, if we can...
If we cannot, and especially if we find documentation supporting or disproving our hypotheses, we must embrace or deny it, respectively, respectfully and responsibly.
« Last Edit: April 29, 2017, 01:08:49 AM by Windsong »
OK, tell us all about Bibbat, Conn, and Pedler... ...
Bibbat, Conn, Pedler and a monkey walked into an opera house.....
Oh, I intend to, and that's "Babbitt".
With a rare free-day, I took the opportunity to make steady headway on my many theories. I will remain optimistic that we can soon substitute speculation for fact, or at least draw more specific conclusions based upon some additional facts.
I discovered new (to me) information this AM, and I answered several of my questions in the process.
It does appear that the trade embargo abruptly cut off supplies from France in 1916, forcing Harry Pedler to source his stock elsewhere (Central and South America, most likely; Rosewood originates from Honduras, primarily, and rubber trees [Euphorbiaceae] grow in both Central and South America). It's also important to note that there are no readily available records of Harry Pedler producing any clarinets between the years of 1916 and 1919, but I will forever be on the lookout for the elusive AMC. (I'd be delighted to know of anyone who has seen or has procured one).
UPDATE: It appears as though our own Lisa has procured not one, but two potential clarinets made by Harry Pedler and William Gronert in the interrem years of 1916-1919. (See other posts on this forum for photos!)
I believe the reason hard rubber clarinets sometimes sold for more than grenadilla clarinets had more to do with the complex production and machining costs associated with it, and not necessarily because Ebonite was more prized, or comprised of more expensive raw materials, though admittedly--I don't know. I have read of the volatility of the rubber rod stock making process, and its tendancy to warp and shrink during manufacturing, and I have to believe that such a grand headache could only be remedied by a compensatory pricetag. I intend on digging more into that, as well.
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Quote from: Silversorcerer on April 27, 2017, 09:49:24 PM
. . . . . . oh, this will be good! . . . . . .
Here is a Harry bass model 201A with the early marks and bell engraving. This is probably part of the original USQMC instrument acquisition that was in the early 1920s. I don't know the serial. The diamond logo is one not seen too often. That one has a substitute neck, most likely from a Selmer 9 model.
There is another 201A I know of that has the serial # 1103, and my 201A is serial #1126
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Fantastic em"bell"ishment! Just beautiful. Some of Elkhart's great work. Thanks for that.
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Quote from: Windsong on May 07, 2017, 01:42:26 PM
My next skill to learn is metal engraving, so I can do some cool stuff like that. Modern bells are really no fun at all.
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"Bumping" this thread for the timeline updates. Good work Windsong.
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Aims: Over the past decade in particular, formal linguistic work within L3 acquisition has concentrated on hypothesizing and empirically determining the source of transfer from previous languages—L1, L2 or both—in L3 grammatical representations. In view of the progressive concern with more advanced stages, we aim to show that focusing on L3 initial stages should be one continued priority of the field, even—or especially—if the field is ready to shift towards modeling L3 development and ultimate attainment. Approach: We argue that L3 learnability is significantly impacted by initial stages transfer, as such forms the basis of the initial L3 interlanguage. To illustrate our point, the insights from studies using initial and intermediary stages L3 data are discussed in light of developmental predictions that derive from the initial stages models. Conclusions: Despite a shared desire to understand the process of L3 acquisition in whole, inclusive of offering developmental L3 theories, we argue that the field does not yet have—although is ever closer to—the data basis needed to effectively do so. Originality: This article seeks to convince the readership for the need of conservatism in L3 acquisition theory building, whereby offering a framework on how and why we can most effectively build on the accumulated knowledge of the L3 initial stages in order to make significant, steady progress. Significance: The arguments exposed here are meant to provide an epistemological base for a tenable framework of formal approaches to L3 interlanguage development and, eventually, ultimate attainment.
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"Owls generally make their presence known through their vocalizations, which peak two times a year"............. "One is in summer, when fledglings depart their parents’ territory and search for their own"................ "Most young owls have staked their claims by September or October, making November and December relatively quiet in the owl world"............. But the chatter increases again during the winter breeding season, when mates are courting each other and defending their territory"..........
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In January, Owl Courtship Begins
by Carolyn Lorié
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I’m an enthusiastic, if laid-back, bird watcher. One of the things I love most about spring and summer is the effortlessness with which I encounter a wide variety of birds. Sitting in my backyard, I’ll catch sight of an indigo bunting in the apple tree or watch a pair of phoebes flying to and from their nest. On an afternoon hike, I might spot a Baltimore oriole or hear the sweet sounds of a wood thrush.
Not so in winter, when the cold curtails my outdoor activities and so many birds have departed for warmer climes. The dearth of birds and walks leaves me feeling doubly deprived, and I count the days until red-winged blackbirds will again greet me on my morning stroll.
But January is far too early to dream of spring, so I’ve decided to put thoughts of seasonal songbirds out of my mind and focus on some of our region’s year-round residents, namely owls.
If any species of bird takes effort and fortitude to observe, it is the stealthy, nocturnal owl. Of the 134 species in the world, five are year-round residents of the Northeast: the great horned, barred, eastern screech, long-eared and saw-whet. Despite the number of species and their constant presence, is the dead of winter a reasonable time to seek them out?
Turns out it is.
The first weeks of January is when the action starts, according to Matthew Young, who works at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Owls generally make their presence known through their vocalizations, which peak two times a year. One is in summer, when fledglings depart their parents’ territory and search for their own. Most young owls have staked their claims by September or October, making November and December relatively quiet in the owl world. But the chatter increases again during the winter breeding season, when mates are courting each other and defending their territory.
For great horned owls (Bubo virginianus), the process starts just as the Northeast is settling into the deep freeze of winter. Young told me that by early January the birds, which range in size from 18 inches to just over two feet, start calling to each other. It’s even possible to distinguish the female versus male calls, as the females have a higher pitch and an extra note in the beginning of their call.
By February, most great horned owls are incubating their eggs and have grown quieter, though their calls can still be heard as they defend their territories. But as they grow quiet, the barred owls (Strix varia) pipe up. The familiar “who-cooks-for-you-who-cooks-for-you-all” calls become more frequent from late February into April, which is their breeding season.
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Long-eared owls (Asio otus) tend to roost during the winter in small groups (known poetically as parliaments). I was excited about the prospect of discovering not just one but several owls roosting, until Young told me that long-eared owls are “one of the most secretive and least known birds in North America.”
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While it would be spectacular to see a snowy owl or stumble upon a parliament of long-eared owls, I’ll be pleased just to hear the calls of a great horned or barred. The return of the songbirds may be months off, but this winter will have plenty of moonlit, windless nights, and I will be out there, looking and listening.
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To the delight of all who revel in the grace and beauty of nature, bald eagles are soaring above New England in numbers unseen for over a century. We’ve come a long way since the days when poor farming and logging practices denuded our forests, choking streams with silt and compromising the food chain. We now know that if you degrade the eagle’s habitat and pollute the water you affect the entire web of life, including fish-eating birds in the skies above.
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Between 2004 and 2008, 29 subadult eagles were released in Vermont during a collaborative effort between VDFW, National Wildlife Federation, USFWS, Outreach for Earth Stewardship and Central Vermont Public Service. “None of those birds appear to have settled in Vermont,” said Buck. “All of our nesting pairs are the result of population expansion from neighboring states.” Vermont’s first successful eagle nest was found in 2008 at the Springfield Reservoir.
New Hampshire Audubon has managed that state’s bald eagle project in collaboration with the New Hampshire Fish & Game Department and the USFWS. And said Chris Martin, Senior Biologist at New Hampshire Audubon, “TransCanada provided a significant grant that boosted bald eagle recovery efforts in New Hampshire and neighboring Vermont.”
Biologists and volunteers have studied and protected bald eagle populations for more than 35 years: counting numbers and nests, posting nesting and roosting sites, installing guards to thwart predators, and tracking individuals by banding and monitoring young. As a result, “New Hampshire’s breeding population has been doubling roughly every five years over the past 20 years,” said Martin. “Over-wintering populations have also been increasing steadily.”
In 2015 and 2016, during the annual Midwinter Bald Eagle Survey, record numbers of 90 or so eagles were recorded in New Hampshire (about 60 adults), with most spotted in the Lakes Region and along the Connecticut and Merrimack Rivers. Vermont’s winter counts also spiked, with 81 eagles seen in 2015 and 59 in 2016, including around 30 adults, mostly near Lake Champlain and the Connecticut River.
The bald eagle was removed from the federal endangered species list in 2007, but is still considered threatened in New Hampshire and endangered in Vermont. Eagles continue to be harmed by eating fish or carrion contaminated with lead from fishing tackle or ammunition as well as mercury from the environment, poisoned bait intended for other animals, electrocution from power lines, human disturbance at nest sites and by being hit by cars and trains as they feed on carrion.
“There’s a sense that since eagles are off the federal list, they’re doing well,” said Fowle. “But there’s still climate change and other threats. We need to be good stewards if we want to have them here for a long time.”
“Eagles are an environmental success story,” said Buck. “They’re imbedded in the folklore of this country. It’s magnificent to see a bald eagle. They are a beloved creature.”
Readers who would like to become involved in the Bald Eagle survey or monitoring activities can contact Chris Martin at New Hampshire Audubon, or Margaret Fowle at Audubon Vermont.
Michael J. Caduto is an author, ecologist, and storyteller who lives in Reading, Vermont.
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Both Vermont and adjacent New Hampshire Moose populations are on a Minnesota-like free fall paradigm, currently with 75 to 80% annual calf mortality..........Combine this with the debilitating "one-two-three and your out" storm of warming climate, brain worm and winter tic affliction and the last thing Moose need to deal with is a hunting season..............Vermont biologist Walter Medwid worked for the state's Fish & Wildlife Dept. and argues forcefully about the fact that a 1/3 decline in population since 2009(3000 down to current 2000), should have Governor Shumlin stepping in and taking the hunting of Moose off the table until good science can determine if the carrying capacity of the Moose herd can be restored to decade-ago levels.......
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WALTER MEDWID: VERMONT’S MOOSE MISMANAGEMENT
JUN. 23, 2016, 7:00 PM BY COMMENTARY 7 COMMENTS
Editor’s note: This commentary is by Walter Medwid, a biologist who lives in Derby.
An Open Letter to Vermont Agency of Natural Resources Secretary Deb Markowitz,
I am writing to request that you take two urgent steps: 1) Use your office and authority over the Department of Fish and Wildlife to request that Gov. Peter Shumlin cancel this year’s moose season, and 2) that you appoint a special investigator to launch an inquiry into the decision-making process for this year’s moose hunt to determine whether state laws and public policy were violated in the process.
I make these requests for the following reasons:
Vermont’s moose population is in crisis; it has been in decline over the last 10 years but most significantly the population has been below the minimum carrying capacity threshold since 2009. That threshold minimum of 3,000 animals has been longstanding public policy. Current population estimates hover around 2,000 animals.
Despite the severe population deficit, the Department of Fish and Wildlife’s (DFW) recommendation to the Fish and Wildlife Board (FWB) of 160 moose permits (some 8 percent of the current population) was accepted by the board this April without a single vote against the proposal despite a host of alarms going off.
Vermont’s moose population is facing serious threats — winter ticks, brain worm, heat-stress due to a warming climate but mostly unrelenting hunting pressure has been the key factor in the population decline. Since 2009, the first year of the population going into the red, 3,854 moose permits were approved by the FWB with nearly 2,000 killed, pushing the population deeper and deeper into deficit.
Vermont Moose hunter with his kill
Most troubling is the fact that calf mortality appears to be off the charts. A recent study of collared moose calves in Maine showed a 75 percent mortality rate. In New Hampshire in the past year a stunning 80 percent of collared study moose calves died.
I implore you to do all you can to halt this year’s kill so that this state’s moose population has some small chance of recovering. Doesn’t that serve all interests long term including hunters?
The stated goal of this year’s decision by DFW/FWB is “… designed to increase moose numbers throughout the state.” In what Orwellian world does an aggressive kill quota of a species in decline coupled with likely very high calf mortality result in a stable and increasing population? The biology doesn’t support it neither does basic arithmetic or simple logic.
And perhaps most troubling of all is that the decision by the FWB was chiefly informed by the categorization of this year’s permit quota by DFW leadership as “… very conservative.” In fact, of the three key moose states in New England, Vermont’s quota is actually the most aggressive. New Hampshire with a moose population twice that of Vermont’s is releasing 71 permits — less than half the number Vermont is releasing. And Vermont’s quota, as compared to Maine’s with some 65,000 animals, is nearly three times as aggressive as Maine’s as a percentage of population.
Did the FWB approve the DFW proposal because it was falsely categorized as “very conservative?” Was the board informed that the department’s proposal was in fact very aggressive as compared to the other two key moose states? If not, why not? Wouldn’t that red flag alone have at least engendered some discussion and debate rather than the complete silence and groupthink in April? And why were there no alternative proposals including one that was conservative in fact, offered to the board by DFW — how could one proposal cover all the diverse perspectives towards management of this iconic species in crisis? Why did your team at DFW convey to the public that this year’s plan was very conservative after it was voted upon in April?
Vermont has been deemed the state with the highest percentage of wildlife watchers. Most Vermonters simply want to see a moose, yet for over a decade the odds get worse each year. Shouldn’t moose be managed to benefit all Vermonters as state statutes require? Isn’t wildlife held in the public trust and not privatized to serve special interests and not public interests? Isn’t this year’s aggressive kill proposal contrary to all reasonable expectations held by the vast majority of Vermonters? And how did our management decision-making process become so thoroughly broken, so reckless?
I implore you to look into this entire fiasco that throws public interests, public policy and public law under the bus. I implore you to do all you can to halt this year’s kill so that this state’s moose population has some small chance of recovering. Doesn’t that serve all interests long term including hunters? There are simply too many red flags to not halt this year’s take and examine how this arm of Vermont’s governance failed so miserably.
Thank you for your hearing me out. I look forward to your reply.
Is it possible the the USFW Service feels that it's initial proclamation that "the Puma is extinct in the East" was premature,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, Or is it as our friend, Endangered Species Specialist Mark McCollough states below-----simply "unfinished Peer Review assessment needed before the Puma is declared extinct in the East and delisted from the Endangered Species list?...............Since many Puma biologists consider the Puma to be one species throughout North America(not an eastern subspecies as the USFW is postulating), might "independent (biologist) experts" stir up enough dust to keep the Puma listed east of the Mississippi River?..............There have been several reputable analyses done by biologists showing definitively(deer, road, human population and continuous habitat variables) that suitable habitat for Pumas does exist in various parts of the Appalachian Spine as well as in NY State and New England..................How about the Feds keep Pumas protected until recolonization or rewilding of those haunts take place by our "Ghost Cats?"
Subject: Eastern Cougar listing reopened comment period
On June 28, 2016, the Service will publish a Federal Register notice to reopen the comment period on the 2015 proposed rule to delist the eastern cougar in order to seek review from independent experts, as required by our 1994 peer review policy. Although we intended to do this when the proposed rule was first published, we were unable to complete peer review during the previous comment period. Thus, we are providing an additional 30 days to obtain independent review of our scientific analysis.
With 100-200 Pumas in Florida and suitable habitat in the
Appalachian Mountains north up into NY and Maine, why
is the USFW Service so hellbent on delisting our "Ghost Cat, for
many biologists, the same feline that exists in the Western USA?
As a matter of procedure, reopening the comment period will also allow an opportunity for additional general review. We are emphasizing, however, that previous comments need not be resubmitted because they are already part of the administrative record and will be fully considered in our review. We anticipate making a final decision on the delisting proposal within the next few months.
Today, the notice will be in the Federal Register's electronic reading room here: https://www.federalregister.gov/public-inspection
On Tuesday, the notice will be in the Federal Register here:
http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/html/FR/todays_toc.html
Additional comments can be submitted starting on June 28 through July 28, 2016 at www.regulations.gov under docket no. FWS–R5–ES–2015–0001.
Please do not hesitate to contact me or Krishna Gifford, 413-253-8619, with questions.
Mark McCollough, Ph.D.
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Telephone: (207) 469-7300, Extension 1115
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Want to be an extension of the natural areas that abuts your home and neighborhood?.........Mimicking the native plant habitat in your region will encourage wildlife to utilize your property..............Providing the three essential elements needed for life to thrive---- plants that produce berries, nuts and seeds for food, creating horizontal and vertical "tangle" to create cover and providing some sort of water source(birdbaths if nothing else) and you are on your way to getting National Wildlife Federation certification that your yard is wildlife habitat.............There are all types of native landscaping styles to put into effect and the article below provides a good overview and foundation to get started and/or further enhance the indigenous habitat that you have put in place
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Native Plants Help You Find Your Garden Style
Imagine the garden of your dreams designed with plants indigenous to your region
Margaret Oakley Otto June 24, 2016
Houzz Contributor. Margaret Oakley Otto is Design Director for Oakley Gardens, a boutique landscape design and consulting firm in Los Angeles that focuses on sustainability and environmental stewardship. For nearly a decade, she has designed intimate garden spaces that connect people with nature. Margaret coordinates the Theodore Payne Foundation for Wildflowers and Native Plant’s annual Native Plant Garden Tour and is a Southern California Field Consultant for the California State Park Foundation’s Park Champions Program. Margaret blogs at Acorn Radicle, where she shares the life-affirming tidbits that she gathers from her work with and around the earth.
Gardening with plants native to your region is a powerful local choice that protects global biodiversity and creates an authentic sense of place. The design challenge with natives is ultimately one of imagination — we must imagine, for example, that the large green shrub with berries on it that grows in the hills or mountains 15 miles from where we live can be pruned and shaped to fit our garden.
It is completely possible to evoke an array of garden styles with native plants. All it takes is an understanding of design principles for the style you are trying to achieve, creativity in using the plant materials that you normally see growing in the wild, and the knowledge of how to maintain those plants to achieve your desired effect.
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This dry creek interplanted with a mix of California native grasses directs and captures rainwater. Design by Richard Grigsby of The Great Outdoors Landscape Design & Construction.
Most of us live in urban or suburban areas, where our landscapes have a visual impact on many other people, and it’s important to utilize design principles when creating your native garden. In the end, you will be much happier with the result.
As a general rule of thumb, almost all beautiful landscapes utilize repetition of the same species, or a variation of the same species, to create a sense of cohesion and harmony. You’ll notice lots of repetition in gardens designed by Mother Nature too. By picking one or two plants to repeat throughout your native landscape — among your other plants — you will create a sense of calm and order.
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Basic Garden Styles
If you are in the position of creating a native garden from scratch, here are some stylistic approaches to consider as you plan. These principles are also helpful to keep in mind when editing or updating an existing garden. Your landscape style choice might be influenced by the architecture of your home, the history of your area or garden spaces you find inspiring.
This modernist backyard utilizes clean, delineated hardscape materials of gravel, decomposed granite and concrete. Native penstemons are planted in squares, while a palo verde tree casts delicate shadows on the decomposed granite. Young ceanothus is planted as a screen against an aluminum fence.
Modern. An architectural or a more modern design emphasizes plant shapes and foliage textures over flowers — though you can certainly include flowering plants. A key rule of thumb is to keep the number of plant species you are using to a minimum. Less is more. That doesn’t mean you can’t create a garden that feels full, alive and lush. Rather, it means choosing a minimalist palette of three to five species of plants, for example, and repeating them throughout the space.
Pick plants that are well-scaled to the space: For a small space, pick smaller native grasses, ground covers and shrubs that reach a mature size no larger than 4 feet tall and wide. If you have the space, one courtyard-size tree or large shrub pruned into a tree can be a nice focal point or shade creator. For larger areas, you can pick larger-scale plants, but stick to the principle of a restrained palette with an emphasis on plant foliage.
Cassy Aoyagi, FormLA Landscaping
The red tubular flowers of California native snapdragon dangle over square pavers here, with a fine gravel neatly edging the path.
Negative space is an important part of architectural landscape design. This means leaving some empty space for the eye to rest between, in front of or around and behind plants. Negative space can be created with low-growing native ground cover plants or with inorganic materials such as gravel or mulch. Spacing your plants so you can see the full shape of each plant is another way to utilize negative space. Create a sense of spaciousness by shaping hardscape areas, such as walkways or seating areas, with clearly defined lines.
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Dune sedge (Carex pansa) makes for a lovely ground cover and provides plenty of space for the eye to rest in this classical garden designed by Wynne Wilson.
Classical. Classical garden style emphasizes balance, proportions and symmetry, and evokes the ancient architecture of Greece and Italy. This effect can be achieved with native plants — just be sure to use a limited plant palette and consider plants that can be pruned into more formal shapes, such as rounded shrubs, boxy hedges or columnar plantings. In Southern California, Catalina cherry (Prunus ilicifolia lyonii), native to the Channel Islands, makes an excellent formal hedge.
Read more about classical garden style
The purple flowers of Cedros Island verbena (Verbena lilacina) mix with vibrant yellow and orange monkey flowers (Diplacus sp.) and vibrant pink Clarkia wildflowers in this California native cottage garden. An Australian native bottlebrush tree provides a vibrant red nectar source for hummingbirds nearly year-round.
Cottage. A native cottage garden evokes a sense of abundance, emphasizing a profusion of color and blooms and including numerous plant species with different textures. This style allows for a more diverse plant palette and is achieved by planting to fill a garden space. For example, you’ll want to know that the mature size of a ceanothus is 10 feet by 10 feet, and space the next plant roughly 5 feet from the center of your ceanothus.
There is less emphasis on negative space in a cottage garden, though carving out spaces for the eye to rest can still be beneficial. Use warm, rustic materials for hardscapes, such as aged wood for fencing and aged brick or stone for a walkway, and incorporate garden objects that draw the eye to important areas of your garden. Vintage garden furniture also makes an excellent complement to a native cottage garden.
Wildflowers absolutely lend themselves to a cottage garden. There is no sweeter way to evoke an authentic sense of place than by sowing seeds for wildflowers that are native to your area — you may even discover some beauties you’ve never seen before. Just be sure to balance your seasonal wildflowers with perennial shrubs that look more or less the same year-round, so your garden doesn’t look too barren when the wildflowers disappear.
Read more about cottage garden style
Andreas Hessing of Scrub Jay Studios designed this eclectic, semiformal collector’s garden.
Eclectic. An eclectic garden by definition is a combination of other styles. Going for an eclectic look can free you up to express your taste and personality. But eclectic can quickly slide into chaotic if design principles are not followed.
Be sure to use repetition of the same plants for a sense of harmony, and avoid an overly long list of plants. And includes places for the eye to rest, such as hardscapes or ground covers. Try to create a theme for the objects in your landscape to prevent a sense of randomness. But have fun with introducing unexpected elements. Rules, after all, are meant to be broken sometimes.
A calming Buddhist statue sits atop a recycled-concrete garden wall in front of vibrant purple Cedros Island verbena (Verbena lilacina).
There are numerous variations on each of these styles, and you can celebrate your own cultural heritage or the history of your region by incorporating objects or stylistic accents that have symbolic meaning and significance.
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Benjamin Vogt March 29, 2014
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There’s certainly been a welcome groundswell of support for native plants among gardeners, landscapers and even nurseries. The benefits of going native are many: lower maintenance when properly sited, an increase in wildlife, support of pollinating insects that feed birds and provide us with one in three bites of food, improved soil fertility, water clarification and mitigated runoff.
Native plants are adapted to local climate and soil conditions, especially when those plants have been sourced from local seeds. (It’s always good to ask where the seed came from, because in an ideal world, native plants would be from local native plant communities for best vigor and wildlife support.) Native plants connect us to where we live and help us understand local environments — I always profess that milkweed, for example, is a gateway drug to gardening for wildlife (in this case, monarch butterflies).
Following are some sources you can check out to help get you started on your hunt for the best native plants in your area. Good luck!
Related: Houzz guides to native U.S. plants:
Northwest | California | Southwest | Texas | Rocky Mountains
Central Plains | Great Lakes | Northeast | Mid-Atlantic |Southeast
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1. Nurseries, university extension offices and farmer’s markets. Obviously, the first place you’ll probably look for native plants is at a nearby nursery. Hopefully you’ll shop at local, independent nurseries and keep the money in town. Those local places will hopefully also have some awareness of regional native plants.
Public university extension offices also have resources for native plants and wild plant communities, with a wealth of knowledge about what works best. Near me I have the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, which even has a native plant greenhouse featuring seasonal sales, along with a trial and display garden full of local plants.
You can also check out local farmer’s markets to see if there are any smaller start-up vendors with native plants.
Adam Woodruff + Associates, Garden Artisans
2. The Xerces Society. This is a nonprofit conservation group that works to save invertebrate creatures for the benefit of all wildlife. Its website has a clickable map that takes you to native plant lists for your region, guides for conservation planting, bee identification info and much more.
Benjamin Vogt / Monarch Gardens
3. Pollinator Partnership. The sponsor of the annual National Pollinator Week, this organization lets you enter your zip code and takes you to handy printable PDF guides you can take to a nursery. The more we ask nurseries for native plants, the more they’ll carry them.
Pictured: Pasque flower, native to the central and northern U.S. plains from Wisconsin, south to Nebraska and west, all the way up and down the Rocky Mountains.
4. Biota of North America Program. For the more advanced gardener who knows Latin plant names (quite handy when so many plants have the same common name), BONAP lets you search for plant distribution by state and county maps. It also has maps by density gradient, soil type and climate. You can also search for plant maps via the USDA database.
5. Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center. Another great resource, particularly because it actively plants natives in its botanical gardens and has plant sales. If you’re in Texas, you can visit.
Pictured: Blue sage, a Missouri native.
6. Missouri Botanical Garden. I’ve always liked using its search page to find out what growing conditions would be best for my new native plant purchases. It’s always good to consult several websites to build a consensus, which can save you both maintenance time and heartache. The Missouri Botanical Garden also has display gardens and tons of events.
7. The Find Native Plants website. If you’re looking for a one-stop shop with links to local nurseries, seed sources and books on native plants and their natural environments, then this site is for you. It’s generated by the writers at the website Native Plants and Wildlife Gardens (of which I am a part).
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