Matt Madigan, like many Esri employees, says that one of the reasons he enjoys his job is that he gets to work in a variety of roles. However, Madigan's situation is a little unique. He works out of two offices. His main job is as an account manager in the Washington, DC, regional office. He also works with start-ups and a start-up incubator out of Esri R&D Center—DC. In this interview, he talked about enjoying the challenges he encounters in his professional and personal life.
As an account manager, I'm responsible for a couple of accounts on the intel [information and technology] team. Previously, I was the operations director and director of federal business at GeoIQ [a geolocation company that joined Esri in 2012]. We were working with In-Q-Tel and deployed at many agencies within the intelligence community, so that carried over into my role on Esri's federal team because I was very familiar with the community.
My work at the R&D Center is also really exciting. Last fall, we started a relationship with 1776, which is a start-up incubator with 240 plus member companies. We want to empower them with the ArcGIS platform and then let them bring their innovation to that platform. So instead of having to build a new GIS out of open source, they're using our tools to actually build out their solutions.
I understand you're also involved with Esri's new Young Professionals Network. What's that about?
This is an initiative to get young professionals in the federal government, commercial, nonprofit, developer, and start-up communities to become more familiar with Esri tools. More importantly, it's a forum for them to see how these tools can help them move forward both in their careers and with their projects. The Young Professionals Network had its first meeting at the Esri Federal GIS Conference in February. Nearly 500 attended and took advantage of career and GIS employment workshops, a Q&A session with [Esri president] Jack Dangermond and other Esri leaders, and a networking happy hour.
Yes, that's true. That was in 2008 in Beijing and 2012 in London. China was amazing—the excitement of being at my first Olympics was just incredible. In Beijing, I was fortunate to represent the rowing team and march in the opening ceremonies, which is beyond words.
At GeoIQ, we started GeoCommons, which enabled a community of people to easily share GIS data in a variety of formats and do some basic map visualization and analytics. Many rowers in my program needed part-time jobs. We hired them at GeoIQ to recruit data, clean it up, and load it into GeoCommons as foundational data. I would coach them in the morning, they'd work for five or six hours at GeoIQ, and then we would go back to the boathouse and row in the afternoon. It became a very close-knit group of people who came here for one reason, but then they started their careers in GIS.
I run coaching clinics now and then. There are a couple of people at Potomac Boat Club I'm helping this spring. One of them won a gold medal in 2012 in London and the other one is an up-and-comer who shows a lot of potential.
I really like the atmosphere around Esri where Jack really cares about his customers and the communities he works with. He's interested in what his customers are doing and ensuring they are successful. The fact that he's donating $1 billion in software to schools through the ConnectED Initiative and trying to create a GIS mentoring system in schools is so important for STEM education. He really has his heart in the right spot, and when you can work for an organization where you get that from the owner, it empowers us as employees to make a difference.


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Ilhan Abdullahi Omar (Arabic: إلهان عبد الله عمر; born October 4, 1982) is an American politician serving as the U.S.
In February 2019, Omar questioned whether Elliott Abrams, whom Trump appointed as Special Representative for Venezuela in January 2019, was the correct choice given his past support of right-wing authoritarian regimes in El Salvador and Guatemala, his initial doubts about the number of reported deaths in the El Mozote massacre in 1982, and his two 1991 misdemeanor convictions for withholding information from Congress about the Iran–Contra affair, for which he was later pardoned by George H. W. Bush.
Omar was born in Mogadishu on October 4, 1982, and spent her early years in Baidoa, Somalia. She was the youngest of seven siblings, including Sahra Noor. Her father Nur Omar Mohamed, an ethnic Somali, worked as a teacher trainer. Her mother, Fadhuma Abukar Haji Hussein, a Benadiri (a community of partial Yemeni descent), died when Ilhan was two. She was raised by her father and grandfather thereafter. Her grandfather Abukar was the director of Somalia's National Marine Transport and some of Omar's uncles and aunts also worked as civil servants and educators. She and her family fled Somalia to escape the war and spent four years in a Dadaab refugee camp in Garissa County, Kenya, near the Somali border.
After first arriving in New York in 1992, Omar's family finally secured asylum in the U.S. in 1995 and lived for a time in Arlington, Virginia, before moving to and settling in Minneapolis, where her father worked first as a taxi driver and later for the post office. Her father and grandfather emphasized the importance of democracy during her upbringing, and at age 14 she accompanied her grandfather to caucus meetings, serving as his interpreter. She has spoken about school bullying she endured during her time in Virginia, stimulated by her distinctive Somali appearance and wearing of the hijab. She recalls gum being pressed into her hijab, being pushed down stairs, and physical taunts while she was changing for gym class. Omar remembers her father's reaction to these incidents: "They are doing something to you because they feel threatened in some way by your existence." Omar became a U.S. citizen in 2000 when she was 17 years old.
On April 11, 2019, the front page of The New York Post carried an image of the World Trade Center burning following the September 11 terrorist attacks and a quotation from a speech Omar gave the previous month. The headline read, "REP. ILHAN OMAR: 9/11 WAS 'SOME PEOPLE DID SOMETHING'", and a caption underneath added, "Here's your something ... 2,977 people dead by terrorism." The Post was quoting a speech Omar had given at a recent Council on American–Islamic Relations (CAIR) meeting. In the speech Omar said, "CAIR was founded after 9/11 because they recognized that some people did something and that all of us [Muslims in the U.S.] were starting to lose access to our civil liberties." (In fact CAIR was founded in 1994, but many new members joined after the 9/11 attacks in 2001.)
In 2002 Omar became engaged to Ahmed Abdisalan Hirsi (né Aden). The couple applied for a marriage license, but the application was not finalized. They did, however, have a faith-based marriage, and had two children together before separating in 2008. The next year, Omar married Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, a British citizen. In 2011 she and Elmi had a faith-based divorce, and that year she reconciled with Hirsi, with whom she had a third child in 2012. In 2017 Elmi and Omar were legally divorced, and in 2018 Omar and Hirsi were legally married. They and their three children live in Minneapolis. Her daughter, Isra Hirsi, is one of the three principal organizers of the school strike for climate in the US.
Omar attended Edison High School and volunteered there as a student organizer. She graduated from North Dakota State University with bachelor's degrees in political science and international studies in 2011. Omar was a Policy Fellow at the University of Minnesota's Humphrey School of Public Affairs.
Omar began her professional career as a community nutrition educator at the University of Minnesota, working in that capacity from 2006 to 2009 in the Greater Minneapolis–Saint Paul area. In 2012, she served as campaign manager for Kari Dziedzic's reelection campaign for the Minnesota State Senate. Between 2012 and 2013, she was a child nutrition outreach coordinator at the Minnesota Department of Education.
Also on July 17, Trump continued to attack the four congresswomen at a campaign rally: "They never have anything good to say. That's why I say, 'Hey if you don't like it, let 'em leave, let 'em leave.' ... I think in some cases they hate our country." Trump named Omar specifically and misrepresented comments she made in 2013, falsely claiming that Omar had praised al-Qaeda. He said that Omar "looks down with contempt" on Americans, and the crowd reacted by chanting, "Send her back, Send her back."
In 2013, Omar managed Andrew Johnson's campaign for Minneapolis City Council. After Johnson was elected, she served as his Senior Policy Aide from 2013 to 2015. During a contentious precinct caucus that turned violent in February 2014, she was attacked by five people and was injured. According to MinnPost, the day before the caucus, Minneapolis city councilmember Abdi Warsame had told Johnson to warn Omar not to attend the meeting.
In 2014, Omar was named a rising star in the Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party's Women's Hall of Fame.
As of September 2015, Omar was the Director of Policy Initiatives of the Women Organizing Women Network, advocating for women from East Africa to take on civic and political leadership roles. In September 2018, Jeff Cirillo of Roll Call called her a "progressive rising star."
In 2016, Omar ran on the Democratic–Farmer–Labor (DFL) ticket for the Minnesota House of Representatives in District 60B, which includes part of northeast Minneapolis. On August 9, Omar defeated Mohamud Noor and incumbent Phyllis Kahn in the DFL primary. Her chief opponent in the general election was Republican nominee Abdimalik Askar, another activist in the Somali American community. In late August, Askar announced his withdrawal from the campaign. In November 2016, Omar won the general election, becoming the first Somali American legislator in the United States. Her term began on January 3, 2017.
In 2017, Time magazine named Omar among its "Firsts: Women who are changing the world," a special report on 46 women who broke barriers in their respective disciplines, and featured her on the cover of its September 18 issue. Her family was named one of the "five families who are changing the world as we know it" by Vogue in their February 2018 issue featuring photographs by Annie Leibovitz.
In 2018, Omar came under criticism for statements she made about Israel before she was in the Minnesota legislature. In a 2012 tweet, she wrote, "Israel has hypnotized the world, may Allah awaken the people and help them see the evil doings of Israel." The comment, particularly the notion that Israel had "hypnotized the world," was criticized as drawing on anti-Semitic tropes. The New York Times columnist Bari Weiss wrote that Omar's statement tied into a millennia-old "conspiracy theory of the Jew as the hypnotic conspirator." When asked in an interview how she would respond to American Jews who found the remark offensive, Omar replied, "I don't know how my comments would be offensive to Jewish Americans. My comments precisely are addressing what was happening during the Gaza War and I'm clearly speaking about the way the Israeli regime was conducting itself in that war." After reading Weiss's commentary, Omar apologized for not "disavowing the anti-Semitic trope I unknowingly used."
In 2018, Omar was featured in the video for Maroon 5's "Girls Like You."
In 2018, Republican state representative Steve Drazkowski publicly accused Omar of campaign finance violations, claiming that she used campaign funds to pay a divorce lawyer, and that her acceptance of speaking fees from public colleges violated Minnesota House rules. Omar responded that the attorney's fees were not personal but campaign-related; she offered to return the speaking fees. Drazkowski later accused Omar of improperly using campaign funds for personal travel to Estonia and locations in the U.S.
Omar was endorsed in 2018 by the Human Rights Campaign, a major LGBT civil rights advocacy group. In response to the endorsement, Omar stated, "I will fight for LGBTQIA+ rights in Washington D.C."
On June 5, 2018, Omar filed to run for the United States House of Representatives from Minnesota's 5th congressional district after six-term incumbent Keith Ellison announced he would not seek reelection to that office. On June 17, she was endorsed by the Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party after two rounds of voting. Omar won the August 14 primary with 48.2% of the vote. The 5th district is the most Democratic district in Minnesota and the Upper Midwest, (it has a Cook Partisan Voting Index of D+26) and the DFL has held it without interruption since 1963. She faced health care worker and conservative activist Jennifer Zielinski in the November 6 general election and won with 78.0% of the vote, becoming the first Somali American elected to the U.S. Congress, the first woman of color to serve as a U.S. Representative from Minnesota, and (alongside former Michigan state representative Rashida Tlaib) one of the first Muslim women elected to the Congress.
Omar has criticized Saudi Arabia's human rights abuses and the Saudi Arabian-led intervention in Yemen. In October 2018, she tweeted: "The Saudi government might have been strategic at covering up the daily atrocities carried out against minorities, women, activists and even the #YemenGenocide, but the murder of#JamalKhashoggi should be the last evil act they are allowed to commit." She also called for a boycott of Saudi Arabia's regime, tweeting: "#BDSSaudi." The Saudi Arabian government responded by having dozens of anonymous Twitter troll accounts it controlled post tweets critical of Omar.
In 2019, Omar signed a letter led by Representative Ro Khanna and Senator Rand Paul to President Trump asserting that it is "long past time to rein in the use of force that goes beyond congressional authorization" and that they hoped this would "serve as a model for ending hostilities in the future—in particular, as you and your administration seek a political solution to our involvement in Afghanistan."
In January 2019, amid the 2019 Venezuelan presidential crisis, Omar joined Democrats Ro Khanna and Tulsi Gabbard in denouncing the Trump administration's decision to recognize Juan Guaidó, the president of the Venezuelan National Assembly, as Venezuela's interim president. She described Trump's action as a "U.S. backed coup" to "install a far right opposition". Omar added that the U.S. should not "hand pick" foreign leaders and should support "Mexico, Uruguay & the Vatican's efforts to facilitate a peaceful dialogue."
In February 2019, the FBI arrested United States Coast Guard Lieutenant Christopher Hasson, who was allegedly plotting to assassinate various journalists and left-of-center political figures in the United States, including Omar. According to prosecutors, Hasson is a self-described "long time White Nationalist" and former skinhead who wanted to use violence to "establish a white homeland." Prosecutors also alleged that Hasson was in contact with an American neo-Nazi leader, stockpiled weapons, and compiled a hit list. Prosecutors allege that Hasson's plans to commit domestic terrorism were inspired by Norwegian far-right terrorist Anders Behring Breivik's 2011 domestic terrorist attacks.
In an exchange with the journalist Glenn Greenwald in February 2019, Omar tweeted, "It's all about the Benjamins baby" in reference to American politicians' support for Israel and invoked the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC). A number of Democratic leaders—including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, and Majority Whip Jim Clyburn—condemned the tweet, which was interpreted as implying that money was fueling American politicians' support of Israel. The Democratic House leadership released a statement accusing Omar of "engaging in 'deeply offensive' anti-Semitic tropes." The Jewish Democratic Council of America (JDCA) also denounced her statements. Omar issued an apology the next day, saying, "I am grateful for Jewish allies and colleagues who are educating me on the painful history of anti-Semitic tropes," and adding, "I reaffirm the problematic role of lobbyists in our politics, whether it be AIPAC, the NRA or the fossil fuel industry."
On or before February 22, 2019, "Assassinate Ilhan Omar" was graffitied in a Rogers, Minnesota Holiday gas station restroom, prompting an FBI investigation.
On February 27, 2019, Omar spoke at a bookstore and said of her critics: "I want to talk about the political influence in this country that says it is OK for people to push for allegiance to a foreign country." The statements were quickly criticized as allegedly drawing on anti-Semitic tropes of dual loyalty. House Foreign Affairs Committee chairman Eliot Engel said it was "deeply offensive to call into question the loyalty of fellow American citizens" and asked Omar to retract her statement. House Appropriations Committee chairwoman Nita Lowey also called for an apology and criticized the statements in a March 3 tweet, which led to an online exchange between the two. In response, Omar reaffirmed her remarks, insisting that she "should not be expected to have allegiance/pledge support to a foreign country in order to serve my country in Congress or serve on committee." Omar said she was simply criticizing Israel, drawing a distinction between criticism of Benjamin Netanyahu and being anti-Semitic. Omar's spokesman, Jeremy Slevin, said Omar was speaking out about "the undue influence of lobbying groups for foreign interests."
On March 1, 2019, the West Virginia Republican Party held "WV GOP Day," an event to celebrate the Republican Party, at the West Virginia Capitol. An exhibitor, not associated with the GOP, displayed a poster at the event falsely connecting Omar to the 9/11 terrorist attacks, along with Islamophobic flyers. State delegate Mike Pushkin, in attendance at the event, said that no Republican delegates condemned the poster. The poster was condemned the following day by the WV GOP party, which said, "The West Virginia Republican Party does not approve, condone, or support hate speech." Omar pointed to the poster as an example of why she is targeted with violence, also citing white nationalist domestic terrorist Christopher Hasson placing her on his hit list and "Assassinate Ilhan Omar" being written in a Minnesota gas station.
In March 2019, Omar addressed a rally in support of a Minnesota bill that would ban gay conversion therapy in the state. She co-sponsored a similar bill when she was a member of the Minnesota House. In May 2019, Omar introduced legislation that would sanction Brunei over a recently introduced law that would make homosexual sex and adultery punishable by death.
Omar has said she is in favor of the abolition of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency. She supports prosecuting federal officials who have been accused of physical and sexual assault of people in their detention. She supports the protection of sanctuary cities and a path to permanent status for DREAMers and their families. She opposes efforts to seal the border, calling Donald Trump's border wall plan "racist and sinful." In March 2019, Politico reported that Omar criticized Barack Obama's "caging of kids" along the Mexican border. Omar accused Politico of distorting her comments and said that she had been "saying how [President] Trump is different from Obama, and why we should focus on policy not politics," adding, "One is human, the other is really not."
On March 9, 2019, Fox News host Jeanine Pirro made what were widely condemned as prejudiced and Islamophobic comments on her show when she questioned Omar's loyalty to the United States because she wears a hijab. Fox also condemned the remarks and Pirro's show was not aired the following week.
On April 7, 2019, Patrick Carlineo Jr., an ardent supporter of President Trump, was arrested for threatening to assault and violently murder Omar. The threats were made in a phone call to Omar's office. In May 2019, Carlineo was released from custody and placed on house arrest.
In May 2019, Omar said in an interview on Democracy Now! that U.S. foreign policy and economic sanctions are aimed at regime change and have contributed to the "devastation in Venezuela."
On May 20, 2019, protesters gathered in Times Square in New York City to call for Omar's removal from the House Foreign Affairs Committee. "In my lifetime, I cannot think of any other politician who presents a bigger threat to the alliance between the US and Israel and to America's Jews," "Ilhan Must Go" founder and rally organizer Joe Diamond told The Jerusalem Post ahead of the protest. Across the street, a smaller group of counter-protesters organized by progressive Jewish organization IfNotNow supported Omar; "I'm just sick and tired of seeing this one part of the Jewish community try to silence those who criticize Israel," one said.
In June 2019, Minnesota campaign finance officials ruled that Omar had to pay back $3,500 that she had spent on out-of-state travel and tax filing in violation of state law. She was also ordered to pay a $500 fine.
In June 2019, Omar was one of four Democratic representatives to vote against the Emergency Supplemental Appropriations for Humanitarian Assistance and Security at the Southern Border Act, a $4.5 billion border funding bill that required Customs and Border Protection to enact health standards for individuals in custody such as standards for "medical emergencies; nutrition, hygiene, and facilities; and personnel training." "Throwing more money at the very organizations committing human rights abuses—and the very Administration directing these human rights abuses—is not a solution. This is a humanitarian crisis ... inflicted by our own leadership," she said.
Omar supports broader access to student loan forgiveness programs as well as free tuition for college students whose family income is below $125,000. Omar supports Bernie Sanders's plan to eliminate all $1.6 trillion in outstanding student debt, funded by an 0.5% tax on stock transactions and an 0.1% tax on bond transactions. She will introduce a companion bill in the House of Representatives. In June 2019, Omar and Senator Tina Smith (D-MN) introduced the bill No Shame at School to end marking of and punishments for students with school meal debts.
On July 14, 2019, President Trump tweeted that four Democratic congresswomen of color including Omar should "go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came. Then come back and show us how it is done. These places need your help badly, you can't leave fast enough." In response, Omar said Trump was "stoking white nationalism" because he was "angry that people like us are serving in Congress and fighting against your hate-filled agenda." On July 17 it was reported that the federal agency U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission lists the phrase "Go back to where you came from" as an example of "harassment based on national origin".
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Flannel undone: '90s nostalgia festival canceled
The Flannel Nation festival is going back in its drawer.
The '90s nostalgia concert, which was set to take place this Saturday, August 13, in San Pedro, California, with artists including Everclear, Soul Asylum, Sugar Ray, Candlebox and Filter, has been canceled.
In a statement posted to Facebook Tuesday, Flannel Nation organizers wrote, "We regret to announce that due to ongoing problems and logistical setbacks, putting on Flannel Nation as intended has become infeasible."
Presumably, those "ongoing problems" and "logistical setbacks" include several bands dropping off the lineup, including Everclear, who wrote in an Instagram post that the Flannel Nation organizers "do not have the adequate means to provide the level of experience our fans expect and deserve while attending an Everclear show."
Filter and Candelbox also canceled their sets, both citing "unforeseen circumstances."
Meanwhile, Flannel Nation plans to "retool" and "reschedule" to take place on a new date.


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Merrilee Cox is a veteran broadcast journalist and manager who was Washington bureau chief for ABC News Radio before starting her doctoral program in 2006.
In 2014, Cox earned her Ph.D. from Merrill College, where she was also executive director of the Society for Features Journalism.
During more than 20 years with ABC, Cox traveled extensively and was directly involved in coverage of news events including the war in Iraq, U.S. elections and political conventions, the Millennium celebration and numerous Olympics.
Cox received her master's degree from the Newhouse School at Syracuse University and her bachelor's in political science from American University. She was also a Scripps Howard Foundation Doctoral Fellow.
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I have the GoPro Hero 3 Black with a 64 gig sd card in it. I haven't had any issues with this thing in the past. However yesterday on the trail I decided to format the card using the onscreen options of the GoPro because I forgot to delete my old files off. I went through the options and it deleted them no problem. Then I proceded to video the next three hours of mountain biking.
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While searching for a linux fix I ran into a Windows program that would let me connect to the camera using the WiFi. I thought I was golden. LOL, then it took me like 20 minutes to remember my WiFi password to the GoPro. Go figure, after all of that….it didn't work. I kept searching. I eneded up running into this post that the guy said Windows was seeing the drive as RAW in Computer Management > Disk Management. I tried right clicking the drive going to properties and trying the error correcting option under tools. Nope…still wanted to format. Basically windows is thinking the disk is RAW and not exFAT. However reading a little more of the forum post the guy said that if you run command prompt in windows as admin then do a chkdsk on it you can get it to repair the card to find your files. However when you checkdisk it recognizes that it's exFAT and will allow you to repair.
After that I could see the files and copy them to my machine. Thank god I didn't loose my three hours of video from yesterday!!!
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Toxic Chemicals: Where Do They Come From?
Toxic chemicals are constantly entering the Chesapeake Bay and its rivers and streams via wastewater, agriculture, stormwater, and air pollution.
Harmful chemicals, such as mercury, PCBs, and PAHs, do not break down easily and persist in the environment for many years, impacting not just fish and birds, but humans as well. Stormwater flushes modern chemicals from lawn care, auto care, and personal care products into waterways, contaminating local streams and rivers.
Effects on Our Waters and Our Health
There are many examples of how chemicals harm our waters and our health:
Mercury: This heavy metal, often released from the burning of coal, pollutes waterways, taints fish, and can potentially damage human intelligience. In the Chesapeake region, governments have issued statewide fish-consumption advisories for mercury for all lakes and rivers in Pennsylvania and Maryland, and for many rivers in Virginia.
Industrial facilities: High levels of contamination have been found around old industrial plants like the Sparrows Point steel plant in Dundalk, Maryland. Chemical contaminants have been recorded in the groundwater and sediment in some areas of the plant and the nearby creek. The wastes include benzene, chromium, lead, naphthalene, benzo(a)pyrene, and zinc. Little cleanup has occurred, on or off the plant site.
Stormwater: Stormwater runoff from cities and suburbs pick up oil, pesticides, and other chemicals as it flows across lawns, roads, and parking lots into nearby streams and storm drains. This type of pollution is significant and difficult to control. Once in our waters these chemicals disrupt the whole food web in a process called bioaccumulation. Small, bottom-dwelling aquatic organisms take up contaminants while feeding. Larger fish accumulate toxins in their tissues when they eat the contaminated organisms. In turn, birds, humans, and other wildlife eat the contaminated fish.
Coal-fired power plants: The burning of coal releases microscopic, soot-like particles 30 times smaller than the width of a human hair. The specks are spread by the wind over hundreds of miles. When inhaled, the particles are so tiny that they evade the body's normal filters and penetrate deep into the lungs, where they can trigger inflammation and respiratory problems. Their small size allows them to pass right through the lungs into the bloodstream, where they, according to EPA, can contribute to the risk of heart attacks and cardiovascular illness. In fact, in 2010 the Clean Air Task Force released a report stating that in the U.S. an estimated 20,000 heart attacks and 13,200 premature deaths per year are caused by fine particle pollution from coal-fired power plants.
Read more about pollution's effect on human health here.
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Transportation Construction Coalition Continues Focus on Long Term Transportation Solution
(WASHINGTON, D.C.)—With October 1 marking the beginning of fiscal year 2015, the 31-member organization Transportation Construction Coalition (TCC) urged Congress to find a way to pay for, and pass, a new long-term surface transportation measure as soon as possible. They cautioned that failure to act would lead to another self-imposed funding crisis that would undermine vital road, highway and transit repairs.
"We worked hard to build broad consensus within a deeply-divided Congress for investing in the nation's aging roads, bridges and transit systems," said Stephen E. Sandherr, the chief executive officer of the Associated General Contractors of America and the Coalition's co-chair. "Members of Congress can either take advantage of that momentum or add transportation funding back to an already-long list of self-created crises threatening our economic vitality."
Coalition officials noted that in July, despite overall partisan gridlock, Congress overwhelmingly extended authorization for the surface transportation program and enacted a temporary funding patch for the Highway Trust Fund (HTF). That patch ensures federal highway, bridge and transit investments will continue through next May. However, it was the fifth time in the past seven years Congress took that approach, requiring nearly $65 billion in supplemental funding to avoid significant cuts to transportation investments.
On average, the HTF provides 52 percent of the funding for highway and bridge capital investments made by nation's state transportation departments each year, Coalition officials added.
"Congress needs to 'keep the horse before the cart' and address the trust fund's long-term revenue problem as was done in the 1997 and 2004 tax bills. Then it can develop and properly fund a six-year program bill early in 2015," TCC Co-chair Pete Ruane, president and CEO of the American Road & Transportation Builders Association, says. "And 'status-quo' funding levels would simply perpetuate worsening traffic congestion and the inadequate physical condition of the nation's highway and transit network."
The latest Congressional Budget Office projections indicate Congress will need to identify an additional $7 billion just to preserve highway and transit funding for the last four months of fiscal year 2015. Federal data also show maintaining current program funding beyond 2015 will require an average of $16 billion in additional revenues each year. That, Coalition officials point out, is the revenue equivalent of a 10-cent increase in the federal gas tax.
Despite widespread desire for a multi-year federal surface transportation program reauthorization bill to boost economic competitiveness and job creation, such legislation cannot move forward until a long-term transportation funding solution is in place. Coalition officials are urging Congress to identify and pass a funding HTF revenue fix to ensure Americans and the U.S. economy continue to benefit from a world class transportation network.
Established in 1996 and co-chaired by the American Road and Transportation Builders Association and the Associated General Contractors of America, the 31 associations and labor unions that make up the TCC have a direct market interest in the federal transportation program. TCC members include:
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Ikeda was born in Ibaraki on July 3, 1980. After graduating from Shimizu Commercial High School, he joined the J1 League club Urawa Reds in 1999. He played many matches as center back during the first season. However the club was relegated to the J2 League in 2000. Although he did not play at all in 2000, the club was promoted to J1 in a year. In 2001, he played in many matches again. However he did not play at all in 2002. In 2003, he moved to the J2 club Shonan Bellmare. Although he was with the team for two seasons, he did not play much and retired at the end of the 2004 season.

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Bacio della Luna will take part in Vinitaly 2018 at the Stand of Schenk Italian Wineries (Hall 3 – Stand E 6). During this important wine fair, which will be held in Verona from the 15th to 18th April, the renowned winery will present for the first time to the Italian market its new Prosecco DOC Brut organic. This new sparkling wine is produced without the use of any pesticides and any other chemical substances in the vineyards. This new product has been well appreciated during Prowein and wine experts have found it "very interesting and of great quality". During the fair Bacio della Luna will also present its whole range of sparkling wines: the Cartizze DOCG Dry, flagship of the winery, the Prosecco DOCG Extra Dry and Brut.


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Q: Why SaveChanges() save only modification of existing rows, but not deleted or added entries? use; c#, .net 4.5 vs 2012 winforms
Try to use EntityFramework for saving some new data to database, that already binded to dataGridview.
For showing data from db in dataGridView use code below:
For all method use
LibraryLib.LibraryEntities context = new LibraryLib.LibraryEntities();

In one method i call this :
BindingSource bs = new BindingSource();
bs.DataSource = typeof(LibraryLib.Book);
context.Book.ToList().ForEach(n => bs.Add(n));
dataGridViewDB.DataSource = bs;

BindingSource bstab2 = new BindingSource();
bstab2.DataSource = typeof(LibraryLib.LibraryStock);
context.LibraryStock.ToList().ForEach(n => bstab2.Add(n));
dataGridViewCategoryDB.DataSource = bstab2;

In another method use next code for saving data (calling by pressing button after changes):
context.SaveChanges();
context.Dispose();

My db diagramm

Result -
I can see all my database entries in dataGridview's.
I can change any cell, if save - all saved. But, if i add new item or delete existing one (in both tables - meand remove depended entries from both tables) this changes not saved?
When entering data all required formats for data (mean varchar or int) - ok.
As I read - I can bind data to datagridView then modify it, add or delete any entries and then just save it using method from ObjectSet saveChanges()? A'm I right?
Question why I have issue with saving my updated (addding or deleting) data and where I'm wrong?

EDIT
Many thanks for help to potehin143
I solve the problem with a little bit another method - create few methods for adding and delting entries from DatdBase
Due to my programm design View, i try to use common logic for all type of engine (mean such function as Add, Remove, Update entries in Library)

For Adding code next :
public void AddNewBookEF()
    {
        string id = Guid.NewGuid().ToString();
        LibraryLib.LibraryStock newCat = new LibraryLib.LibraryStock();
        newCat.ID = id;
        newCat.Category = listBoxShelfDB.Text;
        context.LibraryStock.Add(newCat);

        LibraryLib.Book newBook = new LibraryLib.Book();
        newBook.ID = id;
        newBook.Author = textBoxAuthorDB.Text;
        newBook.Name = textBoxNameDB.Text;
        newBook.Year = Int32.Parse(numericUpDownYearDB.Value.ToString());
        newBook.Genre = textBoxGenreDB.Text;
        context.Book.Add(newBook);
        context.SaveChanges();
    }

For Removing entryes from DB prepare code like below:
public void RemoveFromDBEF(string bookId)
    {
        if (dataGridViewDB.SelectedRows.Count == 1)
        {
            LibraryLib.Book bookToDelete = new LibraryLib.Book();
            bookToDelete.ID = bookId;

            foreach (LibraryLib.Book entry in context.Book)
            {
                if (entry.ID == bookId)
                    context.Book.Remove(entry);
            }
            foreach (LibraryLib.LibraryStock entry in context.LibraryStock)
            {
                if (entry.ID == bookId)
                    context.LibraryStock.Remove(entry);
            }
            context.SaveChanges();
        }
        else
        {
            MessageBox.Show("Please select only one row for deleting in Book table");
        }
    }

bookId - Guid identificator, that converted in string and saved to DB (When i start to prepare programm i don't know about existing Guid type in DB, so desided do not rewrite all code for this programm, i'm just studing now). For finding bookId for selected book in DataGridView use code like below:
    private string GetGuidAsString()
    {
        try
        {
    ...
            if (this.tabControlEngines.SelectedIndex == 2)
            {
                //get selected number of cell
                int index = dataGridViewDB.SelectedCells[0].RowIndex;
                //get selected row
                DataGridViewRow selectedBook = dataGridViewDB.Rows[index];
                string guidOfBook = Convert.ToString(selectedBook.Cells[0].Value);
                return guidOfBook;
            }
        }
        catch (ArgumentOutOfRangeException)
        {
            MessageBox.Show("Please select a book or add books to empty lib", "No book selected");
            return null;
        }
        catch (Exception) { }
        return null;
    }

Maybe this answer can be helpfull for some one.

A: You have 2 different places where references to dataitems are stored
 context and bindingsorce
so if you add something to binding sorce you need to add the same item to context
and the same with removing
if you just add item to bindingsorce by DataGridView your context don't know about it
try do this
// Here is Example for Book Entity

 context.Book.ToList().ForEach(n => bs.Add(n));
 // attach event after fill data
 bs.ListChanged += bs_ListChanged;

void bs_ListChanged(object sender, ListChangedEventArgs e)
    {
        switch (e.ListChangedType)
        {
            case ListChangedType.ItemAdded:
                context.Book.Add((Book)((BindingSource)sender).List[e.NewIndex]); // Adding to Navigating Collection
                break;

            case ListChangedType.ItemDeleted:
                contextBook.Remove((Book)((BindingSource)sender).List[e.OldIndex]);
                break;
        }

    }

//detaching events for reloading data
bs.ListChanged -= bs_ListChanged;
// here reloading data from dbase
bs.ListChanged += bs_ListChanged;

The relations beetween entities looks like one to one so it may be you need another way to
add and remove data of both entities by join class like this
public class JoinClass
{
    private Book _Book;
    private LibraryStock _LibraryStock;
    public Book GetBook() { return _Book; }
    public LibraryStock GetLibraryStock() { return _LibraryStock; }

    public JoinClass()
    {
        _LibraryStock = new LibraryStock();
        _Book = new Book();
        _LibraryStock.Book = _Book;
    }
    public JoinClass(LibraryStock libraryStock)
    {
        _LibraryStock = libraryStock;
        _Book = libraryStock.Book;
    }

 // here properties of both entities

}

and then you may use one BindingSorce and one eventhandler

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Still Undead: Popular Culture in Britain Beyond the Bauhaus
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Bauhaus: 1919-1933
Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art.
23 November 2007-17 February 2008
The complete building is the final aim of the visual arts. Their noblest function was once the decoration of buildings. They were inseparable parts of the great art of building. Today, they exist in isolation, from which they can be rescued only through the conscious, co-operative effort of all craftsmen.
Architects, painters and sculptors must recognise anew the composite character of a building as an entity. Only then will their work be imbued with the architectonic spirit, which it has lost as 'salon art'.
Architects, sculptors, painters, we must all turn to the crafts. Art is not a 'profession'. There is no essential difference between the artists and the craftsmen. The artist is an exalted craftsman. In rare moments of inspiration, moments beyond the control of his will, the grace of heaven may cause his work to blossom into art. But proficiency in his craft is essential to every artist. Therein lies a source of creative imagination.1
The Bauhaus was at once a 'school, workshop, studio and laboratory', where Walter Gropius sought to forge a rare and new alliance between art and industry. The Bauhaus movement emerged as architects and artists began to rebuild war-torn Europe after the Great War. Gropius attracted artists such as Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky, Oskar Schlemmer and Lyonel Feininger.
When the Bauhaus was founded in Weimar in 1919, the artists were committed to re-examine the very basis of art that would, in turn, touch every aspect of life. It was one of the most significant experiments in art in the twentieth century. The utopian spirit in post-war Germany gave rise to the belief that the artist could help to bring about new social conditions through the creation of new environments that became the focal point for such thinking in Europe in general. Gropius wanted to remove the barrier between artists and craftsmen. He wanted '...to create the new building of the future, which will embrace architecture and sculpture and painting in one unity and which will rise one day towards heaven from the hands of a million workers like the crystal symbol of a new faith'.2
Bauhaus 1919-1933 is at the Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art (Mima). This is the first Bauhaus exhibition in Britain since the Royal Academy's show in 1968, dedicated to Walter Gropius, then an Honorary Royal Academician who lived in England between leaving Germany and settling in the USA. The Mima exhibition focuses on the ethos of the Bauhaus through an exhibition of paintings, drawings, furniture and design. A series of photographs of original Bauhaus architecture by Hans Engels is included in the show.
The Bauhaus was born with the Weimar Republic in 1919 and died in the hands of the Nazis in 1933; they described the Bauhaus flat roof as 'oriental and Jewish', the institution as a hotbed of Bolshevism. It was transported in a revised form to America where Gropius later settled. His own copy of the manifesto is one of the exhibits in the Mima exhibition. On the cover is Lyonel Feininger's famous Kathedrale woodcut - not a static or repressive gothic cathedral but a tremendously energetic, jazzed up image full of a dissidence and vision for the future. The image, like the Bauhaus Manifesto itself, was abstract and dynamic, liberated from the historically based teaching of the European art academies. Much of the Bauhaus vigour came as a consequence of Germany's defeat. Buildings would be imbued with considerably more significance - psychological, sexual and practical. The artist and architect would in Gropius's scheme take charge of the rebuilding of a battle-fatigued continent.
In the Bauhaus, Walter Gropius combined two schools - Art and Crafts and Fine Art - into one building. He coined the name Bauhaus - House of Building. The allusion he made was to the medieval cathedral, the building which, in his view, would be the meeting place of all teaching in the visual arts. In his ideal institution art and design would become unified ideologically and in practical terms. 'The ultimate goal of the Bauhaus is the collective work of art in which no barriers exist between the structural and decorative arts. Artists and architects would work together towards the great goal of the "building of the future".'3 The Bauhaus embodied many ideas from the Viennese Sezession and Werkstätte, and from William Morris and the English Arts and Crafts Movement. Given the historical context, the Bauhaus became more fervent, more utopian than any of their precedents. It was also on a significantly larger scale. The Bauhaus departed from their precedents in that they sought to define an educational system through the institutionalised training of artists, architects and designers. Indeed, the pedagogical methods of Klee, Kandinsky and Itten had a major impact in the teaching of art and design all over the world throughout the twentieth century. Craft at the Bauhaus was more greatly influenced by industrial design and machine aesthetics. The emphasis on converting craft to industry through the creation of prototypes for mass production reflects Gropius's left wing political sympathies. Bauhaus furniture is perhaps the most successful in this. The tubular chair designed by Marcel Breuer in 1925 is still in production today. Gropius's goals were clearly expressed in his teaching curriculum:
The culminating point of the Bauhaus teaching is a demand for a new and powerful working correlation of all the processes of creation. The gifted student must regain a feelin
g for the interwoven strands of practical and formal work. The joy of building, in the broadest meaning of that word, must replace the paper work of design. Architecture unites in a collective task all creative workers, from the simple artisan to the supreme artists.4
Oskar Schlemmer believed that it was in Gropius's vision that the Bauhaus developed its unique character and was, 'not restricted to any dogma, with an awareness of all that is new and topical in the world and with good motives for assimilating it. With these good motives for stabilizing it all, comes the reduction to a common denominator, the creating of a code. Hence the battle of minds, in the open or in secret, as perhaps nowhere else, a constant unrest, compelling the individual almost daily to take a stand on profound problems'.5
The programme, once established, changed and developed organically within the school. 'The Bauhaus was never the same, even though its basic character remained unchanged. Creative freedom was the climate which permeated everything and was imparted to all masters and students. The intimate contact with the present, service to mankind and society, humanism, in a word, is what gave the Bauhaus its vital impulses.'6
Given that painting had led the arts since 1900, Gropius appointed painters as teachers. The sculptor, Gerhard Marcks, was the exception. A comprehensive cultural entity was sought. A council of masters discussed all appointments but Gropius made all the final decisions. His judgement was independent of the accepted views of critics and museums who favoured expressionist artists such as Nolde, Chagall, Kokoschka and Die Brücke. Gombrich preferred abstract and cubist art for he saw that it was more compatible with his architectural aims.
With Kandinsky he appointed the discoverer of abstract painting who had left behind him the dynamic genial period of the 'blaue reiter' period and had turned towards tectonic construction.7
Gropius also chose Paul Klee, who was by no means recognised outside Germany at that time. Feininger was better admired than Kandinsky and Klee. Gropius's other choices were also impressive in that they did not have established reputations at the time of their appointment, but all became key artists of the twentieth century: Oskar Schlemmer, Johannes Itten, Josef Albers, László Moholy-Nagy and Marcel Breuer. Students at the Bauhaus took a six-month preliminary course which was made up of painting and elementary experiments with form; they were instructed in craft workshops - sculpture, carpentry, metal, pottery, stained glass, mural painting and weaving - the last headed by a rare female instructor, Gunta Stölzl (1897-1983). Then they progressed to a three-year workshop training with two masters - an artist and a craftsman. They studied architecture in theory and in practice, and assisted in the actual construction of buildings.
The Bauhaus opened in Weimar in 1919 and then relocated to Dessau in 1925 after the leftwing Social Democratic Party, which had financed it, lost control of state schools to nationalists. Dessau was a middle-sized industrial city in central Germany. Here a purpose-designed building was made, a most ambitious project for Gropius, with workshops, a lecture room, a theatre, student accommodation and canteen facilities. The building was designed collaboratively with Gropius and his staff and students. In symbolic terms, and as a utopian experiment, the Bauhaus was greater than the institution itself. In terms of the influence all over the world, the Bauhaus served to disseminate an inspired and remarkable philosophy and teaching programme. Fiona MacCarthy observes:
This was a Modernist utopian project like no other. The completed Bauhaus, with its simple cubic forms and shimmering glass surfaces, was seen to have announced a new international architectural style. The unity was striking: the different functional elements came together to form an abstract geometry, as in De Stijl painting. To the Russian writer Ilya Ehrenburg, the building seemed 'cast of one piece like a persistent thought'.8
Germany between the wars gave birth to one of the most influential institutions in art practice, yet the political reality also destroyed it. Many staff and students at the Bauhaus were Jewish, and the philosophy behind abstraction in art was anathema to the Nazis. By 1931 the Nazis controlled the Dessau municipal council. The following autumn the Bauhaus was closed - windows were smashed, the building surrounded by police. A protest on an international scale prevented the building being completely destroyed. There were attempts to create a new Bauhaus in Berlin, in a disused factory, but soon after Hitler became chancellor. The Bauhaus represented almost everything that the Nazis abhorred in art, especially since they had the view that it represented a Jewish-Marxist conception of art. On April 11 1933 the police arrested 32 students, ending the Bauhaus in Europe.
By the bitter end in 1933, key staff had already left. Gropius had resigned in 1928, Klee and Kandinsky left in 1933, the same year that Albers emigrated to America. The Black Mountain College in Chicago benefited from the arrival of Bauhaus refugees such as Albers (see review of exhibition on this website). Moholy-Nagy established the New Bauhaus in Chicago in 1937. Both took Bauhaus teaching to America where it had a profound effect on courses in art schools there.
Gropius and his wife came to London in 1934, before moving to America, where he became chairman of the architecture department at Harvard University from 1938 to 1952. In London, a small community of émigrés established a presence at the Lawn Road Flats in Hampstead (see Richard Carr's article on this website).9 Britain's embrace of modernism in the 1930s was so poor that most of the Bauhaus members went on to America. A small number stayed, such as the master goldsmith from the Weimar Bauhaus, Naum Slutsky, who taught at Birmingham into the 1960s. British art schools, like those in America, were nonetheless infused with the spirit of the Bauhaus, through actual teaching methods and also through the optimistic sense that art students and their teachers enter in the creative journey at the beginning of their careers.
The Bauhus started much that we take for granted. A revolution in the art schools of this country began in the immediate post-war period with the reconstituted Royal College of Art (RCA). The new principal, Robin Darwin, was a painter. As at the Bauhaus, the professors were themselves practising architects, artists and designers; stars in their own spheres. RCA students were specifically trained for the emerging design professions. The ethos of the RCA - attuned to new technologies, self-confident, anarchic - quickly spread to other colleges. It was this Bauhausian energy and commitment in the art schools from the 1960s onwards that turned Britain from a predominantly literary culture to the visually alert nation we (sometimes to our surprise) now find ourselves to be.10
From the outside it might appear that the Bauhaus was a product of the political situation in Germany between the wars, and that the pedagogical methods that have survived are inspiring but solemn. What characterised the Bauhaus in its heyday was a surprising degree of absurdity and freedom that the solemn manifesto might obscure. Oskar Schlemmer's 'Triadic Ballet' is a long way from tubular steel furniture and industrial design, and yet it grew from the genius of the individual and the remarkable atmosphere and institution that was the Bauhaus. Less known than the industrial design and architecture that have shaped the modern world, the 'Triadic Ballet' is still occasionally performed today.
Oskar Schlemmer viewed three elements of the theatre; man in space, light in motion and architecture. He was not interested in a representational theatre, but a theatre of abstraction. He saw the life of our time as the product of mechanisation, and that impulse explains his insistence on reducing form and motion to the smallest number of shapes and movements. The function of costume, for Schlemmer was to emphasise the identity of the body or to change it. Costume in Schlemmer's view expresses the body's nature or it purposely misleads the audience regarding it. The 'Triadic Ballet' comprised three dancers, three musical movements and was a fusion of the three elements of dance, costume and music.
At the Bauhaus, theatre and stage design were taught with great flair and invention. Lothar Schreyer in 1922 established the ethos for work in the theatre.
Work on the stage is a work of art.
Work on the stage points to the unity of life
through the multiplicity of the living.
Unity is heralded by order in multiplicity.
Order is the law of the work of art ...
Work on the stage encompasses the world of
man. the stage produces life just as life
produces life. The message of the inner man
creates the inner man. Through the different
senses the work produces the one meaning:
redemption from contradiction through the
law. Law is the order of life which helps all
the living into life.11
Schlemmer encouraged his students to approach things as if the world had only just been created. He urged them to choose simplicity over pomposity or the verbose. His elementary method encouraged his students to appraise each stage of movement from the simplest and most minimal position. His teaching as with his own work, had a liberating effect as the ballet he designed:
Have as much awe as respect for any kind
of action of the human body, particularly on
stage, this special world of life, of make-
believe, this second reality in which
everything is enveloped by the radiance
of magic.12
The Bauhaus history, the idealism and energy invested in it, makes it a most moving place and phenomenon. Rayner Banham described the Bauhaus at Dessau as a 'sacred site'. He was referring to more than the building itself: its solemn history, the altruism of so many individuals who taught and attended there, and the sum of outstanding artistic achievement in many fields of the arts that has made it an international institution of profound importance.
Dr Janet McKenzie
1. Walter Gropius. Bauhaus Manifesto, 1919. Reprinted in:
Bauhaus, 50 Years. London: Royal Academy of the Arts, 1968: 13.
2. Ibid, p 13.
3. Ibid: 9.
4.Ibid: 9.
7. Ibid: 9. 8. Fiona MacCarthy. House Style. In: Review, Saturday Guardian. http://arts.guardian.co.uk/art/architecture/story/0,,2212350,00.html (last accessed 11 December 2007)
9. Richard Carr. Lawn Road Flats. In: Studio International Yearbook. New York: Studio Trust, 2004: 94-99.
10. MacCarthy, op.cit: 13.
12. Ibid: 89.


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Who is Ignacy Trzewiczek?
I am CEO of Portal Games, games company located in Poland. I am also a game designer, I designed games like Robinson Crusoe or Imperial Settlers.
How long have you designed boardgames
My first published game would be Neuroshima RPG in 2002. Before that I was writer, I was writing RPG adventures and articles about running games since 1997. That would be more that 20 years…
Robinson Crusoe adventures on the cursed island is one of my very favorite COOP games. Why did you use that particular thematic?
Thank you. I always loved the book, it is my favorite book from my childhood. A chance to design a board game adaptation of this novel was a great adventure and a great challenge for me!
I recently pre-ordered Detective: A Modern Crime Board Game and I am really looking forward to it. What was your inspiration for this game?
I was inspired by a Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective game which is a brilliant design and I love it. We wanted to create a game that offers similiar feel and experience, but has a stronger structure. Detective is a card game, it uses a time mechanism, where each card has a time value and players must make a difficult choices deciding which clues to follow.
Are you concerned about the great amount of games that comes out these days or do you think the market will «normalize»?
Yes, I am. The market is growing, the whole industry is growing, there is more and more gamers, but the number of new games and new projects on KS is growing faster. We are in a great times, but at the same time, very dangerous times for a smaller publishers. It is hard for them to get through the noise of all those press releases and new games.
Norwegian Review of Detective a Modern Crime Board Game. The very best deductive game ever made!
Do you have a favorite game (your own design or other designer)?
Of course! I am gamer, I love games, I have a pretty decent collection and a few years ago I promised my fans recording my Top50 games of all time. At some point I must do the video. It's been a long time!
Do you ever get to play games just for fun anymore or is it play testing all day long?
There is a time for work and intense play-testing and there is a time to relax and enjoy my hobby. Each Monday we have afterhours at the office and we play with our friends all sort of our fav games. No play-testing on Mondays! 🙂
First Martian Adventure on the Red Planet is a very solid game, but if you could change one thing what would it be?
That is an interesting question. I guess I'll make it a little simplier. That was a very ambitious project, with a huge research in science and we've got a great reviews from people who appreciate that approach, but at the same time, the game was probably too complex and too close to the simulation of setting the base on Mars, than actual a game. Yes, I'd make it a bit simplier if I start today.
Whom is the better crokinole player, You or Steven?
It is clearly me. Each year at The Dice Tower con we play a Crockinole match, I lost my last game and Stephen is a running champion, but it won't last long! 🙂
Going to Essen this year?
Of course! We release a Monolith Arena, a great tactival game set in the fantasy universe. A great game based on the mechanism of our old classic, Neuroshima Hex.
One of my «missions» is to get great games available in norwegian. Would you consider having norwegian rules, if someone translated them, in pdf form on portal games.pl?
Are you as excited over the new expansion for Robinson Crusoe Mystery Tales as I am?
I guess, I am as tired, as you excited, how about that? 🙂
This is effort of my whole dev team and many months of work.
Almost 300 new cards, new missions, few new mechanism, this is a massive project.
We hope Robinson Crusoe fans will love it.
I am impressed that portal games is one of the game production companies with the best social media presence. Is it very important for your company?
We are very passionate about our work and the chance to discuss it with our fans, and show them our work (through vlog Portal Games Informant) or chat with them (on Twitter) is a super fun time. We are very active at conventions too, but of course, the social media and doing fun stuff on Facebook or YouTube is the easiest way to interact with fans from all over the world. We find it fascinating when talking about our releases with fans from all different countries.
Asmoready is a term Steven Bounacore uses quite often on Boardgame Insider. Are you really Asmoready or is it an inside joke?
It is inside joke. I am not sure if we are Asmoready 🙂
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821 Fifth Avenue, 17th Floor
The chauffeur opened the door, and Renée and Cecil stepped from the Bentley onto the burgundy carpeting, passed through the revolving doors of 821 Fifth Avenue, and found themselves in the hushed, elegant Belgian Art Nouveau lobby. A pair of doormen dressed like deserters from the Franco-Prussian War gave them the once-over.
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"We're going up to Consuelo Barclay Churchill's. I'm Cecil Pike," Cecil announced.
The older doorman checked a list in a leather-bound logbook before giving them a curt nod. "Seventeenth floor, Mr. Pike. Ivan will show you the way."
Even the doormen are snooty, Renée thought, as they were shown to the elevator by the younger doorman. She remembered walking past the building years ago when she first began house hunting in New York and admiring its splendid facade.
Danielle, her property agent, had shaken her head and declared, "Don't even think about this one. It's a good building."
Renée was confused. "If it's a good building, why can't we consider it?"
"Sorry, let me explain … A 'good' building is realtor code for the few buildings left in Manhattan with co-op boards that will never allow people of a certain, ahem, background in."
Renée's jaw tightened. "What do you mean by 'background'? I have an MBA from Harvard and letters of reference from the governor of New York, Cardinal O'Connor, and Barbara Walters. Are you telling me we aren't qualified?"
"It has nothing to do with your qualifications or references, Mrs. Pike, which I can assure you are sterling."
"Then what is the problem?"
Danielle lowered her voice to a whisper. "No Jews, Mrs. Pike. And that means no one with a drop of Hispanic blood either. You need to have come over on the Mayflower to get into this building."
Now, Renée scrutinized herself one last time in the inlaid mirror of the elevator. With her expertly balayaged hair and her expensively sculpted nose, did she still look like she had any Hispanic blood coursing through her veins?
"I can't wait to see this place," Cecil whispered in his mother's ear. "How much do you want to bet it's decorated like Frank E. Campbell's?"
The elevator opened onto an entrance hall, and both Renée and Cecil were taken aback by the sight of the enormous pair of Assyrian sphinxes that were at least ten feet tall flanking a faux marbré set of doors in vibrant malachite and turquoise. They could hear the murmur of the crowd just beyond the doors. This wasn't the typical Sister Parish meets Mark Hampton decor they had been expecting; the place had a sumptuous, exotic flair that exuded a relaxed grandeur.
"Can you believe it? Old money with actual style," Cecil whispered to his mother.
Renée scanned the room quickly, quietly impressed, as Cecil wondered if he had time to sneak a few pictures. "Stand there, Mother. I'm going to take a picture of you before anyone sees us."
Cecil took a few covert shots on his phone before clearing his throat and asking in a loud voice, "Now, where's everyone?"
"There they are!" Lucie said, the relief evident in her voice as she caught sight of Cecil poking his head into the drawing room. She steered Cecil and his mother to the corner where her grandmother was perched on the edge of a deep-buttoned ottoman, chatting animatedly with her friends Jeannette and Alex. "Granny, here are Cecil and his mother, Renée Pike," Lucie proudly announced.
Lucie's grandmother stood up quickly, her posture still ramrod straight after more than eight decades. "Howdoyoudo?" Good, good, Cecil is taller than I would have thought. And the mama's wearing Oscar from one of his last couture collections for Balmain. I almost bought that suit. She's much prettier in person than her pictures. No wonder she hooked her pike.
Renée flashed her signature million-watt smile and said in her unabashed Texan drawl, "Mrs. Churchill, it's such a pleasure, at long last! I've been wanting to thank you in person for over fifteen years now, for rescuing the Württemberg tapestries and giving them to the Cloisters." Grandma looks like Vanessa Redgrave! And she's wearing an Yves Saint Laurent dress with … holy moly … are those Tina Chow rock crystal cuff bracelets? Not what I was expecting—this is one cool dame.
"You are much too well informed, Renée. That was supposed to be a secret," Consuelo said, a bit taken aback. I'm going to get everyone fired at the Met tomorrow.
Cecil bowed ceremoniously. "Mrs. Churchill, I can finally see where Lucie gets her artistic flair. Just. Look. At. This. Room! I'm dying for these moss-green stamped velvet walls! And those Giacometti end tables! May I ask if Geoffrey Bennison was somehow involved in this mise-en-scène?"
"Stéphane did the original work for me, but, yes, Geoffrey gave it a bit of a refresh in the late seventies," Consuelo replied, eyeing him curiously.
"He really did a marvelous job—it holds up beautifully. Tell me, that portrait of you over the fireplace, is that by Magritte?" Cecil asked in amazement, staring at the painting of Consuelo's face half obscured by clouds.
"Indeed it is. It was the last portrait he did, so I'm told," Consuelo said in the blasé tone of someone who'd uttered that statement a thousand times. Despite this, Cecil was genuinely awed. He couldn't quite believe he was engaged to the granddaughter of a woman so fabulous.
He was about to ask Consuelo if she wouldn't mind posing with her Magritte portrait and him for an Instagram shot when a portly man with a bushy silver mustache cut in front of him and gave Consuelo a hug.
"Ah, Harry! Come meet Lucie's beau, Cecil Pike. Cecil, this is Harry Stuyvesant Fish, a dear family friend. He's about to become our ambassador to Norway."
"Congratulations, young man! I knew your grandfather!" the illustrious ambassador-to-be (Rippowam/Groton/Harvard) said to Cecil as he pumped his hand jovially.
"Really? On which side?" Cecil asked in astonishment.
"The Pike side, of course. My family had a camp up in the Adirondacks too, on Upper Saranac."
"I'm sorry, my grandfather to my knowledge was never in the Adirondacks."
"He wasn't? Aren't you Cecil Pike IV?"
"I'm afraid not."
"Where did your family summer?"
"Usually in Europe. For a few summers my parents rented a villa in the South of—"
Harry cut him off. "You're not one of the Pikes who married into the Livingstons?"
"No," Cecil said, reddening a little.
"Ah. Well then." Harry turned away abruptly and reached out to a passing lady, grabbing her by the shoulder. "Helen! I haven't seen you since Michael Korda's talk at the Century! Where's Frank tonight?"
Recovering himself, Cecil realized that Consuelo was still standing there, eyeing him like a hawk. Before he could say anything, she turned to the assembled crowd, picked up a flute of champagne, and began knocking the glass with her Elie Top intaglio ring.
"Everyone … quiet! I'm going to make a toast." Consuelo turned to Lucie with a smile and began. "Now, when I first set eyes on Lucie a week after she was born, she was in her crib, and I must confess, with her peachy-white cheeks and delicate black eyelashes, I thought she looked like the most adorable, exquisite little china doll! So ever since, she has been my little china doll. She would never, ever cry, she was so quiet and well mannered, and I would dress her up in the finest silk costumes from the Orient, sent to me by my dear friend Han Suyin, and I would take her to lunch at La Grenouille, where everyone would fuss over her, or to tea at Madame Chiang Kai-shek's. Funnily enough, Madame Chiang always argued with me and told me that my little china doll didn't look Chinese enough! 'Look at those freckles,' she would say. 'That's no Chinese baby!' 'Well, she's half Churchill,' I would reply, 'but thank God she didn't inherit the Churchill nose!' Oh, how we had so many laughs back then, and how I wish those days would last forever. But babies do grow up, and Lucie became a scholar, graduating magna cum laude in biology from Brown, which was only to be expected since she clearly gets all her brains from her mother's side. And now she's so quickly made a name for herself in the art world as one of New York's top contemporary advisers. She continues to surprise us all, and I know her father would be so proud if he could see her today. Now Lucie has met her match in Cecil, who I'm told was proclaimed one of the most eligible bachelors in the country and hails from such an impressive family, one that has become so synonymous with diversity and the philanthropic spirit of this country. Why, every museum I go to these days, I see Mrs. Pike's name carved into the wall! Cecil, I've only just met you, but I can tell you possess the refinement of a Rothschild, and I trust you will know exactly how to treat my precious, precious china doll. To Lucie and Cecil—I wish you both a lifetime of joy and happiness."
Everyone in the room raised their glasses as Freddie cheered, "Here! Here!" Renée beamed proudly at her son, thinking, My boy did good. Those fuckers at Saint James School in Houston wouldn't accept him, but look at him now—marrying into the elite of the elite, the kind of people who have never even heard of Saint James!
Lucie blinked back a few tears, though no one in the room—with perhaps the exception of her mother—would have ever suspected the real reason. After making a few rounds of the drawing room, Cecil and Lucie managed to duck out to the building's roof garden for a little fresh air.
Cecil gave Lucie a dead-eyed stare. "Fucking hell. I have half a mind to get out my cell phone and call for a helicopter evac right now."
Lucie burst out laughing. "I did warn you …"
"Baby, I don't think you prepared me adequately. I thought Charlotte was bad enough, but I've never in my life met such dreadful people. So stultifyingly boring, so shabbily costumed, they might as well be wax figures. How could you possibly be related to them? I just don't see it! You are the swan in a field of squawking geese, the rare lotus growing in a swamp …"
"Oh, you're too sweet. I'm the weird-looking one in my family, you know. Cacky's considered the beautiful one. She was a Ford model back in her Wellesley years."
"Cacky? She sure looks like a Ford, and I'm talking about a Bronco! Thank God for your mother or you'd have the same unfortunate, inbred features!"
"You're too funny. You sound like my Tang grandparents, my mom's folks. Whenever they saw me, they would always praise my 'features.' To them, Freddie and I were the most beautiful creatures in the world, and they were always so proud to show me off to their friends that it made me a little embarrassed. But to some of the people downstairs, it was the polar opposite. It was always, 'Hmm, what can we do to fix Lucie?' "
Cecil shook his head in disgust. "Well, in my opinion you're the only person downstairs who doesn't need fixing! That Annafred, there's no excuse for her name—did she escape from an order of lesbian Mennonites? Fess up, Annafred and Teddy are really brother and sister, aren't they? They can't possibly be married to each other."
Lucie was doubled over in laughter. "I always thought Teddy and Annafred look exactly alike, but you're the first person to ever say it! She's actually Annafred the Ninth. Her family goes all the way back to the landing at Plymouth Rock."
"Oh dear God, Pilgrims! You're related to Pilgrims! No wonder you needed me to rescue you from this pathetic lot."
"You have no idea. Freddie can do no wrong in their eyes, but I've always felt like I'm on probation—I'm only part of the family if I don't embarrass them."
"Ha! I think you've got it mixed up—you should be embarrassed of them!"
Lucie grinned, delighting in Cecil's dissection of her kin. It was as if she had found a kindred spirit at last, like they were the two outsiders at the back of the classroom making snide remarks about the popular kids.
"And that friend of your grandmother's—Ambassador Harry Stuyvesant Fish—what century is he from? Did anyone inform him that we won the War of Independence?"
"Oh, Harry's the worst. When I was at Brown, he could never stop making disparaging remarks about it. He called it 'a repository for ne'er-do-wells and the dregs of deposed European royalty.' "
"I don't understand how this man is going to be an ambassador. He wouldn't know what diplomacy was if it hit him on his fat head. At first he snubbed me when he realized I wasn't descended from some posh Pikes he knew, but then when he was introduced to my mother and realized I was that Pike, you should have seen how quickly he did a one-eighty and began to grovel in her presence! He reminded me of a truffle hog, especially with that red face and that distended belly. That is one man who should never go near a pair of suspenders, and yet there he was in his Brooks Brothers braces. He looked like … What was the name of the guy who used to do those ghastly Quaker Oats commercials when we were little kids? Wilfred Ross?"
"Wilford Brimley!" Lucie cackled. Cecil could really be so funny sometimes, especially when he was feeling affronted.
"Harry was going on and on in that pretentious accent about how he was due to begin his posting in Oslo and still didn't have tenants for his estate in East Hampton because he couldn't find 'the right sort of people.' It seems the ones who are rich enough to afford the place don't meet his standards—no private equity, oil, or tech money; no one from New Jersey, Southern California, or southern anywhere; and 'no Latins because they like to dance.' He said this in front of my mother, mind you. He said they would ruin the eighteenth-century mahogany floors of his Cissinghurst, which is on the National Register of Historic Places. Who is he kidding? I've seen the place, and it looks like a Victorian bordello on mushrooms. All those turrets and Tiffany glass windows? It's an abomination! He should put it on Craigslist and rent it out by the hour. More importantly, how dare he name it Cissinghurst? It's an insult to Vita and Harold."
"It was his mother's house—Cissie van Degan Fish. She was apparently the mother from hell. Hmm … perhaps Harry would take the Ortiz sisters. They just emailed me asking if I knew of a good house to rent in the Hamptons," Lucie wondered.
"Who are the Ortiz sisters? Are they anything like the Borromeo sisters, the Miller sisters, the Bograd sisters, or the Yeoh sisters? Should I know them?"
"You might enjoy them. I got to know them at Isabel De Vecchi's wedding."
"Ah yes, they were part of that strange crew you met in Capri, before destiny caused our paths to cross in Rome."
"They were these rather proper but very charming sisters, Paloma and Mercedes. And they weren't the strange ones," Lucie said, suddenly getting a faraway look in her face.
"Don't Filipinos like to dance? I doubt the honorable ambassador would approve of these party animals."
"They're in their seventies, Cecil. And they come from one of the oldest and most revered families in the Philippines."
"Well then, don't let me stop you from fulfilling Harry Stuyvesant Fish's social wet dreams. In the meantime, can't I please call in a helicopter and let's head straight to Daniel?"
"I would love nothing more than to leave this miserable party, but I don't think there's enough landing room among these azaleas, and we need to make at least one more round and rescue your mother! Besides, I really think my great-aunt Cushing has taken a fancy to you."
"I swear I saw Great-Aunt Cushing squirrel some of those mini quiches from William Poll into that big wicker tote bag of hers. I think she's begun stocking up for winter."
"Oh dear. She's always the first to attack the leftovers after dinner. Last year, I heard she brought a huge nylon fold-out bag to the Casita Maria Fiesta Gala to take home as many of the centerpieces as she could fit."
"Of course she did. Baby, pleeeease don't make me go back down there. Everyone's so wretched! Now that we've done this, do we need to invite any of them to the wedding? Would any of them even want to go to Abu Dhabi? The only one who's fabulous is your grandmother. She's absolutely magnificent, and the apartment exceeded all my expectations. Tell me, who do you think she's going to leave the Magritte to?"
"Don't go getting any ideas, Cecil, I can assure you it won't be me. Cacky's my grandmother's favorite because she looks like a young Charlotte Rampling and lets her win at bridge."
"Cacky was another one who was so far up my mother's ass. She was name-dropping a mile a minute—Mandela, Macron, Marie-Josée."
Lucie shook her head in amused disgust. "I'm glad you see Cacky for who she is. All my life, I've felt like I've had to try to live up to her goddess-like perfection."
Cecil scrunched his face up like a bad smell had wafted past. "What would ever possess you to think that Cacky was worth competing against?"
"I'm not even sure anymore … I guess, growing up, we were like the wretched orphans, especially after Dad died and Mom got sick. I felt responsible for keeping our family together, and that meant always striving to be perfect in Granny's eyes."
"You are perfect exactly the way you are, baby," Cecil said, stroking her cheek affectionately. "You were the most exquisite thing in that room tonight, and even if your grandmother has poor judgment, at least she made a marvelous toast. Anyone who can mention Han Suyin, Madame Chiang Kai-shek, and the Rothschilds in the same toast deserves a prize. Didn't you think it was fabulous?"
"It was," Lucie said softly. She didn't have the heart to tell him how she truly felt. Every word of her grandmother's toast carried a veiled insult. It was an insult to her mother, it was an insult to Cecil and Renée, and it was a dagger in her heart. To Granny, no matter how graciously she behaved, no matter what she accomplished, she would always only ever be the poor little china doll. But, thankfully, none of that mattered anymore. Commiserating with Cecil on the roof garden above her grandmother's apartment, she was more convinced than ever that she had made the right decision in choosing him as her spouse. Yes, he had his eccentricities, but she was well prepared to handle them. Despite everything that had just happened at the party, she knew that tonight, she was sending a subtle, elegant message to everyone downstairs who had ever pitied her, judged her, or underestimated her: I'm going to be Mrs. Cecil Pike, and I don't give a damn what you think anymore.
Adapted from Sex and Vanity: A Novel by Kevin Kwan, published by Doubleday, an imprint of The Knopf Doubleday Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC. Copyright © 2020 by Tyersall Park Ltd.
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The last of the Royal Stuarts in the Protestant succession, Queen Anne, died in 1714. Her successor was the Hanoverian King George I. In Scotland the antagonism to the succession of a German "princeling" who spoke little English was acute, especially among the Highlanders. King James III, from his exile in France, believed that the time was right to launch another Jacobite uprising. He chose "the clever, devious" Earl of Mar as his commander-in-chief in Scotland. Songs were written to rally the Highlanders; one or two of which have survived indicate that numerous clans were being appealed to.
In September of 1715 Mar raised the Royal standard at Braemar and eventually found himself in command of 12,000 men, the largest Jacobite army which had ever been raised in Scotland. Opposing Mar's further passage into Lowland Scotland were 6,000 of King George's troops, under the command of the Chief of Clan Campbell, the Duke of Argyll.
John Cameron, XVIII Captain and Chief of Clan Cameron led the men of Clan Cameron at Sheriffmuir. Unaware of the dispositions of the other, the opposing generals drew up their forces so that their right wings overlapped the other's left. The Jacobite troops which were intended to comprise the left wing (among which were the Camerons) which were hastening uphill to the higher ground of Sheriffmuir in four columns of march were suddenly confronted by the right wing of the Hanoverian army. A confused, incomplete deployment into line of battle convened. A Lowland Jacobite regiment of the left wing (either Huntly's or Panmure's foot) which had got itself out of place and in front of the Camerons "broke" after receiving fire from the Hanoverian army. As stated by John Cameron, as this regiment broke and ran it carried the Camerons with them in flight. He had gone a little way ahead to reconnoiter and could only watch the headlong flight in dismay.
In contrast, the right wing of Mar's Jacobite army, consisting of Clan Donald, the Macleans and the Breadalbane Campbells had swept away the Hanoverian left wing before them. As a result of their respective general's deployment, both opposing left wings were defeated. When night fell and the fight was over neither side knew which had won, though Argyll had lost more men than Mar. The next morning, however, Mar's army was not to be seen, having withdrawn northward towards Perth. The Duke of Argyll was master of the field.
For all practical purposes, "The '15" ended on the field at Sheriffmuir, though there were minor skirmishes afterwards. John Cameron would go into exile in France during June of 1716, leaving Achnacarry to his sixteen year old eldest son Donald, later known as "The Gentle Lochiel."