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Our Oriental ethics regards it as the highest etiquette to resign your post (whatever it be) when you have created a certain glory in it, and give the younger people a chance. In that respect Field Marshal Oyama is a perfect model. He gave up his place as Chief of the General Staff to General Baron Kodama, who was promoted to the rank of Viscount. Viscount Kodama's high soldierly qualities as well as his comprehensive command of the science of war, so thoroughly tested during the late campaign, mark him out as eminently fitted to the position. "What a hasty retirement," we all exclaimed, when we heard the news. Today Marquis Oyama is a private citizen. There, among the high standing personages, nobody can come near to him in simplicity. His simplicity is that of the Shinto religion, white in body and soul, without a bit of showiness and pride. He believes in equality as Walt Whitman did, who sang that woman is just as good as man. Marquis Oyama would say that to be an umbrella-mender is as great as to be the Chief of the General Staff. You will see him quite often any evening or morning in the streets of the Akasaka district of Tokyo (his home is in the part we call Aoyama, the literal meaning of which is Green Hill), with a stick in his hand, and smiling largely to everybody. His appearance is joyousness and comradeship. Later you will see him quietly disappearing into a certain unostentatious house half in European style, half in Japanese. You would never believe it to be the dwelling of such a great man in the world's eye, if you did not encounter a sign of Iwao Oyama at the gate. Once he said with his usual laughter: "Today I have no enemy, and I swear to God that I will not make anybody unhappy,—excepting, alas, my men servants. I am an early riser, and they are obliged to leave their beds earlier than in those days when I ws absent in the campaign." In truth, he gets up at five every morning and takes a cold bath and a happy morning walk. "With a bath, with a short walk, and with the companionship of my wife, I am perfectly happy," he proclaims. His wife? There is no woman in Japan more bright and sympathetic than the marchioness. She is accomplished in every line, and she is even a fine cook. It is said that she usually prepares the supper, or she directs its preparation. The Marquis' face beams happily when supper is cooked by the marchioness. And he is perfectly contented with his beautiful daughter. She is his pride and joy. I never saw such a silent man as Marquis Oyama, but his stillness is not difficult to bear. On the contrary, it is a quiet entertainment without a word. His silence tells you about his own nature and temperament more than words. If there is anything he hates in this world it is nothing but publicity. He begged me not to write him up, and foolishly I promised him so. "But my wife is slightly touched with a woman's vanity, and she was educated in America. She may not mind it," he said laughingly.
Am I going to write about the Marchioness? To write about her and her family means to write up the Marquis whose sweet and largely quiet atmosphere make the home comfortable and sweet. He is a gold idol to which his whole family burn incense and read the sutra. He is silent like the Buddha idol, but his light and influence spread in the family like the idol's in the temple. He is all in all to them.
It was during the last days of the recent war that I asked the wife of Field Marshal Oyama if she sometimes heard from her husband at the front. She replied: "I should be very sorry if he were thinking of his own family at this time and not wholly of the country. His soul and body are not mine while he is at the front, but the Emperor's and the country's. He carries a great responsibility upon his shoulders and he is completely devoted to his country. I may say I hear from him occasionally, but I never complain if he does not write me at all. I pray only that he make a safe return and bring much glory to Japan!" Could anything more eloquently express the spirit of the women of Japan than this utterance of the wife of her greatest soldier? But today I am happy thinking that Marquis Oyama belongs only to the marchioness, and especially so since he retired from official life.
The Marchioness Oyama is the leading figure among the Japanese women today. Having been educated in America—at Vassar—she speaks English fluently, and French and German as well. She is cordial in manner and sweet in nature, having lost none of the genuine Japanese temperament in the process of her Americanization, if it might be so spoken of. She is an expert horse-woman and a good swimmer. She is fond of scientific studies, and has made more or less of a specialty of botany and zoology, as well as of languages. Shakespeare is her constant companion. Aside from her high social position as the wife of our famous field marshall, her own family is a most distinguished one. Her brother, Kenjiro Yamakawa, was the late president of the Imperial University. Her eldest brother was the late Major-General Yamakawa. One sister is the superintendent of the HIgher Normal School for Women, one is the wife of Judge Yamagawa, and two are officers in the Imperial household department.
In her Aoyama home there is nothing greatly luxurious or lordly in its furnishings, but good breeding is apparent at the first [<440] breath. Afternoon tea there is a delightful hour. The young daughter of the house always graciously assists her mother in the entertainment of the many guests. She is a charming young woman, tall, for a Japanese girl, very white and fair of complexion, with a most entrancing smile, and a pleasing sense of humor. She is keen in mind—almost as clever as her mother. The marchioness has herself superintended her daughter's education, selected her books, and greatly discriminated among her friends. As English is the language of the field marshal's home, the daughter is a fine English scholar.
I had been admitted to the sitting room on the second floor of this agreeable household, where the marchioness and her daughter were receiving. Mme. de Freitas had just left. The marchioness was seated comfortably upon a sofa—an American sofa. (There is such a furniture in Japan.) We laughingly referred to Americanization."
"I dare say I must have some American blood in me," exclaimed the marchioness. "I am so fond of America and American ways. How I wish to visit there again! But perhaps that dream may never be realized. The American cities, New York and Boston and Chicago, how they must have changed! Why, when I left America, Forty-second street in New York, there where I once lived, where the great railroad station now stands, was quite a remote place, and I am told that the center of New York is moving far up town. It is a tremendous country, that America!"
"Do you think that the Japanese women will be speedily Americanized?" I asked her.
"Yes, I believe so," the marchioness replied, "in the true meaning. As you know, the government tried to adopt Americanization, but it failed somehow. Many women actually thought that American dress and American food were all that was necessary to be Americanized! They did not understand that they could be fully Americanized under the Japanese kimono and wearing the wooden clogs. A true understanding is coming slowly, and as American women are, in my opinion, the best in the world, their graces will be surely appreciated as they are beginning to be here. Spirit is the whole thing, and it will take some time yet to be truly Americanized."
The daughter handed me a cup of tea—American tea—to my surprise, and the marchioness, passing into other channels of conversation, said: "The Russia-Japan war was not only the men's war, it was the women's as well. Think what a sacrifice nearly every Japanese woman made at that time! What patience and what patriotic devotion! Yes, it was our war, too. The Japanese men could fight leaving us behind. We had to be brave as the men at the front, and our hearts and souls turned equally to our country's glory and success. We are Samurai in a different form—the Samurai fighters and patriots. Look at the mothers who sent their boys off to the war with smiles upon their faces. Look at the wives who said they would be glad to receive the dead bodies of those they so loved, if they but died for their country. Ah, the women had the harder lot to bear! Furthermore, look at those princesses and the thousands of our noble ladies who worked in the hospitals and for the ill and wounded. Never before in our history had the Japanese woman so fully expressed her worthiness and loyalty. It has been said in Europe and also in America that the Japanese women are inferior to the men. Are they? Oh, no, never! Simply the Japanese woman had never been properly understood. Not until quite recent times has she been given an opportunity to show her characteristics, and to prove her own value and ability. They were extremely happy to do their best for their country, and they are entitled to share in the glory and the honor.
"Really, in some respects I am glad we had that war. It marks an era for Japanese women. Hereafter one will have chances. Woman's real work may begin. She will no longer serve as merely a household ornament.
"Our model and inspiration, especially at that time, was our beloved Empress. She appeared to us as a symbol of wisdom, benevolence, gentleness and chastity. She is the Empress among Empresses. We are happy to have her and to live under her shadow and become ennobled. Yes, we Japanese women all look upon her, our great Empress, with devotion and love, as of a thousand Japanese mountains turning toward Holy Fuji with the divine white cap so far above us."
The Marchioness Oyama has had a most interesting career. She was born in the Aizu provinces, where the hardy warriors in our history come from. Her father was a great Samurai, and her mother a beautiful woman and a model Japanese mother. Upon the destruction of the feudal government their family was terribly impoverished. The mother had disciplined all of her children well and instructed them nobly. The marchioness learned the teaching of Confucius at a very early age, and I have been told that she was even obliged to work as a little child to earn a few cents. She was only ten years old when she was sent to America. She was chosen as the cleverest among a thousand little girls, and sent by the government to the United States to be educated. That was in Meiji 4, that is, in 1871.
There were two other little girls who shared in the distinction accorded the daughter of the Samurai. One was Ume Tsuda, who has since become Japan's greatest woman educator. The other is the wife of the celebrated Admiral Uriu. They were in charge of Ambassador Owakura, who was the first ever sent to America. The marchioness told me laughingly, and with an occasional tinge of sarcasm, how they were received in America, especially in Washington and New York. It was an odd circumstance that one evening at the Author's Club in New York I heard the very story, from another point of view, from Edmund Clarence Stedman. The marchioness was delighted to learn of what was said and to find that the gentleman who arranged the details of their reception, their hotel accommodations and a thousand other comforts was the famous American poet and man of letters. "Why, I never dreamed it was he who did so much for us," the marchioness again exclaimed with pleasure.
In Washington the little girls were put under the protection of the Japanese minister, the late Arinori Mori. It was he who decided to separate the children, since they spent all day long only in singing and playing. "And indeed, if we had stayed together, perhaps we should not have learned one English word," said the marchioness.
She was sent to New Haven, Conn., to the Rev. Mr. Bacon's family. In her nineteenth year she succeeded in entering Vassar. At the same time her brother, the late president of the university, entered Yale. He came once a week to visit his sister and to teach her Japanese. In four years the marchioness graduated from Vassar with the highest honors. She read the valedictory, and the subject of her essay was, "England's Policy Against Japan." It won her tremendous applause. It was commented upon in the newspapers and finally translated by the Japanese government.
Such a subject for a girl's essay! Without question she was ambitious, and at that time, America having some small misunderstanding with England, her essay was timely and suggestive.
During her college life the marchioness always occupied the first place in her class and was the president of several clubs and societies. She related laughingly to me how she once lost her nerve, and her speech with it, when asked to make an address before many persons, and she still considers it the most difficult thing to address a public assemblage.
When the marchioness returned to Japan after her degree was conferred she did not know how to make even a Japanese kimono, but it did not take her long to learn. She was married twenty-three years ago to Field Marshal Oyama, then a distinguished general and a mighty figure of Japan. The late Marquis Saigo was the middleman at the marriage. The alliance was at first considered unequal on account of the high rank and distinction of the general, but marquis Saigo insisted upon it, saying that the wisdom and culture of the brilliant young lady were the rarest things in the world. So the marriage took place and has been a rarely happy one. Marchioness Oyama is so practical, systematic and accomplished that she has made of the field marshal's home a place of comfort and delight.
Lo! there in that battlefield."
Alice Hegan Rice (1870-1942), author of Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch (1901), a "phenomenal success," novel set in a poor area of Louisville, Kentucky called "The Cabbage Patch."


Dialogs are an excellent way to customise a HotDocs interview, and present your questions to users in a more intuitive, organised way.
So here's a quick way to create a custom dialog and add in a variable.
Go to your template and click the Component Manager button. Component Manager will then appear.
Now click the New Component button and the Dialog Editor will appear.
Type a name into Dialog name box (e.g. Employee Information).
In the Components list, click on the first Component you would like to add (e.g. Employee Name) and drag it to the Contents box.
Then drag the second Component you would like to add (e.g. Employee Gender) from the Components list to the Contents box.
Nearly done - click Test. A test assembly window will appear. Your newly created dialog looks exactly the way it will when it is displayed during the interview.
Close the test assembly window, and then click OK at the Dialog Editor. The dialog Employee Information is now complete.


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The audiences who hand out TIFF's People's Choice Award have a recent history of snubbing the eventual Oscar Best Picture winner: they picked Silver Linings Playbook over Argo last year; Where Do We Go Now? over The Artist in 2011; and Precious over The Hurt Locker in 2009. This year, it looks like TIFF is finally back on track. The festival's big prize went to Steve McQueen's grim historical drama 12 Years a Slave, which most critics say is bound for Oscar glory (in addition to our prize for TIFF's hunkiest red carpet). The first runner-up was Stephen Frears' Philomena, while Denis Villeneuve's Prisoners took the third spot. Below, the rest of the winners at this year's TIFF.
• YouTube Award for Best Canadian Short Film: Walter Woodman and Patrick Cederberg's Noah, a study of behaviour in the digital age that takes place entirely on a teenager's computer screen
• The City of Toronto and Canada Goose Award for Best Canadian Feature Film: Alan Zweig's When Jews Were Funny, a documentary that surveys the history of Jewish comedy
• Award for Best Canadian First Feature Film: Shayne Ehman and Seth Scriver's Asphalt Watches, an adult animated feature chronicling a trans-Canadian road trip
• Prize of the International Critics (FIPRESCI) for Special Presentations: Pawel Pawlikowski's Ida, a drama about a young nun in 1960s Poland who discovers a dark family secret
• Prize of the International Critics (FIPRESCI) for the Discovery Programme: Claudia Sainte-Luce's The Amazing Catfish, a comedy-drama about a lonely woman who becomes a live-in caregiver for a large family
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Bought By Utah Rival Tute, Former Genomics High Flyer Knome Bows Out
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After eight years, more than $20 million raised, and a handful of different business plans, genomics firm Knome has been acquired by tiny Tute Genomics of Provo, UT, for what appears to be a substantial loss.
The parties are not disclosing the purchase price, but it's likely to be a fraction of what Knome investors put in. Tute, founded in 2012, has only raised $5.4 million to date, most of it in a round announced this summer. Its executives say they have not raised additional capital or taken on debt to help pay for the Knome acquisition.
As consolidation in the genomics space gains momentum, there have been higher-profile deals of late, such as the purchase of DeCode Genetics by Amgen (NASDAQ: AMGN), NextCode Health by WuXi PharmaTech (NYSE: WX), and Roche's recent spate of acquisitions, including its majority purchase of Foundation Medicine.
But Tute's buyout of Knome has its own significance. It marks the end of the line as an independent entity for what was once one of the field's highest-profile startups. Knome, of Waltham, MA, launched in 2007 with the help of Harvard University professor and genetics pioneer George Church, and it set out to sell DNA analysis to rich people, first at $350,000 a pop. Despite an orchestrated publicity plan that included sequencing over-the-hill rocker Ozzy Osbourne's DNA—as detailed here by the PR firm it hired in 2009—Knome soon had to pivot. The rapidly falling price of sequencing was undercutting its personal genome business. The company was "probably just too early," Church told Xconomy via e-mail when contacted about the acquisition.
By 2011, Knome was trying to help academic researchers analyze the genomic data they were generating in their labs. In early 2012, Knome brought on a new CEO and announced a deal with Johns Hopkins University to crunch through 1,000 genomes from people with African ancestry to look for variants linked to asthma.
At that time, Knome's new CEO Martin Tolar told Xconomy he expected 2012 revenue to reach $20 million. It's unclear if privately-held Knome reached that goal, or what its revenues have been in the years since. Tolar left Knome in 2013 after two years.
Knome's most recent foray was to meld its genomics software tools into a piece of hardware it called a "lab in a box." It launched in late 2012. "They tried high-end [personal], research, clinical, and box businesses," Church said.
The hardware business was a curious move, at a time when massive computing efforts were beginning to move into the cloud—tech-speak for off-site space rented from providers like Amazon.com and Google. "They had feedback that many customers did not want private data to leave the site," according to Church.
One of Tute's advantages, say its executives, is its cloud-based service.
Knome management did not respond to requests for comment over the weekend. Xconomy was able to reach Knome board member Paul Enever, who works for the investment advisory firm Canepa Healthcare. Enever joined the board in 2014 to represent a major investor in Knome. He declined to name the investor.
Enever also declined to comment when asked how much funding Knome raised over its lifetime. The figure seems to be at least $23 million, based on securities filings, press releases, and news reports. One known investor is the French life sciences firm BioMerieux. At the time of its $5 million investment in Knome, then-CEO Stephane Bancel joined the Knome board. Bancel has since left BioMerieux to found Moderna Therapeutics. He did not respond to a request for comment.
When asked what Knome could have done to stay independent, Enever wrote, "Your question presumes that remaining independent is a desired outcome for the shareholders of Knome; it is not. This market is highly fragmented and will likely continue to undergo consolidation. We are excited about the acquisition of the Knome software assets by Tute. We believe that Tute is well positioned to take the Knome software forward and combine it into a more attractive and more complete offering for customers."
Tute CEO Reid Robison also declined to say how much his 16-person firm is spending for Knome, although he did say there are no post-acquisition milestones and confirmed that Tute has only raised $5.4 million in its lifetime, with nothing else in the works to help pay for the Knome acquisition.
Tute has built what Robison and former CSO David Mittelman describe as a "DNA search engine" that compares a snippet of a person's genome to millions of other samples across a few massive databases, not just to find variations but to help doctors decide whether those variations are relevant to the person's health. Tute's focus is on childhood disorders and inherited diseases.
Knome does analysis work, too. Robison says Tute is particularly strong at user interface and experience—the "front end" of the system—so its reports can feed directly into electronic health records, for example. Knome has strengths in the technology under the hood, so to speak, such as the way data are compared.
Robison and Mittelman, the latter of whom is now an advisor to Tute and remains a shareholder, were particularly impressed with Knome's ability to let users query its data with customized searches, beyond the pre-packaged panels—or sets of genes—associated with various diseases. Customization is an increasingly important function in genomic analysis, as medical research continues to untangle the complex web of genetic factors underpinning many diseases.
Robison says Tute's main operations will remain in Utah, and that personnel details have yet to be determined.
Alex Lash is Xconomy's National Biotech Editor. He is based in San Francisco. Follow @alexlash


go through _all_ the code using IsInDoc()/GetCurrentDoc()/GetDocument().
And we should also rename IsInDoc() and GetCurrentDoc(), and get rid of the ancient GetDocument().
My suggestion is to add a GetDisplayDoc() which returns the same thing as GetCrossShadowCurrentDoc().
Then change the layout code to use this function as appropriate.
We already have a concept of "display document" which means something different, fwiw.  See nsIDocument::GetDisplayDocument.
Works for me.  I suspect we'll want to replace pretty much all the GetDocument/GetCurrentDoc() callsites with that, but we'll see.
in case of shadow dom null/false is always returned.
We should have a name for the document which doesn't contain shadow stuff, and then for the tree which contains also shadow dom.
hint anything about rendering, which shadow dom doesn't necessarily have.
BaseDoc for the first one? DOMDoc would be nice, but has different meaning in Gecko.
Or even UncomposedDoc? Looks ugly and is a bit long, but would be rather clear.
So IsInUncomposedDoc()/GetUncomposedDoc() and IsInComposedDoc()/GetComposedDoc()  and remove IsInDoc()/GetCurrentDoc()/GetDocument()/GetCrossShadowCurrentDoc() ?
IsInUncomposedDoc() is not great, though.  How about IsInDocumentTree()?  And maybe GetDocumentTreeRoot() instead of GetUncomposedDoc()?  Not totally happy with that one, unlike IsInDocumentTree().
We definitely want to remove the things you list as needing removal.
I think the name should indicate that the return value is a Document object.
IsInRootTree() doesn't really indicate the node needs to be in composed (or uncomposed) doc - just that it is in a tree of subtrees.
> I think the name should indicate that the return value is a Document object.
GetDocumentRootOfTree?  I still don't like it.  Maybe GetRootDocument()?  That might confuse people in terms of frame/subframe relationship.
I agree that IsInRootTree() doesn't mean what we want.  That just says we're in the light DOM; a root tree may not have a document root.  I'm not sure that IsInComposedTree() does what we want either: you can be in a composed tree that's not rooted at a document, right?
and doesn't really say much whether we're talking about DOM tree, or flattened tree, IMO.
Sure, 'document tree' is a spec term, but not necessarily very good one.
I still suspect that RenderDoc will be more intuitively understandable to more gecko hackers than ComposedDoc. And it's shorter to type.
But I still prefer composed/uncomposed. That forces the API user to think about shadow dom composition.
- is the node in a DOM tree where Document object is the root?
- if the node is in a DOM tree where Document object is the root, return the Document object.
- is the node in flattened tree where a Document object is the root?
- if the node is in a flattened tree where a Document object is the root, return the Document object.
- is the node in a shadow dom.
Use of composed/uncomposed force, IMO, the caller to think whether shadow dom should be taken care of.
If uncomposed is replaced with something else, that something should make it clear that shadow dom isn't being handled.
improve performance of these checks for shadow dom nodes a bit.
an element is added to a composed tree, which has doc as root.
OK, let's just go with these names for now.  They're searchable enough we can do a mass rename later if we find something better.
This will do extra work for the not-in-shadow-tree, not in doc case, no?


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Q: Is there any option to set AutomaticRecoveryEnabled in RabbitMQ using Spring-AMQP? Getting stocked while doing with RabbitMQ using Spring-AMQP.
Just need to get a way to configure AutomaticRecoveryEnabled and NetworkRecoveryInterval using Spring-AMQP. There is a direct option to set these flages if you you developing using native RabbitMQ library. But i didn't find a workaround to do the same using spring
Using RabbitMQ Native library(don't need any help)
factory.setAutomaticRecoveryEnabled(true);
factory.setNetworkRecoveryInterval(10000);

Using Spring-AMPQ(need help)
Like above i didn't find any such method while trying with Spring-AMPQ. This is what i am doing now.
@Bean(name="listener")
public SimpleMessageListenerContainer listenerContainer()
{
    SimpleMessageListenerContainer container = new SimpleMessageListenerContainer();
    container.setConnectionFactory(connectionFactory());
    container.setQueueNames(env.getProperty("mb.queue"));
    container.setMessageListener(new MessageListenerAdapter(messageListener));
    return container;
}

Any help in this regards is highly appreciable. Thanks in advance.

A: Just to clarify; Spring AMQP is NOT compatible with automaticRecoveryEnabled.
It has its own recovery mechanisms and has no awareness of the underlying recovery being performed by the client. This leaves dangling connection(s) and Channel(s).
I am working on a temporary work-around that will make it compatible (but will effectively disable the client recovery of any connections/channels used by Spring AMQP, while leaving the client recovery in place for other users of the same connection factory.
A longer term fix will require a major rewrite of the listener container to utilize the client recovery code instead.

A: Well, CachingConnectionFactory has another costructor to apply a com.rabbitmq.client.ConnectionFactory.
So, it just enough to cofigure the last one as a an additional @Bean with appropriate options and inject it to the CachingConnectionFactory.

A: As of version 4.0.0 of the Java client, automatic recovery is enabled by default.
It can be done like this,
ConnectionFactory factory = new ConnectionFactory();
factory.setAutomaticRecoveryEnabled(true);
// connection that will recover automatically
Connection conn = factory.newConnection();

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Whither female disadvantage? An analysis of private school enrolment in India
Pushkar Maitra
pushkar.maitra@monash.edu
Sarmistha Pal
s.pal@surrey.ac.uk
anurag.sharma@unsw.edu.au
Given the poor condition of government schools and the perceived efficiency of private schools, Indian parents are increasingly choosing to send their children to private schools. This column examines private school enrolment among 7-18 year olds during 2005-2012 and finds a systematic and pervasive female disadvantage.
Although the Indian Constitution guarantees equal rights for men and women, discrimination against women, continues to be pervasive in different walks of life. As of 2014, India ranks 130 out of 188 countries in terms of the Gender Inequality Index (GII), beating only Afghanistan in South Asia. The Maternal Mortality Rate (MMR) is 190 per 1,000 live births; women occupy only around 12% of seats in the Parliament (the women's reservation bill is pending in the Parliament since 2014); only 27% of women aged 25 or above have at least some secondary education (corresponding figure for men is 57%); and labour force participation rates of women aged 15 years or above is 27% (corresponding figure for men is 80%).
Without the engagement, empowerment, and contribution of women who constitute about 50% of the population, we cannot hope to achieve rapid economic growth or effectively tackle global challenges such as climate change, technology adoption, food security, and conflict. Successive Indian governments have attempted to improve the status of women through policy interventions, the most prominent being the 73rd constitutional amendment to reserve seats for women in village councils, and the modification of Hindu Succession Act to ensure women's inheritance rights.
Education can empower women, justifying the need to secure 'education for all', an essential component of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to be attained by 2030. While there is a sizeable literature on discrimination against girls in schooling (see, for example, Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), (2012)) and ways to redress it (Meller and Litschig 2016), we know little, if anything, about girls' access to private schooling in particular. This is especially important in light of the rapid growth of private schooling in India (and indeed around the world) in recent years that has the potential of furthering educational inequality. While about 16% of the villages surveyed in 1996 as a part of the PROBE data had access to private schools, the figure rose to about 28% in 2003 (Muralidharan and Kremer 2006). According to the Indian Human Development Survey (IHDS) data 24% and 31% of 7-18 year old children attended private school in 2005 and 2012, respectively.
Our knowledge as well as attempt to mitigate gender discrimination in schooling will remain incomplete without a good understanding of the nature and extent of gender discrimination in private schooling. In recent research, we examine the nature of private school enrolment in general, and female disadvantage in private school enrolment among 7–18 year olds (Maitra et al. 2016).
Given the deteriorating state of government schools across India, there have been increasing attempts by policymakers to explore the scope of the private sector to deliver basic education in India (Tooley and Dixon 2003, Tooley 2004). Greater market orientation makes private schools and teachers more accountable to children and parents. Muralidharan (2014) argues that private schools are able to provide the same level of output at approximately one-third the cost.
It is, however, not obvious how this growth in private schools will impact the gender gap in schooling. Private schooling involves fee payment, but also yields additional returns. Gender gap may prevail if returns to private schooling (net of costs) are lower for females. However, it is possible that parents who choose to send their children to private schools may behave in a more altruistic manner, treating boys and girls equally in terms of human capital investment. Further, benefits and costs of private schooling may change differentially for boys and girls as children move from primary to secondary schools as sexual harassment of adolescent girls on way to/from schools become common.
We use two rounds of the IHDS data (collected in 2005 and 2012) to explore not only the extent of gender gap in private school enrolment at a given point in time, but also its evolution over time during a period of rapid reforms and steady economic growth in India. We estimate private school enrolment as a function of a child's gender, birth order, and age group. Given the strong son preference in India, the gender of the child is potentially 'endogenous', which means that the same unobserved characteristics of parents may influence both the gender of the child and provision of education opportunities to boys and girls in the household. This is because in India, parents with strong preference for sons continue to have children until they have the desired number of sons (Kishor 1993). This has been worsened by the availability (since the early 1980s) of mechanisms (example, scanning technology) that enable sex-selective abortions (Jha et al. 2011). We attempt to redress this potential bias by exploiting the variation in private school choice among 7-18 year olds born to the same parents within the same household.
Figure 1 presents the average private school enrolment by age and gender, conditional on any enrolment, for both waves of the data. The period 2005–2012 saw a systematic increase in private school enrolment rate for both boys and girls: private school enrolment rates increased from 27% to 36% for boys and from 23% to 29% for girls. However, the gender difference in private school enrolment increased from 4.1 percentage points (or 17.6% of the average private school enrolment rate for girls in 2005) to 6.7 percentage points (or 23.3% of the average private school enrolment rate for girls in 2012). There is a change in the pattern of gender bias across age groups. For children aged 7–14, the average difference in private school enrolment between boys and girls was about 5 percentage points in 2005 and increased to 7.7 percentage points in 2012. For children aged 15-18, while there was no gender difference in private school enrolment in 2005, the gap increased to 3.7 percentage points in 2012. While the gender gap is statistically significant for the 15–18 year olds in 2012, it is considerably lower than that for children aged 7–14. Possible factors that may explain the lower female disadvantage among 15-18 year olds are: (i) boys drop out of schools to supplement family earnings; (ii) girls' private school enrolment increases in a bid to protect them from undesirable attention of boys on the street or within school premises.
Figure 1. Enrolment in private school by age, gender and year of survey
Figure 2 presents the female disadvantage for different sub-samples over the two rounds of the survey: age, expenditure quartile, caste/religion, parental education, sector of residence, and region of residence. While there is considerable variation across the different sub-samples (for example, the extent of gender bias against girls is higher in the north and northwest, in richer households, and in Hindu households), disadvantage against girls is the norm. There is no evidence to suggest that the economic growth and increases in income that the country experienced during the period 2005–2012 has resulted in a move towards more gender equality.
The average female disadvantage was about 4 percentage points in 2005 and this rose to about 6 percentage points in 2012. Indeed, estimates from the sample of the same households observed in both 2005 and 2012 do not indicate any drop in female disadvantage over the period. While we find some variation in the extent of female disadvantage across sub-samples characterised by varying individual, household, and community characteristics, the female disadvantage not only persists but also has worsened in most cases. Thus, there is no denying the fact that female disadvantage in private schooling is real and persistent. The variation in the size of this effect across sub-samples and over time, highlight the non-altruistic nature of preferences: parents tend to balance economic and other socio-cultural considerations (some of which are linked to deep-rooted social values) as boys and girls progress from childhood into adolescence.
Figure 2. Female disadvantage in private schooling, 2005 and 2012
Notes: The 'X' denotes that girls are not significantly worse off compared to boys for the relevant sub-sample.
Policy prescriptions
How does one address the issue of gender bias against girls? Household preferences are often deeply held convictions and are difficult to change in the short run. We need to look at a range of policy options: incentivising school participation at all levels for girls (as in Bangladesh, for example); adaptation of the school curricula to meet girls' needs, for example, the recruitment of female teachers; adjusting school hours so as to accommodate household chores for girls; ensuring local access to schools and/or transport to and from schools if a local school is not available, especially at the secondary level; and the provision of information about job opportunities for girls. These interventions could go a long way to encourage girls' schooling. Extending affirmative action policies to ensure girls are enrolled in private schools is also an option worth examining, and incentivising parents to send their daughters to private schools (example, through publicly-funded seat reservation for girls from disadvantaged backgrounds and/or scholarship for meritorious girls) would help in narrowing this gender gap. Clause 12 of the Right to Education (RTE) Act requires private schools to reserve 25% of their seats for students from poor households, being funded by the government. Our analysis highlights the need to extend this affirmative action to focus on girls.
Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) (2012), 'Gender Discrimination in Education: The Violation of Rights of Women and Girls', Global Campaign for Education, Report submitted to the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women.
Dhawan, H (2016), '50% of girls sexually harrased on way to school, 32% stalked: Study', Times of India, 25 February 2016.
Jha, Prabhat, Maya Kesler, Rajesh Kumar, Faujdar Ram, Usha Ram, Lukasz Aleksandrowicz, Diego Bassani, Shailaja Chandra and Jayant Banthia (2011), "Trends in Selective Abortions of Girls in India: Analysis of Nationally Representative Birth Histories from 1990 to 2005 and Census Data from 1991 to 2011", Lancet, 377:1921-1928. Available here.
Kishor, Sunita (1993), "May God give Sons to All": Gender and Child Mortality in India", American Sociological Review, 58(2):247-265.
Maitra, Pushkar, Sarmistha Pal and Anurag Sharma (2016), "Absence of Altruism? Female Disadvantage in Private School Enrolment in India", World Development, 86:105-125.
Meller, Marian and Stephan Litschig (2016), "Adapting the Supply of Education to the Needs of Girls: Evidence from a Policy Experiment in Rural India," Journal of Human Resources, 51(3):760-802.
Muralidharan, K (2014), 'Understanding the Relative Effectiveness of Government and Private Schools in India', Ideas for India, 22 January 2014.
Muralidharan, K and M Kremer (2006), 'Public and Private Schools in Rural India', Mimeo, Harvard University.
Tooley, James (2004), "Private Education and 'Education for all'", Economic Affairs, 24(4):4-7. Available here.
Tooley, J and P Dixon (2003), 'Private Schools for the Poor: A Case Study from India', Discussion Paper, CfBT Research and Development.
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EU Council President Donald Tusk gives a statement after a meeting with Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar at the European Council headquarters in Brussels, Belgium
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The European Union will make no new offer on Brexit and those who promoted Britain's exit without any understanding of how to deliver it deserve a "special place in hell", European Council President Donald Tusk said on Wednesday.
The United Kingdom is on course to leave the EU on March 29 without a deal unless Prime Minister Theresa May can convince the bloc to reopen the divorce agreement she reached in November and then sell it to sceptical British lawmakers.
But as Tusk's pointedly blunt language showed, frustration runs deep among European leaders over the British parliament's rejection of the divorce deal and May's demands that the EU now give up on key principles or face disruption in just 50 days.
As companies and governments across Europe step up preparations for a disorderly no-deal exit, diplomats and officials said Britain now faces three main options: a no-deal exit, a last-minute deal or a delay to Brexit.
Rebuffing May's bid to renegotiate just a day before she is due in Brussels, Tusk said he had abandoned the hope he has often expressed that Britain's exit might be stopped and said his priority was now to avert a "fiasco" when it leaves.
"I've been wondering what that special place in hell looks like, for those who promoted Brexit, without even a sketch of a plan how to carry it out safely," Tusk said at a joint news conference with Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar.
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Are the stars out tonight?
I don't know if it's cloudy or bright
'Cause I only have eyes for you, dear
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I repeat, don'tcha think that's kinda neat
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Near to the moon at night
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Living on love and pale moonlight
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Is your mouth a little weak
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Although you're leading me to ruin
'Cause I love what you're doin' to me.
Although I know there's trouble brewin'
'Cause I love what you're doin' to me
I love what you're doin' to me


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Meridiana Africa Airlines (Uganda) Limited, operante con il nome commerciale Air Uganda, era una compagnia aerea ugandese a capitale privato attiva nel periodo dal 2007, anno della sua fondazione, al 2014, costretta a sospendere il servizio di linea per la revoca del Certificato di operatore aereo (COA) da parte dell'Uganda Civil Aviation Authority (CAA).

Fino a quel momento Air Uganda operò sulla maggior parte delle rotte nazionali, acquisite dopo la scomparsa della compagnia aerea di bandiera Uganda Airlines avvenuta nel maggio 2001. L'azienda, che ha sede a Kampala, e Hub presso l'Aeroporto Internazionale di Entebbe, utilizzò una flotta di tre velivoli per operare voli di linea per collegare Entebbe a numerosi aeroporti dell'Africa orientale e centrale.

Storia
Costituita nel 2007, ha iniziato le operazioni di volo commerciale precisamente il 15 novembre 2007.

Proprietà
L'azienda è al 100% di proprietà del Fondo Aga Khan per lo sviluppo economico (AKFED), che ha interessi anche nelle compagnie aeree nazionali del Mali e del Burkina Faso attraverso la propria società Celestair, oltre che in Europa, attraverso l'italiana Meridiana.

Flotta
Il Gruppo Celestair ha una flotta complessiva di 8 MD-87 configurati a 99 posti, 20 business e 79 economy, di cui 3 apparecchi utilizzati da Air Uganda.

Alleanze
Air Uganda fa parte del Gruppo Celestair insieme ad Air Burkina ed alla Compagnie Aérienne du Mali.
Durante la seconda metà del 2008, Air Uganda ha firmato accordi di code sharing con Air Tanzania sulle tratte Entebbe/Kilimanjaro, Entebbe/Dar-es-Salaam e Entebbe/Zanzibar, rotte che entrambe le compagnie aeree servono.
Accordi di code sharing sono stati firmati da Air Uganda e Brussels Airlines sulle tratte Entebbe/Juba servita da Air Uganda e Entebbe/Bruxelles servita da Brussels Airlines.
Questi accordi sono stati seguiti da accordi simili tra Air Uganda e Qatar Airways.
Nei primi mesi del 2009, Air Uganda ha preso accordi con Marsland Aviation per coprire la rotta tra Juba e Khartoum.

Note

Altri progetti

Collegamenti esterni

Compagnie aeree ugandesi
Compagnie aeree del passato

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You may be surprised to know that for the most part… we are surrounded by free food. Our lawns are teaming with edible weeds that can be found virtually anywhere in the world. In this post, we highlight the 3 most commonly found/known edible weeds. Post collapse, it's going to be essential that you're educated in foraging food from your environment and making the most from what you have. Aside from these 3 edible weeds, there are hundreds more and you should spend the time researching the ones most common to your region.
Found almost everywhere across North America, this plant is an easy go-to for the prepper requiring sustenance. It's most often found in open grassy areas and can be easily identified by it's trefoil leaflets. Both the blossoms and leaves can be eaten raw but many prefer to boil it first. Word of caution though, clover should be avoided by pregnant woman and should not make the bulk of ones diet over a long period of time due to it's effect on hormones.
Not to be confused by the the Banana Shaped Plantain. Plantain plants can be found pretty much anywhere in the world and are most common in wet areas like bogs, marshes, and fields with poor drainage. The leaves can be eaten raw but they tend to get very bitter as they mature (which can be improved by boiling). Plantain plants are very high in Vitamin A, and Calcium. Also, the stems should be avoided.
One of the most easily recognized and "pervasive" weeds in North America. They are the scourge of lawn perfectionist, but also one of the best food sources to a well-knowledged survivalist. Dandelions are loaded with Vitamin A, Vitamin C, and Beta Carotene. Every part of the plant can be used but will require different preparations. Young leaves can be eaten raw, the mature leaves should be boiled (for better taste), the flowers can be used to make an excellent wine, and the roots should be boiled before eaten. The water remaining after boiling the plant can also be drank as a tea.
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Canon's new PowerShot ELPH 150 IS is one of three new affordable ELPH cameras for spring 2014. As the priciest model, it includes everything from the ELPH 135 and ELPH 140 IS --which we'll get into momentarily -- but adds in a larger 20.0-megapixel CCD image sensor (vs. 16.0) and a longer 10x optical zoom lens (vs. 8x) for a $20 premium over the ELPH 140 IS.
The ELPH 150 IS also includes the DIGIC 4+ image processor; 720p HD video recording; 3.0-inch LCD display; Smart AUTO Mode, which selects optimal settings for current shooting conditions; ECO Mode, which dims (or turns off the LCD) to reduce battery consumption; and a Help Button, which helps newer users learn more about their camera's functions, settings, and features.
Canon's PowerShot ELPH 150 IS will be available in February (2014) with an estimated $149.99 MSRP. Color choices included blue, red, silver, and black.


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The government is planning to force hundreds of thousands of UK companies out of business if they can't repay their coronavirus loans, which is a plan for UK national economic suicide
Posted on September 4 2020
As the FT reports this morning:
Chancellor Rishi Sunak is set to rebuff City of London calls for a new state-owned body that would refinance tens of billions of pounds of coronavirus loans issued to UK companies.
A task force called the Recapitalisation Group, led by trade body TheCityUK and advisory firm EY, has asked the government to create a new state agency to handle the expected mountain of unserviceable debt accumulated by companies through state-backed loan schemes.
Politicians and economists such as Sajid Javid, Paul Myners and Jim O'Neill have also called on the state to intervene in order to support companies that have taken on extra debt because of the pandemic.
I support this idea, but think it does not go far enough. Nor is it bold enough. As I have explained already this morning, we need a National Wealth Service. The aim would not be to negatively help recover debt, as the City plan seems to be, but to positively build growth on the foundations of new economic relationships and strategic shareholdings within the UK economy, as I suggest.
Sunak is going the absolute wrong way about this. As the FT also note:
The Treasury has dismissed the ideas around recapitalisation of bad loans, according to several people briefed on the situation. It believes banks should deal with the cost and reputational risk of chasing borrowers that default.
One official said that the public wrongly assumed that private sector debt must have "ballooned" during the crisis. "The chancellor is not convinced that this issue is a pressing one as of today."
In other words, what the Treasury is saying is that they believe that the public is much more concerned about the level of government debt, of which they know almost nothing (the calculation of which the ONS, despite some assurances that they will do so, have yet to be able to explain to me) than they are about saving their employers and jobs. I really do not believe that.
As the FT notes:
The government's lending schemes have provided nearly £53bn to some 1.2m companies through three programmes: £35.5bn of bounce back loans – that include a 100 per cent guarantee for small business loans; £13.7bn through the coronavirus business interruption loan scheme (CBILS) – which includes an 80 per cent guarantee on loans of up to £5m; and £3.5bn through the large business interruption scheme. This offers a partial guarantee on loans up to £200m.
Many banks are worried about a potential wave of defaults, meaning that – despite the state guarantees – they could end up pursuing thousands of struggling companies through the courts.
The Office for Budget Responsibility, the fiscal watchdog, said that about £33bn would need to be written off the value of state-backed loans in its worst-case scenario.
Let's put that in context: the OBR thinks more than 60% of these loans might not be recovered, and since most will be to some degree that means that many more than 60% of the borrowers will be forced into liquidation in the attempt to secure repayment that cannot be made.
That is the scale of the problem facing the UK economy now.
And despite this the government is insisting on repayment, which will be an action that will literally destroy much of the UK economy.
As recipes for economic suicide go this is a good one. What we have is a Conservative government apparently planning to force banks to act on its behalf to force a majority of UK businesses to close as a result of the debts that they are unable to repay the government, incurred because of coronavirus which was beyond their control, when it is within the power of the government to turn those debts into capital stakes in the companies in question that might not just let them, and the jobs that they provide, survive, but might also allow them to prosper in a way that is for the long term benefit of the country in which we could all share through ownership stakes managed for the State through a National Wealth Service.
It's. not rocket science to work out which is the better option here. Indeed, which is the only option here. But apparently the Treasury can't spot the choice it has to make as yet. I think a U-turn will be forthcoming. Just give it time.
Hollie says:
September 4 2020 at 11:22 am
"when it is within the power of the government to turn those debts into capital stakes in the companies"
Ah the GDR model: simply stick VEB on the front of the business name, publish a Five Year Plan and off you go.
Richard Murphy says:
September 4 2020 at 12:51 pm
Ok, you prove you can be crass
Now suggest a better idea
Bill Hughes says:
Lets hope a U-turn is soon forthcoming about debt repayments to the government from companies that have taken government loans via banks. I don't think the ONS have any proof that the public at large have more concern about government debt than their own household finances and personal credit card and bank loan debts soaring out of their control. The "concern" about government debt is purely one whipped up by an ignorant mass media and right-wing think tanks.
Helen Schofield says:
September 4 2020 at 2:22 pm
This all reminds me of a new paper by Randy Wray (July 2020) which describes the historical evolution of MMT. On page 9 he writes about his early realisation in 1990 that practices in the financial sector would lead to an almighty financial crash which of course commenced in 2007. He wrote the following:-
"In my dissertation and the 1990 book I provided a close institutional analysis of the practices of modern banking ….. I warned of the new trend toward securitization and use of derivatives that might appear to allow banks to hedge risks, but that "interdependence of on-balance-sheet and off-balance-sheet commitments, or covariance of shocks can lead to the transmission of shocks throughout the system" (Wray 1990, 215—16)."
http://www.levyinstitute.org/publications/the-kansas-city-approach-to-modern-money-theory
My point in raising this is Rishi Sunak needs to be asked how on Earth could private sector banks be expected to "hedge risk" against a deadly pandemic like Covid-19. They may have been guilty of greed and stupidity in hedging risk upto the 2007/2008 Gteat Financial Crash but this time is difficult. Where's this Tory government's logic on this matter. In short supply yet again it would appear!
They show themselves to be remarkably financially illiterate
john Boxall says:
Shock Horror Probe!!
Government saves business's by converting loans into shares
Perhaps it even becomes an activist shareholder including providing training for all staff, including managers & directors, advice and assistance, buying a bigger holding, etc etc etc
Are some people horrified by the idea of the state taking an active role in the prosperity of the nation?
Moving this on a bit, surely as soon as the potential impact of Coronavirus was apparent, the Government should have started making plans to either help keep businesses in business, or organise an orderly wind down, on a sector by sector basis
This could have been implemented with the help of local authorities identifying which businesses could be saved and winding up those that could or should not benefit from government assistance.
It isnt rocket science


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Poultry not tested for Nipah, clarifies MCVR
Putting an end to rumours, Manipal Centre for Virus Research (MCVR), Manipal Academy of Higher Education, has confirmed it has not tested any poultry samples for the Nipah virus (NiV).
MANGALURU: Putting an end to rumours, Manipal Centre for Virus Research (MCVR), Manipal Academy of Higher Education, has confirmed it has not tested any poultry samples for the Nipah virus (NiV).
The clarification comes in the wake of a widely circulated message which claims otherwise. "It has been confirmed by MCVR and doctors, that the Nipah virus is being spread by chicken," reads the fake message, that is widely circulated.
Asking people not to pay heed to the above text, Dr G Arunkumar, professor and head, MCVR, stated in a communique, "It is to bring to the notice of the public that MCVR has not tested any chicken samples for the Nipah virus, and has not reported any such findings as being claimed in the message."
He said the centre has filed a police complaint at the crime cell branch in Udupi in this regard. He also cautioned that any more forwards of such a nature will be liable for legal action.
District health officer Dr Ramakrishna Rao on Saturday reiterated that the Dakshina Kannada district is free from the Nipah threat. "Neither confirmed nor suspected cases of the Nipah virus are documented in the district," he said.
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HomeinterviewsINTERVIEW: Nils Lofgren Works E Street Band But Memorializes Lou Reed with 'Blue With Lou'
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Nils Lofgren celebrated 50 years on the road last September. All indications are he will be hitting the road again with the E Street Band, as his bandleader and friend Bruce Springsteen said the group is back in the studio to record their 20th album.
But before he joined the E Street band in 1984, Lofgren was a staple in some of the best record collections and he was a favorite of the "alternative" music fans of the late 1970s. His debut album, Nils Lofgren (1975) and the popular Cry Tough (1976) earned him a following from among a range of rockers. One of them would turn out to be Lou Reed.
On Lofgren's new album, Blue With Lou, six of the 12 tracks on the album are written with Reed. These are songs that are finally getting a release.
Nils Lofgren is team player with solo background – Courtesy
Maybe it's no coincidence that both Lofgren and E Street bandleader Springsteen have released solo albums around the same time. Springsteen's new Western Stars is a collection of Americana-style ballads in the style of Glenn Campbell and Jimmy Webb. Meanwhile, Lofgren who teamed with punk poet Reed, goes in a different direction. But for both Springsteen and himself, the solo projects have been on their minds for a while, Lofgren said.
"Bruce and I talked about his album for three or four years and I'm glad he finally decided to share it," Lofgren said. "He's had it in the can for quite a while. I'm glad for him."
Lofgren was an accomplished solo musician, part rocker, part-singer-songwriter, when he was tapped to join the E Street band. Over the years he has had the experience of being in a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame arena band, but like his friend, also takes time for his own work.
"When Bruce does his solo work he doesn't bring us along, he has a multi-faceted career," Lofgren said. "Every show the E Street band played for 35 years I've been there. It's been a real blessing. He's supportive of what we do."
Blue With Lou is another one of Lofgren's winning solo projects. Of the songs he wrote with Reed. "A Fool Like Me," "I Found Her," and "I'll Cry Tomorrow" (the last co-written with guitarist Dick Wagner) appeared on Nils, while Reed claimed "City Lights," "Stupid Man," and "With You" for his own 1979 album The Bells.
The pair's "Life" appeared on Lofgren's Damaged Goods (1995), while "Driftin' Man" was recorded for his Breakaway Angel (2001). The newly recorded Lofgren-Reed compositions are "Attitude City," "Give," "Talk Thru the Tears," Lofgren's version of "City Lights," "Don't Let Your Guard Down," and "Cut Him Up."
Bob Ezrin and Lou Reed – Courtesy
The Bob Ezrin Factor
Blue With Lou has all the qualities Lofgren and Reed fans might expect and that is to a great degree because to the involvement of prolific producer Bob Ezrin.
"Back in 1978 or 1979 I had some songs and I wanted to make an album," Lofgren recalled. "A and M, records who I was with, had a short list of producers and Bob was at the top of the list. We sounded Bob out, he said he was interested, he and I had a couple of meetings just to feel each other out. We felt we could get along great. I liked him immediately as a person.
"He was very knowledgable and creative as a producer and he is a really good musician. So we agreed that we could make a good record together and A&M hired him.
"Bob and I went on a long journey — well over a year — to make my album, Nils," Lofgren said. "It had a lot of good songs we liked, had a lot of good music, but we both agreed they were sub-par lyrics. Bob is the one who took me over to Lou Reed's studio, we met him, Lou said 'Let's get together and discuss co-writing' and the short version is, it led to 13 songs I cowrote with Lou. A lot of them got shared, but five got left behind.
"I always thought Lou might call and say 'Let's revisit these,' but when we lost Lou, which was tragic of course, I knew the next record I made I had to get those songs on it," Lofgren said. "Also the sixth song, I knew I had to do my own version of 'City Lights,' which we did together."
Lofgren whose music is a unique blend of what would now be called Americana Roots-style music with Rock N Roll, said he found a good synergy with Reed.
"Lou writes special lyrics," he said. "But they're still good rock lyrics, just comments on the planet, our state of humanity, and they're pretty timeless to me. We had 20 songs and we worked on all of them. These were the 12. The six Lou Reed songs had to be on the record. The other six, I picked the best that rose to the top as we recorded."
West Coast Gigs in Lofgren's Future?
Lofgren is refreshingly honest in his approach. He recently wrapped a tour that took him mainly back East to promote Blue With Lou and we can only continue to hope that he will add some West Coast gigs at some point.
"It's a sad function of commerce the offers in the West are so terrible," Lofgren said. "I don't begrudge anybody, they say 'We think this is all we think you're worth' and I get it. So usually I would look at coming to the West Coast as a solo artist I tour a lot by myself.
"With this album, my first in eight years, I wanted to see if I could go out with the band that made the record," he said. "We started in the midwest and it was somewhat manageable.
"The Northeast corridor there are so many cities together you can play four or five cities in a row, you can't really do that jumping from Denver to Phoenix to LA, the drives are too long," he said. "It doesn't mean you can't do that but it's different routing, I don't like leaving home so when I'm gone I want to work five or six shows a week and the Northeast is the best place to do that."
There are aspects of today's tech-driven music world that Lofgren likes and admits its a different world than when he started in 1968.
"Some people have an ability to absorb technology and be great at it," he said. "I don't happen to be one of those people. I have a distribution company, MVD, they're not a record company so they don't take 90 percent of everything and they get the music into a lot of shops all over the place. Mom and pop shops, some of the chains. I sell it at my shows I come out and sign afterwards and I'm allowed to because I own it, that all goes away with a record company.
"So I'm at peace with what I'm doing," he said. "Some young people feel like they need to be a giant star and sell tens of million records. My only advice would be get a following, learn how to play in front of people and don't sign away years of your life unless it's a decent record deal if that's what you want.
"The freedom is something you didn't have in the 1960s," he said. "Back then the only game in town if you wanted to share music, was the record company and we all signed a lot of bad deals, but on the other hand our music was shared.
"Today I like the autonomy," Lofgren said. "My friends Dick and Linda run my website, my wife Amy is great on social media. I have the new album Blue With Lou, and even though I'm playing 300 to 500 seat night clubs, afterwards you go out, sign T-shirts and CDs that my wife Amy is designing, it's grass roots and personal and it really gets back to the roots of my job which is playing in front of people. Everyone can choose their own path, the options disappear when you sign a record deal. I would stay true to whatever your creativity and muse tells you the direction you want to head."
Cry Tough by Nils – One of the Greatest Albums of all time
'Blue With Lou' and Memories
Blue With Lou will always live deep in Lofgren's heart. He holds on dearly to memories, good or bad. Recently he told an audience he couldn't forget an incident that bugged him for years, where he was unable to help his friend Springsteen out on stage when the two had forgotten lyrics to an impromptu 1960s rock and roll song. It's something he never forgot but managed to absolve himself on stage years later.
He holds the same clear memories for Reed, who said he was inspired by Lofgren's work.
"I felt like what we did was very special," Lofgren said. "He had a cassette I sent him for three or four weeks, I kind of forgot about it because I was respectful of whether he wanted to be involved. Then he woke me up at 4:30 in the morning on the land line there were no cell phones, and I was wondering why the call in the middle of the night. He said, 'Look I've been up for three days and nights I love this music I've written 13 full sets of lyrics, I'm inspired, if you want to get a pad and pencil and I"ll dictate them all to right now.'
"And we did, we spent two hours on the phone," Lofgren recalled. "I wanted to use three of them right away on my record, I used three of course, put two out, getting us up to eight and I always felt I owed it to myself and to Lou to share the ones left behind.
"And since he's not around to look at that with me I knew they had to be on this record," Lofgren said. "God bless him and I'm sure he'd be happy wherever he is looking down on us."
Nils Lofgren – Blue With Lou – City Lights
Lou Reed – Stupid Man
Nils Up Front with E Street Band – Because The Night
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Now it's safe to say that you can update your WordPress to 4.5, but it would be better if you update the Themify Framework for your theme first before you upgrade. It's a lot safer and sure that way. I've tested it with my writing site and this collective. It's all good.