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Turkey Book Talk episode 159 – Hakan Özoğlu, professor of history and director of Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Central Florida, on Admiral Mark L. Bristol, US high commissioner in Istanbul from 1919 to 1927.
Compared with many European diplomats during the period, Bristol had a relatively pro-Turkish, pro-Muslim perspective. His observations and recommendations helped shape US policy in the Ottoman Empire, and also helped lay the foundations of the strategic partnership between Turkey and the US during the Cold War.
Özoğlu is author of "The Decline of the Ottoman Empire and the Rise of the Turkish Republic: Observations of an American Diplomat, 1919-1927" (Edinburgh University Press).
https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/5innp7/159_Hakan_Ozoglu_on_Mark_Bristol_and_the_founding_of_US-Turkey_relations_1919-279pdjr.mp3
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Filed in History, Interviews, Istanbul, Kemalism, Ottoman history, Podcast, Politics, Turkey, Turkey-US relations, Turkish history, Turkish politics, Turkish republic
Tags: Admiral Mark Bristol, Hakan Ozoglu, Ottoman Empire, Ottoman history, Turkey-US relations, Turkish history
Turkey Book Talk episode 158 – Çiğdem Oğuz, research fellow at the University of Bologna's Department of History and Cultures, on "Moral Crisis in the Ottoman Empire: Society, Politics and Gender during WWI" (IB Tauris/Bloomsbury).
The book examines debates about morality in the late Ottoman era, when mounting European cultural influence triggered anxiety about the loss of traditional religious values among many.
https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/8dbi23/Cigdem_Oguz_on_moral_panic_and_westernisation_in_the_late_Ottoman_era_and_today7a9m1.mp3
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Tags: Cigdem Oguz, interview, Ottoman Empire, Ottoman history, podcast, Turkish history, Turkish politics
Turkey Book Talk episode 157 – Murat R. Siviloğlu, assistant professor in Turkish Cultural History at Trinity College Dublin, on "The Emergence of Public Opinion: State and Society in the Late Ottoman Empire" (Cambridge University Press).
The idea of "public opinion" is generally associated with the emergence of a middle class, independent of the state, in Western Europe in the 19th century. The Ottoman Empire is generally seen as outside this process, but Siviloğlu argues that Ottoman society developed a realm of "public opinion" that had a crucial effect on political developments in the late 19th century.
https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/a7xgas/Murat_Siviloglu_on_the_emergence_of_public_opinion_in_the_late_Ottoman_Empirea5ssp.mp3
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Tags: interview, Murat Siviloglu, Ottoman Empire, Ottoman history, podcast, Turkish history
Turkey Book Talk episode #154 – Marc David Baer, professor of international history at the London School of Economics and Political Science, on "The Ottomans: Khans, Caesars and Caliphs" (Basic Books).
The book makes the case that the Ottoman Empire is an inseparable part of European history – not as antithesis of the Christian West but as an intimate and active participant in the continent's shifting cultural and political tides.
https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/qvzw7a/Marc_David_Baer_on_the_Ottomans_as_khans_caesers_and_caliphs7ww6q.mp3
Filed in Europe, European history, History, Interviews, Middle East, Ottoman Empire, Ottoman history, Podcast, Religion, Secularism, Turkey, Turkish history
Tags: Europe, European history, interview, Marc David Baer, Ottoman Empire, Ottoman history, podcast, Turkey Book Talk, Turkish history
Turkey Book Talk episode #152 – Yonca Köksal, associate professor of history at Koç University, on "The Ottoman Empire in the Tanzimat Era: Provincial Perspectives from Ankara to Edirne" (Routledge).
The book compares and contrasts the application of the Ottoman Empire's modernising, centralising Tanzimat reforms of the 19th century in the Balkan province of Edirne and the central Anatolian province of Ankara.
https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/k79crc/Yonca_K_ksal_on_Ottoman_modernisation_from_the_ground_upasl71.mp3
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Tags: interview, Ottoman Empire, Ottoman history, podcast, Turkey Book Talk, Turkish history, Yonca Koksal
Turkey Book Talk episode #151 – Giancarlo Casale, chair of early modern Mediterranean history at the European University Institute and associate professor of history at the University of Minnesota, on "Prisoner of the Infidels: The Memoir of an Ottoman Muslim in 17th Century Europe" (University of California Press).
Casale edited and translated the book, the first English-language edition of Osman of Timişoara's fascinating memoir describing his years as prisoner and slave in the Habsburg Empire from 1688 to 1699.
https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/i5k7jg/151_Giancarlo_Casale_on_Osman_of_Timi_oara_Ottoman_captive_in_17th_century_Europebj7ze.mp3
Filed in Europe, European history, History, Interviews, migration, Ottoman Empire, Ottoman history, Podcast
Tags: Europe, European history, Giancarlo Casale, interview, Osman of Timisoara, Ottoman Empire, Ottoman history, Turkey Book Talk
Natalie Rothman on dragomans of the Ottoman Empire, between East and West
Turkey Book Talk episode #149 – E. Natalie Rothman, associate professor of history at the University of Toronto, on "The Dragoman Renaissance: Diplomatic Interpreters and the Routes of Orientalism" (Cornell University Press).
The book shows how Istanbul-based diplomatic translator-interpreters played a crucial role in developing outside understanding of the Ottoman Empire, as well as in the Ottoman elites' various diplomatic manoeuvres.
https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/x2jfms/Natalie_Rothman_on_dragomans_of_the_Ottoman_Empire_between_East_and_West_1289bbv8.mp3
The e-book edition is available for free open access download from Cornell Open.
Also check out the Dragoman Renaissance Research Platform website, set up as a companion offering additional resources related to the project.
Filed in Europe, European history, History, Istanbul, Ottoman Empire, Ottoman history, Turkish history
Tags: interview, Natalie Rothman, Ottoman dragomans, Ottoman Empire, Ottoman history, podcast, Turkey
Ömer Tekdemir on the Kurdish issue from the 19th century to today
Turkey Book Talk episode #148 – Ömer Tekdemir, lecturer in political economy at Coventry University, on "Constituting the Political Economy of the Kurds: Social Embeddedness, Hegemony and Identity" (Routledge).
The book is a sweeping account of the social, political and economic circumstances shaping the emergence of collective Kurdish identity from the late Ottoman era to today's Turkey.
https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/5c5m8d/Omer_Tekdemir_on_the_Kurdish_issue_from_the_19th_century_to_today79ypk.mp3
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Tags: Kurdish issue, Omer Tekdemir, Ottoman history, Turkish history, Turkish politics
Büke Uras on the Balyan family and the Ottoman Armenian architectural legacy
Turkey Book Talk episode #146 – Buke Uras on "The Balyans: Ottoman Architecture and the Balyan Archive" (Korpus).
The Balyan family served as Ottoman imperial architects for three generations in the 19th century and are responsible for some of Istanbul's most iconic monuments, including Dolmabahce Palace and Ortakoy Mosque.
https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/cnqhrm/Buke_Uras_on_the_Balyan_family_and_the_Ottoman_Armenian_architectural_legacy99rxz.mp3
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Suna Çağaptay on the many lives of Bursa from antiquity to today
Turkey Book Talk episode #145 – Suna Çağaptay, post-doctoral research associate at St Edmunds College, University of Cambridge, on "The First Capital of the Ottoman Empire: The Religious, Architectural and Social History of Bursa" (IB Tauris/Bloomsbury).
The book examines Bursa's history from antiquity to the present day, particularly focusing on its hybrid and plural character after transitioning from Byzantine to Ottoman rule in the 14th century.
https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/4xzq9s/Suna_a_aptay_on_the_many_lives_of_Bursa_from_antiquity_to_today6l5ms.mp3
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Tags: Bursa, Byzantine Empire, Ottoman Empire, podcast, Suna Cagaptay, Turkey Book Talk
Dimitris Kamouzis on the emergence of Greek nationalism in Ottoman Istanbul
Turkey Book Talk episode #144 – Dimitris Kamouzis, researcher at the Centre for Asia Minor Studies in Athens, on "Greeks in Turkey: Elite Nationalism and Minority Politics in Late Ottoman and Early Republican Istanbul" (Routledge).
The book explores the spread of nationalism and ideas of unity with the Kingdom of Greece among Istanbul's Greek Orthodox community from the 19th century to the declaration of the Republic of Turkey in 1923 and beyond.
https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/489hyr/Dimitris_Kamouzis_on_the_emergence_of_Greek_nationalism_in_Ottoman_Istanbul8p3fq.mp3
Filed in Greeks, History, Human Rights in Turkey, Istanbul, Minorities, Nationalism, Ottoman Empire, Ottoman history, Podcast, Turkey, Turkish history, Turkish republic
Tags: Dimitris Kamouzis, Greeks, Istanbul, Ottoman Empire, Ottoman history, Turkish history, Turkish-Greek population exchange
Christine Philliou on reimagining Turkish history and the roots of political dissent
Turkey Book Talk episode #143 – Christine Philliou, associate professor of history at UC Berkeley, on "Turkey: A Past Against History" (University of California Press).
The book examines the life of writer Refik Halid Karay (1888-1965), interrogating the long heritage and shifting meaning of political dissent from Ottoman to republican eras.
https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/rvqvp6/Christine_Philliou_on_Refik_Halid_Karaybbahx.mp3
Filed in Atatürk, History, Interviews, Istanbul, Ottoman Empire, Ottoman history, Podcast, Politics, Syria, Turkey, Turkish history, Turkish politics, Turkish republic
Tags: Christine Philliou, interview, Ottoman history, podcast, Refik Halid Karay, Turkish history, Turkish politics

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In anticipation of the government's annual small business procurement scorecard this summer, a group of small business advocates and watchdog groups has asked top federal procurement officials to stop practices that inaccurately reflect how close agencies have come to meeting their goals.
The scorecard measures the percent of federal prime and subcontract dollars awarded to small businesses, including women owned small businesses, small disadvantaged businesses, service disabled veteran-‐owned small businesses and small businesses operating in Historically Underutilized Business Zones. The federal government's goal is to award 23 percent of its contract dollars to small businesses each year.
During fiscal 2010, the federal government spent more than $540 billion on goods and services, which means small businesses should have been awardedat least $124 billion worth of federal prime contracts, the group — which includes the Project on Government Oversight, Minority Business Round Table, Public Citizen and more than a dozen chambers of commerce — said in a June 7 letter to SBA Administrator Karen Mills, Office of Management and Budget Acting Director Jeffrey Zients and Office of Federal Procurement Policy Administrator Joseph Jordan.
Instead, SBA reported that the government narrowly missed its 23 percent goal with $98 billion in small business awards.
The American Small Business League, which led the effort, found instances where contracts awarded to large corporations, such as General Electric, Lockheed Martin and AT&T, and their subsidiaries have been incorrectly classified as small.
The group said it also considers past scorecards to be inaccurate because SBA does not include all federal contracting dollars when calculating the percentage. Instead, the agency uses an amount called "small business eligible," which omits certain contracts, such as contracts for work performed overseas.
The numbers lie–data manipulation is well documented.
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Charleston Area Medical Center is seeking to employ a full-time clinical AP/CP board certified pathologist with a subspecialty in Blood Banking/Transfusion.
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As West Virginia's largest city, picturesque Charleston offers both urban amenities and abundant outdoor activities. Exemplary school systems and low cost of living make this an ideal location to raise your family.
Successful candidates (MD or DO) must be BE/BC and eligible for an unrestricted West Virginia license. Excellent diagnostic skills and a strong clinical background are a must. Outstanding communication and interpersonal skills are desired.
Charleston Area Medical Center is the largest hospital system in West Virginia with 958 beds, 7,000 employees and nearly 700 physicians on its medical staff and provides the highest quality health care to a diverse patient population. All medical services are supported by primary care physicians throughout the region who regularly treat their patients at CAMC or refer them here for specialty consultation and treatment. CAMC offers thousands of families convenience and accessibility through three Charleston locations: General Hospital, Memorial Hospital and Women and Children's Hospital. A fourth hospital is located in Hurricane, West Virginia. CAMC is home to one of the largest heart programs in the United States; the only kidney transplant center in West Virginia; the highest level trauma center and the only freestanding children's hospital in the state. CAMC is also the state's leading provider of cancer services, and the new CAMC Cancer Center hosts adult oncology and cancer-related services in a location designed to facilitate healing and hope for patients and families. Charleston is the state capital of West Virginia. It is a scenic, mid-size city nestled in a unique val...ley rich with historic traditions yet a culturally diverse community offering all of the amenities expected to be found in a large metropolitan city. Whether you enjoy fine dining, symphony orchestras or challenging golf courses, mountain biking, snow skiing or world-renowned white water rafting, this outstanding community offers something for everyone. The climate is exemplary and residents enjoy four distinct seasons. The education system is outstanding with public and private schools, making it an ideal location to establish roots and raise a family.


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China should remember no country is an island in a globalised world
By China News on October 7, 2012 • ( 3 )
There is no doubt that the row over a group of tiny islands in the East China Sea has sealed the deterioration in relations between China and Japan. The diplomatic spat over the Diaoyu/Senkaku islands, which sparked violent protests, with Japanese flags and factories burned, stunned Tokyo, and caused Japanese companies to consider scrapping investment plans in China. Why open a new factory, they ask, just for it to be firebombed or defaced while an acquiescent administration turns a blind eye?
Until recently the "one-plus-one" investment policy (for every factory built in Japan, companies also had to build one overseas) benefited China. But now insiders say firms will look to support growth in Indonesia, the Philippines or newly open Burma.
For the International Monetary Fund, which has taken its annual meeting to the Japanese capital for the first time since 1964, the dispute is one of many linked to slowing growth and a rise in protectionism.
This week's meeting was scheduled for Cairo, until the Arab spring made the region look too unstable for a gathering of finance ministers and global institutions. But with Chinese frigates circling the disputed islands and pleas for calm going unheeded, Tokyo's political situation is closer to Cairo's than the IMF expected.
China's leaders are undoubtedly under pressure. Growth has slowed from more than 10% to less than 8% over the past two years, but its rising population means that growth of between 6% and 7% is needed just to keep pace. In March, Beijing cut its growth target for the whole of 2012 to 7.5%. As any student of politics knows, a foreign dispute distracts attention from failing economic policies.
But opting for a short-term boost in domestic popularity over a deterioration in long-term relations with foreign investors looks to be a huge mistake by the Beijing authorities. And the IMF understands that this local dispute has much wider ramifications: after all, Japan is the world's third-largest economy and China, its second-biggest, accounts for about a fifth of the world's total economic output. Any slowdown is going to hamper a global recovery.
The Americans have already put the brakes on expansion in China, in reaction to general corruption and to the growing threat from intellectual property theft. European companies have also backed off, preferring to send in high-value goods made at home.
Japan's economy is not in great shape either. This year, colossal spending on imported gas and oil will send the balance of payments into reverse for only the second time in three decades. The yen is at a historic high against the dollar, making Japanese products expensive abroad, and the political situation remains unstable, with the Democratic party government able to push through a VAT rise only on a promise of early elections.
And let's not forget the eurozone crisis. That continues to provide plenty of food for thought for IMF officials, given the failure to deal with Spain's financial black hole and growing public unrest among southern Europe's increasingly desperate citizens.
Yet it is the Japan/China dispute that is worrying them most. Japan believes the Chinese are wilfully making trouble: it has stressed that it bought the islands earlier this year to keep them out of the hands of the mayor of Tokyo, a Boris Johnson-style character with a populist enmity towards the Chinese community in Japan.
Maybe Beijing thinks it can go it alone without Japanese investment. It would be wrong, and the decision could have implications for us all.
Japan: Chinese Officials to Attend IMF Summit in Tokyo (blogs.voanews.com)
IMF chief asks Japan, China not to be trapped by territorial row (english.kyodonews.jp)
Tension enhanced by China's regular patrol of disputed Senkaku sea area (chinadailymail.com)
‹ Ease of tension between China and Japan due to US CRS report on sovereignty over islands
Chinese patrol of Senkaku Islands continues; Japan's economy may suffer ›
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Cheap Apple laptop deals: we've got the very best cheap MacBook Pro deals, Macbook deals and MacBook Air deals right here.
Apple is known for many things, but affordability is not one of them. If Macs are your preferred choice of computing environment, you'll generally need to dig deeper into your wallet than you would need to if you were buying a Windows laptop.
The old style MacBook Air was officially upgraded in late 2018, and this was always the cheapest way to get an Apple laptop. It has been replaced by a much more up-to-date MacBook Air, which now comes with a Retina display and Thunderbolt 3 ports. The new MacBook Air is a fantastic laptop but it unfortunately costs more than the old one did.
Apple still sells one model of old-style MacBook Air on its site, but it has a really dated internal specification that makes it very poor value for money compared with alternative options. If you're looking to save money on an Apple laptop, we'd advise against this option.
Instead, you can find better deals on the official refurb store where Apple sells its older models at a discount of up to 15%. They have new batteries and screens, so you won't see any scratches, a year's warranty, so they look as good as new. Stock availability varies, but it's a great way to find some brilliant deals.
And there are still plenty of great deals to be found on the latest hardware too. We've searched high and low to find the best cheap MacBook Pro deals, MacBook deals and MacBook Air deals – so if you're in the market for a new Apple laptop then you're in the right place.
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Until the recent 2018 refresh, the MacBook Air hadn't been updated in years, languishing behind all of Apple's other laptop models with an ugly screen and weedy performance from older internal hardware. That made it really affordable, but it was badly in need of modernising.
The 2018 MacBook Air brings some of the sparkle back, reinvigorating Apple's iconic design with an 8th-generation Core i5 processor, a 13-inch high-resolution Retina display, built-in touchID, a modern Force Touch trackpad, and two Thunderbolt 3 ports.
It now comes in three colours - Space Grey, Gold and Silver, and retains the thin wedge design that Air has always been known for, giving it a very desirable look and feel.
With a small 128GB SSD and 8GB of memory, the entry-level specification is fine for light computer use, but we'd absolutely recommend upgrading the storage to 256GB when purchasing to avoid running out of space later on.
Apple's MacBook is the thinnest, lightest, most portable laptop sold by the company, under 1cm thick and weighing less than 1kg. It doesn't have any fans and runs completely silently, and can manage 10 hours of battery life, making it a brilliant light machine for working on the go, travel and carrying into meetings.
They're designed to draw as little power as possible, with a lower performance M3 CPU, so the MacBook is better suited for word processing and email than graphic design and video editing.
Nevertheless it still looks the part on the outside, with a 12-inch Retina display and the same three Space Grey, Gold and Silver colours that the MacBook Air is available in. With the 2018 model, Apple has addressed a common criticism of its first-generation butterfly keyboards, making them more resilient against crumbs and dirt.
And one nice point to mention is that the entry-level model has a generous 256GB of SSD storage, that helps make it better value for money, something of a rarity for Apple these days.
If you look, the original MacBook Air is still available for sale on Apple's website and is still the most affordable laptop Apple makes. But its lower retail price is something of a false economy, given that the old display has big, thick bezels around the display, has no Retina resolution, and uses ancient TN technology with poor viewing angles, compared with the superior IPS Retina screens found in every other Mac laptop.
Worse, it has an old 5th-generation Intel dual-core processor, which may not be noticeably slower in day-to-day use for basic tasks such as email and web browsing, but is still years old.
If you must have the cheapest Apple laptop going, then go ahead and get the older Air, but since you're paying modern prices for old laptop technology, we'd still advise checking out our deals, eBay or the Apple refurb store, before buying direct from Apple's main site.
The MacBook Pro comes in three distinct flavours: 13-inch and 15-inch with the Touch Bar, and then another 13-inch model without the Touch Bar. If you're unaware, the Touch Bar replaces the top set of physical function keys on most keyboards with touch sensitive buttons that change context depending on the application you're using, although some have questioned how useful it is.
But importantly, the 13-inch MacBook Pro models without the Touch Bar are better value for money, but less powerful than the variant that does have a Touch Bar. The 2018 MacBook Pro without the Touch Bar uses a 2.3GHz seventh-generation dual-core Intel processor, either a Core i5 or a Core i7, and the entry-level model is now priced in the same bracket as the MacBook Air and MacBook.
128GB of storage is standard, so again the advice is to choose more if your budget can stretch to it. And you get 8GB of DDR3 memory, which can be upgraded to 16GB.
But once you start adding on extras to this entry-level MacBook Pro, the cost naturally skyrockets, which then makes the next tier up seem all the more attractive, given how it will offer significantly better all round performance for media editing and give you more storage anyway. We'd suggest that option if you can afford it - it's simply better value if you're after the best possible performance for your money.
Apple's cunning marketing team has very cleverly priced the 13-inch MacBook Pro with Touch Bar to make it much better relative value than an upgraded entry-level model. Crucially, it upgrades the seventh-generation Intel dual-core processor to a 2.3 GHz eighth-generation quad-core chip, which will make a massive difference in all media editing and design software, cutting rendering times by a whopping 50%.
It has a few other neat extras too, with 256GB of SSD storage as standard, a True Tone display and more powerful Intel Iris Plus graphics, which will make a small improvement in some tasks.
That makes its rather high asking price a tad easier to swallow.
The 15-inch MacBook Pro will leave such a gaping hole in your wallet that it's the last choice in terms of value for money on this list, but with the highest possible performance in any Mac laptop, this is what you really need for heavy-lifting in media editing and design software.
The two available 15-inch models have 16GB of memory as standard, with six-core processors, starting with a 2.2GHz (4.1 GHz Turbo) Intel Core i7, with either 256GB or 512GB of SSD storage.
This offers seriously fast performance that will go absolutely unused in day-to-day tasks like email, but will be brilliant for media work, with super fast exporting of video and plugins that just go like the clappers.
Unlike the 13-inch model, the 15-inch MacBook Pro also comes with discrete AMD Radeon Pro graphics, with 4GB of dedicated video memory, and in November 2018, Apple is launching a further tier with even more powerful Radeon Pro Vega graphics.
With this kind of performance in a laptop, the 15-inch MacBook Pro can replace your desktop completely, notably outperforming any of Apple's current iMac lineup (which has not been updated since 2017).
If you're considering upgrading the storage, Apple offers up to 4TB, but this comes at such a high price that it's much better value to stick to a more modest capacity and make use of a Thunderbolt external storage device. On the other hand, the memory upgrade to 32GB is definitely worth every penny if you're looking at using the MacBook Pro for high-end media work.
Why not upgrade your storage with a hard drive or SSD? See the best hard drive and SSD deals.


Treemap control provides a simple, but effective way to visualize flat or hierarchical data as clustered rectangles with a specific weighted attribute determining the size of the rectangle.
Group data to provide a top level view of the data.
Lay out data using one of the available algorithms like Squarified, SliceAndDiceAuto, SliceAndDiceHorizontal, or SliceAndDiceVertical for visualizing the relative weight of hierarchical data relationships at more than one level.


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Albertsons was launched by Joe Albertson in 1939 in Boise, Idaho. An advert in the Idaho Statesman newspaper touted Joe Albertson's to start with keep as "Idaho's most significant and best meals keep". The keep was filled with perquisites that, at the time, had been brand new: free of charge parking, a money-again assurance, even an ice product shop. The keep was located at 17th and Point out Streets, a number of blocks north of downtown Boise.
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Obama Unveils Cyber Training Initiative
Program Aims to Bolster Nation's High-Tech Workforce Eric Chabrow (GovInfoSecurity) • March 9, 2015
President Obama announces the TechHire initiative.
To help meet the high-tech skills shortage facing the nation, President Obama has unveiled TechHire, a multi-sector effort to furnish training to individuals to meet the twin goals of providing employers with skilled, high-tech specialists as well as allow individuals to gain the know-how to get hired in higher-paying and more secure jobs.
More than a half million unfilled information technology jobs exist in the United States, including those requiring cybersecurity, software development and network administration skills, President Obama said in a speech delivered to the National League of Cities on March 9, when he announced TechHire.
"When these jobs go unfilled, it's a missed opportunity for the workers, but it's also a missed opportunity for your city, your community, your county, your state and our nation," Obama said. "And here's something else: If we're not producing enough tech workers, over time that's going to threaten our leadership and global innovation, which is the bread and butter of the 21st century economy."
Funding Innovative Pilots
As part of TechHire, the government will allot $100 million, through competitions, to fund innovative training pilot programs. The White House says these grants will target individuals with barriers to accessing training, including people with childcare responsibilities, individuals with disabilities, those with limited English proficiency and disconnected youth. TechHire will serve unemployed and low-skilled workers. The grants will be financed by user fees employers pay to bring foreign workers into the United States under the H-1B nonimmigrant visa program.
The administration sees TechHire as fast-track training in the skills needed to fill mostly entry-level IT and cybersecurity jobs through approaches such as "coding boot camps" and online courses that can rapidly prepare workers for higher-paying jobs, "often in just a few months," according to a White House fact sheet.
Another element of TechHire is to get local communities, schools and businesses to collaborate on identifying new ways to train and recruit job prospects. Some 300 employers in 20 communities, with more than 120,000 high-tech job openings, have begun to implement such initiatives. Obama, in his speech, called on more communities to do the same.
Commitment to Hire the Newly Trained
One venture cited by the White House is in Delaware, where an accelerated coding boot camp is training individuals at a local community college in Java and .Net programming languages, with several major employers - including Bank of America, Capital One and Christiana Care Health Systems - making commitments to hire them once they finish the program.
Franklin Reeder, a former senior Office of Management and Budget executive who has researched the IT security skills shortage, says he likes TechHire's approach.
"While formal, traditional post-secondary education remains important, techniques like boot camps and apprenticeship programs - what the announcement calls job-driven training strategies - that can take individuals with strong aptitudes and interest and quickly prepare them for career-entry roles offer great promise," Reeder says. "And unlike some initiatives in the past, this one builds on real programs that are already working and employers who have made a serious commitment. The unprecedented level of detail in this announcement is very encouraging."
Properly Aligning Training, Jobs
Diana Burley, a George Washington University professor who researches the cybersecurity profession, says TechHire must properly align training with available local jobs as well as be able to adjust to evolving workforce needs based on objective and formative assessment if the initiative is to be effective. "Scalability of the initiatives supported through TechHire will be facilitated through this type of objective assessment rather than through anecdotal evidence of success alone," she says.
Demand for skilled IT security expertise at all levels is increasing. Last year, the IT security workforce in the United States grew by 42 percent, with virtually no unemployment (see IT Security Hiring Surge Continues). The Bureau of Labor Statistics expects the number of information security analysts to grow three times faster than the average occupation by 2022.
Part of that growth will come from the Defense Department and U.S. intelligence agencies. Late last week, for instance, the CIA announced the creation of a Digital Innovation Directorate to help counter technology advances by America's adversaries (see CIA Creates Digital Innovation Directorate).
"There is a gap between the demand in the DoD and NSC (National Security Council) for analysts and what the markets are supplying," says David Foote, chief analyst at the IT employment advisory firm Foote Partners.
TechHire's Limits
But TechHire might not help find the 3,000 civilian cybersecurity specialists the Defense Department says it needs to hire this year. "As the economy continues to improve, we expect to see more challenges in recruiting and retaining our cyber workforce," Vice Admiral Jan Tighe, U.S. Navy cyber commander, told the House Armed Services Committee last week.
TechHire is focused on providing training for entry-level positions, and the military, in this instance, is seeking a cadre of experienced IT security personnel with "unique cybersecurity skills and knowledge" to perform tasks such as cyber-risk analysis, cyber-incident response and cyber-vulnerability detection and assessment, according to a March 5 posting in the Federal Register. Those skills aren't the type that can be found in the boot camps and other programs envisioned by TechHire.
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CLEAR BLUE TECHNOLOGIES RISES
By Nick Waddell Published on January 20, 2021 Last Updated on January 20, 2021 Filed under: All posts, American Tech Stock: aapl
Apple is still a buy, this investor says
Apple (Apple Stock Quote, Chart, News, Analysts, Financials NASDAQ:AAPL) has had quite a run over the past couple of years but that shouldn't scare off would-be investors, says portfolio manager Gordon Reid, who thinks there's more upside to the tech name.
It's a genuine hockey stick of a chart on Apple over the past decade, where the stock had been steadily climbing for a number of years before truly taking off in 2019 and posting a combined return of about 250 per cent for the past two years.
Those are big numbers, but the stock's still got room to grow says Reid, president and CEO of Goodreid Investment Counsel.
"We own Apple and have owned it for about 15 years, so we've had a very good experience with Apple," said Reid, speaking to BNN Bloomberg on Tuesday.
"But, of course, every morning when are our feet hit the floor we're asking the question, what is the future and what are you going to do for me now? And that is the way every investor should be thinking and try not to be influenced by their own experience good or bad with the company and is my capital employed the best way it can be today and into the future?" Reid said.
"And, specifically, with Apple they've got just a tremendous built-in franchise of about 1.4 billion devices in the world. A 93 per cent loyalty rate is normally what the polls come out at, so it's a great combination when you have that kind of market share and that kind of loyalty," Reid said.
Apple has seemingly got out from under the cloud hanging over it in recent years when criticism regularly focused on the company's supposed over-reliance on iPhone sales to support growth. Hardware was Apple's bag, it was said, and not only were there competitors like Samsung swiping market share on its phones but worries persisted about the company's ability to innovate and remain at the forefront of tech gadgetry.
And while concerns like those persist, attention has more and more turned to Apple Services as the company's likely growth driver going forward. Apple Music, the App Store, Apple Pay and iCloud storage, they accounted for $14.55 billion of Apple's total revenue of $64.7 billion in its latest quarter, showing year-over-year growth of 16 per cent.
Wedbush Securities analyst Dan Ives recently attested that half of Apple's current $2-trillion market valuation now stems from its services business.
"When you look back at the disaster stories in phone hardware, like a Blackberry or Nokia, at the top of mountain they were not able to monetize an ecosystem. Apple still only has about 15 per cent to 18 per cent penetration of its installed based on the services side. The installed base makes it the most-valued company in world," said Ives, speaking on CNBC earlier this month.
Apple will report its fiscal first quarter 2021 results next week, giving investors a first look at how iPhone 12 sales went (the new phone went on sale this past October) as well as show how Apple fared over the holiday season. In the difficult 2020 year, fraught as it was with COVID-19 closures of retail outlets and a shift to work-from-home disruptions, Apple finished its fiscal 2020 (ended September 26) with total net sales of $274 billion compared to $260 billion a year earlier, with EPS hitting $3.31 per share versus $2.99 per share for the year before.
For its most recent quarter, Apple beat estimates with revenue of $64.7 billion versus the consensus $63.70 billion and EPS of $0.73 per share versus the expected $0.70 per share. At the same time, Apple declined to give guidance on the quarter ending in December nor on the fiscal 2021 year, citing uncertainties related to the ongoing pandemic.
But Reid says the road ahead looks good for Apple, especially considering what many see as a major upgrading cycle in smartphones about to occur, thanks in part to the emergence of 5G networks.
"We're moving quite quickly into a 5G world, and for companies like Apple 5G will lead to a massive roll-over of product adoption because you can't just layer on 5G to older phones," Reid said. "We're getting prepared for that with Apple."
"Some of that is priced in and we've seen the multiple on Apple rise over the last couple of years but certainly not all of it. So, we would be a buyer of Apple at this point," Reid said.
On the rollout of 5G, Apple CEO Tim Cook said in the quarterly press release in October, "Despite the ongoing impacts of COVID-19, Apple is in the midst of our most prolific product introduction period ever, and the early response to all our new products, led by our first 5G-enabled iPhone lineup, has been tremendously positive."
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From sunset cruises on the Zambezi River, helicopter flips over the majestic Victoria Falls and house-boating on Lake Kariba, Zambia is abounding with natural wonders, abundance of wild life and opportunities to commune with nature. Give the capital city of Lusaka a bit of your time and venture around its markets, restaurants and hubs for younger children to enjoy. With expert guides, add a bush walk and overnight canoe safari in the lower Zambezi National Park to your stay and savor the sunbathing, fishing, crayfish-eating and sundowner life afloat on Lake Kariba.
With a sub-tropical climate, Zambia's weather is more defined by a wet and dry season as opposed to summer and winter. The rainy season between December and April less the bush explode with a green vibrance but makes game viewing more challenging plus some lodges close due to flooding. The dry season between May and October calls to safari seekers looking to encounter more game and enjoy milder daytime temperatures (although September and October see temperatures heat up quite abit).


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There are a lot of people out who don't like God. But they're often very subtle about it. But if you pay attention, you'll find it.
One day I was in a store and they had a lot of food samples. A conversation started about healthy foods. This food is good for this, and that food is bad for that, and whatever. About that time I said something about how when I cut out pork and shell fish my cholesterol and blood pressure went down. They were all thrilled to hear it and wanted to hear more. So I told them I got the idea from the Old Testament. Instantly they went from thinking what I had to say as wonderful, to telling me I was wrong and crazy.
I found this to be interesting. So I tried this a few more times. Each time I told someone about my diet, I'm told it's wonderful, good information, intriguing, the people were just genuinely interested. Yet three out four people didn't like finding out that the diet came from the Bible. Some even got verbally abusive.
This reminds me of an article I read once about an experiment someone did at Berkeley in California. He showed up one day with an ISIS flag, then an Israeli flag. Interesting. You can see the video here.
Another time I was talking to some guy and he was telling me about his travels. He said he went to Cambodia once and saw an interesting temple. He said when visiting the temple ruins (as a tourist) he saw a carving of a dinosaur on the temple itself. He doesn't like to talk about it, because nobody believes him. People are convinced that dinosaurs and man did not live together. But he swears he's seen the carving.
I told him I believe it. In fact there is even an eye witness account of an ankylosaurus in the Bible. (In fact I even wrote about it in "The Creature From Job") He quickly told me that nothing in the Bible is true.
Either they admit they are wrong about the Bible not being true or start explaining why they think the world is flat.
Anyway we really shouldn't be surprised about this. After all, Jesus did say people would hate us.
About the temple in Cambodia, it's called Ta Prohm. There are a lot of websites for it, and some claim that the dinosaur carving on it, is a hoax. However here is a link to one website that says the hoax is not possible because the Cambodian government patrols the ruins with AK-47 rifles.
People who hate the Lord God, most often do not like the truth. Their loss.


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Q: Zest 1.1.0 cannot integrate with ZK 6.5.2 I am using ZK framework version 6.5.2 for my application. And now I want to integrate RESTful to it by using Zest. The problem is, the latest version of Zest is 1.1.0, and it depends on zcommon-5.0.0. So this dependency (zcommon-5.0.0) is duplicated and I excluded it from my POM file, like this:
<dependency>
      <groupId>org.zkoss.zest</groupId>
      <artifactId>zest</artifactId>
      <version>1.1.0</version>
      <exclusions>
        <exclusion>
          <groupId>org.zkoss.common</groupId>
          <artifactId>zcommon</artifactId>
        </exclusion>
        <exclusion>
          <groupId>org.zkoss.common</groupId>
          <artifactId>zweb</artifactId>
        </exclusion>
      </exclusions>
    </dependency>

As a result zest now depends on zcommon-6.5.2. When I start my app, an error occured:
java.lang.ClassCastException: [Ljava.lang.Object; cannot be cast to org.zkoss.xel.taglib.FunctionDefinition
    at org.zkoss.xel.taglib.Taglibs.getFunctionMapper(Taglibs.java:150)
    at org.zkoss.xel.taglib.Taglibs.getFunctionMapper(Taglibs.java:109)
    at org.zkoss.zest.sys.impl.ParserImpl.parse(ParserImpl.java:97)
    at org.zkoss.zest.sys.impl.ParserImpl.parse(ParserImpl.java:54)
    at org.zkoss.zest.sys.ZestManager.loadConfiguration(ZestManager.java:98)
    at org.zkoss.zest.sys.ZestManager.init(ZestManager.java:70)
    at org.zkoss.zest.sys.ZestFilter.init(ZestFilter.java:74)

Here is my web.xml:
<filter>
    <filter-name>zest</filter-name>
    <filter-class>org.zkoss.zest.sys.ZestFilter</filter-class>
    <!-- specifies the class name of the ZEST manager to handle actions Default: org.zkoss.zest.sys.ZestManager -->
    <init-param>
      <param-name>manager-class</param-name>
      <param-value>org.zkoss.zest.sys.ZestManager</param-value>
    </init-param>

    <!-- specifies the class name of the parser used to parse the configuration file (WEB-INF/zest.xml). Default: org.zkoss.zest.sys.impl.ParserImpl -->
    <init-param>
      <param-name>parser-class</param-name>
      <param-value>org.zkoss.zest.sys.impl.ParserImpl</param-value>
    </init-param>

  </filter>

And here is rest definition in zest.xml:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<zest>

  <xel-method prefix="c" name="toMethodName"
            class="com.myapp.view.RestAction"
        signature="java.lang.String toMethodName(java.lang.String)"/>
    <action path="/rest" method="${c:toMethodName(request.method)}"
    class="com.myapp.view.RestAction">
        <result>/WEB-INF/index.zul</result>
    </action>
</zest>

I have compared the source code of these 2 files Taglibs.java in version 5.0.0 and 6.5.2 of zcommon and realized that they have so many differences. I think that the reason caused above problems (the initialization process has changed from 5.0.5 to 6.5.2). Could you please help me solve this problem so that I can integrate zest to my ZK application? Thank you so much.

A: Zest 1.1 is not compatible with ZK 6.5.2. You have to upgrade to Zest 2.0:
http://mavensync.zkoss.org/maven2/org/zkoss/zest/zest/2.0.0.FL.20130205/

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President Obama Offers Cautious Response to Boston Bomb Blasts
In the face of twin bomb blasts in Boston, a restrained President Obama betrayed no emotion, and did not dwell on the details
By Michael Scherer and Zeke Miller April 15, 2013
President Barack Obama leaves the podium after speaking at the White House on April 15, 2013, following the explosions at the Boston Marathon
President Obama's Remarks on the Boston Marathon Tragedy (Transcript and Video)
Live Video and Updates: Boston Marathon Blasts Leave 2 Dead, Dozens Injured
In the face of twin bomb blasts in Boston, a restrained President Obama betrayed no emotion, and did not dwell on the details.
"The events in Boston," he said, without describing the twin bomb blasts that ripped through crowds of spectators at the end of the city's annual marathon Monday. "People have been wounded," he said, without mentioning the two deaths already confirmed. He declined to use the word terrorism even though his aides quickly offered this statement to the press: "Any event with multiple explosive devices — as this appears to be — is clearly an act of terror."
Instead Obama went before the cameras in the White House briefing room to perform a duty he had long known could be expected of him. For five years, the possibility of an explosion on U.S. soil killing innocent Americans has always shadowed the President. At least twice before it nearly took place: in a botched 2009 attempt to blow up an airplane with an underwear-sewn explosive over Detroit and an attempt in 2010 to set off a car bomb in a Nissan Pathfinder parked near New York City's Times Square.
But now that the moment came, Obama simply carried out his primary responsibility: claiming control of the situation and promising to restore a sense of order and safety to a shaken nation. "We will find out who did this; we'll find out why they did this," he said. "Any responsible individuals, any responsible groups will feel the full weight of justice."
All across the federal government, the response had the same feel of efficient formality. The White House released a photo of the President talking on a phone with the director of the FBI. House Speaker John Boehner released a photo of himself speaking with the President by phone. The flags on the Capitol were lowered to half-mast. The U.S. Navy deployed an explosives-denotation team to help Boston police clear the city streets of suspect bags. The various other federal agencies, including the Department of Homeland Security and the Justice Department, promised their substantial resources to investigating and solving the crime. The FBI took the lead of the criminal investigation.
Left unanswered were the questions that will inevitably be asked in the coming days: Were the increased antiterrorism measures taken over the past decade sufficient? Did the massive federal infrastructure seeking to identify such threats before they were acted upon let clues slip by them?
After the attacks of September 11, 2001, the Department of Homeland Security had attempted to formalize and rationalize the federal support to local law-enforcement trying to protect major sporting events and political gatherings. In 2005, the department published a Prioritized List of Special Events, grading each gathering on a scale of one to four with a certain level of recommended federal assistance. As of Monday night, a spokesman for the Department of Homeland Security had not responded to questions about how the Boston Marathon had been rated or whether that rating had been changed in recent years.
In the wake of the World Trade Center and Pentagon attacks, FBI Director Robert Mueller had made clear that the marathon was a major federal priority. "More resources also means a much stronger presence at special events," he said in a 2002 speech in California. "We were out in force, for example, at this week's Boston Marathon."
There will likely be no simple answers in the coming weeks. "You could have prevented something like this from happening today, but you would have completely destroyed the race," said Edward Connors, the president of the Institute for Law and Justice, who authored a 2007 federal study on proper guidelines for planning and managing security for major special events. "For these kind of events the expectation is set that you have tremendous public access."
Ironically, President Obama had begun his day planning to praise the athleticism of his country, with a public photo opportunity with members of the University of Alabama football team, winners of the 2013 Bowl Championship Series. Instead, he ended the day praising sport in a very different context. "It's a day that draws the world to Boston's streets in a spirit of friendly competition," Obama said about the marathon. "Boston is a tough and resilient town. So are its people. I'm supremely confident that Bostonians will pull together, take care of each other and move forward as one proud city. And as they do, the American people will be with them every single step of the way."
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July 23, 2008 Goma
I spent an night in Gisenyi on the Congo border and crossed on Sunday AM, meeting Samuel Kamanzi on the Congolese side. Got an eight day visa which is not long enough so I will have to exit back to Rwanda this coming Friday and re enter for another eight days which will get me to the end of my planned visit in the Congo. The alternative is to travel back to Kigali and then down through Burundi and back into the Congo way south of here. However I have ticket to go south on Lake Kivu to Bukavu at the south end of the lake. The boat leaves on Saturday at 7:30am and takes two hours for $50. From there I catch a bus down to Uvira still in the Congo. The course here in Goma is almost over. We had three days of teaching. Tomorrow, I'll supervise a couple of mediations, one at a refugee camp where there are many Quakers who have fled fighting in other parts of the country. Late in the afternoon I will film the church choir where I attended services last Sunday. That was an experience in itself. The service began at 9am and lasted to a little after 1PM. Lots of great singing and some serious bible thumping from a visiting pastor from Kenya who started the sermon with "I won't let you go home early." I'm sure a lot of my friends are calling this payback time for George. Lots of interesting people where I stay. The trip to the Peace Center by moto taxi or mini bus (matatu) are filled with despair seeing how people live and struggle on the recent lava flows that devastated this town in 2004. Everything is covered by ash and soot. With an inversion in the atmosphere compounded by hundreds of thousands of charcoal cooking fires it must be something like Pittsburgh when the steel industry was running uncontrolled. Some of the worst atmosphere I've ever seen. Last night there were big thunder and lightning shots and a little rain on our side of town. Over by the Peace Center, a lot of rain but it really didn't clean things off at all. I had some intestinal illness for a day, but an American nurse/luthern missionary had a bag full of goodies that did me a lot of good. Antibiotics do help in times of need. The pipes are no longer calling, Danny Boy. A little girl was sitting on the floor at the bishop's residence where I'm staying. I couldn't understand her name. But we conversed in Swahili and French. I asked how old she was and I guessed, 4. She said she was 11. I said you are too small to be 11. She said mimi mgonjwa, meaning I'm ill. When she got up and walked, it was the gait of an old woman. She could move but it was an old walk. There was some distention in her abdomen. I don't know what is wrong with her. A number of sick people have been brought here from outlying areas for medical treatment. She is one. Two nights ago there were three adults with bone injuries who had travelled two days in a minibus from somewhere up north. They were in a lot of pain. They also must have come through some bad areas meaning dangerous. My time is up so I must stop for now.


I really like this series, I love Sherrif Jenna Alton and her relationship with Deputy Kane. They're great characters to read about and I love the chemistry between them.
Being set in a small town works really well too, but it does mean that a lot has to happen to keep the series interesting and the reader engaged. I can go with that though as I love the setting, the remoteness adds to the story and there are so many places for baddies to hide.
This is the third book in the series, I think that they could be read as a standalone but it would be better to start at the beginning as you'll get so much more out of the story if you know what happened before.
Once again Hood takes the reader on a journey, the clock is ticking and Alton and her team need to find a killer before more people meet a gruesome end. I was hooked straight in and enjoyed trying to work out the whodunnit. I do think that this is the weakest of the series so far, but given how good the previous books have been I wouldn't let that put you off. I'm now waiting eagerly for book four.
Thank you to Bookouture for a copy of Follow Me Home by DK Hood, I was under no obligation to review the book and all thoughts are my own.
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#include <cudaCompress/util.h>

#include <cudaCompress/InstanceImpl.h>

namespace cudaCompress {

void setTimingDetail(Instance* pInstance, ETimingDetail detail)
{
    pInstance->setTimingDetail(detail);
}

void getTimings(Instance* pInstance, std::vector<std::string>& names, std::vector<float>& times)
{
    pInstance->getTimings(names, times);
}

void printTimings(Instance* pInstance)
{
    pInstance->printTimings();
}

void resetTimings(Instance* pInstance)
{
    pInstance->resetTimings();
}

}

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Pokemon Go Dev Hints That Legendary Pokemon Are On The Way This Summer
Niantic teases that a "legendary" summer is in store for players.
By Kevin Knezevic on May 22, 2017 at 11:00AM PDT
Pokemon Go lets players capture nearly every Pokemon from the series' first two generations, with a few notable exceptions: thus far, players have not been able to encounter, let alone capture, any Legendary Pokemon. Recent comments from developer Niantic, however, seem to suggest that Legendary monsters may be appearing in the game soon.
In his acceptance speech at the 21st Annual Webby Awards, where Pokemon Go picked up five awards including "Best Mobile Game," Niantic's global marketing product lead Archit Bhargava said, "This summer will be legendary." While not outright confirmation that Legendary Pokemon are coming to the game, it certainly seems to suggest that's the case; Webby acceptance speeches are traditionally limited to five words, and the fact that Bhargava explicitly included the word "legendary" in his is perhaps the biggest hint yet that Legendary Pokemon are indeed on the way.
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Rumors that Legendary Pokemon would be added to Pokemon Go have been circulating since last summer, when the Legendary bird Articuno found its way into--and was quickly revoked from--some players' games. More recently, Niantic CEO John Hanke was asked by Wired Germany when players could expect to see Legendary Pokemon in the game, to which he replied, "I can safely say we'll see more of it this year."
In the meantime, Pokemon Go players can take part in the game's Adventure Week event, which makes it easier to encounter Rock-type Pokemon like Omanyte, Kabuto, Aerodactyl, and Sudowoodo. Players can also get a free "Adventurer's Hat" for their avatar. Adventure Week ends on May 25 at 1 PM PT/4 PM ET.
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Working meeting with Minister of Culture Vladimir Medinsky
Vladimir Putin held a working meeting with Minister of Culture Vladimir Medinsky.
The Kremlin, Moscow
The focus of the discussion was the implementation of the programme to establish cultural centres in rural areas.
The Minister of Culture also informed the President about the formation of innovation centres in cities with federal support.
President of Russia Vladimir Putin: Good afternoon.
Mr Medinsky, there are many questions but you wanted to start with regional issues. Go ahead, please.
Minister of Culture Vladimir Medinsky Medinsky VladimirAide to the President : Yes, with regional issues.
You know, Mr President, the Ministry of Culture has been criticised more than once for focusing on issues of our cultural capitals, calling it "the Bolshoi Theatre Ministry" or "the Mariinsky Theatre Ministry." Therefore, we tried, starting with the Year of Culture and throughout all these years, to put an emphasis on supporting our regions.
I would like to say a few words about several major projects that we are carrying out now and plan to implement next year.
First, the Year of Cinema: we are setting up 443 screens with government support in small towns that have had no cinema since the Soviet times.
Vladimir Putin: What will you show?
Vladimir Medinsky: We must show 50 percent Russian films under our contracts. Therefore, we are promoting our films.
We will also be opening giant screens at 24 circuses in the regions. It is quite a sight. They are incredibly large screens with wonderful sound.
There will also be cinemas in 37 cultural centres that we are building in small towns following Presidential executive orders (by the way, we built 37 centres instead of the five under the plan). Naturally, all these measures are promoting the gradual growth of the share of Russian films screened.
We have one more new project. Again, we have had nothing like this since the Soviet times. Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev Medvedev DmitryDeputy Chairman of the Security Council of the Russian Federation is an enthusiastic supporter. He is paying special attention to rural areas. This project provides for the co-funding of the construction of rural cultural centres of a new type.
We drafted several standard plans. The federal budget will provide 70 percent of the total funding. These centres will be built in the regions where agriculture is growing but they lack money in local budgets. These new cultural centres have something to offer the whole family.
We found 1.5 billion in the Culture Ministry's budget for next year. We will carry on with this programme. So far this year, we have already provided 300 million on a pilot project. This is about 30 new community centres. There will be hundreds eventually.
Other big, high-profile regional projects include Russky Island, Pervouralsk (Sverdlovsk Region) and Kaluga – the creation of major innovative cultural centres that will essentially be the biggest modern cultural institutions in these regions. They are also supported at the federal level.
As for assistance in restoration projects, I could talk at length about that. I would like to draw your attention to something by way of example. We recently visited Astrakhan. We are restoring the Astrakahn Kremlin with federal funding. The project is nearing completion. In addition, there are also the Tula, Pskov and Novgorod kremlins. Interestingly, according to the governor, the restoration of the Astrakhan Kremlin has been accompanied by a qualitative improvement in tourism there. A five-star hotel has opened there, very near the entrance to the Kremlin. Astrakhan now is not only a place to go fishing but there is also a wonderful ballet theatre and the Kremlin, and a lot of tourists stay right there in the city.
Crimea. This project did not get off to a flying start. Remember, Mr President, you were the one who initiated it. We launched it and the first restoration projects began: the Ukraina cinema theatre, which is now part of the Defence of Sevastopol Museum, including an exhibition hall. There have been a series of exhibitions: the Ryurikoviches, the Romanovs, the Defence of Sevastopol, the Malakhov Mound. There are literally swarms of school students there.
At present, there are about 15 cultural facilities. Importantly, the Culture Ministry is responsible for federal facilities while the Crimea and Sevastopol governments are responsible for regional facilities, but we are simply one team. We are constantly in contact.
As of next year, facilities will be put into operation on a regular basis. Monument restoration projects are underway everywhere. Also, Mr President, if I may, I would like to hand you a letter from People's Artist of the USSR Yury Solomin inviting you to the opening ceremony at Maly Theatre after renovations. This is what Maly will look like. I will not say anything. Better to see for yourself.
Vladimir Putin: At the end of November?
Vladimir Medinsky: Yes.
Generally, a great deal is being said today about theatres on TV and elsewhere. I would like to show you the most significant state-sponsored projects to support theatre infrastructure that we are implementing.
For example, in St Petersburg, a new project has been launched – the biggest after Mariinsky Theatre: the Maly Drama Theatre under the leadership of Lev Dodin, which is a complex of buildings. The foundation pit is ready and work is in progress. This is probably the best complex of drama theatres. It was quite a challenge fitting it into the historical ambiance of the central part of the city, but it seems to fit all right.
Vladimir Putin: You promised that long ago.
Vladimir Medinsky: Now about Moscow. We launched the construction of the second stage at the Chekhov Moscow Art Theatre at Nagatinskatya. The work is in full swing and I hope we will open it in 2019. The theatres are working really well.
We are trying to attract business, Mr President, in order to save government money. Here is an example for you: a private company is building a turnkey affiliate of the Maly Theatre in Kogalym at its own expense. Once it is built, we will be in charge of it. This is how it will look. We signed the contract with LUKOIL at the International Cultural Forum in St Petersburg.
This year we will sign a contract on the complete transfer to us of a theatre building with all equipment in the centre of Moscow for two billion roubles. It is one of the best federal drama theatres headed by Zhenovach. We will receive this entire private complex. Its balance sheet value is about two billion roubles. I think this is a good example of public-private partnership in action.
Now a few words about business and the growth of non-government museums. In the last few years, their number doubled. This is a conservative estimate. We cannot even count all of them. These are both public and private museums. Some of them are enormous, like the Museum of Russian Impressionism and the Museum of the Russian Icon. We will open the Military Uniform Museum early next year. We are always trying to support such initiatives because they promote tourism and create jobs and, in general, this is a sacred cause.
And the last point I would like to make concerns the development of the Moscow Philharmonic Society. Much is said about the record sales of tickets to exhibitions, for instance the Aivazovsky and Serov exhibitions. However, this year an absolute record was set by sales of classical music tickets by the Moscow Philharmonic Society since its founding in Lunacharsky's times.
We are completing the opening of the second stage of the Moscow Philharmonic Society, the so-called Rachmaninov complex in the south-west of Moscow. I am certain all of its musicians and other employees would be happy if you found the time to visit. It has one of Moscow's best concert halls. It has not just one hall but a series of halls, several of them.
Vladimir Putin: Is the sound good? Who made it?
Vladimir Medinsky: Not us. The Germans worked on the sound. Experts say the sound is the best in Moscow. When Gergiev is in town, he goes there for rehearsals.
Vladimir Putin: Fine.
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Publication date: November 3, 2016, 18:20
Last updated at November 3, 2016, 22:47