See Gaga's stunning catwalk cameo.
Just days after she dazzled in custom Marc Jacobs at the Grammy Awards, Lady Gaga walked in the designer's fall/winter show at New York Fashion Week on Thursday.
According to Women's Wear Daily, the singer arrived at the show's venue, Park Avenue Armory, at 3:30 p.m. She reportedly "insisted" on being treated like everyone else backstage, even getting her hair and makeup done alongside the other models.
Gaga appeared about a third of the way through the show, wearing an oversized coat with fur sleeves and platform boots. She also swapped out the fiery red 'do she sported at the Grammys in favor of bleach blonde locks.
Sure, the height difference between Gaga and the other models was quite noticeable at the end of the show, but she slayed nonetheless.
At Monday night's Grammy Awards, Gaga wore an embellished blue Marc Jacobs gown on the red carpet, pairing it with a bright red mullet, glittery blue eyeshadow, and red sky-high platforms. She also wore a custom Jacobs number during her David Bowie tribute performance during the show.
This wasn't Lady Gaga's first runway gig. She previously walked in the fall 2011 Thierry Mugler show in Paris, and also starred in the music video Tom Ford did instead of a runway show for spring 2016.


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Sitting on the Surrey Crescent ridge, the Isaac apartment development provides an example of high density living achieved with careful attention to detail. By embracing the access-way that runs through the middle of the site, the development's design has succeeded in not only creating a collection of buildings but more importantly, in creating a place.
Ockham Residential had an objective to create a new precedent for apartment living in Auckland on the Grey Lynn site. This initiative sought to achieve Ockham Residential's objective of delivering apartment developments of enviable quality that exemplified their three cornerstone philosophies:
Our buildings will be well detailed and clearly residential in their appearance
We aim to create buildings that appeal to the majority of the public
We will only incorporate well proven, durable, low maintenance building materials in the execution of our projects
The potential of a 3571m² brown-field site located strategically in the heart of Grey Lynn provided Ockham Residential with a rare development opportunity.
Being surrounded by a diverse mix of land uses, including The Surrey Apartments; Grey Lynn school; a crèche; St. Columba church; and some substantial commercial buildings, both historic and modern; offered the challenge to explore an apartment design that would both complement the existing, and contribute to the emerging, character of this part of Surrey Crescent.
Each of the three apartment buildings has their own entrance and the buildings benefit from communal roof-top open spaces and shared residents' lounges which, due to the development's location on the Surrey Crescent ridge line, boast panoramic views of Auckland and the Waitemata Harbour.
The site has a substantial 53m frontage to Surrey Crescent, which provides a transition from public to private areas of the development by including generous active commercial spaces at street level. Also, prior subdivision of the site incorporated a right of way through the middle of the site along the north-south axis, creating a lane that gives vehicle access to the basement car parking entrances and to existing rear lot commercial activities. Consequently, vehicular movements are limited to a relatively small portion of the site and the central apartments gain both outlook over the lane and exposure to sunlight.
The brief was to create a residential micro-community along the lane and provide a pedestrian friendly environment.
The Isaac is a four storey, predominantly residential, mixed use development, named after Sir Isaac Newton, with each building recognising Newton's three laws of motion. The three buildings comprise 75 apartments, ranging from one to three bedrooms, two commercial spaces at ground level fronting onto Surrey Crescent and basement car parking. Each of the three apartment buildings has their own entrance and the buildings benefit from communal roof-top open spaces and shared residents' lounges which, due to the development's location on the Surrey Crescent ridge line, boast panoramic views of Auckland and the Waitemata Harbour. Apartments are freehold, including the rear building which is leased to tenants by Ockham Residential.
Ockham Residential expressed a desire to present the proposal to the urban design panel at an early stage in the design process, in order to benefit from the urban design panel's assessment and recommendations before substantially refining the project.
The urban design panel's response to the draft design in November 2011 was supportive, with a caveat of improvements recommended. The urban design panel's advice focused on improving amenity of apartments, carefully testing shading impacts on the adjoining primary school, design detail of the central lane and improvements to how the ground floor commercial spaces addressed the street.
Key recommendations that were addressed over time included: improvements in apartment layout, reduced impact from the building on the neighbouring school, façade design, landscape design, improvement of pedestrian focused space, and improved accessibility.
Creating a high quality exterior played an important part in the design of The Isaac and the materials used reference a number of neighbouring buildings.
The Isaac is clad in traditional red brickwork similar to that of the neighbouring St. Columba Church, as well as contemporary precast concrete panels similar to those used on The Surrey apartments opposite.
Following presentations to the Auckland Urban Design Panel, extensive and lengthy discussions were held in good faith between the developer and Council staff, including the urban design team, to ensure that the recommendations of the Urban Design Panel were achieved. This helped to ensure that the building is an asset for the city into the future.
We are proud that the best position on the site is provided as shared space; rooftop communal lounges and outdoor space. In any apartment building, there is a hierarchy of space and this model ensures that everyone has access to some of the best spaces, views, and amenity. This genuine community amenity is prioritised in the buildings and sets a new recognition of contemporary cultural shifts where apartment living can support a micro-community, rather than simply house individuals.
Ockham Residential's commitment to designing for the site and neighbourhood context has created a development which enhances the public realm and creates a presence that is an exemplar for residential apartment design in Auckland. This project is a clear expression of Ockham Residential's desire to have The Isaac fit elegantly in its neighbourhood and their overall commitment to good design that drove the project from a conceptual stage through to the form, materiality, and fine detailing of the finished buildings.
The Isaac development is an excellent example of synergy between the private sector and the goals and aspirations of Council.
The Isaac development is an excellent example of synergy between the private sector and the goals and aspirations of Council. It provides a large number of high quality residential units near readily-available public transport alternatives, all within a practical walking distance to employment and recreation opportunities.
The Isaac; Newton's Three Apartment Buildings

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When we saw the Srixon WG-706 wedge we couldn't wait to get out and put it through it's paces.
The forged carbon steel clubhead looks great and the new U-Grooves that are becoming standard on all new wedges, give you fantastic spin on even the shortest shots. However make sure you hit the first 100 or so balls on the range to take the edge off the grooves before letting your own ball get in the way.
From tight lies, fairways and hard sand this wedge is excellent and because the heel bounce has been reduced it is really easy to lay open and play touch shots with spin.
We tried the 56 degree version with 12 degrees of bounce, but with a swing weight of D3 it was not really heavy enough to go through deep rough or soft sand effectively. Don't get us wrong, the Srixon WG-706 is a very good wedge, but make sure it is right for you and they type of courses you play on a regular basis.
I've played Vokey and Cleveland wedges for many years, but I picked up the Srixon WG-706 56 degree and fell in love with it. My only complaint was that it was too light but I solved that with some lead tape. I'm just ordered the 52 degree for my gap wedge and plan on getting the 60 degree when my current Vokey gets a little balder.
The Srixon W-706 wedge is just to light. There is no weight coming through the ball at impact, with the result being no feel and hard to control. It looks nice and sits behind the ball well, but it is just to light for my liking.
Inspires confidence. Grey finish is an acquired taste.
Delivered the goods..loved the feel and the weighting.
Nice spin and feel..failed to shine..mid-table performer.
Large face..inspires great levels of confidence.
Face looked quite big at address..better distance control.
Preety good all-rounder..a bit clicky off the face.


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Gays (2)
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AIDS (Disease) (1)
African American entertainers (1)
Federal Art Project (Calif.) (4)
Marin, John (4)
Burchfield, Charles Ephraim (3)
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Query: Federal aid to the public welfare -- California -- Oakland -- Photographs
Simpson, Marian Hahn, 1899-1978
2 Reels (ca.20 items (on partial microfilm reels))
AAA.simpmari
Photographs and clippings.
Sargent Johnson photographs of sculpture
Johnson, Sargent, 1888-1967
1 Microfilm reel (3 items on partial microfilm reel)
AAA.johnsarg
This microfilm collection consists of photographs of sculptures created by African American artist Sargent Johnson for the Federal Art Project.
Edith Hamlin photographs of murals
Hamlin, Edith
6 Items ((on partial microfilm reel))
AAA.hamledit
Six photographs showing Hamlin at work on Federal Art Project murals for the Mission High School Library in San Francisco, 1937.
Charles Howard papers
Howard, Charles, 1899-1978
11 Items ((on partial microfilm reel))
AAA.howachar
Photographs of Howard and his paintings and a critique; and analysis by Sidney Peterson.
Charles W. White papers
White, Charles, 1918-1979
bulk 1960s-1970s
AAA.whitchar
The papers of Los Angeles painter, printmaker, and educator, Charles W. White, measure 12.9 linear feet and date from 1933 to 1987, with the bulk of the material dating from the 1960s to the 1970s. The collection contains biographical material, including a sound recording of an interview with White; personal and professional correspondence; writings by White and others about his philosophy of art, his life, and career; professional files documenting White's participation in a variety of boards, committees, juries, symposiums, professional projects, and commissions; teaching files documenting White's tenure at Otis Art Institute; extensive printed material charting White's career from the 1930s until his death; scrapbooks primarily documenting his early career; and a small series of photographs.
Archives Center Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender (LGBT) Collection
Gay Officers Action League. GOAL
Becker, John M.
Heritage of Pride (HOP)
Hirsch, Leonard
1825-2021, undated
63 Cubic feet (189 boxes, 21 map-folders)
This collection contains a variety of periodicals, photographs, correspondence, business and advertising ephemera (corporate and non-profit, personal), organizational records and ephemera, created by, for, and in reaction to the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender (LGBT) community.
Central Administrative File, Records
National Collection of Fine Arts
59 cu. ft. (1 record storage box) (116 document boxes)
The records pertain to the administration of David W. Scott, director, 1965-1968, Robert Tyler Davis, interim director, 1969, and Joshua C. Taylor, director, 1970- . Some records, most noticeably correspondence with Smithsonian Art Commission members, have been pulled up into the files from previous administrations. Also included are Smithson...
Tomás Ybarra-Frausto research material
Ybarra-Frausto, Tomás, 1938-
1.27 Gigabytes
AAA.ybartoma
The research material of Tomás Ybarra-Frausto, measures 33.1 linear feet and 1.27 GB and dates from 1965-2004. The collection, amassed throughout Ybarra-Frausto's long and distinguished career as a scholar of the arts and humanities, documents the development of Chicano art in the United States and chronicles Ybarra-Frausto's role as a community leader and scholar in the political and artistic Chicano movement from its inception in the 1960s to the present day.
Division of Science, Medicine and Society HIV/AIDS Reference Collection
Kondratas, Ramunas A.
3.5 Cubic feet (12 boxes, 3 oversized folders)
This collection consists of pamphlets, books, and a wide variety of printed matter and ephemera relating to HIV/AIDS. The collection was principally assembled by National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution curator Ramunas Kondratas.
Depository Files
Joseph Henry Papers Project
This accession consists of correspondence with depositories from which the Joseph Henry Papers Project requested documents relating to Joseph Henry, Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1846-1878. The Joseph Henry Papers Project was part of the Smithsonian Institution Archives, Institutional History Division. Materials also include l...


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AFTRA to Senate: Reject Indecency Bill
AFTRA says nearly 1,500 signatures and letters have arrived at the union in opposition to the Broadcast Decency Enforcement Act (SB 2056). AFTRA's Rebecca Rhine, assistant national executive director, public policy and strategic planning, said, "This initial response, overwhelming for such a short period of time, con
AFTRA says nearly 1,500 signatures and letters have arrived at the union in opposition to the Broadcast Decency Enforcement Act (SB 2056).
AFTRA's Rebecca Rhine, assistant national executive director, public policy and strategic planning, said, "This initial response, overwhelming for such a short period of time, confirms that serious concerns exist among performers for fining individuals for corporate decisions. The focus ought to be on how media consolidation creates fewer choices for the public and fewer outlets for diverse programming. It is clear that a half-million dollar fine will result in a chilling effect on artistic freedom."
In a letter sent to members of the U.S. Senate, AFTRA states the bill's broadcast indecency standards are vague and the penalties are excessive and misdirected. Key provisions of the bill increase the existing fines on announcers to $500,000.

Senators Introduce Indecency Bill
Sens. Kay Bailey Hutchinson, R-Texas, and Jay Rockefeller, D-W.V., have introduced a bill aimed at curbing broadcast indecency. The "Indecent and Gratuitous and Excessive Violence Broadcasting Control Act of 2005" would require the FCC to fine broadcasters $500,000 per indecent utterance, with a $3 million per day ca
House Passes Indecency Bill
Despite pleadings from several members of Congress that the proposed broadcast indecency bill being considered would violate free speech rights, the House of Representatives overwhelmingly approved an election-year broadcast indecency bill that could impose fines of up to $500,000 for broadcasters that air "indecent" m

Media Institute Objects to Senate's 'Indecent' Proposal
A Washington, D.C.-based think tank specializing in First Amendment issues has fired off a letter to Congress, urging legislators to reconsider its proposals on indecency regulations. The Media Institute was responding to a proposal that emerged from a recent Senate Commerce Committee hearing in which committee member
New indecency bill clears Senate Commerce Committee
The bill attempts to override an appeals court ruling that invalidated the FCC's new profanity policy.
'Fleeting' Indecency Bill Introduced
Several members of the House this week introduced a bill that would require the FCC to take action against a broadcaster for any single offending word or image.
AFTRA Vows to Continue Fighting Consolidation
AFTRA delegates representing broadcasters, actors and sound recording artists gathered at a convention in Nashville this week reaffirmed their opposition to media consolidation and voted to allocate resources to the effort. AFTRA National President John Connolly, said, "We certainly made progress after June 2, when it
Bills to Raise Indecency Fines Introduced
Lawmakers have reintroduced two bills to raise fines for broadcast indecency violations. Rep. Fred Upton, R-Mich., chairman of the Telecom Subcommittee, would raise the amount to $500,000 for each instance. In the Senate, Sam Brownback, R-Kan. and Joe Lieberman, D- Conn., favor a fine of $325,000 for each violation a
Senators Resurrect 'Net Neutrality Bill
Sens. Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) and Byron Dorgan (D-N.D.) reintroduced their network neutrality bill Jan. 9. The legislation would prevent broadband providers from manipulating Internet traffic.


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This research paper will look at the tourism in the past and the present in Greece and how external factors like economy and airline rates might affect the travel numbers. The goal is to examine this information and make some helpful recommendations based on the research to possibly help get more people to travel there and boost the tourism economy of Greece. Using statistics and figures compiled by professional researchers of tourism in Greece, this paper should be able to then make an overall conclusion as to what the state of Greek tourism is and if it will change in the future.
Greece as an ancient wonder of the world has never really had an issue bringing tourists there to experience the wonders it holds but, there recently have been periods where less travel has affected the tourism economy of the country. Greece is a developed country whose economy thrives on the tourism industry and many jobs were created due to the high volume of visitors but usually only during certain seasons therefore, the native Greeks were looking to keep visitors coming in at all months of the year. Recent numbers from the Greek National Tourism Organization (GNTO) shows that there has been a fair amount of marketing of the side of hotels and other attractions in order to draw people in during the "off season" of winter.
1. Conference Tourism is a major cornerstone of Greek Tourism which is targeted at business, academic and cultural markets making Greece the number eight destination for overnight conferences. New buildings for these conferences to be held and expanding existing ones has made for a much wider range of travel guests that stay for extended periods.
2. Museums and historical aspects of the country add to the allure for travelers. They come to Greece to see attractions such as the ancient city of Athens or experience the art exhibits in the Byzantine Museum that cannot be seen anywhere else in the world.
3. Spas and Thermal Springs that are abundant in Greece bring a number of people seeking therapeutic treatments and alternative forms of healing. With an astounding 752 thermal springs, Greek tourists have the ability to go where they please within the country and still get the experience they came for.
4. Marinas bring boating fanatics to Greece to get the Mediterranean experience and sail waters they would not otherwise be able to. Greece boasts 51 Marinas with the south coast of Athens having the busiest and most popular launching points. This specific type of tourist attraction caters not only to those wishing to expand upon their boating knowledge but also to those wanting to get some initial education on sailing the Mediterranean.
5. Tourism to Greece dropped 11% between January and May 2012 due to their participation in the Euro-zone Debt Crisis ultimately making Greece seem like a poor and undesirable place to go to now because of their seemingly failing economy. People usually do not like traveling to countries on the decline; they want the next up and coming destination.
6. Travel agencies receive little to no help from the government on promoting Greek travel abroad and on top of that can sometimes take up to 85% of their overall profits. The government because of its economic crisis is using the travel agencies as a type of revenue and offering no incentives in return. Therefore, travel packages to Greece have recently become extremely cheap.
This graph shows how many tourists came to Greece each year before the economic crisis began in 2009 when it started to steadily drop and eventually reached an 11% deficit as stated before.
There will always be people wanting to travel to Greece yet, with the failing global economy Greece seemed to be one of the places hit the hardest. The government desperately trying to save the country by using their biggest money maker, the travel agencies, as revenue was a recipe for disaster because many tourists began to believe Greece may now be reversing from developing. Greece has many different attractions that pull travelers in and it is in general a beautiful place but, this is not always enough. Following this there will be some recommendations based on the research performed to hopefully offer some solutions to the travel industry issue arising in Greece today.
- Greek travel agencies should partner with those abroad in order to get travelers from all across the globe to make Greece their destination while promoting the wonders within the country.
- The economy, while not in an entirely failing stage, is desperate and that is why Greece needs to show everyone the initiatives they are taking in order to restore their country to its former glory and not to scare people away because Greece might be poor now.
- The Government needs to stop taking so much from the travel agencies and let the tourism industry speak for itself and promote attractions instead of trying to create revenue in all the wrong ways.
- Greece needs to let tourists know that they have a high percentage of English speaking natives, many great highly ranked hotels, a good number of fine dining restaurants and the above mentioned conference centers among the other attractions that make Greece a unique destination.
Greeks need to stop worrying so much about how their country looks in this time of political and economic crisis and start focusing more on how they are being viewed for the positives Greece brings to a traveler.


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Speech: Animal Cruelty
We should be ashamed of the cruelty that is allowed to go on in animal agriculture. Many farms do not use cruel practices, but many do—especially industrial factory farms. Dehorning and castration of cattle and debeaking of chooks goes on without any pain relief. Chickens are locked up in cages for all their lives; they can't even flap their wings. Pigs are in pens where they can't even turn. Australian people love animals; they want animals to be treated with kindness.
The NSW Government has released the draft Greyhound Racing Regulation 2019, which will replace the Greyhound Racing Regulation 2018.
While we all want to see an end to the Greyhound racing industry, we must ensure that as many lives as possible are saved by enacting stricter regulations while this cruel activity is allowed to continue. The greyhound racing industry are trying to roll back even the modest animal welfare gains that have been put in place since the backflip.
Greens Senator introduces bill to ban live export
Australian Greens Senator and Animal Welfare Spokesperson, Dr Mehreen Faruqi, has today introduced a bill to ban live export. The Live Animal Export (Slaughter) Prohibition Bill 2019 will ban the export of livestock, including sheep and cattle for slaughter.
"Live export cannot be made safe for sheep, cattle or any animal. It is a business model built on cruelty and is simply incompatible with animal welfare.
Speech: Introduction of Live Animal Export (Slaughter) Prohibition Bill 2019
I am honoured to introduce the Greens' Live Animal Export (Slaughter) Prohibition Bill 2019, because we know that the live export trade is inevitably cruel and causes untold animal suffering.
Animals are not mere cargo. They are living, breathing, sentient beings. The reality is that live export cannot be made safe for sheep, cattle or any animal. It is a business model that is simply incompatible with animal welfare.
Australian Greens Spokesperson for Animal Welfare, Senator Mehreen Faruqi, has today announced that she will introduce a Greens bill to ban all live export for slaughter, including sheep and cows, when Parliament resumes. Footage has been released by animal welfare activists in Israel showing cruelty towards cattle being unloaded in hot and crowded conditions with electric shock prodders. Dozens of calves died on board the ship and after unloading.
Senator Mckenzie as Agriculture Minister Will Be A Disaster for Animal Welfare
Mehreen Faruqi 27 May 2019
Australian Greens Senator and Animal Welfare Spokesperson, Dr Mehreen Faruqi, has described Senator Bridget Mckenzie's appointment as Agriculture Minister as a disaster for animal welfare.
Senator Faruqi has been a driving force in the fight against live exports and for the protection of animals.
"We thought that the welfare of animals was already at an all time low under the Liberals and Nationals, but with Senator Mckenzie, I am worried it will get much worse.
Greens Launch Plan for National Animal Cruelty Laws Saying States Have Manifestly Failed to Protect Animals
Australian Greens Senator for New South Wales and Animal Welfare Spokesperson, Dr Mehreen Faruqi, has today launched the Greens Plan for national animal cruelty laws.The Greens have obtained advice from the Parliamentary Library that the Commonwealth has the constitutional power to enact laws in a large number of areas.
Greens Welcome Cosmetic Animal Testing Ban and Vow to Keep Up Pressure on the Government
Australian Greens Senator for NSW and Spokesperson for Animal Welfare, Dr Mehreen Faruqi, has welcomed a ban on animal testing for cosmetics. A full ban is conditional on the Government enacting further measures outside Parliament, and Senator Faruqi has vowed to keep the pressure on the Government. The Greens have been at the forefront of pushing for a ban on cruel cosmetics for years, including introducing the first bill to ban animal tested cosmetics in 2014.
Speech: The Department of Agriculture is a Failed Regulator of Live Exports
'The department has failed as a regulator.' This is the beginning of the draft report provided to the Department of Agriculture and Water Resources on 17 December 2018. Ten days later, when the final version was released by the minister, those words had been removed. Let's remember that the independent Review of the Regulatory Capability and Culture of the Department of Agriculture and Water Resources in the Regulation of Live Animal Exports, known as the Moss review, was set up in response to the horrific abuse we saw on five separate voyages of the Awassi Express.
Question Time: Government Interference in 'Independent' Live Exports Review
Senator FARUQI (New South Wales) (14:15): My question is to Senator Canavan, representing the Minister for Agriculture and Water Resources. The Greens forced the government to release various draft versions of the Moss review into the regulation of live export by the department of agriculture.


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Imbricated Chaos
Voices from the North
Korea: deConstructed
Parchment Made of Sheepskins
Dialogues with Adoptees
Police brutality in 19th-century Joseon (II)
Prisoners wait to be tried in Jemulpo (modern Incheon) circa 1902. / Robert Neff Collection
By Robert Neff
On Oct. 27, 1884, three policemen accused of badly beating a British citizen were put on trial in Incheon. This may have been the first mixed court in Korea involving a British citizen.
Although he had insisted that he would attend, W.G. Aston, the British Consul-General, decided not to (possibly because the Korean governor was not presiding over the trial) and instead sent his assistant, James Scott.
Scott was "courteously received" by Hong Sun-hak, the prefect of Incheon, who assured his guest that "he was prepared to inflict punishment there and then in [his] presence." Scott suggested that it might be well to ascertain conjointly the facts of the case and hear any defense the accused might have to make." Apparently this suggestion pleased Hong and he immediately began making preparations for a real trial and not just a display of punishment.
The trial took place in the prefect's hall which, located on a low ridge overlooking the town, was "a very convenient and picturesque courtroom," he described.
"Two European chairs were brought forward and motioning me to occupy the one on the east, the place of honour due to a guest, the Prefect quietly seated himself on the other and called upon the clerk to form the court."
Minor officials, attendants and runners soon gathered on the terraces surrounding the courtyard and the clerk read aloud the prisoners' dispositions taken at Namyang. After this was completed, the clerk called for the prisoners to be brought. Within a few minutes, several runners and attendants appeared with "the three prisoners who, heavily cangued, threw themselves as best they could with such large planks of wood encircling their neck, prostrate on the ground facing the court. The runners and attendants drew themselves up on either side as guards."
Korean prisoners in cangues, circa 1890s-1900s / Robert Neff Collection
The three prisoners ― Jeong Sai-hui, Lee Bang-seok and Park Gwi-han ― each acknowledged their name by "kowtowing and prostrating themselves" when called. Jeong, the senior prisoner, was commanded to give his account of the events that transpired near Namyang.
"In a long statement delivered with considerable fluency and rhetorical effect," he admitted that he was with seven or eight people who, "armed with coarse sticks," beat the Englishman, D.R. Thomas, as he was lying beneath a tree. Fearing that Thomas would attempt to escape, they bound his hands behind his back and marched him to Namyang. Jeong claimed he never struck the Englishman but acknowledged his fellow prisoners were among the assailants who had administered the beating.
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Thomas, accompanied by the British consulate's constable (Leonard A. Hopkins), was the next to appear before the court. He presented his side of the story and claimed that "he had never threatened, either in language or manner, any of the police."
The Englishman's injuries were then examined by the prefect. Although the beating had occurred almost a month earlier, the bruises and swelling were still very much evident and the prefect professed "extreme regret" and "assured [Thomas] of his sympathy under the sufferings which he must have undergone" both during the beating and the subsequent painful walk to Namyang. "He was truly sorry for the whole affair, and hoped that Thomas would soon recover from his wounds."
Awaiting judgment in the late 19th century / Robert Neff Collection
Thomas was asked to look closely at the three prisoners and identify which ― if any ― had taken part in the assault. The prisoners, "who hitherto had remained kneeling with their faces towards the ground, were now ordered to look up." Thomas verified that each of the men had been present but Jeong had never struck him. This was too much for Lee. He claimed he never struck the Englishman and had treated him with kindness ― gave him water to drink and even "wiped the perspiration from his forehead."
Thomas admitted Lee had given him water and wiped his face but insisted Lee had taken part in the beating. When asked why he would accept water and minor kindnesses from his attacker, Thomas explained that have been so severely beaten and with "his hands so firmly tied behind his back, he could not help himself, and that under the circumstances he was glad to appeal to anyone for assistance."
Having heard the evidence, the prefect turned to Scott and, "in palliation of the conduct of the police," explained that when they were given the arrest warrant they were fully aware that if they failed to return with Thomas they were subject to being punished ― a severe flogging. Hong suggested the police were truly "apprehensive, as they declared, of Thomas effecting his escape," and for this reason they had tied his hands behind his back.
There was, however, no doubt that the police had severely mistreated Thomas and would need to be punished. Both Scott and Hong agreed that, considering the incident had become a diplomatic issue, the matter of punishment should be decided by Kim Hong-jip, the governor of Gyeonggi Province.
A Korean prisoner receives his punishment in the late 1890s. / Courtesy of Diane Nars collection
On Oct. 31, Governor Kim sent a report of his own investigation into the matter to Consul-General Aston. This included the testimony of the accused.
Park Gwi-han testified: "I was driving some oxen home when the constables asked me to help them, so I hit him [Thomas] on the arm twice with my ox-whip. I did no further wrong to him than that."
Lee Bang-seok was adamant that he was innocent and being "very hardly used." He claimed he never had a stick so it was impossible for him to have struck Thomas. He further suggested that the bruises the Englishman had received were the result of falling down.
Jeong, who had testified extensively at the trial in Incheon, was found innocent of the charges and was subsequently released. As for Lee and Park ― who claimed to be victims of injustice ― Governor Kim commanded that they receive "a further severe bambooing." Once their sentences to the cangue were complete they were to be dismissed.
Consul-General Aston wrote that the "severe bambooing" was "a sentence which appears to me to satisfy justice." His superior, Sir Harry Parkes, the British minister to Korea, was also quite pleased with the results and complimented the Korean authorities for resolving the issue in "good faith." He also commended Aston for his role in seeking justice for the "ill-treated" Thomas and especially praised Scott for providing "his interesting report of the procedure of the Court of the Prefect of [Incheon]."
There is, however, one part of the story that is missing: what punishment did Thomas receive for not complying with a summons to appear at the British consulate and his failure to pay his debts? Unfortunately we don't know. Perhaps the severe beating he had received by the Korean police was considered punishment enough or, if he did receive further punishment, it has simply been lost with the passage of time.
Robert Neff has authored and co-authored several books including, Letters from Joseon, Korea Through Western Eyes and Brief Encounters.
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Our Failed National Economy (Let's face it, Our growth the past decades was built on an illusion)
Minyanville ^ | 11/05/2010 | David Stockman (Former Reagan OMB Director)
Posted on 11/05/2010 6:41:19 AM PDT by WebFocus
Tuesday night's election result was a victory for deep partisan stalemate, polarization, dysfunction, and acrimony throughout the halls of government. The market badly wanted a Republican victory, and sometimes you get what you wish for. Unfortunately, Mr. Market's innocent dreams of a more "business friendly" government will turn out to be a nightmare of fiscal profligacy on a scale that's virtually unprecedented in modern history.
It's now guaranteed that the hapless soul who succeeds to the White House in January 2013 will preside over a nation with $15 trillion of reported public debt, that is, debt at 100% of GDP and counting. On top of that will be tens of trillions more in unfunded (and unreported) entitlement liabilities -- the financial burden of which will only intensify as the baby boomers become fully retired. Worse still, Obama's successor will have no way to stop the headlong rush into national bankruptcy he or she will inherit from this week's earthquake because the specious ideological shibboleths of both parties will have poisoned the only policy tools -- tax increases and entitlement cuts -- that can make a difference.
To see why this scenario will play out, start with the bloodbath in the House. The only specie of Democrat that's even entertained the notion of entitlement reform was the Blue Dog Democrat. As of this morning, that particular specie is extinct. The remnant of the Democratic caucus consists of aging, hard-core liberals who have spent a political lifetime accumulating anti-Republican bile against the policies of Reagan and the Bushes. Now, they'll play the only card they have left -- fostering hysteria among elderly voters about social security cuts.
The Democrat's prospects for success are excellent and the reasons will shortly be evident. The gumption-challenged group of statesman appointed to the president's deficit commission by the pols of both parties will soon issue the big cop-out -- opining that Social Security has a long-term funding problem, but not one that requires immediate, deep cuts in current benefits. That proposition, of course, is a convenient dodge that rests on the fiction of trust-fund accounting.
The fact is, the Social Security trust fund has $3 trillion of paper IOUs issued by the Treasury Department over the last 70 years, but not one dime of real money. Over that time span, we collected a modest excess of payroll taxes over current-year benefit payments, and spent the excess cash on cotton subsidies, student loans, and aircraft carriers. It's all long gone.
The truth is, the Social Security program is a $700 billion per year inter-generational transfer payment program in which lifetime taxes paid by current recipients bear only a faint and arbitrary relationship to benefits now being received. So when the retirement "insurance" and trust-fund fictions are cut away, the underlying program cries out to be means-tested. To be sure, that would amount to a default on the implicit social compact that has undergirded the program since its inception. But in the context of the massive fiscal retrenchment which is now unavoidable, there's no rational alternative.
This is made starkly evident by viewing the alternatives. The only other element of the domestic budget of comparable size is the $600 billion we spend on means-tested safety-net programs including Medicaid. Yet unlike in the early days of the Reagan Administration when the president could fairly make points about the abuses of what he called welfare queens, today's facts are very different. The safety net programs were substantially reformed in 1981, and then thoroughly tightened once again under President Clinton's bipartisan welfare reform. Any additional savings are thus likely to be in the tens of billions, not the hundreds of billions actually needed.
Moreover, the burden of safety-net spending is now likely to rise for decades into the future because we're inextricably mired in a failed national economy. It turns out that there was no miracle of economic growth, productivity and prosperity over the last several decades -- even if Wall Street stock peddlers and Republican orators still cling to that illusion. What we had, instead, was serial bubble after bubble -- fueled by a tsunami of public and private debt and printing-press money.
The deflationary aftermath will be with us for years, and so will low single-digit GDP growth, chronic double-digit unemployment rates, and swollen levels of economic hardship among the lower ranks of society. In that context, we won't see the recent tripling of food stamp and unemployment compensation expenditures recede in the conventional cyclical manner, nor can we grow our way out of the currently ramped-up level of safety-net spending. Like much else, the current $600 billion social safety net is the new normal.
It might be wondered, then, how the very notion of domestic spending cuts could be credible if we don't means-test benefits for the better-off elderly and can't cut the safety net programs that are stringently mean-tested already. Yet approximately four weeks from now, that's exactly where we'll be. Based on its well-telegraphed leaks, the president's deficit commission will solemnly pronounce that the single largest and most reform-worthy Federal program isn't even part of the deficit problem!
Next, almost upon signal, rancorous partisan warfare will erupt with a frontal assault by the Democrats and their left-labor-elderly allies on Congressman Paul Ryan -- the new leader of the GOP platoon on the House Budget Committee. Ryan is one of the few heroes of the current fiscal debate because he's actually managed to move his lips on the topic of Social Security reform. Indeed, so sweeping is the "Ryan Plan" on the matter of Social Security and other big entitlements that after two years the Congressman has managed to come up with a grand total of 13 Republican co-sponsors!
The upcoming campaign to stop the Republican budget committee from "destroying" Social Security will be wrapped in two simple but powerful messages: a) it's not broke according to the president's deficit commission, so don't fix it; and b) don't cut grandma's $2,000 monthly check in order to increase the after-tax income of millionaires by $2,000 per day. So ferocious will this campaign become that in a matter of months Congressman Ryan's platoon of supporters will -- unlike in the movie -- abandon him in a field of hostile fire. Indeed, much of the Republican caucus will likely be taking a supplemental pledge even before the first Congressional recess; namely, to oppose the "Ryan Plan" in any way, shape, or form.
Once you set aside Social Security and the related retirement entitlements and the social safety net, you have about $600 billion of entitlements for Medicare and veterans programs. Since veterans are integral to the Republican "base," there isn't a prayer of cuts in the latter. And as to the former, it only needs be recalled that the sick care cartel of hospitals, doctors, drug companies, and scooter chair manufacturers that own the Medicare program have been assiduously bipartisan in their dispensation of campaign cash. Indeed, the GOP has already shown its true colors on Medicare. During the first six years of the Bush administration when it controlled both houses of Congress, it made no structural reforms of Medicare whatsoever, and, instead, grafted on the Part D drug benefit -- the largest single new entitlement program since the 1960s.
None of these blatantly obvious realities are likely to impress the dramatically swollen ranks of House Republicans. They'll predictably work themselves into a frenzy of tax-increase denunciation and rhetorical tilting at windmills on the spending front. But where does that leave them on their pledge to reduce the deficit and shrink Big Government? The short answer is that it leaves them in for a rude awakening.
On the fringes of the 75-plus greenhorns who will populate the Republican caucus, there appears to be some sentiment in favor a modern version of Senator Robert Taft's sensible isolationism of an earlier era. At least some of the Tea Party crusaders appear to be saying, "enough of nation building and wars of occupation in the global backwaters." But wait until the neo-con thought police get done with "freshman orientation" at the Republican caucus meetings in December. The $800 billion that goes for national security and its step-child, homeland security, will be safe from assault -- at least from the anti-spending forces of the GOP.
The next rude awakening will be the old saw, "we have met the enemy and it is us." Republicans have been snorting loudly about runaway spending in the small $550 billion corner of the budget (13% of total outlays) called non-defense discretionary spending. The problem here is that about $125 billion of this was one-time spending contained in the Obama Administration's misguided "stimulus" program. While Republicans may earnestly desire to cut these programs to zero, they can't because under standard budgeting conventions most of these "emergency" funds aren't in the out-year budget baseline.
What is in the budget baseline is about $450 billion of spending for Head Start, the national park service, Amtrak, the national institutes of health, farm extension agents, and much more of like and similar motherhood. The inauspicious backdrop here is that when George W. Bush and the Republicans took power in January 2001, spending for non-defense discretionary programs were only $260 billion. So with nary a veto or government shutdown, the self-proclaimed anti-spending party managed to raise the budget by 60% during eight years of plenty. It might be questioned how likely they are to march back down the hill during the lean years now upon us.
In short, Tuesday night's results prove the Big Lie still sells. It's emboldened the GOP to an even more militant embrace of its destructive mantra of "no tax increase anytime, anywhere and for any reason." As the campaign cranks up, Washington will descend into a cauldron of partisan rancor. The Democratic remnant will counter with the most ferocious bloody-shirt campaign ever to "save" Social Security. Meanwhile, the Treasury will continue to issue new debt of $100 billion per month into an economy that cannot expand in nominal terms at more than a 3-4% rate or $50 billion per month.
So the real question from Tuesday night's outcome is how long can the US government issue its own increasingly toxic sovereign debt into the global market at a rate twice as fast as underlying economic growth? The cynic might say: as long as the Fed can continue to monetize 100% of the new debt issue, as it promised in Wednesday's $100 billion per month quantitative easing 2 (QE2) announcement. But it should be obvious to all except the insouciant boys and girls and robots of Wall Street that the world's leading central bank is now dispensing pure monetary heroin. And, ironically, that's likely to kill the patient before the fiscal question is even addressed.
TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: economy; illusion
David Stockman was born in Ft. Hood, Texas in November 1946. He received his B.A. from Michigan State University in 1968. Afterward he pursued graduate studies at Harvard University, 1968-1970 and 1974-1975.
Stockman went to Washington in 1970 where he served as special assistant to U.S. Representative, John Anderson of Illinois, 1970-1972. He was executive director, U.S. House of Representatives Republican Conference, during 1972-1975.
He was elected to U.S. House of Representatives for the 95th Congress and was reelected in two subsequent elections, serving from January 1977 until his resignation January 1981.
He then became Director of the Office of Management and Budget under President Ronald Reagan, serving from 1981 until August 1985. He was the youngest cabinet member in the 20th century.
In 1986 Stockman wrote a best-selling book, "The Triumph of Politics."
After leaving government, Stockman joined Wall St. investment bank Salomon Bros. and later became a founding partner at New York-based private equity firm, The Blackstone Group. He left Blackstone in 1999 to start his own private equity fund, Heartland Industrial Partners, L.P., based in Greenwich, CT.
David Stockman lives in Greenwich, CT, with his wife Jennifer Blei Stockman. They have two daughters, Rachel and Victoria.
1 posted on 11/05/2010 6:41:22 AM PDT by WebFocus
To: WebFocus
Stockman bump for later..........
2 posted on 11/05/2010 6:51:43 AM PDT by indthkr
And he was fired ( he actuallly quit, Reagan 'took him to the woodshed' and then ignored his advise) because he failed to appreciate and refused to support the Reagan tax cuts and testified to Congress against them and I see he's still calling for tax increases. He is irrelevant.
3 posted on 11/05/2010 7:03:47 AM PDT by pgkdan (Protect and Defend America! End the practice of islam on our shores before it's too late!)
To: indthkr
How can such a smart man who has lived so long not understand that any tax increasew will simply be used to expand government once again. I mean wake the freak up Mr Stockman.
4 posted on 11/05/2010 7:04:07 AM PDT by jwalsh07
Please include in bio:
David Stockman to pay $7.2 mln in SEC settlement
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN1921195120100419
5 posted on 11/05/2010 7:07:30 AM PDT by gusopol3
The deal with means testing social security is this: Congress just has to pass it with a President that will sign it. It's one of those things that the fear mongering is scarier than the reality, like the AFDC cuts in the 90. Talking about it gets demagogues going and people scared. You do it and nothing changes except in the positive. People wake up the day after, they are still getting thier social security checks if they need them, and the budget looks a lot better.
6 posted on 11/05/2010 7:16:10 AM PDT by November 2010
The future is that we default on some of our Treasury debt, and ask foreign buyers who don't like it if they would instead like to meet the US Marine Corps, up close and personal. This will make the USA an economic pariah for decades, and our standard of living will continue to grind steadily downward as the world will slowly stop doing business with us. We'll be Argentina in twenty years or less - a largish upper class living very well behind steel gates, a huge underclass living off what remains of the failed welfare state, and the big banks and other financial entities remaining thoroughly indemnified against the consequences of their business decisions.
7 posted on 11/05/2010 7:17:38 AM PDT by Mr. Jeeves ( "The right to offend is far more important than any right not to be offended." - Rowan Atkinson)
The author is a communist.
8 posted on 11/05/2010 7:18:08 AM PDT by LibLieSlayer (WOLVERINES!)
To: LibLieSlayer
RE: The author is a communist.
You mean Reagan unwittingly appointed a Communist to help craft his budget ?
Stockman is as big of a dreamer as most liberals. He sounds like David Broder operating in a fantasy world. Expecting politicians and their constituencies to act responsibly is for 16 year olds.
Truth: the US is a deadbeat nation that is too far gone for tweaking, and is too irresponsible for taking its castor oil. The contraption has to collapse, and force a solution that can't be avoided. Just like any other deadbeat.
10 posted on 11/05/2010 7:32:50 AM PDT by qwertypie
Poor little David. He's been lost to the public spotlight for a couple decades now, and in his waning years he's making one last attempt at making a name for himself, operating as an opportunist that has some great wisdom everyone else is missing. How much is he paying these days to get his junk published?
11 posted on 11/05/2010 9:08:21 AM PDT by Wuli
To: Wuli
RE: Poor little David. He's been lost to the public spotlight for a couple decades now, and in his waning years he's making one last attempt at making a name for himself
Wonder if he ever got along philosophically with Larry Kudlow. They both worked at the Reagan budget office (OMB) if I recall correctly.
12 posted on 11/05/2010 9:41:24 AM PDT by WebFocus
To: Mr. Jeeves
We could always give the Chinese San Fransisco and/or Los Angeles
13 posted on 11/05/2010 10:18:43 AM PDT by qam1 (There's been a huge party. All plates and the bottles are empty, all that's left is the bill to pay)


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Home Venture Capital Adobe to acquire Marketo for $4.75 billion
Adobe to acquire Marketo for $4.75 billion
San Francisco– Software major Adobe has struck a deal to acquire Marketo, a leading Cloud platform for business-to-business marketing engagement, for $4.75 billion.
"The acquisition of Marketo widens Adobe's lead in customer experience across B2C (business-to-consumer) and B2B (business-to-business) and puts Adobe Experience Cloud at the heart of all marketing," Brad Rencher, Executive Vice President and General Manager, Digital Experience, Adobe, said in a statement on Thursday.
The deal is Adobe's largest ever and puts the company in more direct competition with Oracle and Salesforce, ZDNet reported.
Adobe said the transaction, which is expected to close during the fourth quarter of the company's 2018 fiscal year, is subject to regulatory approval and customary closing conditions.
Until the transaction closes, each company will continue to operate independently, the San Jose, California-headquartered Adobe said.
Marketo is headquartered in San Mateo, California, with offices around the world, and serves as a strategic partner to enterprises across a wide variety of industries.
With nearly 5,000 customers, Marketo brings together planning, engagement and measurement capabilities into an integrated B2B marketing platform.
Adobe hopes that adding Marketo's engagement platform to its "Experience Cloud" will enable Adobe to offer an unrivalled set of solutions for delivering transformative customer experiences across industries and companies of all sizes.
The Adobe Experience Cloud platform enables B2C companies to drive business impact by harnessing massive volumes of customer data and content in order to deliver real-time, cross-channel experiences that are personalised and consistent.
This acquisition brings together the richness of Adobe Experience Cloud analytics, content, personalisation, advertising and commerce capabilities with Marketo's lead management and account-based marketing technology to provide B2B companies with the ability to create, manage and execute marketing engagement at scale.
"Adobe and Marketo both share an unwavering belief in the power of content and data to drive business results," said Steve Lucas, CEO, Marketo.
"Marketo delivers the leading B2B marketing engagement platform for the modern marketer, and there is no better home for Marketo to continue to rapidly innovate than Adobe," Lucas added.
Upon close of the transaction, the Marketo CEO will join Adobe's senior leadership team and continue to lead the Marketo team as part of Adobe's Digital Experience business, Adobe said. (IANS)
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Navy decommissions last OHP-class frigate
Richard Tomkins
USS Rodney M. Davis, which sailed for 28 years. U.S. Navy photo.
EVERETT, Wash., Jan. 27 (UPI) -- The U.S. Navy has decommissioned the USS Rodney M. Davis (FFG 60), the last guided missile frigate of the Oliver Hazard Perry class.
The frigate, with 28 years of service, was decommissioned late last week in a ceremony at Naval Station Everett, Wash.
The ship had returned from her last deployment to the Western Pacific and Indian Oceans last December, the Navy said.
Attending the decommissioning ceremony, in which Taps was played as sailors left the ship, was Retired Cmdr. Craig R. Heckert, the first commanding officer of Rodney M. Davis.
The Rodney M. Davis was the last frigate stationed at the facility.
The Navy said the ship is scheduled to be transferred for dismantlement on March 31.
Oliver Hazard Perry-class frigates came into service in 1977, with 55 in the U.S. fleet. A number of decommissioned vessels of the class have been sold or donated to other countries.
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The space industry is growing – and becoming more crowded with launch service providers ready to deliver payloads into orbit. Older launch systems are being replaced by newer vehicles, with increasing capabilities and power. The most important factor is that the one astronomical cost to send payloads into orbit is diminishing. This has been made possible predominantly by a small handful of companies – with one among them helping to prompt dynamic change within the industry.
The last couple of years has born witness to player burgeoning on the space launch market. The California-based company SpaceX has introduced its two-stage Falcon 9 rocket family of rockets. In so doing, they almost immediately became a serious rival for long-established launch service providers both domestically and globally.
SpaceX made history in 2012 when it delivered one of the firm's Dragon spacecraft to the International Space Station (ISS), becoming the first commercial company ever to visit the orbiting lab.
By 2013, the Falcon 9 was the lowest-costing launch vehicle in the industry as it offered flights to low-Earth orbit (LEO) for approximately $56.5 million.
This rival offer came as a blow to European space giant Arianespace, which holds the leading position of approximately 60 percent market share for commercial satellite launches. SpaceX's more competitive offer forced Arianespace to re-think its pricing policy and lower their launch costs, which, at that time, were established at about $140 million per flight.
Arianespace's Ariane 5 heavy launch vehicle currently flies in two configurations, the ECA and ES. It is capable of delivering 21 metric tons to LEO and up to 10 metric tons to geostationary transfer orbit (GTO). By comparison, the Falcon 9 v1.1, which is now the only active booster of the Falcon 9 family, can deliver 13 metric tons to LEO and nearly 5 metric tons to GTO, making it more competitive than the Ariane 5 in terms of cost.
The European firm is not taking these events lying down, however.
After increasingly losing customers to SpaceX for satellite launches, the European company is planning to lower the cost per flight to about $96 million. This new price range could be implemented when the new Ariane 6 launcher is developed, which could deliver 11 metric tons to GTO, making Arianespace's offer more affordable. The first flight of the Ariane 6 is currently slated to take place in 2020.
"Unless the other rocket makers improve their technology rapidly, they will lose significant market share to the Falcon 9," said Elon Musk, SpaceX's CEO and chief designer.
SpaceX is also expanding its portfolio by developing a heavier version of the Falcon booster. The Falcon Heavy should allow the company to send a record-breaking payload of 53 metric tons to LEO and slightly more than 21 metric tons to GTO – with a starting price of $90 million for up to 6.4 metric tons. When one considers SpaceX is currently working to field the new v1.2 Falcon 9, the launch service market is set to undergo further changes.
SpaceX and Arianespace aren't the only players aspiring for their share of the launch market. International Launch Services (ILS), a U.S.-Russian joint venture, is planning to use the Angara booster being developed by Russia's Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center to help them compete in this lucrative market.
ILS already employs the Russian-built Proton booster, and has added the Angara as the newest addition to its commercial fleet.
The Angara 5 is a heavy-lift version of the booster that should have a payload capacity of hoisting some 24.5 metric tons to LEO and 7.5 metric tons to GTO. The smaller Angara 1.2 will be able to deliver much less – only 3.8 metric tons to LEO. Though the exact price of the launches is still not known, ILS aims to be competitive with SpaceX and Arianespace in terms of cost.
"In order not to lose the commercial space market altogether, Russia should start developing a rocket that would cost about $50 million per launch, so as not to leave this segment of the market to SpaceX," said Andrei Ionin, a member of the Tsiolkovsky Russian Academy of Cosmonautics.
ILS believes the Angara family of launch vehicles will attract customers thanks in part to their ability to support virtually all spacecraft to all orbits, altitudes, and inclinations for the low, medium, and heavy-lift range.
Angara 1.2 commercial launches could start as soon as 2017. The heavier version could begin delivering satellites into orbit a few years later, perhaps as early as 2021.
However, the real revolution in the space launch market could come from the development of a genuinely reusable launch system. SpaceX is currently working on its own program and has made progress toward having the first stage of the Falcon 9 on its Automated Spaceport Drone Ship placed out in the Atlantic Ocean some 300 miles off the Coast of Florida.
The company began its attempts to retrieve the first stage, and the nine Merlin 1D rocket engines incorporated therein in 2013.
SpaceX has said that if they are successful in developing the reusable technology, launch prices of around $5 to 7 million for a reusable Falcon 9 are possible. This technology would be a giant leap towards making spaceflight more affordable.
These efforts encountered a delay on June 28, 2015, when a SpaceX Falcon 9 v1.1, with the Dragon spacecraft, was tasked with carrying out the seventh operational Commercial Resupply Services flight to the International Space Station on behalf of NASA. It was not to be. One hundred and 39 seconds into the flight, an over-pressure event – instigated by a failure in a strut in the booster's stage – resulted in a complete loss of both the launch vehicle, the Dragon spacecraft, and the (roughly) 4,000 lbs of cargo it had carried.
As SpaceX's COO and President Gwynne Shotwell noted during a press conference held a few hours after the accident, all aerospace firms operate with the understanding that such incidents are a part of the business. The mishap has not slowed the NewSpace firm's efforts with the next flight of a Falcon 9 slated to take to the skies later this year.
Already a bit of old news. Falcon V 1.2 is going to fly this year. It is a 1.6 million pound thrust machine able to put more into LEO and GEO than Ariane at $60 million per flight. It could be recoverable, meaning cost per launch could drop by 30 percent or more in the very near future.
Space X is also incorporating ion thruster into its GEO satellite delivery. Essentially a 450 Specific Impulse cryogenic upper stage replaced by a 3500 Specific Impulse Xenon NEXT system. Do this Ariane simply cannot compete.
Biggest factor, left out of this story. It is going to cost the ESA $5.3 billion USD to develop its Ariane 6. It cost Space X under $450 million to get to its newest variant of Falcon V 1.2. V 1.2R. Based on this there is absolutely no way ESA can fly at a profit. In addition it appears at this time Donald Trump, or even a Democrat populist will win in 2016. (Trump more likely than not given today's polling he is getting amongst Blacks and Hispanics, up about 10 points over what Romney received in 2012). Guess what? A 5.3 billion USD government subsidy will not go unnoticed. There will be repercussions.
Space X is also going to have Raptor flying by the time Ariane 6 flies. A single core Raptor system producing between 4.6 million pounds thrust, to a whopping 9 million. This machine able to be configured into a three core monster, and recoverable both stages. With NEXT and an ability to put up several megawatts of panels to drive it this rocket's secondary payload ability will exceed that of the Ariane 6.
LEO payload of a Raptor single core on the order of 70 Metric tons, three core with the big engines close to 320 tons, in conventional format. Recoverable this machine loses half this capacity. Do you smell what Elon Musk is cooking!
I believe ESA is going to shrink down to under 25% of the global satellite launch business. Its heyday is over.
SpaceX's website lists the Falcon Heavy at $90M for 6.4 metric tons to GTO, not 21 metric tons as stated in this article. Huge difference. Am I missing something?
Falcon Heavy has a projected capability of 21,200kg to 1800ms GTO. The listed price is for a single payload to GTO (the biggest GEO payloads are around the 6 ton mark), and Falcon Heavy will be able to carry more than one per flight.
Looks like the article got updated to the right number. Good stuff.
Patrick Falcon V roman is symbol is wrong it should be Falcon IX try to type the correct roman symbol next time. Please don't involve Donald Trump in SpaceX LSP Market discussion it's not relevant to the story a nice day.
He means V for Version 1.2, not a roman numeral.
It's NASA that's using NEXT to propel a space observatory to an extra-zodiacal orbit. It's essentially a satellite propulsion system. NASA's press release spoke of it as an upper stage, but made it clear it's not a SpaceX upper stage. AFAIK the only development SpaceX is doing with electric engines are Hall thrusters for small satellites.
when Falcon Heavy is flown with the intention to recover all three first stages, payload to GTO drops to ~7 tonnes. When only the side boosters are recovered it increases to ~14 tonnes GTO. With no recovery at all Falcon Heavy can (maybe) achieve 21 tonnes. The estimate of 21 tonnes is old so some uncertainty there. There's also uncertainty whether 53 tonnes to LEO (another old estimate) is achievable without propellant cross-feed, an idea SpaceX has apparently abandoned as they have said the center core will fly with a somewhat different fuel mix from the side boosters. We'll just have to wait until SpaceX provides updated figures.
The real game changer is going to come when SpaceX finally cracks re-usability, at that point I do not see how the current efforts of other LSPs will be effective unless they too actually invest in similar technology.
Is there really any use for a Falcon Heavy class launcher? It is too small for any meaningful human spaceflight. One could combine two or three of them to put another foot print on the Moon, but that's not very useful.
And who needs more tonnage of satellites in GEO? Isn't miniaturization proceeding and the economic lifetime of satellites decreasing because of electronics developments? I'd say that FH is stuck in the middle, but who am I to argue against Elon's business plan. I just pray that it works, and thus far it seems to.
Elon Musk's business plan. You make him sound like he is a part of Boeing's strategy. From my perspective, Elon has always thought outside of the box. Eccentric in a way. Which has rattled the traditional engineering/business train of thought. But, then, when theoretical physics, science fiction & engineering is combined into a company by a dreamer, then exciting things start to happen outside the established norm.


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Choose materials that are durable and maintain their integrity over time. This keeps your home looking like new while reducing the cost of maintenance.
IKEA and other popular home design retailers offer large selections of furniture and accessories at affordable prices. This makes it easy to design the perfect home that leads to repeat visits from your renters.
Today's travel renters have technology needs that homeowners have to consider when furnishing their rental homes.
Guests expect to have access to a high-quality Internet connection along with the ability to stream their own media using Hulu, Netflix, and other popular platforms.
Include tech-friendly features like universal chargers and adaptors that accommodate mobile devices.
Keep power outlets available and provide any information guests need to access your home's WiFi, remote controls, and other tech tools they might need.
It's easy to create the ideal destination for travelers making their way to Orlando. Vacation rental properties have become a reliable source of new income for home investors.
The right furniture and accessories make all the difference in creating a space that gives your guests plenty of reasons to come back time and again.
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A much-anticipated, $17 million study on the effects of climate change in the Arctic has been partly cancelled due to, well, the effects of climate change.
Timing was crucial for the four-year Hudson Bay System Study (BaySys), which involved 40 scientists from across Canada and seeks to understand the mixed impacts of freshwater regulation and climate change in Hudson Bay. The University of Manitoba-led expedition was scheduled to launch from aboard the research icebreaker CCGS Amundsen. But when unusually severe ice conditions floated southward into the Strait of Belle Isle and along the northeast coast of Newfoundland, the Canadian Coast Guard (which operates the icebreaker) had to keep the ship in area for critical search and rescue operations. The extra time spent in the south meant the ship would arrive in Hudson Bay too late to meet research objectives, and the first leg of the 2017 expedition was cancelled. The second leg is set to begin on July 6.
"A second week of delay meant our research objectives just could not be safely achieved," says David Barber, expedition chief scientist and BaySys scientific lead. "The challenge for us all was that the marine ice hazards were exceedingly difficult for the maritime industry, the CCG, and science."
The warming climate has caused Arctic sea ice to become increasingly thin and sparse, meaning strong winds can easily push it south at this time of year.
But it's not all bad news: Barber and the rest of the Sea Ice Research Team were able to use the scientific equipment already aboard the Amundsen to collect data on the physics of the ice, ocean and atmosphere in the area. This information will help scientists understand what happened and make Canada better prepared for climate change-driven increases in marine ice hazards.


Of all the expenses that problems that sneak up on homeowners, gutter repairs and maintenance is often one of the most frustrating. On one hand, gutters seem like a very basic feature that shouldn't break down. However, gutters work hard throughout the seasons, transferring water from your roof and directing it away from your home. When this vital function isn't being performed properly, all sorts of problems can arise, from mold problems to foundation damage.
But homeowners still don't want to spend a lot of time or money on gutters. To that end, here are three key ways to minimize gutter repairs and maintenance.
The main reason why so many gutter repair situations get out of hand is that small problems are allowed to "compound" and get worse over time. This could be anything from a bad fastener to a crack in the gutter itself. Instead of addressing these problems correctly and preventing them from getting any worse, people often leave it for next year. The downside to this approach is that the repairs or upgrades needed may become more costly as a result of "putting off" repairs until later. An annual (or bi-annual) inspection is a great way to scan for any irregularities or problems in your gutter system.
Another problem with gutter repairs and maintenance is that there are so many DIY repair kits out there. Obviously, some of these work fine as a temporary solution, and may even solve the problem for a couple of years in some cases. Generally though, a lot of DIY gutter repairs are high ineffective and cause more trouble than they're worth in the long term. Gutters seem like a very simple feature of the home, and it's tempting to try and address any issues by yourself. Turning to a professional, however, is a great way to definitely address gutter repair and maintenance problems, so that you aren't tinkering with your gutters year after year, trying to keep them in working order.
It's amazing how much time and money people spend making piecemeal repairs to old gutters that have been falling apart from years. Obviously, when something goes wrong with your gutter system, your first thought will be making a repair rather than stripping the old gutters and installing a totally new system. However, there are many instances in which the old gutters are simply too worn down and outdated. It's difficult to justify spending any more time or money on making them work properly. In such cases, switching to a brand new gutters can be a huge relief. Of course it requires an initial investment, but the idea is that money and time are saved over the long term.
There are plenty of companies out there offering gutter maintenance, gutter repair, and new gutter installation services. Not all of them have the same level of experience and professionalism. Look carefully at the contractors in your area and pick out the most reputable ones to consider for your gutters. Over the long term, you'll be happy you did.
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J Orthop Res. 2018 Jan;36(1):233-243. doi: 10.1002/jor.23637. Epub 2017 Jul 18.
Histological and reference system for the analysis of mouse intervertebral disc.
Tam V1,2, Chan WCW1,2, Leung VYL3, Cheah KSE1, Cheung KMC3, Sakai D4, McCann MR5, Bedore J5, Séguin CA5, Chan D1,2.
School of Biomedical Sciences, The University of Hong Kong, 3/F, Laboratory Block, Faculty of Medicine Building, 21 Sassoon Road, Pokfulam, Hong Kong, China.
The University of Hong Kong-Shenzhen Institute of Research and Innovation (HKU-SIRI), Hi-Tech Industrial Park, Nanshan, Shenzhen, China.
Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong.
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Surgical Science, Tokai University School of Medicine, Hiratsuka, Japan.
Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, The Bone and Joint Institute, The University of Western Ontario, London, Canada.
A new scoring system based on histo-morphology of mouse intervertebral disc (IVD) was established to assess changes in different mouse models of IVD degeneration and repair. IVDs from mouse strains of different ages, transgenic mice, or models of artificially induced IVD degeneration were assessed. Morphological features consistently observed in normal, and early/later stages of degeneration were categorized into a scoring system focused on nucleus pulposus (NP) and annulus fibrosus (AF) changes. "Normal NP" exhibited a highly cellularized cell mass that decreased with natural ageing and in disc degeneration. "Normal AF" consisted of distinct concentric lamellar structures, which was disrupted in severe degeneration. NP/AF clefts indicated more severe changes. Consistent scores were obtained between experienced and new users. Altogether, our scoring system effectively differentiated IVD changes in various strains of wild-type and genetically modified mice and in induced models of IVD degeneration, and is applicable from the post-natal stage to the aged mouse. This scoring tool and reference resource addresses a pressing need in the field for studying IVD changes and cross-study comparisons in mice, and facilitates a means to normalize mouse IVD assessment between different laboratories. © 2017 Orthopaedic Research Society. Published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Orthop Res 36:233-243, 2018.
© 2017 Orthopaedic Research Society. Published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc.