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The rise of China's smartphone makers
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Smartphone makers are pricing themselves out of the market
Makers of high-end smartphones are seeing declining sales as users who find them too expensive increasingly opt to keep their phones longer, according to a global smartphone sales report.
By Lucas Mearian
While demand for entry-level and mid-price smartphones has remained strong, global sales of high-end smartphones like the iPhone XS and XS Max have steadily declined over the past year, according to a new report from Gartner.
Less innovation in top-of-the-line smartphones coupled with steep price increases are pushing consumers to wait longer to replace older handsets, according to Gartner.
The research firm found that in 2018, global sales of smartphones grew just 1.2% compared to the year before, reaching 1.6 billion units.
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North America, mature Asia/Pacific and Greater China recorded the worst declines of all regions, at 6.8%, 3.4% and 3%, respectively. Those mature markets rely more on flagship smartphone sales than any others and therefore were more dramatically affected by the sales drop.
In the final quarter of 2018, Apple experienced the biggest decline – down 11.8% – among the world's top five smartphone vendors, selling 64.5 million handsets; it was Apple's worst quarterly decline in smartphone sales since the first quarter of 2016.
Still, Apple clung to second place among smartphone makers with 15.8% of market share. In the same quarter, Samsung led with 17.3% of the market, with Huawei third with 14.8%. But Huawei was first in growth, with sales rising 37.6% to more than 60 million smartphones, according to Gartner.
Huawei's growth throughout 2018 helped it close the gap with Apple.
Along with its primary markets of China and Europe, Huawei pushed further into the Asia/Pacific, Latin America and Middle East regions to drive growth, according to Anshul Gupta, senior research director at Gartner.
"Huawei also exploited growth opportunities through continued expansion of the Honor series in the second half of 2018, especially in emerging markets, which helped Huawei grow its market share to 13% in 2018," Gupta said in a statement. Honor series smartphones start at $199; even the flagship Honor 10 series smartphone retails for about $468 compared with the iPhone XR, which goes for $749.
Of the top five smartphone makers, OPPO and Xiami came in a distant fourth and fifth place in market share, with 7.7% and 6.8%, respectively. All other manufacturers made up the remaining 39% of the market share.
"Although Samsung is strengthening its smartphone offering at the mid-tier, it continues to face growing competition from Chinese brands that are expanding into more markets. It also faces difficulty bringing significant innovation to high-end smartphones," Gupta said. "Samsung introduced new mid-tier-focused M series smartphones in the first quarter of 2019 to compete with aggressive Chinese manufacturers in emerging markets, and to expand into the online sales channel."
Tuong Nguyen, a Gartner principal analyst, said Huawei is mainly competing with Samsung in in terms of product breadth, and the Chinese handset maker's industry-leading growth is being bolstered by a strong Chinese home market, where it sells 10 times as many phones as Samsung.
"When you compare Samsung and Huawei on a [larger] geographical level, in most markets, Huawei is selling from 1% to 50% of what Samsung is selling," Nguyen said.
Apple's challenge is that it only offers high-end smartphones, and those devices aren't delivering the same, compelling new features they once did. And some users are finding they don't use all of the features high-end smartphones have.
"I think that's where we are with phones. It does everything you want and then some, and now you want to offer me even more?" Nguyen said. "That combined with these price points they continue to push up, now the consumer is not feeling like Apple is delivering on that promise the way they said would. "They may be saying, 'I'm loyal to Apple but maybe the value proposition is not what I've bought into all these years.'"
Except for North America and in Asia/Pacific nations, Apple saw iPhone demand weaken in most areas, including in greater China, where its market share dropped from 14.6% in Q4 2017 to 8.8% this past quarter. For 2018 as a whole, iPhone sales were down 2.7%, to just over 209 million units.
"Apple has to deal not only with buyers delaying upgrades as they wait for more innovative smartphones, but it also continues to face compelling high-price and mid-price smartphone alternatives from Chinese vendors," Gupta said. "Both these challenges limit Apple's unit sales growth prospects."
While BYOD programs still remain common among enterprises, many North American companies purchase subsidized devices with two-year service agreements, which translates into a built-in two-year upgrade cycle. Because of that, enterprise purchases of smartphones have probably not been a part of the downturn of smartphone sales.
"However, in other regions where the subsidized device is non-existent, it's possible if not likely the device retention period could be lengthening, as it may be in the consumer market, with similar impacts on sales," said Bill Menezes, a principal analyst at Gartner. "If the slowdown in sales is attributable to smartphone ownership behavior by consumers, this could see an increasing impact from the corporate side as this trend continues.
"At the same time, I have had numerous discussions with corporate clients that are maintaining the use of devices beyond their two-year service contract," Menezes continued. "Anecdotally they appear to be in the minority. But to the extent that may mirror the trend in the consumer market, it could create a growing impact on sales over time."
Gartner's smartphone market results closely match those of two other research firms, which released their 2018 reports last month.
Both firms, IDC and IHS Market, blamed smartphone shipment declines on high prices and growing consumer frustration. One expert even called today's smartphone market a "mess."
Anthony Scarsella, research manager with IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker, said the arrival of both 5G and foldable devices later this year could bring new life to the smartphone industry – depending on how vendors and carriers market the real-life benefits of those technologies.
"Apple is certainly not out of the game," IDC said in its report, "but the likelihood of not having a 5G iPhone in 2019 means it will need to tell a strong iPhone and, more importantly, ecosystem story to succeed. If anyone can do it, it is Apple. But it certainly won't be easy when faced with all the other downward market pressures."
Apple has limited options in the short term, according to Gerrit Schneemann, senior analyst for IHS Markit's Mobile Handsets, Technology, Media & Telecom division.
"It is clear that they are not going to move away from their premium branding and there is not a lot of room for pricing elasticity. So, they will expand on trade-in programs and financing options to bring their premium price to a manageable level for most consumers," Schneemann said.
In fact, Apple is currently selling the iPhone XR for $499, the iPhone XS for $699 or an iPhone XS Max for $1,099 for buyers who are trading in an iPhone 7 Plus in good condition. Those prices are reduced from the phones' retail prices, with the final price dependent on which older phone is being traded in.
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Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan Board v. Canada (A.G.)
2011 FC 58 (notice of appeal filed on February 17, 2011)
The Federal Court confirmed the decision of the Registrar of Trademarks to refuse the application to register the trademark TEACHERS' for use in association with services relating to the "administration of a pension plan, management and investment of a pension fund for teachers in Ontario" as being clearly descriptive of the intrinsic character of the services, contrary to section 12(1)(b) of the Trademarks Act.
The Federal Court confirmed the decision of the Registrar of Trademarks ("Registrar") to refuse the application to register the trademark TEACHERS' for use in association with services relating to the "administration of a pension plan, management and investment of a pension fund for teachers in Ontario" as being clearly descriptive of the intrinsic character of the services, contrary to section12(1)(b) of the Trademarks Act ("Act"). Proceeding on a de novo basis, the Court agreed with the applicant that TEACHERS' does not clearly describe the services provided, the conditions of or the persons employed in their production, or of their place of origin, as teachers are merely the intended users of the services. However, the Court noted that section 12(1)(b) of the Act refers to "wares or services" and went on to assess the descriptiveness of the trademark in the broader context of a pension fund. Ultimately, Justice Mandamin held that the word TEACHERS' is a distinguishing feature of the pension plan because it is a pension plan exclusively for teachers, and thus clearly describes a prominent characteristic of the wares or services provided.
Facts. On June 20, 2002, the applicant, the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan Board, filed an application to register the trademark TEACHERS' for proposed use in association with services described as "administration of a pension plan, management and investment of a pension fund for teachers in Ontario." On June 29, 2003, the Examiner indicated that the trademark may not be registrable as being either clearly descriptive or deceptively misdescriptive contrary to section 12(1)(b) of the Act. On May 8, 2009, after several exchanges of correspondence over a six-year period, the Registrar refused the application pursuant to sections 37(1)(b) and 12(1)(b) of the Act.
On July 23, 2009, the applicant appealed from that decision to the Federal Court and produced two affidavits as new evidence. The first affidavit included press releases and annual reports of the applicant showing use of the trademark applied for. The second affidavit included several examples of trademarks on the Register that are arguably descriptive of the group targeted, but not of the services offered. The second affidavit also included examples of trademarks appearing on the Register in association with pension fund and pension plan services as well as benefit and retirement plans.
Analysis. On the preliminary issue of standard of review, Justice Mandamin referred to case law establishing the principle that where substantial new relevant evidence as to the issue of confusion is adduced on appeal, the Court is entitled to proceed on a de novo basis. The Court held that this approach is also appropriate for the issue of descriptiveness. As he found that the additional evidence was substantial and would have materially affected the Registrar's decision, Justice Mandamin proceeded to review this matter on the whole of the evidence without deference to the Registrar's decision.
The applicant's main argument was that to offend section 12(1)(b) of the Act, the trademark must clearly describe a particular character of the services or the persons employed or engaged in the provision of such services, but not the persons who may avail themselves of these services.
The Court accepted these arguments and agreed that TEACHERS' does not clearly describe the services provided, or the conditions of or the persons employed in their production, or of their place of origin. However, the Court noted that section 12(1)(b) of the Act refers to "wares or services" and went on to assess the descriptiveness of the trademark in the broader context of a pension fund.
The Court indicated that a trademark that clearly describes a prominent characteristic of the wares or services will come within the prohibition of section 12(1)(b) of the Act. The decision maker is not limited to the evidence and can rely on common sense. The decision that the trademark is clearly descriptive is to be based on initial impression. Justice Mandamin was of the view that when one thinks of a pension fund, one is just as likely, or more likely, to think of the pensioner or prospective pensioner than the administrator or the manager of the pension fund. As such, the first impression created by the trademark TEACHERS' is that it describes a prominent characteristic of a pension fund exclusively for teachers and is thus prohibited by section 12(1)(b) of the Act as being clearly descriptive, even though it does not the describe the administration, management or investment of the pension funds in question.
The Court concluded that the trademark TEACHERS' in its plural and possessive form is a distinguishing feature, and therefore the character, of this pension plan because it is a pension plan exclusively for teachers and it clearly describes a prominent characteristic of the wares and services provided. Providing the applicant with a monopoly on the use of this word would prevent other pension or financial services targeted to or belonging to teachers within Ontario or in other provinces and territories from using the term.
The appeal was dismissed and the decision of the Registrar to refuse the application to register TEACHERS' was maintained. The applicant filed its notice of appeal with the Federal Court of Appeal on February 17, 2011.
Jean-Sébastien Dupont, Montreal
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One of the lessons from the November U.S. election and the June Brexit vote is that our ability to predict future events is fraught with error, even if the underlying data is relatively sound. National polls were roughly in line with the final U.S. popular vote (with geographical differences) yet a lot of the analysis around the election surrounded the certainty and near impossibility of a Democratic defeat. This bias towards certainty appears in many facets of life, and can cause serious missteps in behavior.
Probability distributions describe a range of potential outcomes. When learning elementary statistics, the underlying data is often assumed to be normal (black line at left). This is done not for indoctrination but because it is the easiest distribution to study to grasp a basic understanding of statistics. This is all fine in academia but when the distributions are applied liberally or without thought, many missteps can occur. A t-distribution (explained at left with the other lines) is an attempt to explain a normal distribution with smaller sample size. A Poisson distribution describes the likelihood of an event in a certain time period and is not symmetrical.
The lesson here is not to learn more about probability distributions (every time I use the word distribution, we lose 50 RSS readers), but to understand the uncertainties that lie all around us. Making a claim about the consequences of a political event, business process or financial decision should be layered in nuanced claims about uncertainty and the assumptions being made. Try to find these admissions in arguments. You won't find them.
Nowhere is this more true than in economics. One of the major reasons economics is a social science is that the underlying laws and predictability (j/k) of particle physics don't perfectly apply to a dynamic system. Homo Economicus is a term used to describe a certain type of human: that which is perfectly rational, perfectly integrating new prices and information into an optimizer function and acting according to her best interest. This abstraction grossly oversimplifies human actors, who can act for a myriad of reasons often not understood by even themselves. This is often used as evidence itself of the inefficiency of markets, but uncertainty can explain why markets can be efficient, in the sense that they are not predictably incorrect.
Irrationality is often studied in the context of predictable bubbles, investor psychology or poor individual decisions. The certainty required on a market as a whole to determine behavior as irrational in advance is difficult to overcome. Individual actors in an economy have a lot of uncertainty underlying their decisions too (Will this investment go bust? Will I want beef this week?) that may be difficult to tease out on a larger scale.
The easiest way to determine the confidence of a statement is to apply a bet. Where financial pain and gain can come from the outcome of the falsifiable claim. Unfortunately, this is very difficult to implement on a large scale, with many voices on social media, in your personal life and in your professional life. If you believe the Seahawks will win the Super Bowl this year, I will pay you $4 for every $1 you pay me if they don't. This is a statemeny both acknowledging that I don't think the Seahawks will win the Super Bowl and that I think it is quite possible. There are many future outcomes possible and applying bets to decisions most concisely reveals certainty.
Financial products, ranging from credit default swaps, collateralized debt obligations and mortgage-backed securities to stocks, bonds and options allow perhaps the purest form of this bet. Your job as an investor is not to convince other people you are correct. It is simply to maximize your return given a certain amount of risk. If you are right, you get to redeem the bet in financial payout just as you would have to pay yourself for being incorrect.
Risk is the uncertainty in an investment or decision. If a stock can be perfectly predicted, both up and down, there would be no risk involved. Just be sure when listening to a claim or an argument being made (even at DQYDJ!) to understand the amount of uncertainty that must exist in any large claim. Humans are biased towards confidence, where the exact opposite is warranted.


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In medium bowl, mix brown sugar, butter, corn syrup, orange peel and rhubarb; divide evenly among custard cups. Top each with 1 biscuit. In small bowl, mix granulated sugar and cinnamon; sprinkle over biscuits.
Bake 25 to 28 minutes or until deep golden brown; cool 1 minute. Turn upside down onto 4 serving plates; remove custard cups. Serve warm with ice cream.
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A drama series about the family who founded Chester Zoo in the 1930s.
In the Yorkshire Dales in the 1870s, the shantytown of Jericho is the home of a community that will live, thrive and die in the shadow of the viaduct they've been brought together to build.
Lee Ingleby plays George Mottershead, a wounded ex First World War soldier left with post traumatic stress. He has a loving family and loves animals.
Helped by money from his parents he purchases a manor in the early 1930s and turns it to Chester Zoo but has to deal with some opposition from prominent locals and officialdom.
Of course despite the hardship George endures, we realise that he will eventually triumph as Chester Zoo is still going strong and this is inspired by true events. However as with the feature film 'We bought a Zoo' the series is more about the journey, triumphing over adversity and being together as a family. The series also has the feel good factor of exotic animals being introduced to the grim north of the 1930s and allowing the makers to have dimly lit interiors and some two dimensional villains who think George is having a delusional flight of fancy.
George might be an idealist and you do find yourself rooting for him there is something rather derivative about Our Zoo. Maybe it wants to channel the success of Call the Midwife but got nowhere near reaching the levels of All Creatures Great and Small and not helped by its grim colours and gloomy mood. A drama about a zoo should had been bright and colourful.
The show never quite took off in the ratings and ended up being cancelled after one series by the BBC.
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February 21, 2015 Charlie Channel
Yes I do know how I survive
Yes I do know why I'm alive
To love and be with you
Day by day by day by day
Vangelis and Jon Anderson as sung by Donna Summer.
The Magic of Vinyl
In the process of moving my flat-screen display, I managed to step on an attached cable and break the rf input for TV. This is somewhat like the Laurel and Hardy comedy where one thing leads to another and another and a mess of wires and chords and cables and the broken new flat screen tv's rf input.
I managed to render first aid and all functionality has been restored (have you ever taken apart your device, just to see if you could put it back together without damaging something else)? All of that nerding around got me to plugging in my Technics linear tracking SL-6 turntable to the multi-channel audio-video receiver. Finally, (through a RIAA preamp) my turn table led to my now somewhat warped vinyl collection. But among the warped records were about 80% that are still flat enough to play. Curtis Mayfield's Super Fly was a casualty of time. Traffic's John Barleycorn Must Die was spectacular, still. Unfortunately, the entire volume of Woodstock vinyl was badly warped, all of 'em. But … Knights in White Satin and the Moody Blues just brought it all home. Then, it was on to Donna Summer's State of Independence! I put it on repeat and did work in the back yard to that one.
My goodness, there was Liona Boyd among the still unwarped discs. I just had to Google her! What beauty!!!! I'm listening to disc titled The First Lady of the Guitar. Jesus, why have we not lived and loved (musically speaking)? Check her out, if you've never known or heard of her. Check her out if you've forgotten who we've walked with.
Obey The Law
Charlie's First Law:
"Nobody shall have more fun than I am having ('with me, myself and i')."
Charlie's Second Law:
"Everybody shall obey the First law"
Sanctions for failure to follow the law.
Those who do not obey the laws shall suffer the consequences and punishments, including, but not limited to:
Self abuse
C. Channel, Jr., Juris Doctor
DIAMONDS OF WISDOM – FIVE PRINCIPLES OF FIGHTING
Never jump into a fight between sexual partners
Never jump into a fight between two relatives (brother and sister, brother and brother, cousins tribes or nations)
Never jump into or start a fight in another person's neighborhood
If you can avoid fighting, always avoid the fight – even if it means running away
If you must fight, do whatever is necessary to win at all costs … anything and everything
Diamonds of Wisdom
Years ago I read a book that revolutionized and evolved my consciousness. It was titled The Four Agreements. There's a companion book titled, The Mastery of Love. Both books were written by David Ruiz. I commend them to you.
The Four Agreements encapsulate applied psychology into concepts easily absorbed and incorporated into consciousness. In those books, I found "the secret" to solving whatever inner-personal issues that present in living and dying on this planet. Try and apply: the resulting personal evolution will be manifest to all on the planet.
I was thinking about other diamonds of wisdom that are available to the world, without little or not cost. I'm speaking (through writing) about thoughts that equates to wisdom and enlightenment. It's the stuff renaissance comprises. It is the light to human evolution of consciousness.
At the outset of my quest for an understanding of human existence, and (obviously) my place in it, the ultimate question is, What is right and what is wrong? If, in fact, I believe that here is such a thing or idea that you (and I) call "truth" it must not be relative.
My definition, to be clear, is that the truth is immutable. Otherwise, it is impossible to "know" what is and is not moral — what is morally right and what is morally not right. Without morality there is no such thing as "justice." And also be clear, the definition of truth must be universal and applicable to religion, meaning ALL religions and beliefs and political or social systems that affect human and the groups they classify themselves or each individuals behavior.
Answer: INDIVIDUAL ACCOUNTABILITY. Period.
Any religion or system of government that does not employ and practice that standard engages in immorality in its conduct and behavior towards others.
Really, now, does any human being control where and when he or she was conceived? How, then, can there be community guilt based on tribe or religion or political belief? How can one religion rightly sanction violence against an individual, based on who conceived that individual, and where conception occurred? Only the most primitively, viciously animalistic and vile political or religious belief system, from which flows tribulations and heinous abuse of life.
Life is emotion. What I have learned is that the universal attribute of life, no matter what time, space or dimension, is emotion. I'd be so inclined to admit that life's manifestation is the constant of emotion.
The intellect (logos) is the cap of emotion, and dresses emotion in rationality, which feeds emotion and produces behavior of that which lives.
Emotion moves everything and everyone.
RIP Dolores Anita Thomas
Love to Dolores, my mother-in-law, who passed from this scene February 10, 2015. Dolores' father was Frank Fairfax, whose can claim the status of first hiring Dizzy for about a year in Philadelphia after Diz first left the farm for the city and the Muse. The history is in the books on the subject, and Diz was a family friend with whom I had the pleasure of hanging with on one occasion.
Dolores was a women who was selected as a Black beauty queen the year Anita Bryant won the title of Miss America.
Dolores was a most positive person, who sought the beauty and happiness that life could bring — and on whose couch sat a pillow embroidered with the words, "Screw the Golden Years!"
RIP Dolores. Love you, always.
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Vassily Smyslov
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One-time world chess champion, oft-unrivaled theoretician, and one of the two strongest chessmen in the world during the 1950s. (1921-present).
Smyslov Rising
Vassily Vasiliyevich Smyslov (also transliterated as 'Vasily', the original Cyrillic is Василий Васильевич Смыслов*) was born in Moscow, Russia, on March 24, 1921. Like most eventual grandmasters, Smyslov learned the game of chess at a young age. It was only eventual, one might suppose; after all, the 1925 Moscow International Tournament had solidified chess' premier place in the emergent Soviet culture during Smyslov's infancy. Even before this, Smyslov's father (Vassily Osipovich) had gained some recognition for defeating future World Champion Alexander Alekhine in a 1912 game.
In this atmosphere, Vassya (Smyslov's childhood diminutive) began play at the age of six, and soon began to take on his father and uncle (Kirill Osipovich), who was also an accomplished player. The first time that Smyslov and Kirill sat down to a match, the latter generously offered to handicap himself of a rook during each game. The seven-year-old Vassily accepted, then proceeded to defeat his uncle thoroughly. As reward, Kirill gave Vassily a copy of Alekhine's best games, signed "To winner in match, future champion Vassya Smyslov, from his uncle {...}". His words would become prophetic.
Smyslov continued to climb the crowded Soviet ranks, achieving the level of master in 1938. Only three years later, at the age of twenty, Smyslov became a grandmaster, vaulting himself into the upper reaches of the competitive chess world. Yet like seemingly all great chessmasters, Vassily's interests were hopelessly torn. Henry Buckle wrote chapters of his great historical compilation between moves; Max Euwe taught mathematics while he was World Champion; even Paul Morphy ultimately preferred the bar to the board.
Smyslov's unquenchable love was for the opera. As a baritone singer, Smyslov gained a decent reputation, and he gave up further hope of pursuing that specific art only when he was rejected after an audition for the Bolshoi theatre in 1950. (Smyslov would continue to perform for friends and at chess tournaments, often with fellow grandmaster/pianist Mark Taimanov.) Yet even before then, Smyslov's talent as a chess player was garnering much more notice.
He was (and still is) known, perhaps, best for being simply so well-rounded. His openings were fresh and effective, his middlegames got the job done, and his endgames were acclaimed as being "of as high a level as any player in history". But his skills extended further than the tournament tables. His openings were so effective because they were original--Smyslov created nearly countless variations on traditional chess openings both old and new, instead of merely picking lines from the past like his peers did all too often. His strong theoretical abilities sharpened his strategy for mid-game battles, where he would take sometimes counterintuitive positions to deploy his pieces best. Though lacking the pure insight or genius afforded to a José Raul Capablanca or Bobby Fischer, Smyslov's consummate skill made him strong enough to help set the stage for what proved to be a decade-long battle.
Smyslov v. Botvinnik
In 1948, the newly-created FIDE set up a tournament to determine the world's 'first' chess champion (the first, at least, recognized by FIDE). Smyslov took a strong second behind Mikhail Botvinnik, the perennial monarch of Soviet chess since the 1930s. After Botvinnik narrowly defended his title against David Bronstein in 1951, Smyslov gained the right to challenge Botvinnik for the crown which he missed out on by 2.5 points back in 1948. The hyped match took place in Moscow in 1954; though Smyslov won two and drew three of the last five games, he could not overcome Botvinnik's strong beginning. The match ended a 12-12 tie; under these conditions, Botvinnik retained his title.
Smyslov could not challenge for three more years, so he spent the intervening time taking first at Zagreb 1955 and finishing strongly at Hastings 1954 and 1955, in addition to the 1956 Alekhine Memorial tournament. Smyslov won the Candidates' Tournament that year as well, giving him the right to take Botvinnik on a second time. Taking place in Moscow once again, the two competitors began trading exciting wins just as in 1954--except this time, more of them were going to Smyslov. With six duels left, Smyslov went into Game 17 with a one-point lead and a need to solidify it; Botvinnik had drawn the last three games and won the one before them.
A Grünfeld Defense led to some fairly heavy exchanges, and it appeared that a fourth consecutive game might be drawn. But Botvinnik, trying to set up an endgame favorable to his remaining knight, continued to keep a wary eye out for the win he needed even more than Smyslov. At the 41st move, though, the game was adjourned and the position looked quite 'drawish' indeed. Botvinnik saw he was getting nowhere and offered a draw outright, but Smyslov, upon further analysis, noted that he could not only likely gain a draw from his current spot, but had a plausible chance of actually winning. The story goes that upon discovering this, Smyslov didn't wish to tip his opponent off to the possibility, so he asked his assistants at his hotel room to reply to any draw offer by saying that "Smyslov has gone for a walk"! He managed to tactfully avoid this sidestepping when the two sat down the next day, and proceeded to pull off some amazing feats of endgame skill to win the game and seal the match for good. It still stands as one of Smyslov's three favorite games.
Smyslov won the 1957 match 12.5-8.5, becoming the new World Chess Champion. Unfortunately, it did not last long.
A rule of gentlemanship left over from the championship matches of the 19th century provided a defeated world champion the right to request a 'return match' as soon as possible; upon losing, Botvinnik took full advantage of this. The 1958 title match took place (everyone with me, now) in Moscow. Botvinnik began with three straight wins, and in an eerie replay of 1954, Smyslov could not win games quickly enough at the end to make up the deficit. With a 12.5-10.5 victory, Botvinnik took the crown a second time. Vassily Smyslov would never again play a match for the world championship.
Following Defeat
Yet he did not flame out or slowly sink into obscurity, like so many before him. Despite his loss, Smyslov had the last laugh in two final ways. His gain and subsequent loss of the world championship was the first of multiple examples of Botvinnik's modus operandi--watch the opponent play their very best when they take the crown, come up with ways to counteract their techniques, and beat them in the return match. In 1961, FIDE abolished the 'return match' clause, and Botvinnik's intermittent reign of the chess throne came to a permanent end. (Incidentally, there was never any enmity between the two, which is surprising for any chess rivalry. When recently asked, Smyslov was deferent in stating that "{w}ithout doubt, the strongest player of my time was Mikhail Botvinnik".)
Secondly, Smyslov has continued to play long after Botvinnik retired in 1970. In 1984, 63-year-old Smyslov came a single match away from challenging Anatoly Karpov for the world championship. After advancing from a quarterfinal draw that was broken by the spin of a roulette wheel, and beating Zoltan Ribli in the semifinal, he lost to a young Garry Kasparov, who promptly won the title match and dominated the chess scene for the rest of the millenium. Smyslov won 1991's inaugural Senior World Chess Championship and played twice (in 1994 and 2001) on a team of veteran males against the strongest up-and-coming women in chess. His performances were commanding both times. His Elo rating still hovers in the 2500 range; at the age of 83, he is ranked as the 652nd strongest player in the world.
Despite fighting off encroaching blindness and the perils of old age, Smyslov has taken the relaxed years of his life to diversify his interests and cultivate his viewpoints. His books include Smyslov's 125 Selected Games, Endgame Virtuoso, and two works on rook endings and endgame theory. He continues to read, compose chess etudes, and practice religion; he has often given theological qualities to the game of chess and opined on the roles of God and the Devil in its facets.
Yet his most controversial position in the modern day may be his stance on computers such as Deep Thought and Deep Blue. Whenever given the chance, Smyslov has railed against the usage of these computers for anything but assistance for humans. Computer-computer matches, Smyslov says, "negate the creative (divine) side of chess". Considering the deep artistry that is often attributed to his games, such a view is fairly justifiable.
In the title of his autobiography--In Search Of Harmony--Smyslov's approach to music, chess, and life is succinctly summed up. Iconoclastic yet not hypermodern, well-rounded but not bland, Vassily Smyslov made a distinguished mark on both the theory and the overarching history of chess during the middle part of the 20th century.
Hartston, William. The Guinness Book of Chess Grandmasters. London: Guinness Publishing Ltd. 1996.
http://www.rebel.nl/smyslov1.htm --An excellent source for various Smyslov information, and also the website where one can find an actual clip of Vassily Smyslov singing opera. Yes, I was listening to this while creating this writeup.
http://www.brainsturgeon.com/iversen/000610.shtml
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vassily_Smyslov
http://www.gmsquare.com/interviews/smyslov.html
http://www.chess-mate.com/0000107.htm
http://www.mark-weeks.com/chess/wcc-indx.htm
Smyslov games are available at some of the above links. If demand warrants it, I could put one or two directly on this node.
*Thanks to interrobang for help with this one.
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Paul Keres World Chess Champions Alexander Alekhine Mikhail Botvinnik
José Raúl Capablanca modus operandi Grandmaster strip chess
Kasparov versus the World Endgame Garry Kasparov I'm the most off-beat genius you ever knew; I'm so iconoclastic I'm clastic
Zagreb The Art Of Insulting - Chapter XII- Excerpt from the 1992 World Insulting Championship Final in Brussels (Vassilyevich vs. White) Chess Openings FIDE
HAL 9000 chess Deep Blue Pudding Bowl
Elo rating Deferent Soviet 1984


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Warning for economy
Lockdown may last until June, say top scientists
By a Daily Business reporter | March 29, 2020
Boris Johnson is writing to every household
Britain may be forced to stay in total lockdown until June to tackle the deadly coronavirus, according to senior government advisers.
In a stark warning of continued paralysis of sections of the economy, the chief medical officer for Scotland has warned that the restrictions on people's movements could last for 13 weeks.
Catherine Calderwood said anything shorter risked the virus coming back.
She said the experience of other countries showed that strict measures were needed.
Her comments follow a message from Professor Neil Ferguson, of Imperial College London, who said it may be necessary for people to stay at home for three months.
We're going to have to keep these measures in place, in my view, for a significant period of time
– Prof Neil Ferguson
The latest advice comes as the Prime Minister writes to every household stating that things will get worse before they get better.
Britain's coronavirus death toll rocketed by 260 to 1,019 yesterday in the worst day the country faced yet. A total of 17,089 people tested positive for the bug.
According to Professor Ferguson, even after the lockdown comes to an end, it is likely the government will still implement a number of social distancing measures.
"We're going to have to keep these measures in place, in my view, for a significant period of time – probably until the end of May, maybe even early June. May is optimistic," he said.
In a letter to every home in the country, the Prime Minister, who is self-isolating after testing positive for the bug, will stress the need to stay indoors to support the NHS by slowing the spread.
The letters, posted at an anticipated cost of £5.8 million, will land on 30 million doorsteps along with a leaflet spelling out the Government's advice following much public confusion.
The letters and leaflets are the latest in a public information campaign from No 10 to convince people to stay at home, wash their hands and shield the most vulnerable from the disease.
"'We know things will get worse before they get better," the Prime Minister says.
Amid allegations of mixed messages on the lockdown, the leaflet will outline the Government's rules on leaving the house and advice on shielding vulnerable people.
Businesses doing well
While the prospect of a lengthy lockdown will spread alarm among businesses already struggling to survive, there are some which have enjoyed an uplift in demand.
Aside from supermarkets, which say there has been a £1 billion rise in food sales, companies such as Amazon, Evans Cycles and Dixons Carphone have been beneficiaries of the lockdown.
Sales of office and gym equipment, bicycles, books, computer games, gardening and DIY products are among those which have seen sales rise as people revert to home working, avoid public transport or just look for something to do..
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A Worried Man says:
"companies such as Amazon, Evans Cycles and Dixons Carphone have been beneficiaries of the lockdown."
Maybe I'm a conspiracy theorist but the current circumstances do rather seem to suit some enterprises.
Online shops allowed to thrive,
Banks allowed to be closed,
People working from home,
Will physical shopping return?
Has someone found a way to stop us using cash and move to card only? Will this justify closing offices, after all the current situation shows things can get done without them!
Seriously ? , ONLY June ? …… This situation is far worse than we're being told , Mr Jonny and his pals need to STOP ALL MOVEMENT otherwise this will do for us all . I've seen people here In Manchester milling around like it's a bank holiday over this weekend , no one understands the gravity of the situation . Me ? I'm in the at risk group with a diabetic condition and heart trouble and my wife is a key worker . If she brings that home with her then it's night night from me !… We as a nation MUST stop being so carefree , selfish and take responsibility !!!


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Reggaeton a lo Cubano: From Cuba to the Rest of the World
By: Rik van Boeckel
Since the mid-nineties, hip hop has conquered Cuba. From North America, rap arrived by the radio waves in Havana. In other parts of the island, like Santiago de Cuba, the influences of Jamaican dancehall and reggae came together with hip hop and Puerto Rican style reggaeton. Add to this the influences of the variety of Cuban music styles and a new hybrid is born: Reggaeton a lo Cubano, also called Cubaton. The Dutch music journalist Rik van Boeckel explored this new music wave; from Havana in the west, Santa Clara in the center and Santiago in the east.
The three members of Cubanito 20.02 are rappin' their song "Muevo tu Cuerpo" (Move your body), off of their first album "Soy Cubanito," at a quick and happy reggae beat. The way they rap is more similar to Jamaican raggamuffin' than to American hip hop. A wave of excitement goes though the Casa de la Musica, the main stage of Havana. Sensual and fashionable, that's how the young Cubans move on the dancefloor; in a way only Cubans can move.
Cubanito 20.02
The next song is "Pideme" (Ask me). The beats are produced by a turntable but sound like they come from a simple drum computer. It's the same way young reggae musicians from neighboring Jamaica produce dancehall. "U laca laca lah" they rap. These are sounds I hear from almost every window in Havana and even in every taxi cab. I dance with a Cuban mulatta salsa style to this energetic rap. Cubanito 20.02 likes to mix rap and reggae with their own Cuban music: son, rumba and salsa. They like Orquesta Aragon as much as they like Bob Marley and Eminem.
Together with the rappers of Máxima Alerta, Cubanito 20.02 make up the vanguard of the Cuban version of reggaeton, called Cubaton. French world music label Lusafrica released Cubanito 20.02's first CD, 'Soy Cubanito', in the summer of 2004 and the second, 'Tocame', in the autumn of 2005. In April 2005, Lusafrica released the first CD from Máxima Alerta, 'Llegaron los alertas'.
In very short time, Cubanito had a breakthrough in Cuba. Rappers White and El Doctor were members of Primera Base, a rap crew which was successful in 1995 during the Havana Rap Festival in Alamar - a suburb of Havana. At this Cuban government sponsored festival, there were also hip hop crews from the United States, Canada, Venezuela and Europe. American rappers who played there compared the atmosphere with the start of hip hop in New York. Rappers who produced lyrics which are critical of the Cuban system took the risk of getting arrested by the police.
White and El Doctor exercised their raps daily in the busses of the Cuban capital. There they met Flipper, a club DJ who was rappin' over a sound system. Together in 2002, they founded Cubanito 20.02. In 2003, they won a prize at Cubadisco (Cuba's main music fair). Nowadays they are called the guerilleros de Ragga Cubano. At the stage, they wear proudly the guayabera - the traditional Cuban shirt. They rap "Me gusta el reggae" (I love reggae) over a heavy ragga beat. This Cuban reggaeton is party music without social or political statements. That can be risky in Castro's Cuba.
Máxima Alerta
A day after Cubanito's show, I leave Havana. I am travelling to Santa Clara, 200 miles east of the capital. Santa Clara is the town of Che Guevara; the Cuban legend was buried there in 1996. The giant statue of Che rises high above the town. He conquered the town during the Cuban revolution. It was the decisive battle of the revolution.
It's carnaval time in Santa Clara. Carnaval in Cuba starts on the 26th of July. During the day I am witness to the comparsa, the carnaval parade. Groups of conga players are walking through the streets accompanied by dancers and 'carrozas' (floats) in Brazilian, Spanish, African and Arab styles.
The parade also passes barrio Sandino, a quarter of Santa Clara. Salsa bands play on various stages in the barrio. On one of the stages I see a rap crew performing: Máxima Alerta. A black Cuban girl is dancing in between of them. The music doesn't come from a turntable but from a tape deck. They are breakdancin' as if their bodies are elastic.
They are rapping "Echar pa'lante" (go forward)... they raise their fists in the air... "Hasta siempre." This is a mix of hip hop with son - the traditional Cuban music made famous by the Buena Vista Social Club - and with the old revolutionary ballad of Carlos Puebla about Che Guevara. In the town of Che this rap has a special meaning.
"The best I can do
is to be loyal to you
to be loyal to my Cuba
to you, Che commandante."
With these words the rap of "Hasta Siempre" starts.
Cuban Hip Hop
"We mix American hip hop with son, salsa, merengue, cumbia and reggae," says Ray Machado (bandleader of Máxima Alerta). "Today, we call our music reggaeton." Compared to Cubanito 20.02, Máxima Alerta is less influenced by Jamaican music. The Cuban influence is stronger. They pay homage to Elio Revé, the singer of the changui; which, just like the son, is a music style that originates from the east of the island, Oriente. Máxima Alerta also uses a sample of Gloria Estefan's "The Conga."
"Hip hop on Cuba started in the eighties. In the beginning, nobody on Cuba liked rap," Ray Machado tells me. During that time, rap was even forbidden by the Cuban government because they thought it could be used for counter-revolutionary activities. Castro changed his mind when hip hop became popular among the Cuban youth, especially among the black Cubans. Today, Castro even sees rappers as potential new revolutionaries, as long as their lyrics are positive about the revolution.
"We don't rap about the political situation," Machado says. "Rap is a special way to talk about the situation in the country. On Cuba there are about 300 hip hop groups; and they all take a different line. We like more commercial raps. We want our raps to also be heard outside of Cuba. Cuban hip hop and reggaeton is strong enough to get success outside of Cuba just like what happens today with son and salsa."
Mix of Hip Hop With Cuban Music
"It's not easy to mix hip hop with Cuban music," Machado notes. "You have to listen carefully to see if it stays in the same line with the Cuban clave, the basis of our traditional music." Taktaktak taktak... He claps the rhythm with his hand to let me hear how the clave sounds. The rhythm of the clave is essential to Cuban music, not only for son, rumba and salsa but also for Cuban hip hop and reggaeton.
"You cannot copy gratuitously another style. There are rappers who try to imitate American gangsta style. That's ridiculous because there are no gangs here. Others' raps deal with living in the ghetto and working in the sugar industry as well as about going to the beach, parties, beautiful women and the beauty of Cuba."
Machado gives me a CD of his group: 'Llegaron los alertas' (Lusafrica 2005). The next day I play it in my discman on the bus that will bring me to Santiago de Cuba, in the eastern part of island. I listen to "Atacachumba," a quick Cuban rap in not so understandable Cuban Spanish. "Machete" is the next rap: a crossover of Cuban rumba with hip hop; salsa trumpets mix with a hip hop beat. An old farmer along the road is cutting sugar cane with a machete. He does that at the rhythm of the rumba rap. The shirt he wears - the guayabera - reminds me of the performance of Cubanito 20.02 in Havana. I put their CD "Soy Cubanito" in the discman and play the title track which expresses how they are proud to be Cubans."
"Soy enamorado de ti"... Santiago-based Candyman (real name: Ruben Cuesta Palomo), Cuba's most controversial artist, raps from behind a window in the Calle Felix Peña in Santiago de Cuba - one of the hottest towns of the island. You can hear the music of the 28 year old rapper all around the island, but it is here in Santiago de Cuba where he grew up. He is a pioneer in mixing ragga and dancehall with Cuban hip hop. He bridges the music of Cuba and Jamaica; Jamaica is situated directly under the eastern part of Cuba. With clear weather you can see the lighthouses of Jamaica from the mountains of the Sierra Maestra. His countrymen, like Candyman's Spanish street-talk-words, percolated to a mix of ragga and hip hop beats. A group of men playing domino on the corner of the Calle Calixta Garcia are laughing loudly about one of his funny lyrics. "Tendon con el fotingon." This is a rap about 'maricones' - Cuban homosexuals. His lyrics are full of sexual connotations.
Santiago de Cuba is the town with the biggest black population in Cuba. Immigrants from Jamaica, Haiti and other Caribbean islands came here to work and live. So, the Afro Cuban music is very vivid here in Santiago, alongside the son, raggamuffin' and reggaeton. Around the central Parque Cespedes where the rastafari every evening gather, you can hear how all the styles are blending. During the evening I am witness to a performance by the group Boncoenchemilla in the Casa de Estudiantes in the Calle Heredia, a side street of Parque Cespedes. Some guys offer me a glass of rum and invite me to go with them to another place. But I focus on the music and listen to the group's beats and rumba chants.
Boncoenchemilla is exploring the fusion of Afro Cuban rumba with hip hop. They are rapping over rumba rhythms produced by four congas and two cajones, wooden boxes which are played on the upperside. Rhythm and language are much different from American hip hop. However, freestyling over a rumba guacango they show how hip hop and rumba flow together in a natural way.
Boncoenchemilla
Reggaeton: From Panama and Puerto Rico to Cuba
Reggaeton artists have a lot of traditional influences in their music from the Caribbean. In Puerto Rico with underlying traditional rhythms like bomba and plena, in the Dominican Republic with merengue and bachata and in Cuba with traditional Cuban music influences. But the roots of reggaeton is the reggae and dancehall from Jamaica. Jamaicans working in Panama started in the seventies to rap over reggae beats. It was the first reggaeton, although, it was not called that. Reggaeton got its name from Puerto Rico. During the eighties, Puerto Rican rapper Vico C started to mix reggae and Spanish language hip hop and created the early reggaeton sound. Lyrics of Jamaican reggae were translated into Spanish in Panama as well in Puerto Rico. In the early nineties dancehall artist Shabba Ranks released the track "Dem Bow," whose beat and rhythm became the background for what we today know as the modern reggaeton.
Trespeso: Reggaeton Collective
"One of the definite styles that comes through in Santiago is the roots sound of old school Panamanian reggae," says Guabo, one of the founders of Trespeso. Trespeso is a music business and indie label for Santiago-based reggaeton artists with the main objective of distributing music internationally. Guabo comes from Auckland, New Zealand, but stays six months a year in Santiago de Cuba where he produces videos, tries to raise funds for recordings and smuggles in audio equipment needed by the artists. By doing this, his aim is to create commercial possibilities for the artists under the label Trespeso Music.
When I asked him why he started Trespeso, he answered, "On a personal level, I was sick and tired of being a taker. I wanted to give. I wanted to contribute to the Cuban Community and get involved in something positive. What is happening now is so much bigger than that. It's become a music business opportunity that's presenting real opportunities to better the quality of living for the artists in Cuba. Because of the embargo, I registered Trespeso Music in New Zealand - similarly to how Ry Cooder's Buena Vista was registered in Canada - as a 3rd party trade buffer zone because of the embargo. I say all this because it's an important part of our goal to defeat the embargo while it still exists. Like the Village People always said, 'you can't stop the music, nobody can stop the music'. But because of the political and economic situation, we are dependent on the ability to trade from a USA friendly country like New Zealand."
Traditional Influences
Guabo describes Trespeso as a collective of reggaeton musicians. "Santiago Trespeso is a we thing. It is a collective of people who work together as a family. Boncoenchemilla works, for example, together with Rezistencia, another reggaeton crew. It's an experimental project to fuse rumba and hip hop. I really want to do a mix of conga and reggaeton; I think that would be off the hook. Trespeso artists have a lot of traditional influences in their music, so many it's hard to distinguish."
In Santiago, old school dancehall, ragga and Panamanian reggae have been a big influence in the birth of this genre. "Trespeso's Silega y Joe is all Puerto Rican reggaeton and perreo to the extent that even people in Havana think they are from Puerto Rico, but they are Cuban. So Puerto Rican reggaeton along with American hip hop are all starting to influence the music in Santiago, where as in Havana, I feel that salsa and timba have influenced a lot of their sounds like Eddi K and Cubanos en la Red."
Silega y Joe
Guabo tells me there are many groups in Santiago. "Around 300 to 350 are actually recording tracks in some capacity. Remember, music is like sex to Cubans, so when they are bored or think 'oh what are we gonna do now', they simply start their own reggaeton or hip hop group. I mean there are new groups popping up all the time. However, the core group of talent that has been doing this for 5 years or more is probably only some 40 or 50 individuals."
More Melodious
I tell Guabo that I consider the Cuban reggaeton as more melodious than the reggaeton from Puerto Rico. I think of the reggaeton of Máxima Alerta, Cubanito 20.02 and Candyman compared to the well known stuff of Daddy Yankee and Don Omar. And of course, the reggaeton of Puerto Rico gets more worldwide attention than the style from Cuba because of the complete different relations which Puerto Rico and Cuba have with the USA.
Guabo gives me along answer. "Well, yeah OK. I will break it down like this. I smoke like 4 or 5 cigars a day. Cuban tobacco is the best, the world has known that for over 400 years. Yet, in America you have the media marketeers and tobacco companies telling you that Dominicans are as good or better. Shit, they even copied Cuban brand names. But you ask a real serious cigar smoker what's the best and he says, without any hesitation, 'Cubans! Cubans are the Best!'
"This Latin hip hop & reggaeton scene can be seen in similar contrast. Puerto Rico has no trade embargo. Like Cuba, they've got good talent. And it's important to acknowledge that Puerto Rico and Cuba are sister islands. But we know that if you gave Cuba's youth 5% of the access to technology, the Internet and decent audio equipment, they would be the Don Omars and Daddy Yankees of this genre. Without any doubt whatsoever! Regardless of the embargo or political situation, the music coming out of every little barrio in Cuba gives real cause to end the embargo and bring in a new era.
"Latin America is changing politically and economically at a very rapid rate, and what country is at the forefront of that change: Cuba! So the question comes, what's the music of this moment in history. Yes, it's reggaeton! It only makes sense that Cubans get the credit from their contribution to this Latin rising. I mean, Don Omar does "Reggaeton Latino" but he can't record that track in Cuba with Cuban artists because the lawyers from the his record company would say no way. Yet, he will use images from the Cuban Revolution to associate his music with this change that's taking place across Latin America and indeed the USA."
Buena Pistas Social Club
Guabo starts to talk about the new record he is going to make, with the ironic name Buena Pistas Social Club. The CD will initially be available this year through DMS (digital music stores) and iTunes.
"Ry Cooder did a good job at some things and a useless job at others," Guabo says when I ask him about the name. "Recently, he made some rude remarks about the rise of reggaeton and hip hop music in Cuba. We will release a CD and DVD. It will include exactly what Ry Cooder's Buena Vista missed: a lot of girls dancing. The visual aspect of Trespeso productions are important because we can't do a tour of Europe and the USA. The music on the CD will be polished and diverse. I feel there is a real diversity in Cuban reggaeton, but not so much in the hip hop because it's more of a platform for political expression. Reggaeton is as much a means of entertaining as it is expressing. The selection of tracks and artists on our 1st Buena Pistas Social Club CD is probably one on the most diverse mixes of Reggaeton Cubano you will ever hear on one CD. It has hints of Panama, Puerto Rico and Jamaica but yet in a true Cuban lyrical style without any compromise."
The diversity will range from the Puerto Rican style of Silega y Joe, a dancehall styled track of Rezistencia, Afro Cuban reggaeton mixed with R&B by Los Condes and the ragga reggaeton feel of Vatoz Locoz. Those are only some examples of the reggaeton that will be on this CD.
Also, before mentioned Candyman is a part of the social network of Trespeso, notes Guabo. "I think his older stuff is better. It's got that raw Jamaican and Panamanian sound. Yet it's 100% Cuban 'cause of his style and flow. As an artist, he has done more for the Cuban reggaeton than any other artist in or out of Cuba. Yet, he has suffered for that. He has sacrificed a lot because of his popularity. I mean he is known the world over. I know that in the USA he is known from Los Angeles and Miami to New York City and Chicago."
Finally, Guabo adds that Cuban Americans are showing support and flip out when they realize how much is going on with Cuban music, not only timba but also hip hop and reggaeton. And I will add, just as Cuban music in the past has won popularity all over the world, the newest music from Cuba has to make the big crossing to the rest of the world. For Máxima Alerta and Cubanito 20.02, it started with the release of their records by Lusafrica. There have already been documentaries made about Cuban hip hop and one will be released about Cubaton - Reggaeton a lo Cubano - with among others, Candyman and Cubanito 20.02; to be distributed by Warner Music.
www.cubaton.com
www.trespeso.com
This article was translated from dutch into english.


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