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Seminar in Samara, 20th-23rd November 2003
In the country boarding house "Park Hotel" not far from Samara, the Center for Interethnic Cooperation conducted its last of three trainings on the topic "Russian and International Mechanisms for the Protection of National Minorities." The Council of Europe and the Foundation for Rights Protection Projects of Great Britain financed the seminar. Experts from the Council of Europe and national association leaders from Moscow, Saint Petersburg, the Samara, Voronezh, Saratov, Nizhni Novgorod and Orenburg regions participated in this seminar. We also invited administration representatives from each of these cities, but only representatives from the Samara and Nizhni Novgorod regional authorities responded. The official reason for refusal was that were extremely busy, but there were other reasons. The problem of interethnic relations and national politics in Russia has been completely abandoned. The Ministry on national affairs was liquidated, and another division in the power structure has not been created. The conception of a new state national politics in Russia is not accepted. The government finances in this sphere have abandoned the all hope for something better. In the end, employees of the administration, answering for work with nationalities, as a rule, enter into the structure of division, working with the public of a given region. And as it is known, these subdivisions are the first sent to battle for a victory of administrative interests at the elections.
Participation in the seminar gave the possibility not only to better learn about the mechanisms for the protection of national minorities in Russia and in other European countries, but also to receive information about the interethnic situation in other regions and about the allocated means for the support of national associations. If to take into consideration, that at our seminars representatives from a number of regions envied the national associations from the Perm and Samara regions because of their administrations' work and financing, it became clear why officials from other regions decided to stay a little farther. The more pleasant to celebrate the help and support, which the authorities of the Samara Region gave to the seminar organizers. Nadezhda Osipova, the head specialist of the Department for Interaction with Social Organizations, practically on the same level with employees of the Center for Interethnic Cooperation, took part in the decision of all possible organizational questions. For two days Nadezhda's office became the headquarters for the organization of the seminar. The following should underlined, that on the eve of the seminar Lyudmila Durova, director of the Chief Management for Public and Inter-regional relations and Informational Politics for the Samara regional administration, took the director of the Center Ashot Airapetyan and in detail discussed with him the course for the seminar's preparation. In the end she suggested to conduct a press conference and speak to the journalists about the seminar. More than anything, she gave instructions to the press center of the Samara regional administration to prepare for this press conference. We have not had anything similar happen in other regions! So that the administration itself suggested conducting a joint press conference –where is that seen? On the next day, November 19, four television cameras were waiting in the press center for the Center for Interethnic Cooperation and for the national associations of the Samara Region. Except for Lyudmila Durova and Ashot Airapetyan, Professor Bill Bowring, an expert from the Council of Europe, leaders from the Moscow national associations, and other seminar participants also took part in the press conference. Naturally, we spoke to the journalists not only about the goals and objectives of the seminar, but also about the importance of solving interethnic problems, about the necessity of opposing the increase of racism and xenophobia and the assistance of spreading ideas of tolerance, respect for other cultures and traditions. All of this took place in the Samara regional administration's building. On that day in the House of Friendship, a reception was arranged for the seminar participants. The House of Friendship in Samara is a unique establishment, where the 18 most active national associations received offices. Moreover, the administration pays the salary for one of the methodologist from each organization. That is socialism, about which long ago the national associations dreamt to be constructed in every Russian city.
It is possible to guess that the Samara administration employees' style of work does not appear to be a feature only of the Chief Management of Public and Inter-regional Relations and Informational Politics. The [regional] governor Titov had already long ago shown himself to a person, who is interested in cooperating with international organizations. According to the words of Lyudmila Durova, just this year the non-profit sector of the region received from the USA a present of 15 million dollars as a grant! This figure in itself already means a lot. Here it is a place to add that the Samara administration provided a bus to transport the seminar participants to and from the boarding house. They also sent a hired "Volga" to meet Professor Bowring at the airport. Finally, the Samara administration also found the beautiful and comfortable boarding house "Park Hotel" on the shore of Zhigulev reservoir, where the training was held. It was a good choice. The reservoir, encircled by trees, was a very beautiful place. Except for the seminar participants, there was practically no one else staying at the boarding house. The seminar started on November 20th at 11am. After the introduction of the participants and a speech by Lyudmila Durova, Professor Bowring spoke about the main points of the international system for the protection of minorities. Further, as at the other seminars, lead by the Center for Interethnic Cooperation in Anapa and in Perm, Merje Lahtinen, an employee of the Management for Human Rights Protection from the Council of Europe, spoke to the participants about the main points of the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities. Unexpectedly the seminar participants received the possibility to become acquainted with several rules for observing human rights. The second television channel of the Samara television decided to film the opening of the seminar and the speeches of the Council of Europe experts. A. Valentin Ivaschenko, deputy director of the Ukrainian national-cultural autonomy from St Petersburg wanted to film the whole seminar on his own camera. The experts of the Council of Europe agreed to be filmed, but they asked to discuss this question with the other seminar participants.
They were surprised (before no one would have asked them about it), but they gave their consent. By using this situation, we decided to record the experts' reports at this seminar. Shortly the texts from these reports will appear; therefore it is not necessary to discuss these reports in detail here. The experience of the previous seminars showed that the seminar participants take up quite a bit of time when they speak about the course of the Framework Convention's fulfillment in their own region. Therefore in Samara we divided the participants into four groups and asked them to pick out four of the most realistic articles of the Framework Convention, according to their view. After the lively group discussions it became clear that the participants basically selected the same articles. The articles 1, 6 and 15 received the most votes. The next working day began at 10am but did not end at 18-00, as was planned, but at 19-00. Early in the morning it simply became clear that the vice-mayor of the city Tol'yatti Yakov Radyushin wanted to become acquainted with the experts from the Council of Europe. On the request of Ashot Airapetyan, the representatives of the national associations of Tol'yatti also went to the meeting with the vice-mayor. At the meeting the vice-major said that the city was built by all peoples of the USSR, and therefore no special national problems exist in Tol'yatii, and the problems that do exist, are reflections of problems that occur throughout Russia. The last reports at the seminar given by Samara regional representatives confirmed the words of Yakov Radyushin, but they were critical statements. Marat Beligov's temperamental speech was especially remembered. He spoke about how the good relations of the administration and the national associations in the Samara Region have not become an obstacle for the discrimination against representatives of the Tajik, Chechen, Roma and other nationalities on the part of the law enforcement bodies. The representative from the Orenburg Chechen organization, Eset Yusufova said that the local authorities gave the official statistics of refugees from Chechnya, which did not include ethnic Chechens, and that it is a serious violation of the Framework Convention. Unfortunately, Ashot Airapetyan's numeral appeals to construct the discussion around the Framework Convention articles were not fruitful. The leaders of the national associations spoke about their own concerns, seldom recollecting the Framework Convention or any other acts. Larissa Gugetleva from the Moscow Community of Chechen culture "Adygi", for example suggested to speak not about the problems, with which emigrants from the Caucasuses in Moscow are confronted, but about the tragic fate of the Adygei during the first Caucasus war.
David Beritashbili spoke about the Moscow International Advisory Council, which works with the first assistant of the Moscow government, that despite the large number of opportunities, this council cannot effectively work because numerous bureaucratic barriers interfere with his work. He spoke about a multimillion city plan for tolerance, about the existence, which national associations found out about only after the money was distributed. Valentin Ivaschenko, deputy leader of the Ukrainian national-cultural autonomy from Saint Petersburg, said that the city authorities think that there is no difference between the Ukrainians and the Russians, and they are strongly surprised, when a Ukrainian asks for support for some kind of project. Uktam Bekmukhamedov, representative of the Tajik cultural center, recounted how frequently he is approached for the release of his compatriots from the hands of the police. His compatriot, Tavakal Ubaidov, leader of the Samara organization "Assistance for the Development of Tajik Culture 'Soman'on'", said that the existing registration laws do not give the opportunity for Tajiks, who have arrived on temporary work, to be registered in time. They are afraid to even go the store for bread because they know that they might be caught and taken away a police station. Further a call from the police to the foreman at the construction site, who collects money and goes to release the compatriot. As well as it was necessary to expect, there were many claims to the mass media, which only has not striven to propagate ideas of tolerance, but also has not shunned openly racist material. Representatives from the Tatar, Bashkir, and Ukrainian organizations stressed that although the majority of influential local electronic mass media are state owned, broadcasting in national languages is usually not possible, which are violations of the Framework Convention. Unfortunately, leaders from the local police did not take part in the seminar, although Lyudmila Durova sent them an official invitation. Instead Lyubov' Svetlichnaya, an employee of the Samara Region Immigration Services, attended all four days of the seminar. In her statements she declared that their migration service works by those rules, which have been devised in Moscow, and if these rules are not convenient for someone, it is not their fault. She stressed that all immigrants, who wish to receive registration, have received it. The strong impression caused by Aleksandr Reider's statements leader of the regional national-cultural autonomy of Germans from the Saratov Region. Our trainings and seminars in 10 Russian regions have shown, that the German organizations are the strongest, most able, and most disciplined. In that the Germans, differ from their colleagues, the representatives of the southern nationalities, aspire to not miss any opportunity to receive new knowledge and skills. Aleksandr Reider's comments convinced the seminar participants that the administration of the Saratov Region does a lot, so that the peoples and nationality groups living there feel like full-fledged citizens. In the Saratov Region special mechanisms that ensure constant and informal contact between the administration and the leaders of national associations, have allowed for any arising problems to be solved. Aleksandr's story made an especially strong impression about the joint duty of the representatives of the national associations and the police in Saratov's public places for the prevention of incidents with members of national minorities, mostly immigrants, on the side of the local residents or the police. "It is possible for the experience of the Chechen and Tajik organizations in the Saratov Region to be adopted in Samara," suggested Ashot Airapetyan.
"It is impossible," objected Marat. "Because our police would never go for it!"
Ashot recounted, how at the initiative of the Center for Interethnic Cooperation, a roundtable discussion was held in Ekaterinburg under the aegis of the Commissioner for Human Rights, Tat'yana Merzlyakova and was devoted to the protection of national minority rights. The Commissioner's press services invited journalists to the roundtable discussion, which allowed the directors of the Tajik and Roma associations to give speeches on the local television and to express their points of view relating to the situation in the city. After the roundtable discussion, at the Human Rights Commissioner's initiative, a meeting of the national association leaders was organized with the directors of the state police and migration services. With such a good relationship between the Samara authorities and the national associations, Ashot suggested that a similar meeting could be arranged in Samara without problems. The following should be emphasized that Ashot during the course of the training repeatedly made parallels between the different regions of Russia, informing about positive experiences, which could be successfully accepted in other regions. In particular, he spoke to the seminar participants, that in the Volgograd and Astrakhan Regions a special office deals with the problems of national minorities, although the financial possibilities of these regions are considerably inferior those of the Samara region. The presence of the several qualified workers in the administration and the special office, where it is possible not to prevent other employees of the administration from working with the national association leaders, has considerable importance. Here it is appropriate to remind that at the end of the day a worker in the administration building's wardrobe treated the leaders of the Moscow national associations to tea, because only two other employees work in Nadezhda Osipova's office there was only one chair for the guests. The last example says that there is no limit to perfection. Also that anywhere, even in the most successful region, by way of interaction with national associations, there is always an opportunity to improve on one's work with the use of other regions' experiences.
1. Interest of the NGO leaders
2. Competence of the experts
3. Manner of the experts' statements
4. Everyone's sincere aspiration to change the situation
5. The volunteer's statements
6. Ashot's jokes
7. The actuality of the theme 8. The atmosphere of kindness; attitudes towards others' problems same as one's own
9. No distance between the speakers and the audience
10. The Samara administration's attitude toward the issues
11. A lot of information
12. The realization of other similar seminars in Russia
13. The mutual democratic relations
14. The informal relations
15. New form and contents of training
16. The formulation of a network for national NGO leaders for solving interethnic relation problems
17. Aspiration from the outside to change a situation inside
18. Beautiful women, smart men
19. The condition of the residence
1. Theme of law-enforcement bodies
2. No discipline
3. Emotions went too far
4. It is necessary to be more purposefully engaged in the Framework convention
5. Ashot's "Aggressiveness" as the host
6. Absence of politically correctness
7. Infringement of rules
8. Output on a person and not on the problem 9. There were no other administrators from other regions
10. Little investigation of concrete incidents
11. Technical equipment – computers
12. No representatives of the mass media (AND THERE SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN)
13. No deputies, representatives of the MVD, FSB (AND THERE SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN)
14. Limitation of thinking for problem solving
15. Narrow sight for problem solving
16. Lack of legal education - practice of application of the laws
A touching farewell was held with Merje Lahtinen and Bill Bowring, with whom the seminar participants already became friends. Later the seminar participants at the request of Victoria, divided up into four groups and within one hour developed plans for the introduction of the received knowledge and experience in their regions, and then reported back to the group. The plans were so different and at times not concrete, that it was decided to rate the three most important functions, which national associations should lead for successful protection of their ethnic compatriots. The following functions received the most votes:
Results of the rating method
1. Analysis of the Framework Conventions' articles and the knowledge, received at the seminar 2. Roundtable discussion "Discussion of the RF official reports about the fulfillment of the Framework Convention"
3. Legal education through the mass media, national NGO, law enforcement and other organizations
4. To address parties and participants with the national minorities' choices and their requirements
Ashot called on the training participants to engage in the realization of these plans in the near future. Leaders of the national association nodded their heads in unison. We only need to wait and hope. The previous days showed that the relations of the national associations and authorities (like in the Samara Region, and in those regions from where the participants came) are on a good level. On the other hand, the complaints of leaders of some associations about law enforcement bodies' illegal actions on cases of beatings by young fascists, proves that there is still work to do. At the seminar the sociological research, carried out in the Samara Region, was announced. It showed that 72% of the Russian population harbors negative attitudes toward immigrants, and that nearly 90% of those polled are mostly irritated by appearance of these people. Here we decided that the main "enemy" was found to be the negative public opinion, which wants to remove all immigrants from the Caucuses, Asia and Africa, irrespective of their citizenship and terms of residence in Russia. But this was not so. On that day under the sanction of the Samara administration (but without the knowledge of the Center for Interethnic Cooperation) new participants were included in the training. The participants should represent one or a maximum of two focus groups, either they were very difficult to supervise, or they were not interested in working together, especially study. For example, it was difficult to lead a joint training for milkmaids and chess players. It is still more difficult to conduct training, if two days were spent at the milkmaid's training, and only on the third day of the seminar arrived the chess players, and on that day you should organize a social campaign with them.
It turned out that again the arrivals consider that 72%, about which discussed earlier, is not an occasion for the special anxiety. When the host Ashot Airapetyan interrupted a touching story of one of the participants, about how her girlfriend was in the USA, and how they treated her poorly, here accusations followed that "All is understood, you received money, and you should work for it, our opinion is not interesting to you." Further it was necessary to either ignore her desire to tell more touching stories from her girlfriend's life, or take time away from the seminar's topic, so that we could prove to the participants that we respect everyone's opinion and positions and in the future will work with those problems that the seminar participants think are the most important and actual in the region of interethnic relations. We choice the second path, and on the third day we worked for 1.5 hours longer. We let the "genie out of the bottle." A boisterous discussion began, and even the quietest participants strove to state their position. David Beritashvili declared that the Russian attitude toward immigrants was a "coefficient of tolerance." Tavakal Ubaidov, leader of the Samara Tajik organization recounted that if someone new is thrown into a group of goats, whom they did not know, they then start to display noticeable aggressiveness towards him. "It means that 72% is a reaction to the reality that there are simply strangers," he complained. "Let's not be goats," interjected David Beritashvili and aroused an explosion of Homeric laughter. The emotional heat of the statements raised with each minute, alas, it was impossible to tell about their constructiveness and logicality. When Ashot suggested to stop the discussion and to solve the problem with a simple vote, it became clear that the new participants were ready to fight for every word and point to the formulation of a question, which should be put to the vote. This went to a discussion that it is necessary to understand the word "normal". Finally after a wearisome debate and several rounds of voting, it was possible to define, that when 72% of the native population harbors negative attitudes towards immigrants, that it is not possible to be a normal situation. Hence, the national associations should do definite work, in order to raise the "coefficient of tolerance," and one of the best ways for influencing public opinion is a public campaign. With this matter, we finally received the opportunity to continue the training. The later course of the seminar showed, that this moment was decisive, and similar situations did not arise again.
Later Victoria spoke to the seminar participants how it is possible to influence public opinion with the help of a public campaign. The seminar participants were again divided up into groups, this time to search for the most effective public campaign slogan. Here are the results.
"Alga!"- that is in Russian - «Forward!»
Slogan: "PERCEIVE!", "UNDERSTAND!", "ACCEPT!"
Slogan: "Humanity for People. Together and on the Same Level!"
Action of a social unification
"Our future is in the cooperation of nationalities"
Slogan: "Let's hold hands, friends, in order to not disappear one by one!"
Third Group
Rights Protection educational national center «Rainbow»
Slogan: "We are different, but strangers"
Is it necessary to say that the presentation of the slogans accompanied with active discussions and boisterous applause? By the fourth and last day, an atmosphere of friendship and sensation had formed, as is characteristic of our trainings, that we all being representatives of different nationalities and religions became like one big family. The atmosphere, which promoted, so that the grown uncles and aunts were ready, little children, to complete all requirements of the young trainer, evidently demonstrates, that they can and should work in one group. At the end of training we asked them to divide up into groups and describe the situation, which will take place in their region in five years. Here is they came up with.
The Samara region 2003-2208 becomes economically stable, socially attractive for all categories of the population, attractive for investments for all businesses in region. In the region they conduct:
Roundtable discussions with the representatives of the police (Ministry of Internal Affairs) once a month
Certification of officers and the ranks on the knowledge and performance of laws in the sphere once a year
In the region a Resource Center works, which carries out::
Rights protection activities
Monitoring research
Legal consultations for NGOs, immigrants
A functioning publishing department
Creation of an international child and youth organization
National classes
National schools at the center for children and adults
Interethnic camp of friendship
Lead legal education through the mass media, a local deputy body, national communities, rights protection and other organizations
Conduct meetings with lawyers, rights protectionists at the assemblies of national minority representatives
Interpersonal contacts (work with people)
Examine concrete facts of offences with acceptance of measures, generalizations and decisions
Run systematic and urgent ("hotlines") informational bodies of the authorities on the legal situation of national minority representatives
Organize meetings between the representatives of authorities with rights protection organizations on the realization of international problems
Work with persons of law-enforcement bodies
Strengthen friendship between nationalities, through interethnic national holidays, festivals, etc, through "Sabantuy" where all people will be invited.
Conduct active propaganda of national culture through the mass media (TV, internet, press)
Creation of "Houses of Peoples Friendship" on the example of Samara and Tol'yatii (such as questions of social adaptation and free-of-charge legal advice for various nationalities)
Lead interethnic meetings for leaders from the "House of Friendship" and other national-cultural centers
Creation of a national village (based on the experience of Saratov)
Organize a unique informational field, where journalists are prepared, exists a special national project "TV-radio" – "We are the different but not strangers".
A week later we called the administration of the Samara Region. As it was necessary to expect, the seminar caused a large revival in the national ice formation, and as Nadezhda Osipova told us, the leaders of these associations have noticeably increased their activity. We could only be happy. To be pleased, because we managed to do a good job and consequently, that we have won new grants, and in the New 2004 we shall again work in the remarkable city Samara.
Ashot Airapetyan
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Labour could soon be back and a spending spree may trigger a rise in prices: Here's how to stop inflation burning up your cash
By Sally Hamilton For The Mail On Sunday
American president Ronald Reagan famously described inflation to be 'as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man.'
Melodramatic words maybe but he feared the lasting damage rising prices can have on an individual's and a nation's wealth.
Reagan had inherited a 1980s economy suffering 'stagflation' with inflation in double digits while economic growth had stagnated or even gone into reverse.
Here – as the prospect of a Corbyn-led Government raises the threat of a new inflationary surge – we show what you can do to stop it burning away your wealth.
'The prospect of a Labour Government raises the threat of a new inflationary surge'
THE THREAT OF INFLATION
Fortunately, Britain is not enduring the toxic cocktail of stagflation today. In fact, figures published last week show the main Consumer Prices Index measure of inflation rising at a steady 1.9 per cent, with UK economic growth at a similar level.
Yet the menace of rising prices always lurks in the background. A no-deal Brexit – however unlikely that now is – would trigger a fall in the pound, pushing up the price of everything we import.
Inflation holds steady at 1.9 per cent as cheaper food... Pound jumps after retail sales smash City expectations... Fears a chaotic Brexit or an escalation of the US - China... Blow for a million savers as NS&I prepares a raft of changes...
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And Jason Hollands of investment firm Bestinvest points to another threat – the oil price.
He says: 'Prices could rise due to tightening supply, as production is being hit by the political turmoil in both Libya and Venezuela.'
Sarah Coles of broker Hargreaves Lansdown says: 'If inflation starts to bite, families will have to budget harder to cover the higher prices.'
Savers and investors must never be complacent as even modest levels of inflation can quickly erode their wealth.
Mark Atkinson of investment firm Alliance Trust says: 'Inflation might be low, but interest rates on most cash deposits are even lower, and markets do not expect them to rise far any time soon. Savers need to take action to avoid the slow confiscation of their wealth.'
Tom Selby of broker AJ Bell says: 'If you put £10,000 in an account paying no interest and inflation runs at the Government's target rate of 2 per cent a year, in five years' time that money will buy you just over £9,000 of goods in the shops.
Leave it to fester for ten years and it will buy you just over £8,000 of stuff, while 20 years at the same rate of inflation the pot will have reduced in real value by a third to little more than £6,500.'
So generating a return in excess of inflation is the first base to reach with your savings and investments.
Jason Hollands says: 'If you don't achieve a return which at least keeps pace with inflation, then it isn't a real return at all.'
GIVE SAVINGS MORE SPENDING POWER
Thousands of savers with National Savings & Investments' Index-linked Certificates were recently dealt a blow.
The Government-backed savings bank announced that anyone renewing certificates after May 1 would see the rate of interest linked to the Consumer Prices Index measure of inflation rather than the longer-standing Retail Prices Index.
RPI is currently rising at 2.4 per cent, but historically it runs a whole percentage point above CPI.
So NS&I customers will be paid millions of pounds less in interest.
Assuming that CPI keeps rising at 2 per cent and RPI rises at 3 per cent, someone with £10,000 invested in a five-year certificate will miss out on about £550 over the term.
Anna Bowes of account scrutineer Savings Champion says: 'Although it is a blow these accounts are still tax-free and guarantee to remain in line with inflation, albeit at a lower rate.
'Therefore those who hold them should think carefully before cashing them in as they are not currently available to new customers – only to those rolling them over.'
Savers looking for standard savings accounts can find 192 that match or beat 1.9 per cent – though the best demand they tie up their cash.
The most accessible account is the Secure Trust Bank 90-day notice account paying 1.9 per cent.
That compares with 1.5 per cent for the top easy access account and the measly 0.15 per cent average.
If you were to put £10,000 in today's five-year account – Secure Trust's bond paying 2.6 per cent a year – your money would be worth £11,369 on paper, or £10,304 in real terms – assuming inflation stays at 2 per cent.
But if inflation does rise – and savings rates with it – you might find yourself stuck in a uncompetitive account and facing a hefty exit penalty to escape it.
PRESERVE VALUE WITH BONDS
Bonds are IOUs made to governments or companies, and they can be traded on the stock market. Many aim to deliver returns at least in line with inflation.
But they should not be confused with what banks and building societies call bonds, which are a type of fixed-term savings account, with your money guaranteed by the Financial Services Compensation Scheme.
With bonds that can be traded your investment is at risk, but the rewards can be greater.
Tom Stevenson of investment firm Fidelity International says: 'Inflation-linked bonds offer both an income stream that rises in line with inflation but also sometimes an inflation-linked capital value too.
These bonds are particularly attractive if they are bought before inflation becomes an issue and before it is priced into their cost.'
Jason Hollands of broker Bestinvest says investors considering UK Government bonds called index-linked gilts can invest at a low cost in a fund such as the Vanguard UK Inflation-Linked Gilt Index.
He says: 'This replicates the 29 index-linked gilts currently in issue.'
BEAT EROSION WITH EQUITIES
Why pensions are no longer safe
The impact of inflation is often most painful in retirement when there is not the same chance to boost your income through work.
Those retired from jobs in the public sector have also had their inflation protection tampered with in the same way as holders of NS&I Index-linked Certificates.
Tom Selby of AJ Bell says: 'In the 2010 Emergency Budget the Government switched the inflation link from RPI to the lower CPI for public sector pensions – saving the Treasury billions of pounds.'
With the arrival of pension freedoms, where over-55s can tap into personal pension pots at any time, many are also taking a risk. One in three has dipped into their pension and simply moved sums to deposit accounts where inflation means they wither on the vine.
Care is also needed if you buy an annuity – a fixed income for life. Selby says: 'If you buy one without inflation protection your spending power will decrease year on year.'
But annuities that offer rising income to beat price increases are costly. According to provider Hargreaves Lansdown, a 65-year-old with a pension pot of £100,000 could buy a fixed annual income for life of £5,302, but just £3,186 if it rises each year in line with RPI.
Retirees who keep their pot invested, drawing an income as and when, must ensure the fund is in inflation-beating investments.
Investments that routinely pay an income are a popular way of smoothing the damaging impact of inflation.
This happens when dividends are paid for every share hold.
The yield of an investment – the dividend divided by the share price – can often beat inflation.
Stevenson says: 'High-yielding shares are attractive in this regard, making the UK stock market interesting to investors.
'The yield on the FTSE 100 is more than 4 per cent, well above the income available on government bonds and cash, with the potential to rise in time.'
Link Asset Services, which publishes a dividend monitor, says the most consistent dividend payers over the past decade have been Shell, HSBC, and GlaxoSmithKline, paying more than £200 billion to shareholders between them.
Many investment trusts also pay rising dividends.
Unlike funds they can put aside income in good years to enhance dividends in leaner times.
Ian Sayers, head of the Association of Investment Companies, says: 'This has enabled many to build up remarkable track records of dividend growth – 20 investment companies have raised their dividends for over 20 years.'
Several have done so for more than 50 years, including City of London, Bankers and Alliance Trust.
Many investors in the equity income sector – where trusts aim to produce both income and growth – have enjoyed additional protection.
Sayers says: 'Over the ten years to the end of March, the average UK equity income investment trust delivered enough income alone to beat inflation in nine of the ten years and investors will have seen their capital investment grow too.'
Hollands adds: 'There are also a handful of investment companies with a strong emphasis on capital preservation and delivering returns that beat inflation, rather than a particular stock market index.
'In particular, the Personal Assets Trust and Ruffer Investment Company both invest in mixture of equities, government bonds – including index-linked bonds – and gold.'
CONSIDER INFLATION BEATING INFRASTRUCTURE
Some big infrastructure projects – from transport, schools and hospitals to power networks – offer good inflation-proofing.
Hollands says: 'This is because contracts for such projects are very long-term and predictable in nature, and often incorporate annual adjustments to mitigate the effect of inflation.'
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Everyone loves shopping, and marketers have long used shopper marketing to guide consumers towards their brands during the "last mile" of consideration before a deal is sealed. But the last mile has changed beyond all recognition; across many categories, the shopping process starts long before a person enters a store. People research online, discuss and suggest purchases. Most importantly, they influence and are influenced by the views of their friends, peers and people they trust.
Social media is a huge phenomenon in Indonesia, and it is transforming the social aspect of shopping and purchase decision-making that used to happen offline. Shopping is becoming even more of a social activity in the mobile era, and social media recommendations are having a significant impact on consumers' propensity to consider a brand and ultimately make a purchase.
People trust what others say about brands or products, and not just when it's people they already know. Mothers trust 'mother bloggers' and frequently seek information and product recommendations from them. Someone interested in home appliances will research products online, discuss it with friends, read online reviews, browse in a physical store, and then often go back online to actually make a purchase.
Shopping has become a highly social, non-linear and mobile-enabled activity, at the same time as the business of retailing has also changed: the modern trade is on the rise, and the shopping habits of Indonesians are evolving. People now look for and expect a seamless online-offline shopping experience.
Brands can no longer ignore the demands of these highly social online-offline shoppers. They need to think differently about the way they market to shoppers, focusing less on pushing out a brand message and thinking more about joining in conversations around shopping.
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There are two ways that brands can be part of the new, social aspect of online and offline shopping.
We can turn traditional, one-to-one shopper marketing events and promotions into social interactions that become one-to-many. Online influencers can become a part of an offline event, expanding reach and attracting new audiences by amplifying news about products or offers.
In categories with high shopper consideration or significant barriers to purchase, we can help make it easier to arrive at a purchase decision by providing web-enabled merchandising and access to social content in-store via interactive displays.
With the rise in e-commerce, we can shorten the shopper's purchase journey significantly, by making it easier to convert from an online ad to an online purchase in the moment, rather than nudging shoppers to buy from a physical store.
We know that people are influenced by other peoples' buying experiences, reviews and complaints.
Brands can work to better understand the purchase decision journey and use social listening – when consumers are in 'shopper mode' to identify challenges and barriers to purchase.
Shoppers follow online influencers and desire content that inspires them. Developing the right influencer engagement program and building the right messaging through them can motivate shoppers online, guiding them to the point of purchase.
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NEH Ajami
The Four Languages
NEH Ajami Project
Ajami from ʿAjamī is the Arabic term for non-Arabic, or foreign, and is used to refer to non-Arabic languages and literatures that are written with the modified Arabic script. While it is common knowledge that languages such as Urdu and Persian are written in the Arabic script, less well known is the fact that numerous African languages also have Ajami traditions. The Ajami literatures that have developed in sub-Saharan Africa, which hold a wealth of knowledge on the history, politics, cultures and intellectual traditions of the region, are generally unknown to the scholarly community and the general public alike, largely due to lack of access.
Our project ʿAjamī Literature and the Expansion of Literacy and Islam: The Case of West Africa that was awarded a NEH Collaborative Research Grant seeks, through increasing access to primary sources in Ajami, to spark research and scholarly work on this important part of the Islamic world. We do so by exploring the Ajami literatures of four main "Islamic languages" of West Africa (Hausa, Mandinka, Fula, and Wolof) and making selected manuscripts and their transcriptions and translations widely available in print and online. We drew primarily on existing manuscript collections, publishing a selection of them with interpretive materials in web galleries that are freely accessible to the public, scholars, teachers and students of Islam and Africa. The project has digitized twenty manuscripts in each language and prepared transcriptions into the Latin script as well as translations into English and French. In addition, for each language, we selected over five manuscripts that were the subject of video recorded recitations/readings by local scholars. We prepared interpretive essays on the Ajami literature of each language and a general interpretive essay on African Ajami traditions in general. A selection of the interpretive essays will be published in Islamic Africa.
The interdisciplinary and international project team consists of Fallou Ngom (Principal Investigator), Daivi Rodima-Taylor (Project Manager), and digital humanities specialists from Boston University, Rebecca Shereikis at ISITA Northwestern University, and David Robinson at Michigan State University. Our work was conducted in collaboration with ISITA at Northwestern University, WARA (West African Research Association), WARC (West African Research Center in Dakar, Senegal) and colleagues from Bayero University and Kaduna Polytechnic in Nigeria, and Université Gaston Berger of Saint-Louis and Université Assane Seck in Senegal.
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Contact and feedback:
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The author: Best-selling author Jennifer Weiner has written Good in Bed, In Her Shoes, which was made into a film, and Then Came You, among other novels. For her latest story, she drew on her experience as co-creator and co-executive producer of the ABC Family sitcom State of Georgia, which aired last summer.
The book: The main character, Ruth Saunders, is a single woman who heads to Los Angeles with her grandmother to realize her dream of becoming a screenwriter in Hollywood. The story follows Saunders, whose parents died in a car accident when she was 3, as she aims to see her sitcom, "The Next Big Thing," become reality.
Opening lines: "The telephone rang.
Reviews: Library Journal wrote, "Full of warm and interesting characters as well as a wealth of insider industry detail, … this is a must-read for Weiner's many fans and anyone who enjoys smart, funny fiction." Time called the book an "utterly engaging story of a show runner who, after six years of slogging, finally gets a series on the air, only to discover that her troubles are only beginning — meddling studio execs, egomaniacal actors … and one crushable but unobtainable boss."


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Příjmení Suchý nosí více významných osobností:

 Dušan Suchý (* 1966) – československý fotbalista
 Filip Suchý (1995–2019) – český fotbalista
 František Suchý – více osob
 František Suchý Pražský (1891–1973) – hudební skladatel a spisovatel
 František Suchý Brněnský (1902–1977) – hobojista a hudební skladatel
 Jan Suchý (1944–2021) – český hokejista
 Jaroslav Suchý – více osob
 Jiří Suchý (* 1931) – český herec, zpěvák, textař a básník, bratr Ondřeje Suchého
 Josef Suchý (rozcestník) – více osob
 Karel Suchý (1796–1866) – hodinář a továrník
 Lothar Suchý (1873–1959) – český novinář, překladatel, dramatik a spisovatel
 Marek Suchý (* 1988) – český fotbalista
 Martin Suchý (* 1982) – slovenský fotbalista
 Martina Suchá (* 1980) – slovenská tenistka
 Oldřich Suchý (1892–1973) – československý politik, poslanec parlamentu za agrárníky
 Ondřej Suchý (* 1945) – český hudební a divadelní publicista a moderátor, bratr Jiřího Suchého
 Pavel Suchý (* 1950) – český vědec a VŠ pedagog, od roku 2014 rektor VFU Brno
 Petr Suchý – více osob
 Radoslav Suchý (* 1976) – slovenský hokejista
 Václav Suchý (* 1942) – český spisovatel
 Vlastimil Suchý (1925-???) - český hokejový brankář
 Vojtěch Suchý (malíř) (1783–1849) též Adalbert Suchý – český malíř miniatur, činný ve Vídni
 Vojtěch Suchý (* 1948) – český římskokatolický kněz a jezuita
 Zdeněk Suchý (*1963) – český režisér a herec

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Alternatives to Going to Court. This guidebook from the Justice Education Society explains how most lawsuits filed with the court are resolved without going to trial.
Who can help you reach an agreement? This fact sheet from the Legal Services Society explains who can help you come to a family law agreement.
Hold on for a minute, do you really have to go to court? This section in the Clicklaw wikibook JP Boyd on Family Law outlines some issues to consider before going to court.
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Дімасангкай Адел (Аділь) (д/н — 1585) — 4-й султан Магінданао в 1578—1585 роках.

Життєпис
Старший син султана Бангкаї. Його матір'ю була донька вождя одного з племен іранун (західне узбережжя Мінданао). Дата народження невідома, але за іспанськими повідомленнями, коли 1578 року він посів трон, то був вже похилого віку.

Загалом продовжив політику попередника, відмовившись від активної зовнішньої політики, намагаючись розширити вплив дипломатією та проповіддю ісламу.

Помер Дімасангкай Адел 1585 року. Його спадкував зведений брат Гугу Сарікула.

Родина
Дружина — Імбог з султанату Сулу

Діти:
 Пагуан Гоан, дружина Адасаолана, раджи о.Басілан
 Аматундінг, раджа Муда

Джерела
 Dansalan Research Center (1979). Dansalan Quarterly. 1–4. Dansalan Research Center. hlm. 76.
 Syed, Muzaffar Husain; Akhtar, Syed Saud; Usmani, B. D. (2011). Concise History of Islam. Vij Books India Pvt Ltd. ISBN 978-93-82573-47-0.
 Haerens, Margaret (2014). Mixed Marriage. Greenhaven Publishing LLC. hlm. 104. ISBN 9780737762662, 0737762667.

султани Магінданао


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CITY OF SAN FERNANDO, Philippines–A 12-year-old boy confessed to stabbing to death a pregnant woman and her daughter after allegedly stealing P100 from the victims in Lubao town in Pampanga on Sunday.
Police on Monday were waiting for a prosecutor to issue a resolution whether or not to commit the boy to a home for young offenders in Magalang town.
The woman, 25, who was three months pregnant and her child, 4, died instantly.
The suspect, a neighbor, was found stealing money from the woman, who reportedly drew the ire of the boy after she cursed him, investigators said.
Police said the victims were stabbed using a butcher's knife.
Blood stains at the back door of the victims' house and nearby house led investigators to the boy.
A 16-year-old boy claimed he saw the suspect disposed of a knife and a blood-soaked yellow shirt, which had been recovered.
The suspect's shorts had blood stains while his hands had fresh wounds.
In the presence of his parents, the suspect confessed to a social worker that he committed the murder.


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https://www.barrons.com/articles/4-ways-to-play-the-bond-market-now-51560416400
Up and Down Wall Street
4 Ways to Play the Bond Market Now
Randall W. Forsyth
June 13, 2019 5:00 am ET
Photograph by Karen Bleier/AFP/Getty Images
Buy low and sell high. It applies to bonds as well as stocks. Now, after a furious rally, it's time to take profits on long-term bonds that have soared in price as their yields have plunged.
So say several astute observers of the fixed-income markets, some of whom also suggest swapping the bonds for floating-rate securities that have lagged this year's bond rally.
With the benchmark 10-year Treasury yield down to around 2.15% from a peak of about 3.25% last fall, it's time to prune bond portfolios and take advantage of "the present the Fed has given us," writes the inimitable Mark Grant, chief global strategist for fixed income at B. Riley FBR in his Out of the Box missive Wednesday.
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What's significant is that previously he was vociferously—and correctly—calling for long bond yields to fall and prices to rise, even when the consensus call was the opposite.
Now that market expectations have taken a 180-degree turn—from the Federal Reserve raising its short-term policy interest-rate targets to an equal certitude the central bank will be cutting them—the investment-grade bond market has enjoyed a terrific rally this year.
For those who participate in the market via exchange-traded funds, the iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF (ticker: TLT), has posted a total return of 9.13% since the beginning of 2019, according to Yahoo Finance. The more diversified and less volatile iShares Core U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF (AGG) has returned 4.98% year to date.
To squeeze out more gains would require a fall in yields from already historically low levels. If yields stay where they are, an investor earns just the paltry coupon interest of a bit more than 2%. Investors in a 10-year Treasury note at current prices and yields, a mere reversal to just 2.40%—where it traded in early May—would essentially face a return equivalent to cash in the mattress, or bupkis, to use a technical term. Except you'd have to pay taxes on the interest coupon, so you'd be worse off.
Grant suggests some basic gardening techniques for bond portfolio management, pruning some appreciated issues to take a profit. Those should be replaced with higher-yielding or better-quality credits, he says. Obviously, that recommendation depends on individual circumstances, including taxes and transaction costs.
Read more: U.S. Corporate Bonds See Resurgence in Foreign Buyers
Other keen-eyed observers point to macro trends that can be exploited. For instance, Stan Shipley, strategist for Evercore ISI—which is headed by the redoubtable Ed Hyman—spies an interesting trend in the asset-backed securities market, where loans for automobiles, student debt, credit cards, and home-equity loans are packaged and traded.
Yields on fixed-rate ABS have plunged 70 basis points (or 0.7 percentage point) since last November, Shipley writes in a client note Wednesday. Now fixed-rate ABS trade at yields 40 basis points below floating-rate ABS, a reversal from last October, when fixed-rate ABS traded some 60 basis points higher than floaters.
Why the reversal? Fears of a recession spurred rate-cut expectations, causing fixed-rate ABS to rally in price and fall in yield. The shift is a classic recession signal, as investors seek to lock in fixed rates before they fall further, Shipley adds. This also happened in 1998 and 2012, but without presaging a recession, he points out.
"The investment implications are clear. BUY FLOATING, SELL FIXED," he writes in underlined capital letters for emphasis. That's if you concur with Evercore ISI's call that there is no near-term recession on the horizon. As recession fears abate, he sees the relationship reversing, with fixed rates rising back above floating-rate ABS.
Coincidentally, Bespoke Investment Group comes to the same conclusion in tracking the relevant ETFs. From mid-2016 to late 2018, the iShares Floating Rate Bond ETF (FLOT) outperformed the broad bond-market iShares Core U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF by six percentage points. Since expectations for short-term rates have flipped to the downside, the latter ETF has outperformed the former by six percentage points.
That switch also has been apparent in the preferred-stock market, where floating-rate preferreds have lagged fixed-rate preferred shares. That suggests "a clear opportunity in the fixed-income markets," BIG writes in its Fixed Income Weekly research note. That is, shift from low-coupon, long-term bonds in favor of short-term, high-coupon and floating-rate securities.
Closed-end funds that emphasize the sort of securities with characteristics that Evercore ISI and BIG like were recommended late last year in this column, but they now trade at significantly higher valuations. Still, the recommendations bear repeating.
Even though they no longer trade at double-digit discounts to their net-asset value, the preferred-stock closed-end funds highlighted then still provide yields over 7% and were quoted just under NAV. These include the Cohen & Steers Limited Duration Preferred & Income fund (LDP) and the Nuveen Preferred & Income Securities fund (JPS).
Last year, smart observers were saying the opportunity was to lock in long-term yields that were more likely to decline than continue rising. Now they're saying yields aren't likely to fall further. Following their calls means going against the conventional wisdom, which proved correct last year.
Write to Randall W. Forsyth at randall.forsyth@barrons.com
Buy low and sell high.


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Convicted (1931)
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Fascinating "B" Mystery Filmed on Board a Real Ocean Liner
JohnHowardReid16 June 2008
Photographed by Sid Hickox, the cameraman that big stars like Bogart and Flynn always asked for, "Convicted" was largely filmed on board a real ocean liner. The stars in this case are Aileen Pringle, as the diminutive if feisty Broadway luminary, the lovely Dorothy Christy who steals every scene in which she appears, Richard Tucker who plays a most objectionable villain with startling conviction, and Jameson Thomas, surprisingly relaxed as the amateur detective of the piece. Also in the cast, unfortunately, is Harry Myers, who is a bit of a pain in more ways than one, but he does manage one or two effective moments. The plot admittedly is slight but the characters are as real as the setting. Director Christy Cabanne takes advantage of his locations to keep audience interest high even when nothing much is actually happening.
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Of Bad Moviemaking
boblipton1 October 2003
Awful second feature about a shipboard murder following a crooked poker game fails to maintain any suspense or indeed, any interest at all. There is some experimentation with dubbing to deal with moving shots -- dubbing in which the mouths don't match words spoken. Harry Myers, best known for his role as the rich drunk in Chaplin's LIMELIGHT, plays the drunk here too, although nowhere near as amusingly.
Don't forget your bow tie if you go on a cruise.
robinakaaly23 August 2011
Warning: Spoilers
This was an interesting documentary about life on an ocean liner in passage from New York to Los Angeles. There was footage of the scary looking passenger gangplanks, freight being loaded, and the side of the ship as she left harbour, with passengers on the ship and crowds on the quayside waving at each other. We see the funnel belching out smoke as if there were no Clean Air Acts (there weren't then, of course). Once at sea we are introduced to the Captain on the flying bridge and the First Officer as they exchange observations about the weather for the voyage. The Captain then gives the navigating officer orders for the course to be followed, both gyro and magnetic. We then move to bridge where we see the helmsman being given his orders for the course to steer. From time to time we return to the bridge to see how the helmsman is getting on. A one point the Captain asks for the ship's position, and the Navigating Officer takes a star sight with his sextant. Down below, amongst the First Class passengers (we don't get to see any lower class ones), we see how the stewards handle baggage, and invite the more attractive passengers to dine at the Captain's table. We also see how the Purser handles requests from passengers to change their cabins (usually at extra cost), and how the shift system in the radio room works. The equipment for sending and receiving wireless messages seemed very complicated, though it worked very quickly. The cabins seemed quite large and surprisingly high ceilinged, though the passageways and corridor ceiling seemed more as one would expect. Life on the ship seemed to revolve around walks on the open and covered decks, and dances in the evenings, when dress suits for the men and silky backless numbers were de rigueur. When several passengers are murdered we get to see how the Ship's Doctor carries out his preliminary investigations to establish cause of death, and how the Captain exercises his quasi-police and judicial functions. Finally we see the ship approaching harbour at the end of the voyage, and passing other, outbound vessels. We also get to meet several fictional passengers from the world of entertainment, and a criminal journalist. These characters, their lives, loves, criminal activities and gambling tended to get in the way of the examination of shipboard life.
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Dorothy Christy is the most natural actor in the movie
kidboots9 November 2008
Aileen Pringle knew everyone who was anyone in the twenties and beyond. She was an intellectual and her biting comments on renowned authors of the day (Sinclair Lewis, Theodore Dreiser) make interesting reading. She was H.L. Mencken's mistress and was also married to James M. Cain (author of "Double Indemnity", "Mildred Pierce", "The Postman Always Rings Twice"). MGM also made her an "unofficial" greeter when any New York writer came to Hollywood because of her connections and because she could "read". There is a very interesting article about her by Stuart Oderman. In films she found fame as the romantic heroine in a series of silent films based on Elinor Glynn's pseudo erotic novellas - "Three Weeks" (1924), "His Hour" (1924) etc.
In "Convicted" she plays Clair Norville, an actress, who is taking a cruise. She is being harassed by another passenger, Tony Blair, (Richard Tucker), a producer of her last show. He has embezzled funds and is traveling with Constance (Dorothy Christy, the most natural actor in the movie) another actress, who wants her cut. Clair also renews her acquaintance with Bruce Allen (Jameson Thomas, who excelled at playing unexciting types) an amateur detective, who has a soft spot for her.
After a poker game Blair is found dead - a couple of the players had made threats after he accused them of cheating. Clair is seen leaving his room after returning an unwanted gift and Constance also pays him a visit. Then the wireless operator is killed, "pierced with a knife" - the same way that Blair was murdered. Allen then locks everyone in the stateroom saying "someone in this room is the murderer"!!! Alls well that ends well - it turns out that the ship's steward had seen Dayton's radio message about Blair stealing funds and decided to blackmail him - Dayton was killed because he threatened to talk.
Dorothy Christy was really wasted in this film - she had a couple of good scenes but then her character petered out.
Not Recommended.
If It Were Any Slower, They'd Throw Dirt on It
Hitchcoc4 February 2008
It takes three fourths of the movie for anything to happen. People stand around, making speeches, posing in little groups. For long stretches there are individual shots of different characters. After a line is delivered, they all stand wait a few seconds to say anything. There is not emotion, not even movement. The plot involves a cad who gets his just deserts and those suspected of killing him. Unlike most of these old mystery movies, there is little charm; not even an eccentric character to speak of. There are a series of interrogation scenes designed to give us clues, but they are so lifeless, it doesn't matter. Don't bother.
1931 Mystery With Static Story and Camera
jayraskin128 October 2010
Early sound cameras were heavy and enclosed in a soundproof booth. Shooting on an ocean liner probably prevented any tracking shots. Thus the actors simply walk to the center of the frame and say their lines. The lack of camera movement makes a dull and pretty straightforward plot even duller. The other Christy Cabane films that I have seen, "The Mummy's Hand" and "Jane Eyre" were also a bit static, but moved like a tiger compared to this. The highlight of the film was seeing Harry Myers, the actor who played a great supporting role in Charlie Chaplin's "City Lights." I had never seen him in another movie before. Here, he has little to do beyond saying that his name is "Sturgeon, like the fish." He manages to make it funny. The other actors were fine, but, they all act as if they're on stage. The film is 57 minutes, not the 63 minutes listed on the Mill Creek Crime Collection. It is still rather slow and lacking in suspense. An annoyingly hiss fulled soundtrack does not help either.
"I had a little bird keep an eye on you, and here I am."
classicsoncall6 December 2011
As with many early talkies, this one suffers from a stagy look and characters who mouth their lines without emotion as if they were reading their characters from the script. Others on this board have rightly noted that Dorothy Christy, portraying a secondary character, was the most natural of the bunch as a gold-digger intent on 'getting her share' from the film's first murder victim, Tony Blair (Richard Tucker). Adding some comic relief to the proceedings was Harry Myers getting some mileage out of an inebriated passenger routine on the cruise ship Cal York. Actually, he was half funny and half annoying, and at one point it looked like he almost whip-lashed himself.
Well, before it's over, there are two dead bodies, and the man put in charge of the case by the ship's captain is newspaper reporter Bruce Allan (Jameson Thomas). Soon he goes into full stereotypical detective mode questioning passengers and sleuthing around the ship. Yet when all is said and done, the resolution to the mystery is handled in ham handed fashion, and you didn't have to be a genius to figure it out yourself well before the final curtain. I was particularly amused when Allan whirled around with his pistol to implicate Weldon; he almost whip-lashed himself too.
Still, Bruce Allan is no Charlie Chan, and I couldn't help thinking that there would have been a more cerebral investigation of the murder mystery if the Oriental Detective was on board. So if you're interested in seeing how he would have come up with the killer, try the 1940 film "Charlie Chan's Murder Cruise" with Sidney Toler in the lead role. It's got double the murders and a very cool cast that includes Lionel Atwill, Leo G. Carroll and Charles Middleton.
Okay....it's terrible.
MartinHafer18 December 2010
An obnoxious guy who everyone hates is murdered. Now, there are a bazillion quests aboard a cruise ship who are suspects in this 1931 whodunnit.
This is a pretty terrible picture. It's obvious that it was made by a third-rate studio, as aside from having no recognizable actors in the film, many of them cannot remember their lines. And, what's worse, these scenes with flubs were not re-shot--an obvious sign of a 'Poverty Row' production. For example, one lady cannot remember the name of the guy who was her boss and who was sexually harassing her through much of the film! Uggh. And, to make matters worse, the film seems to have too many of the bad B-movie clichés to make it worth seeing. My favorite was the guy who knew who the murderer was--so the dummy approaches him and demands money to keep his mouth shut. And, in a typical bad movie pattern, only seconds later is he shot dead. Duh...trying to blackmail a murderer...now THAT'S an intelligently written scene!! As a result of all these factors, the film is a dull mess. Now I like B-movies, but this is one that even fans of Bs would find hard to enjoy!
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Naissance en septembre 1910
Naissance à Worms
Dessinateur américain de bande dessinée
Dessinateur de comic book
Décès dans le comté de Palm Beach
Décès en septembre 1988


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What did you learn from your mom about cooking and running a kitchen and a restaurant? Aarón Sánchez (born February 12, 1976) is an American celebrity chef, restaurateur, television personality, cookbook author and philanthropist of Mexican descent. He is the executive chef and part-owner of the Mexican restaurant Johnny Sánchez in New Orleans. At 16, needing direction, he was sent by his mother to work for renowned chef Paul Prudhomme in New Orleans. In this memoir, Sánchez delves into his formative years with remarkable candor, injecting his story with adrenaline and revealing how he fell in love with cooking and started a career in the fast-paced culinary world. Chef Aaron Sanchez (right) and John Besh prepare squash blossom tacos in 2014 when the two first developed the New Orleans restaurant Johnny Sanchez. Contributed photo by Skip Bolen Johnny Sanchez Jun 18, 2020 · The son of trailblazing chef Zarela Martinez, Sánchez trained under a legendary New Orleans' chef before he eventually opened New York City eatery Paladar (he sold his interest in that restaurant in 2010) and Mexican restaurant Johnny Sanchez in New Orleans.
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Here is a sneak peek at my next project..i found this old floor scrubber base and it just screams robot space ship. this was just a quick mockup and it got me itchin to get started on this one.
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