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Khun Sa (ur. 17 lutego 1934, zm. 26 października 2007 w Rangunie) – birmański dowódca rebelianckiej armii Mong Tai, narkotykowy baron nazywany "Królem Złotego Trójkąta".

Przez blisko 30 lat był dowódcą armii Mong Tai, działającej na terenach zamieszkiwanych przez mniejszość etniczną Szanów. W 1993 roku, po proklamowaniu przez Szanów niepodległości na terenach tak zwanego Złotego Trójkąta (pogranicze Birmy, Laosu i Tajlandii), został okrzyknięty prezydentem. Wraz ze swoją armią kontrolował przemyt narkotyków na całym obszarze swoich rządów. Amerykanie za schwytanie Khun Sana oferowali nagrodę w wysokości 2 mln dolarów. W 1996 doszło do podziału wśród rebeliantów – Armia Szanów kontynuowała działania zbrojne przeciwko rządzącej Birmą juncie, tymczasem Khun Sa bezwarunkowo poddał się oddziałom birmańskim. Do śmierci mieszkał w willi w ówczesnej stolicy kraju – Rangunie, chroniony przez wojsko, przed ewentualną zemstą Szanów oskarżających go o zdradę.

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Wicheeda North
International Montoro Resources Inc. ("Montoro") has entered into one arm's length acquisition agreements with various vendors, to acquire over 1,444 ha of claims in the Cariboo mining division, British Columbia, with the claim block adjoining the well-known Wicheeda rare earth mineral project. The Wicheeda project was recently acquired by Defense Metals Corp. (TSX.V: DEFN) from Spectrum Mining Corporation that made the original REE discovery from drilling in 2008 & 2009.
The Wicheeda Properties:
The Wicheeda properties are located approximately 80 km northeast of the city of Prince George, and approximately 50km east of the community of Bear Lake, British Columbia; are readily accessible by all-weather gravel roads and is close to major infrastructure including power transmission lines, railway and major highways. Geologically, they are situated in the Foreland Belt and within the Rocky Mountain Trench, a major continental geologic feature. The Foreland belt contains part of a large alkaline igneous province stretching from the Canadian Cordillera to the southwestern United States and hosts several carbonatite and alkaline complexes among which the Aley (niobium), Rock Canyon (REE), and Wicheeda (REE) alkaline complexes contain the highest concentrations of Rare Earth Element minerals.
In 2010 an Airborne Geophysical Survey was conducted by Aeroquest, and soil geochemical sampling by Electric Metal on behalf of Montoro was completed (on the former Chuchinka property), over a portion of the Wicheeda North claims. The airborne geophysical program consisted of 654 line kilometers of AeroTEM helicopter-borne, time domain electromagnetic plus radiometric surveying flown at high resolution 50 meter line spacing. The survey covered a 29.4 square kilometer area and was successful in mapping the magnetic and conductive properties of the geology. Within the assessment report from 2010, AR#32361, the report contains observations and notes from Intrepid Geophysics and states "The electromagnetic data suggests that there may be an un-mapped fault in the center of the block. The magnetic data shows a subtle feature in the center of the block, slightly offset from the interpreted fault. It is recommended that the airborne survey be followed up by a geochemical survey and property scale mapping."
According to Spectrum Mining Corporation's paper presented at the 5th Annual Minerals South Conference & Trade Show in October 2009, (click for the 5th Annual Minerals South Conference -Cranbrook, B. C. -Abstracts); Spectrum completed a total of nineteen diamond drill holes in 2008 and 2009. In 2008, 4 BTW size holes totaling 866m intersected significant rare earth mineralization in the "Main Zone" cerium soil anomaly at Wicheeda. The best drill intercept was a 48.64 m interval in hole 2008-02 that returned 3.55% REE. In 2009, fifteen NTW diamond drill holes totaling 1824m were drilled again into the "Main Zone" from 2 new drilling platforms. Ten holes drilled on the Main Zone intersected further intervals of REE-bearing carbonatite from surface to variable depths. Significant intervals were; a 72.0 m interval that returned 2.92% REE, and a 144 m interval that returned 2.20% REE in three separate holes. (See BC Ministry of Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources, AR30873). The 2009 drilling suggests that mineralization remains open in all directions, including to the north in the direction of the Wicheeda North claims.
All previous work is of a historical nature, and may not have been conducted under NI 43-101 standards, therefore assay results cannot necessarily be relied upon. Montoro intends to confirm the reported mineralization on its claims with the Company's own sampling program.
Wicheeda North Rare Earth Element Project - NI 43-101 Report by Robert A.(Bob) Lane, M.SC.,P.Geo. - April 26, 2019
Details of the Acquisitions:
Wicheeda North: Pursuant to the Agreement, in order to complete the acquisition the Company must:
Pay the Vendors an aggregate of $50,000 as follows:
$25,000 upon TSXV approval;
$25,000 within one year of signing the agreement
Issue to the Vendors an aggregate of 1,000,000 Units upon TSXV approval. Each Unit consists of one common share of the Company and one transferable share purchase warrant (the "Warrant") entitling the holder to acquire a further common share of the Company at a price of $0.10 for two years from issuance.
Agree to a 2% Net Smelter Return Royalty ("NSR"). The Company may acquire one-half of the NSR for $1 million within five years of the Agreement Date.
Prospector Nick Horsley testing an Alkaline anomaly identified by scintillometer on Chuchinka -on trend from Spectrum Mining's discovery
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The last time we saw the Motor Girls (see Motor Girls on a Tour) they numbered eight and were taking three weeks to complete a three-day Motor Tour -- probably because they were also solving three or four mysteries, involving vast numbers of characters, at the same time.
Lookout Beach is the next volume in the series, and, luckily, is much easier to read. There are only three Motor Girls, plus their brothers and male friends, plus a couple of chaperoning adults, a handful of secondary characters required by the (single!) plot, and a fairly realistic timeframe.
On the other hand, they don't get to the beach until two-thirds of the book has gone by. Most of the action takes place in the strawberry fields, where Cora proves that, had she needed a career, she could have been quite successful as a labor negotiator.
She's not quite on such solid ground when she lets her brother persuade her to skip town to avoid the detectives. True, they are private investigators hired by the bad guys -- who are women. And I found it interesting that Cora and her brother Jack, left home alone to keep house while their parents "go to the city" can blithely leave the house to the servants and take off for the beach (a two-day drive away, if you don't take your life in your hands and speed along at 25 mph) at -- literally -- a few hours notice.
Instead they get lost in a storm and break down in a graveyard, which appears to have absolutely nothing to do with the plot except to separate them from their chaperones so they can find clues in peace. Someone else finds the diamond earrings. The detectives turn out to be good guys, the runaways turn themselves in, the villainess is jailed. The Motor Girls? They spend an entire chapter in a ocean boardwalk attraction called "The Human Washing Machine" -- a cross between a funhouse and a midway Haunted House. That has nothing to do with the plot, either.


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The Sanctity of Life
August 13, 2019 Quazi Hossain How does Islam effect human rights? 0
Taking a human life is considered to be a grave sin, since the beginning of human history. The first killing happened when Cain killed his brother Abel. The Quran narrates that Abel appealed to his brother by reminding him of the gravity of the sin of taking a human life. Abel warned Cain that he would be in hellfire if he commits the murder. Cain killed Abel anyway. The Quran cites the story to highlight the sanctity of life and to illustrate the grave nature of transgression committed by a murder. Consequently, to a true believer, taking one innocent life equates to taking the life of the whole humanity. Whereas, saving one human life is compared to saving the whole humanity. https://qpeace.net/?p=56
Quran 5:32. "…Because of that, We decreed to the Children of Israel that if anyone kills a person, unless in retribution for murder or spreading corruption in the land, it is as if he kills all mankind, while if any saves a life it is as if he saves the lives of all mankind. Our messengers came to them with clear signs, but many of them continued to commit excesses in the land."
Quran 6:151. "…Do not take life, which Allah has made sacred, except by way of Justice and law…"
Do not desecrate places of worship
In recent years, several churches and mosques were bombed in different countries. As a result, many worshipers died in Pakistan, Egypt, Nigeria Indonesia and Sri Lanka. Not surprisingly, Boko Haram, ISIS and others have claimed responsibility. If these extremist groups believe that by bombing places of worship they did a service to any religion, then they were dead wrong. The Quran categorically rejects these types of behavior. http:// https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/may/13/deaths-bomb-attacks-churches-indonesia-surabaya .
Quran 22:40. "…If Allah did not repel some people by means of others, many monasteries, churches, synagogues, and mosques, where Allah's name is pronounced abundantly, would have been destroyed. Allah is sure to help those who help His cause. Allah is strong and mighty"
Suicide killing is prohibited
Suicide bombing has become cliche for Muslim extremists. It is important to realize that wearing suicide vest and killing innocent people will not facilitate anyone's path to heaven. As we can see that the Quran prohibits suicide as well as innocent killings in a clear and unambiguous manner.
Quran 4:29. "And do not kill yourselves, surely God is most Merciful to you."
The Quran 17:33 "Do not kill a soul which Allah has made sacred except by right of justice. Whoever is killed unjustly, We have given his heir authority, but let him not exceed the limits in taking life."
Do not harm animals or plants
Islam does not only forbid killing of human beings, it also discourages harming any form of life without a valid reason. Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) recommended not to slaughter animals in front of other animals. Islam does not allow uprooting trees and destroy plantation even at the time of a war.
Prophet Muhammad's (peace be on him) traditions
At the present time, Muslim nations are facing a crisis situation created by different virulent groups of Muslims. To begin with, they are transgressing the basic Islamic tenets of compassion, sanctity of life and respect for the rights of others to choose their own belief. Consequently, general Muslims and Muslim organizations have expressed their distaste and dismay for these anti-Islamic and inhuman actions.
Many Muslim scholars have issued religious verdicts (Fatwa) on terrorism and suicide bombings calling these acts as unjust, evil and against Islamic principles. Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri issued over 600 pages long Fatwa on Terrorism. In a similar note, U.S. Muslim Religious Council Issued Fatwa Against Terrorism: http://www.nbcnews.com/us-muslims-issue-fatwa-against-terrorism/
Anatomic basis of human morality
Islam Defends The Right of Self Defense.


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Biografia
Sergej Sergeevič Solomko nacque il 22 agosto 1867 (10 agosto secondo il calendario giuliano) e venne battezzato il 24 settembre 1867 (12 settembre secondo il calendario giuliano) nella cattedrale di Sant'Isacco. Discendeva da una famiglia della nobiltà ereditaria del governatorato di Černigov; suo padre, il colonnello Sergej Afanas'evič Solomko, era in servizio presso la famiglia granducale di Konstantin Nikolaevič al palazzo di Strelna, vicino San Pietroburgo. È dunque qui che il futuro artista trascorse i suoi primi anni di vita. Dal 1883 al 1887, studiò a Mosca alla scuola di pittura, scultura e architettura, dopodiché passò un anno come uditore libero all'accademia imperiale di belle arti.

Fu alla fine degli anni 1880 che iniziò la sua collaborazione come illustratore con giornali e riviste d'arte, come Sever, nel 1888. Nel frattempo, lavorò anche per grandi giornali, come Niva. Disegnò soprattutto per il celebre Mir iskusstva e altri.

La casa editrice Suvorin gli commissionò delle illustrazioni delle opere di Puškin, come L'ospite di pietra (1895), L'annegato (1895), La fiaba dello zar Saltan (1896) e La fontana di Bachčisaraj (1897), quelle delle opere di Čechov, come Kaštanka (1892), così come La canzone del mercante Kalašnikov di Lermontov (1900) e Le anime morte di Gogol'. Dalla casa editrice di Adolf Marks ricevette numerose commissioni con altri artisti. Una fonte cospicua di reddito per l'artista furono anche dei disegni per i programmi e i periodici teatrali per i quali riceveva richieste frequenti; realizzò anche dei manifesti. In seguito, i suoi disegni e acquerelli vennero poi pubblicati come cartoline, soprattutto quelli con temi storici russi che gli commissionava la casa Lapin.

Gli anni 1900 segnarono l'apice della popolarità dell'artista. Egli raddoppiò la sua attività, dipinse degli acquerelli a tema storico e ricevette dalle case editrici una quantità di commissioni grafiche; inoltre si lanciò nei disegni di costumi e bigiù, disegnò modelli per la fabbrica imperiale di porcellana e collaborò con la maison Fabergé. Nel 1903, realizzò degli schizzi per dei costumi per il celebre ballo in maschera della corte che si tenne al palazzo d'Inverno e i cui ospiti erano vestiti secondo la moda della Russia antica. Nel 1906 creò la copertina del sesto numero della famosa rivista monachese Jugend, rappresentando una coppia galante della Russia antica.

Nel 1910 si trasferì definitivamente a Parigi, che all'epoca era la capitale mondiale dell'arte, ma continuò a partecipare alla vita artistica russa eseguendo le sue commissioni e inviando le proprie opere alle mostre. I suoi acquerelli vennero riprodotti nelle cartoline dalla casa Richard e altre case editrici e nei giornali russi, come l'ebdomadario illustrato Il sole della Russia. In piena prima guerra mondiale, illustrò delle cartoline patriottiche, le più note delle quali erano una cartolina che ritraeva Giovanna d'Arco che lancia un "vattene" secco a un soldato tedesco e un'altra che rappresenta Guglielmo II che si trascina dietro a Cristo, che si allontana da lui. Nel 1916, lavorò a un progetto per la Commissione della conservazione dei trofei e dei memoriali di guerra in vista della fondazione di un nuovissimo museo sulla grande guerra, che non era ancora terminato e che la Russia, sotto la pressione dei bolscevichi, avrebbe abbandonato, prima di entrare negli anni della guerra civile. La Commissione gli chiese quindi, nei mesi precedenti la rivoluzione del 1917, di realizzare ritratti dei membri del corpo di spedizione russo in Francia.

Solomko dimorò in Francia e non rientrò nel suo paese afflitto dalla rivoluzione. Continuò a illustrare dei libri, soprattutto per le edizioni Ferroud (con il nome Serge de Solomko), come Les Trois rois di Émile Gebhart (1919), Preghiera sull'Acropoli di Ernest Renan (1920) o Sui lati del vaso di Albert Samain, con illustrazioni galanti (1920). Si lanciò ugualmente in una carriera di disegnatore di costumi teatrali, dato che dal suo paese non giungevano più commissioni. Divenne poi noto per aver disegnato i costumi dei grandi ballerini russi emigrati in Francia, come la Kšesinskaja o la Pavlova. Nel 1921 partecipò a una mostra di artisti della vecchia accademia imperiale di belle arti esuli in Francia, che si tenne a Parigi alla galleria Magellan. Nel 1925 illustrò il Baldassarre di Anatole France per le edizioni Ferroud, ma poco dopo si ammalò. Povero, malato e sfinito prematuramente, morì alla casa di riposo degli esuli russi di Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois, vicino a Parigi. Venne sepolto nel cimitero russo di Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois. Già criticato nella sua epoca per il suo aspetto "decadente", Solomko veniva considerato nell'era sovietica come un rappresentante nel peggiore dei casi della "volgarità borghese", nel migliore del "realismo galante": la sua opera veniva di conseguenza disprezzata perché "alterava e guastava il gusto del popolo". Dagli anni 1990, la sua opera venne riscoperta per le sue scene piene di umorismo e la sua ricerca dei dettagli nei costumi della Russia antica.

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The Long and Short The Long + Short
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Grasping the political opportunity in automation
The traditionally stable professional class now faces great disruption from technological change. If politicians help shape its future for the better, they will reap the benefits, and could achieve a fairer economy for all
By Will Brett
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In the late 1930s, when Lyndon B Johnson was a lowly congressman, he almost single-handedly brought electricity to the remote Hill Country region of Texas. LBJ went from farm to farm persuading old-timer Texans habitually suspicious of anything new (particularly if it involved debt or the federal government, and electricity did both) that this strange thing would transform their lives immeasurably for the better. There can rarely have been a more successful political exploitation of new technology – electricity came to the Hill Country, the farmers' lives were duly transformed, and LBJ reaped the political capital.
This was a single instance of a wider phenomenon occurring in the US under Roosevelt's New Deal, which was on one level a grand political exploitation of new technologies. FDR sought to rebalance the economy and rescue the country from mass unemployment through public works, which were only made possible by rapid technological advances – not just the advent of electricity, but the engineering techniques associated with highway-building, hydroelectric dams and other major infrastructure.
When new technologies arrive on the scene, political opportunities invariably come with them. Such an opportunity – and challenge – has arisen today, with the ushering in of the so-called Second Machine Age; the wave of tech-led change that is seeing digital technologies, automation and robotics set to transform workplaces in almost every industry. Can these dramatic changes be shaped towards specific political ends? Who is up to the task of doing an LBJ?
At first glance, the impact of these new technologies on the workplace appears problematic for those who identify as 'progressive'. The labour share of income has been falling since the 1980s, at least partly as a result of the more efficient use of capital made possible by new technology. Inequality appears to be growing rapidly across developed economies: the new superstars of the digital economy tend to employ minuscule numbers of people relative to their net worth; automation is happening at such a speed that workers have no time to retrain, making mass technological unemployment a real possibility; and in short, the current technological revolution appears to have a capital bias. The utopian protests emanating from Silicon Valley don't wash: just because all this innovation will lower the cost of living, doesn't hide the fact that the proceeds of growth are not being fairly shared. Is all this new technology benefiting those on the political right by default?
When the heart of the British middle class is starting to worry about its economic position, you have a cast-iron political opportunity
It is not inevitable that the enormous rewards offered by the pace of innovation in the economy should be concentrated on just a few superstars and capital owners. We could go in any number of directions from here. So, how can progressives help shape the Second Machine Age?
To answer this question, you have to identify whose lives are going to be most transformed by the new technology. Then you have to decide which of these constituencies is the most potent, politically speaking. For LBJ in the 1930s, it was the farmers of the Hill Country; for FDR in the US and for early socialist and labour governments in Europe, it was the industrial working class.
Today, the equivalent for British progressives is the professional class. Although things may look bleak for a whole range of demographics, including the low-paid service workers and manual workers who left-leaning parties habitually target, this has been the case for some time, and yet social democratic parties have rarely seemed weaker.
There is another, more fruitful path to electoral success. The professions – law, accountancy, medicine and so on – occupy a special place in British life. The family solicitor in Cheltenham; the chartered accountant in Aberdeen; the GP in Nuneaton: these form the beating heart of the British middle class. Professionals are the dependable rocks around which the chaos of life flows. Family, friends and neighbours tend to respect them. What they think and say tends to be representative of the political mood of the country. Immigrants often want their children to go into the professions, not only for financial security but also as a marker of their acceptance by the host nation. In many ways, professionals are emblematic of Britain itself.
In the past, professionals have been protected from major economic disruption – that stability and dependability is fundamental to their appeal. No matter what happens in the wider economy, they will still get their diplomas and earn their living. Parents urge their children to go into the professions so they will always have something to fall back on. It has been commonly thought that, whatever happens, we will always need lawyers, doctors and accountants.
Lyndon Johnson examines Mrs Mattie Malone's new electric light fixture in Carthage, Texas, 1941 (Everett Collection Historical / Alamy)
Parties of the centre-right tend to offer stability; that, after all, is the essence of conservatism. Professionals in the UK have historically tended towards conservatism because stability is in their interest; they usually enjoy a protected economic position and a secure place in society, and they want to keep it. There are plenty of places in the world where professionals are not so conservative (think of the lawyers of Pakistan or Turkey who regularly take to the streets in protest). But in Britain, they tend to be on the side of those who want to maintain the status quo.
But all that stability is about to change. As Richard and Daniel Susskind show, the professions are highly susceptible to massive economic disruption as a result of new technologies. The robots are coming for them.
Many of the tasks performed by junior lawyers and paralegals – such as document review and contract drafting – are already being automated. Tax accountants are desperately scrabbling to avoid redundancy by moving away from compliance – which is increasingly automated – into tax planning. Doctors are coming under pressure from diagnostic and even surgical automation. For perhaps the first time in British history, the professionals are starting to feel insecure about their future place in the economy.
When the heart of the British middle class is starting to worry about its economic position, you have a cast-iron political opportunity. When trying to argue that there should be greater economic security for all, and that the proceeds of growth in the 21st century should be distributed more fairly, having doctors, lawyers and accountants agree with you puts you on the path to victory. Get the professionals on side, and anything is possible.
There are a few stances which professionals could adopt as the coming wave of tech-led change washes over them. They could seek to protect themselves by shutting out new technologies and teaming up against disruptors. But historically, the Luddite position has never been advisable – technological change is too persistent. And recent business history is littered with examples of felled industry titans – in journalism, for example – who responded to the digital threat by trying to shut it out or being too slow to embrace it.
A more fruitful approach for professions in the next few decades will be to look to the bottom line. Some of the things technology is starting to be able to do imply huge savings for professional companies. If the labour-intensive processes of document review, contract drafting and due diligence can be automated, that is a lot of salary hours saved for law firms. If an accountancy firm can offer tax preparation with the click of a button, it doesn't have to hire so many accountants to process the business it wins. So, firms could embrace this wave of change and seek to maximise its attendant profits and lower costs.
In accountancy, for instance, smart tax preparation software like TurboTax is undercutting the market for tax accountants. And some of it is coming from new, innovative firms within the professional field: Riverview Law has invested in a 'virtual assistant' called Kim who can perform numerous tasks that were once the preserve of paralegals and junior lawyers.
There are lots of good arguments for this approach. More efficient businesses will make professional services much more affordable, especially to organisations and individuals who cannot afford lawyers. But professional leaders need to be aware that if they pursue an exclusively bottom-line position, they could become the first generation to oversee the loss of the professional's privileged position in society.
Historically, the Luddite position has never been advisable
The key question they need to ask themselves is: are we simply providers of services, or are we employers of people as well? No doubt some companies will answer that they are providers of services, and that the employment model they use to provide those services is entirely subsidiary. But there will be others that are aware of the history and value to society of their professions. And they will be troubled by the vision of the future implied by a bottom-line strategy.
Firms that respond to technological change with an exclusive focus on efficiency savings will very likely hollow themselves out and start to resemble the capital- and technology-owning firms of Silicon Valley. Law firms will lose not only their administrative and paralegal staff (to a large extent this has already happened), but their mid-ranking lawyers as well. Those who own the equity will own the machinery that analyses, carries out and even finds the work in the first place. There will be few places left for lawyers – or human lawyers, at least.
A relentless focus on short-term efficiency at the expense of everything else could lead to mass layoffs and a concentration of ownership and success on a tiny number of people within the professions. And that puts the whole incentive structure for pursuing a career in the professions – and therefore the future of the professions themselves – out of kilter.
It doesn't have to be this way. The professions can secure their business for the long term and provide decent incentives to ensure they are admirable 'employers of people'. To do that, they have to embrace and augment the human element in their work – and automate the rest. Few people want to perform a task a machine can do better. Companies will need to make sure their professionals are given the space to do what only humans can do.
In the 21st-century labour market, a premium will be put on uniquely human skills – particularly creativity and empathy. So middle-ranking lawyers and accountants should be encouraged to embrace the fact that many of their former tasks can now be done by machines. They can now focus on coming up with creative solutions to complex problems; on the empathetic handling of clients' cases; and on strategic thinking to deliver a supremely human service.
Without having to spend time drafting contracts and reviewing documents, a junior lawyer could review existing cases and use creative thinking to come up with new strategies that better represent a client's interests; and identify new business opportunities for the firm as legal services become more affordable. The firm could then provide a better service for a larger number of clients, with professional employees using more of their human potential.
Managers, partners and leaders should think about retraining their staff to ensure they can deliver these human skills. And that should be music to the ears of the staff in question. The perennial story of the burnt-out lawyer or accountant who is not prepared to sacrifice their working lives to the soulless pursuit of profit (and who quits, usually to start a cider farm) is becoming more and more common. It used to be mainly the cash and job security that drove people to devote themselves to their firms. But job security is going to be more fragile in the near future, while straight-up financial reward is a much less powerful motivator than it used to be – particularly when it comes to retaining staff, as opposed to attracting them in the first place. Combine that with the potential for technology to concentrate ownership and capital on fewer and fewer people, and the incentives to becoming a professional start to melt away.
When arguing that there should be greater economic security for all, having doctors, lawyers and accountants agree with you puts you on the path to victory
Firms will also have to start recruiting the kind of people who can best work with the new technology. In many ways data scientists, systems engineers, process analysts and the like will offer an alternative path into 'professional' life in the future. If the professional firm is to thrive, it will have to open its doors to those without the old qualifications.
Many firms are looking at technology and working out how it can save them money. Some are starting to hire auxiliary staff to work with the new technology they are bringing into use. But few are considering what it will mean to be a professional in 20 or even 10 years' time. And few are worrying about the sustainability of the professions themselves in a world where knowledge is openly available and automatable. Yet by successfully remaking themselves for the next period in our history, they could retain their central place in our social and political fabric.
As the professions begin to transform, there will be valuable political rewards on offer. The 'default' reaction to new technology – whereby firms reap the efficiencies but pay too little attention to their human resources – will create a new class of displaced professionals threatened by the economic reality of the 21st century. A political programme that helped to restore the professional's place in society would be extremely potent, both at the ballot box and in economic terms. And a commitment to a fair and sustainable economy – nominally the preserve of the centre-left – ought to include some provision for economically threatened professionals. But where is the programme that would achieve that?
The traditional big lever-pulling route – a higher top rate of income tax, stronger corporate regulation, better workplace rights – will not interest professionals any more than it has in the past. They will be just as aspirational in terms of earning good money and just as suspicious of over-mighty government as before.
A more subtle but more innovative route would be one which recognised the novel challenges of the 21st century and offered a universal basic income, which, as many have recently suggested, could give people the bedrock they need to operate in a fast-moving, fragmented and insecure economy. But a basic income is scant compensation to the professional who has lost her place in society entirely.
A more promising approach would be to focus on education and skills. There is a whole education agenda implied by the impact of technology on the workplace. As well as being flexible and quick to respond to technological developments, young people need to be equipped with human skills such as creativity, empathy and strategic thinking. Moreover, the system needs to ask what professional qualifications a new lawyer should have. Many of the things taught in law school are already being done by machines; so professional training needs to adapt. There is a role for the state in supporting this and similar updates to our education and skills system. But changing education is a long-term game, the results of which will not be felt for decades, during which the speed of change will continue at a dizzying rate. Besides, what use is educating future professionals to the existing professionals who are about to be made redundant?
The political rewards for helping firms to 'humanise' would be bountiful
Here is a more immediate route to winning the support of professionals: commit to a working relationship with them, one geared towards ensuring they remain some of the most important employers of people in the economy. Offer incentives to firms which nurture human talent within their existing staff. Help bring them into contact with the latest technology, but in an environment that emphasises its benefits to existing employees as well as making efficiencies and productivity gains. Above all, show that you are on the side of the professionals (after all, they are not the first industries to be disrupted by the speed of change in the global economy); and that you have an industrial policy that will support their employers' efforts to secure their long-term future.
Industrial policy has had its ups and downs in recent British history. But this is an opportunity to commit to an approach that will not only secure professionals' influential support in elections, but also demonstrate how to retool an entire industry so that it remains a good employer of people well into the coming century of automation.
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This may raise fears of overreach by the state. But the professions are more than just businesses: they are vocations that perform a valued service for society. Perhaps that sense of vocation does not penetrate into every City law firm. Perhaps you may struggle to divine it within the labyrinthine structures of the Big Four accountancy firms. But it is there somewhere. As the professions face up to their future, they have a chance to amplify and celebrate that notion of duty – and government has a chance to help them do it.
This is not about firms 'doing the right thing'. Increasingly, businesses of all types are recognising the value of a long-term, sustainable strategy that leads to social benefits as well as financial success. Similarly, younger generations are more likely to look for meaning in their work (as well as financial rewards and job security). By 'humanising' in the face of tech-led change, firms can secure both their position in the economy and the very future of their professions; they can attract the talent they need; and they can make a real contribution to society – beyond the services they provide – by offering valuable and sustainable employment.
Meanwhile, the political rewards for helping firms to 'humanise' would be bountiful. It would help to counterbalance the concentration of ownership and capital at the top – a process which is likely to accelerate along with the speedy advent of new technologies. It would help provide a seam of sustainable employment for workers otherwise threatened by the realities of life in this century. And last but not least, it would help to bring professionals into the 'progressive' column – with all the political clout that entails. The opportunity is there. The question is, who will take it?
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NTL-LTER Winter Sampling
On February 22, 2012, senior research specialist, Ted Bier and facilities manager, Dave Harring, headed out onto the Lake Mendota ice to collect samples for the North Temperate Lakes Long-Term Ecological Research study. The NTL-LTER is one of dozens of sites scattered across the country funded by the National Science Foundation to collect data on all sorts of North American ecosystems. Over the last 30 years, the NTL-LTER has documented conditions, trends and changes in Wisconsin lakes. This year, conditions on and in Lake Mendota were anything other than "average!"
Winter in Wisconsin: The Madison skyline from the frozen surface of Lake Mendota.
Ted Bier, senior research specialist and Dave Harring, facilities manager, prepare to drill through the ice and take samples for the LTER project.
The ice thickness on February 22nd, was 17 centimeters (or just under 7 inches). Bier says that the Madison lakes usually have 12 to 18 inches of ice (when they're frozen) this time of year.
After breaking through the ice, Bier prepares to drop a zooplankton net into the lake.
Bier and Harring dropping the net with UW-Madison's Van Hise Hall in the background.
As he draws the net out of the water...
... Bier is greeted by an unusual sight...
...more plankton in a winter water sample than he's seen in ten years.
Bier pours his plankton sample into a vial. The sample, he says, more closely resembles what he collects in late Spring plankton tows. Winter samples usually contain far less zooplankton and phytoplankton.
Using a peristaltic pump, Bier takes water from the lake and pushes it through a filter designed to measure the total particulate matter suspended in the water.
Again the sample is an outlier in the usual trend. Water runs through the filter until the filter clogs with particulate matter. That usually takes 5 to 8 milliliters of water during ice cover, Bier says. On this day it took 2.
Their samples collected, Bier and Harring take the long walk back to the Center for Limnology's Hasler Lab, where the samples will be analyzed and recorded.
Wrapping up another day at work at the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Center for Limnology.


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Q: Replicating Lilypond titles in LaTeX I'm working on a huge project that automatically and without any human intervention generates music scores. Most of the time this is with Lilypond. But some of the scores use graphical notation and for those I use TikZ and pdfLaTeX. The problem is that I want to match Lilypond's title header look in LaTeX but I am struggling.
First is Lilypond

Next is my effort:

And here is the LaTeX code that my software generates:
\documentclass[11pt]{memoir}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usepackage[top=5mm,left=15mm,right=15mm]{geometry}
\usepackage{parskip}
\usepackage{newcent}

\begin{document}
\begin{center}
(Dedication) \\
\smallskip\textbf{\LARGE{Title}} \\
\medskip\textbf{\large{Style}} \\
\end{center}
\vspace{-8pt}
\noindent
\begin{minipage}[t][0em][b]{0.33\textwidth}Poet \end{minipage}
\begin{minipage}[t][0em][b]   {0.33\textwidth}\begin{center}\textbf{\large{Instrument}}   \end{center}\end{minipage}
\begin{minipage}[t][0em][b]{0.33\textwidth}\hfill Composer\end{minipage}\\
\medskip
\noindent
\begin{minipage}[c][1em][b]{0.5\textwidth}Meter \end{minipage}
\begin{minipage}[c][1em][b]{0.5\textwidth}\hfill Arranger\end{minipage}\\
Piece

\end{document}

So there are a few issues:

*

*My "Composer" does not appear to be flush right

*I'm really not fond of the \vspace{-8pt} bit. The software will use different fonts and paper sizes and I worry that anything hardcoded like that will eventually look bad. I've never used minipages before so I don't know if I'm doing that stuff correctly. Basically I just experimented with the parameters till it looked OK.

*I don't know why the "Piece" entry is spaced so awkwardly in the Lilypond example but I prefer the more even spacing in mine, so that's not an issue.

*I can play around with the geometry more on my own but if anyone has any suggestions for the spacing I would appreciate that as well.

*There will not always be entries for the "Poet", "Meter", and "Piece". So right now using \hfill seems to do the trick of keeping the same spacing. Is that the best way to handle that assuming I keep using minipages?
It doesn't need to be a perfect copy but I do want it to look the same to the casual observer.

A: I suggest, first of all, a key-value syntax. Then you can divide the space using a tabular with three equal size columns, with left, center and right alignment.
The dedication is typeset only if present, and in a unique center aligned column, so its width will not influence the positioning of the other elements.
\documentclass[11pt]{memoir}
\usepackage[top=5mm,left=15mm,right=15mm]{geometry}
\usepackage{newcent}
%\usepackage{array} % not needed with memoir
\usepackage{xparse}

\ExplSyntaxOn
\keys_define:nn { bfootdav/lilyheader }
 {
  dedication .tl_set:N = \l_bfootdave_lilytitle_dedication_tl,
  title .tl_set:N = \l_bfootdave_lilytitle_title_tl,
  style .tl_set:N = \l_bfootdave_lilytitle_style_tl,
  instrument .tl_set:N = \l_bfootdave_lilytitle_instrument_tl,
  poet .tl_set:N = \l_bfootdave_lilytitle_poet_tl,
  composer .tl_set:N = \l_bfootdave_lilytitle_composer_tl,
  arranger .tl_set:N = \l_bfootdave_lilytitle_arranger_tl,
  meter .tl_set:N = \l_bfootdave_lilytitle_meter_tl,
  piece .tl_set:N = \l_bfootdave_lilytitle_piece_tl,
 }

\NewDocumentCommand{\makepieceheader}{m}
 {
  \group_begin:
  \keys_set:nn { bfootdav/lilyheader } { #1 }
  \bfootdav_make_piece_header:
  \group_end:
 }

\cs_new_protected:Npn \bfootdav_make_piece_header:
 {
  \noindent\begin{tabular}
   {
    @{}
    >{\raggedright}p{.33333\textwidth}
    @{}
    >{\centering}p{.33333\textwidth}
    @{}
    >{\raggedleft\arraybackslash}p{.33333\textwidth}
    @{}
   }
  \tl_if_empty:NF \l_bfootdave_lilytitle_dedication_tl
   {
    \multicolumn{3}{@{}>{\centering}p{\textwidth}@{}}
     {
      ( \l_bfootdave_lilytitle_dedication_tl )
     }
    \\
   }
  & \LARGE\bfseries\strut \l_bfootdave_lilytitle_title_tl &
  \\
  & \large\bfseries\strut \l_bfootdave_lilytitle_style_tl &
  \\
  \l_bfootdave_lilytitle_poet_tl &
  \bfseries\l_bfootdave_lilytitle_instrument_tl &
  \l_bfootdave_lilytitle_composer_tl
  \\
  \l_bfootdave_lilytitle_meter_tl && \l_bfootdave_lilytitle_arranger_tl
  \\
  \l_bfootdave_lilytitle_piece_tl &&
  \end{tabular}
 }
\ExplSyntaxOff

\begin{document}
\makepieceheader{
  dedication=Dedication,
  title=Title,
  style=Style,
  poet=Poet,
  instrument=Instrument,
  composer=Composer,
  meter=Meter,
  arranger=Arranger,
  piece=Piece
}

\end{document}

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Anthony LowderMarch 3, 2018
Farsoon has established a new subsidiary in Germany, expanding Farsoon operations to Europe. As of April 01, Dirk Simon (currently BASF New Business GmbH) is nominated as the Managing Director of Farsoon Europe GmbH and will become a member of Farsoon's global management team.
"Europe is central to the growth of additive manufacturing. Farsoon is eager to work with and support the growing market here and we are very happy to have someone with the experience and integrity of Dirk Simon be our representative."
Dr. Xu Xiaoshu, Chairman of Farsoon Technologies.
Following the establishment of its US office last year Farsoon is dedicated to engaging with and supporting the additive manufacturing user base on a global scale. With this commitment Farsoon encourages future additive manufacturing growth in Europe with innovative and competitive products. FARSOON Europe will work closely with local partners and customers to provide enhanced support and cooperation and will be part of Farsoon's overall strategy for international growth.
Volker Hammes, Managing Director of BASF 3D Printing Solutions GmbH acknowledged the expansion of Farsoon Technologies: "We encourage Farsoon in its expansion to Europe for industrializing 3D-Printing and continue to support the company in selling machines open for use of high performance BASF materials."
Additive manufacturing technology (3d printing), also known as AM, is a layered based manufacturing method. This technology allows for the production of complex geometries without the need of molds or intensive machining. Additive allows for enhanced design freedom to produce otherwise impossible to manufacture parts while offering greatly improved performance with reduced weight and cost.
Farsoon Technologies is a total solution supplier of plastic laser sintering and laser metal melting technologies that was founded in 2009 by Dr. Xu Xiaoshu. Farsoon Technologies is transforming the future of additive manufacturing with vision, innovation, and our "Open for Industry" technical and business philosophy. As an industrial-focused AM company of both Polymer (plastic) and Metal systems, Farsoon has created a progressive array of possibilities for customers and partners to access to unparalleled freedom in applications, systems, and materials.
Dirk Simon worked in BASF for nearly 6 years, and pushed the topic "3D-Printing at BASF" from Scouting through New Business Incubation into the Business Build-up. He holds a PhD-degree in Polymer Science and has over 20 years working experiences in Applications of Plastics, Marketing & Sales, Purchasing and Management in various chemical companies in Germany and Switzerland. Most recently he has held the position of Global Business Director with BASF New Business GmbH, and part of the management team of BASF 3D-Printing Solutions GmbH in Heidelberg. In this function he has been responsible to build the 3D-Printing teams in BASF from the scratch, establishing the 3D-P Application Technology Center and starting up the business development of BASF 3D-P solutions
Anthony Lowder
Anthony has been following the industry since 2010. He works with the editorial team and is responsible for co-ordinating and publishing digital content on our international website. As well as following the tech landscape, he is a self-taught multi-instrumentalist and music producer.
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HomeIHC ushers in the new year with a new partnership with the University of Wollongong in Dubai.
IHC ushers in the new year with a new partnership with the University of Wollongong in Dubai.
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19 January 2020, Dubai, UAE: Today, the International Humanitarian City (IHC), the global humanitarian hub created by the Government of Dubai as an initiative of HH Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the University of Wollongong in Dubai. The MoU allows both entities to work collaboratively to promote and mutually strengthen engagement with humanitarian work given the ever-changing needs of the sector from both an academic and field perspective.
IHC enters into this partnership as part of its strategy to source the latest in academic thinking and scholarship in the field of humanitarian studies in the region and thus create more opportunities for the UAE's various stakeholders to contribute to this critical field of work. In exchange, the IHC's expertise will give UOWD students real-life understanding and on-the-ground knowledge to add to their classroom education. The partnership aims to facilitate the transfer of knowledge, and raise awareness about important global humanitarian issues as well as the work being done by the UAE through IHC, the largest humanitarian hub in the world.
The Master of International Relations (MIR) offered by the University of Wollongong in Dubai aims to prepare students to work in the field of International Relations, particularly in Diplomacy, Peace Studies, and Humanitarian Aid and Development. With its community, IHC can provide guidance on how humanitarian work and relief aid has evolved and the key to using innovation to address the issues facing the field. The partnership includes activities such as collaborative research projects, training, awareness sessions, technical consultations, professional advisory and development, as well as the provision of feedback and input. Topics that will be taught under the partnership include The Foreign Policy of the UAE; UAE Humanitarian Action; Global Approach of the SDGs, among other topics deemed relevant to IHC's operations as these emerge.
The MoU between these two entities is one of the ways to strengthen the dialogue between different actors operating in the same sector. IHC CEO Giuseppe Saba says, "IHC continuously strives to support access to humanitarian studies in the region by giving opportunities to the future leaders and operators in the humanitarian field. This partnership with the University of Wollongong is a tribute to that. We believe that IHC and the University of Wollongong in Dubai complement each other through education and empowerment: we are all working together for a better world and as a single humanity."
Professor Mohamed Salem, President of UOWD, said: "In line with the vision of the UAE Government's Leadership, this partnership between IHC and UOWD recognises the complexity of today's global humanitarian emergencies and challenges, which require talent and resources from multiple stakeholders to achieve solutions.
UOWD conceives its community engagement remit as a way of fulfilling the vision of the UAE's leadership on global initiatives. UOWD's Master of International Relations prepares graduates for the leadership required to assess and develop solutions to complex problems involving issues such as poverty and climate change.
With the signing of this partnership, UOWD is proud to enhance dialogue between different stakeholders in the field of Humanitarianism and to contribute to the realisation of the UAE Government's Sustainable Development Goals."
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1963 Fiat-OSCA 1600 S Pininfarina Cabriolet
Simon SGold Goldsworthy
A collaborative effort between three giants of the Italian automotive scene, this car encapsulates the design flair perfected by that country in the 1950s and 1960s. It also makes a delightful two-seat tourer in the 21st century if you have an eye for beauty and a desire for something unusual. Words: Simon Goldsworthy. Pictures: Simon Cooke.
Fiat-Osca 1600 – rare Pininfarina Roadster
Very rare cabriolet with input from Fiat, Pinin Farina – and the Maserati brothers.
Something nice for the weekend, sir?
We like to bring you a mixture of familiar classics and exotic rarities on Classics, and this car certainly falls into the latter category. It is a Fiat as the badges make clear, but it was designed and built by coachbuilder Pinin Farina and the engine was developed by the Maserati brothers. And we do mean the Maserati brothers from Italy, not Bill and Joe Maserati from Peckham!
The boxout on next page explains more about the Maserati connection, but for now we can describe it as a 1963 Fiat-OSCA 1600 S Pininfarina Cabriolet. The car belongs to Andy Lerry, who bought it in 2013. He saw it at an auction, which he had gone to just to sniff around because, as Andy admits, he is always on the lookout for interesting cars.
'It was a runner and looked sort of OK,' he relates. 'There was a lot of interest in it, but it wouldn't run properly. That was because it has a mechanical throttle linkage and somebody, presumably at the auction, had put a big foot against this linkage and bent it. The result was that you couldn't really rev it up, and so the engine sounded like it was on its last legs.'
"It does look nicer as slightly off white, which contrasts well with the various trim colours in a cabin that is so typical of Italian design of the era"
Not that this meant Andy got it for a song. In fact, by the time the finger waggling was over, he had committed to pay £16,300 for the privilege of taking it home. That was a fair bit of cash for a car with an engine on its last legs, but Andy didn't panic – instead he had a careful look, figured out what the problem was, bent the linkage back and to everybody's amazement drove out of the place and home.
His initial thoughts had been that the Fiat was an interesting car he could spruce up a bit and maybe sell on for a decent profit. However, as so often happens, a quick spruce up soon turned into a full restoration. And although Andy had sorted the linkage and driven the car home, the OSCA engine really did turn out to be rather sick.
Sadly, it took two attempts to get the DOHC unit rebuilt properly. First a local company had a go, but their bill was suspiciously cheap and within 100km the engine had started knocking. So Andy had to take it back out, send it to Connaught Racing Engines in Kent and paid about four times as much, but it was worth every penny because he says they did a super job.
We are perhaps getting a little ahead of ourselves here though, because in the meantime Andy had completely stripped the body and taken it back to bare metal. The bodywork and underside were actually structurally perfect with only a few very minor blemishes, and it didn't require any welding. Andy attributes this to the car having been kept in the South of France and Italy for many years in its early days – it didn't come with a lot of history, but he has been able to pick up the story from 1992, at which point it was owned in France. It didn't come to the UK, to Scotland in fact, until 2007.
The preparation and repaint was undertaken by a local company, Kustom 101 in Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, who did a superb job. The colour of the Fiat when Andy got it was its original bright white. The metal section of the dashboard was also in body colour, but had been repainted at some time in a very slightly creamier shade of white which Andy thought looked really good. It was decided not to remove the dash during the restoration and leave the creamy white finish as it was, so when it came to repainting the body, a match for this was used.
It does in Andy's opinion look nicer as slightly off white, which contrasts well with the various trim colours in a cabin that is so typical of Italian design of the era. It actually looks very Maserati, which was part of the initial appeal for Andy. 'I've had a 1966 Maserati Sebring for 18 years and I love that car,' he explains, 'but it is now up for sale (see www.countyclassics. net). However, because of the OSCA connection, this Fiat is welcomed at Maserati club rallies so I don't have to leave the club scene entirely.'
The interior of this car looks immaculate. Andy was helped in this regard by the fact that despite a production run of just 2275 cars and only around a couple of hundred of this exact model, there is a specialist for them. Just the one, and he is in Holland so parts can get expensive by the time they have been shipped to the UK, but at least stuff is available.
'I was quite lucky because the guy in Holland does a carpet set ready to fit, and also seat covers,' says Andy. 'They are vinyl rather than leather, but very good quality, so I had those sent over, along with a repro rubber boot mat. A local trimmer restored the door cards and rebuilt the seats with new foam and the new covers, and we put Dynamat sound deadening everywhere before fitting the trim. The dash top is immaculate and had already been done by the time I got it, as was the soft top. The car also came with a rare works hardtop in good but not restored condition. I have not fitted it to the car yet as there are some catches missing.'
The brightwork was all rechromed by S&T Plating in Yate, and that really helps the car to sparkle. Of course, once you get a car in fresh paint and fit new chrome, there is a temptation to try and bring everything else up to the same level. Andy was going to replace the back lights because they looked a bit dull in comparison, but when he found out they are the same units as found on a Ferrari 250 California, he quickly decided to clean up the ones he had instead. Fortunately, they came up a treat.
So, what is it like on the road? After all, the mechanical specification with a DOHC engine and four wheel disc brakes is pretty advanced compared to your typical small British sports car of the same era.
'It has a nice solid feel to it,' says Andy. 'The brakes are good, but perhaps not as good as you might expect from all-round discs. The brake pedal is surprisingly long even though everything is in top condition, and because there is no servo assistance it does feel a little dull. It stops OK, but you have to stand on it quite hard.
'The engine is a little bit rough from cold, but once warmed up it is an absolute delight. They did do a five-speed gearbox on some of the other models, but I think it was a mistake to put a four-speeder in these as it is a little low-geared for cruising. Having said that, I didn't rebuild the diff initially and when I put it back on the road that turned out to be noisy. I managed to find a good secondhand replacement in Italy, and that happened to have taller gearing which has made it much nicer to drive.'
That rather curious system of bars across the top of the bulkhead you can see in the underbonnet picture is actually the steering linkage. It is very unusual to have this situated so high up and with such a long drop arm, but Andy says it steers and drives really well, even if it is not an out-and-out sports car, but more of a tourer.
Not that Andy has done many miles in it yet, probably not even 500 miles a year. 'That is because I have too many cars and not enough time to drive them all,' he laughs. 'I've got a three-car garage and a four-car garage at home. I always said I'd like to have three cars of my own and keep four for selling as a kind of hobby business, but now I have seven of my own and I've rented a massive barn up the road, which is dangerous because I can get another 20 cars in that!'
However, Andy does have a plan: he wants to downsize his collection so he can spend more time driving the cars that remain. 'You can't be everywhere and do everything,' he explains. 'I'm a bit famous for jumping into projects with both feet, but I am getting wiser as I get older. I've realised now that I don't have as much time as I think I have to play with cars. In my mind I may be constantly cruising up and down the Amalfi coast in the Fiat, but in reality it spends most of its time locked up in the garage. Fortunately, I do also get a lot of pleasure from simply going out to the garage and looking at the car when I haven't seen it for a while. So while I may continue to buy interesting cars, I am done with big restorations. I'm currently finishing off a 1937 Buick straight eight, and as soon as that is done, I plan to kick the cars out of the garage and trick it out nicely as a man cave instead of a workshop.'
So what happened to his initial plan for the Fiat of sprucing it up and selling it on for a profit – is that still on the cards? 'I paid £16,300 for it in 2013 and I've since spent £35,000 on the restoration,' he reveals. 'It is probably just about worth £50,000 on a good day, but anything this rare is very hard to value. There was one sold recently that was advertised at £67,000. It was a beautiful car and I don't know what it sold for, but that gives you an idea of where it could go. You will also see stuff that looks somewhat handy from about £25,000 though.
'Not that this is relevant any longer, because out of the seven cars I currently own, I have decided that my downsizing plan will see me keeping just two – this Fiat and the 1937 Buick.'
OSCA AND THE MASERATI CONNECTION
The Fiat 1200 Cabriolet was launched in 1959 with an attractive two-seater body penned by Pinin Farina. There was also a high-performance derivative, the 1500 Cabriolet, powered by a 1491cc twin-cam OSCA engine and twin Weber carburettors.
OSCA (Officine Specializzate Costruzione Automobili — Fratelli Maserati S.p.A.) was a company set up in 1947 by the brothers Bindo, Ettore and Ernesto Maserati. Along with another brother, Alfieri, they had founded the Maserati Car Company in 1914, but sold it to the Orsi family in 1937. Alfieri had died in 1932, but the other Maserati brothers continued to be involved with the company for a further ten years despite the company being relocated from their native Bologna to Modena in 1940. Then, with their contractual obligations completed, they returned to Bologna to set up OSCA.
The Maserati brothers' aim with OSCA was to build race cars to compete in the 1100cc class, for which they built their own engines based around a Fiat block. This grew to 1342cc in 1949, gained a DOHC head in 1950, and grew once again to 1453cc in 1953. A new twin-spark DOHC engine with a capacity of 1491cc was built for 1955, and it was a version of this engine that appeared in the Fiat 1500 Cabriolet of 1959.
In 1960 the name was changed slightly to the Fiat 1500 S Cabriolet with disc brakes all round, while in 1962 that engine was bored out to give 1568cc to create the 1600 S. The main distinguishing mark of the 1600 S was a rather odd asymmetric air intake on the bonnet instead of the previous dummy scoop, a feature which lasted until a mild facelift in 1963 saw the engine lowered in the frame and a flat bonnet fitted. It was effectively replaced by the Fiat 124 Spider from 1966.
Body: Roadster
Cd/Cx: 0.46
Type: Petrol
Engine: 1.6-litre L4
Fuelling: Carburettor
Aspirate: Natural
Power: 140bhp at 6900rpm
Torque: 118 lb ft at 4400rpm
Trnsms: Manual 4-spd
Economy: 23mpg
Speed: 120mph
0-60mph: 9.5sec
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