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Schools get good State Report Cards
VW independent/Ohio Department of Education news
COLUMBUS — Ohio's 2011-2012 State Report Card finds that the state's public schools are making steady academic gains as a new era of accountability approaches.
Locally, all three Van Wert County school districts did well, with Lincolnview and Crestview both rated "excellent" and Van Wert, which missed out on the top rating by just two-tenths of a point, earning an "effective" rating.
As was reported in October when preliminary ratings came out, Van Wert met 23 of 26 indicators, while Crestview met all 26 indicators and Lincolnview 24 of 26 indicators. All three schools also met the state's Value Added criteria, but Van Wert was marked down for not meeting the Adequate Yearly Progress ranking.
For Van Wert, fifth-grade test scores were to blame for the district not earning an "excellent" ranking. The S.F. Goedde Building, which housed fifth-graders in 2011-2012, was also the only one of six district schools that didn't earn an "excellent" rating on an individual basis.
"We have come a long way and that's our only hiccup right now," Superintendent Ken Amstutz said back in October.
Amstutz also noted in October that, for whatever reason, "stand-alone" grade levels like the Goedde Building's fifth-grade classes, tend to not fare as well academically as regular multi-grade schools.
"Everybody has told us, other school districts, when you have a stand-alone grade level, that's a problem," he noted, adding that he hopes to see improvements for this school year now that fifth-graders are housed in the multi-grade Van Wert Elementary School (click here for Van Wert's complete school report card).
Crestview Superintendent Mike Estes was pleased back in October when he learned that the district had returned to the "excellent" ranking after a couple of years of subpar performance, mostly due to failure to meet the Value Added indicator.
"To pass all 26 indicators is high praise for our staff and students," Estes had said. "We stumbled a couple of years ago, but are getting back to where we should be."
Much of the credit for the turnaround has gone to the district's PRIDE Committee, which was formed to improve scores after the district fell to "continuous improvement" after "excellent" rankings prior to that (click here for Crestview's full state report card).
Lincolnview's then-interim superintendent, Doug Karst, was also pleased at his district's performance on the State Report Card.
"I think it does indicate how solid a school district this is," he noted, adding, "There is still for improvement, though (click here for Lincolnview's full report card)."
Statewide, Ohio schools registered improvements in 14 of 26 indicators and met the state's performance goal on 21 out of the 26 indicators. There were especially strong gains in eighth-grade math and science. The number of districts and schools exceeding expected growth in Value-Added also grew significantly.
Ohio schools still have much room to grow. The performance of Ohio's economically disadvantaged students and minorities remains unacceptably low. Too many students drop out of high school and too many who enroll in college need to take remedial courses.
"We congratulate Ohio's students, families and educators for making continued, solid academic progress," said Acting Superintendent of Public Instruction Michael L. Sawyers. "But we will need to set the bar higher to ensure that all of our students are prepared for a future that will demand higher skills. Ohio's minimal competency system must continue to reform for Ohio's students to be competitive with their peers."
Ohio's accountability system will be changing in 2013. Starting this fall, the state will begin a transition to a new era of district and school performance reporting that will include an easy to understand A-F grading system. The new report cards will take a broader look at the key indicators of school effectiveness and will be based upon standards that ensure all students graduate ready for college and careers.
The current state-level totals include results for nine districts that were identified earlier this month by the Auditor of State as showing evidence that they "scrubbed" attendance data to potentially improve their report card results. The 2012 and 2011 report cards for those districts and all of their schools have had a watermark added, indicating that the results are subject to change pending further investigation by ODE.
The release of the final 2011-2012 State Report Card was scheduled for August 2012 but was postponed pending the conclusion of the investigation by the Auditor of State.
The information released this year includes a number of new ranking reports as stipulated in state law and Ohio's May 2012 waiver from the U.S. Department of Education from certain elements of the No Child Left Behind Act. This report can be found at www.reportcard.ohio.gov and includes:
A list of 90 schools that have demonstrated either "High Progress" or "High Performance" while serving a significant number of economically disadvantaged students.
A ranking of schools and districts based upon Performance Index scores. The index looks at the performance of every student, not just those who score proficient or higher.
A ranking of districts based on Value-Added results, which show whether students meet the expected one year of growth for students in grades 4-8 in reading and math.
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History of Siberia
The history of Siberia may be traced to the sophisticated nomadic civilizations of the Scythians (Pazyryk) and the Xiongnu (Noin-Ula), both flourishing before the Christian erahuh. The steppes of South Siberia saw a succession of nomadic empires, including the Turkic Empire and the Mongol Empire. In the late Middle Ages, the Lamaist Buddhism spread into the areas south of Lake Baikal. A milestone in the history of the region was the arrival of Russians in the 16th and 17th centuries, contemporaneous and in many regards analogous to the European settlement in the Americas. During the imperial period of Russian history, Siberia was an agricultural province and served as a place of exile for Avvakum, Dostoevsky, and the Decembrists, among others. The 19th century witnessed the construction of the Trans-Siberian Railway, the industrialization and the discovery of vast reserves of Siberian mineral resources.
According to the field of genetic genealogy, people first resided in Siberia by 45 000BP and spread out east and west to populate the Americas and Europe.
The shores of all Siberian lakes which filled the depressions during the Lacustrine period abound in remains dating from the Neolithic age. Countless "kurgans" (tumuli), furnaces, and other artifacts bear witness to a dense population. In fact some of the earliest artifacts found in Central Asia derive from Siberia andwestern Turkistan ["The New Encyclopaedia Britannica", Page 724, by Philip W. Goetz, Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc, 1991] During the great migrations in Asia from east to west, many populations were probably driven to the northern borders of the great Central Siberian Plateau and thence compelled to descend into Siberia. Succeeding waves of immigration forced them still farther towards the barren grounds of the north. As early as first millennium BC silk goods began turning up in Siberia having traveled over the North China Silk Road including the Hexi Trail segment. [ [http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=18006 C.Michael Hogan, "Silk Road, North China", The Megalithic Portal, ed. A. Burnham] ]
According to Vasily Radlov, the earliest inhabitants of Siberia were the Yeniseians, who spoke a language different from Ural-Altaic; some traces of them (Yenets or Yeniseians, Sayan-Ostiaks, and Kottes) exist in the areas of Sayan Mountains.
The Yeniseians were followed by the Ugro-Samoyedes, who also came originally from the high plateau and were compelled, probably during the great migration of the Huns in the 3rd century BCE, to cross the Altay and Sayan ranges and to enter Siberia. They are credited with leaving behind the very numerous remains dating from the Bronze Age which are scattered all over southern Siberia. Iron was unknown to them, but they excelled in bronze, silver, and gold work. Their bronze ornaments and implements, often polished, evince considerable artistic taste, and their irrigated fields covered wide areas in the fertile tracts.
Eight centuries later, Turkic peoples such as Khakases and Uyghurs, also compelled to migrate north-westwards from their former seats, subdued the Ugro-Samoyedes . These new invaders likewise left numerous traces of their stay, and two different periods may be easily distinguished in their remains. They were acquainted with iron, and learned from their subjects the art of bronze-casting, which they used for decorative purposes only, and to which they gave a still higher artistic stamp. Their pottery is more artistic and of a higher quality than that of the Bronze period, and their ornaments are accounted included in the collections at the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg.
This Turkic empire of the Khagases must have lasted until the 13th century, when the Mongols, under Genghis Khan, subdued them and destroyed some of them. By 1206, Chingis conquered all mongol-turkic tribes in Siberia. And his eldest son Jochi subjugated Siberian forest people: Oirats, Baruga, Buryats, Khori-Tumed, Khakhas, Uriankhais and Kyrgyzs in 1207. A decided decline is shown by the graves which have been discovered, until the country reached the low level of population at which it was found by the Russians on their arrival towards the close of the 16th century.
In the beginning of the 16th century Tatar fugitives from Turkestan subdued the loosely associated tribes inhabiting the lowlands to the east of the Urals. Agriculturists, tanners, merchants, and mullahs (priests) were called from Turkestan, and small principalities sprang up on the Irtysh and the Ob. These were united by Khan YadegarFact|date=February 2007, and conflicts with the Russians, who were then colonising the Urals, brought him into collision with Muscovy. Khan Ediger's envoys came to Moscow in 1555 and consented to a yearly tribute of a thousand sables.
Novgorod and Muscovy
As early as the 11th century the Novgorodians had occasionally penetrated into Siberia. In the 14th century the Novgorodians explored the Kara Sea and the West-Siberian river Ob (1364). [The Novgorodian "Karamzin Annal. The Full Collection of the Rissian Annals. Vol.22. St.Petersburg, 2002 ] After the fall of Novgorod Republic its communications between Northern Russia and Siberia have been inherited by Moscow. On May, 9, 1483 the Moscow troops of princes Feodor Kurbski-Cherny and Ivan Saltyk-Travin moved to West Siberia. The troops moved on the rivers Tavda, Tura, Irtysh up to the river Ob. 1499 Muscovites and Novgorodians skied to West Siberia up to river Ob and subdued some local tribes. [Каргалов В. Московские воеводы XVI-XVII веков. М.2002] In 1570s the entrepreneur Stroganov in Perm enlisted many cossacks for protection of the Urals settlements against attacks of the Siberian Tatars. Stroganov suggested to their chief Yermak to conquer the Siberia Khanate, promising to help him with supplies of food and arms.
Yermak and the Cossacks
Yermak entered Siberia in 1580 with a band of 1,636 men, following the Tagil and Tura Rivers. The following year they were on the Tobol, and 500 men successfully laid siege to Isker, the residence of Khan Kuchum, in the neighbourhood of what is now Tobolsk. Kuchum fled to the steppes, abandoning his domains to Yermak, who, according to tradition, purchased by the present of Siberia to tsar Ivan IV his own restoration to favour.
Yermak drowned in the Irtysh in 1584 and his Cossacks abandoned Siberia. But new bands of hunters and adventurers, supported by Moscow, poured every year into the country. To avoid conflicts with the denser populations of the south, they preferred to advance eastwards along higher latitudes; meanwhile, Moscow erected forts and settled labourers around them to supply the garrisons with food. Within eighty years the Russians had reached the Amur and the Pacific Ocean. This rapid conquest is accounted for by the circumstance that neither Tatars nor Turks were able to offer any serious resistance.
Imperial Russian expansion
The main treasure to attract Cossacks to Siberia was fur of sables, foxes, and ermines. Explorers brought back many furs from their expeditions. Local people, submitting to Russia, received defense by Cossacs from the southern nomads. In exchange they were obliged to pay "yasak" (tax) in form of furs. There was a set of "yasachnaya" roads, used to transport yasak to Moscow.
A number of peoples showed open resistance to Russians. Others submitted and even requested to be subordinated, though sometimes they later refused to pay yasak, or not admitted the Russian authority.Зуев А. С. «Русская политика в отношении аборигенов крайнего Северо-Востока Сибири (XVIII в.) » // Вестник НГУ. Серия: История, филология. Т. 1. Вып. 3: История / Новосиб. гос. ун-т. Новосибирск, 2002. C. 14–24.
Zuyev A. S. "Russian Policy Towards the Aborigines of the Extreme North-East of Russia (18th century)" // Vestnik NGU. History and Philosophy, vol. 1, issue 3: History / Novosibirsk State University, 2002. P. 14-24. [http://www.zaimka.ru/07_2002/zuev_policy/ Online version] ] There is evidence of collaboration and assimilation of Russians with the local peoples in SiberiaСкобелев С. Г. «Межэтнические контакты славян с их соседями в Средней Сибири в XVII-XIX вв.» Skobelev S. G. "Intraethnic Contacts of Slavs with Their Neighbours in the Central Siberia in the 17th-19th centuries. ? [http://www.zaimka.ru/to_sun/skobelev_6.shtml Online version] ] though the more they advanced to the East, the less local people were developed and the more resistance they offered. The most resistant groups were Koryak and Chukchi (in Chukchi Peninsula), the latter still being at the Stone Age level of development.According to Зуев А. С. «Немирных чукчей искоренить вовсе...» // [http://www.istrodina.com/ Родина] , №1, 1998.
Zuyev A. S. "Unpeaceful Chukchi are to be Eradicated..." // [http://www.istrodina.com/ Rodina] , #1, 1998. [http://www.zaimka.ru/to_sun/chukchi.shtml Online version] ]
Irkutsk and Lake Baikal in its neighbourhood]
In 1607–1610, the Tungus fought strenuously for their independence, but were subdued around 1623. In 1628, the Russians reached the Lena, founded the fort of Yakutsk in 1637, and two years later reached the Sea of Okhotsk at the mouth of the Ulya River. The Buryats offered some opposition, but between 1631 and 1641 the Cossacks erected several palisaded forts in their territory, and in 1648 the fort on the upper Uda River beyond Lake Baikal. In 1643, Vassili Poyarkov's boats descended the Amur, returning to Yakutsk by the Sea of Okhotsk and the Aldan River, and in 1649–1650 Yerofey Khabarov established the fort of Albazin on the bank of the Amur.
The Manchu resistance, however, obliged the Cossacks to quit Albazin, and by the Treaty of Nerchinsk (1689) Russia abandoned her advance into the basin of the river, instead concentrating on the colonisation of the vast expanses of Siberia and trading with China via the Siberian trakt. In 1852 a Russian military expedition under Nikolay Muravyov explored the Amur, and by 1857 a chain of Russian Cossacks and peasants were settled along the whole course of the river. The accomplished fact was recognised by China in 1860 by the Treaty of Aigun.
In the same year in which Khabarov explored the Amur (1648), the Cossack Semyon Dezhnev sailed from the Kolyma River around the north-eastern extremity of Asia through the strait which was rediscovered and described eighty years later by Bering. James Cook in 1778, and La Pérouse after him, settled definitively the broad features of the northern Pacific coast.
Although the Arctic Ocean had been reached as early as the first half of the 17th century, the exploration of its coasts by a series of expeditions under Dmitry Ovtsyn, Fyodor Minin, Vasili Pronchishchev, Lasinius, and Laptev—whose labours constitute a brilliant page in the annals of geographical discovery—was begun only in the 18th century (1735–1739).
cientists in Siberia
The scientific exploration of Siberia, commenced in the period of 1733 to 1742 by Messerschmidt, Gmelin, and De L'isle de la Croyere, was followed up by Müller, Fischer, and Georgi. Pallas, with several Russian students, laid the first foundation of a thorough exploration of the topography, fauna, flora, and inhabitants of the country. The journeys of Christopher Hansteen and Georg Adolf Erman were the most important step in the exploration of the territory. Humboldt, Ehrenberg, and Gustav Rose also paid short visits to Siberia, which gave a new impulse to the accumulation of scientific knowledge; while Ritter elaborated in his "Asien" (1832–1859) the foundations of a sound knowledge of the structure of Siberia. T von Middendorff's journey (1843–1845) to north-eastern Siberia—contemporaneous with Castrén's journeys for the special study of the Ural-Altaic languages—directed attention to the far north and awakened interest in the Amur, the basin of which soon became the scene of the expeditions of Akhte and Schwarz (1852), and later on of the Siberian expedition, advanced knowledge of East Siberia.
The Siberian branch of the Russian Geographical Society was founded at the same time in Irkutsk, and afterwards became a permanent centre for the exploration of Siberia; while the opening of the Amur and Sakhalin attracted Maack, Schmidt, Glehn, Radde, and Schrenck, whose created works on the flora, fauna, and inhabitants of Siberia.
Early settlement
In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the Russians that migrated into Siberia were hunters, and those who had escaped from the Central Russia: fugitive peasants in search for life free of serfdom, fugitive convicts, and Old Believers. The new settlements of Russians and the existing local peoples required defence from nomads, for which forts were found. This way were found forts of Tomsk and Berdsk.
In the beginning of the eighteenth century the nomads' threat weakened; thus the region became more and more populated; normal civic life was established in the cities.
Established life
In the eighteenth century in Siberia, a new administrative "guberniya" was formed with Irkutsk, then in the nineteenth century the territory was several times re-divided with creation of new guberniyas: Tomsk (with center in Tomsk) and Yenisei (Yeniseysk, later Krasnoyarsk).
In the 1730, the first large industrial project—the metallurgical production found by Demidov family—gave birth to the city of Barnaul. Later, the enterprise organized social institutions like library, club, theatre. Pyotr Semenov-Tyan-Shansky, who stayed in Barnaul in 1856–1857 wrote: "The richness of mining engineers of Barnaul expressed not merely in their households and clothes, but more in their educational level, knowledge of science and literature. Barnaul was undoubtedly the most cultured place in Siberia, and I've called it Siberian Athenes, leaving Sparta for Omsk".Семенов-Тян-Шанский П.П. Мемуары. Т. 2. М., 1946. С. 56-57, 126. Semyonov-Tyan-Shansky P. P. "Memoirs", vol. 2. Moscow, 1946. P. 56-57, 126.]
The same events took place in other cities; public libraries, museums of local lore, colleges, theatres were being built, although the first university in Siberia was opened as late as 1880 in Tomsk.
Siberian peasants more than those in European Russia relied on their own force and abilities. They had to fight against the harder climate without outside help. Lack of serfdom and landlords also contributed to their independent character. Unlike peasants in European Russia, Siberians had no problems with land availability; the low population density gave them the ability to intensively cultivate a plot for several years in a row, then to leave it fallow for a long time and cultivate other plots. Siberian peasants had an abundance of food, while Central Russian peasantry had to moderate their families' appetites. Leonid Blummer noted that the culture of alcohol consumption differed significantly; Siberian peasants drank frequently but moderately: "For a Siberian vodka isn't a wonder, unlike for a Russian peasant, which, having reached it after all this time, is ready to drink a sea." The houses, according to the travellers' notes, were unlike the typical Russian izbas: the houses were big, often two-floored, the ceilings were high, the walls were covered with boards and painted with oil-paint.A large article that quotes Chekhov and Blummer on Siberia:
[http://zaimka.ru/08_2002/startsev_homosibiricus/ Старцев А. В. Homo Sibiricus] // Земля Сибирь. Новосибирск. 1992. № 5–6.
[http://zaimka.ru/08_2002/startsev_homosibiricus/ Startsev A. V. Homo Sibiricus] // Zemlya Sibir'. Novosibirsk, 1992. #5-6.]
Decembrists and other exiles
Siberia was deemed a good place to exile for political reasons, as it was far from any foreign country. A St. Petersburg citizen would not wish to escape in vast Siberian countryside as the peasants and criminals did. Even the larger cities such as Irkutsk, Omsk, and Krasnoyarsk, lacked that intensive social life and luxurious high life of the capital.
About eighty people involved in the Decembrist revolt were sentenced to obligatory work in Siberia and perpetual settlement here. Eleven wives followed them and settled near the labour camps. In their memoirs, they noted the benevolence and the prosperity of rural Siberians and severe treatment by the soldiers and officers.
"Travelling through Siberia, I was wondered and fascinated at every step by the cordiality and hospitality I met everywhere. I was fascinated by the richness and the abundance, with which the people live until today (1861), but that time there was even more expanse in evertything. Khe hospitality was especially developed in Siberia. Everywhere we were received like being in friendly countries, everywhere we were fed well, and when I asked how much I owed them, they didn't want to take anything, saying "Put a candle to the God"."
"...Siberia is extremely rich country, the land is ususually fruitful, and a few work is needed to get a plentiful harvest."
Polina Annenkova, Notes of a Decembrist's WifeАнненкова П. Е., «Записки жены декабриста». [http://decemb.hobby.ru/index.shtml?memory/annenk Онлайновая версия текста] Воспроизводится по: «Своей судьбой гордимся мы». Иркутск, Восточно-Сибирское книжное издательство, 1973 г. Annenkova P. "Notes of a Decembrist's Wife". [http://decemb.hobby.ru/index.shtml?memory/annenk Online version] reproduced by "We Are Proud of Our Destiny", Irkutsk, Vostochno-Sibirskoye izdatelstvo, 1973.]
A number of Decembrists died of diseases, some suffered psychological shock and even went out of their mind.
After completing the term of obligatory work, they were sentenced to settle in specific small towns and villages. There, some started doing business, which was well permitted. Only several years later, in the 1840s, they were allowed to move to big cities or to settle anywhere in Siberia. Only in 1856, 31 years after the revolt, Alexander II pardoned and restituted the Decembrists in honour of his coronation.
Living in the cities of Omsk, Krasnoyarsk, and Irkutsk, the Decembrists contributed extensively to the social life and culture. In Irkutsk, their houses are now the museums. In many places, memorial plaques with their names have been installed.
Yet, there were exceptions: Vladimir Raevskiy was arrested for participation in Decembrists' circles in 1822, and in 1828 was exiled to Olonki village near Irkutsk. There he married and had nine children, traded with bread, and founded a school for children and adults to teach arythmetics and grammar. Being pardoned by Alexander II, he visited his native town, but returned back to Olonki.
Despite the wishes of the central authorities, the exiled revolutioners unlikely felt outcast in Siberia. Quite the contrary, Siberians having lived all the time on their own, "didn't feel tenderness" to the authorities. In many cases, the exiled were cordially received and got paid positions.
Fyodor Dostoevsky was exiled to katorga near Omsk and to military service in Semipalatinsk. In the service he also had to make trips for Barnaul and Kuznetsk, where he married.
Anton Chekhov was not exiled, but in 1890 made a trip on his own to Sakhalin through Siberia and visited a katorga there. In his trip, he visited Tomsk, speaking disapprovingly about it, then Krasnoyarsk, which he called "the most beautiful Siberian city". He noted that despite being more a place of criminal rather than political exile, the moral atmosphere was much better: he did not face any case of theft. Blummer suggested to prepare a gun, but his attendant replied: "What for?! We are not in Italy, you know." Chekhov observed that besides of the evident prosperity, there was an urgent demand for cultural development.
Many Poles were also exiled to Siberia (see "Sybiraks").
The development of the Siberia was hampered by poor transportation links within the region as well as between Siberia and the rest of the country. Aside from the Sibirsky trakt, good roads suitable for wheeled transport were few and far apart. For about five months of the year, rivers were the main means of transportation; during the cold half of the year, cargo and passengers travelled by horse-drawn sleds over the winter roads, many of which were the same rivers, now ice-covered.
The first steamboat on the Ob, Nikita Myasnikov's "Osnova", was launched in 1844; but the early starts were difficult, and it was not until 1857 that steamboat shipping started developing in the Ob system in the serious way. Steamboats started operating on the Yenisei in 1863, on the Lena and Amur in the 1870s.
While the comparably flat Western Siberia was at least fairly well served by the gigantic
Ob-Irtysh-Tobol-Chulym river system, the mighty rivers of Eastern Siberia --
Yenisei, Upper Angara River (Angara River below Bratsk was not easily navigable because of the rapids),
Lena -- were mostly navigable only in the north-south direction. An attempt to somewhatremedy the situation by building the Ob-Yenisei Canal were not particularly successful.Only a railroad could be a real solution to the region's transportation problems.
The first projects of railroads in Siberia emerged since the creation of the Moscow–St. Petersburg railroad. One of the first was Irkutsk–Chita project, intended to connect the former to the Amur River and, consequently, to the Pacific Ocean.
Prior to 1880 the central government seldom responded to such projects, due to the weakness of Siberian enterprises, fear of Siberian territories' integration with the Pacific region rather than with Russia, and thus falling under the influence of the United States and Great Britain. The heavy and clumsy bureaucracy and the fear of financial risks also contributed to the inaction: the financial system always underestimated the effects of the railway, assuming that it would take only the existing traffic.
Namely the fear to lose Siberia convinced Alexander II in 1880 to make a decision to build the railway. The construction started in 1891.
Trans-Siberian Railroad gave a great boost to Siberian agriculture, allowing for increased exports to Central Russia and European countries. It pushed not only the territories closest to the railway, but also those connected with meridional rivers, such as the Ob (Altai) and the Yenisei (Minusinsk and Abakan regions).
Siberian agriculture exported a lot of cheap grain to the West. The agriculture in Central Russia was still under pressure of serfdom, formally abandoned in 1861.
Thus, to defend it and to prevent possible social destabilization, in 1896 (when the eastern and western parts of the Trans-Siberian did not close up yet), the government introduced Chelyabinsk tariff break ( _ru. Челябинский тарифный перелом)—a tariff barier for grain in Chelyabinsk, and a similar barrier in Manchuria. This measure changed the form of cereal product export: mills emerged in Altai, Novosibirsk, and Tomsk; many farms switched to butter production. From 1896 to 1913 Siberia on average exported 30.6 million poods (~500,000 tonnes) of cereal products (grain, flour) annually.Храмков А. А. Железнодорожные перевозки хлеба из Сибири в западном направлении в конце XIX — начале XX вв. // [http://new.hist.asu.ru/biblio/predpri3/index.html Предприниматели и предпринимательство в Сибири. Вып.3] : Сборник научных статей. Барнаул: Изд-во АГУ, 2001.
Khramkov A. A. Railroad Transportation of Cereal Products from Siberia to the West in the Late 19th — Early 20th Centuries. // [http://new.hist.asu.ru/biblio/predpri3/index.html Entrepreneurs and Business Undertakings in Siberia. 3rd issue] . Collection of scientific articles. Barnaul: Altai State University publishing house, 2001. ISBN 5-7904-0195-3]
tolypin's resettlement programme
One early significant settlement campaign was carried out under Nicholas II by Prime Minister Stolypin in 1906–1911.
The rural areas of Central Russia were overcrowded, while the East was still lightly populated despite having fertile lands. On May 10, 1906, by the decree of the Tsar, agriculturalists were granted the right to transfer, without any restrictions, to the Asian territories of Russia, and to obtain cheap or free land. A large advertising campaign was conducted: six million copies of brochures and banners entitled "What the resettlement gives to peasants", and "How the peasants in Siberia live" were printed and distributed in rural areas. Special propaganda trains were sent throughout the countryside, and transport trains were provided for the migrants. The State gave loans to the settlers for farm construction.
Not all the settlers decided to stay; 17.8% migrated back. All in all, more than three million people officially resettled in Siberia, and 750,000 came as foot-messengers. From 1897 to 1914 Siberian population increased 73%, and the area of land under cultivation doubled.Section is based on: И. Воронов. Столыпин и русская Сибирь / Экономика и жизнь (Сибирь), № 189, 19.05.2003. I. Voronov. "Stolypin and Russian Siberia" / Economics and Life (Siberia), #189, 19/05/2003. [http://www.ecolife.krsk.ru/content.asp?id=2590 Online version] ]
By the time of the revolution Siberia was an agricultural region of Russia, with weak entrepreneur and industrial class. The intelligentsia had vague political ideas. Only 13% [http://history.nsc.ru/kapital/publ/kataklism.html Шиловский М.В. Политические процессы в Сибири в период социальных катаклизмов 1917-1920 гг.] — Новосибирск, ИД "Сова", 2003.
[http://history.nsc.ru/kapital/publ/kataklism.html Shilovsky M. V. The Political Processes in Siberia in the Period of Social Cataclysms of 1917-1920s] . — Novosibirsk, "Sova" publishing house, 2003. ISBN 5-87550-150-2] of the region's population lived in the cities and possessed some political knowledge. The lack of strong social difference, scarcity of urban population and intellectuals led to uniting of formally different political parties under ideas of regionalism. [http://new.hist.asu.ru/biblio/borod2/6-34.html#note12 Шиловский М. В. Консолидация "демократической" контрреволюции в Сибири весной-летом 1919 г.] // Актуальные вопросы истории Сибири. Вторые научные чтения памяти проф. А.П. Бородавкина: Материалы конф. Барнаул: Изд-во Алт. ун-та, 2000. 421 с.
[http://new.hist.asu.ru/biblio/borod2/6-34.html#note12 Shilovsky M. V. Consolidation of the "Democratic" Counter-Revolution in Siberia in the Spring-Summer 1919] // Questions of Siberian History of Current Importance. The Second Scientific Conference devoted to prof. A. P. Borodavkin. — Barnaul, Altai State University, 2000. ISBN 5-7904-0149-X]
The anti-Bolsheviks forces failed to offer a united resistance. While Kolchak fought against the Bolsheviks intending to eliminate them in the capital of the Empire, the local Socialists-Revolutioners and Mensheviks tried to sign a peaceful treaty with Bolsheviks, on terms of independence. The foreign allies, though being able to make a decisive effort, preferred to stay neutral, although Kolchak himself rejected the offer of help from Japan.
:"For more detailed chronology of the civil war in Siberia, see articles on Siberian separatism, Aleksandr Kolchak and Siberian Intervention"
After a series of defeats in the Central Russia, Kolchak's forces had to retreat to Siberia. The resistance of SR-s and waning support from the allies, the Whites had to evacuate from Omsk to Irkutsk, and finally Kolchak resigned under pressure of SR-s, who soon submitted to Bolsheviks.
By the 1920s the agriculture in Siberia was in decline. With the large number of immigrants, land was used very intensively, which led to exhaustion of the land and frequent bad harvests. [http://www.zaimka.ru/06_2002/mihalin_rural/ Михалин В. А. Из истории изучения сельского хозяйства Сибири в начале 1920-х гг. (записка Н. Я. Новомбергского)] // Сибирь в XVII–XX веках: Проблемы политической и социальной истории: Бахрушинские чтения 1999–2000 гг.; Межвуз. сб. науч. тр. / Под ред. В. И. Шишкина. Новосиб. гос. ун-т. Новосибирск, 2002.
[http://www.zaimka.ru/06_2002/mihalin_rural/ Mikhalin V. A. From the History of Siberian Agriculture Studies in the Early 1920-s (N. Ya. Novombergskiy's Note)] // Siberia in the XVII-XX centuries: Problems of the Political and Social History. — Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk, 2002.] Agriculture wasn't destroyed by the civil war, but the disorganization of the exports destroyed the food industry and reduced the peasants' incomes. Furthermore, prodrazvyorstka and then the natural food tax contributed to growing discontent. In 1920-1924 there was a number of anti-communistic riots in rural areas, with up to 40,000 people involved. [http://www.zaimka.ru/power/shishkin7.shtml Шишкин В. И. Партизанско-повстанческое движение в Сибири в начале 1920-х годов] // Гражданская война в Сибири. — Красноярск, 1999. C. 161–172.
[http://www.zaimka.ru/power/shishkin7.shtml Shishkin V. I. Partisan-Rebellious Movement in Siberia in the Early 1920s] //The Civil War in Siberia. — Krasnoyarsk, 1999. P. 161-172.] Both old Whites (Cossacks) and old "Reds" partisans, who earlier fought against Kolchak, the marginals, who were the major force of the Communists, took part in the riots. According to a survey of 1927 in Irkutsk Oblast, the peasants openly said they'd participate in anti-Soviet rebel and hoped for the foreign help. [http://www.zaimka.ru/08_2002/isaev_extremism/ Исаев В. И. Военизация молодежи и молодежный экстремизм в Сибири (1920-е — начало 1930-х гг.)] // Вестник НГУ. Серия: История, филология. Т. 1. Вып. 3: История / Новосиб. гос. ун-т. Новосибирск, 2002.
[http://www.zaimka.ru/08_2002/isaev_extremism/ Isayev V. I. Militarization of the Youth and Youth Extremism in Siberia (1920s - early 1930s).] // Vestnik NGU. History and philosophy series. Vol. 1, Issue 3: History. / Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk, 2002.] It should be noticed also that the Soviet authorities declared by a special order the KVZhD builders and workers enemies of the people.
The youth, that had socialized in the age of war, was highly militarized, and the Soviet government pushed the further military propaganda by Komsomol. There are many documented evidences of "red banditism", especially in the countryside, such as desecration of churches and Christian graves, and even murders of priests and believers. Also in many cases a Komsomol activist or an authority representative, speaking with a person opposed to the Soviets, got angry and killed him/her and anybody else. The Party faintly counteracted this.
In 1930s, the Party started the collectivization, which automatically put the "kulak" label on the well-off families living in Siberia for a long time. Naturally, "raskulachivanie" applied to everyone who protested. From the Central Russia many families were exiled in low-populated, forest or swampy areas of Siberia, but those who lived here, had either to escape anywhere, or to be exiled in the Northern regions (such as Evenk and Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrugs and the northern parts of Tomsk Oblast). Collectivization destroyed the traditional and most effective stratum of the peasants in Siberia and the natural ways of development, and it's consequences are still persisting. [http://new.hist.asu.ru/biblio/borod2/44-216.html Карлов С. В. К вопросу о ликвидации кулачества в Хакасии (начало 30-х гг.)] // Актуальные вопросы истории Сибири. Вторые научные чтения памяти проф. А.П. Бородавкина: Материалы конф. Барнаул: Изд-во Алт. ун-та, 2000. 421 с.
[http://new.hist.asu.ru/biblio/borod2/44-216.html Karlov S. V. On the Liquidation of Kulaks in Khakassia (Early 1930s)] // Questions of Siberian History of Current Importance. The Second Scientific Conference devoted to prof. A. P. Borodavkin. — Barnaul, Altai State University, 2000. ISBN 5-7904-0149-X]
In the cities, during the NEP and later, the new authorities, driven by the romantic socialistic ideas made attempts to build new socialistic cities, according to the fashionable constructivism movement, but after all have left only numbers of square houses. For example, the Novosibirsk theatre was initially designed in pure constructivistic style. It was an ambitious project of exiled architects. In the mid-1930s with introduction of new classicism, it was significantly redesigned.
After the Trans-Siberian was built, Omsk soon became the largest Siberian city, but in 1930s Soviets favoured Novosibirsk. In the 1930s the first heavy industrialization took place in the Kuznetsk Basin (coal mining and ferrous metallurgy) and at Norilsk (nickel and other rare-earth metals). The Northern Sea Route saw industrial application. The same time, with growing number of prisoners, Gulag established a large network of labour camps in Siberia.
In 1941, many enterprises and people were evacuated into Siberian cities by the railroads. In urgent need of ammunition and military equipment, they started working right after being unloaded near the stations. The workshops' buildings were built simultaneously with work.
Most of the evacuated enterprises remained at their new sites after the war. They increased industrial production in Siberia to a great extent, and became constitutive for many cities, like Rubtsovsk. The most Eastern city to receive them was Ulan-Ude, since Chita was considered dangerously close to China and Japan.
On August 28, 1941 the Supreme Soviet stated an order "About the Resettlement of the Germans of Volga region", by which many of them were deported into different rural areas of Kazakhstan and Siberia.
By the end of war, thousands of captive soldiers and officers of German and Japanese armies were sentenced to several years of work in labour camps in all the regions of Siberia. These camps were directed by a different administration than Gulag. Though, Soviet camps hadn't the purpose to lead prisoners to death, the death rate was significant, especially in winters. The range of works differed from vegetable farming to construction of the Baikal Amur Mainline.
Industrial expansion
In the second half of the twentieth century, the exploration of mineral and hydroenergetic resources continued. Many of these projects were planned, but were delayed due to wars and the ever changing opinions of Soviet policans.
The most famous project is Baikal Amur Mainline. It was planned simultaneously with Trans-Siberian, but the construction began just before the WWII, was put on hold during the war and restarted after. After Stalin's death, it was again suspended for years to be continued under Brezhnev.
The cascade of hydroelecric powerplants was built in 1960s–1970s on the Angara River, a project similar to Tennessee Valley Authority in the United States. The powerplants allowed the creation and support of large production facilities, such as the alluminium plant in Bratsk, Ust-Ilimsk, rare-earth mining in Angara basin, and those associated with the timber industry. The price of electricity in Angara basin is the lowest in Russia. But the Angara cascade is not fully finished yet: the Boguchany powerplant waits to be finished, and a series of enterprises will be set up.
The downside of this development is the ecological damage due to the low standards of production and excessive sizes of dams (the bigger projects were favoured by the industrial authorities and received more funding), the increased humidity sharpened the already hard climate. Another powerplant project on Katun River in Altai mountains in the 1980s, which was widely protested publicly, was cancelled.
There are a number of military-oriented centers like the NPO Vektor and closed cities like Seversk. By the end of 1980s a large portion of the industrial production of Omsk and Novosibirsk (up to 40%) was composed of military and aviation output. The collapse of state-funded military orders began an economic crisis.
The Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences unites a lot of research institutes in the biggest cities, the biggest being the Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics in Akademgorodok (a scientific town) near Novosibirsk. Other scientific towns or just districts composed by research institutes, also named "Akademgorodok", are in the cities of Tomsk, Krasnoyarsk and Irkutsk. These sites are the centers of the newly developed IT industry, especially in that of Novosibirsk, nicknamed Silicon Taiga, and in Tomsk.
A number of Siberian-based companies extended their businesses of various consumer products to meta-regional and an All-Russian level. Various Siberian artists and industries, have created communities that are not centralized in Moscow anymore, like the [http://www.idea.ru Idea] (annual low-budged ads festival), [http://zkapitel.ru Golden Capital] (annual prize in architecture).
Until the completion of the Chita-Khabarovsk highway, the Transbaikalia was a dead end for automobile transport. While this recently constructed through road will at first benefit mostly the transit travel to and form the Pacific provinces, it will also boost settlement and industrial expansion in the scarsely populated regions of Zabaykalsky Krai and Amur Oblast.
Expansion of transportation networks will continue to define the directions of Siberian regional development. The next project to be carried out is the completion of the railroad branch to Yakutsk. Another large project, proposed already in the 19th century as a northern option for the Transsiberian railroad, is the Northern-Siberian Railroad between Nizhnevartovsk,
Belyi Yar, Lesosibirsk and Ust-Ilimsk. The Russian Railroads instead suggest an ambitious project of a railway to Magadan, Chukchi Penunsula and then the supposed Bering Strait Tunnel to Alaska.
While the Russians continue to migrate from the Siberian and
Far Eastern Federal Districts to Western Russia, the Siberian cities attract labour (legal or illegal) from the Central Asian republics and from China. While the natives are aware of the situation, in Western Russia myths about thousands and millions of Chinese living in the Transbaikalia and the Far East are widespread. [According to the 2002 Census, merely 34,500 residents of Russia (both Russian and foreign citizens) self-identified as ethnic Chinese, and about half of them lived in Western Russia (mostly Moscow). The census reported 30,600 Chinese citizens residing in Russia. In the opinion of some experts, this may be an undercount: e.g., Zhanna Zayonchkovskaya, the chief of the Population Migration Laboratory of the National Economic Forecasting Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences, estimated the total number of Chinese present in Russia at any given point (as resident or visitors) at about 400,000 persons, much smaller than ill-educated guess of 2 million given by Izvestiya. ( [http://www.strana-oz.ru/?numid=19&article=900 "МИГРАЦИЯ ВЫШЛА ИЗ ТЕНИ"] .На вопросы Виталия КУРЕННОГО отвечает заведующая лабораторией миграции населения Института народно-хозяйственного прогнозирования РАН Жанна ЗАЙОНЧКОВСКАЯ] , [http://www.strana-oz.ru/ "Otechestvennye Zapiski"] [http://www.strana-oz.ru/?ozid=19&oznumber=4 No. 4 (19), 2004] . ru icon)] Thus it is not uncommon in the Russian society, especially to the West of Urals, to be anxious about a supposed Chinese annexation of the South-East Siberia.
*Russian conquest of Siberia
*Ket people
*Age of Discovery
*Education in Siberia
*History of Vladivostok
* [http://www.zaimka.ru "Sibirskaya Zaimka"] — an internet journal of scientific publications on the Siberian history (in Russian, with a link to an online translated version)
* [http://www.cultinfo.ru/fulltext/1/001/007/093/93341.htm Siberia (Сибирь)] in Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary ru icon
* [http://www.suvenirograd.ru/sights.php?id=7&lang=2 Yermak Timofeyevich ]
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Hydriomena relictata är en fjärilsart som beskrevs av Zetterstedt 1838. Hydriomena relictata ingår i släktet Hydriomena och familjen mätare. Inga underarter finns listade i Catalogue of Life.

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We provided "Eolas" which is a bi-monthly group which is held in areas of The Western Isles in relaxed settings. We provided either afternoon tea or morning coffee sessions so carers could meet, relax and chat amongst each other.
Bi-monthly we provided afternoon tea or morning coffee in relaxed settings for carers, giving them the opportunity to meet other carers and relax. Hotels and restaurants on the 4 main islands were chosen, so venues could be accessible to as many carers as possible. Alternative care and transport could be funded to enable all carers the opportunity to attend.
We maintain a Register of Unpaid Carers so notified all carers on our database of the events and advertised on our Facebook, website and the local press. Occasionally, a carer would bring along the person they Cared For.
We encouraged Third Sector Partners providing alternative care, to promote the project with their clients who may not have been known to us. Events were hosted by staff employed via a separate project supporting unpaid carers. Both projects dove-tailed nicely and made good use of available resources.
Creative Breaks priority areas that we addressed were, choice and control, meeting other carers and sharing experiences and information, boosted carers confidence and resilience. Eolas provided a break from their caring role and the opportunity to relax. There was no format set –carers chose what they wanted to discuss.
Outreach, Eolas met at various locations so the group was accessible to carers living in rural areas. Providing alternative care, ensured carers unable to leave their cared for unattended, were able to attend. Joint-working, Eolas linked with another project we administer, maximising resources. Alternative care was purchased from Third Sector Organisations, which met the needs of the carers but also provided an additional source income for the care provider.
Requests for alternative care increased through time and regular attendees encouraged other carers in the community to join, which was very encouraging. Only aspect which did not go to plan was there were no requests for transport.
Through delivering this project we've learned, that we need to improve the way we advertise. Initially we were advertising sessions prior to them taking place, but in the future we will advertise all sessions together so carers can mark them on their calendars well in advance (in addition to prompts for each round of sessions).
Informing various partners of Eolas would be beneficial to perhaps reach carers not known to ourselves. We had no requests for transport, so in future, it would be more beneficial to replace this budget with advertising costs.
Creative Breaks funding has helped to strengthen our Organisation's reputation locally by providing an additional service for carers. It is also beneficial to us to quote this service when applying for funding elsewhere. Staff in the various venues where we meet are now aware of our existence, so our profile in the community will increase. Our staff are able to engage with carers in a relaxed setting which helps to strengthen their relationships. More importantly, providing this service is a small way of acknowledging the sterling work carers do and saying 'Thank you'.
It is anticipated that 88% of carers who attended will feel better supported, 85% will feel more relaxed and 73% will feel better able to cope.
60 carers will participate in Eolas over the 12 month period.
56 Carers attended Eolas which met six times at different locations in the Western Isles for 1.5 hours. There were 131 attendances in total. They were able to relax over afternoon tea and enjoy the company of other carers.
Carer B has looked after her mother, who is house-bound, for several years. She said without the respite cover we provide, she would not be able to attend Eolas and would be more isolated as a result. She really enjoys meeting up and discussing issues with other people, hearing different points of view. She finds the Group very informative and it makes a big difference. They also enjoy some laughs together. She has met new people through Eolas as well as old friends and gotten to know others in depth. She told us "It's good to get out and and forget your responsibilities for a while".
56 carers attended Eolas and carers have all enjoyed attending Eolas with some feeling this Group is an acknowledgement of their caring role and what it entails. They appreciate the relaxed settings we provide. Some Groups have had discussions about available services and where there has been conflicting reports received by the carers, staff have been able to go and clarify matters for them eg. residential respite allocations. One carer said, "I feel more relaxed and better able to cope after attending Eolas. I enjoy the social and emotional support we offer each other over an indulgent afternoon tea! I hear of events and available support. It really is "Peer Counselling " as we are all in similar situations. It is very helpful that this is led by a care worker from Western Isles Community Care Forum. I have come to the island to look after my father. I don't know a lot of people since I wasn't brought up here so I value the social interaction as I am isolated."
One carer who attends had until recently enjoyed a social life with her husband who has Parkinson's Disease. Now that his condition has deteriorated, the carer values attending Eolas, as they have reached the stage where they need additional support and are having difficulty coming to terms with this. They don't like asking for help and she has found Eolas is a good place to start out on this journey. She enjoys meeting and talking to other carers in a relaxed setting and realises that she does need time away from her caring role. When she returns home she is able to share local news with her husband, so he knows what is going on in the community. Eolas has helped her to realise that she is not alone.
"This time away helps me relax which makes my mum happier."


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Den 36:e Guldbaggegalan, som belönade svenska filmer från 2000, sändes från Cirkus, Stockholm den 5 februari 2001.

Vinnare och nominerade

Se även
 Oscarsgalan 2001
 Golden Globe-galan 2001

Externa länkar

 Guldbaggelistan på Svensk filmdatabas
 Guldbaggegalan 2001 på Internet Movie Database

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Filmåret 2001
2001 i Sverige
Stockholm under 2000-talet (decennium)


The top-3 seeds were sent packing yesterday at La Costa. Woods, Mickelson, and Duval are out, and their rivals, Australian Peter O'Malley, veteran John Cook and rookie Kevin Sutherland are now moving on to the second round. Those were THE upsets of the day. Players seeded #4 through #10 won their match but, overall, five of the top-15 are out.
"It was a no-lose situation for me", said O'Malley. His 2&1 victory over Tiger Woods had a dramatic finish on 17th. After losing 16th when Woods sank a 25-foot birdie putt to go 2-down, the 36-year-old Australian made a 30-foot birdie putt on the par-5 17th while Tiger had a 2-footer for birdie to possibly win the hole and extend the match to 18th. "The turning point was 15th", pointed out the 64th-ranked player. "I made a 15-foot for birdie and he had an 8-footer" (which he missed). Woods made only one birdie all day (16th) and was still in the match because O'Malley made a couple of bogeys on the front side and one on the back.
Sutherland birdied the last two holes in regulation to tie Duval, then won on the second extra hole.
John Cook stopped giving putts to Mickelson in the back nine, after the #2 seeded was making him putt all the two-footers. Mickelson lipped out a 2-footer on the par-3 11th to lose the hole. Downhill from there.
** Last three champions of this event are not around for the rest of the week: Maggert never even made the field, Clarke lost to Gogel (2&1), and Stricker lost to DiMarco (3&2).
** The field included 36 Americans and there were 14 matches where US players were facing non-US oponents. Eight matches were won by the US, while six were won by the "rest of the world".


New paper on corals and their symbionts - does it help to be picky? Enjoy the read!
Coral communities in the Red Sea thrive under large fluctuations of environmental conditions. Two dominant corals from the central Red Sea, Pocillopora verrucosa and Porites lutea, revealed differences in their potential for niche acclimatization in relation to the fidelity of the underlying coral-symbiont association. We suggest that the scleractinian host either associates with a specific Symbiodinium type with a broad physiological tolerance, or the host-symbiont pairing is more flexible to accommodate for different symbiont associations, each adapted to specific environmental settings.


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THE FIRST PAGE OF THE RED DWARF MOVIE SCRIPT?
Er, right. Apparently, "Official Craig Charles Merchandise" are selling this framed goodie selection, which includes a Charles-signed copy of what appears to be… the first page of the movie script.
Unfortunately, the accompanying photograph (see right) is TOO DAMNED SMALL AND BLURRY to read what it says. But if anyone either has superhuman computery enhanco-vision, or is willing to pay two hundred quid to have a look at it, then GET IN TOUCH. We can guess the first line of the script is probably "1. EXT – SPACE", but beyond that, we're stumped.
Tags: craig charles, movie
3rd July 2010, 11:18 by Seb Patrick 23 comments
23 Responses to THE FIRST PAGE OF THE RED DWARF MOVIE SCRIPT?
Ridley / July 3, 2010 at 2:23 pm / #
It's only £33.33 if the G&T staffers bought it together…
ori-STUDFARM / July 3, 2010 at 4:04 pm / #
You could do a timeshare thingy-me-bob with it!!
Squeaky Gibson / July 3, 2010 at 4:27 pm / #
Interesting, a very nice piece of history here. though how many of these does he have, wouldn't take second to that and then these could be run off at £200 a piece. I've known people who have brought movie scripts in the past for fraction of the price and that has been for a complete movie, not the firt sheet.
James / July 3, 2010 at 5:05 pm / #
Very pricey! Not one for the collection I think. Thing is how many Movie scripts have there been? More than one! I presume it's his lines in the script, not just some random page. I'm not 100% sure this is genuine to be honest. The only thing that isn't available, or could be made up is the polariod of him from Series 8. But the Propstore had most of the costume screen tests pictures. Second to this the signature on the supposed script doesn't look the same as the main picture, which he signed 100's of at Memorabilia. I'm sceptical!
Danny Stephenson / July 3, 2010 at 5:34 pm / #
Where does it say "Movie Script" on the ebay page, am I missing something? That could be any script page.
hummingbird / July 3, 2010 at 8:05 pm / #
Hmmm … following on from what James has said, as nobody (save a select few) actually know what was in the movie script, it would also be quite easy for anyone to knock up a few lines of dialogue and pass it off as a page from the script.
Plastic Percy / July 3, 2010 at 9:08 pm / #
If he auctions off his movie script at £200 a page then perhaps they'll be able to fund the movie with the proceeds.
Andrew / July 3, 2010 at 11:37 pm / #
Just to clarify, after contact with GNP: the seller in question is legit, the content and signatures are genuinely Craig's, but the item on offer is *no longer* a script page from the movie. As I'm sure some saw in the first place, it was listed that way initially, but the seller is changing the entry to remove that (text has changed already, lo-res pic will likely follow) and replace with non-movie content.
It's just an error of enthusiasm. As you might imagine, nobody wants the movie script released a page at a time over eBay – even signed in a nice frame!
performingmonkey / July 4, 2010 at 1:34 am / #
So what is…ah you know the rest…
Danny Stephenson / July 4, 2010 at 1:42 am / #
K: I've never seen one before, no-one has but I'm guessing it's an autographed First-day Cover, with polaroid of Craig Charles, as well as a signed copy of a script…
R: an autographed First-day Cover, with polaroid of Craig Charles, as well as a signed copy of a script?
K: Hmm, every action has an equal an opposite reaction. Ebay often has people buying items on it, but sometimes they sell them.
L: So is that thing spewing money, back into the Internet?
K: Precisely, that's why we're experiencing these curious fiscal phenomena online.
AAAAAAAARGGGGH MAKE IT STOP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
genericnerdyusername / July 4, 2010 at 1:45 pm / #
So what is it?
Only joking.
Seb Patrick / July 4, 2010 at 2:40 pm / #
So it's been changed? Blimey. Question is, was it changed before or after someone put in their £200 bid for it? Either way, I'm not sure changing the content of an eBay listing (whether there are existing bids on it or not) is in any way, shape or form in keeping with the site's regulations.
Phil / July 4, 2010 at 6:20 pm / #
Years ago ebay's rule was that you COULD alter your listing as many times as you liked, provided there were no bids on it.
That may have changed, but for a long time at least, they allowed it.
Jonsmad / July 4, 2010 at 7:38 pm / #
This script doesnt exsist here anymore. In fact it never exsisted here anymore in the past particple never sense.
It was changed before the bid, when I saw the page the text had clearly changed from what was reported here and there were no bids when I saw it.
So, the winner of the auction is Dan "pendo" Pendleton, sometime-of-this-parish. Who, according to his Twitter/formspring, added the item to his watch list when it was the movie script, then bid on it without seeing that it had changed. So is naturally a bit miffed.
And I think he's right to be – because even if the item page description changes, there are myriad ways to bid on an item (directly from the My eBay page, through an app such as for the iPhone, etc) that don't involve re-visiting said page. And I don't think many people would assume that the actual contents of a listing would change mid-auction. So personally, I think Dan's well within his rights not to stump up.
It's gonna make shifting these "used boxers" a bit easier…..they'll all think they're buying "used boxes" until I change the description!! Mwahahahahah!!
There's probably a bigger market for the former.
[Quagmire] 45 bucks [/quagmire]
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I'll believe it when I see it, the movie thing has become like the holy grail of Dwarf….still 2 new series…YYYEEEESSSS Red Dwarf has always been so much more a series than a movie format don't you think?
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Well, certainly going by % of content it's definitely geared towards television.
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We all know the movie will never happen……………
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Q: Is there an official explanation for why Charlie turns American in the Great Glass Elevator? The nationality of the title character in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is not, as far as I know, ever stated explicitly; however, the denominations of money that he uses seems to place him in the UK:

Under cover of the
  bedclothes, the old man opened the purse and tipped it upside down. Out fell a
  single silver sixpence. 'It's my secret hoard,' he whispered.

Then one afternoon, walking back home with the icy wind in his face (and
  incidentally feeling hungrier than he had ever felt before), his eye was caught
  suddenly by something silvery lying in the gutter, in the snow. Charlie stepped off
  the kerb and bent down to examine it. Part of it was buried under the snow, but he
  saw at once what it was.
It was a fifty-pence piece!

(emphasis mine)

Note that Charlie and the Chocolate Factory was published in 1971, the same year that the UK moved over to a decimal currency system.  Fifty pence pieces had been introduced in 1969, in anticipation of the change, explaining why they were in circulation at the same time as silver sixpences.  I believe that this gives further evidence that the story is set in Britain.
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator, the sequel, was published a year later (1972) in the US and two years later (1973) in the UK.  Dahl appears to have decided to appeal to the American audience, because Charlie and his whole family become American:

At that precise moment, Grandma Josephine poked her head out from under the sheets and peered over the edge of the bed. Through the glass floor she saw the entire continent of North America nearly two hundred miles below and looking no bigger than a bar of chocolate.

Of course, if they'd blasted off from Britain, she might still have seen that continent from space.  But later on, when Grandma Georgina becomes 358 years old, she seems to have lived most of her life in America:

The tiny sunken black eyes glimmered faintly and a sort of smile touched the corners of the almost invisible little slit of a mouth. 'There was a ship,' she said. 'I can remember a ship … I couldn't ever forget that ship …'
[...]
'THE MAYFLOWER!' cried Charlie.

Her other memories from her life have a distinctly American flavour:

Every second now she was growing slightly less and less shrivelled, becoming more and more lively. It was a marvellous thing to watch. 'Gettysburg!' she cried. 'General Lee is on the run!' And a few seconds later she let out a great wail of anguish and said, 'He's dead, he's dead, he's dead!' 'Who's dead?' said Mr Bucket, craning forward. 'Lincoln!' she wailed. 'There goes the train …'

As well as the following -- which is, not surprisingly, not present in the UK edition of the books:

We've beaten them! Yorktown's Surrendered! We've kicked them out, those dirty British!

My question is this: was there ever any explanation given, either by Dahl or by the publishers, for why Charlie changes nationality from one book to the next?  Was it ever commented on at all?

A: As the comments have suggested, Charlie (along with the other characters) was originally American, and remained so in the sequel.
This is because at the time, Dahl's books were more popular in the US and he was able to get Charlie and the Chocolate Factory published first in the US by Alfred A. Knopf in New York. It wasn't published in the UK until three years later by Allen & Unwin.[1]
Even Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator was published first in the US and a year later in the UK, by the same publishers.[3] The plot of the sequel clearly favors using American characters, at least for the astronauts, and once the astronauts and the President are introduced, the nationality of Charlie, his family, and Willy Wonka all pretty much have to be clarified.
According to Dominic Cheetham[2]:

...the only differences between the British and the American editions were the coins used in the story, and the word 'elevator' in the USA and 'lift' in Britain.

Sources:
[1] Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Wikipedia)
[2] Charlie and the Chocolate Factory; Versions and Changes
[3] Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator (Wikipedia)

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A Wedding Ceremony Takes the Shape of an Art Exhibition
In Baltimore, two artists have upended the traditional wedding, realizing it as a month-long gallery exhibition and queer performance series.
by Cara Ober October 26, 2017 October 27, 2017
Zachary Z. Handler and Nick Horan's wedding at Miami Is Nice at SpaceCamp, Baltimore (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic unless otherwise noted)
BALTIMORE — The global wedding market is a $300 billion industry where romance has been manipulated to such a high degree that getting married is often the most expensive endeavor of one's life, aside from buying a home. Although wedding traditions appear to be governed by an iron (or platinum) fist, it's shocking to realize that major retailers invented most of our customs — including the white dress, diamond ring, and gift registry — in the past 80 years. What is most alarming is how little Americans deviate from capitalist heteronormative wedding practices, despite the legalization of same-sex marriage in 2015, and how divisive weddings remain — for couples, extended families, and all who believe that love, not your gender or race, determines the right to marry.
Who better than artists to challenge and reclaim this oppressive system as a unique declaration of love? In Baltimore, two artists have upended the traditional wedding, realizing it as a month-long gallery exhibition and queer performance series. Miami is Nice, hosted at SpaceCamp, a cavernous artist-run gallery, features work by 45 artists from across the country and looks nothing like a traditional wedding, except for the cheesecake station, but manages to celebrate the aesthetics and values of grooms Zachary Z. Handler and Nick Horan in a variety of unique ways.
Installation view of Miami is Nice at SpaceCamp
After Handler, a photographer, and Horan, a dancer, got engaged, they made a decision to plan their wedding around The Golden Girls, an 80s sitcom featuring four feisty older women living together in Miami, who became queer icons for addressing serious political and social issues including the AIDS crisis, gay rights, female sexuality, and interracial marriage. In the end, Handler and Horan decided to curate a thematic exhibition as the setting for their union.
"I love you so much, let's make art together for the rest of our lives," Handler remembers saying when he proposed to Horan during a live dance performance at Artscape. "I had to rip the pantyhose off of his face and he said yes. And then we immediately began planning. We wanted to host our wedding in an art gallery — but what if we don't like the art? What if we curated our own show?"
"We wanted to create something that felt authentically like us, but that doesn't back away from our politics," agreed Horan, speaking in the gallery a week before the public opening reception. "It was a fun realization, the wedding traditions that could be subverted and destroyed, and then put back together by two gay men, especially in the age of Trump."
A glittery toilet seat designed by Diza Hope
Since Handler and Horan had little experience curating an exhibition or planning a series of public events, they partnered with Michelle Gomez, a contemporary curator who runs Creative Unions, an event planning company designed to integrate contemporary art into celebrations, and Carlyn Thomas, curator at Terrault Contemporary in Baltimore to plan all the details, including a national call for entry asking for gay-, Miami-, wedding-, and Golden Girls-inspired artwork.
The objects in Miami is Nice run the gamut from something you'd find in a traditional art gallery to home decor. Pink neon and gold glitter proliferates, with a glittery toilet seat designed by Diza Hope that makes even a trip to the loo a special event. A site-specific installation by Gary Godbey, Horan, and Handler features 400 copper Jell-O molds proliferating up a gallery wall and around a corner like a metallic tornado — an over-the-top declaration of domestic '80s bliss.
Some of the works riff on '80s abstraction, like Leah Guadagnoli's Frank Stella-meets-home goods terracotta relief sculptures, which connect pastel beach house décor with organic late 80s assemblage. Alex Ebstein's collaged yoga mats of flat Matisse-esque shapes of hot pink, teal, and white hint at Miami in the '80s, but also aestheticize current exercise culture. A neon-lined mirror sculpture by Esther Ruiz floats an oblong hot pink glow on the wall around it, offering an abstract window into an alternate universe where geometric principles govern.
Installation view of Miami is Nice at SpaceCamp (photo by Akea Brown)
A number of the works deal with gayness in the 80s and the difficult process of coming out, where living in the closet was required. Richard Manaba's digitally manipulated nude portraits in fleshy pink, suspended from the ceiling with silver chains, communicate the hidden-in-plain-sight sexuality of gay men at this time. In one of the most compelling works, Handler and Horan recreated the boudoir of Golden Girl Blanche Devareaux as a photobooth station, featuring the original wallpaper and bedspread. Next to the bed, jewelry by Anne Stringer is available to try on and wear in your photo. Adding to the retro feel of the bedroom, several brightly colored wall-mounted telephones with curly matching wires are available for a listen. The piece, titled "Trimline Confessions" by Tiffany Threadgould and Kat Tingum, features audio documentaries of Southern LGBTQI seniors sharing their coming out stories.
A recreation of the boudoir of Golden Girl Blanche Devareaux (photo by Pixilated Photo Booth)
The wedding altar was designed specifically for the grooms by Anya Mizani and is one of the most dramatic pieces in the show. Comprised of a human-sized pink neon rectangle, it's filled with large, faux tropical leaves in green and shiny gold. Not just an altar for the ceremony, this piece reinforces the dramatic spectacle of the wedding as a performance.
During the wedding ceremony, Kate Folson and Sarah Beth Oppenheim performed original choreography where two separate entities merge into one, borrowing moves from classical and nontraditional dance, with additional performances throughout the evening. Even the wedding vows were punctuated with interactive artwork. Each guest was given a print by Jimmy Malone to hold up, presenting a purple sea of the four Golden Girls' faces, a symbolic gesture of friends and family.
Jimmy Malone prints
Here, the art takes on an active role, used for various utilitarian purposes: touched, held, waved, worn, and, in the case of Blanche's bed, slept in by the grooms over the course of the month. While it's not unusual for contemporary artwork to be interactive, this exhibit challenges the boundaries of art for art's sake, transforming works of art into objects to be used for a functional purpose, building a connection between object and audience and breaking down boundaries between a curator's authority and a viewer's natural inclination to interact, transforming the art gallery into a nostalgic playground and LGBTQI safe space.
The ceremony, which was invite-only, was held a week after the exhibit's public opening reception, which garnered several hundred attendees. Days after the wedding, the couple also hosted a public "Cheesecake Conversation" with Golden Girls writer Stan Zimmerman and "Out on The Lanai: A Golden Girls Podcast" host H. Alan Scott. Finally, the closing reception, on October 28, will host an evening of "drag, poetry, music, dance, and community" with artists from Baltimore, Philadelphia, and Washington DC.
What's interesting about all of the different events embedded in Miami is Nice, including the opening, wedding, and additional programming, is their cohesion and diversity. This project makes you aware of just how much space exists within the contemporary wedding tradition to subvert, destroy, and rebuild what, for many humans, is the most sacred event of their lives.
Zachary Z. Handler and Nick Horan (photo by Kiirstn Pagan)
Regardless of whether married folks realize it, all weddings are a performance where rehearsal, props, makeup, and setting come together to communicate the values that will govern the rest of their lives. Placing contemporary visual art into the center of your wedding is not a universal solution to the problem of lame, overpriced hetero-normative weddings, but it cracks open a window that has been purposefully jammed shut, drawing an invigorating breath of fresh air into a stale institution in need of revival. Handler and Horan have, with the help of art, built a vision of a life worth living, and celebrated like it's 1989.
Miami is Nice continues at SpaceCamp (16 West North Avenue, Baltimore) through October 28.
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It's no secret that firefighters have a dangerous job.
While we want every responder to return home safely after a shift, sadly it doesn't always happen.
In the event of a sudden death, seriously injured firefighter or line of duty death, a fire chaplain provides both counseling to firefighters and other department members.
Fire chaplains are available 24/7, including weekends and holidays. (Photo/San Ramon Valley Fire)
Firefighters often help people on the worst day of their life. In the same way, fire chaplains provide a service to fire departments through the worst of times. And much like the fire service – fire chaplains are available 24/7, including weekends and holidays.
Here's an overview of what fire chaplains do and how you can become one.
1. What does a fire chaplain do?
A fire chaplain's job is not an easy one. Their main purpose is to help firefighters and fire department members in the event of an injured or killed firefighter. They're also available to personnel for grief counseling. They lend an ear for those who need to talk about something that is bothering them, such as physical or emotional stress. A fire chaplain's goal is to aid, comfort and help firefighters and their families, according to the Federation of Fire Chaplains.
2. Fire chaplains and religion
Fire chaplains, while bound in religious tradition, can also serve as non-denominational and non-sectarian in his or her chaplaincy. A fire chaplain will usually find out a firefighter's or family of a firefighter's religious preference and notify a nearby church.
3. Are fire chaplains paid?
Most fire chaplains are volunteers. However, some may be employed either part-time or full-time by a fire department or outside agency and receive compensation.
4. Who serves as a fire chaplain?
A fire chaplain can be appointed by his or her fire department and must be endorsed by their religious organization. In rural areas, a fire chaplain can be a local pastor who volunteers their time to help a fire department. There are also firefighters who have ministry experience that volunteer their time when off-duty to do chaplain work.
5. How to become a fire chaplain
Every department has different needs, depending on where you live. While a large department like Detroit Fire may have five fire chaplains, a volunteer fire department would most likely rely on area pastors for their fire chaplain needs. Reach out to your local department and set up a meeting to speak to the fire chief about their fire chaplain needs. Basic requirements to become a fire chaplain include five years of ministry experience, a clean criminal record and you must be ecclesiastically certified or endorsed by a recognized religious body. The selection process usually includes individual and panel interviews; background, fingerprint and reference checks are also part of the process.
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WSOP Global Casino Championship heads for Harrah's Cherokee Casino
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The World Series of Poker Circuit concludes its 14th season at Harrah's Cherokee Casino Resort in Cherokee, North Carolina, this August with the 2018 Global Casino Championship.
The three-day tournament is scheduled for 7-9 August 2018. This will be the fourth consecutive year Harrah's Cherokee will play host to the prestigious season-ending event. The tournament will feature a minimum $1 million guaranteed prize pool and award the winner a WSOP gold bracelet.
The Global Casino Championship (previously known as the National Championship) is set to take place in the middle of the Harrah's Cherokee August Circuit series, which officially kicks off the 2018-19 WSOP Circuit season. The series is scheduled to start Thursday, 2 August and run through Monday, 13 August. The series will feature a $1,675 Main Event and a High Roller tournament.
The Global Casino Championship is the culminating event to the 2017-2018 Circuit season. It will include up to 128 automatic qualifiers. Of the potential 128 automatic qualifiers, up to 102 players will have qualified on the domestic tour and up to 26 on the International tour.
"Harrah's Cherokee is excited to continue to be a part of this summer tradition," said Regional Vice President and General Manager Brooks Robinson. "The Global Casino Championship is a truly special event for us to welcome players from around the country as well as from around the world!"
For both the domestic and International WSOP Circuit, the Main Event winner at each stop of the 2017-2018 season receives a free entry, as does the Casino Champion at each stop. In addition, the top 50 players on the seasonlong leader board for the domestic WSOP Circuit earn an automatic entry. Last season, the bubble for earning a season-long automatic entry was 147.5 points. It is expected to be higher this season since there are four more stops on the domestic Circuit than last season.
The standings of the season-long point's race can be found on the Circuit leaderboard.


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Lebanon's commemorations serve multiple purposes. History and memory in Lebanon are deeply contested and highly politicized.
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