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MEGAcquire Enhancements
Vintage ACQUIRE Games
Acquire Enhancements
Acquire Game Parts
Welcome to ACQUISITION Games. The 500 MEGAcquire games have become history with thousands of true ACQUIRE fans being able to experience the excitement of an expanded and enhanced game experience. The ACQUISITION Games website is still your source for Vintage ACQUIRE game parts and Vintage ACQUIRE Games and enhancements. After two attempts to reproduce MEGAcquire in the form of MEGAcquisitions, it has been decided to change direction and produce the game of ACQUISITIONS. It will be an exciting new adventure for the ACQUIRE fan.
Welcome to Acquisition Games!
The Acquisition Games website is derived from my long desire to promote and enhance the Sid Sackson game of ACQUIRE.
I played my first game of ACQUIRE in 1979. I thought the game was skewed towards one player as I sat through the whole game with no money and no general input into the outcome of the game. I liked the overall concept of the game of ACQUIRE but I thought it could offer so much more.
I formulated some rule changes to help bring the game back into the reality of corporate America and to help the game become "new player friendly." I figured that the more friends I could attract to the game, the more times I could play. The changes also helped to make the game undecided until the final count of money. That aspect allowed every player to stay involved in the game until the end.
I developed a lot of other ideas for the game of ACQUIRE but decided to keep them to myself for many years. In 2006, my older sister convinced me to make my rules available to everybody. That began a journey that has brought me to this website.
For ten years I have surrounded my life with advancing the game of ACQUIRE. The Acquisition Games Website offers my ideas and research to anyone who is interested. I find far too many 40 to 50 year old ACQUIRE games that are never played. The goal of this website is to add something to the experience of playing the game of ACQUIRE so to hopefully get these games played many times. The goal is also to attract as many people to this fantastic game as possible and to help it fulfill its rightful position as the best board game ever. The hope is that you would share this website with others to help them find the true enjoyment of the game of ACQUIRE.
This website will also allow you to fix your vintage ACQUIRE game if it is missing pieces. Though these games have been long forgotten by the corporate giants who created them, you can still fix your game on the Acquisition Games website which will allow you to enjoy playing it for years to come. We also offer enhancements for the game of ACQUIRE, Including Lloyd's Rules of ACQUIRE, which will allow you to expand your experience with the game.
I created an expansion of ACQUIRE in 2012 in the form of MEGAcquire. I was only able to produce 500 games but that at least allowed many thousands of people to enjoy the experience of a larger and enhanced version of ACQUIRE. The Hasbro Corp. asked me to change the name so I tried to produce the game twice again under the name of MEGAcquisitions but was unsuccessful.
I have since decided to downsize my game and call it Acquisitions. I have begun the process to develop a new overall theme to the game. It has become time to move away from the Hotel/Corporation theme. There will be an interestingly reconfigured board with 120 hexagon spaces and I have also added a twist to the strategy of acquiring holdings in the entities on the board. The ideas have been sent to my game designer and I will post updates to the website as they become available.
I appreciate your interest in the Acquisition Games website and I hope it will be helpful.
~ Lloyd Solon
The Game of MEGAcquire
The Game of ACQUISITIONS
Lloyd's Rules of ACQUIRE
MEGAcquire Featured in Spielbox Magazine
History of ACQUIRE
The Origin of the Game of ACQUIRE
The 3M Era
The Avalon Hill Era
The Hasbro Era
2016 Hasbro Game of ACQUIRE
German Versions of ACQUIRE
Other International Versions
ACQUIRE '97 (The Holy Grail of ACQUIRE)
The MEGAcquire Era
The History of Acquire
The Acquisition Games website offers a multitude of information concerning the game of ACQUIRE. You will find a complete history of the game that is made up of separate pages for each era of the game.
There are the beginning stages of the 3M Era, followed by the next stage that is the Avalon Hill Era, and finally, the current stage that is the Hasbro Era.
You will also find pages about the international editions of ACQUIRE, which is very popular in Germany. There is a separate page about the German versions, as well as a special page with information on ACQUIRE '97, also known as the "Holy Grail of ACQUIRE."
Playing MEGAcquire
The Inventor of Acquire
Sid Sackson
Sid Sackson, the creator of ACQUIRE, was obsessed with improving on games he had received from his mother. When he was a young boy, he would receive a new game from her every week. He took a game called, Lotto, and turned it into a solitaire game of empires. Subsequently, he took the solitaire game of Lotto that he had created, and turned it into a multi-player game he called, Vacation - The Game of Hotels, which was purchased by the 3M company who changed the name to ACQUIRE.
Sackson understood that his inspirations for designing a game were simplistic; he would just build upon things that he found interesting. His friend, Derek Carver of England, told me, "If he saw a design of somebody else's that embodied interesting ideas that he thought he might use, out would come his notebook, and the details would be recorded."
Sackson considered ACQUIRE his best and most successful creation, and through the work of the Acquisition Games website, I am proudly promoting the game of ACQUIRE while carrying on his tradition by simply building on his best creation and making the results available for anybody who is interested.
I offer replacement parts for vintage ACQUIRE games so you can fix your old game and continue to enjoy many more years of your treasured classic. I have developed enhancements for the game of ACQUIRE, including the largest variant of them all, the game of MEGAcquire. I am attempting to take the game of ACQUIRE to levels that add intrigue for the longtime ACQUIRE fan, while at the same time, broadening their game experience.
While working towards this goal, the most astonishing fact I learned was that the game of ACQUIRE, (actually Vacation,) was played differently in its original form. By creating the 1963 World Map Conversion Kit, I can offer players the ability to recreate those original Sid Sackson rules, before they were drastically altered by the 3M company, within their own edition of ACQUIRE, whether you own a 3M, Avalon Hill or 1999 Hasbro edition. The 1963 World Map Conversion Kit is also available for the game of MEGAcquire.
The Special Powers Variants appeared in the 1993 Schmidt Spiel German edition, and then were subsequently used in the 1995 Avalon Hill edition. I have created a Special Powers Variants Kit that can be used in all versions of ACQUIRE.
The Wild Tile was an idea envisioned by Allan Wright of New Hampshire. I used his idea and created the Wild Tile Kit. It is a variant of the game of ACQUIRE that allows each player to have one blank tile that they can play any time during the game when it is their turn. It guarantees that each player will have that one "perfect" peg. The Wild Tile Kit is available to fit the 3M wood tile edition, both the 3M and Avalon Hill plastic tile editions, and the 1999 Hasbro edition of ACQUIRE. This kit is also available for the game of MEGAcquire.
Acquire Kits
1963 World Map Conversion Kit
Special Powers Variant Kit
Wild Tile Kit
2012 MEGAcquire
MEGAcquire is an exciting journey of strategy and luck through the corporate world. Live in the world of fun and fortune as you maneuver to outwit your opponents. Build and merge companies while shrewdly buying, trading, and selling stocks to become the wealthiest player. It was inspired by the Sid Sackson game of ACQUIRE and is designed to extend the experience of a treasured keepsake, while at the same time creating an atmosphere of competition that is undecided until the end.
The game of MEGAcquire was created because I always envisioned a larger game of ACQUIRE, and I wanted it to be manufactured in a nice factory form instead of a hand-created version. I envisioned an ACQUIRE game that had more options, lasted longer, and made it more difficult to keep track of who was invested in what. With the help of Michael and Lisa Spahitz of Board Game Manufacturing, MEGAcquire became a reality.
NOTE: The game of ACQUISITIONS is currently in the design stage. We are hoping to have the game available on a Kickstarter project by the summer of 2019. If you are interested in obtaining a copy when it becomes available, you can activate the "Follow Creator" button on Kickstarter and you will be alerted as soon as the project is launched. The "Follow Creator" button will appear only after you are signed in. It will be located under my name near the top left hand side of the page. You can sign in using Facebook or create a free Kickstarter account.
ACQUISITIONS is a game inspired by the game of ACQUIRE. It is a game that is directed towards building a Kingdom of wealth. Long ago, in distant times, Kingdoms were sometimes won and lost by mighty armies. Battles were waged to gain the lands and treasures held within the Kingdom under siege. Yet always behind these mighty armies were the Kings and Queens with their vaults of gold, silver, and bronze. Wealth has always driven the ownership of land. Kingdoms were always built on wealth.


We were hired for a belated Christmas Party for some kind of computer company in a posh hotel in Bournemouth. I thought it was a bit weird to celebrate Crimbo after it's time, but the guests were determined to enjoy themselves none the less. Myself and Norman took up our normal duties of standing by the main entrance to the venue of the party and beside our trusty metal detector. If we had been given 5p every time we were asked why we felt our presence was required for this party, Norman and I would have had enough money to have shared a regular sized mars bar on the way home. Our non-existence at a party of this nature does not bare thinking about and would certainly not have been the same! Before any of the party-goers were allowed to take to their tables, I had to ensure that their safety would be paramount. Therefore whilst Norm kept visual on the crowd, I used the one million candle power touch to check under the meal tables. It was not a wasted exercise. I found on the floor one small potato (obviously used as some kind of weapon of distraction from a previous event in the hotel). I made it clear to the guests that it could have all ended in tears if I had not come across the spud and someone had fallen over and then the person being accused of being too drunk when it may not have been the case. I think you get my drift? Our OTT approach may seem exactly that. However I have a new motto of which I used on the evening and will continue to do so in the future. 'Be careful'.


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The Norman motte at Shackerstone. Layers of history here!
By mid-August Pea Green was turned around, having reached the end of the Ashby, and bobbing back along the canal towards Sutton Wharf and the Bosworth Battlefield Heritage Centre. First stop on my return journey was Shackerstone. There, I moored up for the night opposite a marvellous tree-topped motte. Instead of inspecting the remnants of a Norman castle I left the canal for another piece of transport heritage – the Battlefield Line. A volunteer run trainline whose steam engines chug through the Leicestershire countryside.
I had arranged to meet a friend at the station, so meandered up the towpath to the red brick Victorian station. With my platform ticket in hand I emerged from the ticket office, with its heavy ancient sofa and period posters, onto the platform. It all looked, and sounded, a bit 'Brief Encounter' and as a puffing train pulled in I half expected Trevor Howard to appear with an handkerchief in hand to remove the soot from my eye. I was all ready with my best clipped RP voice to respond. Strangely though, he didn't appear.
After ogling the steam train – what is the railway equivalent to the canal stare of gongoozling? My friend and I headed to the café for lunch. Every ledge, shelf and fireplace was full of fabulous old stuff – including some huge Brown Betty teapots – the café truly looked the part. ( Personally, I could do with acquiring some of those whopper teapots for painting!) The food too, also had a distinctly retro feel, which I don't think was intended. In retrospect I should have stuck to admiring the teapots.
Steam train arriving. Shackerstone Battlefield Line.
My jacket potato arrived with a blob of margarine, a side 'salad' and a packet of salad cream. I looked aghast at the plate and quickly scooped off the marg before it could do any more damage. The salad consisted of sad lettuce – and my personal dislike -cucumber. The only saving grace was that the salad cream was in a packet. I am still staggered that food places in the UK buy salad cream, let alone try and serve it to unsuspecting paying customers. Some things should be relegated to the memory of the 1970s! My friend didn't fair much better. She anticipated hot, homemade soup, but instead was served tepid Heinz tomato accompanied by a cold bread roll.
We had planned to return for cake later in the day, but decided to give it a miss. Watching the fabulous steam trains did make up for some exemplary bad British food. Let me know if you have better food experiences there – perhaps we just ordered the wrong thing?
Towards Sutton Wharf, Pea Green trundles down the cut.
Next day I headed to Sutton Wharf. Sutton Wharf was a top choice for mooring, combining history, a trading spot and SHOWERS! I moored on a lovely quiet pontoon with a couple of other boats – separated from the nearby footpath by lots of plants. The only challenge were the mooring rings, handily spaced to be of no use to a 32ft boat. I ended up with my stern line threaded between the pontoon planks to tie up. Once moored I did a recky of the showers.
I should say I do have a shower onboard Pea Green, though it was a later addition. The shower tray is hidden under a hinged lid in the middle of the boat corridor. To have a shower the loo doors have to be fully opened up to create a cubicle across the boat. The shower curtain is then hung from hooks in the ceiling.
Having found the Sutton Wharf showers I returned armed with shower equipment including flip-flops – OCD foot infection fear means always wearing shoes in showers I don't clean myself and are shared. The wharf has two showers both located in large disabled toilets. Having precariously balanced my bag, clothes and towel on the extended door handle (why do these places never have hooks?) I eagerly pressed the shower button and turned up the heat. I stood there looking at the showerhead and nothing happened. Bugger. I looked around the room and couldn't see any other way to turn on the shower.
Not to be beaten I dragged on some clothes and headed to the shower next door. There I went through the same routine and again there was no water -AHgghghghghgghgh. Now I felt that my most marvellous shower plans had been truly thwarted. I had been so excited about being able to shave my legs, but this too appeared not to be happening.
Once more I dragged on my clothes and headed into the Sutton Wharf café. I really hadn't expected they would be able to help, but patiently waited as people ordered large slabs of cake and then enquired about shower operation. The kind woman behind the counter came out, left her apron behind and began pushing buttons and turning knobs. Then we cracked it – someone had turned off the emergency power switch to the shower. I pulled it on and water began to flow. Hurray! It was the best shower and even Monte commented on how clean and shiny I looked back on Pea Green and how my legs no longer resembled his ginger furry ones.
The other exciting part of Sutton Wharf was re-visiting Bosworth Battlefield Heritage Centre. The last time I was there was 1981. My enduring memory from that first visit is of a muddy field and an exhibition in a portacabin. I might, however have confused the loos with the exhibition in my wobbly memories! I was, after all, only 11 at the time. Since then much has changed. The location of the battlefield has been challenged and reassessed, a thought provoking memorial has been erected and a new state of the art museum has been created. All the things I like best – an authentic historical site, a memorial and a museum; lots of bits and pieces to critique, taking me back to the working world I used to inhabit.
Memorial for a battle. An sundial in the centre marks time passing.
From my mooring at Sutton Wharf it is a short walk through Ambion Wood up a hill to the Heritage Centre. What I really liked is the way the centre weaves together historical research with heritage/tourist needs. As well as the exhibits the story of the Battle is told through video instalments from four characters – two male and two female – one being a child. I loved the fact that the first videos tell you the characters are speaking in modern English as we would struggle to understand the Medieval English or French they would have spoken in 1485. This nod to historical authenticity set the tone and immediately raised questions for the viewer. And of course I was more than delighted to see women's voices alongside the men. A difficult task when so little evidence of female medieval life survives and when the focus is a male dominated battlefield.
I often struggle with war related museum sites. All too often war is glorified or made into a grisly chamber of horrors that forgets the men who wielded the weapons. Often the wives, daughters, mothers and sisters are totally ignored. The impact of war on the female population, who may have been left behind is forgotten.
I find historical battle re-enactments particularly troubling. I realise these pull in huge crowds to heritage sites, but for me re-enacting war which causes pain and death seems wrong. (Especially troubling are those men who choose to stride around in Nazi SS uniforms. I know they were originally Hugo Boss designs, but why would you want to dress as a genocidaire?) The Bosworth centre does its best to remove any glamorisation of warfare, and reflects the brutality of Medieval hand-to-hand combat. It also makes us question what happened to the families of the dead and wounded.
The most fascinating artefact, to me, was a tiny a 2.9cm silver boar badge. The boar, although in miniature can clearly be made out, with a tiny curly tail and stubby nose horns. I had already seen the white boar, Richard III's personal emblem, on the street signs in Market Bosworth. These badges would have been worn by Richard's closest supporters and knights. The one displayed was found in the mud in 2009. This was 524 years after it had fallen off the clothes of one of Richard's followers in the midst of battle.
Incredible on lots of levels – firstly amazing that it was found. Secondly, this tiny item may help pinpoint the location of Richard III's death. As with any good history so many questions emerge. I can't help but wonder about the craftsman who made it, and the man who wore it. Did he survive the battle? If he did, was he annoyed at losing this symbol of his loyalty? Who were his family? Questions we will never know the answers to.
The final part of the exhibition is given over to the research and re-assessment of where the battle actually took place. All too often museum history is presented as a static 'this is how it is'. The battlefield centre has rightly realised that the historiography of the site is as important as representing the battle itself. I wish more museums could find the space and the money to do this. Though I did feel a bit miffed that the muddy field I tramped through as an 11 year old, on my first secondary school trip, was just a muddy field and not the site of the battle. Is it too late to get my money back? All in all a centre and memorial that is well worth a visit, and I might even make the effort to get back there and re-visit in the coming year.
My second day at Sutton Wharf was spent trading. I moved my boat onto a 24 hour mooring closer to the café (and the showers!) and set up shop. It was a good day of trading, helped by the sunshine, and I met some lovely people. A good mix of boaters, walkers and drive-in café goers. Also, it was great to share the space with CRT's fundraiser Julie Lockett who was working hard to engage passers-by with the work of CRT, which non-boaters enjoy for free.
As well as human company Sutton Wharf is also home to a flock of laughing ducks. They are clearly casing the joint and working out who, amongst the café goers, is going to share their food. They also seemed to be laughing hysterically every time a boat tried to moor in-front of the café. Usually just as the boat pulled in, dealing with the café patron audience, someone would run out of the café and tell the helmsperson they couldn't moor there. This created great mirth amongst the ducks.


This Companion contains 25 original essays by writers and scholars who present an expert assessment of the best and most important work to date on the complex history of Los Angeles.
William Deverell is Professor of History at the University of Southern California and Director of the Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West. He is a historian of the nineteenth- and twentieth-century American West. His recent publications include A Companion to California History (co-editor, Wiley-Blackwell, 2008), Whitewashed Adobe: The Rise of Los Angeles and the Remaking of Its Mexican Past (2004), and A Companion to the American West (editor, Wiley-Blackwell, 2004). He has also co-edited Land of Sunshine: An Environmental History of Metropolitan Los Angeles (2005), Metropolis in the Making: Los Angeles in the 1920s (2001), and The West in the History of the Nation (2000).
Greg Hise is Professor of History at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He studies the economies, architecture, and planning of United States cities. He is the author of Magnetic Los Angeles: Planning the Twentieth-Century Metropolis (1997), co-author of Eden by Design: The 1930 Olmsted-Bartholomew Plan for the Los Angeles Region (2000), and co-editor of Land of Sunshine: An Environmental History of Metropolitan Los Angeles (2005), and Rethinking Los Angeles (1996).


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FOR HOW MANY EONS have humans looked to the firmaments—for dreaming, for communion with the departed—while they were really looking within? A third of the way through Weathering with You (2019), a film of remarkable beauty by anime auteur Makoto Shinkai, we're gliding through Tokyo's Jingu Gaien Fireworks Festival—each CGI explosion sprinkling twinkling lights like pixie dust over a lambent and lifelike Tokyo. The film's two teenaged leads, runaway Hodaka (Kotaro Daigo) and orphan Hina (Nana Mori), are in love. "The way the sky looks can move you so much," Hodaka says.
The night is so clear
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UNTIL VERY RECENTLY, the 1991 film L.A. Story was hands-down the best satire of Los Angeles as told from the perspective of a man experiencing a possible psychotic break. Harris K. Telemacher—a TV meteorologist played by Steve Martin—is an "egghead" who loves Shakespeare, but finds himself drowning in a sea of Angelenos who get furious in traffic, love colonics, drink "decaf double half-caf with lemon," and remain incapable of enjoying culture unless it happens to be the probiotic kind. He has one love interest with the unbelievably dumb name SanDeE*, who is into hippy-dippy woo-woo nonsense
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FEW DOCUMENTARY FILMMAKERS have been as consistently preoccupied with the fate of the planet as Austrian producer, director, writer, and cinematographer Nikolaus Geyrhalter. One wonders, in fact, why it took him so long—nearly a dozen films—before hitting upon the title "Earth." Like his previous documentaries, Erde has screened at multiple film festivals and comes trailing awards: the 2019 prize of the Ecumenical Berlinale Forum, Best Green Dox at Dokufest Prizren, and even a special award for "Best Film on the Topic of Soil" at Innsbruck's Nature Festival. Judging from the topical narrowness
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GRETA GERWIG'S GREAT SUBJECT is the twilight of girlhood. She has become something like the patron saint of girls on the precipice, or, as Britney Spears put it twenty years ago, not-girls-not-yet-women. Her heroines, sharp and tender, find themselves caught between their past and future selves; they are consumed by the task of reconciling youthful hope with present realities, slouching toward some kind of self-actualization and away from adolescence, real or protracted.
In Frances Ha (2012) and Mistress America (2015), both cowritten by Gerwig, she plays an adrift twentysomething struggling to
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December 12, 2019 • Nick Pinkerton on Josh and Benny Safdie's Uncut Gems (2019)
THE FILMS OF JOSH AND BENNY SAFDIE move at a hotfoot thinking-on-your-feet pace, built around fraught and frantic protagonists who can see no further than the next contingency, the next corner of the personal maze that they're negotiating. Compulsive and often reckless behavior is a throughline in the Safdies's filmography; from 2008's The Pleasure of Being Robbed—concerning the misadventures of a female kleptomaniac—onward, they've dealt in men and women working desperately to stay one step ahead of consequences. More recently, they've centered films on a lovelorn teenaged heroin addict (2014's
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A TRUE "HOTHOUSE FILM," Little Joe opens with a fluid overhead shot from a rotating surveillance cam, circling rows of genetically modified plants. They're the creation of workaholic geneticist Alice Woodard (Emily Beecham) and her team of plant breeders: a purported "happiness" flower whose scent releases a precursor to oxytocin, the hormone that facilitates bonding between mother and child. Alice's smitten associate Chris (Ben Whishaw) makes this artificial attachment sound warm and gushy: "What this plant really needs is love."
In return, the flower, which Alice names Little Joe after her son,
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JOAN OF ARC (Bruno Dumont)
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HONEYLAND (Ljubomir Stefanov and Tamara Kotevska)
Hatidze Muratova, likely the last female wild-honey gatherer in Europe, is the charismatic hero of this observational documentary in which an almost-abandoned stone village in Macedonia becomes the scene of a battle between sustainable environmental measures and earth-destroying capitalist greed and stupidity.
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LUC TUYMANS (Palazzo Grassi, Venice) and THE WHITE ALBUM (Arthur Jafa)
Tuymans's glorious retrospective of paintings dense with references to the cinematic and Jafa's justly consecrated video in the Arsenale provided the high points of this year's Venice Biennale.
VITALINA VARELA (Pedro Costa)
Darkness visible. Abandoned by her husband's death, the eponymous Cape Verdean woman, who returns from
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Speaking on state-owned enterprises (SOEs), which were paralysed by, among other things, mismanagement and looting, President Cyril Ramaphosa said they are increasingly becoming a liability to taxpayers than ever before. He said, as if that is not enough, the government is now faced with a new challenge of arresting the disruptive effects of Covid-19 outbreak to the economy and its growing financial burden.
He said the Presidential State-Owned Enterprises Council has outlined a clear set of reforms that will enable the SOEs to fulfil their mandate for growth and development.
He said overarching legislation for SOEs will be tabled in Cabinet this financial year and in Parliament in the next financial year. He added that a centralised SOEs model is being implemented this financial year, which will ensure a standardised governance, financial management and operational performance framework for all SOEs.
In response to the increasing graft at SOEs, he said the new legislation is aimed at restoring the socio-economic mandate of the SOEs which was, over the years, eroded by incompetency and gross mismanagement. In addition to that, he said: "A centralised SOEs model is being implemented this financial year, which will ensure a standardised governance, financial management and operational performance framework for all SOEs to ensure that they are responsive to the country's needs and the implementation of the National Development Plan."
Turning to Eskom, President Ramaphosa assured the nation that hard work is being done to turn the fortunes of the utility around to ensure that its intermittent load shedding does not impact negatively on the economy as is the case now. Part of its turnaround strategy hinges on its restructuring process which seeks to ensure that generation, distribution and transmission operate as independent legal entities. This will be coupled with the addition of renewable energy sources and independent energy producers to the national grid.
He said these are pronouncements that form part of the broader structural economic reforms aimed at propelling high economic growth rates and employment. A commitment that is championed by Operation Vulindlela, which draws critical skills and resources from both the National Treasury and the President's office. The President conceded that "these reforms are necessary to reduce costs and barriers to entry, increase competition, stimulate new investment and create space for new entrants in the market".
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RE: [xmca] Living metaphor and conventionalized language
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I hope you won't mind if I reply to just one little corner of your very eloquent message (I have not been able to keep pace with recent discussions).
I am particularly interested in very early communication which, I think, has much more of the 'meaty sensuousness' about it - not yet pared and polished to the clear austerity of a sign system. It occurred to me that 'internalised' verbal thought 'usually' involves a considerable degree of paring and polishing - we perhaps learn to think with concepts rather than simply to 'relive' relational experiences in all their meaty sensuousness. I wondered, then, whether the fairly widespread incidence of 'imaginary friends' might be understood, at least to some extent, in terms of an early reluctance to forego the relational richness of interpersonal communication as this comes to be 'internalised'. The feeling of relating to another person is importantly different from the feeling of 'having a thought' and may, at many levels, feel more satisfying. This could lead on to echoes of Julian Jayne's argument about the relative recency of our 'ability' to recognise thoughts as internal 'products' of our own minds (how much our minds are indeed our own is the question here!) but also into dangerous territory where our preferred imaginary friend is omnipotent.
Being 'in' relation with another person is an altogether richer, more complicated and sensually elaborate experience even than remembering or thinking about being with someone and I think a lot of the yearning of poetry relates to this sense of the gates of perception being clouded by knowledge - once you have tasted the forbidden fruit there is no going back (or at least no easy going back - some people devote their lives to contemplation, meditation, prayer and other ways of trying to still the distracting ruckus of 'roof-brain chatter'.
From: xmca-bounces@weber.ucsd.edu [xmca-bounces@weber.ucsd.edu] On Behalf Of David Kellogg [vaughndogblack@yahoo.com]
Sent: 10 August 2011 16:27
To: Culture ActivityeXtended Mind
Did I use the word "system"? I suppose I did. What I really mean is what Halliday calls "meaning potential", the way that a traffic light can potentially be red or yellow or green. It is what we might call leaving things that we could say unsaid.
I guess I think of a system as being just a set of options, you know, like a traffic light, or a dictionary entry or the system of tense or negation. It's the semiotic resources that Mommy and Daddy provide you with, the set of metaphors that have already been made with the language, what Vygotsky calls signification.
One of the key unresolved problems in CHAT (which you can see, for example, in the way Ratner disagrees with Wertsch, and even in the early disagreements between Vygotsky and Leontiev over "activity" and "semiosis") is how culture gets "in": is it "internalized" or is it "appropriated"? Is it somehow co-constructed, by the individual on the one hand and the society on the other?
Of course, BOTH "internalization" and "appropriation" are metaphors. I don't flee from the "internalization" metaphor the way that Martin does, partly because I think of it as referring not to a body but as to a nation, a country, a city, a community, a family...or some particle thereof. In this sense (a sense which I suppose is better captured by "interiorization" than by "internalization", just as "reflection" is better captured by "refraction") there is no duality; when you move from one nation to another you do not change worlds, nor do you change nations when you move from one city to another.
But I do have a problem--I think that we can't just get culture into the picture by referring to cultural artefacts like signs and tools. The map is not the territory, and human relations are not, in essence, about signs and tools; they are about flesh and blood other people. It is here that I think distinguishing between meaning potential in a cultural artefact and the actual meaning making that goes on between flesh and blood persons is important, not least because BOTH of them develop and develop each other in a way that's not really explicable by just looking at the artefacts themselves.
Consider, for example, the dictionary as a cultural artefact. You know, in the eighteenth century, dictionaries were a little like Bartlett's today. They did contain definitions for the really thick-skulled (there was a newly literate middle class that had to have everything spelled out) but the definitions were sometimes rather whimsical (e.g. "pensioner: a man whose flattery is repaid with insolence") and the main thing people read them for was the learned quotations and snappy put-downs that were provided as examples (hence Johnson's dictionary and of course the "Devil's Dictionary" of Ambrose Bierce).
So the function of a dictionary was not to systematize the language but rather to provide resources for sense. It was to make you sound witty and creative and original in the chocolate houses. I suppose it must have been rather annoying that dictionaries were so widely read, because it meant that many people in your chocolate house would know the joke before you told it, or, heaven forfend, try to tell the same joke themselves.But of course dictionaries WERE widely read, and they became guides to meaning potential rather than a set of instances of actual wit.
In the late twentieth century, though, the pendulum began to swing the other way, because CoBuild and other dictionaries began to inspect computer corpora of actual uses, and they discovered (for example) that it is much more common to say, metaphorically, that you "run a business" than concretely, that you run a hundred yards on your own two feet. To me, though, all that means is that the new systemic "meaning potential" has to start with running a business, and that what I did this morning for exercise was a kind of metaphorical extension of running a business to my muscles and achilles tendons.
There is a good poem about the relationship between meaning potential and actual meaning by Cecil Day-Lewis. It's metaphorical, of course! He begins by defining a sign for us, and pointing out that a tree is a sign too (because it stands for itself, or if you want to be physiological about it, it produces an image on our retina which is interpreted by our brains as a tree.) But it's a sign without a system, without much unrealized meaning potential.
This tree outside my window here,
Naked, umbrageous, fresh or sere,
Has neither chance nor will to be
Anything but a linden tree,
Even if its branches grew to span
The continent; for nature's plan
Insists that infinite extension
Shall create no new dimension.
>From the first snuggling of the seed
In earth, a branchy form's decreed.
You have to admit the Creator was original. He was certainly forceful in his creativity. But rather limited, when you look at it; in His later career He kept repeating Himself with only minor variations, and most of what was new was not very good. Human creativity is a different matter!.
Unwritten poems loom as if
They'd cover the whole of earthly life.
But each one, growing, learns to trim its
Impulse and meaning to the limits
Roughed out by me, then modified
In its own truth's expanding light.
A poem, settling to its form,
Finds there's no jailer, but a norm
Of conduct, and a fitting sphere
Which stops it wandering everywhere.
Human creativity, unlike nature, is an embarrassment of riches; we need rhyme (which you notice Day-Lewis adheres to quite rigorously) and meter to keep us honest. As Adorno says, the bourgeoisie would like life to be austere and art voluptuous, but we would really be much better off with things the other way around: life full of actual meaning, and art full of things left unsaid.
Now here Day-Lewis notes that there is a third thing--and it is the thing that Bakhtin wrote almost exclusively about, something that is neither system of meaning nor instance of meaning making, something that is neither signification nor purely individual sense: it is human relationships in all their complex, meaty sensuousness.
Are interpersonal relations more like intra-personal relations or are they more like societal relations? Are they more intra-psychological or more trans-psychological? Are more things to be left said or unsaid? Half said?
Are these going to be austere or voluptuous? Will they depend on potential or upon realization?
As for you, my love, it's harder,
Though neither prisoner nor warder,
Not to desire you both: for love
Illudes us we can lightly move
Into a new dimension, where
The bounds of being disappear
And we make one impassioned cell.
So wanting to be all in all
Each for each, a man and a woman
Defy the limits of what's human.
Voluptuous then, and almost intrapersonal--but this is a romantic, young person's view. Day-Lewis wrote this late in life, after many years of what we would have to call development. Human development is not like natural development; it means creating more potential rather than simply realizing it (and thus leaving less unsaid).
But when we cease to play explorers
And become settlers, clear before us
Lies the next need – to re-define
The boundary between yours and mine;
Else, one stays prisoner, one goes free.
Each to his own identity
Grown back, shall prove our love's expression
Purer for this limitation.
Love's essence, like a poem's, shall spring
>From the not saying everything.
--- On Wed, 8/10/11, Larry Purss <lpscholar2@gmail.com> wrote:
Subject: [xmca] Living metaphor and conventionalized language
Hi David Ke
Your response to Nickolai mentioned the constant movement of living metaphor
and language as a conventionalized SYSTEM.  This seems to me to be one more
example of this living GENERATIVE movement of consciousness.
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Lands owned or controlled by United States Department of Interior; Governor authorized to cede concurrent jurisdiction to enforce criminal laws.
Section 6.075, Florida Statutes 2007
6.075 Lands owned or controlled by United States Department of Interior; Governor authorized to cede concurrent jurisdiction to enforce criminal laws.--
(1)(a) Whenever the United States Department of the Interior, National Park Service, shall desire to acquire concurrent jurisdiction to enforce criminal laws on any lands owned or controlled by the United States Department of the Interior, National Park Service, within this state and shall make application for that purpose, the Governor is authorized to cede to the United States Department of the Interior, National Park Service, such measure of jurisdiction, not exceeding that requested, as the Governor may deem proper, over all or any part of such lands as to which a cession of the concurrent jurisdiction to enforce criminal laws is requested.
(b) The application on behalf of the United States Department of the Interior, National Park Service, shall state in particular the measure of jurisdiction desired and shall be accompanied by an accurate description of the lands over which such jurisdiction is desired and by information as to which of such lands are then owned or controlled by the United States Department of the Interior, National Park Service.
(c) The cession of jurisdiction shall become effective when it is accepted on behalf of the United States, which acceptance shall be indicated, in writing upon the instrument of cession, by an authorized official of the United States Department of the Interior, National Park Service, and by filing with the Secretary of State of the State of Florida.
(2) The state reserves jurisdiction, for itself and its political subdivisions, to enforce the laws on any lands for which concurrent jurisdiction has been ceded to the United States pursuant to this act. No person residing on such lands shall be deprived of any civil or political rights, including the right of suffrage, by reason of the cession of concurrent jurisdiction to the United States Department of the Interior, National Park Service.
(3)(a) Whenever the United States tenders to the state a relinquishment of all or part of the jurisdiction theretofore acquired by it over lands within this state, the Governor is authorized to accept on behalf of the state the jurisdiction so relinquished; provided, however, that the Governor shall not accept a relinquishment of all or part of such jurisdiction over an Indian tribe recognized by the United States without the consent of its federally recognized tribal governing body.
(b) The Governor shall indicate his or her acceptance of such relinquished jurisdiction by a writing addressed to the head of the appropriate department or agency of the United States, and such acceptance shall be effective when said writing is deposited in the United States mail.
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I would like to change the background color of a line graph widget. If I've seen correctly for other widgets, there is no such "background color" or "opaque" property yet. Is there a way of changing the background for a line graph?
if the inspector does not supply a setting for this, then there is no setting for this. But it is not forbidden to put an opaque graphic behind your widget, the user won't tell the difference!
I'm using the new control handler for the widget though, so that the user may resize and move the graph.
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where the widget would be object x and the graphic would be object y.
Do widgets have that same type of setting? If they do, you could call that handler after the background is resized.
Maybe a "resizecontrol" handler in the widget will do the trick?
I have no time for a pull request (probably try to learn in the next weeks), meanwhile you could use the following.
Change the ending of the attached file from "zip" to "lce" (do NOT unzip).
Add the widget: Locate this lce-file with the Extension Manager (use the plus at topright).
(use the property inspector or LC Script to set or get them, see also the dictionary entries).
This will do what you want.
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(4655) Marjoriika (1978 RS) – planetoida z pasa głównego asteroid okrążająca Słońce w ciągu 3,39 lat w średniej odległości 2,25 j.a. Odkryta 1 września 1978 roku.

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Time to Put an Appalachian League Team in Wise
So far this Summer I have visited all the Appalachian League teams except Danville and Burlington (next weekend). As I traveled to park after park a nagging question kept coming top my mind: "Why is there no Appalachian League team in Wise County, Virginia?" Between Wise County and Norton, the population in WiseCo is somewhere between 40-45 thousand. This means that WiseCo has a larger potential fan base than Princeton WV (Rays), Elizabethton Tn (Twins), Greeneville Tn (Astros), the combined Bluefields WV & Va (Blue Jays), and Pulaski Va (Yankees). It puts WiseCo on par with Danville Va (Braves) and the combined Bristols Va & Tn (Pirates). Of the remaining three venues - Kingsport Tn (Mets), Burlington NC (Royals), and Johnson City (Cardinals) - the only one with a much larger population is Johnson City at 65,000. It makes no sense to me that there is no Appalachian League team in WiseCo.
Earlier this week, quite by accident, I tripped over an article from earlier this year talking about how the league may expand. Here's our chance. And here's my plan for Appalachian League baseball in WiseCo.
First, while you dance with the best suitor you can get, WiseCo should try to attract an affiliate with the most irrationally loyal fan base it can find - probably either the Red Sox or Cubs. A Wise Red Sox team would come with a built in rivalry with the Pulaski Yankees that could make things fun. However, I think a Wise Cubs team would probably work better. For one thing, if the Appalachian League expands it will probably add one team to each division and a Red Sox team would be a better fit in the Eastern Division in Wytheville, Abingdon, or Martinsville (same division as the Pulaski Yankees).
THE CASE FOR THE CUBS
WiseCo is closer than any other rookie league team would be to Chicago and we're only a couple hours down the road from the Cubs' AA team in Tennessee (the Smokies) and almost in a direct line at the halfway point between Chicago and their A+ team in Myrtle Beach (The Pelicans). Likewise, it is almost halfway between the Cubs' single A team (the South Bend Cubs) and the Pelicans in Myrtle Beach. WiseCo would be the most convenient rookie location both for Chicago's scouting purposes and for those Chicago fans who run around making what amount to pilgrimages to all their minor league teams (you doubt their existence, but I've met them). Thus, the Cubs would benefit because of location and WiseCo would benefit from a built in fan base.
BUILD THE STADIUM
One important factor in making something like this work is the stadium. A stadium built something along the lines of what Greeneville has would be ideal, a Pulaski style park would be good, and a clone of the Kingsport stadium would be perfectly workable. Important considerations for the stadium should be shade for the bleachers (a huge failure of Kingsport's Wright stadium), parking (an equally huge failing of Pulaski's Calfee Stadium), and findability (the main flaw of the otherwise excellent Pioneer Park in Greeneville). The stadium needs to be built close enough to a four lane highway that it can be easily and constantly seen and built with a large parking area (gravel would be fine)
There are certain traps to avoid in building a stadium in WiseCo. These poison pills would seriously damage any attempt to put together a viable team. The first is associations and the second is location.
PROBLEMS TO AVOID
Associations: This needs to be a Wise County team, not a team associated with one of the towns. Those of you not from around here won't get this and there are a number of locals who will deny it. People hereabouts are extremely loyal to their local town. Thus, a 10 minute drive from Norton to Big Stone Gap or Coeburn becomes a trip to a foreign land and association with one of the towns will drive people from any other town away. Any local person who tells you this is not true is misleading you - most likely for the purpose of getting you to limit your options by attaching your stadium to his town.
As well, this stadium must not be built on the campus of either the university or the community college. I don't really think the community college would be interested (I don't think it has any sports programs). However, the college has a strong lobby, sports programs of its own, and a deep need for money and publicity. There would be someone who pushed for the team to be located there because it would benefit the college. This would lead to multiple serious issues for any rookie league team suckered into it. If associating the team with a town would cause people not to come associating it with the college would probably double down on that effect. Like any college people who attend, are alumni, and are local elites who gain prestige from the college love it. Most others at best are neutral toward it or look at it with dislike for various reasons. Beyond that, the university is on a small back road, inconvenient to just about 95% of the county, and has horrendous parking. Putting a rookie league team there would guarantee low attendance.
Mind you, if the university were to kick in to aid in the building of a stadium in a proper location and play its baseball at that stadium I think it would be a good thing and helpful. However, the stadium must remain primarily for the rookie league team and in a proper location.
So what would be a proper location? Glad you asked.
It would have to be somewhere near the intersection of US-58 and US-23. This means outside of Norton (or maybe barely inside the city line). Probably the best location would be on US-58 heading toward Coeburn slightly past the Virginia-Kentucky Regional Shopping Center. It would be off a major thoroughfare. It would avoid going through any town. It would be near hotels for any traveling team (or fans). It would be convenient for anyone coming from other parts of the county and even people coming from other counties or states (the intersection being 30 minutes from Letcher County, Kentucky and maybe an hour from Tennessee). It would be in a location where it would be seen by people traveling along the major local highways (called "the four lanes" locally).
Less optimally, it could be placed off of US-23 between Norton and the Town of Wise (seat of government in Wise County). It carries most of the same advantages of the prior location except each would be slightly less convenient.
Anyway, it's doable and advantageous to all concerned. I nominate local prominent attorney J.B.F. (you know who you are) to put together a committee of prominent citizens to raise funds and convince the Cubs. Let's make this happen folks!
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Apodemia walkeri is een vlindersoort uit de familie van de prachtvlinders (Riodinidae), onderfamilie Riodininae.

Apodemia walkeri werd in 1886 beschreven door Godman & Salvin.

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London Gazette - Appointment to Commission
Thread: London Gazette - Appointment to Commission
6th May 2019, 23:16 #1
Lyffe
Responses to Resmorah's recent post about WW2 Convoy Passenger Manifests (http://www.rafcommands.com/forum/sho...nger-Manifests) included one identifying three meteorologists returning to the UK as passengers on the SS Pasteur during January 1944.
The three men were Downie Gillies Armour, Arthur H Armstrong and Jack Davidson. The commissioning of Armour and Armstrong as P/Os was published in the London Gazette dated 31 October 1944, with a seniority of 1 September 1944. The commissioning indicates the two men had completed a forecasting course after returning to the UK.
I have good reason to believe Davidson also completed the same course, but a commission was never gazetted as he was killed in an aircraft accident at Leuchars on 14 September 1944. However, I understand from his nephew that the family believe he was only on the aircraft as he was on his way to have a uniform fitted - which implies he had been advised of his commissioning.
If the family's understanding is correct I'm curious as to the sequence of events - would he have been fitted for a uniform before completion of the necessary paperwork, or only after being told of his commission at the beginning of the month? In the latter instance I assume the fact he was killed before being gazetted would negate the commission and make publication pointless.
I would appreciate any comments, but suspect I will have to obtain Armour's service record to answer the question.
RecklessRat
I have an image of an AM communication regarding commissioning that I am struggling to attach. Nevertheless, the relevant section notes:-
3. Copies are also enclosed of memoranda dealing with conditions of service and uniform and outfit required. Immediate steps should be taken to obtain uniform and outfit in accordance with the particulars given and for this purpose the authorised number of clothing coupons together with an authority to purchase officer's uniform, which must be produced to the tailor, are enclosed.
This communication is dated 25 Aug 1944 for a J/88258 William Gerald Sorel. He was lost 29 Jul 44 and his commission was effective from 21 Jul 44.
I would have assumed that if your man knew he was to be commissioned then it would have followed in due course, whether he had been killed in the mean time or not, and it would have had an impact on things like pensions and war gratuities for his next-of-kin. I gather it wasn't unknown for those who could afford it to have NCO's outfits tailored of a higher quality than general issue, but that is well into the realms of speculation!
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The three men were Downie Gillies Armour, Arthur H Armstrong and Jack Davidson.
The commissioning of Armour and Armstrong as P/Os was published in the London Gazette dated 31 October 1944,
with a seniority of 1 September 1944.
The commissioning indicates the two men had completed a forecasting course after returning to the UK.
Walter John DAVIES (182998)
Downie Gillies Armour (182999).
Arthur Henry ARMSTRONG (183000).
Missing ?? Jack Davidson 183001 ???
Walter Clucas CALLISTER ( 183002).
Jack Davidson
490/ 21
Logie (Fife)
Thank you, Paul. I was aware of the sequence of events in respect of Armour and Armstrong, in particular the dates.
I started researching this story about 13 years ago, and even visited Davidson's home town and grave, but clues were very hard to come by. In the event I let the matter rest, but Simon's response (#6) to Resmorah's recent thread WW2 Convoy Passenger Manifests (http://www.rafcommands.com/forum/sho...nger-Manifests) reminded me about Davidson and prompted another attempt to complete my story.
Having enlisted the help of the Peebleshire News it included an item about Davidson in a recent edition. I hadn't really expected a response to an event which was nearly 75 years old, so was pleasantly surprised to receive an early response from Davidson's nephew.
It had always puzzled me as to why he was on the aircraft (Liberator BZ961 of 206 Squadron) which had diverted to Tain during the early hours of 14 September 1944 but, as I explained in #1, his family was under the impression Davidson was on his way to be fitted for a uniform.
Knowing that his erstwhile colleagues, Armour and Armstrong, were gazetted on 31 October (seniority 1 September) left me with a gap to explain. I am now reasonably sure that he was on his way to sign up in Edinburgh and obtain kit, prior to mobilisation. I'm hoping, once I've received Amour's death certificate and obtained his service record, that his documents will include sufficient information confirm my ideas.
I think that the reason Davidson's name does not appear on any passenger list for the westbound crossing to Canada in 1940/41 was because his ship was sailing in convoy. The SS Pasteur, on which he returned to the UK, sailed at high speed, unescorted, and was treated as an 'ordinary' passenger arrival on reaching Liverpool.
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As a generous patron, she supported outstanding female scientists. Gielen established her foundation as a sign of solidarity with her home city of Bonn. Accordingly, the Gielen-Leyendecker Foundation specifically promotes science and research in Bonn – includes the Beethoven-Haus, the Kunsthistorisches Institut and the Franz Joseph Dölger Institute at the University of Bonn.
Anne-Liese Gielen was very close to Max Planck Society through former President Hubert Markl and as a Private Supporting Member. She provided generous support for the extension of the Bibliotheca Hertziana Max Planck Institute in Rome, as well as for the career advancement of two female Max Planck scientists: Letizia Paoli, now a professor at the Leuven Institute of Criminology (LINC), and Ilme Schlichting, a director at the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research in Heidelberg.
In 2013, the Foundation in coopertaion with Max-Planck established the Gielen-Leyendecker Research Group, through which Professor Dr. Susann Fiedler, an outstanding scientist, was being given crucial support in the development of her career.
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The French Defense: Rubinstein Variation
Author: Hannes Langrock
A Complete Black Repertoire against 1.e4 Built around the Super-solid Rubinstein!
The King's Indian According to Tigran Petrosian
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Tigran Petrosian, the ninth world chess champion, was one of the deepest thinkers the chess world has ever seen. His handling of complex strategic positions was legendary. Now, for the first time, Russian international master Igor Yanvarjov has put together a superb collection of virtually all the known games played by Petrosian – with both colors – in the King's Indian Defense and other closely related Indian structures. The author's objective was, first of all, to reveal the richness of Petrosian's chess world and to follow the strategic development of the King's Indian Defense through the prism of Petrosian's creative work. He does this with the presentation of almost 300 deeply annotated, complete games. This splendid collection of annotated games will not only have enormous appeal to King's Indian aficionados, but to all chessplayers who wish to expand their understanding of the strategic concepts underpinning the royal game as a whole.
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Author: John Donaldson and Nikolay Minev
Akiva Rubinstein occupies a unique position in chess history. One of the greatest artists ever to sit down at a chessboard, Rubinstein was also the strongest player never to get a shot at the title of World Champion. This book focuses on the years 1882-1920, covering Rubinstein's rise from a modest upbringing to his emergence as Emanuel Lasker's chief challenger in the last years leading up to World War I. It also examines the effects this conflict had on his sensitive psyche and the way it influenced his play in the post-War years. The most definitive work ever done on the first part of Rubinstein's career, this revised and expanded edition of The Life & Games of Akiva Rubinstein, Volume 1: Uncrowned King offers almost 500 games, many of them deeply annotated with notes translated from top players of the pre-World War I era, including Lasker, Tarrasch, Schlechter and Rubinstein. The authors have also made many new annotations to the games and uncovered quite a bit of interesting material, including recent discoveries on Rubinstein's stay in Sweden after World War I. The second edition of The Life & Games of Akiva Rubinstein, Volume 1: Uncrowned King is 20 percent larger than its predecessor and with its wealth of crosstables, archival photos, multiple indexes and through bibliography it offers a treasure trove for the Rubinstein fan.
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Cashel and Navan are both on the road today in Division 2A's final round, pressing for every point in the battle for a home semi-final. Elsewhere, Blackrock College and Queen's University will warm up for their Easter Saturday play-offs with trips to Glenina and Rosbrien respectively.
An unusual scenario for both clubs with the result not affecting either's league position on the last day. Galwegians already know they will be playing Division 2B rugby next season, while second-from-bottom Blackrock cannot catch Nenagh Ormond above them and are planning for next week's play-offs.
'Rock already know they will host Sligo in next Saturday's promotion/relegation play-off semi-final. Win that and it will be either Greystones or Rainey Old Boys in the decider. They have to quickly put the disappointment of last week's 23-all draw with Nenagh behind them and use this trip west to their benefit.
'Wegians will be glad to see the back of the 2018/19 season, they had some very cruel luck with injuries and the bounce of the ball just did not go their way. Even last week against UL Bohemians, having fought valiantly through three yellow cards, they missed out on a match-winning penalty try from a last-minute collapsed maul.
Cashel need a result on the modified 3G pitch in Cork, otherwise Navan might pip them for home advantage in the promotion play-offs. Leading the Meath men by three points, Denis Leamy's charges can wrap up a second-place finish against a Dolphin team that are clear of relegation trouble but licking the wounds.
The hosts were on the end of a 83-7 drubbing at Navan, James Vaughan scoring their only try when they were already 50 points in arrears. Dolphin had big issues at scrum time and it is an area Cashel will surely target, especially with their opening try in the 33-12 victory over Old Crescent coming from a set piece shove.
Injuries picked up by captain James Ryan and Tommy Anglim were a cause for concern, especially with fellow back rowers Ed Leamy and Michael Casey already sidelined with knocks. Jonty Rae and Darragh Lyons showed their class again in the penultimate round, scoring 18 points between them.
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Winger Oige Scannell and forwards Pauric Nesbitt and Ian Condell are Bohs' three personnel changes for this Munster derby. It is four switches for Highfield who are set to start Luke Kingston at full-back after his Cara Cup trip with Munster 'A'. Shane O'Riordan, Michael Dillane and captain Fintan O'Sullivan also come in.
Navan head south to Lisatunny in their bid to overhaul Cashel, knowing that a win on a road may not be enough to book a home semi-final. They were in merciless mood against Dolphin, their 13-try haul including a hat-trick from number 8 Bryan 'Big Mac' McKeever to mark his 100th senior appearance for the club.
Navan's player coach Ray Moloney is one of six personnel changes for the round 18 game, partnering Colm O'Reilly at half-back with Sean McEntagart and James McInerney also rejoining the back-line. Front rowers Brian McGovern and Shane Faulkner and flanker Ronan Meegan have earned starts up front.
With the divisional status secured after a tricky season, Nenagh have done well in the last two rounds with a win and a draw. Their 22-year-old captain John Healy has stood out in leading by deed. Dermot Dunne is handing the coaching reins back to returning head coach Ivan Muldoon in the summer.
Old Crescent have changed a third of their team for the final round visit of top-four finishers Queen's. Guaranteed to finish sixth overall, a closing victory would see the Limerick club make it an even nine wins and nine losses, a year on from their runaway Division 2B title success.
Larry Hanly returns at outside centre with Shane Mullally reverting to the right wing and Cathal Monaghan now stationed at scrum half. Cathal O'Reilly and back rowers Karl Madden and Jack O'Neill are fresh in to a forward pack which includes versatile Tongan Tevita Toia in the second row.
For promotion-hunting Queen's, Conor McAuley returns from injury to partner Robbie Johnston at half-back. David Swann and Andrew Weir are drafted into the front row, centre Conor Shiels and lock James Longwell are both promoted from the bench, and back rower Curtis Pollock, last year's Dalriada School captain, is also expected to get some game-time after recent bench duty.