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'Life changes in the instant. The ordinary instant'
In memory of 'Crash', by Beatrice and Fay Ballard
Candice • Jul 3, 2014 • Tags: Ballard, Crash, J. G. Ballard
We were so excited both to reissue Crash, and to have Zadie Smith write the introduction, that we at 4th Estate had no idea how best to celebrate today's publication appropriately. Editor Clare Reihill suggested that we get in touch with Ballard's daughters Beatrice and Fay and ask them to write something about their father. What came of this you'll read below; two equally touching pieces, both so different to one another yet so pleasingly similar. Thank you, Beatrice and Fay, for sharing with us memories of Ballard that we'd never have known.
'I was heavily pregnant with my daughter when I read 'Crash', sitting on a bench one morning on Hampstead Heath. I'd been reluctant to open the novel for years knowing there'd be lots of sex and violence. The writer was my father. Surely I was crossing a boundary? Of course, he was using the imagery of sex and violence to explore a serious concern. So that made it okay… just about.
I recognized his cool, forensic writing, perhaps influenced by those cadaver dissections he made at Cambridge studying medicine. His young imagination was fed a diet of violence witnessed growing up in 1930s Shanghai; acute poverty claimed the lives of the Chinese, and Japanese soldiers tortured and killed their victims. A different kind of violence returned when pneumonia killed my mother in 1964 when she was 34 years old, leaving three small children and my father to drive back from Spain to Shepperton in a state of trauma.
My father was driven around in a chauffeur-driven family car, an American Buick, when he lived in Shanghai. He owned a couple of old Armstrong Siddeleys when we were small, and then a majestic silver Ford Zephyr Six, followed by Ford Granadas which could be purchased easily from local dealers in Shepperton or Walton upon Thames; he liked Fords and he liked them big. In 1965, we drove to Greece with cases of Johnnie Walker whiskey stored under our legs in the back seat of the car.
In the sixties and seventies, Daddy was close to Eduardo Paolozzi, Dr Christopher Evans, Martin Bax and Michael Moorcock. It was a time of radical change, and his groundbreaking work, 'The Atrocity Exhibition', was published in 1970. I liked to wander into his study and pick out books about car crash victims from the bookshelf. Snuggled up on his comfy orange sofa, I'd turn the pages, fascinated by distorted faces and mangled bodies. Then, he believed a car accident was the only real experience of violence facing most of us.
In 1970, he held an exhibition of three crashed cars including a Pontiac at the New Arts Laboratory in London and employed a topless woman to film the opening. Fuelled by alcohol, guests splashed wine over the cars, broke windows and assaulted the woman. During the show's run, the cars were attacked by visitors. Daddy was exploring the unconscious links between sex and the car crash. Encouraged by this response, he began working on his novel 'Crash'.
I loved the familiar sound of the typewriter keys coming from his study. He'd drive us to school, help with homework, make tea and watch 'Blue Peter' and 'Top of the Pops' with us before bedtime. There was a reassuring domestic routine to the day. We'd do the supermarket shop in Shepperton on Saturday morning and walk to the Splash on Sundays to catch sticklebacks and watch drivers get stuck in the ford.
Two weeks after 'Crash' was completed, I returned from school to find him in bed nursing a headache. He'd had a front-wheel blow-out near Chiswick Bridge, and his Zephyr had crossed the central reservation area and overturned.
In 1970, Jim, Bea and I plus the golden retriever, Polly (named Apollo after the space missions and the Sun God) accompanied Daddy to make a short film in West London with the actor Gabrielle Drake. He was filmed driving a car around a car park. Called 'Crash!' by Harley Cokeliss, it was inspired by the short story 'Crash!' in 'The Atrocity Exhibition'. Watch it if you can and wonder at his great sideburns!' – Fay Ballard, June 2014
'So many of the events and developments that have taken place in twentieth and twenty first century society were predicted by my father in his novels and short stories – too many here to mention – from global warming and pollution, to the explosion of the mass media, and its enormous impact and alienating effects. As a television producer myself, I often discussed the media with him – in all its forms. Back in 1987 – nearly 30 years ago – he predicted that "in the future each one of us would become actor, writer and director of our own television show, with our friends and family as the supporting characters." From You Tube, to social media platforms like Facebook, his words have come true. We manipulate the images and personas that we want the world to see.
I was always eager and fascinated to discuss everything that was going on in contemporary society with him – from politics to culture – as I knew that he would already have worked out how we got there, and where we were heading next. Although a deeply moral and principled man himself, and the kindest father, he was never afraid to explore what we are capable of – even if this meant confronting difficult subjects and ideas. As I write this, Zadie Smith's introduction to Crash is about to be published, and she writes so well about what an amazing book it is, and about her admiration for my father's work.But at the time my father wrote "Crash"(published 1973), the themes it explored were too difficult to confront for some: a publisher's reader report described the author of "Crash" as "being beyond psychiatric help". Of course my father took this as a mark of "total artistic success"!
I'm thrilled and excited about the new re-issues of all my father's novels and short stories – five years after his death it is a wonderful and timely project for 4th Estate and HarperCollins to be doing. The wide and eclectic range of writers and authors who have written the introductions is testament to my father's enduring brilliance as a writer, and to the power of his novels. So many of these introducers are highly talented and original authors themselves, so it is wonderful to have their individual takes on each work.
It was a bold and exciting idea to invite the artist Stanley Donwood to design the covers, and they look fantastic – with their vibrant colours and abstract designs – each one very different. They are like nothing else you will see in the bookstore – not unlike my father's writing – truly unique. This link is also a reminder of the amazing influence my father's writing had on artists across so many fields – from musicians, to painters, to film makers, and of course other authors.
When my father died in 2009 and I inherited his literary estate along with my sister Fay – it was an enormous honour and privilege to find myself becoming his literary executor. It was daunting too, as I am aware that it is a huge responsibility to safeguard his extraordinary canon of work, for both current and future generations to come. On a personal level, it has been wonderful as it is a way of keeping his memory alive every day. When he was alive I spoke with him about so many of the themes and ideas that have informed his fiction, and it is wonderful now to carry on that conversation.
There are already huge numbers of Ballard readers and fans, both in the UK and worldwide, and there are many others growing up who are coming to his writing for the first time – like my teenage daughters Pandora and Alice.
Like existing Ballard readers and fans, they are discovering something very exciting. Not only are these masterful literary novels and short stories, which explore the human condition so brilliantly, but also, as has been pointed out often, my father's writing is so visionary and prescient. It's a way that we can learn about ourselves, and how our world is developing – and most tantalizingly – where our future might take us – both good and bad. I remember my father once said that he was like a man standing by the side of the road holding a sign which read: "Watch out, dangerous bends ahead". What further bends in the road ahead do we have to come? How will we navigate those bends, will we end up careering off into the side of the road and crashing? By reading his work we can find out.
I would like to thank and pay tribute to Claire Walsh – my father's partner of over 40 years. Claire knew both the man and the writer intimately, and has an exceptionally sharp appreciation of his work, and of its history. I find her wise counsel of enormous help.' – Beatrice Ballard , June 2014
Crash is published today, alongside:
Cocaine Nights (James Lever Introducing)
Hello America (Ben Marcus Introducing)
Kingdom Come (Deborah Levy Introducing)
The Drought (M. John Harrison Introducing)


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Squeezed between a neon-illuminated bail bond office and a corner caf painted in vivid art-deco colors, rustic Crescent Machine Works Inc., at 821 N. Monroe, looks distinctly out of place.
The only thing along the weather-beaten front of the machine shop that appears to have been updated in recent times is a number, followed by the words years of service, on a garage door near the main entrance. Nevertheless, that numbercurrently 84may be what captures the attention of many passing motorists.
Im sure people drive by and wonder how we ever survive, says Dan Mengert, 41, who together with his brother, Mark, 36, now owns the third-generation family business. The answer, he says, lies in being flexible.
Since its origin, dating back roughly to 1916, Crescent has transitioned from a heavy automotive focusincluding making pistons and axles for Duesenbergs and other early-era automobilesto a commercial food-service niche.
It now repairs and rebuilds everything from food mixers, slicers, and steamers, to ovens, water heaters, and espresso machines. It also does a mishmash of machining, welding, and small-fabrication work for clients in other industries, although that accounts for less than a third of its revenue.
Weve kind of had to change over the years, Mengert says. We didnt really plan for it. It kind of came to us naturally.
Behind its dated Monroe Street facade, Crescent Machine Works operates a traditional-style machine shop, with drills, lathes, and welding equipment, where it does some of its work. However, Mengert says a lot of the companys work is out in the field and is more service-oriented in nature, involving plumbing, electrical, or gas-related repair work or part replacements, and occasionally some welding.
We try to get it (customers machinery) working on location. We try to get them up and going the same day. Thats whats kept us going, he says.
The machine shop does work for restaurants, bakeries, supermarkets, hospitals, nursing homes, and other clients of that type within about a 90-mile radius of Spokane. A sizable chunk of its business, though, comes from customers in or near downtown.
Despite the companys somewhat cramped quarters, just east of the Spokane County Courthouse complex, Mengert says, Our location has helped us over the years, because most of the machine shops are out in the Valley now.
Crescent employs three service technicians, two full time and one part time, in addition to the Mengert brothers. Dan, who received a bachelors degree in business management from Gonzaga University and a masters degree in business from City University, handles most of the administrative tasks, such as bidding and scheduling jobs, ordering parts, billing customers, and doing payroll. Mark, who received a bachelors degree in industrial engineering from Washington State University, acts basically as shop foreman, handling some jobs himself and overseeing the work done by others.
Weve kind of combined our two backgrounds to keep the business going, Dan Mengert says, adding, Marks kind of like my dad (Richard Dick Mengert) in that he can repair anything.
Dick Mengert operated Crescent for most of the last three decades. He retired in 1997 and turned over his remaining shares in the company to his two sons last year. He also has three other sons and two daughters who arent involved in the business.
Dick Mengert had taken over the machine shop from his father, Otto J. Mengert, whotogether with partner Fritz McGarryhad bought the business from Peter Briggs in 1921. Otto Mengert, who was raised in an orphanage and had limited formal education, became a machinists apprentice at about age 14 and later served as foreman of Briggs machine shop, then operating under a different name, before he and McGarry bought it.
Mengert and McGarry operated Crescent together for nearly 50 years, until McGarry died in 1970. Early in that period, the machine shop swelled in size to eight to 10 machinists, but a decline in auto-related work due to manufacturers retooling after World War II caused that number to dwindle.
The machine shop remained healthy, though, by gravitating toward food-service equipment repair and becoming a parts-and-service center for a number of companies that made and sold such equipment.
Perhaps not surprisingly, given its long history, the machine shop has a timeless quality about it. Except for a token amount of computer equipment in its small office, it looks much like it probably did 30 or 50 years ago. Faded photos, plaques, and religious icons adorn the walls of the office and pay tribute to the shops early origins, as well as to the familys inseparable attachment to the business, its love of golf as a favored pastime, and its strong Catholic faith. In the shop itself, the various pieces of metal-working equipment look mostly old and heavily used, but sturdy and capable of operating indefinitely.
The business kind of becomes like a family member in a way, Dan Mengert says, while contemplating what caused him to follow in his fathers footsteps after college rather than pursuing some other career.
The familys steely work ethic is evident in the two third-generation brothers, who toiled in the business while growing up and, according to Dan Mengert, now spend 60 hours a week there just to keep it going.
Operating the shop is a challenge, he says, because the equipment it repairs and rebuilds is so diverse that its hard finding machinists or service technicians with broad enough skills and expertise to handle the workload.
Hes not complaining, though. To the contrary, he says the machine shop is operating profitably, never borrows money, and has a solid future, despite competition from other machine shops and development activity going on around it.
Things always break down, and most food-service businesses here find it more cost-effective to repair a $10,000 to $20,000 piece of equipment than to replace it, Mengert says, adding appreciatively that, Our customers have been real loyal to us.
Within the next year or so, he says, he and his brother hope to split Crescent into separate divisionsone focusing on the food-service work and the other on machine welding and fabricationand to move the latter division into an underutilized warehouse building just to the south of the shop.
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Looks like we are getting a look at these Titans one at a time. Here is the first look at Hawk and Dove courtesy of Warner Bros. Are you excited about the new TV show? Let us know in the comments!
Attached please find a first-look image of series stars Alan Ritchson (as Hank Hall aka Hawk) and Minka Kelly (as Dawn Granger aka Dove) from the upcoming DC Super Hero series TITANS, from Weed Road Pictures and Berlanti Productions in association with Warner Bros. Television.
Ritchson and Kelly star in the series alongside Brenton Thwaites (Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales), who plays Dick Grayson aka Robin.
The Hawk and Dove suits were designed by renowned costume designer Laura Jean Shannon, whose credits include Black Lightning, Iron Man and The Jungle Book, among others.
TITANS is set to debut in 2018 on the DC-branded direct-to-consumer digital service, operated by Warner Bros. Digital Networks.
Photo Credit: Steve Wilkie/Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.
From executive producers Akiva Goldsman, Geoff Johns, Greg Berlanti and Sarah Schechter, TITANS is an all-new live-action drama series that follows a group of young soon-to-be Super Heroes recruited from every corner of the DC Universe. In this action-packed series, Dick Grayson emerges from the shadows to become the leader of a fearless band of new heroes, including Starfire, Raven and many others. TITANS is a dramatic, live-action adventure series that will explore and celebrate one of the most popular comic book teams ever.
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Audiokniha je nahrávka mluveného slova. Obvykle vychází z tištěných materiálů, ale nemusí jít za každou cenu o přesnou audioverzi knihy.

Mluvené nahrávky jsou dostupné ve školních a veřejných knihovnách a v menší míře v obchodech s hudebními nosiči.

Formáty
Audioknihy mohou být distribuovány v rozličných formátech. Gramofonové desky, magnetofonové kazety, CD, digitální formáty jako MP3 (.mp3), Windows Media Audio (.wma), Advanced Audio Coding či playaway.
Trendem je samozřejmě přesun prodeje do online prostředí, kde je možné jednotlivé tituly jednoduše stáhnout a uložit si je ve vlastním PC či osobních přenosných zařízeních.

Můžeme rozlišit dva druhy audioknih – zkrácené a nezkrácené. Nezkrácené jsou doslovně načtené knihy bez jakýchkoli zásahů, zatímco ty zkrácené mají text upravený. Obvykle je důvodem snížení výrobních nákladů a zároveň i menší časová a finanční náročnost na straně kupujícího. Audiokniha může mít i podobu kompletní dramatizace – s kompletním obsazením rolí, hudbou a dalšími doprovodnými efekty. Nicméně každému koncovému uživateli vyhovuje něco jiného. Nesmíme opomenout ani roli rozhlasových stanic (např. Český rozhlas), které hlavně zmíněné dramatizace často zařazují do svého vysílání. Na světovém trhu občas audiokniha doprovází nově vydanou knihu jako její součást.

Existují dva přístupy k nahrávání audioknih. Angažování známých tváří/hlasů herců, moderátorů apod. nebo načtení knihy amatéry-dobrovolníky či autory děl osobně. Každý se způsobů má opět svou vlastní cílovou skupinu posluchačů.

Asociace vydavatelů auditivních děl byla založena v roce 1986 šesti konkurenčními firmami, které se spojily s cílem zvýšit povědomí veřejnosti o produkci mluveného slova. Od roku 1996 se v USA udílejí ceny Audio Awards, které jsou ekvivalentem k filmovým cenám OSCAR. Kandidáti jsou známí každý rok v lednu a vítěz je vyhlášen na slavnostním banketu na jaře.

Historie
Původ audioknih můžeme vystopovat v hluboké minulosti. Navazují totiž na dávnou tradici předčítání. Nicméně v roce 1931 byl v USA spuštěn program, jehož cílem bylo pomáhat nevidomým osobám. O rok později následovalo vydání první namluvené knihy, které se v letech následujících rozšířilo.
Popularita audioknih distribuovaných na gramofonových deskách vzrostla s nástupem magnetofonových kazet. Důvod byl prostý – kazetový přehrávač se stal součástí každého nově vyrobeného automobilu. Nedůvěra autorů ale byla velká, proto se mnoho dobrých audioknih této doby nezakládá na tištěné podobě.
V šedesátých letech již můžeme audioknihy najít v knihovnách (především na vinylových deskách), nahrávají se i instruktážní a vzdělávací pořady. V polovině let osmdesátých již na americkém trhu čísla prodejů vzrostla na několik miliard dolarů ročně.

Zatímco hudební fanoušci vzali nový formát [CD] velmi rychle za svůj, posluchači audioknih byli pomalejší. Zlom nastal opět až s montováním nových audio přehrávačů do osobních vozů. Formát se tedy nakonec ujal.
S příchodem internetu, širokopásmových technologií, nových komprimovaných audio formátů a přenosných MP3 přehrávačů se popularita audioknih výrazně zvýšila. Tento růst se odrazil i s nástupem předplatných služeb na audio download .

Využití, distribuce a popularita

Nové technologie podporují volné šíření audioknih, tedy těch, která již nespadají pod autorský zákon. Zvukové knihy mohou být vytvořeny i automaticky pomocí speciálního softwaru, nicméně kvalita takového záznamu nikdy nedosáhne úrovně školeného lidského hlasu.
Audioknihy v komerčním sektoru distribuují velké společnosti, které si chrání svá díla pomocí Digital rights management (DRM).
Audioknihy vydané na kazetách nebo CD jsou dražší než ty v elektronických formátech z důvodů zvýšených nákladů na jejich vydání i následnou distribuci. Oproti tomu audioknihy ke stažení mají nižší náklady, jsou tedy levnější. Pravděpodobný budoucí vývoj trhu s audioknihami můžeme charakterizovat jako pomalý a stálý růst prodeje, což se zdá pravděpodobnější než výbuch masového trhu. Ten půjde ruku v ruce s elastickou poptávkou po cenově dostupnějších variantách audioknih.

Nicméně v dlouhodobějším horizontu ekonomika stojí na straně stahovatelných audioknih. Nenesou žádné masové výrobní náklady, nevyžadují skladování velkých zásob, fyzické balení či náklady na přepravu. Tržní síly logicky naznačují, že spolu se snížením ceny naroste poptávka po produktu. Tím se zvýší absolutní zisky audioknižního průmyslu a zároveň se rozšíří povědomí široké veřejnosti o oblasti audioknih.
Jedním z faktorů, který tento vývoj brzdí, je obava, že nízké ceny těchto audioknih vytlačí klasické publikování zcela na okraj zájmu koncových uživatelů. Pozorovatelným trendem u vydavatelů knih je naopak doplnění jejich sortimentu právě o audioknihy, které považují za vhodný doplněk své produkce.

Audioknihy jsou skvělou pomůckou pro děti, které se učí číst – pomáhají rozvíjet porozumění psanému textu, zarputilé nečtenáře a zkrátka všechny, kteří nemají času nazbyt. Šetří nejen naše oči, ale právě i čas, který můžeme strávit jakoukoli jinou činností zpříjemněnou právě poslechem mluveného slova.

Většina knihoven poskytuje v rámci svých služeb bezplatné zapůjčování zvukových knih pro své zrakově postižené čtenáře, v ČR tuto službu zajišťuje Knihovna a tiskárna pro nevidomé K. E. Macana.

40 % z veškeré audioknižní spotřeby dochází prostřednictvím veřejných knihoven, zbytek pomocí maloobchodních knihkupectví. Program Knihovna ke stažení v současné době zažívá rychlý růst – více než 5000 veřejných knihoven nabízí zdarma ke stažení audioknihy (situace v USA).

Trh s audioknihami v Česku
V roce 2021 podle Asociace vydavatelů audioknih bylo prodáno téměř 240 000 audioknih v ceně přes 259,7 milionu Kč. Proti předchozímu roku se jedná o 12 % nárůst. Asi dvě třetiny audioknih se prodalo digitální distribucí a třetina byly fyzické nosiče. Celkem 90 % audioknih na trhu vydává 7 největších vydavatelství. Ta za rok 2021 vydala 579 nových titulů, z čehož asi dvě třetiny byly od českých nebo slovenských autorů. Nejvíce knih dalo na trh vydavatelství OneHotBook (16,58 %), Tympanum (15,05 %), Audiotéka (13,9 %), Radioservis (13,61 %), Albatros Media (11,71 %), Supraphon (11,12 %), Euromedia Group (9,34 %), Jan Melvil Publishing (4,17 %) a Publixing (3,63 %). Vydavatelství Audiolibrix a Fonia měla podíl na trhu méně než 1 %. Z prodaných audioknih bylo 35,1 % beletrie, 15,5 % detektivky a thrillery, 9,2 % knihy pro děti a mládež a 8,3 % sci-fi a fantasy.

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 Naposlech.cz – webový magazín o audioknihách

 KAPOUNOVÁ, Kateřina; ŠKYTOVÁ, Alžběta. Audioknihy jako staronový přístup k literatuře. Čtenář : měsíčník pro knihovny. 2010, 62, 4, s. 123-129.

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Last Bite — Discovering Gold
Discovering GoldWho really discovered the Golden Delicious apple?
February 15th 2011 Issue
Top: The russet-resistant Smoothee, discovered in 1958, is the widest planted strain of Golden Delicious in the United States. Photo courtesy of Willow Drive Nursery Bottom left: A promotion card that the Washington Apple Commission used in 1958–1959. Bottom Right: Goldspur, shown in the Van Well Nursery catalog of 1963, was a bud mutation of Golden Delicious discovered by Grady Auvil. It was a heavy bearer but more prone to russet than a standard Golden. Photo courtesy of Van Well Nursery.
Golden Delicious, the official fruit of West Virginia, originated as a chance seedling on a hillside at Porter's Creek in Clay County, West Virginia, but there are two versions of how the apple was discovered.
According to widely published accounts, in the fall of 1905, Anderson Mullins noticed a precocious seedling with large yellow apples unlike any he had seen before growing on his property. As he continued to observe the tree over the next few years, it produced an abundant crop annually, even when other trees on the farm were barren. The fruit kept in good condition in the family's cellar until April.
Mullins named his discovery Mullins Yellow Seedling and in the spring of 1914 sent three apples by parcel post to Stark Brothers Nursery in Missouri. Impressed by its keeping quality and flavor, Paul Stark went to West Virginia to see the tree. The company paid $5,000 for the tree and a 90-square-foot tract on the hillside on which it stood, and for the following 30 years sent the Mullins family $100 a year to maintain the tree. To protect it, the nursery built a lockable steel cage around it with a burglar alarm. Stark Brothers, which already was selling the (red) Delicious apple, renamed the apple Golden Delicious and introduced it in 1916.
Another Mullins
But, according to a 1962 newspaper article in the West Virginia Archives and History, another member of the Mullins family claimed to have discovered the apple earlier. J.M. Mullins said he was born on the farm that his father L.L. Mullins owned and later sold to Anderson. When J.M. was about 15 years old, which would have been 1891, his father sent him out with a scythe to mow the pasture. He was swinging away with the scythe when he came across a little apple tree. Each time he mowed, he avoided the tree until it grew large and bore apples. How did it get there? There was a row of four or five scrawny apple trees by the house that bore yellow apples similar to Grimes Golden, only smaller, he related, and the family figured it grew from a seed from one of those. Later research indicated it could be a cross of Golden Reinette and Grimes Golden.
J.M.'s father gave the piece of the farm with the Golden tree to his son B.W. Mullins and later traded the farm place to his brother Anderson, the one who sent the apples to Stark Brothers. J.M. claimed that Stark Brothers paid $50 for all the fruit from the tree,
not $5,000.
The variety met with immediate acclaim and became a leading cultivar for both fresh and processing purposes in America and abroad. It has several attributes that made it popular. The tree is easy to manage and adaptable to a wide range of soils and climates, and it produces high early yields. Those attributes have made it popular material for breeding programs. Mutsu, Jonagold, Gala, Tentation, and Cripps Pink all have Golden Delicious as a parent.
Its primary weakness is that the skin tends to russet in humid climates. Research has shown that the Smoothee strain has the least russet. Smoothee, a whole tree mutation, was discovered by Carl Gibson in Evans City, Pennsylvania, in 1958, the same year that the original tree on the Mullins property died. It was introduced by Wally Heuser at Hilltop Nursery in 1967 and is the most widely planted strain of Golden Delicious. The patent expired many years ago, but the Smoothee trademark is still held by Hilltop. Some nurseries sell it as "Improved Golden Delicious" or "Gibson Golden Delicious."
Eclipsed by Gala
Golden Delicious was for many years Washington State's number-two apple, after Red Delicious. In the 1970s, Red and Golden Delicious apples made up 95 percent of the Washington crop. Golden Delicious production peaked in 1996 at 18 million boxes, but the variety was eclipsed by Gala in 2003. Nationwide, Gala surpassed Golden Delicious in 2008. In Europe, Golden Delicious is still the top variety by far.
The 2010 Washington apple crop estimate indicates 11 million boxes of Golden Delicious, making it the fifth largest variety after Red Delicious, Gala, Fuji, and Granny Smith.
Some information for this article was obtained from A History of Fruit Varieties, which is available from Good Fruit Grower.
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Written by Paul Jarvis
Published on: July 20th, 2020
Last month I joined Tom Creighton and Robert Hayes on the Framework show to chat about how Fathom Analytics works as a privacy-focused and fully self-funded software company.
Below is a rundown of some of the points and topics we covered in the conversation.
Starting Fathom Analytics as the first simple, privacy-focused web analytics company
Our conversation started where Fathom started. One day I became frustrated with Google Analytics: it was complicated, it was from a company I didn't trust, and I didn't use 99% of the features, so they were cluttering up my screen and making it so I had to click 20 times to get to any data that was relevant to my business. Google analytics made me sad to look at and use. So, I spent an hour designing a mockup of what I figured website analytics should look like. Simple, privacy-focused, and looking like a modern interface.
Google also gives us analytics for free because they make so much money off our data, which didn't sit well with me.
At the time, there wasn't any competition for simple, privacy-focused analytics. No one else was doing this, and when I tweeted my idea for Fathom as a screenshot, it quickly took off and people wanted it to be built.
The first iteration of Fathom launched on June 12, 2018. We built this open-source version first, as a proof of concept that folks would want super-simple analytics, and it instantly got thousands of stars on Github and has been downloaded over a million times.
Each step from idea to launch happened because we noticed an overwhelming demand for Fathom. First, via the mockup on Twitter. If it hadn't gone "mini viral", I may not have proceeded. Next, if the open-source version hadn't skyrocketed in popularity, the paid version wouldn't have existed. Then, if the first paid version hadn't become so popular, we wouldn't have built any new features or updates . And finally, if Fathom hadn't got to a point of being profitable (paying our salaries and then some), we wouldn't now be working on it full-time. Each step was only taken when we saw the demand for it. This is how bootstrapping/self-funding should work.
Fathom Analytics, the business model
The problem we wanted to solve with Fathom, from day one, was that we felt there was an intersection between privacy and simplicity that could solve so much for most people, in terms of using their website analytics to help them with their own online business and website.
Baked into our DNA is the fact that Fathom has to look and work as simply as possible (or be way basic, if you prefer) and also never store and sell personal data.
The business model of an advertising company is to give a product away for "free" but turn around and sell personal data to generate revenue. It's not a coincidence that one of the biggest advertising companies in the world gives aways its analytics product. This isn't an altruistic endeavour on their part, it's calculated and done so because they rent, sell, retarget our data on a massive scale.
The business model of Fathom is wholly different. We are a software company, not an advertising company, so we charge a fair price for our service. We generate revenue/profit by offering our customers Fathom from $14/month, which is both fair to our customers and helps us stay infinitely sustainable (profitable businesses don't really go out of business).
If we charged less, we wouldn't be able to afford our industry-leading backend that keeps our servers always-online, infinitely scalable when there are massive traffic spikes, and fast, so freaking fast. If we charged less, we'd end up with a budget solution hosted on a couple VPS servers (which would be prone to outages, slowing down from spikes, and not able to render customer dashboards at the speed we feel is appropriate).
Our business model works perfectly for a self-funded, bootstrapped software company. We don't need to sell data, since we sell software. We don't need investment because we iterated as we grew, and now that we're profitable, we wouldn't even have a use or need for outside money (plus, it would take away from us being able to make decisions based solely on the needs of our customers).
Good data practices, how we wish the internet as a whole worked
The fundamental way that Fathom works, the way it anonymizes and never stores personal data, and the way it values never collecting or selling personal data is the way we wish the internet as a whole worked. Protecting personal, digital details couldn't be separated from Fathom Analytics, because it's how our software is built, it's how we show data on our dashboards, and it's what we believe to be true as "the right way of existing as a software company online".
We don't have a privacy-focused analytics tool as a marketing tactic, then go out and use retargeted ads (which require personal data being collected and sold) because we feel retargeted ads should be banned.
The way that we process what a page view is, what a unique visitor is, and how that data is stored on our server in a way that's hashed has been copied by other companies, because it's the smartest way to honour the digital privacy of internet citizens.
Both Jack and myself, live on the same internet as our customers, and see how many data breaches, targeted ads, and social networks promoting misinformation happen. We do our best as people to protect ourselves and our data, and have build our software in a way that we would feel comfortable using. If personal data isn't collected in the first place, which is how Fathom works, nothing can be ever be leaked, since that data doesn't exist in the first place.
The audience for Fathom Analytics isn't everyone
While our customers split down the middle (or so) in terms of those who care about simplicity and those who care about digital privacy, most care, at least a little, about both. We feel like we provide amazing value to those people who want simple, privacy-focused website analytics.
In having that specific focus of simplicity and privacy, we know we aren't for everyone. Those who don't care about privacy and need to mine personal data for the businesses to be profitable wouldn't make for good customers (nor would they choose Fathom). Those people who have spent months or years learning the ins and outs of complicated web analytics tools and have created complex business systems for their companies, would find Fathom doesn't have enough data for their needs.
We know that Fathom isn't for everyone, and we're good with that. Our software is highly and specifically opinionated so that we can best serve the exact type of person or business that'd get the most value from our product. Those are the types of people who make the best customers and in turn, get the most out of paying for our product.
In the beginning, Fathom was adopted mostly by people who were in my audience and wanted to use a new product I had built. Over time, this has completely changed to where most customers who sign up now may not even know who I am. They're people who care about digital privacy and/or just want simple analytics software that's easy to use because their focus isn't on learning how analytics software works, it's on making money in their business.
Most of our customers are small businesses, where Fathom is perfect for being able to learn what content on their site is popular and which sites are driving most inbound clicks. That said, we do have customers who are Fortune 500s, pioneers of the open-web, and even governments - all of whom have a mandate to be privacy-focused and GDPR compliant.
Fathom's marketing strategy is a constant not a finite point
Too many software companies create a big splash at launch and then fizzle out. There's a ProductHunt post, maybe a HackerNews or IndieHacker post, and maybe a blog post too. But then, that's it.
Our idea, from the get-go, was to find ways to constantly get people informed about and interested in Fathom Analytics. We do this by constantly creating content on several channels:
Our podcast, Above Board. We don't have sponsors of our show because Fathom is technically the sponsor. While we don't straight-up advertise or even promote our software specifically on the show, we talk about it and share details people want to know about what it takes to run a self-funded software company.
Our blog, the one you're reading right now. We write articles all the time, not just when we have something to pitch. Jack writes lots of technical pieces that provide value to developers and I write, well, pieces like this one.
Our Twitter account. We've active on Twitter daily. Not just pitching Fathom, but engaging with our community and customers all the time.
Constantly releasing features. By having lots of tiny feature launches, it gives folks something to talk about, share, review, and tell others about. If my own audience was the primary driver of customers at the start, word of mouth is now the primary driver (we've honoured that people love Fathom so much they tell everyone they know about us... a lot).
Another way we've been able to keep Fathom in front of people is our affiliate program. We have the most generous commissions in the industry, 25% for life. So if someone signs up via your referral link and pays us $14/month, you get 25% of that for as long as they are a customer. And luckily for our affiliates, our churn rate is super low (ha). There are affiliates who are also customers who now make more money than they pay us for their monthly plan.
Fathom's marketing strategy isn't just to talk when we have something to promote, it's developed a regular cadence where we share interesting and valuable information on a daily or weekly basis. This keeps top of mind for people who would be a great fit as a customer.
How Fathom creates new features
While we have customers ranging from one-person businesses to some of the largest companies on the planet, we always prioritize building and refining features that could be useful to all customers.
We have the same features for our smallest plan as we do on our biggest plan, outside of page views. Regardless of what plan our customers pay for, everyone gets unlimited sites/dashboards, unlimited email reports, unlimited custom domains and unlimited uptime monitoring. The only difference for price is the volume of page views.
So when creating new features, our goal is to be able to add value to everyone who pays for Fathom.
For every new feature, we do the heavy lifting of thinking it through, revising it until it's as simple as possible, and testing the crap out of it. We even internally debate every nit-picked detail until it's perfect. This is done, not because we're neurotic about good software, but because we want to offer our customers the simplest way possible to achieve their goals with our software.
Since we have thousands of customers, we have a large enough sample size to look for trends in requests for what people wished Fathom could do (i.e. what new features to build).
We spend a lot of time learning from our customers, in regards to their wants and needs. Our support channel is managed by Jack and myself (cofounders). We don't pawn this off to someone else, because we feel that support is one of the most important things a company can learn from. It's not just helping customers, it's a marketing channel, a sales channel, and a way to build out a roadmap of features that can most benefit everyone.
Features that are added also never increase our pricing. Our pricing has stayed the same since we launched on our base plan, and each new feature we add doesn't also increase our pricing. This is because we want to keep adding more and more value to the price of Fathom and keep it as affordable as possible.
What's next for Fathom Analytics
We're totally happy in our little corner of the web, giving the people who value privacy and simplicity the best possible solution.
Jack and I are in this for the long haul - our company is profitable, our customer base has been growing well from the start without resorting to targeted ads for acquisition or ad-targeting, and once people try our software out, the vast majority of them stick around (and tell their friends).
We're going to keep being ruthless about creating amazing software and agonizing over the tiny details to make our experience both fun and easy for our customers. We're going to keep our cadence of talking to people who are interested or paying attention through our marketing channels. And we're going to keep thoughtfully adding features at no extra cost to our product, so it becomes even more of a no-brainer to pay for website analytics.
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Ed Miliband will reveal today how a Labour government would reduce the cap on university tuition fees from £9K to £6K, and details of how the party plans to pay for such a reduction, which could include reducing tax relief on pensions for high earners. But what would the impact of such a reduction really be?
The Labour leader will say in a speech in Leeds later today that the rising level of student debt has been a "disaster".
Miliband will say the current system is putting unacceptable levels of debt – on average £44,000 - on to young people and proving expensive to the taxpayer, because so much of student loans has to be written off.
"The government has designed a system which is burdening students with debt today and set to weight down the taxpayer with more debt tomorrow," the Labour leader is expected to say.
"This is a system that will have added an extra £16bn more than predicted to public debt by the end of the next Parliament. If left unchecked, the system will have added £281bn to debt by 2030.
However the party's opponents disagree. A Conservative spokesman said that under the current system, the numbers of students from disadvantaged backgrounds were at their "highest ever level".
Even a Liberal Democrat, Business Secretary, Vince Cable said cutting fees would be "completely financially illiterate".
And Universities UK has warned that limiting the fees to £6,000 per year would create a £10bn funding gap over the next five years, threatening "significant damage" to the higher education system.
"Cutting the fees cap from £9,00 to £6,000 creates a £10bn funding gap over the next parliament," said Christopher Snowden, vice-chancellor of the University of Surrey and president of Universities UK.
In a speech in Leeds, Miliband will explain how cutting fees would be funded, which could include reducing tax relief on pensions for high earners, which would be used to provide funds for universities to bridge the gap from reduced fees.
University heads have also argued that the increase in tuition fees to £9,000 has not deterred applications from poorer students, instead the numbers of poorer students have risen.
Vice Chancellor of London South Bank University, Prof David Phoenix, welcomed the pledge: "Under the current system of £9,000 fees a large number of students will not be able to pay back their loan. We are storing up problems for the future by creating a large hole in public finances.
" The Labour party's proposal would reduce the level of loan write off to be dealt with by future tax payers, and should therefore ensure the sustainability of the Higher Education sector. Crucially for universities, Labour's policy will maintain the level of funding universities receive by making up the £3,000 shortfall."
The Labour leader will seek to reassure university heads that they will not lose out in the proposed changes.
The National Union of Students (NUS) has welcomed plans for a cut in fees: "Forcing debt on to students as a way of funding universities is an experiment that has failed," said NUS vice president, Megan Dunn.


Alas, we're learning more about our foods—ingredient by ingredient—and sometimes what we discover isn't pretty. Sometimes it isn't even clear. Such is the case with peanut butter and the carcinogen aflatoxin. This cancer-causing chemical is produced by naturally-occurring fungus in the soil, where foods like peanuts are grown. Peanuts, unlike hard-shelled nuts, are encased in a rather soft, porous shell, which allows for contaminants like the fungus to take hold. Is peanut butter carcinogenic? Read on.
The chemical aflatoxin has been shown to cause liver cancer in developing countries where there is a large consumption of corn, peanuts and grains grown without strict regulation of the quality of soil—yet it hasn't been proven to be a cancer-causing agent in the United States... as far as we know. Yet for individuals who are susceptible to cancer or already have compromised liver function, the issue of peanuts may be one to get familiar with.
Interestingly enough, natural peanut butters may contain more aflatoxins than commercially-processed brands like Skippy. And the "grind-your-own" peanut butter machines you see in health food stores may be the most likely culprit for containing the carcinogen, since they "sit around" the longest without refrigeration, allowing any fungus present to multiply—and these machines aren't tested for their aflatoxin levels. One shouldn't be discouraged from buying organic peanut butters—rather, always refrigerate your peanut butter, especially if organic, and even when not, to ensure any undetectable mold doesn't grow inside your jar.
Currently, all commercially-produced peanut butters, whether organic or not, must be tested for levels of aflatoxin. Some claim that conventional peanut butters contain lower levels of aflatoxin, whereas companies like Whole Foods Market advertise their products to be far below national standards. Yet proponents of commercial, conventional peanut butters like Skippy are missing something—these non-organic brands still have a contamination issue of a different name: pesticides. As stated earlier, peanuts have a very light, porous shell that allows for easy leaching of outside materials into the peanut. And conventionally-grown peanuts have an alarmingly high rate of pesticides and other chemical contamination.
The bottom line when it comes to peanut butter and your health: Buy organic to prevent pesticide contamination. Refrigerate your jar to prevent fungal growth. And if you're particularly concerned about aflatoxins, buy from top-notch natural brands like Arrowhead Mills, which claim to be completely aflatoxin-free.


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Home Caregiver -- Available Mon. -- Thurs.
Providing expert elder care in home settings.
I provide expert care for your elderly family members, either live-in or by the hour. I am trained with more than 10 years experience!