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Mr Ritz dazzles in Seagram Cup for Carroll
TORONTO, August 11, 2019 – Leading all the way in Sunday's Grade 3 Seagram Cup at Woodbine, Mr Ritz capped off a week filled with celebration for new Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame inductee Josie Carroll.
Canada's reigning Champion Older Male and Champion Male Turf Horse Mr Havercamp was the talk of the toteboard at odds of 3-5 after winning his season's debut at Saratoga in last month's Grade 3 Forbidden Apple Stakes. He got the first call out of the gate from the inside post, but Mr Ritz charged straight to the lead from post five and never looked back in the 1-1/16-mile Tapeta test.
Mr Ritz, the bettors' second choice, carved out early fractions of :24.88 and :48.57 while building up a four-length advantage ahead of the favourite. Mr Havercamp began to reel him in past three-quarters in 1:12.20, but Mr Ritz forged on to score the victory in a final time of 1:42.75.
Thor's Rocket, the second longest shot on the board at 66-1, finished 1-1/4 lengths behind in second off a ground-saving trip and 6-1 third choice Special Forces close from the back to collar Mr Havercamp in a show photo.
Jockey Patrick Husbands was reunited with Mr Ritz for their second victory as a pair and the reinsman earned his fourth Seagram Cup Stakes title.
"He came out of there and he owned the lead," said Husbands, who previously rode the colt to victory in an allowance race at Woodbine last August. "He got everything his way."
Owned and bred by Earle I. Mack, the four-year-old son of Oasis Dream out of Que Puntual picked up his first win of the season and fourth overall from nine career starts. The lion's share of the $125,000 purse boosted his bankroll over $270,000.
"This is just a really nice horse that I believed was going to improve this year and he's proving us right," said Carroll, who was among the Class of 2019 honoured at the Hall of Fame induction ceremony on Wednesday evening.
On the 100th anniversary of Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame builder Joseph E. Seagram's passing, representatives of the Seagram family and City of Waterloo Museum presented the trophy to the connections in the G.H. Mumm Champagne winner's circle. The family was represented by Edward Pollard Seagram, the youngest grandson of Joseph E. Seagram, and joined by Dave Jaworsky, Mayor of Waterloo, to make the presentation.
A nose shy of a graded stakes win in the Eclipse over the same course and distance earlier this year, Mr Ritz was sent off at odds of 5-1 and returned $12.50, $7.50 and $4.90. He combined with Thor's Rocket ($35.60, $14.90) for a $2 exacta worth $522.30. Special Forces ($5) completed the $1 trifecta, which paid $912.45, and the superfecta was worth $2,555.75 for a $1 ticket.
Are You Kidding Me, Revved Up, Florida Won (2015 Seagram Cup champion under Husbands) and Rose's Vision completed the order of the finish.
Mr Ritz and jockey Patrick Husbands winning the $125,000 Seagram Cup (Grade 3) on Sunday, Aug. 11 at Woodbine Racetrack. (Michael Burns Photo)
Live Thoroughbred racing continues at Woodbine on Wednesday evening, with the $100,000 Eternal Search Stakes featured on a special fillies and mares-filled Ladies Night at the Races. First race post time is set for 6:45 p.m. For more information on Ladies Night, visit Woodbine.com.
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The Baltic – a Field of Tensions through the Ages
The study of Seas
The idea of studying a vast sea as an entity has a formidable pioneer in Fernand Braudel, who analysed the role of the Mediterranean for the peoples around it. His La Méditerranée et le monde méditerranéen à lèpoque de Philippe II from 1949 demonstrates the extreme permanence of Mediterranean cultures, longue durée as he called it, upon which the cyclic movements of conjunctures, and the daily flow of events had little impact.
But when we turn to our Baltic – even if longue durée behaviour stems from the land and general conditions for life – we cannot claim here the almost eternal permanence which Braudel tended to see in the Mediterranean case. The structures of the Baltic Rim are certainly old, but not so old that we cannot date their origin and follow their emergence. Again and again waves of change generated outside of her system, have reached her shores. I will discuss two radical mutations in our history; both generated elsewhere, both making us – the dwellers of the Baltic Rim – into something which we weren't before, namely Europeanization and Globalization.
These complexes of change came upon us suddenly, with some centuries in between, but remained with us and developed according to their own preferences until now. Hence it seems improper to call them conjunctures, but they may not be 'eternal' enough to be labelled longue durée. The 'rhythms of history', as Braudel saw them, fail to work properly in our context. Europeanization and Globalization may represent qualities that are missing in his vision, which perhaps (seeking a Braudelian formulation) we may name changes qualitatives. Bur first there is need for some background.
The Baltic before Europeanization
The Baltic Rim always was and to some extent remains a peripheral dead end of the world, a 'finisterre' towards the Arctic. During the latest Ice Age it was fully deep frozen. But for the last 10 000 years or so, it has enjoyed a clement climate compared with other areas at similar latitudes, like Kamchatka or Alaska.
From Neolithic times on, the Rim has been influenced by civilisations of the eastern Mediterranean, and later by the Romans. The development of seagoing ships during the Iron Age made the Baltic itself, and the rivers discharging into her, into channels for heavy transportation, penetrating far into the Eurasian landmass. We may note that the armies of Charlemagne had come closer than any other extraneous conqueror, but he didn't reach the Baltic and in 813 he settled a border with the Danes. Carolingian expansion may have inspired the formation of multiregional kingdoms in Scandinavia, which we here of from then on. Charlemagne's son Louis sent missionaries to the emporia of Denmark and Sweden. But their initial success was soon wiped out by raising influences from the East. In the 930s Ottonian Germany invaded Jutland, with little effect for the time being.
Instead Viking-age Baltic was the heart of an East-West system of exchange, tying extremes like Bulgar on the Volga 'knee' and Kiev on the Dnepr together with Rouen on the Seine, and York on the Ouse. Rich finds of Islamic dirhems all around the Sea tell that the economic wind was blowing from the East in the 9th and 10th centuries. The destructive behaviour connoted with the Viking name refers to groups that were left outside of its advantages and to temporarily dysfunction of the system; it has been shown that the gathering of large Viking hosts in the North Sea coincided with periods when Arabian silver ceased to reach the Baltic.
Thus in the Viking Age the Rim remained a vast, autonomous territory, dominated by the emerging Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and Kiev-Russian multi-regional polities, to which series of tributary lands (the skattland of Norse texts), were added like pearls on a string along the main sea routes. Being a skattland was different from being a colony, more like the junior partner of an alliance. The Nordic culture thrived, developed its own unique mode of writing, together with sophisticated poetry and visual arts. Also the Rim kept good contacts with the major civilisations of Islam, Byzantium, and Western Europe, from which they could pick and choose whichever elements they favoured, without falling into dependence on any.
This fortunate situation was interrupted, when around 975 the Islamic coins ceased to come for good. The reason for this remains disputed, but it is obvious that the West was able to fill the monetary vacuum almost immediately. It is also clear that it was not only a monetary change that was going on: between 960 and 1030 most countries in northern and eastern Europe adopted Christianity.
Until about 1050 Baltic Rim polities, notably Denmark, remained quite powerful. Christian mission was carried out with moderation, and syncretism thrived. Then slowly but surely old habits where challenged by new. In the period until 1150, the West-Slavonic Vends made the most vehement resistance, refusing to give up their old many-headed gods. But in the 12th century, within a couple of generations, a flood of change swept over one country after another. Literally everything was altered – material culture, spiritual culture, social structure, political system – as the Baltic Rim was roped in by Catholic Europe. Why Europe? Why precisely in the 12th century?
The making of Europe
For some time a new kind of society had begun to form on the European continent, which saw a striking development in the 11th and 12th centuries. A well-known series of western European breakthroughs were hooking into each other. Here is a comprehensive list.
penetration of a professionalized church organisation and expansive, evangelizing monastic orders all over western Europe;
intensive growth of commerce in northern Italy, the Low Countries and the corridor in between;
development of proto-industrial textile production in the same areas;
emergence and spread of autonomous or semi-autonomous towns and cities in a wider area;
emergence and spread of a new agricultural system for colonising woodlands in a wider area;
emergence and spread of new transport, military and store house technologies in a wider area;
emergence of a more differentiated social structure, the three- or four-partite society;
integration and centrifugal expansion of these qualities in all directions, reaching the
Baltic Rim in the late 11th century;
a reception process in extant political systems outside of the core corridor leading to the emergence of more centralised kingdoms (semi-peripheral states).
The expansion wasn't foremost a military one. The struggle of the church for independence from secular leadership was to play a major role. Known to posterity as the Papal Reform programme, it was launched as a moral revolt against the imperial and royal structures of decision-making.
This had particular effects in the trans-continental 'Lotharingian' corridor, the borderland between the German-Roman Empire and the Kingdom of France. The reduction of monarchic rule made it a hot zone of gestating culture and economic growth, from Venice and Milan to Cologne and emerging Brügge. During the 12th century the fairs of Champagne became the exchange centre for all of Europe. And many spiritual orders were founded near by; adhering directly to the pope, and not to any national church, they were a driving force for internationalism. Most impressive were the five mother monasteries of the Cistercians in Champagne and Burgundy. From them more than 300 daughters were founded during the first half of the 12th century, all over Catholic Europe.
Scholars have been debating whether the expansion of towns and commerce or the dynamics of feudal agriculture lay behind the rise, but have had difficulties to handle the most conspicuous element of the period, namely the triumph of Catholic universalism. Its arguments were religious, but it came with a new political order, allowing a freer flow of people, goods and capital, at much lower costs (and risks) than during the Early Middle Ages. It can hardly be a total coincidence that its equivalent in the secular world was the forming of a rough but functioning western European commodity market in the 12th and 13th centuries.
In a recent book The Discovery of the Baltic I claim that the process of Europeanization had a fundamental similarity to the World-system model. This well established geography-of-dominance theory, describes a spatial division of labour between a developed core area, a disciplined semi-periphery and an exploited full periphery. Hence it's different from an empire.A World-system takes control without military conquest and political centralism. In its centre Braudel and others see capitalism, but in the medieval making of Europe I see something else: an unintended coalition between Church and Trade, ecclesia and mercatura, the father and mother of capitalism; unintended – since traditional Christendom despised commerce.
The result was that the extant Empire – of the German-Roman nation – more or less ceased to exist as such in the second half of the 13th century. If one considers the close geographic connection between the four main localisations of the Champagne fairs and the five mother monasteries of the Cistercians, we are not far from getting a picture of Europe's conception through ecclesia and mercatura, as precise as the ones the photographer Lennart Nilssons has shown of procreation among humans.
The Baltic Experience
Periodisation
Let us return to the Baltic. Europeanization came to us in three steps which may be called expansion, implementation and crisis by an agent of Europeanization, but resistance, acceptance and emancipation by the indigenous re-agent. Each of these phases seem to be absolved in a century and a half. Do I seriously believe in such regularities?
To be honest, I don't know. But I do know that economic historians from time to time discuss a phenomenon called the secular wave, in which economic ups and downs are measured in two-three human generations, and where so called Kondratieff cycles of 60 or 75 years are taken seriously. Braudel for one did, suggesting 1350, 1650, 1817 and 1974 as years in which the secular wave was culminating. I'm inclined to accept it too, at least as a justification for a medievalist to discuss the present and beyond. So I burn my ships and push on with it. Please accept that my secular waves for the Baltic are very tentative: may they serve as a disposition of what's coming.
Europeanization
European core area expansion/Baltic Rim resistance (1075-1225).
European core area victory/period of Baltic Rim implementation (1225-1375)
Baltic Rim emancipation from the core area (1375-1525)
Atlantic Europe goes for the World/ the former core area implodes (1525-1675)
North Sea core area organizes global World-system, industrializes and liquidates l'ancienne Regime (1675-1825)
Baltic Rim industrial implementation and ideological polarization, World wars, emergence of nation states and emergence of dominant semi-peripheries, Cold war (1825-1975)
Marginalization of North Atlantic core area? (1975-2125)
Expansion/ resistance (1075-1225)
The papal-imperial controversy had occupied the powers of the Continent in a way that might have delayed their penetration of the Rim. This direction of expansion may also have carried less priority than the liberation of the Holy Land, and the reconquesta of Spain. However from around 1120, things European began to pour into the Rim in all shapes and clothing, as a signal that what had been holding Europe back no longer did so. The second crusade in 1147 was indeed launched as a pan-European project directed towards the Holy land, Spain and the Baltic Rim, where the pagan Vends were attacked. But also in already Christianised countries, agents of Europeanization tended to appear in person and demand full scale adaptation.
All through the 12th century, a series of inter-related clashes occurred among the indigenous powers. Between royal cadets in Denmark, bagler and birkebeinar in Norway, Götar and part-time pagan Svear in Sweden; Boleslaw the Wrymouthed made an effort to integrate the Vends with Poland, but was forced aside by the German Drang nach Osten, and in Russia Novgorod broke away from Kiev. These controversies have usually been discussed as civil wars, which of course they were, but their synchronic occurrence and mutual impact points to a more systemic background. They suggest that 'a Battle of Europeanization' had begun on the Rim. The East Baltic peoples remained unaffected by the western trend, possibly under some form of Russian dominance.
In 1143 Lübeck for the first time was integrated in the German state system; from 1158 directly under the Saxon duke Henry the Lion. It was to serve as the gateway for further core area expansion. Towards the end of the 12th century, the Germans circumvented the old Nordic powers by seeking direct contacts with Gotland and 'the great lord of Novgorod'. The diagonal route via Gotland became the highway across the Baltic, leaving Denmark and Sweden in backwaters. Christian mission went hand in hand with commercial expansion, taking the shape of crusades around 1200, which led to the formation of German led Livonia in the East Baltic. Denmark and Sweden tried to compensate for this by taking control over the Finnish Gulf and Neva estuary, a project that Sweden withheld well into the 18th century.
The Implementation phase (1225-1375)
Around 1225 Lübeck and a group of wealthy cities in the German core area, in firm alliance with Gotland and the newly founded Riga, tried to open a new route into Russia along the Daugava. Fore a while Novgorod seemed to be sidestepped but came back around 1260, when Russia had fallen under Mongol control.
Around the Baltic things European were implemented. Most towns and cities that exist today werefounded according to West European patterns, organised as burgher communities led by burgomaster and council, under particular urban laws and trade privileges. Churches were founded and parishes were roped in, forming a basic structure that still remains. Between the churches and leading to the towns, the fundamental inland route system was laid out.
In Northern Germany, Denmark, Sweden, and the so called Order state central power was organised, which had means of enforcement, with which the country could be run even against the will of its inhabitants. The monuments of state formation both on this and on the eastern side of the Baltic, are castles, most of them today in ruins. On the southern coast of the Baltic Vends and Pruzzians disappeared as nations, probably not due to genocide, but due to an economic policy that made them to Germanise.
The establishment of central power and social differentiation into estates allowed for agricultural expansion, which could be linked to the international trade network, and it allowed for a social class of Junkers (as the expression goes) to establish manors and take control of a major part of the production. The entire southern and eastern coast of the Baltic became great exporters of grain. Freemen were gradually suppressed into leibeigenshaft (serfdom): this classical ancienne regime inequality, was upheld into the 19th and 20th century, remembered with nostalgia by some and hatred by others.
Behind the World-system horizon Russia had fallen under the Mongol Khanate. Another great power was developed by the Lithuanians around Kernave and Vilnius. Both these were pre-European in nature, chiefly built up by network associations, akin to the old Viking system.
Semi-periphery frees itself from the core area (1375-1525)
In 1375 the west European expansion had reached full success: the Hanseatic League ruled the waves from Novgorod to London; Platdeutsch was spoken everywhere; a Mecklenburg dynasty sat in Sweden; the Order state prepared new advances against the Lithuanians. In 1386 Grand Duke Jagiello married Princess Jadviga of Poland, accepted Catholicism and ascended to the Polish throne. This Krakauer Hochzeit immediately formed an East European great power, which in 1410 delivered a serious blow to further ideas of German Drang nach Osten in the Battle of Tannenberg (Grünwald). The Order state began to decline and in 1525 Prussia fell in the hands of Poland
Another union was forming in Scandinavia. Applying the dynastic principles of regimen regale Margaret, princess of Denmark, queen of Norway, laid claims on all three kingdoms for her son Olav. When he however died at the age of 17, she carried the project trough for her nephew Bogislav of Pommerania, renamed him Erik (after Sweden's national saint) and saw him crowned in Kalmar 1397 as joint king of Denmark, Sweden, and Norway. Another great power had been founded in the North. After the death of Margaret in 1412, Erik began a forceful centralization policy around Öresund – where he thought to outmatch the Hanse by inviting the Dutch. Dissatisfied groups in Sweden revolted in 1434 and several times again until Sweden eventually left the union in 1521.
Also in Russia a slumbering giant was slowly awakening in the shape of Muscovy. The fall of Byzantium in 1453 had provided an opportunity to boast it as the defensor of Orthodoxy, the marriage of Ivan III to Byzantine heiress Zôe, and the claim to be a 'third Rome' provided arguments for the assumption of imperial status. Freeing itself from the Mongolian hegemony, Muscovy gathered the Russian lands, reaching Novgorod in 1478. Czarist Russia entered the game over the Baltic with high political ambitions corresponding to the assumed exalted profile.
Meanwhile, the European continent had been shaken by a grave demographic setback in the latter part of the 14th century, followed by the so called agrarian crisis, which changed the balance between feudal land hegemony and urban proto-capitalism. The Lotharingian corridor lost momentum as a new core area was forming along Europe's Atlantic coast, as the first phase of expansion overseas was entered in the 15th century. Much closer to this new core area, the Baltic Rim was drawn more intimately into its spell. The Hanse declined as Poland and Livonia became the chief purveyors of grain to the Low Countries. By the end of the period several nations – basically the ones butting on the Atlantic and Baltic coasts – cut their ties with Rome, assuming the Protestant reform.
To sum up Europeanization, Catholic ethics had been implemented everywhere in western Europe together with an unsurpassed system of individual control, which the Protestant churches were to preserve; it was holding ground formidably up until World War II. For elite groups the church gradually became an arena, where it was necessary to appear, and a medium through which one could achieve goals – economical, political, social as well as spiritual or cultural. In Early Modern times the secular church – Catholic as well as Protestant – was somehow incorporated as an element of the State. The Papacy declined together with the various spiritual orders. A culture border was cemented between western Europe and the eastern Orthodoxy.
Atlantic Europe goes for the World (1525-1675)
A new secular growth cycle took off in the early 15th century from Portugal and Spain to Holland and England, where new sea going ship-types started to penetrate non-European islands and continents. The leading entrepreneurs made enormous profits and gradually emerged as a particular class of merchant capitalists. A classical theory launched by Max Weber suggests that the capitalist spirit was a function of protestant ethics, notably Calvinism. This may be true, but it's fair to say that the amalgamation of ecclesia and mercatura already in medieval times saw it coming. Early Modern colonial expeditions were more than ever joint ventures between church and trade, but now often also with an understanding from the state. Pagan souls were still to be saved, their land and particular resources was a fair compensation, and the state could provide soldiers, as well as protect the conquests through international law.
The former core area across the Continent stayed in its previous forms; northern Italy and the eastern Mediterranean sank back in semi-peripheral functions, whereas the Baltic Rim became the purveyor of all kinds of necessities for the transoceanic expansion, ship masts, hemp, iron, copper, food stuffs, you name it. Öresund became one of the hotspots of World trade. In 1560 the Order state collapsed. Surrounding powers rallied to grab a share; Sweden and Poland were most successful. The possibility of these two powers joining forces occurred for a moment when Sigismund Vasa was chosen king of Poland, as well as inherited the Swedish crown, but fell after a few years due to structural differences and poor statesmanship – Sweden by that time was thoroughly Lutheran, whereas Poland had remained chiefly Catholic. But the countries of the Rim were growing. In Norrland we do have an India, a Swedish nobleman exclaimed in 1634, upon the information that silver had been traced in the north.
It is to be noted that Czarist Russia behaved similarly: albeit she continued her effort to reach the World seas, under repeated warfare with Sweden, and Poland-Lithuania with little success so far: the colonisation frontier trade began penetrating into Siberia reaching the Pacific Ocean, where Ochotsk was founded in 1649. The pay off for this effort took centuries. But already in this period a policy was launched to catch up with western technology and administrative know-how and a colony of Westerners was established in Moscow. However the structures were generally very negative to change, causing friction at every instance, and Russia continued to be ruled as a rather harsh empire.
In 1618 what was to become the thirty-years war broke out in the Habsburg Empire, assuming the character of a religious war. First Denmark, then Sweden – with considerably more success – interfered to defend the Protestant powers, and were thereby fighting the war for the Atlantic core area. This in turn fell apart according to religious preferences when counter-reformation stopped the spread of Protestantism in Spain, Portugal and France. From then on, momentum was with the North Sea powers. It was among them Europe for a second time caused the conditions of life to change on a general level. It occurred in the 18th century. Why then? And why in the North Sea area?
The second change qualitative – Globalization
North Sea core area organises Global World-system and liquidates l'ancienne regime (1675-1825)
For two hundred years wealth had been accumulating in Holland, England and some adjacent tracts, through trade and resource exploitation on a global scale, when around 1750 a new radical change qualitative began in their midst. A much discussed series of breakthroughs hooked into each other re-shaping not only the western European core and semi-peripheries, but virtually the whole World; again a few remainders may suffice:
application of scientific methods on industrial production, beginning in England and gradually spreading in western Europe;
productivity raise and sinking prices revolutionised world trade, organised by the North Sea core area and secured by colonial penetration of Africa, the Near East, and India;
technology spill-over on transportation opened up inland districts (railways) and made exchange with other continents more reliable (steamships);
industry shaken by recurrent crises of over-production with non-extant social security for workers, their concentration to factories and suburbs generated new political polarisation;
'bourgeois' revolutions in North America (1776) and France (1789); both drawing from enlightenment philosophy and reacting against l'ancienne regime privileges;
the new social and political issues amalgamated into the principles of ethno-nationalism and democracy, however meeting conservative resistance claiming nationalism for its own interest, leading to the formation of political parties on the 'left' to 'right' scale, parliamentarism, public opinion through press.
On the Baltic Rim Russia dethroned Sweden and got access to the Sea, Poland was divided by its neighbours and wiped out from the political map, whereas Prussia emerged as a major power. Both new leading powers were imperial in their structure, whereas Sweden and Denmark began new careers as small nations rather closely integrated with the North Sea core area, soon accompanied by a fairly autonomous Norway.
Industrial implementation combustion of European Core area and emergence of new dominant Semi-peripheries (1825-1975)
In the period to come industrial revolution gradually spread from the North Sea core area over the European continent together with an unintended chain reaction questioning royal, noble and ecclesiastic prerogatives, all reaching the Baltic Rim in around 1840/60. Industrialisation caused a demographic boom in western Europe, leading to mass migrations from the countryside to urban areas, and later on to 'empty continents'. The ideas of enlightenment continued to spread over the European continent, small peoples boasted their rights to form their own national polity, whereas shattered groups of people endeavoured to join an 'imagined' nation; the medieval society of estates was gradually replaced by the notion of the upper, middle and working classes. I find this famous painting summing up the industrialised world beautifully. Look at the chimneys.
Towards the end of the 19th century a new wave of technical innovations followed, featuring the use of electricity, the combustion engine and so forth, all furthering more mechanised production and swifter, more reliable communications, which initiated a partly new series of chain reactions in the 20th century. The two World wars were characterised by new technology and industrial perspectives; they were largely challenges by semi-peripheral empires against the North Sea governed World-system.
From the 1920s the North American east coast had joined the North Sea core area. The allied victories in World wars I and II serve as evident confirmation; the first one liquidated three semi-peripheral Empires, the second stopped still semi-peripheral terror-states to take a short cut into global control; the Cold war was another struggle between a still rather imperial Soviet and a North Atlantic World system. Development on the Baltic Rim saw recurring duels between the Russian and newly formed German empires, and their consecutive reconstructions and/or collapses in 1917/18, 1933/45 and 1989, by which minor nations sometimes disappeared and sometimes were resurrected. What about the future?
One factor which I have followed in this paper is the duality between empires and World-systems, in other words between socioeconomic organisation based on coercion and market mechanisms respectively. I'll have to make clear that the difference is one of shades; no society exists that is purely one or the other. My focus has been on the Catholic World-system that emerged as Europe found its still extant shape in the Middle Ages, and on the Capitalist World-system that grew out of that in the Early Modern and Modern periods.
What was historically new in medieval Europeanization wasn't feudalism, trade or state formation, but rational, scientifically conducted ethics and morals. What was really new in modern Globalization wasn't capitalism, colonialism or triangular trade, but rational, scientifically conducted production and distribution. Churches were the factories of the Middle Ages; factories the churches of the modern. Both had the power to organise much longer chains-of-exchange than before, multiplying accumulation in the core area, which however spread with economic growth and qualitative improvement also to the peripheries. Hence we have found recurrent examples of 'peripheral revenge'.
Globalization hasn't replaced Europeanization; both are with us now. The Fall of the Berlin Wall and the Maastricht treaty certainly released a new wave of Europeanization. Even if the original process of Europeanization took almost three medieval centuries to fulfil, until the last Semigalian had been Christianised; there are quite many similarities in the modern repetition, which suggest that the Middle Ages remain as a pattern, which is not to be neglected even in the 21st century.
This map expresses the economic expectations of the European community in the early 1990s. You may have seen many similar ones. It shows the famous Blue Banana – the area which is expected to be the great winner of present day European cooperation. It's a mere copy of the Lotharingian corridor.
But how does this new European house fit into the global village of the future? Today's core area may still stretch over the North Atlantic, but tendencies are already strong that it's reforming around the Pacific.
Having caused two major qualitative changes during the second millennium, Europe now runs the risk of becoming a periphery. Also incitements for further growth may loose momentum, in a world were the chains-of-exchange cannot grow further? And what will happen when the oil resources run dry? The climate runs amok? Nuclear technology falls in the hands of desperate terrorists? I have better stop!

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Too early for Christmas? Maybe just a little–but seriously, there are so many things I love about this kitchen that have nothing to do with seasonal decor that I had to share it with you. This kitchen, featured by At Home In Arkansas, was designed by Tobi Fairley and her mother, Beverly Wells. I found some really great tutorials to recreate parts of this Christmas kitchen. Some are perfect for holiday decor, but most can be used year round to get your kitchen looking as bright and welcoming as this one. Enjoy!


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Алексе́й Гурья́нович Весело́в (род. 1924 год) — старший конвертерщик комбината «Североникель» имени В. И. Ленина объединения «Никель» Министерства цветной металлургии СССР, Мурманская область.металлург. Герой Социалистического Труда (1971).

Биография
Родился в 1924 году в деревне Дмитриево Вологодской губернии СССР.

В Великую Отечественную войну трудился в колхозе. С февраля 1942 года служил в действующей армии, командир 45-мм противотанкового орудия в 65-м гвардейском стрелковом полку 22-й гвардейской стрелковой дивизии. В феврале 1943 года был тяжело ранен. После излечения в 1944 году продолжил боевой путь стрелком-радистом на авиационной базе..

С 1950 года работал на комбинате «Североникель», где сменил несколько мест — сигналиста, конверторщика, старшего конверторщика, формовщика, бригадира формовщиков.
По итогам работы в 7-й семилетке (1959–1965) награждён орденом Трудового Красного Знамени.

Указом Президиума Верховного Совета СССР от 30 марта 1971 года за выдающиеся заслуги, достигнутые в развитии цветной металлургии, Веселову Алексею Гурьяновичу присвоено звание Героя Социалистического Труда с вручением ордена Ленина и золотой медали «Серп и Молот».

Позже работал формовщиком и бригадиром формовщиков на комбинате «Североникель».

После достижения пенсионного возраста по горячей сетке продолжил работать в спортивном комплексе «Североникеля».

Проживал в Мончегорске. Дата смерти не установлена.

Награды и звания

 Золотая медаль «Серп и Молот» (30.03.1971)
 Орден Ленина (30.03.1971)
 Орден Трудового Красного Знамени (20.05.1966)
 Орден Отечественной войны I степени (11.03.1985)
 медаль «За отвагу»  (06.11.1947)
 Медаль «В ознаменование 100-летия со дня рождения Владимира Ильича Ленина» (6 апреля 1970)
 Медаль «За трудовое отличие»(27.12.1954)
 Медаль «За победу над Германией в Великой Отечественной войне 1941—1945 гг.» (9 мая 1945)
 Юбилейная медаль «Двадцать лет Победы в Великой Отечественной войне 1941—1945 гг.» (7 мая 1965)
 Юбилейная медаль «Тридцать лет Победы в Великой Отечественной войне 1941—1945 гг.»
 Медаль «Сорок лет Победы в Великой Отечественной войне 1941-1945 гг.»
 Медаль «Ветеран труда»
 Медаль «30 лет Советской Армии и Флота»
 Юбилейная медаль «40 лет Вооружённых Сил СССР»
 Юбилейная медаль «50 лет Вооружённых Сил СССР» (26 декабря 1967)
 Юбилейная медаль «60 лет Вооружённых Сил СССР» (28 января 1978)
 Юбилейная медаль «70 лет Вооружённых Сил СССР» (28 января 1988)
 Знак «Гвардия»
 Знак МО СССР «25 лет Победы в Великой Отечественной войне» (24 апреля 1970)

 звание почётного металлурга СССР (1971)

Память
 На могиле установлен надгробный памятник.
 Его имя увековечено в Главном Храме Вооружённых сил России, и навсегда запечатлено на мемориале «Дорога памяти»

См. также
 Герои Социалистического Труда Мурманской области

Примечания

Литература

 Белоусов В. С. С металлом на «ты» // Полярная правда. — 1971. — 14 апр.
 Веселов Алексей Гурьянович//Белоусов В. Золотые звезды Заполярья. – Мурманск, 2008. – С. 111-113
 Науч.-изд. совет: Евдокимов Ю. А. (пред. НИС) [и др.]. Кольская энциклопедия. — Санкт-Петербург: ООО Сказ, 2008. — Т. I. — С. 396. — 593 с. — 5000 экз. — ISBN 978-5-9637-0023-5

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 ВЕСЕЛОВ Алексей Гурьянович

Кольская ГМК
Почётные металлурги СССР
Герои Социалистического Труда
Члены КПСС
Персоналии:Мурманск
Миномётчики Великой Отечественной войны

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Brandi Glanville Hints at Possible RHOBH Return
Real Housewives fans may be getting a surprise Christmas gift.
The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills alum Brandi Glanville fueled rumors of her return to the Bravo reality series with a Tweet on Dec. 26. She shared a video of her hand opening to reveal none other than a dazzling diamond, captioned, "I love this Christmas present."
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This isn't the first time Brandi has hinted at a RHOBH return. Just before the holidays on Dec. 21, she posted a pic of herself on Instagram and Twitter, cryptically captioned, "Never gone for too long..see you soon."
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Cosy/ classic crime
The Mistletoe Murder and Other Stories
A collection of 4 short stories from P.D. James, published together for the first time.
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As the acknowledged 'Queen of Crime' P.D. James was frequently commissioned by newspapers and magazines to write a special short story for Christmas. Four of the very best of these have been rescued from the archives and are published together for the first time. P.D. James's sparkling prose illuminates each of these perfectly formed stories, making them ideal reading for the darkest days of the year. While she delights in the secrets that lurk beneath the surface at enforced family gatherings, her Christmas stories also provide enjoyable puzzles to keep the reader guessing.
From the title story about a strained country house gathering on Christmas Eve, another about an illicit affair that ends in murder, and two cases for James's poet-detective Adam Dalgliesh — each treats the reader to James's masterfully atmospheric story-telling, always with the lure of a mystery to be solved.
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Will Frustrated Store Managers Revolt Against Corporate CRM?
Frustrated by what some see as IT executives hoarding CRM information, retail store managers are starting to do an end run around corporate with their own customer-information-gathering systems.
One result of this retail technology revolt are smart store kiosks, which today do a lot more than display electronic brochures. As the technology has become much more portable, these stand-alone machines?loaded with tons of hard-disk space and RAM and no Internet connection in sight?are allowing store management to gather much of their own information, which they may never get around to sharing with corporate IT.
This is a trend that seemed to get its start in the car-dealer segment, with its tradition of dealers switching to another carmaker and therefore making corporate hesitant to share too much information. But it now seems to be creeping into more traditional retail segments, and consultants watching the trend see it as the logical result of store manager frustration.
What's the nature of this frustration? The store managers have been asked to support and administer quite a few corporate-dictated CRM (customer relationship management) programs. And yet, they complain, they see little usable information delivered back to the stores, and what does come back is often little, late and not addressing the questions the store managers?as opposed to IT executives at headquarters?want answered.
Store managers "are being asked to do a lot of things at the store level, such as signing customers up for loyalty programs and performing updates to keep the data clean," said Catharine Harding, vice president of retail at sales optimization software firm Blue Martini Software. "They are feeling a lot of frustration that they don't get to see the benefits."
Tom Byrnes, director for marketing for interactive retail at kiosk-maker Planar Systems, agreed. "It is getting very difficult for people in the front lines [store management] to be able to access the kind of data they need to improve the customer experience," he said.
Harding said a small part of the blame can be directed at the very origins of the typical CRM system, which was never designed to be used in the way many retail operations are now using them. They were designed to analyze things like how a quarter of a million ad mailings are doing and whether the campaign response rate could be improved somehow. Store managers, on the other hand, are more focused on things like identifying their store's top customers and their preferences.
A larger chunk of the blame for this disconnect can be given to IT procedures and methodologies, although not necessarily to the senior IT executives themselves, Harding said. "I recently talked with two store managers, who told me what they have to go through to get reports" that are store-relevant, she said. "It was an arcane system to request and to join certain kinds of data."
If you want to blame corporate managers for the frustration, Harding said, don't look at IT: Look at marketing. "The central marketing department. That's where they feel, 'God forbid, the store sent out their own campaign and it wasn't corporate branding.'" Marketers also often fear that store managers might saturate customers with direct mail and contacts "because we're not controlling the store e-mails."
Another market observer is Margo Zenk, technical director and senior partner for Matrix Consultants, a marketing firm that specializes in kiosks. One of her clients is $21 billion car/motorcycle vendor Suzuki. Suzuki's store managers didn't want to share information with the area's other store managers, let alone corporate IT or marketing. "They're not into sharing any information," she said.
In those environments, today's kiosks are a good fit. Unlike an in-store PC with a Web connection, the kiosks have hard disks and memory sufficient to seamlessly run very high-end animations, the kind of multimedia that would either be too cumbersome for download or streaming. The devices can also be placed anywhere, including parking lots, and can show elaborate product demonstrations.
Most importantly, many kiosks today are two-way, which can turn them into information-gathering and sometimes even CRM units.
Consider $11 billion Nike, which bills itself as the world's leading designer, marketer and distributor of authentic athletic footwear, apparel, equipment and accessories. But Nike is also becoming a significant retailer, with 15 Niketowns, more than 80 Nike Factory Stores and two stores intended to attract active woman called NIKEgoddess Boutiques.
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"Kiosks are not necessarily just Web on a stick," said Planar's Byrnes, whose company makes those kiosks for Nike. "The new kiosks are much more single-purposed, much more product-specific."
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This Ibanez advert features the a selection of models from the Roadstar II Deluxe Series. This series was the foundation of what eventually became the hugely successful RG series.
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The 2015 Ford Fiesta is a fun compact that is a sensible choice as a first car, second car or your daily commuter. The Fiesta boasts the smallest frame Ford has to offer, and the lowest starting MSRP. Its long list of features and available options make it a smart choice if you are looking for value for your dollar. There are three versions of the Fiesta available for 2015, the Fiesta Sedan, the Fiesta Hatch and the sporty Fiesta ST.
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For the first time since 2012, the Legacy lineup will feature a turbocharged engine. Standard on XT models, the 2.4-liter turbocharged BOXER engine delivers brisk acceleration and robust all-around performance, with 260 horsepower at 5,600 rpm and 277 lb-ft of torque from 2,000-4,800 rpm. Mated to a high-torque Lineartronic CVT with manual mode and steering wheel paddle control switches, the 2.4-liter BOXER launches Legacy XT from 0-60 mph in an estimated 6.1 seconds. Fuel economy for the turbo is equally impressive, with a manufacturer's estimation of 24/32 mpg city/highway. For 2020, the Legacy's CVT hydraulic system features a lower viscosity oil that reduces horsepower loss by 32 percent compared to the previous model's CVT, helping the new model achieve both higher fuel economy and greater driving performance.
With standard Subaru Symmetrical All-Wheel Drive and EyeSight Driver Assist Technology as well as available tablet-style high-definition 11.6-inch SUBARU STARLINK multimedia screen, DriverFocus Distraction Mitigation System and new XT models with 260 horsepower, the 2020 Legacy offers greater technology, performance, safety and refinement than ever before.


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Henry H. Harter
1801–12 March 1865 (Age 64)
Franklin, Virginia, United States
The Life Summary of Henry H.
When Henry H. Harter was born in 1801, in Franklin, Virginia, United States, his father, Jacob Harter, was 24 and his mother, Elizabeth Hautz, was 22. He married Sarah Phillips in 1826, in Franklin, Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Lanier Township, Preble, Ohio, United States in 1850 and Round Prairie Township, Jefferson, Iowa, United States in 1860. He died on 12 March 1865, in Jefferson, Iowa, United States, at the age of 64, and was buried in Fairfield Cemetery, Fairfield Township, Buena Vista, Iowa, United States.
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1812 · Monumental Church Built
The Monumental Church was built between 1812-1814 on the sight where the Richmond Theatre fire had taken place. It is a monument to those that died in the fire.
1819 · Panic! of 1819
With the Aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars the global market for trade was down. During this time, America had its first financial crisis and it lasted for only two years.
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Absolutely chuffed that Johnny the Friendly Lawyer has popped up with this particular contribution. He's another who has contributed to both blogs on numerous occasions offering his views and thoughts on many a posting. And unusually for an American legal eagle, he's never once invoiced me!!!
Of all the UK post-punk bands that should have hit it big in the States but didn't—The Jam, Elvis Costello, the Bunnymen, Smiths, Magazine, and countless others—Swindon's XTC are among the most criminally overlooked. Maybe it's because they stopped touring in 1982, when principal singer-songwriter Andy Partridge was overcome by stage fright. Maybe it's because they didn't get the label support they needed from Virgin. Maybe it's because American radio was then and remains to this day absolute crap. In any event, the reason is NOT because XTC didn't have the tunes.
And the man responsible for some of the band's best tunes is founding bassist and co-vocalist Colin Moulding. Partridge fronted the band and wrote the majority of its songs, including some all time classics ('Senses Working Overtime', 'Respectable Street' and 'Mayor of Simpleton' come to mind). But the less quirky, unprepossessing bassist wrote more than his share of classics. This imaginary compilation offers a modicum of recognition to one of the most unsung heroes of the era, Colin Moulding.
Although the band had been around for a while and had already released two albums, XTC really clicked into gear when original member Barry Andrews jumped ship to join Robert Fripp and his League of Gentlemen (decamping soon thereafter to form Shriekback). In came guitar wiz/fellow Swindonian Dave Gregory and XTC's two-guitar, pop-focused sound was nailed down. 1978's White Music and Go 2 contained several Moulding songs, but nothing that compares to this masterpiece. It was released as a non-album single in 1979 but was included as the lead track on the American version of Drums and Wires, the band's 3rd LP, but first minus Andrews and plus Gregory. Instantly catchy like all good pop songs, 'Hop' is the true beginning of XTC and the perfect re-introduction of Mr. Moulding.
Another single and the opening track of the UK version of Drums and Wires. One of the band's best known and loved songs, but what is it about, exactly? Parents planning their child's future? A comment on English society's emphasis on steady employment? Never been able to work that out, but I do love this number. Interesting to note that 'Nigel', 'Life Begins at the Hop' and the Moulding-written '10 Feet Tall' were all included on the American release, and were the only singles from the album.
XTC are, for lack of a better word, a singable band. This track, also from Black Sea, only has a few chords but the vocal line is so melodic it makes the song irresistibly catchy. Even the middle eight ("Mouse takes the bait…"), with its standard C-G-A-D progression, sounds fresh with Moulding singing lead, as he does on most (but not all) of the songs he wrote.
The second single from the band's 5th LP, English Settlement. XTC have often been called 'Beatle-esque' and it's sort of true with this track, which to my ears bears a passing resemblance to 'Getting Better'.
One of the charming things about XTC, for us in the colonies anyway, is how profoundly English they are. Maybe that's the reason they never made it over here. I don't know—I hear the opening line "People rushing round with no time to spare" and it reminds me of millions of people, swarming like flies round Waterloo underground. The pace of the song, the intricate guitar figures, the vocal melody—all these show a band at the top of its game. But, soon after this record, Partridge shut down the touring machine, drummer Terry Chambers left, and they lost the plot. It took them years to get it back.
Four years and two more albums to be exact. XTC released Mummer in 1983 and The Big Express in 1984, both of which sank without a trace. 'Wonderland' was a Moulding single from Mummer which many people liked (not me). But XTC found their feet again in 1986 with the brilliant, Todd Rundgren-produced Skylarking. Often described as a 'pastoral' album, Skylarking is terrific start to finish. Widely considered Partridge's tour de force, the LP nonetheless contained four great Moulding tunes, including this one, the album's lead single.
"And here's yer other album single", as our host might say. Little known fact: XTC made headlines with the controversial Partridge tune 'Dear God.' It's a great song with an interesting video to match, but it first came out as the B-side to Moulding's 'Grass.' It was only after U.S. college radio stations picked up on the song that it got its own single release, eventually replacing 'Mermaid Smiled' on later pressings of the LP. More trivia: the drummer on Skylarking was Prairie Prince, the original drummer of American corporate rock perpetrators Journey and later a member of art/glam/goof band the Tubes.
Second single off Oranges & Lemons, whose title I only recently learned was from an English nursery rhyme. Notice how we're up to song 9 of the Moulding compilation and seven of the tracks were singles? Not bad for the band's auxiliary songwriter.
Here we are at the end of the set and I've yet to mention how great a bassist Moulding is! If it wasn't obvious from the previous tracks it should be from this one, on which his melodic, fretless lines are themselves little songs. Had Moulding never written a note or sung a word, XTC wouldn't have been complete without his exceptional bass-playing. I bought my first bass in 1980 at aged 17, and Moulding quickly became a personal hero, ranked only behind the remarkable Graham Maby (from Joe Jackson's band) and the all-time best bassist of the era, the Attractions' Bruce Thomas.
XTC followed Oranges & Lemons with Nonsuch in 1992, then went quiet for seven years, eventually releasing Apple Venus and Wasp Star in 1999 and 2000, respectively. Then they packed it in. Moulding wrote songs for all of the last three albums, but none, I think, that merits inclusion in place of any of my chosen ten. Haven't a clue as to what Mr. Moulding is up to now.
Indulging their 60's psychedelia fetish to the extreme, XTC released an excellent EP and LP under the pseudonym The Dukes of Stratosphear.
What In The World??…, written under the name The Red Curtain (Partridge called himself Sir John Johns) appeared on 1985's 25 O'Clock, his bass front and center in a McCartney/Taxman bounce.
The Dukes returned in 1987 with Psonic Psunspot, on which Moulding/Curtain's Vanishing Girl appeared. The Dukes' two releases were later compiled together as Chips from the Chocolate Fireball. This kitschy homage to Barrett-era Pink Floyd, the Beatles and the Beach Boys contains some of the band's best work and is well worth a listen.
I'm a big fan of Colin Moulding's contribution to the XTC cannon.
While both 'Mummer' and 'Big Express' are not their best work, two of Moulding's contributions to those two albums are the highlights – 'Deliver Us From The Elements' and 'Wake Up'.
You've made this Yank proud. The Moulding angle was a smart one. Otherwise, you've got a Clash problem on your hands and you start pulling your hair out. My first thought was that you have to include something from White Music or Go2. I'm a huge fan of the Barry Andrews era. Upon closer inspection, you were correct. He hadn't quite come into his own yet. The manic Cross Wires was the only Moulding song I could even come close to considering, and I don't think that one warrants a bump of one of your choices. Completely on board with ending this thing at Oranges & Lemons too. Have you ever heard the King for a Day demo on Coat of Many Cupboards? It's amazing how far the fellas advanced that one. Finally, great plug for Dukes of Stratosphear. Vanishing Girl might just be the best of this lot.
I didn't know this band… And man, do I repent.
JTFL – Glad to see more love for Colin Moulding and his contributions to XTC! Your Imaginary Compilation reads like one of my walkman cassettes which got be to college and work in Manhattan back in those years!
I'm just really glad I got to see XTC on their Drums & Wires era tour and their last tour for Black Sea. That last show at NYC's Palladium is etched in my memory and I still have my yellow and white XTC baseball shirt to prove it!
A fabbo selection, but I can't conceive of missing the crucial track from "English Settlement," the riveting "Runaways." Also love for The Colonel single from these quarters, though technically not XTC.
@ PPM: tough call on 'Runaways', but that's the challenge of these imaginary comps. @ Echorich: That Palladium show is legendary! So jealous!
Got to say that I love XTC, and I'm from Swindon too. When 3D EP came out I was apart time DJ and frequented a great record shop in town called "Flashback Records" and the owner had an idea of my taste (punks and eclectic new wave) and he'd frequently order stuff in for me.
He played me 3D EP and I fell in love although knew nothing about the band.
I used to DJ for my school's social club and would always turn up early so to play the records I really liked at a volume that really appealed (if it's too loud, you're too old) and the school caretaker wandered in to the hall – like most school caretakers the best years of his life were behind him and to me, a mere 17 year old he seemed really ancient. When I'd finished playing 3D EP he came to the stage and asked whether I liked what I'd just played.
I said I thought it was great and he said "That's really great because my son's on there). I knew him as Chas Moulding and checked the sleeve and low and behold – there was Colin.
Anyway, XTC used to dress up and play regular Christmas gigs in town (and others too) and I never missed one – until AP retired from gigging (just realised that we share the same initials, how wierd).
I don't disagree with these great Colin songs but…………… Down a Peg!!!


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Music is one of the best forms of entertainment and is something which can totally boost or change your mood in a matter of a few seconds. If you are someone who loves to listen to music and is interested in downloading music on your PC or other device, then one thing that you can do is to download it through music torrents. Torrents allow you to install songs on your device for absolutely free of cost. There are many amazing torrent software and torrent search engines which can help you with this. To know more about the same, you can go through the following given information.
One of the best ways to download music is through music torrents and this can be done by using apps. If you are a tablet or phone user, then you can make use of torrent apps to install and download your favorite songs on your device to enjoy them for absolutely free of cost. The following are a few steps which will help you understand the steps of downloading music torrents from apps.
Step 1 Download torrent software like Bittorrent.
Firsly, download torrent software platform on your device and some of the examples of such software's that you can download are Bittorrent, uTorrent and others. To download such software, what you need to do is to go to the app store of your phone and then enter the name of the software. Install the app.
Step 2 Get music torrent files.
The next step is to go to your browser, enter the name of the torrent search engine from which you wish to install torrent files and then enter the home page. In the search box, enter the name of the music track or album which you wish to download. On doing so, a list of all possible torrent files will be presented in front of you. Select the best option after reading the comments and then click on install or download.
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Now that you have clicked on download torrent file, you will get a file link on clicking which the download of the song will begin in the software platform.
If you wish to download the music tracks or albums on your PC, then rather than using the app, you will have to do so via the software with the similar way. To do so, you can follow the following given steps.
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The construction industry needs to build high volumes of affordable but energy efficient housing in order to meet Government targets of 400,000 new homes during the current Parliament. But with the added elements of a major skills shortage throughout the supply chain and the need to cut carbon emissions to meet Building Regulations and national commitments making this a perfect storm of challenges, how can industry deliver? Part of the solution to this daunting problem might already be here with the invention of the WikiHouse, a democratic as well as affordable approach to housebuilding that enables everyone to build a house.
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SHADER_PATH = os.path.abspath(os.path.join(RESOURCE_PATH, 'shaders', 'simple'))
IMAGE_PATH = os.path.abspath(os.path.join(RESOURCE_PATH, 'images',
                                          'uvtemplate.dds'))

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lib.Core_Init(core, SHADER_PATH.encode('utf-8'), IMAGE_PATH.encode('utf-8'))
lib.Core_Run(core)

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If you want to change a habit, you need the right tools.
So I was in this woman's living room one time, talking about buying her house off her. It was a deal that came through a friend of a friend, and I love dealing directly with the vendor.
Anyway, we're having a cuppa, but she's spending half her time trying to manage her dog. It was this largeish black poodle. It was kind of the worst of both worlds – too large to really be a house dog, but still yappy and silly looking.
And it had this kind of pretentious name – like Clarence or something.
All in a very soft, sugary voice.
"That's ok," I say, but at this point I'm wondering if she's maybe just a little bit crazy.
But I hold my tongue. It felt like reasoning with her would be as effective as reasoning with Clarence.
Dogs are amazing creatures. They are sensitive and intelligent, and you've got to love their loyalty and commitment. But they also love clear boundaries, and discerning right from wrong through language-driven reasoning is just not one of their talents.
That's not their fault. They're dogs.
But for now, tie Clarence to a post in your mind. We'll come back to him.
Last week I was talking about the fact that success is often a habit-driven process. Our habits – the way we instinctively react to situations – either get us going in the right or wrong direction, even before we've consciously processed what's going on.
A smoker can find themselves pulling out a cigarette and lighting it up before they've even had a chance to say, oh hang on, I've quit.
Habits are one of the human's great efficiency systems. Life would be too hectic if we had to assess and think through every situation we were presented with – there'd be too much mental processing.
And so if we find a strategy that tends to work with a certain situation, we lock it in. We create a software sub-routine, that says, when we meet situation X, respond with action Y.
Once the sub-routine is established, it just runs in the background, and we can free up our minds to think about other things, like a splitter deal in the outer suburbs of Brisbane.
Except, of course, when things go wrong. One time, you got scared at the top of a slippery dip, and you ran back to your mother's arms. You felt safe again. Later some kid pushed you off the see-saw. You run back to your mother's arms. You felt safe.
After a while you developed a habit. When presented with a scary situation, run away and find protection in someone who cares for you.
The habit created successful outcomes (with a narrow definition of success) at the time, but laboured you with a habit that would go on to hold you back in later life.
So how do we shift it? How do we transform habits like this?
Well, the thing to remember is that habits live in the most primal parts of the brain. There was an amazing case study about a guy who had a stroke and lost his hypothalamus – a small part of his brain that controls memory, and is sort of a gate-keeper between the conscious and unconscious life.
As a result he had no ability to build new memories. If you sat in the same room with him, he would introduce himself, as if for the first time, every few minutes.
BUT he could learn habits. They played games with him where he had to choose the right card in order from a display of 16 cards. After a few months of playing, and with rewards in place when he got it right, eventually he learnt.
In time, he would get it all right. But he had no idea how he knew where the right card was.
The lesson was that habits don't live in the "human" parts of the brain – they live in the more ancient, more animal parts of the mind.
All of your habits, are animal habits.
Some people try to change their habits by having a gentle conversation with themselves. Ok, I'm going to stop eating cookies, as of today, because I want to look hot for summer.
But reasoning with the part of yourself that controls habit is going to be as successful as reasoning with Clarence.
Reason and argument, not matter how brilliant, are just the wrong tools for the job.
But just as any dog, even Clarence, can be trained, so too can we be trained in and out of habits.
We just need the right tools.
And that's what I'm going to give you next week. A simple but incredibly powerful 5-part framework for transforming your habits.
How do we train animals? How do we train our own animal?


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Q: Azkaban : Conditional executions in the workflow I have a requirement to inject a conditional execution in my workflow. For ex: If a particular condition is met, then a particular workflow should be executed. If not, a different workflow should be executed.
From my understanding, there is no direct feature in Azkkaban that supports this. Only Oozie supports it. Wanted to know how Azkkaban users are dealing with this? I am sure everyone must be facing this in some form or the other.
Thanks,
Kranthi

A: Azkaban's roadmap says that this feature is there in their future roadmap only and hence this cannot be configured so easily. Only option left is to handle this programatically.
If anyone has better suggestions, please let me know.
thanks,
Kranthi

A: FWIW, we do this in our Azkaban projects by checking a condition in a shell script. The script then uses the Azkaban API to trigger another workflow if the condition is met.
#!/bin/bash

# check some condition
check=`…`;

if [ ! -z "$check" ]; then

  # Authenticate ourselves to Azkaban, capturing the session id
  auth=`curl -k -X POST --data "action=login&username=my_user&password=my_password" https://localhost:8443 | jq '.["session.id"]' | sed -e 's/\"//g'`;

  # Run the workflow using the Auth session id, capturing the response
  run=`curl -k --get --data "session.id=$auth" --data 'ajax=executeFlow' --data 'project=my_project' --data "flow=my_flow" https://localhost:8443/executor  | jq '.message'`;

  # If $run response does not contain "successfully" it failed
  if [[ $run = *successfully* ]]; then
      echo "'$3': RUN STARTED";
  else
      echo "'$3': RUN ERROR";
      exit 1;
  fi;

else …

You need to be aware that the triggered workflow runs in it's own execution.

A: You can use a trigger plugin in Azkaban to do that. Here's a example of a simple one I came up with: https://gist.github.com/feliperazeek/faae2fed6aef780442a4.
You can implement your own Condition implementation.

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The waves in this installation by SITU represent the gap between recent sales value and property-tax assessments across a rich vein of the Upper West and Upper East sides.
The new luxury towers dotting the skyline of Manhattan have spurred concern among housing taxation experts and architecture critics on how little in tax revenues these properties generate despite their astronomical market values.
The problem has less to do with this new typology of residential towers–as controversial as they might be–and more with the system the city uses to assess and calculate property tax in general, which is so complicated that even experts have trouble understanding.
But a recent architectural model and a series of drawings effectively show the gap between properties' real market values and relative tax liabilities.
SITU Studio, an architecture firm based in Brooklyn, came up with the idea to visualize this policy issue for "Sharing Models: Manhattanisms" a collective exhibition organized by the Storefront for Art and Architecture in which 30 architectural firms were each assigned a section of Manhattan and asked to produce a model of their own visions for the city's future.
Inspired by the 2013 report "Shifting the Burden: Examining the Undertaxation of Some of the Most Valuable Properties in New York City" by the Furman Center, which cast a light on "the severe and persistent undervaluation of some of the most valuable co-op and condo properties in the city," the Brooklyn-based SITU decided to focus on property tax disparities. Their project is named "Section 581" after the section of New York State's tax code governing how property values are assessed for taxation purposes.
The current taxation system dates back to a real-estate market that was completely different from today values and was designed for a city facing completely different challenges.
On top of the existing problems with the tax system, there was a decade of incentives and tax abatements to support new developments during the Bloomberg administration that produced a swath of luxury towers that are now benefitting from the outdated, arcane system.
The swath of Manhattan studied by SITU.
The main problem is in the methodology the city uses to assess property value, found in section 581 and created by state legislation in 1981. It's hard to believe, but the law was originally intended to fix unequal burdens among property owners.
To fix the problems the legislature came up with the idea of dividing all properties into four classes. Each class would be taxed on a different share of its market value. To protect owners who couldn't keep up with growth in real-estate values, caps on annual assessment increases were introduced. Also to lower their burden, condos and coops would be assessed with a comparison system. The city would identify an equivalent rental property, which typically have many units that rent stabilized, to compare the condo or coops and determine its values.
A 2006 IBO report indicated that over its first 25 years of operation, the 1981 law did shift the burden—but in a way that increased disparities. It also made accurate re-assessments of value difficult because of the annual caps, and effectively lowered the burden of condos and coops, especially in wealthy neighborhood, while the effective tax rate stayed relatively high in low-income neighborhoods.
Since the 2006 report, the disparities have reached new heights in the new super tall and skinny luxury towers. And one thing the 1981 law certainly didn't do was make the system comprehensible to the people paying taxes.
"It is so complex… that it is impossible for the typical taxpayer to understand how her tax bill was determined. Even those of us who work on it for a living have a hard time following all of the moving pieces," said George Sweeting from IBO said at a January public hearing.
Sales value versus assessed value for some select properties in the section of Manhattan studied by SITU.
The SITU model uses architectural and visual language to show something that otherwise would be too hard to grasp.
A translucent acrylic surface, like a wave slowly rises from the edges of the model, peaks on top of the buildings with the higher discrepancies rates to dramatically fall flat above Central Park.
"We saw this as a chance to create a tool to open up a really complex policy issue and make it visible to a broader public" says Amy Parker, communication manager at SITU.
The model demonstrates in a visual and physical form some of the key findings of the 2013 Shifting the Burden report but uses the most updated information on property assessment roll from open data reporting by the Department of Finance and the Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications.
"We are interested in taxation and luxury development because it has become an urban issue central to the conversation on real estate in New York City right now," says Dan Miller, researcher at SITU.
The SITU model focuses specifically on a rectangular section of Manhattan, river to river, that goes from East 79th street to West 62nd embracing the richest parts of the Upper West and the Upper East Side, an area where the gap between market values and property taxes is vast.
The model and drawings show that high discrepancies between market value and taxable value exist not only among new luxury towers, but also in prewar buildings that have never been re-assessed to gauge current market values. For example, 55 Central Park West, a coop building erected in 1929, was last sold for $33 million in 2013 but the city still has it assessed at $574,000, making this apartment the one with the highest discrepancy factor in the section of Manhattan analyzed by SITU.
City Limits' coverage of the intersection of art and policy is supported by the Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund.
NYC Real Estate taxes are a mess to put it mildly. I pay about $5k/year on a 1-family home on SI valued at approx $500k. A Brownstone in Park Slope Brooklyn now worth in the millions can pay less in NYCRE taxes than I do. Crazy.
The walls of city buildings often become memorials to children claimed by disease, to adults taken by violence or to the victims of war or terrorist attacks. It's a way for memories to live on, until the mural itself becomes a thing of the past.
As developers target buildings and neighborhoods that used to offer affordable studio space to artists, more and more practitioners are finding it difficult simply to find a way to do their work. One nonprofit is trying to preserve room for creativity.