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1913 Ottoman coup d'état
Crowd gathering in front of the main Sublime Porte (Turkish: Bâb-ı Âlî) building shortly after the coup inside.
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The 1913 Ottoman coup d'état (January 23, 1913), also known as the Raid on the Sublime Porte (Turkish: Bâb-ı Âlî Baskını), was a coup d'état carried out in the Ottoman Empire by a number of Committee of Union and Progress (CUP) members led by Ismail Enver Bey and Muhammad Talaat Bey, in which the group made a surprise raid on the central Ottoman government buildings, the Sublime Porte (Turkish: Bâb-ı Âlî). During the coup, the Minister of the Navy Nazım Pasha was assassinated and the Grand Vizier, Kâmil Pasha, was forced to resign. After the coup, the government fell into the hands of the CUP, now under the leadership of the triumvirate known as the "Three Pashas", made up of Enver, Talaat, and Djemal Pasha.
In 1911, the Freedom and Accord Party (also known as the Liberal Union or Liberal Entente), Kâmil Pasha's party, was formed in opposition to the CUP and almost immediately won the by-elections in Constantinople (now Istanbul).[1] Alarmed, the CUP rigged the general elections of 1912 with electoral fraud and violence against Freedom and Accord, earning them the nickname "Election of Clubs" (Turkish: Sopalı Seçimler).[2] In response, the Savior Officers (Turkish: Halâskâr Zâbitân) of the army, partisans of Freedom and Accord determined to see the CUP fall, rose up in anger and caused the fall of the CUP's post-election Muhammad Said Pasha government.[3] A new government was formed under Ahmed Muhtar Pasha, but it too was dissolved after a few months in October 1912 after the sudden outbreak of the First Balkan War.[4]
After gaining the permission of sultan Mehmed V to form a new government in late October 1912, Freedom and Accord leader Kâmil Pasha sat down to diplomatic talks with Bulgaria after the unsuccessful First Balkan War.[5] With the Bulgarian demand for the cession of the former Ottoman capital city of Adrianople (today, and in Turkish at the time, known as Edirne) looming and the outrage among the Turkish populace as well as the CUP leadership, the CUP carried out the raid on the Sublime Porte.[5] After the coup, opposition parties like Freedom and Accord were subject to heavy repression and their leaders arrested or exiled to Europe, while many CUP members were put into power. Coup leader Enver Bey (later Pasha), soon to be Minister of War, withdrew the Ottoman Empire from the ongoing London Peace Conference and moved it closer to Germany ahead of World War I.
1 Immediate pretext
2.1 April 1912 elections and aftermath
2.2 Great Cabinet
2.3 Government of Kâmil Pasha and lead-up to the coup
3.1 March towards the Sublime Porte
3.2 Entering the Sublime Porte
3.3 Shooting of Nazım Pasha
3.4 Forced resignation of Kâmil Pasha
4.1 Immediate effects
4.2 Long-term legacy
5 Question of popularity
6.2 Sources
Immediate pretext[edit]
While the inner circle of the CUP may already have decided earlier to stage a coup to regain power from the Freedom and Accord Party, the proximate occasion was the CUP's fear that the government would concede to a demand by the Great Powers that the town of Adrianople (a former Ottoman capital city from 1365 to 1453) should be handed over to Bulgaria after the disastrous results of the First Balkan War for the Ottoman Empire.[6]
April 1912 elections and aftermath[edit]
Main article: 1912 Ottoman general election
In the 1908 elections, the Committee of Union and Progress (CUP) had only managed to win about 60 of the 288 seats in the Chamber of Deputies (Turkish: Meclis-i Mebusân, the popularly elected lower house of the General Assembly, the Ottoman parliament). Nevertheless, it was the largest party in the Chamber.
The Freedom and Accord Party (Liberal Union/Entente) was founded on 21 November 1911 by those in opposition to the CUP,[7] and immediately attracted 70 Deputies to its ranks. Only 20 days after its formation, Freedom and Accord won the December 1911 by-elections conducted in Constantinople by one vote.[1] The ruling CUP, seeing the potential of Freedom and Accord to win next year's general elections, took several precautions. Hoping to thwart the nascent Freedom and Accord's efforts to grow its ranks and better organize itself,[8] the CUP asked Sultan Mehmed V to dissolve the Chamber and announced its call for early general elections in January 1912.[9]
These early April 1912 general elections were known infamously as the "Election of Clubs" (Turkish: Sopalı Seçimler) after the beating of opposition (Freedom and Accord) candidates for the Chamber of Deputies with weapons like clubs and sticks as well being marred by electoral fraud and violence in favor of the CUP. The fraud included early balloting, secret counting and reporting of votes, ballot stuffing, reapportioning electoral districts, and more, although the CUP still enjoyed genuine support outside of the cities.[8] The results of the elections had CUP win 269 of 275 seats in the Chamber, with Freedom and Accord only netting 6 Deputies.[10]
Angered at their loss in the election, the leadership of Freedom and Accord sought extra-legal methods to regain power over the CUP, complaining vocally about electoral fraud. At around this time, a group of military officers, uncomfortable with injustices it perceived within the military, organized itself into an armed organization known as the "Savior Officers" (Turkish: Halâskâr Zâbitân) and made their presence known to the imperial government.[11] The Savior Officers, quickly becoming partisans of Freedom and Accord, soon created unrest in the capital Istanbul. After gaining the support of Prince Sabahaddin,[12] another opposition leader, the Savior Officers published public declarations in newspapers.
Finally, after giving a memorandum to the Military Council, the Savior Officers succeeded in getting Grand Vizier Mehmed Said Pasha (who they blamed for allowing the early elections that led to the CUP domination of the Chamber)[8] and his government of CUP ministers to resign in July 1912.[3][13]
Great Cabinet[edit]
The Grand Vizier and leader of the three-month "Great Cabinet", Ahmed Muhtar Pasha.
After Mehmed Said Pasha's resignation, a new, non-partisan[14] cabinet was formed by Ahmed Muhtar Pasha, an old military hero, which was known as the "Great Cabinet" (Turkish: Büyuk Kabine) because it included three former Grand Viziers as ministers and sometimes as the "Father-Son Cabinet" (Turkish: Baba-Oğul Kabinesi) because it included Ahmed Muhtar Pasha's son, Mahmud Muhtar Pasha, as Minister of the Navy.[13] Although the Savior Officers had succeeded in making sure that the Great Cabinet was free of CUP members, the CUP's domination of the Chamber of Deputies had not changed. Soon, however, rumors began to circulate that the government would dissolve the Chamber of Deputies and call new elections.[15] The rumors were confirmed when, a few days after Ahmed Muhtar Pasha took office, the Savior Officers sent another memorandum, this time to the President of the Chamber of Deputies (and CUP member), Halil Bey, demanding that the Chamber be dissolved for new elections within 48 hours.[16] The CUP members in the Chamber condemned and censured this threat.[17] However, thanks to a law he had passed through the Senate, Ahmed Muhtar Pasha was able, with the sultan's support, to dissolve the Chamber with ease on 5 August, after which sultan Mehmed V immediately called for new elections by royal decree.[8]
While preparations for new elections were underway, however, the First Balkan War erupted early in October 1912, catching Ahmed Muhtar Pasha's administration off-guard. Martial law was declared, the new elections were cancelled on 25 October,[8] and Ahmed Muhtar Pasha resigned as Grand Vizier on 29 October after just three months in the premier's office in order to defer to the premiership of Kâmil Pasha, who had good relations with the British and was expected to produce a favorable settlement to the disastrous war.[8]
Government of Kâmil Pasha and lead-up to the coup[edit]
Although the foreign crisis in the Balkans put a temporary halt to domestic politics, it did not stop them. Unlike his predecessor Ahmed Muhtar Pasha, who had been non-partisan, Kâmil Pasha was a passionate Freedom and Accord Party member and was determined to use his premiership to destroy the CUP.[8]
Prior to World War I, Enver Pasha was hailed at home as the hero of the revolution.
The pro-Freedom and Accord and anti-CUP Grand Vizier Kâmil Pasha, who led the government until his forced resignation in the coup.
Using his friendly relations with the British, Kâmil Pasha also sat down to end the ongoing First Balkan War diplomatically. However, the heavy Ottoman military upsets during the war continued to sap morale, as rumors that the capital would have to be moved from Constantinople to inland Anatolia spread.[18] The Bulgarian Army had soon advanced as far as Çatalca, a western district of modern Istanbul. At this point, Kâmil Pasha's government signed an armistice with Bulgaria in December 1912 and sat down to draw up a treaty for the end of the war at the London Peace Conference.
The Great Powers–the British Empire, France, Italy, and Russia–had begun to engage in the relationship of Bulgaria with the Ottoman Empire, citing the 1878 Treaty of Berlin. The Great Powers gave a note to the Sublime Porte (the Ottoman government) that they wanted the Ottoman Empire to cede Adrianople (Edirne) to Bulgaria and the Aegean islands under its control, most of which by that time had been captured by the Greek Navy, to the Great Powers themselves. Because of the losses experienced by the army so far in the war, the Kâmil Pasha government was inclined to accept the "Midye-Enez Line" as a border to the west and, while not outright giving Edirne to Bulgaria, favored transferring control of it to an international commission.[5]
After the capture of Salonica (Thessaloniki), the birthplace of many progressive political leaders and movements of the era, by Greece in November 1912, many CUP members were arrested by Greek forces and exiled to Anatolia. At the same time, Freedom and Accord found itself on the brink of dissolution after inter-party conflicts.[19]
Left with little political power and flexibility, the CUP began to plan a coup against Kâmil Pasha's Freedom and Accord government. In addition, an animosity had already been brewing between Kâmil Pasha and the CUP since the 1908 Young Turk Revolution that had started the Second Constitutional Era. During the more than four years since, Kâmil Pasha had made a series of efforts to keep CUP members far from government and keep the army, which had many CUP members among its ranks, out of politics.[20] By January 1913, the CUP was thoroughly frustrated with Kâmil Pasha and Freedom and Accord.[21] Although the coup was to be a surprise attack, the CUP had made definitive decisions to carry it out far in advance.[22]
Although he was killed during the coup, both the CUP and Freedom and Accord claimed that they had been planning to give Minister of the Navy Nazım Pasha a position in their next cabinet.[22] The CUP's Talaat Bey went as far as to say some time after the coup that the CUP had previously offered Nazım Pasha the position of Grand Vizier and the leadership its cabinet.[22]
Events[edit]
The front page of the Le Petit Journal magazine in February 1913 depicting the assassination of Minister of War Nazım Pasha during the coup.
March towards the Sublime Porte[edit]
On 23 January 1913, at 14:30, Lieutenant Colonel Enver Bey (later and better known as Enver Pasha), one of the top leaders of the Committee of Union and Progress, was notified by a CUP member named Sapancalı Hakkı that everything was prepared for the raid as he waited in the military supply-station inspectorate (Turkish: menzil müfettişliği) building near the Nuruosmaniye Mosque. After receiving this news, Enver Bey mounted a white horse waiting for him and began to ride the several blocks from Nuruosmaniye towards the Sublime Porte,[23] which was a metonym referring to a group of government buildings that housed the offices of the Grand Vizier, his imperial government, and other state offices.[24] At this time, Talaat Bey (later and better known as Talaat Pasha) also began to make his way towards the Sublime Porte with a group of CUP loyalists.
When Enver Bey arrived in front the Ministry of Public Works (Turkish: Nafıa Nazırlığı) building, fellow CUP members Ömer Naci and Ömer Seyfettin (who would later become one of the foremost Turkish writers of the 20th century) were already provoking a crowd that had gathered by loudly proclaiming that Kâmil Pasha was about to cede Adrianople to the Bulgarians.[23][25] The speeches made by Ömer Naci and Ömer Seyfettin were effective, and the front of the Sublime Porte was soon filled with a crowd shouting slogans against Kâmil Pasha's government.[26] Moreover, up to 60 CUP members were placed around the Sublime Porte's buildings.
Entering the Sublime Porte[edit]
Enver Bey, along with confederates Talaat Bey, Sapancalı Hakkı, Yakub Cemil [tr], Mustafa Necip [tr], and about 50 others, entered the Sublime Porte compound of government buildings and made their way into the Grand Vizier's building, in which Kâmil Pasha and his cabinet were in session. An aide-de-camp to the Grand Vizier, Ohrili Nâfiz Bey, heard the commotion and opened fire on the raid party but was unable to hit any of them.[23] Himself wounded in the exchange, Ohrili Nâfiz Bey hid in the aide-de-camp office; when Mustafa Necip entered the office, Ohrili Nâfiz Bey shot and killed him but died himself of his wounds sustained from Mustafa Necip.[23][27]
An aid-de-camp and nephew of Nazım Pasha, Kıbrıslı Tevfik Bey, had also drawn his revolver and fired at the raid party, his bullet also striking Mustafa Necip. After the raiders returned fire, Kıbrıslı Tevfik Bey was instantly killed.[28] During the shooting, a secret police agent and an attendant of the Sheikh ul-Islam were also killed.[28]
Shooting of Nazım Pasha[edit]
Hearing the gunshots, Minister of War Nazım Pasha stepped out of his room and rushed towards the raid party. According to the memoirs of future Turkish President and Prime Minister Celâl Bayar, Nazım Pasha angrily shouted at the men, "What is going on? You came to raid the Grand Vizier's office?", using "ill-mannered" profanities in his rage,[26][28] after which Enver Bey saluted him and tried to explain his intentions.[29] At this time Yakub Cemil, approaching Nazım Pasha from the back while he was engaged with Enver Bey and the rest of the coup party, fired his gun at Nazım Pasha's right temple, killing him.[29][28]
Another account claimed that Enver Bey had tried to stop Yakup Cemil from killing Nazım Pasha, but Yakup Cemil had refused to listen.[29] Yet another version of events held that either Enver Bey or Talaat Bey had accidentally killed Nazım Pasha while trying to protect themselves from gunfire from his aid-de-camp Kıbrıslı Tevfik Bey.[28]
In any case, the CUP termed Nazım Pasha's death during the coup a "regrettable accident", saying that it was unpremeditated but "unavoidable" under the circumstances.[28] The CUP said that the fact Interior Minister Ahmet Reşit [tr] had been allowed to go unhurt proved that the coup leaders had desired to avoid bloodshed, since Ahmet Reşit was much more hostile towards the CUP than Nazım Pasha was.[28] Because the CUP had favored Nazım Pasha and had claimed to offer him a role as Grand Vizier for a future CUP cabinet before they undertook the coup,[30] the contemporary French magazine L'Illustration said that his "strange fate was being persecuted by the former regime [of Kâmil Pasha's Freedom and Accord Party and then being included in its cabinet], and being cheered and treated in triumph by the new regime [of the CUP] and then being murdered by it."[31]
Forced resignation of Kâmil Pasha[edit]
Enver Bey asking Kâmil Pasha to resign during the raid on the Sublime Porte.
After this, Enver and Talaat Bey entered Grand Vizier Kâmil Pasha's room and forced him to write a letter of resignation at gunpoint. The letter addressed to the sultan read:
His Peaceful and Sublime Excellency,
Ahali ve cihet-i askeriyeden vuku bulan teklif üzerine huzur-ı şahanelerine istifanâme-i acizanemin arzına mecbur olduğum muhat-i ilm-i âlî buyuruldukta ol babda ve katibe-i ahvalde emr-ü ferman hazret-i veliyyü'l-emr efendimizindir.
—  Grand Vizier Kâmil, 23 January 1913[32]
After Kâmil Pasha finished writing, Enver Bey immediately left the Sublime Porte to deliver the letter to Sultan Mehmed V in his palace,[33] driving to the palace in the Şeyhülislam's car.[34]
Aftermath[edit]
Immediate effects[edit]
Enver Bey (center) speaking to a correspondent for the French magazine L'Illustration and the British attaché in Istanbul immediately after seizing power in the coup.
After the coup, Enver Bey told a local Turkish correspondent for the French magazine L'Illustration (pictured on right):
"I sincerely regret having been forced to intervene again to overthrow a government, but it was impossible to wait; a delay of a few hours, and the country would have been shamefully delivered to the enemy; our army has never been stronger, and I really see no reason that compels us to capitulate to such monstrous demands."[31]
Kâmil Pasha was replaced as Grand Vizier and Nazım Pasha as Minister of War by Enver Bey's friend Mahmud Shevket Pasha, who held both posts.[28] The new cabinet under Mahmud Shevket Pasha, made up entirely of CUP members, was made up of:[28][35]
Said Halim Pasha as President of the Council of State (for 3 days)
Talaat Bey (now Pasha) as Minister of the Interior
Çürüksulu Mahmud Pasha as Minister of the Navy
Nicolae Constantin Batzaria as Minister of Public Works
Muhtar Bey as acting Minister of Foreign Affairs (for 3 days)
Said Halim Pasha succeeding him
Pirizade Ibrahim Hayrullah Bey [tr] as Minister of Justice
Ürgüplü Mustafa Hayri Efendi [tr] as Minister of Pious Foundations
Mehmed Celal Bey as Minister of Agriculture
Ahmet Şükrü Bey [tr] as Minister of Education
Oskan Mandikyan as Minister of Posts, Telegraph and Telephone
Although the CUP appointed Grand Vizier Mahmud Shevket Pasha to lead their cabinet, he was genial towards the now-opposition Freedom and Accord Party. When one of Nazım Pasha's relatives assassinated him in revenge in June 1913, the CUP used the opportunity to crack down on the opposition.[8] Twelve men held responsible by the CUP for Mahmud Shevket Pasha's death, including Nazım Pasha's relative, were convicted for murder and hanged.[36] The opposition parties, already sidelined by the coup, were heavily repressed by the CUP. The leaders of the Savior Officers (Turkish: Halâskâr Zâbitân) escaped to Egypt and Albania.[37] Another opposition leader Prince Sabahaddin, who had backed the Savior Officers against the CUP, fled to western Switzerland, where he would remain until 1919.
Long-term legacy[edit]
The coup essentially established the domination of the Ottoman Empire by a so-called dictatorial triumvirate known as the "Three Pashas": the soon-to-be war minister, Enver Pasha, the soon-to-be interior minister, Talaat Pasha, and the soon-to-be naval minister, Djemal Pasha. The Three Pashas, leading the CUP autocratically, would control the Empire until fleeing the country at the end of World War I. It established the CUP as the dominant party of Young Turks in the Empire; the rival Young Turks party, Freedom and Accord, would not regain power until the end of the war. The coup is considered one of the first violent coups d'état to take place in modern Turkish history,[38] seen as some as establishing a precedent for future coups in the Republic of Turkey.[39]
After the coup, the CUP became increasingly nationalist and intolerant of opposition after seeing significant resistance from more liberal Ottoman parties like Freedom and Accord, as well as rebellions and wars against the Ottoman government from non-Muslim nationalities in the Empire, such as the catastrophic Balkan Wars, which saw former Ottoman citizens of Bulgarian, Greek, Macedonian, and Armenian ethnicity actively fighting against the Empire and committing widespread ethnic cleansing against Ottoman Muslims.[40] Though initially opposed in principle to the extension of local autonomy to the provinces, the CUP now seemed inclined to reconcile with those in favor of greater extension of the millet system to enable Ottoman Muslim unity.[36]
A court session of the Turkish courts-martial of 1919–20. CUP's leaders, Enver, Djemal, Talaat, and others, were ultimately sentenced to death under charges of wartime profiteering and mistreatment of Armenians.[41]
The CUP government introduced several political and military reforms to the Empire, including increasing centralization and carrying out military modernization efforts. Under coup leader Enver Bey (later Pasha), the Ottoman Empire moved towards a closer relationship with the German Empire, officially leading to the Ottoman–German Alliance being ratified the next year in 1914. Enver would enter the Empire into World War I that same year as part of the Central Powers, on the side of Germany,[42] in contrast to the overthrown Kâmil Pasha, who was partial towards the British.
Although the CUP had worked with the Armenians to reinstall constitutional monarchy against Abdul Hamid II, factions in the CUP began to view the Armenians as a fifth column that would betray the Ottoman cause after World War I with nearby Russia broke out;[43] these factions gained more power after the 1913 Ottoman coup d'état. The first major offensive the Turks undertook in World War I was an unsuccessful attempt to drive the Russians from the portion of Western Armenia they had taken in the Russo-Turkish War of 1877. After the failure of this expedition, the CUP's leaders, Enver, Djemal, and Talaat, were involved in ordering the deportations and massacres of 1 and 1.5 million Armenians in 1915–1916 in what became known as the Armenian Genocide.[44][45] After World War I and the signing of the armistice of Mudros, the leadership of the Committee of Union and Progress and selected former officials were court-martialled with/including the charges of subversion of the constitution, wartime profiteering, and the massacres of both Armenians and Greeks.[41][46][47] The court reached a verdict which sentenced the organizers of the massacres, Talat, Enver, Cemal and others to death.[41][44][45]
Question of popularity[edit]
The public support for the coup was questioned at the time by analysts,[31] some of whom reported that the CUP was backed by only a small crowd of actual citizens who had been gathered only within the hour by provocative speeches made by CUP members.[23][26] Eyewitnesses and newspapers reported very little actual popular participation in the coup or the events surrounding it.[31] Reporter Georges Rémond said:
This revolution is profoundly popular? I doubt it, and the lean applause of the crowd at the inauguration of the [new] Grand Vizier [Mahmud Shevket Pasha] and the Sheik ul-Islam [after the coup] has done nothing to soothe my uncertainty. Everything was done and carried out by a skilled politician, Talaat Bey, who masterminded the coup, and the energetic soldier, Enver, aided by some officers of unfailing dedication and some dozens of patriots who were joined gradually few hundred protesters.[31]
Rémond said that preventing the minimalist coup would have taken at most 50 guards, and that the only reason that the Sublime Porte had been defenseless was because Kâmil Pasha wanted to call the bluff of any real threat the CUP, which he had sidelined politically, posed to his government.[31] After the coup, Rémond said, he found the capital Constantinople to be quiet and devoid of public opinion, whether about the coup or the ongoing First Balkan War, noting an air of "indifference" among not only the populace, but the statesmen involved themselves.[31]
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Alan and I just got back from a couple of days at Pender Island, visiting my parents for Easter. My sister Suzanne, her fiance, David, niece Andrea and her partner Dan also went, so it was quite a gang that descended.
We hit every beach we could while we were there and were blessed with sunshine.
These two photos were taken at Roesland, my favorite place on earth. I have done many paintings from there and there will be more to come. There's something about the place that is just magic to me.
That's Suzanne, off in the distance.
This painting started out with a red underpainting and the plan was for there to be lots of red, black and buttery yellow. So much for plans. Things were not going well so I did a pthalo blue glaze over the whole painting and went in wet-in-wet.
Here's the finished piece-"Caramello" 30 x 40" acrylic. The painting has been delivered to Granville Fine Arts gallery in Vancouver.
Here's the next stage of the roses. Starting to build the darks and also some of the highlights. Keeping everything very loose and suggested at this point.
Here's stage one of the Rose painting. Quinacridone gold underpainting sets a lovely warm beginning. I'm going to try to keep it very warm to the end. Don't know what color the flowers will be but probably not red.
This sketch is the start of my next large painting. I'm using two photos as reference for the painting - one for the roses and another one for everything else. The light is different in each photo so I have to figure out how to handle that.
I don't do a sketch for every painting but if I'm making anything up or changing things in my reference, it's a great way to plan the composition.
It's 6:04- I'm happy to announce that Linda Ramsden, with a winning bid of $515.00, is the new owner of "Above and Below". Thanks to all who bid for your support for a very good cause. It's wonderful for me to be able to make this substantial donation!
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Yesterday I spent the day at the Cherry Blossom Festival at Van Duesen Gardens in Vancouver. A group of 12 students came to try their hand at plien air painting. Most were brand new at it. All were courageous and did a respectable job on their paintings.
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Antiaromatic character of cycloheptatriene-bis-annelated indenofluorene framework mainly originated from heptafulvene segment
Keitaro Yamamoto, Yutaka Ie, Norimitsu Tohnai, Fumitoshi Kakiuchi, Yoshio Aso
Fully π-conjugated polycyclic hydrocarbons with antiaromatic character have attracted research attention because of their unique properties such as narrow energy gaps, and thus should find application as optical and electronic materials. Although antiaromatic 16π-electron frameworks can be constructed by the incorporation of multiple seven-membered rings in a fused fashion to install methylenecycloheptatriene (heptafulvene) segments, the development of corresponding benzo[1,2:4,5]di[7]annulene (BDA)-containing π-conjugated systems remains challenging due to the difficulty of their molecular design and synthesis. In this study, we develop an unprecedented chemical structure of cycloheptatriene-bis-annelated indenofluorene, which possesses both BDA and indenofluorene frameworks in a fused fashion. Physical measurements and X-ray analyses, along with theoretical calculations, indicated that antiaromaticity appeared in the BDA framework. By using the conjugated polycyclic hydrocarbon possessing both seven-membered and five-membered rings, this study provides fundamental insight into the strong antiaromatic nature of heptafulvene-based BDA framework.
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Yamamoto, K., Ie, Y., Tohnai, N., Kakiuchi, F., & Aso, Y. (2018). Antiaromatic character of cycloheptatriene-bis-annelated indenofluorene framework mainly originated from heptafulvene segment. Scientific reports, 8(1), [17663]. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-35839-w
Antiaromatic character of cycloheptatriene-bis-annelated indenofluorene framework mainly originated from heptafulvene segment. / Yamamoto, Keitaro; Ie, Yutaka; Tohnai, Norimitsu; Kakiuchi, Fumitoshi; Aso, Yoshio.
In: Scientific reports, Vol. 8, No. 1, 17663, 01.12.2018.
Yamamoto, K, Ie, Y, Tohnai, N, Kakiuchi, F & Aso, Y 2018, 'Antiaromatic character of cycloheptatriene-bis-annelated indenofluorene framework mainly originated from heptafulvene segment', Scientific reports, vol. 8, no. 1, 17663. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-35839-w
Yamamoto K, Ie Y, Tohnai N, Kakiuchi F, Aso Y. Antiaromatic character of cycloheptatriene-bis-annelated indenofluorene framework mainly originated from heptafulvene segment. Scientific reports. 2018 Dec 1;8(1). 17663. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-35839-w
Yamamoto, Keitaro ; Ie, Yutaka ; Tohnai, Norimitsu ; Kakiuchi, Fumitoshi ; Aso, Yoshio. / Antiaromatic character of cycloheptatriene-bis-annelated indenofluorene framework mainly originated from heptafulvene segment. In: Scientific reports. 2018 ; Vol. 8, No. 1.
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April 27, 2020 Ryan DeLarmeLeave a Comment on Dem Operative Goes Dark as MI Lawmakers Question Coronavirus Contract
Dem Operative Goes Dark as MI Lawmakers Question Coronavirus Contract
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The Democratic operative who was awarded a coronavirus-related contract by Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer's administration has deleted his website and removed identifying information from social media platforms.
Democratic consultant Mike Kolehouse scrubbed his online presence as state lawmakers push for oversight into Whitmer's handling of the pandemic, voicing concerns about hiring political operatives to run a public health project. GOP state representative Shane Hernandez sent Whitmer a letter Tuesday demanding answers on the contract. House speaker Lee Chatfield said the legislature would convene Friday to create an oversight committee examining the state's coronavirus response.
On Tuesday the Whitmer administration terminated a door-to-door pandemic tracing contract awarded to Great Lakes Community Engagement, an organization led by Kolehouse, just one day after its announcement. Within 24 hours of the cancellation, Kolehouse, who was set to take in nearly $200,000 in the deal, took down the website for his consulting firm, K2K strategies, as well as his Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn accounts. He did not return multiple requests for comment from the Washington Free Beacon and declined to answer questions about the contract, which would have tasked him with collecting sensitive health data, from the Washington Post and Crain's Detroit.
The oversight effort could spell trouble for Whitmer, who in March emerged as a potential running mate to presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden. She has faced intense criticism in recent weeks over a far-reaching stay-at-home order that hurts small businesses. The governor blamed the controversial contract on the state's health department and denied any involvement in the deal at a Wednesday press briefing. Hernandez said the public deserves a thorough explanation of how the state awarded a lucrative contract to Whitmer's campaign consultants.
"If the governor thinks that canceling the contract means we're not going to pursue the questions I asked, that's not going to happen. We deserve to know how this contract came about," Hernandez told the Free Beacon. "We also need to conduct oversight in the legislature to make sure there aren't other contracts going out that are political in nature."
Whitmer's office did not respond to a request for comment.
State filings show that Kolehouse registered his consulting firm, K2K Consulting, in 2012. Both Great Lakes Community Engagement and Kolehouse Strategies are licensed as assumed names of the firm and were created in 2017 and 2019, respectively. Kolehouse has earned more than $750,000 working for Democratic campaigns and liberal ballot initiatives since 2017. More than $570,000 came from Fair and Equal Michigan, an LGBTQ advocacy group. Other clients include the Michigan Senate Democratic Fund and Shri Thanedar, who ran an unsuccessful gubernatorial bid in 2018.
Kolehouse has repeatedly criticized President Donald Trump on social media. In late March he said, "I hope he gets Coronavirus ASAP" and "can someone do the country a favor and cough on that man." Kolehouse was pictured with former president Bill Clinton at a 2016 Hillary Clinton fundraiser in Grand Rapids.
In an interview with the Free Beacon, Hernandez said the administration could have easily found a nonpartisan data firm capable of performing tracking work.
"I've been doing some digging and know that there are other vendors that could have done this, vendors that the state has used in the past that don't have political ties," he said. "We want to know: Did the state follow protocol, did they have a pre-approved list of vendors, and did they pick a vendor that was not on that list?"
A former official in Michigan Republican governor Rick Snyder's administration told the Free Beacon that Snyder started a data storage contract with Microsoft that is still used by Whitmer today and could have been used in the contact tracing project.
"Microsoft CRM is used in the governor's office for storing constituent correspondence and scheduling request correspondence," the former official said. "Whitmer still uses the same system that Snyder started, which would have been in 2011 or 2012." The official said the Michigan Economic Development Corporation uses Salesforce products for similar purposes—the states of Rhode Island and Massachusetts announced partnerships with Salesforce in contact tracing projects in early April.
While Whitmer called contact tracing "an essential part of how we're going to save lives," she said she was not aware of the state's contract on the effort until after it was announced Monday, adding that she canceled it as soon as it was brought to her attention. The state began recruiting volunteers for the effort in late March, and Whitmer was credited with launching the effort by a Grand Rapids ABC affiliate on March 28.
The former Snyder official called Whitmer's lack of awareness "abnormal," saying the governor is likely discussing the state's coronavirus response with administration officials multiple times daily.
"If it's that big, surely she should have known how it was going to work. During the state of emergency for Flint, we had update calls with the governor every morning," the official said. "PPE status, testing status, contact tracing status, those should have been discussed with her."
The contract fiasco marks the latest unforced error by Whitmer, who has faced mounting criticism since presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden said she was on his shortlist for vice president in late March. Whitmer downplayed her chances of securing the nomination during a CNN appearance Thursday.
"I am honored to be included in a bigger conversation, but that's not something that I'm promoting, it's not something that I'm spending energy on," Whitmer said. When asked if she would turn down the job if offered, she failed to answer, saying, "I'm going to continue to support him in any way that I can be helpful."
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The Sacred Life of Boxes
Jun 07, 2016h in Family, Leading Change, Personal Transformation	by	David Sibbet 3 Comments
For the past six months two seemingly different circumstances have been "working" me. The first is a commitment that Gisela Wendling, Holger Scholtz and I made last summer to organize a special retreat at his family farm, the Beuerhof (in the Vulcan Eifel region of Germany East of Cologne). We are calling it Leading as Sacred Practice. You can infer from the name that this is moving into new territory.
The second circumstance is moving from San Francisco after 40 years!
Let's start with the retreat. At the time of our commitment we did not have an agenda, or design, but were in the grip of a very strong intention and life experience. We ALL are in touch with our spiritual paths, all practicing in different ways, and all find it challenging to integrate this orientation into everyday life. Gisela has a Ph.D. studying liminal processes and rites of passage. Holger has been doing medicine ceremony and circle way practice for years. Vision questing and meditation are a key part of my personal life. We also all feel that in this time when we consultants are facing every more complex challenges it is important to connect up.
We ended up inviting Alan Briskin to join us in our inquiry into the sacred. Alan is a long-time organization consultant with a passion for collective wisdom, and has even written about that subject. The four of us then embarked on a series of zoom calls and a face-to-face gathering in May to plan the retreat and open up an invitation to others intrigued with this challenge. We made a brochure; created a web site post, created our design, and began communicating with colleagues (The retreat is September 5-9.)
About the Boxes
Over this same time period Gisela and I decided to buy a home together in Petaluma, California, 38 miles north of San Francisco. Gisela supported me in holding my wife Susan's death as a rite of passage, one of the biggest one can have I can say in retrospect. We fell in love. We will marry this summer.
It's relatively straightforward to actually buy a home, I discovered. Banks want to lend money for a good value. But moving after 40 years wasn't easy. I had to empty my flat in San Francisco where I'd lived since 1982, create a little city apartment in my old studio, prep the old flat for rent, and move into our new Amber Way home. This is where the boxes come in. There were so many of them I started dreaming about boxes. But are they sacred?
They are practical. You can't move very easily without boxes. But boxes, I've come to see now, became proxies for mental categories. What to keep? What to throw away? What to to give away? What is sacred? I had boxes for all these categories, and they were categories of types of relationships. In the last six months I've touched everything Susan and I ever owned and kept! At one point our kids, Thom, Jerda, and Phil, came down for a weekend to determine what things they wished to keep as remembrances. The experience is still raw for all of us, and the things she had touched and used where touchstones to our most precious memories. Nineteen boxes went north to Portland where Jerda and Phil live. Others went to San Rafael with Thom. (Valentine didn't join us, but communicated that she wanted some of Susan's writing—that was sacred to her).
Leading as Sacred Practice Retreat. Moving boxes full of objects, some sacred. Thoughts about the two have danced in my life now for more than six months.
What Is Sacred?
Some insights are emerging. Alan helped us define sacred for our retreat brochure. "By sacred we like Ann Dosher's definition of sacred as 'that which has value in and of itself and gives meaning to the whole'." As a Presbyterian minister's son, I know how much language has been generated about this subject. I know how easy it is to use language and miss the experience. I also live in a consulting community when some brand themselves as transformational consultants, teaching at this level. What does "sacred" really mean?
Susan was a Henry James scholar and student of the way the literary community responded to industrialization and the onset of electricity and our modern age. She preferred fountain pens to e-mail. The language of the "new age" tended to put her off. She wasn't a Sufi, but would have liked their practice of not talking about the divine directly. I'm not so allergic to technology, but share her love of the unmediated encounter of human beings.
In confronting our boxes and Susan's life in kitchen tools, flower pots, dolls, loved books, music collections, I realized that Susan held many things as sacred. The trust and hope of children was sacred to her, as a poet teacher in the schools. Our garden and the special flowers were sacred. Food was sacred — it's smell, and textures, and taste. Music was sacred, like Brahms, her father's favorite. Good conversation was sacred. Loving touch. Community was sacred. And her children were sacred. Her love was unqualified.
Without Susan in this world of flesh any more, her essence and spirit have spread out to all of us who knew her. These things she held sacred now leap out at me.
When Gisela and I found our Amber Way home, we walked into this room pictured here where a half dozen very large coastal life oaks hold the whole house. They are visible from every north window along the long reach of both floors. It seemed like a sacred energy field. In fact we call this room (shown here) "the sactuary."
This sense of the sacred has growth. I was born in Petaluma many years ago, raised in the high Sierra, schooled in LA and Chicago, and lived in San Francisco since 1969. But returning to the smells, and light, and air in Petaluma has struck a deep chord. I am connected here in an irrational and deep way.
I felt this same sense of sacred at the Beuerhof with Holger. He was raised on this 70 acre farm. Archie Fire Lame Deer, a Lakota Medicine Man who created sweats along the Berlin Wall, and was called to do sacred ceremony there for many years while Holger was a young man. He clearly felt the specialness of this land. I think our call to retreat there is connected to Gisela and my call to live among the oaks. We as hungry to listen to the land as to each other.
The boxes are now stored, or given, or unpacked. Some of their objects, the precious ones, are out and about, and call me to continue to reflect on "what is sacred." Yes, it does often involve inherent value, and also involves the type of relationship I'm willing to open to. I sometimes fall into the feeling that everything is filled with a special vibrancy, and that the sacred is widely distributed. Then I come back to the mundane, and feeling separate. How do we navigate this kind of territory? How do we keep a sense of the whole? How do we come back to respect for the trust of children, the importance of good food, the presence of trees?
I've come to see that our program designs, plans, languages and even homes themselves as a bit like boxes. They hold our precious lives. They allow for movement and storage. But I suspect it's the flow of our connections with what's in these boxes that is makes them sacred.
Holger Scholz
David, I love your new home. Yours and Giselas Amber House. In a house like this it is hard to not live life as ceremony. I am looking forward to our retreat and conference "Leading as sacred Practice" and for now: Have a wonderful wedding ceremony the two (three, four) of you in the trees! 🙂 Holger
Just as I was reading this blog, Vinoda (my wife) called me upstairs to look at some photos. With my son Pravin's 30th birthday on Saturday, we spent an hour or two looking through old albums and picking out some good photos to be recaptured in digital form so that I can create an album and a slide show for him to see on Saturday. Then I returned to this blog and completed reading it.
Boxes are what use to contain what is sacred to remain separate from the other stuff. Photos are sometimes ways to capture what was special and when they bring back warm memories, over time they become special and some of them might even end up sacred.
Thank you for memories David and those memories bring up reflection of our times in House of Rudite! Look forward to seeing you soon! Love, Prasad
Barbara Waugh
Love these reflections. Just got a box with my mom's china teacups collected one by one every year or two over the years of my childhood. Created an altar for myself, reminding myself to bring beauty into my life as she did when, as she put it, "we didn't have a lot to pee in." Miss you.
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Water-Gen and Vikram Solar to showcase Environmental and Humanitarian Water Solutions at India's Smart Cities 2017 Expo.
May 3, 2017 Anand Gupta 0
May 3, 2017 Anand Gupta
On the heels of the recent $100 million memorandum of understanding between Water-Gen and Vikram Solar, and as a sign of the deepening cooperation between India and Israel, Water-Gen and Vikram Solar will be featured at the upcoming Smart Cities Expo in India on May 10-12. Water-Gen is one of Israel's most innovative companies whose dynamic leadership and cutting-edge solutions are aiming to improve the quality of life for people around the world. Vikram Solar, the globally leading Tier 1 solar module manufacturer (by Bloomberg New Energy Finance) and EPC solutions provider, will further boost the efficiency of the Water-Gen technology by powering it with solar energy solution, enabling its use in the remotest parts of India, where electricity is not available.
Water-Gen is especially relevant in India, which lacks sufficient, clean drinking water. Executive Chairman for Water-Gen, Maxim Pasik explains, "Water-Gen will make great strides in changing the lives of the citizens of India for the better. Water-Gen products are the solution to one of the world's most immediate challenges by providing clean, accessible drinking water."
"This month," Pasik notes, "we will demonstrate in New Delhi how Water-Gen units produce clean drinking water. We will be distributing the refreshing drinking water produced by Water-Gen to the citizens of India in this area."
As a leader in the fast-growing solar sector, Vikram Solar covers the entire spectrum from modules to EPC to O&M and is now foraying into BOS. "I am confident," said Gyanesh Chaudhary, Managing Director of Vikram Solar, "that we will successfully provide the solution for Water-Gen to provide clean drinking water in the locations in India that lack electricity, especially in the remote, rural areas."
Pasik continues, "Our collaboration with Vikram Solar will ensure we provide clean drinking water to the people of India in rural areas without electricity in one integrated independent system. We will establish water farms powered by solar energy that will produce millions of liters of clean drinking water daily."
About Water-Gen:
Water-Gen has developed a cutting-edge Air to Water Generating technology and line of products for household use and large scale AWG modular units for generating clean drinking water from the air, with a vision to improve the quality and quantity of clean and accessible water in the world.
Water-Gen taps this unlimited resource to provide an abundant, renewable source of fresh and clean drinking water by extracting it directly from the air. With the patented GENius, the world's most energy-efficient Atmospheric Water Generator (AWG) module of its kind, Water-Gen's various water generator models can serve the water needs from a small house to whole villages to an entire country. By generating the water directly from the air, Water-Gen has developed an independent, innovative and autonomous solution. It is a plug and drink solution, requiring only electricity and no infrastructure. A healthy, quick and easy solution that aims to benefit every community and all humanity.
In April, the World Health Organization (WHO) revealed around 630 million people in the South East Asian countries, including India, use a faeces-contaminated drinking water source. They also noted that worldwide, almost two billion people use a source of drinking water contaminated with faeces, putting them at risk of contracting cholera, dysentery, typhoid and polio.
According to India's Prime Minister Narenda Modi, the mission of the Smart Cities Expo is to transform lives and living conditions for the people of India. As part of the Smart Cities Expo, the 4th Water Expo will provide comprehensive insight into the latest and alternative water technologies, including Water-Gen.
The unavailability of clean water affects mortality and creates a deadly environment. Water-Gen is focused on improving the quality of life for billions worldwide who suffer from inaccessibility to safe drinking water, thus saving millions of lives. Water-Gen uses this unlimited resource in the air to provide an abundant, renewable source of fresh and clean drinking water.
In addition to its AWG line of products, which may also be powered by solar energy, Water-Gen has developed portable water filtration solutions, designed to handle emergencies and benefit victims in relief efforts, including a lightweight, battery energy operated filtration system for contaminated water resources, called the "Spring." Senior governmental officials and international military bodies are keen on utilizing Water-Gen's expertise with emergency and rescue devices to handle emergencies and with save and rescue missions.
Across the globe, contaminated water is an almost weekly headline. In India, it has been evaluated that 80% of its surface is polluted which resulted in a loss of $6 billion each year to water-related diseases. In addition to India, Water-Gen is currently collaborating in the U.S., China, Australia, Vietnam; the Gulf States, Turkey, Indonesia, Thailand, the Philippines, CIS countries, African countries, and several Latin American countries including Mexico and Brazil.
In the United States, Water-Gen is speaking with officials on the U.S. federal and state levels to set up preventative measures against contaminated water resources and is properly positioned to provide effective outcomes in U.S. locations such as Flint, Michigan where Water-Gen may provide an alternative solution for clean drinking water. Later this month, Water-Gen is demonstrating its products in Miami-Dade County, Florida.
For every community size, Water-Gen has the ability to help. The Large Scale Water Generators can potentially service billions around the world, including whole cities, villages, schools, and hospitals. The GEN-350G Medium Scale Atmospheric Water Generator (AWG) was awarded the "Atmospheric Water Generation for Forward Operating Base" CCD Contract with the UK Ministry of Defense. The Genny, the Water from Air Home Appliance, is a plug and drink solution which makes it ideal for homes and offices with a quick and easy installation.
Pasik is looking forward to representing the company at Smart Cities. "We are very excited to demonstrate on this international stage how we extract water from the air and, of course, how fresh and clean the water is, and how refreshing it tastes. We reaffirm our commitment to work with all international governments to ensure that every human being has access to clean drinking water. This is not only a basic human need. It is a human right."
About Vikram Solar:
Vikram Solar is a leading solar energy solutions provider, specializing in high efficiency PV module manufacturing and comprehensive EPC solutions. With international presence in 5 continents, the company is an active contributor in shaping the solar revolution across continents. Carrying forward the extensive manufacturing experience of the Vikram Group, Vikram Solar, since 2006, is building on a 4-decade-old success story. Vikram Solar's annual PV Module production capacity stands at 0.5 GW, and the company is further expanding it to 2 GW by FY 2020. The company's products are designed to the highest standards of quality, reliability and performance. As a fully forward- integrated Solar EPC contractor, Vikram Solar deploys world- class technology to design, install and commission solar projects worldwide.
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Luton midfielder Luke Berry has taken further steps on the comeback trail from a horrific injury after returning to full training this week.
The 26-year-old is currently recovering from a dislocated left ankle and fractured fibula suffered at Colchester United in March, although was back out on the Kenilworth Road pitch with his team-mates ahead of Town's 3-1 defeat to Norwich last week.
The last point is crucial as although Berry is already making huge strides, Jones confirmed he won't be risked under any circumstances until fully ready.
He continued: "We're still not anywhere there yet, we've got to give him a real good solid pre-season and get him back running, physically fit.
He's been brilliant and he's still a massive positive influence around the place which is really good for the environment.
"It's not just the ankle that heals, but all of his body is conditioned and ready to go as well.
The Luton chief believes that by being in the right hands and doing everything asked of him since the moment the injury struck, has given Berry the best possible chance of returning ahead of schedule.
He said: "It's just the right treatment and he got instant treatment from the medical staff.
"He went and had a good surgeon who did the operation, then he's listened to everything.
"He's come back and he's pushed himself, done everything right, ate, ice, elevation, rest, pushing himself through things. He's wanted to do it, doesn't shy away, he's just a warrior, that's the character of him.
"He's a quiet assassin really and that's why we love him.
Jones was once again quick to praise the mentality of Berry during his lay-off, as he believes it has played a huge part in the swiftness of his recovery so far.
He added: "The biggest thing is the boy, the boy's character, how he is, any PMA (positive mental attitude) he epitomises it in abundance.
"From day one as he was coming off the pitch he told me 'it won't be long gaffer, it's just my ligaments,' that's what he said to me coming off the pitch at Colchester.
"Then straight away in hospital, he's positive, then he says 'I feel good,' he's walking after a few days. I could go on about the positivity he's shown as I love the kid, he's done brilliant for me.
Meanwhile, team-mate Elliot Lee added: "It's great to have Bezza in and around it.
"He's a great player, a great asset to the team and he did score a couple of worldies in training.
"He's nowhere near his fitness yet and that just shows how good he is, as he didn't look out of place at all yesterday.


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My Time in the Kitchen: New Breadmaker!
After 'abusing' the Lenq Breadmaker that I gotten from groupon deal, it finally raise the white flag after 9 months. Been using it for around 2-3 times max per week.
And as my old one surrender, the new breadmaker craze is here. Now Q00 has this special deal at $70 with delivery to your house. The wait is no longer than 2 weeks and finally after arriving for 1 week, I open it up.
It is smaller than the old one, max of 450g dough.. My first bake is using the sweet bread recipe from the manual. Keeping my fingers crossed that it will turn out well. Hub says taste good but I still prefer the usual recipes I used to bake with. Think I stick to that or try other interesting recipe.
I used Function 6, light crust, 450g bread. Add ingredients in above sequence and leave the BM to work.
Sincerely need ya help. .. got the breadmaker but all in Chinese. Wonder if u could share the English manual or English recipes?
I gt a lot of recipe here using the bread maker. Normally I start the breadmaker, select 菜单 which means a Menu, press to 6, Select 烤色 which means col of crust, press to medium, 重量 which means weight, mainly mine is 450g. Then press 启动 to start. Hope it helps..
Anyohaseyo!! We are going korean tonight!


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Volcker Rule set to change market structure, says Shogi Group
Joe Marsh
Banks turning proprietary investment activities into hedge funds may not be able to trade as aggressively as they once did, says quant trading veteran Brian Brown.
Speculation is rife over what banks will do with their proprietary trading desks on the back of US reforms, with Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan and Morgan Stanley reportedly mulling whether to close, sell or spin-off such businesses.
The US Dodd-Frank financial overhaul bill was signed in late July and includes the so-called Volcker Rule, which curtails proprietary trading, private equity and other investments that banks make with their own capital.
Whatever firms decide to do, it is likely to have a major long-term impact on the structure of the markets, and may affect volatility in the short term. That is particularly true of big quantitative-trading operations, says Brian Brown, founder and head of algorithmic/high-frequency trading boutique Shogi Group in Hong Kong.
The largest prop desks have employed as much as $20 billion in capital at times, he says, but as they migrate into hedge funds they will have difficulty raising capital and using that kind of leverage without access to the bank's balance sheet.
"Banks enjoy tremendous leverage and minimal costs of execution," explains Brown, who once served as director of pan-Asia systematic trading at Morgan Stanley in Hong Kong. "Thus, as hedge funds, they might not be able to trade as aggressively, which will change the market structure in the long term."
Meanwhile, unwinding a desk could create severe short-term volatility, he adds, although it could also have no effect.
Brown cites the market impact of other large liquidations. In the aftermath of the Lehman Brothers collapse in September 2008, hedge funds with similar holdings experienced volatility as the liquidators unwound Lehman's books, he says, and there was a similar effect from the Bear Sterns fund bankruptcies in 2007.
"In any case, the effects on the market are uncertain and there could be no impact – investors should just be aware these events can contribute to volatility," he says, adding that prop trading is just as significant in Asia, particularly Japan, as elsewhere.
It's certainly worth keeping an eye on how markets might move. "At the moment, we're monitoring a variety of indicators for potential inflection points that may be a good opportunity to long volatility," says Brown, whose firm's research is used for in-house trading, as well as by private investors and macro hedge funds.
Still, these are only the early implications of the Volcker Rule, and it may be some time before the full effects are felt in the markets. "The window of compliance could be as much as four years down the road," he says, "but many of the recent announcements are due to the employee's flight to hedge funds and the bank's awareness of the inevitable."
JP Morgan, for one, will reportedly close all its prop desks globally, of which commodities trading is a major component. Yet this could be a relative drop in the ocean compared with other potential moves, given that JP Morgan has a relatively small prop operation.
Goldman and Morgan Stanley, meanwhile, are effectively the two biggest quantitative traders. They are examining the options open to them, whether that may mean transferring the business to an asset-management unit, seeding a hedge fund that would take over the prop activities or winding down the portfolio.
The latest reports say that Goldman will disband its principal-strategies business, one of its prop-trading units, which between them manage a total of around $9 billion. And Morgan Stanley may relinquish control of its in-house hedge fund, FrontPoint Partners, of which Christophe Lee, formerly of SHK Financial, is now Asia-Pacific managing director, as AsianInvestor reported last week. Both banks declined to comment on their plans.
No doubt some are waiting for further clarification on what will be required of them.
"Banks dabble in proprietary activities within many customer trading activities," says Brown. "It remains undecided as to how the SEC [the US Securities and Exchange Commission] will define 'proprietary trading', and it will be interesting to see how and where regulators draw the line."
Brown has authored a book, Chasing the Same Signals – How Black-Box Trading Influences Stock Markets from Wall Street to Shanghai.
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Friendly, translates diagnosis simply. Good listener. Good bedside manner. Smiles and will ask about your family. generally on time.
Dr Barday is a brilliant physician in every respect. Caring, committed and extremely professional.
Dr Barday is both professional and personal in a balanced way. I trust her fully and recommend her without any hesitation.
Dr Barday is fantastic. She is approachable and warm and has an excellent memory about her clients' personal circumstances, considering she consults with such a high amount of daily patients. My children love her, and I trust her implicitly. Her knowledge of the medical field is brilliant, I feel as if she has always been "spot on" with her diagnoses and recommendations. But mostly I would recommend her because she is an amazing, "people person". I feel like she really listens to me, and genuinely cares for her patients.
She is an excellent physician, very approachable. Very relaxed, friendly and very thorough and gets diagnoses just like that. I don't mind waiting for her cause I know I will get good service.
I have been to Dr Barday a few times and always felt very comfortable and well looked after. She is super knowledgeable and so willing to help and get to the bottom of a problem. I highly recommend her.
Best Doctor Ever. Dr Barday is very thorough. She always explains everything. We travel from Clovelly to see her because we like her so much. She removed a cyst from my neck, warts from kids feet, and has given lots of advice on the use of Ritalin.
Caring and good service. She follows up on your progress and she gives you medical advice on good healthy habits while examining you.
Dr Barbay is through and does a full holistic check when visiting her. She is knowledgable and always spot on with her diagnosis.
The waiting period varies and understandably in some circumstances, it's way longer than feels comfortable- but Dr Barday is worth waiting for! We have been her patients for close on 10 years and I value her medical opinion and caring demeanor.


Artisan Pizza Crust with Whole Grain. I kept sampling the tiny bites of crust spread with cream cheese, spinach, tomatoes and onions. It was so simple, yet so pleasant to my taste buds. If you look at the picture below, taken from the General Mills blog, you can see me, along with fellow members of the Box Tops for Education Panel, hanging out at the table. The server probably wanted us to stop eating all of her samples. Ha!
Who doesn't like pizza? I could probably live off of it a few days out of the week. It's the unofficial food of the college student too. You can eat it cold, old, hot and just about anyway you can imagine. I've been known to spice up leftover pizza from time to time. It's my go-to food when I need something quick and easy. Now, I'm incorporating it into a fun after school snack for my son.
Kaden is a growing boy. He has an appetite like his Dad – big! At one time I could hold him over with a fruit cup or something small. Now, he basically needs a meal before dinner time.
I'm not the best cook in the world. I can make the basics and read a recipe here and there. I blame it on the fact that I have so many wonderful cooks around me. They like to cook, so I'll just sit back, watch and eat. You'd do the same thing.
But after school, I am on my own. When Kaden says he is hungry, I have to think of something quick and easy to give him. I decided a pepperoni and cheese pizza would do the trick.
First, I started with basic ingredients. I used Pillsbury Artisan Pizza Crust with Whole Grain, tomato sauce, shredded sharp cheddar cheese and pepperonis. The topping are endless. Decide exactly what your child wants to put on theirs. Make it fun.
Once you have preheated the oven to 400 degrees and greased your baking pan (different depending on the type), crack open your pizza crust.
Once you pop the container, DON'T YOU DARE FORGET TO TEAR OUT THE BOX TOP for your child's school.
Unroll the dough on the baking sheet. Press it with your fingers until you reach your desired thickness. For fun, you can use a cookie cutter to make cool shapes for mini pizzas. I just chose the traditional route.
Place the plain pizza crust in the oven for a pre-bake for approximately 8 minutes.
Once this is done, remove the pizza crust from the oven. Add your tomato sauce and other toppings to the pizza crust.
Place the pizza back into the oven for approximately 6 to 10 minutes or until the crust is golden brown. Keep an eye on your pizza. You don't want it to burn or turn out too crispy.
When you're done, it should come out looking great and smelling delicious.
Kaden can be a picky eater at times. Lucky for me, the pizza was a hit...or either he was hungry. Either way, he ate it all. I added a salad to make sure his belly would make it to dinner. I told you he could eat.
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Assad Kotaite (Lebanon)
THIRD PRESIDENT OF THE ICAO COUNCIL
TERM OF OFFICE: 1976-2006
Assad Kotaite was born in Hasbaya, Lebanon, on 6 November 1924. He graduated in Law from the French University of Beirut (1948) and received a Doctor of Law from the University of Paris (1952). He also studied at the Institut des hautes études internationales, University of Paris and the Academy of International Law, The Hague. In 1952, he was elected President of the Association of Attenders and Alumni of The Hague Academy of International Law.
From 1953 to 1956, Dr. Kotaite was Chief of Legal Services, International Agreements and External Relations, in the Lebanese Directorate of Civil Aviation. From 1953 to 1970, he was a member of the Legal Committee of ICAO and he was the Representative of Lebanon on the Council of ICAO from 1956 to 1962 and again from 1965 until July 1970. From 1957 to 1959, he was a member of the United Nations Transport and Communications Commission and served as Chairman of the Ninth Session of that Commission. During Dr. Kotaite's term as a member of the ICAO Council, he served as Chairman of the Air Transport Committee from 1959 to 1962 and again from 1965 to 1968, as Second Vice-President of the ICAO Council in 1958 and as member and Vice-Chairman of the ICAO Finance Committee and Chairman of the Working Group on ICAO Financial Regulations in 1959. For several years he was a member of the ICAO Standing Group on Implementation. During the period from 1963 to 1964, when he did not serve on the ICAO Council, he was Chief of Administrative Services, Directorate General of Transport of Lebanon.
Dr. Kotaite was Secretary General of ICAO from 1 August 1970 until 1 August 1976 when he became President of the Council of ICAO. He retired on 31 July 2006, having served for 53 years the international civil aviation community, the last 30 of which were as President of the Council.
Shortly after his retirement, Dr. Kotaite became the first-ever President Emeritus of the ICAO Council, an honorary designation bestowed upon him by the Organization's governing body. In 2013, he was awarded the 40th Edward Warner Award, the highest honour in the world of civil aviation, in recognition of his eminent contribution to the development of international civil aviation, most notably in the field of diplomacy and conciliation.
Mr. Assad Kotaite died on 27 February 2014 at the age of 89.
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David Price: 'Shit Happens!'
Chris Maylett February 26, 2013
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David Price's rise to the top of the heavyweight rankings came to an abrupt halt on Saturday night when he was knocked out in round two by veteran campaigner and former two time world title challenger Tony Thompson at the Echo Arena in Liverpool.
Thompson was Price's first big test, only beaten 3 times in a 39 fight career going in; 2 were to Wladimir Klitschko for the world titles and the other a disputed 4 round unanimous decision loss in 2000 to Eric Kirkland; Thompson was not a man to be taken lightly, overlooked or under estimated, he is a stern test for any top 10 heavyweight contender.
It was felt before hand that Thompson at 41 was some kind of washed up journeyman who Price was going to walk through on his way to fighting the top men of the division, but in effect this was a fight that would determine rankings and Thompson still has big plans of his own and proved it.
Price, 29, was being hailed by most as the real deal, the man who everyone was avoiding and a sure bet to take over the reigns and dominance of the Klitschko brothers for the foreseeable future. But really Price is still learning his professional trade and with 15 fights to his name going in, he was introduced to the hard realities of world level heavyweight professional boxing and the fine line between winning and losing at the top.
Everything happens for a reason and whats happened could eventually turn out to be a positive thing in my career."
The shot that departed Price from his senses and dropped him at 2:17 of the second round was a clubbing right that caught him behind the ear and immediately dropped the big man. It was a shocking sight to see one of our heavyweight hopes and current British champion down.
He bravely got up off the canvas and beat the referee's count but his legs had turned to jelly and resembled the walking action of a new born giraffe when the referee asked him to walk towards him and the fight was waved off.
The Echo arena audience not believing what they just witnessed fell into a silenced state and other than a few who were shouting and cursing at a vocally happy Thompson, the atmosphere could have been paired with that of terrible accident, stunned! Price's fans couldn't believe what they were watching.
But this is heavyweight boxing and one shot can end it all, when the big men start unloading anything goes and the very best have tasted defeat in this way. Price can comeback from this, many have including British hero Lennox Lewis; who suffered two KO defeats only to return a better fighter for them. But he will have to learn from it quick and improve rapidly, because he will never enter a fight again from here on in with that aura of invincibility he was beginning to muster due to his quick KO record, size and strength a perfect specimen in the genetic mold of the modern heavyweight type cast. But all future opponents will know now if they land clean Price is suspect! Some never recover fully and can become, as they say; gun shy.
It's just one of those things Ive got to deal with I suppose. It's disappointing but to be honest it's not the end of the world, shit happens! I'll come back stronger."
This is the part of his career now where Price either sinks or swims, these are the moments that the greats have used to seal their legacies, rising up from the depths to conquer the summit after losing titles or falling off the penultimate ledge with the top just coming into view.
Price after the fight was adamant that this defeat can be put down to a mere setback on his professional boxing journey. He is still the British and Commonwealth champion and is determined to return from this loss, viewing it as an event destined! One that will eventually turn out to be a positive thing in his career. "It's just one of those things Ive got to deal with I suppose. It's disappointing but to be honest it's not the end of the world, shit happens! I'll come back stronger.
"What happened then was more of a freak than anything, it wasn't like I was taking a beating or got caught on the chin and was out cold, it was more disorientating and Ive just got to recover from this setback.
"I was boxing patiently you know, I didn't want to rush in or anything because he was looking for the counter.
"I threw a right uppercut and I dropped me left hand has I threw it and he caught me around the back of the ear and that's what scrambled me senses, I lost me balance and me legs were gone.
"Ive just got to find a way back and I'm sure I will."
"This is heavyweight boxing these things happen, Ive been knocking people out and now it's happened to me and Ive always said I'm not invincible anyone can get caught and get hurt.
"Don't get me wrong my spirit is broken a little bit because it's disappointing but as for getting back in there maybe the sooner the better in circumstances like this, but we'll sit down and have a chat.
"I'm still British and commonwealth champion, I'm not in a bad position and two or three fights down the line this will be ancient history and I'll be back in a position where I'm talking about doing big things but as it stands it's a knock, and Ive got to take the knock and get on with it.
"Ive got the mentality where shit happens and worse things happen in life than getting beat in a boxing fight if you put it into perspective like that, but it's up to me to work hard get myself back in the gym and make sure it doesn't happen again.
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