"Demanding and challenging"— this is how Brigadier General Thomas Hambach describes the past years. Three years ago, he was assigned the position of Director of Academic Programs at the Bundeswehr Command and Staff College. "To be allowed to think about what we should teach our future field-grade officers and general/admiral staff officers given the fact that we cannot foresee future developments and to think about how we can teach all this in the best possible way"—for General Hambach, this has always been a very enriching experience. He is sad to leave Hamburg but he is also looking forward to his new assignment as Deputy Commander, Bundeswehr Logistics Command in Erfurt. For the time being, the acting Director of Academic Programs is Jörn Thießen, Head of the Political and Social Sciences Department.
During a solemn ceremony, the Commandant of the Bundeswehr Command and Staff College, Rear Admiral Carsten Stawitzki, thanked General Hambach for his great commitment and meaningful contributions to the training institution emphasizing his personal and sensitive approach to all subject matters. With high-ranking guest from politics, the economy and the society but also from different fields of the armed forces, altogether 150 people participated in the farewell ceremony.
In his speech, the general quoted Confucius to express the pleasure he felt every day of his assignment at the college: "Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life." He emphasized that he felt this pleasure only because of the professional support from all soldiers and staff members thanking them with the words: "I wasn't given the choice but it is essentially thanks to you all that I felt so much pleasure and gratitude in serving at this college."
Aside from imparting pure theory and practice, General Hambach always considered it important to create an added value for the students during their training and education at the BwCSC. In our modern, often very challenging and volatile time, it has been his major concern to share his personal experiences with his students so that our leaders of tomorrow are well prepared for the future.
Using the three words "ability", "willingness" and "permission," he made clear what kind of added value the training and education at the BwCSC is to create for the students: "Ability" stands for the military leaders' capability to act in any given situation. "Willingness" stands for the leaders' willingness to act and for their will to constantly develop their personality. The aspect of "permission" complements the other two aspects: Only if we manage to constantly provide an adequate framework here at the college, our officers can put their personal understanding of command and control to the test.
Within the scope of training and education, committing errors is quite a natural thing, General Hambach explained adding that the BwCSC is "the perfect place for such an experience." With this principle, the general complemented his description of the BwCSC's training objective to the shaping of which he contributed so much during his assignment as Director of Academic Programs. He also touched an aspect that still is of great importance to him and that from his point of view, puts the demands made particularly on general/admiral staff officers in a nutshell: How can we convey leadership skills that represent our unique concept of Leadership Development and Civic Education, in German known as "Innere Führung"?
"To express one's own intent in such a fashion that there is still leeway for the necessary creativity and imagination" is a challenge General Hambach has known very well and he has always strived to convey this aspect to the students at the BwCSC. "Delegating responsibility but also taking on responsibility. Trusting others but also earning the trust of others. Both aspects represent two sides of the same coin." During his speech, the general did not only look back to the past but also focused on the current tasks and challenges the college is facing. In this context, he mentioned particularly challenging and volatile conditions and reminded the audience of the fact that change always takes time.
In his words to General Hambach, Admiral Stawitzki pointed out that during the general's time at the BwCSC, 200,000 classes were given by 100 lecturers and more than 500 guest lecturers to soldiers from more than 100 nations. The admiral continued: "Let me express my sincere gratitude for your work and commitment and for the fact that you have carried out this challenging assignment with all your heart and mind and with a great deal of sensitivity." The commandant appreciated the general's "set of skills and tools," his elaborate methods, his critical stance and his constructive cooperation. "You have initiated and promoted all this—thank you very much for your efforts." Musicians from the Naval Band Kiel headed by Commander Szepanski provided a worthy setting for the farewell ceremony. They played pieces in minor and major keys emphasizing both the melancholy aspects of saying farewell and the cheerful moments of the past years but also reflecting the joyful anticipation of the new assignment.
Music band "Cause of Action"
Dr. Petra Köppel "open our minds to unfamiliar things"
The photos will be shown as a touring exhibition at other places, too.
Even the music was full of diversity. Playing unplugged with two guitars, one keyboard, one cajón and three vocalists, the band "Cause of Action" took the audience through a colorful Diversity Day at the BwCSC in Hamburg. The Bundeswehr has supported the Diversity Charter since 2012, and this time a photo exhibition was the central event.
"Through this photo exhibition we want to show the diversity of the personnel serving in Hamburg's Bundeswehr agencies," said BwCSC's photographer Katharina Junge, explaining the concept behind the project "Diversity in Uniform". 70 military or civilian staff members from Hamburg's Bundeswehr agencies volunteered as models for this exhibition. They were portrayed in their uniforms or workwear and in their casual or hobby outfit with a third photo showing an object each person considers to be important in his or her life.
The photos are complemented by interviews concerning the person's private and professional identity— with quotations from these interviews supplementing the fascinating full body portraits. Who is actually the person behind this uniform or workwear? "In our busy daily working routine, we often perceive people in their official functions only. The individuals behind these functions and all their interests, abilities and all their potential often remain hidden," said Dr. Maren Tomforde, who works as a lecturer at the BwCSC and had taken the lead responsibility in organizing the Bundeswehr's Diversity Day in Hamburg.
The Commandant of the BwCSC, Rear Admiral (Upper Half) Carsten Stawitzki, had previously opened the central event of the day in the Gneisenau Hall of the Manfred Wörner Center at the Clausewitz Barracks. "If you look at my family name, you may recognize that my ancestors came from East Prussia. This is a fact that caused me quite some trouble when I was looking for an apartment in 1992," said the Commandant with a view to his manifold experience with prejudices. "Forming efficient teams that are able to solve tasks jointly and that sometimes need to be more homogenous and sometimes more heterogeneous—this is our leadership task, be it at the operating table, in a small combat group or during a meeting," the admiral continued. The working atmosphere was the essential aspect that decided whether a person stayed at a workplace or quit the job.
The BwCSC organized the fifth national Diversity Day in Hamburg in close cooperation with the city's other Bundeswehr agencies. From 9.30 a.m., about 250 representatives from the Bundeswehr hospital, the Helmut Schmidt University, the Land Command and the Bundeswehr Command and Staff College gathered at the Clausewitz Barack for a meeting. "With a view to the seven dimensions of diversity—ethnic background, nationality, sexual orientation, individual abilities, religion and world view, age, gender and social background—the diversity at these agencies is quite impressive. It brings many challenges but also numerous opportunities because we human beings are able to reflect over matters," the admiral said.
Keynote speaker Dr. Petra Köppel from consulting firm Synergy Consult pointed out how valuable diversity is for the Bundeswehr. "Diversity is not always visible. The first impression often causes us to make judgements about the whole person," she warned. Experience, values and attitudes are something you don't see at first sight. "Diversity can only bring to bear its advantages and contribute to more job satisfaction and better task management if there is mutual respect."
"Diversity is a management task and it starts at the top," the consultant said. She explained that in our complex world, it is absolutely necessary to have categories - but that these might distort things or lead us to be guided by patterns. It is therefore important to differentiate between describing and judging a person and therefore to question one's first impression and allow for criticism. "Aspects such as questioning oneself, changing one's patterns of thinking and leaving one's comfort zone are a prerequisite for dealing with uncertainty, for allowing for unfamiliar things and for being curious and able to change oneself," Dr. Köppel emphasized. It's all about using potential—the potential of all personnel.
In the afternoon, three workshops were conducted focusing on diversity management on an equal-opportunity basis as a leadership task, on diversity practice in the Bundeswehr and on related experiences and challenges with regard to the compatibility of family and service. Parallel to the workshops, the Kaleidoskop theater group from Hamburg Altona performed the improv play "Diversity" with active audience involvement. The actors asked the audience questions on diversity in general and then acted out the answers. The result was a lot of laughter from the audience: "We recognized ourselves pretty well in the play."
Good communication, clear requirements and the confidence to be allowed to open up oneself are essential prerequisites for the success of initiatives such as diversity-related panels and bodies, the diversity symposium, questionnaires for personnel, the academic postgraduate master program "Leading Diversity", the dialog of cultures or the one-week seminar on diversity and the 2018 Diversity Day.
At the end, the commandant summarized this most informative day very positively: "What impressed me most was the good atmosphere that prevailed during the entire day. The keynote speech held by Dr. Petra Köppel, the surprise performance of the BwCSC band, the workshops that provided so many valuable ideas and impulses and of course the photo exhibition. It was this mixture of events that made the whole day fabulous."
With officers from all over the world studying at the Bundeswehr Command and Staff College, the campus brims with colorful and varied uniforms. In an atmosphere of mutual respect and understanding, personal contacts easily develop and networks are quickly established. It is no surprise then, when former students return to the college as visitors. One such visitor was welcomed at the BwCSC on 11 May 2017. Twenty years after the beginning of his two-year training on the 1997 National General/Admiral Staff Officer Course, former student Frank Trojahn—meanwhile a rear admiral (upper half)—returned to the college for a short visit.
After talks with the Commandant of the BwCSC, Rear Admiral (Upper Half) Carsten Stawitzki, and the Director of Academic Management, Rear Admiral (Lower Half) Karsten Schneider, Admiral Trojahn gladly seized the opportunity to take a walk through the Clausewitz Barracks. In the Navy Branch, the Admiral encountered a former fellow student of the 39th Admiral Staff Officer Course and both enjoyed their memories of the good old days. "Much of what I see today is new, but there are also several things that are still familiar to me. It feels like coming home. The new modern auditoriums and the Manfred Wörner Center are quite impressive. Most enjoyable, however, is the pleasant atmosphere on campus," Admiral Trojahn said in talks with the Head of the Navy Branch and Representative of the Chief of the German Navy at the Bundeswehr Command and Staff College, Captain Straus.
During his walk through the barrack, the Danish Chief of Naval Staff was accompanied by a Danish student from the 2015 National General/Admiral Staff Officer Course. Lieutenant Commander Nicolai Svane informed his superior in detail about his experiences with the college's current training approach, which today, not only focuses on military topics but also on social or economic issues.
"For Denmark, Germany is an important strategic partner in the region," said Rear Admiral (Upper Half) Trojahn at the end of his visit. "We will gladly continue our cooperation with this remarkable training institution and seize the training opportunities it offers." Indeed, another Danish naval field-grade officer will study on the next National General/Admiral Staff Officer Course. So maybe, he too, will visit the college as an admiral one day.
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Today, the Commandant of the Führungsakademie der Bundeswehr, Rear Admiral Carsten Stawitzki, and the BWI IT regions manager, Dr. Adrian Overberg, signed a concept on the further development of the IT landscape at the Führungsakademie in Hamburg. This concept covers many aspects: First of all, it includes the results of a report on all IT systems currently used at the institution. Furthermore, it describes specific solutions tailored to the needs of the Führungsakademie and lays out the path towards possible adaptations of the BWI IT services. As Stawitzki puts it: "Now we are gathering at the starting line to embark on this journey together." The signing of the concept symbolizes the kick-off for the next stage of the project. Based on this document, the next step is to get down to detailed planning: How can our partners achieve their goals? How can they continue to adapt the capabilities required by the Führungsakademie to the challenges of the future?
During her visit to the Führungsakademie in November, the Federal Minister of Defence, Ursula von der Leyen, stated: "I want the Führungsakademie to evolve further." She added: "Among other things, good teaching is a question of technology." For this reason, the Führungsakademie should be the avant-garde of the Bundeswehr in terms of digitalization, e-learning and correspondence courses. "And if there are any obstacles in terms of technical or structural infrastructure, well, they are there to be overcome," the Minister demanded. Even before that, the German Joint Support Service Headquarters had initiated a further development program for the IT landscape at the Führungsakademie, triggering the local IT team to prepare a concept for a sustainable solution.
At present, the Führungsakademie with its own individual IT landscape enjoys a special status among the German armed forces. Within the Bundeswehr, the institution is an "IT island" that is not yet fully serviced by the Bundeswehr Information Technology (BWI) network, the Bundeswehr's central IT service provider. Due to its special status as an international military teaching institution, the Führungsakademie so far has been operating an independent IT network. The entire IT equipment is managed by highly qualified IT personnel. These IT experts are also responsible for user support and for managing the IT services for the whole facility. In due course, additional IT services from the HERKULES project providing the entire office communication for the Bundeswehr are to be used at the Führungsakademie. To this end, in cooperation with the Federal Office of Bundeswehr Equipment, Information Technology and In-Service Support and with the BWI IT, the local IT experts have conducted a comprehensive inventory of the existing IT systems.
Moreover, with the Interoperable Cloud Computing (IOCC) study, the BWI has been tasked to evaluate the possibilities arising from cloud computing with regard to potential applications in the armed forces. IOCC would allow military and civilian employees to access and work with data and programs from any location. The further development of the IT landscape at the Führungsakademie provides a good opportunity to try out the use of cloud computing in this environment. This way, the Führungsakademie could become a cloud computing pioneer in the German armed forces and maybe also an example for other Bundeswehr agencies, able to provide them with advice and support in similar projects together with the BWI IT. Before that, however, the necessary technical, economic and organizational prerequisites must be created.
The jointly prepared concept takes into account the particular conditions required by the teaching activities conducted at the Führungsakademie and aims at preparing the entire IT landscape for the challenges of the future. Networking is a key aspect in this context – networking beyond national borders with other armed forces and allies. "Certain things at the Führungsakademie are simply different. Training senior national and international officers makes special demands on us that cannot be compared with other Bundeswehr schools and training institutions," Stawitzki explained. "Therefore, we must identify what exactly the IT user needs."
The aim pursued by further developing the IT landscape at the Führungsakademie is to provide all its members with IT services such as telephones, computers and servers in accordance with their missions and requirements. The provided equipment is to be up-to-date and sufficiently high-performing to comply with the requirements derived from the IT strategy of the Federal Ministry of Defence and its agenda "The Bundeswehr Leads the Way – An Active, Attractive Alternative".
At the same time, a risk management system is to be implemented to a necessary degree in order to guarantee IT security without sacrificing flexibility with regard to the provision of IT services. In different workshops, representatives of the parties involved will work towards drawing up a plan on how to put all of this into practice. Rear Admiral Stawitzki urges: "We must link up more closely and lend an ear to each other's concerns. This is the only way we can succeed in identifying the requirements of the future and provide the necessary resources such as material, personnel and training to meet them in a sustainable manner."
"Changes often require some form of external encouragement." At the reception held within the Führungsakademie der Bundeswehr in Hamburg, the Commandant, Rear Admiral Stawitzki, began his welcoming speech by quoting General Scharnhorst, and proceeded to place the historical example of the Prussian military reformer at the center of his remarks regarding the future of this educational institution. Scharnhorst seized the opportunity of an epochal caesura to initiate ground-breaking reforms. Our world has changed yet again, and the Führungsakademie is called upon, now more than ever, to address and adapt to these changes in order to be able to prepare our future leaders for their tasks in the best way possible. The increased importance of the Command and Staff College has also been underlined by a recent transfer of authority: The Führungsakademie is now directly subordinate to the Chief of the Defence Staff.
The further development of basic, advanced and follow-on training and instruction at the Führungsakademie will go hand in hand with a wide range of comprehensive transformations. The Admiral explained: "The fundamental idea is that we first need to understand an increasingly complex world on the political level and subsequently draw conclusions for the deployment of our armed forces." The Commandant has taken up the cause of implementing this idea at the Führungsakademie, considering it essential to constantly reappraise the educational program and keep it at the cutting edge.
"We question everything with unsparing honesty and dare to think the unthinkable," Stawitzki affirmed. He added: "Our future military leaders will face the challenges of the future. Therefore, we must provide them with professional skills and competence of action." The entire education and follow-on training concept of the Führungsakademie will be reviewed and re-organized in order to provide the students with the best possible preparation for their future assignments and to enhance flexibility in terms of thinking. "This rapidly changing world puts many demands on our soldiers even while they are still young," the Admiral explained. "There are no blueprints that will tell you how to tackle future security challenges. And this is precisely why our future leaders must be able to identify developments at an early stage and think through possible scenarios."
Stawitzki's motivation stems from the past: "Over the last 60 years, the Führungsakademie time and time again has addressed the challenges inherent to educational developments and thus made it to the top level. This is where our institution belongs and where it should remain." Admiral Stawitzki also shared his vision for the future of the Führungsakademie: "We will endeavor to be always up-to-date in terms of methodology and didactics as well as contents by offering an internationally recognized and future-oriented training in collaboration with other agencies and academic institutions."
"I am delighted to have the opportunity to contribute to the further development of the Führungsakademie," the Commandant told the audience. He is well aware, though, that all these plans can only be successfully implemented through "team work delivered by the great people who work here at our College". Accordingly, he expressed his gratitude to all members of the College staff, thanking them for their contributions, and made clear that he is looking with confidence to the coming months. He welcomed all those present as "friends of the Bundeswehr" and emphasized common interests because: "This year, it will be particularly important for us to realize what we have in common, to stand together and join forces to achieve our goals."
The New Year reception of the Bundeswehr in Hamburg offers a regular opportunity to look back on the past year. As patron of the event, Captain Michael Setzer, Commander of the Land Command Hamburg and Garrison Senior Officer, welcomed the numerous guests and representatives from politics, authorities and society on behalf of the 18 Bundeswehr agencies located in the Hanseatic City.
Captain Setzer's opening sentence cut right to the chase: "The past year was an eventful one and full of challenges." The refugee relief provided by the Bundeswehr during the last months also made an impact on the City agencies. "Within the scope of civil-military cooperation, our approx. 5,800 soldiers supported the emergency services and provided start-up assistance to the City agencies and organizations dealing with the large numbers of migrants," Setzer summarized.
This kind of commitment pays dividends. Some of the buildings that were used temporarily as refugee shelters have now been handed back to their original users. "However, the efforts to achieve integration must be continued!", he reminded the audience. Setzer considers controlled immigration to be "an opportunity for our country" which should be seized. These words were met with eager support, not only by Aydan Özoğuz. The Minister of State to the Federal Chancellor and Federal Government Commissioner for Migration, Refugees and Integration was only one of many high-ranking guests attending the event.
Another major event kept the Bundeswehr soldiers in Hamburg busy, too: They provided technical interdepartmental assistance during the meeting of OSCE foreign ministers in December. Setzer knows: "Peace cannot be taken for granted. Peace requires a lot of work, not only from us soldiers." He underlined the significance of the OSCE as an important forum for intergovernmental talks and cautioned: "These talks must be kept alive."
Looking to the future, Setzer declared that "modernization and transformation will be the key topics for the new year". Current developments with regard to the security situation are leading to both a strategic reorientation of the armed forces and a reprioritization of national and Alliance defense. "In the future, Germany will be called upon to make a greater contribution to crisis management," he concluded. After a long period of reductions in the Bundeswehr, a trend reversal in the areas of personnel, equipment and financing is now creating the necessary foundation for tackling this task. According to Setzer, the collaboration between the different agencies and the commitment of reservists and civilian partners are additional important elements in this respect. The Commander of the Land Command concluded his speech by thanking all of them: "My special thanks go to all of you. And I want to assure you that we will continue to be at your disposal if you need us as a partner."
The a capella band "Die Anker" of the Helmut Schmidt University accompanied the program, providing an appealing musical background for the event and inspiring Admiral Stawitzki to draw an apt comparison: "The performance of this band symbolizes the strong ties between the educational institutions of the Bundeswehr in the east and in the west of the City of Hamburg." And this was not the only vivid example of active collaboration between the different agencies, demonstrating just how true cooperation can work.


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The Miles Historical Village and Museum is an open-air museum located near the town of Miles, Queensland, Australia. The village consists of 30 buildings, replicas of ones built during the time period of the 1920s.

Region history
This area was first named Dogwood Crossing by the explorer Ludwig Leichhardt. The town was later named Miles when the railway was being constructed in 1878, after William Miles who was a member of parliament and owned a property 'Dulacca' in the area. When more people settled in this area, in the early days there were a lot of dairy farms. The land is really not suitable for dairying, so in later years farmers have turned to growing wheat and there was also a lot of cotton grown.

In the early days Prickly Pear was a menace, it is believed it was brought to Australia as a pot plant. A lot of farmers walked off their land in the early 1890s until the moth was discovered to eradicate this pest.

Historical village

The historical village consists of 30 buildings, including the Artesian Basin Centre which houses information on Artesian Water, aboriginal history, and land care. The War Museum has displays from all World Wars. The Shell house has a comprehensive display of shells from all over the world. The Historical Village started in 1971 and has grown since then, with the Miles Historical Society attempting to add a new replica building every year, and expanding the museum's collection with memorabilia donated by families in the district.

The village has an authentic 1900s era streetscape, featuring a bakery, post office, chemist, general store, Red Rose Cafe, and a branch of the Bank of New South Wales, all featuring real items from the time period. Also included are a church, school, butcher, and blacksmith. A typical slab hut from the early 1900s era is also displayed. The village also hosts the former Dalwogan railway station (part of the Wandoan Branch Railway), with the retired Queensland Government Railways C17 steam locomotive no. 944 on display outside.

See also

History of Queensland
List of museums

References

External links

Open-air museums in Australia
Museums in Queensland
Darling Downs
1971 establishments in Australia

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When events don't happen as we think they should, it doesn't always mean something went wrong. We plan events with our human brains, and we do the best we can.
The story of Naaman amplifies this principle. Naaman had leprosy, and went to Elisha to be healed. Elisha told him to wash himself seven times in the Jordan River, and he would be completely healed. That sounds like a good deal to me. Back in those days, leprosy was a terminal illness; it was never healed. Any door to healing would be a good door.
Instead of being grateful for the advice, Naaman grew angry. "I though Elisha would come pray for me, wave his hand over me, and cure me." Naaman was looking for a more personal touch.
Naaman was the commander of the Syrian army, and Elisha was telling him to wash in the Jordan–the water of his enemy!
Do you want to be healed, or complain because you have to step foot in the enemy's territory? Not only go there, but immerse yourself seven times, where people can see you. Humbling, isn't it?
Finally Naaman gave in, and dipped himself seven times in the Jordan. He was completely cured; his flesh became firm, and healthy like that of a child. He wasn't merely cured, his youth was restored.
God's Word reminds us that His thoughts are higher than our thoughts. Sometimes the answer that comes is not the one that we expected. We pray and expect events to happen a certain way, and when they don't, we get upset. If we have truly cast the care of the situation on God, He will answer us in His time, and in His way.
And it will be the correct solution.


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If you are planning to take a break somewhere with a slower, more relaxed pace of life, why not consider a cottage holiday in North Yorkshire?
The historic fishing ports of Whitby and Staithes provide the perfect setting for a leisurely break on the coast – and when you stay in a cottage here, you will feel as though you are a million miles away from the hustle and bustle of daily life.
Staithes is located within the boundaries of North York Moors National Park and its protected status means that its history has been well-preserved.
This historic town has been home to many of Britain's seafaring heroes – Captain James Cook being one prominent local figure – and you'll be able to experience more than 100 years of history on the waterfront during your stay in holiday cottages in Staithes.
The coastline here is known as the Dinosaur Coast and people have flocked here for more than two centuries to study the fascinating geology.
Many of the lower sections of the cliffs date back to the Lower and Middle Jurassic periods, making them more than 200 million years old.
Some of the world's most perfectly-preserved fossils – including many of ancient marine reptiles – have been found here and you will be able to see skeletons of plesiosaurs, marine crocodiles and ichthyosaurs in the nearby museums at Scarborough, York and Whitby.
The latter is another destination well worth considering when it comes to relaxing cottage holidays on the North Yorkshire coastline. Or you can even book in to stay for events such as Beacons Festival, held at Heslaker Farm.
Whitby is the perfect place to base yourself if you are looking to experience some of the UK's most exciting museums and cultural attractions.
During your stay in holiday cottages in Whitby, you will not want to miss a stop at the Captain Cook Museum, which is located in the harbourside house where the young man lived during his time as an apprentice.
The incredible, imposing ruins of Whitby Abbey are also located on a nearby cliff above the seaside town and you may have a fascinating day out exploring here.
Of course, you may choose simply to enjoy the coastline – you can walk, cycle or ride to see more of the incredible cliffs and enjoy the experience of being by the seaside.
No matter where you choose to visit on the North Yorkshire coast, you are sure to have a memorable cottage holiday in Whitby or Staithes – start planning your seaside getaway today.


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US steel mills cheer aggressive Section 232 recommendations; foreign mills, traders express disdain
Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said stiff Section 232 penalties aimed at limiting steel imports won't drive up prices or hurt employment for big steel users such as automakers.
Published on February 16, 2018 22:45 PM
Michael Cowden
Auto sales, for example, were solid last year despite rising costs for both steel and aluminium, Ross said. And even when steel and aluminium prices are volatile, "there hasn't been any noticeable dislocations coming from it.."
Steel prices make up only a fraction of the retail cost of a car or truck. In other industries, such as canned beverages and food, "it's even more trivial … a fraction of 1 cent," he said.
In other words, President Donald Trump and his administration don't buy the argument that tariffs or quotas might create market disruptions or job losses at downstream industries, he said.
Ross made the comments during a conference call with reporters on Friday February 16 about the Section 232 remedies he has proposed to the president. Ross recommended blanket tariffs, blanket quotas or a mix of targeted tariffs and quotas.
If tariffs or quotas are instituted, there is no timeline for when they might be lifted and no provision for them to be removed should they spark inflation, Ross told American Metal Market. "These tariffs or quotas could be canceled at any time that the president chooses. But there is not a specifically scheduled termination date."
The proposed Section 232 remedies for steel imports would apply equally to semifinished goods and to both finished carbon and stainless products, Ross said. That means everything from blooms, billets and slabs to flat products, long products and pipes and tubes could be targeted.
US mills cheer
"We appreciate and agree with the compelling case presented by Secretary Ross," U.S. Steel said in a statement. "We urge President Trump to take prompt, aggressive and lasting action."
John Ferriola, chairman, chief executive officer and president of Nucor - the largest mini-mill steelmaker in the United States - said he was "very encouraged" by Ross' recommendations. "We urge the president to move quickly to review these recommendations, [and] we stand ready to assist the administration in evaluating which recommendations will have the greatest impact in stopping the flow of unfairly traded imports," he said in a statement.
And the Steel Manufacturers Association - which represents electric-arc furnace steelmakers - also cheered the move. Ross "has laid out options that have the potential to be meaningful and effective to address the threat the industry faces in light of global excess capacity and relentless steel imports," SMA president Phil Bell said in a statement.
Wall Steel celebrated Ross' findings, too. Shares of U.S. Steel closed Friday trading at $44.75 each, up a whopping 14.77% from their previous close, while shares of AK Steel closed at $5.96 each, up 13.74% from their previous close. Other American steel companies saw more modest gains - up 4-8%. None was in negative territory.
Foreign mills, traders jeer
Mills in Japan, for one, had a very different view of Ross' recommendations. "The ultimate imposition of this naive regime would be a disaster for American manufacturing and the good, well-paying jobs it supports," Tadaaki Yamaguchi, chairman of the Japan Steel Information Center, said in an email to American Metal Market.
The American Institute for International Steel (AIIS), which represents steel traders, also warned that draconian measures taken against steel imports could backfire on US exports. The US agricultural sector might face the most risk in any tit-for-tat trade war, AIIS president Richard Chriss told American Metal Market by phone.
Take solar panels, for example. When the US hit China with duties on its solar panel exports, Beijing retaliated against US sorghum exports. "That was a warning shot. … China is ready, willing and able to retaliate against higher value-added agricultural exports," Chriss said.
The US doesn't export much sorghum to China. But it does export a substantial amount of soybeans - and tariffs on soybeans could bring pain to US farmers, who also happen to be big steel consumers, he suggested.
The proposed measures could also stall out the US economy "just as it seems to be roaring to life" and are unnecessary given that most US mills are profitable, Chriss said.
It's also not clear how the process for granting exceptions to duties or tariffs might work, Chris noted. That process was administered poorly when the US imposed Section 201 penalties against foreign steel in the early 2000s under former President George W. Bush.
In the meantime, some steel buyers are bracing for steep price increases.
"If this level of tariffs goes through, you'll be talking about price increases in the hundreds of dollars a ton, not $30, $40 or $50," a domestic tube mill source said.
"Buyers have some big decisions to make because, if this 232 is accepted, there will be a shortage of steel for sure," a southern distributor said. "Do you fill your warehouse now or wait and see? Prices are already high, so I would expect more momentum while everyone sort of tries to figure out what this new world is going to look like with minimal imports."
Other industry participants are placing their bets on which remedy the president might choose.
"While all three are positive for both [the steel and aluminium] industries, we think options two and three are the most likely outcomes, as the first option - utilizing a blanket tariff - is too broad, in our view," Cowen analyst Novid Rassouli wrote in a research note Friday. A blanket tariff could "knock out" imports of certain products while providing little help for others depending on the spread between US and foreign prices, he wrote.
Some even suggested that Ross had not given the president strong-enough measures to counter imports.
Speaking at the National Association of Steel Pipe Distributors annual convention in Houston, MaryEmily Slate, vice president and general manager of Nucor Steel Arkansas, said Trump is likely to hammer imports from nations with overcapacity, government ownership and subsidy programs.
"He's steadfast in creating a level playing field and punishing these countries that continue to dump steel," she said. He could go even further, for example, with an outright ban on imports from countries caught repeatedly violating US trade laws, she added.
Trump has until April 11 to decide what to do. "He'll make his decision when he makes his decision," Ross said. "As you know, there is quite a lot going on right now."
Dom Yanchunas, Houston, contributed to this report.
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New Black Nationalists Declaration of Support for Independence of West Papua
Today, New Black Nationalists in America's settler state, are issuing a Declaration of Support for the independence of West Papua from Indonesia.
Since 1963, Indonesia has subverted the national aspirations of the Black indigenous people of West Papua to exercise its right to self-determination. West Papua's right to self-determination must not only be upheld, it must be fought for.
Violating the 1963 New York Agreement between the Netherlands and Indonesia, that placed West Papua under UN Temporary Authority pending a vote by 880,000 West Papuans on independence, Indonesia's government hand-picked 1,026 West Papuan elders and coerced them with death threats to vote to join Indonesia. Justifying the travesty called the "Act of Free Choice," President Suharto—a dictator who came to power by a military coup-- claimed New Guineans were "too primitive to cope with democracy."
New Black Nationalists also condemn American Empire's imperial Cold War designs, that supported Suharto's theft of West Papua, as a guarantee to prevent Indonesia's political alignment with the Soviet Union. American and Indonesian collusion has engaged in wanton plunder since 1963 of West Papua's gold and copper mines, granting mining concessions to U.S.-based Freeport-McMoran Inc., and a monopoly position the island's liquified natural gas to British Petroleum.
The comprehensive pillaging of West Papua is further underscored by foreign corporations exploiting the island's palm trees and creating massive palm oil plantations . These industries are destroying West Papua's ecological balance and indigenous communities who have inhabited its dense tropical rainforest regions for thousands of years.
Non-Papuan imported workers, administrators, and political operatives have flooded into West Papua, subjecting its natives to racial and religious discrimination, and making them a minority in their own country. This colonization scheme has been referred to as the "Javanisation", or "Islamisation" of Papua.
Indonesia's ruthless exploitation of West Papua has resulted in pervasive Human Rights violations. Attacks on villages accused of supporting independence forces have resulted in mass deaths and the assassinations of West Papuan leaders Ferry Awom, Arnold Ap, Theys Eluay and others.
In a 2004, a report from Yale Law School said the Indonesian government had "acted with necessary intent to … perpetrate genocide against the people of West Papua." That claim is just as true in 2020, as it was in 2004. We are witnessing a deliberate act by Indonesia and Western powers of "creeping genocide" against the Black indigenous population of West Papua.
In 2017, and again in 2019 in Geneva Switzerland, Benny Wenda, Chairman of the United Liberation Movement for West Papua (ULMWP) presented a petition with the signatures of 1.8 million people demanding a vote on independence for West Papua to the UN Special Committee on Decolonization. Wenda said, "I handed over what I call the bones of the people of West Papua, because so many people have been killed."
New Black Nationalists, support the demands of the ULMWP petition submitted to the U.N. We call on all progressive social influencers, organizations, NGO's, and human rights groups to support the United Liberation Movement for West Papua's petition demanding a new referendum on independence.
Further, we support the petition demands calling for a review of the U.N.'s involvement in the "unlawful annexation" of West Papua, support for appointing a special representative to investigate the human rights situation, and reinstatement of West Papua on the decolonization committee's agenda.
We appeal to Black Lives Matter Global, led by Patrisse Cullors, and the Movement for Black Lives to initiate an international day of protests in support of West Papua's independence with actions at Indonesian embassies in Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston, Honolulu, New York, London, Copenhagen, Sydney, Melbourne, and Pretoria, South Africa—Indonesia's largest trading on the continent.
We demand that all West Papua activists imprisoned for displaying the West Papuan pro-independence Morning Star flag and expressing their political views through protests and all forms of free speech, be immediately released from confinement.
We support a special body of Human Rights activists to investigate the practicality of introducing formal proceedings to charge Indonesia with Human Rights violations and genocide to the appropriate international forums.
Finally, we are issuing a special appeal for all Black-led governments across the African Diaspora, particularly in the Caribbean and Africa to force a hearing on this issue before the United Nations General Assembly. In the 1960's African leaders expressed sympathies for West Papuan independence but refused support them in critical United Nations votes because they were committed to the Non-Aligned Movement, then led by Indonesia. What could possibly be the excuse now for sitting by and doing nothing, while "slow genocide" is being committed against four million West Papuans?
Almost 100,000 years ago, people from the world's most ancient civilization walked out of East Africa's Rift Valley, on an historic trek that for some, ended on today's island of Papua 60,000 years later. In 2020, thousands of the descendants of those ancient African tribes still inhabit the tropical rainforests of West Papua as "uncontacted" people. They may be some of the oldest tribes on the planet surviving through their ancient culture and customs in splendid isolation. They are a treasure to the world and especially to the African diaspora.
Are we really going to let the sons and daughters of Mitochondrial Eve perish for the sake of a foreign two-bit dictator's palm oil plantation?
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Adam Englehardt grew up on an olive ranch near California's huge Central Valley. He's got olive oil in his blood. Adam is in charge of California Olive Ranch's farming operations. In the second of two interviews, we ask Adam about his family's history in California's olive oil business.
Click here to read the first part of the Q&A in which Adam talks about how he and his team at California Olive Ranch raced to beat the frost during last fall's harvest.
How did you become involved in the olive oil business?
I grew up in a farming family in Livermore, Calif. I'm the fifth generation on the ranch there. My family has olive trees that are 120 years old. They were planted by the gentleman who founded the ranch in the late 19th century.
We're still farming those olive trees, which include Mission and Reading Picoline olives. Over the years we'd harvest those olives and truck them to Modesto. We'd sell the olives to a press there that turned them into olive oil. We'd take some of the oil back home for personal use.
Did you grow anything else on the ranch besides olives?
My family raised beef cattle. So olives and cattle were the two primary crops. We also had some wine grapes that we'd sell to wineries.
When did your family become more deeply involved in the olive oil business?
In 1997, there was a push to increase olive plantings. The olive oil sector was just starting to get attention in California. My grandfather, whose ranch I grew up on, saw an opportunity for olives in the Livermore Valley. There wasn't a lot of water there.
There were a lot of grapes being grown. But there was concern the grapes were being over-planted. So in 1999 and 2000 we planted Arbequina olive trees, the same kind of small trees we use at California Olive Ranch today. We also planted a lot of Tuscan varietals. In all we had 10 different varietals.
How did your grandfather spot the opportunity to plant olive trees?
The concern at the time was that grape prices weren't great. And the cost to plant grapes was high. My uncle, meanwhile, had read an article about California Olive Ranch and other leading California olive oil producers in what was then a small industry.
It was cheaper to plant olive trees than wine grapes. And it was an opportunity to do something different from our neighbors and everyone else growing wine grapes in the Livermore Valley.
How did your family come to build their own olive mills on the ranch?
After planting the new trees, we found it was too time consuming to haul our olives to mills in the Central Valley and the Sonoma Coast. It was a long way. And we sometimes had to wait at the mill before our olives could be pressed. We were concerned the oil quality was being compromised.
So we made the decision to purchase a mill ourselves. The first mill was built on the ranch in 2002. We purchased a larger mill in 2005 to keep up with our olive production. I was very involved in the construction and operation of the mills.
What did you do with the oil you produced?
We sold it to a lot of winery tasting rooms and specialty grocers. We also sold a lot of bulk oil to restaurants.
What do you like about working for California Olive Ranch?
What's been fun is that the company is definitely the industry leader in the United States. We're really breaking ground here. And there's no instruction manual. There's a pioneering spirit you don't get with other agricultural crops.


Have your students practice counting on a 200's chart. This video is in the format of an MP4. This will play on your computer or you can upload it to your ITunes account to play on an IPad. Students can practice daily this fun and colorful counting activity. We hope you have fun with this activity.
This video has almost 50,000 views!
Yes, this video comes with my voice as I speak each number from 1 to 200. Students can now follow the along with their own two hundreds activity sheet.
We have also included a blank two hundreds chart in PDF document. Also, you will get a completed two hundreds chart in PDF document for you to hand out to your students to study. Students will enjoy the challenge to complete the blank two hundreds chart. This has been student tested in several elementary classes.
By popular demand we have included a 200's chart activity that has traceable numbers for students who are struggling with their numbers. We have also included instructions on how to color their completed chart to match the colors on the video. We have also updated the chart to include the number zero. We even put a real student sample of the chart completely colored. Please download the preview to see all the activities you will get!


Do You Need Anti-Aging Products in Your 20s and 30s? You may be surprised!
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If you want to fight wrinkles, you should commit to a daily natural routine, your best bet is to look for a product from companies that frequently use actives designed to combat this process, with organic, natural, and botanical ingredients such as Ciencia.
If there's one amazing ingredient that could be called the fountain of youth, it's this one. SNAP-8 increases cell rejuvenation and helps promote collagen. It also decreases pore size, and limits sun damage. In addition, because SNAP-8 helps diminish fine lines-and the added lipomoist, moisturizes the skin effectively. SNAP-8 helps to relax facial muscles to give you a natural anti wrinkle look.
Here you want to seek products that contain active ingredients with preventative qualities such as peptides, plant stem cells and those that are rich in anti-oxidants. Many of Ciencia's products have specially designed actives rich in anti-oxidants. Air pollution, especially in cities, and UV rays everywhere are sources of free radicals which are molecules that can damage cells and cause aging, so protect your skin with a layer of antioxidants before you go outside.
This is very important says Amanda, 'Always apply a sunscreen before you apply makeup to give your skin the best chance to stay youthful'. There is no need to suffocate your skin with multiple products, instead try a good moisturizer that doubles as a sunscreen. Also, don't stop at just applying on your face, the thinner skin on your décolletage, neck and hands also should be protected.
Ciencia Vitamin8 for Skin – Discover the Benefits!
Vitamin C is one of the most important vitamins to get in your diet on a daily basis. It's one of those that your body can't create or store on its own but is essential for numerous functions. One of those is for the production of collagen, which helps to make the skin firm, flexible and healthy. The benefits of vitamin C for skin may include protection against immune system deficiencies, cardiovascular disease, prenatal health problems, eye disease, and even skin wrinkling. Vitamin C is one super vitamin that can work wonders on everything from signs of anti-aging to nail growth to vitamin C for skin.
In case you weren't already aware, the benefits of exfoliating your skin are many!
There are so many excellent reasons to exfoliate your skin, from getting softer skin to getting the closest shave possible. Help your body get rid of dead skin cells and reveal softer, smoother skin so you can show off your best skin possible!
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Beauty therapists such as Amanda know that keeping your skin well hydrated, will keep it more radiant and taught, since it's less likely to become flaky or inflamed from extreme dryness. After many clients presented with cracked and dry skin Amanda realised that a multi-faceted approach was needed to combat aging and wrinkles for her clients, and began to research the best active ingredients to serve this purpose.
You may be surprised to know these things about sunscreen!
You may not be using enough.
Mineral sunscreens like zinc oxide and titanium dioxide are usually thicker in appearance, so you might think you are using enough when you're actually not. Pay close attention when using any sunscreens to ensure you're properly covered. The Skin Cancer Foundation says to apply 1 ounce every two hours. That means you should drain around half a bottle on a long beach day.


If a court decides that a young person is not suitable for bail then the young person will be remanded to youth detention accommodation until at least the next court hearing. See below for details on youth detention accommodation.
A young person can be remanded until a sentence is finally given but further applications for bail can be made during this time.
If a young person is arrested and charged, and it is not possible to appear in court on the same day (for example during a weekend), and the police feel it is not safe to bail the young person they will be held overnight in secure accommodation by the local authority. The young person would then appear in court the next morning (or Monday following arrest on a Saturday night).
If a young person is sentenced to a custodial outcome by a court, then they will go straight to youth detention accommodation. For all youth custody disposals the young person will serve half of the sentence within youth detention accommodation and the other half on licence within the community.
If a young person breaks the terms of their licence they may be returned to youth detention accommodation and a new release date given.
Visit www.gov.uk for information about young people in custody.


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Q: Derivation of the Highest Posterior Probability in Bayesian Model Choice In Bayesian Essentials, page 40, there's the following formula:

I've tried to derive it.
$P(M=k|D=\frac{P(D|M=k)P(M=k)}{\sum_jP(D|M=j)P(M=j)}=\frac{\int P(D|\theta,M=k)P(\theta|M=k)\ d\theta \ \ P(M=k)}{\sum_jP(D|M=j)P(M=j)}=\frac{\int l_k(\theta)\pi_k(\theta)\ d\theta \ \ P(M=k)}{\sum_jP(D|M=j)P(M=j)}$
However, I'm stuck at this last step...
Any help would be appreciated.

A: Sorry about this terrible typo!!!
$$
\mathbb{P}^\pi(\mathfrak{M}=k|\mathscr{D}_n) = \dfrac{\mathbb{P}^\pi(\mathfrak{M}=k) \int \ell(\theta_k|\mathscr{D}_n)\pi_k(\theta_k)\,\text{d}\theta_k}{
\sum_{j=1}^J \mathbb{P}^\pi(\mathfrak{M}=j)\pi_j(\theta_j)\,\text{d}\theta_j}\,.
$$
should read as
$$
\mathbb{P}^\pi(\mathfrak{M}=k|\mathscr{D}_n) = \dfrac{\mathbb{P}^\pi(\mathfrak{M}=k) \int \ell(\theta_k|\mathscr{D}_n)\pi_k(\theta_k)\,\text{d}\theta_k}{
\sum_{j=1}^J \mathbb{P}^\pi(\mathfrak{M}=j)\int \ell(\theta_j|\mathscr{D}_n)\pi_j(\theta_j)\,\text{d}\theta_j}\,.
$$
which is also what you propose as the last equation in your question. For some reason the cut-and-paste between numerator and denominator did not work completely and we failed to spot the mistake. Apologies!


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J. P. Smith
Author / Screenwriter
If She Were Dead
A writer involved in an obsessive affair with a married man is caught in a deadly game of secrets and lies in this twisty psychological thriller.
To appear in January, 2020.
"Part love story, part exploration into the difficulties of marriage and part psychological thriller, Smith's latest masterpiece dazzles and delights with plot twists and turns down to the very last sentence. Literally."
—Traci Medford-Rosow
USA Today bestselling author of Unblinded: One Man's Courageous Journey through Darkness to Sight and Inflection Point: War and Sacrifice in Corporate America.
Every seven years, a boy disappears from Camp Waukeelo.
Who will be next?
It doesn't take long for a little boy to disappear. Joey Proctor can't swim, but that doesn't stop camp counselor Alex Mason from leaving him out on a raft in the middle of the lake in a fit of rage. Alex only meant to scar the kid, teach him a lesson. He didn't mean to forget about him. But now Joey is gone…and his body is never found.
More than twenty years later, Alex is a success. The proof is there for anyone to see, in the millions of dollars he makes, his lavish house, his beautiful wife and daughters. And no one know what happened that summer at camp. At least, no one should know. But it looks like Joey Proctor may be back to take his revenge…
Available January 2019
"An overbearing alpha male gets his comeuppance in this smart, creepy thriller from Smith (Airtight). One summer day, when Alex Mason was an arrogant swimming counselor at Camp Waukeelo in the Berkshires, he left timid eight-year-old Joey Proctor behind on a raft in the middle of a lake. Joey inexplicably vanished, but Alex lied well enough to avoid blame. Twenty-one years later, he's a famous New York real estate developer with a lovely family and a glamorous lifestyle. Then increasingly serious intrusions from his guilty past suggest that someone—or something—remembers Joey's panic and wants Alex to share it. As it turns out, the immature, violent side of Alex's nature doesn't need much prodding to reveal itself. Smith nicely balances the borderline-supernatural events with Alex's mundane struggles as his blustering defenses crumble. Sharp, clear prose is a plus. This is a remarkably adept performance."
—Starred review, Publishers Weekly
"Alex Mason has it all: a lavish lifestyle, a beautiful family, a thriving career. He's built his life around the certainty that no one would discover what really happened twenty years ago at an idyllic summer camp. He's wrong. The Drowning is an edge-of-your-seat read."
—Kaira Rouda, bestselling author of Best Day Ever and What Comes Around
"How many times have you started reading a book, and realized—you could not put it down? Isn't that the best? And that's exactly what happened to me with JP Smith's THE DROWNING. I sat in the chair for hours, I mean not moving, and so much for making dinner. We had pizza, courtesy of JP Smith."
—Award-winning mystery-writer and investigative reporter for ABC news in Boston, Hank Phillippi Ryan.
"J.P. Smith has hit this one out of the park. Great characters, a plot that will draw you from the first to the last page and destined to be a must read book of 2019."
— Strand Magazine
The Drowning can be purchased at Amazon.com.
To be published in Germany in May 2019.
Airtight
"Old pals Nick and Rob are headin' back to college. But not to resume their studies: they're pushing 50 now, with careers and families, and they're both unemployed, laid off from well-paying jobs. Then one of them remembers an episode from their younger, more adventurous days, when they were known, occasionally, to partake of some not-entirely-legal substances. It turns out they know where to find two mason jars of a definitely illegal substance buried on their old college campus. The plan: dig the stuff up, sell it, make a quick profit. The plan's execution: well, let's just say it doesn't go entirely-or even mostly-as they thought it would. Like Donald Westlake's The Ax (1997), which features an out-of-work family man driven by desperation to find an extreme solution to his problem, Smith's novel depends on the reader's willingness to accept that an ordinary person will do some very uncharacteristic things to keep his life from imploding. A solidly constructed and nicely written comic thriller."
— Booklist
Airtight can be purchased at Amazon.com.
"Though Breathless, the fifth novel from the Massachusetts-based Smith, is a bona fide mystery, its thoughtful prose reads like one of Anita Brookner's introspective explorations. These are sentences you reread to savor even as you race eagerly after Jill to plumb that place she describes as 'between silence and word...the beguiling landscape of memory.'"
"In Breathless...J.P. Smith does a stunning job of putting himself—and the reader—in the mind of a woman facing shattering revelations surrounding the violent death of her husband."
Breathless can be purchased at Amazon.com.
The Discovery of Light
"The Discovery of Light, J.P. Smith's fourth novel, may be his most ambitious work so far. Smith characteristically provides a compelling, suspenseful plot featuring attempted murder, deception, suicide and adultery. But he adds another dimension in his new book: a counterplot about the nature of art and the creative spirit that is a homage to painter Jan Vermeer.... But writing a compelling, intricately woven novel of suspense and human relations does not suffice for Smith – he takes this a step further. 'None of us deserves the banality of real life,' he concludes on the last page. 'For us there is only the richness of art.' "
"Smith is masterful, maintaining a surface as smooth and inscrutable as Vermeer's, toying with puzzles of perception, imagination, and truth. An arresting, erudite, and wonderfully eerie performance."
The Discovery of Light was a 1992 Barnes & Noble Discover title. It can be purchased at Amazon.com.
The Blue Hour
"I enjoyed J.P. Smith's severe new psychological thriller, The Blue Hour, not least for its dense description of the Paris quotidian. Grim modern violence lies very close to the fringes, but the crux of this roman noir is as ancient as Orpheus and as simple—how does a man live through the loss of the one woman he truly loves?"
—John Fowles (author of The French Lieutenant's Woman, The Magus, and The Collector)
"A tough, smart, unsettling novel about a young man's tortured reactions to his wife's mysterious disappearance...a skillfully sustained nightmare worthy of a Polanski film."
The Blue Hour can be purchased at Amazon.com.
"Smith creates a clever suspense yarn with a comic edge. But the fun is spread thin enough to see clearly what lies beneath: the bitter reckonings and hard realities of an émigré's struggle to succeed."
"Both chilling and funny, the story of an unlucky man in an existential horror show who blunders through with the charm of the Little Tramp. In all, ambitious, intelligent, and quite compelling."
— Kirkus Reviews
Body and Soul can be purchased at Amazon.com.
The Man From Marseille
"This is a first novel, but J.P. Smith writes like an old pro; his style is urbane, his prose smooth and polished."
"...a melancholy but often comic first novel. It's also an accomplished work of character, which is gradually and indirectly revealed.... J.P. Smith slowly and subtly builds suspense by concentrating on the hero's life, concerns and shadowy parents."
—Cleveland Plain Dealer
The Man From Marseille can be purchased at Amazon.com.
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Mumbai : Actress Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, who first went to the Cannes Film Festival with "Devdas" back in 2002, will be presenting the Sanjay Leela Bhansali film again at the upcoming 70th edition of the fest.
The actress will be going to the fest in the capacity of cosmetic brand L'Oreal Paris brand ambassador. She will be presenting the film on May 20 as part of L'Oreal Paris Open Air Cinema, read a statement from the brand.
Recounting her first experience at the fest, Aishwarya said: "We attended the festival not just as artistes but as proud representatives of Indian cinema, and showcasing a film that meant so much to us. The kind of reception we got for the movie was truly overwhelming and I will cherish it all my life."
"Devdas", inspired by Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay's 1901 novel, featured Shah Rukh Khan as Devdas, Aishwarya as Paro and Madhuri Dixit as Chandramukhi. The Bhansali directorial was a cinematic marvel with revelry of dance and music, and a tragic love story splashed with myriad emotions.
This time, L'Oreal Paris will be celebrating the 70th anniversary of the film festival and its 20th anniversary as the official beauty brand with the L'Oreal Paris Open Air Cinema.
Aishwarya will be walking the red carpet as the brand ambassador on May 19-20.