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How African Muslims "Civilized Spain"
by Garikai Chengu	Published on: 9th December 2021
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The Moors invaded Spain in 711 AD and African Muslims literally civilized the wild, white tribes. Recent scholarship now sheds new light on how Moorish advances in mathematics, astronomy, art, and philosophy helped propel Europe out of the Dark Ages and into the Renaissance.
Expulsion of the Moriscos at the Port of Denia, by Vincente Mostre (Source)
Four hundred and eight years ago today [4 April 1609] King Phillip III of Spain signed an order, which was one of the earliest examples of ethnic cleansing. At the height of the Spanish inquisition, King Phillip III ordered the expulsion of 300,000 Muslim Moriscos, which initiated one of the most brutal and tragic episodes in the history of Spain.
Contrary to conventional wisdom, it was ancient Africans that brought civilization to Spain and large parts of Europe and not the other way around.
The first civilization of Europe was established on the Greek island of Crete in 1700 BC and the Greeks were primarily civilized by the Black Africans of the Nile Valley. The Greeks then passed on this acquired culture to the Romans who ultimately lost it; thus, initiating the Dark Ages that lasted for five centuries. Civilization was once again reintroduced to Europe when another group of Black Africans, The Moors, brought the Dark Ages to an end.
Sub-Saharan Centres of Learning
When history is taught in the West, the period called the "Middle Ages" is generally referred to as the "Dark Ages," and depicted as the period during which civilization in general, including the arts and sciences, laid somewhat idle. This was certainly true for Europeans, but not for Africans.
"The African Origin of Civilization: Myth or Reality" by Cheikh Anta Diop, Mercer Cook (Source)
Renowned historian, Cheikh Anta Diop, explains how during the Middle Ages, the great empires of the world were Black empires, and the educational and cultural centers of the world were predominately African. Moreover, during that period, it was the Europeans who were the lawless barbarians.
After the collapse of the Roman Empire, multitudes of white warring tribes from the Caucasus were pushed into Western Europe by the invading Huns. The Moors invaded Spanish shores in 711 AD and African Muslims literally civilized the wild, white tribes from the Caucus. The Moors eventually ruled over Spain, Portugal, North Africa and southern France for over seven hundred years.
Although generations of Spanish rulers have tried to expunge this era from the historical record, recent archaeology and scholarship now shed new light on how Moorish advances in mathematics, astronomy, art, and philosophy helped propel Europe out of the Dark Ages and into the Renaissance.
One of the most famous British historians, Basil Davidson, noted that during the eighth century
"there was no land more admired by its neighbours, or more comfortable to live in, than a rich African civilization which took shape in Spain".
The Moors were unquestionably Black and the 16th century English playwright William Shakespeare used the word Moor as a synonym for African.
Imaginary Figure of Fatima al-Fihri (Source)
Education was universal in Muslim Spain, while in Christian Europe, 99 per cent of the population was illiterate, and even kings could neither read nor write. The Moors boasted a remarkably high literacy rate for a pre-modern society. During an era when Europe had only two universities, the Moors had seventeen.
The founders of Oxford University were inspired to form the institution after visiting universities in Spain. According to the United Nations' Education body, the oldest university operating in the world today is the University of Al-Karaouine of Morocco founded during the height of the Moorish Empire in 859 A.D. by a Black woman named Fatima al-Fihri.
In the realm of mathematics, the number zero (0), the Arabic numerals, and the decimal system were all introduced to Europe by Muslims, assisting them to solve problems far more quickly and accurately and laying the foundation for the Scientific Revolution.
The Moors' scientific curiosity extended to flight and polymath. Ibn Firnas made the world's first scientific attempt to fly in a controlled manner in 875 A.D. Historical archives suggest that his attempt worked, but his landing was somewhat less successful. Africans took to the skies some six centuries before the Italian Leonardo Da Vinci developed a hang glider.
Clearly, the Moors helped to lift the general European populace out of the Dark Ages and paved the way for the Renaissance period. In fact, a large number of the traits on which modern Europe prides itself came to it from Muslim Spain, namely, free trade, diplomacy, open borders, etiquette, advanced seafaring, research methods, and key advances in chemistry…
The strongest evidence of African presence in America before Columbus comes from the pen of Columbus himself. In 1920, a renowned American historian and linguist, Leo Weiner of Harvard University, in his book, Africa and the Discovery of America, explained how Columbus noted in his journal that Native Americans had confirmed that:
"black skinned people had come from the south-east in boats,
trading in gold-tipped spears…"
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Virginia-Highland is actually made up of many subdivisions and was primarily developed from the early 1900's through the late 40's. The number of named subdivisions varies depending on which history you look at. The disparity is often a product of incomplete developments being absorbed (or expanding) into larger subdivisions.
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Ansbach's Nick Duplessie fires the ball toward the plate against Sigonella in the Cougars' 8-2 victory on Saturday at Aviano Air Base, Italy.
AVIANO AIR BASE, Italy – Saturday's rare regular season matchups between eight baseball and softball teams north and south of the Alps seemed to indicate three things.
Baseball teams in Germany might be a bit stronger. Softball teams in Italy might be the teams to watch in the championships. And David Vidovic seems to be able to master any sports he plays.
Ansbach and Hohenfels both went 2-0 in baseball, each defeating Sigonella and Aviano. Aviano and Sigonella both went 2-0 in softball.
Vidovic, the top football player in Europe the last two seasons and All-Europe second team in basketball this season, decided to give baseball a try his senior season.
"All my friends were playing it, so I thought I might as well," he said after driving in 10 runs in his first high school baseball games. He's run track previously in the spring, though he did play some baseball when he was younger.
His inside-the-park grand slam finished off Aviano via the mercy rule in the second game, 19-3.
"He's quite an athlete," said coach Larry Daffin, who also saw Vidovic run roughshod on the football fields as the Tigers reached the Division II finals the last two years and won one title.
Vidovic doesn't pitch, though, and shook his head when asked about it.
"I'm fine in center field," he said with a smile.
And that appears to be a team weakness at this point.
"We could use one or two more (pitchers)," Daffin said.
Vidovic wasn't the only Tiger who has made his name in football who produced Saturday. Tony Saintmelus drove in the winning runs in the seventh inning as Hohenfels topped Sigonella 7-6 in extra innings in the day's second baseball contest.
Ansbach had topped the Jaguars 8-2 in the first game of the day. Nick Duplessie and Jason Erdman each drove in two runs for the Cougars. Ansbach took an 8-0 lead on Aviano in the final game of the day then held on for dear life in a 10-7 victory. The Saints had drawn to within 8-7 with the bases loaded in the bottom of the third.
The teams were supposed to play the same amount of games on Friday, but steady rain on Wednesday and Thursday in Aviano scuttled those plans. Instead, Sigonella downed Aviano 7-0 as the weather cleared up Friday afternoon.
That was the Jaguars' only victory of the weekend, but coach Matt McKown was still all smiles.
Just a few feet away, the Saints could have crowned themselves champions, at least of the weekend.
After dispatching the Jaguars 7-3 on Friday, Aviano romped to victories Saturday over Hohenfels and Ansbach to finish two the two days at 3-0.
Pitching was a strong point for Santiago Cadena's team.
"We've got two good ones," he said after watching McKenzie Milligan lead the Saints to a 17-7 victory over Hohenfels and then Shamera Lane pitch even better in a 19-0 victory over Ansbach. Lane didn't give up a hit in three innings.
Aviano led 12-0 after three against the Tigers and was still scoring in the fifth when the game ended via mercy rule. The Saints needed only two innings to score 19 runs against the Cougars in the second game.
Sigonella scored even more runs Saturday. The Jaguars tallied 18 in the first inning against the Cougars and won going away 22-5. Elizabeth Camus drove in five runs. The Jaguars routed the Tigers 24-9 in the next game, overcoming a 9-5 deficit with 17 runs in the fourth.
It took Sigonella about 18 hours to reach Aviano via bus. And Ansbach's and Hohenfels' trips weren't much shorter.
But Larson seemed to echo the comments of all the coaches involved by saying he was grateful that DODDS-Europe scheduled the games.
Sigonella pitcher Hanna Barnes didn't get the called strike she was hoping for against Hohenfels. But the Jaguars rallied for a 24-9 victory Saturday at Aviano Air Base, Italy.


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Martial law (kind of)
Piotr Andrusieczko
Martial law was imposed in 10 Oblasts of Ukraine. That is the response of President Petro Poroshenko and the Ukrainian parliament to the Russian attack on Ukrainian ships on November 25. They were fired on, 24 sailors were imprisoned. Six of them were wounded. However, the Ukrainian martial law does not resemble the Polish one in December 1981.
It takes two hours and 20 minutes' drive from Kyiv to Vinnytsia. The Vinnytsia Oblast is one of those where martial law was imposed – it is on the list because it borders with the region of Transnistria. Russian soldiers are stationed there.
However, those who are looking for tanks, armoured personnel carriers and patrols of soldiers in the streets of the city will be disappointed. People live in their normal rhythm. On Tuesday, November 27, everything worked the same as before the imposition of martial law.
Anyway, martial law is to last only 30 days but when it started? That is the question. Initially, the President's decree indicated the date of November 26. However, the imposition of martial law was passed by the parliament on Monday evening, and so the new date appeared: November 28th. And then President Poroshenko informed that martial law has been in force since November 26. The confusion was also caused by the "Official Monitor", which published an old variant of the decree, referring to the introduction of martial law for 60 days. Finally, the "Holos Ukrayiny", the official newspaper of the Verkhovna Rada, published the President's decree on the imposition of martial law on November 28, which was equivalent to its beginning.
When it comes to applying the norms of martial law, there are even more controversies and question marks. Ukraine has never imposed a state of martial law before.
People started asking questions. Why wasn't martial law imposed earlier? In spring 2014, Russia annexed Crimea, then the war broke out in the Donbas, and it continues. Poroshenko's critics have repeatedly accused him of lack of decisiveness and criticised him for not introducing martial law earlier. What has changed?
In the background, you can see the ships of the Russian Border Guard, Sevastopol November 2018. (photo by Piotr Andrusieczko)
One day at sea, which changed the history of Ukraine
It all began in the morning of November 25. Three small ships of Ukrainian Navy, two artillery boats and a tugboat, sailed to the Kerch Strait. They sailed from Odessa, located on the north western shore of the Black Sea, to Berdyansk in the Sea of Azov, so they had to cross the Kerch Strait, which separates the Black Sea from the Azov Sea. The point is that the Strait has been under full control of Russia since 2014 and the annexation of Crimea. Besides, the sea passage is limited by the Crimean Bridge being built. According to the Ministry of Infrastructure of Ukraine, larger ocean-going vessels of the popular Panamax class can no longer enter the Ukrainian ports on the Azov Coast.
A significant deterioration of the situation happened in the Azov Sea in April 2018. The Russian side began to stop and control ships passing through the Kerch Strait and heading for Ukrainian ports or sailing from Ukraine. Only from April to August 2018, Russians have stopped more than 150 ships.
Kyiv began to talk about the economic blockade of Ukrainian ports imposed by Russia. However, the beginning of the conflict in the Azov Sea should be sought much deeper. When Ukraine officially declared itself an independent state, one of the main problems in relations with Russia was the demarcation of the borders between these two countries, including the regulation of the maritime areas.
The dispute was intensified in 2003. In September, Russian workers began to build a causeway from the Taman Peninsula (Krasnodar Krai) towards the small Tuzla Island belonging to Ukraine, located in the Kerch Strait. The dispute was intensified in 2003. In September, Russian workers began to build a causeway from the Taman Peninsula (Krasnodar Krai) towards the small Tuzla Island belonging to Ukraine, located in the Kerch Strait. The Russian side believed that Tuzla was not an island but a part of a sandy islet in the form of a spit. In fact, in 1925, Tuzla naturally disconnected from the narrow spit, which was an extension of the Taman Peninsula.
In response, Ukraine sent some troops to the waters around the island. The Russian workers stopped working only about 100 metres in front of Ukrainian soldiers' raft. Kyiv formed a permanent post of border guards in Tuzla. In December 2003, Russia managed to force Ukraine to sign an agreement describing the terms of use of the Azov Sea. It included a provision saying that it is a historically internal sea of Russia and Ukraine. Simultaneously, it was decided that a separate contract should mark the border on the Azov Sea. Talks lasted for many years, but the agreement was not reached, and Tuzla, was annexed along with Crimea in 2014. It became the foundation for the Crimean Bridge.
source: www.pravda.com.ua
In 2014, Mariupol – a large industrial and port centre on the north coast of the Azov Sea – found itself almost on the front line. At the end of August, the fighters supported by Russia moved towards the city. Authorities in Kyiv have alarmed that Russia wants to seal off Ukraine from the sea by breaking through a corridor in the direction of Crimea and then Transnistria. Eventually, the front line stopped about 20 km from Mariupol. Nevertheless, the threat remained.
Russia strengthened its naval forces in the Azov Sea. Due to the tense situation, Ukraine decided to do the same. On September 23, 2018, two ships of the Ukrainian Navy sailed across under the Crimean Bridge.
On November 25, further Ukrainian ships wanted to sail across under the bridge, but it ended utterly different. The Ukrainian Naval Forces state its units operated according to procedures. On Sunday morning, however, Russian traffic controllers in the ports of Kerch and the Caucasus, located on both sides of the Kerch Strait, did not respond to the calls of Ukrainian ships.
In turn, the Russian side says that three Ukrainian naval ships violated the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea – " illegally entered the temporarily closed water area of Russia's territorial waters" and crossed Russia's border.
Russian boats of frontier guard swum up to the Ukrainian vessels and called them to stop. The Russian frontier guard ship "Don" rammed the Ukrainian tugboat and seriously damaged it. The situation was exacerbating. At the same time, Russia sent two military helicopters and ultimately closed the traffic through the Kerch Strait. Even civilian ships could not sail through. After 1 pm. it appeared that a ship was towed and left on the shallows to block the entrance from the side of the Azov Sea in front of the Crimean Bridge, which meant blocking the passage through the strait.
Ukrainian ships were waiting for the passage to the evening. At 7 pm. it was decided to leave the Kerch Bay and return to Odessa. Russian vessels – six frontier guard worships and two ships of the Black Sea Fleet – started to chase the Ukrainian ships.
After 8 pm Russian ships opened fire on Ukrainian vessels. The high command of the Ukrainian Naval Forces underlines it happened on neutral waters after the Ukrainians had left the 12-mile zone of the Russian territorial waters.
The Russian FSB special forces have boarded Ukrainian ships, capturing 24 seamen – as it turned out, six of them were injured as a result of shelling.
President Poroshenko convened the War Cabinet at 10 pm. At the same time, a defence alert was announced for the entire Ukrainian Naval Forces. At midnight there was a meeting of The National Security and Defence Council of Ukraine. President Poroshenko asked the Verkhovna Rada to impose the martial law at its meeting scheduled for November 26.
Crimean Bridge (photo by Piotr Andrusieczko)
The political battle
On Monday, November 26, at 4 pm. an emergency session of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine was convened. The atmosphere was tense – some of the factions, supporting the imposition of martial law, were reporting their own demands at the same time. According to "Ukrayinska Pravda", People's Front, the main ally of the Petro Poroshenko Block "Solidarity" demanded to shorten martial law from 60 to 30 days with the possibility of extending, imposing it in some selected parts of the country and keeping March 31 as the date of the presidential elections. This demand was supported by the All Ukrainian Union "Fatherland" of Yulia Tymoshenko and the Radical Party of Oleh Lyashko. President Poroshenko, being under pressure, declared martial law lasting 30 days. During his parliamentary speech before the vote, he also declared that he was applying for a limitation of martial law to 10 regions. Two hundred seventy-six deputies supported the president. At the same time, the chairman of the parliament put to the vote the appointment of the presidential election date on March 31, 2019 – two hundred ninety-eight deputies voted in favour of it.
Martial law four and a half years after the start of the war effort
Since the start of the presidency by Petro Poroshenko in May 2014, his critics demanded the introduction of martial law. Especially that Kiev often underlined Russian aggression in Ukraine.
During the annexation of Crimea, Russia did not admit for a long time that the "little green men" are regular soldiers of the Russian army. In Donbas, Russia played a game titled "We are not there". However, Kiev got evidence for the supply of arms and ammunition from Russia and the participation of soldiers of the Russian army in at least two major battles: the battle of Ilovaisk in August 2014 and the battle of Debaltseve in January and February 2015. The Bellingcat website, which deals with journalistic investigations in conflict areas, published evidence of artillery firing Ukrainian units carried out from the territory of Russia. Russian soldiers were taken as prisoners, but in response, one could hear they fought in the Donbas as volunteers and that they had earlier relieved themselves off duty.
The November 25 events were of an entirely different nature – for the first time the Russian units attacked the Armed Forces of Ukraine openly, under the state flag.
Might the sending of Ukrainian warships through the Kerch Strait be understood as a Ukrainian provocation? In a way, it was part of the Kiev strategy to alert international opinion about the crisis in the Azov Sea. Nevertheless, two Ukrainian warships sailed through the Kerch Strait without any significant problems at the end of September. In turn, the Ukrainian Navy units heading to the port of Berdyansk on November 25 were hardly a threat to the Russian forces.
President Poroshenko had to react to the crisis. The answer was the introduction of martial law. Some voices immediately appeared, that Poroshenko wants to influence the next presidential election. Martial law lasting 60 days would mean postponing the vote scheduled for the end of March. However, it did not happen.
Poroshenko's political image is based, among others, on the slogans of patriotism, a strong army and security, so the patriotic electorate would not have understood the lack of a particular reaction to the Russian attack. By imposing martial law, the president to some extent took the wind out of the sails of political opposition, who earlier criticised him.
It is true that Poroshenko could not have been glad about the recent election polls. His rival Yulia Tymoshenko is the leader of the rankings. What is worse, an actor Volodymyr Zelenskiy has gained almost the same support as the current president.
Now Poroshenko gets a chance to gain some points in the eyes of the electorate by showing himself as a defender of the country and an influential politician. It will take some time to show the impact of martial law on the president's ratings in the surveys. Right now, opposition's hands are tied, but the representatives of Tymoshenko party have already announced the readiness to watch the activities of Poroshenko closely during martial law.
Ukrainian Border Guard boat heading for the Azov Sea from the port of Mariupol, November 2014. (photo by Piotr Andrusieczko)
What does martial law really mean?
First of all, the president promised the authorities would limit civil rights only in the case of Russia military aggression. Therefore, no curfew was introduced like during martial law in Poland. No general conscription has been announced, but conscription plans in case of aggression will be refined. The reservists can also be called up to undergo military exercises.
The Armed Forces of Ukraine are to be in full fighting readiness. The border control will be strengthened, which may affect citizens of Russia entering Ukraine – they will be subjected to more thorough inspection. On November 26, it appeared that the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine did not let in about 70 Russians – mostly because they could not justify the purpose of their visit.
The police, the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine and the National Guard of Ukraine are to perform their duties on a higher level of readiness. However, most citizens of Ukraine probably will not even pay attention to the increased number of patrols. The war has lasted for four years, and people got used to additional law enforcement on the streets in connection with various events.
The protection of transport infrastructure will be strengthened, especially airports, ports, railway and bus stations. The Ukrainian Railways will draw up a particular timetable where the transport of important cargo connected with national defence will have a priority. However, the changes should not affect ordinary passengers.
While the presidential election was scheduled for March 31, the official election campaign should start on December 31, after the end of martial law. However, local elections will not take place on December 23 (following the administrative and territorial reform) in those districts where martial law was introduced. When the martial law comes to an end, the Verkhovna Rada should set a new date of local elections.
The Ministry of Healthcare of Ukraine has designated medical facilities which, if necessary, will serve the army. Just in case, additional places in hospitals and supplies of pharmaceutical preparations for the needs of the military were created.
The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine asks not to take photos of military technology and the movement of military units. It is also forbidden to photograph and film military objects.
The local authorities introduced some additional restrictions in the Oblasts where martial law was imposed.
And what about sailors?
Russian courts in the Crimea arrested all detained Ukrainians for two months. They are accused of illegal crossing the border of the Russian Federation with the use of force or the threat of its use. They are threatened with up to six years in prison.
Kyiv underlines the Crimean coastal waters cannot be considered as a Russian border unless the international community recognised the annexation of Crimea. Ukraine also demands to treat sailors as prisoners of war.
Crimean Tatar lawyers decided to defend the sailors on the spot. Other Crimean Tatars also wanted to help and raised 140.000 roubles, food and hygiene measures. Money is also spontaneously raised in Ukraine.
It is possible that Turkey will become a mediator in the Ukrainian-Russian conflict in the Gulf of Kerch.
Meanwhile, despite the martial law, on November 28 in Odessa a group of 30 masked men attacked Anatoliy Hrytsenko, the presidential candidate, just before the meeting with his supporters. A few people were injured.
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In retrospect by Dietmar Laue
The Co-founders of Textile Forum magazine and the European Textile Network (ETN), Beatrijs Sterk and Dietmar Laue, consider themselves happy losers:
We continue to derive happiness from our engagement in a subject matter that we know to be the expression of an existential human need, and one that has undergone admirable cultural manifestations at every stage of human history. A concern for textiles has been as important as concerns for shelter, food, health and the ability to communicate. The 19th century architect Gottfried Semper once wrote: "Textile art merits absolute supremacy as it has been revealed to be the original art, as it were, and seems to be an entirely natural phenomenon, whereas all other arts borrow their types and symbols from textile art." A quote by Patrice Hugues, a present-day French artist and author, manifests the full drama that governs the theme of textiles: "How could it happen that one of mankind's richest and most wide-spread means of expression was gradually lost, sinking into such insignificance? And how could this happen in the Western world? What are the reasons? And how great is the damage we have suffered as a result? It is directly related to certain shortcomings, to the lack of connection we feel between our bodies and our lives that are ruled by technology and intellect. Our inability to interact with one another spontaneously and freely also stems from this.
We feel losers in the sense that we have attempted to do something about the irrelevance of textiles in our society. Eight years after the launch of our magazine, then still named "Deutsches Textilforum", we were on the verge of abandoning our editorial work, and announced this step in a feature entitled "Acht Jahre Textilforum e.V. (Eight Years of Textilforum association)" in DTF 3/89. Subsequently the Berlin wall fell, and by the end of that year all the barriers separating us from Eastern Europe had disappeared. This gave us a boost of energy. The resurgence of nationalism in Germany prompted us to search for ways to overcome the voicelessness that existed between the west and east of our continent, at least in our sphere of influence, textile culture.
In February 1990 we approached more than 200 contacts in former Eastern Bloc countries, inviting them to enter into a dialogue with us and our colleagues in Western Europe. Later this led us to form the European Textile Network (ETN); in 1991, immediately after our first conference held in Erfurt, a university city in former East Germany, we produced a kind of manifesto outlining what ETN members considered to be our joint tasks in the field of textile culture.
In the European Union we encountered EURATEX, a pressure group of the European textile and clothing industry that exclusively deals with the economic concerns of our field. In those days, the EU as such did not have any authority on cultural policy. However, we wished to campaign for cultural representation in the European institutions, and took two steps in that direction:
1. At the time, the Council of Europe in Strasbourg operated so-called Silk Routes in conjunction with UNESCO in Paris. We convinced the Council of Europe for these to be changed to European Textile Routes administered by ETN.
2. Once the Maastricht Treaties gave the EU a mandate for cultural policy as of 1992, we decided to provide a cultural partner for EURATEX. The NET Cultural Foundation, established jointly by ourselves and representatives from the textile industry and textile regions/cities in 1997, was meant to act in concert with that organisation and provide an economic basis for the ETN Network.
In preparation of a "Network of Textile Regions", we outlined a range of tasks we hoped to tackle in TF 3/1994:
1) Systematic maintenance of contemporary production in textile heritage (by means of textile design collections);
2) establishment of a European summer academy for textile design (regular international exchanges of information and experiences);
3) development of an art & industry workshop programme;
4) establishment of creativity centres in each textile region to ensure further training for textile communicators in work and society; and finally,
5) introduction of international competitions to improve our everyday textile culture (textile art/design in public spaces), which would also offer recurrent PR events to stimulate public discussion.
After many unsuccessful and energy-consuming attempts, we were obliged to give up our aspirations to achieve this programme in 2007. Established in Brussels in 1997 with the express purpose of promoting ETN's objectives, the international NET Cultural Foundation ceased operation and disappeared from the ETN internet website. It had lacked support from the European textile and clothing industry and from the respective textile cities and regions. Frequent replacement of our contacts in industry due to structural changes and a high turnover of staff in political decision-making bodies meant that we could not expect sustained support from those quarters. Measures targeting infrastructure in cultural policy on an international level are thus a matter of luck; otherwise they are immediately mired in the red tape routine, as in the instance of the European Union's promotion of culture.
Ever since we admitted the failure of our programmatic efforts in 2007, Textile Forum magazine has merely existed as a flower in the press landscape that is easily overlooked, and ETN continues as a network with clipped wings. We look back on our own bitter experience of the social mechanisms that contribute to the irrelevance of textiles, and given the circumstances, we consider them insurmountable.
What remains to be done? This is the question we face in the 30th year of our personally fulfilling activities, and thankfully we are still searching for an answer.
Hanover, 1st of April 2011


FRANKLIN SPRINGS, Ga. – The King University women's basketball team was in action on Saturday against Emmanuel College. King was able to go up as much as 12 points but was unable to close the door as Emmanuel took the contest 65-56.
Emmanuel came out hitting on all cylinders starting off the game on a 12-2 run.
Ryleigh Fritz would answer with a three-point basket and would spark a King run of their own.
The Tornado would go on an 11-0 run capped off by Desiree Bates to end the first quarter and give them the lead 13-12.
King stretched their lead to three 15-13, to start the second quarter coming off a Madison Davis jump shot.
The Lions would cut the King lead down to one but the Tornado offense would catch fire again and go on a 10-0 run before Emmanuel stopped the bleeding with a pair of free-throws with King maintaining control 25-16.
Emmanuel and King would exchange baskets to end the second quarter with the Tornado holding the lead 28-21.
The Tornado would extend their lead back up to ten with a Kristen Cupples three-point shot to start the third quarter.
The Lions would then go on a 10-0 run to tie the game up at 32 before a Makenzy Bennett layup gave King the lead again 34-32.
The teams then traded baskets with Emmanuel taking the slight edge 41-36 going to the final period.
Both teams would exchange baskets to begin the final period but it was a Kiki Samsel triple that got the Tornado within 1 at 43-42.
A Davis layup would give the Tornado the lead once again before the Lions would regain momentum and the lead 10 seconds later 44-43.
After three lead changes in the final period, Emmanuel was able to hold on to the lead for good and take the game 65-56.
Davis had six points and six rebounds.
Cupples was the only Tornado in double figures with 12 points and also racked up five rebounds.
Emmanuel had three players in double figures.
Lochlain Corliss led the way with 20 points and nine rebounds.
King is in action again on Thursday at home against North Greenville University tip-off starting at 5:30 pm.
Emmanuel travels to Erskine College on Tuesday.


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Q: node.js child_process.send utf-8 char issue today i upgrade my node.exe to the latest version:0.10.0.But found a strange issue :can't send chinese char,the code is:
master.js:
//master.js
var cp = require('child_process');

var n = cp.fork(__dirname + '/sub.js');

n.on('message', function(m) {
console.log('PARENT got message:', m);
});

n.send('中文');

and:
//sub.js
process.on('message', function(m) {
console.log('CHILD got message:', m);
});

process.send({ foo: 'bar' });

when run master.js,an error occured:
undefined:1
"d8-f"
     ^
SyntaxError: Unexpected token
    at Object.parse (native)
    at Pipe.channel.onread (child_process.js:335:28)
does anyone can give some advise?

A: I can reproduce it.
Although it seems to be a bug (since it works okay in Node 0.8), this works as a fix:

// master.js
...
n.send(new Buffer('中文'));

// sub.js
process.on('message', function(m) {
  console.log('CHILD got message:', new Buffer(m).toString());
});
....

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AACPS, News	 April 29, 2019
Board of Education for AACPS votes on redistricting for Crofton Area High School
By Natalie Adams
The Board of Education (BOE) for Anne Arundel County Public Schools (AACPS) voted to adopt the Option one redistricting proposal for Crofton Area High School at their meeting on Wednesday, April 17th. This option will relocate students in the Two Rivers and Waugh Chapel communities to the Arundel feeder system starting the 2020-2021 school year.
Option one will make a few major changes. Currently, students from the Two Rivers (1038B) and Waugh Chapel (1038C) neighborhoods attend Crofton Elementary, Crofton Middle, and Arundel High. Option one will redistrict these students to Piney Orchard Elementary until West County Elementary opens and on to Arundel Middle and Arundel High, effectively transferring them to the Arundel feeder system. Students from the Crofton Elementary, Nantucket Elementary, and part of Crofton Meadows Elementary attendance zones currently attend Arundel High, and students from the Crofton Woods Elementary and part of Crofton Meadows Elementary attendance zones currently attend South River High, but they will be relocated to Crofton Area High starting the 2020-2021 school year. Students will be phased into Crofton Area High, with only 9th and 10th graders the 2020-2021 school year, 9th, 10th, and 11th graders the 2021-2022 school year, and 9th, 10th, 11th, and 12th graders the 2022-2023 school year.
The biggest differences between Option One and Option Three are that the Waugh Chapel (1038C) community would remain at Crofton Elementary and Crofton Middle and attend Crofton Area High when it opens in 2020 and students from various Crofton neighborhoods who attend various Crofton schools would be shuffled around within Crofton. Two Rivers (1038B) would still be moved to the Arundel feeder system and students living in Crofton who currently attend Arundel High or South River High would still be redistricted to Crofton Area High when it opens.
Option Four would allow students from Two Rivers (1038B) and Waugh Chapel (1038C) to choose to remain in the Crofton feeder system or switch to the Arundel Feeder system.
There was an Option Two, but it was not mentioned at the meeting.
Redistricting was not open to public comment at the meeting, but it had been open to public comment for 30 days prior. However, board members had the opportunity to share their thoughts and information about each of the proposals before voting commenced.
Melissa Ellis spoke in support of Option Three, stating that Crofton Middle School, "just [doesn't] present to me the same concerns as Arundel Middle School," and "no longer do I see Route 3 as a natural boundary."
Ellis claimed that it would be better to increase the population at Crofton Meadows Elementary than at Arundel Middle because Crofton Meadows has more space for portables. She also stated that the parking lot can be reconfigured to allow for more buses, whereas Arundel Middle's cannot. Ellis continued by claiming that development has stopped in Crofton, but continues on the west side of Route 3.
Michelle Corkadel countered Ellis by explaining that a new parking lot at Crofton Meadows Elementary would cost around $1 million, and that this money would be better spent on renovations and expansions to schools like Arundel Middle. Corkadel claimed, "spreading a little bit of the pain is not going to result in a positive outcome," and explained that she supports Option One because it will break the cycle of redistricting now. She also stated that she disagrees with Ellis' claim that development in Crofton has stopped.
The vote was called after a comment from Candace Antwine about keeping diversity in mind, Robert Leib stated that he believes Option One will establish a sustainable Crofton feeder system, and Julie Hummer expressed her concern of creating a "white high school."
Option One with Option Four received four votes, just Option One gained three votes, and Option Three with Option Four and just Option Three each garnered one vote.
Option One with Option Four would impose all of the changes from Option One, but also allow students from Two Rivers (1038B) and Waugh Chapel (1038C) to choose to attend either Crofton or Arundel schools. Option Three with Option Four would impose all of the changes from Option Three, but also allow students to choose to attend either Crofton or Arundel schools. Both of these options were counted as separate from just Option One and just Option Three.
Since a minimum of five votes were needed for one of the options to prevail, none of the options received the necessary number of votes and the BOE had to vote again.
Before the second vote, Ellis proposed an amendment to Option Four that would add a clause stating that transportation would not be provided by the county to students who choose to attend schools in the feeder system opposite from which they are assigned. However, amending the option after voting had commenced would mean the entire voting process would have to start over, so the amendment was not added.
The vote was called and this time Option One with Option Four received four votes and just Option One prevailed with five votes.
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Are you interested in building your own wooden duck boat? There are several duck boat models that those with intermediate or even beginner skill sets can construct with a bit of time and patience. This TabStart page presents a hand-selected group of websites that feature building plans for wooden duck boats. Start working on your duck calls because in short time you'll be out on the water in a gorgeous new boat.
Plans for Building a Duckhunter Wooden Boat - The Gator Wooden Boat Plans website provides plans for the amateur builder, and this page is devoted to the Duckhunter Model, a 2+ Man Marshboat. Here you will find a materials list that includes the estimated build time as well as a recommended motor. You do not need special tools or special skills to build this wooden boat, and the materials should cost approximately $160.
How to Build a Wood Duck 12 Boat - The Professional Wooden Boat Builder website presents this page on the Wood Duck 12 Boat. Here you will find design specs for this model as well as a concise description of the boat and its particular features. Building the Wood Duck 12 Boat requires a beginner to intermediate skill set.
How to Build a Wood Duck 12 Boat with a Kit - In this page a boat builder describes the process of receiving his Wood Duck 12 Boat kit and building it. This site is extemely helpful because the builder details each phase of the construction, and he includes photos. Conveniently, the model that this builder is using is the model that is detailed above by the Professional Wooden Boat Builder website.
Spira International's Easy-to-Build Wooden Boat Plans - If you are interested in building your own wooden boat, the Spira International website is certainly worth perusing. They offer free boat plans for a wide variety of models.
Duck Boats 101: A History of Wooden Duck Boats - DuckBoats.net presents this fantastic overview of duck boats. It breaks duck boats down into six categories and offers brief descriptions and photos for each. This page also lists famous duck boats created by market hunters, such as the Barnegat Bay Sneakbox and the Koshkonong Flat Boat.
Overview of Duck Flat Wooden Boats - Be sure to take a look at this boat building business's site to explore information about the boats that these master craftsmen are building. Unfortunately, while this site does have extensive plans for building a wide variety of models of duck flat wooden boats, they are not offered for free.
Overview for Building a Wooden Boat with Plans - This is another excellent site to consult for a helpful overview of the various considerations that go into building your own wooden boat.
Video of Building Wood Duck Kayaks by Chesapeake Light Craft - Take a look at this fun time-lapse video of the team from Chesapeake Light Craft building several wooden duck boats.
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Collier's Photographic History of World War II
New York: P. F. Collier & Son Corp. 1945. Album Edition. Oversized, 272, profusely illus. (some in color), color endpaper maps, margin creased on title page, boards scuffed, some wear to spine.	More
German Field Works of World War II
Bracknell, Berks., U.K. Bellona Publications Limited, 1969. Reprint Edition. 78, wraps (stiff cardboard covers), figures, glossary, some wear to board and spine edges, title pages partially detached.	More
Life, March 12, 1945, Volume 18, Number 11
Chicago, IL: Time, Inc., 1945. Quarto, 124, wraps, profusely illus. (some in color).	More
Allen, Peter
One More River: The Rhine Crossings of 1945
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1980. Book Club Edition. 320, illus., maps, bibliography, index, some wear and small tears to edges of DJ, some soiling to fore-edge.	More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1980. First Printing. 320, illus., maps, bibliography, index, some wear to edges of DJ, small stains and small ding to fore-edge.	More
Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne From Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1992. Ninth Printing. 335, wraps, illus., maps, index, some soiling inside front cover, raised stamp on title page, pages somewhat darkened.	More
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2001. Reprint Edition. First Printing. 333, wraps, illus., maps, index, pages slightly darkened. Contains new foreword by the author.	More
Citizen Soldiers: The U.S. Army from the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of Germany, June 7 1944 - May 7, 1945
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1997. Thirteenth Printing. Hardcover. 512 pages. Illus., maps, notes, bibliography, index. Bookplate from the WWII Memorial Saving Private Ryan pre-release movie screening.	More
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1997. Second Printing. 512, illus., maps, notes, bibliography, index, slight wear to DJ edges, black marker line on top edge.	More
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1998. 1st Touchstone Edition. First Printing. 528, wraps, illus., maps, notes, bibliography, index, covers slightly soiled, black marker line on bottom edge.	More
D-Day, June 6, 1944: The Climactic Battle of World War II
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995. 1st Touchstone Edition. First Printing. 655, wraps, illus., maps, glossary, endnotes, bibliography, appendix, index, some wear to cover edges, front cover creased.	More
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994. First Printing. 655, illus., maps, glossary, endnotes, bibliography, appendix, index, minor foxing to top edge, slight wear to DJ edges.	More
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995. 1st Touchstone Edition. Sixth Printing. 655, wraps, illus., maps, glossary, endnotes, bibliography, appendix, index, small stains inside front cover & front flyleaf.	More
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994. First Printing. 655, illus., maps, glossary, endnotes, bibliography, appendix, index, boards slightly scuffed.	More
Ike: Abilene to Berlin
New York: Harper & Row, 1973. First Edition. 220, illus., maps, further reading, glossary, index, front DJ flap clipped, DJ somewhat worn: small tears, small pieces missing.	More
Pegasus Bridge: June 6, 1944
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1988. 1st Touchstone Edition. Eleventh Printing. 197, wraps, illus., appendix, sources, index Pegasus Bridge was the first engagement of D-Day. Major John Howard and his small detachment of British airborne troops landed in gliders, stormed German defense forces, and paved the way for the Allied invasion of Europe.	More
Pegasus Bridge; D-Day: The Daring British Airborne Raid
London: Pocket Books [Simon & Schuster UK Ltd], 1988. Fifth Printing [stated]/. Trade paperback. xv, [1], 233, [15] pages. Wraps. Illustrations. Footnotes. Appendix. Sources. Index. Pegasus Bridge was the first engagement of D-Day. Major John Howard and his small detachment of British airborne troops landed in gliders, stormed German defense forces, and paved the way for the Allied invasion of Europe. Stephen Edward Ambrose (January 10, 1936 – October 13, 2002) was an American historian and biographer of U.S. Presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower and Richard Nixon. He was a longtime professor of history at the University of New Orleans and the author of many bestselling volumes of American popular history. However, in a review of To America: Personal Reflections of an Historian for the New York Times, William Everdell wrote that "he certainly deserved better from some of his envious peers" and credited the historian with reaching "an important lay audience without endorsing its every prejudice or sacrificing the profession's standards of scholarship.	More
The Supreme Commander: The War Years of General Dwight D. Eisenhower
Place_Pub: Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1970. 732, frontis illus., maps, glossary, notes, index, library bookplate ins fr flylf, barcode, boards soiled, soiling to fore-edge library call number on spine. The steady development of Eisenhower's generalcy.	More
Place_Pub: Jackson, MS: University Press of MS, 1999. Reprint Edition. 732, wraps, maps, glossary, notes, index. New Introduction by Hugh Ambrose. The steady development of Eisenhower's generalcy.	More
Place_Pub: Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1970. First Edition. 732, maps, glossary, notes, index, ink name inside flyleaves, pencil marginal lines on several pages, DJ in plastic sleeve.	More
The Victors. Eisenhower and His Boys: The Men of World War II
Place_Pub: New York: Simon & Schuster, 1998. First Printing. 396, illus., maps, sources, index, slight soiling to fore-edge, some wear to top and bottom DJ edges.	More
The Wild Blue: The Men and Boys Who Flew the B-24s Over Germany
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2002. 1st Touchstone Edition. First Printing. 299, wraps, illus., notes, bibliography, index, text somewhat darkened The contribution which the young men of the Army Air Forces (among them George McGovern) stationed in Italy made to the Allied victory in World War II.	More
Army Air Forces Aid Society
Target: Germany. The Army Air Forces' Official Story of the VIII Bomber Command's First Year Over Europe
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1943. Quarto, 121, wraps, illus., maps, endpaper maps, glossary, pages darkened & some foxing, spine edges worn & lg tears, covers soiled & worn.	More
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1943. Quarto, 121, wraps, illus., maps, endpaper maps, glossary, pages darkened, sm pcs missing to spine, sp edges worn & lg tears, covers soiled.	More


At HGR, our employees always enjoy a good meal, along with buying and selling huge amounts of used industrial equipment and having the opportunity to meet and get to know their customers.
Those three factors led to the weekly Free Lunch Wednesday, which started shortly after the company was founded in 1998 and continues today at HGR.
Customers and potential customers are welcomed to come by 20001 Euclid Ave. in Euclid, Ohio on Wednesdays and enjoy a tasty meal. HGR staff members take advantage of the free meal too, which provides the opportunity for customers and employees to sit down and break bread together.
When the weather is warmer, it's cookout time, with fresh hamburgers and hot dogs hot off the grill. When the thermometer begins to dip down, the dining moves indoors and features hot pizza.
Either way, HGR invites customers — past, present and future — to stop in and enjoy the free lunch tradition.


All of California is getting bad.
Plenty of "white flight" to other states.
in what is your prediction for California's economy?
Why does the racist Chessturd believe that a place MUST get worse when white people leave?
California already has a larger GDP than the UK (which has a larger population).
make connections in trade with Asia.
Detroit, Atlanta, Memphis are a few examples.
that was rather my point in asking chessturd the question.
Even if they were good examples you have not answered the question.
place MUST get worse when white people leave?
So why does the news say rampant homelessness and stores closing down and vacant buildings? Plenty of videos showing it. Look. Just because Cali brings in money doesn't mean it has anything to do with it having nice places to live.
I like that pretty pink background in your profile. You're not ashamed to flaunt it.


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FILE - New England Patriots quarterback Jacoby Brissett (7) hands the football to coach Bill Belichick after rushing for his first career touchdown, during the team's NFL football game against the Houston Texans on Sept. 22, 2016, in Foxborough, Mass. Brissett looks back fondly on his rookie season with New England, where he was thrust into a starting job, learned the Patriot Way while teammates with Tom Brady and won a Super Bowl. Belichick traded him the following year. Brissett and the Cleveland Browns play the Patriots this week. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola File)


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Daniel Moylan, Baron Moylan (* 1. März 1956) ist ein britischer Politiker der Conservative Party.

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Moylan besuchte die St Philip's School in Edgbaston und studierte am Queen's College in Oxford Germanistik und Philosophie. Er war Präsident des Oxford Union. Ab 1978 war er für das britische Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office tätig. Von 1982 bis 1986 war er für die  County Bank, einem Tochterunternehmen von National Westminster Bank, tätig. Ab 1990 war er Mitglied im Kensington and Chelsea Council. Ab August 2008 war er im Vorstand der Organisation Transport for London.*  Seit 9. September 2020 ist Moyland Mitglied des House of Lords.

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 Unripe time : Britain and the European Monetary System, Bow Group, 1988
 Bricks in the Wall, or, How to Build "Fortress Europe" While Denying Any Intentions of Doing So, Adam Smith Institut, 1989, ISBN 978-1870109512

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SMQ 22:3
Authors: Steve McKelvey, Joris Drayer, Daniel Rascher, Nicholas M. Watanabe, Brian P. Soebbing, Pamela Wicker, D. Gloria Wu, Laurence Chalip, Rodney J. Paul, Andrew P. Weinbach, Mark Dodds, James T. Reese, Kristi Schoepfer-Bochicchio, Khalid Ballouli
Abstract: This is the entire issue in PDF format that you can download.
Industry Insider: Hillary Shaev, pp. 121-122
Authors: Steve McKelvey
Abstract: As vice president of marketing for the NBA, Hilary Shaev oversees all marketing initiatives for the WNBA, including brand management, marketing strategy, and promotion of events and platforms. Shaev joined the NBA in March 2008 after a successful career in the music business. Most recently, she worked as executive vice president for promotion at Capitol Music Group, Virgin Records, and Sony Music's Epic Records. In these roles, Shaev developed and executed promotional campaigns nationally for all artists on each label's roster, including Janet Jackson, Norah Jones, Lenny Kravitz, and Celine Dion. Shaev, a graduate of Duke University, was named a Top Woman in Music by Billboard Magazine in 2005, 2006, and 2007.
Guest Editors' Introduction: Sport Pricing Research: Past, Present, and Future, p. 123-128
Authors: Joris Drayer and Daniel Rascher
Abstract: Despite its inclusion as one of the core Ps of the traditional marketing mix, research on sport pricing has been noticeably underrepresented in the sport marketing literature. In their content analysis of Sport Marketing Quarterly (SMQ), Peetz and Reams (2011) found only one article out of 346 in the journal which was topically categorized as sport pricing research. The largest percentage of published articles in the journal involves market research of spectators and/or participants. While some of these articles may include elements related to price, the vast majority overlook this critical element of marketing. However, technological innovation has forever altered how sport consumers evaluate products and services. For example, from the consumer perspective, advanced Internet search tools have created a highly informed and highly price-sensitive consumer, partially because of the reduced cost of price-shopping (search cost). It has long been established that prices influence consumer attitudes and behaviors (Zeithaml, 1988). As such, as prices change, so too will consumer responses. Therefore, when researchers examine consumer attitudes and behaviors, they must consider the effect of prices, particularly as more demand-based and dynamic pricing strategies emerge.
Examining the Impact of the StubHub Agreement on Price Dispersion in Major League Baseball, pp. 129-137
Authors: Nicholas M. Watanabe, Brian P. Soebbing, and Pamela Wicker
Abstract: The growth of the second-hand ticket market has increased the complexity of ticket pricing for sport franchises. In 2007, Major League Baseball (MLB) signed an agreement with StubHub, an online seller of secondhand tickets. Although pricing in MLB has been investigated previously in the literature, price dispersion (i.e., multiple prices for a similar product) and the effects of the second-hand ticket market have been largely neglected. The purpose of this research is to examine the impact of the StubHub agreement on pricing behavior of MLB teams using data from the seasons 1975 to 2010 (except 2009). The results of regression analyses show the StubHub deal had a significant and positive influence on price dispersion, measured by the total number of price levels and the inequality amongst those ticket price levels (Gini coefficient). The findings have implications for the marketing and pricing strategies of professional sport franchises.
Expected Price and User Image for Branded and Co-Branded Sports Apparel, pp. 138-151
Authors: D. Gloria Wu and Laurence Chalip
Abstract: The marketing appeal of sport associations extends to sportswear brands, with the result that they are increasingly allied with fashion designer brands. Effects of such alliances are tested experimentally using price and user image as dependent variables. Among males, co-branding with a fashion designer brand generated a higher expected price for shirts bearing the sportswear logo, but adding a sportswear logo did not affect the expected price of shirts bearing a fashion designer logo. Among females, co-branding with a sportswear brand generated a lower expected price for shirts bearing a fashion designer logo, but adding a fashion designer logo did not affect the expected price of shirts bearing a sportswear logo. Both males and females expected the price to be higher when the shirt projected higher engagement or dominance for the wearer. Co-branding can have negative as well as positive effects for partners in a brand alliance.
Determinants of Dynamic Pricing Premiums in Major League Baseball, pp. 152-165
Authors: Rodney J. Paul and Andrew P. Weinbach
Abstract: Dynamic pricing, well-known in the airline and hotel industries, has now been adopted by a handful of Major League Baseball teams in relation to pricing of tickets for their home games. Using data from four teams for the 2011 season, we examine the role that a variety of factors play in explaining differences in ticket prices across games throughout the season for these teams. Key factors such as the day of the week, opponent promotions, starting pitcher, and weather are investigated to shed light on the determinants of the willingness to pay of baseball fans for these teams under a dynamic-pricing strategy.
Proceed to Checkout? The Impact of Time in Advanced Ticket Purchase Decisions, pp. 166-180
Authors: Brendan Dwyer, Joris Drayer, and Stephen L. Shapiro
Abstract: When purchasing tickets in advance, sports consumers are often faced with uncertainty. Most notably, in today's real-time environment, it can be challenging for consumers to determine how ticket prices and seat availability will change over time. Guided by the generic advanced-booking decision model, the current study investigated the role of time, ticket source (primary or secondary market), and team identification in advanced ticket purchasing by exploring a consumer's perceptions of ticket availability and finding a lower price. The results suggest the perceived likelihood of ticket availability and finding a lower priced ticket increased as the date of the game drew closer. Ticket source and team identification were also found to be statistically significant main effects factors, while ticket source significantly moderated consumer perceptions of finding a lower price over time. These outcomes both confirm and contradict various findings in the leisure literature and provide a strong foundation for future sport-related examinations.
Are Ticket Lotteries Fair Game? George v. NCAA Sets the Standard, pp. 181-183
Authors: Mark Dodds, James T. Reese, and Kristi Schoepfer-Bochicchio
Abstract: Can a high demand sporting event institute a random selection process to distribute tickets and create revenue while doing so? Recently, the NCAA was sued for using such a ticket distribution method (George v. NCAA, 2011). The plaintiffs to the lawsuit claimed the NCAA ran an illegal lottery by charging a non-refundable handling fee for all ticket requests, including those that were not able to be met due to the high consumer demand. Ultimately, the Indiana Supreme Court held the NCAA's actions did not legally constitute a lottery, and thus the NCAA's ticket distribution method was allowed.
A Note from the SMA VP of Academic Affairs, p. 119-120
Authors: Khalid Ballouli
Abstract: Earlier this year, the SMA executive board gathered in Albuquerque, New Mexico, to conduct its annual midyear meeting and discuss matters concerning the current status of SMA membership and the 2013 SMA Annual Conference. SMA executive board members Gregg Bennett (President), Nancy Lough (President- Elect), Dan Funk (SMQ Editor), Andrea Eagleman (VP of Student Affairs), Steve McKelvey (VP of Industry Relations), Joris Drayer (Member at Large), and Eric Schwarz (Executive Director and Past President) came away from the mid-year meeting with an enthusiasm that our organization was about to make another significant step in becoming the foremost membership and conference in our field. It was an honor and delight to work alongside this dedicated and professional group of people, and I am very pleased to report some exciting initiatives scheduled for the 2013 SMA Annual Conference.


The number of people in China using social networking and communication sites or apps rose modestly in the first half of 2017, with 84.3% of internet users using WeChat Moments and 65.8% using QZone.
Varieties of communities are built online and organized by companies, interest groups, or entrepreneurs in China. The most frequently used platforms of communications in the online communities are WeChat Group, QQ Group, and WeChat Official Account.
In June 2014, mobile Internet users exceeded 530 million, accounting for 83.4% of the total Internet users in China. More than 60% of China mobile users are using mobile social apps nowadays, which are indispensable mobile apps in China according to Nielsen.
Weibo is the most talked about social media channel in the last one year, followed by social networking sites like Renren. No doubt Sina Weibo should be the most critical channel to consider for most companies.
According to JiaThis, a popular social sharing widget provider, Tencent's QZone, Sina Weibo and Tencent Weibo remained the top three social sharing networks in June 2012.


A Glenview car rental gives you the opportunity to go where you want, when you want. You'll be able to check out all the sights, and even see what the rest of Kentucky has to offer. We've gathered your most frequently asked questions about renting a car in Glenview. Read on to see which vehicle is perfect for your trip, and how to get the best rates.
How do I find a great deal on a car rental in Glenview?
These tips can help you save even more on your next car rental in Glenview.
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From budget-friendly brands like Dollar and Thrifty to global names like Advantage and Hertz, CarRentals.com has some of the best brands in the business. Read through the reviews to help you figure out which one meets your needs.
What types and makes of rental cars are on offer in Glenview?
How old do you have to be to rent a car in Glenview?
Generally, to rent a car in Glenview you must be at least 21—the same as it is across the rest of the USA. Additionally, many suppliers charge an extra fee if you are under 25. Be sure to read over the supplier's terms to determine what the exact price will be before you book your rental.
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Insurance is required, no matter where you're renting a car. Nevertheless, you might already be covered by your credit card or car policies. Keep in mind, your policies may not provide total coverage, and you'll need to add it on to your booking. Check in advance and, if it is necessary, you can easily include it at the CarRentals.com checkout.
Unlimited miles is a great choice if you plan to do some sightseeing or visit a lot of clients all over Glenview. You can cruise as much as you want and not incur extra charges. Be sure to read your policy to find out if there are mileage limitations.


Today we sadly mourn the tragic loss of the children and teachers killed in the senseless shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. When I first turned on the television and heard the news, my brain had trouble processing what I was seeing and hearing. How could somebody carry out such a heinous act? It doesn't make sense. It doesn't seem real. My heart aches thinking of the families who have lost a child today. It's every parent's worst nightmare come true. I'm sorry if I sound like a pessimist, but life is not always fair. Not everything happens for a reason. There is no bright side to this. This is a horror show being played out right before our eyes. When it's easier to purchase a gun than get your hands on a Doc McStuffins doll for your kid's Christmas gift, it puts things into perspective. Gun laws need to change! To live in fear that any psycho can get their hands on a gun and shoot you down at the movies or in the classroom is unacceptable.
Tonight poor Max had to suffer through being smothered by me with endless hugs and kisses to the point where he asked me to stop. I found myself staring at him over and over again thinking what if? What if that had been my son's kindergarten class? While the thought is too unbearable to imagine, I can't help but feel vulnerable. I am an over protective mother by nature and would give my own life in exchange for my child, but I am helpless to protect my baby from predators who have an agenda. I hate that this is our reality.
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Number Plates Recently Sold Search - CNU registrations
The following number plates are based on CNU number plates
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CNU 51H
P59 CNU
The RTA announced on Wednesday that customers can now check out both available and unavailable numbers as well as those that are likely to be available in the future.
Sultan Al Marzouqi, director of Vehicle Licensing at the RTA's Licensing Agency, said: "This service does not only allow customers to enquire and buy the current codes, but also future codes (Up to Z). Customers can log onto RTA's website (www.rta.ae) by clicking 'Inquiring about Distinctive Number Plates' to know about the available numbers and buy them online."
He added that the system has been developed and programmed to provide information about available and unavailable numbers along with their prices.
The system also enables enquiring about numbers in four different ways: by code, by number of digits, by entering the numbers required, or by the price.
The RTA also offers distinguished number plates through online auction as well as through live auctions, drawing huge interests from enthusiasts with some plates going for millions of dirhams.
Last year, the single-digit plate D5 was auctioned for Dh33 million, the highest priced number in Dubai.
A TOTAL of 58 number plates are due to go under the hammer at Highlands College next week as part of an auction organised by the Infrastructure Department.
During the last two events, the auction raised more than £421,750 with the money going towards buying equipment for Driver and Vehicle Standards – the department's authority which oversee the registration of the Island's vehicles.
In 2013 one anonymous individual paid £71,000 for the plate JSY 1.
Infrastructure Minister Eddie Noel said that he was expecting one number plate to receive particular interest from bidders this year.
Record numbers of motorists are driving cars fitted with personalised numberplates amid a surge in "auto vanity".
The Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency sold a record 374,968 registrations last year, up 12 per cent in 12 months and almost five times the total in the mid-90s.
The trade in numberplates made more than £110 million for the Treasury in 2016-17 alone, a record annual total.
The rise coincides with an increase in the number of registrations made available by the DVLA, combined with a sharp rise in the value of rare plates over the past two decades.
In an era when we're all supposed to be flaunting our individuality, the trend for personalised car number plates has apparently never been higher. The Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA), which sells new and never-issued registrations, sold 374,968 last year, an increase of 12%.
Among private dealers, who sell pre-owned plates, business is just as good.
"For the past five years, [the market has] been steadily rising." It is thought one reason is a personalised plate makes the age of the car less obvious. But he also says social media has played a huge part. "It's, 'Hey, everybody, look at me'," he says.
People post pictures of their new cars on Instagram, and adding a private plate "seems to be something that people can use to boost their social media reach".
At the entry-level end of the market, "registrations that start at £250, on average there are 800 of those sold every day." He says one fairly common customer is the parent who buys a personalised plate for their child on passing their driving test, to go with a new car. "My typical client would be someone in their 40s or 50s, they've got a bit of money sitting about and always fancied a personalised number plate."
At the extreme end, plates can fetch more than £500,000. In 2014, one classic-car dealer bought a "25 O" plate, reportedly for his Ferrari 250 GTO, for £400,000 (the final price, including fees, was £518,000) and a "250 L" for £130,000.
"The numbers that were selling for £1,000 in 1980 now sell for £150,000. What probably changed it was in the late 80s, when the government started to sell numberplates. We in the trade all thought it would devalue the numbers, but it didn't, it just got more people interested."
A personalised plate is "a prestigious thing. There's a little bit of vanity about it," says Saperia. As for those of us who believe it's the mark of a bit of a berk, Saperia points out that the DVLA's sale of personalised plates "bring more than £100m every year to the treasury".
The number plate 1D was bought for a record £352,000 at auction yesterday.
Tycoon Nabil Bishara won it in fierce bidding and plans to put it on his wife's Bentley.
His £352,411 offer beats the previous £254,000 best for a DVLA sale, set by 51NGH in 2006. The DVLA's Damian Lawson said after the auction in Claverdon, Warks: We're absolutely over the moon."
Britain's priciest car reg is F1, bought privately for £440,625 in 2008 by Afzal Kahn of Bradford, West Yorks."
When you key in the vehicle number there is an immediate response which shows its make, model, age, colour, insurance status and owner. Databases know all that for every vehicle, instantly.
It's amazing how law-abiding everyone becomes when the whole lot is known, and joined up. Without exception. In a blink. And with very little time cost or inconvenience.
So why can't your PIN be like your number plate, holding an interconnected record of everything anyone has a right to know about you. No more forms and questionnaires and endless administrative complication and time cost-for a bank account, a mobile phone, a car log book, a licence, a permit, a title deed, service utilities, passport renewal or whatever.
Just key in your PIN and a password that gives your permission, and any supplier will have instant and complete access to the (selective) information the law entitles them to.
Computers do all the crunching and privacy categorising, and keep a permanent digital record to guarantee an audit trail that will keep everybody honest-including the administrators.
And if things can be joined up per person, they can also be joined up for all the people and provide a treasure chest of national statistics for planners and the general public.
As a non-contentious example, we could know the total number of vehicles, their class proportions, age - and anything else about them of use, interest or importance at the push of a button.
There are lots of reasons why we need to know more about our national fleet of vehicles with four wheels or more. But robust data is somewhere between scant, inconsistent and non-existent.
We have to resort to extrapolation, a bit like this: In the past decade, all Kenya's main motor companies have sold about 140,000 new vehicles of every shape and size from town runabouts to prime mover trucks.
That figure represents about 10 per cent (maybe) of today's total national road-going fleet of things with four wheels or more. The average age of that portion is about 5 years.
Over the same period, there have been about 860,000 used imports mostly aged about 8 years on arrival.
The average age of that contingent today is therefore around 13 years. Put both groups together and you have a million vehicles with an average age of about 12 years.
The rest of the fleet about 400,000 - was already here 10 years ago, having arrived in much the same new-used proportions. So that segment's average age was also around 12, and is therefore now around 22.
With some slightly trickier arithmetic, we can therefore estimate that the overall average age of all the vehicles in Kenya today is about 15 years. That's not a precise fact, but it is a strongly indicative probability.
It had been expected to sell for between £15,000 and £25,000 but the first Manx vehicle registration plate ever to be issued was eventually sold last week for £100,000. It is, says auctioneer Murray Keefe, a valuable piece of Manx history.
It was the first Isle of Man number plate and people do like to have number 1. At the auction we had 4 telephone lines wanting to bid on the number plate and quite a few bidding in the room so I was not surprised it made so much money knowing that some of the plates in the United Kingdom make substantially more than that. "
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The peace and security funding landscape encompasses a diverse group of foundations and philanthropists that are contributing to a safer, more prosperous global future. From peacebuilding in Sierra Leone to the Iran nuclear agreement, peace and security funders are investing in critical efforts to prevent and mitigate conflict, find resolutions, and strengthen post-conflict resilience.
Despite comprising only 1 per cent of total foundation giving, a new report and interactive website from Foundation Center and the Peace and Security Funders Group explore how these funders are making meaningful contributions to global peace and stability. According to the Peace and Security Funding Index: An analysis of global foundation grantmaking, 288 foundations made nearly 2,000 peace and security grants totalling more than $283 million in 2013. While the top 15 funders provided two-thirds (67 per cent) of all funding, most foundations engaged at far more modest levels, indicating that grantmakers of any size can become active in the field. This first-ever analysis also finds that funders employ policy work, advocacy and research as key strategies; and identifies opportunities for increased support in the areas of conflict prevention and cyber-security.
Funders can help to build on this research and improve understanding of giving in the peace and security field by sharing more detailed information about the purpose and objectives of grants in their reporting.
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