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Moving Against the Corporations
"Kick the Ass of the Ruling Class!" Slightly more than three years ago, some of us marched through San Francisco's financial district, then demonstrated in the streets at the foot of the...
...radio programs...
...846 New York, New York 10027 focus on Church investments in war-related industries...
...also on population control...
...putting out packet Chicago, Illinois 60640 on those corporations, and helped work on computerized study of Chicago power structure, both projects designed to provide information to Chicago organizing groups CALUMET ENVIRONMENTAL AND OCCUPATIONAL organizing, especially for steel workers, in East HEALTH COMMITTEE (CEOHC) Chicago, with focus on industrial health issues 5305 Hohman Ave., Rm...
...PROJECT ON CORPORATE RESPONSIBILITY research and action (esp...
...While studies of U.S...
...Did Not Say in its Annual Report focus on Bendix Corporation as a case study in the economic and human costs of the transfer of multinational corporate resources abroad (to Latin America), especially its role in the Mexican Border Industrialization Program, its war contracts, its treatment of workers...
...NAAIC now has project on ITT (research and boycott of ITT subsidiaries such as Wonder Bread), being coordinated by: CALA, 731 State Street, Madison, Wisconsin, 53703 CENTER FOR STUDY OF RESPONSIVE LAW numerous research projects and lawsuits, including: (Ralph Nader's group) campaign G.M...
...research on Detroit power struc% Pat Korth ture and on 41 Detroit-based firms...
...published 1000 Wisconsin Ave., N.W...
...What are possible strategies for the anticorporate movement...
...Rather than relying on their individual good judgment and experimenting with new methods of e integrating the legal profession with oppressed groups, they should join the new meritocracy, the public interest organization...
...war-related...
...rather, viewing the entire globe as their field of operations, they plan their strategy multinationally...
...Box 5909 Bethesda, Maryland 20014 G.E...
...and Consolidated Coal Co., and the one done by a Los Angeles group on the Bank of America) - employee "underground newspapers" (e.g., at Standard Oil and at AT&T) - confrontation and bloc voting at stockholders' meetings - consumer boycotts - lawsuits and class actions - Congressional hearings - research and pressure through the mass media - exposure and delegitimization of corporate executives...
...Elitism is not good: seizure of power for its wn A aC i ilO yuui...
...20009 representation on Boards, on General Motors, Ford, Chrysler, AT&T, and several drug companies CHURCH PROJECT ON U.S...
...has published "Center briefs" on such corporations as: Honeywell, G.E., Gulf 011...
...and General Motors- 24 - NATIONAL ACTION/RESEARCH on the MILITARY- research on military industrial complex, defense INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX (NARMIC) contractors, etc...
...1609 Connecticut Ave., N.W...
...20036 try...
...organizing at stockhold1609 Connecticut Ave., N.W...
...In several instances, unions in different countries have begun to coordinate their activities against the corporations -- as in the case of the International Federation of Chemical and General Workers' Unions, which created a permanent world council to "coordinate support and solidarity action" on behalf of workers striking against the Dunlop Pirelli rubber combine (New York Times, 23 June 1972...
...For the moment, we do not feel ready to write a detailed political analysis of the corporate challenge movement, so we're merely reprinting the Hernandez column...
...ment must not be overlooked...
...publish newsletter, Energy and Resource Control- 25 - HONEYWELL PROJECT research ad organizing against Honeywell, esp...
...Bb Hernandez is a econd-year law tIdent at Harvard...
...Our tactics have changed considerably since then, but our basic dilemma remains the same: how can we move beyond the antiwar movement, to mobilize and organize Americans against U.S...
...When the Allende government in Chile nationalized the holdings of Anaconda Copper in 1971, the workers in Anaconda's Wisconsin plants had to fight against being denied their wage raises...
...J Q- 21 - As a corollary of the above, those who organize and struggle against the multinational corporations must adopt a multinational focus...
...S. its war-related activities...
...Slightly more than three years ago, some of us marched through San Francisco's financial district, then demonstrated in the streets at the foot of the imposing Fairmont Hotel, picketing and shouting slogans...
...A prolonged strike by International Nickel's Canadian employees in 1969 was a crucial influence in the Company's negotiations for a S250 million investment in Guatemala, and thus affected the entire Guatemalan economy...
...f students push his Massar~ chusetts Public Interest Research r Group, he told them, there will be fifty job openings for graduating law students...
...As a power trip, it is a menace to us all...
...The forms of action have been varied...
...forced manageBoston, Massachusetts 02114 ment to respond publicly CORPORATE INTELLIGENCE ALLIANCE research and organizing against Chicago-based cor4652 North Kenmore porations, esp...
...Of course, we will welcome any additions to our list which you, the project participants, may know about...
...Congressional Committees (e.g., the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, which is beginning a year-long investigation of the multinational corporations...
...lems...
...These corporations do not map out their Latin American operations in a vacuum...
...Although he spoke of distribution of power, wealth and lawyers, he was clearly not speaking of a redistribution of wealth, of equality of all individuals, or of response to the specific needs of the most oppressed as defined by the most oppressed...
...East Palo Alto, California 94303 focus on electronics and war-related industries on San Francisco peninsula, esp...
...The plans of the parent company in the U.S...
...731 State Street article in Wisconsin Patriot, publication of the Madison, Wisconsin 53703 Wisconsin Alliance RESEARCH AND ANALYSIS GROUP research on Detroit-based auto industry, tied into Motor City Labor League plant organizing...
...anti-imperialism, etc...
...pollution prob1156 19 St., N.W...
...Finally, Naderism stands opposed to the countercuture...
...will work with Bendix employees and relevant labor unions...
...publishes anti-corpNew York, New York 10027 orate research in its bulletin, American Report NORTH AMERICAN CONGRESS ON LATIN AMERICA research on operations of U.S.-based multinational P.O...
...Naderism stifles creativity and sellassertion by providing easy compro mises between desire for power or financial security on the one hand and conscience on the other, ultimately ignoring that only selflessness and pure dedication to people can bring change...
...Clemens, Michigan 48043 INTERLINK P.O...
...What can be accomplished by anti-corporate organizing, and what are its inherent limitations...
...slide show on women and advertising COUNCIL FOR ECONOMIC PRIORITIES studies of: hiring of minorities and women...
...in order to put it in perspective, however, we are reprinting Bob Hernandez' critique of Naderism...
...Fourth...
...has Minneapolis, Minnesota 55404 published "A Practical Guide to the Honeywell Business World" POLAROID REVOLUTIONARY WORKERS MOVEMENT organizing (boycott, etc...
...The demonstration had been billed as one of our first "anti-imperialist" actions...
...Mark Green...
...529 Cedar Ave...
...In addition, we hoped to provide specific information to groups in struggle against those corporations, both in Latin America and in the U.S...
...third world area research groups (e.g., ARG, CAGLA), unless they also do specifically anti-corporate research...
...In order to inform and aid these constituencies, we must develop a more precise understanding of and information about corporate strategy...
...The occasion was the meeting of the International Industrial Conference (we called it the "Festival of the Thieves") -- a get-together of the world's 700 biggest industrialists and bankers, to plan their strategy for the next five years (behind the rhetorical veil of the official theme, "Closint the World's ncome Gap...
...sacrifice...
...Not bad, for protectIng the public interest, although for some there must be great persoral "It stifles creativity and self-assertion by providing easy compromises between desire for power and conscience...
...A few words of explanation will make clearer our purpose in publishing this list...
...For example, we have included the Nader group because of the scope and importance of its work...
...As a humanity trip, Naderism is fine...
...160 North 15th St...
...During the past year, the Yanqui Dollar pamphlet and the Yanqul Dollar project have reflected our attempts to contribute to the creation of such a movement...
...Third, he was clearly directing himself to the feelings of inadequacy suffered by most students, who have found law school to be oppressive...
...Nader's message was a political one...
...First, he Was advocating a corporate state...
...with salaries starting from 6,000 to $9,000...
...Washington D.C...
...aircraft % Steve Graham co...
...Finally, we saw Yanqui Dollar as an opportunity to organize our research around specific projects...
...In the future, however, we hope to write such an analysis, which will deal with such questions as: - What should be the demands (consumerism vs...
...20036 organizing and research on the Detroit-based auto industry research focus on Westinghouse Electric, and G.E...
...But the ' meek lawyers shall inherit the count try...
...The public interest system is to be a power base through which young, dedicated lawyers may combat and eventually control the corporate system Second, Nader was preaching a new elitism...
...Clearly we cannot and do not intend to provide here a comprehensive catalogue of all groups engaged in anti-corporate activity...
...We are beginning to work more closely with labor and community organizers, to use our information, skills, and resources to support their activities, as well as to build new constituencies through political education...
...But they must not lose sight of the dangers inherent in that movement or of the thin line between : service to people and service to selr...
...Kennecott, in Wisconsin, and in Chile...
...a new "find" in one colony might affect the lives of thousands in another...
...We cannot criticize, indeed we must encourage thoee who work for Nader because they feel strongly that change must come...
...We find these constituencies everywhere -- in universities, communities, churches, unions, consumer groups, and even at corporate stockholders' meetings...
...Louis, Missouri 63108 GULF OIL PROJECT focus on Gulf Oil, especially its operations in United Church of Christ Portuguese colonies in Africa Council for Christian Social Action 815 2nd Ave...
...have written a counter-annual report, Behind the Corporate Image: What G.E...
...Power and Land in California...
...i, mjri...
...In the Introduction to the pamphlet, we focused on the need for alternative sources of public information about the principal agents of imperialism, the multinational corporations, to counter the propaganda offensive by those corporations...
...ecurity, when It erects barriers between lawyers and other social groups, Is not good...
...20036 research on domestic and foreign operations of major oil and gas companies...
...especially its war- and military-related 5122 Waterman Blvd...
...His vision was very different and very disturbing for several reasons...
...505 Hammond, Indiana 46320 WISCONSIN PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP research and community organizing on copper com% Al Gedicks, CALA panies, esp...
...he played on genuine fears X of financial insecurity among the stui dents...
...publishes Corporate Examiner (monthly), dealing with such issues as military production, corporate responsibility, consumer and environmental issues, foreign operations of corporations, labor, minority policies, etc...
...Box 226 corporations in Latin America and in the U.S...
...This is a partial listing, which reflects (unavoidably) our particular political approach and interests...
...Nevertheless, we recognize that the political line between these categories is not clear, and we have made some exceptions...
...The types of issues being raised include (among others): environment, military and war-related production, foreign exploitation and investment in places like South Africa, minority and female hiring practices, minority and female participation on Boards, consumerism and health, and secrecy and failure to disclose information to the public...
...the replacement of one set of corporate barons by another instead of vesting economic power in all the people as a community is not good...
...are preparing an Energy Crisis action guide on electrical industry manufacturers, utility companies, and their relation to the public, to each other, and to the Federal regulatory agencies...
...One result of this process is the following list of anticorporate organizing and research groups in the U.S...
...Giant coal and steel companies have plundered Appalachia and rendered that region a colony no less than Venezuela...
...e.g., Honeywell) % A.F.S.C...
...during the past year, and our changing awareness about those conditions, have helped clarify those questions...
...the coal mining areas) McDONNELL PROJECT organizing at McDonnell Douglas Corp...
...Berkeley, California 94701 especially through Yanqui Dollar Project or P.O...
...close ties with 8015 3rd labor and other anti-corporate action groups Detroit, Michigan 48202 DETROIT ORGANIZING COMMITTEE % Jim Jacobs 219 South Gratiot Mt...
...No less important is our growing attempt to tailor our research priorities to the needs of anti-corporate organizers, both in the U.S...
...and other electrical utilities corporations...
...By sheer force of numbers, Nader, ites will govern political power...
...What should be our immediate, intermediate, and long-range objectives (public education vs...
...and we must recognize how particular corporations organize the daily lives and social relations of Latin and North Americans at the level of families, communities, nations, and social groups...
...Nevertheless, changing conditions within the U.S...
...Episcopal Church) Kennecott, American Metal Climax) 815 2nd Ave...
...It typifies the Consciousness II bureaucrat rather than the Consciousness II revolutionary...
...For these reasons, we have come to feel that part of our task, as coordinators of the Yanqui Dollar Project, is to provide information to proJect participants (and ourselves) about the types of anti-corporate research and organizing activity which already exist...
...Most of them have not made the law review, that "irrelevant" symbol of exclusiveness open only to Harvard's :L brightest Nader made clear that he r had not been on the review...
...Nader spoke of less hierarchical rather than nonhierarchical systems to replace the present power structure...
...and in Latin America, and our growing sensitivity to the particular events and struggles going on around us...
...20007 COUNCIL FOR CORPORATE REVIEW focus on military contracting related to air war 212 W. Franklin in Indochina: boycotts, organizing at stockholdMinneapolis, Minnesota 55404 ers' meetings against: Honeywell, ITT, FMC, Control Data, Sperry Rand, G.E., Standard Oil of N.J...
...New York, New York 10017 CENTER FOR NEW CORPORATE PRIORITIES Bank of America boycott and propaganda, and org304 South Ardmore anizing for stockholders' meeting...
...In this sense, "internationalism" has ceased to be an abstraction, and takes on concrete meaning for our work...
...activities St...
...What are the problems of cooptation in reformist or "corporate responsibility" movements such as Naderism...
...regulatory agencies...
...also working on: California Water Project and California Agribusiness BANK OF AMERICA BOYCOTT boycott against Bank of America, on issues of: Box 2933 war financing, agribusiness, pollution, minority San Francisco, California 94126 hiring AGRIBUSINESS ACCOUNTABILITY PROJECT research on agribusiness in California...
...20009 COMMITTEE ON SOCIAL CRITERIA FOR INVESTMENT focus on copper mining in Puerto Rico (esp...
...The new elite sat in the audience before him...
...also exploring the current energy shortage and the corporate "solution" focus on General Electric and its role in the multinational corporate system, especially its military involvement, racism and sexism in hiring, overseas export of American jobs, control in communities where it has factories, etc...
...CLERGY AND LAYMEN CONCERNED does work similar to (and together with) Council 475 Riverside Drive on Corporate Review (above...
...For a more comprehensive listing of groups, see: Corporate Information Center, Corporate Responsibility and Religious Institutions: Information and Action Papers (Corporate Information Center, % National Council of Churches, 475 Riverside Dr., New York, New York 10027...
...they include, for example: - counter annual reports (such as the one done by a Nader consultant on Continental Oil Co...
...We have excluded groups in the following categories: labor unions per se...
...against South Box 8487 African investment of Polaroid...
...456 Greenwich pollution control...
...ai O R1 The revolution works methodically (Karl Marx...
...For groups like NACLA and the Yanqui Dollar Project staff, the implications are equally clear...
...public accountability vs...
...groups concerned exclusively with ecology or consumer issues, and the "clean stock" movement...
...First, we have come to understand more clearly and precisely the meaning and implications of "multinational corporations...
...investment in Chile or any specific country remain useful, there is an increasing demand for studies of the domestic and overseas operations of particular corporations...
...pesticides...
...For the most part, we are focusing on groups that define themselves as anti-imperialist, or that are part of the anti-corporate or corporate challenge movement -- as opposed to groups interested in "corporate responsibility" or corporate reform...
...General Motors...
...airlines and aviation, civil aeronautics and in fluence of banks...
...ers' meetings) on issues of consumer and minority Washington D.C...
...Thus Naderism rejects those who would build a new value system in which people are members of a corn munity rather than slots in a social hierarchy...
...both shape and are shaped by their operations on several other continents...
...Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19102 NORTH AMERICAN ANTI-IMPERIALIST COALITION Committee of Returned Volunteers (CRV), which or2546 North Halsted ganized NAAIC, did case study f Gulf Oil (includChicago, Illinois 60614 ing suggestions for action...
...anti-personnel weapons (pubNew York, New York 10013 lished Efficiency in Death...
...What is most lacking In today's law students is a sense of self-confidence, a belief that in their own goodness they possess the answers and that they are individually capable of transforming their good sense into action...
...First National City Bank BRAIN MISTRUST anti-corporate radio programs and research Ann Arbor, Michigan (most of the research appeared in articles in (now defunct) American Report, published by Clergy and Laymen Concerned) PACIFIC RIM PROJECT research on U.S., Japanese, and European corporaBox 26415 tions in the Pacific region, focusing on such isSan Francisco, California 94126 sues as minerals and oil investment, runaway shops WOMEN'S RESEARCH PROJECT research on implications of multinational corporaBox 404-A, Yale Station tion strategy for women in the U.S...
...Only with such an understanding will organizers be able to develop an adequate counter-strategy...
...In short, corporations are replacing -- or at least supplementing -- nations as the basic units of study...
...This article la ' l.alted from the Harvard Law Record- 23 - NAME AND ADDRESS Selected Anti-Corporate Projects PROJECT CORPORATE INFORMATION CENTER x National Council of Churches 475 Riverside Dr., Rn...
...investment in South Africa INSTITUTE FOR SOUTHERN STUDIES research on military industrial complex and war88 Walton St., N.W...
...He spoke of lawyers throwing out corrupt governments, of individual sacrifice and of commitment to the public interest But he was not speaking of "power to the people...
...related industries in the South, such as: Lockheed, Atlanta, Georgia 30303 Coca Cola, and Gulf Oil IIOUNTAIN PEOPLE'S RIGHTS organizing against strip mining companies and other 10 College Lane coal companies in Appalachia Prestonsburg, Kentucky 41653 PEOPLE'S APPALACHIA RESEARCH COLLECTIVE publishes People's Appalachia regularly, which Route 3, Box 355B documents corporate imperialism in Appalachia Morgantown, West Virginia 26505 (esp...
...Dupont...
...also Dillingham Corp...
...503 Washington D.C...
...Over 500 law students gthered recently to hear Ralph Nader (class of '58) on a cold...
...While I respect Nader too much to believe that he is even remotely a conscious fascist, the fascistic overtones of his move...
...New York, New York 10017 ENERGY AND RESOURCES PROJECT % Institute for Policy Studies 1520 New Hampshire Ave., N.W...
...and third New Haven, Connecticut 06520 world...
...auto indusWashington, D.C...
...economic imperialism all over the world -- and ultimately against capitalism in the U.S...
...class of '70, who also spoke and who has been close to Nader for several years, recently blasted "legal yippies" in a piece for New York magazine...
...In many respects they still are...
...wet, snowy Saturday night...
...since many of his early raiders came from upper middle class backgrounds (one even became the President's son-in-law...
...A~~~~~~~~_ At the time, however, our ideas as o how to make our research relevant to existing and new constituencies were rather vague...
...On these questions, too, we hope you will share your ideas with us...
...The tone of Nader's message and the group to which it is directed brings historical example to mind...
...Hard Tomatoes, Hard Times Washington D.C...
...PROJECT % American Friends Service Committee 48 Inman Street Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139 BENDIX PROJECT Student Advisory Committee on International Affairs x Rick Cohen, Grif Lesher 1717 Massachusetts Ave., N.W., Rm...
...Moreover, there is great interest in such broader issues as runaway shops, the export of new forms of sexism by the corporations, etc...
...published Los Angeles, California 90020 pamphlet on B of A, "We Merely Make Loans...
...Box 57, Cathedral Station New York, New York 10025 PACIFIC STUDIES CENTER 1963 University Ave...
...Yanqui Dollar Project Staff: Susanne Jonas Bodenheimer, Fred Goff, Marc HeroldThe Lurking anger of Naderism By OB HERNANDEZ CAMBRIDGE, Mass...
...economic pressure on the corporations, etc...
...INVESTMENT IN action (particularly at stockholders' meetings) SOUTHERN AFRICA exposing operations of General Motors and Goodyear and in South Africa, and of Gulf Oil in Angola TASK FORCE ON SOUTHERN AFRICA OF THE UNITED PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, U.S.A...
Vol. 6 • November 1972 • No. 9


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Lake Rotorua is a crater lake that was subjected to volcanic eruptions 14 million years ago. It is 280 metres above sea level and 80 square kilometres in area. Take a boat trip on the lake, fishing for rainbow trout, or enjoy an early morning Lakeland Queen cruise and appreciate the setting while having a fabulous breakfast.


multi fields on one line, repeated 20 times?
trying to create a tournament roster. jersey#, name, date of birth, position fields on one line. repeated 20 times. each registered team has to submit 20 players. can't align without KEEPING fields in place. get four fields on one line than duplicate to repeat but repositions all fields randomly. help please.
Please use the functions Move to a New Line and Merge to Above Line to align your fields. It may take some work but it can definitely be done, like what I did in this clone of your form.
You will need to get the hang of it first before you'd be able to do it smoothly. Feel free to import that form to your account. Click here to learn how to that.
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Join this comprehensive group tour any day of the week and learn closer about the life of Pablo Escobar, his impact on the community, and the new version of a very resilient and improved Medellin. This tour will take you to the places where Pablo lived while narrating stories about the past and present of this beautiful city that was hurt in so many ways by the drug cartels. Make your own conclusions as you discover the new Medellin, which turned to be the most innovative city on earth after having been considered the most dangerous during the 80's.
Tour departs everyday at 10 AM from a central location in El Poblado, more specifically from Lleras Park where our office is located (Carrera 38 # 9A-26 Centro Ejecutivo Parque Lleras). You will see the white van with our logo standing right in front of our building. Tour starts with a stop at Monaco building where Pablo lived, can´t get in though because the building is falling apart. But is a good intro to the early days of Pablo to see how we fought the status quo by building his penthouse in one of the most elite suburbs. You are headed south towards the neighborhood where Pablo grew up, a humble community that once had the highest income per capita on earth when they became part of Pablo´s payroll.
Hear the most impressive anecdotes next at La Catedral, Pablo´s private prison, lush hillside to enjoy panoramic city views and to visualize how he decided to work with the Colombian government at one point. Tour leaves La Catedral as you are informed about Escobar´s escape and the upcoming pursuit that lasted 18 months until he finally got caught. At Los Olivos community, visit the block and the houses where Pablo got shot. Was it a suicide or what exactly happened? You will make your own conclusions after hearing your guide´s information.
Next, tour stops at the cemetery where Pablo rests along with his family members. Understand who was Pablo´s albite and who wasn´t. Take this opportunity to learn how Pablo got started by the black widow (Griselda Blanco), whose grave is located just steps from his. Finally, tour takes you to one of the humblest communities where you´ll realize how Medellin went from the most violent to the most innovative city in the world. At comuna 13 you will understand how Medellin has been so resilient by admiring the colorful street art and outstanding infrastructure such as the largest outdoor escalator in America. At the end, van goes back to the initial starting point.


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"Northern fried" chicken (" South-ern-fried in North Jersey," Benjamin explains with a smile) is moist and rich under crisp skin seasoned with Old Bay. The pieces are stacked over cinnamon-cap nameko mushrooms on a delectable Belgian waffle. Two sauces double your fun: A tangy maple-syrup gastrique drizzled over a thick chicken gravy spiked with Jack Daniels.


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Compositing Masterclass
by Christopher Kenworthy 16 Apr 2014
Lessons:18Length:2.3 hours
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2.1 Tracking Smoke Into a Shot
In this lesson, let's start looking at adding smoke to a shot, and getting it to blend naturally with the background footage.
1.Welcome
1 lesson, 02:01
Introduction to the Compositing Masterclass
2.Core Compositing Techniques
5 lessons, 40:11
Tracking Smoke Into a Shot
Blending and Masking
Corner Pinning
Tracking Planes to Cure Difficult Shots
The Art of Compositing
3.Creative Compositing
Tracking With Multiple Points
Adding 3D Shadows
Creating 3D Fog
Adding Sparks and Flashes To Video
Advanced Stabilization
4.Advanced Visual Effects Techniques
Seeing Through An Actor's Skin
Creating A Reflection
Manual Tracking
Animating Multiple Layers
Set Extension (Part 1)
5.Conclusion
Christopher Kenworthy
Christopher Kenworthy (born 1968) is an Australian writer and former film director. He is the author of two novels, The Winter Inside and The Quality of Light for Serpent's Tail, along with a short story collection, Will You Hold Me? and the chapbook Sullom Hill. His fiction has been widely praised by authors such as Michael Moorcock, and anthologised in books such as The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror. Born in Preston, England, he moved to Australia in 1997 and began a directing career which lasted until 2013. His Master Shots books are best-sellers for Michael Wiese Books. He is the director of The Sculptor. He won the Award For Directing (WA Screen Awards) in 2007. He directed many music videos, including Dreaming Light for Anathema (band).

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Having played around with a number of apps now, I've been surprised at how little thought is sometimes given to the monetization of an app in the Windows Store. My guess is that its because many developers focus so much on the implementation of the app's functionality that they don't necessarily leave time to think through business-related aspects like monetization. I would also guess that many developers don't even feel qualified to think about such things, and thus punt on the question.
With monetization, the Windows Dev Center does have a topic entitled Monetization and business models, that really lists the different options and links to some helpful details on them. What I want to do here in this next series of posts is add some thoughts to those pages. I'm not claiming to be an expert on these matters by any means, but there are some observations that I think can be helpful in your app efforts, many of which, are really about speaking to a customer's emotional reality rather than their rational mind, as purchasing decisions in the one or ten dollar range (as with most apps) is an emotional matter. I think this is something that most product marketers will tell you time an again.
Our first topic, then, is offering app trials and converting trials into full licenses.
The Windows Store, as you may have already seen, allows you to offer a "try-before-you-buy" license for paid apps (see How to create a trial version of your app). When you enable a trial (which can be time limited), the user will see a "Try" button alongside the "Buy" button on the app's page in the Store. Clearly, this gives potential customers a chance to really know what they're buying, and because the app knows it's running a trial license it can disable certain features and take opportunities to encourage the user to upgrade.
What's surprised me about a number of paid apps is that (a) they don't offer a trial at all, and (b) those that do offer a trial don't take opportunities to remind me to convert to a full paid version.
If you set a price for your paid app, always always offer a trial. Otherwise you're asking users to buy the app either on reputation or your product page alone. Perhaps if the app is famous you can skip the trial, but until then, this feature is, in my mind, essential.
Trials can be time-limited or feature-limited or both. Spend some time thinking about what your free/trial experience should be like. You want to give the user enough to really experience the app, but only enough to be a real teaser for buying the full app. Think of this like the movies. A feature-limited trial is like a movie trailer: you get a good taste, but not the full experience. Hopefully the trailer makes you hungry for the real thing! A time-limited trial, on the other hand, is like a movie rental: you get to enjoy the full thing for a time, after which you need to make a decision to own to continue the experience.
Trials are different from demo apps–I'll talk about those in another post.
The Store tracks time-limited trials by date, but you can certainly implement a time-of-use limit in the app itself, like games that allow 60 minutes of play time or such. This can be an effective way to focus the user's attention on the need to decide whether to buy.
Trials should remind the user–often, but not obnoxiously so–that they are running a trial. Think through every opportunity to remind the user of the features they're missing, how much time they have left to enjoy the app, and the benefits of buying ('ve been surprised how many trial apps never remind me at all!). Put yourself in the customer's place, of course, to you communicate to their needs and sensibilities and not yours as the developer.
With reminders, I think it's effective to use them to disrupt the flow of the app in key places (especially launching). You want the reminders to be just annoying enough that the user will want to get rid of them. In movie trailers, you build up energy but then leave the audience hanging, wanting to know the answer or the resolution. You can take the same approach here: let the user go through most of the experience of an app, but then break that flow near its climax with a little reminder. Again, play to the user's emotions, because app purchasing is generally an emotional decision.
If the user runs the app after it's expired, don't just say "the app is expired" but remind them what they're missing and remind them of any state or history they've built up in the app. For example, a note-taking app can say "You've written down 150 notes and reminders–upgrade now to keep them" or "You're only 200 points away from <some achievement>. Upgrade now to earn your next award!" In other words, remind the user of the key experiences or connections they might have had with the app (emotional) rather than the mere fact of an expired trial (rational).
Do you have other ideas? Please share them in the comments!


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import { inject, computedFrom, NewInstance } from 'aurelia-framework';
import { PartnerService } from 'services/partner-service';
import { Partner } from '../../models/partner';
import { ValidationController } from 'aurelia-validation';
import { SecurityService } from 'services/security-service';
import _ from 'lodash';
import { AppRouter } from 'aurelia-router';

@inject(PartnerService, NewInstance.of(ValidationController), SecurityService, AppRouter)

export class EditPartner {

    selectedPartner;
    selectedAs2;
    selectedAs4;
    selectedContact;
    contactType = [0,1,2];
    editContactVisibility;
    partnerMatcher = (a, b) => a.idRelatedPartner === b.idRelatedPartner;

    /**
    * Creates a new instance of the Activity ViewModel.
    * @param {PartnerService} partnerService - the partner service.
    * @param {ValidationController} validationController - the controller who insure the validation rules on the models.
    * @param {SecurityService} securityService - the security service.
    * @param {Router} router - the aurelia router to allow redirection to other pages.
    * @return {EditPartner} The ViewModel
    */
    constructor(partnerService, validationController, securityService, router) {
        this.partnerService = partnerService;
        this.validationController = validationController;
        this.securityService = securityService;
        this.router = router;
    }

    /**
    * Calls the ViewModel loading logic.
    * @return {Promise}
        */
    activate(params) {
        return this.securityService.auth()
                .then(accessToken => this.partnerService.getPartnerById(params.id)
                .then(result => this.setPartner(result))
                .then(accessToken => this.partnerService.getUserRole(accessToken)
                .then(result => this.setUserRoles(result)))
                .then(accessToken => this.partnerService.getAllPartners()
                .then(result => this.setRelatedPartners(result, this.selectedPartner.idPartner))));
    }

    /**
    * @function {setPartner}
    * @param {Partner} selectedPartner - the selected partner containning the informations to update.
    * @return {Partner} {return all the informations needed by the user}
    */
    setPartner(selectedPartner) {
        this.selectedPartner = selectedPartner;
        this.selectedPartners = selectedPartner.partners.map(p=> ({
                  idPartner: selectedPartner.idPartner,
                  name: p.name,
                  idRelatedPartner: p.idPartner
          }));
        this.selectedAs2 = this.selectedPartner.as2[0];
        this.selectedAs4 = this.selectedPartner.as4[0];
        this.selectedContact = this.selectedPartner.contacts[0];
    }

    /**
    * @function {setRelatedPartners}
    * @param {List<Partner>} partners - all the partners present in the database.
    * @param {int} idPartner - all the partners present in the database.
    * @return {Partner} {Set a related partner containing his name, id, and the other partner he is related too}
    */
    setRelatedPartners(partners, idPartner) {
        partners = _.remove(partners, item => item.name !== this.selectedPartner.name);
        this.relatedPartners = partners.map(p => ({
                idPartner: idPartner,
                name: p.name,
                idRelatedPartner: p.idPartner
        }));
    }

    setUserRoles(userRoles) {
        this.userRoles = userRoles;
        this.setContactVisibility();
    }

    /**
    * @function {editPartner, editAndNotifyPartner}
    * @return {router.navigate} {Call the partnerService to update
        the partner and all his information, or update the partner
        and notify all the other partner about the modification}
    */
    editPartner() {
        this.selectedAs2.idPartner = this.selectedPartner.idPartner;
        this.selectedAs4.idPartner = this.selectedPartner.idPartner;
        this.selectedPartner.partnerRelations = this.selectedPartners;
            if (this.selectedContact != null) {
                this.selectedContact.idPartner = this.selectedPartner.idPartner;
            }
        this.validationController.validate()
            .then(result => {
                if (result.valid) {
                    this.securityService.auth()
                                .then(accessToken => this.partnerService.putPartner(this.selectedPartner, accessToken));
                    return this.router.navigate(`user/detailpartner/${this.selectedPartner.idPartner}`)
                };
            })
    }

    editAndNotifyPartner() {
        this.selectedAs2.idPartner = this.selectedPartner.idPartner;
        this.selectedAs4.idPartner = this.selectedPartner.idPartner;
        this.selectedPartner.partnerRelations = this.selectedPartners;
            if (this.selectedContact != null) {
                this.selectedContact.idPartner = this.selectedPartner.idPartner;
            }
        this.validationController.validate()
            .then(result => {
                if (result.valid) {
                    this.securityService.auth()
                                .then(accessToken => this.partnerService.putAndNotifyPartner(this.selectedPartner, accessToken));
                    return this.router.navigate(`user/detailpartner/${this.selectedPartner.idPartner}`)
                };
            })
    }

    /**
    * @function {createContact}
    * @return {Call the model to create a contact and then call the partner service to post it in the database}
    */
    createContact() {
        return this.securityService.auth()
                    .then(accessToken => this.partnerService.postContact(this.selectedPartner.createContact(), accessToken)
                        .then(() => this.partnerService.getPartnerById(this.selectedPartner.idPartner, accessToken))
                        .then(result => this.setPartner(result)))
                        .then(() => this.selectedContact = _.last(this.selectedPartner.contacts));
    }

    /**
    * @function {selectContact}
    * @param {Contact} contact - The selected contact in the view.
    * @return {bool} {Select the contact dynamically}
    */
    selectContact(contact) {
        this.selectedContact = contact;
        return true;
    }

    /**
    * @function {deleteContact}
    * @param {Contact} contact - The selected contact in the view.
    * @return {Delete a contact (only administrator contact)}
    */
    deleteContact(contact) {
        return this.securityService.auth()
                        .then(accessToken => this.partnerService.deleteContact(contact.idContact, accessToken)
                        .then(() => this.partnerService.getPartnerById(contact.idPartner, accessToken))
                        .then(result => this.setPartner(result)));
    }

    /**
    * @function {setContactVisibility}
    * @return {type} {Only the administrator contact can modify all the contacts}
    */
    setContactVisibility() {
        this.selectedPartner.contacts.forEach(contact => {
            if (contact.mailAdress == this.securityService.user.displayableId && contact.type == 2) {
                   this.editContactVisibility = true;
            }
        });

        //if user is Global administrator
        this.userRoles.forEach(userRole => {
            if (userRole.mailAdress == this.securityService.user.displayableId && userRole.role.name == "Administrator") { // looking for IdentityProvider
                this.editContactVisibility = true;
            }
        });
    }

    /**
    * @function {createTestAs2, createProdAs2}
    * @return {type} {Call the model and then te partner service to create and post the As2 sheet}
    */
    createTestAs2() {
        return this.securityService.auth()
            .then(accessToken => this.partnerService.postAs2(this.selectedPartner.createTestAs2(), accessToken)
                        .then(() => this.partnerService.getPartnerById(this.selectedPartner.idPartner, accessToken))
                        .then(result => this.setPartner(result)))
                        .then(() => this.selectedAs2 = _.last(this.selectedPartner.as2));
    }

    createProdAs2() {
        return this.securityService.auth()
            .then(accessToken => this.partnerService.postAs2(this.selectedPartner.createProdAs2(), accessToken)
                        .then(() => this.partnerService.getPartnerById(this.selectedPartner.idPartner, accessToken))
                        .then(result => this.setPartner(result)))
                        .then(() => this.selectedAs2 = _.last(this.selectedPartner.as2));
    }

    /**
    * @function {selectAs2}
    * @param  {AS2} as2 - The selected As2 in the view.
    */
    selectAs2(as2) {
        this.selectedAs2 = as2;
    }

    /**
    * @function {deleteAs2}
    * @param  {type} as2 - The selected As2 in the view.
    * @return {Partner} {To reset the partner after deleting it}
    */
    deleteAs2(as2) {
        return this.securityService.auth()
                        .then(accessToken => this.partnerService.deleteAs2(as2.idAs2, accessToken)
                        .then(() => this.partnerService.getPartnerById(as2.idPartner, accessToken))
                        .then(result => this.setPartner(result)));
    }

    /**
    * @function {createTestAs4, createProdAs4}
    * @return {type} {Call the model and then te partner service to create and post the As4 sheet}
    */
    createTestAs4() {
        return this.securityService.auth()
            .then(accessToken => this.partnerService.postAs4(this.selectedPartner.createTestAs4(), accessToken)
                        .then(() => this.partnerService.getPartnerById(this.selectedPartner.idPartner, accessToken))
                        .then(result => this.setPartner(result)))
                        .then(() => this.selectedAs4 = _.last(this.selectedPartner.as4));
    }

    createProdAs4() {
        return this.securityService.auth()
            .then(accessToken => this.partnerService.postAs4(this.selectedPartner.createProdAs4(), accessToken)
                        .then(() => this.partnerService.getPartnerById(this.selectedPartner.idPartner, accessToken))
                        .then(result => this.setPartner(result)))
                        .then(() => this.selectedAs4 = _.last(this.selectedPartner.as4));
    }

    /**
    * @function {selectAs4}
    * @param  {AS4} as4 - The selected As4 in the view.
    */
    selectAs4(as4) {
        this.selectedAs4 = as4;
    }

    /**
    * @function {deleteAs4}
    * @param  {type} as4 - The selected As4 in the view.
    * @return {Partner} {To reset the partner after deleting it}
    */
    deleteAs4(as4) {
        return this.securityService.auth()
                        .then(accessToken => this.partnerService.deleteAs4(as4.idAs4, accessToken)
                        .then(() => this.partnerService.getPartnerById(as4.idPartner, accessToken))
                        .then(result => this.setPartner(result)));
    }
}

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text:
Selling Shareholders' $900 Million Fraud Claim Dismissed for Failing to Investigate
A few months ago, the Court of Appeals highlighted the pitfall of a not uncommon scenario, that of experienced and sophisticated business people relying on the representations of others but which are later found to be less than truthful. In Centro Empresarial Cempresa S.A. v. America Movil, S.A.B. de C.V., the court dismissed the fraud claims of former shareholders of a Latin American mobile telephone company because those shareholders ignored obvious concerns that arose in the course of the sale of their shares that should have put them on notice of potential problems. Not only were those issues not addressed, but those shareholders released the company and remaining shareholders from liability in connection with the sale. The outcome of this case underlines the fact that experienced and sophisticated parties must do their own due diligence no matter what they are told.
The facts are somewhat complicated but can be summarized as follows: Plaintiffs held a majority interest in an Ecuadorian company which sought funding from a Mexican company, Telemex Mexico, controlled by billionaire Carlos Slim. The funding was provided and a new entity was formed which was owned by the plaintiffs and Telemex. The parties agreed that in the event that there were additional transfers to different entities, plaintiffs could swap their interest from the old entity to the new entity on terms to be agreed. Following a subsequent transfer, plaintiffs tried to negotiate the terms for the transfer of their ownership interest into the new entity. Encountering resistance from Telemex, plaintiffs opted to just sell their interest outright and did not receive any interest in the new entity.
Eight years later, plaintiffs sued claiming to have been defrauded. Plaintiffs claimed that they were given incomplete and bogus information of the new entity's value. Had they known the true state of affairs, they alleged, they would have forced a transfer or sold their interests at a far higher price. Under the agreement by which plaintiffs sold their interests, they agreed to release the other shareholders and the new entity from any claims in connection with the agreement. The remaining shareholders and their entities also provided plaintiff with no warranties related to the business' state of affairs.
In dismissing plaintiffs' claims, the Court of Appeals faulted the plaintiffs for agreeing to broad release language while not pursuing the information they acknowledged not receiving. The court refused to give any credence to the plaintiff' arguments that they were mislead and could not have known the true value of what they gave up. The court determined that plaintiffs were sophisticated entities engaged in complex businesses and transactions who made conscious decisions not to investigate the information they were provided. That plaintiffs were aware that they were given incomplete information from a partner they no longer trusted further highlighted the need for plaintiffs to undertake their own due diligence, which they did not do. Only if the release was itself procured by some fraud would plaintiffs be able to proceed, and that was something that the plaintiffs could not establish.
Not long ago, we successfully represented a company in defending against the claims of a shareholder who alleged similar claims. The issues are always complex and a thorough investigation of the underlying facts and arguments must be examined prior to deciding on a litigation process.
Posted in: Contract/Corporate and Litigation


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Santa Caterina and her Violetta
"Every disease is a musical problem; every cure is a musical solution."--Novalis
Santa Caterina de Vigri and her Violetta
In the Church of Corpus Domini, Bologna, Santa Caterina de Vigri sits upright on view, her flesh-color ranging from a brick-red to black and still cleaving to her bones though she died in 1463. She is the only such saint to sit upright, and her shrine miraculously survived the same bombing raids of 1943 which destroyed all the surrounding decorations and building. Next to her sits her violetta, created by Andrea Amati (1413-63), which is the oldest known surviving stringed instrument. So, the saint, uncorrupted, and her instrument, also able to out-survive its contemporaries.
According to Marina Warner, in her well-packed and fascinating book Phantasmagoria, "The word 'galvanize' has at least two meanings: applied to metals, it means coating iron or steel with zinc through an electrolytic process in order to protect it from corrosion [italics mine]; figuratively, it means something closer to [Luigi] Galvani's work, the revitalization of a moribund or torpid organism: 'I was galvanized into action.'" These two meanings, both relating quite well to the hope presented by the incorrupt body of a saint that waits its resurrection with its bones still holding it together, and also both relating to her violetta in a manner we will attend to momentarily, are especially interesting here because Mr. Luigi Galvani himself is entombed right across the nave from her.
Luigi Galvani (1737-98) was a physiologist and professor of medicine, the one who first introduced an electric shock into a frog's corpse and beheld that it caused the animal to kick its legs. This opened up a variety of excited questions about a possibly attainable source of life-force, leading to all sorts of other experiments, and tales like Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. Luigi's nephew, Giovanni Aldini, tried this same electrification on human corpses, bringing their limbs to jump and their faces to become quite expressive, and then moved the process to the living via the mentally-ill, thus beginning electroshock therapy in an attempt to bring life back to a frozen (terrified, confused, overwhelmed) mind.
Christopher Turner gives a fantastic description of the famous hypnotist Franz Mesmer's 'galvanizing' use of electricity in the Spring 2006 Issue of Cabinet Magazine:
"In a medical museum in Lyon there is a strange tub-like object constructed of oak and decorated with lengths of ornately woven rope. About six inches in from the rim, eight evenly spaced iron rods sprout up from a highly polished lid. In the eighteenth century, a group of patients would sit or stand around this device in such a way as to press the afflicted areas of their bodies against these moveable metal wishbones and, bound to the instrument by the ropes, would link fingers to complete an "electric" circuit. The atmosphere in which these sessions took place was heavy with incense and séance-like; the music of a glass harmonica (invented by Benjamin Franklin) provided a haunting soundtrack, and thick drapes, mirrors, and astrological symbols decorated the opulent, half-lit room.
Franz Anton Mesmer, the legendary Viennese healer, hypnotist, and showman, would enter this baroque salon of his own invention wearing flamboyant gold slippers and a lilac silk robe. He would prowl around the expectant, highly charged circle, sending clients into trances with his enthralling brown-eyed stare. By slowly passing his hands over patients' bodies, or with a simple flick of his magnetized wand, Mesmer would provoke screams, fits of contagious hysterical laughter, vomiting, and dramatic convulsions. These effects were considered cathartic and curative. When a patient's seizures became so exaggerated as to be dangerous or disruptive, Mesmer's valet, Antoine, would carry him or her to the sanctuary of a mattress-lined "crisis room" where the screams would be muffled.
The baquet, as Mesmer named his vessel, parodied the contemporary craze for medical electricity. Pharmacists and apothecaries frequently prescribed shock treatment, especially in attempts to cure paralysis, and often exposed the sick to a more general "electrical aura" as a healing agent. Benjamin Franklin, then American ambassador to France, was fond of demonstrating the power that could be harnessed in a Leyden jar, the prototype of the modern battery, by using one to send a bolt of electricity through a chain of people. (One medical electrician claimed not only to have shot a charge through 150 guardsmen, but to have made a kilometer-long line of monks simultaneously jump into the air.)"
Mesmer's baquet was much like Franklin's battery, a huge reservoir to take in and save Mesmer's own magnetic-electric inner fire and spread it amongst the members of his rather large groups of patients, all at once.
"In England, such [medical] applications were encouraged by Newton's suggestions, thrown out in a number of queries at the end of the 1713 edition of his Optics, that the animal spirits or nervous fluid which communicated impulses from the brain to the muscles might be related to a subtle ethereal or electrical fluid that constituted a kind of universal medium in the universe. Hints such as these, combined with the strong inherited tendency to think of electricity as a vapor or effluvium, made it easy to see electricity as a mediator between microcosm and macrocosm, and as the principle of life itself. In America, where electrotherapies formed a strong field of what has been called "electrical humanitarianism," Dr. T. Gale wrote in his Electricity, Or Etherial Fire, Considered (1802) that electricity was a kind of universal atmosphere, which all living creatures inhabited and respired." --Steven Connor
Now, it is still true that we use electric paddles to try to revive a (very recently deceased) corpse even today, and very often with success. The question is mainly how to navigate that shadowy, sometimes grisly space between life-saving techniques and Frankenstein, while also somehow sidestepping the messier areas of mass-hysteria and public fainting-spells. But inside that space is a fascinating realm involving the electric impulses that communicate information between synapses in your brain and, again, music. Oliver Sacks thoroughly explores this realm in his book Musicophilia.
He describes, for example, a man who discovered his first interest and immense talent in his late forties, directly after being struck by lightning. But there are less far-flung examples of the intense connection between electricity, life, and music in the stories of some epileptic patients:
-"Jon S., a robust man of forty-five, had been in perfect health until January of 2006. His working week had just started; he was in the office on a Monday morning, and went to get something from the closet. Once he entered the closet, he suddenly heard music--'classical, melodic, quite nice, soothing...vaguely familiar...It was a string instrument, a solo violin.'
He immediately thought, 'Where the hell is that music coming from?' There was an old, discarded electronic device in the closet, but this, though it had knobs, had no speakers. Confusedly, in a state of what he later called 'suspended animation,' he groped for the controls of the device to turn the music off. 'Then,' he says, 'I went out.' A colleague in the office who saw all this described Mr. S. as 'slumped over, unresponsive,' in the closet, though not convulsing.
Mr.S's next memory was of an emergency medical technician leaning over him, questioning him."
Sacks asked him about this music, but he could not sing it himself and didn't know what it was, though he felt it familiar.
"I told him that if he ever did hear this music--on the radio, perhaps--he should note what it was and let me know. Mr. S. Said that he would keep his ears open, but as we talked about it, he could not help wondering whether there was just a feeling, perhaps an illusion, of familiarity attached to the music, rather than an actual recollection of something he had once heard. There was something evocative about it, but elusive, like the music heard in dreams."
And then, as I was saving the information I'm working on about the saint, I came across the quote from Hugh Jackson via Oliver Sacks about a 'doubling of consciousness' that occurs during the seizures such as the one her violin is creating. What was once her and some paper dolls is now her and dancers--real, alive--, her as part of the show, the musician for the dancers, the one giving them their rhythm, storyline, electricity. She is part of something, something that matters. That's the other consciousness, the one outside of the four sides of her box.
So, electricity is everywhere. Trees make a little bit, running it through their bark. Your heart works via electricity it generates from potassium, sodium and calcium. Communication is run between the synapses in your brain via electricity. There's of course lightning. And humans are making more and more electricity even outside of their bodies using a variety of tools. And all of this has a music to it.
Christina Kubisch is an artist who explores this connection between electricity and music from a completely different direction than Galvani, Sacks, Shelley, or even Santa Caterina. She has had a certain type of headphones created which a user takes along with a map of an area (meant only as an inspiration and a guide, but in no way a limiting force) in order to hear the music created by all the electric fields surrounding us every day. She explained how she taps into these 'Invisible Cities' of sound in an interview with Cabinet Magazine:
"--How do the headphones actually work?
--Every current in an electrical conductor—for example a wire or a cable—generates an electromagnetic field. These currents can be "musical," like the signals running through loudspeaker cables; or they can come from electrical activity in the infrastructures of buildings or cities. The magnetic component of these fields is picked up by the sensor coils in the headphones. And, after amplification, these signals are made audible by the little speaker systems in the headphones. So if there's an electromagnetic field (say, an underground cable) and another one nearby (say, the headphones), the fields pick up each other. The sound jumps through the air from one to the other."
"--I'm struck by the similarity between some of these sounds and minimalist techno: PanSonic or Alva Noto, for example.
--Yes. There are some sounds that, when I listen to them for half an hour, sound to me like LaMonte Young. The tram in Bratislava, for example, is almost like a choir: a chord, three sounds together that are changing, but each at a different level... Subways, buses, and trains are especially musical, maybe because they depend upon a constant flow of electricity. There's a wonderful subway in China that sounds to me like electronic music of the 70s... Airplanes, though, sound really ugly: very high, thin, and noisy."
This summer I put on my headphones during a very strong thunderstorm. There was no electricity, because all the power had gone out. But, when I recorded, I got the sounds of natural electricity, which was wonderful. The recording is so strange: very low, but very clear... At two points, you hear voices. You can't understand the words, but you can tell that they are voices. I knew that electricity could transport voices, but I had never heard it before. It's quite breathtaking when you hear things like that. This is nature, too—electrical nature!"
Somehow, electricity is there in the force of life, and somehow, music is involved. Think about shamanic, hypnotic drumming, about the heights of ecstasy some reach at jam sessions of their favorite bands--such heights that they are willing to drop everything and follow the band around. Think about the chanters in ancient masses, about techno-music, about binaural beats. And that makes the quote at the top of the post make more sense: problems occur when the rhythm of your life gets out of whack--somehow, the vibrations are off, the energy isn't there, the organs falter and the synapses sleep late because the alarm never went off.
In an interview with Steve Silberman of Wired Magazine about the studies that went into Musicophilia, Oliver Sacks stated : "The therapeutic power of music hit me dramatically in 1966, when I started working with the Awakenings patients at Beth Abraham in the Bronx. I saw post-encephalitics who seemed frozen, transfixed, unable to take a step. But with music to give them a flow, they could sing, dance, and be active again. For Parkinsonian patients, the ability to perform actions in sequence is impaired. They need temporal structure and organization, and the rhythm of music can be crucial. For people with Alzheimer's, music incites recall, bringing the past back like nothing else."
There it is again, that image of re-infusing a corpse with life, and this time the electricity is created with music--its flow (like electricity) and its rhythmic pulse. It is the first step those post-encephalitics were unable to take; once the music gave them that first step and a current to follow, they were able to ride it.
There was another thought I was chewing on here, with the saint and her violin:
There is a difference between skill and possession. And what you want (even, I would argue, as a doctor) is possession, because if a person is ill, it is from not following the logic (rites, rituals, rules, rhythms) of the reigning forces or melodies ('gods') of existence. Only that force understands its own logic, or those in choreography with it. And everything you see is a symbolic aspect of that logic (recall the post on Eidetic Images), including illness. Music historically has much to do with trance, both as a result of possession or not. That trance is the opportunity for something higher and more general than your ego to take over your body. That is the electricity created. In the painting above, St. Catherine is possessed. She is an electric force, radiating. And she is bringing that electricity into the forms, making them alive through her music, infusing the air and their limbs with the tango of their love, that "fire that consumes without leaving ashes" (Vannoccio Biringuccio, 1540).
[Please note: the skirt was inspired by the one worn by the model in this Ryan Muirhead photo. The idea of a chaotic waters filled with spirits that she brought to the surface and to life appealed to me.]
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Labels: Christina Kubisch, Christopher Turner, Eidetic Image, electricity, maquettes, Marina Warner, music, musicophilia, oliver sacks, original art work, phantasmagoria, saint catherine, santa caterina, zoe jordan


Zero Dark Thirty, regardless of its quality, was going to be greeted with multiple awards nominations. It had a great cast headlined by the underappreciated Jessica Chastain, a director perhaps most famous for her Oscar win for 2008's The Hurt Locker and it's about a recent true story, a pivotal moment in our nation's history when we took out the man who harmed us on 9/11, Osama Bin Laden. Awards voters and movie critics eat things like that up, but like many of this year's movies, Zero Dark Thirty fails to resonate. It's too long to thrill, too dry to grab attention and it's practically emotionless, aside from one final scene that doesn't fit in with what is essentially a clinical procedural of the events that led to Bin Laden's death. From the first torture scene where a tiny bit of information is gathered to the final confrontation, Zero Dark Thirty is strict in its structure. The events as played out in the film are still fascinating as we watch that tiny bit of information snowball into something bigger and bigger, but it doesn't hit any profound sentiment like The Hurt Locker did, or even take sides on the bigger issues as a whole. It simply moves along, showing you how the events (likely) played out and then it ends and you're no better or worse for it.
Still, as far as emotionally empty and narratively bland procedurals go, Zero Dark Thirty is as good as they come and, in a way, the fact that it doesn't take sides on key issues like torture works to its advantage. Although I've heard arguments from both sides, some even going so far as to say the film actually promotes torture (a somewhat reasonable conclusion to make given that the excessive and humiliating torture that poor man receives at the beginning of the movie eventually leads to a successful mission of killing Bin Laden), it's fairly neutral. For example, it doesn't treat torture as something evil or good, but rather simply as something that was used by our government to extract information. It shows it because it happened, not because it's trying to make a statement on it.
But then again, that's why Zero Dark Thirty comes off so much like a procedural. It rarely, if ever, has anything to say regarding, well, anything. It doesn't touch on the fear that gripped our nation after the attacks. It ignores the high running emotions that led us to war in the first place. It doesn't talk about the effects this dangerous search had on those running it. Although I'm sure the plans were carried out with a high degree of professionalism in the real world, emotional ambiguity doesn't make for a very good movie. The Hurt Locker, for instance, was about the effects of war on the soldiers who fight it. It was about their trauma, their fear and even their familiarity with it, to the point where some felt more comfortable with a gun overseas than in a time of peace on their homeland. Zero Dark Thirty has none of that.
If it's about anything, it's about obsession, the need to right the wrong. Chastain, playing Maya, the woman in relentless pursuit of the man who spilled innocent American blood, is fantastic in the role and manages to pull off some tense dialogue driven scenes that ramp up her character's emotions, even if ours remain distant. Where Zero Dark Thirty works, though, despite Chastain's excellent performance, isn't in the character arcs, but rather in the narrative trajectory that begins with that aforementioned interrogation of a low level Al Qaeda subordinate and ends with a spellbinding interpretation of the Navy SEALs operation that took Bin Laden out.
Regardless of its procedural approach, it works because it's not exploitative. It doesn't show behind-the-scenes "what ifs" of what Bin Laden may have been doing. Similarly, not once does the film feel like a piece of propaganda the way this year's Act of Valor did. It's not trying to get anyone to join the armed forces or even make you feel a certain way. It's simply showing you something that happened and you take it as it is. The strength of such conviction is evident, but then again, so is the weakness. For a movie that dramatizes the death of an undeniably evil man who killed innocent people, leading to one of the very few times everybody in America stood together as one, there needed to be more of an audience connection. The emotion, both onscreen and within ourselves, should have resonated, but instead you leave the movie with an empty feeling, knowing full well the movie you saw was good, but wanting something more. Zero Dark Thirty is bound to win Best Picture at this year's Oscars and though I will certainly defend it as a good movie, I'll argue against that inevitable decision.


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With over 25 years of professional experience, our experts are extremely knowledgeable about what we do. Whether you are planning to build an office, workshop, tool shed, or a combination of these things, we know just the right materials and designs to create exactly what you are looking for. We manage all aspects of the construction process and are here to help you every step of the way.
All of our metal pole barn shops are professionally lined and insulated, providing you with top-notch quality and utmost comfort. We only use the best insulation on the market for our post frame buildings. One type of insulation that we use, TextraFine, is resistant to moisture, mold, and mildew and will prevent corrosion and rust. It also expands after it is put in, which fills in all the gaps and makes your building perfectly insulated, allowing your workspace to be comfortable through the heat of the summer and the cold of winter. Your shop is such an important aspect of your lifestyle and livelihood, and you shouldn't be prevented from working because of the extreme weather that Illinois and Iowa can bring.
We offer multiple products and additions to choose from in order to custom design your shop. Select from a variety of doors such as walk doors, overhead doors, bi-fold doors, hydraulic doors, and slider doors, as well as other additions such as metal roofing, concrete flooring, and waterproofing.
Your satisfaction is our greatest concern, and we want to work with you to create a space that will allow you to love your job even more. We can create your shop to be a simple storage unit for your equipment, or make it a practical living space complete with an office, equipment wall, workspace, storage, restroom, kitchen, lounge area, and loft. Turn your dreams into our next project!


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Q: Proteger código-fonte ASP.NET (aspx) Estou com uma dúvida referente ao ASP.NET:
No caso do PHP ao ser colocado uma aplicação no servidor significa colocar o código fonte do mesmo. Ao caso do ASP.NET, (especificamente C# com páginas em .aspx), existe alguma forma de utilização sem a exposição do código fonte?
Se a aplicação ser somente em C# é possível gerar o executável, mas ao caso do ASP.NET, é possível separar a aplicação funcionando (no cliente, suponhamos) do código fonte?

A: Para hospedar uma aplicação ASP.NET você deve publicá-la primeiro. Durante a publicação o código fonte é compilado e os arquivos .cs transformados em DLL's. Por isso, o código fonte não fica exposto como em PHP.
Dê uma olhada como realizar uma publicação aqui.

A: Seu código fonte está em arquivo separado .cs (Code behind) ou está embutido no Aspx ? Em todo caso, como já foi falado, o VisualStudio gera uma DLL por página .aspx, portando seu código fonte está supostamente seguro.
Eu digo supostamente porque é possível descompilar o bytecode da DLL para gerar códio fonte em C#, VB.Net etc
Se você precisa de um nível a mais de segurança, procure soluções de embaralhamento de dll .Net
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_obfuscators_for_.NET

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Hi everybody! Today I'm sharing a casual, every day outfit featuring my Banana Republic faux fur vest. I LOVE this vest because it can be worn so many different ways (and now I'm thinking I should have done a 3 looks 1 vest post—perhaps another time)! You can mix and match this vest with any neutral color and it would look great. It's warm, stylish, and a great look for these cold winter days Philly's been having. I always love adding neutral staples to my fall/winter wardrobe and this one was a must-have!
Meri: Your outfits are true classics. They are CHIC with a little DAZZLE. LOVE THOSE BOOTS GIRL. When are you going to wear them to work?
thank you Lori!! I don't want to be too flashy with my boots at work lol!!


facebook launched its send button on Monday which replaces the Email to a Friends button.Facebook just want to improve their group functionality .
Send button is just like a like button in look .When someone click on send button a pop up window open and user can add text in the dialog box as same as in like button.
Send button created for the benefit of the user .Now he/she can easily share their thought from anywhere.
Shares count toward the total number of Likes a page has. The Like total is now calculated by adding the number of Likes, shares, comments and inbox messages containing a URL.
More than 50 websites launches this Send Button which includes 1800flower.com,the wall street journal,people.com, the Huffington post.
The new send button is also available on on facebook developer website .The new send button will take a few lines code to add with like button..
the send button is designed to share the content privately rather public.


Looking to make a deal – and break some bread? Here, Vancouver's best places for a power lunch.
Whether or not you're hedging against the Yuan, head to the city's premier Cantonese restaurant, which has been serving the business elite for more than two decades. Tables in the elegant dining room are well-spaced out, but for those wanting more privacy there are also VIP rooms. 355 Burrard St., 604-688-8191.
Looking to loosen up a tense deal? Nothing a bottle of Barolo can't handle. Grab a corner table at this charming, comfortable Tuscan restaurant, order some delicious food – and wine –? and your guests will soon be at ease. 1382 Hornby St., 604-669-2422.
Meet media types for casual conversation in this sophisticated Crosstown café. If you linger over a late lunch, the small space will clear out, allowing for intimate dealings over rosewater mochas or Belgian brews. 556 Beatty St., 604-879-3114.
Set the right tone for your meeting by reserving a spot in one of four dining areas at this luxury lunch spot: go casual in the intimate café, daring on the heated terrace, laidback at the bar or all business in the dining room. 1128 West Georgia St., 604-695-1115.
Dining with discerning Bay Street businessmen? Impress them with a fresh West Coast meal in the soaring, sleek new space that houses Coast. Be prepared to pick up a very pricey tab. 1054 Alberni St., 604-685-5010.


The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas is brilliant adventure novel that is now considered a classic work in literature. First released as serials between 1844 and 1845, the book is set in some important historical events during the Bourbon Restoration in France. The story follows the journey of Edmond Dantès who was falsely accused and imprisoned without trial, but then turned into a commanding Count of Monte Cristo and sought for revenge.


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New Records of Deep-Water Cnidaria (Scleractinia & Antipatharia) from the Gulf of Mexico
Stephen D. Cairns, Smithsonian Institution
Dennis M. Opresko, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Thomas S. Hopkins, University of Alabama
William W. Schroeder, University of Alabama
Slxty·three species of azooxanthellate scleractinians and 26 species of antipatharians are recorded from the Gulf of Mexico. This report constitutes the first Inventory of Antipatharia within the geographic boundaries of the Gulf of Mexico whose southern limits are the Yucatan Straits to the south and the Florida Straits to the east. Thirteen range extensions of azooxanthellate species of the Order Scleractinia, and 28 species of the Order Antipatharia are reported. With respect to new records, we report four new records of azooxanthelate scleractinians and six new records of antipatharians from the outer continental shelf. One of the species, Slbopathes macrosplna Opresko, 1993, represents a new species In the western Atlantic region and appears related to Sibopathes gephura Van Pesch, 1914. The Gulf scleractinian fauna constitutes 54% of those known from the western Atlantic; the antipatharian fauna constitutes 93% of the western Atlantic fauna. These two groups are most diverse (55-56 species) in the regions of the Gulf adjacent to the Caribbean Sea and Atlantic Ocean (subdivisions I and VI). Diversity gradually decreases towards the western Gulf. Only six species are known from subdivision IV (east Mexico shelf and slope) and 23 species are recorded from subdivision V (Campeche Bank, Mexico).
Cairns, S. D., D. M. Opresko, T. S. Hopkins and W. W. Schroeder. 1993. New Records of Deep-Water Cnidaria (Scleractinia & Antipatharia) from the Gulf of Mexico. Northeast Gulf Science 13 (1).


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Amritszár (pandzsábi nyelven: ਅੰਮ੍ਰਿਤਸਰ) város India északi részén, Pandzsáb szövetségi államban, Delhitől kb. 450 km-re északnyugatra. Lakossága 1,13 millió fő volt 2011-ben.

Iparváros és a szikhek vallási, szellemi és kulturális  központja. 1557-ben alapította a szikhizmus akkori vallási vezetője, Rám Dász. Itt található az Aranytemplom, a szikhek legszentebb gurdvarája (temploma).

Amritszár  a nevét a város hasonnevű taváról kapta, amelynek szigetén fekszik a szikhek legszentebb temploma, gurdvarája, az Aranytemplom (Harmandír Száhib), amelyet eredetileg  Rám Dász (1534–1581), a negyedik szikh guru bővített ki, ő nevezte el Amrita-tónak, azaz Nektár-tónak (az amrita  ősi legendás ital, a halhatatlanság nektárja). A város India északnyugati részén fekszik,  és az amritszári kerület adminisztratív központja Pandzsáb államban. 32 km-re keletre fekszik Lahortól, közel India nyugati, pakisztáni  határához.

Amritszár volt a helyszíne az 1919-es, britek által elkövetett  Dzsailanvala Bágh-i mészárlásnak is.

A város híres kézműiparáról, finom gyapjúruházati termékeiről, szőnyegeiről. Jelentős szerepet kap a turizmus a város életében.

Amritszárban található a központi Khalsza Árvaház, amely egykor otthont adott Sahíd Udham Szinghnek, az indiai függetlenségi mozgalom kiemelkedő alakjának. India felosztása a mai Indiára és Pakisztánra igen mély demográfiai, gazdasági és  kulturális hatást gyakorolt Amritszárra, egyúttal jelentősen befolyásolta a társadalom struktúráját a városban. Mivel Pandzsáb két ország között került felosztásra, gyakran elsőként szerepelt az indiai-pakisztáni háborúkról szóló híradásokban. A Muszlim Liga a Lahorban többségben levő muszlimok miatt a várost szerette volna Pakisztánhoz csatolni (jelenleg is kb. 50% a muszlim lakosság), de Amritszár India része lett.

A város átlagos tengerszint feletti magassága 234 méter. Jellemző az Észak-Indiai meleg kontinentális éghajlat, tapasztalható a  négy évszak: a téli szezonban (november-március ) hőmérséklet 4 °C -19 °C közötti, a nyári szezonban (április-június) a hőmérséklet elérheti a 45 °C-ot. A monszun szezonja július-szeptember. Az éves csapadékmennyiség 790 milliméter.

Jövő
A városban lesz a végállomása a tervezett Delhi–Amritszár nagysebességű vasútvonalnak.

Jegyzetek

Források
 Readers Digest: Guide to Places of the World, 1995

Kapcsolódó szócikkek
Aranytemplom
 Amritszári mészárlás 1919-ben

India települései
Pandzsáb (India)

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Mark Davis' moves with Las Vegas Aces disrupt sports world for the better
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James Wiseman's health looks like smallest concern before NBA return
Sherman student athletes help launch new line of apparel
Former Yankees third-round pick released amid allegations of stealing, selling teammates' equipment
Sprouts Farmers Market Extends Commitment to Sun Devil Athletics Women's Sports and Health
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Carlos Yulo and Aleah Finnegan lead Filipino gymnastics squad at SEA Games in 2022
With competition underway in Vietnam for the 31st Southeast Asian Games, one of the marquee sports will be artistic gymnastics. The competition will feature four-time world medallist Carlos Yulo of the Philippines. Yulo enters the competition after an up-and-down 2021. On the women's side, fans of U.S. gymnastics will see […]
With competition underway in Vietnam for the 31st Southeast Asian Games, one of the marquee sports will be artistic gymnastics.
The competition will feature four-time world medallist Carlos Yulo of the Philippines. Yulo enters the competition after an up-and-down 2021.
On the women's side, fans of U.S. gymnastics will see a familiar face: Aleah Finnegan. The former U.S. national team member is making her debut for the Philippines in Hanoi.
Stars to watch: Carlos Yulo and Aleah Finnegan
Yulo's tumultuous 2021 featured disappointment at the Olympic Games in Tokyo where he found himself on the outside looking in. He missed the final on the floor exercise, the event on which he was the reigning world champion, and came up just short of the medals on vault when he finished fourth.
A few months later, however, Yulo turned things around, winning the vault gold medal at the world championships and a silver on the parallel bars.
In Hanoi, he will be looking to lift his team to gold and use the event as a stepping stone for this year's World Championships where he hopes to be a contender in multiple events, including the all-around.
The men's field will also see a full team from Singapore, led by team captain Terry Tay.
Depending on the events she intends to compete, Finnegan could be the star of the women's field. The former U.S. national team member, turned collegiate standout at Louisiana State University, turned Filipino national team member is competing in her first international event since helping Team USA to gold at the 2019 Pan American Games.
Born in St. Louis in the United States, Finnegan's mother, Linabelle, was born and raised in the Philippines.
Gymnastics Association Philippines president Cynthia Carrion expects Finnegan to also represent the nation at the upcoming Asian Championships, a team qualifier for this year's world championships, according to an article from ABC CBN News.
The field will be without Malaysian Olympian Farah Ann Abdul Hadi, who announced her retirement from the sport. She won three gold medals at the 2019 SEA Games including the all-around crown.
Instead, Malaysia hopes that individual event standouts Tan Ing Yueh, vault, and Rachel Yeoh Li Wen, uneven bars, may be able to bring home medals from the competition.
Below is the schedule for artistic gymnastics at the 2022 SEA Games. All times are local.
Friday, 13 May
10-18:30 – Men's team and all-around finals
Saturday, 14 May
10-18:30 – Women's team and all-around finals
Sunday, 15 May
14-17:00 – Men's floor exercise, pommel horse and still rings and women's vault and uneven bars apparatus finals
Monday, 16 May
14-17:00 – Men's vault, parallel bars and high bar and women's balance beam and floor exercise apparatus finals
Sports World Furious Over Viral Little League Video
SOUTH WILLIAMSPORT, PA – AUGUST 25: Baseballs sit on the ledge during the South Korea and Japan game during the International Championship game of the Little League World Series at Lamade Stadium on August 25, 2018 in South Williamsport, Pennsylvania. (Photo by Rob Carr/Getty Images) A video of a Little […]
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Q: Send command from PHP to running Python script At the moment I am planning a project with the RaspberryPi.
Therefore I plan to write a script in Python that runs in the background and reacts to user input (buttons, rotary knob, etc.).
Additional to the Python script I have a webinterface with PHP under it. The goal is to lat the user change settings through the webinterface and pass the changed variables (e.g. a Twitter username) to the Python script so it can update its variables.
Unfortunatelly I have no idea how to pass data to the running Python script. Do you have any ideas?

A: store modifiable settigns in a json file
settings.json
{"twitter_user": "bob"}

before doing something load your json settings
myscript.py
import json
def do_something():
   settings = json.load(open("settings.json"))
   print settings["twitter_user"]

update your settings.json via php as needed
myscript.php
function change_twitter_user($uname){
   $settings =  json_decode(file_get_contents($file));
   $settings["twitter_user"] = $uname
   file_put_contents("/path/to/settings.json",json_encode($settings ));
}

thats probably the easiest way to do it
(although you do know that python has some very nice web stuff also right?)


Description: No one can be a great thinker who does not recognise, that as a thinker it is his first duty to follow his intellect to whatever conclusions it may lead. Truth gains more even by the errors of one who, with due study and preparation, thinks for himself, than by the true opinions of those who only hold them because they do not suffer themselves to think. -John Stuart Mill, in On Liberty Often mentioned in the same breath with the Communist Manifesto, On Liberty-perhaps the greatest work from British political philosopher John Stuart Mill-is one of the most profound and most hotly debated works of the 19th century. Is it a classic plea for human freedom and intellectual development… or is it factually wrong and morally offensive? English philosopher and politician JOHN STUART MILL (1806-1873) was one of the foremost figure of Western intellectual thought in the late 19th century. He served as an administrator in the East Indian Company from 1823 to 1858, and as a member of parliament from 1865 to 1868.
Author(s) / Editor(s): Julie SMITH (Author), Ariella HUFF (Author) and Geoffrey EDWARDS (Author) with additional assistance from Katrin BUCHMANN and Salvatore FINAMORE.
Description: This study explores the powers of the EP and six selected national parliaments (the British, Danish, French, Irish, Italian and Polish) in setting, amending and scrutinising budgets. It then considers European engagement in three conflict regions – Libya, Palestine and Afghanistan – assessing how the selected parliaments have overseen various aspects of foreign policy, including finance for core activities and responses to sudden crises, and considers whether there are possible synergies between national and European budgets in foreign policy broadly defined.
Description: In this book, Martin Bunton focuses on the way in which the Palestine Mandate was part of a broader British imperial administration – a fact often masked by Jewish immigration and land purchase in Palestine. His meticulous research reveals clear links to colonial practice in India, Sudan, and Cyprus amongst other places. He argues that land officials' views on sound land management were derived from their own experiences of rural England, and that this was far more influential on the shaping of land policies than the promise of a Jewish National Home.
Bunton reveals how the British were intent on preserving the status quo of Ottoman land law, which (when few Britons could read Ottoman or were well grounded in its legal codes) led to a series of translations, interpretations, and hence new applications of land law. The sense of importance the British attributed to their work surveying and registering properties and transactions, is captured in the efforts of British officials to microfilm all of their records at the height of the Second World War. Despite this however, land policies remained in flux.


Are these gifts earmarked for secret foreign charity?
I am concerned about a U.S. 501(c)(3) charitable organization that was set up by a nonprofit in the United Kingdom that works for the same causes. The U.S. group appears on the surface to be a conduit for this U.K. company. It receives hundreds of thousands of dollars in donations every year and sends this amount to the U.K. in the form of a single grant to a deliberately unnamed U.K. charitable organization. Every year, the name of the U.K. charitable organization is left blank on the Form 990.
Shouldn't the U.S. organization identify the grant recipient? If the recipient is the same organization every year, can the U.S. organization really be said to be exercising "control and discretion" in the release of these funds or could it be seen as a conduit to make a non-deductible gift to a foreign charity? Could it be said that the gifts are "earmarked" to the foreign recipient and not tax-deductible? Is there any way I can find out which U.K. organization is the recipient of this grant?
You raise some interesting questions but things may not be nearly as sinister as you suggest. First, U.S. charities that make gifts to foreign organizations are not required to identify the recipients on the Schedule F to the Form 990. They have to say how much is given and the specific purpose, but not the name of the recipient. In fact, they are specifically advised by the instructions to leave the name blank on the Form. This was the result of a compromise when the revised Form 990 was first released. Many U.S. donors to foreign charities were concerned for the safety of the foreign organization workers if their identities were revealed. It may not be much of a worry for a British organization, but definitely was for controversial organizations in other countries in the midst of civil upheaval.
It is possible that the gifts to the U.S. organization could be considered earmarked and that the organization is not exercising control and discretion, but this sounds like the basic program of all sorts of "friends of" foreign organizations. Since U.S. taxpayers may not deduct gifts to charities abroad, many of the foreign organizations, particularly foreign hospitals and universities, have created U.S. "friends of" organizations to raise money here and funnel it abroad. It is all perfectly legal and traditional so long as certain procedures are followed.
If you know who created the U.S. organization and want to know if that is the group getting the contributions, you might find out from a computer search on both of them. Or, more simply, you could just ask them. They are not required to tell you, but they may be willing to do so in the hope that you will support the program. There are probably a whole lot of donors who are giving for that very purpose.


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It is the primary mission of the McFarlin Library's Department of Special Collections and University Archives to acquire, catalog, and preserve The University of Tulsa's rare book, manuscript, archival, and artifact collections.
These collections serve to support the research and teaching programs of The University's students, faculty, and staff, as well as scholars in the local and broader academic communities.
These collections are acquired through purchase and donation.
Traditionally, this department has made acquisitions in a variety of subject foci, some of which overlap. A number of intertwined subject areas can be found in the more than 950 individual collections.
(This policy will be reviewed at least every five years)
General Subject Scope
Relating to the history of The University of Tulsa and Henry Kendall College and its relationship with the external community. Non-active records of a historical value, photographs, scrapbooks, etc. University realia memorabilia should be sent to the Heritage Collection.
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Performing arts, graphic arts, the book as art, fore-edge paintings, etc.
Popular culture, women's studies, religion, foodways, etc.
Specifically relating to 18th through 21st century American history, although individual collections may branch elsewhere.
Specifically centering on 19th through 21st century British and American literature. There is a strong core of literature of radical thought and social movements as well.
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Primarily dealing with those tribes and nations in the Oklahoma region.
The West/Oklahomiana/Americana:
History and literature of the American West; history and literature of Oklahoma and the Tulsa region; exploration of the American West.
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These subjects and examples are non-exhaustive.
Cyril Connolly Collection, Edmund Wilson Collection, Walt Whitman, Factory House Library, V.S. Naipaul.
Local Interest:
Arkansas Basin Development Association, Helen Rushmore, Tulsa Race Riot of 1921, Bob McCormack photographic archive and camera collection, Robert and Paula McSpadden Love, Bjarne Holm photographic archive, Woody Guthrie manuscripts, Alexandre Hogue, Welch Family Foundation collection.
Modernist Literature:
James Joyce, Harriet Shaw Weaver, Paul and Lucie Leon, Richard Ellmann, Robert Graves, Siegfried Sassoon, The Sitwells.
Native Americans:
Indians of North America Collection, Vann Family archive, Papers of the Robertson and Worcester families, Nell Stapler Bradshaw, Jesse Bartley (J. B.) Milam, Cherokee and Creek language publications and manuscripts, Euchee archive, William C. Sturtevant Library, John W. Shleppey Collection, Bibles in various Native American languages.
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R.A. Lafferty, Tage le Cour, K.D. Wentworth, E. Nelson Bridwell, the Powell and Davis libraries of Sherlockiana, dime novels, science fiction writings, historical household manuals and cookbooks.
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Edgar Fitch Bullard, numerous photographic collections, International Petroleum Exposition, Midwest Refining Company, Frank Galbreath.
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Women's Studies:
19th century women's literature collection, Stevie Smith, Anna Kavan, E. Nesbit, Jean Rhys, Rebecca West.
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