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THE LEFSETZ LETTER: Eric Church At Staples
THIS IS MY HOMETOWN!
So I'm hanging with Tony D. upstairs, waiting for the Eric Church V.I.P. experience. They sell it according to the size of the room. In L.A. that's 200 people, for $200 apiece. How can that BE?
And we're killing time in the museum to the man. With framed letters from icons like Taylor Swift, thanking Eric for getting kicked off the Rascal Flatts tour so she could get the gig, and I'm fingering the Lucchese boots you can only buy here, with Eric's lyrics etched into the bottom, then I hear that whoop of recognition, Eric has arrived.
Here's the deal. The V.I.P. experience includes some food…and an acoustic appearance by the man himself.
And I'm talking to Louis Messina. I'm a jaded old coot, I've seen it all, and then Eric starts to strum.
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He's wearing his aviators, but no hat. He's making small talk and then he starts to sing and I begin to tingle…THIS IS IT!
You can go see the local act play at the bar and get as close as you want to. But once they make it, once they have fans across this great country of ours, you can read about their travails in the gossip pages, but you're never going to ever get up close and personal.
But here he was!
And everybody's got their phone in the air, not only shooting pics, but making videos. There's all this bullcrap about possessions, but you can't buy a $10,000 iPhone, no, the reality is today it's all about experiences, and the fans in attendance were peaking and freaking…AND SO WAS I!
This is the only place you can get this, the only way you can get this adoration is by playing music. And the hit is INCREDIBLE!
That's right, you can be a legendary actor, you can be a billionaire, but you're never going to get the response Eric Church got from the assembled multitude Friday night.
The connection between musical performer and fan. Not lip-synching, playing to hard drive, but giving you an unimpeachable, totally unique acoustic rendition of songs you know by heart.
"Give me back my hometown
'CAUSE THIS IS MY HOMETOWN!!"
So what happens at an Eric Church show?
First and foremost it sells out, which ain't easy at Staples, where there's an upper deck above three tiers of skyboxes that is so high it might as well come with oxygen.
And there's no fakery. Just a drummer and four guitars. You remember bands, don't you? Don't pooh-pooh country music, you haven't given it a chance. It's everything you yearn for. Honest, played by real musicians, singing about real life. The only difference is the accent. But if you read the "New York Times," you know the northerners are migrating down south, that's where everybody's going.
So there's this white goateed slide guitarist who's bringing me right back to the seventies, my body is twisting and turning as he wails. I start to ponder how good he is compared to Duane Allman, but then I remember no one even does this anymore. And if you hadn't been around back then, you'd be inspired to play. Remember that? Seeing your heroes up on stage and buying an instrument to get closer to the music yourself?
And then there's the hard work. First time through L.A. Eric played at the Whisky, to six people. Ten years ago. When he was already 27. Tell that to the barely pubescent stars they keep telling us have something to say and will last forever. That's right, Justin Bieber's doing a roast because he's a joke!
And sure, Eric plays the hits, but the set is different every night, because if it's not fun for the people making the music, the audience can tell. Because, after all, when done right live music is a religious experience.
And then he played "Dancing In The Dark."
It was the intro to his big hit "Springsteen." Because the thread runs through rock and roll all the way from New Jersey to Nashville.
And it is about hits. They're the tree you hang the ornaments upon.
And the best hits are songs.
You remember songs, don't you? Those things you can sing along to in the car?
So what did we learn?
That country is a big tent. Dwight Yoakam held down the middle and Halestorm opened, one of the highlights came when Eric called out Lizzy Hale to shred with him. It's powerful to see a woman with an Explorer pick.
And the audience was 50/50 boys and girls. Some come for the stories, some come for the gut-wrenching playing, but they all want to put their hands in the air and sing along.
Like me.
Because deep into the set, I heard that intro straight out of Petty's "Love Is A Long Road" and then…
"Damn, I used to love this view"
Living to listen to the music. Making pilgrimages to the store to visit the records, with the elixir of life locked inside.
"All the colors of my youth
The red, the green, the hope, the truth"
What kind of bizarre world do we live in where we lionize the rich and the no-talents? One wherein old guys in black tell us to love records by people who can't sing and can't play while the pop chart is ruled by people who are faces only.
"My friends try to cheer me up, get together at the Pizza Hut"
And talk about the good old days. The Fillmore. The Stones. The Who. All the classic rock.
"These sleepy streetlights on every sidewalk side street
Shed a light on everything that used to be"
The oldsters dye their hair, get plastic surgery and put out new albums that are unlistenable, wanting us to believe it's 1975 when that was forty years ago.
And then you stumble into an arena and find 20,000 people who are not jaded, who know every word and sing along, just like we used to, to a guy who knows history but is not imprisoned by it, who wants to carry on the tradition, but in his own vision.
And I've got my arm in the air, exclaiming to the rafters with all my might:
'CAUSE THIS IS MY HOMETOWN"
It's great to get back to where you once belonged.
I know, because I went there Friday night.
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One in five older people who drink alcohol are consuming it at unsafe levels -- over 21 units of alcohol for men and 14 units for women each week -- according to a new study. The research found these unsafe older drinkers are more likely to be of higher socioeconomic status.
The researchers used anonymised electronic GP health records for 27,991 people aged 65 and over in the Borough of Lambeth in London. From these records, they identified 9,248 older people who had reported consuming alcohol and of these 1,980 people drank at unsafe levels.
They found unsafe drinkers were more likely to be male, younger and have higher socioeconomic status. Men were more likely to be unsafe drinkers than women -- 46% of people in the study were male, but they were 60% of the drinkers and 65% of the unsafe drinkers.
The median alcohol consumption was 6 units per week for all over-65s who reported drinking. However, the top 5% of alcohol drinkers reported consuming more than 49 units per week for men and more than 23 units per week for women.
Alcohol drinkers were also more likely to be ethnically White or Irish, while people from Caribbean, African or Asian ethnicities were less likely to drink. People of White ethnicity were 59% of the study population, but were 68% of those who reported drinking alcohol and 80% of the unsafe drinkers. People of Irish ethnicity were 5% of the study population, but were 6% of the alcohol drinkers and 8% of the unsafe drinkers.
The authors caution that results from inner-city London may not apply to other areas of the UK with different demographics. They also note that while the study contains an almost complete sample of older people in the area, people may have under-reported their alcohol consumption to their GP.


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Q: Отправка почты со стилями Здравствуйте, интересует отправка почта со стилями, как это удобнее сделать? может есть для этого ресурсы которые регенерируют html письма, либо можно где почитать?
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*Забудьте про все, что вы знали!!! Делайте верстку так, словно html4/5 и не существует!!!

*Забудьте про блочную верстку!!! Используйте только табличную.

*ВСПОМНИТЕ, что есть также теги ,  и другие забытые - использовать только их!!!

*Все, что находится в head'e - в основном вырезается - использовать только inline-стили.

*Если нужен background - только цвет. Если нужна картинка - значит весь текст должен быть картинкой.

*http://habrahabr.ru/post/106387/

*Вопрос про письма на ХэшКоде - лучше всего это почитать, там те ссылки, которые я и искал

Вообще все зависит от клиента (почтовая прога либо web-интерфейс почтовика). GMAIL вроде как теперь разрешает вставку в качестве background'a картинок. Но это пока исключения, лучше делать почти для всего. А "почти все" почти ничего не поддерживает.
Кроме всего вышеперечисленного - добавьте все так же в стили в HEAD - что-то может и останется.
И еще - где-то читал, что проверять лучше в MS Outlook 2007 - там вообще все с письмами напутано (по сравнению с 2003 - 2003 еще хорошо работал)))). Если там все будет хорошо, то скорее всего и на остальных будет замечательно.

A: Как бы нужно отправлять html код и заголовок + в правильной кодировке
и письмо будет со стилями
для этого смотрите PHP функцию mail()
A: Могу лишь в ответ привести пример отправки письма через PHP функцию mail() с оформлением:
$mailtext = 'Тут текст вашего письма оформленный в HTML код как вариант в табличной верстке';
$headers="Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8\n";
$headers.="From: почта от кого@почта.ру\nX-Mailer: SuperMailer";
mail("тут почта кому@почта.ру","Заголовок письма",$mailtext,$headers);

При должном желании сделать свое письмо не составить труда. В качестве отправной точки можно взять присылаемые в рассылках письма и посмотреть в режиме просмотра исходного письма какой там HTML код оформление.
A: zloctb абсолютно прав.. например, запихните всё письмо в один блок div, и пропишите ему стили:
<div style='text-align: center; color: blue;'>Текст письма<div>

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Sodium azide is the inorganic compound with the formula . This colorless salt is the gas-forming component in legacy car airbag systems. It is used for the preparation of other azide compounds. It is an ionic substance, is highly soluble in water and is very acutely poisonous.

Structure
Sodium azide is an ionic solid. Two crystalline forms are known, rhombohedral and hexagonal. Both adopt layered structures. The azide anion is very similar in each form, being centrosymmetric with N–N distances of 1.18 Å. The  ion has an octahedral geometry. Each azide is linked to six  centers, with three Na–N bonds to each terminal nitrogen center.

Preparation
The common synthesis method is the "Wislicenus process", which proceeds in two steps in liquid ammonia. In the first step, ammonia is converted to sodium amide by metallic sodium:

It is a redox reaction in which metallic sodium gives an electron to a proton of ammonia which is reduced in hydrogen gas. Sodium easily dissolves in liquid ammonia to produce hydrated electrons responsible of the blue color of the resulting liquid. The  and  ions are produced by this reaction.

The sodium amide is subsequently combined with nitrous oxide:

These reactions are the basis of the industrial route, which produced about 250 tons per year in 2004, with production increasing due to the increased use of airbags.

Laboratory methods
Curtius and Thiele developed another production process, where a nitrite ester is converted to sodium azide using hydrazine. This method is suited for laboratory preparation of sodium azide:

Alternatively the salt can be obtained by the reaction of sodium nitrate with sodium amide.

Chemical reactions
Treatment of sodium azide with strong acids gives hydrazoic acid, which is also extremely toxic:

Aqueous solutions contain minute amounts of hydrogen azide, the formation of which is described by the following equilibrium:

, K = 10−4.6

Sodium azide can be destroyed by treatment with nitrous acid solution:

Applications

Automobile airbags and aircraft evacuation slides
Older airbag formulations contained mixtures of oxidizers and sodium azide and other agents including ignitors and accelerants. An electronic controller detonates this mixture during an automobile crash:

The same reaction occurs upon heating the salt to approximately 300 °C. The sodium that is formed is a potential hazard alone and, in automobile airbags, it is converted by reaction with other ingredients, such as potassium nitrate and silica. In the latter case, innocuous sodium silicates are generated. While sodium azide is still used in evacuation slides on modern aircraft, newer-generation automotive air bags contain less sensitive explosives such as nitroguanidine or guanidine nitrate.

Organic and inorganic synthesis
Due to its explosion hazard, sodium azide is of only limited value in industrial-scale organic chemistry. In the laboratory, it is used in organic synthesis to introduce the azide functional group by displacement of halides. The azide functional group can thereafter be converted to an amine by reduction with either  in ethanol or lithium aluminium hydride or a tertiary phosphine, such as triphenylphosphine in the Staudinger reaction, with Raney nickel or with hydrogen sulfide in pyridine.

Sodium azide is a versatile precursor to other inorganic azide compounds, e.g., lead azide and silver azide, which are used in detonators as primary explosives. These azides are significantly more sensitive to premature detonation than sodium azide and thus have limited applications. Lead and silver azide can be made via double displacement reaction with sodium azide and their respective nitrate (most commonly) or acetate salts. Sodium azide can also react with the chloride salts of certain alkaline earth metals in aqueous solution, such as barium chloride or strontium chloride to respectively produce barium azide and strontium azide, which are also relatively sensitive primarily explosive materials. These azides can be recovered from solution through careful desiccation.

Biochemistry and biomedical uses
Sodium azide is a useful probe reagent and a preservative.

In hospitals and laboratories, it is a biocide; it is especially important in bulk reagents and stock solutions which may otherwise support bacterial growth where the sodium azide acts as a bacteriostatic by inhibiting cytochrome oxidase in gram-negative bacteria; however, some gram-positive bacteria (streptococci, pneumococci, lactobacilli) are intrinsically resistant.

Agricultural uses
It is used in agriculture for pest control of soil-borne pathogens such as Meloidogyne incognita or Helicotylenchus dihystera.

It is also used as a mutagen for crop selection of plants such as rice, barley or oats.

Safety considerations
Sodium azide can be fatally toxic, and even minute amounts can cause symptoms. The toxicity of this compound is comparable to that of soluble alkali cyanides, although no toxicity has been reported from spent airbags.

It produces extrapyramidal symptoms with necrosis of the cerebral cortex, cerebellum, and basal ganglia. Toxicity may also include hypotension, blindness and hepatic necrosis. Sodium azide increases cyclic GMP levels in the brain and liver by activation of guanylate cyclase.

Sodium azide solutions react with metallic ions to precipitate metal azides, which can be shock sensitive and explosive. This should be considered for choosing a non-metallic transport container for sodium azide solutions in the laboratory. This can also create potentially dangerous situations if azide solutions should be directly disposed down the drain into a sanitary sewer system. Metal in the plumbing system could react, forming highly sensitive metal azide crystals which could accumulate over years. Adequate precautions are necessary for the safe and environmentally responsible disposal of azide solution residues.

References

External links
International Chemical Safety Card 0950.
NIOSH Pocket Guide to Chemical Hazards.

Sodium compounds
Azides
Explosive chemicals

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The University of Evansville lost for the seventh time in eight games Wednesday evening.
EVANSVILLE — Walter McCarty has challenged his team again.
The first-year coach expressed his disappointment following the University of Evansville's 68-56 loss Wednesday to Missouri State, marking the Purple Aces' seventh defeat in their last eight Missouri Valley Conference games.
This isn't the first time, either. Remember back to the Aces' Nov. 24 loss at Ball State when he said they were lacking toughness? Well, they responded by winning their next two. McCarty appears to be trying to find another spark.
"I didn't think we had any resistance at all," he said. "For whatever reason, we didn't play hard enough to get ourselves in the game. Nobody wants to lose, but understand, it's OK to lose if you're giving your best effort, if you're playing hard and if you're doing all the things we try to teach.
UE (10-16, 4-9 MVC) never led during the final 37 minutes after taking an early 4-3 advantage. McCarty didn't think the Aces were engaged. Missouri State also caught fire shooting and forced them to play catch-up the rest of the way.
The Bears went into halftime up 42-24 after closing with an 18-2 run, which includes the Aces' 5:04 scoreless stretch to finish. Missouri State (14-12, 7-5 MVC) shot 73.9 percent in the first half, making 17 of 23 field goal attempts and 7 of 10 on 3-point attempts.
That 18-point deficit proved to be too large to overcome.
Hill scored a team-high 15 points while K.J. Riley was the only other UE player to finish in double figures with 10. Missouri State's Tulio Da Silva scored a game-high 17 and Ryan Kreklow and Jarred Dixon each added 15.
If the Bears, who shot 53.7 percent overall, wanted to drive to the basket, they did with ease. If they wanted to catch loose balls, they seemingly snagged those, too.
Meanwhile, the Aces were allowing backdoor layups while playing a 2-3 zone and didn't treat every possession with the utmost importance, according to McCarty.
The Aces had won the previous meeting 70-64 on Jan. 16 and it remains their lone road victory. Since then, the two teams have trended oppositely, as the Bears have now won six of seven. Because Indiana State defeated Valparaiso in overtime Wednesday, UE is in sole possession of last place in the Valley.
So, how can the Aces salvage their regular season during these final five games? Is the problem execution or energy, or both? They're running out of time to find solutions, even though almost every game they show flashes of brilliance and the ability to compete with anyone. Except often, we don't see their potential until they're already down 10.
The Aces will remain home for Sunday's 3 p.m. game against Northern Iowa (11-15, 6-7 MVC). UE lost the first meeting 81-74 on Jan. 26 when McCarty served a one-game suspension for criticizing referees.
Perhaps his criticism of his team's recent performances will light a fire as the season creeps closer to Arch Madness.
"The game honors toughness and if you don't do that, you're not going to get calls. The officials are not going to bail you out," McCarty said. "You have to earn it, and tonight in the first half, we just didn't earn it.
MISSOURI ST. (14-12): Da Silva 7-13 2-5 17, Webster 1-5 4-6 6, Kreklow 6-8 0-0 15, Cook 3-4 2-4 9, Dixon 3-7 7-10 15, Ridder 2-2 0-0 6, Mohammed 0-2 0-0 0, Scott 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 22-41 15-25 68.
EVANSVILLE (10-16): Hall 0-1 0-0 0, Chatkevicius 3-9 3-4 9, Givance 1-4 0-0 3, Riley 2-7 5-6 10, Hill 7-12 0-0 15, Kuhlman 2-4 0-0 5, Newton 2-6 2-4 6, Frederking 2-4 0-0 5, Feehan 1-1 0-0 3, Straub 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 20-49 10-14 56.
Halftime — Missouri St. 42-24. 3-Point Goals — Missouri St. 9-12 (Kreklow 3-4, Ridder 2-2, Dixon 2-4, Cook 1-1, Da Silva 1-1), Evansville 6-19 (Feehan 1-1, Givance 1-2, Riley 1-3, Kuhlman 1-3, Frederking 1-3, Hill 1-3, Hall 0-1, Straub 0-1, Newton 0-2). Fouled Out — None. Rebounds — Missouri St. 22 (Da Silva 7), Evansville 20 (Chatkevicius 5). Assists — Missouri St. 12 (Webster 5), Evansville 7 (Givance 4). Total Fouls — Missouri St. 16, Evansville 20. Attendance — 5,289 (10,000 capacity).


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The eight-year regime of Idi Amin in Uganda will go down in history as one of the 20th-century's horrors that could have been prevented. From Stalin's Russia, Hitler's Germany, Pol Pot's Cambodia, Macias Nguema's Equatorial Guinea, the outside world was excluded, and was therefore relatively impotent and ignorant. That was not true of Uganda. Amin strutted on the world stage: he went to the United Nations, made official visits to West Germany and Israel, was received by the Queen, and was still getting rounds of applause from African crowds as late as September 1978 (at Kenyatta's funeral) and from African heads of state, in the summer of the same year, at the Organisation of African Unity summit in Khartoum. To Britain's disgrace, as George Ivan Smith points out, it will be remembered that Uganda Airlines flights to Stansted, where Amin bought the Western luxury goods that kept his inner circle loyal, went on until 4 March 1979, when the Tanzanian Army was on the point of ousting him. With the honourable exceptions of the Presidents of Tanzania, Zambia and Botswana, the world did not care enough about Amin's butcheries to impose against him an economic blockade and a refusal to buy Ugandan coffee. This would have turned his bought army against him, probably within months. The United States closed its embassy in 1973, Britain in 1976. In neither case was it because of Amin's murderous rule.
In another sense, Amin had made himself only too well-known to the outside world with his ludicrous telegrams to Nixon or the Queen, and the fatuous radio bulletins which he used both to rule his country (dismissing ministers, summoning church leaders) and to conduct a foreign policy of insults directed at other countries. A small dose of this should have been enough to convince the rest of the world that he was utterly unfit to run a football team, never mind a highly politicised, sophisticated and deeply torn society like Uganda. 'Illiterate, a racist, tribalist and dictator ... an incorrigible liar with no moral or political standards ... of whom the only prediction which can safely be made is that he is unpredictable' was the verdict of Amin's Minister of Education, Edward Rugumayo, who defected in 1973.
For years, Idi Amin was a lucrative industry for the press. Even now, when his political significance in Uganda is nil, the BBC was prepared to mount an expensive operation to film him in Saudi Arabia and give 15 minutes of 'news' time to his meaningless ramblings. Mr Ibingira has a nasty explanation for this. 'Amin has been a priceless gift to white racists.' Mr Ibingira thinks that 'the extraordinary global publicity given to Amin' can at least partly be explained as indirect support for the South African Government's apartheid policy: if blacks are like Amin, who can blame South Africa for not sharing power with them? Probably the explanation is simpler and involves geo-politics less than journalistic laziness. Amin – with his bagpipes and his professed desire to marry President Julius Nyerere or to box him with one arm tied behind his back – was a fine racist joke. It was the easiest story in the world to write: Radio Uganda, monitored in Nairobi, provided 90 per cent of the press coverage, and the rest was laid on in interviews with 'His Excellency' by Bob Astles. Long after the publication in 1974 of David Martin's General Amin might have been expected to bring some constraint, Fleet Street went on with the joke – spiced as it was with prurient pleasure in a wickedness hard to credit, completely, in the security of somewhere far away across the world.
The British public apparently has an insatiable appetite for the horrors, the hammerings to death, the blowing up of rooms full of soldiers, the tortures, the emasculations, and the flinging of bodies to crocodiles, so often retold from Mr Martin's book. One such instant book, Lust to Kill, brought out in two months last year after Amin's fall, sold 100,000 copies, although the writer was too embarrassed to put his own name on it. Mr Smith actually quotes from this work, and even chooses a quotation about Amin's childhood which was clearly invented. His own lack of authority shows in the wrong details of his book, the misspelt names, the errors about relationships between Amin and Onama and Malyamungu which do not exist, the muddling of Bantu prefixes.
Describing the anatomical plates he found at Amin's house after liberation, he implies that Amin murdered and dismembered his wife Kay. 'I can only recall the possible dreadful significance associated with them,' he writes, and goes on to talk of Kay's death. But it is well-known that Kay died in an abortionist's clinic during a termination after four months of pregnancy. The doctor who did the operation (a man with a history of mental breakdown who by some accounts was also Kay's lover) dismembered her and put the body in his own car, before killing himself and making an unsuccessful attempt to kill his wife and children. Similarly, Mr Smith presents what he calls 'the final, horrifying piece of evidence ... from a Ugandan I interviewed who was in a position to know such things'. The story is of Amin eating the heart of his favourite son in a small hut near Arua. It is well-known that Amin's favourite son was Moses, the small boy in military uniform who was always with him on public occasions and who is with him now in Saudi Arabia. The real stories are horrifying enough and should not be devalued by being mixed up with myth.
Mr Smith pins his book to a short visit to Kampala immediately after the liberation last year: 'the crossroads of central Africa at a strange moment in its long history'. The brevity of the visit inevitably led to mistakes. He has the famous policeman/runner John Akii-Bua returning from exile to greet the liberators, when he was in fact returning from Kenya (where he had been briefly held in the Kakamega camp for Amin's men fleeing the liberators) after a running engagement in West Germany. He never defected. Mr Smith's claim of hard fighting by Amin's men in the north just before the end of the war is the result of being too close to events for too short a time. Amin's army broke and ran, and the Tanzanians met only sporadic, feeble resistance in the north. Amin relied on bluff to the end, and his army would not fight for him.
Mr Ibingira's central ideas about what went wrong with independent Uganda are two. First, he blames the colonial government for its poor preparation of the men who, in administration and in the army, were to hold together the nation state which that government had forged out of disparate (and often traditionally hostile) tribes. His second point, the 'winner-takes-all philosophy' of the first generation of African leaders after independence, will be considered later.
The Ugandan Army has basically run the country since Obote's revolution of 1966, and has been a crucial factor in the year since the fall of Amin. The British handed over a force which had been commanded by white officers: it was colonial policy that no educated Africans should be trained as officers. For cosmetic reasons, two soldiers were hurried into officer's uniforms just before independence, although one, Idi Amin, as Mr Smith recounts, was known by the British to have been guilty of unacceptable levels of brutality against Turkana villagers in Kenya during the Mau Mau years when he served in the colonial army. Amin's career was saved by Obote (the Prime Minister) on that occasion and on four others when he was urged to dismiss him by such diverse figures as the British Governor of Uganda, two British colonels who knew him well, and the Ugandan Parliament. In addition, Shaban Opolot, from Teso in eastern Uganda and married to a Muganda woman, although nominally Amin's senior in the Army, was eased out (and finally detained) by Obote, who chose Amin to work through and who built him up.
Mr Smith says simply that Amin changed and became insubordinate to Opolot after the British left, and that he also revealed himself as more than just a simple soldier in the Zairean gold and ivory scandal, where he allegedly made a fortune out of transactions with the Congolese rebels who were supplied from Uganda. But he does not bring out Obote's crucial support of Amin in these incidents and throughout the early Sixties: this turned him into the power he soon became.
The whole sorry story of the breakdown of faith in the political system in Uganda is at the root of why Amin and the Army could successfully hijack the country in 1971. Mr Ibingira's 'winner-takes-all' theory traces through the early years of independence the concentration of power in Obote's hands to the disillusion of the people; the intensified Protestant/Catholic split as a result of Obote's witch-hunts against Catholics, who were branded as Democratic Party supporters and removed from important jobs; the breaking of the independence and strength of the judiciary, the legislature, local government and party organs by packing them with UPC men and shamelessly changing the law to suit the Government; the splits within the ruling UPC party; the creation by Obote of the General Service Unit to spy on UPC colleagues; Obote's determination to break the Baganda rather than bring them into the UPC and share power with them.
The same process of disintegration is spelt out in S.R. Karugire's newly published A Political History of Uganda. Mr Karugire was in exile from Amin's Uganda as head of the Department of History in the University of Zambia, and his study does not cover Amin, but he sets the scene for the coup well. 'The once dignified civil service was filled with obsequious mediocrities, as were the parastatal bodies – the only sure qualification for holding these positions was undoubted loyalty to the leader': he is writing about Obote, but it shows how Uganda was ready for Amin.
Mr Smith's analysis of the geo-political events behind Amin's coup is the best contribution to history which his book makes. Mr Smith was then the representative in London of the United Nations Secretary-General, and he happened to be in Dar es Salaam when the Presidents of Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia met in an emergency summit to discuss Sir Alec Douglas Home's announcement in July 1970 that Britain would sell arms to South Africa. Mr Smith was invited to join the Presidents' meeting and he brings out well the unbridgeable chasm of mistrust which opened between Britain and Obote and Nyerere. Unlike most Ugandan insiders, he does not actually implicate Britain (and more importantly Israel, which had seen Obote turn sharply pro-Arab in 1970) in the coup. But he does say that British Intelligence knew about the plans for it in advance, and did not inform Obote during the Commonwealth Conference in Singapore. He includes an interesting long memo to himself from Obote which firmly implicates Israel in the coup, and suggests that its trigger was two impending trials: in Khartoum, of Rolf Steiner (the mercenary who had been helping the Anyanya rebellion in southern Sudan with the Israelis and Amin), and in Uganda of the murderer of Brigadier Okoya and his wife. The second of these trials was leading inexorably to the inculpation of Amin.
As Mr Ibingira says, 'the coup was welcomed with intense joy in most parts of Uganda. The masses of people who greeted Obote's fall in the capital and other areas of the country exceeded those who had gathered to celebrate independence, both in numbers and in emotional release. I witnessed both.' Mr Ibingira was among the first people released from prison by Amin.
In his story of the Amin years Mr Smith gives a fair account of the all-pervasive spy and counter-spy system by which Amin ruled. His quotations from the heaps of files left lying in the State Research Bureau for anyone to read in the weeks after liberation give a good idea of the illiterate, randomly chosen pieces of pointless 'information' which sent so many men to their deaths in that horrific place. But he does not quite drive home that what haunts Ugandans today about the system is that it was not just an alien group of Rwandese, Nubians, Libyans fed by the scum of Ugandan society scraping a living, but that its informers included educated men and women from every tribe in the country. Almost everyone broke down under the imperatives of living in a society where random death was a daily possibility for them all, where the normal economy was replaced by the black market (magendo), and where the rules of justice or of orderly government no longer prevailed. Fiction on this theme, like Lord of the Flies, is popular in the West, but the full non-fiction story from inside Amin's Uganda has yet to be written.
There were at least twenty attempts to kill Amin, and there was almost continuous plotting by exiles to rid the country of him. Mr Ibingira puts a good share of the blame for Amin's survival for so long on internal Ugandan causes: ethnic divisions, the greed of those who were getting something out of the regime, divisions and betrayals among competing exile groups. Both he and Mr Smith strongly blame the outside world too – specifically Kenya, for not cutting off Uganda's route to the sea, and Britain. Both governments had strong economic motives for not doing anything so revolutionary in international relations as bringing down a head of state for moral reasons: but it seems a bit too easy to restrict the responsibility to these governments alone.


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Changes have undoubtedly occurred to habitats at an alarming rate especially in southern England, where modern agriculture and other developments have taken an enormous toll on wildlife habitats and their associated flora and fauna. However the level of spider recording on a detailed national basis is insufficient to adequately monitor quantitative changes in the populations of species. However, a few species have clearly increased their distribution, including Argiope bruennichi, a spider expanding its range in southern England as a result of climate change, in particular longer milder autumns. The crab spider Philodromus praedatus is a species with an interesting history in Britain. The spider is typically found on mature oak trees in open situations, in wood pasture, at the edge of woodland rides or in old hedgerows, but it is also sometimes found on other trees such as Field Maple. Although males are easy enough to distinguish by microscopical examination from other members of the aureolus group, females are difficult without dissection and reference to reliably identified specimens. It was first recorded from Dorset in the nineteenth century by Pickard-Cambridge (1879). In 1974 the species was still only known from old specimens taken at Bloxworth (Dorset), New Forest (Hampshire) and Shrewsbury (Shropshire). However, by the time Dr Peter Merrett published his review of nationally notable spiders in 1990 the spider had been recorded in ten counties mainly in southern England but also Inverness-shire, and the spider is now known from 25 counties. This remarkable change does not seem to be due to any increase in range or abundance, but rather the result of the recognition of good characters for its separation from other closely related species and a clarification of its ecological preferences.
New species to Britain continue to be discovered, such as Megalepthyphantes sp. nova from Sheppey and Wabasso replicatus from the Insh Marshes in 1999, Neriene emphana from the Isle of Wight in 2000, Macaroeris nidicolens from Mile End in East London in 2002 and one species, a six or eight eyed oonopid belonging to Orchestina or a closely related and possibly new genus, is still only known from six specimens collected by Ray Ruffell north of Colchester between 1992 and 1994. However the rate of discovery since the early 1950s has remained almost constant at an average of about 1.5 species per year (Merrett & Murphy, 2000).


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Lessons From the Maveron Playbook
We catch up with one of the Semester in San Francisco MBAs about her evolving views on entrepreneurship, marketing and education.
by Jennifer Royer C07 W07 WG13
Careers Entrepreneurship Marketing PE/VC
Things are still alive and well on the West Coast, but I'm going to suspend my update of all things S.F. until at least a few days from now, in part because I'm about to disappear into the Poconos where I hope to emerge successful—the metric here is completion—from a triathlon. Nevertheless, I thought it prudent to repurpose a recent homework assignment for your reading pleasure.
One of my favorite features of the Semester in San Francisco program is our weekly regional seminar, where we host a range of speakers who highlight topics of interest to our cohort. Thus far, we've covered mobile growth, entrepreneurship in big tech, an inside look at incubators/accelerators and last week's topic—how VCs vet and select entrepreneurs for their investments. The official title of the session, according to our syllabus, was "From Great Entrepreneurs Come Great Companies: What We Look For," which was fitting given our speaker's prior experience as a successful entrepreneur and her recommendation that founders work with VCs whose partners have had firsthand experience founding companies. For our class, we're required to submit a couple of reflections on this speaker series, and so without further ado, I give you mine.
Amy Errett, WG '88
Amy Errett, WG '88, partner at Maveron LLC [and Wharton Blog Network contributor], rather immediately grabbed my attention when she mentioned that she prefers to invest in first-time entrepreneurs, rather than serial founders. I wasn't the only one who noticed that this does not seem to be accepted as a best practice for VCs. The other day in Professor Wessels' class [David Wessel, adjunct assistant professor of finance], we surveyed the room as to whether we would prefer to invest in a company with a successful serial entrepreneur or with an entrepreneur who has industry expertise but no experience starting a company. We nearly unanimously chose the former. Even though I was delighted to hear this sort of optimism about inexperienced but nevertheless passionate founders—because I hope to be in this group someday—I was still somewhat skeptical. I had to wonder if part of this stemmed from a fact that I held onto from our "Managing People at Work" class last year: that one of the best predictors of future job success is previous job performance or some successful completion of a real-life "work task," as opposed to the behavioral interviews to which we are all so accustomed.
In a way, an entrepreneur's pitch is like a behavioral interview in that the audience leaves with some notion of the founder's interests, qualifications and passion but has little sense of what it's actually like to work with them and what they will achieve.
Even so, I admit to being rather convinced that a green founder has merits over a seasoned one—with a newbie, complacency has no role and absolute hunger and passion prevails—or so I'd hope. There is probably also something to be said for getting scrappy and creative to make things work, which is often necessitated by first-time entrepreneurs pouring every last cent of their previous and current income streams into their venture. Risking that much without any assured outcomes would seem excellent motivate for an incredible work ethic and focus—pretty good qualities if you ask me.
More than causing a stir with this particular point of view, though, Amy's talk left an impression on me because I was able to actively connect it to so much of what we are learning at Wharton. Amy has three criteria for investing in early stage firms: people, market and product.
Hearing Amy elaborate on why she abides by "people first" and refuses to back anyone she doesn't believe in, I was reminded of some core principles from our pre-term class on leadership and teamwork, particularly with respect to the importance of culture. Even though entrepreneurs are not direct employees of venture capital firms, cultural fit is nonetheless hugely important. I'm guessing that the average VC firm would not confidently proclaim, "I don't like to back anyone who hasn't fallen on their behind," or that they value founders who are irrationally and blindly optimistic. I certainly didn't hear those things in conferences and presentations I attended last year.
But there's a reason that Amy and Maveron care about those attributes: if you fail, you've had to deal with adversity and resiliently recover, and if you're irrationally optimistic, you're also probably very passionate about your venture. She also highlighted the importance of an entrepreneur evaluating a VC; several hours later that day, Professor Wessels echoed her view that "capital is a commodity" and underscored the importance of understanding the incentive structure and experience of VCs, in addition to term-sheet clauses.
Amy also spoke of "agility, not flexibility," and while she mentioned this with respect to a founding team's personal attributes, I found it quite relevant to the needs assessment exercise we just completed for "Development of Web-Based Products and Services," where we interviewed different types of potential users to understand their key issues and uses of products and services related to those that we are building for our new ventures. I interpreted Amy's comment to mean that it's important to keep our eyes and ears open for opportunities to make our product or overall business more effective—but to change on a whim due to popular sentiment or isolated feedback would be a mistake. Maintaining focus around our value proposition and business priorities is important, but there are things that we may learn along the way that cause us to rethink and shift to deliver an ever better need-solution match for customers. I felt this sentiment during our needs assessment, as there were new things I learned about how people view the travel-planning process that led me to think about additional attributes and ways to package our overall product to make it even more effective for our target audience.
Lastly, on the "market" front, it was refreshing to hear that Amy believes that deeply understanding and serving a niche/affinity group trumps getting a small chunk of a bigger pie. I'm aligned with this perspective, particularly as niche strategies allow for a targeted value proposition and customer base. Amy added that "marketing is more than branding, curation and positioning … if you can't play in user acquisition, retention and engagement, then you'll never win."
Having spent the larger part of my summer internship focused on that latter piece, I couldn't agree more. It's one thing to have a compelling brand that reels people in, but having good analytics to measure their behaviors and preferences allows for better segmentation and innovation around new products and services, thus a greater lifetime value.
I learned a lot from Amy and appreciated her perspective, which was confident, unpretentious and provocative. She might agree with me when I say that there's no great algorithm to predict chutzpah, but if you are irrationally optimistic and try to make one and then fall flat on your face, then that experience will in time make you a more appealing candidate to VCs.
Editor's note: This post first appeared on the Wharton MBA Program's Student Diarist blog on Sept. 28, 2012. We will continue to feature updates from Jennifer and her classmates, who are the first full-time Wharton MBAs to spend a semester at Wharton | San Francisco.
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