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What are the Different Options for Custom Awards?
When organizations want to create awards to properly honor individuals or groups, the fact is that they have a lot of options for doing so.
However, the sheer number of choices available these days may actually be overwhelming for them to deal with – choosing among the available materials alone will give just about any group a lot to consider. With that in mind, it can be a good idea to brush up on the differences between the various award material choices. A little studying here can go a long way toward informing the best possible decisions for every unique customized award that needs to be created.
From metal to plastic, stone to acrylics and, of course, crystal and glass, the volume of options that spring from just the material the award is made from can be significant. Which is right for each organization or individual depends on any number of variables, from budget to the timeline in which the awards will need to be produced.
Below is a quick guide to several types of materials that are available for award production, which will help inform better decisions about getting a customized trophy or plaque produced, and how to proceed once some initial decisions are made:
Metal Custom Awards
Awards made from metal can come across as classy and attractive, and it's possible to get customized casts made for just about any shape imaginable, though the cost of doing so may be a bit high. There are pre-made metal trophies and awards, but for custom metal awards, it's possible to have hand-made casts made for more or less any design in question. However, this can be both a time-consuming and costly process, so if organizations are interested in only producing a relatively small run of awards, or need a quick turnaround, there may be better options available.
But even within the metal subset, there are so many options available – from copper to steel – that organizations will never run out of suitable choices. That makes it easier for every organization to find the right material to properly honor their award recipients.
What is a Custom Wood Award?
While it is not always easy to get wooden awards made in customized shapes, there are still plenty of customization options for existing award shapes. From adding photos and decorative seals to just about any kind of engraving, the options are still significant and, in most cases, extremely affordable.
Wooden awards may, in many cases, carry an air of gravitas and importance that other materials do not, and can show recipients just how appreciated they are.
What is a Custom Glass Award?
Custom awards made from glass are quite popular, especially in the world of business, and actually surprisingly inexpensive in comparison with other types of awards. Much like wood, they can be striking to look at and appear classy when displayed on a shelf, but beyond that they are typically also heavy, giving them a literal extra weight for recipients.
Of course, glass is one of many materials that can be shaped or engraved and carry that distinctive transparency, but among similar options, it is less clear than most types of crystal. Glass can, however, be tinted in certain instances (such as with the greenish jade glass), and among the glass/crystal options it tends to be the least expensive as well.
Where jade glass is concerned, the reason it carries its distinctive, attractive tint is due to iron ore, and it also bears a price point that is often as much as half that of crystal. These two factors alone help to make it one of the most popular options for organizations looking to honor valued members.
In addition, there is a type of glass known as "starfire" or "crystal clear" glass which has the highest clarity of any glass type. Like jade glass, it has a slight blue-green tint to it, but is noticeably lighter than its counterpart. It represents something of a middle ground between jade glass and more costly crystal, and is often preferred among organizations because its light (but noticeable) tint makes bevels and edges stand out more attractively.
What is a Custom Crystal Award?
Crystal awards look much like glass, starfire or jade glass options, but have a higher clarity, and are made from slightly different materials. Moreover, as with glass, there are a number of options here, such as lead crystal and optical crystal.
Lead crystal has much the same quality as most types of glass awards, though it is clearer and much harder to the touch, and due to the lead oxide within it, it also appears to sparkle a bit more than the less expensive options.
However, optical crystal provides the absolute maximum clarity because it is made by heating the crystal to a high enough temperature that eliminates bubbles and other imperfections in the material. Because of that more complicated production process, optical crystal is also the most expensive of these options.
Due to the cost involved with crystal, it may not be right for every organization, but its attractive appearance helps to ensure that it is appreciated by award recipients and anyone who sees them.
What is a Custom Acrylic Award?
The last – but certainly not least – of the "clear" custom award options is acrylic, a plastic with many of the same characteristics as glass and crystal but which offers a number of unique advantages. For one thing, it is actually clearer than glass to look at – though not as clear as crystal – but is significantly lighter. This may mean the material isn't seen as being as prestigious as glass or crystal, but it's also significantly cheaper and is also easier for our custom award production team to work with because it's a plastic that can be cut, molded and printed.
In addition, because this is a plastic, it can be made in just about any tint – such as to mimic jade glass or carry another hue, like silver or gold – meaning it offers more options to organizations looking to honor someone. Because of its flexibility, it's also easier to use acrylic with other materials such as wood or metal.
However, there are also some considerations to keep in mind when it comes to engraving custom acrylic awards, because certain approaches to that process could lead to better results than others. The good news, though, is that once the right method for the material is chosen, engraving on acrylic is often easier than for just about any other type of material available, making it ideal for even the most complex engraving requirements.
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Even with all this flexibility and the sheer number of options available, our award design & production team award will still be able to collaborate closely with any organization looking to make custom awards, creating totally customized designs using any of the above-listed materials. In addition, after working together with the producer on the design, those organizations will have the ability to sign off on proposed mockups before the trophies or plaques are sent to production. These efforts can range from working within existing templates, taking inspiration from them, or completely original ideas.
There may be any number of choices to make, and they can be tailored to any budget, timeline or design idea. That helps ensure the awards are unique and made to exacting specifications, which in turn helps their recipients understand just how valued their efforts in earning the recognition have been. All it may take for organizations to find the right option is to call Awards.com to start the conversation: 1-800-4-Awards (1-800-429-2737).
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Населення
За даними перепису 2016 року, містечко нараховувало 452 особи, показавши зростання на 13,9%, порівняно з 2011-м роком. Середня густина населення становила 28,3 осіб/км².

З офіційних мов обидвома одночасно володіли 15 жителів, тільки англійською — 435.

Працездатне населення становило 63% усього населення, рівень безробіття — 8,7% (11,5% серед чоловіків та 10% серед жінок). 93,5% осіб були найманими працівниками, а 4,3% — самозайнятими.

Середній дохід на особу становив $40 078 (медіана $35 499), при цьому для чоловіків — $48 872, а для жінок $31 102 (медіани — $38 080 та $31 296 відповідно).

31,5% мешканців мали закінчену шкільну освіту, не мали закінченої шкільної освіти — 21,9%, 46,6% мали післяшкільну освіту, з яких 17,6% мали диплом бакалавра, або вищий.

Клімат
Середня річна температура становить 4,7°C, середня максимальна – 18,4°C, а середня мінімальна – -9,6°C. Середня річна кількість опадів – 1 477 мм.

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After 40 years, Altura Homes has established itself as a quality homebuilder in Texas' Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex. "Our quality is as good as anybody in the [area]," Division President Donnie Evans declares.
Members of the Webb family started the Rockwall, Texas-based company in 1979, and today, Justin Webb sits as its sole owner. Although he grew the company to construct 120 homes per year, "He wanted to get bigger," Evans recalls.
Nearly five years ago, Webb approached Evans, a longtime veteran of the homebuilding industry, about growing the company. Today, "We're doing anywhere from 330 to 400 houses per year," Evans reports. "We have the ability to build multiple types of projects."
Altura Homes also has built a leadership position in its market by constructing in outlying areas where it does not encounter much competition. "We buy land a little bit cheaper and we develop our own property, which gives us the opportunity to have some room," Evans says. "I'm going to be close to 18 active subdivisions next year."
Keeping Close
Altura Homes believes in working closely with its clients. "We encourage all of our people to have a relationship with each of the homebuyers," Evans declares. "We value the communications side of it."
As part of this focus, the company's associates will meet with the future homeowner and salespeople on the project site. "We go over everything they think they want," Evans says.
During the meeting, the builders become the main contact for the client if they have any issues or questions. But the builders also set future expectations for the client, in case they may want to implement changes as the project is being built.
"We say, 'These are the things we can do and we cannot do,'" he says, noting that this helps make the completion of the home more efficient. "Because it also costs them more money, we try to encourage them to ask these questions up front."
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Evans, who has a long history in homebuilding, entered the business after serving in the U.S. military. Over the years, he held positions at multiple companies, including Pulte Homes and Beazer Homes.
He is proud to be part of Altura Homes, which owes its success to its people. "I've been in the business for a long time and I've had some really good teams," he says. "[This is] one of the best teams I've been around."
Evans also praises its processes. "We're able to go out and get some lots where we can write our own destiny," he says, noting that he predicts continued success ahead.
"I see nothing but roses in front of us," he says. "This past year we've gone out and bought several more pieces of property.
"Our No. 1 goal is to be profitable," he says. "I like to think the last four years here we've been one of the most profitable companies in this metroplex."
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Evans and Webb both take part in the Dallas Builders Association, which represents the homebuilding industry in the Dallas metropolitan area. Previously, Evans served as its president three years ago, but now Webb is taking that role.
"He will be the face of the association," Evans says, noting that this will further cement Altura Homes' sterling reputation. "You have to be a builder of good standing [to be a member]."
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Toronto gets Broadway's Dr. Frankenstein, and Ms Smith's wisdom falls on glamorous but deaf ears
BROADWAY BABIES: He's so good in Desperate Housewives that we sometimes forget that it was Roger Bart who originated the title role of the
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sexually deprived, spiky-haired Young Frankenstein on Broadway in 2007. Good news is, he's set to reprise his star turn when the Mel Brooks musical opens in Toronto next spring. And coming with him are two of his Great White Way co-stars, Shuler Hensley as the Monster and Cory English as Igor … Liza's at the Palace, a recording of Liza Minnelli's most recent show as it was performed at the MGM Grand's Hollywood Theatre in Las Vegas, will be broadcast as a 60-minute special on PBS
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stations this month. A DVD version of the full two-hour production will be available on February 2 … former Spring Awakening star Jenna Ushkowitz, currently playing Tina on the hit FOX-TV series Glee, says she still dreams of returning to Broadway in a revival of Miss Saigon. "And I've been pushing and pushing to be seen for the film version, too!" … and here's one for your Daytimers: The indefatigable Elaine Stritch officially returns to soignée saloons January 5 – 30, with a new show titled At Home at the Carlyle: Elaine Stritch Singin' Sondheim.
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NO BUSINESS LIKE SHOW BUSINESS: The Toronto Banjo Band headlines this year's annual King Township Historical Society concert this Friday at 7:30 PM at St Andrew's Presbyterian Church in King City. For reservations, call 905-841-5048 or 905-833-3324 … Ballets de Monte-Carlo and the Monaco Dance Forum next week open a seven-month salute to the 100th anniversary of Ballet Russes. The festivities run Dec. 2009 thru July 2010 in Monaco … shhhh, it's a secret, but there may be some seats still available for the taping of the Ron James' New Year's Eve Special, tomorrow and Friday at 7 p.m. at the CBC. Special guest stars include Gemini
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Award winners Peter Keleghan, whose new CBC-TV series 18 To Life bows in January, and Patrick McKenna. To become part of the live studio audience, contact tickets@enterthepicture.com … and Manhattan gossip girl Liz Smith says she was surprised to see herself in the December issue of Glamour magazine. Go to page 86, she says, and "you'll see me giving unwanted advice to A-listers like Lindsay Lohan, Miley Cyrus, Julia Roberts, Jennifer Aniston, Kate Hudson, Mariah Carey and Madonna. None of these big stars will read or take my advice, of course. Never mind! … I gave it." Attagirl!
SHARPS 'N' FLATS: Nominations for the 10th Annual Canadian Independent Music Awards – "The Indies" – are now open. Submissions are being
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accepted through The Indie Awards website at http://www.indies.ca, as well as through Sonicbids at http://www.sonicbids.com/indies2010 until December 15, The awards will be handed out on Saturday, March 13, 2010 in Toronto as part of Canadian Music Week. For additional eligibility requirements, voting procedures and a complete list of award categories, click here ... Kim Mitchell, Divine Brown, Broken Social Scene and The Beauties (a.k.a. Now magazine's Top Indy Band Of The Year) have all signed on to spread musical cheer at the fifth annual Andy Kim Christmas Show on Dec. 9 at The MOD Club. All Proceeds will benefit the Regent Park School Of Music. Call Ticketmaster to
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reserve your seats now … and at long last, veteran showstopper Judy Marshak has finally released her first album, A Matter Of Time, and as expected, it's a musical bonbon to savour. Marshak brings a unique interpretation to tunes by Harold Arlen, Joni Mitchell and Randy Newman, but the real revelation is the calibre of her lyrical collaborations with John Alcorn, including the title track (not to be confused with the John Kander-Fred Ebb song created for the 1976 Vincente Minnelli film of the same name.) Add such top-of-the-heap musicians as Rob Piltch, Marc Rogers, Denis Keldie, Guido Basso and Davide Direnzo, and your ears will thank you for listening. To sample some of the Marshak's musical magic, just click here.
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TIFF-bound Oprah is set for a pretty sensational September so far. She'll jet here to celebrate the Sunday Sept 13 world premiere of her new film, Precious, before launching another new season of Oprah! the next day with an hour-long exclusive heart-to-heart with tortured but gifted diva Whitney Houston.
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"That's true!" says Tune, now 69 years young. "I borrowed the title from two of my idols, Sir Noel Coward and Fred Astaire. Coward gave that title to Astaire's biography, so I have purloined it!"… and speaking of Tommy Tune, Renée Zellwegger's new movie, My One And Only, is not, repeat, not the screen version of the great Broadway musical Tommy created for himself and Twiggy. In this one Zellwegger plays a social beauty who is out to land a husband to take care of her and her two boys. Renée's character is apparently based on Palm Beach matriarch Ann Devereaux Hamilton, whose sons include the ultra-tanned movie star George … and speaking of Twiggy, did you catch Bryan Adams' fabulous photos of her inside (and on the cover, natch) of the fall issue of Zoomer magazine? Does anyone take better celebrity portraits than Adams? Not that I can see.
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Ritchie is in London, working on post-production of Sherlock Holmes, which is still slated for a Christmas Day release with Robert Downey Jr., Jude Law and Rachel McAdams … Julie & Julia filmmaker Nora Ephron's next work, a collaboration with her talented sister Delia, is a play called Love, Loss and What I Wore, set to open October 1 at the West Side Theater in Manhattan … my Brit spies whisper that Madonna plans to direct a new movie musical about the Duke & Duchess Of Windsor and wants Cate Blanchett and David Tennant (TV's Dr. Who) to play Wallis Simpson and the king who gave up his throne for her … and director Todd Haynes has persuaded Oscar winner Kate Winslet to star as Mildred Pierce, the role that won Joan Crawford her Oscar, in a six-part mini-series remake of the James M. Cain novel. (The original was cleaned up considerably to get by Hollywood's once-stringent production code.) Now all director Haynes has to do is find the right actress to tackle the role of Mildred's vengeful daughter, so memorably played in the original by the usually saint-like Ann Blyth.
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Coronation Street to 6:30 pm. Which meant more grumbling from Corrie fanatics (and yes, you know who you are) … Microsoft launched its new msn.ca website with fairly modest fanfare … Montreal-based TQS (Television Quatre Saisons) showed off its new name, "V", its new direction (more fun, less doom 'n' gloom) and announced a new political affairs show hosted by Mario Dumont … Showcase showed off its new look and its new logo, just like brand new sneakers on the first day of school … and Canada's struggling 'E' network bit the dust as new owner Channel Zero relaunched its 'E' stations with a new format. (Whew! Glad that's over.)
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NO PEOPLE LIKE SHOW PEOPLE: Erudite interviewer Evan Solomon will take a page out of Reach For The Top host Alex Trebek's dictionary next
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season when he hosts CBC's new reality game show, Canada's Super Speller, as 12 young finalists vie for the title. (Okay, kids, can you spell S=t-r-o-u-m-b-o-u-l-o-p-o-u-l-o-s?) … fans of Scott Speedman and Arsinee Khanjian will soon to get to see their much-anticipated work in Atom Egoyan's prize-winning Adoration when the drama opens here next month. For a sneak preview, click here … and you've probably heard all about it by now, but Lindsay Lohan's send-up of her somewhat battered public persona, created earlier this month for Will Ferrell's Funny Or Die website, gets smarter and funnier every time I revisit it. If you missed it, click here. And enjoy!
SOMETHING'S GOTTA GIVE: Dutch-based production company Endemol, creator of the controversial Big Brother reality TV franchise, is tapping into the global recession and struggling businesses with Someone's Gotta Go, a series
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set to air on Fox TV. Workers at struggling firms will be enlisted to choose who will get a pay cut, a raise in salary, or lose his or her job completely — based on information about their colleagues' pay and reviews of their past performance. One troubled company — and a new layoff — will be featured each week.
According to Endemol, the concept "is the reverse of reality shows like The Apprentice or The Rebel Billionaire, in which a business mogul like Donald Trump, Alan Sugar or Richard Branson progressively whittles down prospective employees in a prolonged survival challenge/job interview."
True — but Survivor candidates have been voting each other off the island for almost two decades, and Big Brother's 'houseguests' have voted to evict each other for the past 10 seasons. So a new show it may be, but a highly original concept it ain't.
PRESLEY: secret chef?
SOMEONE'S IN THE KITCHEN WITH ELVIS: Who is it? None other than New York gossip girl Liz Smith, still the showbiz columnist of choice. In her book Dishing Liz writes about her collection of Elvis Presley cookbooks. "These actually exist," she insists. "Are You Hungry Tonight? …The Presley Family & Friends Cookbook … The I Love Elvis Cookbook, and the one that is my all-time favorite, Life & Cuisine of Elvis Presley." Liz claims she often goes to bed hungry and just reads Life & Cuisine with her mouth watering. "Elvis might have lived longer if he'd eaten only fish, tofu and vegetables," she muses – "but can one call that living? I can't see Elvis getting off food anymore than he could get off drugs. Linus had his blanket … Proust his Madeleine … Elvis had his (cook) Pauline on duty."
DAVID IS HIS LYNCH-PIN: Last year film director David Lynch (Twin Peaks) gave a speech about the nature of Creativity that proved inspirational for
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singer-songwriter Moby. Moby says Lynch's remarks led him to focus on making a new album he loved, without really overly concerned about how many CDs he might sell."As a result," he says, "it's a quieter, more melodic, more mournful and more personal record than some of the records I've made in the past,"
EMI Music Canada will release Moby's new album Wait For Me in Canada on June 30th. And the video for the album's debut track, Shot In The Back Of The Head, is shot by none other than ol' Blue Velvet-eyes himself, David Lyuch. And you can watch it here.
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The end of consensus politics in the Netherlands
Part III: The historical roots of consensus politics
This is the last part of a three-part article on the political background to the decline of social democracy and the rise of the right-wing populist movement headed by the late Pim Fortuyn in the Netherlands. Part one appeared on August 23 and part two appeared on August 24.
The change of government in the Netherlands followed a pattern observable throughout the whole of Europe.
In the second half of the 1990s, almost all the 15 European Union (EU) governments were led by social democrats. Today the number has fallen to five (Britain, Sweden, Finland, Greece and Germany), and all polls point to a transition of power in Germany after the national elections on September 22. The social democrats also constitute the junior partner in the coalition government led by the liberals in Belgium.
In Austria, Italy, Denmark, Portugal, France and the Netherlands over the past two years, social democrats have been replaced by conservative parties, often ruling in alliance with extreme right-wing populists. In general, the conservatives owe their election success to the disappointment and anger aroused by the social democrats. This was often expressed in a massive degree of voter abstention and was in some cases successfully exploited by the right-wing populists.
The Netherlands is by no means an exceptional case. However, politics of consensus have a longer tradition there than in any other European country. A look at Dutch history shows just how fundamental the political transformation currently under way in Europe really is.
The tradition of consensus politics
The roots of consensus politics reach back to the time of the early bourgeois revolution in the sixteenth century. At the time, the provinces of the Netherlands were part of the Habsburg Empire, headed by the Spanish king, who ruled the Protestants with an iron fist and defended the feudal order with all the might of the Catholic Church.
In the course of their struggle against the Spanish yoke, the southern components of the 17 provinces of the Netherlands broke away from those in the north. The south—today's Belgium—was economically backward and remained Catholic, like Spain. The northern provinces, however, were heavily engaged in extending trade throughout the North Sea and fostering urban economy and culture. Lutheran Protestantism had made an early appearance there, followed by the Baptist religion and finally Calvinism, the dominant ideological force in opposition to feudal, Catholic Spain.
The northern provinces joined together in the Union of Utrecht in 1579 and succeeded in deposing their Spanish rulers two years later. Thus came into being the first Republic of the Netherlands. Owing to the division of region into provinces, its basic organisation did not take the form of a unified, centralised nation state—like those then beginning to take shape in France and Britain under the absolute power of monarchs—but of the political union of various provinces and towns of equal standing.
Since then, economic progress, internal stability and political continuity within the republic have largely been based on the art of recognising and respecting the particular interests of the various provinces, the various urban ruling classes, the various religious denominations and trade associations, and balancing them all in a "consensus," i.e., without completely suppressing or excluding any of the social, political or religious entities.
The upper classes' politics of consensus extended into the domain of social policy in relation to the subordinate classes. Unique within Europe in the seventeenth century, this led to the establishment of poorhouses and other welfare institutions, designed to defuse social conflict and strengthen the internal stability of the republic.
In the nineteenth century, this tradition was consciously continued in order to safeguard the domination of the bourgeoisie against the working class, which emerged with industrialisation, and the revolutionary movement it threatened to spawn. In 1848, farsighted middle-class politicians, led by the liberal Johan Rudolf Thorbecke, prevented the spread to the Netherlands of the revolutionary uprisings that had broken out all over Europe by implementing the first political reforms towards parliamentary democracy.
In the following decades, fundamental democratic rights such as freedom of assembly, freedom of education and postal privacy were gradually introduced. Toward the end of the nineteenth century, when the relatively late arrival of industrialisation in the Netherlands led to a drastic increase in the impoverishment and misery of the working class, social reforms were introduced to alleviate the worst of these excesses.
The bourgeoisie responded to the growth of the organised working class movement with a brand of politics known in the Netherlands as "verzuiling" (social building blocks). Each of the major Christian denominations, the Calvinist Protestants and the Catholic Church, formed one of these blocks, with its own schools, welfare and leisure institutions, media, political parties and trade unions, with the responsibility of bridging and concealing the growing gulf between the classes. Later, blocks formed from the reformist, social democratic unions and parties, as well as blocks from the business community and their parties and corporations, were added to the two denominational blocks.
Sustained by the enormous wealth accumulated from the colonial suppression of the people of Ceylon, Indonesia and Suriname and also by the organised slave trade, the Netherlands bourgeoisie was able to buttress these political blocks through the implementation of social reforms.
After the political and economic collapse caused by the Nazi occupation and the Second World War, the policy of socially cushioned consensus was revived and resumed. The increasing integration of the Netherlands into world trade and into the European Union compensated for the loss of colonies in the post-war era. Consensus politics was based on the domination of social democracy over the working class.
The ideal of tolerance and its historical tradition
After the backwardness of the Dark Ages, the social ideal of hospitality and tolerance towards refugees, the heterodox and other dissenters found its first formulation in the early bourgeois revolution in the Netherlands. Owing to the necessity of uniting all social layers, all denominations and language groups in the struggle for liberation from Spanish oppression, the Union of Utrecht was expressly established in 1579 on the principle of religious freedom and tolerance towards dissidents.
In that era of the dawning of the European bourgeois revolution, the age of the Renaissance and Humanism, the Netherlands produced such important scientists and philosophers as Erasmus of Rotterdam, Hugo Grotius and Baruch Spinoza.
Erasmus of Rotterdam countered the medieval fundamentalism of the Christian scholastics with the authority and autonomy of human understanding and reason, and was the first to propagate the concept of individual freedom and tolerance in regard to religious issues. Against the background of the competition between the emerging Netherlands republic and the English and Spanish empires for colonies and control of the seas, Hugo Grotius, a leading representative of the Enlightenment, developed the concept of international civil rights.
Baruch Spinoza was one of the most outstanding spirits and one of the most attractive personalities in the whole of human history. His emphatic support for the democratic republican type of state against monarchy was rooted in his optimistic belief in the progressive nature of human reason, the pure and natural sciences and technology, and in his largely materialist philosophy of life in general. His personal modesty and readiness to help the poor were associated with a fundamental opposition to social inequality.
When Elector Karl Ludwig of the Palatinate, one of the more than 300 feudal princes throughout Germany, offered Spinoza, despite reproaches against the Dutch philosopher's quasi-atheistic views, the chair of philosophy at the University of Heidelberg in 1772, Spinoza refused with polite but determined words. He preferred to live in a republic, even if no public office or riches were granted him there. He argued that he was unsure of where "limits on the freedom to philosophise" would be drawn in the public office offered him in a princedom. Four years later, the Palatinate Electorate was conquered by the French army, its count expelled and the university placed under the trusteeship of the Catholic Church and its dogmas.
Except for the period of the wars of religion in the seventeenth century, the Netherlands was considered, long after Erasmus of Rotterdam and Spinoza, to be a tolerant country that accepted political refugees and persecuted peoples like the Jews with great hospitality. It was still well known for its liberal traditions in the nineteenth century.
In 1848, Thorbecke, then prime minister and author of the parliamentary constitution, considered it very important to disassociate himself from neighbouring Prussia, its militarism and police-state tradition, at least when it came to home rule in the Netherlands. Of course, this did not hold for the subjugation of the colonies. "At home we want a state where no police patrol the streets," he declared.
That these democratic and liberal traditions had long since ceased to constitute the basis of middle-class politics became clear at least by the time of the German occupation, when the police and all of the other authorities worked hand in hand with the Nazis to deport and murder 110,000 of the 140,000 Jews of the Netherlands. After the war, the Netherlands bourgeoisie concentrated its ideological endeavours on hushing up this collaboration and giving the appearance of continuing the democratic ideals of its revolutionary origins by reviving the politics of consensus.
Today, however, it has officially relinquished any claim to espouse a political programme for the whole society, for all classes. It is openly preparing for confrontation rather than consensus, and will thus inevitably provoke the social uprisings it has sought to avoid for 150 years.
In the Netherlands, it is the working class that has the task of defending democratic principles, one of the most important of which is the right to move freely throughout the world to find work and a place to live. In this respect, it can draw on the tradition of the protracted general strike against the persecution and deportation of the Jews of Amsterdam in February 1941. This constituted the only large-scale class response from workers to defend the Jews against the Nazis in Europe.
Above all, the working class must confront the historical task of establishing a new society on the basis of social equality. Understood in this context, the fight against racism, xenophobia and the prevalent indifference to the fate of refugees and immigrants is more than a humanitarian duty. The international alliance of working people is a strategic task, which will determine the fate of the working class in the Netherlands and the whole world.


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We call playing together: marriage counseling. When we're playing co-op, we have to work together and communicate. When we play competitively, she teaches me how to lose.
Unfortunately, we haven't been able to arrange a time for me to be target practice. Well, we have. We've just been too tired or stretched thin to sit down and play together. But no more!
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Q: jQuery .on() or javascript:function()? I'm dealing with some pages that are build using ajax calls to the server, so I am relying on .on() to attach event handlers to new items.
I was wondering, however, if, when possible, is it more efficient to rely on the old javascript:function() to call a function, whenever the event handler is a click.
Here's an example.
I get from the server a link element a:
Do More!

and I insert it in the document like so:
// ajax call and so
$(this).html(response);

To "do more" I then have two ways (there might be other ways but I'm not aware of them, but any suggestion is welcome!):
$(document).on("click",".clssThatDoesMore",function(){ // I need (document)
     // here something will be done
});

or
doMoreStuff(){
    // here something will be done as well
}

As far as I know both solutions are pretty much cross-browser (I've tested href="javascript:function()" and it goes back at least to IE8), but in case I'm wrong please let me know!
I was wondering if an excess of .on() "listeners" may pose to much load on the browser, and so if it is better to rely on javascript:function(), or if, on the contrary, .on() does not require much resources at all and having several .on() listeners in the page is not a problem.
PS I've abandoned onclick="doMoreStuff()" since in Safari it was not working, while in FF the same exact code was and so was in Safari if done usinge href="javascript:doMoreStuff().
PPS this is not the same old question js v. jquery, to me the point is not which in general terms is more efficient, I would like to understand what's the best way in which this particular task can be achieved :-)

A: javascript:doMoreStuff() is just as bad, if not worse, than onclick="doMoreStuff()".  You have a lack of flexibility, no fallback if JS is not enabled, and the javascript: pseudo-protocol is not even compliant as I understand.
Let's forget about efficiency and just focus on the fact that .on is much cleaner.  You can separate it out from the html/ajax, and it's very simple to see what you are doing and change it later.
As for efficiency, I don't think you will notice a difference.  .on is very slightly less efficient in that the click event has to traverse the DOM tree a bit to figure out whether the event should fire, but that's very small potatoes.

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Attaching many delegated event handlers near the top of the document tree can degrade performance. Each time the event occurs, jQuery must compare all selectors of all attached events of that type to every element in the path from the event target up to the top of the document. For best performance, attach delegated events at a document location as close as possible to the target elements. Avoid excessive use of document or document.body for delegated events on large documents.

From http://api.jquery.com/on/#event-performance
Just to add my two cents, i would focus more on the performance of my callback functions instead of the number of them. Memory is cheap and unless you reach crazy amounts of event handlers (100s), you will not see any performance impact based on their number.

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Derek Carr wants to splurge at Chick-fil-A
should seek a marketing deal with Chick-fil-A. He gave the fast-food restaurant a shoutout Friday during a press conference officially to announce his new deal with the Raiders, getting it plenty of free publicity.
Carr's five-year, $125 million deal makes him the highest-paid player in NFL history, prompting a question about where the quarterback will spend his newfound riches.
"Chick-fil-A," Carr answered to laughter. "Probably Chick-fil-A. I've been eating clean. I'll probably get some Chick-fil-A."
Carr actually has big plans to use some of the money for the greater good. He said he will continue to tithe, something he has done since college, and hopes to help the less fortunate.
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1 j Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children. 2 And k walk in love, l as Christ loved us and m gave himself up for us, a n fragrant o offering and sacrifice to God.
and o Christ will shine on you."
15 p Look carefully then how you walk, not as unwise but as wise, 16 p making the best use of the time, because q the days are evil. 17 Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what r the will of the Lord is. 18 And s do not get drunk with wine, for that is t debauchery, but u be filled with the Spirit, 19 addressing one another in v psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody to the Lord with your heart, 20 w giving thanks always and for everything to God the Father x in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, 21 y submitting to one another out of reverence for Christ.
22 z Wives, a submit to your own husbands, b as to the Lord. 23 For c the husband is the head of the wife even as d Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is e himself its Savior. 24 Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit f in everything to their husbands.
25 g Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and h gave himself up for her, 26 that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by i the washing of water j with the word, 27 so k that he might present the church to himself in splendor, l without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish. 1 28 In the same way m husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. 29 For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church, 30 because n we are members of his body. 31 o "Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and p the two shall become one flesh." 32 This mystery is profound, and I am saying that it refers to Christ and the church. 33 However, q let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she r respects her husband.
But when Christ had offered for all time a single sacrifice for sins, he sat down at the right hand of God.
And Jesus answered them, "See that no one leads you astray.
O house of Jacob, come, let us walk in the light of the Lord.
The master commended the dishonest manager for his shrewdness. For the sons of this world are more shrewd in dealing with their own generation than the sons of light.
So Jesus said to them, "The light is among you for a little while longer. Walk while you have the light, lest darkness overtake you. The one who walks in the darkness does not know where he is going.
Who gave himself for our sins to deliver us from the present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father.
But now I am writing to you not to associate with anyone who bears the name of brother if he is guilty of sexual immorality or greed, or is an idolater, reviler, drunkard, or swindler - not even to eat with such a one.
To the woman he said, "I will surely multiply your pain in childbearing; in pain you shall bring forth children. Your desire shall be for your husband, and he shall rule over you.
Slaves, obey your earthly masters with fear and trembling, with a sincere heart, as you would Christ.
And he put all things under his feet and gave him as head over all things to the church.
Slaves are to be submissive to their own masters in everything; they are to be well-pleasing, not argumentative.
And have tasted the goodness of the word of God and the powers of the age to come.
Then the man said, "This at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.
And said, 'Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh'?
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As UNT's creative and scholarly footprint grows, so does the campus, which has seen the addition of spaces that encourage collaboration from arts to sciences to athletics -- and everything in between.
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ince 1890, UNT's facilities have been home to scientific breakthroughs, artistic achievements, professional collaborations and lifelong friendships. As our dedicated, creative community of scholars, artists and innovators continues to grow, so does our campus, each improvement thoughtfully designed to empower our students and faculty to succeed.
Students moving into Joe Greene Hall, UNT's newest residence hall, this fall.
This spring, the newly constructed Welcome Center opened as the "front door" to our university. Centrally located at the corner of Maple Street and Avenue A, the center is designed to connect the thousands of prospective students, families and guests who visit our campus each year with the information they need to see themselves here at UNT.
The spacious new building is decked out with Mean Green pride from floor to ceiling, and digital information along the walls offers virtual tours and in-depth information about our programs and facilities. One of the Welcome Center's most unique features is a mock residence hall that allows prospective students to envision what campus life is really like. The Dining Services, Housing and Residence Life offices were relocated to the Welcome Center's adjacent and second floor so that questions can easily be answered before or after a campus tour.
Joe Greene Hall is the newest addition to UNT's student housing. Named for football legend and UNT alumnus Joe Greene, the 580-bed residence hall features double occupancy rooms primarily for freshman students.
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The Pecan Creek Pollinative Prairie is a native North Central Texas tallgrass prairie reconstruction project located in the east field at Discovery Park. In May 2016, UNT ecology staff and students initiated the project to provide a space for students, faculty and staff to promote conservation and sustainable urban landscaping of native habitats for declining pollinator populations.
In late 2018, the College of Visual Arts and Design unveiled its new four-story building complete with sky bridges and wide hallways for pop-up exhibitions. One of the most technologically advanced art facilities in the world, the building is constructed with UNT's signature green consciousness and offers extensive back-of-house research and study spaces, but its heart is the multi-purpose courtyard where students and faculty can meet, collaborate and find inspiration.
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IRPRESUNIV.ORG, CIKARANG – On the 25th of March 2019, the Foreign Affairs division of President University Major Association of International Relations (PUMA IR) recently conducted an event, allowing the students of International Relations of President University to have the chance to visit the Embassy of South Korea in Jakarta. The visit was participated by approximately 43 students of batches 2017 and 2018, accompanied by Mr. Hendra Manurung, and Mr. Anggara Raharyo as one of the lecturers.
The participants had gathered at President University Student Housing on the Monday morning, before arriving at the Embassy of South Korea located in Setiabudi, South of Jakarta City at 9.00 AM. There were several speakers that presented during the visit. The first was from His Excellency Ambassador Chang Beom Kim, the current ambassador of the Embassy of South Korea. HE Kim had expressed his gratitude for the participation and involvement, expressing that he was grateful to help with the future leaders, before it transitioned to Miss Ji Young Park, who had shown her presentation explaining of the relationship between Indonesia and South Korea. There were many interesting points that were given through the presentation, giving the participants deeper insight to how the bilateral cooperation between the two states have been for the past decades.
It proceeded to a question and answer session after the presentation, where questions from the students of President University's International Relations Study Program were answered by Miss Ji Young Park herself, and also Mr. Hendra Manurung expressing much gratitude for the activeness of the students in showcasing the knowledge and curiosity for the bilateral relationship.
After the question and answer session, it proceeded to a sharing session from two women that work in the embassy, Mrs. Cut Mefiani Theresia and Mrs. Joan, who were both involved in the Embassy of South Korea. They had explained their experience in working with the embassy, the likes and dislikes of working in an embassy, and informed the participants that the embassy does hold scholarships for Indonesian students to study in South Korea.
The event had closed off with Mr. Hendra Manurung and Andi Amirah Ajani, as Project Manager, giving the tokens of appreciation to Miss Ji Young Park, before the photo session, and a bit of free time for the participants, which marked the end of the visit.


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Karen's Korner: Movies, retro style
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Today (Jan. 8) is the birthday of the King of Rock 'n Roll, old swivel-hips himself, Elvis Presley. If he were alive today he'd be in his mid-80's. Wow. As a little girl I attended his movies, I think he churned out three a year back in the 60's, with my older sister and my mom. Several generations of women swooning in a theater. Double wow, a sight never seen in this day and age. Despite his hip-swiveling, lip curling smile, those movies were family friendly – no cuss words, not even a hint at sex just mild smooching. There was lots of singing, sometimes some dancing, sometimes a fistfight or two, sometimes an auto race. More than a few took place in the beautiful state of Hawaii, a few in Las Vegas – the setting didn't matter much since the movies were all about the singing and Elvis, for the most part, getting the girl. There were a few deviations from that theme "Love Me Tender" coming to mind immediately with "Change of Habit" hard on its heels. There were probably more – "Charro" for one --they all tend to blend a bit since there were so many similarities in the others.
Anyway, on Presley's birthday I came home from work to find Elvis and the lovely Ann-Margret singing and dancing across the small screen in my living room. "Viva Las Vegas" finds Elvis needing money to fix his car so he can take part in an auto race. He lost his cash when A-M pushed him into a swimming pool so he's forced to take a job as a waiter in a swank hotel to earn some coin. The pushing into the pool part was a sort of foreplay set to song. "The lady loves me, she just doesn't know it yet." There is much singing and dancing, an auto race and Elvis gets the girl with the wedding taking place in a Las Vegas chapel. Oh, the irony. Following that was "Spinout", another race-type flick, with Elvis leading a band of free-wheeling musicians who are stopped in their tracks when spoiled rich girl Shelley Fabares wants them (him really) to sing for her birthday and daddy makes it happen by underhanded means. There are several girls gotten in this one, but Elvis escapes unscathed to romance another day, possibly with the band's new drummer since the former got herself hitched to a police officer. Ah the plot lines.
It brought back memories. "Harum Scarum" with Elvis as some sort of sheik and the gal who played Mary Ann on "Gilligan's Island" his love interest, that one weirded me out a bit. "Kissing Cousins", where Elvis played twins, one blonde (his true hair color), one dark, one countrified, one citified, each get a girl in that silly romp. "Girls, Girls, Girls" is a Hawaiian treat that features some cute kiddos. "Blue Hawaii" has Elvis returning from military service to Hawaii, where his folks want him to become part of the family's pineapple-growing business. He and his love interest have other plans. Lots of singing, a bit of intrigue and again, Elvis gets the girl. Those few and so many more, mostly fluff and Elvis singing, snapping that knee and those fingers. Good clean fun. I miss that.
It was a walk down Memory Lane for sure, watching those two flicks from a simpler time and remembering many others from back in the day. It left me a bit sad thinking how a talented young man who grew up poor in the south was marketed and molded, his talent traded on by those who were supposed to be attending to his interests with him in mind. (I'll be interested to see how the very talented Tom Hanks plays Colonel Tom Parker, Elvis' "handler" in an upcoming flick). Elvis' return to TV special of, I believe 1968, maybe 1969, was truly phenomenal and showed off his myriad talents, not just the musical but the comedic as well. And while I wouldn't expect him to be gyrating around the stage at age 85, just maybe there was more he could have contributed to the entertainment industry, or other areas, if he'd lived past the not so ripe young age of 42!
A favorite Elvis movie? Impossible. A favorite Elvis song? Just as tough. He spanned too many genres. I favor the gospel tunes and the fun-loving ones like "Teddy Bear" or "Hound Dog." How 'bout you?
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Hang Tuah 'did not exist', claims historian
An article in Berita Harian yesterday quoted Universiti Malaya's Prof Dr Ahmat Adam as saying Hang Tuah was a fictional character. Pix courtesy of Harian Metro.
By Arman Ahmad - December 12, 2015 @ 11:48am
KUALA LUMPUR: Hang Tuah did not exist, and the claims that were made by some people who said they are his descendants are fables, asserts a damning report published in Berita Harian yesterday.
The article, which quotes Universiti Malaya's Prof Dr Ahmat Adam, said Hang Tuah was a fictional character that existed in the classic texts of Sejarah Melayu and Hikayat Hang Tuah only, therefore claims of a finding of a grave and artifact related to him need more in-depth research .
Universiti Malaya's Prof Dr Ahmat Adam speaking at a history seminar organised by Universiti Malaya's history department entitled 'Wujudkah Hang Tuah?'. Pix by Rohanis Shukri
The grave that is said to belong to Hang Tuah was good for tourism, but it was not the real resting place of the legendary warrior, said Ahmat in the report.
Berita Harian quoted Ahmat as saying this at a history seminar organised by Universiti Malaya's history department entitled 'Wujudkah Hang Tuah?'.
In fact, the name 'Hang Tuah' did not exist in 15th and 16th century and was detected for the first time in Hikayat Acheh, which was written in the 17th century.
"Those who are historians must remember, Sejarah Melayu is fiction which can be termed literary history text but not historical text.
"The character of Hang Tuah was already mentioned in Hikayat Hang Tuah which was written before Sejarah Melayu, so it was a character that was borrowed into the copy," said Ahmat in the Berita Harian report.
Ahmat said Malay authors of the era did not use real names for characters except for those of the Raja. What existed was the word Laksamana which means a follower of the Raja which is loyal, and this did not refer specifically to Hang Tuah.
"The word Laksamana refers to the title which is used by the Raja's follower that is loyal, while Hang Tuah is really Tuha which mean 'tua' or leader of leader. It was stated as Tuah because researchers had failed to read Jawi correctly.
"The word 'Hang' on the other hand, is an ancient Malay word which means skilled craftsman. Laksamana Hang Tuah is a title and does not refer to a person that we today know as Hang Tuah," he said.
In the Berita Harian report, Ahmat said the zeal of some researchers to prove the existence of Hang Tuah needed to be tempered by more research. The veracity of that source also needed to be verified.
Ahmat added that history needed to be based on objective truths and be impartial.
"I don't see that the claim of Hang Tuah's non-existence will upset the Malays because this is an academic opinion," he said.
If there are those who are upset, then they are ignorant, he added.
Last month, Universiti Putra Malaysia researchers created a stir when they claimed they found documents and an artifact related to Hang Tuah in the Okinawa prefecture of Japan.
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IMF Reveals Actual Data on Russia's GDP Growth Projection
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WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – The International Monetary Fund (IMF) confirmed its forecast that the Russian economy would grow by 1.7 percent and 1.5 percent in 2018 and 2019 respectively, the organization said in a statement.
"Growth is projected at 1.7 percent in 2018, supported by rising credit and disposable incomes … The medium-term outlook remains muted, due to structural bottlenecks and the lingering impact of sanctions. Absent structural reforms, growth is expected to settle around 1.5 percent, while monetary policy stabilizes inflation around 4 percent by end-2019," the IMF said in a Wednesday statement released after the consultations with the Russian authorities.
Fitch: Russia 'Copes Well' With New US Sanctions, Economy Resilient to Shocks
The organization pointed out that the Russian economy was recovering from the 2015 – 2016 recession due to the effective policy of the Russian government and high oil prices. At the same time the IMF said that the main risks to the Russian economy stemmed from the geopolitical tensions as well as the announced government's policy plans.
Russian Deputy Finance Minister Leonid Gornin saidlast week that Russia's GDP would at least double in 20 years in the normal course of events.
As economy grows, the ambitiousness of such plans will inevitably grow as well because the cost of the facility, for example, if we are talking about the second branch of the Severomuisk Tunnel through the Baikal-Amur Mainline – one of the most controversial objects today – its cost now is around several hundred billion rubles, maybe even more, but it will be about the same in 20 years, and in 20 years Russia's GDP will at least double in the normal course of events," Gornin told the Moscow Financial Forum.
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Moody's: First Set of US Sanctions Will Have Limited Impact on Russian Economy
Global trade has been in turmoil with a rise of protectionism, currency instability in a number of countries, wild commodity price fluctuations as well as so-called trade wars involving mainly the United States and sanctions used as a geopolitical tool, with the latter hitting the Russian economy repeatedly. Sanctions have been rolled out against Russia in rounds since 2014 mainly over the Ukrainian crisis, while the United States began introducing higher import tariffs since Donald Trump became president last year.
Meanwhile, according to the Russian State Statistics Service, Russia's GDP grew 1.6 percent in the first half of this year, while investment in Russia in the first half of 2018 grew 3.2 percent, comparing to the same period last year.
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from The Century Dictionary.
noun Protoxid of lead, or yellow oxid of lead, PbO.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
noun (Chem.) Lead monoxide (also called Lead protoxide), PbO, obtained as a yellow amorphous powder, the fused and crystalline form of which is called litharge; lead ocher. It is used as a pigment. It is also called lead oxide yellow, as opposed to red lead, which is lead tetroxide Pb3O4.
noun chemistry lead monoxide, PbO, obtained as a yellow amorphous powder, the fused and crystalline form of which is called litharge; lead ocher. It is used as a pigment; also, lead oxide yellow, as opposed to red lead, which is lead tetroxide Pb3O4.
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noun the mineral form of lead monoxide; in the form of yellow powder it is used as a pigment
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[Middle English masticot, from Old French, perhaps from Old Italian marzacotto, potter's glaze (perhaps from Spanish mazacote, mortar), possibly from Arabic masḥaqūnīyā, perhaps of Greek origin.]
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French massicot; English masticot is a corruption
Several, including massicot or giallolino, purple of Cassius reference, and Drebbel's red, predated the epoch.
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Parlant de mon massicot, je vais le ramener — il croche beaucoup trop quand on coupe et du coup, il coupe pas 100% droit-lisse…
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Ton coupe-papier guillotine sans guillotine s'appelle un "massicot".
It is an oxide of uncertain composition, prepared by subjecting massicot to the heat of
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_Orange Lead_, of a dull orange colour, is an orange protoxide of lead or massicot.
This is procured by mixing massicot, or Naples yellow, with a small quantity of realgar, and a very little Spanish white.
Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets
A wooden door was now put up, and the baking was left to itself for about twenty-four hours, at the end of which time the lead would have become transformed into a yellowish powder, known as massicot.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864
Upon all vegetable lakes, except those of madder, they have a destructive effect; and are injurious to gamboge, as well as to those almost obsolete pigments, red and orange leads, king's and patent yellow, massicot, and orpiment.
Mr. Gummage immediately supplied her with two bristle brushes, and sundry little shallow earthen cups, each containing a modicum of some sort of body color, massicot, flake-white, etc., prepared by himself and charged at a quarter of a dollar apiece, and which he told her she would want when she came to do landscapes and figures.
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David Bowie's 'The Next' Day' Album: A Track-by-Track Preview
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Magic Shop & Kabir Hermon
Tony Visconti has been producing David Bowie's albums since Space Oddity in 1969. They've worked together on many of Bowie's greatest triumphs, including Heroes, Young Americans and Scary Monsters. After a long break, they joined forces again in the early 2000s for Heathen and Reality. Two years ago, he started working with Bowie on his long-awaited new album, The Next Day.
Rolling Stone spoke to Visconti about the pair's secret sessions, how medieval English history inspired some of the songs and why it's unlikely that Bowie will tour – though a single show remains possible. As the producer noted, his other longtime collaborator, Morrissey, has the opposite plan. . . but he'll get to that.
Was there ever a point over the past few years where you thought that Bowie would never record again?
I was a little scared after he had his heart condition. He had a little scare himself. I didn't speak to him for a year after that. He was just recovering and just not talking to anybody. But I was one of the first people he emailed afterwards and we were steadily in contact since then. But he never really brought up music until two years ago. So he never said to me he retired, and every time I saw him in person, he looked in really good health.
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All these rumors started going around about his health. Every time I had lunch with him, or coffee with him, I'm looking at him and my dear old friend was looking really good. But music didn't interest him until two years ago; that's when he made the call. He said, "How would you like to make some demos?" And I was a little shocked, quite honestly; it was just so casual. It was just the next topic in the discussion.
How did the process begin?
I was working on another project in London, and he didn't know that. He said, "Well, when are you going to get back?" I said, "In a few days." The next morning after I returned, I was in the studio with him playing bass. We had Sterling Campbell on drums, Gerry Leonard on guitar and David on keyboards. We were in this little studio down in the East Village doing demos for a week. I was pinching myself. I couldn't believe it was really happening. From nothing, right into this demo situation.
Did he have fleshed-out songs at this point?
Yes, he wrote them at home. He had an eight- or 16-track digital recorder. They were quite fleshed out. He had nice bass line ideas and drum patterns. We quickly took down the names of the chords and we scribbled it out on paper. Gerry Leonard and I read from the chord sheet. The room was about eight-by-eight, which included a drum kit. We were on top of each other, gasping for air after an hour or two.
What sparked all this? He had been gone for so many years at this point
He just said, "I feel like writing again." I don't know long prior to that he began writing. He just came up with about eight songs.
How many days did you spend demoing in that East Village studio?
We spent five days, and we didn't record anything until the last day. We just kept writing down notes. On the fifth day, it was hard to try to remember what we did on the first day. But we got them down and this guy at the studio had a basic Pro Tools rig, and we got them down. This is November 2010. Then he disappeared for four months and said, "I'm gonna start writing now." So he wrote more songs and then he fleshed those out even more. He came up with lyrics and melodies, which he didn't have at first. But that's typical of every record I started to work with him. Scary Monsters, every album started out with maybe one finished song and 10 ideas, so this is typical.
What happened next?
In April of 2011 we went into a downtown New York studio. We only worked for two-week periods. We would take as long as two months off after each period, and he would go and write some more stuff. I would listen to it and get some ideas, sketch out some overdub things, and we'd be in constant communication during those periods. So this is about 18 months ago. If you added up all the weeks in the studio, we probably actually spent three-and-a-half months.
You've said that the first single, "Where Are We Now," isn't like any other song on the album. Do the other songs look back on his life like that one?
Not really; that's the only one. It's really the only one of its kind. Everything else on the album is kind of observations. He's writing in the third person. Some of them belong to his life, but some of them are things like social commentary. He was reading a lot of medieval English history books, and he came up with one medieval English history song. That's the title track, "The Next Day." It's about somebody who was a tyrant, very insignificant; I didn't even know who he was talking about. But if you read the lyrics, it's quite a horrific story.
You've said there are five rockers on the album.
Yeah. "The Next Day" rocks out. Same with "The Stars (Are Out Tonight)" – that rocks out, too.
Are the non-rockers more mellow? What's their vibe?
They're more funky, mid-tempo songs. Very evocative. "Dirty Boys," the second song on the album, is very sleazy.
Sleazy in what sense?
It's dark and it's sexy. There's a fantastic sax solo. You know, David plays baritone sax, but he invited his friend Steve Elson to do the baritone on this album. I think Steve was in the Saturday Night Live band. He's a little guy, and he's got a huge baritone sax, and he plays this dirty solo in it that sounds like stripper music from the 1950s. Old bump-and-grind stripper music . . . It wouldn't be out of place on Young Americans.
Tell me about "Dancing Out in Space."
That's a very uptempo one. It's got a Motown beat to it, but the rest of it is completely psychedelic. It's got very floaty vibe. There's a guy called David Torn who plays guitar, who we use; he comes with huge amounts of equipment that he creates these aural landscapes. He uses them in a rock context with all that ambient sound, and he's bending his tremolo arm and all that. It's just crazy, completely crazy sound on that track.
How about "Boss of Me?"
That is one of the slower, funky ones. It's really solid. There's a little Young Americans in there. But that's really not proper . . . It's a new kind of direction for him, melodically. Doesn't sound like typical Bowie, that track. But it's a very good track.
OK. Tell me about "Heat."
Well that's the closer of the album and it's very dramatic. And I'm not quite sure what he's singing about on it, but it's a classic Bowie ballad. He's singing in his handsomest voice, a very deep, very sonorous voice. And I can't give too much away about it because honestly, I don't know exactly what it's about, if it's about being in a real prison or being imprisoned in your mind. Again, it's certainly not about him; he's singing as the voice of somebody.
Tell me about "I'd Rather Be High."
There's a few songs about world wars, about soldiers. One is "How Does the Grass Grow" and it's about the way that soldiers are trained to kill other soldiers, how they have to do it so heartlessly. "How Does the Grass Grow" is part of a chant that they're taught as they plunge their bayonets into a dummy. "I'd Rather Be High" is about a soldier who's come out of the war and he's just burnt out, and rather than becoming a human being again, I think he laments, "I'd rather be high/I don't want to know/I'm trying to erase these thoughts from my mind."
Who exactly is the band on the album?
We had two drummers. The main drummer was Zachary Alford, and Sterling Campbell played on several tracks, too. It's unfortunate. Sterling was at the demo sessions in the beginning but then he didn't know when the album was gonna start, and he already committed to a tour with the B-52s. We called Zach in to substitute for him, and Zack played amazing drums on the album. But Sterling is in there as well on songs like "Valentine's Day" and "(You Will) Set the World on Fire," which is another steamer, another big rock song on the album.
Bass was predominantly Gail Ann Dorsey, and she played phenomenally well on the album, and she also did some backup vocals with David. The other bass player who played on about four or five tracks was Tony Levin. The guitars are Gerry Leonard who played on Heathen and Reality, and he's David's music director. David Torn on the other ambient guitar. And then we got Earl Slick to play some fantastic guitar solos and heavy guitar on some tracks. I played bass on the album for two songs, and that's about it. David played his own keyboards; he played also some acoustic guitar, some electric guitar as well.
How hard was it to keep this a secret?
It was very easy to keep it a secret because we're very loyal to him. I've known him 45 years, and everybody knew him for more than 10 years in the band. We just love the guy. He said, "Keep it a secret, and don't tell anybody. Not even your best friend." I said, "Can I tell my girlfriend?" He says, "Yes, you can tell your girlfriend, but she can't tell anybody." So everybody had to explain why they were leaving for work in the morning, you know where they were going and who they were recording with.
The real trick was just not telling even your best friend. Bowie fans are just unpredictable – if they hear news like this, the cover would have been blown years ago. Now one person did leak it, but nobody believed him . . .
Robert Fripp! He was asked to play on it, he didn't want to do it and then he wrote on his blog that he was asked. And nobody kinda believed him. It was a little flurry for a few days, but everyone said, "How could that be true? We haven't heard it from anyone else?"
The big question: Do you think Bowie will tour?
He says that he will only play if he feels like it, but no tour. Like, if wanted to do the odd show in New York or, I don't know, London, he would if he felt like it. And he made that very clear to the label that he wasn't going to tour or do any kind of ridiculously long album promotion. It was his idea to just drop it at midnight on his birthday and just let things avalanche.
Do you really think it's possible he'd do just one show?
It's possible, if he feels like it. I don't know. I spoke to him two days ago and he said, "I'm really adamant I'm not gonna do a tour." And he said, "If I might, I might do one show." But who knows when.
The album cover is sort of intriguing . . .
I only just got that. I wasn't sure that was the cover.
It's real.
I thought some fan made a joke cover.
I though that too, but it's real.
Thoughts on that?
I think it's great! It gives him a nice space to sign his autograph in the middle of it.
Do you think that you and Morrissey will ever work together again?
Hopefully we will. I'm going to see him Friday night in Brooklyn. We email a lot. We talk a lot. He's very reluctant to have a deal with anybody. 'Cause nowadays, the problem is, when a label signs you – right now, he has no label – so if I sign a new label deal, he has to sign a 360 deal. They want a piece of everything. If you write a book, if you write a song, if you're in a movie, they want part of your fee for all these things. So that's the deal that the big labels are offering now and that's because sales are so low and they have to make up their money some way. He's totally against that. He's old-school. Actually I don't blame him.
He could pull a Radiohead and post it online for a fee.
I know. He's also old school about paying for it himself. Traditionally, the label's gotta pay for him. I understand that, and there's an old saying in show business that you never invest your own money in a show. It kinda follows onto recording to some extent, but that attitude has changed.
He could also sign to an indie label that wouldn't make him sign a 360. . . But beyond that, he has enough fans that he'd make a killing charging $10 for an album online?
Yeah, he'll make his money back, yeah. He's playing his new songs onstage, they're being recorded on cell phones every night of the week and they're wonderful songs.
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