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using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Text;
using System.Windows;
using System.Windows.Controls;
using System.Windows.Data;
using System.Windows.Documents;
using System.Windows.Input;
using System.Windows.Media;
using System.Windows.Media.Imaging;
using System.Windows.Shapes;
using Newtonsoft.Json;
using MuseoCliente.Connection;
using MuseoCliente.Connection.Objects;
using MuseoCliente.Properties;
using MuseoCliente.Designer;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using System.Threading;
namespace MuseoCliente
{
	/// <summary>
	/// Lógica de interacción para Login.xaml
	/// </summary>
    ///

	public partial class Login : Window
	{
        CancellationTokenSource cToken = new CancellationTokenSource();
        CancellationToken token;
        string s;
        LoadingAnimation animation;

        Dictionary<string, string> dict = new Dictionary<string, string>();
		public Login()
		{
			this.InitializeComponent();
            animation = new LoadingAnimation{
            HorizontalAlignment = System.Windows.HorizontalAlignment.Stretch,
            VerticalAlignment = System.Windows.VerticalAlignment.Stretch
        };

			// A partir de este punto se requiere la inserción de código para la creación del objeto.
		}

        private void Button_Click_1(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
        {
            this.Close();
        }

        private void Button_Click_2(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
        {
            StartApp();
        }

        private async void StartApp()
        {
            addAnimation();
            cToken = new CancellationTokenSource();
            token = cToken.Token;
            Task<Usuario> t = Task<Usuario>.Factory.StartNew(() => login(token));
            await t;
            removeAnimation();
            if (!token.IsCancellationRequested)
            {
                Settings.user = t.Result;
                ShowWindow(Settings.user);
            }
        }

        private void removeAnimation()
        {
            contentGrid.Children.Remove(animation);
            message.Text = s;
        }

        private void addAnimation()
        {
            animation.message.Text = "Cargando";
            animation.Width = contentGrid.ActualWidth;
            animation.Height = contentGrid.ActualHeight;
            Grid.SetZIndex(animation, 999);
            contentGrid.Children.Add(animation);
            dict["username"] = txtUsuario.Text;
            dict["password"] = txtPassword.Password;
        }

        private Usuario login(CancellationToken token)
        {
            Usuario user = new Usuario();
            try
            {
                string content = JsonConvert.SerializeObject(dict, Formatting.Indented);
                Connector conector = new Connector("/api/v1/login/");
                user = user.Deserialize(conector.create(content));
                conector = new Connector("/api/v1/usuarios/" + user.username + "/permisos/");
                content = conector.fetch();
                Settings.permisos = ((Dictionary<string, List<string>>)JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<Dictionary<string, List<string>>>(content))["permisos"];
                return user;

            }
            catch (Exception ex)
            {
                cToken.Cancel();
                s = ex.Message;
            }
            return null;
        }

        private void ShowWindow(Usuario user)
        {
            MainWindow main = new MainWindow() { DataContext = user };
            Settings.user = user;
            this.Hide();
            if (main.ShowDialog() == true)
            {
                this.Show();
                clean();
            }
            else
                this.Close();
        }

        private void clean()
        {
            txtUsuario.Focus();
            txtUsuario.SelectAll();
            txtPassword.Password = "";
            s = "";
        }

        private void Window_Loaded(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
        {
            clean();
        }

        private void txtPassword_KeyDown(object sender, KeyEventArgs e)
        {
            if (e.Key == Key.Enter)
                StartApp();
        }

        private void Button_Click_3(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
        {
             if (this.WindowState == WindowState.Normal) this.WindowState = WindowState.Maximized;
            else this.WindowState = WindowState.Normal;

        }

        private void Button_Click_4(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
        {
            this.WindowState = WindowState.Minimized;
        }

        private void DockPanel_PreviewMouseDown_1(object sender, MouseButtonEventArgs e)
        {

            this.DragMove();
        }
	}
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Wishlist: What you would like to see in future versions of the game. All 'list' ideas in here.
By Henrik4, November 10, 2005 in Football Manager General Discussion
fm-suggestion
robbo_16
Similar to the trial open days, but at the start of the season players who don't have a contract should take part in a match ,effectively a trial game, where all managers, scouts, coaches etc can 'view' the game.
They can then decide to buy or take a player on trial for a extended period.
Not sure but i think lower league clubs are able to watch Premiership players who have been released from their club, via the PFA.
Even though the media side of the game is fine it can be improved.
More local media involvement as usually they are more likely to create pressure than the national media.
Media awards - North Eastern Writers PLayer of the Year etc.
Player Interation
More training ground bust ups when things are going wrong at the club "X dislikes Y" "X demands transfer".
For foreign players, they could "complain" to their own press, "Marca" like Luque or Reyes about the manager or speak about reported interest from their own country. Ths would lead to the manager having to have meeting with the player.
The manager and chairman should have monthly meetings to discuss transfers money for the transfer window and future developments.
An AGM which would be like a news item every year stating how the club has done financially (using the rich list to say if they have improved or decreased), reasons for this and future investments (if a takeover is in the process or there are rumours, a statement would be released.
tom69er
i dont know if anyones already said this but the only thing i think it needs is 3d match engine
gallas 10
I'd like the option of instead creating a new manager, just simply taking on the role of a real life manager, e.g. if I chose Arsene Wenger, I'd be managing Arsenal.
rafregt
Team: Luton Town
Managing: Haka
Originally posted by shamule:
we can see subs warming up, but it would be a nice touch to see manager pacing around to side lines
nice idea, top forum name too!
GillsMan
National League South Head Researcher
Team: Gillingham
I have a few ideas - they are really only cosmetic, but I would like to see them in the game as it's the little things that make the game really cool IMO.
Players Returning
- I'd like to see the match commentary make some comment if a player scores against his old club eg "and Darius Vassell has scored against his old club!!"
- If the player started at my club but never played a game, maybe the commentary could say something like "and Kevin Phillips scores against the club that released him as a teenager!!" or words to that effect
- I think the media should make a comment if I resign a new player, particularly if the player has a high rep or the fans really love him. For example "Return of The Messiah! Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger is hoping to recapture old glories having resigned Patrick Vieira from Juventus. Arsenal fans are said to be delighted at the return of one of their heroes and are praising Wenger for signing him."
- I would like to see record transfer fees mentioned in media items, for example "Chelsea have today smashed the world record transfer fee, splashing out £49 million for Internazionale's Adriano. This fee is £5 million more for the previous record fee which was the £45 million Real Madrid paid to Juventus for former France international Zinedine Zidane."
- Additionally, I'd like to see individual club transfer records mentioned. This used to be in one of the old SI games, 97/98 I think and I'd like to see them back with the relevant media item: "Leon Knight today became the most expensive player in Gillingham's history when Gills manager Ronnie Jepson paid Swansea £825,000 for the player's services. The previous record, which had stood for an incredible nine years, was for Carl Asaba who joined the Gills in a transfer worth £650,000 from Reading in 1998."
- More media items when a player is coming up to a goal/appearance/clean sheet record (both overall totals and seasonal), and these records to be kept in the game's database both on an individual club level, a league level and a world level. So you could have "Man United's Wayne Rooney will have one eye on the club's goalscoring charts when he faces Aston Villa today. Rooney, 32, is just two goals behind Man United legend Sir Bobby Charlton's all-time record of 199 league goals for the club." Or you could have "David Villa is closing in on Raul's record for most league goals in a season. Valencia striker David Villa is just one goal behind Real Madrid legend Raul's tally of 29 goals in the 2001/02 season." Or you could have "Scott Carson could make history today if he manages to keep a clean sheet in Liverpool's match against Rock Bottom Watford. Carson is just 56 minutes away from beating the current world record of 1,259 minutes without conceding a goal."
Player & Club Descriptions
- Currently, clubs are described as "surprise package" or "recently relegated" or a choice of others. I'd also like to see included "runaway leaders", "rock bottom", "giant killers", "<league name> high fliers", "struggling", "<league name> strugglers" "world champions" (International) and "European champions" (International). I like the idea of the pre-match review saying: "Runaway leaders Chelsea take on Premiership strugglers Middlesborough today", or "world champions Italy face Scotland in the Group C clash this evening".
- I'd just like to see box-to-box midfielder added.
I could go on, but I'm sure you're all bored by now!! I would like to see the game's media model updated though to better reflect the huge amount of difference in media involvement between managing in the Premiership and managing in the lower leagues. Also the higher the rep of your club, the more media involvement you have. E.g. if I manage Hibernian in Scotland, and then take over Celtic or Rangers I should notice the huge amount of extra media work I have to do. For those who don't like it, they can set their assistant to deal with the media (or at least a certain percentage of the media work).
Just my few ideas.
zak bentley
I'd like to see the feature of player dislikes. Two players in the team don'r gwet on with each other and when played in the same team rarely pass to each other. What will the manager do? etc.
evert0n4life
Not sure if it has been said, but I would like a "Partnership" feature. This would apply to Central Defenders, Central Midfielders and Strikers. Once a striker has played alongside another one, they will get a partnership rating. They can improve this partnership by working at it in training or being good friends etc ...
E.G. In real life, Germany's Lukas Podolski and Miroslav Klose, would have a bad partnership rating because they don't work too well with each other. But Colchesters pairing of Chris Iwulemo and Jamie Cureton would have a very high rating because their partnership is very good and understanding.
This could go in every players profile as a tab similar to the personal and transfer tabs that are already there.
I also agree with the newspaper idea for finding whats going on in all leagues, it could be displayed as a magazine like MATCH or SHOOT.
davidbowie
Better Set Pieces. Maybe a custom set piece maker.
MattUK
Naked go go dancers.
Team mascots
Streakers.
The reintroduction of barbed wire fences.
Racism on the terraces.
The sound of bones breaking.
Coins being thrown onto the pitch.
Bionic parts for players.
Roller skates.
I would love to see more African leagues.
When I set up a game I usually make several teams in a particular region playable. So I can take jobs in, say, the UK, then Ireland, then Scotland, then Wales.
Can't do that if you're playing in South Africa.
With a growing number of the world's top players coming from African countries, it's about time more African leagues were present in the game. Nigeria. Ghana. Cameroon.
If any of you African guys out there think you know football, it's time to step up and become a researcher for SI!
Scout reports on your own players.
Dreaded Walrus
Part-Timer
Originally posted by davidbowie:
I like most of your suggestions, davidbowie, and this is one of the best yet, and something I've been meaning to mention.
It is often very difficult to guess at the PA of your youngsters, as often there will be people with a PA that is quite low, but a CA that is quite high. And likewise, there are youngsters that have a PA that is quite high, but a CA that is quite low.
So normally, if you want to find out about a player, you send a scout to watch them a few times and you find out (for example) "Peter Green reckons that John Hartson is the strongest striker in the squad but Sturridge isn't far from that standard". "Peter Green thinks Sturridge has the potential to be a lot better than John Hartson's current level of ability" e.t.c, and you can get even more detail if you persist with the scouting.
However, with your own players, all you have is the Training>Overview Coach Report pane (for example: "Nigel Pearson reckons young striker Stefan Morrison is a decent member of our squad"), and that seems to be grossly inaccurate also, with the vast majority of players, from my reserves to my youngsters, being classed as "a decent member of our squad", even though Stefan Morrison is quite awful.
Basically, if a player is playing for you, you are actually at a disadvantage with regards to finding out information (especially with regards to PA) about him. What I would suggest, as davidbowie did, would be the ability to have scout report-style reports on him, except possibly from the Training>Overview page, where the almost entirely-useless "Coach Report" information is. It could replace that, or even have a separate panel, where your coaches give you information about the player.
Because currently the only real way to see how promising your players are is to save the game, then create a few new managers, get their scouts on your players, then read up, before re-loading the game again.
Surely you should know more about your own players than other teams potentially can?
I'm happy with the vast majority of FM07, but this is just one oversight which isn't really too big a thing seeing how these scout reports are new, but it surely shouldn't take too much coding to include the ability to "look at" your own players?
Sliderift
i wanna see comparions using the overview button. i think the overview button is way cool. so comparing using them you can really see the differences between the two players.
HonkyDick
I suggested this before but in a thread that seems to have drowned.
I reckon when we go on holiday we should be able to choose to do a private scouting mission. Choose a destination(country/continent) and the length of time you intend to holiday for, then the game would give you a list of the games that are being played in the time your there. You could then select the games you want to view and do your own scouting.
This may not be needed for managing a high reputation club that can scout everywhere, but it could be for managers who can't scout outside their own club or continent.
This could also be a way of doing something with your own wages, not that I care about that but I've seen a few people wanting to do something with their own money in the game.
Originally posted by HonkyDick:
Yes. Normally, when negotiating a new contract, I try to negotiate the lowest possible wages for myself, so as not to take away finances from my club when it isn't being used for anything at all. Your own salary may as well be money being poured onto the ground once a week, so I try to make it as low as possible. This would be a way to use it without introducing trivial, un-necessary things like Strip Club mode.
tattie
When you start the game you have to be an assistant manager and you have to prove yourself with the Youth or reserve leagues with no transfers and your manager snapping any promising players up from you and you can buy a lower league plug-in sorta patch thingy thay enables you to play leagues such as the rymans, istmians and the southern premier?
JBC#1
As far as im aware manager wages dont take away from finances ,just a higher one increases your reputation. I think this is what happens
Originally posted by tattie:
and you can buy a lower league plug-in sorta patch thingy thay enables you to play leagues such as the rymans, istmians and the southern premier?
Microtransactions?
No thank you.
salzia27
1.Assistant manager giving you tactical advise whilst in game
i.e. Player X should be asked to cover player Y as the opposition/player P is very strong in 'that' area
we should play very deep due to the pace of say Henry and our lack of pace at the back
2.Youngsters learning some technical stuff as well when under tutoring
i.e. Zigic should teach youngsters to head the ball like him
3.Having option of no tackling
4.the assistant manager whilst managing under18s and reserves game should do a bit of scouting
5.The board should be willing to review top wage for a player if the wages are lower than the wage budget
i.e.my wage budget was 110k.i was paying 75k in wages.my top player wanted 20k as his wage whilst my top wage was 11k.the board should allow me to offer him 20k
6.Team talks esp. for away games.
i.e. my team leading 2-0 conceded 3 goals in 2nd half b/c it was an away game and my teamtalk of pleased made them very complacent[we were leadin fairly too].Should hv been 'Pleased but dont concede'
I would like to be able to call team meetings to discuss poor performances and stuff.
Dunno if they have been mentioned before but here are some ideas:
1) Give substitutions personal instructions before they go on. When in your tactics and you select a sub to come on, a drop down list could appear(like pre/half/post match comments) beside the sub with comments like "You could turn this match for us" etc.
2)Perhaps comments during games could be made aswell? Managers constantly shout instructions praise and rollickings at players during games.
3) An option to have private meetings with your players. Making comments through the media is great but as manager you shouldnt have to air your dirty laundry in public. The current interaction module is a very good idea but some new additions to it would be great. For example, If you arent happy with a players form you shouldnt have to spout it all over the media when a private chat would be more realistic and professional. Players could also ask for a private chat with you aswell if they are unhappy with their contract or want more first team action etc.
4) Players dont always get on in game(as it should be) so perhaps an option as manager to try and get these players to resolve their problems. It could have positive results, where the players begin to like each other or negative results, where their relationship is unrepairable. This idea could be put in as part of the private meetings idea as another option because again, these are the sorts of problems that for the most part the public never see or hear, what happens in the dressing room stays there.
Thomas Dowd
Although this thread is quite jocular, there are afew things I would like to see.
1. Scottish League teams often take players on trial and play them in competitive games, yet this seldom happens in gameplay.
2. Different clubs should have different chants.
3. All Premiership and Scottish League Clubs should have their badges uploaded.
4. Postponements should be added.
5. Abandonements should be added.
6. It should be possible for a player to die.
7. Clubs should be able to play friendlies with countries.
evertonian88
I'd like to see better training reports, for example, you assistant manager would not only tell you who has and hasn't trained well but would also make suggestions on particular areas of a player's game that needs improving and maybe recommend a training schedule for this.
Another thing I feel should be introduced is an extra clause when selling players. IRL Wayne Rooney recently signed a contract extension which triggered a payment of £1.5m to Everton from Man Utd as part of his transfer deal. I feel this would be great seeing as too often we miss out on the benefit of putting a sell-on clause into a deal because they continually sign extensions at their new club and eventually are either released or are snapped up on a bosman. This would be a great way to get some more cash out of a club after a player has been sold. Thoughts?
Y2Jay
Have mentioned this in a new topic but thought I should add it to this thread as well.
Ok on to my idea on how to improve a club's budget. For the last few versions You are given a budget and you can't spend more than this. Although in principle this is a good idea I feel it has limitations.
Every club wants success and so shouldn't be limited to a strict budget and the ability to go over the budget and bring in extra players can make a big difference from avoiding relegation to getting into the lucrative position of champions league.
For example, you may spend most of you budget and have say £1m left, then an amazing player who is seen as essential for your team comes available and you can buy him for £4m meaning you need to raise £3m. However, by the time you sell players and raise the £3m needed the player you wanted to buy has now gone.
As a result of this I feel several changes need to be made.
1. You are given a seasonal budget that you have to stick to for that season but allowances are made. For example, your budget is £10m and the season runs from 1/7/2006 - 30/6/06. You are able to overspend the £10m as long as you can recoup this amount by the end of the season. So you can spend £20m on players in August as long as you recoup £10m in January so the overall spending you made is what was budgeted ie. £10m
2. Relate the budget to team performance. For example, you may be given a £5m transfer budget and the board expectation is to achieve a safe mid-table position. If by January you have spent £10m and are in a position where Champions League is possible the board may feel spending £10m is fine and even grant you more money to try and guarantee Champions League football.
3. Buying players who will have a big impact on merchandise doesn't come out of your transfer budget as the money spend will be regained through merchandise sales. This could be implemented by giving each player a merchandise value. The obvious example is David Beckham.
4. Link transfer budget to forecasted revenues and predicted success. For example, going on a cup run where success wasn't expected increases revenue and so more money is available for improving the team.
Please keep in mind though that if you do over-spend and you do not over-achieve original expectations to suffer consequences. This can be to having no transfer budget next season or if you put the clubs' future in jeopardy financially to be sacked.
Stu1892
Set Pieces still **** me off. I would like to tell the player where to stand, not who to mark as it ends up being random. A return of the positioning screen back in the old CM series when you could say where the player should be standing when the ball is in that area.
Also. I'd like players to have permenant instructions attatched to them so you don't have to go through massive changes of everything including set pieces when you bring on a DM for a SC. Because Makelele's is going to know that he's not meant to be going up front. Just a bit time saving basically.
brett.spurs
I think that when you sell a player you can interact with them by saying "wish them good luck" or "I'm glad to get rid of him" etc
underH
prozone!!
plz get this into FM08!!
id like to know who passed to FW most and who lost their possession most etc..
is it not so difficult to include this feature?
Arthur Li
How about making the squad numbers more important like if you take number 7 away from Raul, he'll be upset or if you give Number 10 to a relatively unknown player there would be reactions as well. Oh yeah and retiring numbers as well.
Readingfcsam
Originally posted by GillsMan:
I like these ideas should definately be included in FM 08
To be able to have the choice to put a set amount of transfer money aside to buy a world-class player. Like Man utd have reportedly put £25m pounds a side for a expensive signing.
Just Jack
more accurate player stats, stephen quinn at sheffield united is a LEGEND!!! if annybody has watched him in the FIRST TEAM you will see he is one of our best players!
More interaction between club and international managers. International managers usually try to spark up a decent working relationship with club managers for the release of their players. There is communication between both regarding the fitness of players etc
bluemoon12
Originally posted by tom69er:
Oh dear god no, the amount of detail needed to warrant that and make it half-decent would kill the game because you wouldnt be able to get all the players done to a realistic level. It would ruin the game
Plus only those who work for NASA would have a computer capable of playing the bloody thing lol
llama3
Managing: Arsenal
i would like clubs to stop enquiring over and over about a player i ahve already set an asking price for! i have had 2 months of Juventus constantly enquiring about Philippe Senderos when i have already stipulated an £8,000,000 price tag
Please improve the plish league...... and if u got time make the 3ird league....this would make all polish players a lot more happy, and the game a lot more enjoable and cool.
Players shouldnt ignore their managers team talks so this aspect of the teamtalk module should be either erased or seriously played down. It is very hard to not to repeat yourself when you have a very limited choice of things to say.
Do you honestly think Alex Ferguson would tolerate players just sitting there twiddling their thumbs while he gave last minute tactical orders???
No he wouldnt, if he caught a player doing it they would be out of United in a heartbeat. Plus players are supposed (for the most part )to be professional and they all want to win so it would be in their best interest to pay attention to team talks.
hiru
- An option so we can set a nickname for our own avatar
- An option so we can change to our own sountrack, sometime we're tired of playing and need music ^^
DavsClaus
board room -> request youth academy
board room -> improve youth academy
youth academy could have a limit of no of youth players that can be there. the limit is set to its state of level. so a starter youth academy can only have 6 players and an excellent can have 30. The players at this academy could train more than the normal U18 players and could be a better place for them to develop faster.
when a team offer to extend a loan contract to end of season the game should list on the contract offer screen what date that would be. ( or even better always show that )
I'm in november 2009 and a swedish team have offered to extend a loan deal of one of my player. Since the swedish seasons ends in december, I'm a bit confused if the loan deal is just 1 more month or 1 full new season.
GerdMuller
Better financial balance
I think the financial side of the game should be strenghtened. I know Fm doesnt want to go a way where you take over the financial part of the game as you are only supposed to be manager. But if this is not going to happen it should at least be harder to gain money, thereby avoiding 100 mill. transfers all over.
IRL a lot of clubs in europe struggle to keep themselves alive financially. This should be seen more in the game.
To see on the club information screen if any improvement of training / youth setup is in progress and a deadline when the improvement is done. ( just stadium expansion ).
It's kinda annoying to request the board from time to time and they accept to improve and nothing happens.
aston_martin
a position between AMC and ST e.g where rooney plays
LFC Lloydy
Originally posted by aston_martin:
Thats created using tactics as it is not an actual position but a variation on a striker.
Hummm....
1) Stadiums. I know this would be hard, but some sort of map of your stadium, so you can choose which bit to redevlop, name each stand ect. You could also choose designs, and have to factor in cost wiuth long term reward and your budget ect. I would really like to have a chocie of which stand to redevlop at the city ground, rarther than just being tol 'the east stand has been developed' again and again...hell that stand must now seat about 40,000 people- and the City Ground dosn't have an east stand.
2) Stop the repeated requests from people to sign your players, ocne you've said hands off its hands off.
3) more Chairman interaction
4) Leave the match engine alone it's perfect, a little more commentry veriaty would be nice though. (See other peoples ideas)
5) Recognition if someones someones brother/son or whatever.
Originally posted by evertonian88:
Improved Training Reports
Contract Extension ClauseAnother thing I feel should be introduced is an extra clause when selling players. IRL Wayne Rooney recently signed a contract extension which triggered a payment of £1.5m to Everton from Man Utd as part of his transfer deal. I feel this would be great seeing as too often we miss out on the benefit of putting a sell-on clause into a deal because they continually sign extensions at their new club and eventually are either released or are snapped up on a bosman. This would be a great way to get some more cash out of a club after a player has been sold. Thoughts?
Any thoughts on these guys?
Originally posted by WharfedaleRED:
No thanks, not the managers job tbf
-To be able to see your manager pacing about the touchline during games.
-To be able to shout orders from the touchline to a single player and shout at a player because he made a poor pass.
-More foreign takeovers that inject money into a club.
-Media make up pure speculation e.g. say your interested in someone who isn't on your shortlist.
-More manager/chairman interaction
-More manager/player interaction
-Assistant also recommends a formation in his Team report
-More in-depth training
-To be able to go on training camps
-To be able to have Warm-Up matches before a major international tournament.
jamiebarnes
option to arrange cups in other countrys (eg when Lpool and Celtic and Milan had one in the USA a couple of years ago.
Traning camps
Tactical advice from ass. manager @ half time
Be able to improve feeder clubs facilities and (as Man Utd have done with Antwerp) reccomend manager for feeder club.
tim howerd
i'll keep it short and sweet the tactics bit to be massivley improved i.e the formations

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Perfect match. Very well satisfied!
I ordered the Smokey Granite Mica for my 2009 Lexus, specifically for the grill which had flaking paint from what I suspect to be caused by dreaded Love Bugs. Silver flecks were showing thru in areas that detracted from the overall appearance of the grill. I ordered the touch up pen and gloss. The touch up paint pen is easy to use and was plentiful. I would give it a 8 out of 10 as far as color match. Maybe because it was going over a silver grill it wasn't a perfect match and came out just a tad darker. But the overall appearance of the grill is much better, 90 percent better looking than it was. The areas touched up appear to just have watermarks. However I could not use the gloss in this area due to every time I tried to apply it, it would remove the touch up paint and you could see silver again. I even tried waiting 5 hrs to allow the touch up paint an extended dry time before attempting the gloss and the same thing occurred again. I researched Club Lexus forum and found where someone said to put a dab of paint/gloss on something and then use a toothpick to apply to car. This worked as far as getting the gloss on without removing the paint. But, it seem to highlight the touch up, so I will forego the use of the gloss. But I would compare it to touch up paint I have purchased from OEM in the past.
The paint came on time and seems to be a good match. I have not finished the top coat yet but I wish I was as good at touching as the paint was at matching.


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Developer puts failed South Loop condo project back together—as apartments
Crescent Heights, the Miami developer building a 76-story apartment tower overlooking Grant Park, is buying up the remaining condos in a failed 248-unit project it took over in 2010.
Alby Gallun
Astoria Tower, 8 E. Ninth St.
More than eight years after taking over a failed South Loop condominium project, Miami developer Crescent Heights is converting the entire building into apartments amid a sizzling market for rental housing.
At the end of 2010, Crescent Heights acquired 205 out of 248 condos in Astoria Tower, a 30-story high-rise at 8 E. Ninth St. that ran into trouble after the condo bust. Now the developer, which has been renting out the condos, is in the process of buying the 43 units in the building it doesn't already own, said the firm's attorney, Michael Delrahim.
The acquisitions represent a variation on a popular trend in the downtown housing market these days: Condo "deconversions," when investors acquire all the units in a condo building and turn them into rentals.
Amid soaring rents and apartment values—and a recovered but ho-hum condo market—deconversions make financial sense at many properties, though they can be messy because a single transaction can involve dozens or even hundreds of sellers in a building. In the biggest Chicago deconversion, a New York investor is paying $112 million for a 391-unit high-rise in the Gold Coast.
"The deconversion market is hot," said Delrahim, managing partner at Chicago-based Brown Udell Pomerantz & Delrahim. "It hasn't slowed down."
But the Astoria Tower deal isn't a typical deconversion because Crescent Heights has controlled the building since its 2010 takeover. To buy an entire condo building, an investor must first gain the support of owners of at least 75 percent of the property, a hurdle required by state law that can be hard to achieve. Astoria Tower's condo owners approved the sale earlier this year, an outcome that was hardly in doubt considering Crescent Heights already owned about 83 percent of the units there.
Crescent Heights has acquired all but about 18 of the condos and expects to buy those by the end of July, Delrahim said. He declined to disclose the aggregate price for the units. Recent deeds recorded with Cook County show that Crescent Heights has paid from $198,000 to $275,000 for condos in the building.
A Crescent Heights executive did not return a call.
Rents for units Crescent Heights owns range from $1,738 per month for a one-bedroom unit to $4,200 for the most expensive two-bedroom, according to real estate information provider CoStar Group.
During the downtown condo boom, Crescent Heights focused on condo conversions—buying apartment buildings and selling the units off as condos. More recently, the firm has bought and sold several big downtown apartment buildings, including North Harbor Tower near Millennium Park and Burnham Pointe in the South Loop.
But the firm's biggest Chicago investment by far is Nema Chicago, an 800-unit apartment tower under construction at the southwest corner of Grant Park. At 76-stories, it's the tallest building in the South Loop.


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Will the Gleaner RJR deal restrict consumer choice?
I was part of a panel discussion at the Mona School of Business today on the Gleaner RJR merger…this is what i said…
No, I don't think it will. In the first place this isn't the merger of two businesses offering the same services. It is a merger between two entities representing the oldest legacy media in the country: the country's first and most dominant newspaper and its first and largest broadcasting service. Legacy media is just a more popular term for traditional media and is used as a counterpart to new media, the new technologies that have forced a global paradigm shift in the way news is produced and consumed.
The new entity, which I refer to as the Gleanajer, is still going to put out a newspaper and will continue to provide TV and radio services. So there is no loss of choice there. In fact what I think we need to realize is that this merger has been forced by the entry of new players into the field who are offering consumers more, not less, choice.
Flow and Lime have merged and will offer TVJ stiff competition. If you notice Flow provided coverage of the two Reggae Boyz games with Nicaragua. Digicel, Sportsmax and Telstar are merging and they will also offer a range of new options, especially in the arena of sports. Digicel's Loop is a mobile app news platform that is already giving the Gleaner a run for its money in the provision of news; they claim downloads of their news stories outdo Gleaner news downloads by a ratio of 5 to 1. Even if this is an exaggerated claim it shows you how rapidly the media landscape in Jamaica is changing.
Then there is Greenfield Media Productions, owned by Grace Kennedy, a joint venture which has just bought the media rights to all Inter Secondary Schools' Sporting Association (ISSA) events for the next 15 years.
"The joint venture aims to increase the development of media content for traditional and non-traditional sports and expand distribution in the local and international markets," said a statement from GK Capital. "There will also be human-interest content generated on athletes and institutions which will promote Brand Jamaica's sporting accomplishments and prowess to the diaspora and the world."
While the Grace Kennedy group of companies has been a long-time supporter of sports at the secondary level spending around US$1 million a year sponsoring Boys and Girls Athletics Championship (Champs) alone – the joint venture with ISSA marks the food and financial conglomerate's entry into media, through its investment arm, GK Capital.
So, far from occupying the choice position of a monopoly our legacy media are running scared from these nimble and disruptive new business models and we should welcome their merger as a sample of the radical new strategies they will need to adopt to stay alive. Disruption as it is called is very much part of the 21st century. The new business models generally disrupt from below, attracting clienteles that the legacy media weren't servicing or were servicing inadequately.
How do you shift from being the creme de la creme of legacy media, with audiences you could take for granted, to nimble new media platforms that respond to the wishes of the consumer? Legacy media is used to dealing with passive consumers who take whatever is dished out without being able to contribute or interact with the content. Now they have to respond to younger, savvier customers who are used to talking back, commenting, trolling what they don't like and demanding what they do like. Feedback is instantaneous and can't be ignored without damage to the bottom line.
According to the cofounder, and editor-in-chief of the Texas Tribune, Evan Smith, "The future of news is personalized. The future of news is digitized. The future of news is the consumer controls the conversation, not the provider."
The new changes mean drastically redesigning the roles of news providers. Active citizenship is the order of the day (a genuflection to Okwui Enwezor here) and the media can help in a big way. The model developed by Smith and his team for the Tribune offers a very good template for the newly constituted Gleaner RJR entity:
"We describe ourselves as a news organization but we're really much more than that. We report the news, but we also build community around common interests. We go into big cities and small towns with elected officials, pull together hundreds of people, have a conversation about water, transportation, all that stuff. We're creating more discussion, conversation—civil, important, bipartisan, nonpartisan around issues. To say that we're reporting the news is, to borrow an old phrase, true but not accurate. Because it's not all we're doing, it doesn't tell the full story. We're providing information, knowledge to people in various formats, to give them things to think about, talk about with their neighbors, around the dinner table, the gym locker room, the watercooler at the office. We want people to know, here is the state of public education, higher education, immigration, healthcare, down the list. With that knowledge you decide what needs to be done."
The Gleanajer in a recent q and a made statements that suggest that it may be on the right track.
"The aim of the merged company is to use the combined strengths of each company's respective credible and award-winning journalism and other content to better inform, educate and entertain the Jamaican public on things relative to Jamaicans everywhere. The opportunities resulting from this coming together are many, however we are excited at the prospect of expanding advertising options and packages for our clients as well leveraging our content for wider distribution on established and new platforms."
My advice to the Gleanajer is that it focus less on expanding advertising options and packages and more on developing compelling news and information products that the public will buy into. That should be their primary focus for once they develop high quality products that consumers want and can't get elsewhere the advertisers will follow.
They should also include a few digital natives in the top tier of management, only they know how to navigate the new terrain.
The current practice of an "embedded media" has to go, it is no part of the media to cater to the needs of the power elite by covering up or withholding rather than exposing information. Journalists such as Zahra Burton of 18 degrees North and Mattathias Schwartz of New Yorker fame (both of whom provided the painstaking, in-depth reporting the rape of Tivoli Gardens demands when little or none was forthcoming from the local media) have shown what is possible and the audience response to their stellar investigative journalism signposts the way forward. There is a glaring need for solid investigative journalism that no one is better equipped to provide than the Gleanajer newsroom. This will mean investing more money and resources in this area but there is no other option. The new disruptors are at a disadvantage in not having newsrooms per se. The new entity should capitalize on this.
Patwa has to be part of the new media landscape…this is a bilingual society yet the legacy media continues to ignore this crucial fact.
Not even the most laurelled of all runners in the world–Usain Bolt–can afford to rest on his laurels. The moment he does someone else will come and beat him, he has to remain in training, honing his muscles, covering all the possible bases for improvement even though he's at the top of his game. The moment he stops his punishing routines he will lose his place at the pinnacle. The same goes for legacy media.
PS: Thanks to Marcia Forbes for filling me in on some of the local media movements involved and to Corve DaCosta for tweeting the link to the interview with the editor of the Texas Tribune.
Author apPosted on September 10, 2015 September 11, 2015 Categories Disruption, Legacy mediaTags Gleaner, Jamaica, Jamaican media, RJR6 Comments on Will the Gleaner RJR deal restrict consumer choice?
The RJR/Gleaner Merger Part 2: A Wider Context
This is part 2 of a two-part guest post by media maven Marcia Forbes who used to be General Manager of TVJ (Television Jamaica) many years ago. Jamaica was shaken last week by news of a merger between its two largest media entities, RJR and the Gleaner. TVJ is the the crown jewel of RJR (Radio Jamaica), the broadcast media conglomerate which has just merged with print media giant The Gleaner. The merger has had the effect of a small earthquake with journalists worrying about layoffs and others concerned about the birth of a media monopoly. Mergers, acquisitions and buyouts are changes which have been happening all over the world, the fallout of the digital revolution, and should have been anticipated, but it seems to have caught everyone here by surprise. Watching the pre-emptive moves that Google is making with the creation of Alphabet, the temporary subsidiary set to flip into the primary entity, one can't help note the opposite scenario at play here…that is, two local media giants who waited till their stocks had declined before taking action. But hey, c'est la vie in the Tropics.
For all those wondering what's in store for us, Marcia Forbes's analysis should help. Read on.
Local/Global Trends
Marcia Forbes
As promised, here is another look at the proposed RJR/Gleaner merger. This announcement comes against the backdrop of a media landscape that is constantly evolving globally, regionally and locally. Media changes are being driven not only by technologies such as high speed broadband, the Internet in general and smartphones, but also via mergers and acquisitions accompanied by media convergence and consolidation. Let me focus on Jamaica and start with radio. The merged RJR/Gleaner entity will have five FM radio stations.
Radio Stations' Revenues
From as far back as 2002 the then General Manager of TVJ, the decline of local radio was evident. It has continued a steady fall-off. In terms of radio's potential market, while this stood at 719,000 in 2000, in 2014 it had declined by about 25 percent (Source: All Media Survey published 2015 with data collected in 2014). Over this period radio sets have been reduced in number by about 35 percent. The number of radio stations has, however, increased, with Jamaica now in a very crowded radio market of about 30 commercial stations for its less than three million people.
The status of radio revenues is not easy to come by. Market leader for the past several years, Irie FM, has always been reluctant to reveal its revenues. Coupled with its sister station Zip103FM which started mid-2003, these privately owned stations control almost 30 percent of the radio market. Although publicly traded, RJR and Gleaner do not disaggregate their revenues. This makes it difficult to determine the financial performance of their radio stations. Arriving at the advertising revenues of radio in Jamaica is therefore a game of guesstimate.
Having five radio stations in the merged RJR/Gleaner Group may not redound to greater revenues. The demise of FAME from the RJR Group and Music 99 from Gleaner's Group would not therefore be unexpected, given their meagre market share and likely paltry revenues. Then too, with Hotel Mogul Butch Stewart's FYAH 105 FM performing creditably, he may want to acquire one of the smaller stations and niche market specifically to the tourist industry. This could complement his Jamaica Observer and FYAH FM media holding.
Then there is Cliff Hughes and his Nationwide Radio which for many reasons has never been able to sustain itself financially. Hughes, as outstanding journalist with a 'Rottweiler' type station, arguably Jamaica's leading investigative news station, recently made a business arrangement with Gleaner's Power106 FM where he anchors a critical day-part. That arrangement, along with the housing of Nationwide at the former Power106 premises, may now be under review. Mergers/acquisitions, or at the very least some shakeup in the radio market therefore look highly likely as one outcome of the RJR/Gleaner merger.
Radio in the USA v/s Jamaica
The radio scenario in Jamaica does not appear to mirror that of the USA where only days ago Nielsen, that country's leading media monitor, reported upward trends in radio listenership with record highs over the past two years, driven by Hispanics and Blacks. One acknowledges that perhaps Jamaica's media monitor may be missing out by failing to count listeners who tune in to radio via cell phones.
The Promise to Advertisers & Shareholders
In a previous article, the strong market positions of The Gleaner (77.3% share of readership on Sundays) and Television Jamaica (72.5% market share for free-to-air TV) were outlined. The much less impressive, but still noteworthy, performance of the RJR radio brands, with almost 20 percent share of listenership, was also highlighted.
The merged RJR/Gleaner is therefore a great promise to advertisers. Whether it actually delivers, assuming the merger is approved, will remain to be seen. Can The Gleaner's online platform and its print paper be sufficiently leveraged to justify additional revenues to the merger group? Both Gleaner's and RJR's financial performance may give us a clue.
Can a RJR/Gleaner Merger Drive Greater Profits?
The Gleaner's revenues have been pretty flat for a number of years. A review of Group turnover reveals decline over the five years of 2009 to 2013, falling from $3,274,179 Billion to $3,188,709 Billion. The Gleaner Company, that part of the Gleaner that is proposed to be merged, has also delivered pretty flat revenues over the past four years, $2.7 Billion in 2011 and $2.8 Billion in 2014. So despite its strong market position, The Gleaner has not been able to use this to drive real revenue growth.
The state of RJR Group's revenues has been similarly tepid in growth, $1.9 Billion in 2011 and $2.0 Billion at close of its most recent financial year, March 2015. Without the benefit of disaggregated data, one can only assume that it is TVJ that is keeping RJR afloat. So perhaps, RJR is doing a good job at leveraging that brand and using the radio brands simply to 'sweeten the pot' to advertisers.
In tandem with its promise to advertisers, the merger entity must deliver dividends to shareholders. Over 2009 to 2013, The Gleaner Group's profit attributable to shareholders took a nosedive, from $224,000,000 in 2009 down to only $85,842,000 in 2013. Net profits for The Gleaner Company (the portion to be merger) have declined from $70 million in 2011 to only $37.7 million in 2014.
Like The Gleaner's, RJR's profits have made massive swings over the past five years. However, its 2014 and 2015 net profits outstrip those of The Gleaner Company for 2013 and 2014. Note that these entities have different financial years. The Gleaner's runs with the calendar year and ends in December.
In this tight economic climate, even with it commanding a lion-share of the print market, The Gleaner has been unable to leverage this into revenues. RJR too, despite its combo packages of radio and TVJ to advertisers, has also been unable to grow revenues. Admittedly, they have both been able to continue to generate net profits every year and this counts for a great deal. Additionally, both have cash or other assets stashed away for rainy days like Digital Switchover that is now facing RJR.
Herein lies a part of the rub of this merger, however – To effect efficiencies, cost-savings and shareholder value, there will have to be job cuts across the merged RJR/Gleaner media entity. Job losses never go down well with Governments, staff, unions and other stakeholders. While this merger is being pondered, I repeat my advice to all journalists – get trained in digital media and explore new ways to boost your marketability and earning power.
Author apPosted on August 11, 2015 August 11, 2015 Categories economies of scale, media mergers, Traditional mediaTags Gleaner, Marcia Forbes, media merger, RJR, RJR/Gleaner merger1 Comment on The RJR/Gleaner Merger Part 2: A Wider Context
The RJR/Gleaner Merger – Part 1
This is a two-part guest post by media maven Marcia Forbes who used to be General Manager of TVJ (Television Jamaica) many years ago. Jamaica was shaken last week by news of a merger between its two largest media entities, RJR and the Gleaner. TVJ is the the crown jewel of RJR (Radio Jamaica), the broadcast media conglomerate which has just merged with print media giant The Gleaner. The merger has had the effect of a small earthquake with journalists worrying about layoffs and others concerned about the birth of a media monopoly. Mergers, acquisitions and buyouts are changes which have been happening all over the world, the fallout of the digital revolution, and should have been anticipated, but it seems to have caught everyone here by surprise. Watching the pre-emptive moves that Google is making with the creation of Alphabet, the temporary subsidiary set to flip into the primary entity, one can't help note the opposite scenario at play here…that is, two local media giants who waited till their stocks had declined before taking action. But hey, c'est la vie in the Tropics.
#RJRGleaner Media Merger
Here we were on the day before Jamaica's August 6th celebration of it 53rd Independence Day, learning about the proposed merger of two of Jamaica's oldest and most highly respected media entities – The 180 year old Gleaner Newspaper and the 65 year old RJR.
Between them, the merged RJR and Gleaner will own an arsenal of electronic media comprised of five (5) F.M. radio stations, a free-to-air TV station and three (3) cable channels – RETV (originally branded as Reggae Entertainment TV), TVJSN (TVJ Sports Network) and JNN (Jamaica News Network). They will also own a print newspaper that boasts several distribution outlets overseas. Then too there are online platforms and services. At one time Go Jamaica, Gleaner's online portal, was reported to be attracting 55 million hits per month.
Youth Views
Some of the howls were predictable. I didn't expect them from young people though, seeing that they have largely disconnected from traditional media. This tweet captured the general sentiment of those on Twitter at the time the announcement broke – "2 men now control over 80% of the Jamaican media market #RJRGleaner".
One youth said she was "terrified" because "it's harder to spot media biases if the media is (sic) all owned by the same people." In response to my probe as to why "terrified", she said, "we (young ppl) value independent sources a lot more so seeing two powerful old heads knock together isn't good news." Concerns regarding media ownership are not new and are usually also tied to issues regarding number and variety of media 'voices' and threats to democracy if plurality of participation is perceived to be under threat. I will return to the matter of media 'voices'.
RJR & Gleaner's Dominant Market Positions
Going by the 2014 All Media Survey (published in 2015), Television Jamaica (TVJ) commands a whopping 72.5 percent (almost three quarters) of the free-to air TV market, with substantial leads on every day of the week as well as in every day-part. Looking at the local/regional cable TV share of viewership (this excludes international cable), the RJR-controlled channels (TVJSN, RETV, JNN) account for approximately 28 percent of that market. Sportsmax, a local/regional cable system recently acquired by Digicel, commands 62 percent.
While the total potential audience of local/regional cable TV is reportedly a miniscule 61,000, that for free-to-air TV stands at over one and a half million viewers (1,530,000). And even when one takes into account the 667,000 potential audience for international cable TV, Television Jamaica still packs a powerful punch and pulls advertisers. Although RJR's radio brands have managed to lose their shine over the years, with Irie FM commanding a greater share of listenership (19.3%), compared to the combined share of 19.1% for all three of RJR's brands, with 'combo' selling to advertisers, the RJR Group is able to offer fantastic deals.
Overall, Sunday to Saturday, the average readership and reach of the Gleaner substantially outstrip the Jamaica Observer. The Sunday Gleaner attracts 77.3% of readers, compared to the Sunday Observer's 22.7%. Then too, The Star, Gleaner's Monday to Saturday tabloid, also outstrips the Observer on most days. Gleaner is the dominant player in the print medium.
Based on their market shares, a combined RJR/Gleaner media entity dwarfs all other traditional media entities in the Jamaican landscape and would be able to offer a near unbeatable option for advertisers; At least in the short term. This is one area of concern that no doubt the regulators will want to consider closely. Money drives the mare and smaller player will be hard-pressed to attract ad revenues.
The Issue of Media 'Voices' & Democracy
The proposed RJR/Gleaner consolidation also raises real issues pertaining to media voices not only because these two entities stand at the forefront of the Jamaican landscape for traditional media but also based on the number of persons they employ as well as the revenues they pull in. Reported at $3.2 Billion for the Gleaner and $2.0 Billion for RJR, this is in excess of the combined earnings of several smaller media entities. Who pays the piper calls the tune.
Audiences, such as those who voiced concerns via Twitter, are justified in raising the alert to issues of potential threats to democracy by way of media control, with the possible shutting out of some/certain voices. I say media 'control' more so than ownership since both RJR and the Gleaner are traded on the stock market in Jamaica. Additionally, RJR, the reported leader in this merger, has a ceiling of about 12 percent on share ownership by any single individual/organization.
Although RJR's ownership rule may be strictly adhered to, tracking 'connected parties' is not always easy. It is conceivable that someone or a group of persons, through share purchase by others on their behalf, could arrive at ownership dominance. Clearly though, once revealed, corrective steps would be instituted. But yes, one can understand concerns re media ownership being consolidated in the hands of a few persons and how this can stifle plurality of positions on national issues such as elections.
More Nuanced Reading of RJR/Gleaner Merger Needed
On the face of it regulators and others may be quickly inclined to baulk at the proposed RJR/Gleaner merger, however, a more nuanced analysis is essential to place the merger in proper perspective. This must take into consideration global and local trends such as the migration of media to online platforms, growth of online advertising, entry of telecos into cable TV, the mobile, social lifestyles of millennials (now the largest population cohort), and other trends that toll the near-death knell for traditional media such as print newspapers and local free-to-air TV unless they innovate and change.
Additionally, there is much more to arguments about media 'voices' and democracy than obtained during the era when traditional media reigned unchallenged. The All Media Survey reported potential Internet users in Jamaica as 1,676,000. This is the largest potential market of any media and shows an 82 percent growth over the past seven years. It compares to declines by other media, with newspapers showing about 27% falloff in potential market over the past 10 years and radio 25%.
The coming together of RJR and the Gleaner is a smart survival strategy when one examines international and local trends. Regarding the protection of democracy and media 'voices', regulators and the Court need to be fully informed and objective in their analysis of this merger. There is no place for knee-jerk reactions. Clearly though, if it goes through, job will be lost. Workers who equip themselves for a more nimble and digitally-driven media entity will win.
Author apPosted on August 11, 2015 Categories Jamaica, media mergersTags Gleaner, Jamaica, Marcia Forbes, media merger, RJR3 Comments on The RJR/Gleaner Merger – Part 1
"I want to disturb my neighbour": Stuart Hall and the role of the public intellectual
Stuart Hall at Good Hope Estate, Trelawny, Jamaica, 2004
Thought precedes action, and Jamaica in its obliviousness to who Stuart Hall was, to his extraordinary work and life, to his globally mourned death, demonstrates the perils of a society in which the most complex levels of thinking are considered expendable, an unnecessary luxury, something that need not detain the nation. It's a symptom of the weakness of its intellectual elite that they have shunned serious engagement with the ideas of a thinker who influenced thought all over the world, moreover one who was born and brought up in Jamaica, who left at the age of 19 to embark on a lifetime that would change the world. That it hasn't changed Jamaica, that there is no room in the oft-cited "Brand Jamaica" for the great thinkers this country has produced (many of whom toil in foreign vineyards), is an indictment of the state of intellectual life here for young Jamaicans deserve to know that their countrymen excel not only in sprinting and music but also in the much less visible arena of intellectual production.
The indifference to the passing of this intellectual colossus (the New York Times referred to him as UK's Du Bois) in the country of his birth was noted by its leading newspaper, the Gleaner, which went to the lengths of editorializing on it: "…our ignorance of Stuart Hall, at all levels of society, perhaps says more of national inattention to ideas and the people who generate them – especially the big ones. For as a thinker, Professor Hall would, in our view, be the equivalent to the likes of Usain Bolt."
Members of the University of the West Indies were quick to point out that the University had not been ignorant of Stuart Hall, bestowing an honorary doctorate on him in 1998 and holding a conference in his honour in 2004. The conference which was the most successful of several such colloquia mounted by the now inactive Centre for Caribbean Thought also demonstrated through the overflowing, standing room only auditorium in which Hall gave his public lecture, that there WAS appreciation on the part of the public for the man and his ideas. Nevertheless a mere 10 years later when Hall died, it took the media a couple of days to react and it was the next day before the University of the West Indies managed to get out a tribute, one that would be revised and updated several times over the next couple of days as the starchy institution tried to come to grips with its own lacunae regarding the work of this great thinker.
An early version of the University's tribute described Stuart Hall as a 'communications specialist', which is rather like describing a race horse as a 'galloping machine'. What this reflects is the restrictive mindset within which tertiary education has been trapped in Jamaica. Ours but to produce 'experts' and 'specialists', not thinkers or theorists.
But maybe that's in the past. I was heartened to receive this tribute written by three of the younger members of the Faculty of Social Sciences, Doreen Gordon, Orville Beckford and Moji Anderson, which they tried to get published in the Gleaner. Alas the old lady of North Street wasn't interested. I offer it here as a guest blog post because it simply and succinctly sums up who Stuart Hall was and why he was globally valued in the way he was even if not in the country of his birth. We ought to use the moment of his passing and the local apathy to it as an opportunity to do some serious soul-searching about the stifling levels of anti-intellectualism in this country, and for that matter, the world.
Stuart Hall at Aggrey Brown's home, Golden Spring, Jamaica, 1998
by Doreen Gordon, Orville Beckford and Moji Anderson
There have been many tributes to the Jamaican born thinker, Stuart Hall – a testimony to his influence across political, academic, artistic and media spheres. Hall was remarkable for his ability to move between the worlds of the academy, politics and popular media with both elegance and authority, be it in his political writings, television and radio appearances, or guest lecturers. In reflecting on Stuart Hall's life, one cannot help but think about the role of the intellectual in society. An intellectual often stands outside of society and its institutions, actively disturbing the status quo. However, at the same time, an intellectual is a part of society and should strive to address his/her concerns to as wide a public as possible. Stuart Hall may be described as a "public intellectual": actively involved in the politics and issues of his day, critiquing the society around him, and disseminating new insights through various media to a wider public. He was also deeply concerned with making education more widely accessible.
Arriving in post-war Britain as a young Rhodes Scholar, Hall did not return to Jamaica to live. Colonial society and the Euro-centric middle class environment in which he grew up seemed too constricting. His socialisation, early colonial education and the culture shock of migrating to race-strained Britain in 1951 no doubt shaped his particular concerns. He once said in a debate with a conservative political figure in London, "You cannot have at the back of your head what I have in mine. You once owned me on a plantation." He remained on the side of the oppressed, the marginalized and the exploited – a perspective shaped by his Caribbean roots. This was clearly his role as a public intellectual: to make room for the voice of the powerless.
Hall's broader recognition in Britain came when, along with a handful of intellectuals, he helped to form the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies in 1964 at the University of Birmingham, eventually becoming its Director. Emerging as one of the country's leading cultural theorists, he helped to define some of the major changes and cultural shifts occurring in twentieth century Britain. It was a relatively new idea at the time to take the study of popular culture seriously and in particular, to analyse its relationship to politics and power. The new academic discipline of cultural studies spread from Britain to the United States, to Latin America and the Caribbean, and even to Australia and East and Southeast Asia. Although some might argue that cultural studies is on the decline, the discipline has generated a wealth of significant work and set the stage for an entire line of theory, critique and political action which is still very influential, especially in the anti-globalization movement.
Hall's writings linking racial prejudice and the media became key works, making him an inspirational figure for young black artists and film makers from Britain. His studies on post-colonialism asked the question of how a modern, multicultural British society could be created that respected cultural differences among people – thus he is often referred to as "the godfather of multiculturalism." He observed that increased diversity within nations and the need to accommodate different sets of demands by various cultural groups posed challenging questions about the meaning of equality.
When Hall later moved to the Open University as Professor of Sociology, he continued his engagement with major issues of the day relating to British politics, culture and race. Indeed, he is often credited with the phrase "Thatcherism": a term used to describe the politics, policies and political style of Margaret Thatcher, Conservative Party Leader from 1975 to 1990. Yet his views were never extreme. He urged his comrades not to dismiss Thatcherism: that they should try to understand it and its popular appeal. For Hall, Thatcherism was a new phenomenon, an authoritarian populism that needed to be understood before it could be contested.
Hall was a political actor: he was involved in protests, the campaign for nuclear disarmament, and political writing. He insisted on linking intellectual and cultural work to political struggles rather than pretending that the former is an end in itself. He maintained strong ties to Marxist thinking and to radicalism in general, but he also critiqued Marxism, especially its Stalinist versions. While he insisted on the connection between theory and political practice, he wanted it to be a flexible one that provided space for intellectual, cultural and political creativity. This search for ideological flexibility and freedom within Marxism is the well-spring of his work and impact.
Key to Stuart Hall's thinking was his refusal to reject completely the impact of economics in peoples' daily lives, something lacking in many contemporary cultural theories. Yet, he was not an economic determinist – in other words, our consciousness, ideas, and cultural creations have a degree of independence and agency outside of economic realities. However, some critics have suggested that the confinement of the economic factor in Hall's writings to "the first instance," meant that serious economic analysis was sometimes missing from his writings. For example, Hall did not consider the material basis of Margaret Thatcher's political power, nor was he able to articulate convincing alternatives to the present global capitalist order. However, he rightly understood that we could not grasp contemporary realities without studying the workings of capitalism.
Hall's contribution to issues of race, ethnicity and identity are well respected and far-reaching. Given the genealogy of Stuart Hall – his parents' ancestors were English, African and Indian – his take on race and race relations was influenced by this cosmopolitan, consanguineal mix. His view was that race, ethnicity and identity are social constructions. If they can be constructed by human beings, they can also be challenged and torn down. Hall argued that race had more in common with language than with biology. In other words, 'race' is a moving, shifting conundrum defined by the environment, social structure and the people involved in the social relations of production and speech. Thus the concept of race for Hall was never a fixed but a moving target, with different dialectics attached to each representation and perception. Hall was not afraid to express his dialogic about race in his writings. He acknowledged the power of race and ethnicity to shape social interaction and the ways in which particular objects are viewed – for example, how works of art are read. His deep and independent post-colonial thoughts will surely be missed. However, may they carry on, in the words of Bob Marley, to "disturb my neighbour."
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Passage, kitchen, dining room, sitting room, inner hall, cloakroom, 3 bedrooms, bathroom and WC. Rear courtyard garden.
Scotts Cottage is situated on Lower High Street within easy walking distance of the town centre. The cottage is Grade II Listed with a date stone recording 1747. The accommodation is arranged over three floors and includes a large ground floor extension.
Note: A right of way exists to the benefit of the neighbouring property over the passageway and the small covered courtyard.
Chipping Campden is one of the most beautiful and historic of all the Cotswold market towns. It lies in a fold of the Cotswold Hills in the heart of an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty approximately 12 miles to the south east of Stratford-upon-Avon and 22 miles north of Cheltenham. The town is well known for its traditional Cotswold architecture, much of it dating back to Medieval times. There is a good range of shops catering for most everyday needs as well as a number of specialist suppliers, a library, schools and a doctor's surgery. Cheltenham and Stratford-upon-Avon provide an excellent range of shopping and cultural amenities. The surrounding countryside offers many excellent walks and rides and there are ample sporting opportunities. There is a main station to Oxford and London from Moreton-in-Marsh (approx 7 miles) and most West Midlands centres are within daily commuting distance.
A small courtyard to the side ideal as a bin store with external power point.
The garden is paved with mature and slight raised shrub and flower beds, awning for shade and a useful garden store room.


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The IYMAs programme will finish with a youth music festival in the Aviva Stadium on Saturday 22nd April 2017. Last year saw hundreds of young people attend the event, which featured over thirty-six up and coming acts play across two stages, a large educational hub for anyone attending to join with workshops by BIMM lecturers covering topics such as song writing, drums and lots more. This event is open to all to attend and tickets are now available here from Eventbrite priced €20 including booking fee.
As part of this week's launch, Galway representing act JANAJ will be performing at the Youth Work Ireland National Conference in Dublin Castle this Saturday 22nd October followed by an exclusive all ages album launch gig in the legendary Roisin Dubh venue on Sunday 23rd October at 2.00pm with all the performers from the IYMAs album playing to celebrate the release of the IYMAs album with full details here. The album will be available to purchase at this event.
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A tradition in our family!
I'm not supposed to share this recipe with anyone, so keep it under your hat ok?
In a large mixing bowl combine the cake mix and the tub of frosting. Mix until the dough is roughly the consistancy of play-doh. Use up to 1 T water if you need to. Depending on the temperature and humidity sometimes I have to use water, sometimes I don't.
Using a small ice cream/dough scoop (the smallest size from Pampered Chef) or make 1 inch balls by hand. You can roll them in the colored sprinkles that come with the frosting, or just add the sprinkles to the dough when mixing. Place on parchment or foil lined cookie sheets. Does not need to be refrigerated.
Blend the egg with the buttermilk and oil. Blend the dry ingredients and stir them into the liquids. Beat by hand just until moist. Batter will be lumpy, do not over mix.
Tonight we are having chalupas. Fancy shmancy name for a soft shell taco of sorts, but it's really not, as the flavor of the meat and the baja sauce turns it into something altogether different.
To be authentic you can/should make an Indian fry bread to wrap them in, but you can always skip that part by a) buying some, b) buying a pita or wrap or c) using good thick flour tortillas. That is what we are doing since I really wasn't in the mood to 'cook' tonight so I only made the meat and sauce from scratch. Ok, enough with the preliminaries, let's eat!
Mix the ground beef in a bowl with the flour, chili powder, paprika and salt. Mix well. Add the water and the onion and mix again. Now cook it in a hot skillet, mixing and mashing until browned and 'done'. You want the meat to be more like a paste than 'ground beef' chunks.
Mix the peppers and onion with 1 T vinegar in a food processor or blender. Puree. Add the mayo and the remaining ingredients. Puree' smooth. Chill 2-3 hours if possible to allow the flavors to meld before serving.
Using the Indian fry bread or tortillas, build your chalupa with meat, cheese, lettuce, tomatoes and sour cream. Top with the baja sauce and/or salsa.
This is an all-time favorite in our household. Originally I made one for a SuperBowl party we were having, but my family started asking for it regularly so it became one of our 'tried and true' recipes that I make at least once a month.
I full-heartedly suggest trying it for your next football get-together.
* Italian dressing mix works best but I recently started to buy my spices from Penzeys Spices and last night I used their Creamy Peppercorn dressing base spice. I used 1 tablespoon of spice for 1 cup of mayo/sour cream mixture. It was wonderful and I'll be using either/or from now on as I really like both.


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is a district located in Fukushima Prefecture, Japan. As of January 2007, the district has a population of 8,577 and an area of 79.46 km2, for a population density of 107.9 per km2.

Towns and villages
 Ōtama

History
 On December 1, 2005, the towns of Adachi, Iwashiro and Tōwa merged into the city of Nihonmatsu.
 On January 1, 2007, the village of Shirasawa and the town of Motomiya merged to form the city of Motomiya, leaving the district.

Prior to the merger, as of 2003, the district had an estimated population of 68,436 and a density of 178.99 persons per km2. The total area was 382.34 km2.

Districts in Fukushima Prefecture
District Adachi

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VOL. 44 | NO. 41 | Friday, October 9, 2020
Fairview mayor accused of shoplifting $281 in items resigns
FAIRVIEW (AP) — A middle Tennessee mayor accused of shoplifting nearly $300 worth of items from a Target store has resigned from his post.
John Blade, 53, stepped down as mayor of Fairview on Tuesday, nearly a month after he was accused of paying for just one item and stealing several others in a self-checkout lane, according to a Spring Hill Police Department report obtained by news outlets.
Blade surrendered to the Maury County Sheriff's Office on Oct. 8 and was issued a citation for theft of property, records showed.
A store loss prevention officer reported Blade took more items than he paid for, exited the store, returned and repeated the act again, authorities said. He allegedly took more than 40 household goods and personal care items, according to the police report.
Blade was elected mayor in 2018. Fairview city officials announced the resignation but did not say whether it was linked to his theft case.
Vice Mayor Debby Rainey was named acting mayor and was set to remain in the role until the November 2022 mayoral election, according to the city's announcement.


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The Hay wain - John Constable - Framed Print - 16"H x 20"W
John Constable, RA was an English Romantic painter. He is known principally for his landscape paintings of Dedham Vale, the area surrounding his home—now known as "Constable Country"—which he invested with an intensity of affection.
His most famous paintings include Wivenhoe Park, Dedham Vale and The Hay Wain. Although his paintings are now among the most popular and valuable in British art, Constable was never financially successful. He did not become a member of the establishment until he was elected to the Royal Academy at the age of 52. His work was embraced in France, where he sold more works than in his native England and inspired the Barbizon school.
The Hay Wain depicts a rural scene on the River Stour between the English counties of Suffolk and Essex. The work shows as its central feature three horses pulling a hay wain across the river. Willy Lott's Cottage, is visible on the far left. The scene takes place near Flatford Mill in Suffolk, though since the Stour forms the border of two counties, the left bank is in Suffolk and the landscape on the right bank is in Essex.
It was considerably better received in France where it was praised by Théodore Géricault. The painting caused a sensation when it was exhibited at the 1824 Paris Salon. The Hay Wain was singled out for a gold medal awarded by Charles X of France, a cast of which is incorporated into the picture's frame. It inspired a new generation of French painters, including Eugène Delacroix.
A country cottage by the river - Arthur Claude Strachan - Framed Print - 16"H x 20"W
A country lane (Le Chemin de Sevres) - Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot - Framed Print - 12"H x 16"W
A Country Lane - Constable - Framed Picture 11"x14"
A Forest Fire - Piero di Cosimo - Framed Picture 16" x 20"