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«Сезон любви» (, кой-но кисэцу; ) — японский фильм, поставленный в жанре музыкальной мелодрамы  режиссёром Умэцугу Иноуэ в 1969 году. В фильме снялись участники популярного в те годы японского поп-квинтета Pinky & Killers, они же исполняют и все песни, самой популярной из которых стала Koino Kisetsu. В начале 1970-х фильм с большим успехом демонстрировался в советском прокате. Кинолента занимает 480-ю позицию в списке самых посещаемых фильмов за всю историю кинопроката в СССР, его посмотрели 27,6 миллионов советских зрителей.

Сюжет
Спасаясь от ухаживаний Кэйскэ, молодая выпускница школы Ёко прячется в первой попавшейся машине. Знакомство с хозяином машины Курокавой переходит вскоре в любовь. Но у Курокавы есть невеста Нацуко, у отца которой он работает. Узнав об увлечении жениха, Нацуко ставит ультиматум — либо она и служба, либо полный разрыв. Курокава принимает последнее. Чувствуя, что отношения ещё совсем юной Ёко могут привести к серьёзным последствиям, Курокава уезжает в Бразилию, а Ёко находит своё счастье с давно влюблённым в неё Кэйскэ.

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 Эцуко Нами — Ёко Мория
 Кэнсаку Морита — Кэйскэ Ясумура
 Ясунори Ирикава — Тосихико Курокава
 Ёко Кон — Пинки, певица (подруга Ёко)
 Джордж Хамано — Джордж
 Луис Такано — Луис
 Энди Ямагути — Энди
 Панчо Кагами — Панчо
 Тэйдзо Мута — Такэо Мория, отец Ёко
 Тиаки Цукиока — Нобуко Мория, мать Ёко
 Куми Хаясэ — Сатико Мория, младшая сестра Ёко
 Асао Утида — Ямадзака, президент компании
 Кикко Мацуока — Нацуко, дочь Ямадзаки (невеста Тосихико Курокавы)
 Микки Ясукава — Татэно
 Синъити Янагисава — Оота

Премьеры
  — национальная премьера фильма состоялась 21 февраля 1969 года в Токио.
  — фильм демонстрировался в советском кинопрокате с 15 июня 1970 года.

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Фильмы-мелодрамы Японии
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La canasta o rummy-canasta es un juego de naipes, variante del rummy. El objetivo del juego es crear grupos de cartas del mismo valor, para luego finalizar jugando o descartando todas las cartas de la mano.

Historia de la canasta
La canasta fue inventada en la ciudad de Montevideo, Uruguay en 1939 (abogado Segundo Santos y arquitecto Alberto Serrato en el Jockey Club de Montevideo). Desde ese momento, se extendió hacia Latinoamérica, y al resto del mundo. En poco tiempo se convirtió en uno de los grandes juegos de sociedad practicado en muchos círculos, cafés y reuniones. Josefina Artayeta de Viel llevó el juego a Nueva York, y a través de los Estados Unidos llegó a Gran Bretaña y al continente europeo.

En 1949/51, el Manhattan's Regency Club de Nueva York junto con expertos en juegos de Sudamérica, redactó las Leyes Oficiales de la Canasta, que fueron publicadas por las Comisiones Nacionales de Leyes de la Canasta de los Estados Unidos y Argentina.

Muchas variantes de la canasta fueron creadas en la última mitad del . Por lo general, estas variantes aumentan el número de cartas usadas, hacen más difícil llevarse la pila de descarte, permite a los jugadores botar dos naipes en cada turno, agregan grupos nuevos de cartas (como escalas) y/o precisan de más de una canasta para poder finalizar la partida.

Características
La principal característica de la canasta, a diferencia de otros juegos tipo rummy, es que formar un grupo de siete cartas, llamado canasta, otorga al jugador un enorme puntaje adicional (bonificación) y el número de Canastas hechas generalmente decide el juego. Otra particularidad es que en la Canasta, cuando un jugador toma cartas de la pila de descarte, se lleva la pila completa, en vez de llevarse solo la primera carta, como ocurre en la mayoría de los otros juegos.

Estas diferencias reglamentarias hacen al juego muy particular. Mientras que en la mayoría de los otros juegos el objetivo es descartarse rápido, y tener cartas en la mano es considerado malo, el objetivo de la Canasta requiere muchas cartas, por lo que conservar las cartas y llevarse la pila de descarte es usualmente provechoso para el jugador.

Existen variantes del juego, desde dos hasta cuatro jugadores, pero la versión original es la de 4 jugadores. Los juegos de 4 y 6 jugadores son juegos de equipo. Las versiones más populares son las de 2 y 4 jugadores.

Se usa la baraja francesa (o inglesa o de póker). Se juega con dos juegos de cartas (52 por juego) más los 4 comodines. En total hay 108 naipes. En la variante española se juega con 4 barajas más dos comodines por baraja. En total 216 naipes.

Cada carta tiene un valor específico a saber:
 As (20 puntos)
 8, 9, 10, J, Q y K (10 puntos)
 4, 5, 6 y 7 (5 puntos)
 el 3 rojo (corazones o diamantes) Es una carta honorífica, se puede utilizar durante el juego como flor. En cuanto se consigue, se muestra sobre la mesa y se reemplaza por otra carta del mazo. Vale 100 puntos en el caso de haber conseguido por lo menos una canasta a lo largo de la mano; en caso contrario, valdrá 100 puntos en contra. 4 Tres rojos valen 800 puntos.
 el 3 negro (picas y tréboles) se considera tapón, es decir, cuando un jugador coloca un 3 negro en la pila de descarte, el siguiente no puede llevársela. Cada 3 negro que quede en la mano de un jugador vale 100 puntos en contra (negativos).
 el 2 vale 20 puntos (comodines)
 los jokers valen 50 puntos (comodines)

El objetivo del juego consiste en llegar a los 5.000 puntos (partida rápida) o a los 7000 (partida normal o estándar). Para conseguir estos puntos se deben hacer "canastas". Las canastas son grupos de siete cartas del mismo número.

Canastón o variante española

Modos
En la variante española existen tres modalidades de juego:
 Individual: Cada jugador juega "solo" y solo cuenta con sus propias cartas.
 Parejas: Cuando hay 4 jugadores, se pueden formar dos equipos (A y B, por ejemplo). Los jugadores se situarán de forma alterna en la mesa de juego. Es decir: A, B, A, B.
 Tríos: Cuando hay 6 jugadores también se pueden formar dos equipos. Igual que en el modo por parejas los jugadores se situarán en la mesa de forma alterna (A, B, A, B, A, B). Cuando hay 6 o más jugadores, en vez de 2 barajas se usarán 4, con dos comodines por baraja, sumando un total de 216 cartas en juego.

Inicio del juego
Se barajan las cartas y se selecciona a alguno de los jugadores para que empiece. Este jugador es el encargado de repartir 15 cartas a cada jugador y dará la primera carta al jugador de su lado derecho, que va a empezar el juego.

El jugador que reparte será el encargado de "cortar" el mazo, si el jugador que corta, corta exacto (15 cartas por cada jugador), se le bonificará con 100 puntos (pero que solo serán positivos si hace una canasta, sino serán negativos).

Antes de empezar, el que repartió preguntará a los jugadores si tienen tres rojos empezando por la persona que recibió la primera carta. De ser así, los mostrarán y los depositarán sobre la mesa, a su lado, y robarán del mazo tantas cartas como tres rojos tengan.

Después de repartir las 15 cartas a cada jugador, el que reparte colocará 6 cartas apiladas sobre la mesa boca abajo y encima de estas colocará una boca arriba, si esta carta es AS, 2, 7 o joker se pondrá otra carta boca abajo y nuevamente una boca arriba si vuelve a salir un "premio" (AS, 2, 7 o joker) se hará lo mismo. Estas 7 o más cartas configuran el "montón" inicial.

Mecánica del juego
Al picar exacto son 700 puntos, solo si hace canasta.
El jugador que empieza puede llevarse el pozo en la primera vuelta, pero los demás hasta la segunda vuelta.

Cómo tomar el pozo. Para poder tomar el pozo es necesario poder combinar su carta superior inmediatamente. Esta combinación, formada por las cartas que se tienen en la mano y la carta superior del pozo, quedará expuesta en la jugada en la que se toma el pozo.

Cuando se toma el pozo por primera vez en el curso de un juego parcial es necesario tener, por lo menos, dos cartas iguales a la superior del pozo. Es decir, la primera vez que se toma el pozo no puede hacerse con una carta natural y un comodín. Esta condición no rige después de la primera toma del pozo a lo largo del juego parcial, excepto si el pozo está premiado.

Para tomar el pozo también es necesario que uno de los dos miembros de la pareja haya salido, aunque estas dos jugadas -tomar el pozo y salir- pueden ser simultáneas y realizarse con las mismas cartas, incluyéndose la superior del pozo en la valoración de las cartas expuestas que se precisan para la salida

Después de la primera toma, el pozo se puede tomar en cualquier turno si su carta superior es igual a alguna canasta o combinación de las que tienen los jugadores de la pareja a la que corresponde el turno de juego.

En caso de bajar cartas para robar el pozo o para sumar puntos y que el compañero(Canasta de a pareja) pueda robar el pozo, se necesita bajar más cartas que comodines.

Nota: El 3 negro se usa como tapón. Cuando un jugador lo tira al pozo, el siguiente no puede llevarse el pozo, tiene que llevarse una carta del mazo y jugar habitualmente. También es posible usar un comodín como tapón. Cuando un jugador lance un comodín al pote se colocará atravesado y el pozo quedará "cruzado", "castigado" o "vulnerado". A partir de ese momento y hasta que alguien se lleve el pozo, serán necesarias tres cartas del mismo número para poderse llevar el pozo.

Abrirse
Al principio todos los jugadores tienen todas las cartas en la mano. Pero a medida que se van llevando el pozo es obligatorio que se "abran": deben poner cartas sobre la mesa. Para abrirse se requiere un determinado número de puntos en la mano que se deben poner sobre la mesa, que dependerá del puntaje que tenga el jugador o la pareja de jugadores al inicio de la partida, según el siguiente cuadro:

Al abrirse, el jugador tiene que poner las cartas sobre la mesa en grupos de 3 o más cartas e intentará completar las 7 necesarias para la canasta.
En el caso de los comodines, se tienen que bajar 3.
Se pueden bajar dos cartas con un comodín. En las canastas, siempre tiene que haber un número mayor de cartas del mismo número que comodines, es decir que cada canasta solo admite 3 comodines, excepto la canasta del n.º 2 que admite todos los comodines que queramos poner.

La otra manera de tener los puntos además de con naipes es teniendo una "canasta oculta". Todas las cartas abiertas cuentan en positivo, a partir de que se haga una canasta. Si se cierra la mano y el jugador se ha abierto, pero no ha hecho ninguna canasta, todas contarán en negativo.

En la modalidad de parejas o tríos, cuando un jugador se abre, el otro integrante (o integrantes) del equipo pueden completar las canastas del primer jugador con las propias cuando llegue su turno.

Nota: Es obligatorio para el jugador abrirse cuando se lleva el pozo, pero no es necesario llevarse el pozo para abrirse. También es válido que cualquier jugador, en su turno, se abra sin llevarse el pozo, pero esto sólo tiene sentido en la modalidad por parejas o tríos.

Tipos de canastas
Una canasta es un grupo de siete cartas del mismo número. Existen los siguientes tipos:
 "Corte Rápido" si obteniendo las cartas necesarias al comienzo del juego esta en condiciones de finalizar. El jugador en turno obtendrá 300 puntos.
 Limpia: canasta de 7 cartas de números iguales, sin comodines. Vale 500 puntos.
 Sucia: canasta de 7 cartas con 4, 5 o 6 cartas del mismo número más 1, 2 o 3 comodines. (Nota: En una canasta no puede haber más comodines que cartas comunes). Vale 300 puntos.
 Oculta: hasta de 7 cartas (limpia o sucia) que se realiza en la mano, sin mostrar ninguna carta. Cuando se pone sobre la mesa se indica con una carta cruzada, puesta de forma transversal, para diferenciarla de las canastas normales. Vale 1000 puntos.
 De comodines sucia: canasta de 7 comodines, combinando jokers con dos. Vale 2000 puntos.
 De comodines limpia: canasta de 7 comodines iguales: 7 dos o 7 jokers(los 7 jokers son 4 mazos). Vale 3000 puntos.
 Canasta a lo gusto: Canasta realizada con los 3 negros. Gana el partido
 Terremoto : Terminar un juego sin bajar cartas a la mesa, antes tener que robar una carta del mazo para el siguiente turno poder dar por terminado el juego.

Es importante mencionar que para que los puntos bonificables de una escala sean contabilizados, el jugador deberá tener mínimo una canasta.

Una vez conformada una canasta, ese número se considerará tapa, no pudiendo ninguno de los jugadores (tanto el que realizó la canasta como los demás)  robar el pozo en lo que resta de la mano cuando ese número esté en el tope del pozo.

Bonificaciones Especiales
Cuando un jugador (pareja o trío) consigue 5 canastas, se bonifica al jugador con 500 puntos extra.
Cuando un jugador (pareja o trío) consigue 7 canastas, se bonifica al jugador con 2000 puntos extra.

Por cada 3 rojo se bonifica con 100 puntos.
Cuando se consiguen 4 tres rojos se bonifica con 800 puntos.
Para contar las bonificaciones de los tres rojos es necesario tener al menos una canasta cuando termine la partida ("mano"). Si no, esos puntos se cuentan en negativo.

Fin del juego
Un jugador (pareja o trío) gana el juego cuando llega a 5.000 puntos. Puede hacerlo en una sola "mano" o en varias.

Para cerrar cada "mano" es necesario tener por lo menos una canasta limpia y otra sucia, todas las cartas ligadas sobre la mesa (en grupos de 3 a 7 cartas) y una carta sobrante para cerrar  , que lanzará sobre el pote boca abajo. O también puedes cerrar la mano ultizando todas las cartas de tu mano si necesidad de la carta sobrante solo. Se puede cerrar la partida en la mano siguiente de cerrar la canasta limpia.

Al terminar cada mano, se contarán los puntos obtenidos con las canastas más las bonificaciones. Además, cada jugador tomará todas sus cartas (excepto los tres rojos, que se contabilizan una sola vez) y sumará los puntos de cada una de ellas. Ejemplo: Una canasta limpia de Q vale 500 puntos, pero al terminar la mano se tomarían esas Q y se contarían esos puntos individualmente. Cada Q vale 10 puntos, por lo tanto se sumarían 70 puntos más. Al contar los puntos se suman todas las cartas que se encuentren ligadas sobre la mesa.
Las cartas que un jugador se quede en la mano cuando otro cierre, cuentan en negativo. Ejemplo: Si al cerrar la mano un jugador, otro tiene 5 Q en la mano (no sobre la mesa) se le restarían 50 puntos en negativo. Además, al jugador que cierra se le bonifica con 200 puntos.

En caso de que más de un jugador supere los 5.000 puntos, ganará aquel que tenga la puntuación más alta.
En la modalidad de parejas o tríos se suman todos los puntos del equipo, no individualmente.

Canasta
Existe otra alternativa también muy conocida que es la que suele conocerse propiamente como canasta.

Las diferencias básicas se enumeran a continuación:
 Se toma una carta del mazo, no dos.
 La partida es a 5.000 puntos. Los puntos necesarios para abrirse en este caso son 15 (estando en puntos negativos), 50 (de 0 a 1495), 90 (de 1500 a 2995) o 120 (de 3000 en adelante). Si se cierra de golpe (con canasta oculta incluida), no es necesario tener el mínimo de puntos estipulado.
 Se reparten 11 cartas por jugador de inicio.
 500 puntos negativos por no contar
 Los tres rojos se despliegan en el momento en que el jugador tiene su turno, no todos juntos al principio.
 Es necesario solo cerrar una canasta (limpia o sucia) para entrar en puntos positivos y para poder cerrar un juego parcial.
 Las canastas de As valen 800 (limpia) y 500 (sucia).
 Se puede cerrar un juego parcial sin poner la carta final en la pila de descartes, utilizándola en las propias combinaciones.
 Añadir un comodín a una canasta limpia ya cerrada la convierte en sucia.
 Desplegar una combinación con los 3 tres negros en el momento del cierre del juego parcial da una bonificación de 500 puntos. De la misma forma, tener los 3 tres negros en la mano en el momento del cierre penaliza con 500 puntos.
 Una vez se ha empezado una canasta de comodines, todos los comodines de la pareja deberán ir a la canasta hasta que se logre cerrar.
 Cerrar una canasta de comodines hace entrar a la pareja en puntos positivos, pero sigue siendo necesario cerrar una canasta adicional para poder cerrar el juego parcial.
 Si la carta inicial de la pila de descartes es un comodín (joker o 2) o 3 rojo, se saca otra carta y así sucesivamente hasta que no sea ninguna de las anteriores. En este caso, la pila ya estaría "premiada", por lo que sería necesario robarla con al menos un trío.
 Al jugar con dos barajas de reverso de color diferente, si un jugador recibe las 11 cartas del mismo reverso gana 100 puntos. Estos puntos se otorgan inmediatamente, por lo que, por ejemplo, podrían ser motivo de victoria sin tener que jugar ese juego parcial o también podrían hacer pasar a una pareja de los puntos para abrirse con puntuación más alta.
Se puede levantar el poso con 1 carta y mono o con 2 cartas
 La pila de descartes solo puede contener como máximo 6 honores (joker, comodín-2 y tres rojo). Cuando se alcanzan los 6, ya no se podrá utilizar ninguna de esas cartas como tapón. Como regla especial curiosa, una pila taponada con el 2 de corazones puede ser robada con 2 jotas (o tres, si la pila ya estaba anteriormente premiada).
 Cerrar un juego parcial otorga 100 puntos.
 Cerrar de golpe de mano sin apoyarse en el compañero otorga 1000 puntos (500 si es apoyándose en el compañero). Hacer lo mismo en el transcurso del juego da 500 puntos sin apoyarse (o 200 apoyándose).
 Se debe preguntar al compañero sobre la conveniencia o no de cortar el juego y se le debe obedecer sin objetar. En caso de no poder realizar el corte se debe mostrar el juego o recibir una penalización de 100 puntos.

Picada exacta, al picar exacto se suma 700 puntos, de no hacer canasta, se descontara..

Véase también
 Rummy

Enlaces externos
 Canasta Cards
 Canasta-Reglamentos de Naipes

Juegos de naipes
Juegos de naipes con baraja inglesa
Inventos de Uruguay
Juegos de naipes de Uruguay
Juegos de naipes con baraja francesa


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After years of bruising political fights, the Keystone XL pipeline is dead.
On Friday, President Barack Obama announced from the Roosevelt Room in the White House that Secretary of State John Kerry had recommended the administration reject the proposed project, bringing an end to a years-long process that emerged as a fault line in the political battle over climate change. The president's decision is a major victory for climate change activists who have fought for years to block construction of the pipeline.
"This morning, Secretary Kerry informed me that, after extensive public outreach and consultation with other cabinet agencies, the State Department has decided that the Keystone XL pipeline would not serve the national interests of the United States," Obama said, appearing with Kerry and Vice President Joe Biden. "I agree with that decision."
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Obama said he was rejecting the project because of what he said was the negligible effect on the economy that the pipeline would have, as well as improvements in energy technology since the pipeline was first proposed. He cited environmental concerns and upcoming climate change negotiations as further reasons for his decision.
"The old rules said we couldn't promote economic growth and transition to clean energy without squeezing businesses," Obama said. "But this is America, and we have come up with new ways and new technologies to break down the old rules."
The pipeline was proposed by the Canadian company TransCanada, and would have connected oil sands fields in Canada with the Gulf Coast, carrying 800,000 barrels of oil per day over a nearly 1,200-mile stretch. Shares of TransCanada tanked on the news of Obama's impending announcement, which was first reported by the Wall Street Journal.
The status of the project had been in limbo for years, as it made its way through a review process by the State Department initiated while Hillary Clinton was secretary of state. Clinton has been criticized by her Democratic rivals in the presidential race — particularly Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), who has made his opposition to Keystone a cornerstone of his campaign — for saying in September that she opposed the pipeline, after refusing to take a position earlier in the summer.
Sanders welcomed Obama's announcement:
Republicans overwhelmingly support the pipeline, arguing that its construction would create jobs and boost the economy. GOP presidential candidates reacted quickly to news of the administration's rejection:
Just last week, TransCanada requested that the State Department's review be put on hold until at least 2017, anticipating that the Obama administration would ultimately reject the project. The State Department rejected the company's request for a delay.
Obama's rejection of the pipeline comes just weeks before a major international summit on climate change in Paris, where at least 80 world leaders will attempt to hammer out a pact to curb greenhouse gas emissions and take other measures to combat the effects of climate change. The administration's decision to kill the Keystone project ahead of the meeting is seen as a good-faith measure by Obama that the United States is ready and willing to enter into an international climate pact to reduce emissions.
You can watch Obama's statement in its entirety here:


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14-loop letterbraid (Ingrid Crickmore). Cotton embroidery floss and silk knitting yarn. Click twice on photo for more detail.
Around the turn of the 21st Century, Noémi Speiser and Joy Boutrup somehow managed to resurrect the braiding methods for three 17th C. loop braided alphabet braids from total oblivion (two different 10-loop braids, and a 14-loop braid). The old manuscripts that described them must have been useful to the braiders who originally wrote them, but are completely unintelligible to a modern braider or weaver.
The three braids are all 2-layer braids, made by two braiders working together, holding bicolor loops, and using the loop braiding equivalent of complementary pick-up patterning in weaving. Here, the 'pickup' is done by turning specified bicolor loops over on their fingers before doing the braiding moves. Turning a loop over drops the background color, and lifts up the contrast color that will form part of the letter-shape. The pick-up pattern areas are the only connection between the upper and lower layers of the braid.
All three letterbraids require each braider to perform four main braiding moves, compared to the two main braiding moves of the more common square (or round) loop braid. This type of braid was called "Spanish" in the 17th C. English loop braiding manuscripts.
The 17th C. instructions for one of these braids – the 14-loop letterbraid – included pattern charts for each letter of the alphabet and for several other symbols. The charts apparently were meant to indicate which loops should be turned light or dark-side-up for each braiding cycle of unknown moves. Exactly which loops, however—and even how many total loops were in the braid—was unclear. The braiding moves themselves were not described, or described only very generally ('do the spanish braid, but without the private stitch' for example).
The other letterbraid that Speiser found 17th C. "instructions" for had no charts, the pick-up moves for making the lettershapes were described in text only. (It was in fact a 10-loop braid, as Speiser had first assumed for the charted letterbraid, which turned out to be a 14-loop braid.)
The third letterbraid method (for another 10-loop braid), subsequently came to light in a manuscript now known as the Nun's Book*, well after Noémi Speiser had already published her attempts to decipher the first two known letter braids. (in Old English Pattern Books for Loop Braiding, 2000.)
Eventually, Speiser's student and associate Joy Boutrup finally figured out all three letterbraid methods, including the "new" Nun's Book letterbraid. Boutrup's ground-breaking monograph on these three letter braids was published in 2009 as Part II of a four-part supplement to OEPBforLB, written in collaboration with Noémi Speiser: European Loop Braiding, Investigations and Results, 2009-2011. Part II is subtitled: Instructions for Letter Braids in 17th Century Manuscripts.
After reading Noémi Speiser's account of her struggles with the 17th C. letterbraid manuscripts in her loop braiding opus Old English Pattern Books for Loop Braiding, I was extremely excited to say the least when I found out that this huge mystery had been solved and that a whole publication was coming out on it! When I first dove in, I was initially a little discouraged, but luckily it turned out that it wasn't necessary to understand all the technical details in order to get the gist of the way the charts worked, and how to incorporate them into the braiding instructions in the appendices.
Joy Boutrup's charts for the 14-loop letterbraid's letter-patterns are slightly revised versions of the originals, laid out in mirror-image symmetry that better reflects the left and right hands of the two braiders. They are not fundamentally different from the original pattern-charts, though. What is completely new is her understanding of which fingers the various columns in the charts correspond to, as well as her understanding of the braid's structure and braiding method (which are independent of the patterning charts).
She also figured out the braiding methods for both 10-loop letter braids, improved the pattern charts for the second one (the Nun's Book letterbraid), and created 2 alternative sets of pattern charts for the first one – the so-called "Verbal Letterbraid." The original pick-up instructions for its various letter-shapes had been in text only – incomprehensible jargon, for the most part – with no charts.
The Verbal letterbraid was the first of the two 10-loop letterbraids that Joy Boutrup analyzed, and its original obscurely-worded instructions contained a truly mind-boggling red herring! The given lettershapes (as taught) can be produced only if a very odd "mistake move" (as I see it, anyway) is included with each row of braiding. Luckily, this weird move was actually described, though very unclearly, in one of the manuscripts. Not only is the description hard to decipher, but – if you are used to braiding two-layer loop braids – the move itself is so obviously wrong you would never guess that was what the writer really meant. However, a few steps after making this "mistake" move, the mistake is then undone by a subsequent braiding move.
The braid itself, without any letters, can easily be made without doing this peculiar "mistake", but the given pick-up instructions for making the lettershapes do not come out correctly without this otherwise unnecessary "mistake and correction" in each row of braiding moves! Joy somehow managed to figure out this odd "mistake" move, as well as the nearly-incomprehensible pick-up instructions for each lettershape. She didn't stop there – she also created two complete sets of easy-to-follow pattern charts for the lengthy text-only pick-up instructions – one set for the braid as it was originally made with the "mistake and correction" moves, and a second, alternative set of pattern charts for making the same exact braid and lettershapes, but without the "mistake" move and its subsequent correction. Because of all her work, we now not only can make the braid, but even have two optional ways to make it – the original method, and a more efficient one, each with its own letter-charts. (I gratefully opt for the second method!)
The next ten-loop letterbraid that Boutrup analyzed – the Nun's Book letterbraid – had no accompanying braiding instructions in the original manuscript, just enigmatic charts of the pick-up moves for each lettershape with no understandable labels to the columns to explain which loops or fingers they represented, etc. (Letterbraid charts are charts of the pick-up moves, they don't actually look like the finished lettershapes.)
In this case Boutrup had to deduce or infer the braiding method with no instructions to go by, solely by guessing which fingers the columns referred to, and then finding an order-of-operations for a 10-loop plain-weave braid that would result in comprehensible letter-shapes when following the given pick-up charts. She came up with two possible braiding methods for producing the letter-shapes! One is easier to learn, the other is faster to braid, so they are great options.
But even though she had less information to start with, I would guess that the Nun's Book letterbraid might have been less of a headache for her to figure out than the Verbal letterbraid, since at least its charts weren't dependent on a mistake being incorporated into the braiding!
[Update: I now have a tutorial here on this blog teaching how to make the Nun's Book letterbraid as a solo braider, holding five loops on each hand. Joy Boutrup's monograph is still the only source for the pattern charts for all the 17th C. original lettershapes, though – my tutorial only provides charts for the 3 "Nun's letterbraid" lettershapes that I designed myself (for the letters J, U, and Q.)]
Update: Gary Mitchell – with Joy Boutrup's permission – has posted the pick-up charts for all the Nun's Book letters of the alphabet on his FingerTips site! They are available here (link will open in separate tab). The print publication has more info, however, including an errata list.
Update 2: For more about complementary pick-up patterning in loop braiding, see my in-progress series of posts and tutorials – go to my upper menu and click on the Pick-up tab.
Learning how to braid the letterbraids:
Caveat: Instructions for Letter Braids in 17th C. Manuscripts is not a set of instructions itself. It's a scholarly monograph about three sets of instructions found in 17th C. manuscripts, and how Joy Boutrup deciphered them and reconstructed the braiding techniques. Joy Boutrup told me that she and Noémi Speiser expected the monograph to be more of interest to textile museums and historians, than to textile artists/ craftspeople.
It's a great resource on the heights that loop braiding had reached by the 17th C, and an amazing account of Joy Boutrup's saga of deciphering and resurrecting these 17th C. techniques from the most minimal and confusing clues. Unlike OEPBforLB, this and the other three supplements in this series all have large color photographs of historical braid artifacts (and in this case, of Joy Boutrup's reconstructions).
It has succinct, text-only braiding instructions in appendices in the back, along with the patterning charts. The instructions briefly outline the braiding moves of one of the two braiders of a team. They don't explain how to follow the pick-up pattern charts for the letters – that is covered in the main body of the publication.
The instructions don't explain how the two braiders combine their two halves into one braid – the "loop exchange move" that must be done in each row of braiding. That's because team braiding techniques are covered in Noémi Speiser's Old English Pattern Books for Loop Braiding. The letterbraid monograph was written as a supplement to Old English Pattern Books for Loop braiding, and doesn't duplicate information from the earlier book.
For those reasons, it wouldn't be easy to learn how to make letterbraids from the ground up using this monograph alone. It would help if you already have experience in loop braiding as a team, as described in the old English loop braiding manuscripts. However, for the Nun's Letterbraid, if you've learned my solo-braider method, you'll be able to use that method, along with the Nun's Book charts to make the rest of the letters.
For the 14-loop letterbraid: if you and a braiding partner follow my 7-loop Spanish braid video-tutorial; and learn and practiced how to loop braid as part of a team of braiders, and have reviewed my video tutorial for following a letter chart in making the Nun's Book letterbraid as a solo braider, Joy Boutrup's instructions and charts should be much easier to follow.
My video tutorial for the 7-loop Spanish braid teaches the braid that each of the 2 cooperating braiders would be braiding and combining together to make the 14-loop letterbraid.
I made that tutorial so the 7-loop Spanish braid could be more widely known (it's a great braid in itself, and not hard to learn if you already know how to braid a 7-loop square braid), as well as to help any braiders attempting to use Joy Boutrup's monograph in braiding the full 14-loop letterbraid as a team. I myself still haven't braided letterbraids as a team, only with my solo-braider workarounds, so details may need to be fine-tuned and worked out as you go. But my tutorial should have some useful tips.
The way I braid the 14-loop letterbraid is spelled out (text-only) in an appendix to my 7-loop Spanish braid tutorial (click on "14-loop solo-braider method"). I hold three loops on each little finger, and one loop on each of the other fingers, including thumbs.
See also my "Too Many Loops" info page.
Joy Boutrup makes these letterbraids both solo and as part of a team. Her own solo-braider method for multi-loop braids is hand-held loop braiding, using loops attached to kute (handles). She does not teach this in the monograph, however.
In Braided Tunes, I show examples of an 18-loop letterbraid that I extrapolated from the 17th C. 14-loop letterbraid.
*Re the Nun's Book: The braiding instructions in the Nun's book were titled "Directions for Weaving Watch Strings"(!) It includes instructions for over 40 braids, and has over 30 braid swatches. Other than the Speiser/Boutrup publication I describe above, I only know of two other articles on the Nun's Book: one is an in-depth article with color photographs about all the other braids in the Nun's Book, including instructions for some of them (Noémi Speiser purposely excluded the Nun's book letterbraid from this article, as it would be covered in detail in her and Joy Boutrup's soon-to-be-published 4-part European Loop Braiding collaboration).
The article is entitled: The Nun's Book, 2008.67.1, Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, UK, published in Strands, issue 16, 2009. Strands is the yearly (print) journal of the Braid Society.
There is also a short on-line mini-article (no photos) about the Nun's Book in issue 12 of L-MBRIC: Initial Observations on "The Nun's Book" by Noémi Speiser.
[Unfortunately, the old LMBRIC site no longer exists as such, but a copy of it can still be accessed, click here to find out how to use any of my LMBRIC links to get to that page via the Internet Archive's "wayback machine".]
I was able to find a couple of other more recent references to the Nun's Book: here, and here.]
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The scientific diver classes at BML are possible due to the Roger and Elizabeth Sippl Diver Training Facility. The pool not only allows on-site formal training, but is also used for diver refresher sessions (dry suit, rescue, general skills), dive class staff workshops, and equipment testing. This 280,000 gallon concrete pond, required to provide additional fire suppression for the Laboratory expansion, was specifically designed to provide daily service for diver training.
A generous gift from Roger and Elizabeth Sippl, two of the Laboratory's strongest supporters and avid divers themselves, has allowed us to name the facility in their honor.
BML remains the first West Coast research station with Enriched Air, Nitrox capability. The facility consists of a continuous EANx blending system, designed and built by Aqua Tech Engineering, a Rix 3KB 28cfm oil free compressor, oxygen cleaned air purification system, six cascade banks (three each of air and EANx) and a four cylinder fill station control panel built by BML Physical Plant. The facility provides service and training to UC subtidal research projects and scientific divers.


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Roadside haymaking supported
Farmers experiencing fodder shortages in drought affected parts of Gippsland may benefit from a roadside haymaking project after it was recently raised in parliament by Gippsland East Nationals MP Tim Bull.
"I asked about the roadsides in Gippsland and if they could be cut and baled for hay. The Minister advised they were mostly not suitable but stated she was considering a stretch of the Strzelecki Highway to provide fodder for Gippsland farmers," said Mr Bull.
"I was told the knee-high grass on the Princes Highway was unsuitable due to safety issues and weeds that meant it was of questionable nutritional value, but that is not what I heard from farmers who made the suggestion.
"The good seasonal conditions experienced in parts of West and South Gippsland have produced a lot of valuable feed on roadsides that is eye wateringly attractive to farmers further to the east who are still in drought.
"In some cases, it has been cut and baled on one side of the fence but apparently the other side is not suitable.
"Our farmers don't get the benefit of the generous freight fodder subsidies that the New South Wales Government has provided to its drought impacted farmers."
Drought affected farmers wishing to access this fodder, which is weather dependent, are invited to register their interest with Tim Bull's electorate office on 5152 3491.
Hay bales image courtesy of Visit Victoria Content Hub
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Maine Cancer Foundation Already Registered?
On Thursday, June 6, 2019, hundreds of people will enjoy the Twilight 5K - a family-friendly walk-run fundraising event to support Maine Cancer Foundation. Gather your family, friends, or coworkers together and join the community effort to reduce the burden of cancer in Maine.
The Most Beautiful Sunset Race in Maine!
Hosted on the breathtaking Southern Maine Community College campus in South Portland, this inspirational event is open to adults and children participating as individuals or teams.
The Twilight 5K is a chip-timed race with mile split times posted on the course. Participants are also welcome to walk the course, and are free to turn around at any point. Remember: every dollar and every step makes a difference!
What's a Race Without a Party?
The Twilight 5K finishes with live music, awards, a pizza party generously donated by Otto Pizza and a beer tent provided by Shipyard Brewing Company.


Okay, so this one's a gimme. But I actually did not see many actual cinnamon rolls being used for Star Wars food in my research! You'd think that would be an easy choice. Mostly because YUM.
For the best Leia bun hair effect these are sans frosting, but I included a frosting addition to the recipe because of course!
Add yeast to cup of lukewarm water. Set aside for about five minutes.
In a mixer with the paddle attachment, add shortening, sugar, and salt to hot water and beat for 20-30 seconds. Stir in 2 cups of flour and combine until smooth. Add yeast mixture and mix until combined. Mix in the beaten eggs.
Gradually stir in the remaining flour and mix with the dough hook for about 2 minutes. Remove dough from the bowl and place on a lightly floured surface. Knead, adding a little flour if the dough is sticky. Knead until dough is smooth.
Cover and let rise for 30 minutes. After the dough has doubled in size, remove it from the bowl and divide it in half. With a rolling pin, roll one half of the dough into a rectangular shape. Spread dough evenly with half of the softened butter. Sprinkle dough with half of the brown sugar and cinnamon.
Roll up dough into one long roll. Cut rolls, using a piece of unflavored dental floss or thread, about two inches thick. Place rolls in greased 9x13 baking pans. Follow the same steps with the other half of the dough.
Let the rolls rise until doubled. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Bake for 18-28 minutes or until they are golden brown on top and cooked in the middle.
Mix the confectioners' sugar, butter, and vanilla together.
Add about half the milk and stir in to make a thick glaze, adding tiny amounts more milk as needed to reach the consistency you prefer.
Spread over cooled cinnamon rolls.
Any excuse to remember Carrie Fisher. Sigh.
According to Wookieepedia, Blue Milk (or Bantha Milk) was used for drinking, but also for butter, yogurt, and ice cream. So I decided to up the Blue Milk game by making Blue Milkshakes! I served them in tall shot glasses so that you can save room for all of the other goodies and not fill up on yummy blue shake. Although it's tempting.
I used my recipe for a toasted marshmallow milkshake (found here!) with the addition of a couple of drops of blue food coloring (I used Wilton brand).
Just watch out for Tookas and Loth-Cats who apparently also want to get in on the milkshake action. Naw, dude, naw!
I took my inspiration from this amazing Stormtrooper cheese ball tutorial and made it smaller and adapted the recipe a bit. It miiiiight look more like an Oogie Boogie cheese ball if I'm honest, though. Good thing I love him, too. Feel free to make yours less Oogie, more Stormtrooper-y.
Here's the recipe if you want to try it out (and see how they can look a little more like Stormtroopers!).
I love Star Wars movies releases since they usually fall around the holidays and I can whip up some gingerbread wookiee cookies. I originally made these two years ago for the release of The Force Awakens. Find the recipe here!
Will you be seeing The Last Jedi?!


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Gardener jailed 2 months for insulting Agong on Facebook
Judge MM Edwin Paramjothy, in handing down the sentence, regrets that people with smartphones were expressing extreme and abusive opinions online.
KUALA LUMPUR: A gardener was sentenced to two months' jail by the Sessions Court here today for insulting the Yang di-Pertuan Agong on his Facebook page.
Judge MM Edwin Paramjothy handed down the sentence on Sharil Mohd Sarif, 36, after he pleaded guilty to the charge.
Sharil, initially pleaded not guilty when he was first charged on March 22, but changed his plea to guilty on April 8 and his appeal was also heard on the same day.
The court had fixed today for sentencing.
The father of four children, aged between five and 12, was ordered to serve the sentence from the date of arrest on March 15.
In sentencing, Edwin said attacks on the constitutional monarchy should be taken seriously, especially in this country where the people have a deep respect for the monarchy.
"Such cases often raise the question of freedom of expression and the interests of the government in protecting public order and strengthening unity.
"Technological advancement means anyone who has a smartphone can be a critic who can spread opinions on social media very quickly.
"But this has led them to express their opinions without filtering and they can be very extreme and abusive.
"Although I agree with the deputy public prosecutor that a severe sentence will reflect on the seriousness of the offence and will serve as a warning to the offender, the focus of sentencing should also be on rehabilitation," he said.
Sharil was accused of using the Facebook profile "Shahril Chain" to initiate transmission of communication which was offensive in character and with intent to annoy others.
The posting was read at the Cyber Crime and Multimedia Investigation Division, Commercial Crime Investigation Department, Bukit Aman police headquarters, 27th floor, Menara KPJ, Wangsa Maju, here at 11.30am on March 13.
He was charged under Section 233 (1) (a) of the Communications and Multimedia Act 1998, which provides a maximum fine of RM50,000 or imprisonment for up to a year, or both, upon conviction and a fine of RM1,000 for every day that the offence is repeated after conviction.
The prosecution was conducted by deputy public prosecutor Asyraf Md Kamal while Sharil was represented by counsel M Dinesh.
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The rescue of Springer (A73)
© NOAA / Lynne Barre
A young orca that showed up without its family; that is not a good sign! This happened to Northern Resident orca Springer (A73). Fortunately, with lots of help from people and donations, a successful rescue operation was set in motion. And the way that this success was later reaffirmed is almost too good to be true.
By Annemieke Podt / June 2016 & update August 2017
Special thanks to Lynne Barre (Marine Biologist at NOAA Fisheries)
On the first of November in 2001, a lone orca was seen in Puget Sound. More sightings near Vashon Island of probably the same individual were reported, including a sighting in January 2002 by Ken Balcomb of the Center for Whale Research and Mark Sears. It was a young animal, about two and a half years old according to their estimation. However, they had no idea who this orca was and where the animal came from.
Who was this orca?
Photo-identification was used to find out who this orca could be. Graeme Ellis thought he recognized the orca. He had seen a young orca swimming close to a female orca known as G50 in Queen Charlotte Strait in the summer of 2001. Therefore he assumed, which later turned out to be incorrect, that this orca was the calf of G50. In addition to photo-identification, acoustic research was also used to find the origin of the orca by recording Springer's vocalizations. Matches with sounds from in A-Clan of the Northern Residents were found. Helena Symonds of Orcalab recognized the type of sound made by Sutlej (A45), a female orca from the A24 matriline that was born in 1983. The young orca in Puget Sound had to be Springer (A73), the daughter of Sutlej. In the meantime, Graeme Ellis continued to search through his photo catalog and found a match between the eyepatch of the orca in Puget Sound and a photo of Springer.
The origin of Springer
Springer was born in the winter of 1999/2000. Researchers John Ford and Graeme Ellis saw her for the first time on June 9, 2000. She was named A73, because she was born in A pod. In September 2000, Springer and her mother Sutlej were last seen in an encounter in the south of Alaska. The family of Sutlej and Springer was regularly seen in the following year, but without them. Therefore it was assumed that both had died. In August 2001, G50 was seen with a calf, which later turned out to be Springer, not a calf of her own. That autumn, the group of G50 was seen near the entrance of Strait of Juan de Fuca which leads to Puget Sound. It is unknown if Springer was still with G50 at that time. It is impossible to know exactly why Springer ended up alone in Puget Sound. It is likely that Springers mother died and that Springer lost her family around the same time. After that, she temporary joint G50, but eventually ended up alone in Puget Sound.
The bad skin condition was clearly visible in 2002 (© NOAA / Lynne Barre)
Now that the identity of the lone orca was known, it was possible to look at future possibilities. A delegation of the Vancouver Aquarium, including a veterinarian, visited Springer with scientists from NOAA in February 2002 to investigate her health. According to their observations, Springer had skin problems, was lethargic and possibly underweight. In addition to that, Springer's breath did not smell normal, a sign that she was using her fat reserves because she did not have enough to eat. The chances of survival were small if people would not intervene. The chances of a successful reunion with her family seemed likely, because the exact family was known, as well as the location where they could be found. A proposal for a rescue operation was made and months of debate followed. It was for example important to know that Springer did not have any diseases she could transfer to her family. In May 24, 2002, it was finally decided to intervene and capture Springer.
"The chances of survival were small if people would not intervene."
Springer is lifted out of the water. (© NOAA / Lynne Barre)
Minimal human contact
Early June, the rescue team started to make Springer used to having people around her. June 13, 2002, was the day of Springer's capture. First, the team attached a rope around her fluke and they guided her into a sling. Then, she was lifted onboard a boat for a medical inspection. After that, she was placed in a netpen near Manchester, Washington. In this enclosure, Springer could receive medical help and was fed live salmon. The food was provided through a tube, to prevent Springer from associating humans and food. Other contact with humans was kept minimal. Springers health improved and after tests showed that Springer did not carry any diseases, the transport from American to Canadian waters could start.
Springer soon recovers thank to the medical help and by feeding the live salmon. (© NOAA / Lynne Barre)
Springer's journey to her home waters started on July 13, 2002. She was placed in a sling, lifted from the water and placed in a transport box on a catamaran. This boat transported her to Dong Chong Bay on Hanson Island. After a 10 hour journey, she was lowered into the water of another netpen. During the night after her arrival, she made the first contact with her family, when members of A pod were passing in the area of her netpen.
The orcas were passing Dong Chong Bay again the next day. It was decided to release Springer after tracking tags were placed on her dorsal fin. Springer swam towards the other orcas when her netpen was opened, but unfortunately did not join the orcas and went her own way. A day later, Springer briefly joined other orcas near a rubbing beach in Robson Bight. The rake marks that the other orcas had made on Springer's skin showed that this encounter was not completely friendly. Springer also sometimes displayed dangerous behavior, she approached boats. On July 18, Springer was seen with other orcas. She was seen with Nodales (A51), a sixteen year old female. It was seen that Nodales prevented Springer from approach boats. From this moment on, Springer was regularly seen with other orcas.
"The rake marks that the other orcas had made on Springer's skin showed that this encounter was not completely friendly."
Springer left the area of Johnstone Strait with the A4 and A5 pod in October 2002. The suspense about Springers wellbeing after a winter without confirmed sightings was ended in June 2003. Springer was seen and photographed in Fisher Channel and a month later sighted in Queen Charlotte Strait. Springer was seen with Yakat (A11) and Yakat's daughter Nahwitti (A56) and seemed to be in good health. During the summer, more encounters of Springer and the other Northern Resident orcas followed.
Springer (2010) © Annemieke Podt
Double success
Springer was regularly seen in the following years, mostly with Yakat en Nahwitti. Sadly, Yakat died in January 2013, leaving Springer, Nahwitti and Nahwitti's calf without the leader of their group. But fortunately, there was also good news a couple months later, in July 2013. Springer was seen with her first calf that was named Spirit (A104). Four years later, she got her second calf. The rescue of Springer was already a big success, and that success is now even bigger. By producing offspring, Springer gives now, and in the future, an important contribution to the survival of her population: the Northern Residents.
Operation Orca – D. Francis & G. Hewlett
Orphan orca: saving Springer (Documentary)
Exhibition in the picture: THE WHALE MUSEUM
A special family: the T2's


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I've heard people ask all of these questions – indeed, I've asked all these questions myself. And the answer is a complex one.
The Way the Local Church is funded.
Often people confuse the local church with a nationwide (or even worldwide) institution. The simple answer to this is that your local parish church (building and mission) is primarily funded by local people.
income from lettings and investments (ours are ethical).
As it costs nearly £2,000 a day to keep St Clements open, this is a rather ad hoc way to fund an important local institution. Contrary to popular belief the government do not give us money, even though we are the church of the state.
Whilst its not so fashionable to be Christian these days in fact the church nationally is at the forefront of providing services for people who are in need in all sorts of ways including food poverty, debt relief, homelessness, education poverty, loneliness and isolation, mental illness, etc In addition, church buildings are often used for community meetings, concerts, keep fit classes, counselling, education events, local history events, school concerts, school services etc, often in partnership with other agencies.
Most local churches provides services locally to meet local need and would provide more if they had the resources.
And of course the church provides an opportunity for every couple in the country to have a wedding in a beautiful buildings, and every person with an opportunity to have a funeral in a building which speaks of God's love for everyone.
What's best way to help my local church serve its community?
If you buy things online buy via the just giving scheme. Most online companies allow you to do this and the church will benefit by a penny in every pound you spend.
Leave the church a legacy in your will, either for general funds or a specific project that your church is running or hoping to run.
Donations at services you can gift aid it using the special envelope provided in church) the tax man will give additional money at no expense to you).
Even more important – come along and see for yourself. Church is about God and people first and foremost, and you are very very welcome.


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Kamil Kowalczyk (born 11 February 1976) is a former Polish footballer who played as a midfielder.

Biography

It is known that Kowalczyk started his career with Olimpia Poznań, playing with the team in the I liga during the 1994–95 season. He made 12 appearances for in total for Polonia in the top division. The following season Polonia Poznań and Lechia Gdańsk were involved in a merger, creating the Olimpia-Lechia Gdańsk team. For the 1995–96 season Kowalczyk made appearances for both the Olimpia-Lechia team, which played in the I liga, and the Lechia Gdańsk II team, which was essentially the continuation of the Lechia team before the merger, and which played in the III liga. He made his Olimpia-Lechia debut on 4 October 1995 in a 3–0 defeat to Zagłębie Lubin, going on to make 9 appearances for Polonia-Lechia that season During this season he also made 5 appearances and scored 2 goals for the Lechia II team in the III liga. After the season the Olimpia-Lechia team was disbanded after suffering relegation, with the Lechia II team, now officially going by the name Lechia Gdańsk again, took the teams place in the II liga. Kowalczyk made 2 appearances for Lechia at the start of the season before leaving the club. After making 21 appearances in Poland's top division there is very little information about what happened to Kowalczyk after his time with Lechia, suggesting he may have left football altogether to follow a different career. In 2012 it was announced that Kowalczyk had joined the German amateur team, SV Polonia München, which played in the 9th tier. The team was set up as a football club for Polish people living in Munich, Germany. Kowalczyk is known to have made 15 appearances, scoring 8 goals, for the amateur club.

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Smaller, More Efficient: VW Passat With 1.2-Liter 3-Cylinder Engine
John Voelcker June 23, 2011 Comment Now!
How large an engine do you need in a mid-size car?
Just a few years ago, the answer would have been a V-6 of 2.8 to 3.5 liters, perhaps with a base model offering a four of 2.4 to 2.8 liters.
Then Hyundai announced in late 2009 that it would abandon V-6 engines altogether for its 2010 Sonata, fitting only fours. The base Sonata engine is a 2.4-liter four putting out 175 hp.
But how small can you get? And how many horsepower do you need? Would, say, 160 hp be enough?
A 2009 Volkswagen Passat wagon, used as a test bed for "radical downsizing" and shown in Germany by Bosch Mahle Turbo systems, generates 161 hp and a peak torque of 210 foot-pounds across a wide range of engine speed from 1600 to 3500 rpm.
2009 VW Passat wagon test car for Bosch-Mahle turbocharged 1.2-liter, 3-cyl engine, courtesy Ward's
So is it a 2.0-liter four? Perhaps a turbocharged 1.6-liter engine, similar to Ford's upcoming EcoBoost four?
Nope. Not even close. That power and performance came from a three-cylinder turbocharged engine with a mere 1.2 liters of displacement.
What about gas mileage? In the Passat test car, the engine is rated at 40 miles per gallon on the European test cycle. That would likely translate to 32 to 35 mpg on the U.S. combined cycle.
Which is pretty good for mid-sized five-passenger station wagon, no?
This is just another example of the development of much smaller, more efficient engines that produce the same power as larger ones but from far smaller sizes--and deliver vastly better fuel efficiency in the process.
Among the manufacturers planning or launching such engines are Ford (across its successful and growing range of EcoBoost engines), BMW, Fiat, Buick, and others.
And both BMW and Ford are planning three-cylinder engines, a first for each maker.
With U.S. corporate average fuel economy rules potentially requiring gas mileage as high as 62 mpg by 2025, carmakers know they have to wring a lot more miles out of each gallon of gasoline.
But as demonstration projects like the 1.2-liter turbo Passat show, there's a lot of life left in the gasoline engine yet.
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The strawberry from Plougastel: thank you, mister Frézier, the explorer from Savoie!
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Those strawberries are gariguettes, cultivated in Plougastel-Daoulas, Brittany.
You won't miss them, with their long shape, their sweet taste and juicy texture.
People are fond of that fruit: the city opened a Strawberry museum but also created a Strawberry Festival, once a year in summer!
The little history
The primitive strawberry
In Antiquity, people called the strawberry fragum. Fragum means "perfumed"... nice name for that delicious fruit!
French people cultivated strawberries since the Middle Ages: even king Charles V's gardener, Jean Dudoy, planted 12 000 trees in Louvre gardens!
Same thing in Rouvres castle gardens, belonging to dukes of Burgundy: duchess of Burgundy was fond of strawberries!
Chile's strawberry
OK, until then, we had the wild medieval strawberry, pretty sour. Nothing to do with our Plougastel fruit!
A man called Amédée-François Frézier popularized it: he brought back the famous strawberry-tree from Chile, in 1715!
He was an engineer, born in Chambéry in 1682, from an old Scottish family (Frazer).
After studies in Paris, Amédée worked in Saint-Malo, Brittany, on the ramparts' extension. But he was dreaming of exotic journeys...
The occasion came in 1711: they sent him inspecting Spanish colonies in South America. He left Saint-Malo on November 23th.
In June 1712, he arrived in Chile. When inspections were done, Amédée started to discover the local flowers (he was botanist too).
Oh! He noticed a wild strawberry-tree... and brought it back in France in 1715.
After this trip, Amédée was appointed director of Brittany's fortifications, in Brittany. That's why the strawberry was introduced in Finistère area...
In 1760, Breton and French people started to cultivate Chile strawberries.
Louis XV adored them, he planted trees in Versailles. In 1766, books talked about these fruits: a man called Duchesne published L'histoire naturelle des fraisiers, "Natural history of strawberries".
At the same time, the legend says writer Bernard Le Bouyer de Fontenelle loved strawberries more than anything else: he died as a centenarian, because he ate plenty of those red fruits!
Strawberries made in Brittany
This fruit business became very prosperous at the end of the 19th century.
Plougastel-Daoulas is located between the left bank of river Elorn and right bank of Daoulas: a peninsula with a micro-climate due to Gulf Stream...
Besides, those lands are also known as "Brest gardens"...
In 1870, we had 200 hectares of culture; in 1940, 1 000 hectares. They produced 6 000 annual strawberries they exported abroad.
In the middle of the 20th century, Plougastel became the second French strawberries producer!
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Building Movement Infrastructure; Ellerman on EO and Private Equity; Bringing Up Cooperators (issue 30)
Ownership Matters|Issue 30
Building Movement Infrastructure; Ellerman on EO and Private Equity; Bringing Up Cooperators
This issue:
Editors' Note: Publishing Change and a New Project
Interview: Center for Economic Democracy's Aaron Tanaka
Commentary: Chautauqua Parks
Commentary: Ownership — For a While
Books: Andrew Zitcer's Practicing Cooperation
Books: Bill McKibben's We Are Better Together
New Majority Capital Founding Community Round
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share this segment by right‑clicking icon to copy linkA New Publisher and a New Solidarity Research Project
Elias Crim
A wonderful animating spirit in this first year of Ownership Matters has been our publisher Felipe Witchger. His thought leadership and his enthusiastic support have made all the difference. Felipe and his family will be leaving in a few weeks to visit and do solidarity work in a number of places, beginning with Chiapas, Mexico, and then on to Spain and Italy. We are hoping to publish some of his commentaries on this new adventure.
So our team is now seeking an individual who would like to take on a slightly unusual project: an unpaid role as publisher of Ownership Matters. This position does not require time or involvement in our operations, only an interest in helping us with strategic direction and a level of financial support via a donation.
For more information, please contact me: ecrim@ownershipmatters.net.
We hope to find a publisher who is not only interested in developing the newsletter further but also in helping to create a collaborative research project called the Solidarity Workshop, slated to launch September 1.
Confirmed Solidarity Workshop partners include the Platform Cooperativism Consortium (New School), Zebras Unite, Shareable, Start.coop, Transform Finance, the Workers Lab, and the MEDLab (U. of Colorado Boulder).
We see the Solidarity Workshop as a public resource for practitioners and funders who want to share best practices and help each other build up the financial/business infrastructure we need at this moment. (A draft of our prospectus is available for viewing here.)
Finally, we're taking the month of July off for a break, partly to do some strategic planning. When we pick up again (in August), we'll be eager to reconnect with all you good people once more!
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A Conversation with Aaron Tanaka, Executive Director of the Center for Economic Democracy
Elias Crim and Júlia Martins Rodrigues
Aaron is a Boston-based community organizer, economic development practitioner, philanthropic advisor, and impact investor. As executive director of the Center for Economic Democracy, Aaron stewards funding and capacity building programs to social movement collaboratives that advance alternatives to capitalist economics in the U.S. Previously, Aaron served as the startup manager for the Boston Impact Initiative, Boston's first place-based impact fund investing in Boston's working class communities of color. Until 2012, Aaron was co-founder and executive director of the Boston Workers Alliance, a grassroots organization nationally regarded for its statewide Ban the Box policy victory in 2010.
Aaron is a former fellow with Common Future, Echoing Green, Green For All, and Tufts Department of Urban Planning, and serves on multiple boards including the Commonwealth Foundation, the Foundation for Civic Leadership, and Neighborhood Funders Group. He is a graduate of Harvard College and Southern New Hampshire University.
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Welcome, Aaron. My colleague Júlia and I will be alternating questions today. I'll begin by asking about something interesting I noticed in your background. Which is that you got started with a combination of activism around prison work and food co-ops.
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Right, I was an organizer with the Boston Workers Alliance and the executive director through my 20s. We were predominantly for people who are under- and unemployed, the thinking being that the conventional labor sector was organizing people with jobs. But we had a whole sector of people who had trouble just getting into work.
So I tried to build a kind of political base around that. Most of our members ended up being people who had criminal records and that barrier to employment. A lot of our work was around policy. We helped pass the Ban the Box policy in Massachusetts, which was precedent setting at the time.
But then coming out of that victory, a lot of our members were saying we still can't get jobs, or the jobs that we can get are terrible. And they treat us poorly. So what else can we do?
And that's where we started getting into worker co-op development. We had interesting relationships with the recuperated factories movement in Argentina. They had come up to the U.S. and we got to host them. Which meant our members got exposed to the idea of worker ownership.
Also our co-founder, Chuck Turner, who was a city councilor at the time, and one of my mentors, was a longtime Boston-based community organizer. At one point some years ago he worked at the ICA Group, as their education director, so he always had this perspective.
So a lot of inspiration was seeded by Chuck, and the workers in Argentina. And we ended up trying a few different projects. The first one was a vegetable oil collection company, retrieving veggie oil from restaurants and turning it into biodiesel.
That company ended up failing miserably, partly because it was severely undercapitalized. There was the incident with the old truck we found on Craigslist which had an oil spill in a residential neighborhood, with vegetable oil flowing down one of the streets and fire trucks coming out. Which is just to say we learned a lot about the pitfalls of trying to do business without the proper support or planning.
Then, as we tried being a growing cooperative, we got a bunch of community gardening space, with a bunch of our members growing food and distributing it for free to other members. And then, partnering with MassCOSH, an immigrant worker center, and Boston Center for Community Ownership, we ended up starting CERO Co-op, which is a composting business that is still running today.
That was all really instrumental in my own development, as I was transitioning out of the Workers Alliance, and helping start the Boston Impact Initiative, which is a place-based impact investing fund in Boston. BII actually became one of CERO's first investors.
Notably, CERO Co-op actually did a DPO in 2014. That was the first direct public offering in Boston done specifically for worker co-ops. That opened up the possibilities of having community shareholders. And it opened up my thinking in terms of multi-stakeholder governance of economic vehicles, and strategies to combine community organizing and community ownership to build collective power.
Read the rest: Taking Movements to the Next Level
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Júlia Martins Rodrigues
Boulder is home to the Colorado Chautauqua, a National Historic Landmark since 1898. The Chautauqua Park is an extensive outdoor area — one of the last of its kind — in the foothills of the Flatiron mountains, where people encounter each other daily for leisure, picnics, bouldering, small concerts, and education programs.
Beginning in upstate New York and continuing until around 1930, the Chautauqua movement delivered free outdoor adult education in order to strengthen community bonds across small-town America. Lectures covered cultural, literary, scientific and artistic themes, varying from Christian instruction to a few political reform topics. Popular music, plays, dramatic readings, dance, and other entertainment opportunities for children would complement the education-based approach.
The Chautauqua movement did not quite translate into a true intellectual renaissance, but mainly taught practical skills and promoted a traditional way of life. But our focus here is on the communally organized environment which the Chautauqua events fostered.
Once the most significant live entertainment in North America, Chautauqua was found in nearly every town in the country before gradually fading away. The Boulder, Colorado Chautauqua is a rare example of a Chautauqua Park that has maintained its roots, by promoting film and music festivals, guest speakers, yoga classes, guided hikes, and wildlife educational programs to this day.
The vanishing of the Chautauquas in American culture is the outcome of changes due to the advent of radio and then movies in the early 20th century, combined with the historical process of a shrinking commons in the urban space. In a process we quickly recognize today, leisure and entertainment increasingly became a commodity. Paid diversions run by private enterprises replaced the collective leisure opportunities widely available in the past. Private capital has molded the city through dominant power relations, resulting in the displacement processes brought by the market and neoliberal forces.
Despite the mania for privatization that captures and devalues the commons, we humans are a collective species meant to live in community, belong to something larger, and create forms of life-in-common. The access and use of common spaces allow individuals to meet, engage in joint experiences, and accept mutual responsibility for that shared environment, all of which weaves the social fabric. Commoning practices require taking into account the well-being of others beyond our individual longings.
Chautauqua parks are just one among many tools available for urban commoning. Solidarity cities focus on the community's well-being and harness the transformative power of commoning to steel collective power. Protecting open shared spaces is vital for consolidating the emerging landscape around cooperation, integral development, shared ownership and governance, racial equity, human rights, and commonwealth.
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David Ellerman
In April, a new employee ownership organization, Ownership Works, was announced in the Wall Street Journal. The really novel aspect of this is that it is sponsored by Peter Stavros, a major figure in the private equity firm of KKR. They even claim that they are a "movement":
Ownership Works is uniting the private, public and nonprofit sectors in a movement to expand shared ownership across the business community. Over 60 prominent foundations, corporations, labor advocates, investors, and pension fund leaders have made unprecedented commitments of expertise, resources and influence to increase adoption of this innovative strategy. Together, we're developing and deploying new models of shared ownership for public and private companies that create financial opportunity for all employees and build stronger businesses in the process.
Private equity (PE) usually operates by buying a company, usually with borrowed money, moving the debt to the purchased company, making a number of changes in the company to increase short-term cash flow (e.g., eliminating R & D departments, trimming budgets, and reducing employment wherever possible), paying off the loan, and then selling the "streamlined" company for a price that represents big profits for the PE firm.
The new ingredient in the Stavros recipe to make the purchased firm more profitable is to establish a broad-based employee ownership program, complete with programs for an ownership culture that have been shown to improve profitability.
What are employee ownership (EO) advocates to make of this new initiative?
Read the rest: Ownership — For a While
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Practicing Cooperation: Mutual Aid Beyond Capitalism (2021) by Andrew Zitcer
Andrew Zitcer has written a fascinating book taking a different approach to cooperation. What if, he proposes, we learned to think about cooperation more as a practice than as an accumulation of businesses with a certain corporate form?
Zitcer is the director of the Urban Strategy graduate program, and an assistant professor of Arts Administration and Museum Leadership at Drexel University's Westphal College of Media Arts & Design. He came to this book after noticing that while there are still relatively few worker co-ops in business today, there is actually a good deal of cooperation going on. Which led him to then ask, then what are co-ops good for? And are they good at?
Answer: co-ops are a great antidote to worker alienation and inequality if they also create communities practice around them. He chose four businesses in nearby West Philadelphia — an acupuncture collective, two food co-ops, and a dance collective. (He acknowledges he was more interested in studying the social practice of cooperation than in enterprises which technically qualify as worker co-ops.)
Cooperativism as a practice is an angle I've not seen elsewhere, but it's very fruitful, especially in the way it allows us to focus on enlarging democracy and shared wealth building in a local context. This focus calls up the interesting work of ethical philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre but Zitcer also invokes ideas from John Dewey, George Herbert Mead, and J. K. Gibson-Graham.
Drawing on over 100 interviews to create in-depth profiles of the four organizations, Zitcer demonstrates that cooperation operates at four different scales: that of the body (the importance of embodied emotion in our work), of work and organization, of community economy, and of democracy itself.
Indeed, Zitcer argues, co-ops are part of ancient traditions of mutual aid, among communities such as the pre-colonial Native American cultures as well as in the African-American history of susus or rotating savings / credit pools. Today's co-ops, at their best, still serve a dual role: as enterprises which serve a business purpose (in their focus on external goods) and as associations serving a social purpose (internal goods).
His profile of the People's Organization of Community Acupuncture, for example, illustrates how this collective offers a social return through its offering of low-cost community healthcare which includes a social collaboration with the patients and other practitioners in the co-op. (If you do not yet know what liberation acupuncture is, you will enjoy this chapter.)
What we want, Zitcer suggests, is diverse forms of collective economic practices, rooted in mutual aid, that prefigure the new world we want. His fresh thinking about these difficult challenges is a welcome contribution.
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We Are Better Together (2022) by Bill McKibben, Illustrated by Stevie Lewis
Parents and caregivers within our community share the understanding that we are stronger when cooperating. But how can we start teaching the youngest members of our society about mutualism, solidarity, shared governance, environmental safeguards, and the common good?
Here is a good place to start: A couple of months ago, the environmentalist Bill McKibben published the book We Are Better Together about the power of human cooperation for social change. The book is for everyone, from kids to not-so-young folks, wondering, "How can I significantly enact change?"
The author, concerned about the effects of climate change and aware of our shared responsibility for our common home, registers a clever and straightforward message: "when we work together, we can do incredible things."
He starts by acknowledging the collective and cooperative nature of human experience since the hunter-gatherer groups, the development of multiple languages and communication up to our ability to harness clean energy from renewable sources. The book guides children through many examples of impactful collaborative efforts capable of positively transforming the world we live in.
The book offers children a simple framework for discovering their humanness and community experience so that from infancy they can develop their personalities and identities cognitively, emotionally, and socially connected to the common good.
Not only does the book carry a powerful message, it also takes us on an artistic journey through colorful, stunning illustrations by Stevie Lewis.
In Case You Missed It . . .
From part one of our interview with Nathan Schneider, director of the University of Colorado Boulder's Media Enterprise Design Lab, in the October 5, 2021 issue:
After a generation or two cooperatives tend to become conservative with a small "c," in a business sense. They focus on protecting what they have, rather than building and advancing and challenging injustice or challenging their members' expectations. Investor-owned companies at least have an incentive to exceed the expectations of the market. Cooperatives have an incentive to meet members' needs.
And that has often gotten in the way of being champions for the social change that we really need, as well as tech innovation and business model innovation. This is where cooperatives really have been left behind at a moment when they should shine, being companies which are more about connections among people than about what they can do for individual customers.
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Elias Crim, Editor
founder, Solidarity Hall; former business journalist and publishing consultant
Júlia Martins Rodrigues, Contributing Editor
attorney (Brazil); visiting scholar, law, University of Colorado Boulder; PhD candidate, civil and constitutional law, University of Camerino
Daniel Fireside, Contributing Editor
founder, Uncommon Capital Solutions; board member, Namaste Solar; capital coordinator, Downtown Crenshaw Rising
Zoe Crim, Editorial Assistant
B.A., linguistics, Indiana University Bloomington; co-founder Fair Trade group
Paul Bowman, Design / Content Mgr.
Jessica Mason, Start.coop
Stephanie Swepson-Twitty, Eagle Market Streets Development Corp.
Nathan Schneider, University of Colorado Boulder
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