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The Poet, The Life and Los Angeles Times of Jim Murray; Steven Travers
Forget Ring Lardner, Grantland Rice, and the others. Jim Murray of the Los Angeles Times was not merely the best writer but the single greatest sports columnist who ever lived - full-stop. Known for his highly descriptive metaphors and phrasing - i.e "a strike zone the size of Hitler's heart" - Murray was a poet. Steven Travers provides an in-depth look at a man whose influence went far beyond the baseball diamond and the boxing ring.
A Brief History of Misogyny, The World's Oldest Prejudice; Jack Holland

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Earth's sunrises and sunsets were the inspiration behind "Light". Bamboo, with its pale color, is the light source at the center of this work; sliced into thin strips with a knife and assembled into a pattern. Like a sunrise, the light gradually travels across the forms, as do the eyes of the viewer, in search of light. I made good use of the bandsaw for this work, to cut asymmetrical facets into each of those blocks of poplar, mahogany, and cedar. They are painted and then sanded to catch the light.
"Light" won the BEST IN SHOW award at "Works in Wood 2017" at New Hope Arts, in New Hope, PA. It is a real honor coming from the juror / woodworkers: Mark Sfirri and John McDevitt.
I was thrilled to discover that "Space" received a Jurors' Recognition Award for Wall Relief in the show SCULPTURE 2017 at New Hope Arts. This work was created from a pole or two of bamboo that I honed into rings, strands, and thin flat curves. The inspiration for this work came during my nighttime walks. I'm a daydreamer, night dreamer and sky-gazer, who enjoys the challenge of turning my abstract thoughts into visual things.


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Johan Aadolf "Jukka" Matilainen (20 December 1901 – 1 November 1967) was a Finnish runner. He competed at the 1928 Olympics in the 400 m hurdles, but failed to reach the final. His brothers Kalle and Martti were also Olympic runners, but in longer-distance events.

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Texans star J.J. Watt to serve as Daytona 500 grand marshal
Red Bulls sign Danish teen-age forward Mathias Jorgensen
Spring Training 2019: What might the Padres Opening Day Roster look like?
The 2019 edition of the San Diego Padres is a work in progress.
The club is blessed with a great many young and extremely talented prospects.
Pitchers and Catchers for the Padres officially reported to Spring Training in Peoria, Ariz. on Tuesday.
https://twitter.com/Padres/status/1095397137221746688
And that outfield, whew!, talk about a loaded group led by Wil Meyers and the 275-pound Franmil Reyes.
However, Spring Training will help shape the roster with some possible moves or signings.
Until then, it's anyone's best guest, so here's the highlights of the projected roster produced by A.J. Cassavell of MLB.com.
The names to be most excited about: Reyes, Luis Urias and Joey Lucchesi,
Baseball Hall of Fame: Are Todd Helton, Billy Wagner next?
Jurickson Profar is MLB's best available free agent. Where could he end up?
Ben Verlander's MLB tiers: Who are the best first basemen?


Is white hair enough for management?
The world is changing very fast and the ability to make accurate decisions quickly is becoming ever more complicated.
Traditionally, the world has seen managers of at least 50 years of age, since they would have spent many years within the industry and possibly within the same company, which one would expect would translate into good candidacy for board membership.
Technological innovation beginning in the early 2000s changed that trend, since many of the largest innovative companies have been founded by young entrepreneurs. For instance, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is 32 years old; Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page are 42 and 43 years old respectively.
First of all, experience gained only through years is invaluable and hard to ignore, and it may be important in traditional businesses such as banking, insurance, retail, etc.
FinTech is actually a candidate for replacing a traditional industry, banking.
Many FinTech companies in the US and UK have quite young founders.
TransferWise in the UK is one of them. It is a very good candidate to replace the telegraphic transfer and foreign exchange space traditionally dominated by banks with a much cheaper and more efficient system.
Its founders are Kristo Käärmann and Taavet Hinrikus. Kristo is 36 years old and Taavet 35.
Age may bring wisdom, but it is no longer only age and experience that define senior management. Having said that, they are still a part of the equation, but a less dominant part nowadays.
No matter what age you are, it all comes down to the ability to update yourself. On top of that, being in a job you enjoy matters, rather than simply making a living and having an endless desire to progress your career.
If you have a wealth of experience with a non-growth mind-set and a lot of white hair, you are definitely out of the game.
Even if you are not yet, you will be.
Life is becoming very demanding and most of us have a heavy schedule to combat every single day.
On top of our business schedule, we have personal commitments such as family (the most important commitment!). But, unfortunately, our time is limited.
Every single week, we have only have 168 hours.
If we simply assume that every healthy human being has to sleep seven hours a day, then we consume 49 hours of 168 hours in bed. In other words, roughly 30% of our time is gone without doing anything.
It is even more scary if we continue to add our other commitments such as a daily job. An ordinary full time employee spends 8 hours a day in the office, whereas this figure can easily go to up to 12 hours a day for more demanding jobs such as banking!
I will take the average of those and that translates into another 50 hours. Another roughly 30% is gone!
Commuting to our jobs takes another vital part of our time.
According to a research, the average commute time per day in Jakarta is 42.1 minutes, in Moscow 43.1 minutes, in London 41.2 minutes, in Milan 40 minutes and in Amsterdam 37.5 minutes. Since you have return where you have come from, you have to multiply these figures by two.
So, finally, we are left with only 63 hours of personal time out of 168 hours per week.
These 63 hours are very crucial. You have to decide how to use them. You can watch TV, spend the time with your family, read, go jogging, etc.
I believe how you personally choose to spend this valuable time is a main factor in how your future will look!
First of all, you have to switch off from your work during this time!
This is especially the case if you are an entrepreneur. Being an entrepreneur is not a 10 hours a day job, as it is a lifestyle that requires regularly working during nights and weekends.
The challenge faced by even our smartest and hardworking friends is that we all have a limited bandwidth. Once this bandwidth is used, it is not possible to be innovative or be efficient.
Even if we are getting a lot of chances in life, this full bandwidth prevents us from leaping a step forward. This is the main reason that switching off is important.
Reading (especially on different subjects), observing our surroundings, travelling and networking with people is the key to understanding and learning what we currently are not doing and to innovate. Otherwise, like the cartoon above, even if we are offered the wheel, we will refuse it at our own expense, nobody else's!
Finally, being left with 37.5% of the total time is not too bad! It is the personal choices that make us different and we have the power to be innovative.
Is your mindset ready for that?


Who to tell, when to tell and how to tell is a very personal and subjective matter. You always have to bear in mind that once you tell, you can't untell.
The fear of being rejected, being judged or being abused often hinders people from telling. But in our experience of dealing with thousands of patients every year this very rarely happens.
You don't have to tell anyone, of course. If you are happy keeping your diagnosis a secret, then that is up to you. But keeping a secret can cause a great deal of stress and anxiety. Therefore, it is important that you talk to someone about your concerns and fears.
Talk to the patient reps about how to disclose – whether to sexual partners or your employers. The main questions you always have to ask are: Do you want a relationship based on a lie? Do you want an honest relationship with someone? What is stopping you? What are the advantages?
Always remember the Law is on your side and the Equality Act protects you from discrimination. A person living with HIV can nowadays do more or less any job – for instance: policeman, carer, surgeon, dentist, midwife, teacher.
People's perception of HIV is 20 years out of date so we constantly have to deal with people's ignorance. It is not necessarily stigma or discrimination. So every time we tell someone we educate them.


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Game Day Preview: La Salle vs FEU 10.19.19
The Green Archers (5-5) are within striking distance of the number two spot in the standings and will look to keep it that way as they face FEU (5-6) this afternoon. Coming off last Wednesday's hard-earned win over UE, the team is currently in solo fourth but are just a half a game behind UST (6-5) and one game behind UP (6-4).
The last time they faced each other. The Green Archers lost 55-66 in a game in which FEU's foreign center had his most impressive game so far this season. Jamie Malonzo was the only Archer who scored more than 10 points.
Archers in Sick Bay. Several Green Archers were experiencing flu-like symptoms since last Monday. Starters such as Justine Baltazar, Andrei Caracut and Aljun Melecio still managed to play against UST despite their condition. In addition Kurt Lojera, Tyrus Hill, Keys Meeker and James Laput were sidelined due to injuries. We expect that most of them have already fully recovered and are fit to play today.
Closing out on Shooters. FEU has no shortage of firepower from the outside. LJ Gonzales, Wendel Comboy, Hubert Cani, Ken Tuffin and Xyrus Torres will require a lot of defensive attention on the perimeter. The Tamaraws have been playing well offensively in their last three games which have led to victories over a couple of highly-ranked teams.
Controlling the Glass. La Salle currently leads the league in rebounding with an average of 50.8 per game. FEU meanwhile is in the middle of the pack with 46.5 per game. Despite having a thinner frontline, the Tamaraws outrebounded the Green Archers 53-47 in their first round encounter. FEU also had 12 second-chance points as compared to 4 by La Salle. The team that can win the battle on the offensive boards will likely have an advantage in this game.
The Jekyll and Hyde nature of the Tamaraws. FEU has been the embodiment of inconsistency all season long. One game they seem to be dead in the water and the next they seem like a legit title contender. But you got to admit, they have been playing well lately, beating the likes of UP, UST and were a good offensive 2nd half away from giving Ateneo its first L last Wednesday. So what version of them will we see today? Regardless, the Green Archers need to be ready and bring their A game because they can't afford to blink in this already tight race for semis positioning.
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All that money and you don't even get a plate?
Name: The £60 doner kebab.
Appearance: A kebab on a mission to confront preconceptions.
Go on, then. I forgot to eat before I went out. That'll be £60, please.
For a doner? Even I'm not that drunk. If you need to be drunk, I'll get you the £40 wine menu.
All that money and it doesn't come with a drink? For that money you don't even get a plate.
They make you pay for the plate, too? There are no plates. Your food is served directly on to the counter, and you're encouraged to eat it with your hands.
That's disgusting. Don't worry – the counter is very clean.
I've heard that before. It's made of a substance called Dekton, which is impervious to bacteria. And it's heated.
What if I want to take my doner away? Am I supposed to slide it into my handbag? You won't wish to leave. There is so much more to come.
Mate, what kind of kebab shop is this? It's called Kebab Queen.
And where is it? It's inside another restaurant.
A kebab shop within a kebab shop? Downstairs from the popular eatery Maison Bab, in Covent Garden, central London, is a replica British high-street shop front, behind which lies an open kitchen with a 10-seat countertop, recreating the vibe of your local late-night takeaway.
For 60 quid. Yes, please. All major cards accepted.
How many kebabs will I get for my money? You will get one kebabito: two mouthfuls of higher-welfare foie gras, barbecued and served on a tiny buttermilk flatbread.
Try saying that when you're drunk: "monkfish shish kebab". And then there's pudding – milk buns filled with caramelised cream and topped with creme fraiche sorbet.
None of this sounds like a doner. Well, no. But at Kebab Queen, chef Manu Canales says he aims to take kebabs "as far as they can go".
He's certainly pushing the envelope price-wise. The reviews have been great so far. A Michelin star is predicted.
I think I'd like to come back when I haven't just drunk five pints and peed on my shoes behind a skip. As you wish, sir.


Costa Blanca: Full life includes Benidorm, a very popular, cosmopolitan destination and one of the leading ex-pat and holiday places in Europe. This is due to its 160 km "White Coast" with a mix of villages, holiday resorts and historic towns. These include such as Elche, Orihuela, Torrevieja and provincial capital Alicante. Inland it's citrus groves, fields, forests and fiestas and the Vega Baja, greened by the Rio del Segura that flows from mountains to the sea. There are new and old properties in every location, many on urbanisations of villas, townhouses. Most are close to all the amenities necessary for a week in the sun or year-round living. Fincas with olive groves for sale and Europe's greatest concentration of high-rise apartments in Benidorm, a big favourite with holidaymakers. Property bargains from banks and developers have new offers in coastal and inlands hotspots. Fly to Alicante or San Javier (Murcia). Check daily flights from your airport with skyscanner.


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Gerhard's Journey
and the befuddled Mennonites
Ep. 13 Midas touch begins to tarnish
March 3, 2018 March 3, 2018 / gerhardsjourney
By the turn of the century, estate owners relied primarily on Russian and Ukrainian peasants for labour in the fields, sometimes hiring more than a hundred debt-ridden "emancipated" serfs or peasants to bring in the crops.[1]
On an estate of several thousand hectares there might be 100-200 oxen, 30-40 draught horses, dozens of plows, cultivators and seeding drills, as well as a dozen or more carriage and riding horses.[2]
Herds of 30-40 milk cows were common, while hogs and sheep provided meat for the estate tables. On some large estates 20-30 hogs might be slaughtered at a time, most of the meat destined for the workers.[3]
Your typical Mennonite estate owner was an active farmer who worked hard, planned carefully, and taught his sons every facet of estate ownership from buying pedigreed stock to fixing machinery in the smithy. He experimented with new crops and helped to develop new machinery. Estate owners were also keen on improving livestock breeds and took active part in local and regional breeders associations. They had the money and initiative to import expensive breeding stock from abroad – bulls and stallions, primarily – and took particular pride in their purebred horses. Indeed, these fine animals became a kind of symbolic trademark – almost a fetish – for Mennonite estate owners in the era before cars and other mechanical vehicles. Visitors to the estate were always encouraged to inspect the horse barns, and prize horses were paraded around the rondell in the courtyard by well-practised stable boys. The owners probably took more photos of their purebred stallions than of their marriageable daughters. Not only were estate owners concerned to improve their own equine stock and dairy herds but also those of the Mennonite colonies.[4]
The land gave birth to Mennonite industrial development. Mennonites adapted their agricultural implements to the Russian environment and soon were selling their farm equipment across Russia. In fact, the family of the woman Gerhard would marry, was among the first Mennonites to envision Siberia as an economic opportunity rather than a punishment. In 1897 Peter Johann Wiens established a convenience store and a successful retail business selling farm equipment near Omsk, Siberia.
A.A. DeFehr and Co. in Millerovo with his steam-powered flour mill.
The rapidly expanding Mennonite milling industry exported its products internationally. "By 1911 Mennonites owned over fifty percent of the milling industry and were responsible for producing 10 percent of the region's agricultural implements."[5]
Hildebrandt and Priess advertising their farm equipment in the Russian media.
P.A. Ediger advertising farm and industrial equipment imported from Britain and Sweden.
"By 1914, the high quality flour products of Niebuhr and Co., for example, were being exported to Finland, Turkey, Greece, the Sudan and Java."[6] Mennonites practically re-invented the city of Alexandrovsk, today known as Zaporizhia, by relocating their business acumen from the farm to the city. Zaporizhia's population today is more than 700,000, but in 1860 there were only 3,000 people living there, and no Mennonites. The neighbouring villages of the Khortitsa had many commercial and industrial enterprises and there was no reason to cross the Dnepr to Zaporizhia. In fact the government had exempted rural businesses from taxation to encourage growth outside of cities. The colony had everything it needed. But when a railroad connected Zaporizhia to the Crimean port of Sevastopol and to Moscow it now made sense for Mennonites to move to the city. Mennonite businessmen were now allowed to own commercial and industrial operations outside of the colonies, and they wasted no time. Zaporizhia became the regional centre for marketing grain, shipping both by rail and river boat to distant ports. The Mennonites were so successful that the city limits of Zaporizhia were expanded to include the Mennonite village of Schönwiese.
Hermann Niebuhr's mill in Alexandrovsk (today Zaporizhia), Ukraine.
Hermann Niebuhr's milling empire originated in Schönwiese where he milled nearly a third of the grain grown in eastern Ukraine. He diversified into land, banking, and a sanatorium on the Dnepr.[7] Peter Lepp and his son-in-law Andreas Wallmann established several factories which built farm equipment. Abram J. Koop started out as an apprentice at Lepp and Wallman's factories and went on to build several factories of his own both in Khortitsa and in Zaporizhia. Koop then partnered with August Helker to build a cast iron factory. Kornelius Hildebrand and Sons partnered with son-in-law Priess to manufacture farm equipment and cast iron products. These factories with hundreds of employees and millions of rubles in sales shone the way for other smaller ventures throughout German New Russia. Khortitsa, and Zaporizhia, were perfectly located on a major river, a major railroad and major ore deposits to the west and coal deposits to the east. Things were going so well for the Mennonites and for Germans in New Russia that there was talk of establishing a separate German autonomous province in Ukraine.
Lepp and Wallman corporate postcard.
In later years the Bolsheviks merged Koop, Lepp and Wallmann and Hildebrand and Priess to form a large agricultural factory called Kommunar which was partly destroyed and partly evacuated to the east during World War II. After the war it was rebuilt in Zaporizhia to manufacture cars, known as Zaporozhets,[8] which were produced until 1994.[9]
Clearly Gerhard's forefathers also rode the industrial wave; his grandfather Franz sold the agricultural implements made by Lepp and Wallman or another Mennonite factory.
These industrial magnates formed a distinct social group devoted to its own survival in the same way the estate owners used intermarriage to secure their profits. Russian writer Natalia Ostasheva Venger, of the Dnepropetrovsk National University, calls it a clan mentality.
As the industries grew, they acquired less private and more collective types of ownership. By the turn of the century a large Mennonite monopoly of well-defined dynasties with clan-like characteristics had emerged.
The clan system saved the Mennonite enterprises in the face of economic competition.
… it should be noted that the dynasty marriages … had been concluded not only to ensure reliable partnerships, but also to avoid any outflow of capital from the enterprises. This was guaranteed by the Niebuhr family's central position in the clan system. The family of Hermann Niebuhr included four daughters, Justina, Maria, Katherina, and Sara. They were married to the richest representatives of the trade-production dynasties of Johann Lepp, Andreas Wallmann, and Abraham Koop. Meanwhile Abraham Koop's daughter became the wife of Jakob Niebuhr. The dynasty lines were interlaced and thus the capital of these families was joined in a common endeavor.[10]
Now we know why everyone looks so unhappy in family portraits taken at the time.
H.H. Willms mill in Molochansk today produces condensed milk.
An era of prosperity had begun for the Mennonites who stayed in Russia. It's no surprise they became very successful both in their agricultural and industrial endeavours. They owned more than 1.2 million hectares, developed new techniques for tilling the soil, bred a better cow, introduced a more productive sheep, cultivated potatoes, previously unheard of, and rotated their crops. They milled their own grain in their own mills and invented and manufactured six per cent of Russia's farm equipment. They helped make Ukraine the breadbasket for Russia and became rich. Those who stayed behind benefitted.
How rich were they?
The Mennonite approach to wealth can be summed up in the tale of an old estate owner who went to his bank and asked to have his entire account placed before him in gold. He stared at it awhile and then said, "All right, now you can put it back again."[11]
How much is enough? The Mennonites lost sight of their original values of equality and sharing, and now a colony farmer earned a hundred times more than his Russian and Ukrainian workers, his fancy carriages were driven by skilled coachmen, and his teams of horses, trained to trot in a distinctive fashion, were chosen on the basis of matching their colours and builds.[12] According to Adolph Ehrt, three per cent of the Mennonite population owned at least 34 per cent of the capital. Twenty-five per cent owned little or no capital. [13] Yet instead of joining the coming revolution, the poor aspired to be estate owners.
David Penner, writing under the pseudonym A. Reimarus rebukes the poor and middle class Mennonites:
The only aim in life that the religiously befuddled and politically unenlightened Mennonite poor and middle peasant classes had in mind was to become wealthy. Standing between the poor and middle class Mennonite peasants and their Russian class counterparts were the numerous and special privileges the Mennonites enjoyed.
… most poor Mennonite peasants preferred to sit at the low end of the prosperous Mennonite table and accept whatever crumbs the profligate bourgeoisie might throw them.
… The larger peasants (kulaks) and the estate owners were thus regarded as 'Brothers in Christ' and conceived not as class enemies, but instead as people to be envied and emulated.[14]
With hundreds of great estates scattered from Siberia to Ukraine, Mennonites had arrived, aloof and wealthy. Their villages were neat and arranged in orderly rows, their fields tilled and weeded, they spoke languages unknown to their neighbours, and they believed they were superior to the Russian peasants and other colonists. And they did not escape the notice of their neighbours.[15] Their wealth linked them with the Russian aristocracy who were soon to be driven from the scene.
Gerhard's family too had established a middle class existence in a sea of poor peasants betrayed by the promise of their emancipation.
Historian James Urry raises tough questions from the Christian point of view:
How could the principle of a people with a distinctive faith, existing in separate moral space, be reconciled with an aggressive involvement with a wider world of business, profit and capitalism? How could a group which stressed community and co-operation based on Christian love face the gross inequalities wealth produced, not only within their own settlements but also in their dealings with their neighbours? How could the stress on a simple life, which did not recognize 'worldly' pursuits and goods, be justified in the face of the increasing manifestations of wealth in everyday life?[17]
As the troubles began Mennonites tended to blame the wealthy elite for their circumstances despite pursuing their own estate dreams. Estate owners had the resources to withdraw "into their own cliques, alone with their memories and the fading photographs of their once grand lives."[18]
What the estate owners feared most of all was that their days of privilege and power were numbered as the grumblings of discontent and threats of violence from peasants and workers became ever louder and more ominous.[19]
But the estate system was based on a fatal illusion: the belief that Mennonites could live and function freely and indefinitely in a land where ordinary people, the peasants and workers, had not enjoyed freedom for a thousand years; where only the members of the ruling elite enjoyed freedom and where, all too briefly, Mennonite estate owners, for better or for worse, were permitted to be part of that ruling elite. They could not see until it was too late that they had created their small oases of prosperity and privilege within a horizonless steppe that was more like a prison to its peasant millions. And that sooner or later those peasants would stop singing their melancholy songs and start rattling their chains.[20]
[1] Reimer, Al, Peasant Aristocracy: The Mennonite Gutsbesitzertum in Russia, Journal of Mennonite Studies Vol. 8, 1990, page 83.
[2] Ibid., page 84.
[4] Ibid, page 81.
[5] Neufeld, Reina C., "We Are Aware of Our Contradictions: Russlaender Narratives of Loss and the Reconstruction of Peoplehood," Journal of Mennonite Studies, 27, (2009): page 132.
[6] Venger, Natalia Ostasheva, The Mennonite Industrial Dynasties in Alexandrovsk, Journal of Mennonite Studies, Vol. 21 (2003) page 96.
[7] Epp, David H. "Niebuhr, Hermann Abramovitch (1830-1906)." Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. 1957. Web. 15 Jun 2016. http://gameo.org/index.php?title Niebuhr,_Hermann_Abramovitch_(1830-1906)&oldid=93096.
[8] Klassen, N.J., Mennonite Intelligentsia in Russia, Mennonite Life, April 1969, page 57.
[9] https://www.wikiwand.com/en/ZAZ_Zaporozhets#/First_generation_.281960-1969.29, accessed July 6, 2016.
[10] Venger, op. cit., page 97.
[11] Reimer, op. cit., page 78.
[12] Urry, James, "Through the Eye of a Needle: Wealth the Mennonite Experience in Imperial Russia," Journal of Mennonite Studies Vol. 3, 1985, page 23.
[13] Ehrt, Adolf, Das Mennonitentum in Russland von seiner Einwanderung bis zur Gegenwart (Langensalza: J. Betz, 1932) pg 96, quoted in Urry, page 13.
[14] Reinmarus [David Penner], Anti Menno: Beitraege zur Geschichte der Mennoniten in Russland. (Moscow: Zentral Voelker Verlag, 1930), 58-59; trans. Jack Thiessen, quoted in Urry, James, Wealth and Poverty in the Mennonite Experience: Dilemmas and Challenges, Journal of Mennonite Studies, vol 27, 2009 page 30.
[15] Urry, op. cit., page 24.
[17] Urry, op. cit., pages 28-29.
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Eddie! Love this saga. One minor point tho: Everyone looked gloomy at family photos taken at the time. Even Queen Victoria. Well, with good reason. Ricky
…but Queen Victoria really was unhappy. It's a British tradition.
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Ep. 64 The luckiest man alive? June 24, 2018
Ep. 63 Finding Nikolai June 22, 2018
Ep. 62 The Befuddled Ones – this might be a rant June 20, 2018
Ep. 61 We may be through with the past …but the past is not through with us![1] June 17, 2018
Ep. 60 The happy part of the ending June 14, 2018
Ep. 59 O Canada! June 12, 2018
Ep. 58 Escape to Canada June 9, 2018
Ep. 57 MCC "rescues" must be reconsidered June 7, 2018
Ep. 56 All or nothing part 2 June 5, 2018
Ep. 54 Life in Frankfurt Oder transit camp May 31, 2018
Ep. 53 Gerhard narrowly escapes freedom May 29, 2018
Ep. 52 The last battle May 26, 2018
Ep. 51 Gerhard moves up in the ranks May 23, 2018
Ep. 50 The Great Trek May 20, 2018
Ep. 49 Resistance is (NOT) Futile May 19, 2018
Ep. 48 Mennonites and Nazis pt. 2 May 17, 2018
Ep. 46 134th Infantry Division is no more May 11, 2018
Ep. 45 Battle for Yelets pt. 2 May 8, 2018
Ep. 43 When freshmen from Sevastopol carpeted the hills May 3, 2018
Ep. 42 "We are in the waiting room of death" May 1, 2018
Ep. 41 Gerhard, Hero and the Hiwis April 29, 2018
Ep. 40 Gerhard goes to war April 26, 2018
Ep. 39 Gerhard tells Luka's story April 24, 2018
Ep. 38 Life in the kolkhoz April 22, 2018
Ep. 37 Freedom, with complications April 20, 2018
Ep. 36 "You can die today – I'll die tomorrow" April 18, 2018
Ep. 35 Gerhard learns to survive April 16, 2018
Ep. 34 At Ukhta-Pechora April 14, 2018
Ep. 33 Welcome to the sewer April 12, 2018
Ep. 32 The supreme measure of social defense April 10, 2018
Ep. 31 The Arrest April 9, 2018
Ep. 30 Holodomor – the bad years April 8, 2018
Ep. 29 "Who knows if we'll see each other again" April 4, 2018
Ep. 28 Last chance April 2, 2018
Ep. 27 Good-bye … again. April 1, 2018
Ep. 26 Mennonite education – when none is too little and a little is too much. March 30, 2018
Ep. 25 We must make a confession: we have sinned March 29, 2018
Ep. 24 "No songs were sung at the gravesite." March 27, 2018
Ep. 23 Nestor Makhno returns for vengeance March 25, 2018
Ep. 22 Mennonites beg for mercy March 23, 2018
Ep. 21 When "pacifists" go to war March 21, 2018
Ep. 20 Nestor Makhno: freedom fighter, or terrorist? It depends who you ask. March 18, 2018
Ep. 19 An Army of Mennonites??? March 15, 2018
Ep. 18 Mennonites embrace the German Army March 13, 2018
Ep. 17 Lenin stuggles for control, Soviet Union becomes a thing March 11, 2018
Ep. 16 Gerhard's journey leaves a bruise March 9, 2018
Ep. 15 Profits and pogroms – life in the wild west of Russia March 9, 2018
Ep. 14 Mennonites plant trees instead of going to war … phew that was close March 6, 2018
Ep. 13 Midas touch begins to tarnish March 3, 2018
Ep. 12 Mennonites and the Midas touch March 2, 2018
Ep. 11 Serfs go free and the Mennonite marriage splits up February 27, 2018
Ep. 10 The dream begins to unravel February 24, 2018
Ep. 9 Mennonites teach economics to the Nogai peoples February 22, 2018
Ep. 8 Mennonite mother colonies established February 19, 2018
Ep. 7 Should I stay or should I go? February 17, 2018
Ep. 6 To Russia – with conditional love February 15, 2018
Ep. 5 Prussian Mennonites pocket their principles February 11, 2018
Ep. 4 Mennonites don a German skin February 9, 2018
Ep. 3 Debacle at Münster: Mennonites go off the rails February 6, 2018
Ep. 2 The madness begins February 4, 2018
Ep. 1 An empty place called home January 30, 2018
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Napoli, resplendent in its wonderful bay under the brooding Vesuvius, is both Italy's spirit and bogeyman. Ask any Italian to describe Naples and invariably there will be a wry, cautionary response – something along the lines of "It's beautiful but watch out!". Images of urban mismanagement (think burning rubbish heaps), intransigent government authorities and the menacing presence of organised crime appear to have been some of Naples' main exports over the past few decades. Yet the city is – and always was – one of Italy's industrial capitals. Carpentry, tailoring but also high-spec manufacturing are Neapolitan specialities that are too often overshadowed by the city's culinary delights.
Naples' economy is inextricably linked to the figure of the craftsman, or artigiano. Mario Talarico, an 84-year-old umbrella maker, has been busy in his tiny workshop since he was 11. Started by his great-grandmother, now, together with his grandson (who is also called Mario), he makes and sells umbrellas out of this small space just off the Via Toledo in the commercial heart of the city. Working at a 200-year-old gnarled table the smiling octogenarian uses rare, primed and seasoned wooden sticks, which he gradually curves and attaches to a strong umbrella structure. His clients include the Vatican and the two Marios are planning their trip to present a white-and-gold umbrella to Pope Francis. Despite this celebrity, Mario is unshakeably humble. "I'm happy. I don't care about profit or expanding this place," he says.
The craftsmen in this city go about their work in an indefinable Neapolitan manner – an idiosyncratic taste for quality fused with a deep respect for tradition. There is also a strong sartorial identity and Naples is home to some of the world's most expensive suits. In a storeroom at the Kiton factory in the city's suburban district of Arzano, Maria Giovanna Paone unrolls some very special fabric: a soft vicuña wool – the last in stock – and a yarn the vice-president says is becoming increasingly rare. A hand-tailored vicuña coat would cost something in the region of €40,000. "We are devoted to the research of lightness," she says as she lovingly strokes the soft weave. "When it's this fine, wool is like a second skin." Despite the luxury and exclusivity of the brand, started by her father Ciro Paone in 1956, Maria Giovanna is candid and easy-going, the quintessential Neapolitan. On the factory floor around 300 tailors cut, stitch, mend and alter to the spluttering stop-start of sewing machines.
With its port and great maritime history Naples is very rich in boat-making skills. Pellegrino's yard is an enormous outfit. Here 100 artigiani work on a 35-metre-long superyacht that will feature Arcadia's signature photovoltaic roof. The client is a Polish businessman who paid some €11.8m for the project. Arcadia is in fact flush with enough orders to keep the yard busy for the next two years at least. "Maybe it wasn't so crazy to open a boatyard, in Naples, during a recession," laughs Ugo.
Naples has a host of specialist manufacturers in some very varied fields. Gay-Odin has been making chocolate since 1894. Sveva Maglietta runs the factory and its 10 branches (eight in Naples, one in Milan and Rome) with her brothers Davide and Dimitri, and mother Marisa. "We only use the finest ingredients," Sveva says as she strolls around the suitably aromatic factory floor.
Cavallo admits that he could easily move production to Tunisia or Romania to cut costs but says the company's Naples base shows a positive commitment to Italy and appeals to emerging markets too – Napoli, with its vibrant connotations, is a brand synonymous with coffee. What's more, Kimbo's profits are growing both home and abroad (the company's sales rose 7.6 per cent in 2013). Little wonder then, that Cavallo seems so upbeat.
Would he envisage moving from Naples? Definitely not: "This site actually has limitations; it's not an industrial area so logistics are a challenge," he admits. "But it's worth it so we can still be made in Naples. After all, there's something Neapolitan about caffè." Many businessmen talk emotionally about this city. But Kimbo's continued success, largely based on Brand Naples, shows the tenacity of the city's manufacturing sector and the deep connection that Naples seems to invoke in customers. An illogical, impractical business capital it may be but Naples is relentlessly crafting its way out of trouble.


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Geoffrey EAGAR
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Born 1818 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Died 12 Sep 1891
Misc 1972
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EAGAR, GEOFFREY (1818-1891), accountant, banker, politician and public servant, was born on 17 February 1818 in Sydney, the second son of Edward Eagar and his wife Jemima, née McDuel. He attended the schools of John Dunmore Lang and William Timothy Cape, winning prizes for mathematical and classical studies. He left school at 15 and worked for ten years as a book-keeper for various employers and for another ten years as managing clerk in the large mercantile firm of Thacker & Co. In 1854 he was invited by the board of the Bank of New South Wales to an important new position in the bank's service. As the first branch (later chief) accountant Eagar was responsible for new accounting procedures and the supervision of a rapidly growing number of branches. He was well paid, travelled extensively and established an outstanding reputation as a banker. The directors of the bank were astonished when he submitted his resignation in September 1859 in order to accept appointment to the Legislative Council of New South Wales. His close friends, however, were not surprised, for he had displayed an early and mounting interest in political issues. From 18 he had been an anonymous contributor to many of the colony's newspapers and periodicals, writing with boldness and a reforming zeal on public questions. His former schoolfellows, William Forster, James Martin and John Robertson, had become active politicians and Eagar was anxious to join them.
A liberal, he advocated land reform, compulsory and secular education, and measures to counter political corruption. He believed that the government should play a major role in promoting economic growth, mainly by the judicious construction of public works and a carefully devised fiscal policy. From the beginning of his parliamentary career his brilliant oratory commanded attention but won him few friends, for he had a disconcerting habit of analysing political clichés to show up the inconsistency and shallowness of many of his political associates. This did not prevent him from gaining ministerial office; after only a month in the council he was selected as secretary for public works in Forster's ministry. This ministry survived for only four months and Eagar surrendered his seat in the council in November 1860. He put his private affairs in order by opening an office in the heart of Sydney, from which he conducted a lucrative business as a consulting accountant and agent. In January 1863 he entered the Legislative Assembly as member for West Sydney and commenced a sustained attack on the Cowper ministry's management of the public finances. When James Martin replaced Cowper as premier in October 1863 he selected Eagar as colonial treasurer in the knowledge that no member of the assembly was better equipped to deal with budgetary difficulties and administrative inefficiency in the Treasury and related departments.
As treasurer from October 1863 to February 1865 and from January 1866 to October 1868, Eagar implemented sweeping financial and administrative reforms. He was primarily responsible for the abandonment of the famous Deas Thomson free trade tariff, the imposition of stamp duty taxation, the establishment of an efficient mechanism for raising overseas loans and the creation of a powerful Treasury organization. He also introduced new accounting procedures and greatly strengthened the staff, thereby making possible for the first time effective Treasury control of expenditure. His measures aroused widespread hostility and he was undoubtedly one of the most controversial figures in the colony's politics. He ruled the Treasury at a particularly difficult time of unavoidable deficit financing associated with a balance of payments crisis. Although a determined reformer and forceful administrator, he was impatient of criticism, almost tyrannical in his treatment of subordinates and inclined to move too swiftly in advance of public opinion on the general question of taxation.
His departure from the political scene followed what appeared to be a fairly straightforward administrative decision affecting the Customs Department. The collector of customs, William Duncan, was an influential and highly independent public servant with powerful political supporters, especially Henry Parkes. Duncan resisted Eagar's plans to bring the Customs Department completely under control of the Treasury and was charged by Eagar with insubordination. Duncan apologized on the advice of Parkes but Eagar refused to accept the apology; instead he insisted on Duncan's dismissal, thereby provoking Parkes to resign from the ministry. The 'Duncan affair' quickly became a major topic of interest to parliament and press and Eagar was branded as a tyrant. The ministry resigned partly as a result of the adverse publicity and in 1868 Eagar retired, firmly convinced of the correctness of all his actions as treasurer.
Within months of leaving politics he was financially embarrassed. From this predicament he was rescued in 1871 by the premier, Martin, who found Eagar a senior position in the Treasury and promoted him permanent head in February 1872. Eagar retained this key post until 17 February 1891. The Treasury was very much an institution of his own moulding and, as permanent head, he was in a powerful position to advise the sixteen treasurers who held office between 1872 and 1891. His influence was widely recognized and his ability at times gratefully acknowledged by politicians with some understanding of the complexity of financing a rapidly accelerating flow of government spending on railways and other costly services without resort to heavy taxation. Eagar was the master mind behind the large-scale overseas borrowing programme and skilfully manipulated available funds to keep the government solvent. Like some other public servants whose work outside the public limelight has never been properly investigated Eagar played a role as important for the colony as many of the leading politicians.
Besides his duties in the Treasury, from 1885 Eagar was a member and three times chairman of the Civil Service Board appointed to correct some of the abuses of the patronage system. He was also a member of the History Board which recommended in March 1891 the publication of the Historical Records of New South Wales. From 1859 until his death he was auditor for the University of Sydney. He was well known to literary circles as a fine essayist and a fair poet, his main leisure-time activity in his last years being the translation of the Odes of Horace into English verse. His death from a stroke on 12 September 1891 was noted by every Sydney publication in lengthy obituaries and was the cause of a special resolution of the Legislative Assembly on the motion of Henry Parkes, who called him one of the last of the 'most striking figures who watched over the introduction of parliamentary government' in New South Wales.
On 7 March 1843 he had married Mary Ann Arabella Bucknell and made his home at Glebe Point, Sydney. He also acquired a property on the Blue Mountains, with Eagar's Platform (Valley Heights railway station) at his front door. He was buried in the Anglican section of Rookwood cemetery and left an estate of about £3000. He was survived by his wife and three of their four children.
P. N. Lamb, 'Geoffrey Eagar and the Colonial Treasury of New South Wales', Australian Economic Papers, vol 1, no 1, Sept 1962, pp 24-41; CO 201/508.
Author: P. N. Lamb
Print Publication Details: P. N. Lamb, 'Eagar, Geoffrey (1818 - 1891)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 4, Melbourne University Press, 1972, pp 125-126.
Person ID I6663 1. Essex Ennevers
Father Edward EAGAR, Born: 1787, Killarney, Ireland , Died: 2 Nov 1866, Kensington, Middlesex (Age 79 years)
Mother Jemima MCDUEL, Born: 1796, New South Wales, Australia , Died: Yes, date unknown
Married 1815 St Philip's Church, Church Hill, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Edward Eagar (1787-1866)
Convict, lawyer & merchant
Geoffrey Eagar (1818-1891)
Accountant, banker, politician and public servant
Marriages to a closely-related family member
(including to a dead spouse's sibling and a dead sibling's spouse and some bigamous and other illegal marriages)
Family (spouse) Mary Ann Arabella BUCKNELL, Died: Yes, date unknown
Married 7 Mar 1843
1. Arthur G EAGAR, Died: 1906, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Born - 1818 - Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey_Eagar
Courtesy of National Library of Australia.
Well-known family members
All family members who I have found featured in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography or its Australian equivalent, Who's Who 2008 or with an obituary in The Times.


On 14 June May Hill Methodist Church opened its doors to the local community for its usual monthly coffee morning. This event gives the members an opportunity to meet the residents whilst enjoying a drink and home-made cakes, provided by members of the church.
This month all monies raised were to support a young man called Daniel Edwards. Daniel received life changing injuries when he dived into the sea and hit his head on a rock. Now paralysed he is staying in a specialist spinal unit until his home has been adapted to cope with his disability.
A total of £128 was raised and a cheque was sent to Daniel's great-aunt, Kay Jenkins, a member of Hucclecote Methodist Church. Kay thanked the members of May Hill for their kindness and support for her great nephew. The members of May Hill would like to thank everyone for supporting them at this event.


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Suddenly Nellie had a competitor: Cosmopolitan Magazine was sending its own woman reporter around the world to break Fogg's record – and beat Nellie in the process.
Cosmopolitan was run by an alfalfa millionaire named John Brisben Walker, who specialized in copying a good idea when he saw one. Riding to work on Nov. 14, 1889, Walker read the World's account of Nellie setting off on her around-the-world journey that day and immediately recognized the commercial brilliance of the story. He wanted in on that success and summoned his own woman reporter, Elizabeth Brisland, to his office that morning, while dispatching his editor to arrange travel with Thomas Cook and Son down the street. Brisland was very much the opposite of Nellie Bly: a serious writer, more interested in poetry than journalism, with absolutely no interest in going around the world. She turned down Walker without hesitation. But Walker used both a carrot ($3000 a year for two years as a full-time employee) and stick (she would be fired if she refused) approach, and within a half-hour Bisland agreed to leave that afternoon.
Bisland would head west, taking the Union Pacific to San Francisco and then a ship to Yokohama. Seeking to capitalize on the World's huge publicity, Walker approached Pulitzer and offered to wager $1000 against Pulitzer's $500 that Bisland would arrive home first. The World, not wanting to give Cosmopolitan the free publicity, mentioned in passing that "it had declined the offer."
Bisland left the evening of Nov. 14, 1889, spotting Nellie less than a 12-hour head start, and was able to cross the country in five days, with only one connection between New York and San Francisco. But her ship to Yokohama, the Oceanic, would not leave until the 21st, and so she spent two nights at the Palace Hotel, the most opulent hotel in San Francisco and the largest in the country. On Nov. 25, 1889 she set sail across the Pacific aboard the Oceana, just as Nellie was leaving Brindisi to cross the Mediterranean.
The race was on.
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Alfred Morgan may refer to:

 Alfred Powell Morgan (1889–1972), electrical engineer, inventor, and author
 Stan Morgan (Alfred Stanley Morgan, 1920–1971), Welsh footballer
 Alfred Morgan (footballer) (1879–?), English footballer

See also
Alf Morgans, fourth Premier of Western Australia
Al Morgan (disambiguation)


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DARPA taps Raytheon to make infantry squads more adaptive, aware and effective
$2.5 million contract to develop lightweight systems to enhance capabilities in complex environments
TUCSON, Ariz., Jan. 21, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- DARPA, the U.S. Department of Defense's advanced research and technology branch, has awarded a $2.5 million, Phase One contract to Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN) to develop new technologies to boost the effectiveness and safety of infantry squads.
The contract was awarded under DARPA's Squad X Core Technologies (SXCT) program, which is designed to speed development of new, lightweight, integrated systems to give infantry squads greater awareness, adaptability and flexibility in complex environments. The program will also enable dismounted soldiers and marines to more easily understand and control their mission environments.
"We are working to enable ground troops to more effectively operate in urban and complex environments," said Tom Bussing, Raytheon vice president of Advanced Missile Systems. "Raytheon's experience as the systems integrator for DARPA's Persistent Close Air Support program, which offered distributed coordination between air and ground forces, will provide an ideal starting point to help squads effectively perform manned and unmanned teaming."
Raytheon is a prime contractor for research into technologies for squad autonomy. SXCT will seek to give squad members real-time knowledge of their own and teammates' locations to less than 20 feet (6 meters) in GPS-denied environments. The new technologies will collaborate with embedded unmanned air and ground systems.
Raytheon, leading an industry team that includes Draper Labs and Torc Robotics, brings its expertise in overall systems integration, weapons and distributed air-to-ground processing to the program.
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rmspr@raytheon.com


Two thirds of the world's dolmens are contained in the Korean peninsula. The Gochang, Hwaun, and Ganghwa dolmen sites can be found on the UNESCO World Heritage list. This probably begs the question, from me at least – what are dolmens exactly? They are stone monuments, generally consisting of two supporting stones and a cover stone (see picture). Some are confirmed to have been tombs. Many of the cover stones are turtle-shaped, and the turtle was a symbol of longevity, both in this life and the afterlife.


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Scoop: Congress comes for D.C. crime laws
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House Republicans are ushering in a new era of intervention in local D.C. affairs, and their first target is the city's handling of crime.
What I'm hearing: Wielding the authority that Congress has final say over the capital city, Rep. Andrew Clyde (R-Ga.) is leading the charge with a bill that would block the D.C. Council's attempts to lessen penalties for some violent crimes.
Why it matters: Even if Clyde's bill is unlikely to succeed — it would need to pass the Democratic Senate and gain President Biden's signature — Republicans hope to drum up attention against the District with headlines and hearings.
The bill combats the District's recent criminal code reform — passed unanimously by the D.C. Council and unsuccessfully vetoed by Mayor Muriel Bowser this month.
Opponents locally and in national conservative media alike have criticized the council's reforms for dropping maximum sentences for carjacking and gun possession.
Clyde tells Axios he will introduce a resolution in the coming weeks to block those reforms and "stop this insanity in its tracks." In the Senate, Bill Hagerty (R-Tenn.) plans to introduce an identical version.
Clyde is part of the hardline House Freedom Caucus and wants to repeal D.C. home rule entirely.
The big picture: Even during the early Trump years when Republicans controlled Congress, the District did not face this level of an assault on local laws.
The new Republican interest in D.C. coincides with back-to-back years of more than 200 murders and five years of increasing carjackings.
The crime issue has led Republican lawmakers on the Hill to seek an education in D.C. affairs, through Fox News segments about city crime and conversations with local Republicans like Pat Mara, the longtime chair of the D.C. GOP.
"These Republican staffers don't know the difference between the Home Rule Act and the Magna Carta," says Chuck Thies, a local Democratic consultant who has recently fielded calls from nationally minded politicos seeking intel about D.C. minutiae.
What we're watching: Already, the chair of the powerful House Oversight Committee, Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.), has introduced legislation that would block the District from allowing noncitizen residents to vote in local elections. Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) is expected to introduce a Senate version shortly.
And if those resolutions fail, a less splashy but more efficient method to intervene in D.C. laws is through budget riders. Conservatives are more emboldened than ever under Speaker Kevin McCarthy to slip riders into funding bills, daring Democrats to shut down the government in order to defend D.C. self-governance.
Republicans could also target a police reform law that was recently sent to Congress. Opposed by Mayor Bowser and the D.C. police union, the bill weakens arbitration rights for police officers.
Meanwhile, Republicans also introduced a bill to require that federal workers return to the office.
The other side: Even though the criminal code reform reduces maximum penalties and drops maximum minimums, proponents say average prison sentences for crimes like carjacking are unlikely to change.
For carjackings, the current maximum sentence would drop from 40 years behind bars to 24 years. Nearly all D.C. convictions of armed carjacking result in about 15.5 years in prison, way below the new maximum.
Strange bedfellows: While decrying congressional intervention, Bowser is simultaneously distancing herself from the D.C. Council, which she views as increasingly too left-leaning.
"I don't support a litany of pieces of legislation that came out of the council related to public safety," the mayor told me Tuesday on the Hill.
Republicans like Clyde are in turn directing most of their rhetoric against the council.
Yes, but: Bowser still needs to work with the D.C. Council to amend the revised criminal code.
She is seeking to work with council member and Judiciary Committee chair Brooke Pinto, who plans to introduce legislation expanding penalties for gun possession offenses.
The challenge will be Bowser and Pinto finding six other council members in support.
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Istanbul is a catalyst of cultural processes that has constantly changed its meaning, significance and appearance. Istanbul perpetually evolves and continues to defy a single representation, a defining telling or any generalisation. Istanbul therefore is an indefatiguable muse.
'Imagine Istanbul' looks at some defining artists of 20th century Turkish photography – but also music, cinema and literature- to illustrate how these art forms shaped the way we see this city. It explores a series of photographic revelations, bodies of work that move alongside the dividing waters of the city.
To start, a separate section with examples from 19th Century Istanbul photography illustrates how, from the very early start of the medium, the photographer desires and needs Istanbul. Unseen photos from the magnificent Koç collection reveal precurser imagery of what we consider comtemporary photography.
" ... Ara Güler's greatest achievement is to have preserved for many millions a visual memoir that captures the city in all its richness and poetry. Every time I look at the details in Güler's Istanbul photographs, I want to rush to my desk to write about the city."
Ara Güler's work will be followed by a wider investigation of new and forward-looking or new and past-embracing photography which characterises the Turkish photography of today.
One of these will be a substantial selection of the work of Ali Taptık, who can be described as the antithesis to Ara Güler. We could say that Istanbul needed Ali Taptık. It needed the gaze he brought to the ever-emerging cityscape which for him was a constantly emerging self-portrait of contemporary Turkey. His work is not a critique of Istanbul, it is an intimate interaction with it.
Ahmet Polat will be another contemporary photographer whose work the exhibition will explore. He is an artist who has built a body of work on the polarity of family background. He has Turkish-Dutch origins (he recently won the prestigious 'Fotograaf des Vaderlands' award in the Netherlands) and he has a keen awareness of the dichotomy of his aesthetic and conceptual approaches. His work is a combination of commentory and confession.
'Imagine Istanbul' is a journey of photographic encounters that are testimony to the immense power of Istanbul to confront, challenge and seduce. Music, cinema, literature as well as installations by contemporary artists such as Ayşe Erkmen, Sophie Calle and Kasper Bosmans dialogue with the different photographers. There is no attempt to be a comprehensive survey but more, a demonstration of the universiality of Istanbul.
In the frame of the exhibition, two artists are given the opportunity to create new work: Débruit and Bieke Depoorter. Both artists travel to Istanbul for a residency. The new album by Débruit, with recorded material in Istanbul will be premiered in the exhibition. Depoorter's new photographic work, shot in Istanbul, will be shown in Bozar's Horta hall.
Bieke Depoorter received her Master's degree in Photography from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts (KASK) in Ghent. She mainly works on autonomous projects. In 2009, she travelled through Russia, taking photos of the people with whom she stayed. The resulting series, 'Ou Menya', won many prizes, including a Magnum Expression Award. Lannoo published her first book of photographs. A similar project in the United States resulted in her second book, 'I am about to call it a day', published in 2014. Depoorter is currently working on 'In Between', an intimate series about Egyptian families. She became a Nominee Member of Magnum in 2012 and an Associate Member in 2014.
Over the years, traditional and non-traditional world music has become an integral part of much modern Western music. African and oriental influences from the 1960s and '70s are, for example, still very common in rock and dance music. They contribute to fascinating, new music.
Xavier Thomas aka Débruit is an international composer, producer, and instrumentalist known for his adventurous live performances. He crosses futuristic world music with exciting beats and colourful synths. His unique style is heard across the world and his last album with the Sudanese singer Alsarah climbed high in the Top 10 of best world music albums of 2013.
In the framework of the exhibition Imagine Istanbul, Débruit will be in residence to record a conceptual album featuring the city sounds and music of Istanbul. His field recordings and collaboration with different artists from the EUROPALIA programme will form an integral part of his next album. An exclusive preview can be heard at the exhibition.
This project spans the musical heritage and exhilarating present day reality of Istanbul. Moments brought together in an imaginative interpretation of the city on the Bosphorus, in which all influences unite through collaboration with musicians from different generations. The sounds, rhythms, and tempo of the city at different moments in time, but always in one place. Traditional, visionary, electric, psychedelic, futuristic, melodic or experimental, Débruit develops a new vision of the exciting and captivating Istanbul.
As from Thursday 29 10 '15, EUROPALIA TURKEY launches the Thursday Nights @ BOZAR! On those evenings, a wide range of performances will jazz up the exhibition halls. While visiting the exhibition Anatolia & Imagine Istanbul, you will have the opportunity to discover various artists that will share their artistic projects with Turkish overtones. > programme.


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Author: Patrick Ness
"Call me Bathsheba," are the first lines of this inventive novel mimicking another famous story. Patrick Ness's And the Ocean Was Our Sky is a stunning wonder of a story. In this inverse Moby-Dick, we are introduced to a pod of whales that hunt man. In this world, the sea is the right way up and our sky is the Abyss. The action takes place in and on the ocean as we travel with the whales. Our narrator Bathsheba is the Third Apprentice under the lead of Captain Alexandra - a fearless giant of a whale, a harpoon embedded in her head, survivor of numerous battles with man. When the pod come across a wrecked human ship, bodies afloat, drowned, it is difficult to tell whether this is the work of man or whale. If whale, it is messy - wasteful - the bodies haven't been harvested for their teeth nor bone. If man, why? As they approach the ship, a hand clutching a disc protruding from the capsized hull is spied: a hand that belongs to a young man - a prisoner - called Demetrius, and he has a message about (or from) Toby Wick - the nemesis of the whales. Toby Wick, feared and hated by man and whale, is a mysterious and vicious hunter - a legend. None who have seen him live to tell the tale of who he is and the powers he can summon to win every battle. Alexandra, obsessed with overcoming Toby Wick, is determined to fulfill a prophecy - one that has been passed down through generations. The great Toby Wick will be confronted. Demetrius is kept alive under the ocean and Bathsheba is commanded to interrogate him. A relationship builds between man and whale - for centuries prejudice and hatred have reigned supreme between the species, each hunting the other, each having just cause for revenge. Yet Bathsheba is intrigued by this meeting with Demetrius, who is merely a pawn in Toby Wick's game - not a hunter, not an enemy. As Bathsheba's loyalty is tested, the pod swim closer to their meeting with the mythic Toby Wick. What awaits them is fearsome and surprising. And the Ocean Was Our Sky is an epic journey for Bathsheba - physically but even more so philosophically and emotionally. Her interactions with Demetrius and the encounter with Toby Wick will change her forever, and the relationship between man and whale will create a new prophecy. This mind-bending story about fear, prejudice, loyalty and legend is brilliantly and beautifully illustrated by Rovina Cai. It's a tale for any age much like Ness's excellent A Monster Calls.
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From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Monster Calls comes a richly illustrated and lyrical tale, one that asks harrowing questions about power, loyalty, obsession, and the monsters we make of others.
With harpoons strapped to their backs, the proud whales of Bathsheba's pod live for the hunt, fighting in the ongoing war against the world of men. When they attack a ship bobbing on the surface of the Abyss, they expect to find easy prey. Instead, they find the trail of a myth, a monster, perhaps the devil himself...
As their relentless Captain leads the chase, they embark on a final, vengeful hunt, one that will forever change the worlds of both whales and men.
With the lush, atmospheric art of Rovina Cai woven in throughout, this remarkable work by Patrick Ness turns the familiar tale of Moby Dick upside down and tells a story all its own with epic triumph and devastating fate.
An unbelievable graphic novel meets novella that tells the tale of Moby Dick from the Whale's perspective. You absolutely don't need to have read Moby Dick to get something from this stunning book. It examines (with chilling relevancy) the nature of war and heroism "There are those who romance the hunt the way they romance war; in their safety, they imagine a place in history, an invisible pride that won't feed their children but will raise them above their neighbors; they never imagine the despair; they never imagine the blood and the suffering; they never imagine how the heart dies and dies again." A staff pick for Young Adults at the Dorothy Butler Children's Bookshop.
Publisher : Walker Books Australia Pty, Limited
Imprint : Walker Books Australia
Dimensions : ---length:- '24.5'width:- '17'units:- Centimeters
Author : Patrick Ness
Illustrator : Rovina Cai
Dewey classification : 813.6


a) All Non- Trading days, Public Holidays are indicated in the Calendar above and apart from weekends, any other day is a normal trading day including some observation days.
b) Trading hours on the day prior to a major public holiday ceases at 1.00pm, this is subject to confirmation a week before the date.
c) The Government of PNG has the mandate to institute additional public holidays as and when the need arises hence additional days may be included as public holidays at short notices from time to time.


Today it was windy and cold and this beach did not see my footprints.
We spent the day in Little Italy, at an outdoor art fair, among oceans of people and a deluge of art.
Very few people seemed to be buying art. There were perhaps150 artists. I bought an exquisite and sensitive photograph. There was very little art that tempted me. As someone put it, there is much that resembles Thomas Kinkade out there. So little that seems new or authentic or careful, in a full-of-care way. Yet — so many people struggling to sell so much work! How can they stay motivated? How can they continue to spend the time, the money, the space, the materials, the energy, the soul, the grit, the courage, the disappointment that it takes to make art?
The ocean keeps on keeping on.
We keep making art because we can't NOT.
Exactly. You make art because you're an artist. People make the Thomas Kinkade knockoff stuff because they're commodifiers.


A local authority which covers some of the capital's most fashionable neighbourhoods is embroiled in a political row after it paid thousands of pounds to celebrities to appear at its functions.
Comics Alexei Sayle and Simon Amstell, and writer Giles Coren, are among those to have been paid for one-off events by Camden Council, over a five-year period.
But a new administration at the town hall has pledged to end the practice – with councillors instead suggesting that stars living in trendy districts such as Hampstead and Primrose Hill could volunteer their services for free.
Figures unearthed by the Camden New Journal showed Coren, a food critic and broadcaster, was paid £2,000 to promote Kentish Town in a photoshoot with councillors in 2009.
He was said to have tweeted that the job was "quite well paid" and should cover the parking fines he had been charged by the council over the years.
In 2007, Never Mind the Buzzcocks presenter Amstell was paid £5,000 to host a private awards ceremony for the council – a job that had previously been done for free by a senior member of council staff.
The figures have emerged as the current council's Labour leadership faces criticism over its use of outside consultants.
Labour councillors hit back, saying their Liberal Democrat and Conservative opponents, who were in office until last year, were in charge when the payments to celebrities were made.
Councillor Theo Blackwell, finance chief for the present administration, said: "The council can have complex needs and sometimes it needs to spend money on specialists to help.
"Hiring outside help in the form of celebrities appearing at council events, however, is not justified.
Liberal Democrat leader Councillor Ken Moffitt said that hiring celebrities had often helped the council achieve a "higher profile" for its activities.


Combining of Multi Body Systems (MBS) and Finite Element (FE) models is a very powerful tool in the pursuit of more accurate dynamic simulations. New techniques are being developed to integrate non-linear flexible bodies into MBS simulation without the need for costly time consuming co-simulation. This is of particular interest in the automotive industry as it aids them in developing vehicles right first time whist reducing prototyping costs, allowing them to keep the edge in an ultra-competitive market.
To demonstrate this Linear and non-linear flexible bodies are generated for a rear twist beam axel on a car using Simpack's own internal FE beam generator SIMBEAM. It allows arbitrary three-dimensional beam structure to be produced through a reduced FE element approach. A benchmark MBS vehicle model with a totally ridged rear beam axle was created and was then copied, replacing the rear beam axle with the linear and non-linear flexible bodies. Several different driving scenarios where ran on the three models which loaded and unloaded the beam axle. This allowed direct comparison of the behavior between the flexible body models and the ridged model.
The loads and forces applied to the non-linear model where extracted so that a validation of the FE element in the MBS model can be performed using a traditional FE environment. To do this an identical model of the rear beam axle was produced in Abaqus with appropriate constraints and boundary conditions. The forces and loadings extracted from the MBS model where then applied to this model to analyses the stresses and displacements produced. These stresses and displacements where then compared with the results from the MBS model.
The MBS study showed that including flexible bodies in the model introduces compliance of the axle into the model as the body flexes and vibrates. This meant that during the scenarios more transient behavior was observed compared to the ridged model as the body settled. Comparing the stresses and displacements between the MBS and FE models showed close correlation, demonstrating the accuracy of the FE tool within the MBS software. This exhibits the effectiveness that reduced FE approaches used within MBS software have on dynamic simulations and demonstrations that they are powerful tool to couple FE and MBS simulations.


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The vast majority of breast cancers are carcinomas that arise from mammary epithelial cells (MECs). One of the key early events in tumorigenic transformation is the ability of cells to overcome replicative senescence. However, the precise genetic changes that are responsible for this event in MECs is largely unknown. Here, we report that Bmi-1, originally identified as a c-Myc cooperating oncoprotein, can bypass senescence, extend the replicative life span, and immortalize MECs. Furthermore, Bmi-1 was overexpressed in immortal MECs and several breast cancer cell lines.
Studies were conducted to directly test whether the introduction of telomerase protects cancer-prone human mammary epithelial cells from chromosomal instability and spontaneous immortalization. Using a model for Li Fraumeni Syndrome (LFS), infection of human telomerase resulted in maintenance of telomere lengths, extension of in vitro lifespan, and prevention of spontaneous immortalization.


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1990 ushered in the "Gay 90's." There was a surge in membership and attendance. Two services on a Sunday morning were necessary to accommodate worshipers.
A food pantry was started for persons with AIDS (PWA) and needy persons. Weekly dinners were sponsored by AIDS Manasota and were co-hosted by the Church with volunteers preparing and serving the food.
The Southwest Florida Business Guild began at the Church, founded by parishioners. Members and friends volunteered for AIDS Manasota. Sarasota AIDS Support and CDEA also met there. Meetings of GALA were also held in the Church. In June a very successful "Pride Day" sponsored by the Business Guild was held. Some 15 organizations participated and over 400 people attended. All this was in addition to a regular Church program of special services and educational possibilities.
"Parishes" also met on a monthly basis for social and spiritual interaction. These were Southern Friends, the Sarasota Parish, and Manatee Friends. They sponsored cook-outs, skating parties, swimming parties, camping, game nights – as well as bible study and discussion groups. It was a wonderful time!
At the Tenth Anniversary celebration, there was an open house, musical entertainment, a revival, and a visit by Rev. Elder Troy Perry to bless the Robert Pierce-Robert Murch union. It all felt too good to be true – and it was.
The Reverend Robert E. Pierce died early in 1992 of complications related to HIV/AIDS. His memorial service was held in the nearly finished sanctuary on February 6, 1992.
The church's original worship space was re dedicated as "the Reverend Robert E. Pierce Hall" in his honor.
The Reverend T. Edward Helms preached his first sermon as the pastor of the Church on June 7, 1992. As the 90's continued, the Church solidified its personal base with the addition the new Assistant Pastor, Rev. Sherry Kennedy.
Now with a facility to be used, the development of fabulous shows in the form of the Follies, parties and events that the community seemed to long for. With the departure of the Reverend T. Edward Helms in January, 1996, the Reverend Gustave Kein was elected as Pastor. The Church seemed to be at a "resting point," examining itself and attempting to establish where and what it should be doing as a group.
Several major changes in the appearance of the campus occurred at this time. The directions to the Church were no longer "go north to the end of Lockwood Ridge Road and then go just a bit further and turn to the right." The completion of Lockwood Ridge Road through to SR 70 allowed the Church up to be seen by anyone passing by. Then, a major wireless communication company contacted the Church about the possibility of a tower on the land. The first response was both of joy for the possible income and of dread for the disfiguring of the land. But the Spirit works in strange ways, and the result was a wireless tower in the form of a cross that towered over the area and can be seen easily from the now completed road.
Reverend Gus Kein resigned in 2001 to return to his home and home Church in Fort Lauderdale. A search committee was established and letters were sent out to solicit possible new Pastors.


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Sexgate: 8 men in liberal MSM lose jobs because of sexual misconduct
Posted on November 13, 2017 by Dr. Eowyn | Leave a comment
When the New York Times, for whatever reasons of their own, outed Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein as a sexual assaulter/rapist although the Times had known about the brute for years, the floodgates were opened to a deluge of accusations against other denizens of Hollywood. See:
Sexgate: FBI & NYPD are investigating Harvey Weinstein, who also targeted minors
Pedogate: Actor Kevin Spacey accused of raping 15 y.o. boy & sexually assaulting 'House of Cards' crew members
Sexgate: Warner Bros. is "reviewing" Brett Ratner deal after sexual harassment allegations
Sexgate: Comedian/actor Louis C.K. admits "showing my d*ck" to accusers
Sexgate: another woman accuses Ben Affleck of groping her butt
Sexgate: Actors Dustin Hoffman, Jeremy Piven and Andy Dick latest to be accused
Sexgate: Man accuses 'Star Trek' actor George Takei of sexual assault
Ben's brother is in trouble: People are calling for Casey Affleck to be banned from Oscars because of sexual allegations
Sexgate: Actor Kevin 'Hercules' Sorbo was groped by homosexual designer Gianni Versace
The Weinstein Effect isn't confined to Hollywood, but has spread to journalism as well.
In an article that was updated on November 11, 2017, the New York Times names eight men in journalism who deservedly are caught in Weinstein's undertow. Some of them are major figures in liberal journalism, including Mark Halperin and Leon Wieseltier.
The eight, in alphabetical order, are:
(1) Ken Baker, E! News correspondent:
Sexual harassment of two women, including unwanted kissing and inappropriate messages.
Baker has been pulled from air while NBCUniversal investigates the charges.
Baker's response: "I am very disturbed by these anonymous allegations, which make my heart ache. I take them very seriously."
(2) Hamilton Fish, president and publisher of The New Republic and former publisher of The Nation:
Complaints by female employees about "certain workplace interactions [with Fish] that have created an uncomfortable environment for them".
Fish was placed on leave, then resigned.
Fish: "Women have longstanding and profound concerns with respect to their treatment in the workplace. Many men have a lot to learn in this regard. I know I do, and I hope for and encourage that new direction."
(3) Mark Halperin, 52, NBC News and MSNBC contributor, author of Game Change:
Sexual harassment or assault of at least a dozen women when Halperin was political director at ABC News– that Halperin placed his erect penis on the bodies of women without consent; masturbated in front of a woman in his office; and threw another woman against a restaurant window before attempting to kiss her.
Dismissed from MSNBC and NBC News and had upcoming book and HBO adaptation canceled.
Halperin: "I am profoundly sorry for the pain and anguish I have caused by my past actions. I apologize sincerely to the women I mistreated."
(4) Knight Landesman, 67, publisher of Artforum, an international monthly magazine on contemporary art:
Sexual harassment of at least nine women, including groping.
Resigned.
Landesman: "I fully recognize that I have tested certain boundaries, which I am working hard to correct."
(5) Michael Oreskes, 63, Head of news at NPR (National Public Radio) and former New York Times editor:
Sexual harassment of three women.
Oreskes: "I am deeply sorry to the people I hurt. My behavior was wrong and inexcusable, and I accept full responsibility."
(6) Robert Scoble, 52, tech blogger and co-founder of the Transformation Group, an "augmented reality" consulting firm:
Sexual harassment, including unwanted sexual advances, of as many as 12 women.
Scoble: "I am deeply sorry and I am ashamed."
(7) Lockhart Steele, 44, editorial director of the multinational digital media company Vox Media:
Sexual harassment of at least one person, including unwanted kissing.
Fired: Vox Media's chief executive said Steele had admitted to "engaging in conduct that is inconsistent with our core values and will not be tolerated."
(8) Leon Wieseltier, 64, contributing editor of The Atlantic and former editor of The New Republic:
Sexual harassment of several women, including inappropriate advances.
Fired from Emerson Collective, which canceled publication of a magazine he was editing.
Wieseltier: "For my offenses against some of my colleagues in the past I offer a shaken apology and ask for their forgiveness."
Posted in Liberals/Democrats/Left, Media, MSM, Sexgate, United States
Tagged Harvey Weinstein, Michael Oreskes
Karma is a bitch: MSM now say Obama is a danger to press freedom
Posted on October 29, 2014 by Dr. Eowyn | 10 comments
The liberal main stream media (MSM) connived to elevate Obama to the presidency in 2008 and to reelect him in 2012. Remember Journolist? (See "Media Conspired to Protect Obama")
The MSM refused to investigate Obama's shadowy background and history of associating with known communists, including his childhood mentor Frank Marshall Davis, who was a card-carrying member of the American Communist Party.
Having abdicated their responsibility to investigate this man who has more names and Social Security numbers than a dog has fleas, the MSM then deploy the derisive and dismissive label of "birthers" on Americans who question Obama's constitutional birth eligibility to be president and why he continues to conceal his school, medical and other records.
Here's just one glaring example of media bias that you've probably forgotten:
In 2013, the media made a BIG thing of Republican Senator Marco Rubio (Florida) taking a sip of water during his delivery of the official GOP response to Obama's State of the Union address. As Reuters put it: "Across the Web, from Deadspin.com to The New Yorker, and on every cable news channel, the Florida senator's sip from a small bottle of water as he delivered the official Republican response to U.S. President Barack Obama's on Tuesday was the moment of the evening."
And yet the media never even so much as whispered that Obama, the President of the most powerful country in the world, was so uncouth as to PICK HIS NOSE in public on live TV.
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Now, 6 years into his presidency, more and more of the MSM are complaining about Obama's press restrictions and lack of transparency. But not one complainer has expressed remorse for colluding to get this toxic man elected twice as president.
Here are some of those in the MSM who are bitching:
1. On May 14, 2013, New York Times public editor Margaret Sullivan wrote, "it's turning out to be the administration of unprecedented secrecy and unprecedented attacks on a free press."
2. In June of 2013, as news came of the Obama Justice Department's surveillance of reporters, New York Times executive editor Jill Abramson said she was "concerned that the process of news gathering is being criminalized." In January 2014, in an interview with Al Jazeera America, Abramson called the Obama administration "the most secretive" she has ever had to contend with.
3. In October 2013, David E. Sanger, veteran chief Washington correspondent of The New York Times, said, "This is the most closed, control freak administration I've ever covered."
4. Writing in October 2013, Leonard Downie Jr. said that Michael Oreskes, a senior managing editor of The Associated Press, had told him some months ago that "The Obama administration has been extremely controlling and extremely resistant to journalistic intervention. There's a mind-set and approach that holds journalists at a greater distance."
5. Frank Sesno, a former CNN Washington bureau chief who is now director of the School of Media and Public Affairs at George Washington University, said the Obama administration imposes limitations on "everyday access necessary for the administration to explain itself and be held accountable."
6. Financial Times correspondent Richard McGregor said "covering this White House is pretty miserable in terms of getting anything of substance to report on in what should be a much more open system."
7. CBS veteran television news anchor and chief Washington correspondent Bob Schieffer said "This administration exercises more control than George W. Bush's did, and his before that."
8. In November 2013, a large group of news organizations sent a letter to the White House protesting limited access for their photographers at newsworthy events involving the president: "The restrictions imposed by the White House on photographers covering these events, followed by the routine release by the White House of photographs made by government employees of these same events, is an arbitrary restraint and unwarranted interference on legitimate newsgathering activities. You are, in effect, replacing independent photojournalism with visual press releases."
9. On March 10, 2014, after 21 years with the CBS network as its Washington bureau correspondent and occasional Evening News substitute anchor, Sharyl Attkisson resigned from CBS News, reportedly due to frustration over the network's liberal bias and lack of dedication to investigative reporting.
10 . On March 21, 2014, Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times' foreign policy reporter James Risen called the Obama administration "the greatest enemy of press freedom that we have encountered in at least a generation," and warned that the White House seeks to control the flow of information and those who refuse to play along "will be punished." Risen also said "I think Obama hates the press."
11. On Oct. 3, 2014, at a recent joint meeting of the American Society of News Editors, the Associated Press Media Editors and the Associated Press Photo Managers, the Associated Press' Washington Bureau chief Sally Buzbee detailed 8 ways the Obama administration is restricting access to information.
12. On Oct. 25, 2014, speaking at a White House Correspondents' Association seminar, USA Today Washington Bureau Chief Susan Page called the Obama White House not only "more restrictive" but also "more dangerous" to the press than any other in history.
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Posted in Barack Obama, conspiracy, Liberals/Democrats/Left, Media, Obama's eligibility, Republican Party, United States
Tagged Barack Obama picks nose, Bob Schieffer, David Sanger, Frank Sesno, James Risen, Jill Abramson, Journolist, Marco Rubio sips water, Margaret Sullivan, media bias, Michael Oreskes, Richard McGregor, Sally Buzbee, Sharyl Attkisson, Susan Page


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