Russian emigre Nora is friendless and lonely on a prairie farm, until she takes in some chicks and meets another little girl down the road. Willie the dog ends up favoring her baby brother Milo, and it isn't until Nora takes on a flock of chicks that she truly has something of her own in their new home. This was a sweet and heartwarming tale. Gentle, yet detail-filled, watercolor artwork features several full spreads and some spot illustrations. Endpages feature blue and yellow flowers in a Russian folk-art design.
Melissa and her dad Larry, a guard at the New York Museum of Natural History, are in for a watery adventure when the museum comes to life and floods the city. The father-daughter duo swim with prehistoric sea creatures alongside many famous New York City landmarks. The book features digitally altered watercolors. This lengthy picture book is potentially a good Father's Day selection. The book is appended with questions and facts from the museum.
Colors are equated with emotions for an upbeat African-American boy, the middle child in his family. Lines such as "A purple kind of mood/Cold-plum eating/Grape-juice drinking/On the couch/Bobbing to the beat kind of mood" and "Bomp, bomp/Bip, bip, bap/Orange mood/Moving, schooling/To the hoop/Swish!" make this story rhythmic and fun. The artwork is comprised of digital collage with oil paints and graphite, while the endpages feature rings of pastel color.
Nugget and Fang: Friends Forever or Snacktime?
This story stars two unlikely friends: a shark and a minnow see their friendship put to the test when Nugget goes to school and learns about the dangers that sharks pose. Shunning Fang, his now-lonely friend tries to get back in Nugget's good graces by dressing up as a mermaid, extending a dinner invitation, even sending a special delivery message, "You're fintastic!" Saving the minnows from a fisherman's net finally convinces Nugget and his new school friends that Fang can be trusted. The book is appended with a final illustration of Fang proudly showing off a picture of his food chain - a vegetarian menu. A humorous book for shark aficionados. Digital illustrations have a painterly feel.


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Daily-Deal Study: Good for Customers, Bad for Businesses
The study, conducted at Rice University's Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business by associate professor Utpal Dholakia, polled 150 businesses that did Groupon deal offers in the past year. The results: About one-third of participating businesses said their daily-deal offers were unprofitable
More than 40 percent said they wouldn't do a daily deal again. Business owners who were unhappy with their deal experience reported Groupon deal users didn't buy additional items beyond the deal offer. They also reported the Groupon customers tended to be one-time visitors and didn't become repeat customers. [Más…]
Some of the study's recommendations on how to make a Groupon promotion successful:
* Design your deal so that it will appeal to new customers and not cannibalize sales to existing customers.
* Know whether your business type is well-suited to benefit from a daily deal — the study found restaurants and education companies fared the worst, while salons and spas were the most successful.
* Offer the deal on merchandise you're looking to unload or underutilized services you want to grow
* Design your deal to build a customer relationship. Make it good for $20 off on each of your next three visits instead of $60 off the customer can spend all at once.
* Avoid offering a discount off the total bill — you may end up giving away too much margin, as you aren't in control of the size of your discount.
Has your company done a daily-deal offer? Would you? Leave a comment and let us know what you think about daily-deal promotions.
By: Carol Tice | http://blog.entrepreneur.com/2010/10/daily-deals-good-for-customers-bad-for-businesses.php
If you haven't turned on a computer lately, the hottest thing in online marketing is the daily deal. Mega-successful company Groupon started this trend, and a million imitators have sprouted. Another daily-deal startup, Woot, was recently snapped up by Amazon.com for more than $100 million.
So the business of being a daily-deal company is great. But how are those daily deals working out for the businesses that offer them? A new study says: Not so hot.
For the uninitiated, a business that offers a daily deal through one of these sites must provide a substantial discount — often 50 percent off. Then, a minimum number of customers must buy the deal, prepaying up-front and getting a coupon they present to the company. If not enough customers buy into the deal, it's cancelled. The tradeoff is a guarantee of a large volume of new-customer traffic in exchange for the discount.
More than 40 percent said they wouldn't do a daily deal again. Business owners who were unhappy with their deal experience reported Groupon deal users didn't buy additional items beyond the deal offer. They also reported the Groupon customers tended to be one-time visitors and didn't become repeat customers. Continuar leyendo «Daily-Deal Study: Good for Customers, Bad for Businesses»
Autor Gabriel Catalano - human being | (#IN).perfección®Publicado el 11 octubre 2010 Categorías Sin categoríaEtiquetas Blog.entrepreneur.com, Business, Customer, Deal, Groupon, Internet marketing, Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business, Rice University, Woot
Looking for Entrepreneurial Tips in 'The Social Network'
«People want to go on the internet and check out their friends, so why not build a website that offers them friends, pictures, profiles — whatever. You can visit, browse around, maybe it's someone you just met at a party. I'm not talking about a dating site, I'm talking about taking the entire social experience of college and putting it online.»
Just like you, it all started with an idea — a concept that perhaps no one has ever come up with before, finding a niche that needs filling or a service that your customers can't do without.
So before you dismiss The Social Network as inaccurate or a work of fiction, consider what you can learn from Facebook's rags-to-riches story. And if you really don't want to see the movie, read one of the books about Facebook's rise to prominence. Check out Mezrich's book mentioned above or The Facebook Effect: The Inside Story of the Company That Is Connecting the World, written by David Kirkpatrick.
By: Mikal Belicove
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The Social Network opens in theaters nationwide on Friday amidst a deafening buzz about Facebook's co-founder, Mark Zuckerberg. If people aren't questioning the veracity of the film's storyline, they're speculating about it. Is it fact, fiction or just a dramatic, narrative account pumped up with a little extra Hollywood juice?
Controversy erupted months in advance of the release of the Aaron Sorkin and David Fincher film. Zuckerberg has publicly dismissed the film and the book it's based on as works of fiction and has said he has no plans to see the movie. That's certainly less extreme than William Randolph Hearst's alleged attempt to halt the distribution of Orson Wells' Citizen Kane — to curtail viewing of that «biographical» film — but it's not much of an endorsement, either.
Of course, not all the folks at Facebook are happy with the depiction of their founder as a conflicted, ambiguous, untrustworthy visionary. The film portrays a character desperately trying to fit in with his Harvard surroundings, but lacking the social skills to do so. His coping mechanism is to develop a tool that enables him to interact with others at a distance and which now encompasses more than 500 million enthusiastic members.
Whether fact, fiction or a combination of the two, this film is a «must-see» for entrepreneurs — if for no other reason than the volatile emergence of Facebook is the story of every person with entrepreneurial ambition. This holds especially true for those of us who choose a level of personal, professional or financial risk in order to pursue an opportunity or a concept. That's just what an entrepreneur does.
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Autor Gabriel Catalano - human being | (#IN).perfección®Publicado el 1 octubre 2010 Categorías Sin categoríaEtiquetas Aaron Sorkin, Blog.entrepreneur.com, Citizen Kane, David Fincher, Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, Social network, The Facebook Effect: The Inside Story of the Company That Is Connecting the World, William Randolph Hearst
New App Clues You in on What People Think of Your Website
You want to know what I think of your new website. You got a sec? The folks over at Zurb have created an ingenious little web application that allows anyone to conduct a free test of what visitors remember about a website. And those visitors get exactly five seconds to form a first impression.
Called Clue, the site lets you quickly capture a page and create an interactive memory test that helps determine whether people understand what you're trying to get across on your website. Just visit the Clue website, submit your URL and create a test that gives you a unique URL that you can then share with customers, vendors, employees and others. You ask them to take the five-second test and they, in turn, provide you with valuable feedback on what they think about the site.
By: Mikal Belicove | http://blog.entrepreneur.com
By giving users mere seconds to absorb a web page and recall the most memorable portions of that page, you're able to quickly and accurately identify the best elements on that page — as well as the ones that don't work so well.
Want to give Clue a test drive? Just visit http://www.clueapp.com/52+ and test any of the examples at the bottom of the page. If you're impressed, the next step might be to sign up. Continuar leyendo «New App Clues You in on What People Think of Your Website»
Autor Gabriel Catalano - human being | (#IN).perfección®Publicado el 29 septiembre 2010 Categorías Sin categoríaEtiquetas Blog.entrepreneur.com, Business, Uniform Resource Locator, Usability, Web Design and Development, Web page, Website, wordpress.com, ZURB
Recession-Beating Success Strategy: Revive Your Brand
Remember Circuit City? Bet you think the electronics chain went out of business in early 2009. But actually, they're back. Another company bought the brand name just a few months later and relaunched Circuit City as a leaner, meaner, no-doubt-more-profitable ecommerce site.
They're not the only old-time brand making a comeback, either. If these stone-dead companies can find a way to revive their brand and get customers buying again, small businesses can do it, too.
Besides, Circuit City, brands that are on the comeback trail include:
Chock Full O Nuts — Sing it with me now: «Chock Full O Nuts is that heavenly coffee…better coffee a millionaire's money can't buy.» Despite the well-known jingle, this 80-year-old brand had faded to obscurity, and the coffee-shop chain closed in the 1980s. But earlier this month, the company's first new coffee shop in decades opened in New York City. When the New York Daily News wrote about it, nearly 400 people liked the story on Facebook. Clearly, just the mention of this old brand had many riding a wave of pleasant nostalgia.
Commodore — Wow, what a yesterday brand in computing, huh? For those too young to remember, Commodore's C64 was a popular early personal computer, but the company failed to keep up with the pace of change in PCs and went bust waaaay back in 1994. But it's coming back — Florida entrepreneur Barry Altman is relaunching the brand with a $30 million marketing effort.
By: Carol Tice | //blog.entrepreneur.com
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Autor Gabriel Catalano - human being | (#IN).perfección®Publicado el 22 septiembre 2010 22 septiembre 2010 Categorías Sin categoríaEtiquetas Blog.entrepreneur.com, Business, Chock full o'Nuts, Circuit City, Facebook, Marketing and Advertising, MC Hammer, New York City, Personal computer, Quisp
Why the Real-Estate Slump Could be Killing Small Business Hiring
1) A disproportionate amount of the products and services small businesses sell are tied to home sales. Independent realtors, small contruction contractors, interior decorators, decor boutiques…they all take the hit when home sales slow.
2) Many entrepreneurs have historically used their own home as their business-funding piggybank. With many homes now devoid of equity, there's less cash cushion with which to take a risk and put on a new hire.
3) Banks' lending was choked off in part because of their mortgage-loan problems. So just when the home-equity piggybank ran dry, banks also balked at loans.
I've interviewed Shane before and found him a very knowledgeable source. His theory makes solid sense, and reveals how home sales ripple through the broader U.S. economy.
What do you think? Is real estate the man behind the curtain in the small-business hiring slump? Leave a comment and let us know if your own home-equity situation has impacted your hiring decisions.
By: Carol Tice
A lot of theories have been circulated for why small businesses aren't hiring — the bank lending crunch, emotional nervousness about the economy, high taxes, low sales. This week, noted Case Western Reserve University professor Scott Shane weighed in with his theory: It's all about the residential real-estate collapse. Continuar leyendo «Why the Real-Estate Slump Could be Killing Small Business Hiring»
Autor Gabriel Catalano - human being | (#IN).perfección®Publicado el 9 septiembre 2010 9 septiembre 2010 Categorías Sin categoríaEtiquetas Blog.entrepreneur.com, Business, Case Western Reserve University, Home equity, Real estate, Real estate bubble, Residential area, Scott Shane, Small business
Should You Charge Customers Late Fees?
When it comes to getting customers to pay on time, business owners typically use two approaches — carrots and sticks. Pay your bill early and you get a nice discount. Pay your bill late and you get smacked with a late fee.
The trouble is that neither of these solutions does the job it's intended to do. Quick payers who'd pay on time anyway often take advantage of early-payer discounts, cutting into your company's profit margin. Slow payers — often cash-strapped consumers or small business owners themselves — don't have the money to pay late fees and may not pay you at all.
What's the answer? Scrap this ineffective system of rewards and punishments and try to figure out why your customers are paying late and what you can do to make them pay you faster.
By: Rosalind Resnick
For example, let's see… Continuar leyendo «Should You Charge Customers Late Fees?»
Autor Gabriel Catalano - human being | (#IN).perfección®Publicado el 9 septiembre 2010 9 septiembre 2010 Categorías Sin categoríaEtiquetas Blog.entrepreneur.com, Business, Cash flow, Credit card, Financial Services, Late fee, Money, Payment, Small business
Social Media Marketing to Baby Boomers
If your business or marketing department has dismissed Facebook and other social networking venues or social media platforms as digital playgrounds for indolent teenagers and twenty-somethings, this Pew Research Center study should be the blaring wake-up call to get you thinking otherwise.
More and more older adults are spending increasing amounts of time on the internet and on social media sites in particular. As you might suspect, they are connecting with old friends, keeping in touch with family members, building personal and professional networks to help find jobs and advance careers, and managing their daily communications. And wherever your company's targeted demographic or secondary market is spending increasing amounts of time, you should be shifting increasing focus on your marketing efforts.
Facebook is not just for kids anymore, nor is LinkedIn, Twitter, YouTube or the many other popular social media platforms and services. As today's Pew Research Center study entitled «Older Adults and Social Media» concludes, «Social networking use among those ages 50 and older nearly doubled over the past year.» In fact, the fastest growing demographic of social networking users consists of Baby Boomers ages 50 to 64. Nearly half (47 percent) of internet users ages 50-64 and about one in four (26 percent) users age 65 and older now use social networking sites, according to the study. Continuar leyendo «Social Media Marketing to Baby Boomers»
Autor Gabriel Catalano - human being | (#IN).perfección®Publicado el 28 agosto 2010 28 agosto 2010 Categorías Sin categoríaEtiquetas Blog.entrepreneur.com, Business, Facebook, Pew Research Center, Social media, Social network, Social network service, Twitter, YouTube2 comentarios en Social Media Marketing to Baby Boomers
Why Small Business Job Cuts Hurt More Than Big-Employer Layoffs
Troubling statistics have been rolling in lately about job losses. While the beginning of the recession saw the shedding of thousands of jobs en masse at major corporations, by the end of last year, job cuts were concentrated at small businesses. While financial aid aimed at small businesses continues to sit in the Senate, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported 62 percent of cuts were at firms with less than 50 workers — the kind that provide nearly one-third of all jobs.
And those cuts hurt that business, and the economy, in ways big-company layoffs never will.
Small businesses will often cut to the bone before laying off longtime workers. Some have done furloughs, voluntary sabbaticals, pay cuts, deferred maintenance, marketing reductions — anything but pink-slipping workers. For many entrepreneurs with small staffs, those people have become like family.
Small businesses will often cut to the bone before laying off longtime workers. Some have done furloughs, voluntary sabbaticals, pay cuts, deferred maintenance, marketing reductions — anything but pink-slipping workers. For many entrepreneurs with small staffs, those people have become like family. Continuar leyendo «Why Small Business Job Cuts Hurt More Than Big-Employer Layoffs»
Autor Gabriel Catalano - human being | (#IN).perfección®Publicado el 26 agosto 2010 26 agosto 2010 Categorías Sin categoríaEtiquetas Blog.entrepreneur.com, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Business, Business and Economy, Corporation, Layoff, Recession, Senate, Small business, United States
How to Conduct a Tweet Chat for Your Business or Brand
To promote our recent book, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Facebook, my co-author, Joe Kraynak, and I participated in a 'Tweet Chat' (also called a Tweetchat) about Facebook. If you have never heard of Tweet Chats and have no idea of what they are, just think of them as online, real-time conversations broadcast via Twitter. They are typically held at a pre-arranged time, among a group of Twitter users, using a specific Twitter hashtag–such as #AskCIG–to identify the discussion and Twitter users are invited to ask questions via tweets using the designated hashtag.
While all this sounds simple enough, conducting an effective Tweet Chat can be a little awkward, especially for the ill prepared. Although this feature is referred to as a chat, it is much more cumbersome than chatting online with any of today's popular instant messaging platforms. Personally, I would rather conduct such an interview on a Facebook Page in the comments area of a Status Update; there at least the discussion is all in one place and easy to follow, instantly archived, and associated with whatever brand's page it appears on. On Twitter, there's no branding, the discussion is not archived in any reasonably accessible manner, and the platform itself is entirely devoid of the type of analytics today's businesses need to gauge the effectiveness of the effort.
While all this sounds simple enough, conducting an effective Tweet Chat can be a little awkward, especially for the ill prepared. Although this feature is referred to as a chat, it is much more cumbersome than chatting online with any of today's popular instant messaging platforms. Personally, I would rather conduct such an interview on a Facebook Page in the comments area of a Status Update; there at least the discussion is all in one place and easy to follow, instantly archived, and associated with whatever brand's page it appears on. On Twitter, there's no branding, the discussion is not archived in any reasonably accessible manner, and the platform itself is entirely devoid of the type of analytics today's businesses need to gauge the effectiveness of the effort. Continuar leyendo «How to Conduct a Tweet Chat for Your Business or Brand»
Autor Gabriel Catalano - human being | (#IN).perfección®Publicado el 13 agosto 2010 13 agosto 2010 Categorías Sin categoríaEtiquetas Blog.entrepreneur.com, Facebook, google, HootSuite, Online Communities, Promotion, Seesmic, social networking, TweetChat, tweetchat.com, Twitter1 comentario en How to Conduct a Tweet Chat for Your Business or Brand
Conscious Capitalism — Can Companies Care in the Downturn?
I read a fascinating article in the Dallas Morning News this week about why the corporate values of The Container Store and Whole Foods Market are similar. The founders of the two companies, Kip Tindell and John Mackey, apparently shared a house with a few other roomies while attending the University of Texas.
Both emerged from these formative years to start companies that went on to major success based in part on their groundbreaking philosophy that all stakeholders matter — employees, customers and the community as well as investors. That more profits come from caring than from naked greed.
Continuar leyendo «Conscious Capitalism — Can Companies Care in the Downturn?»
Autor Gabriel Catalano - human being | (#IN).perfección®Publicado el 13 agosto 2010 13 agosto 2010 Categorías Sin categoríaEtiquetas Blog.entrepreneur.com, Business, Container Store, Dallas Morning News, Jeffrey Hollender, John Mackey, Kip Tindell, Seventh Generation, Whole Foods Market1 comentario en Conscious Capitalism — Can Companies Care in the Downturn?

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How to Thicken Frosting Without Sugar
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Baking may not seem hard until you try doing it. The elements of science at play that you may not even be aware of could be the reason why your buttercream frosting is too thin. For example, when making a whipped cream topping for pies or cakes, everything from the ingredients to the beats and bowl must be cold. These kinds of toppings, like whipped cream or buttercream frosting, can be over-beaten, which will cause the frosting to be too thin. Frostings that call for wetter ingredients like Greek yogurt require more dry ingredients to thicken, though they will also set slightly more in the fridge. With a bit of reading, you will come to find sugar is not the only way to thicken a thin frosting.
Ingredients for Thickening Frosting
Powdered sugar is one of the most common ingredients for thickening frosting. Frosting is already sweet, so the sugar does not add much more sweetness, but it does add volume. And, since it's a dry ingredient, it absorbs the extra liquid. If you are trying to avoid adding more sugar to an already sweet dessert, try adding a flavor-appropriate thickening agent to your frosting. These thickening agents include: cornstarch, gelatin, cream cheese, cocoa powder, cold heavy cream, tapioca, arrowroot starch, flour and even butter.
How to Thicken Frosting by Adding Ingredients
The ingredient that should be added to a frosting depends on the kind of frosting it is. For example, flour should be added only to cooked frostings and cocoa powder should be added only to chocolate frostings. No matter the added ingredient or the type of frosting, however, always start with a small amount, usually one teaspoon, of the thickening agent and add more as needed.
Other added ingredients are also specific to particular types of frosting and are fairly self-explanatory. Cream cheese frosting usually thickens when it is refrigerated, but if it is still too thick, add a tablespoon or two at a time of softened cream cheese, taking care not to over-whip the frosting. Once you're sure the frosting has thickened enough, place it in the fridge to continue to harden. Buttercream frosting can also be thickened with butter in the same fashion.
A couple of tablespoons of cold heavy cream can be used to help thicken whipped cream frosting, cream cheese frosting, buttercream frosting or even marshmallow frosting for cake, but the cream, beats and bowl must be very cold and don't over whip the cream.
Cornstarch, tapioca and arrowroot starch are the most versatile thickening agents, meaning they can be used in almost any frosting. To use one of these starch add-ins, begin with two teaspoons. Pour the teaspoons of powder into a grinder, like a coffee bean grinder or a small food processor, and pulse until the powder is extra fine. Add half a teaspoon at a time to the frosting, stirring well between each addition, until the frosting is thick.
Gelatin is often used to stabilize or thicken whipped cream, buttercream and cream cheese frostings. Make unflavored gelatin and allow it to completely cool. Add two tablespoons of gelatin while whisking the frosting together, then let it chill in the fridge for about 10 minutes.
Will Icing Thicken in the Fridge?
Icing will thicken in the fridge too, so there are options for soft frostings that do not involve adding more ingredients. Warm frosting can quickly become runny, but even if the icing is not warm, try popping it in the fridge for a while. Be sure to tightly cover the top of the mixing bowl that holds the icing with plastic cling wrap before placing in the fridge. Frosting that is not covered in the fridge, especially cream cheese frosting, will develop a hardened skin. If the frosting is a cooked frosting, try cooking it on the stovetop a bit longer.
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Despite Texas man amassing collection of treasures, he's broke
Ex-rock band guitarist's effort to dig self out leads to more financial woes
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By Patrick Danner STAFF WRITER
Charles Trois stands in front of a wax-figure depiction of the Last Supper. "You know who is coming to see about buying it? Ripley's Believe It or Not!" he said. Trois, 75, played guitar in the Soul Survivors, best known for the 1967 tune "Expressway to Your Heart."
FREDERICKSBURG — On a recent weekday, collector extraordinaire Charles Trois packed up some of his countless historic and artistic items in preparation for moving them off the estate he built here in the shadows of Enchanted Rock State Natural Area.
Trois, the onetime guitarist for a briefly famous 1960s rock band, had to beat a June 5 deadline to remove his "stuff " from the property. Already packed and gone were "thousands and thousands" of cap guns that filled a museum he operated on the grounds.
He still had plenty left to move — from life-size wax sculptures depicting Jesus Christ and his 12 disciples at the Last Supper to a teapot featuring two deer heads to an 1880s Italian figurine that once greeted theatergoers.
Trois has amassed a fortune in collectibles — yet he's broke.
"I got caught into a money crunch and no cash flow," he said.
That's why Trois has been forced to pack his things and vacate the nearly 40-acre namesake estate that resembles an oldworld village in the Texas Hill Country.
Trois pledged his half interest in the property — an ex-wife owns the other half — as collateral on a $2.5 million loan. He failed to pay back the loan and the lender recently foreclosed.
Efforts to dig himself out of the financial hole have only exacerbated his troubles and gotten him sideways with those he was work
ing with — including an Ohio auctioneer, a "treasure hunter" facing a possible prison sentence, a Houston museum-exhibit designer and a cryptocurrency promoter.
"Charles is a very trusting person, and often assumes that people will treat him like he would treat other people, and as a result, he often doesn't do a good job of reducing his agreements to writing," said San Antonio attorney David "Clay" Snell, who represents Trois. "Unfortunately, he's encountered some unscrupulous people that have taken advantage of his trustworthy nature."
Others say Trois has only himself to blame for his circumstances.
Trois is suing to get back two paintings purportedly worth millions — an 11-by-20-foot painting titled "Custer's Last Rally," featuring George Armstrong Custer at the fateful 1876 Battle of the Little Bighorn, and "Barely There" by the late Port Arthur artist Robert Rauschenberg.
The collector also is suing the cryptocurrency promoter for allegedly reneging on a $125 million deal to buy various paintings by such artists as Vincent van Gogh, Pablo Picasso and Salvador Dalí.
In spite of his financial troubles, Trois remains obsessed with fulfilling a dream of building a museum to display his possessions.
Trois recently discussed how the wax Jesus and disciples will be a museum fixture. Yet he later mentioned that he's negotiating to sell the work to raise money and perhaps get back his half-interest in the estate.
"You know who is coming to see about buying it? Ripley's Believe It or Not!" Trois said. Reminded that he already said the wax display would be part of his museum, he replied, "I know, I need it. But I'm broke! I'm broke!"
Rock star turned collector
Trois, a Philadelphia native, now 75, gained fame as guitarist in the band Soul Survivors — best known for the 1967 tune "Expressway to Your Heart." The song hit No. 4 on the Billboard Hot 100.
Trois later reinvented himself as a painter, real estate investor, builder, architect, furniture maker and fervent collector of seemingly anything of value.
Being a rock star gained him fame, not fortune. He credited some savvy real estate investing in the 1980s for allowing him to amass his collection.
"A little bit of everything," Trois said.
Trois said he built the Trois Estate at Enchanted Rock, the compound in the Hill Country, with two others about 20 years ago. There's an 18-room lodge, an oldtimey saloon, a small chapel and even an underground grotto complete with a Playboy Mansion-esque swimming pool.
'Barry'd Treasure'
No less an authority than Barry Weiss — a star of the A&E Network reality show "Storage Wars" earlier in the decade — raved about Trois' collection.
"You're not going to believe this guy's collection," Weiss told an acquaintance on an episode of his short-lived spin-off series "Barry'd Treasure." "I mean, I've seen collections and I've seen collections. This guy, it's over the top — not only the way he displays it but the amount of stuff, the rarity, the obscurity."
Among the items Trois exhibited on the show were a dagger and a bulldog revolver that he said had belonged to Napoleon Bonaparte and Custer, respectively.
As much as Trois likes to collect things, though, he has a hard time parting with any of it, according to Michael Barrick, Trois' friend before the pair had a falling out.
A self-described artifact and treasure hunter, Barrick recounted how he begged Trois to sell some of his collection to pay off debts.
"When it came time to part ways with the things, he couldn't turn (them) loose," Barrick said.
It was Barrick who suggested Trois contact Dallas-based private equity lender Revere Capital about a loan to ease his financial pressures.
RevCap, a Revere-related entity, loaned $2.5 million to Trois in 2014. As a condition, Trois put down as collateral his half interest in the Trois Estate's real estate, as well as "Custer's Last Rally," the 1881 painting by Irish artist John Mulvany.
An appraisal on the deed of trust for the loan valued the painting at $9 million to $10 million. A more recent appraisal valued it at as much as $23 million.
Both Trois and RevCap agreed that Tony Webber, CEO of Houston-based Southwest Museum Services, which designs museum exhibits, would hold the painting.
Within a year, RevCap would move to foreclose on the collateral.
A failed auction
In the meantime, Barrick tried to sell some of Trois' artwork and began spending time at the Fredericksburg estate.
Trois said he bought 18 paintings by van Gogh, Picasso and Dalí — he calls it the Vaselli collection — from his ex-wife Mavi's mother, Maria Frau, a former Italian film actress who was married to Giovanni Vaselli.
Giovanni Vaselli was the grandson of Count Romolo Vaselli, who owned the Hotel de Russie in Rome after World War II. Romolo Vaselli knew famous artists such as Picasso and Henri Matisse and bought art directly from them, Trois said.
Reached by phone, Mavi Vaselli confirmed that Trois bought the Vaselli collection, but she didn't know the number of paintings.
Barrick set up a showing of the artwork at the Perot Museum of Nature and Science in Dallas, said Kansas attorney Tim Stein, who also represents Trois. The venue was an odd choice given the art was displayed in a room full of rocks and minerals, Stein said, and hardly anyone showed. Worse, none of the art was sold. Then, around the spring of 2016, Barrick arranged for Trois to sell some of his collectibles through Apple Tree Auction Center Inc. in Ohio. Trois said he was going to use proceeds from the auction to pay back RevCap on the $2.5 million loan.
Apple Tree paid Trois a $300,000 advance in exchange for providing $2 million worth of items for the auction. In a federal lawsuit that it filed in late summer 2016, Apple Tree said Trois was interested in selling 500 guns and a collection of antiques and fine and decorative items, numbering 500.
Trois delivered only 117 guns and 164 items, Apple Tree alleged. The collection generated just $112,164 in sales, leaving the auction house almost $188,000 in the hole, Apple Tree alleged.
Trois filed his own suit, accusing Apple Tree of failing to insist on a minimum bid or reserve as it promised. Many of his items sold for a fraction of their value, he added. The litigation was dismissed in November.
As an aside, Barrick pleaded guilty in May to five counts of bank fraud in a Louisville, Ky., case unrelated to his dealings with Trois. Barrick faces up to 150 years in federal prison when he is sentenced in August.
Painting never sold
After agreeing with RevCap that Webber would hold "Custer's Last Rally," Trois subsequently granted Webber the right to market another one of his paintings — "Barely There" by Robert Rauschenberg.
Trois promised Webber a commission if he could find a buyer who would pay more than $2 million for the piece, according to an April lawsuit that Trois filed in Bexar County district court.
Webber was given a year to sell "Barely There" after first getting it authenticated. But the painting never sold and Webber has refused to return the painting, Trois alleged in his suit.
When first contacted about Trois' lawsuit, Webber — who had not been served — replied, "Well, he owes me like $425,000 that I've loaned him. That's No. 1. I've told him that he can have any of the paintings back if he pays me my receivables."
Trois puts the figure he owes at closer to $90,000.
Asked in a follow-up interview how he could turn over the "Custer" painting once he was paid by Trois, given the judgment obtained by RevCap against Trois, Webber said his comment "needs to be corrected."
In his answer to the suit, Webber said he must have RevCap's consent to release the "Custer" to Trois.
RevCap and Trois were making arrangements to have the "Custer" transferred to a third party to hold it until they could decide how it can be sold, according to RevCap attorney James Henry Jr. of Dallas.
Trois prefers auctioning the painting. He stands to pocket any of the sale amount above the roughly $500,000 he still owes RevCap, save a commission. RevCap was owed, with interest, roughly $3.2 million. RevCap acquired Trois' 50 percent interest in the Trois Estate at a March foreclosure auction with a $2.7 million credit bid.
"It's a beautiful historical work of art," said Scott Ferguson, executive director of Las Vegas-based Art Encounter, who appraised the "Custer" painting at as much as $23 million in 2016. "It's really the scale of the work of art and the fact that the artist traveled to the site to interview people to get a really true perspective on the Battle (of the Little Bighorn) itself. It's a part of American history."
Where's 'Barely There'?
What's become of the Rauschenberg painting, meanwhile, is more of a mystery. Webber said he gave it to John Schumacher of Houston — the painting's previous owner — because Webber alleged Trois never paid Schumacher.
Schumacher couldn't be reached for comment. Stein disputed Webber's take.
Trois' lawyers said Webber's account marks the latest in a series of stories he has given about the painting. They provided emails and other documents that they say Webber sent.
A 2016 invoice stamped "PAID" shows Trois sold the painting to Webber for $800,000. Trois' name is signed at the bottom, but he maintained that it's not his signature.
"It looks like Mickey Mouse signed it," Trois said of the signature that appears to have been penned by a shaky hand. It doesn't resemble Trois' signature on other documents in the public record.
According to an April 26 email
to Stein, Webber said he asked Trois to drop the lawsuit because a Dallas broker was "very near to selling the Rauschenberg." The sale would collapse if the buyer got wind of the lawsuit, Webber added.
Yet in the same email, Webber said he passed the painting on to Schumacher because Webber had received a "directive from the FBI not to sell or borrow on the Rauschenberg."
Webber didn't elaborate on the FBI's interest, but in a Feb. 26 email, he said agents want to "seize it and confiscate." Stein said he was told by Webber that the Rauschenberg was on a list of fraudulent art.
The FBI doesn't confirm or deny the existence of an investigation, a spokeswoman said.
Webber claimed ownership of the painting in an August article in the Beaumont Enterprise, which chronicled the artwork's return to Rauschenberg's hometown of Port Arthur and its appearance at the Museum of the Gulf Coast.
"Barely There" originally traded as payment on a tab of deli sandwiches and cream sodas in the 1960s. Webber said the painting was appraised two years ago by a Houston firm for $4 million, but he told the Beaumont Enterprise it could fetch as much as $20 million in a sale.
The painting is consistent with Rauschenberg's early "combines" — assemblages of paint, film negatives, buttons and other materials from the streets of New York City. He lived there beginning in the early 1950s.
"Visible beneath a layer of sepia and orange paint is a copy of an advertisement for Max Factor's latest makeup lines and the painting's namesake, 'Barely There,' which came on the market in the early '60s," the newspaper reported.
The bad blood between Webber and Trois goes beyond the Rauschenburg.
Webber blames Trois for $60,000 he said he lost in a cryptocurrency investment known as Meta 1 Coin, a private digital currency purportedly backed by art and gold.
Trois sued the Meta 1 Coin Trust and trustee Robert Dunlap for fraud in January in Bexar County district court. Trois alleged that Meta 1 agreed to buy the Vaselli art collection for $125 million but never made a $37.5 million down payment.
On June 13, state District Judge Mary Lou Alvarez issued a roughly $25.5 million judgment against Dunlap and Meta 1 after they failed to appear before her for a hearing related to Trois' lawsuit. She also ruled they have no interest in the artwork that he said is his.
Dunlap has appealed the judgment.
Despite Trois' financial troubles and legal frays, he isn't giving up on leaving a legacy — his planned 350,000-square-foot museum that chronicles the "evolution of civilization."
"This is a major, major project," Trois said.
Trois said he was working with San Antonio architecture firm Overland Partners on the project. The San Antonio Express-News emailed Overland, which prompted a call from Trois.
The Meta 1 troubles dealt a setback for his museum plans, Trois explained.
"Well, we're still working together," Trois said. "It's on hold."
Thanks to Carl for the forward :)
2 Re: FINALLY!! $25.5 MILLION fraud judgment against Disgraced Ex Senator and Fraudster Dave ScHmIdT Assc. Robert Dunlap & the Meta 1 Scammers!! on Thu Aug 08, 2019 12:50 pm
terbo56
I'll really be glad when these bastards are finally arrested and jailed, and with any luck hung by their phuking johnsons so that they will never see their eyelids for the rest of their lives!!! Is that too harsh?
lol Terbo not to harsh at all :)
Dave must be shitting his pants as he is also listed on the Board of Directors of the Meta1 Coin scam site. :)
4 Re: FINALLY!! $25.5 MILLION fraud judgment against Disgraced Ex Senator and Fraudster Dave ScHmIdT Assc. Robert Dunlap & the Meta 1 Scammers!! on Thu Aug 08, 2019 1:13 pm
Board of directors?/ If that is the case they are all bagels in a five alarm house fire!! toast!!
Posted here from Carl Spackler:
http://www.dinardaily.net/t87241-must-must-must-must-read-25-5-million-judgement-against-meta-1-coin-no-joke#356036
Well the Boca Police have just been "reminded" the Meta 1 scam is STILL underway in their jurisdiction. Yes, I agree with a $25.5 MILLION judgment they are ALL in deep sh^t as I guarantee the money for the scam coins in the trust filed in Sedona ( that listed almost $4 million in assets from gullible morons) is DRAINED! The judge will NOT be amused !
I agree, the magistrate will be in no mood for polite conversation at this point- the best that dave could hope for is to die in his sleep!
7 Re: FINALLY!! $25.5 MILLION fraud judgment against Disgraced Ex Senator and Fraudster Dave ScHmIdT Assc. Robert Dunlap & the Meta 1 Scammers!! on Fri Aug 09, 2019 9:15 am
bs4ever
Location : England
Dave is missing a trick here.....
Apart from Dinars he has had sent to him so far, he could take a leaf out of another popular figures strategy and simply ask for donations.
If everyone sent Dave a 25k Dinar note he would change to spare, he might so grateful he would offer a night out with dinner to OOM Lady and friends. After all he has the contacts, doesn't he?
A go fund me page perhaps? Ex politician in dire straits until the RV?
"आप सिर्फ यह है आप नहीं था क्या मतलब है यह देखने के लिए किया था"
8 Re: FINALLY!! $25.5 MILLION fraud judgment against Disgraced Ex Senator and Fraudster Dave ScHmIdT Assc. Robert Dunlap & the Meta 1 Scammers!! on Mon Aug 12, 2019 7:29 pm
https://youtu.be/fMJFrewdm-k
Great! I wonder if Robert will have an update on the $25.5 MILLION fraud judgment against Meta 1 that the Houston Chronicle wrote about on 7/28/2019? Would love to hear some progress on this. Tick tock :)
Scamming pays! Robert Dunlap Meta 1 shows million home address!
by Carl Spackler Today at 4:41 pm
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Robert Paul Dunlap JR
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Previous addresses
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10 Re: FINALLY!! $25.5 MILLION fraud judgment against Disgraced Ex Senator and Fraudster Dave ScHmIdT Assc. Robert Dunlap & the Meta 1 Scammers!! on Tue Aug 13, 2019 2:52 am
RamblerNash
Will Dave be able to explain to the folks, who paid $22.22, when they will be able to use their coin at the now price of $44.44, that they claim?
http://www.dinardaily.net/t84789-meta-1-coin-value-doubles-to-44-44-each
Here's a post on their facebook page that has gone unanswered...
Maureen Riley to Meta 1 Coin
May 13 ·
what bank is my coin to be stored in until this goes public and Meta's bank is up and running? Can I get the name and location of that bank? Will an account with my name be created there when you receive my check for the coins? Will I receive an account # there? A Can I get a line of credit against my coin there if needed meanwhile?
11 Re: FINALLY!! $25.5 MILLION fraud judgment against Disgraced Ex Senator and Fraudster Dave ScHmIdT Assc. Robert Dunlap & the Meta 1 Scammers!! on Tue Aug 13, 2019 1:31 pm
https://youtu.be/xWni6ypkPNc
Out Of Mind 1 second ago
Hey Dave do you have a comment on the charges against you re: the $25.5 MILLION fraud judgment against Meta 1 that the Houston Chronicle wrote about on 7/28/2019? Would love to hear some progress on this. Tick tock :)
https://youtu.be/GcozTxWxPqc
Hey Dave do you and Robert have a comment on the charges against you re: the $25.5 MILLION fraud judgment against Meta 1 that the Houston Chronicle wrote about on 7/28/2019? Would love to hear some progress on this. Tick tock :)
13 Re: FINALLY!! $25.5 MILLION fraud judgment against Disgraced Ex Senator and Fraudster Dave ScHmIdT Assc. Robert Dunlap & the Meta 1 Scammers!! on Fri Aug 16, 2019 1:15 am
What does Dave know?
When did Dave know it?
What changes will Dave make going forward?
Will Dave claim that he was only a stooge?
AHAHAHAHA Awesome Nash!
16 FINALLY!! $25.5 Million fraud judgment against Disgraced senator and Fraudster Dave Schmidt on Fri Aug 16, 2019 12:45 pm
kiaraxavier
I was not able to find the article in the Houston Chronicle about the judgment of $25.5 million against Dave Schmidt, as stated in your article. Would appreciate it if you would send the article, from the Houston Chronicle, to the forum, please.
17 Re: FINALLY!! $25.5 MILLION fraud judgment against Disgraced Ex Senator and Fraudster Dave ScHmIdT Assc. Robert Dunlap & the Meta 1 Scammers!! on Fri Aug 16, 2019 1:00 pm
Here is a link from Express News that must be a collab paper to the Houston Chronicle....
and this was on the Dinar Daily site which is where I got it from so I will include that link also for you.
https://www.expressnews.com/business/local/article/Hill-Country-obsession-crypto-coin-lawsuit-13973355.php
http://www.dinardaily.net/t87241-must-must-must-must-read-25-5-million-judgement-against-meta-1-coin-no-joke
18 Re: FINALLY!! $25.5 MILLION fraud judgment against Disgraced Ex Senator and Fraudster Dave ScHmIdT Assc. Robert Dunlap & the Meta 1 Scammers!! on Sat Aug 17, 2019 12:28 am


The ENTICERS/WARREN LEE Nola Breaks Volume 9 vinyl at Juno Records.
Five years have passed since Superjock launched the Nola Breaks series of DJ-focused funk reworks. Here the New Orleans-based imprint offers up installment number nine, handing over the reins to local legend Professor Shorthair and Bay Area scratcher DJ Platurn. The former handles the A-side, wrapping the Enticers' fuzzy funk gem "Thief" - as sampled by Mos' Def - in fat new breaks and tight scratches. On the flip, DJ Platurn has his wicked way with Warren Lee classic "Underdog Backstreet", wisely extending the intro and outro breaks while also adding some tasty new samples.


Nicole Kidman Shows Off Shockingly Thin Frame!
Nicole Kidman hit the red carpet at the 2017 Oscars showing off her shockingly thin frame.
The 49-year-old showed off her thin arms in a halter dress.
The actress held onto her husband, Keith Urban, quite tightly.
Lately, Nicole has been raising eyebrows for her behavior on the carpet, skinny frame, and rumored marriage issues to Keith.
Looks like they definitely wanted to shut down any rumors.
What do you think of Nicole's red carpet look? Let us know your thoughts in the comments section!


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Manang Valley Trekking is a wonderful journey through the mixed landscapes of subtropical forest to arid barren landscapes until 4900m, encountering multiple old Buddhist monasteries portraying the cultural aspects of the area and the magnificence of the beautiful Valley and High Himalayas, which are second to none.
The major attraction of Manang Trek is to explore the hidden gems in Manang Valley locale like tranquil lakes formed at high elevation, sweeping mountain glaciers, ancient Gompas offering a great view, local villages etc. Despite following the classical Annapurna Circuit trekking route towards Thorang La Pass (5416m) from Manang, this trip will take you the world highest Tilicho Lake at 4919m passing through the Khangsar village (also known as the last village of Nepal) lying on the west ridge of Valley.
Trekking to Manang is an awesome experience to encounter different ethnic groups in several villages along the route and the mountain sights while passing through beautiful forest and open dry landscapes are just impressive. Manang valley is remote yet one of the beautiful valley offering breathtaking views of Himalayas crowded with several ancient Buddhist heritage, caves, glaciers and lakes and the inhabited people with distinct cultural practices enjoying their exciting festivals.
Following the footsteps of Annapurna circuit route, the trail passes through beautiful waterfalls visible from Ghermu, Tal and Chyamche village and the green lush vegetation until it starts getting dry & barren at Upper Pisang. The majestic view of Lamjung, Manaslu and Annapurna is awesome from the Upper Gompa monastery. Then, we follow the upper route via Ghyaru and Ngawal village enjoying the panorama in front of our eyes to reach Manang valley after a quick visit to Bhrakha monastery.
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AAP's Delhi unit convener Gopal Rai said of all the seven BJP MPs in Delhi, Manoj Tiwari has the highest 'unspent' MPLAD fund amounting to Rs 3.16 crore.
Launching a public outreach campaign for the Lok Sabha elections in the national capital, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Wednesday released a "report card" on northeast Delhi's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Manoj Tiwari.
AAP's Delhi unit convener Gopal Rai said of all the seven BJP MPs in Delhi, Tiwari has the highest 'unspent' MPLAD fund amounting to Rs 3.16 crore. "He (Tiwari) had adopted Kadipur and Chauhan Patti villages under the Centre's Saansad Adarsh Gram Yojana. But as per the government's website, he failed to submit the development plans of the two villages as was mandated under the scheme. Primary schools run by the Bjp-ruled MCD have students way above the sanctioned capacity in these villages," he said.
Dilip Pandey, AAP Lok Sabha candidate from northeast Delhi, criticised Tiwari, who is also BJP'S Delhi unit chief for staying "mum" on issues such as the sealing drive against commercial properties, metro fare hike and full statehood for Delhi. "Tiwari engaged in only 10 debates in Parliament during his five-year tenure, which is the least of all seven MPS in Delhi. While he did not put up any private member's bill in the House, he put up 258 questions – which puts him in the fourth place when compared to other MPS of the capital," Pandey said.
Tiwari countered AAP'S claims by saying that the nine AAP MLAs representing the assembly constituencies within his parliamentary seat did not spend "a single paisa" of the Rs 10 crore of the MLA fund they receive annually.
"If Kejriwal is an honest person, then he should submit the report card of his MLAS. Kejriwal promised sufficient power and water supply apart from providing Wifi and controlling pollution. But he could not fulfil any of the promises and now, in order to cover his failures, he is raising the full statehood issue," he said.
"Kejriwal can also say that he started the work of NH-709B but the reality is that I got the work started. People of Delhi know that even Signature Bridge was completed by the efforts of BJP government at the Centre, but Kejriwal took credit by inaugurating it," Tiwari said.
On Wednesday, AAP launched the second phase of its campaign with a focus on one-on-one interactions with voters.


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faintingviolet's #CBR5 review #11: The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History by Robert Edsel
Posted on March 19, 2013 by Katie
*I'm not sure if a spoiler warning is appropriate, but proceed with caution, I discuss the book in detail*
I found myself drawn to Robert Edsel's book The Monuments Men quite naturally. I work in museums and studied to do so. As part of that study, Nazi-looted art and reparations took up quite a lot of time. As part of one of my classes (well, two to be honest) we watched the documentary The Rape of Europa which documents the efforts of the Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives (MFAA)section to preserve the cultural patrimony of Europe. I sincerely recommend it. Viewing that movie led me to seek out more information about the MFAA and found myself with The Monuments Men on my to-read list. I am so glad that I got around to reading it now.
"An informed army, in other words, is a respectful and disciplined army." (15-16).
The Monuments Men were an incredibly limited force caught up in the largesse of the Allied forces in Europe. Given the scope of the goals of the MFAA, to save as much of the culture of Europe as they could during combat, Edsel chose to focus on the members who formed the initial group which crossed as part of the D-Day invasion of Normandy. This group of eight, along with two members of the museum corps in France, forms the main characters of Edsel's story. Without funding, transport, or a central commander these initial officers – all of whom came from creative fields of work – were assigned to various divisions spread across Western Europe with the invading Allies. One of their first missions was to prevent as much damage and looting as possible. So, on the fly, the MFAA wrote and published pamphlets for enlisted men detailing the monuments they were likely to come across in any area in order to encourage them to preserve them as best as possible. They were also, initially, running around the French countryside placing 'OFF LIMITS' signs on the monuments and culturally important buildings they came across. Within weeks they were running low on signs.
'Shortly we will be fighting our way across the Continent of Europe in battles designed to preserve our civilization. Inevitably, in the path of our advance will be found historical monuments and cultural centers which symbolize to the world all that we are fighting to preserve. It is the responsibility of every commander to protect and respect these symbols whenever possible.' – Eisenhower (63).
World War II was unique in American military history in regards to art preservation. It was the only time that there was a concerted effort to protect the cultural artifacts in combat zones. With the strides being made in the arts community, conservers and other museum folk were prepared to help in unprecedented ways, and worked to be included in the military mission. Beyond this, there was the decision early on to restore cultural property to their original country. This plan would never have succeeded had there not been leadership from the generals at Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force. It was not flawless; there were areas which suffered devastating losses in many city centers and the near total destruction of Dresden as one example. Edsel uses some of the most descriptive language I've read in a long time as he depicts what was lost and what remained.
"On the outskirts of Bonn, the sun was shining. The buildings were untouched. But like so many other cities, the farther toward the center he [Hancock] drove, the more damage he saw. The town center was mostly destroyed, the result of Western Allied bombing runs, but even here he saw cherry trees in bloom, twisting up among the ruins." (255).
Much of Edsel's narrative is spent with the individual Monuments Men. It is through these men, and in their own words often interspersed throughout the book in their letters home, that we are able to see what occurred on the front lines of the Western Front during 1944 and 1945. The suffering they experience, and the amount of work and hours they placed into preserving what they found and protecting what remained. This is the backbone of The Monuments Men, the ordinary service of dedicated men, and what that tells us about a forgotten chapter of one of the best known stories in our collective history.
"Sometimes Stout felt he was fighting another war entirely, a war within a war, a backward-circling eddy in a downward-rushing stream. What if we win the war, he thought, but lose the last five hundred years of our cultural history on our watch?" (237).
Edsel does not shy away from telling the stories of the pieces, collections, archives, monuments, churches, and other buildings which were lost. Through the chronicling of what was lost, we are better able to understand the magnificence of what the MFAA, and the many people who worked with them, managed to save.
"The Germans had used the [Dampierre] library's renowned Bossuet letters for toilet paper, but after they left, the caretaker found the letters in the woods, cleaned them off, and returned them to the library. Now that was dedication. That was service." (157).
As the members of the MFAA worked their way across northern Europe, they came across many dedicated art officials who worked tirelessly through the six years of the war in Europe to preserve whatever they could. Edsel works to intersperse all angles of those who worked for the preservation of cultural objects into the story, making the narrative larger than the eight MFAA men featured, or the 350 officers who served throughout the life of the MFAA. Whether it involved hiding artworks, furnishings, and books in mines, in basements, or in keeping records of where Nazi officers had shipped treasures into Germany, or preventing the bombing of strongholds, there were countless people who took part in the preservation work. It's for all these reasons and a unique look at a lesser known aspect of World War II history that I heartily recommend this one. Happy reading!
"The story of Altaussee, so monumental in the world of art and culture, was quickly subsumed by larger stories – Auschwitz, the atomic bomb, and disintegrating relations with the Soviet Union that would define the new world order as the cold war." (378).
P.S. This book is going to be a George Clooney directed movie starring Matt Damon, Cate Blanchett, and a bunch of other faves, in December.
"I made the visit [to Ohrdruf work camp] deliberately, in order to be in position to give first-hand evidence of these things if ever, in the future, there develops a tendency to charge these allegations merely to 'propaganda'" – Eisenhower (308).
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Pro-Migrant Paper Admits There Are too Many, Benefits Are too High, and Many Are 'Civil Warriors'
AP Photo/Frank Augstein, File
Sarkis Zeronian
Germany, led by Chancellor Angela Merkel, has driven the debate on the handling of migrants in recent weeks, but there are signs that domestic tolerance is becoming stretched. At the same time some local governments are looking at measures which risk further anger, such as compulsory rental of private property for migrant housing.
When Chancellor Merkel first announced that Germany would open its borders to welcome Syrian migrants, she enjoyed a degree of support from domestic and international media.
Even from the outset Merkel's move was not without its domestic critics. As Breitbart London previously reported, there were those among her conservative bloc who accused her of sending a "totally wrong signal" to the rest of Europe. Nevertheless the welcome for migrants who arrived in Germany was warm, at least from those who met them at the train stations.
Germany's Bild newspaper was one of the cheerleaders for migration, despite being a traditionally conservative and nationalist newspaper. It set up its own campaign, backed by politicians, celebrities, and sportsmen, called "Wir Helfen" ("We Help"). Nevertheless it too is now beginning to voice scepticism in a Bild editorial asking "uncomfortable questions."
One of the questions Bild poses is "how many refugees can we absorb?" The paper explains that up to a million are expected in 2015, which the newspaper says "is in the long run too much" because of a lack of housing. In fact it suggests it is twice the amount Germany can absorb.
Another question asks "is our German asylum law really an incentive for refugees to come to us?" Bild states that benefits paid to migrants are "relatively high." However, rather than asking for them to be cut so the incentive falls away the newspaper backs Interior Minister Thomas de Maizière's call for EU-wide agreements to do away with national differences in benefit levels.
Perhaps most tellingly, Bild asks "what do we know about the people who come to us?" The newspaper rejects reports that terrorists are hiding in the migrant ranks entering Germany, saying there is "no concrete evidence" that is the case. It does, though, accept the warning from Bavaria's Finance Minister Markus Söder that with many refugees fleeing civil war in Syria, some may perhaps be "civil warriors."
Meanwhile German television news programme heute has reported that if accommodation for migrants in some areas is lacking, compulsory rental of private properties is "theoretically possible," and even the ability to "temporarily confiscate" properties is being considered.
This will become more likely in the approaching winter months when pressure on public accommodation will cause local authorities to look at vacant housing.
Cities such as Dortmund, Gelsenkirchen and Tübingen have all declared that confiscations cannot be ruled out in emergency situations. In February in Olpe, a town in North Rhine-Westphalia, a family inn was subject to compulsory purchase for migrant accommodation, although in that case negotiations for sale were already underway.
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Local networks are interconnected globally throughout the CNS to form neural "systems." A major type of such a system has the general form of a "control system," which consists of a "controller (g)" acting on a "controlled object (G)" (Figure 7A). The controller receives input instruction that provides information about the nature of the required output (e.g., the goal, the trajectory of a movement). In turn, the controller generates command signals that drive the controlled object to respond appropriately. The controller may receive information about the performance of the controlled object (Figure 7A, feedback control), or it may operate without peripheral information (Figure 7B, feedforward control). The goal of a control system is to generate output responses identical to the input instruction. This can be achieved in a feedback control system if g is sufficiently larger than G, but in a feedforward control system, g needs to equal 1/G (Figure 7B). As emphasized by Baev (1999), this basic control system concept applies to various levels of organization within the CNS: in this monograph from reflexes to isolated voluntary movements and finally to coordinated motor actions. In addition, the concept is applied formalistically to cognitive functions.
Figure 7 The fundamental structures of a control system.
(A) A basic feedback control system. (B) A basic feedforward control system. (C) An adaptive control system equipped with an adaptive mechanism. This schematic applies to the cerebellar control of reflexes.
In recent years, modern control theory studies have opened the new fields of "adaptive control" and "model-based control." In adaptive control, the controller is equipped with an adaptive mechanism to constitute an adaptive controller, which learns how to perform effectively in a given situation by altering its performance to match ever-changing environments. When a mechanism is attached to a feedforward controller, their overall input-output relationship f should be adjusted to 1/G (Figure 7C). On the other hand, model-based control was developed for robotic arm control (An et al., 1988), and it has opened a new field of computational neuroscience for research on the cerebellum (Kawato et al., 1987).
In the model-based control, a feedforward control system (Figure 7B) is attached with one of the two types of internal models, "forward" and "inverse" (Figure 8A, B). An internal forward model simulates the kinematics of a controlled object, whereas an internal inverse model simulates the dynamics or kinetics of them (for a definition, see Chapter 15, "Internal Models for Voluntary Motor Control"). Internal forward models support the controller by predicting the state of the system during actual actions. On the other hand, internal inverse models map the relationship between intended actions (or goals) and the motor command to bring about the action. An internal inverse model uses the desired position of the body as inputs to estimate the necessary motor commands, which would transform the current position into the desired one. An adaptive mechanism is involved to secure close simulation by these models. Such models may be formed in various parts of the CNS including, in particular, the elaborate neuronal networks of the cerebellar and cerebral cortices. Hereafter, models formed in the cerebellum and cerebral cortex will be called "cerebellar internal models" and "cerebral cortical models," respectively.
Figure 8 General forms of model-based control systems.
(A) Internal forward model (G') simulates the input-output relationship of the controlled object (G) and is inserted between the output and input of the controller (g). (B) Internal inverse model (1/G) simulates the output-input relationship of the controlled object (G) and is inserted between the input instruction and output response of the controller (g).


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NIST Special Publication 800-12, An Introduction to Information Security, June 2017
07 March, 2018 / in Government
The Information Technology Laboratory (ITL) at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) promotes the U.S. economy and public welfare by providing technical leadership for the Nation's measurement and standards infrastructure. ITL develops tests, test methods, reference data, proof of concept implementations, and technical analyses to advance the development and productive use of information technology. ITL's responsibilities include the development of management, administrative, technical, and physical standards and guidelines for the cost-effective security and privacy of other than national security-related information in federal systems. The Special Publication 800-series reports on ITL's research, guidelines, and outreach efforts in systems security as well as its collaborative activities with industry, government, and academic organizations.
Organizations rely heavily on the use of information technology (IT) products and services to run their day-to-day activities. Ensuring the security of these products and services is of the utmost importance for the success of the organization. This publication introduces the information security principles that organizations may leverage to understand the information security needs of their respective systems.
This publication serves as a starting-point for those new to information security as well as those unfamiliar with NIST information security publications and guidelines. The intent of this special publication is to provide a high-level overview of information security principles by introducing related concepts and the security control families (as defined in NIST SP 800-53, Security and Privacy Controls for Federal Information Systems and Organizations) that organizations an
leverage to effectively secure their systems1 and information. To better understand the meaning and intent of the security control families described later, this publication begins by familiarizing the reader with various information security principles.
After the introduction of these security principles, the publication provides detailed descriptions of multiple security control families as well as the benefits of each control family. The point is not to impose requirements on organizations, but to explore available techniques for applying a specific control family to an organization's system and to explain the benefit(s) of employing the selected controls.
Since this publication provides an introduction to information security, detailed steps as to how security controls are implemented or how to check for security control effectiveness are not included. Rather, separate publications that may provide more detailed information about a specific topic will be noted as a reference.
NIST Special Publication 800-12, An Introduction to Information Security, June 2017 [101 Pages, 1.7MB]
https://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/commercedept/nist.sp.800-12r1.pdf
Commerce Department, NIST
UFOs and Related Subjects: An Annotated Bibliography, Lynn E. Catoe, Prepared by the Library of Congress, July 1969 Review Of Laser Lightcraft Propulsion System, October 16, 2017, by Dr. Eric W. Davis


Festival arts électroniques de Dijon. Concert I.S.D.N. Dijon-Tokio. Atau Tanaka and Zbigniew Karkowski from Tokio, Tito from Dijon. "Alpha" project.
Concert at the "Salle Garage", Paris, with Kasper, Fred Bigo and Suguru Gotto.
Concert with the Sensor Band, "Salle Garage", Paris.
Concert with Suguru Gotto, Sonar, Barcelona.
Concert with Suguru Gotto, Moulin Joly, Paris.
at the Chapelle Saint Louis, Salpetrière, Paris.
Concert at the "Salle Garage", Paris, with Atau Tanaka.
Concert at the "Cyber Café", Brussels, with Atau Tanaka.
Tito composes "Organic Malbient" and presents it at "Gràcia Territori Off-Sonar,"
Zbigniew Karkowski in Tokyo, and Suguru Gotto and Tito in Paris.
Tito paints the "Electronic circuits" and the "Magnetic fields" series in Paris.
Concert via the Internet (using ISDN), with Atau Tanaka.
Concert at the "Rave Chill-Out", Paris, with Atau Tanaka.
Tito paints the "Liquens" and the "Sous-terre" series in Paris.
He participates in SONAR, CCCB, Barcelona.
Installation of a bones sculpture in the Parc de la Ciudadela,Barcelona.
Presentation of about a hundred sound performances, in the permanent installation at the artist'studio in Barcelona.
Presentation of a sound performance for the extinguishing of the Paraolympic flame at the Olympic Stadium of Barcelona, for the closing ceremony.
and composition of the music by Tito.
Presentation of a video-sculpture during the congress "Medio Ambiente Urbano" organized by the"Colegio Oficial de Biólogos", and the "Colegio Oficial de Ingenieros de Caminos, Canales y Puertos de Barcelona" at the Mapfre To w e r, Barcelona.
Collective exhibition, Feria ARCO, Galería Seiquer, Madrid.
Collective exhibition, "Escultura joven"", Caja de ahorros de Sevilla. Sevilla.
Independent exhibition, GalerÌa Berini, Barcelona.
Independent exhibition, Il Molino, Torino.
Independent exhibition, Galerie V.I.A, Paris.
Independent exhibition, Feria ARCO, Galería Moriarty, Madrid.
Independent exhibition, I.C.A.F., London, Calle Gallery, New York.
Independent exhibition, Sala Vinçon, Barcelona.
Independent exhibition, Galería Moriarty, Madrid.
"Putrefaccion y moda" Ovideo, Barcelona.
"Torn'm les fotos" Performance at the presentation of a book by Albert Vidal, Barcelona.
"IN PACE" video-installation, Sala Metropol,Barcelona.
"Capilla ardiente" Performance at the Menendez Pelayo University, Santander.


Spirit Day #2: Twin Day! Dress up just like your friends! Please bring a donation of $1 to participate.
This morning Fr. Jan challenged the children to obey their parents. Your challenge for the week is to obey your parents and we will have a class discussion on Monday.


Generic advice in earning a PhD usually falls short of relevance, because of differences in the degree path from one discipline to another. Yet doctoral candidates and their supervisors know this process is governed by protocols and parameters - often implicit - that must be understood and mastered. This book explores these protocols, drawing upon a large-scale study of Australian universities, and also compares doctoral programs in different national systems.


Worked off my weekly Saturday morning hangover with a visit to the non-profit fundraiser, the 2nd Annual BrewHaHa for some beer, coffee, hot sausage po'boy, and craft fair/flea market shopping. I also ran into some of NPN's partner organizations like HandsOn New Orleans which was fun, keeping tabs on what was going on in that sphere of New Orleans.
We were sadly impatient and left before the Crescent City Pie & Sausage tent had their jambalaya ready, but we did enjoy several beers from NOLA Brewing, Bayou Teche, and Abita.
It was a lovely day, and we ran into several people we knew, which was nice. I like that we are starting to make friends, have a social circle.
A note: 6 months ago today, we arrived in New Orleans with our two cats to an empty house in the Irish Channel. We bought an air mattress at WalMart and slept our first night as residents of this crazy awesome city.
It's been a hell of a six months, and I'm so glad to be here! The weather's been glorious, and life is good. Really good.
Tomorrow: Stay tuned for the 4th Annual New Orleans Po-Boy Preservation Festival!


This morning I had a three hour choir rehearsal at LBCC, where I had… - Crochet, Starbucks and roadtrips, oh my!
This morning I had a three hour choir rehearsal at LBCC, where I had a headache the entire time and my feet hurt after standing for so long. So when I came home I ate lunch and took a nap. It wasn't long enough, but I felt better afterwards, and crocheted most of the afternoon so I could relax a bit. I have homework, but I just wanted to rest. So then I got dressed and ready, and went to LBCC a bit early so that I could crochet more and just be there in the quiet before people showed up.
The concert was pretty good, but there were a few shaky parts. It's kind of to be expected, as we have had six rehearsals for an hour's worth of music, and some of it is pretty tricky. The director was saying the other night that usually for every minute of music in a concert, professional choirs spend 25 minutes rehearsing. For high school choirs it's more like 40 or 50 minutes per minute of music. We spend 12 to 16 minutes rehearsing each minute of music.
So now I'm home again, folding clothes and straightening up a little and nursing my feet and my entire left arm/shoulder which is tired of holding music (I forgot about those muscles - I haven't sung in choir since 2002 I think!) and in a minute it will be bedtime and tomorrow I'll get up and do it again.
I'm looking forward to seeing Cory again. I've barely had time to miss him - I haven't spent much time at home since he left for Seattle. His brother will be dropping him off in Portland and I shall pick him up there, and maybe we'll have dinner or something and then come home. And on Monday I shall refocus my attention on homework, as choir will be all done. Homework and Gilmore Girls.


The big picture for Elliott wave analysis is five-wave patterns followed by three-wave patterns. Let's look at the three-wave corrections more closely to get a bead on how they differ from one another. This excerpt from EWI's Basic Tutorial describes in detail what you need to know about so-called zigzag and flat corrections to be able to recognize them on a price chart.
A single zigzag in a bull market is a simple three-wave declining pattern labeled A-B-C. The subwave sequence is 5-3-5, and the top of wave B is noticeably lower than the start of wave A, as illustrated in Figures 1-22 and 1-23.
In a bear market, a zigzag correction takes place in the opposite direction, as shown in Figures 1-24 and 1-25. For this reason, a zigzag in a bear market is often referred to as an inverted zigzag.
Occasionally zigzags will occur twice, or at most, three times in succession, particularly when the first zigzag falls short of a normal target. In these cases, each zigzag is separated by an intervening "three," producing what is called a double zigzag (see Figure 1-26) or triple zigzag. These formations are analogous to the extension of an impulse wave but are less common.
The correction in the Standard and Poor's 500 stock index from January 1977 to March 1978 (see Figure 1-27) can be labeled as a double zigzag.…Within impulses, second waves frequently sport zigzags, while fourth waves rarely do.


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Hampstead Highgate Express > Things to do
Richard York brings Victorian song to Keats House
Michael White
Published: 9:00 AM December 15, 2011
Expect to find a hurdy-gurdy, a harmonium, and Northumbrian smallpipes at his performance on December 17
'Heard melodies are sweet but those unheard are sweeter', wrote John Keats in a poem that doesn't mark his card as one of history's keenest concert-goers.
But he did sing at soirees, where his party-piece was imitating a bassoon (they knew how to have fun in those days) and he apparently wrote a poem to the rhythms of a Mozart melody, though no one can be certain what it was. Perhaps an aria from Don Giovanni.
As musical pedigrees go, it's not hugely impressive but enough to justify the odd music event in Keats House, Hampstead. So next week there's to be a whole afternoon of music as part of the House's Christmas festivities.
In residence will be Richard York, an expert on old instruments who demonstrates how they work and will be bringing along a selection ranging from Keats' own time through to later, Victorian music-making.
Expect to find a hurdy-gurdy, a harmonium, and Northumbrian smallpipes - which were variants on bagpipes used by gentlefolk in urban fantasies of leading pastoral lives as shepherds, milkmaids and the like.
But the show-stopper will probably be a button accordion with dancing jig-doll: a puppet attached by string to the performer's knee which, according to York 'reduces quite intelligent people to helpless mirth''.
Having started as a classical pianist, he's been doing this kind of historical interpretation work for more than 20 years, tracking down repertory from sources like the English Folk Song & Dance Society, and with tunes that are sometimes bowdlerised versions of music you can trace back to Handel or Purcell.
That much of what he'll play is more Victorian than Keatsian (the poet died in 1821) will still fit comfortably in Keats House which, as seen today, is largely a Victorianised building.
As the curator, Mike Scott, insists, 'we aren't just a memorial to Keats; we're a celebration of literature and the arts in general, and events like this Victorian parlour-music afternoon are part of our outreach work. The fun part'.
As it happens, Keats House has a definite link with music dating from its occupancy in the mid/late 19th Century by a piano manufacturer called Cadby - one of whose instruments has found its way back into the house, still vaguely in performing shape.
'I want more music in the House', says Scott, 'and there are plans – which, as the biggest room here only holds just over 40, will mean using the garden. Fortunately we have good relations with our neighbours'.
Even with bassoon impersonations, Richard York's Victorian music-making shouldn't give them too much to complain about. He's there on December 17 from 1pm to 5pm with presentations through the afternoon.
Details at www.keatshouse.cityoflondon.gov.uk