Fleur de Sel is a rare and sophisticated salt from France, very hard to procure. Isigny artfully incorporates this sophisticated product to their already divine golden "Baratte" butter. The process used to create "baratte" butters was developed in French dairies, using a unique system that separates the milk and "spins" the heaviest part into a thick cream (which later turns into the butter), then injecting it with another dose of sumptuous cream, for texture that is fabulously smooth.
Ingredients: Pasteurized cow's milk, Guerande sea salt, lactic starters.


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MinterEllison helps sell Brisbane tower for $126.7m
by Sol Dolor | 18 May 2019
Property experts from MinterEllison have helped sell a commercial tower in Brisbane.
The firm advised Fortius Funds Management and funds managed by BlackRock on the sale of 201 Charlotte Street to the Kyko Group for $126.7m. The 16-level A-grade tower has a net leasable area of 13,291sqm. Anchor tenant Anglo-American Metallurgical Coal recently extended the bulk of its lease until 2028, MinterEllison said.
The MinterEllison team was headed by partner Adrian Rich and senior associate Euon Williams. It included partner Antra Hood; senior associate Hannah Riggs; associate Ruth Sainsbury; lawyers Erika-Jane Baigent, Lachlan Pramberg, and Rosemary O'Shea; and graduate Samantha Byrne.
MinterEllison advised on all aspects of the building acquisition, redevelopment, and leasing. The sale comes after Fortius and the BlackRock funds acquired the tower in 2015 for $81.5m. Since the earlier acquisition, MinterEllison have provided whole-of-asset legal service to Fortius and the BlackRock funds, it said.
"Fortius and BlackRock have worked tirelessly and strategically to add significant capital value to the property, and this has resulted in an attractive return to its investors and mandate clients within a four-to-five-year investment window, which is a terrific outcome," said Adrian Rich, MinterEllison's lead partner.
He said that the firm is pleased to be able to be the one-stop-shop for legal services for the clients during their ownership of the asset. He also said that the acquisition bodes well for the commercial-property market.
"A number of recent transactions we have acted on in Brisbane's commercial, retail and industrial sectors, like the $162m sale of The Barracks on Caxton Street, tell us that the market is heating up," Rich said.
MinterEllison also recently took on the lead role in the $1.48bn acquisition of a precinct in Melbourne's CBD.
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Amjad Ali Khan
Sharon Isbin
Amaan Ali Bangash
Ayaan Ali Bangash
Strings for Peace
1. By the Moon 13:28
(Raga Behag)
2. Love Avalanche 3:57
(Raga Mishra Bhairav)
3. Romancing Earth 16:38
(Raga Pilu)
4. Sacred Evening 16:35
(Raga Yaman)
Amjad Ali Khan - sarod (3)
Sharon Isbin - guitar, all tracks
Amaan Ali Bangash - sarod (1)
Ayaan Ali Bangash - sarod (2, 4)
Amit Kavthekar - tabla, all tracks
All compositions by Amjad Ali Khan. All tracks arranged for sarod and guitar by Kyle Paul.
All tracks are WORLD PREMIERE RECORDINGS for sarod & guitar.
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"THE POWER OF THEIR PERFORMANCE ROCKED THE HALL!"_TIMES OF INDIA
On this groundbreaking ZOHO release, multiple Grammy winner, guitarist Sharon Isbin explores the richness of North Indian classical music with Amjad Ali Khan, representing the sixth generation of a family of sarod masters. Khan has also been guru to his two amazingly talented sons, Amaan Ali Bangash and Ayaan Ali Bangash also featured on this recording. Recorded in New York following a successful joint 2019 tour in India, Strings for Peace features four Khan compositions based on four popular ragas specifically written and arranged for Sharon Isbin. – Kabir Sehgal
Representing the sixth generation of a family of musicians and sarod masters and its tradition known as the Senia Bangash Gharana, Ustad (maestro) Amjad Ali Khan is steeped in the classical Indian tradition of ragas and talas, which he learnt first from his father and guru Ustad Haafiz Ali Khan from the court of Gwalior, a true capital of North Indian classical music since the height of the Mughal Empire. In turn, Amjad Ali Khan has been guru to his two sons, Amaan Ali Bangash and Ayaan Ali Bangash, so the family tradition continues with a seventh generation and flourishes on the world stage as never before.
In recent years father and sons have turned their attention more and more towards collaborations with musicians from other great traditions, especially Western classical music, seeking ways in which their Indian music finds resonances and parallels in other music, so that the Western musicians concerned can find a way into Indian music without the years of formal training expected of an Indian. An obvious connection featured in this album is that the sarod and guitar are both leading plucked stringed instruments of their respective traditions. The sarod does not have frets, and this enables it to replicate the essential slides and other embellishments demanded of raga performance.
Thus it requires a guitarist of the caliber of Sharon Isbin to interact with no fewer than three sarod masters. In the words of Amjad Ali Khan himself, "each of the artists brings the spirit of sharing the great unique treasures of their own artistic traditions, as well as finding common ground in ragas and medieval modes. The idea is to achieve a cross-fertilization at both the cellular and cosmic levels of two classical music traditions, which are often held to be radically different."
Yet if we focus only on the music, or even the instruments, we can miss the essential point: this is a meeting of living musicians across cultures and it is as feeling human beings that we can understand and appreciate each other and thereby heal this divided world, and what better way is there to achieve this ideal than through the joy and spiritual nourishment that music brings?
Sharon Isbin adds her understanding of Indian music to her expertise in her own musical tradition and to an unusual interest—far more than just a childhood hobby—in rocket science. (A comparison of that with the depth and complexity of the raga and tala systems is not that fanciful). The daughter of a nuclear scientist, she took over her brother's guitar lessons in Italy when he discovered they weren't orientated towards rock and roll. She became the first female classical guitarist to win not only one Grammy (in 2001) but two (the second in 2010), and she is the founding director of the guitar department at The Juilliard School in New York.
While developing as a classical guitarist, from the age of nine, she also pursued her other great passion: building model rockets and launching them from a nearby field. She began practicing Transcendental Meditation and appreciating Indian music while in her teens, but her experience of India and its great classical music is more recent and has taken off at least as spectacularly as her work with rockets. Apart from a rigorous classical training with, among others, the legendary Segovia and the great Bach pianist Rosalyn Tureck, Sharon Isbin enjoys working with jazz musicians and those in other genres who improvise, so her combination of experiences is an ideal basis for her ventures into Indian music.
If we are to seek the common ground between Indian and Western music, we can look to the modes of Ancient Greece and European medieval and renaissance music, all of which are found in the ragas of India, and to the towering figure of JS Bach, who was also a master of improvisation, and whose unsurpassed compositions have what may be described as a spiritual geometry that is also the foundation of the raga system. This album is all ragas, unfolding according to traditional Indian practice, to which Sharon Isbin adapts admirably. In her own words, "it is an honor and joy to perform Strings for Peace! The music Amjad Ali Khan has composed for guitar and sarod is sheer genius, and I don't use this term lightly. In an amazing way, it interweaves our varied musical, spiritual and artistic traditions with mystical beauty, creativity, grace and great emotion." The four artists are accompanied on the tabla by Amit Kavthekar, a disciple of two giants of Indian drumming, Alla Rakha and his son Zakir Hussain.
By the Moon - Raga Behag, performed by Amaan Ali Bangash and Sharon Isbin, uses the same notes as the natural scale, or the C-mode (Ionian), with the addition of a sharp fourth in certain phrases within the prescribed ascending and descending shape of the raga. Sharon commences the dialogue, exchanging short alap phrases with Amaan before he launches into a longer improvisation. A jor section (recognisable from the sense of a pulse and faster movement) leads into the gat, which is a composition set to a rhythm cycle, in this case of 16 beats at a fast tempo in the commonest of all North Indian talas, known as Teental, starting as a dialogue before the two artists join in unison for the statements of the composition. Just over halfway through this section with tabla accompaniment, the first gat gives way to a much faster gat, also in Teental, allowing the music to accelerate to a thrilling climax.
Love Avalanche - Ragas Bhairavi and Pilu (the former on this track and the latter on the track entitled "Romancing Earth") have much in common. Both are extremely popular, especially as shorter, more relaxed items in a concert, as in this little gem performed by Ayaan Ali Bangash and Sharon Isbin, and both are often described as "light classical", mainly because a greater degree of freedom is allowed in the choice of notes than with most ragas (and both items in this album have the same lilting rhythm in the light classical vein). The basic scale of
Raga Bhairavi is the same as the European Phrygian or E-mode, so all seven notes of the Indian scale are in their flattest position. Bhairavi is related to Bhairav, as the names suggest, for she was the consort of Bhairav in the Hindu pantheon, and, interestingly, the melody introduced in unison by Ayaan and Sharon after an initial flourish on the tabla by Amit Kavthekar suggests Raga Bhairav.
Romancing Earth – Raga Pilu is a popular raga, rendered here by Amjad Ali Khan himself, with Sharon Isbin. It's often described as "light classical" mainly because it is thought to contain many folk songs and there is more freedom within it than is the case with most other ragas. (The lilting tala that accompanies the folk-like gat melody later is also typical of the light classical style.) The basic scale of Pilu emphasizes the flat third and leading note, which give the raga a wistful mood, both to Indian and Western ears, though the mood can change to joy, devotion and happiness. Amjad Ali Khan anchors the raga firmly, allowing Sharon Isbin sensitively to explore it, to which he responds in agreement, creating a gentle dialogue and musical testament to some of Sharon's words quoted earlier: "creativity, grace and great emotion."
Sacred Evening – Raga Yaman. Performed by Ayaan Ali Bangash and Sharon Isbin, this piece is based on Raga Yaman, one of the most popular of ragas and performed in the evening. Using the same notes as the European Lydian or F-mode (natural notes, with a sharp fourth) it emphasises the third and leading note (the latter dominating the opening of Ayaan's alap improvisation). Sharon joins in the dialogue, coaxing some characteristically Indian slides from her instrument, and later she leads the faster, rhythmical jor section. The two artists join together with the tabla player, Amit Kavthekar, for the gat set to a brisk tempo Teental (16 beats). The constraint of the repeating 16-beat cycle enables the two artists to play in perfect unison, as well as continuing to improvise individually, and Amit Kavthekar is also given a chance to venture beyond sounding the beats of the tala to demonstrate his own virtuosity. Near the end an unexpected touch reminds us that Western music uses harmony, as well as hinting at the medieval practice of organum, when Sharon joins Ayaan's phrases a fourth below.
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Amjad Ali Khan is credited with reinventing the technique of playing the sarod. Over a career of more than six decades, Amjad Ali Khan has received numerous accolades including a GRAMMY nomination, the World Economic Forum's Crystal Award, Unicef's National Ambassadorship and the Fukuoka Cultural grand prize. His performances include Carnegie Hall, Royal Albert Hall, Sydney Opera House, Tokyo's Suntory Hall, Esplanade Singapore, Kennedy Center, Chicago's Symphony Center, and for the United Nations, UNESCO, and 2014 Nobel Peace Prize in Norway. Festivals include BBC Proms, Edinburgh, WOMAD, World Beat, and Hong Kong Arts. Samaagam, his first sarod concerto, has been performed by orchestras throughout the world. Amjad Ali Khan's visiting university professorships include Stanford, New Mexico and Jacob's School of Music.
Multiple GRAMMY winner Sharon Isbin has been soloist with over 200 orchestras, made over 30 recordings, and given sold-out performances in the world's finest halls. Winner of the Toronto, Madrid and Munich ARD Competitions, Germany's Echo Klassik and Guitar Player's Best Classical Guitarist awards, she was named the 2020 Musical America Worldwide Instrumentalist of the Year. She performed in Scorsese's Oscar-winning The Departed, the White House by invitation of President Obama, and as the only classical artist in the 2010 GRAMMY Awards. The documentary Sharon Isbin: Troubadour, seen by millions on PBS and abroad, won the ASCAP Television Broadcast Award. Her GRAMMY-winning Journey to the New World with guests Joan Baez and Mark O'Connor spent 63 weeks on top Billboard charts. Author of the Classical Guitar Answer Book, Isbin has premiered over 80 works written for her, and directs guitar departments she created at The Juilliard School and Aspen Music Festival.
Amaan Ali Bangash and Ayaan Ali Bangash's performances include Carnegie Hall, Kennedy Center, Chicago's Symphony Center, Savannah Music Festival with the Derek Trucks Band, London's St. James Palace for HRH Prince of Wales, Royal Festival Hall, Queen Elizabeth Hall with Evelyn Glennie, Edinburgh Festival, Palais Beaux-Arts Brussels, Esplanade Singapore, Sydney Opera House and WOMAD festivals in UK, Singapore, Las Palmas, Madrid and Australia. Their many albums range from collaborations with violin and voice to electronic music. They co-authored Abba-God's Greatest Gift To Us about their father's life, and 50 Maestros 50 Recordings published by Harper Collins. The brothers performed for the United Nations Day Concert 2018 with the Refugee Orchestra Project dedicated to Mahatma Gandhi.
Produced by: Sharon Isbin, Amjad Ali Khan, Kabir Sehgal.
Recorded: April 10 & 11, 2019 at Reservoir Studios in New York City. Recording Engineer: James Yost. Editing: Sai Shravanam. Mixing and Mastering Engineer: Sai Shravanam at Resound India. Cover Photo: Suvo Das. Inside Photo: Prabhat Shetty for Hindustan Times Brunch. Art Direction and Package Design: Jack Frisch. Executive Producer: Joachim "Jochen" Becker.
Publishing: ©Amjad Ali Khan. All tracks arranged for sarod & guitar by Kyle Paul, with fingerings by Sharon Isbin. Sharon Isbin plays a guitar by Antonius Mueller with Savarez strings.


Well, I suppose a lot of people are selling swamp land in Florida now.
Here are five things I like to emphasize, from the start. Each is the most important.
"Inside which box?" the clever one may ask.
"The Box of Reason and Revelation," I then reply, smugly.
For everyone else is thinking "outside the box," these days. This leaves the box empty. But it is a handsome box, and it is warm inside, and winter is coming.
Item. … Avoid "lateral thinking." It is linear thinking we need. To which end, lock your laptop away, and write with a pen. Not only should each sentence "flow" from the last, it should be internally coherent, too. Provide a beginning, a middle, and an end in all you write. Keep everything in that order.
The West was able to conquer the whole world, thanks to linear thinking. We aced all the sciences, thanks to linear thinking. We will get to Heaven by the strait, and narrow.
Item. … Eliminate ring binders. You need a notebook so bound, that the contents cannot be re-arranged, and you can't take pages out except by ripping. Retain all your stupidities. Date the pages. Flag keywords if you still can't find anything, and create an index.
You want to make something substantial, that will be truly worth burning on the last day of school.
No scanners or copying machines, either. Everything you want to retain, write down, in an increasingly legible and elegant longhand. Anything you are tempted to underline in books: write down. If the quotation is three pages long, faithfully transcribe it. And learn to draw, so you can provide the illustrations.
This is how you become intimate with the written word, and gradually engage memory and attention. It is a method that will help you stay inside the box, and on the linear trail. Within weeks, you will find yourself beginning to remember things. Eventually, you might even become articulate.
Item. … If there is anything you fail to understand — such as a play by Shakespeare — read it six times. To discourage yourself from looking too much up (which is a distraction) use only heavy cumbersome dictionaries. Keep reading like a tank, with no reverse gear. Blast through the obstacles.
Soon the pennies will begin to drop. Pennies from Heaven.
Item. … Read with your lips. Sound everything in your head. Read passages aloud, to each other. Perform them, with gestures, and hands. Recite them in the shower. Use the exclamations to scare the cat. Chew lovingly on each delicious phrase, over dinner.
Soon you will be able to understand what is meant by rhythm, in prose and verse, and even the rules will become comprehensible. Soon you will discover that half the meaning is in the music. And the other half is between the lines.


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Our objective is to promote the use of organic urban waste for biogas production in 5 European cities in order to inject biomethane into the natural gas grid and to use it in transport.
The funding period of the UrbanBiogas Project has ended! However activities in the target cities are still on-going. Please contact the target city representative (see the target city sites) in order to get up-dated.
Please find the Final Project Report here!
UrbanBiogas is supported by the Intelligent Energy for Europe Programme of the European Commission.
The UrbanBiogas consortium includes 11 partners, the project is coordinated by WIP Renewable Energies, Germany.
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Father of transport aviation. Oleg Konstantinovich Antonov
The origins of the genus Antonovs are lost in the foggy thicker times. It is only known that the great-grandfather of the genius aircraft designer lived in the Urals and was a very notable person - chief commander of local metallurgical plants. Oleg Konstantinovich's grandfather, Konstantin Dmitrievich, received an engineering education and built bridges all his life. After leaving the Urals, he settled in Toropets, a small town in the Pskov province, where the Antonovs had a tiny estate. His wife was Anna Aleksandrovna Bolotnikova - the daughter of a retired general, according to the memoirs of contemporaries, a woman with a monstrously difficult character who plagued everyone who, one way or another, came into contact with her. She gave birth to her husband three children: Alexander, Dmitry and Constantine. Konstantin Konstantinovich followed in his father's footsteps and became a famous civil engineer. Among his colleagues he was an active man, he fenced perfectly, participated in equestrian competitions, was engaged in mountaineering. He married Anna Bikoryukina, a kind and charming woman who presented him with two children: Irina and Oleg, who was born on February 7 1906.
In 1912, Konstantin Konstantinovich and his whole family moved to Saratov. This happened for several reasons. First, there were powerful relatives who promised young help to the family. The second reason for the departure was the unbearable nature of the grandmother, Anna Alexandrovna. By the way, despite the difficult temper, the grandmother adored Oleg and constantly indulged him.
At the same time, student Vladislav Viktorovich, Oleg's cousin, returned from Moscow to Saratov. In the evenings, the young man liked to talk about the last the news... In the first place, of course, there was talk about aviation - at the beginning of the last century, everyone was fond of flying machines. Six year old Oleg caught every word. He was fascinated by the exploits of the first pilots. Much later, Oleg Konstantinovich wrote: "The stories made a huge impression on me. Sixty-four years have passed, and I still remember those evenings. Then I decided that I would fly. "
Parents, of course, did not pay attention to the boy's hobby. Anna Efimovna generally said that people do not need to go up to the sky, and her father thought that a man needed to find a more solid occupation. Only the grandmother understood everything, she presented the first model of the airplane with a rubber motor to the future aircraft designer. After that, Oleg began to collect everything, one way or another relating to aviation - drawings, photographs, literature, toy models. The compiled reference book subsequently helped Antonov immensely - he knew all the history Aircraft world. The designer recalled: "This collection taught to look at the aircraft from the point of view of their development. No one will convince me that Junkers were the first to create "free-standing wings" for an aircraft. This was done in France long before him - in 1911, by designer Loveserser ... ".
The study of young Oleg in the Saratov Real School, where he enrolled to study exact sciences, did not bring him much success - he was far from being the first student in the class. But Antonov perfectly learned French, which in the future repeatedly helped him out during meetings with foreign delegations. When World War I began, Oleg's mother, following the customs of the Russian intelligentsia, settled down as a sister of mercy. The work in the hospital ended tragically for Anna Efimovna. Tying up the wounded, she got the infection through a scratch on her arm and died in agony from blood poisoning in her prime. It happened in the 1915 year, after that the Antonov family moved to Groshevaya street, and the grandmother started raising Oleg.
At the age of thirteen, Oleg together with the local children founded the "Aviation Fans Club". Soon, the "Club" appeared its own eponymous magazine, published in a single copy. The editor, journalist, artist, calligrapher and publisher was Antonov. The magazine contained cut photographs of airplanes and their technical data, freehand drawings, interesting stories, reports on Club meetings, and tips for beginning model builders. There were even poems about pilots. In those years in Saratov there was no systematic literature, the boyish magazine, unique in its seriousness, passed from hand to hand, even getting into the greasy fingers of the kruvoenlet.
When Antonov was fourteen years old, the Saratov Real School closed. Children were accepted into a single school only from the age of sixteen, his elder sister Irina already studied there legally. The boy made a bold decision - he began to go to school with his sister. He quietly sat in the back rows and eagerly absorbed everything that the school could give. Gradually, they got used to it and two years later they issued a certificate of completion. After that, Oleg tried to enter flight school. However, only strong, experienced people from the working class were taken there. Antonov had the look of 12-13 for years, affected by typhoid fever and famine. Not in desperation, the future aircraft designer submitted an application to the Saratov University for the railway department. He was accepted, but after a while the faculty was liquidated during the reorganization. Oleg didn't refuse to enter the building department.
In order not to waste time in vain, he, together with his comrades from the Club, began to design his own glider. And soon, under the Saratov provincial executive committee, a branch of the Society of Friends of the Air Fleet. Its leader, a former actor Golubev, cordially greeted the guys, helped to get some materials and allocated them a room - a small hall of the Saratov Industrial College. It was here that Antonov's first brainchild, the OKA-1 Glider Pigeon, was created.
In 1924, the guys received an offer to take part in the second rally of glider pilots, held in the city of Koktebel. In the shortest possible time "Dove" was completed. Without conducting any tests, Oleg Antonov and his friend Zhenya Bravarsky plunged their creation onto the train platform and set off for the coveted Crimea. After a fortnight, they arrived in Feodosia, with great difficulty on the incongruous Crimean majaras transported the glider to Koktebel.
One god knows how two Saratov youths managed to restore their decently battered aircraft on the road. As a result, the Dove received permission to fly out, a professional pilot Valentin Zernov was appointed to manage it. However, the glider did not take off, having made only a couple of short jumps, it slid on the grass of a gentle slope. Oleg Konstantinovich remembered forever the words of the test pilot said after this: "Guys, do not be discouraged. This bird is not bad, but you will be better. " Grain was not wrong. For the unique design of the airframe, Antonov received a diploma, but the main thing was different. At the rally, he met many enthusiasts who, like him, burst into the sky. Among them were Artseulov, Ilyushin, Pyshnov, Tikhonravov, Tolstoy and many other famous personalities.
In 1925, Oleg Konstantinovich was recommended for admission to the Leningrad Polytechnic Institute. Gathering things, Antonov went to the northern capital, where he was, to great joy, enlisted as a student in the ship department, in the hydroaviation department. In Leningrad, the future designer literally fell a huge number of duties and obligations. An energetic young man already well versed in the glider business, he was elected secretary of the ODVF technical committee, at the same time he got a job as an instructor of an aeromodel circle. However, this activity did not bring money and, in order to live, Oleg Konstantinovich wrote notes to newspapers, painted posters, made models of airplanes. And the future designer went to lectures, successfully passed tests, did practical work and, most importantly, did not cease to design and build gliders. A lot of time he took away the flights that he made at the airfield of a glider station. In addition, it is known that he loved to attend theaters and exhibitions. It is impossible to understand how Antonov managed all this. Obviously, the slogan later proclaimed as an answer to the question of how to cope with affairs - "do leisurely actions without intervals between them" - was born at that time, in difficult years of Leningrad studies.
In 1930, Oleg Konstantinovich graduated from the institute, and in 1933, a twenty-seven-year-old designer was appointed to the post of "chief" at the design bureau of a gliding plant in Moscow. He was charged with the responsibility to develop light-wing cars, which the new plant in Tushino was supposed to produce in large quantities. By that time, the young aircraft designer already had vast experience in building gliders. Having created OKA-1924 in his Dove 1 over the next six years, he created OKA-2 and OKA-3, Standard-1 and Standard-2, as well as a powerful glider-parter "City of Lenin", which won a bunch of rave reviews at the next Koktebel rally. Oleg's comrades were not at all surprised at his high appointment. However, in this life, nothing comes easy and you have to pay for everything ... Leaving the tiny room on Tchaikovsky Street in Leningrad, Antonov threw to his friends: "In my opinion, here I received my TBC". Later Oleg Konstantinovich was repeatedly treated for tuberculosis, but the disease was constantly returning to him.
While the Tushino plant was not completed, the glider design bureau was forced to use the workshop offered by Osoaviakhim and located on the Garden Ring in the basement of a multistory building. These cellars used to be used for storing wines, and now they were given to two united organizations - reagents and glider pilots. The planners were headed by Oleg Antonov, and the group that studies the jet propulsion is Sergei Korolev.
For several years, Antonov was designed more than twenty different models of gliders. Oleg Konstantinovich achieved his main goal - to create a mass aircraft for various segments of the population of the country. Eight years the plant produced two thousand gliders a year - an incredible figure for that time. Their cost was unbelievable - in the old calculation no more than one thousand rubles. Curiously, despite the hellish workload, Antonov had time to go in for sports. His passion throughout life remained tennis. He played aircraft almost like a professional tennis player. At Petrovka, where the capital's courts were located, he had to drive early in the morning, before work. During these years, Antonov got married for the first time. His wife was Lydia Sergeyevna Kochetkova, a friend of Ira's sister. It all happened very quickly. Having met at the tennis court at the beginning of summer, the young people went to Koktebel on their honeymoon in September.
With housing in those years it was very difficult. Spouses Antonov lived with spouses Sheremetyevs in one common apartment. Each family had a room, another one - a common one, in which there were drawing boards of designers. The room was used as an office for collective work. On a rare weekend, Antonov took up the brush. He painted pictures inspiredly, even participated in a number of exhibitions of amateur artists. His favorite subjects were landscapes, still lifes and, of course, gliders. And in 1936, Lidia Sergeyevna gave birth to a son. Called him romantically - Rolland.
Oleg Konstantinovich, unlike dozens of other designers, was not under arrest; however, the cruel fate of the second half of the thirties of the last century did not bypass him. In Osoaviakhim, the leadership changed, the views of new chiefs on gliding, as a mass sport, began to be expressed in one phrase: "Fly less, live longer!". The decline of glider sport began already in 1936, in the following years everything finally collapsed. Antonov was removed from his post, and the glider plant was closed. Talented designers scattered who where. First of all, Oleg Konstantinovich turned to his old friend on Koktebel rally - an outstanding aircraft designer Alexander Yakovlev. He, knowing perfectly well the talents of Antonov, gave him the job of a leading engineer in his design bureau. In the yard was 1938 year.
The new job suited the designer quite well; he had long wanted to switch from designing gliders to building airplanes, seeing in it the logical continuation of his activity. In the spring of 1940, Antonov was appointed chief designer of a small design bureau at an aircraft factory in Leningrad, and in 1941 he was transferred to Kaunas (Lithuanian SSR). One Sunday morning, 22 June 1941, the aircraft designer woke up with a strong crash. Soon one of the employees ran into his room with wide eyes: "War ...". Kaunas was located near the border, urgent instructions were received from above: "Prepare immediately for evacuation". Loudspeakers alarmed about the bombing of Sevastopol, Kiev, Vilnius, Riga, Zhytomyr, Brest .... The city of Antonov left in the evening. Together with the last employees of the design bureau on the captured fire engine, he headed east along the road, clogged by refugees. An hour later, the Germans entered Kaunas. Two days under incessant shelling from the air the car drove on broken primers. Often it was necessary to move out into a ditch and hide in forests and bushes. People spent the night in haystacks near the road. Antonov reached Moscow only by the end of the second day.
And again he had to start everything from scratch. The team hastily assembled and sent to the old glider plant. "We will again create gliders: transport and cargo," Antonov announced to the people a few days later. After a couple of months, Oleg Konstantinovich developed a unique transport-landing glider A-7. The device was designed for seven passengers and was necessary to provide people, ammunition and food guerrilla groups, fighting in the rear of the enemy. Antonov-7 could land on small forest glades, on plowed fields, even on frozen, snow-covered rivers. As a rule, the landings took place at night under the light of bonfires, in which an inexpensive glider was usually burned after unloading. It is hard to imagine how much help these aircraft provided to the partisan movement during the war years. The medal to the "Partisan of the Great Patriotic War" adorned Oleg Konstantinovich's chest not by chance.
In mid-October, when the Germans broke out onto the Leningradskoye Highway and found themselves eighteen kilometers from the capital, the Antonov group embarked on a train and headed for Western Siberia. For two weeks she traveled to Tyumen. Oleg Konstantinovich found himself in an unfamiliar city, where he had to live and work, launch the most complex mechanisms of the plant and the design bureau, lacking enough people and materials, heat and water. However, experience in such matters Antonov was not to occupy.
After the enemy was thrown back from Moscow, Oleg Konstantinovich returned to the capital. He was appointed to the position of the chief engineer of the Aviation Industry Commander Committee of the People's Commissariat of Agriculture, and in February 1943, Antonov transferred to the Yakovlev Design Bureau, which was developing the famous Yak. A talented aircraft designer took part in the modernization and fine-tuning of the whole range of combat vehicles from the Yak-3 to the Yak-9. In the autumn of 1945, Oleg Konstantinovich was offered to head the branch of Yakovlev Design Bureau at the Aviation Plant named after him. Chkalov in Novosibirsk. He did not hesitate, he agreed, because he had to start work on the creation of new type of aircraft, not agricultural but agricultural. The country needed heavy-duty vehicles capable of taking off from a good aerodrome or from any relatively flat field. His closest associates went to Novosibirsk with Antonov. In addition, Oleg Konstantinovich took with him a whole course of graduates of the Novosibirsk Aviation Technical School. It was a big risk. Twenty-year-old young people, with no experience, hungry, half-dressed and neglected, were to become the basis of the team, to which the most important tasks were set. However, Antonov had an amazing ability to rally employees around an idea. He said: "Not orders create a team, although they are needed. It is not created by rearranging or picking up people. Not building unites the team. The main thing is the unity of purpose. If people understand and accept it, they do not need to be "whipped up". And the "kindergarten" did not disappoint. In August, 1947, the first copy of the AN-2, was already at the gate of the assembly hall.
However, before the serial production of the aircraft was still far away. Antonov had to conduct not only numerous trials and inspections of AN-2, he also had a chance to survive the clashes with the bureaucracy of the governing apparatus, with obsolete traditions, with indifference to the fate of new inventions. Oleg Konstantinovich often repeated: "Our work is not as smooth and quiet as it seems ... In our work, the main thing is the struggle. The fight is the most uncompromising, the most acute. " And this struggle made itself felt. From the experiences of Antonov began exacerbation of tuberculosis. For four months he was treated in sanatoriums and hospitals, and after a long time he took antibiotics.
It was decided to build AN-2 aircraft in Kiev. Antonov Design Bureau moved from Novosibirsk to Ukraine. All efforts were not in vain, 6 September 1949, the first serial AN-2 took off into the sky. Much later, summing up his activities, the designer said that this was his greatest success.
The new city was immediately liked by the general designer. The move went to the benefit and health of Oleg Konstantinovich. "This is where I dream to stay until the end of my life," said Antonov. - "Stop driving around the country: Saratov, Leningrad, Moscow, Kaunas, Tyumen, again Moscow, Novosibirsk. Is it a bit too much? For the rest of his life, Oleg Konstatinovich lived in Kiev. It was in the capital of Ukraine that all the famous aircraft of the genius aircraft designer were born, which brought glory to our Fatherland.
The huge workload of official and public affairs forced Antonov to strictly regulate the work. He always appeared in his office exactly at 9 in the morning. I looked through mail from all over the world, held a meeting to solve specific problems. Then the General Designer got acquainted with the new developments, looked at the drawings, criticized, recommended, carried out test calculations, estimated various options, tying together the results of the activities of workshops, departments and groups. The creative process in the mind of Oleg Konstantinovich did not stop for a minute. He always had a drawing board in his office and at home. To draw, he began, as a rule, suddenly, throwing all the other things, as if the born idea was looking for a way out. In the second half of the day, Antonov held meetings with people and organizations, made the necessary trips. In the remaining time he worked on magazines, got acquainted with new publications. In the evening, the General Designer sat behind the wheel of his own "Volga" and drove home - to his small two-storey cottage in a working village.
Designers A.S. Yakovlev and O.K. Antonov in the design office 1943 g. Http://proznanie.ru
The garden near the house became for Antonov a place of spiritual rest, as well as a source of the birth of new ideas. By his own admission, all his life before moving to Kiev, the designer lived at a construction site, all his life he did not wake up from the noise of the foliage outside the window, but from the rattle of an excavator. Antonov wrote "A lot of design finds were made by me between the black chokeberry and apple trees, between sea buckthorn and hazel. Working in the garden improves my working capacity, as a result, the garden does not take away, but saves time. "
Close friends and acquaintances often gathered in his house, among them were the architect and academician Anatoly Dobrovolsky, the writer and surgeon Nikolai Amosov, and the scientist Lyubomir Pyrig. Antonov did not like to be at the table in the spotlight, but actively supported a conversation on any topic. He himself preferred to talk about literature, from the writers were close to Antoine de Saint-Exupéry and Nikolai Gogol. He knew their works practically by heart. In addition, Oleg Konstantinovich loved listening to music. People's Artist of Ukraine and a good friend of the Antonov family Dina Petrynenko often sang in their house. Nikolai Amosov said: "With all his appearance, Oleg protested against the image of the successful businessman of the era of" stagnation "- Antonova was not interested in the sauna, fishing and other hobbies of the leaders of his rank. He preferred to work in the garden, read, go to exhibitions. At the same time he was a resolute and courageous man. He spoke freely on any topic, criticized the leadership, which he accused of poor management and the absence of "feedback" ... At the same time, Oleg seemed to keep everyone at a distance, even I could not completely overcome it during the long years of our friendship. Why so, I thought? It was not a matter of intelligence, such a feeling arose from his extreme modesty and vulnerability. "
Of course, sometimes tragedies happened. AN-10 with passengers fell near Kharkov, AN-8 crashed right in front of Antonov. Oleg Konstantinovich seriously experienced what had happened. He said to friends: "I will not build passenger planes anymore. I will not survive the simultaneous death of many people. After the accident with the "ten", I woke up more than once in a cold sweat at night ... ". The harsh life made its unforeseen adjustments to the fate of a well-designed, thoroughly tested air machines, forcing the creator to suffer tormented by misfortune. Antonov cared about each of his cars, each crash with the plane he created lay a heavy burden on the designer's heart. The same Amosov wrote: "For the general, Oleg Konstantinovich was too sensitive. At the same time, this was happiness for the people. After all, AN-10 once transported the maximum number of air passengers in our country. It is very responsible ... And how terrible to make even the smallest mistake. "
Despite the terrible illness, Antonov throughout his life was actively involved in sports: playing tennis, ping-pong, skiing, hiking. The aircraft designer said: "A cultured person is obliged to treat his body — the source of energy and the seat of reason — with the same love that a good mechanic treats his mechanism. The machine loves care, lubrication and caress! What to say then about such a complex mechanism as the human body! ".
It is worth noting another very characteristic feature of Antonov - the continuous modernization of a seemingly complete structure. He began to follow this rule when he was building gliders - it was always a series of aircraft, every detail of which was subject to constant improvement. The designer argued that modernization processes are often more important and effective than creating a new aircraft with unexplained capabilities: "Sometimes an inexpensive and simple change to an airplane, a car, or a machine can increase the accuracy of work and performance, and sometimes give new features to machines. A modification is always cheaper and faster than creating a new aircraft or a diesel locomotive. "
The birth of "Ruslan" (in 1981 year) was a kind of swan song of Oleg Konstantinovich. He embodied in the new machine all the basic principles of design, developed by him throughout his life. In addition, the giant aircraft has absorbed all the most modern ideas that have appeared in the world's aircraft construction in recent years. The work of the designer on the AN-124 coincided with his election as academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences.
At work, Antonov was always strongly opposed to administrative-command methods of control. In general, he almost never ordered - in the most intelligent form he advised or asked. Always appealed to "you." In the history there was only one episode where he, not restraining the argument, threw the inkwell into his opponent. However, this was indeed the only case, and Oleg Konstantinovich, moreover, thank God, he missed. Antonov, who had already become world-famous aircraft designer, amazed his subordinates with his accessibility. At any moment, he could appear in the department, stand behind the employee, intervene in the work, continue the development of someone else's thought that seemed interesting to him. He was especially attracted by the irregularity of other people's views and ideas. None of the major designers paid so much attention to amateur inventors, enthusiasts and craftsmen. Oleg Konstantinovich had an amazing ability to recognize talented people, with all his strength he supported their initiatives, invited me to work. Under his wing grew many famous designers. Antonov transferred this support of talented people to the students of the Kharkiv Aviation Institute named after him. NOT. Zhukovsky, in which with 1977 headed the department of aircraft design.
All the questions and problems that arose in the Antonov design bureau were, as a rule, publicly discussed. Oleg Konstantinovich could, with surprise for everyone, easily admit his mistake, accept someone else's point of view. In this case, he said: "I was wrong and need to go through it." In addition, he showed interest in the destinies of his workers - he helped with topics for scientific theses, independently compiled lists of awards, knocked out awards. All this created a unique creative atmosphere around Antonov, full of benevolence and trust. "With him, I always wanted to do the maximum possible," colleagues said. Once a journalist from a French newspaper asked Antonov: "Tell me, how many planes did you create?". "I myself, that is, alone, I could not have developed something that a plane, even a washing machine," the designer said, smiling. Warm words about colleagues speak about the complete absence of vanity in this person.
It seemed that the years were not dominant over the age of Oleg Konstantinovich. Externally, the General Designer looked much younger than his years, he remained young in spirit. Elegant, emphatically intelligent, courteous in circulation, always well-dressed Antonov liked women. Throughout his life, he was married three times. He had children from every wife. The second spouse, Elizaveta Avetovna Shakhatun, bore him a daughter, Anna, and the third wife Elvira Pavlovna - son Andrei and daughter Lena. By the way, Elvira Pavlovna was thirty-one years younger than her husband. With former spouses Oleg Konstantinovich did not sever friendly and business ties. All his children were friends with each other, and wives occasionally talked. As Antonov managed to maintain such a complex balance of relationships, it still remains a mystery.
However, it would be naive to believe that the formation of Oleg Konstantinovich's aircraft, the solution of the problems of the design bureau was carried out without contradictions and conflicts. A characteristic feature of that era was red tape, and often incompetence of leadership in the areas where this leadership was carried out. Plus, the desire to show power over people talented, obsessed with innovative ideas. The only way out of the situation was the struggle, which took away from the aircraft designer infinitely many strength and health. The whole history of the development of the most popular AN-2 aircraft is a living example. And when Antonov still broke through his "Annushka", he had difficulties of a different kind - through the official line. The most sophisticated method of "ditching" the initiative. After the first tests of "Ruslan", an anonymous letter came to the very top that the air giant would certainly collapse at the turn. There was a trial ... Oleg Konstantinovich was accused of abusing the allocation of money for the purchase of books for the KB library. There was a trial ... After the third marriage, the academic was scolded for his old-time pranks. The proceedings were not conducted, but the study was. One can only imagine how much nerve it took from Antonov, how much it cost to win, and what he had to pay for them every time.
Oleg Konstantinovich died in Kiev as a result of the April 4 1984 stroke. 6 numbers held his funeral with all honors. A memorial service dedicated to the genius aircraft designer was held in the Great Hall of the Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. Next to the coffin of the deceased, the awards received by Antonov during his life lay on the pads - the Medal of the Hero of Socialist Labor, three orders of Lenin, the Order of the October Revolution, World War 1 degree, the Red Banner of Labor, the medal of the State and Lenin Prize and many others. A huge number of ordinary people saw off Oleg Konstantinovich on his last journey to the Baykovo cemetery.
Installed on the building of the Kharkov Aviation Institute (now the National Aerospace University
them. N. E. Zhukovsky). Photo by Dmitry Khramov/ center]
In addition to designing the aircraft, Antonov managed to do a lot of different things: he organized the "Scientists draw" art exhibitions in Kiev and Moscow, which featured works by the greatest scientists and technicians of our country, fought for the ecological salvation of Lake Baikal, supported the all-union importance of the town of Koktebel as an ultra-light center aviation and gliding, tried to rehabilitate the good name of the aircraft designer Igor Sikorsky, participated in the Moscow homemade car runs, held by the magazine "Technology - youth."
Antonov tried to live by the standards of an ideal bright future, and in most cases he succeeded. This was expressed in the versatility of his interests, in lack of restraint, in bright altruism, in an effort to express himself creatively to the end, to the last breath and, finally, in his honesty, decency and modesty.
Based on the book by Vasily Zakharchenko "Oleg Antonov"
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Apollo April 4 2014 08: 07
quote-Among colleagues, he was known as an active man, he fenced very well, participated in equestrian competitions, was engaged in mountaineering. He married Anna Efimovna Bikoryukina, a kind and charming woman who gave him two children: Irina and Oleg, born 7 February 1906 year.
RoTTor April 4 2014 19: 26
Antonov was fond of tennis. Until the end of his life he played well. With his submission, they built good courts, held tennis tournaments.
semuil April 4 2014 09: 08
Thanks for the article !!! I read it with pleasure.
hohryakov066 April 4 2014 09: 30
Great person. Fortunately, he does not see what is happening now. I hope that the plaque in Kharkov will not be broken. If I were in Kiev, they would have already banged. Information that they are going to demolish a monument to L. Bykov in Kiev only because he simply killed there in Soviet uniform.
stas11830 April 4 2014 09: 36
Good and informative article!
tolyasik0577 April 4 2014 09: 49
Pay attention, all ingenious designers are very good people. In Soviet times, people worked and created for the sake of their country and mainly on their own enthusiasm. hence the high level of what was created. Today, unfortunately, this is not, or very little. A deep bow to Antonov, Tupolev, Korolev and many many others who have raised the country's prestige in the eyes of the world and its people.
from the well-known, the exception is A.N. Tupolev. The constructor is strong, the rest is ...............
Denunciations of colleagues, subtle intrigues, completely dictatorial style, rudeness to employees, etc.
Everyone who worked with Ilyushin remembered the amazing human atmosphere in his team. Ilyushin is the leader here.
The poem was with us:
"Silver liner Tu
fell apart on the fly.
Because the firm "Tu"
releases ........ that
"Minusovaklshchiki" are probably infinitely far from aviation and no topic. "
If not, answer the questions:
1. Which of the aircraft designers was put to denounce Tupolev.
2. how many design bureaus were shut down on Tupolev's denunciations and intrigues? \
3. What promising and revolutionary developments of other design bureaus were closed with the filing of Tupolev?
4. What experimental and serial aircraft plants were transferred from Tupolev cars?
However, he was not the only one ...
In short, you don't know - not 3,14 .... those
Voenruk April 4 2014 09: 58
Ukrainians need to read the story in the correct interpretation.
skymit April 4 2014 14: 18
Nice article, thanks! Only in the photo is not Ruslan, but Mriya.
michajlo April 4 2014 17: 32
Many thanks to the author of the article!
Namely, for his admiration for aviation, a lot of material, admiration for the personality of the great Antonov, and the repetition that simple ENTHUSIASM, not a salary, allowed the USSR to create many cars and STREAM the whole world.
Yes, the glorious and great were SOVIET DESIGNERS! \
When will new ones ???
Cristall April 4 2014 18: 22
honor and respect for the namesake ... the great namesake!
Avdy April 4 2014 18: 50
The designer's work on the AN-124 coincided with his election to the Academy of Sciences of the USSR.
And in the picture below the text - "Mriya", i.e. An-225, about which there is not a word in the text :(
But, in general, a good article, put +.
O.K. Antonov - SOVIET aircraft designer. And he considered himself just that.
Independent Ukraine, without creating anything of its own in 23 years, violently tortures
declaring Antonov a Ukrainian aircraft designer, Amosov a Ukrainian surgeon, etc.
Antonov Design Bureau was transferred to Kiev from Siberia to make Ukraine an aviation union republic.
Alas, the heirs of Antonov turned out to be completely unworthy of Oleg Konstantinovich: grabbers, intriguers, swindlers, creative impotent. On "Antonov", under the yoke of the Kiva family, nepotism flourishes.
While parasitizing on the Soviet legacy.
Soon it will end, well, they will sell the territory, but there is no and cannot be without the aviation industry without Russia.
It's a shame that everything that Ukraine inherited from the USSR, created by the labor of our entire people, is so stupidly stolen without any possibility of restoration in today's Ukraine.
I would see O.K. Antonov, what the vile heirs did with his brainchild, would die again ...
The name becomes incorrect.
And before Antonov's aircraft transport aviation was and worked.
Both agricultural and PAN
svp67 April 4 2014 19: 44
Quote: RoTTor
Of course, one can argue about the title of the article, but the fact that our transport aviation has truly become such with the advent of Antonov's aircraft, I think no one will argue ...
An-8
sso-xnumx April 4 2014 19: 55
The beauty and pride of the BTA Air Force of the USSR and Russia - Antonov cars !!!
Powerful, beautiful, reliable !!! Real aerial laborers, like MAZ among trucks.
Yes, there were accidents. But not because of the design features. I have a friend, was the commander of the An-12, from his words there can be no more reliable machine. As a rule, the main cause of flight accidents is violation of safety rules, pilot error, weather conditions.
And the pilots called them with respect and warmth-ANTONY! Cars of other designers on the accepted abbreviations. Eternal honor, memory and glory to you Oleg Konstantinovich !!!
vignat21 April 4 2014 20: 44
Criminal ре
Bayonet April 4 2014 21: 11
My late father was an aircraft engineer. In 1959, retrained on the An-10 in Kiev. He had a booklet describing the An-10, signed by O.K. Antonova. Then he worked with the An-12, An-24. And his neighbor flew as a flight attendant on the An-8. The crew was just in love with their car - there was an alcohol de-icing system! Fell into icing constantly.


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:urban fabric, News December 20, 2022
The political class sees no problem with unnecessary mass pollution and police ops
by Taylor C. Noakes
"Politicians — a group of people well known for the near constant presence of their heads up their own asses — are exactly the kinds of people who would tell you to take the bus and turn down the thermostat to lower your carbon footprint, all while their motorcades and jumbo jets spew pollution and emissions far in excess of what most people will produce in their entire lifetimes."
On Oct. 28, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken came to town and seemed to have brought the calvary with him. Videos circulated on social media showing a deserted street near the Jean Talon Market and an excessive police presence accompanying Blinken.
This video shows Blinken's SPVM-assisted motorcade as it passed by Square Victoria. There are more than 30 vehicles in the motorcade, including police cruisers and minivans, motorcycles, assorted light trucks, pickups and the black SUVs that presumably travel with the secretary wherever he goes. Traffic is blocked seemingly everywhere to clear the way.
Not only is it a massive police operation, it's massively polluting, too. It isn't just the fact that dozens of already carbon intensive vehicles are committed to these operations, it's that they disrupt the normal flow of traffic everywhere they go, forcing cars to jam up and sit idling. Moreover, those armoured SUVs are extra heavy, meaning they're even more carbon intensive than an ordinary large SUV. And if Blinken travels with his own caravan of specialized, Secret Service approved armoured SUVs, then they would have to be flown in to wherever they're being used, on military transport planes that are typically exempt from any kind of ecological consideration.
A fraction of the Antony Blinken motorcade in Montreal, Oct. 28, 2022.
Last year, U.S. President Joe Biden toured Rome in an 85-vehicle motorcade, on a trip that also involved five of the largest airplanes ever built, as well as helicopters. Biden's European trip involved visiting several nations, and attending a climate change conference. One estimate suggests that the planes alone generated over two million pounds of carbon.
Now while Blinken doesn't quite have the security detail of the American president, the fundamental problem remains the same: his presence in our city leaves a carbon footprint we have to pay for. And if he's not covering the cost of his own security, that's more money spent on his polluting, carbon-intensive security detail, a tab picked up by Canadian taxpayers that isn't going to fighting the war on climate change.
I reached out to the RCMP to try to find out more information about who is covering these security costs and, after two weeks of "we're working on it" email replies, I'm left without an answer. I also asked them if they have any idea how much carbon these security operations produce, and to that it also looks like they have no answer. Until they say otherwise, we might presume we have to pay these costs.
It is very nice to have important people from other countries come and visit, but there ought to be limits if these events require us to foot the bill for excess security operations and carbon emissions. Politicians — a group of people well known for the near constant presence of their heads up their own asses and talking out of both sides of their mouths — are exactly the kinds of people who would tell you to take the bus and turn down the thermostat to lower your carbon footprint, all while their motorcades and jumbo jets spew pollution and emissions far in excess of what most people will produce in their entire lifetimes.
Antony Blinken & Mélanie Joly in the Biosphere
Mairesse Plante is another one of those politicians who's adept at saying all the right things while policy decisions point in the other direction. While I am sure she was thrilled to have Blinken in town, the problem is that she wasn't telling him to take the bus or the metro while he's here. I don't think this is an absurd request either: it is absurd for another country's foreign secretary to come here, dump a load of carbon, use our police force and leave us to pay any part of that bill.
Besides, we're three years into the pandemic: he can't meet with Mélanie Joly on some secure version of Zoom? He didn't have to come here at all, and it's not like he and his entourage are stimulating the tourism sector. We'd get more bang for our buck inviting the Rolling Stones to play the Olympic Stadium. It would leave less of a carbon footprint and cost less in policing.
The COP15 conference was another excellent example of the massive and growing cognitive dissonance of the capitalist political class when it comes to minimizing our carbon footprint. What they say and what they do are two very different things.
It borders on the absurd: to accommodate the COP15 conference, the police decided it was necessary — for security — to close a metro station (but not the highway running directly underneath the Palais des Congrès, mind you).
Closing the metro station in turn required re-routing a bunch of bus lines, and the security perimeter around the site blocked normal traffic routes. None of this is great for the environment in and of itself, to say nothing of all the jet travel for all the delegates to get here, or the carbon footprint of these major events once everyone's in town. It's not just the traffic to and from the airport, or the hotels, to the convention site and back again. Think of the food, think of the food waste, think of the human waste, the water needs and water waste, the energy requirements to heat, house and feed perhaps as many as 20,000 people for nearly two weeks. A Bell Centre's worth of people, living first-class lives 24 hours a day, for half a month, in Montreal, in December.
I reached out to Environment Canada to see if they had made any attempt to determined how much of a carbon footprint COP15 would leave. They provided the following answer:
"In order to ensure COP15 is as green and sustainable as possible, the Government of Canada is working closely with all partners to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions from hosting COP15 as much as possible. One of the measures the government is taking is to secure electric vehicles and promote public transportation for the event and associated activities as well as working with the venue, the Palais des Congrès, to reduce food waste and to eliminate single-use plastics. Once COP15 is over, the event will seek green certification from the Conseil québécois des événements écoresponsables (…) Greenhouse gas impacts will also be calculated after the event and Environment and Climate Change Canada will off-set greenhouse gases by purchasing carbon credits."
Remember when I said politicians have their heads up their asses?
To begin with, any international conference that requires tens of thousands of people to travel internationally on airplanes isn't reducing any greenhouse gases, but rather is providing a new reason to produce more. Not only that, but the VIP-level dignitaries will have police escorts to and from the airport. Like I mentioned above with regards to Blinken, those escorts aren't exactly light on their carbon footprint.
Second, it's hard to believe Environment Canada is promoting the use of public transit when the metro station that connects directly to the Palais des Congrès is closed for the entire duration of the conference. In addition, the conference centre is further closed off from the Underground City, and all the bus routes that have been re-routed as well. Not exactly encouraging, particularly for all the people coming in from out of town who may not know, as an STM spokesperson cheerfully told me, that the Palais des Congrès is close to several other stations.
The COP15 biodiversity conference in Montreal, Dec. 7–19, 2022.
Third, carbon offsets are, as Greenpeace describes it, a scam. It puts a price on nature, incentivizes corporations to commodify nature, and is opposed by major international Indigenous conservation and environmental groups. Irony is basically being brutally murdered when a conference on biodiversity, and one that has paid considerable lip service to Indigenous groups, plans on using carbon offsetting to settle their carbon debt. Once the event has happened, the carbon has already been released into the atmosphere. The damage has already been done, and 10,000 to 20,000 people living first class lifestyles at an international conference for three weeks is going to produce a lot of environmental damage. There's no incentive for Environment Canada to come up with a thorough accounting of COP15's carbon footprint — doing so will be another expense — nor is there any incentive to get the aforementioned green certification, because it doesn't really mean anything.
It begs the question: even with an ostensibly forward-thinking, environmentally conscientious municipal government like Projet Montréal, are we even in control over who uses, and how they use, our streets, transit infrastructure, places and spaces? Does the desire of our city's ruling class to make Montreal a perennial destination for the global elite outweigh the very real effects that presence has on climate change? Do our citizens have the right to go about their lives unmolested by the excessive security needs of the global elite? Do we have a right to charge them for the inconvenience and pollution they cause?
It's nice to be a tourism destination, it's nice to have people from all over the world come here and enjoy what we enjoy. It makes us feel good about ourselves, makes us feel important. Montreal's elites have put considerable effort into making our city a globally significant destination for 60 years now, ever since we won the right to host the 1967 World's Fair. We've been chasing that dragon ever since. And now, like then, the interests of the people who actually live here take a backseat to the interests of those who want to put on a good show for the people who don't.
Whose city is this, really? ■
Read more editorials by Taylor C. Noakes here.
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Taylor C. Noakes is a public historian, independent journalist & part-time iconoclast.
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The Pittsburgh Pirates play at PNC Park, seating 38,496, which is adjacent to the Allegheny River. Downtown Pittsburgh is located across the river. The Allegheny River and the Monongahela River come together at Pittsburgh to form the Ohio River. PNC Park is another great major league park to watch baseball. It was built in 2000. There are seats in all areas except for bleachers with backs in left field. There is a river walk area outside of the right field seating area. Lots of places to stand and watch the game. Great view of downtown Pittsburgh from the upper seating area and the third base side on the lower level. There are 33 rows on the lower level. There are 8 rows of club seating and 21 rows of what is called grandstand seating in the upper level. Club seating is the lower section of the upper level seating. The Pirates were playing the San Diego Padres. The Pirates took the lead with 6 runs in the 6th inning, but then gave up 4 runs in the top of the 9th inning and lost 8-7. The box score was Padres R-8, H-11, E-1, LOB-6 and Pirates R-7, H-7, E-0, LOB-9. The field lines are RF-320', RC-375', CF-399', LC-389', 410', 399', and LF-325'. There is an outstanding video and scoreboard. There is a great pirate video graphic that tells you information between innings. Good variety of food on the main level, but limited on the upper level to basic baseball foods. Parking costs $15 across the street, but you can go only a block or so farther and pay $7. The closest bridge to & from downtown is the Roberto Clemente Bridge which is closed to traffic during games, so people can walk across from downtown right up to the stadium. The out-of-town scoreboard is at field level in right field. It has different colored lights to show top or bottom of the inning, numbers of outs, and locations of runners on base. Bullpens are in left center, one behind the other. The broadcasting booths are at the very top of the stadium. There is an Outback Restaurant in left field and two smaller restaurants for the club level fans on the upper level. Attendance was 15,251 for this game. A fan sitting next to us said Pittsburgh is a football town (Steelers), not a baseball town. The mascot is a parrot named Parrot. You can come to the game on a riverboat. 2014 new logo.
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The Tower student newspaper at the Catholic University of America held editorial elections on Thursday, November 13 to select the next editor-in-chief for the spring semester of the 2018-2019 academic school year. Current staff writer and health & lifestyle editor, Emily Prendergast, a junior international business major, was announced as the 125th editor-in-chief of the student run publication.
Before coming to The Catholic University of America in 2016, Prendergast, a Frederick, Maryland native, made a personal bucket list of activities that she wanted to do before graduating from college. The first item on that list of hers was join The Tower.
Since then, Prendergast has made The Tower her community.
Prendergast hopes to further expand and advance the student newspaper digital presence online and increase content.
"I want The Tower to be everyone's go-to source of news on campus and that will only happen if we learn to perfect our articles by increasing our reliability and publishing more of what students want to read," Prendergast said.
Prendergast's former colleagues at The Tower expressed support for her new role as editor-in-chief.
The current editor-in-chief, senior politics major Liz Friden who is graduating this semester, expressed similar sentiments.
This semester, The Tower created a weekly e-newsletter, a new student focused health & lifestyle section and doubled the size of its staff. Prendergast plans to grow readership and help the team to further develop their skills.
As for the rest of the editors during the school year, senior Duane Paul Murphy will remain quill op-ed editor, junior Alex Santana will remain politics editor, sophomore Katie Ward will remain as news editor, junior Katarina Ivancik will remain arts and entertainment editor, and junior Jared Prenda will remain sports editor. The position for health & lifestyle editor is currently open and has yet to be filled by writers from student publication, which has been in independent publication since 1922.


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Sumavision will show at CCBN 2021
The 28th China Content Broadcasting Network Show (CCBN2021) will be held from May 27th to 30th, 2021, at the China International Exhibition Center (Jing'anzhuang) in Beijing. At that time, Sumavision will be displayed at Booth No. 1, Hall 1B.
Sumavision (stock code: 300079) has been devoted to scientific research for many years, and has achieved good results in video technology, encryption technology, 5G technology and other fields: in the field of 4k/8k video, the company already has full-industry chain solutions, covering from acquisition, core transmission and switching, storage, encoding and transcoding, security, monitoring, to terminal, now has realized the closed loop of the 4k/8k video industry ecology; in the field of cloud services, the company has achieved cloudification of video processing, with technical capabilities such as cloud live broadcast, cloud transcoding, and cloud distribution; in 5G public service field, the company has realized the support and coverage of 5G multiple services, with 5G mobile portable acquisition, public network transmission, and 5G CPE gateway reception business capabilities, which can meet the long-term development needs of 5G video applications. With its profound R&D capabilities and accumulation, Sumavision has won many national awards, including the second prize of the National Science and Technology Progress Award.
This year's CCBN Sumavision (stock code: 300079) will take "5G+4k/8k Full Industry Solution" as the theme, and will bring "4K/8K Applications", "Emergency Broadcast", "5G Public Services" and "CAS/DRM/Watermark", and " Access Networks ", focus on displaying the company's scientific research results and deployed cases. In the "4K/8K Applications" exhibition area, Sumavision mainly will display the "8k encoding", "4k/8k satellite landing", " independent & controllable core platform" for major customers such as TV stations, operators, new medias, etc.; in the "Emergency Broadcast" exhibition area, Sumavision will showcase the "warning release platform(big data based)", "full link coverage", "end-to-end security", etc. From the presentation of platform system, transmission coverage, and terminal, the company's emergency broadcast will be showcased to be more practical, comprehensive, and forward-looking on the basis of compliance with national standards; in the "CAS/DRM/Watermark" exhibition area, Sumavision will show CAS and DRM and digital watermarks, and the company has always been vigorously practicing the development path of localization and self-independent technology power. The contents displayed in several exhibition areas each have independent highlights and are also connected to each other, highlighting that Sumavision has accomplished the layout of the full 5G+4k/8k video industry chain.
In addition to the exhibition area of CCBN this year, Sumavision (stock code: 300079) also will participate in theme conferences and emergency broadcasts forum. At the theme conference on the 27th, Sumavision will publish a sharing titled "New Opportunities for Broadcasting and Television under the Wave of UHD & 5G", focusing on introduction of the industry's ecology, the company's product system, application scenarios, solutions and typical cases, from aspects of "UHD" and "Emergency Broadcast".
This year's CCBN has once again upgraded its scale compared to previous sessions, with a super-large area of 60,000 square meters, and will welcome nearly 1,000 exhibitors and institutions. It is expected that there will be more than 100,000 professional visitors. With the theme of "Smart All-Media 5G New Audiovisual", this exhibition highlights the technological innovations of radio and television and network audiovisual in smart, mobile, and high-definition aspects under the background of 5G, and interprets the in-depth integration and innovative applications of emerging information technology and radio, television and network audiovisual. Hereby Sumavision sincerely invites all our friends and partners to participate in the industry's grand event.


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We Asked a Military Expert How Scared We Should Be of an EMP Attack
Electromagnetic pulses are more than a plot device from "The Matrix," and the US is preparing to defend against them.
by Mike Pearl
May 8 2015, 4:00am
Photo by Joel Kramer via Flickr.
Electromagnetic pulses, or EMPs, usually show up in pop culture as a temporary way to disable electronics. In Ocean's Eleven, one knocks out a casino's power supply during a heist. In the Matrix movies, an EMP is a CGI energy blast that Morpheus uses to stop the Sentinels from attacking Zion.
In real life, however, EMPs are a potential threat to national security.
First imagined as a troubling after effect in the wake a nuclear attack, EMPs have recently reemerged as non-nuclear e-bombs that silently attack precious electricity. A burst of energy that fries electronic circuits within a blast radius, an EMP could theoretically knock out a power grid if it were large enough. That in turn could send a major city back to the Stone Age, or knock out a strategically significant military installation in an instant.
But is such a large EMP a plausible fear? Peter Pry, director of a bipartisan congressional commission called the EMP Task force, seems to think so. He went on Fox News this week to say that "nine out of ten Americans could die from starvation, disease, and societal collapse, if the blackout lasted a year." Pry isn't the only one worried: In a letter to investors last year, billionaire hedge fund manager Paul Singer warned that EMPs are now the "most significant threat" to American security.
EMP scaremongering has been a longtime staple for the tinfoil hat crowd, with popular conspiracy blog ZeroHedge claiming that an electromagnetic pulse attack would be "one of the fastest ways to cripple America and end the dominance of the United States in world affairs."
But now, the US military is reportedly carting equipment into bunkers to shield it from EMPs. In April, some of the critical communications equipment at North American Aerospace Defense Command was moved into a bunker inside Cheyenne Mountain, a Cold War relic in Colorado that you might remember from the Matthew Broderick movie War Games.This was after the government had already disclosed a plan about a year ago to build a similar $44 million facility in Alaska for housing interceptor missiles.
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So how scared should we be? I wasn't sure, so I contacted a military analyst at the global intelligence firm Stratfor, the exquisitely named Sim Tack, to find out if we all need to buy EMP-proof iPhone cases, or whether EMPs are something we can put off studying until Skynet comes online.
VICE: First thing's first: Is an EMP a real weapon?
Sim Tack: It's not a work of fiction. It's an actual technology that exists. It's being played with in some capacity, and will potentially play a much greater role in future warfare. With the increasing importance of electronic circuits on the battlefield... There's only more and more reason to create weapons that specifically target networking ability and electronics dependence.
Has the US entertained the idea of making EMP weapons?
Yes. That's definitely something the US has looked into. EMPs were recognized as an effect of using nuclear weapons during test launches in the sixties. As with any type of natural force that is discovered, it became, "Hey, we can actually try and harness this power for military means."
And have other countries built them?
Different countries have experimented with EMPs. Russia has. There was some stuff in the media recently about North Korea getting some EMP technology from Russia, although that technology is somewhat limited. But the general idea of using EMPs in warfare? That's not just limited to the US.
Will a real EMP weapon work like the ones in The Matrix?
Well, an EMP overloads whatever weak circuits it can manage to overload, and basically destroys them, requiring that they be replaced by new electronic components to make that system functional again.
Right. And meanwhile in The Matrix it seems like the systems come back after a while.
That could potentially be what happens with hardened systems. Those might have the capacity to absorb an EMP, or work their way through that surge, and be operational again.
"Placing some explosives on the power lines coming out of that power plant would be a lot easier, a lot less complex, and a lot cheaper than building that EMP weapon."
How might someone do serious damage with one right now?
You might spend a ton of money and time generating an EMP near a power plant. But—for instance—placing some explosives on the power lines coming out of that power plant would be a lot easier, a lot less complex, and a lot cheaper than building that EMP weapon.
What would be an example of this "future warfare" you speak of, where EMPs might come into play?
The US has not really been focusing the development of its military capability on peer-to-peer conflict per se, so from that point of view, it hasn't been the main priority. If you look at the conflict in Eastern Ukraine... One of the things that's been interesting to see there was how the electronic element of warfare has played out.
So to be clear, the Ukraine-Russia conflict doesn't involve EMPs, but it's an example of a modern conflict that might have a use for them? How so?
[The Russians] started to jam Ukrainian communications, and tap into [them]. They started to jam the operations of drones that were observing the separatists and the Russians. Then as a countermovement, the Ukrainians have had to look into getting drones that are more hardened against jamming. At the same time they've had to try and restructure their communications, and tried to keep their combatants from using cell phones.
So EMPs might come into play when two very developed countries go to war?
Yes, and Eastern Ukraine is just a blip on the radar... Imagine the importance of that kind of time to disrupt the network-centric warfare of your enemy in actual warfare.
Do functioning standalone EMP weapons already exist?
I know that [the US has] built prototypes, and used those devices to test the hardening of other devices, so that they don't have to set off a nuclear explosion to test circuits against EMPs. Of course, those prototypes and test devices aren't in a format that you can simply drop over an enemy city tomorrow.
So I shouldn't be worried about Al Qaeda using one to knock out the power grid? Paul Singer seems to think I should.
It's not that EMPs are not a threat. It's just that—although the effect would be massive—currently they're not really a risk apart from nuclear strikes, so highlighting them as the greatest threat there is might not be entirely realistic.
But I've seen videos of people making them at home...
When we're talking about realistic versus unrealistic threats, currently generating an EMP with a nuclear weapon is the most feasible way to do it. Homebuilt EMP weapons aren't very feasible. The cost you would put into building such a system versus the benefit that you would actually gain is very, very impaired.
What's the main challenge stopping small militaries from using them?
Besides the weight, and the cost of whatever you use to generate that kind of electricity—a capacitor, a large amount of batteries, or whatever power generation method—the cost would be so high, but the damage you can do with it would be so limited, that other much cheaper methods might be more efficient when it comes to damaging the area that you're targeting.
OK, let's talk about how to defend ourselves from these things. What's "hardening"?
Hardening is designing electronic circuits to deal with the sudden power surge that comes from an EMP. That in some cases means using thicker, heavier conductors, or creating redundant circuits, or avoiding using sensitive elements within the circuit.
And how would I "harden" my electronics?
Basically, it's the same as protecting a circuit from power surges, but you're dealing with the fact that this kind of power surge affects every part of the circuit, rather than entering the circuit at one certain point.
And you really think we're likely to see the kind of warfare that would involve this kind of thing?
Well, we haven't reached Francis Fukuyama's "End of History" just yet.
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History And Culture Of Mexico
Modern day Mexico has been possessed for around 23,000 years, as indicated by archeological proof, and clans started to settle in the territory around 7,000 years back, because of the high-amount of beans and maize discovered developing in the district.
Towns based around the development of these essential sustenance sources before long framed and human advancements developed. One of the most punctual composed clans was the Olmecs, who were revolved around the Gulf Coast from around 1500 BCE. The social attributes of this gathering spread all through the nation, and different clans started to grasp and propel the gathering's thoughts, including the Maya.
From around 300 BCE, Mayan settlements started to jump up in zones from the northern Yucatan Peninsula to the present Guatemala. The Mayan culture advanced and the idea of the ahua, or ruler, developed alongside a chain of importance overwhelmed by an assigned first class. Amid this time of thriving, the kingdoms' populaces numbered in the millions, and development of incredible buildings started, the most amazing being the stunning capital of the rulers, Teotithuacan.
A significant part of Mexican culture since the pre-Colombian time, writing has flourished in this differing country. From the celebrated Mesoamerican artist Netzahualcoyotl to the provincial recorders of Juan Ruiz de Alacon and Juana Ines de la Cruz, and later Jose Vasconcelos, the nation's exceptional writing illustrates this beautiful nation's past.
Music is at the focal point of Mexican culture, with a wide scope of classes found all through the territory. From the world-well known Mariachi group's present at all uncommon events to a portion of the district's best DJs performing at enthusiastic scenes and clubs; it's hard to circumvent throbbing beats in this piece of the world. Experience the rich heritage and culture of this beautiful destination with our Mexico holiday packages.
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Flu season is coming and the College is offering a flu shot clinic to all employees and students. Rite Aid pharmacists will be at the Richland Campus on Tuesday, September 18th from 1-2pm in room B114 to administer flu shots.
A screening questionnaire will be available in room B114 and can be filled out before or during the clinic. If you have questions about the form, the pharmacist(s) can answer any questions that you may have.
The shots are free under most insurance plans; however, you should contact your member services number to learn more about your coverage. In any case, an insurance card MUST be presented at the time of the vaccination.
If you are not covered under any health plan, you can still receive the shot, but you will be required to pay $39.95 by cash or check at the time of the vaccination. Only those over the age of 18 are able to be immunized by a pharmacist due to Pennsylvania state law.
Click here for further details about the flu shot. For questions, please contact Human Resources. Stay healthy and take advantage of this preventative health service!