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Q: Scan period of beacons in android not working as expected I am working with beacons in xamarin android. I want the scan to be done over 60 seconds and a period of 30 seconds to wait between the next cycle of scan.
public async void DetectAvailableBeacons()
{
        _monitorNotifier = new MonitorNotifier();

        _rangeNotifier = new RangeNotifier();

        _tagRegion = new Region("Region",null, null, null);

        _beaconManager.Bind(this);

        _beaconManager.SetBackgroundScanPeriod(60000);
        _beaconManager.SetForegroundScanPeriod(60000);
        _beaconManager.SetBackgroundBetweenScanPeriod(30000);
        _beaconManager.SetForegroundBetweenScanPeriod(30000);

        _rangeNotifier.DidRangeBeaconsInRegionComplete += RangingBeaconsInRegionComplete;

    }

The method RangingBeaconsInRegionComplete fills my list foundBeacons with the beacons detected.
Also, I have a method that gets all the available detected beacons as follows:
ObservableCollection<DetectedBeacon> BeaconLocator.GetAvailableBeacons()
{
    return !_paused ? foundBeacons : null;
}

Now, I call the method GetAvailableBeacons() as follows:
public void PopulateBeacons() {
   beaconsOnList = be.GetAvailableBeacons();
   PopulateBeacons();
}

My issue is that sometimes it is missing some beacons, that is some beacons are not being detected. Also, the interval of scan does not seem to be working properly. Can someone advise what is wrong ?

A: In order for your scan periods to take effect right away, the easiest solution is to move the calls to set them before the call to bind so it looks like this:
    _beaconManager.SetBackgroundScanPeriod(60000);
    _beaconManager.SetForegroundScanPeriod(60000);
    _beaconManager.SetBackgroundBetweenScanPeriod(30000);
    _beaconManager.SetForegroundBetweenScanPeriod(30000);

    _beaconManager.Bind(this);

By default, the scan will happen every 1.1 seconds and give you a result of all beacons seen in that period.  This is probably what you are seeing happening without the code change above.
With shorter scan intervals, it is common for beacons with low advertising rates (e.g. ones that advertise only once every second) to not appear in the detection list for a single scan cycle.   You can solve this by increasing the length of the scan cycle as you say you want to do, by increasing the advertising rate of the beacons, or building code logic that maintains a full list of beacons detected recently even if they weren't seen in the most recent scan cycle.
Short answer:  If you increase your scan period successfully, I suspect this problem will go away.

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Subject: Beavis & Butt-Head
Huh Huh Huh Huh Huh Huh This show kicks... :-X!!!
It's one of the greatest cartoons from the 1990's. Some of my favorite episodes was when they washed Tom Anderson's dog, some "Cornholio" episodes, the second holiday episode with the parodies of "A Christmas Carol" & "It's A Wonderful Life", and when they can't laugh when certain words are said. :D
It's now on MTV2 with the music video bits.
Subject: Re: Beavis & Butt-Head
Written By: 1992thousand on 04/27/04 at 6:47 am
oh how i miss the days of dillweeds and fartknockers.
Written By: LyricBoy on 04/27/04 at 7:39 pm
It's one of the greatest cartoons from the 1990's. Some of my favorite episodes was when they washed Tom Anderson's dog, some "Cornholio" episodes, the second holiday episode with the parodies of "A Christmas Carol" & "It's A Wonderful Life", and when they can't laugh when certain words are said. :D
Huh huh huh huh huh. You said Cornholio.
Written By: Howard on 04/27/04 at 8:02 pm
I remember an episode where they were working in a restaurant and they used Nightcrawlers as French fries. :P
Written By: AL-B on 04/27/04 at 9:58 pm
Is it just me, or does Jonathan Davis of Korn sound suspiciously like Beavis?
Written By: LyricBoy on 04/28/04 at 8:00 am
I have a Beavis & Butthead plastic scuplture on top of my TV.
Whenever I press the TV remote control, the sculpture plays classic B&B lines like:
"Shut up, you fartknocker!"
"Whoa... That was pretty cool."
"Change the channel. This sucks!"
Fun stuff. :D
Todd always beat the snot out of them in almost every episode. ;D :D
Todd always beat the snot out of them in almost every episode. ;D :D
Heh, heh....heh, heh...Todd's cool!
"I Need TP For My Bunghole". ;D
Written By: Chrisrj on 04/30/04 at 2:04 am
One thing's always puzzled me:
Why do they always say 'fartknocker'? How exactly does one knock a fart? Of course, I just realized it might mean 'knockin' a fart out of someone', but what's insulting about that?
Oh yeah, anyone remember the one where they forgot how to urinate? :D
Written By: LyricBoy on 04/30/04 at 11:35 am
"My people... they are without bungholes !"
;D :D
Why do they always say 'fartknocker'? How exactly does one knock a fart? Of course, I just realized it might mean 'knockin' a fart out of someone', but what's insulting about that?ÂÂ
Oh yeah, anyone remember the one where they forgot how to urinate? :D
They always had their own language with everyone!
I used to LOVE watching this show. My neighbor used to tape it and he'd edit out the parts where they were watching videos and have them all on another separate tape :)
I always wondered why they always got the snot beat out of them and enjoyed it so much? ;D
Written By: Im Batman on 05/03/04 at 8:26 pm
"Guitars, Chains and Chicks, they finally got it right."
--Butt-Head, watching an Ozzie video
I always wished they'd have done a final episode where the two of them got even with that @ss-hole....Todd? Maybe shoving that exhaust pipe from his mach-pig car up his behind would've been a great way to finish the series :D
Written By: bj26 on 05/04/04 at 10:41 am
Anderson calls them Beaver and Joe. Also the movie was a real monkie spanker!
Remember what Beavis and Butthead would chant whenever they saw their nemesis, Daria?
Diarrhea, cha cha cha !
I know I'm hoping against hope, but any chance the boys will be back in a new TV or movie form soon?
There is a possibility! ;D
That's a good way to end the series.How about having Todd as a friend? ???
You bring up a good point, Howard. I guess I was just thinking about all those jerks that used to pick on me back in grade school....idiots ::)
You bring up a good point, Howard. I guess I was just thinking about all those jerks that used to pick on me back in grade school....idiots ::)
you know enemies could turn into friends.... ;D
Why couldn't they just make friends with her?
I guess they could only be friends to each other.... :-\\....and the TV :D
Actually, I think they WERE friends in a weird sort of way. On occasion you could see it in how Beavis, Butthead, and Daria related to "outsiders".
I like how Beavis and Butthead always rated their videos from the TV. ;D
Written By: Chrisrj on 05/07/04 at 8:49 pm
Favorite video bits:
*Vanilla Ice: Ice Ice Baby
they just look at each other a few times, then without a word, they change the channel
*this one where a guy's wearing a dress and rockin' out, I forget the name of the group and song...
Butthead: Maybe he's wearing a dress cuz he's got a long **... huh huh huh huh
Beavis: I wouldn't mind having a long ** butthead, you know why? It makes a good shield for your n@d$, hmhm heh.
Butthead: Uhh, I guess so. But being kicked in the **'s no picnic either.
Beavis: No no, it doesn't hurt at all, see, watch.... KICK!
Butthead's face turns bright red and he screams!
Beavis: See, that didn't hurt, did it?... Oh yeah I forgot, you got a small **, nyeheheheh!!!(classic!) Why didn't Butthead ever do that same exact thing to Beavis?????
*Color Me Badd: I Wanna Sex You Up
They scream and make barfing sounds!
*Butthead: Manly yes, but Beavis likes it too! Huhuhuhuhuhuhuh!
Beavis: SHUT UP! I'll kick your @$$!
*Butthead: You know what video I'd like to see some t**ds in? Hootie & the blowfish!
Beavis: Oh yeah, 'with a little love' >poop!< 'a little tenderness' >plop plop!<
*A video from Rancid is playing:
BH: It's funny, cuz like you know, even though this video's probly real old, they still look like a bunch of regular guys...
Bv: Oh shut up.
BH: Uh ok. Um, wait, what did you just say?
Bv: I said shut up. I'm sick and tired of listening to your cr@p.
BH: Uh, beavis... I'm gonna pretend I didn't hear that.
Bv: Yea yea, I'm gonna pretend I didn't hear you; SHUT UP. Heh heh.
*A video with a naked guy(blocking himself) in a white background:
BH: Hey beavis, did you know that when you're born, you're naked?
Bv: Uhh, no. Why is that?
BH: Well, uh... *at this time, the background reveals dozens of naked women, blocking themselves*
BH: WHO0O0A!! THEY'RE ALL NAKED!!!
Bv: There's another one! AND THERE'S ANOTHER ONE!!!1
BH: This is the coolest video I have ever seen.
*A video with a puppet of a guy's face, which the hands slowly start tearing to shreds:
Bv&BH: AAAAAAA! WH0A!
BH: This is the coolest video I've ever seen.... of course, if it had like big 8008s, that'd be pretty cool, too, huhuh...
Bv: Yeah and you can tear them off too! YEAH YEAH YEAH!!!!
BH: NO, DUMB@$$, you wanna keep the 8008s on there!
Bv: Oh yeah, heh.
*Plantman:
BH: darn it, this Nickelodeon cr@p has gone too far!
*Another mediocre video:
Beavis is holding in his breath, which jars an intellectual moment, and thus causing him to give a thourough review of the video; one line is: "It speaks less to the heart, and more to the sphincter"... Butthead slaps him.
Bv: Whoa, what happened?
BH: You held your breath and started talking like a dumb@$$... but you did say spincter, huhuh.
Bv: Whoa! Um, it's pronounced 'SFEENK-ter', Butthead.
Written By: Hawaiin Sweetness on 05/10/04 at 11:11 pm
I loved Beavis and Butt-Head. Got them on tape! :D
Written By: Sentimentalist on 05/11/04 at 1:12 am
ka...ka...ka..ki..ler....KILER? Kiler's cool.
KvayaBN
Written By: Im Batman on 05/11/04 at 1:12 am
I got the Beavis and Butt-Head DVD's. Just another reason why the 90's ruled.
Anyone see Beavis and Butthead Do America? ;D
I have. I liked the scene with Beavis becoming "Cornholio" in an airplane. :D
I have. I liked the scene with Beavis becoming "Cornholio" in an airplane. :D
Both of them are just wacky characters in that movie. :D
I'd like to see a "Beavis and Butthead Do Islamic Terrorists" movie, in which they get the upper hand over the bad guys in their wacky way. ;D
Kind of like the old Three Stooges episodes and Bugs Bunny cartoons they did back during WW2.
I'd like to see a "Beavis and Butthead Do Islamic Terrorists" movie, in which they get the upper hand over the bad guys in their wacky way. ;D
Or Beavis and Butthead In Iraq with Butthead doing a Saddam Hussein impression. ;D
Written By: maddog on 05/18/04 at 4:13 am
I saw it...I liked the part where the army general who detested poor grammar was correcting the sergeant on his report.
Sergeant: Sir, this is the trailer we caught the two perpetrators jacking off in.
General: WHAT'S THAT SERGEANT!? Never end a sentence with a preposition!
Sergeant: Sir, this is the trailer in which we caught the two perpetrators jacking off...?
General: NOOO! Again, Sergeant
Sergeant: errrr...this is the trailer, jacking off in which we caught the two perpetrators?
General: Very good Sergeant!
How about Beavis and Butthead do Iran? ;D
Written By: Koop on 05/20/04 at 11:26 pm
To go just a little off topic, South Park did something along those lines, with Cartman as the Bugs Bunny character and Bin Laden as the goofy villain ;D
I always wondered why Kenny got killed in every episode? ??? ;D
Written By: Captain_N on 05/29/04 at 10:21 am
I loved this series. I lost a tape that had a few of the older episodes on it. I seem to remember a 2 part episode where they ride down to Mexico with a guy named Dave. As they approach the border, going back into the US, Dave tells the boys "it's time to earn your keep, look in the glove box." Butthead opens the glove box to find 2 condoms. Butthead says to Beavis "oh no Dave's gonna boof us." Dave ends up telling B&B they are for smuggling pills. They swallow the condoms with the pills inside, but don't bother to tie the open end of the rubber. By the time they reach the border patrol, B&B are completely messed up, and hillarity ensues. I wish I could find my old tape. :\'(
Written By: bj26 on 06/02/04 at 7:32 am
What did the old lady on the bus call them when she introduced them to the old man sitting beside her?
I really don't know BJ. ???
Written By: Koop on 06/02/04 at 6:21 pm
I'm pretty sure that she called Beavis "Travis" but I can't remember what she called Butt-Head.
Written By: bj26 on 06/03/04 at 2:11 pm
lol, now I remember, I think it was Travis and Bob! hahahahahahah ;D
Written By: Stuart on 10/14/04 at 9:22 pm
beavis and butthead are cool. and uh, you all suck.
Yeah...and YOU'RE a KIND person ::)
Written By: Tanya1976 on 10/15/04 at 6:36 pm
Catch it on MTV2!
Written By: SeptGrl80 on 10/16/04 at 4:37 pm
I loved Beavis & Butthead back in the day but it doesn't seem that funny to me anymore.
I always loved those episodes where they got in trouble and never really cared about it. ;D
Written By: DaChazman on 10/20/04 at 7:06 pm
(Butthead is a telemarketer)
Butthead: Uh..(reading) I...have...a..special..o-offer...for you. uhhh.. (not reading) It's in my pants. uh-huh-huh
Girl on phone: ewwww... sicko. (hangs up)
How about where Beavis eats all the candy instead of the breakfast burrito then gets all hyper and stuff? ;D
Subject: Closing Time on Beavis and Butt-Head
Written By: vietpir on 02/13/05 at 11:30 pm
::) There were two guys from Mira Mesa High school in San Diego whose nick names are "Beavis and Butthead"
NAte Mangum (Beavis) and Eric Thorpe (Butt-Head)
In that episode called "Closing time", They were using the night crawlers as the seasoned curly fries and Nate and Eric were mocking that episode. Eric was headbanging like uh-uh-uh-uh while swinging his head up and down. Nate said "Hey eric check out these night crawlers I found in the parking lot"
Eric: Whoa! Eric to the mic : Da-da da-da da-da-da-da-daaa Night Crawler. Nate followed it too!
Who sang that song for real?
No wonder AARON SPELLING created Beavis and Butt-Head!
Written By: AL-B on 02/13/05 at 11:53 pm
So many great moments...
One time, B & B were watching TV, and two women were making out.
Butthead: "Check it out, Beavis...Libyans!"
Beavis: "Yeah! Yeah! Libyans are cool!"
There was another episode where they walked into an Army recruiting office, and the recruiter (named Sgt. Dick Leaky) convinced them to join the Army. He had them sign the papers and was all ready to ship them off to boot camp whern he noticed they had signed under the names "Major Woody" and "Private Parts."
My favorite character was the hardcore ex-Marine teacher named Mr. Buzzcut. In one episode the principal was fed up at Beavis and Butthead for laughing in class all of the time, and he warned them that if they got caught laughing one more time they'd get kicked out of school. Mr. Buzzcut caught wind of this, and decided he'd torture Beavis and Butthead a little bit. He stood up in front of the class and barked out in his drill sergeant's voice, "Today we're going to talk about the PENIS! And, the VAGINA!" Then he got right up in Beavis and Butthead's faces and yelled, "And, if we have time, we'll even talk about MAS-TUR-BATION!!!" After the bell rang, Beavis and Butthead ran outside and started laughing and hyperventilating at the same time.
I miss this show!
Written By: Marty McFly on 03/17/05 at 6:32 pm
I love Beavis & Butthead - slightly ashamed to admit it sometimes, but it's true!
Just to get the discussion rolling again, how do you think Buzzcut got a job at the school in the first place? I always get a kick out of it when he gets all p**sed-off (especially at B+BH), but obviously, with his temper and always threatening to kick the kids' butts, he'd get fired in an instant in real life.
On the same level, I always liked how they thought Todd was cool even though he usually beat the cr@p out of them - especially Beavis. They probably thought if they made friends with him, they could do it too (i.e. with Stewart).
Still, I agree, if they got back at Todd in the end, that'd have been cool. I wonder what was up with him and his severe dislike of them.
PS: Remember the Halloween episode where Beavis -- during his Cornholio stage -- gets stopped by Todd? He & his buddies are about to kick his butt when they move onto ButtHead, just for laughing at it. I know it was for the storyline, but why'd they totally forget about Beavis all of a sudden? LOL.
Written By: 90s boy on 03/17/05 at 8:31 pm
Daria lol i loved that show and i loved her on Beavis & Butt-Head lol any one gonna tlak about the movie
Written By: Marty McFly on 03/18/05 at 1:07 am
^ Oddly enough, I've never seen Daria's show, although I recall it from 1997 or so.
Just watching some more of my taped episodes right now - one of the funniest things is when Burger World is busy around lunchtime, the manager calls their house. Butt-Head picks up and pretends he's Beavis just 'cause he doesn't want to go into work himself. I don't think I've ever laughed that hard in awhile. :D
Did you see that one where they prank call a guy named "Harry Sachz"? The guy gets madder every time, and when he calls them back pretending to have a pizza, the B's give him Stewart's address? Well, needless to say, Harry busts in the door and goes for Stewart's dad. But, wouldn't he recognize that it wasn't the same voice (Beavis did say "You suck!" and Butt-Head talked to him for a minute about the pizza)?
You'd think he'd have been convinced it was Stewart - but it was far funnier (and less scary) a huge guy like that going after his dad, LOL.
Written By: Dave Brown on 03/18/05 at 4:46 am
I loved it. They did take the p1ss out of Debbie Gibson's video for "Out Of The Blue" which I thought was funny.
Am I right in thinking that have bought out some new episodes in the US?
Written By: razOr on 04/17/05 at 9:29 am
anybody here have some old old episodes they taped back in the day with msuiv vids .i have a bunch of them i have
Season1 -Complete HQ with vidoes
Season2-Complete HQ with videos
Written By: SingBlueSilver on 04/17/05 at 3:49 pm
;) I remember shortly after B&B started, I hooked up with a friend that lived locally that I met on the internet (I'm a girl and he's a guy, but we truly were only friends). Anyway, all we did the first time we met was hang out and watch B&B marathons and laugh until our stomachs hurt. It was the one of the silliest things I had ever done but boy did we have a blast. Hook up after meeting on the internet, then watch Beavis & Butthead.....could this BE anymore 90s??
Written By: Red Ant on 04/18/05 at 1:43 am
I'm suprised no one has mentioned 3 things:
1: The first year animation sucked
2: That AFAIK all the episodes where Beavis says " Fire " are no longer aired
3: The " Spanish Fly " epsisode. The exchange I remember went like this:
( setting school cafeteria, lunch is tacos- they have aquired " Spanish Fly " )
Butthead: Umm, Beavis, if you like abstract a chick I'll stick it in her taco.
Beavis: I thought you had to give her the Spanish Fly first
Butthead ( smacks Beavis ): What the hell did you think I was talking about buttplug?
The ONLY time I ever heard them use " Buttplug ".
The movie was great, but South Park rules now. Even Terrance and Phillip are funnier than Beavis and Butthead ( especially the South Park Movie )
Here's a new B & BH message board I found while checking out the IMDB.com board. :) So far I've created a couple posts - same username as here - so if anyone else is interested, here's the link:
http://beavis9.10.forumer.com/index.php
Written By: DevoRule on 04/20/05 at 4:48 pm
"South Park" in Generation Y's "Beavis and Butthead". I actually like Beavis and Butt-head better; it just has a nostalgic charm and South Park, while hilarious, is GROSS!
Written By: Red Ant on 04/20/05 at 9:00 pm
"South Park" in Generation Y's "Beavis and Butthead". I actually like Beavis and Butt-head better; it just has a nostalgic charm and South Park, while hilarious, is GROSS!
Yes, South Park is gross but also *usually* moralistic and stays up on current events. The satire is priceless. I do have the B & B CD set though as I like them as well. I do miss them ragging to death crappy music videos they watched.
Yeah, they usually are "positive" in a really really twisted way on "South Park". B&B isn't really positive or negative: it's just dumb. But genius too 8)
Early "South Park" wasn't so smart and pop-culture filled. It was mostly talking turkeys and killing Kenny.
Yeah, they usually are "positive" in a really really twisted way on "South Park". B&B isn't really positive or negative: it's just dumb. But genius too 8)
Early "South Park" wasn't so smart and pop-culture filled. It was mostly talking turkeys and killing Kenny.
Well, the first aired episode of " South Park " was Cartman's " @nal Probe ", which had no moralistic view.Agreed, not so smart. Just an 80 ft sattelite dish coming from Cartman's a$$ and him setting things on fire with his farts ( for the most part ). ;D
Killing Kenny is the only real constant in the show ( few exceptions/seasons ).
Agreed as well, B&B was totally dumb but genious as well. :)
^ Good points. South Park started out even dumber, more for shock value.
I actually do think B & B proved a point with some of their shows, even if it was less obvious. Remember that one with the P.A.T. kids and their dad picking them up from detention and trying to get them to pick up garbage on the side of the highway?
They just start playing catch with an old hubcap and it knocks the dad out. When his kid gets upset -- thinking it killed him -- Butthead just takes his wallet, then they leave and don't even care. Of course, the guy lives (that would be a pretty depressing show if he didn't) but - even though that was funny in a dark way - I do think it kind of proved a point about how some really dump people wouldn't have feelings about some things no matter what.
On that note, what I think is true throughout is that - while they're dumb, the show itself is not.
I really haven't seen much B&B but you're probably right. A lot of dumb shows are smart on the inside.
Don't you think "Beavis and Butthead" is sort of nostalgic a way South Park will never be?
Definitely. Even in 1997, I was starting to become nostalgic for 1994 (but in 2000 - or even now - I'm not nostalgic for '97 at all. I might miss something I did then, or want to go back for personal reasons, but I don't miss 1997 for the year itself).
There's even a tinge of 80's in B & BH since they're still rockers/metalheads. I think the huge culture shift we both agree on -- from 1996 to '97 -- was detrimental to the B's success. On the other side of that shift, it made the show start seeming dated, whereas South Park, even after almost 8 years, doesn't seem that way.
Written By: DevoRule on 04/21/05 at 10:04 pm
Agreed 100% :)
I think South Park is technically a better show, but I like Beavis and Butt-head better because of its nostalgic charm and also because it isn't so loaded with gore. I can't remember a gory scene on Beavis and Butt-head. I'd guess at most they have a couple bloody scenes. I do love South Park too though, I just don't like the vibe of 1997-2005 it gives. You could almost make a case for saying the Zero Decade started in 1997.
ARE YOU MOCKING ME????
Beavis and Butthead are cool :)
Written By: holicman on 07/10/05 at 5:49 am
I reckon that Beavis and Butthead do America far outweighs a majority of their episodes..............
The concept that 2 dumbasses are suspected as criminal masterminds is hilarious............and all of this eventuates from the fact that their TV gets stolen and they go out and try to get another.
Awesome film :D
SPOILERS BELOW:
The concept that 2 dum****** are suspected as criminal masterminds is hilarious............and all of this eventuates from the fact that their TV gets stolen and they go out and try to get another.
Yeah. And the total irony is, the TV they do end up getting is their old one. :D
^ Slightly banged-up perhaps, partly from the thieves and just the elements, but theirs nonetheless!
I know it's just a movie, but they must've been gone at least, say two weeks - I'm surprised no one else stole it in that time it was just sitting there in plain sight, LOL!
Written By: Kareoke Queen on 07/13/05 at 2:42 am
I remember one episode when they couldn't urinate. They saw some sort of doctor and then all of a sudden they urinated. She told them to stop but they couldn't.
Written By: mattmatt on 05/21/06 at 7:17 am
does anyone here have the uncensored/unedited season 3 episodes that they wouldn't mind sharing? e.g by uploading the file to megaupload.com or something?
ive got all the episodes with music videos, but theres a few im looking for in better quality such as the unedited comedians, kidnapped, scared straight, sporting goods and eating contest.
i have all these episodes, but really want them unedited >>> see this guide for the edits (http://www.xs4all.nl/~rjwj/mirror/bnbepguide.html)
also, does anyone have the rare version of "give blood" that has the sinead o connor and megadeth videos?
thanks in advance to anyone that can help me, my msn/email is the_gill89@hotmail.co.uk

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After teaching (and studying ) second languages, I started to view language as part of a bigger picture: linguistics. Linguistics breaks language down into structure and grammar so it is easier to be taught and learned. And what are the benefits of our brains evolving and mastering linguistics? Mankind can communicate.
Every language has their own spin on linguistics, creating a unique culture all their own. It's no wonder France and Germany are so different, Italy and Spain. They are close geographically but have each developed in it's own unique language and culture. Language is constantly changing and evolving. (There are over 1000 dialects in the world) My move to Europe, 2 years ago, taught me the benefits of being a bilingual individual. Most residents in big European cities are either bilingual or multilingual.
In college, I began studying Spanish and continued my studies when I made my move to Spain in 2015. I would 2 and a half years has created a strong linguistic base. My next challenge is Italian. (will keep you posted on that one.) Right now I am currently living in Sevilla, Spain and speak mostly Spanish throughout the day.
I also am able to continue studying with the help of McGraw Hill's "Easy Step by Step" (as shown in the photo above). Recommended to anyone learning a language on the go.
I hope this post helps anyone else currently studying a romantic language. Good luck and happy learning!
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Chinese Cars In Iran: An Almost 20-Year Long Love Story
Pal Negyesi
Amico Asena
Chinese cars have been available in Iran since the mid-2000s. While it is not among the country's biggest export markets, but as the 19th biggest automobile industry in the world, it is worth examining.
Since Donald Trump renewed sanctions against Iran in 2018 the country's automotive industry has been shunned by Western countries. Previously car makers such as Peugeot, Renault, Volkswagen and Hyundai announced joint ventures, the biggest parts makers, including Bosch and Continental flocked to the country to find local partners. But in the last four years all of these deals have been dismantled. Still, Iranian car makers produced 894,298 vehicles in 2021 according to OICA (which is actually much lower than the actual volume – see below), which puts the country above Italy, South Africa and Poland in terms of volume.
Recently Iran made headlines when Russians visited the country, trying to understand how to cope with crippling international sanctions.
Here we take a detailed look at the local auto industry, especially the role of Chinese companies.
Zamyad Z24
The Iranian Auto Industry
How big is the Iranian market? As stated above OICA puts it around the 900,000 mark, but in reality it is closer to 1.1 million. The problem is that some of the local companies remain tight-lipped about their production and most of the sources are only available in Farsi. However some fairly reliable local sources quoted 1.1 million, which makes Iran the biggest market in the Middle East. Truth of the matter is that most of the "new" cars are actually quite old – Iran was the last country in the world where up until recently you could buy a brand new Kia Pride, the subcompact hatchback which was originally available in South Korea from 1987 to 2000! While the Pride is gone, you can still buy a brand new Peugeot 405 or even a Nissan Junior pickup truck which has been out of production in Japan since 1982!
The market is dominated by two state-owned companies, Iran Khodro and SAIPA. Both were set up in the 1960s and were teamed up with international partners. Their history mirrors the country's story as they were forced to change partners, had troubles setting up joint ventures and still can't get access to the latest technology. Their current problems include crippling debt, an outdated model lineup and there are management issues as well.
Iran Khodro (IKCO) heavily relies on models which originates from Peugeot, such as the 206/207, the 405, the 405-based Pars, the 405-derived Samand and Dena. These are mostly sedans. For a while there was a JV with Peugeot for the local assembly of the Peugeot 2008, but that was dismantled after the latest round of sanctions have arrived. Recently IKCO first introduced a sedan, based around Peugeot 301 components, followed by a brand new crossover, which follows closely the lines of the 2008.
IKCO Dena
On the other hand the besteller of SAIPA which was forced to stop production of the Pride in 2000 due to safety concerns is the Quick, which is still based on the Pride!
There was also a trickle of imports in the late 2010s, but due to currency shortages these have been banned. While these restrictions have recently been lifted and it is hoped that new car imports may restart later this year, CBU imports are just a blip on the Iranian horizon.
Against this backdrop, let's see who's doing what with Chinese companies. Sometimes it is a bit difficult to untangle the origins of an Iranian car, as most of these models are sold via some kind of badge engineering. Companies like BAIC and DongFeng serve more than one Iranian companies through their subsidiaries.
Iran Khodro owns a string of manufacturing plants in Iran. Their commercial vehicle subsidiary, Iran Khodro has teamed up with Foton for the production of trucks. Additionally the Tunland pickup and View minibus are being assembled in very small quantity. Much more succesful is the partnership with Haima – the company's biggest plant outside Tehran is located in Mashhad, Khorasan province, where 23,000 units of the Haima S7 and S5 were assembled last year. Recently the Haima S8 has also been introduced for the local market and its sales will be launched later this year.
While IKCO currently works with Foton and Haima, it also had other partners before. Once it tried to get into the Chinese market. In the late 2000s, it teamed up with a local dealer, Sanabad Khodro Toos for the local assembly of Chery, but this remained a very short-lived project. A few years ago IKCO launched the assembly of the Dongfeng A30, but it stopped in 2020.
Saipa Quick
SAIPA is working with Chinese companies through its subsidiaries, Pars Khodro and Zamyad. Tehran-based Pars Khodro was once a proud partner of Renault, offering the Logan with a slightly reworked front as the Tondar (Thunder) and also the Sandero. While the Renault deal went out the window, their more recent endeavour with China Brilliance is still ongoing. In 2021 about 5300 units of the H230 sedan has been assembled in China. Pars Khodro was the first to work with Dongfeng Nissan on the Iranian assembly of the Rich pickup in the 2010s. Later these operations have been transferred to the group's pick-up specialist company, Zamyad.
Zamyad Padra Plus
The main product of Zamyad is the Z24, which is the late 1970s Nissan Junior pickup with a more modern engine. The Rich is no longer assembled by them as Zamyad is more involved with Nanhai Foday. Offering one of their pickups under the name Padra. And in July this year a new version of the Padra emerged. Called the Karoon it is said to be a combination of a Nissan Junior engine and running gear with a more modern body from Foday!
Kerman Motor Industries
KMC J7
Kerman Motor is usually being referred to as "privately owned". In Iran this does not mean that a few businessmen got together and invested in a manufacturing plant. In Iran there are over 100 Bonyads, charitable trusts which are tax-exempt and are heavily affiliated with religious leaders. One of these bonyads, Mol-Al Mohavedin set up Kerman Automotive Industries in the city of Bam, 200 km from Kerman in 1990.
At first Kerman made a deal with Daewoo on the local assembly of the Matiz and Cielo. When Daewoo went belly-up the next best thing was to offr a copy of the Daewoo Matiz – so Chery entered the picture in the early 2000s. A new joint venture, Modiran Vehicle Manufacturing (MVM) was set up exactly 20 years ago, utilising part of the Bam factory.
In 2021 MVM produced almost 60,000 Chery models. Its current lineup includes the following
X33, aka Tiggo3
X22, aka Tiggo 3x
X55, aka Tiggo5X
315, aka A13 or Fulwin2
plus Chery badged models, the Arrizo6, Tiggo7.
Just like in China, Chery was not happy with just two brands (Chery and MVM). So in 2022 a third brand was introduced in Iran: Fownix (Phoenix). It offers the Tiggo7 Pro, the Tiggo8 and has plans to add the Omoda 5 later this year.
Fownix Arrizo 6
Chery is not the only Chinese partner of Kerman Motor. Since 2014 it is also working with Anhui Jianghuai. Last year over 22,000 units have been assembled of the S3 and S5 crossover and the J4 sedans. In an even more significant move, Kerman Motor took over the production line of the J4 sedan this year and it seems they are planning to turn it into an EV. Recently the J7 sedan was unveiled, which will be sold as the KMC J7 locally.
There are two other, smaller subsidiaries, occupying small parts of the Bam factory. Karmania works with Byd, but volumes are minimal, while Rigan Khodro assembled a few hundred Zotye Coupa T210 models in 2021.
Bahman
Controlled by the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, a military organisation, Bahman Motor enjoyed healthy relations with Mazda for many years. However with the latest round of sanctions the Japanese took a step back, which forced Bahman to find new partners.
Bahman has been working with Zhongxing since the early 2010s and offered the Grand Tiger pickup as the Capra. However Bahman is doing much more business with DongFeng nowadays. It offers one of its crossovers under the Dignity moniker (originally Dongfeng Fengguang ix5) and the Inroads minivan (originally Sokon C35). It seems Bahman has also talked to Chery as its Fidelity is a Jetour X70S with a different badge and Iranian media has also mentioned the Respect sedan aka Chery Arrizo7. While the crossovers have been plastered across Tehran in big billboards, the Respect has not gone on sale yet.
When Chinese presence on the Iranian market is considered hype needs to be separated from actual sales. There are companies which show a Chinese car, promise deliveries, which never happen. So the following list contains the most credible projects:
Diar Khodro is a small company from the city of Golpayegan. It was established in 1999 and its first partner was Great Wall. By the 2010s the company ran out of steam and its production licence has expired in 2016. But it bounced back and lined up a second partner, BAIC. According to local reports production has been ramped up since this Spring with the Great Wall Wingle pickup and the BAIC Senova X25 being the main offerings.
Safe Khodro is the former distributor of Subaru cars in Iran. In late 2016 the company scooped up the assets of Morattab Khodro, one of the oldest automotive companies in Iran which used to assemble Land Rover cars for the military and to a small degree to the civilian market as well. The Morattab Khodro plant is used today for the assembly of the SWM G01, a crossover from Brilliance Shineray. About 4000 units are claimed to be the production figure for 2021.
AMICO is a commercial vehicle specialist which ventured into the light commercial market with the Huanghai H2 pickup truck, which is sold as the AMICO Asena on the Iranian market. About 1200 units were assembled last year.
Azim Khodro is a car dealer, which has taken over the facilities of Zagross Khodro, a former assembly plant. It is working with Hanteng Autos and offers the SKD-assembled X7 and X5 crossovers.
Farda Motors is proudly stating its independence, but the main product of the Senman factory is the IKCO Pars! For years Farda Motors has been promising to bring two products from Dongfeng's Forthing sub-brands to the Iranian market: the SX5 and T5 crossovers. In July, 2022 Farda announced that it has opened a second plant for the assembly of the Chinese models.
Mammut Khodro belongs to a huge industrial complex. Its biggest claim to fame was its partnership with Volkswagen, which the new sanctions blew up. The company is trying to find new partners. At the Tehran Motor Show in June, one of its subsidiaries presented the BAIC Ruixing X5 as the Tiara crossover. Local assembly has just commenced.
Maxmotor Tiara
At the moment the Iranian market is in a state of suspense. Everybody is hopeful that sanctions will be lifted. The head of Kerman Motor recently said in an interview that they have a deal with Hyundai ready and it will be signed as soon as circumstances change. In the meantime the Iranian government is trying to figure out what to do with IKCO and SAIPA.
Chinese companies, with the exception of Chery, are used mostly as band-aid to plaster the deficiency of the market. Whether it will change is a question nobody can answer at the moment.
Bahman Fidelity
If you are interested in English-language news on the Iranian market, you can find more information in the weekly Ceauto Headlines Middle East Newsletter. You can download a sample here.
IKCO
Kerman Motor
Zamyad
E.R August 28, 2022 At 18:26
Iran's car market is very bad. The cars are sold at very expensive prices, we don't have new cars, and the new cars in iran are for 2018 and they are sold at strange prices in Iran. Toyota Land Cruiser with a mileage of 100,000 km has a price of 200,000 dollars in Iran, and a car like Kia Pride is sold at a price of 6000 dollars! And a 9000 dollars Chinese car like Changan Alsvin (Farda 511 in Iran) is sold for 20 000 dollars and Tigo 8 Pro costs 60 000 dollars and Benz E class and BMW 5 series cars of 2015 and 2016 models are more than 150 000 Dollars. Iran's car market is very bad.
JFK August 28, 2022 At 18:54
What is up with this odd formating of the text?
Jiri Opletal August 28, 2022 At 21:43
Thanks, it's fixed now.
Awesome, thanks very much!
khodrom.ir August 28, 2022 At 20:49
Iranians are forced to use Chinese cars or low-quality Iranian cars. Unfortunately, the car market in Iran is not free. khodrom.ir
dragn August 30, 2022 At 03:39
A wonderful and very informative account of the Iran-China car connection that we have been reading about in drips and drabs over those 20 years. You've cleared up a lot, of the cloudy journalism we had been limited to.
Thank you Pal.
Pal Negyesi August 30, 2022 At 11:30
Thank you, much appreciated.
IlRoz January 4, 2023 At 02:15
" offering the Logan with a slightly reworked front as the Tondar"
The rear was changed, not the front.
"Iranian media has also mentioned the Respect sedan aka Chery Arrizo7"
Not a Chery Arrizo7, but it's revised version, Cowin Xiandu.
Pal Negyesi January 9, 2023 At 11:48
Thanks for your comment. You are right on both.
Re Bahman Respect – Iranian media mentioned Chery Arrizo7 and for once, I did not check.


Mobile video viewing favors short and easily consumable experiences. Short sells. In response to the succinct, six-second video platform Vine, even the streaming powerhouse Netflix plans to divvy up its movie and television content into more digestible five-minute clips, according to Digiday.
But enough about traditional video. What about live-streaming, where users generate and broadcast the content to almost anyone, outside normal production and distribution channels?
Meerkat and Periscope are leading the live streaming charge.
The Meerkat app lets you stream live video to your Twitter followers. VentureBeat noted that within a few weeks of launching at SXSW Interactive in Austin, the clever Meerkat app had nearly 100,000 downloads and had raised $14 million in funding. Twitter had already purchased Periscope, another live-streaming app with almost identical functionality to Meerkat.
Vine made us rethink about mobile video. Meerkat and Periscope take us to another level. The acquisition not only reflects Twitter's move to boost its video capabilities, but highlights a feature users want. Adding the ability to stream live video on Twitter is a great business strategy, capitalizing on its position as a real-time broadcast medium. It's hard to argue with an app that reports to have over 300 million users and 500 million Tweets each day.
So what does this mean for our mobile devices? Live video streaming on smart phones and tablets consumes storage capacity and battery life.
It won't be enough to merely watch Meerkat and Periscope streams. Users will want to capture and repeat the experience. With Meerkat, when your broadcasted stream ends, you have the option to save it to your camera roll.
That will generate more data that needs to be stored.
We believe interactivity and these new media behaviors are pushing the boundaries of our mobile devices. Specifically, live streaming is going to require higher quality memory (for performance) and larger memory capacity (to store more).
It will make sense for mobile device users to seek out solutions such as wireless storage, mobile flash drives or flash memory cards to support the heavy data loads involved in live streaming. Downloading a video used to be time-consuming and expensive, but now it's effortless and low-cost. Live streaming has arrived. It will be as pervasive as photo sharing.


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The Speedvagen Ready Made Disc OG. Built in Portland.
Portland's framebuilder scene has changed a lot since its heyday more than a decade ago. At one point it felt like a new builder would arrive on the scene every month. Builders were the toast of the town and were invited to display their creations everywhere from City Hall to City Club and even the Portland Airport.
The boom has passed and the number of local framebuilders has shrunk back to just a handful. The builders that remain are mostly the ones that seemed to have always been here. Sacha White is one of them.
White's Vanilla Bicycles were some of the most coveted bicycles on the planet. "What Tiffany is to pearls, Sacha White is to bicycle frames," was how he was introduced to a group of business leaders at an event in 2007. Now known as The Vanilla Workshop, a collaborative approach to business White launched in 2015, he and his team of bicycle artisans continue to set standards in the industry.
The Vanilla Workshop's Richard Pool recently got in touch to share their latest "Ready Made" offering from the Speedvagen family. White stopped making only one-off, custom bikes long ago. Like other builders, he realized it's impossible to scale-up and get more of your bikes on the road when you make everything by yourself with your own two hands. White found a niche doing small-batch builds. Vanilla's Ready Made bikes are semi-custom. They start with a stock geometry and design and build a run of sizes. Customers can then choose a parts kit, paint and which braze-ons (attachment points for racks, pump, bottles, fenders) they'd like.
The bike comes with a standard build kit that can be upgraded and customized to your wishes. The base price for a complete bike is $5995 and it takes $500 to reserve one. Wait time is just 2-3 months, a relative blink of the eye compared to the 3-4 year wait back in Vanilla's custom days.
Sacha White and one of his Speedvagens.
One of the perks of living in a great bike town is great bike shopping. This weekend you've got two opportunities to find major scores from two very cool bike companies: The Vanilla Workshop and Vespertine.
Vanilla needs no introduction. This is the brand developed by southeast Portlander Sacha White and it includes his world-famous Vanilla Bicycles, his Speedvagen production line of cyclocross and road bikes, and the various other art, fashion and other design collaborations housed under the Vanilla Workshop banner.
This Saturday, White and his talented crew will throw open the doors of their shop at SE 17th and Powell for a "Garage Sale" that is sure to be full of brag-worthy, hard-to-find items at great prices. The event flyer promises deals on products from Edge, Phil Wood, Chris King Precision Components, Fizik, Shimano, Campy, Vanilla team kit, and much more.
birthday gift for his 8 year-old daughter.
Everyone in the handmade bike industry must wonder where framebuilding phenom Sacha White gets the inspiration for his always impressive bicycles.
An upcoming exhibit at the San Francisco Museum of Craft and Design will feature a custom tricycle designed by Portland-based bike builder Sacha White.
According to an article in today's San Francisco Chronicle, the exhibit, "New West Coast Design: Contemporary Objects," will feature 60 items from 40 West Coast artists.
For small, independent framebuilders, each bike that rolls out of the shop takes months to create. From getting to know the customer and purchasing and prepping the frame tubes, to welding and laboring over all the details.
Then, at the end of that process, the frames are usually boxed up and shipped out to one of a handful of painters nationwide that are capable of delivering a reliable and high-quality paint job.
Last Christmas, Marko Muellner's wife bought him a 10-week course in documentary filmmaking.
In the last few years, Sacha White, the man behind southeast Portland-based Vanilla Bicycles, has earned a place in the pantheon of the world's best custom bike builders, past or present.
He has an impeccable eye for design, a passion for high-performance and a deep respect for the craftsman ethic of the great builders before him.
Before he turned his eye to bikes, Sacha applied himself to restoring Vespas; hand-shaping fenders, buffing chrome, and choosing parts and colors that achieved the same magical mix of beauty and function that his bikes are so well known for today.


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PGE to develop Engagement Guide for gender equity in supply chains
18 / Apr / 17
"Improvements in gender equality and economic growth can be mutually reinforcing, while gender inequalities tend to be costly and inefficient." ~ UN Food and Agriculture (FAO) Agency, 2016.
Closing the gender gap is key to sustainable coffee
A mounting body of evidence indicates that closing the gender gap is a key strategy toward achieving a sustainable coffee sector. A number of tools exist to support coffee industry action to improve gender equity in their supply chain activities; however, companies have so far been slow to begin to integrate them.
The Global Coffee Platform has prioritized a Gender & Youth Collective Action Network to encourage greater engagement from the coffee sector, and has developed a collaboration with CQI's Partnership for Gender Equity (PGE) to help overcome such hurdles. During workshops conducted at the AFCA Conference in February and an industry meeting at end of March in Geneva, PGE explored the missing links for greater action and investment in gender equity initiatives.
With the input from these workshops and additional engagement with GCP members, PGE will develop an Engagement Guide to support industry actors to design gender engagements in their supply chain and integrate gender methodologies and measures into their existing projects. The guide will provide tools for roasters, retailers and traders to engage in conversation about gender equity and identify practical actions to support gender equity in their own organizations and with supply chain partners.
PGE invites GCP members to showcase their company's experience in supporting gender equity in the Guide by submitted a one-page description of their experience by May 30th. A webinar will be scheduled for mid May to share more details about the Engagement Guide and the process underway for its development.
For further information, please contact Kimberly Easson of the Coffee Quality Institute (keasson@coffeeinsitute.org) or Caroline Glowka (glowka@globalcoffeeplatform.org).


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Rush: Clockwork Angels Tour 2012 2 DVD Deluxe Edition 2013 16:9 DTS-HD 11-19-13
Double DVD edition. 2013 live release from the Canadian Prog Rock trio. Rush: Clockwork Angels Tour captures the Rock & Roll Hall of Famers' 2012-2013 sold-out tour from a unique "point-of-view" approach to filmmaking utilizing distinct composition and a "voyeuristic" style that at varying moments puts the viewer on the stage, at the side of the stage, and throughout the arena. 2012 won the Album Of The Year Award from Progressive Music Awards.
This electrifying concert features over three hours of music including favorites "Tom Sawyer" and "The Spirit of Radio," three drum solos, new string arrangements of classics such as "YYZ," "Dreamline" and "Red Sector A," and rarely performed songs such as "The Body Electric" and "Middletown Dreams." Extensive bonus features include a full version of "Limelight" from sound check and an exclusive backstage documentary shot throughout Europe. With over 40 million albums sold worldwide and more consecutive gold and platinum awards than any other rock band following The Beatles and The Rolling Stones, Rush remains one of the most inventive, compelling, and relevant musical groups today.
Artist: Rush
Title: Clockwork Angels Tour
Rated: Not Rated
Street Date: 19 November 2013
Studio: UMGD/ROUNDER ( PROU )
Region: 1: USA, Canada
Disc Info: Discs:2 ~ Format:Ntsc ~ Region:1 ~ Country:Usa
Extras: Nr/2 Dvd Nr Rush Clr Dvd-Standard


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i had some sad news given to me yesterday from two work friends. if i tell you the truth it has put me into shock. if you are not from the uk or Huddersfield you will not know what happened on a Tuesday night. sadly a woman jumped off the top of queensgate car park (a 50ft drop) and died 12hours later. i found out it was someone who i new from work. she was a lovely happy, smiling, always joking and laughing lass.
sadly you can't see into people minds and see how there really feeling :(.
So sad! I'm sorry to hear that, warmest regards from Tussila!
im just in shock 😦 ….i saw her last week and she was laughing and had a big smile on her face.
my thoughts and love are with her family and friends.
So sorry for your loss! 😞Prayers.
I'm sorry for your pain 😦 We never really know when some people are hurting. Thanks for stopping by my place.
Sorry for your loss. The world's loss. People don't know how important they are. God bless.
Sorry for your loss and your fellow coworkers loss.


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(Hendersonville/Tennessee, USA – August 24, 2012) The U.S. hotel industry reported increases in all three key performance metrics during July 2012, according to data from STR. Overall, the U.S. hotel industry's occupancy rose 0.5 percent to 70.0 percent, its average daily rate was up 3.8 percent to US$107.44 and its revenue per available room increased 4.3 percent to US$75.25. Demand during July increased 1.0 percent with 105,964,171 rooms sold, breaking the July 2011 record of 104,957,596 rooms sold.
Among the Top 25 Markets, New Orleans, Louisiana, rose 10.6 percent in occupancy to 68.0 percent, reporting the largest increase in that metric. Oahu Island, Hawaii, followed with a 10.3-percent occupancy increase to 91.8 percent. Phoenix, Arizona, fell 3.0 percent in occupancy to 46.5 percent, posting the largest decrease in that metric.
Four markets experienced double-digit ADR increases: Oahu Island (+15.8 percent to US$195.12); San Francisco/San Mateo, California (+11.9 percent to US$176.52); New Orleans (+11.0 percent to US$117.23); and Boston, Massachusetts (+10.8 percent to US$160.75). Phoenix ended the month with the largest ADR decrease, falling 1.3 percent to US$76.50.
Three markets achieved RevPAR increases of more than 15 percent: Oahu Island (+27.7 percent to US$179.20); New Orleans (+22.8 percent to US$79.72); and Houston (+16.0 percent to US$56.63). Phoenix fell 4.3 percent in RevPAR to US$35.60, reporting the largest decrease in that metric.


Please meet Lori Brookshire Parrson and Kathy Brookshire, a mother/daughter photography team!
Lori is the daughter portion of this duo and is the creative force behind the studio. Kathy (who claims to be the daughter!) is the organization that keeps the studio running day by day! Both ladies are Certified Professional Photographers and are active in every session and in the required daily design work.
Their business has always had an emphasis on family probably because family is such an important factor in their own lives!
Lori is married to her high school sweetheart, Mike. They have an active five year old boy and high hopes for providing him with a little brother or sister one of these days! Right now, their lives involve all the craziness of any young parent who works but also has a child in school, playing t-ball, going to daycare, etc.
Kathy is also married to her high school sweetheart, Steve. After raising two girls, their biggest hobby is spoiling and enjoying the two grandsons their daughters and sons-in-law have provided for them! They also enjoy traveling very much.
Both couples live in Fordyce and attend the same local Baptist church.
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Lori's son, Caden, is their go-to model for sample images for studio specials. Without a doubt, he has to be one of the most photographed boys around and he has the greatest little smile to prove it!
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A weekly series focused on Bloomington-Normal's arts community and other major events.
Last chance to see 'Mostly Monochrome,' a book-inspired art exhibit at the BPL
WGLT | By Lauren Warnecke
Published December 23, 2021 at 12:06 PM CST
Danell Dvorak
Visual artist Danell Dvorak is often inspired by literature, including this painting of "Black Dahlia" (2018). It and other works are part of "Mostly Monochrome" on display through Dec. 31 at the Bloomington Public Library.
The Bloomington Public Library lost its dedicated gallery space during a 2006 renovation, but BPL officials didn't want to wait for the long-anticipated expansion to share visual art.
Danell Dvorak is among the first local artists to show work at BPL. Through Dec. 31, her "Mostly Monochrome" exhibit is hung near the CD/DVD section, and around the circulation desk on the library's first floor.
Now entering its final week, "Mostly Monochrome" is a dream come true for bookworm Dvorak, a local artist, ceramicist and teaching artist whose love for the library runs deep.
"In the children's section, there's an annual, fifth grade art show," said Dvorak. "To me, the adult section is finally on even ground with the kids. We want to show our work at the library, too. There's a sense of honor that you are part of the library and that you're in with the books."
The decision to tuck artwork among the library collection was both artistic and practical. Without a sufficient gallery space, adult services librarian Mimi Davis said it was an obvious choice to hang art on whatever wall space was available.
"Luckily, our director Jeanne Hamilton agreed with us that art is for everybody and there's no reason to wait until we have the perfect space," Davis said.
Dvorak's curated selection for "Mostly Monochrome" is a collection of mostly black and white paintings that mimic the look of typeface on the pages of a book. As a lifelong reader, Dvorak often draws inspiration from library shelves.
"I don't know if I would have become an artist without a library, starting with picture books," she said.
The biggest considerations for which works would be part of the show were space and color scheme. But there's also an undercurrent of pulp fiction and other literature-inspired ephemera in the 10 paintings, each created between 2015 and 2021.
"If I'm looking for 'Mostly Monochrome' — black, white, and maybe one other color — then that already is going to reduce things," Dvorak said. "In terms of scale, what will fit within the spaces, and how heavy is the artwork? Then, as I went through, two pieces are specifically about Elizabeth Short and 'The Black Dahlia,' which of course the library has a copy of."
An overarching goal of BPL's exhibits is to reduce barriers to art and remind Twin Cities residents that art is for all of them.
"Art is in everything we do, and the library is one of the great examples," said Davis. "Look at all of the covers of the magazines and books — even the designs on the tiles. Art is here. There are probably people who, for whatever reason, aren't going to get to a gallery opening, but they maybe come here with kids and a stroller. Or, people who may not feel comfortable at a traditional gallery and have a pre-conceived idea that galleries are stuffy. But the library is one of the last places on earth where you can just exist. It's free for everyone."
"Mostly Monochrome: Paintings by Danell Dvorak" runs through Dec. 31 at the Bloomington Public Library. Next up, central Illinois artist Jake Reagan's show "Black and White Realism" begins Jan. 3. Individuals and artist groups can apply to show their work at bloomingtonlibrary.org.
Lauren Warnecke
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THIS DAY IN COLLIER'S WEEKLY: April 26, 1952
Pier Angeli graces the cover of this issue from the last full year in which Collier's could rightly be called The National Weekly. On the fiction front this issue features a western (or northwestern) by pulp veteran Tom W. Blackburn. He'd toiled in the pulps for more than a decade, scoring only one story in the Saturday Evening Post during that time, before he saw more slick success at the start of the 1950s. "Cragar's Girl," a fairly tough story of the sale of some timberland, was Blackburn's third and last story for Collier's, and practically his last piece of magazine fiction. His future lay in Hollywood, where he would shortly score a double-hit as the writer for Disney's Davy Crockett series and its blockbuster theme song.
Robert W. Krepps broke into Collier's around the same time Blackburn did, in 1950, but after much less dues-paying. Krepps broke into the pulps in 1947 and continued to publish in the quasi-pulp Bluebook until its demise in 1956, not long before the end of Collier's. This issue's "Nomad of the Dusk" is one of those old pop-fiction reliables, the animal story, and probably the most violent tale in the magazine that week. Durgi the dog-otter -- how he has a name is a mystery to me -- struggles to provide for his bitch (in this context, a slick can use that word) and her brand-new litter, running afoul of a vengeful farmer in the process. This story's "bring out the gimp" moment comes when the farmer unleashes "Long Willie," which at first I assumed to be his pet name for a rifle or shotgun. It proves to be an "English hob or ferret," portrayed by Krepps as the servile psychopath of the animal kingdom. It's "a berserker among the beasts, living only for the thrill of slaying....Entirely dependent on man for its sustenance, it is yet more feral and bloodthirsty than any untamed animal; man has bred it so." The climactic fight nearly lives up to this build-up, including the random slaughter of one of the baby dog-otters. "Cragar's Girl" is quite good but for once I have to say an animal story is the highlight of a fiction magazine. Krepps moved on eventually to specialize in novels set in Africa and film adaptations. Check out the whole issue at your leisure at unz.org.
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When he died in 2009, Elmer Kelton was widely hailed as the best western writer of his time, by which presumably was meant, in the face of whatever claim might be made for Larry McMurtry, that Kelton was top hand among genre specialists. Kelton belonged to the last generation who learned their trade in the western pulps, a peer of Elmore Leonard and John Jakes. Most of his pulp stuff appeared in Ranch Romances, understandably given that magazine's longevity and frequency. He was still placing stories in the Thrilling Group's remaining pulps when Ballantine published Barbed Wire, their third Kelton novel, in 1957. It resembles a Ranch Romance less than it does, at least thematically, the T. T. Flynn novel and Anthony Mann film The Man From Laramie. It's more Mann than Flynn, I think, because the protagonist reminds me of Jimmy Stewart's flawed, driven heroes. Doug Monahan is an ex-rancher who's gotten into the barbed wire business; he and his former ranch hands bring the wire and string it up when ranchers or farmers want to enclose their land. When he tries that in Kiowa County he runs afoul of Captain Andrew Rinehart, the local patriarch who took the land from the Indians and wants to keep it an open range for his cattle. When Rinehart's men break up Monahan's wire-stringing camp and kill his beloved Mexican cook, while Doug's employer scurries away like a coward, he provokes a slow-burning feud. Monahan isn't out to kill anyone, but he refuses to be driven out and strives relentlessly to interest the locals in barbed wire. He finds a customer in Noah Wheeler, an old war buddy of the Captain's who's been given freer rein to run a farm when others wouldn't get away with it. Wheeler's grudge isn't with the Captain but with a smaller "range hog" rancher whose scrub bulls get in the way of Noah's ambitious stock breeding plans. But Rinehart, egged on by foreman Archer Spann, sees any fencing as an insult to himself and his legacy. Along with his men, he's got the tenuous backing of his hand-picked sheriff Luke McKelvie, torn between loyalty to his patron and a growing appreciation of the rule of law. Taking his informal title of "peace officer" seriously, he tries to discourage Monahan and Rinehart from provoking each other, but there are too many forces in play, as well as the two antagonists' irreconcilable wills, for the well-meaning lawman to control.
Two things stand out in this first Kelton novel I've read. The first is his eye for the details of hard work, acquired from the ranch background touted on the back cover. The opening pages will give you as thorough a description of digging post holes as you'll probably ever want. I appreciate that sort of immersive detail, which explains why I find myself preferring ranch stories to generic gunfighter tales. The second standout is his consideration for both sides in the barbed-wire debate, though he clearly sympathizes with those characters who see the fencing off of land as a necessary and progressive step. He also allows readers to understand, if not agree with, the attitude of opponents like Rinehart, who becomes a figure of some pathos as he grows more conscious of his failing powers and more concerned over his wife's delicate health. Barbed Wire is almost a tale without a villain, but Kelton's approach to his villain is still unusual. He emphasizes that Archer Spann is a superior foreman, legitimately skilled in all the aspects of that job, as well as a clean liver who never touches alcohol. His fatal flaw is his "littleness," his inability to be "big," by which Kelton means a defensive, spiteful selfishness that leads him to rob a discharged cowhand of the $300 he'd allowed the ranch to withhold as a savings account. Spann is unable to transcend the bitterness of his upbringing and always looks for someone on whom to take out his undying resentment. Loyal to Rinehart in the hope of inheriting the R Cross Ranch from the childless rancher, Spann constantly urges the old man to escalate the campaign against Monahan and Wheeler, finally betraying his irredeemable mean streak when he gun-butchers Wheeler's prize cattle and tramples Wheeler's daughter in the novel's most brutal scene. It's the most brutal scene not simply because it's violence against a woman but also because, after the murder that starts the feud, Kelton goes out of his way not to kill major characters.
I got the sense that Kelton was consciously defying genre expectations, creating situations and relationships that make the reader almost certain that this or that character will die, only to deny the cheap catharsis of death without seeming to contrive his way out. It's not just about denying violence: Rinehart's wife is introduced as frail and at least momentarily bedridden, and once you tag Rinehart as a tragic antagonist you expect him to lose the thing he loves the most, but she simply gets better instead. Kelton finally teases her leaving Rinehart instead of dying on him. Likewise, you think that Wheeler's son Vern, the Rinehart cowhand robbed by Spann, is surely doomed to be killed by the foreman or one of his minions, especially once he hooks up with a childhood friend turned rustler, but for all that Barbed Wire is a metaphor for generational conflict as a metaphor for the nation's progress, Kelton's ultimately more interested in reconciliation than revenge. His main characters -- even Spann has a guilty conscience, though it never stops him -- are intelligent and empathetic enough to see when they've gone too far. Monahan is willing to quit the barbed-wire business after Noah Wheeler gets beat up, and has to be talked out of blaming himself for the collateral damage from his war of wills with Rinehart, whose stubbornness takes longer to break down but does so nonetheless. Not even Spann is killed, and the end of Barbed Wire feels no less cathartic for that. Having read this early Kelton, and knowing that he had a half-century of writing to go, I suspect that there probably was some reason for all the acclaim he received at the end of his trail.
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VINTAGE PAPERBACK OF THE WEEK: Richard S. Prather, JOKER IN THE DECK (1964)
Richard S. Prather didn't publish in the pulps. Instead, after establishing himself as a novelist and the creator of Sheldon "Shell" Scott, he landed stories in the hard-boiled crime digests of the 1950s and 1960s, including a short-lived Shell Scott Mystery Magazine. Prather maintained a blistering pace through those two decades -- Joker in the Deck is one of three 1964 novels -- but slowed down afterward, partly due to disputes with publishers. Shell Scott became a logo as well as a character, his cotton-topped head adorning every new paperback original. He's a ladies' man but not quite the swaggering stud one might expect from hard-boiled detective stories from his heyday. Joker sometimes exposes an anxiety bordering on the naive in the face of aggressive or deviant sexuality, as if Prather's audience were slightly younger than the average. Shell is also a political conservative who probably voted for Barry Goldwater in the year Joker was published. His commiseration here with a possible bad guy lamenting the huge, socialistic tax burden the government imposes on him may be the closest Shell Scott comes to empathizing with criminals. Usually he gets a bit sanctimonious about crime, particularly the drug trade, when he isn't in his more typical happy-go-lucky horndog mode. You might be able to divide detective and crime fiction into two categories: those stories that try to humanize criminals, whether they're the protagonists or not, and those that make comic-book heavies of them. In the few Shell Scotts I've read Prather falls into the latter category.
In Joker Shell gets involved in real estate intrigue on a coastal California island. He's getting deep into a game of strip poker with his buddy Jim Paradise and two dames they met at a promotional event when Jim gets the news that his business partner, who proves to be his brother under an alias, has been murdered. In short order someone shows up to murder him, but Shell saves the day. In the aftermath, however, Shell fails to notice someone dragging the would-be killer's body away. Brea Island is shared by Jim's development project and a baby-food factory that appears to be improbably mobbed up. The mob guys, led by an ex-con who learned organic gardening in stir, run the Da Da plant for its owner, who arranged with Jim's brother to shuffle ownership of the island so the baby-food magnate as part of an elaborate tax dodge. Shell may hate high taxes as much as any red-blooded American -- and in those days they were sky-high compared to now -- but he also knows lawbreaking when he sees it. He also suspects that there's more going on on the island than meets the eye. Are the mob guys using the baby-food plant as a front for drug smuggling? Has oil been discovered on Brea Island? Either could explain the book's lethal attempts to consolidate ownership of the island.
As he pieces the story together Shell maintains an interest in the two women who played strip poker with him. Laurie is the good girl of the two while Eve (introduced on the opening page as "a long-legged, voluptuous looking, slinky, busty hippy bomb, an Adam bomb") is too aggressive for Shell's taste, tempting though her body is. For all his presumed experience, Shell seems to have an adolescent's sense of discovery every time he meets a beautiful woman, as well as a detective novelist's impulse to attempt original descriptions of female pulchritude. It's with a "galvanizing shock" that the big he-man discovers that Eve isn't wearing a brassiere in one scene, and "when Eve leaned forward and -- not aware of what she was doing, I presume -- sort of wiggled her shoulders joyously from side to wild side, there was almost as much commotion under that blouse as two people kicking each other under a blanket." There's a different sense of discovery, even as he remembers a past experience, when Shell enters a suspicious niteclub. Presumably his memory of San Francisco prepares the reader for what follows. The tone is set by a weird woman with "a face to be presented only to steel mirrors, the face on the bride of Death." Shell shudders as he watches this apparition chat with Eve, and his evening grows only more shuddery.
I moved across the room to the bar, a bit nervously, because for some reason I didn't want to be seen, not by anybody who knew me. I didn't know why for sure; I just knew I didn't want to be seen. Tension built up in me gradually, rose along my spine and gathered in a knot at the base of my skull....I looked around. At men and women, sitting at tables, drinking, talking. There seemed nothing unusual. But then the scene seemed to shift. It was the same -- yet different. I had looked right at it, it was there in front of my eyes, but it hadn't impressed me until now. Men and women were sitting at tables, true; but at no table was a man sitting with a woman.
Really, Shell? This is your 24th novel, and you've had more adventures than that, and it takes you that long to notice you're in a gay bar? Richard Prather is a far better writer than John B. West, yet on this point I prefer Rocky Steele's hard-boiled contempt for and familiarity with the gay scene to Prather's horror-movie buildup to his awesome realization. The issue isn't whether one is more or less homophobic than the other, but that a hard-boiled guy like Shell really ought to take such things for granted, if not in stride, at this point in his storied career. Maybe more devoted readers can tell me if this is typical of Shell Scott -- this overall feeling I had on reading Joker in the Deck that Prather's hero is kind of a big kid at heart. That point aside, I liked Joker quite a bit. Prather seems to write authoritatively on the legalistic shenanigans involving the transfers of title to the island, and on other subjects he wears his research lightly. In a story like this expertise (or the convincing simulation of it) help hold the reader's interest because he feels he's learning something about Shell Scott's world as well as this particular mystery plot. I may not agree with Shell's politics but I accept them as an artifact of his time -- by which I don't mean that they're obsolete -- and Prather has as much right to incorporate them into his fiction as anyone to his left. I have another Shell Scott on my shelf -- to give things away a bit, it's actually half a Shell story -- and on the strength of Joker I'll probably be getting to that one sooner rather than later.
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While the literary star of this issue of the National Weekly at its time of publication probably was Irwin Shaw, it also features two pulp veterans. It didn't take Thomas Walsh long to break out of pulpdom. Within two years of his 1933 debut in Black Mask -- starting his career there must have been a coup in its own right -- he made it into The Saturday Evening Post. Walsh made his Collier's debut a year later and that became his slick of choice. By 1937 he had pretty much graduated from pulps, though he'd make occasional returns, presumably if Collier's had rejected something. This issue's "Peaceful in the Country" is actually Walsh's last story for that publication. He became a Post regular until that mag effectively gave up on popular fiction in the early 1960s. With coincidental symmetry, this issue's coming-of-age story "One Timeless Spring" was the first appearance in Collier's of Ray Bradbury, part of a trifecta he scored when he made his first three sales to slicks in one week. Bradbury was of the first generation to start their careers in the fan press. He broke into the pulps in 1941, at age 21 and was well on his way by the end of 1942. Starting in the fantastics, he expanded into detective fiction around 1944 but didn't really stick with it. The first of his slick sales appeared in Mademoiselle in November 1945. Bradbury wouldn't return to Collier's until 1950, when the magazine published one of his Martian chronicles. He appeared more regularly there (and in the Post) thereafter, his most famous Collier's story (apart from the Martian piece, "There Will Come Soft Rains") probably being "A Sound of Thunder" in the June 28, 1952 issue. By that point Bradbury could go back and forth more regularly between the slicks and the sci-fi mags which by now, as many adopted the digest format, may have been more respectable than the old pulps. You can sample Bradbury, Walsh, Shaw and the rest of this issue at unz.org.
For starters, this issue of The National Weekly headlines a new mystery serial by Max Brand, though that detail is obscured by a mailing label on this copy. Its pulp credentials are bolstered by a Harold Lamb Cossack story and a piece by Sidney Herschel Small, though it's a romance rather than one of his Asian adventures. But history will identify this number's main attraction as Ernest Haycox's most famous story, "Stage to Lordsbourg," immortalized two years later as John Ford's film Stagecoach. But that's not all! Hagar Wilde was a pulp author, too, in her early days. She published often in the romance pulps before becoming a regular in the slicks of the early 1930s. For this issue Wilde contributed the story that put her foot in the doorway of pop-culture history, "Bringing Up Baby," which was immortalized only one year later as Howard Hawks's screwball comedy masterpiece of the same name. Except for lacking a Fu Manchu serial chapter, this is probably as awesome as Collier's gets. You can browse through the issue at your leisure at unz.org.
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VINTAGE PAPERBACK OF THE WEEK: Georges Surdez, THE DEMON CARAVAN (1927)
Surdez wrote many long stories for Adventure that could have passed for novels but published in long form only rarely. As far as I can tell, Demon Caravan (the title refers to a type of desert storm) was written for publication as a novel instead of appearing in the pulps first. It reads as if written for a different market, which isn't necessarily to Surdez' advantage. It's more old fashioned in its construction than his contemporary pulp stories, in that it takes quite a while for the actual story to begin. Novelistic conventions require an elaborate establishment of the protagonist, Captain Paul Lartal, in his new environment, an Algerian colonial outpost, and the introduction of several nearly interchangeable supporting characters who'll be left behind when Lartal goes on the novel's true mission. There's a good desert battle scene in the middle of this, but nearly half the 214 page novel (that's the page count for the 1951 Dell paperback) is buildup for Lartal's expedition into a hidden oasis.
Some collectors are fond of Dell's back cover maps, but give me more hard-boiled copy any time.
We're somewhere between Lost Horizon (yet to be written) and L'Atlantide (which Surdez may have read in the original French or in its English translation in Adventure) when Lartal, accompanied by his faithful Arab sidekick Tlemsani reach this desert utopia. What we have here is a progressive Muslim community founded by people tired of war, led by a charismatic chieftain and his French son-in-law, a fugitive from his own army for killing a fellow officer. When Lartal arrives the son-in-law, who converted to Islam and took the name Si Khalil, is the leader who consults with a representative assembly of guild elders and the like. Just as Si Khalil in his youth fell for the chieftain's daughter and married her, so Lartal is smitten with Si Khalil's daughter Morjana, for whom her father has been seeking a suitable mate. There is, however, a rival suitor who threatens to disrupt Si Khalil's utopia. Omar ben Azziz is a type the world has come to know all too well in the 21st century. Surdez calls him a Senussi, but we'd call him an Islamist. "While all are Mohammedans here, tolerance has prevailed," Si Khalil explains, "The young wish to change that.
Of late there has come about a renewal of religious fervor. There are more ways than one to interpret the Koran. The military spirit has spread among the schoolboys in some way. Under their tuition, the boys are growing up to hate strangers, men not of their faith, although they have never seen them. Instead of warriors for protection, they maintain we should send them out for conquest.
Omar is the sort who has a quote from the Koran as the self-serving answer to every question. He uses the arrival of Lartal to stir up dissent against Si Khalil, arguing that the granddaughter of the great founder, though half-French herself, should not be married off to an infidel outsider. With a pessimism that probably appears prophetic now, Surdez shows Si Khalil's position crumbling until he decides that he, Morjana and Lartal should escape and seek shelter with the French. Omar's ascendancy has split the ruling family as Yusuf, Si Khalil's son by another mother, takes the side of the supposed holy man. Over the second half of the novel Surdez has been ratcheting up the tension, and in the final chapters he lets rip as the good guys make their break, though not without casualties or without a timely and brutal act of filial piety by the conflicted Yusuf. The second half of Demon Caravan makes the whole worth reading, so long as you understand that it's more romantic adventure than pulp fiction. It's still unmistakably Surdez, and it makes you sadly confident that he would have handled himself well in the era of paperback originals had he made it there instead of dying shortly before at the age of 49.
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RANCH ROMANCES: The Angry Men
This ranch romance from the First May 1956 number begins with the hero discovering a suicide.
His eyes stamped every detail in his mind, so that it would be there whenever he might need it. He saw the pattern of drying blood, spread out grotesquely over the rough-hewn planks of the floor. There was not much left of Rowley's face.
"It's murder, Sheriff," someone said.
No one's disputing that Rowley shot himself, but most people in town feel that Ed Landry, the big storekeeper, drove his onetime competitor and present debtor to do it with sharp business practices. Sheriff Jim Gordon spends most of this novella trying to keep Landry from getting shot or lynched, but Landry hardly seems to deserve the lawman's solicitude. He lets Jim know that he's going to take over the bank that holds the mortgage on Jim's little spread, which will give him extra leverage on the sheriff. Over the course of the story we'll learn that while Landry may be evil, he's not crooked. That is, it isn't him who's using violence to advance his interests. "He wanted money and power," the true villain of the piece explains, "but he didn't want it like I do....Folks thought he was hard, but it was mostly me that did his dirty work for him. And most of the time he didn't even know." Jim must expose this villain while rescuing Landry from the townspeople's misguided fury, and at the same time he has to choose between Landry's daughter Bethe and Jeannie Rae, whose brother tries to kill Landry. In short, it's the stuff of the typical western of the period, whether in pulp or paperback, with a few extra touches that make it a Ranch Romance. "It was a wild and exciting response that she stirred," Cotton writes of Jeannie, "a response that sent blood running hotly through him and made his heart pound crazily." The fact is, you probably could find a line like that in many a western that didn't bill itself as a romance. It came with the territory. Of the two women, it's Bethe who performs a feat worthy of a Ranch Romances cover heroine by snatching a gun from the villain's holster while his back is turned, but she's just a little too brazen for Jim's tastes, and she doesn't make his blood run as hot as the more stern Jeannie, who does get to hold a rifle on our hero for a while. He probably liked it.
Will Cotton was a latecomer to pulps in either sense of the term. He didn't publish his first story until 1951, when he was 39. He mostly wrote westerns but also did some detective stories as well as at least one novel in that genre, The Night Was Made For Murder. Nearly half his magazine output appeared in Ranch Romances, but that's understandable at a time when there were fewer and fewer alternatives for a short-form western writer. His last story for that mighty mag appeared in 1959, after it had shriveled from biweekly to quarterly. I found my first encounter with Cotton efficiently entertaining and relatively original in its refusal to make the greedy shopkeeper into the villain of the piece. "The Angry Men" and the First May 1956 issue are part of the unz.org trove, misidentified as a May 1954 issue. You can sample Cotton's story through this link.
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Elife E8 comes with 6 inch Quad HD Amoled display with 24MP rear camera which can produce images up to 120MP resolution using software tricks. It also has Optical Image Stabilization, Dual Tone LED Flash & support for 4k video recording.
Elife E8 is priced at CNY 3999 (US $644) and will go on sale in China starting July 15, 2015.
Marathon M5 comes with 5.5 inch 720p HD display and comes with a pair of 3010 mAh battery for a total of 6020 mAh. Another feature is, it can be used as PowerBank to charge other phone.
Marathon M5 is priced at CNY 2299 (US $370) and will be available from June 25, 2015 in China. Both the devices are expected to launch in India somewhere in August or September 2015.
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Malta enjoys a stable political climate and a bi-partisan political scene that is largely convergent on issues of national and economic importance. The country is considered to be one of the best performing Eurozone economies, with a steady economic growth and a low unemployment rate.
Malta Holding Companies are typically used for holding of shares in other companies to own, manage, as well as, administer property, patents, copyrights and other tangible assets.
Malta Holding Companies are incorporated in terms of the Malta Companies Act, which is the principal piece of corporate law in Malta. The Act is predominantly based on common law principles, and is also in line with EU Directives.
Holding Companies are onshore entities setup as partnerships or limited liability companies - the latter being the most popular corporate entities, due to their flexibility and tax efficiency.
Any currency can be used for capital.