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I'm on vacation for most of August, sitting by Lake Erie enjoying the breeze, reading, and (at the moment) writing a bit. Among the books I've been reading are three that couldn't be more different: Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky's Manufacturing Consent: the Political Economy of the Mass Media, Roger Kimball's The Fortunes of Permanence: Culture and Anarchy in an Age of Amnesia, and the Everyman's Library edition of George Orwell's Essays. I've been enjoying them all in different ways, which I think makes me more Orwellian than Chomskian or Kimballian (if those are the proper adjectival formations).
Manufacturing Consent and The Fortunes of Permanence are politically opposite but methodologically almost identical, which might surprise people familiar with only Chomsky or Kimball. Both books focus only on the worst of their enemies and ignore any mitigating evidence or circumstance that doesn't suit their purposes. With Manufacturing Consent, I can almost forgive this, as the injustices committed by the U.S. Government at times are considerably greater in scope than those committed by the leftist academics Kimball demonizes. Herman and Chomsky do a pretty good job of explaining how the U.S. Government and Big Business use the mass media as tools of misinformation designed to bolster the image of the U.S. and American corporations at the expense of anyone who criticizes them. Someone would have to be hopelessly naive to believe that governments and powerful interests worldwide are always trying to make their side of the story the story, but the analysis of specific cases is powerful evidence for the how.
When reading it, though, I have to wonder how naive someone has to be to believe that it could be otherwise, or that the U.S. Government and American corporations are especially wicked because they act in the way they do. What's missing isn't the proof of how they act, but the corrective attitude that acknowledges that the U.S. Government is no more wicked or duplicitous than other governments, only more powerful. I'm inclined to believe Lord Acton that power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Were all the communist regimes the U.S. illegally overthrew themselves the picture of perfect justice? The implicit tone and focus throughout the book is that if the U.S. Government interacts with any other countries or people it is almost always in the wrong, with the concomitant assumption that the other countries or people are therefore always in the right. Can this really be true? Is the world really made of perfect heroes and villains? The saving grace is that Herman and Chomsky occasionally admit that some truthful news and information manages to struggle through their Propaganda Model and they are providing an important alternative point of view on the injustices of a government that would prefer not to admit them.
Not so with The Fortunes of Permanence, which displays both the best and the worst that Kimball has to offer. Kimball is great on cultural topics but ridiculous on political ones because of his Manichean worldview and limited scope. Get him going on John Buchan or The Dangerous Book for Boys or Rudyard Kipling and he's lively and perceptive. Even letting him have a go at the knee-jerk relativism pervasive in our culture can be fun. But when he starts ranting about the enemies of permanence (in values, traditions, etc.) and he's either willfully naive or completely blinded by faith in the Republican Party and all it stands for. Since Kimball seems like a very smart man to me, I have to wonder. For example, his enemy is almost always the same: "academic multiculturalists." (And no, this book is from 2012, not 1988.) Relativism is destroying all our values? Terrorists are attacking us? The culture is awash in vulgarity? Traditions and values are eroding? Blame those darned academic multiculturalists. From what I can tell through reading a number of his books, Kimball encountered a bunch of frivolous intellectual popinjays during a sojourn in a humanities grad program and was scarred for life. I can sympathize. I put up with the same uncritical, relativist nonsense in grad school as well, but I had enough perspective to know that academic multiculturalists don't rule the world because first, they don't even dominate academia or the humanities, and second, outside of academia no one pays any attention to them except, apparently, Roger Kimball.
It's especially peculiar that in a book about the erosion of what T.S. Eliot called "the permanent things" Kimball ignores the elephant in the culture that drives innovation and change in everything from values to automobiles at a relentless pace: an economic system that survives only by developing new everything all the time. Oldfashioned conservatives understood that one of the most powerful forces against traditional values and culture was capitalism and its constant need for novelty. After a brief analysis near the beginning of the way an HBSC bank ad campaign promotes relativism, economic concerns disappear from the book. The U.S. Government is always good, corporations are always beneficent, and all would be right with the world if we could just get rid of those all-powerful academic multiculturalists! Compare T.S. Eliot in The Idea of a Christian Society, pondering the aftermath of the Nazi invasion of Poland, which left him and others shakened with "a doubt of the validity of a civilisation. We could not match conviction with conviction, we had no ideas with which we could either meet or oppose the ideas opposed to us. Was our society, which had always been so assured of its superiority and rectitude, so confident of its unexamined premisses, assembled round anything more permanent than a congeries of banks, insurance companies and industries, and had it any beliefs more essential than a belief in compound interest and the maintenance of dividends?" Eliot had enough sense to know that a devotion to finance was more dangerous to "the permanent things" than a devotion to academic multiculturalism, however one happens to define that beast. Kimball knows this, too, but rarely mentions it. When it comes to his criticism of cultural or intellectual relativism, Kimball has a compelling subject; it's just that he lays all the blame on his favorite bugaboos while ignoring other much more likely sources. What I like about Kimball is his intellectual seriousness and cultural criticism, but the implication that everything bad in our culture is somehow the fault of leftist intellectuals strikes me as willful blindness.
After those hopelessly partisan though enjoyable books, how refreshing to turn to Orwell's essays. If you know Orwell only through Animal Farm and 1984, then you don't know Orwell well enough. He's long been something of an intellectual hero of mine. The best virtue of George Orwell, aside from his delightful prose, is his unflagging intellectual honesty, a virtue appallingly absent in most political writers. Orwell was a committed socialist and a staunch critic of totalitarianism, in a time when being a member of the British left often meant going along with the party line from Moscow and licking Stalin's bloodstained boots while judging the Soviet Union by its intentions and Britain by its worst results (does the rhetorical ploy sound familiar?). To criticize Stalin over, say, starving millions of his own people or the Moscow show trials, was to play into the hands of the enemy, i.e. the capitalist British government. A good socialist just doesn't do those sorts of things. To show, as Orwell did in An Homage to Catalonia, that the communists fighting against Franco in the Spanish Civil War were basically a bunch of ruthless bastards willing to betray anyone to get their way was itself a betrayal. That's because political fanatics don't believe in honesty, only victory, whether they're fanatical warmongers who think the road to American greatness lies in invading countries that haven't attacked us or fanatical communists who think that any means, no matter how horrible, justifies the end of communist utopia. Orwell wouldn't hide from the fact that there are bad apples in every lot, even your own.
Orwell differs from most political writers in that he criticizes the unjust or ridiculous wherever he finds it, not just if it's caused by someone on the "other side." Comparing Kimball and Orwell on the British Honours is instructive. Here's Kimball:
But what seems at first to be an effort to establish cultural parity turns out to be a campaign for cultural reversal. When Sir Elton John is put on the same level as Bach, the effect is not cultural equality but cultural insurrection. (If it seems farfetched to compare Elton John and Bach, recall the literary critic Richard Poirier's remark, in Partisan Review in 1967, that "sometimes [the Beatles] are like Monteverdi and sometimes their songs are even better than Schumann's.) It might also be worth asking what had to happen in English society for ther to be such as thing as "Sir Elton John." What does that tell us about the survival of culture?
I found this passage slightly amusing and outrageously pompous. "Recall" that 1967 article in the Partisan Review! Um, yes, I'm recalling that, because a 45-year old article on the Beatles is exactly the sort of literary classic I make sure to keep in ready memory, especially since no publication ever had a more profound impact on the American psyche as the Partisan Review. Notice that no one has actually put Sir Elton John on the same level as Bach. Even so, what relevance to the discussion does some critic 45 years ago claiming that sometimes the Beatles wrote better songs than Schumann's have? The analogy is terrible. My god, Kimball, are you implying that some Schumann lieder are to be considered on the same level as the works of Bach? The Mass in B Minor alone could kick the stuffing out of all of Schumann's lieder and the St. Matthew's Passion could sweep along behind and take out the symphonies! By the time the Brandenburg Concertos and the cello suites were through monkey-stomping what was left of Schumann's ouevre anyone with a conscience would recall the glory days when all Schumann had to contend with were the Beatles. And why pick on Elton John's knighthood? I find it very hard to believe that Kimball is unaware that plenty of scoundrels have been knighted for doing considerably less than raising over $30 million for charity and giving us Madman Across the Water.
Here's Orwell on the 1944 Honours List:
Looking through the photographs in the New Years Honours List, I am struck (as usual) by the quite exceptional ugliness and vulgarity of the faces displayed there. It seems to be almost the rule that the kind of person who earns the right to call himself Lord Percy de Falcontowers should look at best like an overfed publican and at worst like a tax collector with a duodenal ulcer.
And the next paragraph, just because it's funny:
But our country is not alone in this. Anyone who is a good hand with scissors and paste could compile an excellent book entitled Our Rulers, and consisting simply of published photographs of the great ones of the earth. The idea first occurred to me when I saw in Picture Post some stills of Lord Beaverbrook delivering a speech and looking more like a monkey on a stick than you would think possible for anyone who was not doing it on purpose.
Kimball goes after Sir Elton and Orwell after Lord Percy de Falcontowers. However, Orwell also had the intellectual honesty to criticize the failures and shortcomings of his political comrades, something you will rarely if ever find in Kimball or Chomsky. Orwell escaped the flight from complexity in a way few writers do.
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especially need it for a book. Not just for bragging rights, endorsements help
persuade individuals, stores, libraries, and organizations to buy books. So what's the best way of securing
most important thing about a testimony is who says something -- not what they
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do you get testimonials? You may already
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Comedian and 'Coach' Star Jerry Van Dyke Dies at 86
Comedian brother of Dick Van Dyke, Jerry Van Dyke, has died.
The Coach star was 86.
According to The New York Times, Van Dyke's wife, Shirley Ann Jones, said her husband passed away at their Arkansas ranch on Friday, January 5. She also added that "his health had deteriorated since a traffic accident in 2015" and has never been the same.
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In only his second 100-mile race, South African Ryan Sandes finished second at the 2012 Western States 100. Not only that, he also broke the previous course record by running an incredible 15:03:56. Learn more about this fierce competitor in the following interview, so you'll be familiar with him when he returns to Western States next year.
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Ryan Sandes Post-2012 Western States Interview Transcript
iRunFar: Bryon Powell here of iRunFar with Ryan Sandes here of Salomon and South Africa. How are you doing in your first trip to Western States?
Ryan Sandes: I really enjoyed it. Thanks for having me on iRunFar.
iRF: My pleasure. Everyone going into the race was talking about how great of an advantage you'd have in a hot year. Didn't get that.
Sandes: No, when we started the race it was pretty cold, and then when we got to the top of the mountain it was really, really cold. But going into the race, everyone's going to run in the same conditions, and it's up to you to get to the finish line as best you can. So I didn't really let that bother me. I think that later in the day when it actually started to heat up a bit, I wouldn't have minded if it actually started to rain again. All in all, it was a really fun day out.
iRF: You've raced and done a bunch of stage races in adverse conditions of every sort, so you don't let it phase you?
Sandes: No. A lot of it is just your mental attitude. If you go into a race saying it's going to be super hot or really cold and I'm going to struggle or battle, then you are going to struggle. If you see it as a challenge and stay positive, you're obviously running in an incredibly beautiful environment; so just soak it up and enjoy it, and you'll feel a lot better.
iRF: Yes. So walk us through your race. You were up in the lead pack… there was a pack of you trading the lead for a long time.
Sandes: Yeah, running up to the top of Squaw Peak I was in the lead back, and then I dropped off a little bit coming down into Duncan Canyon. The guys were pretty intense racing each other, so I thought I'd just step it back and stay out of the racing in the really early miles. Then, I think it was about 35 miles just after Dusty Corners, I caught up with the lead pack. From then on all the way through, there was a group of about four or five of us. Coming into Foresthill, myself and Mike [Wolfe] were running in. After Foresthill I left Mike, I was feeling really good, and I caught up to Timothy [Olson] about Cal 1 or just before there. We ran together and actually pulled ahead a bit about Cal 3, the last aid station before Rucky Chucky. Timothy came bolting past me, and I didn't see him again. The rest of my race was trying to catch him. Every aid station I went into he'd made up another two minutes, and I thought I was going at quite a decent pace. He had an absolute cracker. I have huge respect of him and his performances.
iRF: You and Timothy both ran course record splits for Cal Street, which is incredible.
Sandes: Okay. Yeah, I thought we were moving quite fast, but not as fast as Timothy.
iRF: Did you go through a rough patch when Timothy passed you or was Timothy just…
Sandes: No, we were kind of back and forth and when I passed him I thought I was going at a good speed. I thought his legs looked a little bit tired. Obviously he wasn't. When he went past me I thought he was just motoring down the hills, and I was hoping in the flats that I'd catch him, but it wasn't to be.
iRF: So after Timothy passed you and you keep hearing he was getting further ahead, were you still feeling good? There were a ton of great runners behind you.
Sandes: No, I was feeling really good the whole way, to be honest. From my own perspective, for me personally, I think I had a really good race. I felt strong throughout. I didn't go through too many highs and lows. I looked back and Leadville last year, that was my first 100 miler and this was my second 100 miler, I was a lot more tired at Leadville and went through a lot of dark patches there. Yesterday, for most of the day, I was feeling really good and really enjoyed the whole experience. I was trying to chase down Timothy at the end and I was feeling good, but my legs just wouldn't go any faster to try to catch up to him.
iRF: Did you learn anything from your first 100 that you did differently in your second 100 that helped you?
Sandes: A couple of things. I think fueling is always important, just trying to stay on top of that. As soon as I thought my energy levels were dropping I made sure I loaded up. I front-loaded with a lot of water yesterday, thinking about the 60-mile marker when I started the race. I wanted to be properly hydrated. I think when you look after your body, you'll be able to maintain the pace which is really important. At all the checkpoints I took a bit of extra time to make sure I ate and drank which I see a lot of the American guys just fly straight through. I'm kind of in between Europe and America there. European guys sit down and take their time; American guys don't stop at all.
iRF: Speaking of Europe and America, do you have any other big plans for this year?
Sandes: I started my season pretty early with running the Hong Kong 100k race and then another 100k in Australia a few weeks before this.
iRF: You won both of those.
Sandes: Yes. So my prep leading into this race went really well and I was pretty confident. So I may go back to Australia in September for another 100k race. Me personally, I only want to do one 100 miler per year for now. I think it takes a lot out of you physically and mentally and when I go into a race I want to be the best prepared I can be. I'm only 30 and I hopefully have another couple of 100 milers left in me, so I want to spread them out a bit. I definitely hope to be back here again next year.
iRF: Okay, so you just answered my next question.
Sandes: Yeah, definitely. I really loved this course and I think it suits me.
iRF: So you're hungry for…
Sandes: Yeah, I'm hungry to come back.
iRF: You've still got to be proud. You broke the old course record. Timothy had an even better day, but you had one heck of a race.
Sandes: Yeah, for sure. Like I said, yesterday was probably the happiest I've ever been with a second-place run. I was really stoked because I think it was one of the strongest races I've had. Timothy was on fire yesterday and big respect to him. Also in three or four weeks I'm going to do a personal quest or mission in Fish River Canyon in Namibia. It's the second largest canyon in the world. There's a trail from one side to the other; so I'm going to be doing that.
iRF: For pleasure or for a fastest known time (FKT)?
Sandes: Fastest known time. I'm doing it self-supported. Actually, Dean and Greg[, videographers with The African Attachment,] will be back there for me. They're going to be doing a little clip on the whole attempt.
iRF: How long is the trail?
Sandes: It's 76-78km. You drop down, run along the bottom of the canyon, and back up to finish at the end. It gets really hot in there about 45-50 degrees Celsius.
iRF: 110-120 degrees Fahrenheit.
Sandes: Yeah, so I'll get some heat in after all there.
iRF: Well, congratulations on your run here yesterday and well done!
Sandes: Cool and thanks for all the awesome work you do for trail running!
iRF: It's our pleasure.


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[At 16:15] an Israeli warplane fired a missile at a house belonging to Ali Nemer al-Masharawi in al-Zaytoun neighborhood in the east of Gaza City. Two members of the family (a woman and a toddler) were killed: Hiba Aadel Fadel al-Masharawi, 19, and Omar Jihad al-Masharawi, 11 months.
Electronic Intifada reported this as a "missile strike" but described it this way:
According to neighbors and witnesses, a mass of fire hit the roof of the Masharawi family home in a densely packed area in southern Gaza City.
"Our area is void of any suspicious activity and I can assure you there are no armed persons here and the area is always calm and inhabitants know each other," Jihad said, showing the missile's damage to his home. "I never imagined that my home would be an Israeli target. Why has it been hit?"
The Washington Post looked deeper into the story:
An Israeli round hit Misharawi's four-room home in Gaza Wednesday, killing his son, according to BBC Middle East bureau chief Paul Danahar, who arrived in Gaza earlier Thursday. Misharawi's sister-in-law was also killed, and his brother wounded. Misharawi told Danahar that, when the round landed, there was no fighting in his residential neighborhood.
"We're all one team in Gaza," Danahar told me, saying that Misharawi is a BBC video and photo editor. After spending a "few hours" with his grieving colleague, he wrote on Twitter, "Questioned asked here is: if Israel can kill a man riding on a moving motorbike (as they did last month) how did Jihad's son get killed."
Danahar also shared the following photos of Misharawi's small Gaza home, which appears to have been heavily damaged. The place where the round punctured his ceiling is clearly visible.
In the first picture, doesn't the hole in the ceiling look a lot like what Qassam rocket damage looks like when they hit homes in Israel?
I am far from a munitions expert, but these photos look nothing like the damage to Gaza buildings from purposeful Israeli airstrikes that we've seen over the past week.
I received an email from someone with serious military experience. Here is the analysis:
First of all, Israel isn't using incendiary weapons, and won't, so any "mass of fire" that hits anyone is going to be a secondary effect from the original high-explosive effect, and will involve something like a propane container, chemical container, etc. Israeli bombs and air-to-surface missiles don't produce masses of fire hitting people's roofs.
Second, if the "round" of an Israeli weapon had literally come through the roof where the hole is visible in the photo, there'd be no house to take pictures of now. Compare the photos of the Masharawi house with the photos of the wreckage of the Al-Dalu (Doula) house. Then compare the Masharawi photos with photos of the Israeli homes hit by Hamas rockets.
Dalu home |
Qassam damage in Israel |
This isn't definitive, of course, and there are other things to consider, like whether Hamas rockets were flying at the time. [Which they most definitely were on the first day of the operation - EoZ].
OK, now I'm looking at the second photo of damage. If the blast from an Israeli weapon had occurred inside this home, the wood on the windows would be entirely gone. No trace left. The walls wouldn't be intact. Their top portions, at least, would be a pile of rubble around the base of the wall. The iron grilles on the windows would probably be lying on the ground somewhere.
The story doesn't hang together. An Israeli bomb could not have penetrated the roof of this structure, then exploded, and have left the structure looking as it does: charred on some surfaces, but still intact.
I note that a Hamas rocket could have done exactly this damage, including the projectile-through-the-roof feature. There are other conceivable scenarios in which secondary damage could have been done by an Israeli hit nearby, but in no case would it have been possible for an Israeli weapon to penetrate the roof as described, and then do nothing more than char the surfaces and rearrange the furniture.
I want to stress that I am not nearly as certain about this as I was about Mahmoud Sadallah. But to my mind, this appears far more consistent with a Hamas rocket that then ignited something highly flammable inside the house. Most Gaza homes rely on propane heaters and gasoline-powered generators, and they have to keep the fuel somewhere - in fact, unless I'm mistaken, there appears to be a damaged fuel can on the top shelf of the first photo from inside the house above.
A lot has happened since then and it seems doubtful that anyone is going to revisit this on the ground, but someone should at least ask Paul Danahar from the BBC whether he even considered that this could have been the work of an errant Gaza rocket.
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Sony Breach Ignites Phishing Fears
Other Concern: Are Consumers Suffering 'Breach Fatigue?'Sony Corp.'s announcement that hackers may have accessed personal information it stores on 77 million users of its PlayStation Network and Qriocity online service follows a long line of recent breach announcements. And Neal O'Farrell of the Identity Theft Council says that string of incidents has led to consumer "breach fatigue." "The hackers understand the apathy and are taking advantage," he says.
From the RSA hack to the Epsilon e-mail breach and the Oak Ridge phishing attack, database breach announcements have become nearly daily news.
O'Farrell says hackers are wising up, taking advantage of consumers' growing apathy and corporations' reluctance to better protect their customers' personal information. "We have awareness," he says. "People know about identity theft. We just don't have vigilance."
Targeted Attacks
Spear phishing is a growing threat, and in the case of the Sony breach, it's the primary concern. Hackers appear to have penetrated a Sony server or file sometime between April 17 and April 19, gaining access to names, mailing addresses, e-mail addresses, birthdates, login and password details for the PlayStation Network and Qriocity, as well as handles [online IDs] used by Sony gamers. Additionally, cyber intruders are suspected to have gathered other details, including gamers' credit card information, billing addresses and purchase histories.A Sony spokeswoman says, "We cannot rule out the possibility."
With billing information and other details like purchasing history, fraudsters have plenty of information to launch targeted attacks, says Alan Paller, director of research for the SANS Institute. "So, you have knowledge of these people as being gamers; you have knowledge of their music; you know what kinds of games they bought," he says. "That's the way they perpetrate fraud on the Internet."
From there, it's easy for cybercriminals to use socially engineered tactics to trick consumers into revealing other personal details, such as Social Security numbers and bank account information.
"The correlation of data is very useful," says Nicolas Christin, associate director of the Information Networking Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. "You combine the e-mail address with other information, and it's easy for fraudsters to turn that combined information into cash. People also have to realize that privacy online is hard to maintain. Consumers should be very much on the defensive."
Sony's PlayStaion Network is offline until more about the breach is uncovered. Sony has not said when it expects to be back online. A lawsuit also has been filed against Sony, alleging the gaming powerhouse waited too long to notify its customers of a possible breach. That delay, the suit filed in federal court claims, exposed PlayStation users to financial losses related to potential credit-card data theft.
Sony states on its blog that all of the credit card information it stores is encrypted. But Sony cannot rule out the possibility that the card data may have been stolen until its investigation into the breach is completed. In the meantime, Sony is sending a system software update to its gamers and asking them to change their passwords once the PlayStation Network is restored.
The investigation could take months and still not pinpoint the source of the compromise. But Paller says, given Sony's high-value as a company, a phishing attack on Sony itself likely opened the door for the hack.
"I would say they got in by doing a targeted phishing attack against an administrator or a high officer in the company," Paller says. "Common defenses don't protect against that kind of attack. Companies need to start thinking more like a bank than like a social community. Banks do a much, much better job of defending, because the value of what they are defending is so high."
Vulnerability of Payment Card?
Bob Russo, general manager of the Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council, says the council, which sets guidelines for the governance and storage of payments card data, does not monitor security compliance and has no insight into the details of any specific breach. "Until a forensics investigation is completed, there is no way to determine whether or not an organization was PCI compliant at the time of the breach," Russo says. PCI security standards, such as the PCI Data Security Standard, provide best practice guidelines for the storage and handling of cardholder data.Even if credit card numbers were encrypted by Sony, the storing of any credit card numbers is a bad idea. "For most companies of this size that don't specialize in payments, the processing of the credit card is actually handled elsewhere," Paller says. "But the mistake that companies like this make is that they store that data, because they think they might need it sometime in the future."


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Before the Summit of 2012
Today, Monday, was the first day of the PASS Summit Preconference training events, but instead I spent the day at the free SQL in the City event put on by Red Gate. For me this was not a financial decision (pre-con sessions cost extra above the general Summit registration) but rather a matter of interest. I had already included money for pre-cons in this year's training budget, but none of them really stood out to me, so even if the Red-Gate event were not going on at the same time, I probably would not have gone to any pre-cons this year. However, the topics being presented at the SQL in the City event were of great interest to me. There promised to be good information on Continuous Integration and automated deployment of database changes, which lately has been a real hot topic at my work. And indeed, Red-Gate announced the release of a new tool (still in Early Access Program…a.k.a. Beta) which is called the Deployment Manager. Since we are in the middle of a TFS implementation project, it will be interesting to see how this plays out and compares to what we put together with the automated builds in TFS. But, as I understand it, the primary focus of Deployment Manager is not to be the Build process (Red Gate uses JetBrains' Team City for that in their shop) but rather to aid in the deployment of those build packages, as well as providing easy rollback and a good visualization of which versions of software are in which environments. It looks promising and I've already downloaded the installer package to play with it later.
Overall, I was quite impressed with the SQL in the City event. Having heard many current and past members of the PASS Board of Directors describe the challenges of putting on a large conference, and the growing pains that the PASS Summit has gone through, I am even more impressed that the Red Gate event ran as smoothly as it did. And it is quite impressive the amount of money that Red Gate must have spent given that this was a no-charge event to attend, they had a very nice hot lunch, and the after-event drinks celebration. Well done, folks!
Of course it was great to hear from a variety of speakers. Today I listened to some folks from Red Gate like Grant Fritchey (blog | @GFritchey) and David Atkinson (Product Manager for SQL Source Control and now the Deployment Manager tool set); and also Brent Ozar (blog | @BrentO) and Buck Woody (blog | @BuckWoody). By the way, if you have never seen either Brent or Buck speak, you really should. Different styles, but both are very entertaining and educational at the same time. I love Buck's sense of humor (here's a tip…don't be late to Buck's session or you'll become part of the presentation) and I praise Brent's slides. Brent's style very much reminds me of that espoused by Garr Reynolds on his Presentation Zen blog (and book) and I am impressed that he can make a technical presentation so engaging.
It was a great day, a great way to kick off the week, and I am excited to get into the full Summit!


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MUSIC: Mercy Chinwo – Testimony | @Mmercychinwo
Mercy Chinwo makes a gracious entry on the music scene this year with her very first official single "Testimony" Produced by Rotimi Keys. While many might think this is long over due, she believes this is just the very right time. Having been through her fair share of life's challenges, from the days of little beginning to her grasp with fame, she pens down this song of encouragement to as many embattled people out there hoping they can find expression and solace in the words of her song.
"Very few people know where I am coming from and it makes perfect sense that a lot of people who never got to see my pain but see all of my Glory have the impression that I always had a silver spoon. My life is one word is a TESTIMONY" – Mercy Chinwo


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- Marty Goodman (TWU Local 100) at 5:48 min.
- Suzanne Adely (Labor for Palestine) at 8:10 min.
- David Letwin (Jews for Palestinian Right of Return at 10:46 min.
- John Mooney (TWU Local 100) at 13:22 min.(Written text of some statements, below video)
Marty Goodman (TWU 100)
My name is Marty Goodman. I am a retired Station Agent and a former TWU Local 100 Executive Board member.
I am here to oppose Governor Cuomo's undemocratic gag act on State funding to supporters of the worldwide Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against apartheid Israel.
I, like many Jews, fervently support BDS. Israeli Occupation, terror and racism must go.
In 2003, I used vacation time to go to Nablus in the Israeli occupied Palestinian West Bank of Israel. I stayed with a Palestinian family. I protested occupation every day and roamed its' bullet ridden streets, learning of outrage after outrage. When I left Nablus, the Palestinian father said, "Marty, you're family now."
I've learned that yet another illegal Israeli settlement is being built in Nablus, defying international law.
I'm angry as hell. I demand that the MTA reject and repudiate Cuomo's gag order and the creation of a black list of BDS supporters!
Free speech is a first amendment right!
I also demand that this Board vote down purchases of IBM technology (p213) and Goldman Sachs services as underwriter for the Hudson Rail Yard's "Trust Obligation" (p33).
Both IBM and Goldman are heavily involved in the Israeli garrison state.
Spend money on a decent contract for TWU Local 100. Transit workers need wage hikes above inflation to keep up with rising costs, extend maternity leave for women, improve medical care, and remove second class pay for new hires.
I say, Equality for all in Palestine!
End U.S. aid to apartheid Israel!
No to Cuomo's McCarthyite gag act!
Long live BDS!
Suzanne Adely (Labor for Palestine)
Labor for Palestine, a national workers network, joins members of Transit Workers Union Local 100 who are here today calling on the MTA Board to reject compliance with Governor Cuomo's Executive Order #157, an unconstitutional blacklist against those who support Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS).
BDS is a global human rights movement which demands an end to the brutal Israeli military occupation of the 1967 territories; full equality for Palestinian citizens of Israel; and the right of return for Palestinian refugees.
It has gained growing momentum in recent years, particularly the wake of Israel's massacre of 2200 Palestinians — including 500 children — in Gaza in 2014, and a 10-year high in Palestinian casualties in the West Bank in 2015.
These crimes reflect a system that veteran South African freedom fighters call "worse than apartheid." That is why BDS is closely aligned to Black Lives Matter and other racial justice movements, and many of its supporters are Jews of conscience.
In the past two years alone, the BDS picket line has been embraced by West Coast longshore workers of the ILWU; thousands of academic workers in the United Auto Workers and American Federation of Teachers; the United Electrical Workers; and Connecticut AFL-CIO.
Such boycotts are protected First Amendment speech, and have been used to remedy injustice, from the segregated buses of Montgomery, Alabama, to the California grape fields, to apartheid South Africa. Today's BDS movement is similarly unstoppable, for as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. said: "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."
In the judgment of history, the MTA Board will find no refuge in siding with apartheid Israel, or in the excuse that it was "just following orders." The only legal and moral choice is to refuse complicity with Governor Cuomo's new McCarthyism.
David Letwin (Jews for Palestinian Right of Return)
I'm speaking today on behalf of Jews for Palestinian Right of Return. We call on the MTA to refuse to cooperate with Governor Cuomo's unconstitutional executive order 157 directing the state to blacklist any institution or organization that respects the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions picket line against apartheid Israel.
This illegal order is a disturbing assault on the right of free speech and expression. But it is also part of a broader campaign by authorities to intimidate into silence those who stand up for Palestinian human rights and who refuse to accept the legitimacy of a racist regime sustained though ethnic cleansing and dispossession.
The BDS call, which demands the end of the 1967 occupation, equal rights for Palestinian citizens of Israel, and right of return for Palestinian refugees, follows in the footsteps of earlier boycott campaigns against Jim Crow and apartheid South Africa. It marches hand in hand today with liberation movements like Black Lives Matter. In the spirit of those movements, we say to the members of the MTA Board of Directors: don't do business with IBM and Goldman Sachs, both of which are deeply complicit with the apartheid Israeli regime, and don't collude with Governor Cuomo's witch-hunt against the growing worldwide BDS movement for justice and equality.
And the next time you see the governor, please tell him for us that his desperate attempt to muzzle BDS will only make it louder.
Thank you.


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* Door size: 61.5 x 160 cm
* Capacity: 14.72m³
* Ground surface area: 7.55m²
* Wall Height: 113cm
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George Lucas Met Baby Yoda On the Set of 'The Mandalorian' Season 2
In what can only be described as a meeting of two great pop culture titans, we have finally received visual evidence that George Lucas is aware of the existence of The Mandalorian's Baby Yoda. Series creator Jon Favreau tweet a photo of Baby Yoda meeting Star Wars creator George Lucas on the set of Season 2 of The Mandalorian.
He was Yoda's father(ish) so I guess that makes him Grandpa George? What do you think they talked about? (I'm guessing Lucas led with "Baby Yoda, why are you not CGI?") Lucas isn't too busy these days since Disney bought his company; do you think we could get him to play the role of Baby Yoda's nanny in Season 2? After the end of Season 1, he could use one.
Baby Yoda and the Mandalorian — how long before they rename the show, two weeks? — returns to Disney+ with new episodes this fall. Also, that picture has been retweeted 95,000 times. 95,000! If this is the first time you're seeing it, where the hell have you been?
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MRI Software Secures Two Prestigious Commercial Real Estate Awards for the Second Consecutive Year
Cleveland, OH – MRI Software is proud to announce it was recognized with two 2014 Tops in Technology Awards by Commercial Property Executive (CPE), a leading resource for those that own, develop, or manage commercial real estate properties.
CPE determined the nominees for each of the twelve categories by researching industry statistics and each company's product suite functionality. The number of nominees for each award ranged from six to thirty contenders, and participants were asked to choose the candidate that best exemplified the criteria for each award, ranking the entrants on qualities such as "Best Features/Functionality," "Greatest Ease of Use/Implementation," and "Best Pricing/Value." At the end of the process, the organizations with the most votes were awarded the title.
"These companies stand out for their ability to provide flexible customization, competitive pricing, and the most innovate solutions, all backed by superior customer support," wrote Dan Waldman, publisher of Commercial Property Executive's monthly magazine. "Congratulations to our 2014 winners, for all they do to show the commercial real estate industry the many ways technology has a positive impact on our day-to-day as well as long-term business!"
MRI Software takes pride in offering robust, flexible solutions that help our clients increase efficiencies and maximize profitability. MRI Commercial Management (CM) is a completely integrated system that includes a powerful accounting engine, automation capabilities and some of the most robust, configurable reporting capabilities in the industry. By analyzing and providing precise information, users are able to better optimize their business by making more informed financial decisions, making CM an invaluable asset.
"We are very pleased to win these awards for the second year in a row and we sincerely appreciate the support from our clients," said Patrick Ghilani, CEO of MRI Software. "These awards are meaningful because they recognize our efforts to improve the overall client experience and reaffirm our commitment to remaining innovative and at the forefront of the property management software industry."
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There's a difference between a family dentist and a pediatric dentist. If you're trying to decide between the two, consider the following.
Family dentists practice general dentistry for people of all ages. They treat plaque buildup and tooth decay. They also fill cavities and check on gum health, but most do not have specialized training in dealing with children.
A pediatric dentist practices oral health like a family dentist, but he's a kid-expert, too. That's because they get special training to learn how to handle kids. They also work with a team of hygienists and staff members with kid-friendly skills.
Pediatric dentists understand children's behaviors and know how to make young patients feel comfortable, especially on their first visit. They can also treat dental issues specific to little mouths from infancy through the teen years. What's more, they're trained to treat children with special needs.
A children's dentist can better address issues specific to younger children such as using a pacifier, thumbsucking, and bottle feeding. Baby teeth get cavities, too, and should be treated by a pediatric dentist to prevent further problems.
Unlike the offices of family dentists, pediatric practices look more like playgrounds and amusement centers. Many have murals of zoo animals, sea creatures, or other playful scenes, and a play area filled with toys and video games.
Pediatric hygienists use smaller tools and take the time to name each instrument and explain what it does. Your child is encouraged to ask questions and share the things they learn with you like how often they should brush and for how long.
Lastly, most pediatric offices give away prizes at the end of a visit. It's all designed to make your child feel safe and happy when going to the dentist.
Yes, a family dentist can treat your child and it might be more convenient for you and your family. But a visit with a pediatric dentist may ward off a negative experience for your young one. All children should feel good about visiting the dentist and learning how to care for their teeth. Going to the dentist can be fun!


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Disable Proxy settings in IE
This is how to disable the proxy settings in Internet Explorer (all versions):
1) Under "Tools" in the browser tool bar select "Internet Options".
2) In the "Internet Options" window that pops up, click the "Connections" tab at the top.
3) Click "LAN Settings" near the bottom of the "Connections" section.
4) If the "Proxy server" checkbox is marked with a check, click it to deselect/uncheck it.
5) Click "Ok" to close the "Local Area Network (LAN) Settings" window.
6) Click "Ok" to close the "Internet Options" window.
You have now successfully removed the proxy settings for Internet Explorer for Windows!
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The new company headquarters of the South Tyrolean alpine sports expert is a high-class building where values are held high and humans are in the focus of the corporate business. But it is also an interface between technology and human beings. Nowhere can this be better perceived than in the new fully automated logistics centre. The centralised warehouse assumes the entire distribution operations of the highly functional alpine sports equipment. The energy-efficient solutions by TGW contributed to the successful implementation of the trend-setting project in Bolzano.
The company Oberalp S.p.A. is part of the Oberrauch Group. The family-owned retailing company has been working in the apparel business for five generations. Oberalp's mission in Italy is to establish leading brands such as Speedo, Löffler, RipCurl, Armada etc. in their respective sectors. All these brands stand out for highly technological, functional and authentic products, high cultural standards and special corporate values. With brands like SALEWA and DYNAFIT, the company group is one of the leading manufacturers in the alpine sports business. The company's increasing success involved some consequences, as the existing premises in Bolzano became too small and several satellite warehouses in and around Bolzano turned out to be inconvenient. The wish for a centralised building that accommodates all brands became reality with the relocation into the new headquarters in October 2011. The new building complex also offered enough room for the central warehouse and the distribution centre. The implementation of the logistics section was entrusted to TGW.
Modern architecture sets logistics trends
Oberalp organised an architectural competition for the new headquarters in Bolzano. The concept proposed by a renowned North Italian architect won, and the erection of a futuristic building was soon started. The new company headquarters should not only serve as logistics centre and distribution facility, but also attract visitors by a new SALEWA flagship store as well as an impressive climbing gym.
TGW was commissioned as general contractor to supply the interior equipment of the new logistics centre. "TGW's extensive product portfolio once again was the decisive factor for the customer in the Oberalp project. Thanks to our modular systems, we were able to offer our customer a customised solution, tailored exactly to meet his needs", says TGW Project Manager Roland Stieger.
The solution concept was created together with IWL, a German logistics consulting company based in Ulm. TGW's scope of supply included tote as well as unit load conveyor equipment, storage and retrieval systems and controls.
Height limit for dynamic warehouse
Besides the control equipment, TGW also implemented the entire tote and unit load conveyor equipment as well as the automatic storage and retrieval system, installing about 80 metres of unit load conveyors and about 1,000 metres of tote conveyors.
Every 73.5 metre long aisle of the 8-aisle automatic mini-load is equipped with a Mustang storage & retrieval machine with anti-pendulum drive and Combi Telescope load handler. With 18 metres, the storage & retrieval machines reach quite a height. "For Oberalp, this technology constitutes quite a fast development from a lot of manual work to a high level of automation", says Hubert Andres, Logistics Director at Oberalp. "It provides a considerably higher performance, but also presents us with completely new challenges, for instance with regard to personnel development for the operation and maintenance of the electro-mechanical system."
Apart from the mechanical and automation technology, Oberalp also purchased a Life Time Service package. A consignment stock, that is to say a spare parts warehouse managed by TGW, provides for continuous replenishments, in case a part has to be replaced within the system. After two years in TGW's property, the stock will pass into the customer's ownership. Within these two years, TGW employees will be on site at periodical intervals to perform maintenance work and full support service. The service package also includes the 24/7 Hotline of TGW's Life Time Service.
Highlight – energy efficient TGW solution
"Sustainability and energy efficiency have been important factors for the implementation of the logistics centre from the beginning", Hubert Andres points out. The call for proposals for the architectural competition already attached great importance to solar energy - the entire building is covered by solar panels. The logistics system was equipped with energy-saving motors. "Oberalp was one of the first projects that we completely implemented with those technologies. It was a pioneering project so to speak, since this has become standard by now", says Project Manager Stieger. "Oberalp has a highly developed sense for sustainability which is reflected in the implemented solution, too." Energy recovery has been taken into consideration for the storage & retrieval machines. Energy generated during the deceleration phases is fed back into the system via corresponding power feedback modules. Furthermore, a sophisticated energy management system takes care of starting up the storage & retrieval machines. Time and energy consumption for the start-up of the machines are monitored so that a maximum of four machines is able to start at the same time. The remaining machines are set into motion with a time lag, since acceleration requires the most amount of energy. "In this project, it was the customer who actively asked for such a system", Roland Stieger is pleased.
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The logistics solution for Oberalp stores and handles sportswear as well as sports goods of all kinds with a focus on alpine sports. Once the goods have been delivered to the logistics centre, they are depalletised in the goods receiving area and repacked into totes. These totes are transported into the automatic mini-load warehouse and stored by Combi Telescope load handling devices. Customer orders of own and external brands are picked on a specially built level. By using Pick-to-Light technology, the customer-specific cartons are packed and transported via a pusher line to a conveyor loop in the goods-out area where they are buffered and routed according to their destination. From there they proceed to a labelling machine via a continuous lift and continue to the despatch chutes where the cartons are classified for the different forwarders.


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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Kansas City Chiefs WR Tyreek Hill will not face additional discipline from the NFL under its Personal Conduct Policy.
In a release Friday morning, the league said they were unable to determine if Hill had violated the policy and cleared Hill to rejoin the team and training camp, which is set to start next week.
"Based on the evidence presently available, the NFL cannot conclude that Mr. Hill violated the Personal Conduct Policy," the league said in a statement. "Accordingly, he may attend Kansas City's training camp and participate in all club activities. He has been and will continue to be subject to conditions set forth by the District Court, Commissioner Goodell, and the Chiefs, which include clinical evaluation and therapeutic intervention.
Hill has been away from the team since April 25 when audio of a conversation with his former fiancee emerged in which his fiancee alleged that Hill injured the couples' son.
In the recording, which Hill's ex-fiancee, Crystal Espinal, took as the couple walked through an airport in Dubai, Hill and Espinal discuss an injury to their 3-year-old son
Espinal says the child blames Hill for the injury. Hill then curses at Espinal.
Last week, a local radio station aired a longer, unedited version of the recording, that provided new context for the couple's conversation. On the full recording, Hill and Espinal discuss Hill's 2014 arrest and bicker over details about the incident. At the time, Espinal was pregnant at the time with the couple's oldest child.
Earlier this year, Hill was the subject of a police investigation by the Overland Park (Kansas) Police after Hill's son broke his arm. The results of that investigation were turned over to the Johnson Conty District Attorney's Office.
Police visited Hill's home twice in March as part of the investigation.
The day after portions of Espinal's secret recording leaked in the media, Johnson County District Attorney Steve Howe said at a press conference that believed a crime had occurred. However, Howe said that his office couldn't pursue charges due to a lack of evidence. No charges are expected to be filed in the case.
The Chiefs effectively suspended the All-Pro receiver from all team activities on April 25 after the audio recording leaked. The Chiefs have since clarified that it was a mutual decision and not technically a suspension, though it had the same practical effect during offseason workouts.
"We decided that at this time and for the foreseeable future, Tyreek Hill will not partake in any team activities," Chiefs general manager Brett Veach said at the time.
That didn't stop the Kansas Department for Children and Families from launching a child-welfare investigation and temporarily removing the 3-year-old from HIll's and Espinal's custody.
In early July, Espinal gave birth to twins and filed a lawsuit in Johnson County District Court — asking the state to determine the paternity of the children, grant her sole custody and order Hill to pay child support.
Hill has denied injuring his son through his attorneys and met with representatives from the NFL in late June, according to reports.
"Throughout the investigation, the NFL's primary concern has been the well-being of the child. Our understanding is that the child is safe and that the child's ongoing care is being directed and monitored by the Johnson County District Court and the Johnson County Department for Children and Families," the league's statement reads.
The NFL also left the door open to revisit the situation if new information is made public.
"If further information becomes available through law enforcement, the pending court proceeding, or other sources, we will promptly consider it and take all appropriate steps at that time," the NFL said.
Non-quarterback veterans report to training camp on July 26.
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell has wide latitude to levy punishment under the collectively bargained Personal Conduct Policy, so a suspension certainly was possible even in the absence of charges.
Hill was a controversial pick when the Chiefs selected him in the fifth round of the 2016 NFL Draft out of West Alabama.
After starting his college career with at Garden City, Kansas, Community College, Hill was a budding star at Oklahoma State before his December 2014 arrest for alleged domestic violence in Stillwater, Oklahoma.
Hill pleaded guilty in that case, though his record was expunged last August after he satisfied all the requirements of the plea deal.
He's only one of several Chiefs with domestic violence incidents or accusations in his past.
Last December, the Chiefs cut running back Kareem Hunt after TMZ released video of him shoving and kicking a woman at a Cleveland hotel. He was suspended eight games by the NFL and signed with the Cleveland Browns in the offseason.
Shortly before the 2019 NFL Draft, the Chiefs also traded for defensive end Frank Clark, who was accused of domestic violence in college at the University of Michigan.
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Two of the biggest names in their fields – motorcycle racing and energy drinks – have linked up for over ten years to hit the tracks. Here is a small examination of how and why.
Watch an orange bike going at tremendous speed or being handled with delicate skill across all types of terrain anywhere in the world and there is a very good chance that a distinctive red mammal will be stamped on the side. KTM and Red Bull have been a powerful and recognisable combination for over a decade and since the early years of the drink company being launched in 1987 in Fuschl a short distance from KTM's blossoming Mattighofen HQ.
Red Bull is synonymous with so many other sports and activities, from cars to winter sports, stunts, flying, action sports, dance, basketball, football and extreme projects. An article recently published by Forbes states that Red Bull sales reached 5.2 billion cans in over 165 countries with $6.7 billion of revenue, based on 2012 figures. Further conjecture indicates that the company spend a third of profits on their marketing and communications in which sport – and thus motorsport – play a part. At the heart of Red Bull's two-wheeled interest is KTM and the symbiosis represents a 'meeting of minds': a shared ethos that underneath the quality of the product is the importance and value of the brand.
The International Motorsports department staff in Fuschl makes sure that the Red Bull philosophy continues to link up nicely with the KTM 'DNA'. "Motorcycle sport is very important for us especially in disciplines like Motocross, MotoGP and Dakar where we have a long connection", they say.
Red Bull can be found in KTM's principal activities in Motocross, Supercross, Enduro, Extreme Enduro, Rally, Moto3, Stunt and Red Bull MotoGP Rookies Cup; basically anything that rolls out of the doors at Mattighofen and Munderfing and is ready for the track. Under the watch of the Pierer Group this influence has also crept into the white of Husqvarna.
Red Bull KTM Extreme Enduro Factory Racing Team 2014
"It is a highly successful relationship that has been running since 2003 and has links back with Heinz (Kinigadner, FIM Motocross World Champion and also former successful Rally rider) to 1993", reveals KTM Motorsport Director Pit Beirer. "You know, it is a relationship that helps us in many ways, for example our athletes have access to their sporting and recovery facilities for training and other aspects. Then there is the sponsorship and lastly the fact that the association makes our brand more attractive. There is a range of positive effects."
With the collaborative process established how do each company go about organising the 'nuts-and-bolts' of the racing programme? According to Beirer it comes down to an important annual meeting, and then a close dialogue thereafter. "We don't decide an amount per team or athlete or project", he reveals. "We meet and discuss what we can to cover everything that we want to do. A lot is based on trust and they do not ask us for every detail. We might want to cover another rider here, enter another team there or start another junior project and it comes down to the shared vision we have and the discussion."
Red Bull corroborates the 'round the table' approach to the teamwork that has celebrated countless victories and a championship in every single discipline aside from the AMA 450SX Supercross (the next big nut to crack). There are over 100 motorsport athletes on their books and a healthy percentage come through KTM channels. "It's very friendly, together with Pit and Heinz, and there is a good collaboration", the Red Bull Crew from Fuschl say. "They have ideas that we like to develop and then we also have our feedback and ideas; the meetings are occurrences where just one of the parties is talking. To summarise it is a good mutual agreement and there has always been an effort to find a solution together. We have a pretty good track record so far."
KTM relies on a bank of partners and sponsors to go racing at more or less every level of high profile competition. Red Bull, as we have learnt, is undeniably a major ingredient of this potent cocktail. The racing overseers in Mattighofen clearly do not underestimate the contribution. "We have our own racing budget, and of course Red Bull is a vital part", Beirer opines. "We have to appreciate that Red Bull do not want to put everything into KTM and have other ideas and associations. We are always pushing the teams and the structure of MX every year and we face limits sometimes, of course. Red Bull has such a wide range of athletes and activities. Offroad and racing is our core business but they have much more going on."
Naturally there is fruit from the union. Red Bull benefits from the edgy and technical racing stance that KTM bring to their competition (there's that image factor again) and they also get to cast stone in the important stages of the sport: "We have been working to develop our own talent through junior programmes in motocross and things like the Red Bull MotoGP Rookies Cup and success from these schemes are a direct result of a Red Bull and KTM partnership."
There could be people that know Red Bull as much for their prominence in Formula One as their effective product. So is there pressure for KTM to continually satisfy their leading partner with acts around the racing as much as the results themselves? "There is not really any pressure, we trust each other with what we do and I would say it is great for KTM to be in the same 'image sphere' of all the things they have going on", says KTM Motorsport Identity Manager Juergen Weisz. "If they ever need a bike or machinery then first option is a KTM and that's great for us to have entrance and presence also in other motorsport disciplines or lifestyle platforms. You will see KTM Bikes in an F1 paddock for example."
At first glance one of the stark common denominations between Red Bull and KTM is the parentage. It is harder to imagine two more internationally known Austrian companies joining forces. Their roots and source is another of the natural 'fits'. "That link matters", says Beirer. "To have two Austrian brands, in different segments grow so much together. Red Bull has been extremely successful and KTM is also becoming a worldwide brand."
The last words belong to the 'wing makers': "We are two Austrian companies – locally based some 50km apart – and are very much the same. You also have the fact that KTM is well established in many racing categories and it just makes sense for us. We share the same visions."
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