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2011 Financial Markets Conference: Navigating the New Financial Landscape - April 4-6, 2011
Viral V. Acharya is a professor of finance at New York University Stern School of Business. Prior to joining Stern, he was a professor of finance at the London Business School, where he also served as academic director of the Collier Institute of Private Equity from 2007 to 2009. His research focuses primarily on the regulation of banks and financial institutions, corporate finance, credit risk and valuation of corporate debt, and asset pricing with a focus on the effects of liquidity risk. Acharya's work has been published in a number of academic journals, including the American Economic Review, Journal of Financial Economics, Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Finance, and Journal of Money, Credit and Banking. He serves as editor of the Journal of Financial Intermediation and associate editor of Review of Corporate Finance, Journal of Finance, and Review of Finance. Acharya's work has received numerous awards and recognitions, including the best paper award on asset pricing from the Journal of Financial Economics in 2005 and the inaugural Rising Star in Finance award in 2008. He received a BTech from the Indian Institute of Technology and a PhD from NYU Stern.
Anat R. Admati is the George G.C. Parker Professor of Finance and Economics at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Primarily a financial economics theorist, her work focuses on issues related to the dissemination of information in financial markets and corporate governance. Admati also has been active in the ongoing policy debate over financial regulation, especially pertaining to capital regulations. Admati has served in a number of editorial positions and written extensively about portfolio management, venture capital contracting, corporate governance, and banking. Currently she is associate editor of the Journal of Finance and advisory editor of the Journal of Financial Markets. A fellow of the Econometric Society, she has served on the board of the American Finance Association and is involved with the Rock Center for Corporate Governance at Stanford Law School. Admati received a BS in mathematics and statistics from Hebrew University in Jerusalem and a PhD from Yale University.
David E. Altig is senior vice president and director of research at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. His responsibilities include advising the Bank president on monetary policy and related matters, overseeing the Bank's research department and regional executives, and sitting on the Bank's management and discount committees. Altig also serves as an adjunct professor of economics in the graduate school of business at the University of Chicago. Previously, he was vice president and associate director of research at the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, which he joined in 1991 as an economist. Prior to joining the Cleveland Fed, Altig was a faculty member in the department of business economics and public policy at Indiana University. His research focuses primarily on monetary and fiscal policy and has been published in such journals as the Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking; the American Economic Review; and the Journal of Monetary Economics. Altig received a BA in business administration from the University of Iowa and an MA and a PhD in economics from Brown University.
Ben S. Bernanke began a second term as chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System on February 1, 2010. He also serves as chairman of the Federal Open Market Committee. Before being appointed as chairman in 2006, Bernanke was chair of the President's Council of Economic Advisors. Previously, he held several roles in the Federal Reserve System: as a member of the Board of Governors, a visiting scholar at the Federal Reserve Banks of Philadelphia, Boston, and New York; and a member of the New York Fed's academic advisory panel. Bernanke's academic career included teaching positions at Princeton University, Stanford University, New York University, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He served as director of the Monetary Economics Program of the National Bureau of Economic Research and was a member of its business-cycle dating committee. He received a BA in economics from Harvard University and a PhD in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Richard B. Berner is a managing director, cohead of global economics, and chief U.S. economist at Morgan Stanley. In this role, he codirects the firm's forecasting and analysis of the global economy and financial markets and coheads its strategy forum. Prior to joining Morgan Stanley in 1999, Berner was executive vice president and chief economist at Mellon Bank, where he served on the senior management committee. Previously, he was a principal and senior economist for Morgan Guaranty Trust Company and director of the Washington, DC, office of Wharton Econometrics. He spent seven years on the research staff at the Federal Reserve Board, where he helped lead its model-based forecasting efforts and served on the team that developed the Fed's first multicountry model used for international policy analysis. He also has served as an adjunct professor of economics at Carnegie-Mellon University and George Washington University. Currently, Berner is a member of the Economic Advisory Panel of the New York Fed, the panel of economic advisers of the Congressional Budget Office, and the executive committee of the National Bureau of Economic Research, where he is also director at large. He is past president and fellow of the National Association for Business Economics (NABE) and received the group's William F. Butler Award for excellence in business economics. He has won forecasting awards from the Wall Street Journal, Market News, and the NABE. Berner received a BA from Harvard College and a PhD from the University of Pennsylvania.
Arnoud Boot is a professor of corporate finance and financial markets at the University of Amsterdam, director of the Amsterdam Center for Law and Economics, and founder and director of the Amsterdam Center for Corporate Finance, a think tank dedicated to improving the interaction between theory and practice. Previously, he was on the faculty of the J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University. From 2000 to 2001, he was a partner in the finance and strategy practice at McKinsey & Co. In addition to his academic activities, Boot is a frequent adviser on ownership structure issues, particularly those related to the public/private domain. He also serves as an expert witness in legal cases and consults several financial institutions and corporations on issues related to the regulation and strategic positioning of financial institutions, corporate finance, governance, and anti-trust. He has held visiting appointments at a number of universities, including the Stockholm School of Economics in Sweden and Cornell University. Boot's research focuses on corporate finance and financial institutions, and he has written extensively on a number of topics, such as the regulation of financial institutions, the design of securities, and capital structure. His work has been published in major academic journals, including the Journal of Finance, American Economic Review, Economic Journal, and the International Economic Review. Boot received a BA in economics, an MA in business, and an MA in economics, all from Tilburg University in the Netherlands. He also received an MBA and a PhD from Indiana University.
Michael A. Callen is chairman of Ambac Financial Group Inc. and a member of the faculty of Georgetown University's Master of Science in Foreign Service program. In January 2011, he retired from the executive chairman post at Ambac, where he has been a member of the board since 1991. He also served on Ambac's compensation and audit committees until 2008, when he was appointed CEO and chairman of the board. Callen is also audit chairman of Intervest, a $2 billion bank with branches in New York and Florida. Previously, he was CEO of Avalon Argus LLC and served as a consultant to institutions and investors in Korea, the Middle East, East Asia, and Australia. From 1965 until 1992, Callen enjoyed a successful career at Citicorp, where his experience spanned many countries and disciplines, including vice chairman and member of the board of directors. Currently, he is a board member of the Institute of Diplomacy at Georgetown University and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Callen received a BA from the University of Wisconsin.
Stephen G. Cecchetti is the economic adviser and head of the Monetary and Economic Department at the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) in Basel, Switzerland. He also is a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research and a research fellow of the Centre for Economic Research. Prior to joining the BIS in 2008, Cecchetti held a number of positions, including the Barbara and Richard M. Rosenberg Professor of Global Finance at the International Business School of Brandeis University, executive vice president and director of research at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, and editor of the Journal of Money, Credit and Banking. In addition to writing a textbook titled Money, Banking and Financial Markets, Cecchetti has written numerous articles in top scientific and policy journals and is a regular contributor to the Financial Times and VOX. He received a BS from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an MA and PhD from the University of California, Berkeley.
Giovanni Dell'Ariccia is an adviser in the research department of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), where he is responsible for coordinating the activities of the macrofinancial linkages unit. Previously, he worked in the Asia and Pacific Department at the IMF. Dell'Ariccia's research interests include banking, the macroeconomics of credit, international finance, and conditionality in international lending and aid programs. His work has been featured in such publications as the Journal of Finance, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, Economic Journal, and the Journal of Banking and Finance. Dell'Ariccia is a research fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research. He received a PhD in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Gerald P. Dwyer is director of the Center for Financial Innovation and Stability at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. He also serves as an adjunct professor at the University of Carlos III in Madrid. Dwyer has been on the faculty at Texas A&M University, Emory University, the University of Houston, and Clemson University, and has worked with the Federal Reserve Banks of St. Louis and Chicago. His research is focused on banking and financial markets—especially the implications of the digital revolution for financial and economic growth—and has been published in many leading economic and finance journals. Dwyer sits on the editorial boards of the Journal of Financial Stability and Economic Inquiry. He is president of the Association for Private Enterprise Education and previously served as president of the Society for Nonlinear Dynamics and Econometrics. Dwyer received a BA in business, government, and society from the University of Washington, an MA in economics from the University of Tennessee, and a PhD in economics from the University of Chicago.
Robert A. Eisenbeis is managing director and chief monetary economist at Cumberland Advisors. He advises Cumberland's asset managers on developments in U.S. financial markets and the domestic economy and their implications for investment and trading strategies. Eisenbeis was formerly executive vice president and director of research at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, where he was in charge of basic research and policy analysis and advised the Bank's president on monetary policy for deliberations of the Federal Open Market Committee. Before he joined the Atlanta Fed, Eisenbeis was the Wachovia Professor of Banking at the Kenan-Flagler School of Business at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has also held senior positions at the Federal Reserve Board of Governors and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. He is currently a member of the Shadow Financial Regulatory Committee and Financial Economist Roundtable and a fellow of the National Association of Business Economics. Eisenbeis has a B.S. from Brown University and a masterâ??s degree and doctorate from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Larry Hatheway is managing director, chief economist, and chief strategist at UBS Investment Bank. He serves on the fixed income, currency and commodities, and commodities executive committees. Hatheway also sits on the research management board and is a nonvoting member of the UBS global investment committee. During his nineteen years at UBS, Hatheway has served as global head of asset allocation, global head of fixed income and currency strategy, senior currency strategist, and senior international economist. Prior to joining UBS, Hatheway was an economist at Citibank and an analyst/proprietary trader at Manufacturers Hanover Trust. In 1990, he spent time at the Federal Reserve Board's Division of International Finance conducting dissertation research. He holds a BA from Whitman College, an MA from Johns Hopkins University, and a PhD in economics from the University of Texas.
Peter Hooper is managing director and chief economist for Deutsche Bank Securities. He has been with this company since the fall of 1999, first as chief international economist and shortly thereafter as chief U.S. economist. He became chief economist and co-head of global economics in 2006. Before joining Deutsche Bank, Hooper enjoyed a distinguished 26-year career at the Federal Reserve Board in Washington, DC. While rising to senior levels of the Fed staff, he held numerous positions, including economist on the Federal Open Market Committee and deputy director of the Division of International Finance. Hooper produces weekly and quarterly publications for Deutsche Bank with a focus on U.S. and global economic developments and Fed policy. He also comments on U.S. and global economic and financial developments in the news media. His U.S. economics team was ranked number one in fixed income research by Institutional Investor in 2010. Hooper currently serves as a member of the Economic Advisory Panel of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and is a member and former chairman of the Economic Advisory Committee of the American Bankers Association, a founding member of the U.S. Monetary Policy Forum, a member of the Economic Leadership Council for the University of Michigan, and a member of the Forecasters' Club of New York. Hooper earned a bachelor's degree, cum laude, in economics from Princeton University and a master's degree and doctorate in economics from the University of Michigan. He has published numerous books, journal articles, and reviews on economics and policy analysis.
Simon Johnson is the Ronald A. Kurtz Professor of Entrepreneurship at MIT Sloan School of Management. He also is a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, a cofounder of BaselineScenario.com, and a member of the Congressional Budget Office's Panel of Economic Advisers. Previously, from March 2007 to August 2008, Professor Johnson was the International Monetary Fund's economic counselor and director of its research department. In addition to writing opinion pieces for a number of publications, including BusinessWeek and the Atlantic, Johnson is a weekly contributor to NYT.com's Economix blog and has a monthly column with Project Syndicate, which runs in publications around the world. In January 2010, he joined the Huffington Post as contributing business editor. Along with James Kwak, Johnson authored 13 Bankers: The Wall Street Takeover and the Next Financial Meltdown, a bestselling assessment of the dangers now posed by the U.S. financial sector. Currently, Johnson is codirector of the National Bureau of Economics Research's Africa Project and works with nonprofits and think tanks around the world. He received a BA from the University of Oxford, an MA from the University of Manchester, and a PhD in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
George G. Kaufman is the John F. Smith Professor of Finance and Economics at the School of Business Administration at Loyola University, where he also is director of the Center for Financial and Policy Studies. Prior to joining Loyola, he was the John Rogers Professor of Banking and Finance and director of the Center for Capital Market Research at the University of Oregon's College of Business Administration. Previously, he was a research fellow, economist, and research officer at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. Kaufman's teaching and research interests are in financial economics, institutions, markets and regulations, and the Fed and monetary policy. Most recently, he has focused on ways to prevent bank crises and reform deposit insurance. In addition to writing several books, Kaufman has published extensively in the American Economic Review, Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, and others. He was a founding co-editor of the Journal of Financial Services Research and the Journal of Financial Stability, and is on or has served on the editorial boards of several other publications. He is cochair of the Shadow Financial Regulatory Committee and executive director of the Financial Economists Roundtable. Kaufman received a BA from Oberlin College, an MA from the University of Michigan, and a PhD in economics from the University of Iowa.
Randall S. Kroszner is the Normin R. Bobins Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. From March 2006 to January 2009, he served as a governor of the Federal Reserve System, where he chaired the Committee on Supervision and Regulation of Banking Institutions and the Committee on Consumer and Community Affairs. Prior to joining the Federal Reserve Board, Kroszner was a professor of economics at the University of Chicago and director of the George J. Stigler Center for the Study of the Economy and the State. From 2001 to 2003, he was a member of the President's Council of Economic Advisers, where he was heavily involved in formulating the policy response to corporate governance scandals and advised on a wide range of domestic and international issues. Additionally, he has served as the editor of the Journal of Law & Economics and associate editor of several other academic and policy journals. Currently, Kroszner is a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research and serves on the committees for economic statistics and economic education of the American Economics Association. His research interests include the regulation of financial institutions, international financial crises, the Great Depression, monetary economics, corporate governance, debt restructuring and bankruptcy, and the political economy. Kroszner received a BS in applied mathematics from Brown University and an MA and a PhD in economics from Harvard University.
Dennis P. Lockhart is president and chief executive officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. In this role he is responsible for all of the Bank's activities, including monetary policy, bank supervision and regulation, and payment services. He also chairs the Bank's management committee and serves on the Federal Open Market Committee. Prior to joining the Atlanta Fed in March 2007, Lockhart served on the faculty of Georgetown University's Walsh School of Foreign Service, teaching in the master's program and chairing the program's concentrations in international business-government relations and global commerce and finance. He was also an adjunct professor at Johns Hopkins University's Nitze School of Advanced International Studies. Prior to his academic career Lockhart was managing partner at the private equity firm Zephyr Management LP. He also worked at Heller Financial, where he served as executive vice president and director of the parent company and as president of Heller International Group. Previously Lockhart held various positions, both domestic and international, with Citicorp/Citibank. In addition to his professional activities, Lockhart was a member of the boards of directors of several companies and was chairman of the Small Enterprise Assistance Funds, a not-for-profit operator of emerging markets venture capital funds. He holds a BA in political science and economics from Stanford University and an MA in international economics and American foreign policy from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies.
Charles I. Plosser is president and chief executive officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia. Prior to joining the Philadelphia Fed in 2006, he was the John M. Olin Distinguished Professor of Economics and director of the Bradley Policy Research Center at the William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration at the University of Rochester, where he served as dean from 1993 to 2003. Plosser also was a professor of economics and a senior research associate at the University of Rochester, a research associate at the National Bureau of Economics, and a visiting scholar at the Bank of England and the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. His research interests include monetary policy, fiscal policy, long-term economic growth, banking, and financial markets. Plosser was chairman of the board of directors for the Consortium for Graduate Study in Management, and a member of the board of directors of ViaHealth, Inc., where he was also secretary, member of the executive committee, and chair of the governance committee. He received a bachelor's degree in engineering from Vanderbilt University and an MBA and a PhD from the University of Chicago.
Vince Reinhart is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. From 2001 to 2007, he was director of the Division of Monetary Affairs at the Federal Reserve Board and secretary and economist of the Federal Open Market Committee. Prior to that, he held positions of increasing responsibility at the Federal Reserve Board, including deputy director of the Division of International Finance. Reinhart also served as senior economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. In his more than two decades working on domestic and international aspects of U.S. monetary policy, his research has included economic bubbles and monetary policy, U.S. Treasury security auctions, alternate strategies for monetary policy, and efficient means of communicating monetary policy decisions. He received a BS from Fordham University and an MA and an MPhil from Columbia University.
Anthony M. Santomero is the Richard K. Mellon Professor Emeritus of Finance at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Previously, he was a senior advisor at McKinsey & Company, where he worked closely with clients and partners in the company's financial institutions and risk management practices. Prior to joining McKinsey, he was president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, where he also served on the Federal Open Market Committee. The author of approximately 150 articles, books, and monographs on issues ranging from financial sector regulation to economic performance, his latest works are Financial Markets, Instruments, and Institutions and Challenges for Modern Central Banking. Santomero is on the boards of Citicorp, Citibank NA, Renaissance Reinsurance Company Ltd, the Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company, and the Columbia Funds mutual fund family. He is a member of the Financial Economists Roundtable and serves on the advisory board of the Italian Bankers Association's European Banking Report. Santomero received a BA in economics from Fordham University and a PhD in economics from Brown University.
Moritz Schularick is a professor of economics at the John F. Kennedy Institute of the Free University of Berlin, Germany. He has also been a visiting scholar at Cambridge University in the United Kingdom and a partner at Amiya Capital, a London-based emerging markets fund. Schularick's current work focuses on credit cycles, the determinants of financial crises, and the international monetary system. Together with Niall Ferguson, he coined the term "Chimerica," which describes the intimate financial relations between the United States and China. His research has been published in many leading economic journals, including the Global Economy Journal, the Review of Economics, International Finance, and the Journal of Economic History. Schularick received an MA from Humboldt University of Berlin and a PhD in economics from the Free University of Berlin.
Chester Spatt is the Pamela and Kenneth B. Dunn Professor of Finance at the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University. He also directs the school's Center for Financial Markets, where he has taught since 1979. From 2004 to 2007, Spatt served as chief economist of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and director of its office of economic analysis. His research centers on financial markets, with particular interest in market structure, pricing and valuation, and the impact of information in the marketplace. A paper he coauthored on asset allocation won the Paul Samuelson Award for best publication on lifelong financial security from TIAA-CREF. Additionally, he is associate editor of several finance journals and was executive editor and a founding editor of the Review of Financial Studies. A fellow of the TIAA-CREF Institute, Spatt serves as a research associate with the National Bureau of Economic Research, a senior economic advisor to Kalorama Partners, and is a member of the Shadow Financial Regulatory Committee and the Financial Economists Roundtable. Spatt received a BA from Princeton and an MA and a PhD in economics from the University of Pennsylvania.
Angel Ubide is the director of global economics at Tudor Investment Corporation, a global funds management company, and a visiting fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics. An active member of several international economic policy organizations, Ubide serves on the European Central Bank's Shadow Governing Council, the steering committee of the Euro50 Group, and the board of directors of the Reinventing Bretton Woods Committee. He also is a member of the Atlantic Council of the United States and the Center for European Policy Studies. He has written extensively on international macroeconomics, banking, and exchange rates, and his work has been published in major international journals and leading newspapers. Previously, he was an economist at the International Monetary Fund and a management consultant with McKinsey & Co. He received a PhD in economics from the European University Institute in Florence, Italy.
Larry D. Wall is a financial economist and senior policy advisor at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. He joined the Bank in 1982 and was promoted to his present position in 2001. In addition to pursuing research in the areas of finance and banking, he gives policy advice, evaluates staff research, and provides counsel on research and professional activities. A certified public accountant, Wall is on the academic advisory panel for the International Association of Deposit Insurers and is past president and chairman of the trustees of the Eastern Finance Association. He also serves on the editorial boards of the Financial Review, Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of Financial Services Research, Journal of Financial Stability, and Review of Financial Economics. Wall received a BA in business administration from the University of North Dakota and a PhD in business from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Peter J. Wallison is the Arthur F. Burns Fellow in Financial Market Studies and codirector of the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) program on financial market deregulation. Prior to joining AEI, he practiced banking, corporate, and financial law at Gibson, Dunn, & Crutcher in Washington, DC, and New York. Wallison has held a number of government positions, including general counsel of the United States Treasury Department, general counsel to the Depository Institutions Deregulation Committee, and White House counsel to President Ronald Reagan. Between 1972 and 1976, he served first as special assistant to New York's Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller, and subsequently as counsel to Rockefeller during his vicepresidency. In addition to authoring several books, including Ronald Reagan: The Power of Conviction and the Success of His Presidency and many others on financial and regulatory matters, he is a frequent contributor to the op-ed pages of the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Financial Times. He is a member of the Shadow Financial Regulatory Committee and the Council on Foreign Relations. A member of the District of Columbia Bar Association, Wallison received a BA from Harvard College in 1963 and a JD from Harvard Law School.


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Described as a "head-turning, sausage showstopper" for this year's Christmas table, the new product will be gluten-free and is made using over 500g of British Red Tractor pork and wrapped with 100g of juicy rashers of British dry cured streaky bacon.
Priced at just £5, the new offering will be a foot long, 45mm deep, and weighs in at a meaty 650g.
Serving up to 10 people, the Asda team say the succulent sausage can be enjoyed by the whole family.
A spokesperson for the chain added: "Everybody's favourite Christmas dinner essential is bigger and meatier than ever. And what's more, our Christmas gift to the nation has come early – eager customers won't have to wait until Christmas to shop the sausage in-store, but can get their hands on the Extra Special Pig in Blanket from next month, launching 22nd October."

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Tune In Tuesday:The Robert Glasper Experiment: Black Radio 2
Folks today is the day!
The Robert Glasper Experiment: Black Radio 2 drops today! The project features Jill Scott, Brandy, and a host of other singers. If you purchased The Robert Glasper Experiment Black Radio 1, then you can understand why I am excited.
We are definitely in for a treat! As I type this blog post my ears are having an eargasm listening to the album. All that is missing is a glass of wine, but I am at work. Later tonight tho!
If you are a fan of good music please go pick up the album STAT! Review coming soon! You don't know what your missing!


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According to Inquirer, Xiaomi's device made its public debut over the internet through a 30-second video posted last week.
The video, courtesy of Gizmodo China, did not show the phone being bent but rather a bent screen that is very responsive to touch.
Flexible displays or foldable, bendable smartphones are the future and earlier this year, another Chinese major Lenovo became the first company to display two futuristic concepts: a foldable smartphone that can be turned into a wearable device and a bendable tablet that becomes a phablet.
Apart from Lenovo, Korean smartphone-maker Samsung has been working on foldable displays for years and is reported to be ready to launch its first foldable smartphone in 2017.
Apple has also gone for patents that suggest it is set to develop iPhones with curved screens.


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Today Motorola will announce two new phones, neither of which will feature an edge-to-edge display as was previously rumored. An image leaked by @evleaks shows the RAZR HD (on right), looking very similar to the Atrix HD which hit AT&T recently. Like the Atrix HD, we expect the RAZR HD to feature a 720p 4.5″ ColorBoost display, powered by a dual-core Snapdragon S4 1.5GHz CPU and 1GB of RAM, all on top of Android 4.0. Like the original RAZR, the RAZR HD will feature Verizon LTE connectivity, plus a super-thin profile.
The RAZR M is expected to be a refreshed version of the original Droid RAZR with a 4.3″ qHD AMOLED display. It will also be powered by a dual-core Snapdragon S4 CPU with 1GB of RAM, running on Android 4.0.
Motorola will announce both devices at a press conference today in New York at 1pm Eastern. You can watch the livestream here. Keep an eye on Pocketnow where we'll have hands-on coverage of Motorola's latest phones!
Source: @evleaks


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Episode 130 - Trial By Fire
It's been a hectic week in the good ole US of A and the social media/Internet is buzzing with the verdict of George Zimmerman in the death of Trayvon Martin. So what does Mark go and do? He brings in two of his more verbally astute guests to break down one of the most talk about trials in the past 20 years. First up is the FORMER MILITARY VETERAN (the joke never gets old) Jeremy Bailey to temper the blade of the next guest....Travis Cook. That's right!
Travis and Jeremy return for the first time together since their infamous Cook/Bailey debates. And Travis doesn't disappoint his Tea Party beliefs and backing regarding the trial of Zimmerman. The gentlemen discuss the ins and outs of the surrounding information and eventual NOT GUILTY verdict.
But why stop there, the state of Arizona has a nice little Solar Panel fiasco that has decided to rear its ugly head and it has Mark in a tizzy trying to figure out where this country is going when they allow people to save money, but when they save too much money, they start charging them again to offset the savings. Its capitalism at its worst and the discussion slowly transforms from that into Travis' discussion regarding his latest AEG episode called affectionately "SCREW THE POOR". Jeremy takes the bait and Travis/Jeremy begin a class war discussion for the history books.
Not a slow minute in this great episode of the show, plus all the typical favorite sections are here, albeit truncated for your listening pleasure. It's the Q...Real Radio, Real Honest!
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Guess who got a new 5k PR last night?
I didn't want to post about it until I had seen the official results from last night's race, as I was worried that maybe my watch had malfunctioned, but it turns out that my finish time was actually correct.
I finally got my 5k down to under 30 minutes!
I finished the Rosehill Cemetery Crypt 5k in 29:08.
To give an idea of how far I've come in the past year, my finish time for last year's Rosehill Cemetery Crypt 5k was 37:36. And my previous PR was set earlier this year at the Original 5k with a finish time of 30:39.
Consistency and hard work really do pay off! Of course, so does nice, cool weather.


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Re: Loading...WhiteWolf Aug 4, 2008 3:44 PM (in response to WhiteWolf)
Still unable to retrieve data. The server has rebooted a few times since my last post with no changes. I am able to test credentials through Exchange Monitor's configuration (using domain admin) but main app still just says loading...
I looked at some of the other posts here and it appears there may be some issues with using domain admin account with this tool. I checked with WBEMTEST and was able to connect to \\<EXCHANGE_SERVER>\root\default with no problems. I also tried "wmic /user:<ADMIN> /password:<PASSWORD> /node:<EXCHANGE_SERVER> cpu get /VALUE" and had no problems retrieving information on the server's CPUs.
If anyone has any ideas for me to try, I would appreciate it.
Re: Loading...WhiteWolf Aug 7, 2008 3:57 PM (in response to WhiteWolf)
Okay, after a little research and testing I found that if I run it as the local administrator it loads up just fine. (This is on XP - not Vista like the warnings mention) Also, I noticed that if I leave the box checked for "Protect my computer and data from unauthorized program activity" checked, it generates an unhandled exception when trying to save settings. Just in case any of the programmers ever read this, I have included the Exception Text Below. In the mean time, I noticed version 1.0.2 is out so I will try downloading that to see if they managed to fix the problem yet.
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System.Configuration.ConfigurationErrorsException: Failed to save settings: A configuration file cannot be created for the requested Configuration object. ---> System.Configuration.ConfigurationErrorsException: A configuration file cannot be created for the requested Configuration object.
at System.Configuration.MgmtConfigurationRecord.SaveAs(String filename, ConfigurationSaveMode saveMode, Boolean forceUpdateAll)
at System.Configuration.Configuration.SaveAsImpl(String filename, ConfigurationSaveMode saveMode, Boolean forceSaveAll)
at System.Configuration.Configuration.Save()
at System.Configuration.ClientSettingsStore.WriteSettings(String sectionName, Boolean isRoaming, IDictionary newSettings)
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at System.Configuration.ClientSettingsStore.WriteSettings(String sectionName, Boolean isRoaming, IDictionary newSettings)
at System.Configuration.LocalFileSettingsProvider.SetPropertyValues(SettingsContext context, SettingsPropertyValueCollection values)
at System.Configuration.SettingsBase.SaveCore()
at System.Configuration.SettingsBase.Save()
at System.Configuration.ApplicationSettingsBase.Save()
at ExchangeMon.ConfigFrm.ConfigFrm_FormClosing(Object sender, FormClosingEventArgs e)
at System.Windows.Forms.Form.OnFormClosing(FormClosingEventArgs e)
at System.Windows.Forms.Form.CheckCloseDialog(Boolean closingOnly)
( I saved the "Loaded Assemblies" & "JIT Debugging" text as well for this exception if needed.)
Re: Loading...WhiteWolf Aug 13, 2008 2:40 PM (in response to WhiteWolf)
Well, annoying as it may be to have a prolonged 1-way discussion, I feel there may be others out there with the same problem(s) so this is for them...
The Saga Continues...
So I installed version1.0.2 and just like the previous version I had, I was able to connect up with no problems immediately after install but when I exit the application and restart it it gets stuck saying "Loading..."
Just like before it runs fine as the local admin account but not as user who is a member of the Administrators group. This appears to be an issue with permissions on the local system. Short of spending more time on this than it's worth to me (which I may already have) I am out of options until this problem is fixed unless someone else finds a work-around.
I will update this topic if any new information is found.


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It's a case of sunshine and smiles all round for our Spanish Exchange trip students who are enjoying the beautiful weather and fantastic food on the School's annual visit to Seville.
Highlights of the trip have included a tour of the Andalusian city of Córdoba, an exciting climb up Las Setas to get a panoramic view of the beautiful city of Seville, and visits to the Plaza de España and the Alcázar, filming locations for Star Wars, Lawrence of Arabia, The Dictator and Game of Thrones.
Exchange organiser, Miss Reina Campbell, said: "We are now looking forward to the return visit in April, when our new Spanish friends will discover what life is like in Brentwood!"


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Another stellar poem-video at Moving Poems, this one based on the poem "Steak Night" by Melissa Broder, created by Daniel Lichtenberg, with original music by Diana Salier and Rob Justesen, and poem read by Edward Carden. The poem is from Broder's collection, Meat Heart, from Publishing Genius Press. That book was one of my favorite poetry collections of 2012, wild with several layers of ripped open energy.
SSR #5 of 15: Falcons on the Floor7 Jul
Falcons on the Floor
by Justin Sirois
Publishing Genius
300 pgs, $12
This is a pilgrimage, not just a book; prepare to be taken under siege- parched and exhausted.
Everyday Genius Goes Print in June30 May
Everyday Genius, one of my favorite online journals perhaps of all time, is releasing a special print issue for June 2012. It looks like this, which is a cover designed by Jimmy Chen, who's a pr' kewl guy.
I think it's to celebrate or commemorate something or other, but all in all, it just looks awesome, and has an incredible line up of contributors (Aaron Burch, Stephanie Barber, Michael Kimball, Catherine Lacey, Joseph Young, et al), and this is all just to say you should go here and purchase the damn thing (it's only $11 after shipping), and you should probably do that before June 1st, because then you could win a Publishing Genius prize pack, which includes a bunch of incredible books from PGP and a PGP tote to carry them in and a PGP coozy to keep your beer coozed, or if you're a recovering alcoholic, to keep your soda pop coozed.
New Feature: Vouched Visitors25 Apr
We're excited to announce the launch of a new feature here, Vouched Visitors, starting in May. Essentially, there are a bunch of people we wish we could have on the team here vouching their favorite work online, reviewing their favorite small press books, talking shop about why they love reading, etc. but these people are as busy if not busier than we are, and being a regular contributor at Vouched just isn't in the cards.
So, we've decided to start asking these people to visit Vouched for just a month and do just that. Every month we'll have a new Visitor talking up some of their favorite small press goodness.
Starting things off in May will be the ever awesome Adam Robinson of Publishing Genius Press. It's only fitting that Adam would kick this off, as he and PGP have been supporting Vouched from the very beginning. Adam is also the author of two collections of poetry: Say, Poem and Adam Robison and Other Poems by Adam Robinson. I highly suggest you check out both of these collections, as well as hop over to Publishing Genius and taking in all the amazing work he's been putting out for the past 6 years.
Publishing Genius Needs a New Tagline!3 Jan
One of my all-time favorite small presses, Publishing Genius, is in need of a new tagline, and editor Adam Robinson has turned to crowdsourcing with a Twitter contest. Here are the details:
Publishing Genius needs a new tagline. "Short, massive books since 2006" doesn't work anymore. For instance, Justin Sirois's novel, Falcons on the Floor, is 300 pages long. So we're introducing the #TagPGP contest – rewrite our slogan and win a Nook Simple Touch (which you can use to read our new forthcoming series, the "eBook Minis"). But even better than the gadget are the bragging rights, because your words will appear in our masthead online, as well as in our books.
So Tweet your idea with the hashtag #TagPGP by January 6, and you'll be entered to win automatically. The contest is being judged by Creative-Director-type-genius Jamie Gaughran-Perez, the brain behind the Zombie Haiku.
The winning slogan will be announced on January 7.
Bag it, tag it, sell it to the butcher in the store!
Pre-order Falcons On the Floor today. Do it. Do it now.1 Dec
It's no secret.
I've been a huge supporter of all the awesome things Justin Sirois and Haneen Alshujairy have cooked up over the past few years. MLKNG SCKLS was one of the first books on the Vouched table, and continues to hold a place there today. I pushed as hard as I could to support the Understanding Campaign in its fledgling state as a blog, and then later for their huge Kickstarter undertaking.
And now, I'm so stoked to have gotten this email from Publishing Genius Press today about the launch of pre-orders for Falcons on the Floor, a book I've been anticipating for a long, long time:
I'm excited to announce that Justin Sirois's much anticipated novel, Falcons on the Floor, is up for pre-order today! This one means a lot to me because of the scope of the book. It's about Salim and Khalil, two young friends escaping Fallujah, Iraq, at the height of the war. Carefully researched with Haneen Alshujairy, herself an Iraqi refugee, Falcons on the Floor was praised by Dahr Jamail for its "deep understanding of what occupation does, to civilians and soldiers alike."
Order it in the next few days for just $12 and you'll get a signed copy bundled with a unique art print (see it below). Plus you'll be entered to win a bonus hardcover version (very limited edition). More information is at www.FalconsontheFloor.com. The book should ship in December, but it's not out officially till March.
I can't recommend this book enough. It's very existence means the world is and can be a better place.
Another reaction to If I Falter at the Gallows by Edward Mullany31 Oct
If I Falter at the Gallows
Edward Mullany
Publishing Genius Press, 83 pages, $12
Christopher wrote a wonderful personal response to If I Falter at the Gallows by Edward Mullany last week, a wonderful book of poems released by Publishing Genius recently. So much has been said around the web recently about this book, I thought I'd sift through my own thoughts on the book as a way to add to the conversation:
1. An entry point? The epigraph. Charles Simic: "Who put canned laughter/into my crucifixion scene?" The pseudo-humor, a mark of ha-ha entertainment, slapped against the tragic, the personal tragedy, someone's personal tragedy.
2. If I had to tell someone about these poems, I'd say something like "They're short poems with lots of head space to roam, like a dot-to-dot picture that could be either a horse with flames coming out of his eyes or an old person serving soup to the homeless on the day he/she dies."
3. We find that sinkhole brevity over and over, a little picture, a bearded man pushing another bearded man down a dune ("Comic Relief") or retreating soldiers who aren't supposed to be retreating getting killed anyway ("Either/Or"), and it's kind of funny like in that AH THAT SUCKS way, but then in all that white space we stumble into questions like "WHY WAR?" or "WHY THE SHOVE?"
4. Why does anyone need to be crucified in the first place?
5. I guess I'm yet another reviewer person responding to what Mullany said about his poems in NANO fiction:
I don't aim to write funny poems, but neither do I aim to write sad poems. I try to describe reality through the voices of people so stunned by their experience of reality that they see with a kind of insane clarity.
6. Insane clarity! I like that. It reaches out for something that I think the clarity-driven, plain-spoken writing that I encounter sometimes misses: a sincere interest in the craziness around us.
7. I'm taking it way out of context, but I'm reminded of this quote from Ways of Seeing by John Berger:
To be naked is to be oneself. To be nude is to be seen naked by others and yet not recognized for oneself. A naked body has to be seen as an object to become a nude.
8. A naked poem can be cool I guess, where someone's like look at this and it's disturbing or funny, but what Mullany does, maybe a more accurate word is gives, what Mullany gives is an object, a nude object, transformed into this lovely other.
9. "To The Woman Who Jumped In Front Of A Train" is a poem from the book that exemplifies this point:
I am wearing a yellow
dress, and I am walking
with you towards a gate above
which is a sign only
one of us
can read.
10. Is this funny? Maybe, but also it is tragic and these two things slapped together are startling. This is obvious, but a good piece of art is not just the means of dealing with experience, but the place for such dealing.
11. I'm reminded of what Adam Robinson, lead man of Publishing Genius, said about his own poem "I am going to have sex with these people" from his book "Adam Robison and Other Poems" in an interviewer for Issue 1 of Beecher's Magazine. The interviewer said that "the language of the poem is the language of you trying to figure out what the poem is." And Adam responded:
Mairead Byrne said a similar thing on her jacket review for the book, that "somewhat skeptically" the book "marks out a testing ground for poetry." I'm really happy about that. It wasn't something I was doing intentionally in the language, but it's always on my mind, more than in a "is this a good poem" way. Because I think Poetry (capital P) has a lot of vitality. Even good poems can be lame, can be who cares? So my objective with the bro-sona language is to move the process right onto the surface of the poem. Rather than have the reader cut through the craftiness, my intention was to start them off with, uh, crappiness and filter through that for the "poem."
12. Maybe in a little different way than Adam meant for his own poems, but definitely with the same core, Mullany starts and ends with the "crappiness" of life, the peculiarity of living, the tragedy of a bunch of humans being together on this stupid earth.
13. The reader, if patient, can walk around on the surface and slowly sink in, instead of sinking in from the beginning.
14. Like "Either/Or," "Ode To The Bayoneted Soldier" meanders within one of the suckiest parts of human conflict, war:
In the woods beside the snowy
field, the footprints
15. Christopher, in his response to the book earlier here at Vouched, mentioned that overwhelming feeling of "what does anything matter," and did a great job of exemplifying how Mullany's poems connected to him and this question.
16. Looking at "Important," which was the first poem Christopher singled out, I'd say that Mullany's poems again and again, for this reader at least, point out that what matters depends on the person, but some things (should?) matter to nearly everyone, like art or war or death.
17. The poems in If I Falter At The Gallows snips the most affecting bits from these BIG THINGS and spreads them out where the reader can roam around.
18. Realization is beautiful.
If I Falter at the Gallows by Edward Mullany25 Oct
If I Falter at the Gallows
Edward Mullany
Publishing Genius Press, 83 pages, $12
The first book I ever read from Publishing Genius Press was Easter Rabbit by Joseph Young, a book of sparse, tight microfiction. I read the book in a single sitting. It wasn't just for the contest. I remember distinctly the feeling of language bending. One of my favorite things about Publishing Genius is how often their books force me to reimagine and rearrange my ideas of what language can and should be, what language can and should do.
I sat down to read Edward Mullany's If I Falter at the Gallows at 11:15 last night. At 12:04, I finished. My cat was asleep against my leg. The house was quiet and dim. A feeling of futility wrestled at my arms and chest. I wanted to read Ecclesiastes, but I didn't want to wake my cat. I wanted to do a lot of things, but didn't want to wake my cat. Against all the futility I felt, there was something purposeful in its slow, plodding breath.
I keep saying futility. Let me explain.
Mullany's poems are as equally sparse as Young's Easter Rabbit, but there is a futility in Mullany's lines that brought to my chest a feeling I've been wrestling with the past few months, a "what does anything matter" question that is perhaps as cliche' as it is historic, that's perhaps best exemplified in the poem "Important":
The newspaper said a painter who is dead and whose
paintings are exhibited in museums in the country
he spent most of his life in, as well as in museums in
other countries, would have been one hundred today.
I read that poem over at least 5 times last night, I thought of the painter's life, I thought of my life. I laughed. My cat stirred. I laughed more quietly.
I went back and reread previous poems, the dark and quiet irony of "Important" coloring everything now.
I read "A Suicide in the Family," and understood the how useless words can be:
The doorbell rings. Or a mountain
speaks to a mountain
in a language only
mountains understand.
I read "The Birthday Present Analogy", and finally got the joke:
Inside the box, you
find another
box. And so
on. It is only
a joke if
there is a first
and a final
After I stopped laughing, I sent an email. I picked up my cat, cradled her in my arms. I carried her in to bed and rested her next to my wife. I took off my glasses, plugged my phone in to charge, set my alarm for the morning.
I have plenty to do before I find the final box. And so do you. You have this book to read at least. Whatever you do after that, do it well, and take care.
Single-Sentence Review: Fog Gorgeous Stag by Sean Lovelace3 Aug
Fog Gorgeous Stag by Sean Lovelace
Publishing Genius, 70 pages, 2011
A really awesome review of FGS over at Book Punch Reviews
Yes, this book stumbles through itself, in search of itself, learning to bend and snap, discovering the depths and directions of its voice and at the end pops out this layered clump, like a rubberband ball with a pulse, that bounces around us and stretches thoughtshapes in and out and back again and we get all smiley, not really knowing what to say or think.
208 Words On The 208 Pages of Poems Called The Best Of (What's Left Of) Heaven by Mairéad Byrne22 Nov
I can look at most pages of this book and feel nice. These poems are short, quirky, clever, yet some calming. I flip randomly and prove what I'm saying: "Our Colds."
could be flu
cat allergies
or carbon monoxide poisoning
but probably not
all three
And this is what I'm saying. Reading it in my room right now, this poem cleaned me up a little, this snapshot of Byrne's life and thoughts, but also perhaps mine. I feel better than I did before.
Byrne's poems stretch beyond their small word count, being big with emotional stuff, positive or negative. Maybe emotional isn't the right word, more like living stuff or thinking stuff, yes, these poems are like snapshot thoughts on the page. Even in the section called "war," Byrne does things with lists, bold, newspaper headlines, which seems playful and comfortable.
This book works for me as a reminder that poems don't have to be all long and rambly. I forget that sometimes. Also, this is a book that you can call someone and be like listen to this poem, it doesn't suck. My call-up-somebody-to-read-them-a-poem poem is "Heaven." This is a small-ish book and the small-ish poems with the super thinking moments and they are good life companions.


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Kaitlyn Schoeffel, who graduated last spring from Egg Harbor Township High School, spent her summer between high school and college worrying about more than transitioning to a new life at Montclair State University in Montclair. She also had economic issues on her mind. "It's not just people having jobs, it's people being able to get to their jobs, too," says Schoeffel, who is 18. Over the summer, "I was hired about 30 minutes from my house on a minimum wage salary as a waitress at the Bashful Banana on the Ocean City boardwalk. The reason I took the job was to earn tips to pay for the cost of gas. Over $3 a gallon is strenuous on anyone."
Like many teens, Kaitlyn has been struggling with the higher cost of living that comes with a depressed economy. The good news: Kaitlyn found a summer job. The teen job market has been especially hard hit during the economic downturn of the past few years. The country's teen unemployment rate has been over 20% for three years. "Essentially, it means that somebody in high school has almost completed a full cycle of school without knowing anything other than a job market where it is very difficult to find work. It's a new paradigm for this generation," says Michael Saltsman, a research fellow at the Employment Policies Institute in Washington, D.C., who is an expert on entry-level employment.
Teen job prospects may be improving, thanks to a new initiative announced by President Barack Obama in January. The White House vowed to tackle youth unemployment head-on through its Summer Jobs+ program, a call to action for businesses, non-profits and government to work together to provide pathways to employment for low-income and out-of-work youth in the summer of 2012.
The issue of teen joblessness has a much more far-reaching impact than less money to spend at the mall. On-the-job experience prepares young people for the workforce through what the White House referred to this week as "life skills" and "work skills." "It is the set of skills you learn on the job that you don't necessarily pick up in high school," notes Saltsman. "It's what you learn from working with a manager, dealing with customers, having to show up for work every day. These are the skills that make a teen more valuable down the line." Saltsman cites a study out of the University of North Carolina-Greensboro concluding that high school seniors employed 20 hours a week were expected to earn hourly wages 11% higher than their counterparts six to nine years later.
Saltsman urges teens not to procrastinate with their summer job search. "Teens need to be in the mindset to search for their summer employment earlier. There is going to be more competition for these jobs," he suggests, adding that many applications will be coming through the door and sitting on the hiring manager's desk. "Making an in-person follow up visit and dressing nicely for your follow up could help set you apart from other people who are just turning in an application and hoping they get a call back."
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Gift wrap seems like an area that you might not give a lot of attention to, but it can be a perfect place to practice your decluttering skills, see immediate changes, and create a sense of relief around this time of year.
If you are anything like me, this area can get cluttered & messy very quickly! I am a firm believer in reusing, so when gift bags enter my house I usually send them down to the basement to be used at a later date. Unfortunately, when this gets repeated over and over with each gift, my space can begin to overflow with a ton of bags & tissue that probably won't get used again. And since I want wrapping to be easy & quick, I am more likely to buy a new bag & tissue when things aren't organized.
What can you do to manage the overflow of gift wrap?
Step 1. Gather and sort- bring all of the wrapping supplies to one area and begin the sort. Separate the bags, tissue, bows, ribbon, tags, and wrapping paper. Only keep the items that are in great shape & that you really like (you won't package a gift in something that you aren't attracted to, so don't let it take up space!)
Step 2. Create boundaries- Pick an area of your home that will store the gift wrap and then find tubs that fit that space. Pick tubs/containers that will easily fit the variety of gift bags that you choose to keep and be realistic about how much is reasonable to save. Once that container is full, you are going to have to purge before you can add more.
Step 3. Notice what you have & what you are missing- Do you have tape and scissor handy? Are you low on tissue? Would you like to store tags and cards in this area to keep all gift supplies together?
Step 4. Label and put back- Label the containers so it is easy for everyone to find what they need quickly and efficiently. Store the items in a place that is easily accessible & keeps everything you need in one place.
Step 5. Recycle or donate- Gift bags, bows & ribbons that are still in good condition can be donated. They might not be your style but someone else will be happy to use them. Tissue & wrapping paper & gift tags are usually recyclable.
Taking the time to gather & notice what you have, keep only what you like & create boundaries around your gift wrap will make wrapping more efficient & your gift giving more fun!
If you are looking for tips on how simplify and wrap gifts in a more eco-friendly way, check out this post.
I'd love to hear from you!
What do you do to make the gift giving process a little more simple?
What boundaries have you created around wrapping and storing these supplies?
If you read this and feel too overwhelmed to begin this project without support, be in touch. Together we can make the process light and easy!


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Transculturation & Racial Mixture - Havana
From the Colonial
period until the early years of the Revolution, Havana experienced
immigration not only from Spain and Africa, but also from people of
different nationalities. Through their different ethnic traditions,
habits and cultures, immigrants contributed to the creation of a unique
national identity.
For this
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Galician, Asturian and Canary Islands), Italian, French, German,
Arabic, Chinese, Japanese and German. According to the route chosen,
you will visit characteristic emblematic buildings and important places.
Duration: 3 hours
Departures: Monday – Saturday 10:00 AM and 2:00 PM. Sunday 10:00 AM
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* Transfers and services of a tour guide are included.
** Lunch/Dinner: supplement 25.00 CUC. Complete Menu with 1 drink in one of the following restaurants: Restaurant El Mercurio at Lonja del Comercio in Plaza de San Francisco , Restaurante Café Taberna in Plaza Vieja, Cervecera Antiguo Almacén del tabaco y La Madera in Avenida del Puerto, Restaurant La Imprenta, in Calle Mercaderes between Lamparilla and Amargura, Private Restaurant: Cuba 54, Habana 61 y El Figaro.
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based on mid-market rate of exchange on the date of paying.


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2017 AMHR Sweepstakes Rules and Regulations
With Resulting Foals Showing in 2018
Nominating Stallions . Info for Mare Owners . Bidding Rules . Foal Rules . Judges . For More Information
Names of all AMHR-carded judges present at the AMHR National Show who do not have a vested interest in the Sweepstakes (i.e., do not own a nominated stallion, mare, or entered foal or who are not showing a nominated foal), and who are willing to judge the class, will be put in a hat. Three names will be drawn by a disinterested party and will be announced just prior to the class. One judge will be randomly selected as "call judge" and placings will be scored according to the formula for placing all Nationals classes.
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Wills, Trusts & Estates
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Faithful Obedience Leads Home
Joshua 3:17 While all Israel were crossing over on dry ground, the priests who bore the ark of the covenant of the Lord stood on dry ground in the middle of the Jordan, until the entire nation finished crossing over the Jordan.
It was time for the long journey in the wilderness to come to an end. The Israelites were now to cross over the Jordan river and enter into the promised land. Passing through the water seems to bookend the story which began with Moses as the leader and the crossing of the Red Sea. Now, the people are to show the same type of faith and trust in God. In complete obedience they follow God's instructions and the priests with the Ark of the Covenant step into the water of the River Jordan. This is an act of faith because the river is at flood stage and the author makes great note of this. The river is overflowing and just as Moses had led the people to safety, beyond the reach of the destroyed Egyptian Army, now Joshua is leading the people on the final step of the journey, led by the presence of God, across the Jordan and into the promised land.
The mantle of leadership was passed from one who had been faithful to another who would reflect the characteristics of the other. The people would reflect the obedience of those who had crossed the Red Sea before and would now step into the flooded waters of the Jordan. Victory would finally be within reach for those who were coming home to live as God's faith and obedient children. God provided a sign of fidelity to these, the chosen people. It was time to make it all the way home.
There are times when we are asked to step out in faith into what appears to be raging flooded waters. It's hard to imagine being obedient when it looks like everything around us will be all-consuming. This just may be the very place in which we live, and yet, God calls us on us step out in faith.
Just as Joshua's life was to mirror that of Moses, so our lives are to mirror that of Christ. That's what Easter made possible! The resurrected Christ makes participation in him possible for all of those who have chosen to step into the flood waters of faith and be united with Christ. Joshua mirrored the leadership of Moses as a faithful servant. We are to mirror the servant-leadership of Christ who washed the disciples' feet. Joshua and Moses led the people in faith through the waters. Jesus led the disciples to cross. It is in the troubling times that we find our greatest victory. If we refuse to go through the high water, or take up our cross and follow Jesus we will never get to experience the fullness of life that God has in store for us.
Faithful obedience on the part of the Israelites finally brought them home. Faithfully following Jesus will lead us to that place where we will finally feel that we are at home, children in the Father's kingdom.
Lord, please help me to live my life in total obedience to you. Amen.


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In mid-March, when allegations surfaced that Facebook had facilitated the unethical mining and distribution of up to 87 million users' data, many saw it as a hovering second foot in the grave of the social network. While platforms like Instagram, Snapchat, and YouTube continue to mature and evolve, Facebook had seemingly become the antiquated grandfather of the social media family; respected for its longevity, but ultimately, somewhat dated as a platform and well past its glory days. But, despite this seemingly serious blow to both the image and reputation of the brand, Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook have proven that wisdom is a quality earned through age.
As we now know, Facebook users' data was collected through an app on the site managed by a University of Cambridge professor, which allowed him to collect and store data on users' locations and interests. This information was later distributed to third parties like Cambridge Analytica, a political consulting firm based in the United Kingdom, which was a violation of Facebook's rules. It was eventually revealed that Cambridge Analytica was one of the firms that worked on Donald Trump's successful 2016 presidential campaign, causing many to cry foul that their information had been misused and prompting the hashtag #quitfacebook in protest of the scandal.
Despite all this, when Facebook's first quarter earnings for 2018 were recently announced, they came in ahead of expectations, reporting a revenue of $11.97 billion, mainly from ad sales. This was far higher than the $11.4 billion revenue that had been previously anticipated by the company. It's no understatement to say that a data breach of this size, involving such heated issues as online privacy and politics, had the potential to make Facebook's first quarter a truly dismal one.
So why didn't it? For one thing, Facebook acted fast. Shortly after the story broke, Zuckerberg himself apologized for not doing more to protect users' information and acknowledged that Facebook also should have done a better job in doing so. He also took out ads in several British and American newspapers to express regret for the situation, with a promise to improve security measures and increase transparency.
Next, the Facebook CEO headed to Washington, D.C. where he was grilled by congress about everything from Facebook's current competitors, to the protections provided by their user agreement, to the company's business model. Coverage of Zuckerberg's testimony was widespread, and aside from many pointing out his awkward composure, he managed to answer Congress's questions candidly and to the best of his ability. He reiterated his business's commitment to maintaining user privacy and noted that the company is still investigating how Facebook's apps used the collected data and how improvements can be made in the future. He appeared to be honest in his answers, which in turn helped to humanize the enormous company and put a face to its continued apologies. By the end of what must have been an arduous hearing, Zuckerberg felt more comfortable being the center of attention. After a lengthy two-hour questioning period, he quipped that he could "do a few more" and was met with chuckles from surrounding attendees of the hearing, mainly reporters and members of the media. This comfort hopefully speaks to his cautious optimism for the future of his company.
Even with the relatively painless appearance Zuckerberg made in front of Congress, there are more than a few hurdles that Facebook will have to deal with in the near future. More hearings and investigations by both North American and British institutions are likely in Facebook's future, and the company will have to work hard to continue to save face for both the sake of its advertisers (it's main source of income) and its users, for without them, there would be no reason for advertisers to finance Facebook. The company will also have to keep a close eye on the situation so as not to feel the aftershock of the Cambridge Analytica scandal in its second quarter.
If anything is to be learned from the situation that Facebook is currently managing, it's that time is of the essence in a crisis of this nature, and that honestly (or at least the perception of honestly) is always the best policy. Only time will tell if Facebook is able to properly bounce back and continue into the future alongside other social media heavy hitters of its age.


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I have recently gained interest in olives as it is a vital ingredient in a mediterrenean diet.
I was just wondering how everyone goes about preserving their olives. I found this tutorial online looks like a great way of curing olives. https://youtu.be/fN604jttExA
Please share how you all cure yours if different to this method as my olives are ready to cure.
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The FIFA 2014 World Cup: Creating an engaging global event experience around the Science On a Sphere
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A multidisciplinary team of students, faculty, and staff from the Indiana University School of Informatics and Computing, School of Journalism, and the UITS Advanced Visualization Lab worked together to develop an engaging visual and interactive experience around the 2014 FIFA World Cup for display on the Scienceon- a-Sphere (SOS) system. The World Cup is a unique and global event that captures the attention of all audiences. The purpose of this project was to bring together different disciplines and exploit the unique capabilities of the Science On a Sphere system. This student-led effort resulted in an interactive application showcasing the rich history of the official World Cup match balls from 1930 to 2014. As well, several visualizations were created to illustrate historic participation, tournament bracket, and World Cup news, showcasing the variety of applications possible through the system. Finally, the official match balls datasets were distributed to over 106 SOS sites around the world through the SOS community.
Students from Indiana University had the opportunity to work with faculty and staff in designing, developing, and implementing new visualizations. The project demonstrated the opportunities and benefits of working in multidisciplinary teams. The resulting work was distributed to the SOS community. The software and workflows developed for this project will be re-purposed to showcase future IUcentric datasets.
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Arte Description and History
Largo begins with an attack similar to Blazing Talon, then sends the person who is being attacked flying using a tornado of flames. In terms of etymology, brimstone is used to name the smell of sulfur emitted by hell hounds, the dogs said to possess the flames of the netherworld.
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Japanese Quote: 本気で行くぞッ!業火に飲まれろ!紅蓮!旋衝嵐!
Romanized Quote: Honki de ikuzo! Gouka ni nomarero. Guren Senshouran!
Translated Quote: "I go seriously! Be consumed by hell fire! Guren Senshouran!"
Localized Quote: "Feel my power! Writhe in the flames of hell! Brimstone Tempest!"
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Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday said a vested quarter made hectic efforts to erase the 7th March speech of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman from the history.
"Once, playing of Bangabandhu's 7th March speech was forbidden in the country. Those, who were not born in the country, were behind the evil attempt to erase the historic speech," she said.
The premier mentioned that UNESCO's recognition of the 7th March speech suggests a revenge taken by the history against those who tried to erase Bangabandhu's contributions.
"Despite evil attempts to erase the name of Bangabandhu from the history of Bangladesh through the 1975 carnage, his name could not be erased and it can never be," she said.
Hasina, also the president of the ruling Awami League, came up with the remarks while addressing a mammoth rally at historic Suhrawardy Udyan in the capital.
Without mentioning any name, she raised a question as to whether they (vested quarter) feel ashamed after the UNESCO's recognition of Bangabandhu's 7th March speech.
Referring to the attempts to erase the name of Bangabandu from the history, the premier said history also takes revenge on evil doers and gives a good lesson to them.
"Now the 7th March speech has got recognition.
No speech of the world has been aired for a long time. The spirit of the people aroused whenever attempts were made to erase it," she added.
The premier said the nation could not learn the real history of the country's independence for so many years due to the evil attempts of the vested quarter.
"They are the ghosts of Pakistan. You should remain alert so that they can't get any chance to distort the history anymore," she said, adding that people, including freedom fighters, have been honoured for the recognition of the 7th March speech.
Citizens Committee organised the rally on the UNESCO recognition of the historic 7th March speech of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman as part of world's documentary heritage.
Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman on March 7 in 1971 delivered the historic 7th March speech at Suhrawardy Udyan (then Race Course Maidan).
Bangabandhu's speech inspired the freedom-loving people to take arms against the Pakistanis and freed the country from the Pakistani rulers after a nine-month bloody war.
Thanking the UNESCO for its recognition, Hasina said Bangladesh has been placed at a respectable position in the globe due to the recognition of Bangabandhu's 7th March speech.
"That's why we are a proud nation. We have to go forward to keep our heads high. Bangladesh will remain in a respectable position, through which the nation will move forward," she said.
The premier also made a reference to the nature. It was rainy weather all day long, but the sun suddenly rose during the speech of the premier.
Referring to the weather, she said, "Bangladesh has been overcast with clouds for a long time but the sun has risen. This sun will guide us to turn the country into a developed one."
Recalling the country's post-75 situation, the premier said many AL activists had to face inhuman torture for playing historic 7th March speech of Bangabandhu.
"It is no way acceptable that we cannot tell the history of our Victory. Recognition of the 7th March speech suggests that history also takes revenge," she said.
Hasina said the speeches of many statesmen across the world have got recognition, but their speeches were written. "But the speech of Bangabandhu was not written."
The premier also praised highly the role of her mother Fazilatun Nessa Mujib who advised her father to deliver an extempore.
"My mother told my father that 'you just deliver whatever comes from your mind. Because you know that what you have to deliver for the nation," Hasina said.
Chanting the immortal slogans Joy Bangla, Joy Bangabandhu, people from all walks of life, including AL leaders and activists, thronged the venue in processions with banners, festoons, placards, caps and other materials.
The stage was designed like a boat, the election symbol of ruling party' while the speech was being played on loudspeaker well before the start of the programme.
On October 30, UNESCO recognised Bangabandhu's 7th March speech as part of the world's documentary heritage. UNESCO Director General Irina Bokova announced the decision at the UNESCO Headquarters, Paris.
According to the decision, Bangabandhu's 7th March speech has been included in the Memory of the World International Register, a list of the world's important documentary heritage maintained by the UNESCO.
Addressing the rally, Dhaka University professor emirates Anisuzzaman said that Bangabandhu declared the war of independence through his historic March 7 speech.
"We started the preparation for taking part in the war of independence after the speech," Anisuzzaman, who was in the chair, said.
He also urged the government to translate Bangabandhu's speech into different languages so that repressive people of the world can get inspirations from the speech.
AL general secretary Obaidul Quader read out the thanksgiving letter as the UNESCO authorities recognised the speech.
He also handed over the citation paper to the Bangladesh representative of the UNESCO secretary general.
Nazrul researcher Rafiqul Islam said after the assassination of Bangabandhu on August 15, the history was started distorting.
Samakal Editor Galam Sarwar said the March 7 speech has turned into an epic of politics.
Educationist Mohammad Zafar Iqbal said, "It is our duty to implement the dreams of Bangabandu Sheikh Mujib."
He called on the young generation to study the actual history of the war of independence.
The UNESCO country director in Bangladesh Beatraice Kaldun said the speech of Mujib was the turning point of the Liberation war of Bangladesh.
Educationist Shamoli Nasreen Chowdhury said Sheikh Mujib mentioned the rights of the repressive people through his March 7 speech.
Poet Nrmaledu Goon recited one of his poems on March 7 while cultural minister Asaduzzaman Noor recited a poem of Syed Shamsul Haque at the programme.


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Following recent profit warnings (2014), Tesco veteran and CEO Philip Clark has fallen on his sword and given way to an outsider – Dave Lewis from Unilever.
In this article and short video, Tim Arnold and Guy Tomlinson discuss what's gone wrong with Tesco marketing, and suggest some issues and opportunities for Tesco's incoming CEO to explore.
The Tesco success story in brief
Founded in 1919 by Jack Cohen, Tesco is one of the world's largest retailers. In 1993, facing more service-centric competition, under Lord MacLaurin, the original 'pile it high, sell it cheap' strategy was replaced by 'every little helps'. This manifest in improved service as well as low prices. In recent years Tesco has been so successful that it garnered a 30% share of the grocery market.
Big is not necessarily beautiful
When you grow so big, growth in core markets becomes increasingly difficult. Tesco addressed this challenge by diversifying into new markets. These include new countries (such as the USA) and new sectors such as telecommunications and financial services. In the UK, Tesco expanded into new neighbourhoods by taking over small high street stores and pubs.
What's gone wrong with Tesco marketing?
The recession years have seen the rise of lower cost grocery alternatives such as Aldi and Lidl and experiential or 'quality' alternatives such as Waitrose and Marks & Spencer. As customers migrated to these two ends of the grocery market the middle-ground has become an uncomfortable place to compete.
Tesco's 'every little helps' proposition appears to have become increasingly insignificant and meaningless. The price proposition – just a little too uncompetitive and the store experience – just a little boring.
Customers have also become increasingly 'savvy'. Purchasing influences have changed. There are a growing range of price, experience, personality-rich and digital shopping options and tools. Shopping behaviour is also changing. There is more shopping around. The price of loyalty appears to have exceeded a couple of Clubcard points. Where Tesco marketing once had an advantage with the Clubcard and the accompanying big data insights this provided, this now seems eroded. Tesco appears to have failed to understand and adapt to changing customer behaviour and desires.
In a video interview with Dave Lewis he also says that staff morale is low. It suggests that there are relationship issues between the management team and front-line staff. In turn this raises questions about the management ethos and culture.
The challenge for Dave Lewis is to trace and understand the reasons behind these issues.
Between the lines we suspect that Tesco has become a victim of its own success. It has lost its heart. The relentless pursuit of profit has hindered and not enhanced customer, employee, community and supplier relationships. Perhaps by unwittingly creating a cultural myopia. Compounded by an over-reliance on big data systems and analysis, and prioritising revenue growth and profit over the best interests of customers, employees, communities and suppliers. In turn this may explain the £250m profit black-hole linked to the accounting of supplier rebates.
Marketing Inspiration
- There will always be a limit how big a brand can grow before the benefit of big becomes a liability. Success is culturally reinforcing only to the point when something goes wrong. Then is the time to understand, challenge and redefine the cultural norms.
- Customers are not all the same. Thus one 'size' no longer fits all. But markets grow by adding new segments so by understanding and revealing new segments could reveal new growth opportunities. This will require creativity and research to understand and tap into customer needs, attitudes and motivations, not just big shopping and purchasing data analysis.
- Over-reliance on one form of intelligence gathering and managing a business risks myopia. Big data analysis is also limited in being just that – big data analysis. It risks 'failing to see the wood for the trees'. It is also a rational activity, run by computers – with rational outcomes. Relying on rational analytic methods alone also ignores important emotional drivers.
- Customers are human. They have emotional needs as well as rational needs. When Tesco originally introduced the 'every little helps' strategy' this added an extra 'nice touch' to their earlier wholly rational offer. A new way of connecting emotionally with customers now needs defining. The value proposition needs strengthening and sharpening. The brand needs to become more human, personality-rich and experiential. Humans and human common-sense should take back control from computers and data management systems – and deliver the brand.
- Can big be beautiful again? There are successful precedents such as Archie Norman's revitalisation of Asda in the 1990s. Understanding customers and their needs and putting them first is a good place to start. The reward will be their loyalty. We wish Mr. Lewis every success.


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Look closely and you can see parts of various cars, armored vehicles, 1/35 scale firearms, even a flashlight and
part of a toilet!
Look closely and you can see parts of various cars, armored vehicles, 1/35 scale firearms, even a flashlight and
part of a toilet!
Here's an outdoor pic of the painting that – because it didn't require a flash – allows for more detail in the pic. Click on the image at left, you'll get a larger one that you should – if you click on it – be able to really zoom in on. You can see all the brush strokes and etc. The coloring is pretty good, but not 100% what it is in real life…
Here's my first attempt at doing a landscape (well sea scape). In the interest of full disclosure, I referenced an example from a Walter Foster instructional book my Grandmother left me called 'The Sea in Action'. I picked it because it reminds me of some coastline we visited in Portugal.
I added the gulls and, of course, a small fighter plane! It's either an F-22 or a Mustang…
It's a present for my wife. Her birthday's not until Feb 1, but I was so excited I couldn't stand it and gave it to her the next morning after I painted it. She loved it.
Lots of fun – I forced myself to knock it out in a few hours one evening, which is a big step for me since I usually like to be so meticulous and detailed about everything. 'Loose' is not a word often used to describe my style!
This model was done in the late 1990s. The photo shows a temporary base (final base was made from one of those plastic banana holders). I installed motors behind the props, navigation lights, instrument lights, fully detailed interior with pilots, and a sound module in the base that (still, after all these years) plays various aircraft diving and firing sounds. Markings are my own design. Weathering was really fun on this big kit. The model was originally a night fighter variant, but I didn't want to have the hassle of dealing with those delicate antennae on the nose, so I left them off. When I moved from Florida back to North Carolina the model got overheated on it's base and the wings drooped a bit – going from being slightly up-angled to being horizontal. Bit of a disappointment for sure, but I figure when a plastic model's nearly 15 years old and 'mildly drooping wings' are the biggest problem, you're doing OK.
Here's a trio of snow speeders I painted around 15 years ago in 1995. I believe these came with some AMT/MPC Imperial AT-AT kits I had.
That diorama unveiled a couple of days ago has night lighting too thanks to light emitting diodes and fiber optic strands. Yes, that is the Big and Little Dippers in the sky (bright star is Polaris). Now I know that in the Southern Hemisphere, you'd be seeing the Southern Cross – but I wanted a constellation in my miniature sky that the kids could look outside and see for real (Sometimes I have to relax the 'authenticity rules' on personal projects). Apologies for the blurry/grainy effect on the shots – hard to take good pics with such low light…


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Beer physics lesson of the day:
"Beer tapping" is the kind of jerky thing that jerks do at bars. They walk up to you—you with your nice, cold bottle of beer, the one you've been looking forward to all day while you were working at your hard, stressful job—and they thump their bottle down on yours. Your beer erupts in a foamy mess. You can try to catch some of that quickly disappearing beer, if you want. But, really, it's gone.
But then, when you're done being annoyed, you think: Why did my beer do that?
The answer, it turns out, is super complicated, and has to do with the physics of small bubbles and the power of a reflecting pressure front.
More at Smithsonian, via GeekPress.


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Triple Formula 1 champion Nelson Piquet undergoes heart surgery
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Triple Formula 1 world champion Nelson Piquet is recovering well after having heart surgery
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I always used to go camping once a month before we got Hunter & Maple. We used to grab the camping gear out the shed shove it in the car Friday night and thats us sorted. With Hunter & Maple its just as easy!
We have just got back from our 3rd camping trip with them both and they really are a dream to take camping.
Hunter & Maple have one backpack that we put all their minimum essentials in…
x2 Guru trip bones
x2 Meals each in a ziplock bag
x2 Pop up dog bowls
Bottle of water
Poo bags
x2 Ruff and tumble dog coats
x2 Harnesses
x2 Slip leads
x2 Kong squeaky balls
In the bag we also have a little accident bag including: an antiseptic dog spray, cotton wool balls in a ziplock bag, x2 pairs of gloves and a vetrap bandage.
And we just put their Joules travel bed folded in the car as it won't fit in their small backpack. The travel bed is great for the sleeping in the tent, resting at the beach or popping outside a cafe when your eating.
With the temperate dropping at night and we don't use electric or heaters, Hunter & Maple do like to snuggle up with you. So making sure they are dry before getting in the tent is crucial.
With most camp sites dogs are asked to be kept on a lead at all times, so finding one that has its own beach always helps if you just want to chill for the day around your tent.
This trip we did a spot of fishing, which is now Hunters favourite thing to do – i think he only liked it as he thought every fish was for him! haha.


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Welcome to Tarpon Springs, Florida!
Discover a showcase of treasures in beautiful Tarpon Springs! This community has everything you could want in a tourist destination as well as a hometown.
The pleasant year-around climate draws people to the area for boating, fishing, swimming, golf and other outdoor activities. There are many local parks where you can enjoy nature at its finest.
If shopping is your passion, you can find anything from Greek curios to antiques in the downtown district and on the popular sponge docks. You can savor a variety of cuisine, such as authentic Greek dishes and other ethnic favorites, fresh seafood caught in local waters and scrumptious desserts.
Culture and history buffs will enjoy the many opportunities the city has to offer. You can attend plays, concerts and other productions at the performing arts center. Several museums house displays of historic artifacts, as well as art. No visit to the town would be complete without a tour of the beautiful St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Cathedral.
The Sponge Capital of the World
The founding of the commercial sponge industry in 1890 changed Tarpon Springs forever. The sponge beds were discovered accidentally in 1873 by Key West turtle fishermen whose nets were fouled by sponges off the mouth of the Anclote River.
Spongers moved to the area to work the beds and in 1890 John Cheyney, a Tarpon Springs businessman, opened the Anclote River and Rock Island Sponge Company. During the 1890s, sponge packing houses were built, sponge presses were installed, and buyers moved to town. By 1900 the City was considered the largest sponge port in the United States.
It was, however, the Greek immigrants who expanded and refined sponging in Tarpon Springs. John Corcoris, who arrived in Tarpon in 1896 as a sponge buyer for a New York firm, was responsible for the Greek involvement. John Cheyney financed his early efforts to make the industry more efficient. In 1905 Corcoris introduced the first mechanized sponge fishing boat to Tarpon Springs and brought in 500 divers from Greece. Other Greeks soon followed and established businesses to serve the Greek community, including restaurants, candy shops, coffee houses and grocery stores.