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My wife are heading to Japan in April. Our main aim is to see a lot of Gardens. We are specifically interested in Tsubo-Niwa especially those in Mizuno's books. We will be in Kyoto to do this. The main question is how does one go about a seeing all the Tsubo-niwa there as there is very little online as to how to go visit them, there certainly isn't any tours set up? We are keen to see large gardens also but here we must book. We arrive April 10th. We would be so grateful for anyone who can point us in the direction of a good tour operator or away of pulling a garden visiting trip together. PFA a list of interesting gardens we wish to visit if it helps.
Thanks so much in advance, we would love to gain from others' experience.
Johnny and Claire
Johnny.. excellent, good for you both..
it may be a good idea to mention here what dates you are where, basic itinerary, so that there is something to work with when asking...
Douglas Roth's tour is probably one of the best out there, though, I do not know his dates.. edzard
Edzard San,
We are extremely interested in visiting Machiya /Tsubo-Niwa in Kyoto. . We will be in Kyoto from the 9th to the 12th Roughly. Our requests are
SHIORI-AN museum,
Kawamura Orimono,
Kitahara Omiya-An,
Obiya Sutematsu,
Shosuikaku or Nishijin-Ori Art museum,
Nishijin Asagi ,
Manzokuyya Kimura,
Misuya-Bari and
Gallery Tazawa
I hope this may help.
K.T. Cannon-Eger:
The tour mentioned by Edzard is May 18 to 30, 2014. Here is a link:
Even though the dates do not match the dates you will be in Kyoto, you may glean some information from the Roth's publication: Sukiya Living: The Journal of Japanese Gardening.
In addition, I found the information booths at train stations in Kyoto to be most helpful in pointing out things nearby and helping me orient my map to the streets in front of me.
Another source you might try if you are on Facebook is Kyoto Fan. The site has been up since 2011 and recently was continued by a corporation. They have a connection to Kyoto Design House. I have found them to be very responsive to messages.
Have a wonderful trip,
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Release Date: 28 September (UK)
Director: Jay Roach
Running Time: 85 Minutes
Starring: Will Ferrell, Zach Galifianakis, Jason Sudeikis
Screening Reviewed: London Press Screening
Reviewed by Henry Kelly
There is something incomparably alluring and appealing about two such prolific actors within their genre coming together on-screen for the first time, as we get in The Campaign. Although there are no doubt numerous examples, I cannot think of a film since Michael Mann's Heat (1995) that has featured two such genre heavyweights making their screen debut together. With Heat we had two of the most acclaimed and well-loved crime movie actors in Al Pacino and Robert DeNiro, and now, with The Campaign, Zach Galifianakis and Will Ferrell, not quite the same degree of legend perhaps, but nonetheless two of comedies most popular current performers. The fact the two actors haven't shared substantial screen time before helps make The Campaign an exciting proposition before it has even begun.
With a plot that parodies contemporary U.S politics, a North Carolina Congressman Cam Brady (Farrell) finds his usually unopposed ascent to power halted by a plucky newcomer to the political scene in the form of Marty Huggins (Galifianakis). What follows is an outrageous campaign for popularity with both hopefuls going to extreme lengths to discredit one another and curry favour with the fickle minded voters. It caricatures a cynical view of politics without hitching its horse on either side of the fence.
The success of the film comes in the narrative construction of pitting these two actors against each other for the fictional voters and our own attention. Being such comedy stalwarts and given Ferrell and Galifianakis' many charismatic turns in previous films, audiences are likely to recognise and invest in these characters without the need for strong exposition.
The plot recognises this assumed investment and wastes little time in building the characters, instead using the bloated second act to drive the film to its natural conclusion -the result of the fictional election. Set pieces are thrown in one after the other with little dilution and some - such as a scene with a certain famous dog - are likely to have you laughing and frowning all at once.
There are attempts at more meaningful character development interspersed throughout the film, such as some more frank family scenes with Huggins, but these small touches play second fiddle to the elaborate comedy set-pieces. With Farrell and Galifianakis' ability to improvise this was perhaps a wise choice from director Jay Roach as it allows the actors to do what they do best and absorb the audience's attention while keeping their scripted duties to the plot minimal.
When the two actors come together on screen the results pulse with comedic energy, but the screen doesn't always seem endowed to handle the larger than life personalities and it is regretful that large portions of the film see the actors separated, particularly given the heavy promotional material seeing them pitched against one another, not to mention the film's original title being Dog Fight.
This separation creates a back and forth flow that although entertaining, eventually begins to drag and wear thin without a more meaningful investment presented. The plot can feel incidental and almost disjointed, akin to a strung together series of comedy sketches, but towards the conclusion enters auto-pilot and completes the moral turnaround of its characters in typical fashion for a comedy film. The disinterested ending and set-pieces that go for the cheap laugh rather than biting satire show that ultimately any resonant or meaningful political commentary is not truly on The Campaign's agenda.
Having said this, the sensationalised one-note message of The Campaign is easy to digest (and possibly ignore) and by keeping the idea so wonderfully simple, The Campaign uses two great comedy performers in commendable fashion, giving them some great set-pieces and putting them in the ideal situation to deliver the laughs, and what more can really be asked of a film with such an intent?
If you're a fan of either Farrell or Galifianakis, parodies (particularly at the expense of politics) or plain simply enjoy a laugh at the cinema, The Campaign is almost certain to get your vote.
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Hardback: 320 pages
Genre: Contemporary Romantic Fiction
Publisher: Doubleday 2012
Source: Tywyn Public Library
First Sentence: Even before her eyes were open, Isabel could tell that the house was awake.
Review Quote: 'The Soldier's Wife is a cracking read and has clearly been thoroughly researched. All the little details which animate a novel ring true. ....compassionate, humourous and topical' --Spectator, Feb 2012
My Opinion: A sensitive portrayal of forces life and how families cope with the aftermath of deployment.
I am a long time fan of Joanna Trollope. Have been reading her novels since her first 'The Choir' was published in 1989 and always found her novels to be light and entertaining, 'Aga Sagas' used to be the popular term for them. In fact it is many years since I last read one, though I have a few reclining on my bookshelves, somehow they never got read whilst I was living abroad! Having now rectified this by reading this latest title, I now intend to catch up with her back catalogue just as soon as I can. Although the term 'Aga Saga' is not heard much nowadays it does still seem to describe her writing about contemporary relationships. Certainly 'The Soldier's Wife' is a sensitive portrayal of forces life and how families cope with the aftermath of deployment.
Alexa Riley is married to Dan, a major in the British Army currently on a six month tour of Afghanistan. Coping alone with toddler twins and a teenager she is very much looking forward to his imminent return from deployment to have his support again with the trials and tribulations of family life. Dan though is a highly trained fighter and returning to domesticity is not an easy one, as he continues to focus on the problems faced by his unit rather than those of his own family. Failing to connect with Alexa, the couple seem to be heading for marital disaster as Dan continues to remain oblivious to family issues that need resolving. The 21C forces wife has changed and while Alexa is prepared to support her husband, unlike earlier generations who gave up everything to do so, she is determined to keep her own identity and lead a fulfilling life of her own. Will these issues be resolved?
Sadly the storyline in this novel is one that far too many forces families around the world face on a daily basis. It is impossible to fully understand the issues without personal experience but reading this will go some way to giving you an insight. Recommended to fans of contemporary fiction and anyone that wants to try to understand a little more about the difficulties of family life within the forces.
I am including the link to a very interesting interview that Joanna Trollope gave to the BBC on the difficulties facing military families. BBC Interview
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Joanna Trollope was born on 9 December 1943 in her grandfather's rectory in Minchinhampton, Gloucestershire, England, daughter of Rosemary Hodson and Arthur George Cecil Trollope. She is the eldest of three siblings. She is a fifth-generation niece of the Victorian novelist Anthony Trollope and is a cousin of the writer and broadcaster James Trollope. She was educated at Reigate County School for Girls followed by St Hugh's College, Oxford. On 14 May 1966, she married the banker David Roger William Potter, they had two daughters, Antonia and Louise. In 1983 they divorced, two years later, she married the television dramatist Ian Curteis, they divorced in 2001.
From 1965 to 1967, she worked at the Foreign Office. From 1967 to 1979, she was employed in a number of teaching posts before she became a writer full-time in 1980. In 1996 she was awarded the OBE for services to literature.She now lives alone in London.
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Is that necessarily a bad thing? The Cannes market will be the first to know, with Passion headed to the Croisette as one of the myriad films on the block — yet most likely the only one with the synopsis passage, "Christine loves surprises. Naked she goes to meet the mystery lover waiting in her bedroom..." File under LOLrotic. Or not? Maybe it's a worthy successor to Corneau. Anyway, here's the full breakdown via The Playlist:
An erotic thriller in the tradition of Dressed To Kill and Basic Instinct, Brian de Palma's PASSION tells the story of a deadly power struggle between two women in the dog-eat-dog world of international business. Christine possesses the natural elegance and casual ease associated with one who has a healthy relationship with money and power. Innocent, lovely and easily exploited, her admiring protégé Isabelle is full of cutting-edge ideas that Christine has no qualms about stealing. They're on the same team, after all... Christine takes pleasure in exercising control over the younger woman, leading her one step at a time ever deeper into a game of seduction and manipulation, dominance and humiliation. But when Isabelle falls into bed with one of Christine's lovers, war breaks out. On the night of the murder, Isabelle is at the ballet, while Christine receives an invitation to seduction. From whom? Christine loves surprises. Naked she goes to meet the mystery lover waiting in her bedroom...


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Consumers added items to retail website shopping carts from marketing emails in the third quarter, according to a new study by digital marketing firm Monetate.
Monetate data shows that add-to-cart rates through email increased to 10.23% in Q3 from 8.49% in the year-ago period, the biggest jump year over year compared with add-to-cart rates from other channels. Add-to-cart rates through direct-to-site visits and paid search ads marginally increased, while the rate for consumers coming from social networks fell slightly. Monetate analyzed 7 billion online shopping visits during the third quarter of 2015 to compile its E-commerce Quarterly Report.
There was one bright spot for social media, however, as conversion rates for traffic coming from social networks increased slightly to 1.34% from 1.29%, according to the Monetate data. Furthermore, shoppers from social channels abandoned their carts about 73% of the time, compared with 76% from email, 68% from social and 69% from direct-to-site traffic. Monetate did not have abandonment cart data from previous years.
Consumers respond differently to marketing campaigns depending on the device they are using, the report says. Based on Monetate's data analysis, optimal device and channel pairings, on average, are:
As an example of success in a cross-channel campaign that resulted in high conversion rates, the report highlights online men's retailer Bonobos, a Monetate client. Bonobos, No. 270 in the Internet Retailer 2015 Top 500 Guide, opened in June 2015 its first physical location where customers can try on clothing and place orders for delivery. To promote the New York location, the company ran a campaign advertising that customers could book appointments with stylists at the shop. When customers clicked through from a display ad, Monetate was able to identify the shopper's physical location and then promote the shop to those in the region, a Monetate representative says. The campaign aimed to get customers to book in-shop appointments, but the campaign's conversion rate—the percentage of visits that led to purchases on the e-commerce site—beat the e-commerce industry Q3 average by 146%. The global e-commerce conversion rate in Q3 2015 was 2.95%, while the U.S. conversion rate was 3.06% in the same period.
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Suarez was making his return after a month out following knee surgery - and it proved to be bad timing for England as his brilliance was the difference in a fiercely-fought encounter.
The Liverpool striker says he had to keep calm and keep his cool to take both his goals and that scoring made him "very happy".
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Significant contributors on both special teams and the defensive line rotation won't be able to do the same in 2014, Boise State has announced.
According to a press release, junior safety Taylor Loffler has been forced to retire from the game of football due to medical concerns. Additionally, an injury will force senior defensive tackle Justin Taimatuia (pictured) to the sidelines for the entire 2014 season.
Loffler was arguably the Broncos' top special teams player, contributing 12 tackles during his first on-field season with the Broncos last year. He also had an interception in his limited role as a defensive back.
Two torn ACLs, one in high school and the other after he came to the Broncos, contributed to his inability to play at BSU his first two seasons. An unspecified injury kept Loffler out of most of summer camp this year.
"We appreciate Taylor for the effort he put into this program and what he has given to this team," head coach Bryan Harsin said in a statement. "Unfortunately, his injuries are not going to allow him to finish his playing career, but he is going to continue to be a big part of Bronco football as he finishes school. He is excited about where Boise State is headed, and we are going to continue to be here for him as he works toward earning his degree."
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Predecessors of Airport City Concepts
Worth exploring is the question if the spatial concepts of the many aerotropoli concepts might have predecessors. The perfect layout of new greenfield airports and airport cities surprise with their highly geometric forms and idealized gestalt. Architectural renderings show picture-perfect, streamlined buildings within neat parks and outdoor spaces that are inhabited by a precariously balanced racial mix of business entourage.
Ideal City
These renderings and the underlying airport city plans are reminiscent in their spatial clarity and expression of the Italian ideal city of the Renaissance: Just as with new airport cities, no historic considerations or geographical idiosyncrasies had to be taken into account in their planning. Still they were rooted in and influenced by the architectural language of their time, newly found urban planning principles, and technological advances of their culture.
The ideal city of Palmanova in the Northeast of Italy serves as a good example. Starting out as fortifications against outside aggressors, the plan for Palmanova features a city wall, ravelins, and moats for exterior defense. Three city gates puncture this ring and grant access to the city's interior. Here a total of 18 radial streets and four circumferential roads create a highly symmetrical ensemble of smaller parcels with individual building blocks. The radial roads lead to a central place with a tower at its heart. Six smaller, square plazas can be found at some of the intersections of radial and circumferential streets. Whereas within Palmanova the buildings are highly detailed and suggestive of their various uses, the land outside the city is completely ignored.
A geometrically driven layout and a holistic, all encompassing design approach are features of both, airport cities and ideal cities. Both are projections into a future and depict cultural desires and ideal social states that depart from or smooth over the complexities of the current social and spatial realties. They therefore even have a socio-economic utopian notion: unattainable, yet worth striving for. Just as ideal cities were often fortified and surrounded by a city wall, airport cites are often planned as a gated, controlled entities, especially if planned on the platform (the land) of the airport itself. The medieval city walls have given way to the airport fence. Both concepts try to create a safe environment within with restricted access via entry and exit points. In their city hearts, the ideal city typically features a market place or a central building where people come together and do trade. The airport terminal is the modern interpretation of this centrality and is bestowed with the same spatial importance for human and also commercial interaction.
Whereas only a few ideal cities were actually realized, airport cities conceptions are now being build worldwide demonstrating that their cross-disciplinary planning has matured.
Edge City
Whereas the Italian ideal city stands out as a model for airport cities, there are other planning models that influences nowadays airport city conceptions. Another important predecessor is the so-called edge city. Edge cities are dense, multifunctional sub city centers around the traditional core of cities that sprouted since the 1980's in the metropolitan region of North American cities. Located in easily accessible areas along highways, they represent a new type of ad hoc city fabric with a critical and self-sustainable mass of commercial, residential, and administrative buildings that facilitate an autarkic way of living for its inhabitants that in their daily routines are independent from the old city core. The benefit of short walkable distances, a safe, controlled environment, and appealing choices for personal and professional life add to the attraction of these areas. Connected by highways, they reform the traditional city concept and its focus on a center into a polycentric urban landscape layered around the old core. American author and journalist Joel Garreau invented the edge city concept in response to these exurban phenomena.
Conway and the City of Tomorrow
A closer look at the discussed six aerotropoli concepts (click http://wp.me/p1CY5B-2p for more information on the individual concepts) shows that they all – with the exception of the Aviopolis – lean to varying degrees on 20th century urban planning principles. Modernist urban design ideas a la Le Corbusier's "City of Tomorrow" that advocated for a separation of functions within the city organism and an emphasis on infrastructural, automobile access and connectivity are evident in the concept of Conway's Airport City.
In his plans, the airport is centrally located and surrounded by ring roads and radial highways leading to "satellite cities." Concentric commuter rail lines also ring the airport and a main rail line connects to the airport (Conway favored the connection to high-speed rail lines). The area within the first ring road is divided into parts of different uses including office and hotel districts and cargo and industrial areas. It also leaves areas for future expansions.
On a larger scale, Conway offers another more abstract model for his urban ideas. Here the airport city is divided into three concentrically arranged major zones. A red zone (2000-4000 hectares) in the middle immediately around the airport with uses solely for aircraft operation purposes ("runways, navigational aids, taxiways, aircraft parking aprons, fuel and service facilities as well as passenger terminals" – Conway, 1993, 47); a blue zone of 4000 to 8000 hectares for aviation related uses (industrial and office parks, hotel and utility zones feeding into the primary airport operation) surrounding the central red zone; and a green zone at the perimeter, an area not further defined by Conway other than that it is reserved for "other uses". Both concept maps supposedly supplement each other.
Conway and the Garden City
It could be argued that Conway next to modernist urban planning principles also deployed garden city ideas in his schemes, especially for the small scale "fly-in" communities that he also envisioned (next to his Airport Cities) as quasi-autarkic residential city islands grouped around a central airfield. These communities would be buffered by a green belt from surroundings areas. Freestanding "distinct houses with lush landscaping" (Conway, 1993, 23) would feature garages for private planes and would be connected by a network of taxiways to a central runway.
While here spatially similarities with Ebenezer Howard's garden cities model can be found, the social aspirations driving Howard's ideas – quality living quarters for blue-collar workers – are replaced in Conway's vision by affluent airline pilots that "commute via small aircraft to their jobs in major cities where they step into the cockpits of big jets" (Conway, 1993, 23).
Kasarda and Modernist Planning Principles
Kasarda's Aerotropolis is strikingly similar in its setup to the Airport City. It also places the airport as the most important city element in the center. In closest proximity to the terminals and runways are offices and hotels, shopping destinations and air cargo facilities. Just as in Conway's graphic, a ring road circles this area. So-called "aerolanes" venture out from this loop, connect as radials to regional expressways and emphasize the airport as the center of a new city arrangement. They grand access to a multitude of other functions all related to the airport and all supporting its operation. These are grouped into different areas. One "office corridor" captures hospitality functions as hotels, convention centers, and exhibition halls. An entertainment district offers retail, outlet stores, and merchandise marts. A "technology corridor" features a university, medical facilities, and an R&D park. An intermodal freight hub and an "aerotrain" connects the airport to train services and is part of the free trade zone with industrial and logistic parks. Furthermore, there is an area for warehouse and distribution centers and a mixed-use area for commercial and residential uses. This segregation of functions clearly follows modernist planning principles. Just as modernists, Kasarda sees his Aerotropolis as a machine. In this case an "urban machine not for living but for competition (…)" (Kasarda, 2011, 360)
Kasarda and the Edge City
Just as Conway, Kasarda provides an overall scale for the Aerotropolis: "An aerotropolis is basically an airport-integrated region, extending as far as sixty miles from the inner clusters of hotels, offices, distribution and logistics facilities." (Kasarda, J. D. / Lindsay, G., 2011, 174). What exactly is part of this greater zone remains fairly unclear in Kasarda's vision. In contrast to his vast Aerotropolis, Kasarda uses the term "airport city" for all uses immediately adjacent to the airport. It is in this spatial area where Kasarda's ideas are founded on Garreau's edge city. The airport in particular becomes an edge city of sorts: Just as edge cities, it is a new part within the city fabric on a neuralgic infrastructural knot off an existing city core. For him, "the airport city is really the urban core of the more geographically expansive aerotropolis." (Airport Cities & the Aerotropolis, Kasarda, 108) Kasarda however takes his concept a step further than Garreau. He envisions that the Aerotropolis will develop a higher degree of importance than the traditional city center and replace it not only as economic, but also cultural and residential center of the city. Kasarda's concept is more concrete than Conway's and accommodates and locates many of the important uses around today's airports.
The huge overall scale of the Aerotropolis and its heavy reliance on highways and byways combined with a relatively low density of uses suggests that the area outside the immediately airport nucleus is characterized by a sprawling suburbanization as it's typical for many American city perimeters. Kasarda's spatial approach combines the segregation of functions of the modernist movement with the American post-war sprawl and low-density ideals of American suburbs. However, it should be added that the Aerotropolis has foremost to be understood as a business model. Its spatial reading is an underdeveloped, crude one only used to visualize an economic idea.
Airport Corridor and Edge City
The Airport Corridor is primarily used and developed as a spatial and socio-economic system by Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport and its protagonist Martin Schaafsma. The corridor is an axial zone of development and business opportunity between the airport and the city. The corridor subsumes the airport city not as an individual, featured development, but as one of the many edge city components of the Airport Corridor. Thus the focus is not on the airport city itself (as with Conway's or Kasarda's concepts) but rather on a larger metropolitan area. The master plan and infrastructural plan for the Airport Corridor try to balance aviation and non-aviation needs to achieve an alignment of interests between local authorities, the business community, airlines and airport. Overall goal is a competitive city region and an airport that can thrive in a competitive global business setting.
Exemplified in the city of Amsterdam, the corridor concept could be applied to other cities and regions as well. It unifies two seemingly contrary urban planning processes that of the North American, exurban edge city and that of the European compact city which strives for re-urbanization.
Spatially, the Airport Corridor is a series of edge city developments along a prominent infrastructural spine between the airport (also including its airport city) and its respective city center. Whereas the Aerotropolis encompasses all areas related to an airport, the Airport Corridor only includes areas that are on an axis connecting with the city center. On a spatial level, a focus on intermodal connectivity and ease of use of transport means to both, airport and city distinguish the Airport Corridor. Here the importance of this corridor to the city center becomes visible: While the edge cities of the corridor share characteristics with the edge cities as described above, they differ in the sense that they have a clear connection and relationship with the city center and are not autarkic entities severed from their downtown areas. The airport city therefore stands in a dialectic position between airport and city, a mediator with interests in both areas. Here a substantial difference is visible to the more self-centered Aerotropolis and the Airport City.
Schlaak's Airea and the Compact City
Johanna Schlaak's concept of the Airea understands the airport as an interface between the global and the local. The communication of the many different stakeholders about airport and airport city development is according to Schlaak often compromised by their varying interests. The resulting mostly unregulated, uncoordinated and sprawling developments lead to "faceless business parks sprawling alongside traffic corridors and unstructured suburban residential areas" (Knippenberger, 2010, 113). These would then be called airport cities but actually lack the inherent qualities of cities in spatial, social, and cultural terms: urban density, city dweller heterogeneity, or traceable civic history and traditions. Schlaak's Airea therefore advocates for a coordinated and coherent land use model for airport cities with a refocus on the relationship of the city to the airport instead of merely on the airport and its airport city. Generally, the Airea consists of "spatial, functional and governmental specific space(s)" (Knippenberger, 2010, 118) within the metropolitan region with a strong relationship to the airport. Schlaak's schematic analysis of these Airea components by "program (function and use), physical form (framework and development pattern), [and] major stakeholders (public and private) (…) (Knippenberger, 2010, 121) maps concerted urban islands, visualizes their interaction and studies their impact on their metropolitan surroundings. The resulting Airea components form a synergetic, complex network with the airport. Schlaak differentiates between four types of interaction of airport and city: the symbiotic, the competitive, the parasitic, and the isolated. Unique in Schlaak's theoretical approach and its focus on the airport and areas related to it is that it can forego any formal establishment of a defined airport city. The Airea is not planned – as airport cities nowadays are – but plans and generates itself in a bottom-up approach according to principles of spatial, infrastructural adjacencies, and pure economic needs.
The character of the Airea components and their implied revitalization and densification efforts shows Schlaak's affinity to the compact city concept. The compact city stands in opposition to suburban ideas of sprawl and favors tightly knit urban communities with all necessary services and functions in close proximity to each other. Relatively high density, a mix of functions, well-established intermodal transport systems de-emphasizing automobile use, a socially balanced demography as well as a sustainable approach to planning are key characterizations of the compact city. The Airea therefore establishes a European understanding of the relationships of airports and their primary connections to city areas (similar to the Airport Corridor). Nevertheless, the examples she examines also include North American airports. Schlaak deviates from the compact city insofar as the Airea is not inclusive of the whole city organism, but split into smaller entities within a bigger metropolitan context. The Airea is therefore selective and not a schematic tool or spatial remedy for the whole city, but only for the parts that stand in close relationship to and exchange with the airport.
Schlaak's Airea and the Network City
The concept of the Airea is also connected to the idea of a network of urban nodes around the core of a metropolis as it is visible e.g. in Japanese or Chinese cities. These nodes act as semi-autarkic, multifunctional sub-centers that complement the city center and alleviate some of its development and service pressures. On the one hand the Airea draws from and relies on its immediate surroundings, on the other hand it is tightly connected infrastructurally to other Aireas within the same city organism and establishes with them a network based on socio-economic needs. This support system strengthens Aireas amongst each other and secures their prosperity.
Airport cities and the Global City
This concept of a multi-core cityscape is an underlying basis for the Airea and the Airport Corridor. Next to a symbiotic network of city center components that leads to organizational and managerial structures within one city, there is also a network between cities.
Inherently with aviation as a globally operating system, all airport city concepts incorporate some notion and relation to the concept of the global city. They stress their spatial connectivity to the airport and through it to cities beyond and highlight their proximity to the traditional city center and airport facilities alike. Here airport cities have to portray themselves in a careful balance between two main aspects of identity: Firstly they have to set themselves apart from other developments and augment their individual characteristics: This in terms of their relationship to social parameters as in their connection to the local culture and people and the conduct of business; and also in terms of their spatial assimilation with their approach to architecture, city planning, connectivity to city and hinterland. Secondly airport cities have to tie into the network of global cities and feature competitive offers that are in line with the demands of the global business and leisure community. As Kasarda notes "The city no longer sees itself in competition with its suburbs (…), but with megacities half a world away (…) (Kasarda, 2011, 55). Just as the airport itself has to distinguish itself amongst its competitors as a place of identity and appeal to business and leisure travelers alike with tailored entertainment and business offers, the same is applicable for airport cities. This balancing act between local and global has the potential to leave airport cities in an awkward position in their need to cater to both poles. Given the fact that they are mostly artificial cities built ad hoc and missing a social and spatial history, their environments can lack elements typically found in the organically formed spaces they try to emulate or relate to. The design tool of providing themes that correlate and tie the airport city to the specific local city features can fail and generate a plastic-like, sterile and fake airport city. A lack of locality and local inception however can leave to soulless, interchangeable and unmemorable places ("non-places" as author Marc Augé coined them in his book of the same title) that the user cannot connect to a specifically branded airport city. The connection of airport cities to both, global and local networks is one of the crucial aspects in making them successful, accepted places and cities.
Augé, M. (1995): Non-Places: An Introduction to Supermodernity | London: Verso
Conway H. M. (1993): Airport Cities 21: The New Global Transport Centers of the 21st Century | Conway Data
Garreau, J. (1991): Edge City: Life on the New Frontier | New York: Doubleday
Kasarda, J. D. (2011): Global Airport Cities | London: Insight Media Sovereign House
Kasarda, J. D. / Lindsay, G. (2011): Aerotropolis: The Way We'll Live Next | New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Knippenberger, U. / Wall, A. (eds.) (2010): Airports in Cities and Regions: Research and Practise | Karlsruhe: KIT Scientific Publishing
Sassen, S. (2001): The Global City | Princeton: Princeton University Press


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10 simple dirty rules you should know to succeed
Achieve your goals. Hit your targets. Nail your objectives.
Achieving anything substantial in my experience is an ugly matter.
Rarely do things go as originally planned. Stuff happens as they say.
The unpredictable rears it's head. You have to scramble to get back on track. People sometimes don't cooperate with you or keep their promises to you. It's messy.
A dirty affair, really, this achievement thing.
The reality is, though, if you are NOT prepared to get dirty, chances are you won't reach your desired destination.
What does "get dirty" look like?
1. Make fast decisions.
2. Have Plan B ready-to-go.
3. Embrace imperfection. Live it.
4. Do it. Try it. Fix it.
5. Work late hours.
6. Work outside your comfort zone. If you're not uncomfortable you are playing it too safe and are likely to be called Mr Clean.
7. Bend the rules that prevent you from getting it done. Find someone who will protect your back.
8. Do what needs to be done. Forget the job description and formal position responsibilities.
9. Eat lots of burgers and fries. Fast food fits your personal situation and you need all the comfy food you can get.
10. Make mistakes. Lots of 'em but make sure you learn something from each and every one of them.
Clean hands typifies someone who conjures up pristine theoretical solutions but has difficulty delivering.
Dirty hands describes the practical person who is prepared to dive into the grunge to deliver.
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Lecture Notes Ophthalmology (Lecture Notes 12th Edition)By: Bruce James (author), Anthony J. Bron (author), Manoj V. Parulekar (author)Paperback
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DescriptionHighly illustrated, comprehensive, and accessible, Ophthalmology Lecture Notes is the ideal reference and revision guide to common eye problems and their diagnosis and management. Beginning with overviews of anatomy, history taking, and examination, it then covers a range of core ophthalmic conditions, including a new chapter on paediatric ophthalmology. The content has been thoroughly updated and includes: * Over 200 diagrams and photographs * A range of core clinical cases in chapter 20 demonstrating the clinical context of key conditions * Learning objectives and summary of key points in each chapter Ophthalmology Lecture Notes is perfect for developing knowledge for clinical practice or revision in the run-up to examinations, and uses a systematic approach to provide medical students and junior doctors with all the tools they need to manage clinical situations. It is also useful for optometrists in training, helping them develop a sound understanding of clinical ophthalmology.
About AuthorBruce James, Consultant Ophthalmologist, Stoke Mandeville Hospital, Buckinghamshire, UK Anthony Bron, Professor Emeritus, Nuffield Laboratory of Ophthalmology, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, UK. Manoj V Parulekar, Consultant Ophthalmic Surgeon, Department of Ophthalmology, Birmingham Children's Hospital, Birmingham, UK.
ContentsPreface to twelfth edition, vii Preface to first edition, ix Acknowledgements, xi Abbreviations, xiii About the companion website, xv 1 Anatomy, 1 2 History, symptoms and examination, 19 3 Clinical optics, 44 4 The orbit, 50 5 The eyelids, 56 6 The lacrimal system, 63 7 Conjunctiva, cornea and sclera, 69 8 The lens and cataract, 84 9 Uveitis, 92 10 Glaucoma, 102 11 Retina and choroid, 116 12 Retinal vascular disease, 133 13 The pupil and its responses, 145 14 Disorders of the visual pathway, 150 15 Eye movements and their disorders, 161 16 Trauma, 175 17 Tropical ophthalmology: eye diseases in the developing world, 184 18 Eye diseases in children, 195 19 Services for the visually handicapped, 205 20 Clinical cases, 208 Useful references, 217 Appendix 1: Conversion table for representation of visual acuity, 219 Appendix 2: Drugs available for ophthalmic use, 220 Index, 223
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SB 1004 Implementation Resources: Helping Medi-Cal Plans Provide Access to Palliative Care
SB 1004 is the California law that requires Medi-Cal managed care plans to provide access to palliative care. As part of CHCF's ongoing efforts to help health plans and providers prepare for implementation, CHCF is offering a yearlong series of technical assistance activities, which started in June 2017. We will add resources to this page over time, so check back frequently for the most up-to-date information.
What Is SB 1004?
SB 1004 (Hernandez, Chapter 574, Statutes of 2014) requires the California Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) to "establish standards and provide technical assistance for Medi-Cal managed care plans to ensure delivery of palliative care services." DHCS, in partnership with CHCF and other organizations, has held a series of events to support SB 1004 implementation and to educate interested parties about palliative care and strategies for developing and delivering services. Materials from those sessions, policy documents, and links to resources are available through DHCS.
SB 1004 implementation began January 1, 2018.
Technical Assistance Series
To help health plans and providers develop and sustain successful palliative care services, CHCF's technical assistance series will focus on five topics:
1. Estimate Volume and Baseline Costs: Learn how to estimate the number of members eligible for palliative care — an important step in implementation planning. Understand how eligible members are currently using health care resources, data that will be used in estimating and (eventually) assessing program impact and in targeting outreach and education efforts.
2. Estimate Care Delivery Costs: Anticipate the costs of delivering care, based on your clinical model, environment, and other variables. These data will help providers build sustainable palliative care programs.
3. Assess Capacity and Launch Services: Assess your readiness to deliver SB 1004 palliative care and prepare to launch, by determining the capacity of local providers to deliver palliative care services, developing strategies to fill identified gaps, and developing plans for patient referral and provider education.
4. Gauge and Promote Success: Understand approaches to tracking and assessing quality measures, patient and family outcomes, and fiscal and utilization outcomes. Use these measures of success to improve and ensure the long-term sustainability of your program.
5. Address Common Implementation Challenges: Join other health plans, delegated medical groups, and palliative care providers to discuss challenges in early implementation, and share lessons learned and best practices from the first six months of SB 1004 care delivery.
These technical assistance activities are designed for representatives from Medi-Cal managed care plans, health systems with delegated fiscal and operational responsibility for implementing SB 1004, and provider groups that may offer palliative care clinical services.
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Peace of Mind
There are many gentle techniques to stop the thoughts that are revolving in your mind. In the following we outline some of the most used ones.
Sri Sri Ravi Shanka
Meditation, or the art of soothing the soul, is an effective way to lower stress levels. Many people find it easy to fit meditation into their daily lives. During the last few years an increasing number of scientific studies have shown that meditation also impacts beneficially the treatment of some physical and psychological problems that can have developed as a consequence of stress and low energy levels.
"Meditation has been achieved when the soul is in a state of presence. A mind emptied of agitation is meditation. A mind unconscious of itself is meditation. A mind without doubt or any kind of expectation is meditation. A consciousness that has returned home to its source is meditation." (Sri Sri Ravishankar)
You experience the deepest state of intuitive rest by immersing yourself in a deep meditative state of consciousness. But this can only be achieved when the unfettered soul is allowed to seek the calm deep within itself. If you regularly practice meditation the peace you attain will deepen and remain for longer periods of time. You will find it easier to concentrate and will feel rested and alert. The healing power of meditation is great and should therefore not be passed over in the search for self-help methods. Experience shows that meditation relieves depression and eases states of despair and pain. In most cases quality of life is significantly improved.
Transcendental meditation www.tm.org
TM is fairly common in Finland and is based on Maharishi Mahesh Yogi's teachings which he introduced to the Western world in the 1950s. TM is a natural method of relaxation and self-development that is easy to learn. During the daily 20 minute exercise you experience, sitting in your chair, how your mind is freed from the chaos of thoughts that usually inhabit your consciousness. You transcend to a calmer and more pleasant state, a conscious state of rest. Guidance in TM is given both in groups and individually. Look up your local TM organization. There are many different kinds of meditation and you are sure to find a variety that suits you specifically.
See http://www.meditationcenter.com/ and http://www.tm.org/ http://www.learningmeditation.com/ or learn more about meditation by reading a book on the subject (for example www.Amazon.com will have a good selection).
For further information see www.zmeditation.com/site-map.html
See also http://umsonline.org/FreeMdtnDownloads.htm?gclid=CLCRpPCpv7wCFUHecgodu00Aqg
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to let you know that I am having a scrapbooking celebration over at The Paper Passion for my birthday week... the girls there were very sweet to me so so and check it out :)
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It is the hottest part of the summer here right now in barcelona which means hot sweaty days followed by hot sweaty nights ... 28c (84f) at midnight!! so not a lot is getting done unless it has the word ice-cream or water in it...
but more importantly Ian is currently on 2 weeks holidays so we are playing tourist and checking out barcelona so this means I am not creating much nor on the main computer much.
Hope everyone is having an awesome summer
I will be back at the end of August to continue 5W's and the Saturday Sketches...and for Day-to-day stuff, you can catch me on Facebook.
Posted on Thursday, August 15, 2013 at 09:26 in Barcelona, Daily Life | Permalink
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Today has been a year since the last time I have contact with this awesome person - we were going to be within a few miles of each other for once but our schedules just didn't make it happen. We talked by email and promised to meet up properly once the kids were back in school.
I never got that chance as Kimmy died from sudden late stage Cancer in September. It is hard to think that I knew her for so long - nearly 8 years and now I wont get to hear her laughter or read her pointed comments or see her new projects be it layouts or knitting. We've had some blazing rows and some amazing laughs but mostly we shared common interests and life experiences.
It might have been that hers was the 3rd death in our extended group within a year or the fact it was so sudden nut hHer death hit me harder than I expected as we weren't super close as personal friends but I counted her in my close friends and she was always there when i need advice or a swift kick.
Her funeral was serene and poignant. We got a good giggle out of the fact she was cremated in a woolen coffin - I think she would have found that awesome.
It made me think of the what-ifs and also of the whys, the wasted energies and wasted time in trying to keep reaching out to people and family who are determined to live a negative or destructive life. Life is too precious to waste it like that.
Her legacy will be there in the people she inspired and I will always be grateful to have known Kim.
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We went to the Barcelona zoo yesterday as Ian is on vacation and it's Lily's birthday wish - and all added together meant we bought ourselves a year membership so we can go again and again and again :)
It turns out that the zoo here is a good one, awesome enclosures, well run and quite fantastic - it was the home for the amazing white gorilla 'Floquet" aka Snowflake.
We had a good day but it was hot and we didnt see everything even after 5 hours so return trips are already planned.
and Lily being an Orangutan.. they were awesome
Posted on Tuesday, August 13, 2013 at 11:30 in Barcelona, Daily Life, family, Fay & Lily, My Kids Rock, Photograph 365, Where we live | Permalink
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sharing some more of my mail art envelopes that found homes last week...
Posted on Monday, August 12, 2013 at 08:28 in Fay & Lily, Goodies and Pretties, make it monday, Stamps and inks | Permalink
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We put our Catalan to the test yesterday by going to see Totoro on the big screen last night. The CaixaForum have a few Studio ghibli movies on show as part of their Japonism exhibition so it costs us a whole $2 each :)
We know Totoro word for word so this was a two fold event: 1 - see it on the big screen and 2 - see how our catalan is coming along.
It was an awesome lecture hall set up and it was good to see so many family with young kids aswell as couples and judging by people's reactions to the movie, a lot of people seeing it for the first time! which surprised me as the film is nearly 25 years old but it was nice to hear the kids all giggle at the antics on screen.
The movie was up by the fountains so it was nice to walk through given its on the direct metro from our house.
so a good night was had for the start of our holidays - everything shuts down really for august here as its very humid and hot (28c at midnight!) so we're going to be finding lots of cool things in barcelona - more of the hidden and odd bits so expect photos.
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I have always had a big love for sketches - and after 5 years of
providing sketches for Manufacturer's such as Prima and My Mind's Eye,
Magazine and the App aswell as a few challenge blogs along the way, I
took a break from everything - especially sketches.
But now I am back scrapbooking again, I've had a bunch of requests
for more sketches so i thought I'd try them as a weekly addition to my
blog - no design teams or anything - just my sketch, and my layout and
hopefully that will work for everyone.
You can see the other sketches in this adventure, and keep an eye on these sketches by adding http://anamstubbington.typepad.com/a_little_of_my_life/saturday-sketches/ to your blog feed, although my 5Ws course also has sketches every week aswell.
I will try to always have two finished layouts for each sketch - one is more 'trendy'
than the more 'traditional' style one so hopefully that will inspire
more people.
This Sketch is for a landscape Photograph and a cluster of smaller embellishments on some tags with some ribbon or paper tabs.
Layout 1: "Grandad Cuddles"
I used Papers from American Crafts "My girl" release and some prima flowers and basic grey wood veneer which I got from The Paper Passion. I punched the edges for a little extra and converted the back piece into a frame to try and keep it light and airy.
The Photo is of Fay and her Grandad hanging our in our garden in Barcelona this summer.
Layout 2: "#BCN Girl"
I used papers and wood shapes from the awesome Polish Manufacturer Sodalicious which I embossed some of them to give them more texture using plates from The Paper Passion and added a tim holtz clock die cut along with some sequins.
The Photo is Fay outside Barcelona Cathedral looking very chic and trendy. BCN is the airport and short code for Barcelona. Somehow we managed to have kids that are pretty photogenic.
and for those of you who have found my blog but have english as a 2nd or 3rd language, I recommend using http://translate.google.com/ to convert the blog to your language as that has the option of adding to you blog feed in a language that suits your better.
Posted on Saturday, August 10, 2013 at 11:57 in interesting things, My Kids Rock, Saturday Sketches, Scrapbook Ramblings, Sketches | Permalink
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this summer has spend reading and reading and reading and discovering and science and reading - we are running out of books to the point that she is reading a famous 5 size book every 2 to 3 days! Love to see her devour books and gain new knowledge and get involved in new worlds. The ocnversations we are having as a result are fantastic and enlightening.
She had just finished the Harry Potter, Books of Umber, train your Dragon, amulet series of book and is half way through LOTR, Northern lights and Famous Five... along with some stand-alones along the way... and we still have another 4 weeks of summer left to go before they start back at school!
Posted on Friday, August 09, 2013 at 12:23 in Barcelona, family, Fay & Lily, Mental Health, My Kids Rock | Permalink
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my kids have awesome grandparents in the form of Ian's folks - just wanted to state that - they look after our girls so well especially as my kids are so different - one is more dragons and books and one is all princesses and glitter...
so this is my princesses and glitter girl having fun on one of the airvents on t e way home. most of the parking in barcelona in underneath building so all the vented air comes up through the street - normally on the sidewalks.
when we walked over the vent the first time, it gusted air and made
lily's dress blow up and that made her giggle so we stayed on the vent
for a while waiting for the gusts and playing with the air. the local
flower man called the girls falling flowers...
I think people lose out on so much but racing through the day without stopping for the little things that make it all worthwhile. If I had dragged the kids off because i was in a hurry, i would have lost the giggles from lily and the chance for fay to work out the engineering bit. It was only a few minutes but worth its weight in gold.
Posted on Thursday, August 08, 2013 at 17:50 in Barcelona, family, Fay & Lily, Mental Health, Where we live | Permalink
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I wanted to share something my awesome friend Rhomany has done about making Filofax inserts...
called "Filofax Friday - DIY Filofax Inserts & Midori Refill Booklets"
go to check out...
check out her awesome stuff
LINKSTwitter http://twitter.com/rhomanyInstagram http://instagram.com/rhomanyTumblr http://rhomanysrealm.org.ukWEBSITE http://rhomany.org.ukWORKSHOPS http://rhomany.org.uk/classes
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Hi Dagmar
I left very early this morning and could not even say goodby..anyway I am back in KZAN again.
I just wanted to say I really enjoyed my short stay, really lovely rooms and facilities and very good value, I will definately be back there when I am in the area.
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Hello Christine and Dagmar,
I wanted to thank you for the month I lived there in Fourways, an unforgettable month for me, the discovery of South Africa. I really enjoyed to live in the guest house , in that so comfortable and friendly place. You have a nice and cosy guest house and as you wrote on your site, I did feel like home during that month; So thank you very much to both of you and to all the maids that made my month so nice and really unforgettable.
Now, I only feel like coming back to enjoy your Guest house. But if I come, I will come in summer there to enjoy the pool. I did enjoy the privacy of the Guest house so that I could welcome my friends, the wonderful garden, the yard to park the car. In your guest house, I found a part of heaven.
I wish you a nice day and I hope that one day, i can come back to your guest house and enjoy again my stay there.
Kind regards,
Olivier (France) ps: give my hello to the three maids who made a nice job and ease my stay there.
Dear Christine and Dagmar
We have stayed at your lodge twice now and absolutely enjoyed it both times. Clean apartments, friendly staff and very professional overall setup. Always our first choice for accommodation in Johannesburg! Thank you so much for last week and hopefully we will see again soon.
Take care and best regards,
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Morning Oaktree,
I would just like to thank you for a wonderful stay, we had such fun in your beautiful home. Will definitely recommend you to all my friends.
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Dear Dagmar and Christine
Thank you both for your wonderful accommodation, we thoroughly enjoyed staying at your apartment last week!
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Simply Wow...Would like to say a big thank you to Dagmar and
Christine...Was there for the world cup period .................
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Dear all
Thank you for a wonderful stay at your Guesthouse. To the cleaning staff, our heartfelt gratitude to you. You would definitely be hearing from me on our next visit to Jhb. I would recommend your place to anyone. We really enjoyed our stay.
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In light of the big Apple downturn, the NASDAQ is getting smacked.
Miller Tabak technical analyst Jonathan Krinsky declares that the NASDAQ 100 is about to see its big test.
Looking at the Nasdaq 100 futures, however, we can see that despite the decline of over 1% as of 7:30 am, they are still holding above a key area of support just above 2700. Interestingly, after the index made a Death Cross in December, it is now about to form a Golden Cross, where the 50 DMA moves above the 200 DMA. We know that moving averages, by definition, are lagging data. As such, while Golden Crosses can be quite bullish, we don't want to put too much emphasis on that point. The bigger issue is whether the market is able to absorb this first potential hit of 2013. Holding above 2700 would likely be viewed as a victory for the Bulls today. Meanwhile, S&P futures have mainly ignored the AAPL weakness, with the ESH3 down just 0.20% as of 7:30 am. Even a pull-back to 1475, however, would be well within the confines of a bullish consolidation. Should we see selling pressure build beneath 1470, then a change of character may be upon us.
Here's a chart of NASDAQ 100 futures, with a line at 2700 where the "test" is.


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Wall Street's Presidential Candidates
Judging by the President's rhetoric, you might be surprised to find that Wall Street "fat cats" are one of the top three donor groups to Obama's campaign. At 24 Million, Lawyers are still outspending the 14.5 million that investors have handed to Obama, but the donations are surprising to many who thought Wall Street would turn away from the President.
So far, Republican nominee Mitt Romney has pulled in $9.5 million. still shy of the Obama's totals, but significant nonetheless. According to a Wall Street Journal article titled Wall Street is still Giving to President by Peter Nicholas and Daniel Lippman, No other industry has donated more to the Romney campaign.
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How Not to Criticize Silicon Valley
1 Comment · Posted by mupetblast in culture, economics, science, Uncategorized
Paul Ingrassia at The American Conservative has published a polemic entitled "The Religious Fanaticism of Silicon Valley Elites." It should be noted that Ingrassia is himself Catholic, so he has no beef with religion per se. Just as the zealous Proud Boys find their greatest rival in a different type of zealot, namely Antifa, the biggest detractors of X often share many of the same qualities as X. In Ingrassia's case, his Catholicism is perhaps leading him to mistake Silicon Valley for a rival religion. He writes:
While Silicon Valley types delay giving their own children screens, knowing full well their deleterious effects on cognitive and social development (not to mention their addictive qualities), they hardly bat an eye when handing these gadgets to our middle class.
This is untrue. Or at the very least, there's far from enough evidence to conclude this. Psychologist Amy Orben at Cambridge has researched the effects of digital technology on youth has shown that wearing glasses has greater negative effects on youth than does screen time with smart phones, which she correctly points out can include everything form perusing Kim Kardashian's Instragram account to chatting with friends.
Ingrassia continues:
Their political views seem to become more radical by the day. They as a class represent the junction of meritocracy and the soft nihilism that has infiltrated almost every major institution in contemporary society.
Silicon Valley gets more radical by the day? Eh. Updating Facebook Messenger's user interface or introducing a chatbot into a banking app isn't radical, and they're the kinds of things that comprise the mundane bulk of what Silicon Valley is up to. But where Silicon Valley is radical, it contradicts the notion that it's nihilistic. More interesting developments such as synthetic meat, 3-D printed prosthetics, and crypto-currency are expressions of idealism, not throwing one's hands up. Scott Alexander has a good rundown here of the suprisingly, er, down to earth nature of what Silicon Valley occupies itself with. VR porn or drones for extreme sports enthusiasts isn't on the top of the list.
Our elites hope to spare themselves from incurring any moral responsibility for the costs of their social engineering. And "social engineering" is not a farfetched term to use. A portion of the Times article interrogates the premise of Aldous Huxley's dystopian 1932 novel Brave New World, which tells the story of a totalitarian regime that has anesthetized a docile underclass into blind submission.
Hyperbole, all the way down.
Say, what is the Godwin's Law equivalent of invoking either 1984 or Brave New World? There must be something like that. If not, it's just a matter of time before Silicon Valley invents it…
Ingrassia spills alot of digital ink bashing Silicon Valley "guru" and "maharishi" Yuval Levin for supposedly celebrating the demise of work and the creation of a "useless" class of citizens. But Ingrassia's linked New York Times article describes Levin as a purveyor of the idea that "Silicon Valley is an engine of dystopian ruin," and describes him as worried that "by creating powerful influence machines to control billions of minds, the big tech companies are destroying the idea of a sovereign individual with free will."
It sounds like Levin is in agreement with Ingrassia, if anything.
Idol Words
3 Comments · Posted by Andrew Stuttaford in economics
There are those who think that Europe's appalling unemployment problem can be explained by overly rigid labor markets, the spiraling energy costs that greenery has brought in its wake and, of course, the ill-judged introduction of the euro.
Pope Francis has a different explanation:
"What can we say, when faced with the very serious problem of unemployment that affects various European countries?", he asked. "It is the consequence of an economic system that is no longer able to create work, because it has placed at its centre the idol of money…"
It's hard to work out what's worst about that comment, its frivolity, its ignorance or its demagoguery.
On Papal Economics
Over at City Journal, Guy Sorman has something to say about the pope's demagogic attack (although he's too polite to describe it as such) on the free market:
In his December apostolic exhortation, Evangelii Gaudium (The Joy of the Gospel), Pope Francis had harsh words for "the new invisible tyranny of the market." This familiar denunciation of capitalism brings to mind a famous text by the French economist Frédéric Bastiat, published in 1848. Addressing the socialists of his day, who were already attacking the market economy, Bastiat replied that it is easier to identify and criticize what one can see (poverty or inequality) than it is to discern what one cannot see: the relentless economic growth that the market engenders.
With all due respect to the pope, he has fallen into a rhetorical trap. In the name of the poor, to whom his life as a priest has been devoted, he denounces the visible and ignores the invisible…
That's too kind. The pope did not fall into "rhetorical trap". Francis is a smart man and he knew exactly what he was doing. And no, that says nothing good about him.
Then Sorman throws in some history:
One of Francis's predecessors, John Paul II, also pronounced on political economy. When Poland was freed from the Soviet empire in 1990, John Paul tried to prevent his country from slipping into capitalism, which he then abhorred as much as does Pope Francis. John Paul II believed sincerely in a Third Way, neither socialist nor capitalist, which would lead Poles from poverty to prosperity and social justice. Lech Wałesa, who had moved from union leadership to the presidency of the Polish republic, was singing the same tune. Post-Communist Poland soon sank deeper into poverty. John Paul II, honestly concerned, then took some lessons in economics. He chose as one of his mentors Michel Camdessus, then managing director of the International Monetary Fund and a fervent Catholic. Camdessus helped convince him that the market economy was only a mechanism, which, however imperfect, was the most effective means ever discovered for reducing mass poverty. Poland, still Catholic and converted to capitalism, is now the only European country to have escaped the crisis of 2008. Average income there has doubled over 20 years.
Camdessus was right: we should judge the market economy by its results, not by its values. Thus, Pope Francis is mistaken when he claims, in Evangelii Gaudium, that "the market is held up as divine." I know no one who considers the market "divine"—certainly neither economists nor entrepreneurs. Similarly, when Pope Francis recommends "returning the economy to the service of human beings," we can only agree, while observing that the market never functions except in the service of human beings. What human beings do with the products of growth, as well as how they distribute them, is an entirely different matter, and the Church has a legitimate interest in employing moral suasion in this area.
Meanwhile, as the economic crisis deepens in his native Argentina, the pope has an excellent opportunity to see where the sort of economic policies and attitudes that he advocates tend to lead. It will be interesting to hear what, if anything, he has to say about it.
Argentina · Poland · Pope Francis · Pope John Paul II · Religious Left
Wash, Rinse, Repeat: Argentina's Latest Crisis
Comments off · Posted by Andrew Stuttaford in economics
Under first Nestor, and then Cristina, Kirchner, Argentina has been pursuing an economic policy that, in its suspicion of free markets, distrust of globalization and strong redistributionist vein, reflects a long Argentine tradition that extends far beyond the Kirchner camp, and, indeed, finds some reflection in some of the pronouncements of, ahem, one rather prominent Argentine now resident in the Vatican.
So how's it working out?
The Guardian reports:
Following the sudden collapse in the peso this week, some Argentinians fear their country may be lurching into a new episode of the crises that seem to hit the country's economy almost every decade. Scrambling to protect the country's perilously low central bank reserves, which dropped 30% last year and fell below $30bn (£18bn) this month, the government of President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner seemed at a loss how to proceed. It started the week introducing tight controls on the purchase of online goods from abroad, to prevent Argentinians from spending dollars in ever larger quantities – especially on Chinese products which, as a result of 30% inflation, can be cheaper delivered to their door from abroad than bought at local stores.
But on Friday the government seemed to do a U-turn, saying it would relax its grip on the dollar. From next week it will remove some of the controls it introduced two years ago which banned Argentinians from trading their pesos for dollars, a customary practice in a country with a long history of inflation.The dollar freeze paralysed the property market, which operates in dollars, but failed to stem the rush away from the peso. Instead it created a black market where the dollar has risen from eight to 13 pesos in the last year while the central bank continued using – and losing – reserves trying to keep the dollar in check. Its battle was ultimately lost this week in view of the peso's sudden collapse.
Seemingly oblivious to the country's economic plight, Fernández has referred to the last 10 years – since her husband assumed Argentina's presidency in 2003, and she took over in 2007 – as the "victorious decade". But this week's forced devaluation of the official exchange rate may make it difficult to continue repeating a slogan habitually used in speeches by government officials, printed on billboards and even emblazoned on a recent series of commemorative stamps.
To 68-year-old Aida Ender, after 40 days without power in her eighth-floor apartment in the middle-class neighbourhood of Almagro in Buenos Aires, the slogan grates like a bad joke. "There's no plan, the president is out of touch with reality, she's lost like Alice in Wonderland," says Ender, who has had to move out of her apartment, where she has had no water, no working lift and no refrigeration since 16 December. Her plight is shared by thousands of neighbours and even hospitals, in the middle of unusual summer highs of close to 40C. Economic observers blame the government's populist policies – including keeping utility prices artificially low to disguise inflation – for the power crisis. They say this has made it impossible for firms to invest in maintaining power lines.
The government denies the charges and says that inflation is fuelled by anti-government businessmen.
…At least 11 people were killed and hundreds injured last month when a wave of supermarket looting spread across Argentina, fuelled by a combination of rising food prices and a police strike for higher wages.
The Economist adds:
As of Monday January 27th, the government will supposedly lift this invisible "clamp". Today's announcement by Jorge Capitanich, the cabinet chief, lasted only a minute and left his audience with more questions than answers. He revealed only that the exchange restrictions will be lifted for individuals, not for businesses; and that Argentines will still need to present tax affidavits along with their requests for dollars. Those making dollar purchases for travel will be charged a 20% tax advance on such purchases, down from 35% now.
One explanation for the events of the past week is that the authorities can no longer afford to prop up the peso by using Central Bank reserves. Although the 2011 dollar restrictions succeeded in stanching capital flight, they failed to stop the fall of Argentina's international reserves. In 2011, when the clamp was implemented, the reserves were around $47 billion. They have since dropped below $30 billion. With an energy bill of $15 billion and debt obligations of $10 billion to pay this year, the Central Bank cannot endure much more pressure.
On the other hand, letting the peso plummet as Argentines rush to swap their money into dollars could quickly lead to panic. Even if the Central Bank stops intervening, AFIP, Argentina's tax agency, will continue to control dollar sales, meaning Argentines could still face rejection of their exchange requests without explanation. Despite this morning's announcement several black-market exchange houses in Buenos Aires, unsure of what the next week might bring, are still hungrily buying and selling at a rate of roughly 12 pesos to the dollar, well above the official rate of 8.1.
But at least Argentines are being spared the horrors of the free market!
Science and Economics
1 Comment · Posted by Andrew Stuttaford in economics, Science & Faith
The Guardian:
One of Saudi Arabia's leading conservative clerics has said women who drive risk damaging their ovaries and bearing children with clinical problems, countering activists who are trying to end the Islamic kingdom's male-only driving rules.
A campaign calling for women to defy the ban in a protest drive on 26 October has spread rapidly online over the past week and gained support from prominent women activists. On Sunday, the campaign's website was blocked inside the kingdom.
As one of the 21 members of the senior council of scholars, Sheikh Saleh al-Lohaidan can write fatwas, or religious edicts, advise the government and has a large following among other influential conservatives.
His comments have in the past played into debates in Saudi society and he has been a vocal opponent of tentative reforms to increase freedoms for women by King Abdullah, who sacked him as head of a top judiciary council in 2009.
In an interview published on Friday on the website sabq.org, he said women aiming to overturn the ban on driving should put "reason ahead of their hearts, emotions and passions".
Meanwhile, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Turkey's prime minister and a figure that The Economist persists in describing as "mildly Islamist", reminds an audience that Turkish women are not, in his view, having nearly enough children (the birth rate in Turkey is a little over 2, a tally that has, mercifully, fallen by more than a half since the late 1970s);
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has urged a group of women in Mediterranean Turkish province of Denizli to have at least four children rather than his previously advised three…Erdoğan has noted in the past that Turkey's annual population growth rate should be at least 2.5 percent and if Turkey continued with its existing trend, its population would rapidly become an aging one after the 2030s. Erdoğan has also linked aging populations and low birth rates in European countries to economic recession.
And that last sentence tells you all that you need to know about Erdoğan's grasp of economics. The European recession has many causes, most notably a dysfunctional single currency, but the continent's low birth rate is not one of them.
Islamic fundamentalism · Islamism · Natalism · Saudi Arabia · Tayyip Recep Erdogan · Turkey
Playing an Old Tune?
Comments off · Posted by Andrew Stuttaford in economics
There are times, sadly, when the economic pronouncements of Pope Francis have more than a touch of Juan Perón about them.
This may be one of them.
"We don´t want this globalized economic system which does us so much harm. Men and women have to be at the centre as God wants, not money. . … The world has become an idolator of this god called money … It is not only a problem of Italy and Europe.. it is a consequence of a world choice, of an economic system that brings about tragedy, an economic system that has at its centre an idol which is called money".
Warnings of the way that money can be a source of spiritual corruption are, of course, nothing new to Christianity (or, indeed, a good number of other religions). Just the other day the Pope was citing (with, I feel, a degree of approval) the fact that some early church fathers had described money as 'the dung of the devil', but the reference to the evils of a 'globalized economic system' contained within this latest comment seems to be something a little different, a nod to the notion of economic autarky that was such a notable characteristic of the Argentina of Pope Francis's teenage years.
And, no, it didn't work out so well.
Peronism · Pope Francis · Religious Left · Roman Catholicism
Same Old, Same Old
4 Comments · Posted by Andrew Stuttaford in economics, politics, Religion
It's no great secret that the Vatican has never been particularly fond of the idea of free markets, but here is yet more nonsense from Benedict XVI to remind us of just that.
The BBC reports on the Pope's New Year address:
The Roman Catholic Church leader spoke at a Mass in the Vatican, then greeted a crowd outside St Peter's Basilica.
He deplored "hotbeds of tension and conflict caused by growing instances of inequality between rich and poor".
Those "hotbeds" also grew out of "the prevalence of a selfish and individualistic mindset which also finds expression in an unregulated financial capitalism", as well as "various forms of terrorism and crime", he said.
I don't know what is worse. The ignorance (if there's one thing that the financial markets were not, it was unregulated; whether they were sensibly regulated is a different question), or the clear signs of a visceral loathing for "financial" capitalism and, of course, the Pope's attempt to smear it with guilt by association with "various forms of terrorism and crime".
Leftists Attack "Speculators"
Via The Independent:
The G20 was under growing pressure to call an emergency summit on global food prices last night as the Vatican accused grain speculators of "hampering the poorest and neediest…
Yesterday the Vatican's permanent observer at the UN in Geneva, Archbishop Silvano Tomasi, claimed "market activities" such as arbitrage [buying and selling goods to exploit price differences] and the use of derivatives trading in grain supply chains, are "hampering the poorest and the neediest".
I don't know what is worse: The attempt to play a populist card, or the profound ignorance of economics that the Vatican has, yet again, revealed.
Update to Previous Post
In a very friendly & gentlemanly email, Nick Schulz assures me that his post on the AEI blog was meant as a fun tweak, not a sneer. My apologies to Nick.
After all those columns I've written about everyone being far too quick to take offense nowadays, perhaps I've inhaled a bit of the zeitgeist at last.
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Working Hard, Working Smart
9 Comments · Posted by Bradlaugh in economics, politics
Mark Krikorian and I have been singled (doubled?) out for a sneer from AEI's Nick Schultz. Are our heads exploding (he wants to know) at the news that Mexicans lead the world in "total minutes worked, paid and unpaid, per day"?
Mark is very well able to speak for himself. My own reaction on seeing the OECD chart Nick displays was that Mexicans are getting dismally little bang for the industrious buck. After five hundred years of toiling away for 594 minutes a day they have nothing much to show but a mediocre economy propped up by oil revenues and expatriate remittances, dysfunctional politics, and wellnigh zero achievement in the cultural or
intellectual spheres.
A few minutes' number-crunching confirms the impression. Remember how your Uncle Stan used to tell you that while working hard is good, working smart is better? OK, let's create an Uncle Stan index. I'll divide annual per capita GDP (from the CIA World Factbook) by the daily number of minutes worked to see how much annualized per capita GDP each minute generates. For Mexico I'm dividing $13,800 a head by 594 minutes, to get annualized $23.22 per person per minute worked in the day.
On the Uncle Stan Index (USI) Mexico ranks 27 out of 29 on the OECD list. That is to say, it's one of the least efficient nations in the world at turning work into wealth.
Here's the table. I've included a column for mean national IQ, these numbers taken from Tatu Vanhanen's latest book. The last two columns correlate quite well: r = 0.47.
|Mean National IQ
|New Zealand
|South Africa
Now, see how unfair life is. Here's me, a poor freelance drudge, doing all this math, while Nick Schultz has a nice cushy number at AEI where apparently he is required to do nothing but strike politically-correct moral poses. Nick doesn't even bother to source his data: I had to Google for the spreadsheet link.
I guess Uncle Stan was right …
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Game of Thrones returns with a new episode this weekend and we've got all the info inside that you need to know.
After experiencing more of Ramsey's trademark cruelty last week, we're glad that this week we can look forward to returning to one my personal favorite lands, Dorne. The Sand Snakes have still been planning their attack on the Lannisters and it seems like they may make their move this week. Also returning this week is Westeros' most badass old lady, Olenna Tyrell! Remember Margaery sent word to her about the queen locking Loras up, and since King Tommen is just a figurehead we know Lady Tyrell will come in and get stuff handled.
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Arya (Maisie Williams) trains. Jorah (Iain Glen) and Tyrion (Peter Dinklage) run into slavers. Trystane (Toby Sebastian) and Myrcella (Nell Tiger Free) make plans. Jaime and Bronn reach their destination. The Sand Snakes attack. Written by Bryan Cogman; directed by Jeremy Podeswa.
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France will never use its veto in cases of mass atrocities
Launch of the Code of Conduct regarding Security Council Action against Genocide, Crimes against Humanity and War Crimes - Statement by Mr François Delattre, Permanent Representative of France to the United Nations - 23 October 2015
Merci beaucoup mon cher Christian,
Madame la Ministre,
Monsieur le Président de l'Assemblée générale,
Chers amis, Dear friends,
I would like to thank you Madame la Ministre for bringing us together today to focus on this very important cause. I would also like to congratulate you, your Ambassador and your Mission for your tremendous efforts and successful efforts in promoting this very important initiative. The number of supporters behind it speaks for itself.
France fully supports the code of conduct. We have done so because we share the same goal that unites all of us today: how to make the Security Council action more effective in situations of mass atrocities. This issue, which is at the core of the initiative we launched two years ago, is more relevant than ever today, 70 years after the establishment of the United Nations.
As you know, since 2013, France has been committed to convincing the other permanent members of the Security Council to restrain from using the veto in cases of mass atrocities. We knew the discussion would be difficult. But at the same time, we could not allow the use of the veto to prevent the Security Council from acting when mass atrocities are committed. France remains deeply convinced that the veto is not a right neither a privilege but a responsibility.
This is why France has decided to assume its responsibilities. French President François Hollande made it clear during his speech at the General Assembly in September: France will never use its veto in cases of mass atrocities. It is a very important decision, aimed at promoting international peace and security as well as a more legitimate Security Council.
Today, with the strong support among Member States and Civil Society for both the code of conduct and the initiative that France has proposed together with Mexico, we are clearly in a stronger position to continue our efforts.
It is now very important that we join forces together in order to convince other Members and in particular the Permanent Members of the Security Council to support our proposals.
It is the common interest of all members that the Security Council fulfills its mandate and plays its full role in the face of the worst situations. We believe it is crucial for the credibility and the legitimacy of the United Nations, and for the values we all share. And you can count on the whole France, on me, on my Mission, to continue the fight with you.
Merci beaucoup.


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