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Fewer networks have taken as many chances over the years that have paid off than FOX. In its history, FOX has changed science-fiction television with The X-Files, conquered the ratings charts with American Idol, introduced the adult world of animation with The Simpsons and Family Guy and kept audiences thrilled with 24. But for every success found out on a limb FOX has found five or six disasters, averaging little more than thirteen episodes per failed series.
This month marks the 25th anniversary of the game-changing network that`s not afraid to do things a little differently. On April 5th, 1987, the network debuted with the dysfunctional response to The Cosby Show, Married With Children, as well as the variety series The Tracey Ullman Show. Of course, Simpsons buffs know that the yellow-colored family debuted on The Tracey Ullman Show, though not for two more weeks on April 19th. Eventually the network rolled out 21 Jump Street (launching Johnny Depp's career), Mr. President (sinking George C. Scott's career) and Duet. And the rest, as they say ad nauseum, is history.
Last FOX revisited its original night of primetime with the debut episode of Married With Children as well as the first full- length episode of The Simpsons (which didn't air until December 1989). It's unfortunate that they didn't opt for the original Tracey Ullman Show, but alas. At 8pm FOX took a look back at its own 25 years with a two-hour special, reuniting casts of The X-Files, Married With Children and Beverly Hills 90210. Since FOX is in the reminiscing mood, I thought I would take a look back at a few of the most important programs from FOX's first 25 years in prime time, and a few that didn't quite take off.
**The X-Files**
Where would my life be without Mulder and Scully? I've talked a few times about the impact the sci-fi favorite has had on my life, but enough can't be said for the impact it had on the rest of television. Debuting in 1993 on a Friday evening in September, The X-Files showed that the paranormal was possible and that two FBI agents could share intense sexual tension for many, many years, much to the delight of the show's younger female fans. One can only assume they have grown up and are the Twi-Hard Moms of the world.
Chris Carter's creation lasted nine seasons on FOX's schedule, bouncing from its Friday night home (where it posted FOX's only successful numbers on the night ever) to a Sunday night anchor position where it would be seen by millions of X-Philes until 2002. It remains one of the few, the proud shows in history that have spawned its own feature film as well as a sequel. Even more rare? The first film hit theatres in the midst of its television run. Only The Simpsons and South Park come to mind as pulling off this rare feat.
Sure, the ups were met by equal or more depressing downs, but as a whole, The X-Files was an incredible, inimitable ride. Just hearing the whistling theme song takes me back to a simpler time in my life, as it likely does for others. Some generations were influenced by Star Trek, Star Wars and Battlestar Galactica. I'm thankful that my generation has The X-Files. The truth is... ah, you know the rest.
**American Idol**
Just as The X-Files ended, one month later saw the debut of a singing competition program that would launch careers for Kelly Clarkson, Carrie Underwood and many others (to a lesser extent). And if we're going to talk launching careers, where would Simon Cowell and Ryan Seacrest be in the world without American Idol? Before Simon Cowell, most of us thought we had to be cordial and polite to people with less-than-stellar talents. Now we're free to call others ghastly and horrid, and they feel free to punch me in the face. But I digress...
For all its successes, FOX never enjoyed that prime position of Number 1 on the ratings charts until American Idol took off officially in 2003 and hasn't really looked back. Despite declining numbers, it still ranks in the top five every week, after eleven seasons. Not even the departures of Simon, Paula Abdul and short-term judges Kara DioGuardi and Ellen DeGeneres could stop the success. They simply traded up for Aerosmith's Steven Tyler and Jennifer Lopez. Someday, it will end, but I don't see it anytime soon.
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And so began eight seasons of action-packed TV on FOX, courtesy of Jack Bauer and Co. Rarely at a loss for excitement, 24 became one of the most beloved series of the new millennium. After winning the Emmy Award for Best Drama for its fifth season, 24 suffered from quality decline in the last three seasons, not to mention postponing its seventh season due to the writer's strike in 2007. The series followed Bauer and CTU (mostly) as they fought terrorist plots to harm the United States. Of course each season contained 24 episodes equalling 24 hours in one day. To say no one has ever had days like these would be an understatement, but that's TV.
Most shocking in its run was 24's ability to kill off many of its recurring characters, beloved or otherwise. The key to 24's success was being able to off characters, even when it meant losing a key persona. Often imitated, 24's success has yet to be duplicated, although Homeland may be the closest to come so far, trading in breakneck progression in storylines for a more controlled, methodical approach. Even with a feature film often rumored, nothing can come close to 24 at its prime.
**Married With Children**
Love and marriage... love and marriage...
Up until 1987, we all thought that families resembled The Bradys and The Huxtables. The Bunkers came closest in their definition of family, but it was The Bundys in 1987 that shoved dysfunctional in the faces of the American family. Never at a loss for insults for each other, The Bundys exposed a side to the traditional family that had previously been hinted at but never completely exploited.
Married With Children launched the careers of Ed O'Neill, Katey Sagal and Christina Applegate. David Faustino? Well... three out of four ain't bad. O'Neill and Sagal have enjoyed the most success, thanks to ABC's Modern Family and FX's Sons of Anarchy, respectively, while Applegate has bounced around between film and TV in the last few years.
The series lasted eleven seasons, one of the longest running sitcoms of all time, and helped establish a new breed of family sitcom. Even at their most vicious at one another (and everyone else in their lives), there was still a level of love beneath the surface. You knew The Bundys may constantly ridicule their inept father, but The Bundys were still family. And that's what mattered.
**The Simpsons, Family Guy and The Animation Domination**
In 1989, The Simpsons debuted on FOX, forever cementing their legacy as television's number one place for primetime cartoons. It wasn't until 1995 that Jon Lovitz as Jay Sherman on The Critic that FOX expanded its animated lineup, to little success. Finally in 1997, after creating TV's popular slacker duo, Beavis & Butthead, Mike Judge brought King of the Hill to FOX, the Southern comedy lasting for twelve years. And in 1999, FOX turned up the heat with three animated entries: Matt Groening's second creation, Futurama; Eddie Murphy's claymation series The PJs; and most notably, the first of three official runs from Seth MacFarlane's Family Guy.
None of the three series survived in original runs, all to be resurrected elsewhere. Futurama bounced around the network for four years before continuing its run on DVD and finally on Comedy Central, once a year for 12-13 episodes. The PJs got a second chance on The WB but quickly and quietly faded away. But Family Guy took several false starts to catch on. After being cancelled twice in its run, the second of which lasting a couple of years, Family Guy returned to great fanfare in 2005 and never looked back, routinely out-rating veteran The Simpsons.
Seth MacFarlane became a strong presence for FOX, creating American Dad and The Cleveland Show for the Sunday night lineup. Of course, for all its success on Sunday, FOX has found a few animated clunkers in the last few seasons, including Mitch Hurwitz's Sit Down, Shut Up and Jonah Hill's abomination Allen Gregory. The jury's still out on Bob's Burgers and Napoleon Dynamite.
One thing is certain: FOX can attribute much of its success in 25 years to the animated world imagined by Matt Groening and Seth MacFarlane.
It's hard to choose every program that has defined FOX as a network in twenty-five years. Equal recognition has to go to the perpetually cranky House, which has ran for eight seasons to critical and audience acclaim, as well as the crime-solving duo of Bones and Booth on Bones. On Saturday nights, America's Most Wanted and COPS made fighting crime a very real matter for audiences to enjoy, since the late 80s. Both programs are being downsized to specials spread throughout the year, but their impact is unmistakable. Programs like Gossip Girl, Revenge and especially 90210 have to thank shows like Beverly Hills 90210, Party of Five and The OC for their successes. And while sketch comedy has been dominated by Saturday Night Live for almost 40 years, FOX had its own stab at the genre with In Living Color and MADtv.
I could literally go on and on about their triumphs, but FOX is equally as notorious for their tragedies. Late night talk wouldn't be the same without the horrific attempt by Chevy Chase to overthrow Leno and Letterman. Remember when America was wrapped up in the continuing saga of Joe Millionaire's attempts to seduce women with promises of money he didn't actually have? Can you remember where you were when Rick Rockwell proposed to Darva Conger on Who Wants to Marry a Multi- Millionaire? And how can FOX forget its subgenre of caught-on-tape action on such series as World's Wildest Police Videos and When Animals Attack! And you can't forget the sleaziness of Tempation Island, hosted for three seasons by Mark "Not That Mark Wahlberg" Walberg.
Bad ideas have always flocked to FOX by the dozens since 1987. How about Back to You, The George Carlin Show, Happy Hour, Holding the Baby, Luis, Method & Red, The New Adventures of Beans Baxter, Stacked, That 80s Show, Women in Prison, Girls Club, Models Inc., Pasadena, Skin, The Good Guys, Time of Your Life, Celebrity Boxing, American Juniors, The Chamber, Married by America, Murder in Small Town X, My Big Fat Obnoxious Fiance, My Big Fat Obnoxious Boss, The Simple Life, Skating With Celebrities, The Swan, World Idol, Osbournes: Reloaded and Kelsey Grammer Presents: The Sketch Show. Eek.
But for the most part, FOX has turned things around in the last decade, trading trashy programming for series targetted at younger demographics. From 2004-2009, FOX took the lead in the 18-49 demo over all networks, and even triumphed as the most popular network in 2007- 2008, a goal it had never attained until then. All networks live and die every year on hits and misses, but FOX might have the most colorful past of any network on television.
Congratulations on 25 years in television, FOX.
RIP Dick Clark
Fewer names are as iconic and legendary in television as Dick Clark. For thirty years, American Bandstand gave teenagers a chance to see their favorite musical acts every week, as well as giving them a chance to dance to their Top 40 favorites. Clark would eventually go on to host Pyramid, as well as his most memorable accomplishment to most: Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve. Ending the year with Dick Clark in Times Square is a tradition for many Americans, ringing in the new year with the world's biggest musicians and thousands of screaming, dancing strangers in New York.
Nicknamed America's Oldest Teenager, Dick Clark was the original Ageless Man on television, long before Nestor Carbonell on Lost. And until a stroke in 2004 limited his television time, Clark was a presence in all facets of television. Alongside Ed McMahon, Clark introduced TV's Bloopers and Practical Jokes in 1984, which remained in same form on television into the 21st century. Eventually, as age crept up, Clark made one more stab at making his mark on television in 2001 with the male-themed The Other Half, an answer to ABC's The View, co-hosted by Mario Lopez, Danny Bonaduce and Dorian Gregory.
Dick Clark has had many influences over individuals in television in his 50+ years in show business, but none are as obvious as Ryan Seacrest. A co-hosting gig in 2002 on American Idol has transformed into hosting the most popular show on television, hosting his own nationally-syndicated radio program, hosting E! News and co-hosting Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve every year since 2005.
Akin to Regis Philbin, Johnny Carson and Lorne Michaels, among others, Dick Clark's mark on television is extraordinary and immeasurable. For all of Seacrest's accomplishments, there will never be another like Dick Clark.
Dick Clark, you will be missed.
That's all for today's FOX-themed Ecks Factor. Later this week I will be back with a look at Girls, Veep, The Client List, GCB and Don't Trust the Bitch in Apartment 23.
Until then, stay tuned.


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After over a month of delays, I've now managed to finish my final post in the Lubavitcher Pesach in Uman Series.
Click on the link to read on!
A Ukrainian sitting near our flat on 31 Lenina st.
The first day of Chol Hamoed we went off to Dnepropetrovsk (the sitting where the Lubavitcher Rebbe grew up) for the Kinus Torah - Torah gathering - held in the synagogue by various Shluchim from across Ukraine.
So of we went from Cherkasy to Dnepr . . . something around a five hour drive.
By the bank of the Dnepr River with the other Pesach bochurim
Halfway through the trip, we came to Kremenchuk a Ukrainian town famed for it's Cigarette factories and fame in Chassidic lore as the home to many great Jews - and several songs composed in the town.
We stopped in the shliach's house, said l'chaim, sang the Kremenchuger Berel'ach, and continued on the way . . .
We managed to snap a shot by the city gate as well . . . the local who took the picture of us did such a lopsided job that no cropping would help . . . So I used this one instead
The shul in Dnepr
With the Rabbi's son.
Father and child
While I was at the kinus I met fellow blogger and Twitterer Itzhak Shier.
Unfortunately as it was shortly before Ma'ariv, we didn't have a chance to speak in any great depth.
The apartment the Rebbe lived in - I believe it's now an orphanage run by Chabad.
The Rebbe's father's shul - now a Yeshivah
Dnepr is fairly modern by Ukrainian standards . . . but to see the face of Denis, a boy from Uman adopted by the shliach, one would think he'd seen some lost ruins uncovered from the mists of time . . . or an interstellar cruiser. In short he was awed by the buildings . . .
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On the return flight - once more packed with bochurim - we found, much to our pleasure, that we had the same flight crew as the way in.
When it became clear before we took off that the meals weren't Kosher for Passover (not as if any of the bochurim would have eaten the matzah balls in the first place) they held up the flight to bring on fruit for us.
In addition to the 40 plus bochurim, there was (l'havdil) a class of Ukrainian missionaries off to some conference in NY, and a Mennonite family connecting to Cleveland.
Soon several of the bochurim, were involved in a philosophical conversation with the Mennonite man and the two Catholic stewardesses . . . One stewardess enjoyed showing off her knowledge of Judaism from her study under the Jesuits in school, the other couldn't figure out how we could believe in G-d, but not the New Testament ("So let me get this straight - you believe in the Bible, but only part of it?" "You believe in G-d but not Yoizel? But you do go to Sunday Church right?" "But you believe in Yoizel right?"). The Mennonite, for his part backed up the Chassidic tradition of marring in the early Twenties (as did he) to the scoffing stewardesses.
Of note, I've often told people that the word Amish comes from a word in Pennsylvania Dutch related to the word Heimish in Yiddish . . . I was apparently incorrect, as Amish refers to the followers of Jakob Ammann.
It was a most interesting return flight.
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Tuesday, May 19, 2009
A Lubavitcher Pesach in a Lubavitcher Town (End of Uman)
Posted by Mottel at 12:20 AM
6 comments:
- cyfried said...
Looks like you and Moish had an awesome time. Nowhere else says "home" quite like Eastern Europe...
By the way, Niggun Gaaguim would have to be my favorite niggun. Thanks for the link.
- The Real Shliach said...
You were wrong?! Crazy!!
- Mottel said...
-Cyfried I'm so honored that you not only took time out of your busy married-person life, but commented as well! Moish and I had a great time, though we missed our Peru-Threesome without you . . . Yes nothing says home like the FSU.
I'm glad to hear hear that Kremenchuker Berel'ach is your favorite nigun - though I always thought this was your favorite song. If you come to 712 I'll give you a private screening of us singing the song!
-TRS: I know. From here you see that every other time I've been right!
- Mottel said...
argh last comment to CYFried was written while chatting on the phone. To clarify: I'm glad you rook time out of your life to not only visit the blog, but comment as well. And if you come to 712 I'll give you a private screening of us singing di Berel'ach in Kremenchuk. By the way, now that you're a Gurary, perhaps you can go back and try to get your shvigger's family's old cigarette factory!
- e said...
In the orphanage, there's one stained glass window which is still from the days when the rebbe lived there.
- Itzhak Schier said...
Thanks for the mention - again sorry, I got "pressed into service" at the amud (aka "khapped" like a cantonist LOL) and had no way out.
The home of Reb Levik (from which he was removed upon arrest) on Barrikadnaya is not an orphanage. It is a business center whose Jewish developers kept a monument to Reb Leivik.
The yeshiva in your photos is Kotzubinskaya, and it is preserved within a huge mall. It is the only shul that was allowed open during Communist times. Indeed it is a yeshiva and koilel today and the men's mikve is behind the shul.
Reb Leivik's shul is on Mironova and is a yeshiva dorm and orphanage.
And I also thought Amish = heimish; someone on CHInfo (the tabloid) set me straight LOL when the Amish came to CH and I commented about that.
Gut yom tov!


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Please note, all artwork and photographs appearing on this site are my originals and may not be copied or used without my express written permission. You may contact me via email@example.com
Bio: Leah is a multi-disciplinary artist who you may find performing on stage, in bookstores, at cafes, in boxing rings, in story and dance circles, on the street, and at kitchen tables in Ontario, Quebec and Jamaica.
She is a graduate of the anitafrika! dub theatre residency program and Algonquin College (Journalism Print).
Her play, iridescence, debuted at the Word, Sound, Powah! Festival and in its second incarnation at the Audre Lorde Festival, it was subsequently published in the anthology "s is for storytelling" in 2009. That same year she also performed excerpts from iridescence in Sketchin' Toronto, under the direction of d'bi young at SummerWorks.
Leah performed at the 17th and 18th Ottawa Storytelling Festivals and shared personal stories woven with original poetry at the Toronto Storytelling festival 2013. She has created and taught workshops on storytelling, public speaking, and poetry for students and adults including at: Branksome Hall; LEAP into Literacy summer camp and the Bi Arts Festival.
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Born in Toronto, Leah spent 18 years in Ottawa, raising a family and avoiding frostbite, before returning to her hometown. At night, when the city is quiet, she excavates the layers of her experience, searching for the love that is at the centre of it all.


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Trudging down Lynwood Lane on my way home from school one afternoon, something caught my eye. Had I been engrossed, as usual, with watching for robins stalking worms I might have missed it.
But this time, my attention turned to a curbside box. Left out for the trash collectors, it sat, sagging slightly, its marker-scrawled side hinting at the contents within.
My steps slowed as I approached, watchful for curious neighbors peering out their windows. Sidling up to the box, I read, "Grandpa Charlie's war stuff BASEMENT." The lid askew, likely from a gust of wind or perhaps a frustrated raccoon, I could see something twinkling inside.
I stood there, a force drawing me to this nondescript container of old stuff. Looking around again for anybody noticing, I finally ventured one hand into the box.
Grasping something metallic I quickly snatched my hand back to my pocket and ran home in the growing rain.
I barely remembered to hang my raincoat on the hallway hook and shake my boots onto the mat as, with heart pounding, I darted upstairs to the safety of my room. Shouting a greeting to my mother, I clambered up my bunk bed ladder to my bed. I took a deep breath and unclenched my hand, revealing my booty.
What dropped onto my pink floral bed sheet was the first icon of what was to become a lifetime of scavenging. It was a World War II medal.
With its violet and white striped ribbon slightly tattered and pin bent, it was not much really to look at. Yet it held my attention for a long time as I read and re-read the letters, "RAF." The engraved date of 1942 on the back had been almost rubbed away, along with the recipient's full name. Stapled to the corner clung a tattered piece of paper reading, "Charlie's medal."
Charlie. So he must be the original owner of "Grandpa Charlie's war stuff BASEMENT." I wondered about that for a long time, so long in fact that my mother had to send my brother in to see if I was napping and had not heard her call to come down for dinner.
"Whatchoo got?" demanded my four-year-old brother, Jason, his grubby hands clutching a Hot Wheel.
I stuffed the medal under my pillow. "Nothing, just my pillow," I replied.
When I climbed down from the upper bunk my life had changed forever.
For the next few weeks I studied the medal, now carefully hidden behind a book in my room. I'd sit up late at night turning it over and over in my hands, feeling the raised letters, sliding my fingers over the ribbon's fibers, and occasionally poking myself with the bent pin. I dared not show the medal to my family, preferring instead to keep it secret.
(It wasn't until years later that I discovered this was a Distinguished Flying Cross, an award given to officers for acts of valor, courage or devotion to duty done when flying in operations against the enemy. ) Apparently Grandpa Charlie had been a war hero.
I returned to the site of my discovery, often dawdling on the way to school, but the now-empty curb revealed no further trinkets. Too shy to knock on the door, I'd linger on my rounds to and from Courcellete School, hoping to catch a glimpse of whoever chose to discard such a treasure.
I wondered if it had been new homeowners who had found this box of war memorabilia and simply opted to toss it out rather than examine its contents. Or had Grandpa recently passed away and holding onto his possessions had become painful to the family? No further deposits of anything more interesting than a broken lampshade made it to the curb, yet each trip past the house always drew my gaze up the long driveway to the curtained windows. I had so many unanswered questions, and dreams brought my imagination to a time of war and bravery, fear, and relief.
That following Remembrance Day, along with many other Canadians, I proudly wore my poppy. I sat in the assembly at school, listening to our principal, Mr. Moult, reminding us to never forget the sacrifices our fathers, uncles, and grandfathers had made. I committed to memory the poem by John McCrae, In Flanders Fields.
Pinned proudly next to my poppy shone Grandpa Charlie's Distinguished Flying Cross.
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It is scary these days how much success is based around perception. Fact doesn't come into it, perception is enough to destroy a reputation, a business, a market or even a country. You can see this in Scotland. Despite the hard cold facts around unanswered question and terrifying risk, the SNP and the YES campaign have succeeded in creating a perception that life in the brave new Scotland will be great and that all Scots have to do is to reject partnership with England.
In playing this card the Yes campaign and the SNP in particular, have stoked fires that have been unlit for 300 years. With yesterday's absurd comparison between modern Scotland in the union and apartheid South Africa, Alex Salmond has succeeded in seriously pissing off your common-or-garden English voter. I am no fan of The Daily Mail, but many people are and a column today encourages England, Wales and Ireland to tell Salmond where to stick it. The Scots do not have a monopoly on national self determination and they are prodding a slumbering ogre in baiting the English nationalist in this way. Not content with winning the vote in Scotland, it seems that Salmond wishes to cheese off their best customers to the point that the rest of the UK decides to drop Scotland. With the perception that this behaviour is causing, who could blame them?
So, what for us in Northumberland? Well, the anecdotal evidence is that there are many Scottish businesses who are confidentially looking south. I personally know of six companies, employing a total of 300 who are actively in the process of moving south and will confirm in the event of a YES vote. one of those has decided that the 'Scottish based' brand is now too toxic for their majority English customer base and is closing down and moving lock stock and barrel to England.
In the event of a YES vote, we in Northumberland must steel ourselves for significant impact. There is the very real prospect of a closed and controlled border, Scotland would likely have to leave the EU which would legally oblige us to control the border in the same way that Poland polices the Russian border. Northumberland based companies who have large customer bases or suppliers in Scotland will have to take measures to protect their businesses. What these measures would be is difficult to second guess because so many questions remain unanswered.
A YES vote could have a huge impact on Northumberland brands, the division being stoked by the YES campaign could easily result in a cultural backlash to things Scottish, including Scottish products, foods, drinks etc. This could result in a great opportunity for those parts of rUK which produce similar products. Northumberland and Cumbrian beef, Lamb, seafood, beer, cheese. Could fill the void and as Scotland would no longer be a part of the EU we would have a larger market and our producers could be protected by tariffs on Scottish products these could be likely if Scotland reneges on its share of the national debt.
The whole referendum question has put a shot across the bows of the London based state that the rest of the country can no longer be ignored. Even in the event of a NO vote, the scampering of the three leaders to Edinburgh today in an effort to save the union is a wake up call to the London establishment that there are parts of the UK, outside London which feel neglected and under-invested and are only seen as the playground of the Londoner, where they come and spend half-term in pretty hills and beaches rather than a place of innovation and industry.
Whatever happens in Scotland next week, the impact on Northumberland will be significant. We must prepare ourselves to make the exodus of Scottish investment, businesses and talent welcome in our county. Northumberland would welcome you with open arms, you can keep trading in Sterling, keep your UK markets and your EU membership.
However, there is a darker side to this. If the predictions of the pessimists are correct then the Scottish economy could collapse and drag the rest of the UK into recession. In the event of this we would have to brace ourselves for a flood of economic refugees, who were recently our fellow countrymen. It will be a strong test of our humanity whether we open our borders to them or, jealously protect the nation that they rejected.
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Last weekend CHBN covered the 24-hour singathon from Truro Methodist church which raised around £6,500 for the Cornwall Birth and Baby Appeal.
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I am pretty sure these urgh but medically correct cupcakes from Sarah Hardy will be one of the top sellers at EYHO this year. Educational and gross it's hard to think of a better Halloween cupcake, and besides spiders, witches, cats, pumpkins, ghost and all the other cake decorating cliches are banned!
Not for the feint hearted here is the image the original cupcake was based on. Enjoy your breakfast people!!!
Anatomical Wax Model Cake
Another amazing creation for Eat Your Heart Out, this time from the Conjurer's Kitchen – WOW is all I have to say.
Lung Cake
Check out the anatomically correct detail on this incredible lung cake from Sarah Hardy – hard to get more anatomical than this beast. Available for pre-order, it's £120, this large cake surely needs to be served at every client meeting this Halloween.
Chocolate Anatomical Venus
Based on various real Anatomical Veni, and the final addition to the Cake for Breakfast Chocolate Victorian Pharmacy, is this AMAZING creation from Chris. Approx. 750g of white high quality chocolate; for sale as a set in a limited edition at Eat Your Heart Out 2012. Contact Cake for Breakfast to find our more or order directly. A text book example of where confectionery becomes art, am not sure I could bear to eat her.
Women in Horror Cake Pops
More inspired cake pops from Miss Insomnia Tulip >> as usual ridiculously good. This set of four is inspired by 'Women in Horror', Blair Witch is my favourite if I had to choose.
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Se si trascorrono molte ore in palestra, ma non può ottenere i risultati che si desidera, Probolan 50 è un prodotto che fa per voi e che vi aiuterà a ridurre lo sforzo, massimizzando i risultati.
volte un allenamento pesante e rigida dieta non è sufficiente a garantire i risultati, perché il corpo non risponde a modoprobolan 50 opinioni del tutto adeguato, e questo può dipendere da diversi fattori.
di Solito chi raggiunge il livello più alto, fa uso di integratori, di, steroidi o anabolizzanti, che oltre a essere illegale, può causare danni e causare effetti collaterali.
Probolan 50 integratore per aumentare il testosterone naturale al 100%, non ha alcun effetto collaterale e la sua azione offre una innumerevole serie di vantaggi, come la massa muscolare che nella sfera sessuale.
Che cos'è Probolan 50?
Probolan 50 è un prodotto di nuova generazione, progettato per aumentare il livello di testosterone nel corpo umano. È una versione migliorata di Probolanu, uno dei più popolari prodotti tra i body Builder. Probolan50 è oggi uno dei prodotti più venduti, che si verificano una stripitoso successo perché funziona davvero e recensioni su questo integratore sono tutti positivi.
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Probolan 50 è il più ampiamente utilizzato perché è un prodotto completo, che agisce sui livelli di testosterone, aumentare fino al 400% e consente di ricevere tutti i vantaggi che vengono con esso. Grazie Probolan, non hai bisogno di altri integratori, nervosismo o creme. Ciò che sorprende è che questo è un prodotto 100%, naturale, non crea alcun danno o effetti collaterali. http://alfamaschio.it/probolan-50-opinioni/
chi è adatto Probolan 50?
L'effetto che si ottiene in pochissimo tempo suggerendo Porbolan sarà il corpo che hai sempre sognato.
si Deve scegliere Probolan 50 se vuoi:
Aumento di forza e massa muscolare
Quello che ti fa spendere un sacco di ore in palestra e l'unico obiettivo principale è il vostro fisico. Come sapete, per aumentare la massa muscolare devi chiedere sempre di più il vostro corpo, così la forza gioca un ruolo importante. Se la potenza aumenta, aumenterà anche carichi che sarete in gradi di aumentare e di conseguenza la massa muscolare.
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Probolan 50 aumenta il livello di testosterone e regola i livelli di estrogeni, aiutando il corpo naturalmente, a trasformare il grasso in massa muscolare.
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Suggerendo Probolan 50 capirete la differenza e quindi si può dare ora meglio di te a loro allenamenti. Grazie a questo integratori per aumentare il testosterone, si ottengono i risultati che non avresti mai pensato di raggiungere in un breve lasso di tempo.
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Blood & Vein Marmalade
Tasha Marks from Animal Mineral Vegetable has created this gorgeous tasting blood orange marmalade with vein detail AKA 'Blood Sample' which will be on sale at #EYHO. She's also working on some other innovative products such as make your own DNA Strand and a unique variation on smelling salts but more of that soon…
Red Blood Cell Cupcake
Call me strange as I love cakes, but am not a massive fan of icing, which makes this red blood cell red velvet treat on sale at Eat Your Heart Out by Denise Bakes Cakes my kind of cupcake.


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As the road to Red Deer 2019 for athletes begins, so to it begins for our coaches and support staff. For SSNB this means selecting our group of coaches and managers who will lead our long and short track teams into the Canada Winter Games.
Please read carefully through the document attached and share amongst your clubs with all interested coaches and people who are suited to act as managers for the two teams.
I would request all applications be sent to me no later than one month from today, which is June 25th 2017. Note that this is the same day Scott has requested commitment letters be signed by athletes interested in the CWG process.
SSNB CWG Manager and Coach Application
SSC – LTAD Guidelines – these are for a better understanding for parents, coaches and skaters, the principles involved in SSNB skating programs tied to child development.
LTAD Stage 2 Learning to Train
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Luna Maga Ibiza has already been in the market for 10 years and we are currently present in more than 50 multi-brand boutiques in Spain and Europe.
- País Vasco: Balmaseda, Barakaldo, Bilbao, Durango, Llodio, San Sebastián, Santurce, Vitoria, Zalla
- Cantabria: Laredo, Reinosa, Renedo, Santoña, Suances
- Galicia: A Coruña, Lugo, Monforte de Lemos
- Asturias: Gijón
- Comunidad Valenciana: Alicante
- Cataluña: Tarragona
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- Islas Baleares: Ibiza, Palma de Mallorca
- Extremadura: Mérida
- Portugal: Lisboa
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Do you own a boutique? Do you like the exclusivity of our style?
From Luna Maga Ibiza we will help you to make your dreams come true.
We collaborate with prestigious boutiques by creating unique and exclusive women garments. The idea is to design pieces that represent the spirit of both our brand and your store without losing our essence.
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There's no question — Starbucks' mobile-pay program is the best in the business.
One in five of all Starbucks transactions in the US are now mobile, the company reported in late October. Mobile users have grown 32% since last year, accounting for 5 million orders a month.
Starbucks' explosive mobile growth has attracted the attention of tech giant Apple, reports Wired. While Apple Pay experienced an immediate explosion in users when it launched last year, in recent months growth has slowed.
So it makes sense that Apple would announce in October that it is partnering with the coffee chain, with plans to roll out Apple Pay as a form of payment at all 7,500 Starbucks locations in the US in 2016.
Right now, Starbucks loyalty members are only able to earn "stars" for free coffee by paying with the Starbucks app — something that Starbucks says it has no plans to change at this point in time. However, with the Apple Pay deal, as well as partnerships with The New York Times, Spotify, and Lyft, there is potential for the loyalty program to become a much more all-encompassing experience.
"We are in the process of building capability to offer stars everywhere," Matthew Ryan, Starbucks' global chief strategy officer, told Wired. "That is, the opportunity for customers to essentially earn stars at a lot of different places and take them back to Starbucks."
If that happens, there's a possibility this could give Apple Pay the chance to tap into a 20-million-strong loyalty program, not only when users are buying coffee, but also any time they need to buy something at a store where Apple Pay is available.
Starbucks' position as a tech darling in the food industry is one that other restaurant chains envy — and are trying to emulate. In October, Chipotle tapped its first ever chief information officer: Curt Garner, who previously held the very same role at Starbucks.
Of course, Starbucks is always one step ahead. The company hired Adobe Systems CIO Gerri Martin-Flickinger as the company's first chief technology office less than a week before Chipotle announced Garner's hiring.


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Poverty, rapid urbanization, population growth rate, family instability and the declining role of the extended family system are among the key factors responsible for the prevalence of child abuse and neglect in Nairobi. In this state of flux, cases of children who have been battered, abandoned, abused and neglected by their families or displaced as a result of armed conflict in the region have increased at an astounding pace over the past several years. One out of every three children from poor urban families in Kenya is regularly battered or subjected to other forms of maltreatment by a parent or other family members, the public and the authorities. Basically, there are two levels of abuse and neglect. There is abuse and neglect which children experience at home and which drives them onto the streets. There is also abuse and neglect which street children endure while on the streets. This paper discusses some of the ways in which abuse and neglect affect the lives of street children and families. It also highlights the difficulties which they endure while on the street.


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It's the time of year when the days get shorter. They're still 24 hours long, but the sun takes a bit of a holiday for several weeks. The shorter daylight and cold air compel us to hunker down and more often than not, stay inside. I spent most of my life in the snow belt of western New York and learned the way to survive the gray skies, mountains of snow, and frigid temps were two face cords of wood and a sturdy crock pot.
When I moved to Midlothian eight years ago, I was immediately struck at the number of people who ran, walked, and biked throughout my neighborhood in Salisbury – even in winter. Granted, our much gentler climate allows for this luxury.
The neighborhood is lovely indeed – it's streets a 'bowl of spaghetti' of turns and rolling hills, instead of the grid-like neighborhoods in which I'd grown up. I'm lucky to live in such a park-like setting which provides miles of roads for safe recreation. I've spotted the Albino deer, hurtled snakes, seen owls and hawks fly past. I chart the progress of the seasons with the budding and blooming of trees in the spring, the smell of honeysuckle in the summer, and the riot of color in the fall. But the winter running is often the hardest of all, as most of it is done in the dark.
The 6 weeks between Thanksgiving and New Years, though, provide a gift of light. The winter solstice – the darkest day of the year – falls right in the middle. After the seasonal chow-down of Thanksgiving, the Christmas lights start to show up on the houses, and each run through the neighborhood reveals another house or two that is lit up to celebrate the holidays and combat these long dark days. I'm wearing my own version of "Holiday Lights": reflective clothing and a halogen headlamp that I refer to as my "miners light." Getting out on a cold night and anticipating the next new set of lights then finishing up with my cheeks red from the cold and seeing my breath in the cold air, I'm transported back to my middle-school self running home for dinner.
The neighborhood is a friendly place. People rarely fail to wave when I pass them in a car or on foot. In the dark of winter, they often have their bright headlights on to see. And if they don't, often times they'll put them on when they see a runner or walker as if to say "Yup, I see you." It's just a funny observation I've made over the years that many drivers turn off their highbeams for oncoming cars but turn them on for people on foot, and I've taken to wearing a ballcap in the middle of winter to block the glare, a seasonal anomaly for sure. I went for a Christmas Eve run one year to do a tour of the luminaries. It was a crisp winter evening; the glow of the candles along the road was enchanting. Headed home around a curve in the road I saw an oncoming car. And – you got it – the driver turned on his brights. I was momentarily blinded, took a wrong step on a spot of crumbling pavement and tumbled head-over-heels into someone's yard. It was not an elegant dismount. Fortunately I didn't hit any of the luminaries and become the Richmond version of Mrs. O'Leary's cow. To his credit, the driver stopped to make sure I was ok. Gasping for air – the fall had winded me – I thanked the driver for stopping and explained the source of my gymnastic exhibition. I then wished him a Merry Christmas and continued home to bandage my bleeding hands and knees.
The mornings can be particularly dicey with people rushing to school and work, trying to beat the clock and I take extra care to avoid the routes that have a lot of traffic or blind corners. A week or two ago, I was running with my Tuesday/Thursday morning group. We were turning a corner on Kentford Drive in single file headed toward the Salisbury Golf Course's water fountain. A car came caroming around the corner, its tires hugging the edge of the road. We were all wearing some kind of reflective gear and I was wearing my trusty "miners light". In addition, the sun was rising and it was light out. However, the driver was either careless or distracted and all four of us were forced off the road to prevent being hit. Out of breath and incensed is not a good combination and we loudly grumbled the remaining tenth of a mile until we got to the water fountain. What if that had been a kid? What make of car was it? Someone had seen the first three numbers on the license plate; someone else mentioned the car was a Volkswagon. To which I laughed and said "BLACK ONE" and gently smacked his arm.
After Christmas, the light displays are turned off, and are pretty much gone by early January. Then it's just me and the occasional headlights. The temperatures dip, they days are pretty dark, and spring seems a long way off. And while the desire to hunker down is as strong as ever, I'll still take to the streets for a run. And when I return, I'll throw another log in the hearth and then fire up my crock pot.


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It's gone one o'clock in the morning and I'm riding through a brightly lit tunnel in Warsaw, Poland. I've had a long day in the saddle. I've crashed once and am doing my third 'race' in a week but this isn't just any normal 'race'.
Tucked in behind four HTC-Highroad riders I'm sucking hard on the wheel of a former professional from East Germany. A glance over the left shoulder tells me it's time to attack. This is it. As the bunch gathers pace I can taste victory. Glory or defeat is on the menu and I'm hungry.
A sharp intake of breath and I put the hammer down, peel off to the left and leave the East German boxed in behind the HTC-Highroad riders. With just 100 metres to the line on the uphill finish I bury myself. Turning a big gear at pace the lactate fills my weary legs before I decimate the HTC-Highroad mob and speed across the finishing leaving Erik Zabel coming in at sixth spot.
Alas, there are no crowds nor podium. In fact, there isn't even a finishing line. Turning to face the vanquished Zabel I notice something strange. He's wearing shiny, almost metallic, silver trainers. Not for this man, one of the greatest sprinters of all time, regulatory cycling shoes. Well, not the during filming of HTC Detour - a short film produced by the title sponsors of HTC-Highroad.
For almost a decade from the mid 1990s through to the midway point of the new millennium Zabel was the dominant sprinter in the peloton, some say the greatest ever. In his heyday Zabel racked up a staggering number of race wins while also taking a record six points classification jerseys in the Tour de France and two at the Vuelta a España. He also had the squarest haircut in sport since Ivan Lendl.
A couple of hours later HTC-Highroad management call time on filming Leigh Howard, the Australian sprinter, is due on the start line of a race in Holland in less than 48 hours.
Sat alongside Zabel speeding through the Polish capital I'm transfixed. Not by his genial smile, nor, in fact, by being in the presence of the man I witnessed nick the green jersey off of Stuart O'Grady on the final stage of the Tour in Paris a month shy of 10 years back. No, unlike many sportsmen Zabel looks exactly the same as he did now as when competing. Especially his hair.
Unlike other greats like, say, Bernard Hinault who retired in dramatic fashion when he hanged his bike up before claiming he would never ride a bike in anger again, Zabel continues to ride. Indeed, he had arrived in Warsaw just hours earlier from a race in Germany where he finished "fifth or sixth."
As the road lamps backlight this sprinting legend's angular features I'm desperate to ask: 'Who cuts your hair, and do they really use a set-square?' I don't.
Instead we briefly reminisce about his career on the bike: so which was Zabel's proudest green jersey triumph in the Tour?
"I would, of course, say the first one because it was a dream come true for me," he tells Telegraph Sport as a beaming smile as wide as the Rhine. "Then," he adds, "the last one [in 2001] because it was such a hard fight with Stuart O'Grady over three hard weeks.
"I won it on the last day in Paris. It was so very close on points. I also, though, lost it in this style against Robbie McEwen the year after.
"But you know what they say 'what goes around comes around'".
So what is Zabel's role with the team that employ him following his retirement from competitive cycling?
"Well," he says. "My official job is to be the external advisor for the young riders's development in the HTC-Highroad team.
"What I do is that I follow the young riders and sometimes do reconnoitre of the races. For example I recce the Tour de France. I act as a parcours [race route] scout. I also do the scouting for the men's team and look for new young talented riders."
Zabel spent most of his riding career with the now defunct T-Mobile team which ceased to exist in 2007 after its German sponsors pulled the plug following one too many doping scandals in the sport.
Bob Stapleton, though, its US team director at the time, kept the team together and moved the operation to his homeland. It's little wonder that once Zabel retired from the sport where he saw out the twilight years of his career with Milram, another German team, Stapleton was keen to bring Zabel back to his spiritual home where he had spent 12 years.
But what, if anything, forced Zabel into retirement. After all he was still winning races, albeit only four in his final season in 2008?
"In the last two years when we rode together, well, Cav' [Mark Cavendish] sent me to my retirement because he was so fast. Just too fast."
Cavendish, since making his Tour debut in the garish pink of T-Mobile at the 2007 prologue in London, has gone on to win a record-breaking 15 stages for a British rider eclipsing Barry Hoban's previous record of eight stage wins back in 2009. Following his Tour debut he crashed on stages one and two before abandoning during stage eight.
The following year the floodgates opened on a rainy afternoon in Châteauroux as the Manxman announced himself to the world. Since then he has gone on to become a household name.
Indeed, the man nicknamed the Manx Missile, was honoured in the Queen's recent birthday honours list after Her Majesty awarded the fastest man on two wheels an MBE.
But could Zabel the master sprinter of the late 1990s beat Cavendish, his pupil?
"Oh, it's difficult to say because we are two different riders from different generations. I was completely different to Mark. Maybe better in the mountains. So that gave me the opportunity to win semi-classics. But Cavendish is definitely the fastest sprinter of his generation and he is one of the fastest of all time. That's for sure."
Zabel speaks with warmth about Cavendish, a rider he clearly respects and enjoys working with.
"It's always fun to work with him and he's a very smart and nice guy. I like his mentality," says Zabel. "This year I have gone out with Mark to study the parcours of races. We went out ahead of Milan-San Remo [the one-day classic] and we also went out for three days ahead of Tirreno-Adriatico [the seven-day stage race].
"We did a complete recce of the parcours of Milan-San Remo, especially the last 200 kilometres. We did that twice. Mark's done the race now three times, but it is good for him to remember to route's details."
Despite the Briton being the most feared rider in a mano-a-mano sprint he has yet to win a coveted green jersey for winning the points classification in the world's toughest bike race.
He has, though, gone very close.
In previous years Cavendish refused to race for the intermediate sprints, preferring instead the outright stage wins.
However, race organisers have now included just one intermediate sprint on each stage worth 20 points - half that of a stage victory. But will the rule change help Cavendish out?
"Right now it is hard to answer," said Zabel. "But it will be very interesting because there's only one intermediate sprint now with more points for, I guess, the first fifteen riders. If you win an intermediate it will be like winning half a stage. So that makes more space for tactical games.
"There are three sprints in the first week with uphill finishes in the first week, then there's a super-hard final week. I guess the intermediate sprints will be more important if we want to win the green jersey.
"If you can play in the first week, you know, go for the stage wins, you will automatically a lot of points which will earn a lot of points in the points classification. So, I guess, first of all we will try to start well and hopefully win stages. If we are good enough to do this then of course after the first week we can then focus on green.
"I'd say maybe winning it in the last two years would have been easier. And Mark lost by a very few points last year against [Alessandro] Petacchi last year and the year before to [Thor] Hushovd.
"But, you know, we and Mark now have much more experience and I guess that's our plan to go to the Tour and try to win it. But of course after 10 days we will have much more idea."
Indeed, come Saturday as the three-week circus rolls out of Passage du Gois for stage one of the 98th edition of la grande boucle all eyes will be on the HTC-Highroad team keen to see if they're ready to contest the intermediate sprints.
And with that, I'm dropped at the last as he sprints off into the dead of night a la Keyser Söze.
My earlier 'race' win clearly being nothing more than an intermediate victory. Some things never change.
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Necropolis, the new game from the developers of Shadowrun Hong Kong, will no longer be launching on March 17 as it was originally going to- instead, the launch has been delayed to this Summer. That's not all- versions of the game for the PS4 and Xbox One were also announced, as was Bandai Namco's new involvement as the publisher of the game.
"Simply put, we were impressed and excited when we discovered Necropolis at PAX East," said Eric Hartness, the vice president of marketing at Bandai Namco Entertainment America, in a statement. "Blending a skill-based 3D action game with a roguelike means it's never the same experience twice. Necropolis' off-kilter humor and unique visuals add perfectly to the mix, making it the perfect companion game for Dark Souls fans and a great addition to our game portfolio."
Honestly, I really am not too mad at this delay- it makes sense, since now the game will get far more financial backing than it would have before, as well as a wider audience. I just hope there aren't very many delays after this.
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Ballymena United's long-standing link with Ballymena Borough Council was highlighted at Saturday's final pre-match lunch of the season.
It was the last such event before the local government reform next month.
Master of ceremonies Edwin McLaughlin told guests: "You only have to look around you to see what Ballymena Borough Council has done for this club and for the town in general."
Saturday's sold-out event attracted a bumper turnout of 32 tables.
Thanks go to the following table sponsors – McBurney Transport, Ahoghill Thistele, Alan Francey Coach Hire, Ballymena Spurs SC, Ballymena United YA, Bank of Ireland, Billy Anderson and Friends, Cloughmills NI SC, Colin Taylor and Friends, Dave Harris and Friends, Dougies Goodies, Fountain Bar, Glenfield Renewables, Gregory Warwick and Friends (x2), Ian McKeown and Friends, McIlrath Solicitors, Neeson Clan, Paramount BUFC SC, Rodney Fleck Specialist Cars, Seven Towers BUFC SC, Slemish N Tha Braid Credit Union, Spirit of '89 SC, System Controls, The 12th Man, The Thursday Night Club, The Young Guns, Wakehurst Old Boys (x2), William Hamill and Sons and WS Mercer.


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The south west coast path traverses 600 miles of the UK's finest scenery. Walk the whole distance from Minehead in Somerset to Poole in Dorset and, with all those ups and downs, you will climb the equivalent of 4 times the height of Everest! Over half of the coast path is in the care of the National Trust, so naturally it features strongly in our work in the SW.
Here on the Lizard the National Trust cares for more than 10 miles of this well-loved trail. Work can be divided into routine maintenance, such as strimming and keeping drains flowing, and larger improvement projects. In the summer months just keeping on top of the strimming is a never ending task, tackled by staff, our regular volunteers, and contractors called in as reinforcements. More sheltered sections of the path require up to 3 cuts per year.
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In recent times we have benefited hugely from two big investments in the path. Thanks to a very generous single donor, we have been able to employ an Access Ranger for most of the last 18 months, and this role will continue into 2014. Working together with our volunteers, the Access Ranger has allowed us to take huge strides forward in bringing structures such as steps, bridges and stiles up to a consistent standard.
Running in tandem with our Access Ranger's work, has been a series of larger scale projects undertaken by contractors. Many of these improvements have involved mini-diggers and other machinery, to bring about long-term solutions to sections that have been a recurring headache. Hopefully the days of repeatedly infilling gulleys on the steep hill above Poltesco are behind us, now that new larger cross drains have been installed, made of local serpentine stone. 8 different footpath projects have been completed by contractors on NT land on The Lizard in the last year, investing over £15000 in the coast path.
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New Agreement and Bilateral Talks Signal Continued Growth of U.S.–Turkish Commercial Ties
On January 28, 2010, in Istanbul, Turkey, Michael Camuñez (left), assistant secretary of commerce for market access and compliance, presented two officials of Turkish Airlines—Hamdi Topçu (center), chair, and Temel Kotil (right), president—with a certificate of appreciation for the company's commitment to U.S.–Turkish trade and its purchase of several billion dollars worth of planes from Boeing. (U.S. Department of Commerce photo)
A recent visit to Ankara and Istanbul by Michael Camuñez, assistant secretary for market access and compliance, underscored the importance of enhancing economic and commercial links between the United States and Turkey.
by Anita Ramasastry
Recent economic changes in Turkey have been dramatic and positive. Turkey is the fastest-growing country in Europe, which presents significant opportunities for U.S. companies to partner with Turkish companies in a wide variety of sectors, including energy, transportation, health care, and construction. The U.S. government's Trade Promotion Coordinating Committee recently identified Turkey as one of the priority markets ripe for U.S. trade and investment—the only market in Europe to be so designated.
In recognition of this important economic relationship, Michael Camuñez, assistant secretary of commerce for market access and compliance, traveled to Ankara and Istanbul, Turkey, on January 24–28, 2011, to lead policy discussions on bilateral trade and investment and on enhanced economic and commercial cooperation between the United States and Turkey. Jose Fernandez, assistant secretary of state for economic, energy, and business affairs, joined him in the discussions.
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Turkey: Trade Facts and Figures
In 2010, U.S. exports of goods to Turkey totaled $10.5 billion, making Turkey the 26th-largest export market for the United States. This figure marked an increase of 49 percent over 2009. The same year, imports from Turkey stood at $10.5 billion. Official U.S. foreign direct investment in Turkey stood at approximately $6.3 billion by the end of 2010.
For more information about trade with Turkey, or to obtain advice on entering the Turkish market, contact the Trade Information Center at 1-800-USA-TRADE (1-800-872-8723); www.export.gov. For more information about the Department of Commerce's Invest in America program, visit www.investamerica.gov.
One of the main purposes of the visit was to sustain the momentum of the recently launched U.S.–Turkey Framework for Strategic and Economic Commercial Cooperation (FSECC). This bilateral effort, announced in 2009 by President Barack Obama and Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, was officially launched in Washington, D.C., on October 19, 2010.
The FSECC establishes an annual forum for senior-level officials from both countries to discuss commercial and economic issues. It also provides for a number of initiatives and agreements in energy, trade and investment promotion, regulatory cooperation, scientific and agricultural collaboration, and intellectual property rights.
"The strategic framework is critical to the future of both of our nations," noted Camuñez in a speech he gave to the Istanbul Chamber of Commerce on January 28, 2011. "The world has never been as competitive as it is today, leaving us both facing the same fundamental challenge: How do we make our economies, and our people, more competitive globally?"
Promoting Foreign Direct Investment
During the visit, a memorandum of intent was signed between the Department of Commerce's Invest in America program and Turkey's Investment Support and Promotion Agency. The memorandum promotes cooperation on foreign direct investment activities and commits both countries to providing mutual assistance to investors by connecting them with investment and industry experts in each country. This fulfills a commitment the two governments made at the inaugural FSECC meeting in October 2010.
Mutual Benefits
Camuñez clarified the benefits to both countries of a growing bilateral economic relationship: "There is more to our bilateral trade numbers than meets the eye. U.S. exports to Turkey often advance Turkey's own export goals. Take General Electric's joint venture with [Turkish company] Tülomsaş. … This partnership is taking locomotive kits made in Pennsylvania, assembling them in Turkey, and then exporting them to the Caucasus and Central Asia, where Turkish firms have been very successful. Jobs and wealth are created in both of our countries as we play to the strengths of American technology and Turkish marketing and service—a 'win–win,' as we say in America."
Anita Ramasastry is a senior adviser to the assistant secretary of commerce for market access and compliance in the International Trade Administration's Market Access and Compliance unit.
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