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MADISON, Wis. (Blugolds.com) - UW-Eau Claire women's basketball player Hannah Mesick (Sr.-Chatfield, Minn.), men's diver Nick Badilla (So.-Appleton, Wis./North) and women's swimmer Nicole Dorvinen (Jr.-Green Bay, Wis./Bay Port) have been named Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (WIAC) Athletes of the Week, WIAC Assistant Commissioner for Media Relations Matt Stanek announced today.
Mesick reached 1,000 points in her career as the Blugolds came up short 69-58 in their season-opener at the College of St. Benedict on Tuesday. In that game she led all players with 25 points, going 11-for-17 from the floor, and had seven rebounds. In Friday's 62-48 victory at Millikin University (Ill.) she recorded a double-double with a game-high 23 points and 14 rebounds, which was also a career-high. Despite a close 69-64 loss to Marian University (Ind.) on Saturday, Mesick again had a big game, scoring 26 points, a season-high and two shy of her career record, while leading the game with eight rebounds. She went 14-for-15 from the free throw line, two short of a program record for most free throws made in a game. After the three games, she ranks 13th on the Blugolds' all-time scoring list with 1,072 points. Just 14 others have ever reached 1,000 points in their careers as Blugold women's basketball players. Mesick was also named to the Millikin Tournament All-Tournament Team after the weekend games.
Dorvinen set a pool record in the 200-yard butterfly as the Blugolds beat River Falls 120-27 Friday. Her time of 2:11.33 in the event was nearly two seconds faster than the previous pool record, which was set in 2001, and she won by more than 14 seconds. She was also part of the winning 200-yard medley relay team and a 200-yard freestyle relay team that finished with the top time. On Saturday at the La Crosse Relays, she was part of two winning relay teams, taking first in the 800-yard freestyle relay with a time of 7:58.18 and 850-yard freestyle relay with a time of 8:38.49.
Badilla broke a 13-year old pool record and had a national b-cut score of 335.70 as he won the three-meter dive while the Blugolds beat River Falls 106-28 Friday. He also took first in the one-meter event with a mark of 271.85.


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After a highly successful Advancing Sustainability: Business + Design Symposium in October of 2011, students from Woodbury University have gathered once again in order to prepare their second annual event. The topic of this year focuses on the "cardiovascular system" of a city—its infrastructure. The discussion will investigate how various infrastructures—perform, exchange, and are incorporated into the natural environment.


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Indiana Gov. Appoints Danielle McGrath '07 Deputy Chief of Staff for Legislative Affairs
July 11, 2014
Danielle (Dravet) McGrath, a 2007 graduate of DePauw University, has been appointed by Indiana Governor Mike Pence to serve as his deputy chief of staff for legislative affairs. She comes to the post from the Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission (IURC), where she is executive director of external affairs and is the chief liaison for legislative issues and oversees a staff of 13.
With her new appointment, McGrath "will help coordinate and successfully pass the governor's legislative agenda, will lead coordination with agency legislative liaisons, and will manage the appointments of boards and commissions," notes an announcement from Pence's office.
An English (literature) major at DePauw, McGrath earned a master's degree in journalism from Indiana University in Bloomington.
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When Minnesota-based Annette Roseland, a sales manager, and Brian Call, a senior mortgage consultant, attended their company's sales meeting in California, the last thing they expected to do was fall in love. But fate had other ideas, and less than a year later, Annette and Brian were engaged and planning their wedding. "We wanted a very romantic, passionate experience for our closest friends," says Annette. To accomplish this, she and Brian decided to hold their wedding in Napa Valley, where they shared their first date—a tour of the local vineyards while they were in town for work. The couple enlisted the help of California-based event planner and Modern Bride Advisory Panel member Sasha Souza who, Annette says, "understood the intimate ambience that Brian and I were looking for."
On April 30, 2005, Annette and Brian were married on a private estate, and their 30 guests arrived in style: The couple flew them in for the fete and arranged to have them transported to the site in 1947 Packard convertible limos. A quartet performed during the ceremony, and the couple's children from previous relationships were part of the festivities: Their two sons served as the ring bearers, and Annette's daughter honored her mom with a reading. "She chose a poem about true love," recalls Annette. "It was so moving to see that my 15-year-old understood exactly what this relationship meant to me."
For the outdoor reception that followed, guests moved to a separate part of the estate for dinner. Souza and Leah Lowery, a floral designer, constructed a moss-covered arbor adorned with hundreds of flowers to decorate the dining area, and the handpainted Japanese lanterns that hung above provided elegant lighting. During the cocktail hour, guests were served hearty fare, such as pulled-pork biscuits and grilled shrimp skewers. For the formal dinner that followed, guests were seated at one banquet table set in crimson linens and accented with centerpieces made of copper troughs filled with red and gold blooms. At dinner, guests feasted on field greens, filet mignon and lobster tail. As their day came to an end, Annette and Brian were thrilled that their wedding was exactly what they had hoped for. "We knew that this would be the most important day of our lives," says the bride, "and it was perfect."
Learn From Annette and Brian
Throw out the rules: Although the couple were married in the spring, they fell in love with an autumn palette. Souza advised the couple to "use the colors that you love," and the result was a deep-red-and-moss-green combination that perfectly accented the backdrop of California's wine country.
Organize group activities: Since the couple's guests arrived the day before the wedding, Annette and Brian arranged for them to go on the same winery tour that they had taken on their first date together.
Forgo the favors: Rather than give their guests a parting gift, Annette and Brian sent a bottle of their favorite wine along with their invitations, and also printed the story of their relationship for their guests to keep as a memento. —Cristi L. Hansen


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Eight hundred fleeces were included in last year's MSWF Fleece Show and Sale. Photo: Kate Larson.
I know spring has arrived when the Maryland Sheep and Wool Festival announces the winner of the annual cover art contest. The festival organizers are famous for their fine-art selections, which are then printed on T-shirts and totes, posters and mouse pads. The hoards of happy spinners that wait in long lines at the festival to purchase MSWF merchandise are a sight to be seen. Judging by the feedback so far, the 2014 artwork is already a favorite. An oil painting by Ken McNeill, an artist and electrical engineer from North Carolina, was chosen from among the many beautiful entries to grace this year's festival cover, which you can see on the festival website. A wide variety of artists and mediums have been featured on the festival cover in the past. Check out a gallery of past covers, beginning with 1987, to see how other artists have made our love of sheep and wool manifest in fine art.
Maryland Sheep and Wool will be held on May 3–4, 2014, and space is still available in several workshops with spinning greats including Maggie Casey, Deb Robson, and Sarah Anderson. In addition to endless aisles of amazing vendors, MSWF is also known for its fleece show and sale (last year, eight hundred fleeces were included) and the spinning and weaving equipment auction. Keep up to date with festival information on Facebook and Ravelry.


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One Read Livingston County officially begins this Sunday, March 10, at 2 p.m. at the Livingston County Courthouse.
The Friends of the Livingston County Library invite the public to attend this event. Attendees will have the opportunity to become members of the Friends of the Library and, with the assistance of several well-known community members, will get to see this year's selection, "To Kill a Mockingbird," come to life.
The goal of the 'One Read' program is to encourage community members to have a shared experience through reading one classic piece of literature at the same time, said Library Director Robin Westphal. A broader goal is to foster and promote reading in general. This is the first year for this event supported by the Friends of the Livingston County Library.
Several events are planned for this month-long program including guest speaker attorney Sean O'Brien. O'Brien is a full-time professor at UMKC School of Law and director of the Midwest Innocence Project. O'Brien has been the recipient of numerous awards, including the Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association Lifetime Achievement Award, the Missouri Weekly Lawyer of the Year Award and the ACLU Civil Liberties Award. He also won the Ross Essay contest sponsored by the American Bar Association. He will discussing his experience with cases like the one depicted in "To Kill a Mockingbird." O'Brien's program will be Tuesday, March 12, at 6 p.m. at the Livingston County Library.
One Read Livingston County is sponsored by the Friends of the Livingston County Library and the kickoff event on March 10, will also serve as a membership event for the group.
"You don't have to be Friends member to attend this event, but if you join the Friends you'll get a free copy of the book and support the Library at the same time," stated Friends President Kris Daniel.
A membership to the Friends of the Library starts at $5 for seniors and students and there are several levels of membership beyond that. Membership forms will be available at the kickoff event and are also available at the Livingston County Library. The Friends of the Library support programs and services of the Library, including Boofest. The Friends also assist in paying for several online programs including, Mango Languages, a language learning tool and Overdrive, downloadable books and audiobooks. Friends members also get first access to books at the annual book sale during a Friends Preview Sale.
For more information about these programs or the Friends, please contact the Library at 646-0547.
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1. Raymond Firth, Elements of Social Organization: Josiah Mason Lectures Delivered at the University of Birmingham, 3d ed. (Boston: Beacon Press, 1961), pp. 30, 33. [BACK]
2. Peter M. Blau and W. Richard Scott, Formal Organizations: A Comparative Approach (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1963), p. 2. [BACK]
3. Firth, Elements of Social Organization, pp. 36–40. [BACK]
4. Blau and Scott, Formal Organizations, p. 5. The classic definition of "formal organization" is to be found in Chester Barnard, The Function of the Executive (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1938), pp. 65–95. [BACK]
5. See Charles Gross, The Gild Merchant: A Contribution to British Municipal History, 2 vols. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1890), vol. 1, p. 49. [BACK]
6. Veale, ed., Great Red Book, vol. 16, pp. 82–84; Latimer, Merchant Venturers, pp. 16–18; McGrath, ed., Records, p. x; Patrick V. McGrath, The Merchant Venturers of Bristol: A History of the Society of Merchant Venturers of the City of Bristol from Its Origins to the Present Day (Bristol: Society of Merchant Venturers of Bristol, 1975), pp. 6, 8; Gross, Gild Merchant, vol. 1, pp. 45–46. The histories of previous organizations are associated primarily with the old Gild Merchant. A fraternity of merchants was founded in 1370 by one hundred and forty of the richest and most worthy townsmen, together with "plus ours aultres merchauntz et drapers," for the purpose of regulating the sale of cloth in Bristol and of controlling dealings with strangers who frequented the town. But this was merely a reform of the Gild Merchant and, after 1372, when the gild's right to admit freemen was successfully defended, there was no further reference to it. In the late Middle Ages, merchants were also organized through the Staple and its court in Bristol: LRB, vol. 2, pp. 51–55; Stella Kramer, The English Craft Gilds: Studies in Their Progress and Decline (New York: Columbia University Press, 1927), p. 29; Gross, Gild Merchant, vol. 2, pp. 353–55; Cronne, ed., Bristol Charters, 1378–1499, pp. 64–65; McGrath, ed., Records, p. ix n. 2. [BACK]
7. Veale, ed., Great Red Book, vol. 16, pp. 120–30; McGrath, Merchant Venturers of Bristol, p. 7. Nevertheless, the city's leading merchants may have maintained some institutional association throughout the later fifteenth century. In 1493, thirteen of the most prominent of them joined together with thirteen mariners to build a new chapel in honor of St. Clement on what was later to be the site of the Merchants' Hall and Almshouse. But it is by no means certain that the thirteen merchants were performing their charitable work on behalf of an existing gild or society. The years between 1467 and 1499 yield no solid evidence of the activities of any such company nor any record of the election of a master or other officers: LRB, vol. 2, pp. 186–92; Latimer, Merchant Venturers, pp. 19–21; McGrath, ed., Records, pp. x, xi, 66; McGrath, Merchant Venturers of Bristol, p. 6 and 6n. 20. [BACK]
8. Latimer, Merchant Venturers, pp. 26–35. For a discussion of the implications of the new city charter of 1499, see Sacks, Trade, Society and Politics, vol. 1, pp. 45–101; Sacks, "The Corporate Town and the English State," pp. 86–87; Latham, ed., Bristol Charters, 1509–1899, pp. 1–19. [BACK]
9. Latimer, Merchant Venturers, p. 26; Veale, ed., Great Red Book, vol. 8, pp. 57–60. [BACK]
10. Latimer, Merchant Venturers, p. 30. Many other clauses point in this same direction. For example, it was ordered that no merchant or other burgess of the city send any wine, wax, woad, iron, or other merchandise out of the city without being able to demonstrate that it had first been sold in open market or had been explicitly requested by a letter from an out-of-town customer; ibid., pp. 27–28. Rules were also laid down governing the treatment to be accorded all vessels arriving in Bristol laden with wine, wax, iron, woad, cochineal, oil, or any other merchandise shipped by strangers. Bristolians were forbidden to receive these goods and store them for their owners without the consent of the assembled fellowship: Gross, Gild Merchant, vol. 1, pp. 48–50. [BACK]
11. Latimer, Merchant Venturers, pp. 32–33. [BACK]
12. Ibid., pp. 32–33. [BACK]
13. Ibid., p. 27. [BACK]
14. Ibid., p. 35. The intent was to avoid time-consuming and socially disruptive suits. [BACK]
15. Ibid., pp. 21–22; BRO, Old Ordinance Book, esp. ff. 2r–3v. [BACK]
16. Carr, ed., Select Charters of the Trading Companies, pp. 1–3; Connell-Smith, Forerunners of Drake, pp. 67, 70, 76, 81–82, 90–97; Pauline Croft, ed., The Spanish Company (London Record Society 9, 1973), p. viii. [BACK]
17. Connell-Smith, Forerunners of Drake, pp. 82, 89. [BACK]
18. Connell-Smith, Forerunners of Drake, pp. 94–97; Croft, ed., Spanish Company, p. viii. [BACK]
19. Chaunu, Séville et l'Atlantique, vol. 8, part 2, section 1, pp. 244–47, 273, 298. [BACK]
20. Ibid., vol. 8, part 2, section 1, pp. 248–49, 299; Connell-Smith, "English Merchants Trading to the New World," pp. 53–67; Connell-Smith, Forerunners of Drake, pp. 70–75. [BACK]
21. Chaunu, Séville et l'Atlantique, vol. 8, part 2, section 1, p. 307; Hamilton, American Treasure, pp. 189, 198. [BACK]
22. Hamilton, American Treasure, pp. 321, 340–41. [BACK]
23. Ibid., p. 261. [BACK]
24. See Gould, Great Debasement, pp. 81–86, 94, 96, 133ff.; C. E. Challis, The Tudor Coinage (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1978), pp. 81–134, 223–31; C. E. Challis, "The Circulating Medium and the Movement of Prices in Mid-Tudor England," in Peter Ramsey, ed., The Price Revolution in Sixteenth Century England (London: Methuen, 1971), pp. 117–33, 134–35, 139, 146; C. E. Challis, "Currency and the Economy in Mid-Tudor England," EcHR, 2d ser., 25 (1972): 313–22; Albert Feaveryear, The Pound Sterling: A History of English Money, 2d ed., rev. E. Victor Morgan (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1963), pp. 64–69; Y. Brenner, "The Inflation of Prices in Early Sixteenth-Century England," in Ramsey, ed., Price Revolution, p. 78; de Roover, Gresham on Foreign Exchange, pp. 49–60; Fisher, "Commercial Trends and Policy in Sixteenth Century England," pp. 155–57; Stone, "State Control," p. 106; Sacks, Trade, Society and Politics, vol. 2, pp. 583–85. [BACK]
25. De Roover, Gresham on Foreign Exchange, pp. 57–58; Gould, Great Debasement, pp. 85, 90, 91–93; Stone, "State Control," p. 106. [BACK]
26. Stone, "State Control," p. 106. [BACK]
27. Unfortunately, the absence of local trade statistics for 1551 and 1552 makes it impossible to know the exact course of events there. By 1553–54, however, Bristol's cloth exports were 18.1 percent below the average figure for 1549–1551, a decline that continued at a precipitous rate until the end of the decade: Sacks, Trade, Society and Politics, vol. 2, pp. 583, 902n. 39. [BACK]
28. When the Bristol Corporation struck its deal with Sadler, it apparently was concerned to maintain the charitable functions associated with the chapel, particularly the care of poor seamen. But this act canceled the authority of the thirteen merchants and the thirteen mariner feoffees who had previously held the property. Among the first recorded acts of the newly founded Society of Merchant Venturers was its effort to recover the property directly from Sadler. In October 1553 the property passed by deed to Edward Pryn, one of the founders of the Society and at the time its first master. Pryn appears to have been acting in a private capacity and not as the Society's agent. He later resold it to the Society. But by 1561 the Merchants' Almshouse, called St. Clement's Almshouse, was already on the site, which suggests that the Society's association with Pryn's purchase of the property was close and that it had been in possession, if not ownership, for some time; LRB, vol. 2, pp. 186–92; Latimer, Merchant Venturers, pp. 18–21; McGrath, ed., Records, pp. 66, 96; SMV, Merchants Records, Box 5, Bundle A2; William Barrett, The History and Antiquities of the City of Bristol; Compiled from Original Records and Authentic Manuscripts in the Public Record Office or Private Hands Illustrated with Copper-Plate Prints (Bristol: W. Pine, 1789), p. 180; Sacks, Trade, Society and Politics, vol. 2, pp. 903–4nn. 51–52. [BACK]
29. Edgeworth, Sermons, f. 43v. At the time this collection was printed, Edgeworth was canon of the cathedral churches of Salisbury, Wells, and Bristol, and resident at Wells, where he was also chancellor. The sermon from which this quote comes was part of a series on the "Seven Gifts of the Holy Ghost" preached at St. Mary, Redcliffe, sometime during the years 1544–47. [BACK]
30. See also below, pp. 125–26. [BACK]
31. Latimer, Merchant Venturers, p. 42. [BACK]
32. Ibid., pp. 42–43. [BACK]
33. Ibid., p. 43. [BACK]
34. Ibid., p. 44. [BACK]
35. Ibid., pp. 44–45. [BACK]
36. Ibid., p. 45. [BACK]
37. See above, p. 61. The Bristol merchants were not alone in this period in seeking to exclude retailers and artisans from overseas trade; see, e.g., W. E. Lingelbach, The Merchant Adventurers of England: Their Laws and Ordinances, with Other Documents (Translations and Reprints from the Original Sources of European History, Department of History, University of Pennsylvania, 2d ser., vol. 2, 1902), pp. 111–16; Burgon, Life and Times of Sir Thomas Gresham, vol. 1, p. 464; Woodward, Trade of Elizabethan Chester, p. 74; W. Cotton, An Elizabethan Guild of the City of Exeter (Exeter: W. Pollard, 1873), pp. 6, 15–16; MacCaffrey, Exeter, 1540–1640, p. 137. [BACK]
38. See above, pp. 62–66. [BACK]
39. APC (1550–52), p. 485. [BACK]
40. See D. Hollis, ed., Calendar of the Bristol Apprentice Book, 1532–1565. Part 1: 1532–1542 (BRS 14, 1949); Elizabeth Ralph and Nora M. Hardwick, eds., Calendar of the Bristol Apprentice Book, 1532–1565. Part 2: 1542–1552 (BRS 33, 1980); BRO, Apprenticeship Book, 1552–1565. [BACK]
41. F. F. Fox, Some Account of the Ancient Fraternity of Merchant Taylors of Bristol, with Transcripts of Ordinances and Other Documents (Bristol: J. Wright, 1880), pp. 40–54, 68; Veale, ed., Great Red Book, vol. 16, pp. 64–69; Sacks, Trade, Society and Politics, vol. 1, pp. 132–33. [BACK]
42. Fox and Taylor, eds., Guild of Weavers, pp. 91–92. [BACK]
43. Latimer, Merchant Venturers, pp. 68, 71–75, 79–80; Sacks, Trade, Society and Politics, vol. 2, pp. 631–33. [BACK]
44. Patrick V. McGrath, "The Society of Merchant Venturers and the Port of Bristol," BGAS 72 (1953): 105–28; McGrath, ed., Records, pp. xli, 135–75; McGrath, Merchant Venturers of Bristol, pp. 70–77. [BACK]
45. McGrath, ed., Records, pp. 176–98. [BACK]
46. Ibid., pp. 96–116. [BACK]
47. McGrath, ed., Records, p. xxxvii. [BACK]
48. SMV, Book of Trade, p. 119. [BACK]
49. From 1552 to 1639 the Society acquired three such patents from the Crown: Latimer, Merchant Venturers, pp. 39–47, 88–97. [BACK]
50. See Sacks, Trade, Society and Politics, vol. 2, pp. 634ff. [BACK]
51. SMV, Book of Trade, pp. 67–68, 95–96. In a pattern typical of state concessions, the patent belonged to Richard Williams and David Lewis, who assigned a portion of it to William Harbett and Thomas Morgan. Harbett then made independent arrangements for shipping the butter with Henley and Henley with the Bristolians. [BACK]
52. Ibid., pp. 170–75, 237–38. [BACK]
53. SMV, Book of Trade, pp. 104ff. [BACK]
54. McGrath, ed., Records, pp. 110, 111–12. [BACK]
55. Ibid., p. 112. [BACK]
56. BRO, Common Council Proceedings, vol. 2, f. 96r; see also Sacks, Trade, Society and Politics, vol. 2, p. 918n. 67. [BACK]
57. SMV, Book of Trade, p. 123; see also Preston, "Fishing and Plantation," pp. 29–43. [BACK]
58. SMV, Book of Trade, p. 111; McGrath, ed., Records, pp. 207ff. [BACK]
59. PRO, SP 15/22/19; Marchants Avizo, pp. 10, 11; Latimer, Merchant Venturers, p. 77; Malynes, Lex Mercatoria, pp. 81–86; Willan, Elizabethan Foreign Trade, pp. 3–4; Sacks, Trade, Society and Politics, vol. 2, pp. 546–50. [BACK]
60. Cf. A Relation, Or Rather a True Account, of the Island of England; with Sundry Particulars of the Customs of these People and of the Royal Revenues under King Henry the Seventh, about the Year 1500, ed. and trans. C. A. Sneyd (Camden Society 37, 1847), pp. 24–25; Lawrence Stone, The Family, Sex and Marriage in England, 1500–1800 (New York: Harper and Row, 1977), pp. 106–8. [BACK]
61. The sources for this study are Hollis, ed., Bristol Apprentice Book, part 1, and BRO, Apprenticeship Book, 1626–1636, ff. 1–333. Although ordinarily each apprenticeship enrollment identifies the trade of the apprentice's father and that of his master, such occupational classifications did not exclude an individual from engaging in other kinds of work from time to time. Where there was no gild to enforce the boundaries between trades, or where large investments in tools or capital equipment were not necessary, it was possible to move from trade to trade. Some small shopkeepers, for example, maintained fairly diversified stocks that would qualify them for inclusion in more than one category. For example, William Adams, Bristol's seventeenth-century chronicler, was identified during his lifetime as a haberdasher, an ironmonger, and a mercer. Occasionally individuals are listed as having multiple occupations, such as Thomas Howell "hooper ac bruer" or Richard Browne "haberdasher atque wierdrawer": BRO, Mayor's Audit (1600–1601), p. 138; BRO, MS 09467 (13a); Hollis, ed., Bristol Apprentice Book, part 1, pp. 115, 125, 195; Willan, Inland Trade, pp. 61ff. But since in general an occupational identification in the indentures gives the central focus of an individual's economic activities, we can safely use it for our present purpose. [BACK]
62. See above, pp. 57–59 and Table 8; Sacks, Trade, Society and Politics, vol. 1, pp. 205, and vol. 2, p. 760. [BACK]
63. Sacks, Trade, Society and Politics, vol. 2, pp. 480–81, 663. [BACK]
64. Ibid., pp. 478–79, 496, 505, 506, 759–60. Note that the cappers of 1532–1542 had disappeared as an occupational category by 1626; their craft had broken up into haberdashers, on the retail side, and feltmakers, on the production side. Feltmaking appears to have been a growth industry in Bristol in the early seventeenth century. [BACK]
65. Sacks, Trade, Society, and Politics, vol. 2, pp. 479–80, 506–7, 760–61. [BACK]
66. See below, pp. 147–53; Sacks, Trade, Society and Politics, vol. 2, pp. 487–88. [BACK]
67. The actual figures for Bristolians apprenticed in the same occupation as their fathers are: 1532–1542, 23.94 percent; 1626–1636, 34.79 percent. The figures for those apprenticed in the same industry but not the same occupation are: 1532–1542, 18.94 percent; 1626–1636, 14.12 percent. Together, these two sets of figures total: 1532–1542, 42.23 percent and 1626–1636, 48.91 percent. See Sacks, Trade, Society and Politics, vol. 2, pp. 670–72. [BACK]
68. The consequences of these methodological difficulties for the overall picture of social mobility are small. Even if we move everyone in a "borderline" craft, such as whitawing, into the category of "leading entrepreneur," the opportunities for social advancement would still appear greater in the early sixteenth than in the early seventeenth century. The more restricted definition we have employed in determining the composition of this category is better suited to our present purposes, however, since it results in something of an overestimation, rather than an underestimation, of mobility in Bristol. If those manufacturers who relied on heavy capital investment or produced for the national market were all included with the merchants, major retailers, and soapmakers, the apprenticeship of their sons to leading entrepreneurs would be counted in favor of heightened exclusivity, not increased openness. [BACK]
69. For further discussion of this evidence see Sacks, Trade, Society and Politics, vol. 2, pp. 672–79. [BACK]
70. BRO, Burgess Book, 1607–1651, passim; see also Sacks, Trade, Society and Politics, vol. 2, pp. 706–8. [BACK]
71. See Sacks, Trade, Society and Politics, vol. 2, p. 759. [BACK]
72. See above, p. 60. [BACK]
73. For the general history of consumer industries and retailing see Willan, Inland Trade, pp. 50–106; Joan Thirsk, Economic Policy and Projects: The Development of a Consumer Society in Early Modern England (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1978). [BACK]
74. See Sacks, Trade, Society and Politics, vol. 2, p. 495. The other groups were food producers and woodworkers. [BACK]
75. Gross, Gild Merchant, vol. 1, p. 157. [BACK]
76. Ibid., p. 10, and vol. 2, pp. 24–27, 353–55; Latimer, Merchant Venturers, pp. 1–7. [BACK]
77. Latimer, Merchant Venturers, pp. 30, 33. [BACK]
78. George Unwin, Industrial Organization in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, 2d ed. with intro. by T. H. Ashton (London: Frank Cass, 1963), pp. 73, 96. [BACK]
79. Edgeworth, Sermons, ff. 210v, 211r–v. [BACK]


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Coca-Cola Hellenic Bottling Co. SA (EEEK) bondholders are losing confidence in the firm's plan to leave Greece on concern the cost of the move will trigger a credit- rating downgrade for the nation's biggest company.
While the world's second-largest Coke bottler says it will get cheaper funding by exiting a nation that has contracted for 17 quarters as strikes and protests against austerity measures paralyze the economy, the notes have lost almost 60 percent of the gain on speculation the move will add too much debt. Moody's Investors Service says Coca-Cola Hellenic may need to borrow a half-billion euros ($640 million), about twice its net income in the first nine months of 2012, and jeopardize its Baa1 rating.
"The change of headquarters is good for the company since it reduces the risk of higher taxes or nationalization, but it deteriorates its liquidity position because of the costs," said Ramon Nieto, a fund manager at Geroa EPSV Fondos in San Sebastian, Spain. The firm oversees 1.1 billion euros and used to hold Coca-Cola Hellenic's bonds. "Even with the recent increase in the yield, it's not attractive enough for us to buy them."
Notes SurgeThe initial surge in the company's notes helped make them the best-performing of 123 issues in Bank of America Merrill Lynch's Euro Consumer Non-Cyclical, Food & Drug Retail, Pharma Index in October, returning 2 percent compared with an average 0.69 percent. The debt has lost 0.05 percent on average this month, one of only two securities in the gauge to post a decline.
Under the plan, a new company called Coca-Cola HBC AG is offering to buy Coca-Cola Hellenic shares on a one-for-one basis. If more than 90 percent of investors agree to the deal, the company can start a buyout of the remaining stock either through a share exchange or cash settlement.
Moody's estimates it may cost as much as 500 million euros if all minority shareholders choose cash. That's more than twice the 240 million euros of net profit the company said Nov. 8 that it made in the nine months through September.
Debt IncreaseCoca-Cola Hellenic has 1.8 billion euros of outstanding bonds, as well as a 500 million-euro undrawn credit facility that matures in 2016, Bloomberg data show. The company said it also has a 550 million-euro term loan which will only be used if it needs to buy out shareholders.
Chief Financial Officer Michalis Imellos said this month that the company plans to refinance debt in bond markets next year.
"We believe that more than 90 percent of our shareholders will tender into the exchange offer," the company said in a statement. "Our shareholders understand and support the rationale of this transaction and 61 percent of our shareholders have already committed or stated that they will tender their shares. The attractiveness of a cash alternative of 13.58 euros will depend, to a significant extent, on our share price at the relevant time." The company's current share price is "significantly higher than the cash alternative," it said.
Leverage RatioAn increase in debt could worsen the leverage ratio of Coca-Cola HBC beyond the guidelines the ratings company requires for its current Baa1 grade, Yasmina Serghini-Douvin, an analyst at Moody's, wrote in a report last month.
Coca-Cola Hellenic's gross debt rose to 3.3 times earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization as of June 30, from 3.1 times a year earlier, according to Moody's.
The negative outlook on the company, which is 23 percent- owned by Atlanta-based Coca-Cola Co. (KO), reflects concern that the group's performance "will remain vulnerable to the overall weak consumer environment in Europe and that this will continue to constrain its margins and credit metrics," Moody's said.
The euro-area economy has been in a recession since the third quarter of 2011, when the shortest expansion since 1970 ended, the Centre for Economic Policy Research said Nov. 15.
Retail SalesRetail sales in the 17-nation region fell 0.2 percent in September, the European Union's statistics office said Nov. 7.
Consumer demand in Greece is even worse, with retail sales slumping 7.2 percent in August from a year earlier. The nation's jobless rate surged to 25.5 percent as austerity measures linked to the country's 240 billion-euro bailouts constrained growth.
Greece's economy contracted 6.3 percent in the second quarter from the same period last year.
Coca-Cola Hellenic, which has about 2,000 of its 41,900 employees in Greece, has been based in Athens for the past 12 years after being formed by a merger between Hellenic Bottling Company S.A. and London-based Coca-Cola Beverages. It operates in 28 countries as varied as Ireland and Nigeria.
The company said Oct. 11 the move is intended "to improve Coca-Cola Hellenic's access to both the international equity and debt capital markets and increase its flexibility in raising new funds to support its operations and future growth."
London ListingCoca-Cola Hellenic's decision to leave its home equity market and switch its primary listing to London increases the chance Greece will be demoted to an emerging market next year, MSCI Inc. said Oct. 25.
The index provider put Greece's stock market under review for downgrade from developed status on June 20 and will make a final decision as part of its annual reclassification in June next year. The MSCI Greece Index consists of just two companies, with the bottler accounting for 75 percent by weight.
Coca-Cola Hellenic's 6.4 billion-euro market capitalization would qualify for a listing on London's benchmark FTSE 100 Index, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
The company reported a 1 percent decline in net income in the three months through September to 146.5 million euros, helped by sales in developing markets including Poland and Russia. Less than 10 percent of earnings are made in Greece, Standard & Poor's said in a Nov. 2 report.
Exit 'Risks'If the move out of Greece isn't approved then a "multi- notch downgrade could still be possible as a result of risks associated with Greece exiting the euro zone and the potential impact of Greek government policies on Coca-Cola Hellenic's business and financial environment," the ratings firm said. The company's BBB+ rating is on negative watch at S&P.
Coca-Cola Hellenic last issued debt in February 2011 when it sold its 4.25 percent bonds in euros due November 2016, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. Their yield, which is 232 basis points more than the safest government debt, is almost double the 133 basis-point spread on similar-maturity debt sold by Absolut vodka maker Pernod Ricard SA.
The company's share price has risen 32 percent this year to 17.5 euros, data compiled by Bloomberg show. The stock fell as much as 10 percent the day the exchange offer was announced.
"We view the new share structure as credit positive, removing tail risk, loosening the link between the company and problems in Greece and associated fear of contagion from a Greek euro exit in the minds of investors," Max Castle, an analyst at ING Financial Markets in Amsterdam, told clients in a note.
Coca-Cola Hellenic's net cash from operating activities fell to 675 million euros at the end of September, from 711 million euros a year earlier, its earnings statement shows. Free cash flow dropped to 381 million euros from 416 million euros.
"In principal the move the company is looking to make is on the right track -- they have calculated the cost and it is a moving-forward plan," said George Satlas, the Athens-based head of investments at Mutual Funds of Postal Savings Bank and Hellenic Post. "They've done quite a job in terms of profitability. But they're operating in a tough environment."


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The Los Angeles Philharmonic will open its new season with a program that will focus on ballet and modern dance. The gala concert, conducted by Gustavo Dudamel, is set for Sept. 27 at Walt Disney Concert Hall and is being organized in partnership with Glorya Kaufman Presents Dance at the Music Center.
The concert will feature American Ballet Theatre's Roberto Bolle and Veronika Part performing selections from "Swan Lake." The evening also will include a new choreographed work by Barak Marshall set to John Adams' "The Chairman Dances," featuring members of the L.A. modern dance company BodyTraffic.
In addition, the orchestra will perform a suite from Leonard Bernstein's "On the Town" featuring dancers from Broadway.
The orchestra's annual season opener is often designed to be a crowd-pleaser. The evening will end in typically posh fashion with a post-concert dinner for donors, musicians and other notable guests. Ticket packages for the evening range in price from $2,500 to $15,000.
Previous opening night galas featured Herbie Hancock, Renee Fleming and Juan Diego Florez.
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When in Newtown recently I bought a very long, large kaftan. I chopped off the bottom, added a few darts and hey presto a skirt. I kinda have an exposed zip – it was less work than putting in a back seam. I really like it. I also made life easy by using bias tape on the waist, thus eliminating a waistband. The top part of the kaftan will most likely be made into a jacket for my sweet toddler.
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I'll be on the road again this weekend, but I won't have to far to travel. I'll be speaking to the Halton-Peel Branch of the Ontario Genealogical Society at their monthly meeting. This month, they're meeting in Brampton at the Four Corners Branch of the Brampton Public Library. The topic will be Genealogy 2.0 and what it holds that benefits family history researchers. Visitors are always welcome, so be sure to stop by if you're in the area. The group will hold their business meeting to start, followed by a break where tea, cookies and coffee are available, then onto the presentation. I look forward to seeing you there!
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LAKELAND | Sexual misconduct allegations that already reach into the Lakeland Police Department's highest ranks go beyond what was revealed this week and encompass the entire 13-year career of the female employee at the center of the scandal, city officials said Wednesday.
LAKELAND | Sexual misconduct allegations that already reach into the Lakeland Police Department's highest ranks go beyond what was revealed this week and encompass the entire 13-year career of the female employee at the center of the scandal, city officials said Wednesday.
Police Chief Lisa Womack and City Manager Doug Thomas, speaking at a news conference, divulged few details about an ongoing internal investigation but described it as broader in scope than a three-month investigation concluded Tuesday by the State Attorney's Office and the Florida Department of Law Enforcement.
A report on that investigation detailed allegations of dozens of consensual and multiple forced sexual encounters between at least 10 officers and LPD crime analyst Sue Eberle.
"The broader scope means that it crosses (city) departmental lines, and there may be other employees that are being included in our investigation that weren't included in the state attorney's," Womack said.
Womack and Thomas denounced the misconduct, saying they had no indication it was happening, even as officers and other workers had sex in city buildings, in parks and in police cars, among other places.
"I assure you that I, too, am shocked that acts of this nature could have gone on for that long," Thomas said.
State Attorney Jerry Hill also held a news conference Wednesday and, for a second time, urged city leaders to re-evaluate LPD's leadership, especially in light of a multitude of issues with officers and high-ranking officials engaging in sexual trysts and other well-publicized problems at the department.
He stopped short, however, of saying Womack should be removed.
"I'm hoping that instead of just circling the wagons, they will address the issues," Hill said. "I think that's critical if Lakeland is going to maintain credibility with the folks that live there."
Eberle, who has worked eight years as an LPD crime analyst, revealed the misconduct during a related internal investigation in March. She started with the city in 2000 as a risk management clerk and was promoted twice in her first year. In 2005, she moved to LPD as an analyst and, since March, has been on paid leave.
Eberle's tenure extends beyond the 2� years Womack has been chief. Before that, Roger Boatner had been chief since 2003.
Womack stressed in her comments Wednesday that the misconduct began before she arrived. The State Attorney's Office report showed it continued after she was hired, including multiple incidents last year.
"As chief of police of the Lakeland Police Department, I was — at the time I learned about the behavior, and continue to be now — outraged," she said during the news conference at Lakeland City Hall.
Boatner, who now works at the Polk County Sheriff's Office, did not respond to requests for comment Tuesday and Wednesday.
The agency has placed many of those facing allegations on paid leave or modified duty, meaning they're restricted to office work.
Capt. John Thomason, the highest-ranking employee implicated, and Lakeland Fire Department Inspector David Bivens were put on paid leave Wednesday.
Lt. Al Wilson and Sgt. Bryan McNabb were put on modified duty. Sgts. Rusty Longaberger and David Woolverton, were put on paid leave March 21 when the allegations first arose.
The FDLE/State Attorney's Office investigation detailed allegations of sexual misconduct by those employees and many others.
Womack said the city investigation also will look into why employees who weren't directly involved in the misconduct, but who had first-hand knowledge of it, did not come forward.
Thomas said there were a "variety of other employees that apparently had first-hand knowledge of this type of behavior who certainly are in position to know that they can bring those issues of concern to the appropriate personnel.
"Even if they didn't want to do it with LPD, they can come to other divisions of the city or all the way to the city manager's office."
The report released Tuesday referenced at least two LPD workers, victim advocate Jackie Suggs and Officer Loretta Jackson, who it said knew about the misconduct.
According to the report, the only explanation Suggs offered for not coming forward was that Eberle was a "grown woman" and should have reported it herself.
Jackson had detailed knowledge of Eberle's relationships, which included one with Lt. Wilson, the report said. But she seemed conflicted on whether to come forward.
"In her mind," the State Attorney's Office report says, "she questioned whether it had really happened and then whether to deal with it as a friend who was a trusted confidant or a police officer."
The investigative report also said Jackson "was very reluctant to hear or get involved in Lt. Wilson's affairs" because he had taken disciplinary action against her in the past.
Hill urged city leaders to examine the issues at LPD in their totality, including a variety of other problems, such as a grand jury investigation into the department, an LPD search that Hill's office has called improper and documentation problems in a DUI case.
"You know you've got to quit compartmentalizing at some point and say this is the big picture of what we're dealing with in Lakeland," he said. "And if the Lakeland city commissioners and the city manager are happy with it, so be it."
Some officers might have been prosecuted in the investigation had investigators been able to pinpoint specific dates when they occurred. But Hill stressed that shouldn't undercut the investigation's credibility or Eberle's sworn statements.
Everything Eberle told investigators has so far proved true, Hill said, because she shared details with confidants in the department, including emails and photos as events unfolded.
The most critical information came from those who were accused by Eberle of misconduct, he said. In most cases, their interviews corroborated her statements.
When asked whether Womack should resign or be fired from her office, Hill stopped short of giving a definitive answer. He said it appears Thomas, who hired Womack, is "locked in" to the mentality that "we are going to defend what we've got."
Asked whether she thought the issue shows officers don't trust her enough to come forward with allegations, Womack said, "No."
"I think it's actually the opposite — that I was the one it was brought to, finally," she said.
How the allegations arose is actually more complicated and indirect.
Earlier this year, LPD opened an internal investigation into actions by Eberle and a former officer, Steve Sherman, who were seen together coming out of a closed building at the Without Walls Central church in North Lakeland.
Amid that investigation, Eberle asked for a meeting with Womack, who declined and referred Eberle to internal investigators, according to the State Attorney's Office report.
Jackson met off-duty with an internal affairs detective she knew and showed her a long list of people Eberle had sexual encounters with, the report says, and that resulted in the city's current internal investigation. During that investigation, Womack made a decision to call in FDLE.
Sherman and Eberle ultimately admitted to having sex in the church multiple times, as well as to other liaisons.
[ Matthew Pleasant can be reached at matthew.pleasant @theledger.com or 863-802-7590. ]


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Bringing Back the No-Stigma Extended Vacation
Call the kennel and pour the milk down the drain. Savvy travelers (even ones with big jobs) are bringing back the two-week vacation. It's about time
TO DESCRIBE SCOTT Cooke's lifestyle as intense would not be off-base. A principal at New York-based luxury marketing and public-relations firm GCK Partners, he is constantly on call for his clients—and call they do, day and night. Mr. Cooke attends two events most evenings, and travels for business every three weeks or so. He goes to the gym daily. Oh—and twice a year, he takes vacations that are longer than some summer-camp sessions.
Mr. Cooke, who just returned from a 12-day trip to a villa in Mallorca, Spain, will spend two weeks in Japan around Christmas, with New Year's in Kyoto. "I think it's good for your soul," he said of extended vacations. "It makes you more creative. It makes you a better boss…a better worker."
The two-martini lunch may be extinct, but another perk common to yesteryear's workplace, the two-week vacation, is making a comeback. No longer limited to students, honeymooners and retirees, drawn-out holidays are finding converts in overachieving professionals.
"It used to be that Americans did the drive-by vacation," breezing through major tourist attractions, said Anne Morgan Scully, president of McCabe World Travel, an upscale travel agency in McLean, Va. "They're not doing that anymore." Her company has seen a 25% to 30% increase in longer holiday bookings over the last year, she said.
Plenty of Americans have a hard time taking vacation at all. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, about a quarter of private-industry workers didn't get any paid time off in 2012. And some who have holiday packages are loath to max them out, for fear of seeming dispensable in a still-shaky economy. But travel agents, hoteliers and travelers say they are seeing a trend toward longer, slower, farther trips: treks through Peru, voluntourism excursions in Africa, cruises around the Greek islands.
Long bookings have recently shot up at the St. Regis Punta Mita Resort in Mexico, said Paul James, global brand leader for St. Regis, the Luxury Collection and W Hotels Worldwide. "For this last December-January period, three-week stays were up 35% over the year before," he said. "The year before was double-digit over the year before that."
" Would you rather go from a conference call to a commute—or to a Mai Tai? "
The long-trip trend is partly an outgrowth of our workaholic, multitasking culture. Because Americans work so much, and so intensely, it takes longer to unwind. But paradoxically, technology allows people to escape for longer, because they can tend to the demands of the office without clients knowing they're not actually in the office. Thanks to mobile devices, it's no longer necessary to camp out in an Internet cafe.
"I'm always connected," said Mr. Cooke, who added that he rarely sets up his out-of-office notification.
If work sounds like a dreadful intrusion on your beach escape, consider this: Would you rather go straight from a conference call to your commute—or to a Mai Tai?
"Office hours have gone away," Mr. James said. "It's all life hours now."
With longer vacations, a smaller percentage of time off is spent in transit or recovering from jet-lag. Extending your vacation is also a way to amortize higher transportation costs. According to the Bureau of Transportation Statistics, for instance, the average flight out of the U.S. cost about 24% more in 2012 than it did in 2009.
There are more pleasant factors at play, too—like the rise in multigenerational trips. It's hard to do a whirlwind tour with a toddler and a grandparent in tow. "The word 'pace' is very relevant," Ms. Scully said.
Christina Wayne is president of Cineflix Studios, an international television studio that offers generous vacation benefits. The company's approach, she said, makes employees feel respected—and is especially rewarding for hardworking parents.
"For Europe I wouldn't want to go shorter than two weeks," said Ms. Wayne, who lives in New York with her husband and their 3½-year-old daughter. "We went to Sweden to visit family—Stockholm for five days, Falsterbo in southern Sweden for five days. Then the weather was terrible, so we went to Copenhagen for four days."
Travelers are also seeking deeper, richer experiences, which often require a good amount of time. A two-day croissant workshop with a Parisian pastry chef is a bigger commitment than a pit stop at the Eiffel Tower.
With guests bedding down for longer, hotels are creating special programs and amenities. "In Shanghai and Beijing, we see families spending longer periods of time and putting their kids through intensive local Mandarin schools," said Robert Cheng, vice president of marketing for the Peninsula Hotels. The chain has been creating kid-friendly menus; its Peninsula Academy program offers activities like origami lessons in Tokyo and Thai cooking in Bangkok.
A three-week stint at a five-star hotel may be beyond most budgets, but home-rental sites like HomeAway and Airbnb help make extended stays more accessible. Ms. Wayne, the television executive, often has to spend time in Los Angeles for work. "This past January, instead of booking a hotel, I rented a house and my family came out too," she said.
It isn't all BlackBerrys in paradise—absenting yourself for a significant amount of time takes planning and gumption. Annie Guill, operations manager for LittleCollector, an online retailer of art for kids, takes two-week vacations with her husband, who works in wines and spirits. This summer, they will jet off to a tiny Greek island, stopping in Paris on the way home. The couple makes sure they always can be reached by phone.
"I really try to break down ahead of time what's going to be needed, so it doesn't fall on anyone else's shoulders," Ms. Guill said. "I notify everyone that I'm going to be gone, even vendors."
The payoff for all that pretrip prep: coming back feeling recharged instead of shortchanged.
Of his most recent trip, Mr. Cooke said, "On Friday I was like, 'I'm OK to go home on Saturday.' That's much better than thinking, 'Ugh, I don't want to go back to work.' "
YOU'LL GO FAR // Seven Trips for More Than Seven Days
Oceanfront Escape in Australia
When to Go: Year round
Who to Bring: The whole family
Workaholic Appeal: Medium-High
It's a long way to the Antipodes, so make the most of it. Soak up culture while easily staying connected in Sydney, spend a few days driving the aptly named Great Ocean Road along the southern coast, then fly or ferry to Kangaroo Island, near Adelaide. "It's the Galapagos of Australia," said Michael Holtz, owner of New York-based travel agency SmartFlyer. He recommends the Southern Ocean Lodge, a glass-heavy resort that overlooks the sea and is open to children 6 and older. You can visit sea-lion-packed beaches and hike on the cliffs, then check work email while enjoying the dramatic view. southernoceanlodge.com.au
Remote Rambles in Chile
When to Go: October through March
Who to Bring: Outdoorsy pals
Workaholic Appeal: Low-Medium
Chile's bounty is so spread out over its roughly 2,700-mile length, it can take whole days to reach rewarding destinations, including the barren but beautiful Atacama Desert in the north and dramatic Patagonia in the south. Visiting the lush island of Chiloé, with its fishing villages, stilt houses and wooden churches, can feel like traveling back in time. The 12-room Hotel Refugia, which opened last year, is the first truly fancy offering in the region. While it does have Wi-Fi, you'd probably rather trek rain forests, visit penguin colonies and sail nearby fiords than answer email. It reopens for the season in September. refugia.cl
Surf and Safari in South Africa
When to Go: November to March
Who to Bring: School-age kids
Workaholic Appeal: Low-Medium
It can easily take more than a full day to travel from the U.S. to South Africa, but that's not the only reason to plan an extended visit: You can indulge in culinary and cultural experiences, take beach breaks between work check-ins, then set off on a family-friendly safari. Start out in Cape Town, to climb iconic Table Mountain, cruise the coast and tour South African wine country. Then shut down your laptop and travel to the northeast, where Phinda Private Game Reserve covers about 57,000 acres. Luxury safari outfitter &Beyond has six lodges, each with a different feel; all but one welcomes children. Phinda encompasses grassland, mountains and sand forest, and is home not only to the standard Big Five animals, but cheetahs and endangered black rhinos. andbeyondafrica.com
The Luxury Circuit in Bhutan
When to Go: Spring and fall
Who to Bring: Spiritual spa-lovers
Workaholic Appeal: Low
Talk about remote: You can only reach this Himalayan kingdom via one airline. For many years only basic accommodations were available in Bhutan, but the uber-luxurious Amankora resort now has five lodges in different valleys, allowing guests to hike through the mountains, visit ancient Buddhist temples, fish in pristine rivers and indulge in a deep-tissue massage or three along the way. amanresorts.com
The Slow Boat Through Northern Europe
When to Go: June and July
Who to Bring: Adults only
Workaholic Appeal: Low
Cruises have a reputation for making port stops so brief they barely allow for a dash to the souvenir stand, but many ships are docking for longer. Azamara Club Cruises is one of the trend leaders, said Anne Morgan Scully, president of McCabe World Travel. The company is offering a 12-night journey around the Baltic Sea next summer. The Azamara Journey waits until late in the evening to leave several ports—including Gdánsk, Poland and Wismar, Germany—and spends two full nights in St. Petersburg. While Internet service is available, it's pricey and can be spotty. azamaraclubcruises.com
Urban Education in Shanghai
When to Go: Spring and fall
Who to Bring: Your business partner—and your family
Workaholic Appeal: High
Today's take on the Grand Tour is more likely to involve the Great Wall of China than anything you'd find in a Henry James novel. In-the-know parents are exposing their children to Chinese culture, planning dedicated vacations or taking them on business trips. The Art Deco Peninsula Shanghai, situated on the Bund, may seem like a playground for soignée adults, but it welcomes kids with activities like kite-making lessons and cooking classes—assuming they have energy to play after Mandarin school lets out. peninsula.com
Mellow in Mexico
When to Go: December and January
Who to Bring: The all-ages crowd
Workaholic Appeal: High
Think two weeks is too much for a beach vacation? There's enough on Mexico's Pacific coast to keep everyone occupied while you get through a juicy book—er, conference call. The rustic-elegant St. Regis Punta Mita Resort offers scuba, Spanish and dance instruction, and is a short boat ride from the Marietas Islands, where you can see whales, dolphins and blue-footed boobies. Work won't be a problem with high-speed Wi-Fi—and the kids club, open daily. The nearby Four Seasons Resort Punta Mita also has two Jack Nicklaus-designed golf courses and a yacht guests can rent. starwoodhotels.com, fourseasons.com


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The A780 comes in a lot of different flavors depending on which region of the world it is sold, but we got the version that has quadband GSM/EDGE and a VPN client (supporting Nortel, Cisco, Cisco Unity, Check Point, Intel and Netscreen). Another version comes with GPS and/or VoIP SIP support (through EDGE), while another version only supports normal GPRS without EDGE and has no extras.
There is a rocker scroller and a "voice recognition" button on the left of the device and a camera button at the right side. The phone comes with a 760 mAh battery, which is the exact same battery as the one used in the E680i model (reviewed here). The stylus is longer than in the E680i and results to a better grip. I came to love this stylus in a very short time of using it.
The phone supports Transflash cards which currently max out at 1 GB of space. According to the community, the phone easily supports these new 1 GB cards (we tested ours with a 256 MB Sandisk one -- FAT32 is not supported, only FAT16 is). There is also a 1.3 MP camera, 50 MBs of free internal storage and 32 MBs of RAM. The phone runs at a 312 Mhz ARM CPU.
The phone supports normal 2.5mm mini-audio jacks for music and handsfree operations and supports USB charging (the operating system must not be in sleep-mode for this to work). There is Bluetooth support for the handsfree/headset, obex and serial profiles, but there is no A2DP/AVRCP support even though that would have been as simple as a recompile for Motorola (the E680i which supports Stereo Bluetooth is pretty much the same phone in a different casing). There is also Java MIDP-2 support and the phone features a 3D processor for 3D java games (usually this results to just about 10-12 fps for all the EZX-supported 3D games we tried).
In the version of the phone we received we found in its box a USB cable, an Asian plug, an Asian-to-American plug convertor, handsfree stereo headphones, a spare plastic protector for the phone's connectors and of course, the manuals and CDs.
Battery life on the A780 is not the best compared to other cellphones, but it should be good enough for most users, with more than 3 hours talk time. Only problem with the battery is that its indicator has only 3 modes: 100%, 60% and 20%. Reception was excellent most of the time too.
The Candybar Phone Mode
The A780 is a unique cellphone in that it is both a candybar and a flip-phone. It has an external numeric keypad and when flipped a gorgeous 2.5" QVGA TFT touchscreen is unveiled. When used like a candybar it uses a portion of the main screen (a resolution of about 200x150) which is seen-through the protective glass. In that mode, the screen is capable of showing 3 lines of text and 1 service line (displaying the signaling, BT on/off, IM on/off, Edge/Gprs, and battery life). The joystick is located at the bottom of the device instead just under the screen as most phones do, because this way it can be used in the touchscreen mode too. The rocker scroller can scroll between menu items while it unveils the menu of the current loaded application when pressed inwards.
In the candybar mode you can use the phone as a "real" phone and nothing else. Only Contacts (shortcut dialing is available by pressing the number that corresponds to their name), Calling, SMS (with support for Motorola's iTap predictive text input), Play Music, Camera and Video Capture are available. So purists who want to use their cellphone as a cellphone and their PDA as a PDA should feel very happy about the dual nature of this phone, because they will only have to carry one device instead of two, and yet feel that these are separate devices, not interfering with each other. The only feature I miss in the candybar mode is a menu item to enable the Night mode in the camera. Other than that, it does everything one would need to do with "just a cellphone".
The PDA Mode
When you flip the phone open, you are presented with the PDA functionality. The A780 is built upon the 2.4.20 Linux kernel and then from the ground up using the Qt toolkit. Its closed-source graphical framework is called EZX. In the main display you get 4 big icons (application list, contact list, SMS/MMS client and a virtual numeric pad to make a call), a service line similar to the one described above, business meetings list and 4 shortcuts to apps (ring profiles, Opera, Real Player, Picsel Viewer and Bluetooth).
There are a number of PDA-like applications included in the phone by default, some of these include a file manager (which I like very much), tasks, notes (can read .txt files too), alarms, clock application monitoring up to 3 timezones, calendar that supports events, pop3/imap email (no support for Gmail though), a calculator, the Opera browser, Real Player (supports mp4, 3gp and rm videos), camera and video capture, a drawing application, a voice recorder (in AMR format), Wireless Village IM, SyncML, Call history, VPN client, an STK and modem utility, 3 java games, a Chinese-to-english dictionary and of course, the system's settings. In these settings you will find preference panels for customizing your ringtomes (you can set different ringtones for IM, phone calls, SMS etc), your wallpaper, the color theme, text size, language, voice command (no training required, but the feature didn't prove very reliable), screen backlighting, GPRS settings, power management, keylock settings, and input setup (choose between two Asian languages or English virtual keyboards, a numeric keypad, or handwriting). Both the handwriting and virtual keyboard has predictive text support which we found sufficient. There is no way that even a world champion in T9/iTap will be able to type faster than you could with the A780's virtual keyboard.
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Client Authentication
From PostgreSQL wiki
Who is allowed to connect to the database is controlled by a file in the root of your database directory named. pg_hba.conf. A default file is created when you run initdb to create a database cluster.
What permissions exist by default depends on how initdb was called. By default, new clusters are created with the 'trust' scheme, where any local user is allowed to connect to the database. However, some PostgreSQL packagers may change this. For example, if you use the RedHat 'service initdb' to create your cluster, it calls initdb like this:
initdb --pgdata='$PGDATA' --auth='ident sameuser'
Which uses the not particularly popular ident scheme to figure out if a user is allowed to connect, much frustrating those who aren't aware of this.
A typical recommended setup for network access to the database takes the local LAN address and only allows clients who authenticate using a secure MD5 password. The entry in pg_hba.conf will look like this:
host all all 192.168.1.0/24 md5
This only allows clients with IP addresses from 192.168.1.0-192.168.1.255 to connect, and only then if they provide the correct password for the user. Note that network access like this is only allowed at all if the postgresql.conf setting for listen_addresses allows it.
Database user's passwords are set when you create the user with CREATE ROLE and can be modified with ALTER ROLE. createuser can be a useful wrapper script to help with that.
There is a bit of a catch here: since creating a new role requires connecting to the database with a superuser role, how do you get started here? One common approach is to start with a pg_hba.conf that trusts just users connecting on the server itself:
# "local" is for Unix domain socket connections only
local all all trust
# IPv4 local connections:
host all all 127.0.0.1/32 trust
If the database is configured like this, anyone logged onto the system can now connect to your server at will, so you don't want to keep this configuration for long. What you can now do is use ALTER ROLE to assign a strong password to the postgres superuser. Once that's done, you can shutdown the server, change all the "trust" settings to "md5", add your whole network block to pg_hba.conf, and set listen_addresses. When you start it back up again, you'll have one superuser account you know the password to, which you can then use to create all the regular accounts for your users.
LDAP authentication
To pull off ldap authentication, you need to replace 'md5' with
:ldap "ldap://server/dc=domain,dc=local;DOMAIN\"
Where server and domain are both pretty self explanatory. This is all one user reporting on this feature had to do to accomplish ldap authentication. They use this method for all network addresses in the 192.168.x.x range, and md5 for localhost, so that it can use a username that doesn't exist in ldap for backups. This way only the server itself can initiate backups on the superuser account.
Related articles
- PostgreSQL and pam_ldap by Adrian Nida
- NSS Authentication with libnss_pgsql by David Ford
- Authenticating PostgreSQL Clients by SecurityProNews (2002-05-21)
- LDAP Authentication against AD by Joey Wang (2007-04-13)


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American Hippie in Israel, An (US - BD)
Gabe hitches a ride with a real groovy cat that doesn't like fools pushing buttons...
After a long time away from the scene (which included the unexpected death of co-founder Sage Stallone), Grindhouse Releasing is back with An American Hippie in Israel – a no-budget, so-bad-it's-good 'masterpiece' that was once thought lost to the ravages of time. Writer/director/producer/editor Amos Sefer's film (originally titled Ha-Trempist – The Hitchhiker – until some distributor decided change it into a spoof Vincente Minnelli's An American in Paris) is a perfectly disastrous movie that earns that 'so-bad-it's-good' title through sheer force of conviction. It sets out to appeal to a cult audience, but not quite the brand of cult audience it has culled since it started making the midnight movie rounds in 2007. Sefer, who disappeared into the ether following this one feature release, clearly believes he's making a point with his auteuristic work, here, I'm just not sure what that point is. It definitely has something to do with war being bad, though.
The best way I can sum up the uncanny experience of An American Hippie in Israel is ' Easy Rider meets El Topo,' though I don't want to imply it's that compelling, either. The film opens with footage of an unmanned steamroller crushing flowers in a field to the sound of machine gun fire. Because, like, war is a drag, man. As soon as the credits are finished, we're introduced to our hero, Mike (Asher Tzarfati), as he arrives in Tel Aviv. Mike is picked up on the side of the road by a stage actress named Elizabeth (Lily Avidan). As Mike and Elizabeth get to know each other, their conversation is cut short by the sudden appearance of two mimes in black suits and black hats. Mike informs Elizabeth that these guys follow him everywhere and scolds them, telling his new friend that he 'thinks they want his life.' The incident forgotten, Mike quickly beds (or, rather, 'floors') Elizabeth. The next day the couple meets a like-minded couple (Tzila Karney and Shmuel Wolf) with whom they begin a cross-country journey to escape the mimes in black, who keep showing up to harsh Mike's mellow.
As a director, Sefer is perfectly capable. For a first movie made on a nothing budget, An American Hippie in Israel is relatively competently composed, especially when Sefer is keeping his shots simple. There's no viable comparison to be made to the likes of Ed Wood, Bruno Mattei, Andy Milligan, or Al Adamson. The occasional attempts at montage editing fail pretty miserably, but Mike's monochromatic, surrealist, slow-motion dreams are visually quite arresting and come the closest to the Alejandro Jodorowsky-isms I imagine Sefer was trying to achieve. Regrettably, it seems no one told him that slow motion is achieved via slowing down the physical film itself, not by asking your actors to move slowly (especially not when the stuff they knock over is still affected by gravity at regular speed). Cinematographer Ya'ackov Kallach also manages to capture some truly gorgeous shots of the Israeli countryside that any tourism board would be happy to include in a pamphlet.
As a writer, Sefer is…less successful. The lack of storyline and weird pacing are actually in keeping with the whole post- Easy Rider, hippie movie aesthetic, but words can't quite describe the cringe-worthy aspects of the dialogue or the actors' complete lack of rhythm with each other. In Sefer's defense, on this Blu-ray's interviews, actor Asher Tzarfati claims he and the other actors improvised a lot of the dialogue. Of course, the wooden interactions and supposedly improvised words leads to some of the film's heartiest unintentional laughs, especially a bit where Mike describes his time in Vietnam and turns to look straight into the lens, demanding that the 'fools stop pushing buttons.' But I think my favourite exchange is the one that takes place when Mike and Elizabeth are introduced to each other:
Quote: 'Are you a hippie?'
'Well, you might say so. Right on.'
'Why're you a hippie, if I may ask?'
'Well, heh, I just feel better this way.'
The funniest thing about the movie, though, is that it un-ironically captures the naiveté and listlessness of the post-Altamont hippie movement – both in its on-screen actions and with its simple existence. Sefer, like his befuddled characters, is really trying to find something significant to say or do, unaware that he's so self-indulgent that he's making a spectacle of himself. If someone could convince me that this was the intended metaphor, I'd be forced to call An American Hippie in Israel a brilliant satire, but the sudden influx of ham-handed Israeli-Palestinian allegories during the final minutes (including an protracted argument about language barriers and climactic rock fights over a stray lamb) leads me to assume I cannot credit him with the subtler achievement. Unfortunately, minus the experience of watching the film in a revival theater with a rowdy crowd or even at home with a roomful of inebriated friends, An American Hippie in Israel's languid pacing and long bouts of nothingness does begin to grate. It is a patently uneventful movie. At one point the protagonists circle an entire island in (practically) real time and discover…that there's nothing to find. It's funnier in retrospect, I promise. Of course, moments after this, Mike tries to swim to salvation and two of the most inert fake sharks I've ever seen appear to chase him from out of the water ('that was a bummer') and, like that, I'm right back onboard again.
An American Hippie in Israel marks Grindhouse Releasing's first foray into the realms of Blu-ray technology (it's hard to believe that they haven't put out anything since their 2009 Cat in the Brain DVD), marking it as an especially exciting release, beyond even the whole 'rediscovered cult classic' thing. The lack of availability makes it hard to compare this new 1.78:1 (slightly reframed from the spec aspect ratio of 1.85:1), 1080p transfer to anything else, but it's difficult to imagine any non-HD release (outside of a 35mm screening) matching this disc. Naturally, the image quality isn't exactly perfect. The print is swimming in heavy grain and details are slightly smudged, but the clothing and background patterns are well-separated and there aren't many signs of physical negative damage, aside from a few scratches here and there. The colours are vibrant and strong, especially during the heavily-gelled dream and nighttime sequences with only a little bleeding along the background edges and no major signs of macro blocking. The contrast levels are a problem, I suppose. The blacks, though plenty deep, eat up any of the darker details and the brighter white levels tend to bloom a bit.
This Blu-ray comes fitted with a lossless, DTS-HD Master Audio mono soundtrack that nestles nicely in the centre speaker. According to the IMDB specs, An American Hippie in Israel was mixed in stereo, but I doubt that, based on the film's age, supposed price tag, and region of origin. Like so many self-important art films of the era, An American Hippie in Israel features occasional flecks of surrealist sound design (the opening title's machine gun fire, for example), but the bulk of the sound is dialogue and music driven. It's pretty obvious that a lot of the dialogue was added via ADR. Scenes of the characters wandering around the streets and shores of Tel Aviv usually have little to no ambient noise – just post-production dialogue and music (probably because the tiny crew wasn't able to drag sound equipment around with them). The music is credited to Nachum Heiman, though he only wrote the incidental stuff. The mix's loudest and fullest moments revolve around the songs, credited to a Canadian duo called Susan & Fran. These bits are roughened on the highest volume levels, a include some minor distortion and crowding, neither of which is remarkably worse than most major studio releases of older mono material.
This release really is the last word on this movie and it has the extras to prove it. The only thing missing is a director's commentary and, well, Sefer has been dead for quite some time, so that's not going to happen.
The Blu-ray's massive collection of special features includes:
- Five deleted/alternate scenes from the longer Israeli cut of the film (10:10. HD) – These are presented in scratchy, 1.33:1 video with burned-in Israeli and French subtitles and include the original titles, an extended version of the first interaction with the mimes, an uncensored version of the first sex scene (it's still not explicit), the missing footage from the mime's hippie massacre (it just jump-cuts to the hippies on the floor in the Blu-ray), and an insert of a flying car at the end of the movie (?!). Theses scenes are also available on an included DVD version of the original cut.
- Silent 16mm, black & white screen tests (9:10, HD)
- Interviews with actors Asher Tzarfati & Shmuel Wolf from Tel Aviv, recorded in 2009 (56:10, HD) – Tzarfati takes the whole thing pretty lightly and discusses the production in a laidback manner, while the more serious Wolf discusses the film's politics and social commentary without a lick of irony. Both actors are incredibly well-spoken, but, at nearly an hour, time does begin to crawl.
- Asher Tzarfati: An Israeli Actor in Israel (17:50, HD) – Additional footage from the same interview, where Tzarfati waxes philosophically about his life outside of An American Hippie in Israel and movies in general.
- Asher Tzarfati's filmography (text only)
- Amos Sefer's biography (text only)
- Be Careful Children, The Ball is Not Just Yours (6:40, HD) – Silent footage from a 16mm short film Sefer made. The footage is mangled basically beyond recognition, but it's an interesting addition for the sake of posterity.
- The Beverly Cinema Experience – An option to watch the film with 5.1-enhanced audio recording during a full house screening (good for us lonely people that watch this stuff alone in our living rooms).
- A Cult is Born (4:40, HD) – Footage and interviews from a Rocky Horror-style revival screening in Israel.
- A segment from Israel's Channel 10 about the film's unlikely following (10:20, SD), including a cute little course on how to turn a flop into a cult hit.
- A brief interview with assistant production manager Moshe Burman shot in his apartment in Tel Aviv (4:00, HD).
- A brief interview with musician Susan Devore of Susan & Fran, the guitar duo that appears in the film (7:10, HD). Fran shows up via Skype later in the interview and Susan performs the song for a theatrical audience the next night. It's adorable.
- Shmuel's Still Show (5:00, HD) – Footage of Wolf showing his personal collection of behind-the-scenes photographs.
- Two still galleries (production stills and promotional materials)
- An American Hippie in Israel trailer (3:00, HD)
- Trailers for upcoming Grindhouse Releasing, erm, releases – Corruption, The Big Gundown (yay!), The Swimmer, Massacre Mafia Style, Gone with the Pope, Cannibal Holocaust, Cat in the Brain, The Beyond, Cannibal Ferox, I Drink Your Blood, Pieces, The Tough Ones, Scum of the Earth, Death Game, Family Enforcer, Ice House, and Cannibal Holocaust (again).
I hesitate to call An American Hippie in Israel a unique experience, because it recalls so many other movies, but it's certainly a 'special' little adventure for the discerning bad movie palate. A warning, though – watch this movie with as many people as possible. It is too uneventful to sustain a solo viewing and requires audience participation to work at its full potential. It's great to have Grindhouse Releasing back and they certainly impress with this, their first Blu-ray release by including the best possible A/V quality from a less-than-ideal source and a huge assemblage of extra material.
* Note: The images on this page are not representative of the Blu-ray image quality.
Review by Gabriel Powers
DirkToesfeld Member Join Date: November 2009 Location: Germany Posts: 110
That's some fantastic box art.
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I wish there was a pic of the cardboard sharks…
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Disc Details
Release Date: 10th September 2013
Discs: 3
Disc Type: Blu-ray Disc
RCE: No
Video: 1080p
Aspect: 1.78:1
Anamorphic: No
Colour: Yes
Audio: DTS-HD Master Audio 1.0 English, Dolby Digital 5.1 Beverly Cinema Experience Track
Subtitles: Hebrew
Extras: Deleted Scenes, Interviews With Stars Asher Tzarfati And Shmuel Wolf, Asher Tzarfati - An Israeli Actor In Israel, Interview With Production Manager Moshe Berman, Interview With Singer/Co-Star Susan Devore, Channel 10 Tel Avi News Segment, A Cult Is Born, 16mm Screen Tests, Be Careful Children 16mm Short Film, Extended Cut (DVD), Trailers, Still Galleries, Filmographies/Bios, DVD Copy
Easter Egg: No
Feature Details
Director: Amos Sefer
Cast: Asher Tzarfati, Shmuel Wolf, Lilli Avidan, Tsilla Karny
Genre: Comedy and Drama
Length: 93 minutes
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On Wednesday, KTAR's Mac and Gaydos spoke with Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton on the issues of gun control and Sheriff Joe Arpaio's posses.
Arpaio wishes to put armed posses outside of local schools and plans to host a training event with actor Steven Seagal this weekend to prepare and educate interested volunteers.
"The idea that you have armed posses outside of schools is not something that I support," Stanton stressed. "But, I do support more attempt to get resource officers in schools not just from a safety perspective but also because the incredible benefit that those resource officers provide to children in terms of education and in terms of a trusting relationship."
While Arpaio favors more protection in and around schools, Stanton stated that he had a much different concern regarding the national gun crisis.
"We can't just do nothing, but we've got to be smart about it," said Stanton. "In my opinion, being smart about it involves not a single approach or a one-size-fits-all one things gonna solve the worlds problems we have to be smart about it and that why a more com approach which includes by the way one of the most difficult issues our so has to approach how do we better manage the mental health system."
Although Stanton admitted that fixing the mental health care system won't be an easy task, he remains a firm believer that it's a necessary action when dealing with the country's gun issue.