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Is Racing In China Right Or Wrong?
When INDYCAR officials announced last week that China would host an IZOD IndyCar Series race in 2012, many groans were heard from all corners of the IndyCar community. Regular and long-time poster "Bent Wickerbill", who I had the pleasure of meeting at Barber and Indianapolis last year, posted his displeasure with the race in the comments section here last Friday. On many fronts, I'm inclined to agree with him – but I'll probably disappoint a few of you by saying that overall, I don't really have a problem with it.
On one hand, I was glad to see the string of races at Twin Ring Motegi come to an end. Even when CART raced there, I always found it to be a boring race at a remote location that was very hard to get to – even if you lived in Japan. The fact that the series went to the trouble to load up two 747's with cars, tires, tools and parts and fly everything halfway across the globe and using three weekends in the calendar for one race seemed just a little absurd – especially when we got the privilege of tuning in close to midnight to see a dull race.
When the series announced last year that 2011 would be the last visit to Motegi, my initial reaction was "Thank God!" Then, when they announced that earthquake damage would force the race to be run on the road course at Motegi, I was none too happy (as most of you know). The race turned out to be a dud and would have been completely forgettable had it not been for Helio's outburst at Brian Barnhart afterward.
I guess that's why everyone assumed I would be staunchly against another race in Asia. To paraphrase AJ Foyt; that's really not quite true.
Let's get two things straight right now. I know very little about the Chinese economy and even less about Chinese geography. Just so you'll know; when I say that this race will take place in Qingdao, which is located in the Shandong province – you may rest assured that I got that from the press release. Prior to the announcement, I had never heard of Qingdao nor did I have any idea where Shandong was located.
I will also not be pretentious and spout off a bunch of boring facts and figures to explain why the Chinese economy is flourishing – but I know that it is. Apparently, INDYCAR held a sponsorship summit last year and from what they learned, China was the No.1 desired destination outside the United States for current sponsors.
I have nothing to back this up, other than I've heard this from more than one source – but word has it that that the IZOD IndyCar Series stands to make a ton of money by running this race. For a series that has bled millions over the years and finally has some discerning eyes paying attention to the bottom line – this seems like the proverbial no-brainer. If this alleviates a lot or most of the red ink for 2012, then I'm all for it.
Financially, the series has to do something to make up for mostly empty grandstands in the U.S. With Chevy and (presumably) Lotus joining Honda in the series next season, the stakes are getting higher. Those two new partners will bring more promotional dollars along with what the series currently enjoys from IZOD, but for the long-term – the series cannot keep losing the money it has really since its inception in 1996.
Tony George kept propping up the series and its teams for years until his siblings decided they had seen enough of their fortune dwindling away. Since his ouster in 2009, it has been up to Jeff Belskus and Randy Bernard to make prudent decisions regarding IMS and INDYCAR. That means doing whatever it takes to eventually get the series into the black. If that means taking the series around the globe for a large sum, then so be it. The series is beyond the point of trying to satisfy only the taste of the racing purist. That mentality helped get them where they are today. Some will say the series has become a prostitute going to the highest bidder. Again I say – so be it.
This race will take place on a 3.87 mile street circuit, which is a little long for any road course – especially a street course. If there are any slow-speed hairpins, it could take quite a while to get around just once. Road America is 4.0 miles and it is considered fairly high speed. When CART ran the majestic course at Elkhart Lake, their races were generally fifty laps and they started pitting around Lap 18. Have a flat tire shortly after passing the pits and you're done. I imagine the same will apply in China.
Does this mean I've changed my tune on ovals? No, not in the least. I desperately want more than four ovals on the 2012 schedule. I don't want to have to wait a few years. I want as many as possible, but at least six. I keep holding out hope that the reason for the delay of announcing the schedule is that Randy Bernard is doing his best to strike a few more deals with places like Kentucky, Phoenix and Chicago. It sounds more and more like Las Vegas may be a street race next year, so that only leaves Indianapolis, Texas, Iowa and Fontana for next season. If running a race in China gives INDYCAR the financial freedom to bargain with domestic oval tracks – well, that's fine with me.
I'm not in favor of the same issues that were dealt with by going to Japan, which includes crossing the globe and racing across the international dateline, giving us a race at God knows what hour. Plus, three weekends will be used for this one race – pretty much eating up the entire month of August, when the points battle is really heating up just before football takes over. I would prefer this race take place in the spring when we're happy to see any type of racing, but what do I know?
But one thing I do know is that I trust the judgment of Randy Bernard. At the risk of sounding like a Randy Bernard apologist, he has given me no reason to think he doesn't know what he's doing. Although the stands looked empty at Las Vegas, my understanding is that he sold practically all of the corporate suites at Vegas and the race actually turned a profit. After what happened, no one was really in the mood to examine the balance sheet of Las Vegas, but the event was a financial success.
Unless he starts making a series of inexplicable, boneheaded decisions – I will continue to trust the job that Randy Bernard has done for this series. I've said it before and I'll say it again – I shudder to think where this series would be with the previous administration still running things. He has made huge strides in the two seasons he has been on board. I fully believe he will have things on much better footing and even more momentum than the series had just before Las Vegas, after three more years at the helm. Oh, and for the record – I don't always agree with everything Randy Bernard has done.
But I do agree with this move to race in China. If it will bring money to the series, let's get Firestone to develop a snow tire and run in Alaska. The race may be a bust – both aesthetically and financially – but at least the powers that be are trying something different. If it doesn't work, stop going – but give it a shot. If you keep doing the same thing, you're standing still. In racing, standing still is never a good thing.
George Phillips
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All good points George, from a purely business perspective I am all for it. However, for a variety of personal / viseral reasons (political, fiscal and human rights wise) that I need not go into, this decision does not pass the smell test.
I enjoy open wheel racing, F1 included, but, this idea is falling in line with several races held by F1 in both the far and middle east and this one too grabs me by my gag reflex….
I agree with you completely. I can't understand why F1 holds 3 races in the Middle East (where 90% of the spectators, other than the oil sheiks, look very European) where there is little or no racing interest, no history, and no drivers. Ditto for China. Below-average GP2 driver Ho-Pin Tung will only be a token for the IndyCar race. I hate the idea of our series racing in a communist country, but I might be OK with it if we (IndyCar) profit off the Marxists.
I don't have a serious problem with a race in China, especially since the course at least sounds it could be interesting.
Still, it seems a bit silly to give the time difference and the three week layoff as reasons for dropping the Motegi race only to schedule another event that faces the same problems. Of course, I also thought it was a bit silly to change the IndyCar logo to include a roll hoop and move the mirrors to the sidepods only to adopt a new car that has neither of those features.
I don't have a problem with INDYCAR staging a race in China at all. For those who have a problem with China's human rights and political stances, remember some of the philosophies that THIS country has held in the past. Let he who is without sin cast the first stone.
Second, China is a growing economy and one of the world's most populous nations. As long as the sponsors want to be there, I have no issue with that. Third, they want to host an INDYCAR race. For those who complain about the lack of ovals, perhaps you might want to address your issues to those who can actually do something about it.
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This link above is just the human right stuff, I was going to get into the whole corporate espionage, stolen patented designs etc., these mooks have reverse engineered every machine, computer and piece of software in the free world and continue to threaten Taiwan at every opportunity. We have a huge trade deficit with them and they hold a huge amount of our national debt. They, the politburo (commies to you) running that country also have a fine record of industrial "accidents" and nothing but the cleanest air and water (see Bejing for the last Olympics)… Yeah, hey what the heck, why not take the whole family there for a few weeks of racing fun…. While your there try doing a little proselytizing for your favorite theological bent and see where that lands you and the fam… BTW, I happen to think that the Chinese people are perhaps some of the hardest working, toughest most enduring peoples in the world. It's just a shame that inasmuch as they have finally broken free to a certain degree economically, their central govt. still holds a mighty tight rein on it's people and their personal freedoms…
The arrangements to "share" technology with the Chinese "partners" the auto companies are forced to make to sell cars in China is risky.
BTW does anyone think the teams would have confidence in any chassis or assemblies Made in China. Not yet, not even close.
You gotta be Randy Benards brother in law or something. What a butt kisser. Racing in China is a big snowjob their making us all swallow and oil pressure just sings right along like a good little sheep.
Actually I believe calling George a butt-kisser is way out of line. I hope you were joking, but if in fact you were not, I actually was sitting right there when George interviewed RB last spring and I saw nothing but cordial respect between the two. If treating people as respected professionals is butt-kissing, well there was a lot of that going on. RB is a very earnest person who wants to see (and will do anything in his power) to see IndyCar succeed. I think it is high time IndyCar had someone in their corner like him.
As to China: China has a very vibrant economy. The company I work for does a lot of business in China. It is not the sweat-shop-leaden culture that the media portrays it to be. People there actually can CHOOSE where they want to work. In fact, many of the workers in the US could take lessons from China in work ethic, as the Chinese I have worked with are a very hard-working group of people.
More proof Indycar wants to be F1 Lite, and here is some more international flavor.
The races should be reserved for North America. Outside of that area does nothing for generating fans in the one country that matters.
The wreck of CART III is just a matter of time now.
First, where is Roy Hobbson to make the obligatory shanDONG joke? He probably would have tied it in with Chip Ganassi and the Deltawang. [weeping gently]
Anyway, the old saying goes that racing cars run on money. George, I think that you are right in saying that racing series run on money too. If going to China brings in a giant check and it makes sponsors (and their big checks) happy, then I'm for it. In particular I'm for it if those big checks turn into races at good oval venues 2012 or 2013. I suspect that's what RB is hoping for.
If it helps the bottom line of the series and allows us to be able to make tracks such as Phoenix work, I'm for it. That said, I think a handful of races outside NA each year are ok—if it comes to dominate the schedule, that's an issue. I don't like the virtual gap it creates in the schedule, but that's about it.
I see this race as a winner. Why not international and as much as the sponsers want to be there I would think they have some buisness interests that would like to be here. Good
It's not like the series doesn't have the room on the calendar. I like it.
如果您来到中国我把您带到省的最佳的中国餐馆。 地道,也是!
I love it as long as the track makes for a good race. I have been unable to locate a map of the track layout. Just dont ler Hermann Tilke near the project. I love a having a reace in a new country, but then I am the guy who would love an NFL team and the Super Bowl in London. Yay diversity!
I get the China thing, other than the fact that it will televised at odd hours. Can't they at least time it so it's on Sunday morning like F1 or something?
But if they're racing in China, why not stay at Motegi while they're over there? I mean, the Japanese audience is very enthusiastic about Indycar, don't they have an economy too? And Honda?
The Japanese love the heck out of racing; while Motegi really bored me as a race, I'm actually sorry to be leaving that market due to the fact that it'll be letting down an awfully enthusiastic fanbase. I wish there was some way to not let them down.
But I held that wish about the Australia race too, and for the same reasons. When there's nothing to be done about a cancellation, what can you do?
"That means doing whatever it takes to eventually get the series into the black. If that means taking the series around the globe for a large sum, then so be it. The series is beyond the point of trying to satisfy only the taste of the racing purist. That mentality helped get them where they are today."
Amen! That's something that just needs to be said. And it's something that too many "purists" are ignoring.


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Now two new keyboards are on the way, the Das Keyboard Ultimate and Professional. Both feature the same revamped design, but Professional has one big difference to it: character markings. They keyboard still uses the gold-plated, mechanical Cherry key switches featured on the DK II but now also has a two-port USB hub built into the right side.
Overall the Ultimate and Professional (tested) have a sleeky, cleaner look than the older models, which very much resembled the utilitarian keyboards from Keytronic and then Cherry. The new Das models are hefty, quite solid, feature a glossy coating surround the keys, and have blue LED status indicators. A Das Keyboard logo is printed above the USB 2.0 hub on the top-left of the keyboard. The keyboard is tiltable but has no further ergonomic concessions and it is not backlit.
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The typing experience begins as soon as you remove the Das from its box. This when you will notice how heavy the keyboard is, which, along with extra larger rubber feet, gives it serious stability on your desktop. The keyboard itself is not particularly large compared to many of today's media keyboards, though it does have a full number pad. Once you make the USB connection the keyboard is setup and ready to go.
I opted to test the Professional over the blank Ultimate. In the past I have liked using the Das Keyboards but the novelty of blank keys has quickly worn off and ended up returning to non-blank keyboards because they can be a hassle to use if you are constantly interrupting your typing (plus I tend to use ergonomic keyboards when working). I may lose geek street-cred for not going with the Ultimate, but it is still easy to type quickly on the Professional, thanks to a standard layout and well-spaced keys. The action of the keys feels very similar to that on the Das Keyboard II, which is to say the key stroke is clearly a mechanical one, with a obvious click point and a fast, loud action. It is the sort of satisfying experience of typical on an old mechanical keyboard, though the keys have a very light action to them, so very little downward force is required. This may turn off some potential buyers, but it makes for an easier experience with long stretches of typing.
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Calgary DJ/Music Producer Soulier To Perform At Changsha Strawberry Music FestivalOpportunity to play at the Strawberry Festival inspires new EP from artist
This is a story about an amazing opportunity falling out of the sky, and the potential for great things to happen to ordinary people. Upcoming DJ, music producer, and city planner Ryan Hall (known as Soulier in the music world), unexpectedly landed an opportunity in China. On July 5th 2014, Soulier will be performing in front of music lovers on the Electronic Dance Music stage at the popular Strawberry Music Festival In Changsha, Hunan Province in mainland China.
"This is the most random (and biggest) performance opportunity I have ever had in my life! The opportunity just fell out of the sky." Ryan explains how it happened: "I was contacted on Weibo (a Chinese version of social networking similar to Twitter) by a festival organizer who works with a Chinese record company. He asked if I like strawberries and Changsha. I replied, 'sure, I love strawberries and Changsha!' Evidently, there were some minor translation problems while talking to the event organizer online."
Through their correspondence, Ryan quickly learned that his contact was actually referring to the Strawberry Music Festival, which is fast becoming China's most popular outdoor music event of the summer, featuring artists from mainland China and beyond. Their Beijing festival attracts 20,000 people a day. "We just finalized the details, and tickets are booked. I have to keep pinching myself to make sure this isn't a dream - it is actually going to happen. I'm totally blown away that this opportunity has presented itself."
"Calgary has an amazing electronic music scene, and I am honoured to be representing Canada, and Calgary at this festival to show them what Calgary has to offer!".
Ryan wishes his sister and father could be alive to see this coming together. "After they were gone, I just gave up. For years. No music. Depression. It was awful. Then, over and over again, I remembered how my sister told me to keep doing it [music]. I did. Then, my brother found love in China. Then the strawberry festival happened".
Ryan's sister-in-law, from mainland China, will accompany him on the journey to Changsha.
"This experience is proof that opportunities are limitless. Anything can happen if you put yourself out there," says Ryan.
Since getting the festival date, a community made up of friends and family are coming together in support of his show in China.
Ryan announced a new EP called China Life on May 28th 2014, at Habitat Living Sound in Calgary, Canada. The EP was inspired by the opportunity to perform in Changsha, and showcases Soulier's music, and other Calgary electronic artists.
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But the Greeks had not time to rejoice in the death of their enemies; and the Turkish cimeter was wielded with the same spirit by Amurath the First, the son of Orchan, and the brother of Soliman. By the pale and fainting light of the Byzantine annals, 52 we can discern, that he subdued without resistance the whole province of Romania or Thrace, from the Hellespont to Mount Haemus, and the verge of the capital; and that Adrianople was chosen for the royal seat of his government and religion in Europe. Constantinople, whose decline is almost coeval with her foundation, had often, in the lapse of a thousand years, been assaulted by the Barbarians of the East and West; but never till this fatal hour had the Greeks been surrounded, both in Asia and Europe, by the arms of the same hostile monarchy. Yet the prudence or generosity of Amurath postponed for a while this easy conquest; and his pride was satisfied with the frequent and humble attendance of the emperor John Palaeologus and his four sons, who followed at his summons the court and camp of the Ottoman prince. He marched against the Sclavonian nations between the Danube and the Adriatic, the Bulgarians, Servians, Bosnians, and Albanians; and these warlike tribes, who had so often insulted the majesty of the empire, were repeatedly broken by his destructive inroads. Their countries did not abound either in gold or silver; nor were their rustic hamlets and townships enriched by commerce or decorated by the arts of luxury. But the natives of the soil have been distinguished in every age by their hardiness of mind and body; and they were converted by a prudent institution into the firmest and most faithful supporters of the Ottoman greatness. 53 The vizier of Amurath reminded his sovereign that, according to the Mahometan law, he was entitled to a fifth part of the spoil and captives; and that the duty might easily be levied, if vigilant officers were stationed in Gallipoli, to watch the passage, and to select for his use the stoutest and most beautiful of the Christian youth. The advice was followed: the edict was proclaimed; many thousands of the European captives were educated in religion and arms; and the new militia was consecrated and named by a celebrated dervis. Standing in the front of their ranks, he stretched the sleeve of his gown over the head of the foremost soldier, and his blessing was delivered in these words: "Let them be called Janizaries, (Yengi cheri, or new soldiers;) may their countenance be ever bright! their hand victorious! their sword keen! may their spear always hang over the heads of their enemies! and wheresoever they go, may they return with a white face!" 54 *_0038 Such was the origin of these haughty troops, the terror of the nations, and sometimes of the sultans themselves. Their valor has declined, their discipline is relaxed, and their tumultuary array is incapable of contending with the order and weapons of modern tactics; but at the time of their institution, they possessed a decisive superiority in war; since a regular body of infantry, in constant exercise and pay, was not maintained by any of the princes of Christendom. The Janizaries fought with the zeal of proselytes against their idolatrous countrymen; and in the battle of Cossova, the league and independence of the Sclavonian tribes was finally crushed. As the conqueror walked over the field, he observed that the greatest part of the slain consisted of beardless youths; and listened to the flattering reply of his vizier, that age and wisdom would have taught them not to oppose his irresistible arms. But the sword of his Janizaries could not defend him from the dagger of despair; a Servian soldier started from the crowd of dead bodies, and Amurath was pierced in the belly with a mortal wound. **_0038 The grandson of Othman was mild in his temper, modest in his apparel, and a lover of learning and virtue; but the Moslems were scandalized at his absence from public worship; and he was corrected by the firmness of the mufti, who dared to reject his testimony in a civil cause: a mixture of servitude and freedom not unfrequent in Oriental history. 55
The character of Bajazet, the son and successor of Amurath, is strongly expressed in his surname of Ilderim, or the lightning; and he might glory in an epithet, which was drawn from the fiery energy of his soul and the rapidity of his destructive march. In the fourteen years of his reign, 56 he incessantly moved at the head of his armies, from Boursa to Adrianople, from the Danube to the Euphrates; and, though he strenuously labored for the propagation of the law, he invaded, with impartial ambition, the Christian and Mahometan princes of Europe and Asia. From Angora to Amasia and Erzeroum, the northern regions of Anatolia were reduced to his obedience: he stripped of their hereditary possessions his brother emirs of Ghermian and Caramania, of Aidin and Sarukhan; and after the conquest of Iconium the ancient kingdom of the Seljukians again revived in the Ottoman dynasty. Nor were the conquests of Bajazet less rapid or important in Europe. No sooner had he imposed a regular form of servitude on the Servians and Bulgarians, than he passed the Danube to seek new enemies and new subjects in the heart of Moldavia. 57 Whatever yet adhered to the Greek empire in Thrace, Macedonia, and Thessaly, acknowledged a Turkish master: an obsequious bishop led him through the gates of Thermopylae into Greece; and we may observe, as a singular fact, that the widow of a Spanish chief, who possessed the ancient seat of the oracle of Delphi, deserved his favor by the sacrifice of a beauteous daughter. The Turkish communication between Europe and Asia had been dangerous and doubtful, till he stationed at Gallipoli a fleet of galleys, to command the Hellespont and intercept the Latin succors of Constantinople. While the monarch indulged his passions in a boundless range of injustice and cruelty, he imposed on his soldiers the most rigid laws of modesty and abstinence; and the harvest was peaceably reaped and sold within the precincts of his camp. Provoked by the loose and corrupt administration of justice, he collected in a house the judges and lawyers of his dominions, who expected that in a few moments the fire would be kindled to reduce them to ashes. His ministers trembled in silence: but an Aethiopian buffoon presumed to insinuate the true cause of the evil; and future venality was left without excuse, by annexing an adequate salary to the office of cadhi. 58 The humble title of emir was no longer suitable to the Ottoman greatness; and Bajazet condescended to accept a patent of sultan from the caliphs who served in Egypt under the yoke of the Mamalukes: 59 a last and frivolous homage that was yielded by force to opinion; by the Turkish conquerors to the house of Abbas and the successors of the Arabian prophet. The ambition of the sultan was inflamed by the obligation of deserving this august title; and he turned his arms against the kingdom of Hungary, the perpetual theatre of the Turkish victories and defeats. Sigismond, the Hungarian king, was the son and brother of the emperors of the West: his cause was that of Europe and the church; and, on the report of his danger, the bravest knights of France and Germany were eager to march under his standard and that of the cross. In the battle of Nicopolis, Bajazet defeated a confederate army of a hundred thousand Christians, who had proudly boasted, that if the sky should fall, they could uphold it on their lances. The far greater part were slain or driven into the Danube; and Sigismond, escaping to Constantinople by the river and the Black Sea, returned after a long circuit to his exhausted kingdom. 60 In the pride of victory, Bajazet threatened that he would besiege Buda; that he would subdue the adjacent countries of Germany and Italy, and that he would feed his horse with a bushel of oats on the altar of St. Peter at Rome. His progress was checked, not by the miraculous interposition of the apostle, not by a crusade of the Christian powers, but by a long and painful fit of the gout. The disorders of the moral, are sometimes corrected by those of the physical, world; and an acrimonious humor falling on a single fibre of one man, may prevent or suspend the misery of nations.
Such is the general idea of the Hungarian war; but the disastrous adventure of the French has procured us some memorials which illustrate the victory and character of Bajazet. 61 The duke of Burgundy, sovereign of Flanders, and uncle of Charles the Sixth, yielded to the ardor of his son, John count of Nevers; and the fearless youth was accompanied by four princes, his cousins, and those of the French monarch. Their inexperience was guided by the Sire de Coucy, one of the best and oldest captain of Christendom; 62 but the constable, admiral, and marshal of France 63 commanded an army which did not exceed the number of a thousand knights and squires. *_0039 These splendid names were the source of presumption and the bane of discipline. So many might aspire to command, that none were willing to obey; their national spirit despised both their enemies and their allies; and in the persuasion that Bajazet would fly, or must fall, they began to compute how soon they should visit Constantinople and deliver the holy sepulchre. When their scouts announced the approach of the Turks, the gay and thoughtless youths were at table, already heated with wine; they instantly clasped their armor, mounted their horses, rode full speed to the vanguard, and resented as an affront the advice of Sigismond, which would have deprived them of the right and honor of the foremost attack. The battle of Nicopolis would not have been lost, if the French would have obeyed the prudence of the Hungarians; but it might have been gloriously won, had the Hungarians imitated the valor of the French. They dispersed the first line, consisting of the troops of Asia; forced a rampart of stakes, which had been planted against the cavalry; broke, after a bloody conflict, the Janizaries themselves; and were at length overwhelmed by the numerous squadrons that issued from the woods, and charged on all sides this handful of intrepid warriors. In the speed and secrecy of his march, in the order and evolutions of the battle, his enemies felt and admired the military talents of Bajazet. They accuse his cruelty in the use of victory. After reserving the count of Nevers, and four-and-twenty lords, **_0039 whose birth and riches were attested by his Latin interpreters, the remainder of the French captives, who had survived the slaughter of the day, were led before his throne; and, as they refused to abjure their faith, were successively beheaded in his presence. The sultan was exasperated by the loss of his bravest Janizaries; and if it be true, that, on the eve of the engagement, the French had massacred their Turkish prisoners, 64 they might impute to themselves the consequences of a just retaliation. !_0039 A knight, whose life had been spared, was permitted to return to Paris, that he might relate the deplorable tale, and solicit the ransom of the noble captives. In the mean while, the count of Nevers, with the princes and barons of France, were dragged along in the marches of the Turkish camp, exposed as a grateful trophy to the Moslems of Europe and Asia, and strictly confined at Boursa, as often as Bajazet resided in his capital. The sultan was pressed each day to expiate with their blood the blood of his martyrs; but he had pronounced that they should live, and either for mercy or destruction his word was irrevocable. He was assured of their value and importance by the return of the messenger, and the gifts and intercessions of the kings of France and of Cyprus. Lusignan presented him with a gold saltcellar of curious workmanship, and of the price of ten thousand ducats; and Charles the Sixth despatched by the way of Hungary a cast of Norwegian hawks, and six horse-loads of scarlet cloth, of fine linen of Rheims, and of Arras tapestry, representing the battles of the great Alexander. After much delay, the effect of distance rather than of art, Bajazet agreed to accept a ransom of two hundred thousand ducats for the count of Nevers and the surviving princes and barons: the marshal Boucicault, a famous warrior, was of the number of the fortunate; but the admiral of France had been slain in battle; and the constable, with the Sire de Coucy, died in the prison of Boursa. This heavy demand, which was doubled by incidental costs, fell chiefly on the duke of Burgundy, or rather on his Flemish subjects, who were bound by the feudal laws to contribute for the knighthood and captivity of the eldest son of their lord. For the faithful discharge of the debt, some merchants of Genoa gave security to the amount of five times the sum; a lesson to those warlike times, that commerce and credit are the links of the society of nations. It had been stipulated in the treaty, that the French captives should swear never to bear arms against the person of their conqueror; but the ungenerous restraint was abolished by Bajazet himself. "I despise," said he to the heir of Burgundy, "thy oaths and thy arms. Thou art young, and mayest be ambitious of effacing the disgrace or misfortune of thy first chivalry. Assemble thy powers, proclaim thy design, and be assured that Bajazet will rejoice to meet thee a second time in a field of battle." Before their departure, they were indulged in the freedom and hospitality of the court of Boursa. The French princes admired the magnificence of the Ottoman, whose hunting and hawking equipage was composed of seven thousand huntsmen and seven thousand falconers. 65 In their presence, and at his command, the belly of one of his chamberlains was cut open, on a complaint against him for drinking the goat's milk of a poor woman. The strangers were astonished by this act of justice; but it was the justice of a sultan who disdains to balance the weight of evidence, or to measure the degrees of guilt.
After his enfranchisement from an oppressive guardian, John Palaeologus remained thirty-six years, the helpless, and, as it should seem, the careless spectator of the public ruin. 66 Love, or rather lust, was his only vigorous passion; and in the embraces of the wives and virgins of the city, the Turkish slave forgot the dishonor of the emperor of the Romans Andronicus, his eldest son, had formed, at Adrianople, an intimate and guilty friendship with Sauzes, the son of Amurath; and the two youths conspired against the authority and lives of their parents. The presence of Amurath in Europe soon discovered and dissipated their rash counsels; and, after depriving Sauzes of his sight, the Ottoman threatened his vassal with the treatment of an accomplice and an enemy, unless he inflicted a similar punishment on his own son. Palaeologus trembled and obeyed; and a cruel precaution involved in the same sentence the childhood and innocence of John, the son of the criminal. But the operation was so mildly, or so unskilfully, performed, that the one retained the sight of an eye, and the other was afflicted only with the infirmity of squinting. Thus excluded from the succession, the two princes were confined in the tower of Anema; and the piety of Manuel, the second son of the reigning monarch, was rewarded with the gift of the Imperial crown. But at the end of two years, the turbulence of the Latins and the levity of the Greeks, produced a revolution; *_0040 and the two emperors were buried in the tower from whence the two prisoners were exalted to the throne. Another period of two years afforded Palaeologus and Manuel the means of escape: it was contrived by the magic or subtlety of a monk, who was alternately named the angel or the devil: they fled to Scutari; their adherents armed in their cause; and the two Byzantine factions displayed the ambition and animosity with which Caesar and Pompey had disputed the empire of the world. The Roman world was now contracted to a corner of Thrace, between the Propontis and the Black Sea, about fifty miles in length and thirty in breadth; a space of ground not more extensive than the lesser principalities of Germany or Italy, if the remains of Constantinople had not still represented the wealth and populousness of a kingdom. To restore the public peace, it was found necessary to divide this fragment of the empire; and while Palaeologus and Manuel were left in possession of the capital, almost all that lay without the walls was ceded to the blind princes, who fixed their residence at Rhodosto and Selybria. In the tranquil slumber of royalty, the passions of John Palaeologus survived his reason and his strength: he deprived his favorite and heir of a blooming princess of Trebizond; and while the feeble emperor labored to consummate his nuptials, Manuel, with a hundred of the noblest Greeks, was sent on a peremptory summons to the Ottoman porte. They served with honor in the wars of Bajazet; but a plan of fortifying Constantinople excited his jealousy: he threatened their lives; the new works were instantly demolished; and we shall bestow a praise, perhaps above the merit of Palaeologus, if we impute this last humiliation as the cause of his death.
The earliest intelligence of that event was communicated to Manuel, who escaped with speed and secrecy from the palace of Boursa to the Byzantine throne. Bajazet affected a proud indifference at the loss of this valuable pledge; and while he pursued his conquests in Europe and Asia, he left the emperor to struggle with his blind cousin John of Selybria, who, in eight years of civil war, asserted his right of primogeniture. At length, the ambition of the victorious sultan pointed to the conquest of Constantinople; but he listened to the advice of his vizier, who represented that such an enterprise might unite the powers of Christendom in a second and more formidable crusade. His epistle to the emperor was conceived in these words: "By the divine clemency, our invincible cimeter has reduced to our obedience almost all Asia, with many and large countries in Europe, excepting only the city of Constantinople; for beyond the walls thou hast nothing left. Resign that city; stipulate thy reward; or tremble, for thyself and thy unhappy people, at the consequences of a rash refusal." But his ambassadors were instructed to soften their tone, and to propose a treaty, which was subscribed with submission and gratitude. A truce of ten years was purchased by an annual tribute of thirty thousand crowns of gold; the Greeks deplored the public toleration of the law of Mahomet, and Bajazet enjoyed the glory of establishing a Turkish cadhi, and founding a royal mosque in the metropolis of the Eastern church. 67 Yet this truce was soon violated by the restless sultan: in the cause of the prince of Selybria, the lawful emperor, an army of Ottomans again threatened Constantinople; and the distress of Manuel implored the protection of the king of France. His plaintive embassy obtained much pity and some relief; and the conduct of the succor was intrusted to the marshal Boucicault, 68 whose religious chivalry was inflamed by the desire of revenging his captivity on the infidels. He sailed with four ships of war, from Aiguesmortes to the Hellespont; forced the passage, which was guarded by seventeen Turkish galleys; landed at Constantinople a supply of six hundred men-at-arms and sixteen hundred archers; and reviewed them in the adjacent plain, without condescending to number or array the multitude of Greeks. By his presence, the blockade was raised both by sea and land; the flying squadrons of Bajazet were driven to a more respectful distance; and several castles in Europe and Asia were stormed by the emperor and the marshal, who fought with equal valor by each other's side. But the Ottomans soon returned with an increase of numbers; and the intrepid Boucicault, after a year's struggle, resolved to evacuate a country which could no longer afford either pay or provisions for his soldiers. The marshal offered to conduct Manuel to the French court, where he might solicit in person a supply of men and money; and advised, in the mean while, that, to extinguish all domestic discord, he should leave his blind competitor on the throne. The proposal was embraced: the prince of Selybria was introduced to the capital; and such was the public misery, that the lot of the exile seemed more fortunate than that of the sovereign. Instead of applauding the success of his vassal, the Turkish sultan claimed the city as his own; and on the refusal of the emperor John, Constantinople was more closely pressed by the calamities of war and famine. Against such an enemy prayers and resistance were alike unavailing; and the savage would have devoured his prey, if, in the fatal moment, he had not been overthrown by another savage stronger than himself. By the victory of Timour or Tamerlane, the fall of Constantinople was delayed about fifty years; and this important, though accidental, service may justly introduce the life and character of the Mogul conqueror.
52 After the conclusion of Cantacuzene and Gregoras, there follows a dark interval of a hundred years. George Phranza, Michael Ducas, and Laonicus Chalcondyles, all three wrote after the taking of Constantinople.
53 See Cantemir, p. 37 - 41, with his own large and curious annotations.
54 White and black face are common and proverbial expressions of praise and reproach in the Turkish language. Hic niger est, hunc tu Romane caveto, was likewise a Latin sentence.
*_0038 According to Von Hammer. vol. i. p. 90, Gibbon and the European writers assign too late a date to this enrolment of the Janizaries. It took place not in the reign of Amurath, but in that of his predecessor Orchan. - M.
**_0038 Ducas has related this as a deliberate act of self-devotion on the part of a Servian noble who pretended to desert, and stabbed Amurath during a conference which he had requested. The Italian translator of Ducas, published by Bekker in the new edition of the Byzantines, has still further heightened the romance. See likewise in Von Hammer (Osmanische Geschichte, vol. i. p. 138) the popular Servian account, which resembles that of Ducas, and may have been the source of that of his Italian translator. The Turkish account agrees more nearly with Gibbon; but the Servian, (Milosch Kohilovisch) while he lay among the heap of the dead, pretended to have some secret to impart to Amurath, and stabbed him while he leaned over to listen. - M.
55 See the life and death of Morad, or Amurath I., in Cantemir, (p 33 - 45,) the first book of Chalcondyles, and the Annales Turcici of Leunclavius. According to another story, the sultan was stabbed by a Croat in his tent; and this accident was alleged to Busbequius (Epist i. p. 98) as an excuse for the unworthy precaution of pinioning, as if were, between two attendants, an ambassador's arms, when he is introduced to the royal presence.
56 The reign of Bajazet I., or Ilderim Bayazid, is contained in Cantemir, (p. 46,) the iid book of Chalcondyles, and the Annales Turcici. The surname of Ilderim, or lightning, is an example, that the conquerors and poets of every age have felt the truth of a system which derives the sublime from the principle of terror.
57 Cantemir, who celebrates the victories of the great Stephen over the Turks, (p. 47,) had composed the ancient and modern state of his principality of Moldavia, which has been long promised, and is still unpublished.
58 Leunclav. Annal. Turcici, p. 318, 319. The venality of the cadhis has long been an object of scandal and satire; and if we distrust the observations of our travellers, we may consult the feeling of the Turks themselves, (D'Herbelot, Bibliot. Orientale, p. 216, 217, 229, 230.)
59 The fact, which is attested by the Arabic history of Ben Schounah, a contemporary Syrian, (De Guignes Hist. des Huns. tom. iv. p. 336.) destroys the testimony of Saad Effendi and Cantemir, (p. 14, 15,) of the election of Othman to the dignity of sultan.
60 See the Decades Rerum Hungaricarum (Dec. iii. l. ii. p. 379) of Bonfinius, an Italian, who, in the xvth century, was invited into Hungary to compose an eloquent history of that kingdom. Yet, if it be extant and accessible, I should give the preference to some homely chronicle of the time and country.
61 I should not complain of the labor of this work, if my materials were always derived from such books as the chronicle of honest Froissard, (vol. iv. c. 67, 72, 74, 79-83, 85, 87, 89,) who read little, inquired much, and believed all. The original Memoires of the Marechal de Boucicault (Partie i. c. 22-28) add some facts, but they are dry and deficient, if compared with the pleasant garrulity of Froissard.
62 An accurate Memoir on the Life of Enguerrand VII., Sire de Coucy, has been given by the Baron de Zurlauben, (Hist. de l'Academie des Inscriptions, tom. xxv.) His rank and possessions were equally considerable in France and England; and, in 1375, he led an army of adventurers into Switzerland, to recover a large patrimony which he claimed in right of his grandmother, the daughter of the emperor Albert I. of Austria, (Sinner, Voyage dans la Suisse Occidentale, tom. i. p. 118-124.)
63 That military office, so respectable at present, was still more conspicuous when it was divided between two persons, (Daniel, Hist. de la Milice Francoise, tom. ii. p. 5.) One of these, the marshal of the crusade, was the famous Boucicault, who afterwards defended Constantinople, governed Genoa, invaded the coast of Asia, and died in the field of Azincour.
*_0039 Daru, Hist. de Venice, vol. ii. p. 104, makes the whole French army amount to 10,000 men, of whom 1000 were knights. The curious volume of Schiltberger, a German of Munich, who was taken prisoner in the battle, (edit. Munich, 1813,) and which V. Hammer receives as authentic, gives the whole number at 6000. See Schiltberger. Reise in dem Orient. and V. Hammer, note, p. 610. - M.
**_0039 According to Shiltberger there were only twelve French lords granted to the prayer of the "duke of Burgundy," and "Herr Stephan Synther, and Johann von Bodem." Schiltberger, p. 13. - M.
64 For this odious fact, the Abbe de Vertot quotes the Hist. Anonyme de St. Denys, l. xvi. c. 10, 11. (Ordre de Malthe, tom. ii. p. 310.
!_0039 See Schiltberger's very graphic account of the massacre. He was led out to be slaughtered in cold blood with the rest f the Christian prisoners, amounting to 10,000. He was spared at the intercession of the son of Bajazet, with a few others, on account of their extreme youth. No one under 20 years of age was put to death. The "duke of Burgundy" was obliged to be a spectator of this butchery which lasted from early in the morning till four o'clock, P. M. It ceased only at the supplication of the leaders of Bajazet's army. Schiltberger, p. 14. - M.
65 Sherefeddin Ali (Hist. de Timour Bec, l. v. c. 13) allows Bajazet a round number of 12,000 officers and servants of the chase. A part of his spoils was afterwards displayed in a hunting-match of Timour, l. hounds with satin housings; 2. leopards with collars set with jewels; 3. Grecian greyhounds; and 4, dogs from Europe, as strong as African lions, (idem, l. vi. c. 15.) Bajazet was particularly fond of flying his hawks at cranes, (Chalcondyles, l. ii. p. 85.)
66 For the reigns of John Palaeologus and his son Manuel, from 1354 to 1402, see Ducas, c. 9 - 15, Phranza, l. i. c. 16 - 21, and the ist and iid books of Chalcondyles, whose proper subject is drowned in a sea of episode.
*_0040 According to Von Hammer it was the power of Bajazet, vol. i. p. 218.
67 Cantemir, p. 50 - 53. Of the Greeks, Ducas alone (c. 13, 15) acknowledges the Turkish cadhi at Constantinople. Yet even Ducas dissembles the mosque.
68 Memoires du bon Messire Jean le Maingre, dit Boucicault, Marechal de France, partie c. 30, 35.


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he Atlanta Constitution
March 26, 1875
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Indian Atrocities
Surrender of the Murders of the German Family-
The Story of the Survivors.
[Cheyenne (Indian Nation) Letter to N. Y. Herald.
This wild western country, uninhabited save by big strolling bands of Indians with,
here and there a government post, has never known a tragedy that equals that committed
in Central Kansas, September 11, 1874.
General Thomas Neil is the commander of the post, and in answer to a question by the
Herald correspondent as to the manner of the surrender of the Cheyenne's he said:
"Stone Calf, the chief of the Cheyenne , came into the post on February 9th, saying that
the tribe would surrender. I sent out an ambulance for the two German girls, Catherine and
Sophia and on the 25th they were brought in. They were in a terrible condition. All the garments
they wore was an old army blanket, and their face and bodies were daubed with paint.
Mr. John D. Miles, the United States Indian Agent, took them immediately to his house,
where they were dressed and properly cared for."
Catherine, the eldest is but seventeen years old, and is a young lady of neat figure and rather handsome.
From her manner it is evident that she has been well reared and that her family was well to do in the world.
Sophia fared better in here trials. She is eleven years of age, and like her sister, has dark hair ands blue eyes.
She is tall and well developed foe one of her years. Both of them were treated very horribly while with the
Indians, as their present condition shows.
Both were subjected to indescribable indignities and beastly outrages by nearly all the male Indians.
The family consisted of John German his wife, Lydia, and seven children, as follows:
Rebecca, 21; Stephen, 19, Johanna, 15, Catherine, 17; Sophia, 11; Julia, 7, and Nancy 5.
Five years ago they left Morgantown, Fannin County, Ga., and removed to Howell county, Mo.
In May, 1872 they removed to Merryville, Stone county, Mo., and in the following September
they emigrated to Elgin Howard County, Kansas, from which place they started to Colorado and
on the journey they were all with the exception of four murdered. On arriving at Smoky Hill River,
in the central part of Kansas only about fourteen miles from the Kansas Pacific Railroad, and
within thirty miles of Fort Wallace, they were attacked by the Indians.
Catherine, in an interview with a reporter of The Herald, said:
"Just as the sun was rising, and while engaged in driving the cattle up the river bank towards the wagon,
I heard shouts and yells, and running closer, saw my father fall, shot through the back by an Indian.
I was terribly frightened, but I can never forget the spectacle that there ensued.
My brother Stephen was a half mile away hunting up some stock, and he had a gun with him.
As poor father fell mother rushed toward him only to receive a shot from another Indian
who fired at her head, killing her almost instantly. My father was not killed at once, for
he moved his arms about as he was scalped by one of the party. They also scalped my mother.
An old squaw picked up our axe and struck it in my father's head, leaving it fixed in his skull.
During the time this was going on one party rode after Stephen and shot and scalped him.
My sister, Rebecca, made a brave defense with an axe; she knocked down one of the Indians,
and would have killed him if she had not been tomahawked from behind. While half insensible,
and scarcely alive the Indians (five or six of them) despoiled her person and after that scalped her.
They then carried her neat the wagon tore off her clothes, piled them over her, with some other
things from the wagon, and while she was still alive set fire to the pile ands burdened her up.
Here the broken hearted girl broke down and the reporter waited some time before she could
proceeded Amidst sobs and tears, and in broken utterances she continued as follows, occasionally assisted by Sophia:
"After all were killed but we five sisters, they gathered around us to see which one should be put out of the way,
as they said they could only take four along. One Indian, who seemed to be a chief, came up and
looked at Johanna and me, suddenly drew up his gun and shot my sister's head off. I was so
frightened that I could not stir for a long time. As soon as they got everything they wanted they
set the wagon on fire and killed the cattle; then made Sophia ands I get on horses and tied us on,
took our to little sisters up in front of them and started off as fast as the horses could go.
We traveled all day, going due south. I should judge. One squaw tried to save
Rebecca's life; but the Indian she hit with the axe said he would have her scalp, and so she was shot.
After traveling two days we crossed a railroad track. The day after we got over the railroad Medicine
Man, with a small party left, and were gone until late in the afternoon. When they came up to us they
had three fresh scalps and a number of articles of wearing apparel that must have belonged to a man,
woman and small child; also had a lot of canned fruit and oysters.
after keeping us riding nearly two weeks the main camp near the Staked Plains was reached.
Stone Calf had command and when they brought us in all the tribe turned out and had a great time.
The same night they had a big scalp dance over the scalps of our family and made us all look at it.
Two days after the main body of Indians was reached. They took sister Julia and Nancy away
from the camp and I have never seen them since.
Sophia saw them once, about December but for only a few minutes.
Al of us were one day placed on horses and after the Indian fashion made to ride as fast as
horses could go and the Indian who caught us had to take care of us for good.
Soon after this the whole body started north to get out of the way of the troops which, it was reported,
were close at hand. Stone Calf, with Sophia, was left behind with about one hundred more, and the rest
under charge of Gray Beard, Eagle Head, Heaps of Bird, and Lean Bear still kept on the north.
In about a week, while encamped on Wolf Creek, the soldiers again made the Indians run.
I did not see them, but heard the guns. All of this time I was on horseback, and a good
deal of the time very sick, had to ride all the time and at night was often whipped and
beaten because I could not carry as much wood and water as some of the squaws.
All this time I was under charge of Long Back. At times I was nearly frozen, having
nothing but a blanket to keep warm with at night. Sometimes there would be a foot
of snow on the ground, but they made me work just as hard This was about December 1st.
My feet were frozen, and the nails on my right foot all came off. In January I met sister
Sophia for a short time, and she told me we were better to be killed.
The reporter asked Catherine if she thought they would kill her, and she answered,
"No; I always thought the soldiers would release us some time, and told Sophia not to be afraid.
In the latter part of January I received a letter from General Neil, brought to the camp by a Kiowa scout,
telling me to keep up good spirits and the soldiers would soon capture us.
A second letter was received after this but the Indians would not let me open it.
They said (this section black, blotted) ????? not let me take it. ?? hands. As soon as the letter was received I felt ever so much better.
We had little to eat. Horses and dogs were all the meat we had to eat.
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With Stone
Calf. At last Medicine Water came to my lodge and told me I was to be given up. I asked him to let
me see Sophia, and he answered, sister dead. I did not believe him, and one day Stone Calf told me she was alive and well.
About two weeks ago I saw a four horse wagon coming toward our camp, and as soon as it was near enough
I started to run out to meet it. The Indian would not let me, but made me go in to the tent.
Soon Romeo came to me and spoke to me in English. It was the first time I had heard it for months. He said
I might go with him and he would take good care of me. I got into the ambulance, and there for the first time in two months saw Sophia.
We at once left the Indians behind in two days came in sight of the soldiers tents where I saw General Nell,
Mrs. Miles and all the rest who were so kind to me. I could not help crying.
Mrs. Miles is as kind as a mother to us.
Did they take all the clothes away from you at the time you wee captured?
Yes; and only gave me an old blanket to keep warm with.
Can you identify the Indians who made the attack on your family?
I have seen them 50 times since and can tell them all.
How many were there?
Seventeen men and two squaws.
Have you seen the squaw who hit your father with an axe?
Only once.
Was Medicine Water one of the war party?
He seemed to be the leader
Did they scalp all the family after they were killed?
All except Johanna. She had been sick and her hair was very short.
How was Sophia treated after she left you?
From what she tells me she had a much easier time than I had.
She was only whipped once or twice and did not have to carry so much wood and water.
Where will you go, now that you are rescued from the Indians?
I don't know yet, she replied. I would prefer to remain her rather than return to Georgia.
If Sophia and I can get a good education here, I had rather remain here than go any where they are so good to me.


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I have a excel report that I created and now I need help with the formating. The report is currently hand written and follows a certain format in order to fit all the information on one page if printed. Now the problem is the report goes down and then to the right. Under each column is a supervisor's name and under that is the information regarding all of the projects information that supervisor is responsible including who is assigned to each project. Sort of like the following.
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Employees Employees Employees
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