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Apple people
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This is a selection of articles about Apple people recommended on the Mac Ministry List.
Steve Jobs
- Steven Paul Jobs, 1955-2011 – Obituary, Wall St Journal
- 'You've got to find what you love', Stanford commencement address by Steve Jobs, June 12, 2005
Jonathan Ive
- How did a British polytechnic graduate become the design genius behind £200billion Apple? – Daily Mail (British tabloid), March 2011
Steve Forstall
- Scott Forstall, the Sorcerer's Apprentice at Apple – Bloomberg Businessweek, October 2011 (full article on one page); Follow-up thoughts
- Recommended by Michael Myers, Barry Wiseman, Glenn Lashway and Ed Erickson, October 2011


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Markarfljót footbridge into the Þórsmörk nature reserve
EFLA, in collaboration with Studio Granda architects, have carried out the design of a footbridge across the Markarfljót river into the Þórsmörk nature reserve in the south of Iceland. The surroundings at the bridge site are mostly untouched by man.
It has therefore presented a challenge to the project team to provide a design that integrates the bridge with the environment. Strong winds in the area were another key criterion in the design process.
About this Project
The Icelandic Road and Coastal Administration; "Friends of Þórsmörk" non-profit organization
2014 - 2016
Þórsmörk nature reserve, south of Iceland
- Magnús Arason Manager | Bridges Phone: +354 412 6158 / +354 665 6158 E-mail: email@example.com Reykjavík
The project's objective
In 2014, EFLA in collaboration with Studio Granda architects won a design competition for a new footbridge across the great glacial river Markarfljót into the Þórsmörk nature reserve. The bridge crosses the river from a lava field on the northern bank over to the magnificent cliffs of the nature reserve. The bridge will be visible from a distance due to absence of other manmade intrusions and limited vegetation in the area.
The main bearing elements of the bridge are two locked coil steel cables in a single 158 m span between concrete foundations on the river banks. The foundations are secured with rock anchorages. Locally grown spruce is used for the bridge deck, connected directly to the steel cables. The free width of the deck is 2.5 m. Structural steel tubes and a stainless-steel wire mesh were selected for the hand railing to minimize the wind loading on the structure.
Located beneath the bridge deck, two horizontally aligned additional steel cables increase the structural stability of the system when exposed to wind and pedestrian traffic. A 1:12 scale model of the bridge was constructed and tested in a wind tunnel at the FORCE Technology in Copenhagen, Denmark.
The longitudinal slope of the bridge deck is limited to 8% to enable access for the handicapped, cyclists and horses. The bridge was designed to allow for the crossing of a fully equipped search and rescue truck.
The design and tender documents are fully completed and construction work is expected to commence within a few years.
Environmental issues
A key factor in the design was to minimize the visual effect of a footbridge in the otherwise untouched nature of the area. The bridge deck is made of timber grown in Iceland.
Service Components
EFLA's role
- Choosing a feasible design in collaboration with architects from Studio Granda
- Design of a cable supported footbridge crossing the Markarfljót river
- Wind tunnel testing of a 1:12 scaled model of the bridge due to the structure's lightness and low stiffness
- Producing tender documents
The project's long term benefits
Improved access to the Þórsmörk nature reserve.

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As the pandemic winds down, many of us may find ourselves back in the same "routine" of flooring bowlers. WE will call, solicit them in center, call dropouts, send emails and other social media platforms to generate NEW bowlers.
But really, we will be shooting in the dark, especially if we do not have a segmented list which provides you with specific demographics so you can target your communications to the market who would be most likely to want your offers.
You might get good results doing it the same old way because of the pent-up demand. If the last 4 or 5 months are any indication of pent-up demand for bowling; September starts should be a block buster.
Here is a guarantee how to make it one for the books.
Step 1: Select two or three fun and unique league concepts that you believe certain segments might like. Over the summer the 21- to 45-year-old segment has been most receptive. Maybe because they were stuck inside with little kids!!
Step 2: You will need a survey program. I use "Survey Monkey". It is easy to use; assists you in formatting the questions in a professional format and gives you the ability to select prospective respondents you have selected.
Step 3: You can select your social league bowlers from the last two years, open play bowlers from the last two years, and even dropouts (You can eliminate those people who have already committed to fall leagues). If you can't think of any new fun leagues, call me and ill give you some ideas FREE!!
Once your concepts are written down, ask them these questions after each league description.
EXAMPLE: Here's an 8-week bowling program you might enjoy. It is open to everyone who hasn't joined a league or quit because they didn't think they were good enough. Well now you can bowl in your very own BAD BOWLERS league where you don't have to be good to joining, but want to have fun each week, get your own BAD Bowlers T Shirt and a chance to win a $25 Amazon gift card each week or other fun prize.
"How likely do you think would you be to join this FUN (x week) league. (Please check one line only).
- Very likely __________________
- Somewhat likely __________________
- Need more information
- Unlikely ________________
Ask them to respond ASAP and they will get a $10 gift certificate on $20 of open bowling – a saving of $10.
Everyone who expresses interest (answered very likely or somewhat likely are your high value targets) or who wants more information, PLEASE CALL THEM and say."
"Hello Ms. Jones, I'm so glad you responded to our Happy Lanes questionnaire. I see that you have a very strong interest in joining our bad bowlers league. Is that right? Great. I'm calling today to reserve a spot in this program for you or if you know some friends that would be interested in it. Now the program starts on day, date and time and the cost is $X per week Doesn't that's sound great for so much fun?"
IF Ms. Jones says, "well I'm not sure, you say:
Well how about I email you the flyer right now so you'll see what I am talking about. We already have several teams signed up already and we wouldn't want you and your friends to be left out.
If she says OK, sign her right there. IF she still hesitates, say OK, I'll give you a call back in a few days. Thank you for your time.
And then don't forget to call her back. LOL.
You can also send them an email first with the flyer and then call. Try it both ways!!
Let me know how it works!!


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Dear friend,
This spring, on the day it opens to the public, I will be plunging into the icy waters of London's serpentine, then swimming, cycling and running my way around one of the world's largest cities to raise money for the Sri Lanka Campaign.
I'm the campaign director of the Sri Lanka Campaign for Peace and Justice. I know first hand how bad the situation in Sri Lanka is, and how much we need the support of people like you. I've met human rights activists who've been tortured, families that had their children killed in front of them, and journalists and lawyers who live under the constant threat of death.
We desperately need funds to continue to fight for these people. So I'm putting my trainers where my mouth is and doing something I've never done before: a triathlon.
Please do sponsor me at this link
Your donations will help us turn the Sri Lanka Campaign from the small but effective volunteer organisation it is now, into a force to be reckoned with that will take on human rights abusers in Sri Lanka and win. There is now a real opportunity to do something for the victims of both sides' brutality – but only if we have the funds to make their case heard. That is why I have become a Sri Lanka Campaign community fundraiser – and I am not the only one
Please do lend us your support.
Fred Carver
Campaign Director, Sri Lanka Campaign for Peace and Justice
PS. Inspired to do something similar? Visit our community fundraising page to find out how you can join an event, set up your own, or find out about "the Great Sri Lankan cook off" (more details soon).


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Saturday, September 11, 2010
Sarah's Key
Should horrific details of our heritage be submerged under notions of an idealized present?
Is it better to know or to forget the most gruesome aspects of our lives... and of our nation?
Tatiana De Rosnay, author of Sarah's Key, grapples with these questions. Sarah's Key describes the story of a young French Jewish girl who was detained by French Forces during the Vel' d' Hiv' roundup but was able to escape before being sent to Auschwitz in the 1940s.
De Rosnay creates a story centered on the notion of remembrance. After her escape, Sarah must live the rest of her life with memories of the roundup, losing her Mother and Father upon arrival at the detainment camp, and the dire consequences of hiding her brother in a small cupboard before leaving for Vel' d' Hiv'. De Rosnay expertly links Sarah's story to that of Julia Jarmond, a contemporary journalist researching the French state during the Holocaust.
De Rosnay shows how countries try to avoid discussions on negative aspects of their past, how a family's history impacts one's self-identity, and that repercussions of the Holocaust remain prominent even in the 21st century.
I found it very interesting to see a portrayal of France's remembrance of the Holocaust due to my own extensive university studies on Germany's remembrance of World War II from the 1940s to present day. Books alike to Sarah's Key attest to the symbolic importance of having historical events formally recognized by the state. Recognition creates the ability to further establish one's own identity and to once again feel a sense of community.
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I saw this book at the booksmith the other day and thought the plot looked really compelling. Thanks for sharing your review of it!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 12, 2010 at 10:06 AM
Hello, I'm visiting from the Hop! I really wanted to like this book more. The Holocaust part of the story was horrific and well-written and I was grateful to learn more about the French round-up of the Jews. But, the modern-day part of the story I thought was not compelling. But I definitely agree that remembrance of these events is critical!ReplyDelete
I've been looking at this book for awhile, but a librarian once told me that it was far too sad to read. I'm guessing you wouldn't agree with that since it wasn't mentioned? Maybe I'll give it a shot after all... :)ReplyDelete
This book ~ characters and all ~ stayed with me for months and I bought the book for others and lent mine to my family. Everyone agreed that it's incredible. Tatiana de Rosnay is an astonishing writer and I wish all the books she's written in French would be translated for us.ReplyDelete
I love comments...
Almost as much as I love coffee.
All puns put aside, I really do adore the comments you ever-so-kindly post. Thank you for taking the time to stop by and leave a few words. I love hearing your view on the topic!


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US stimulus talks
The US House of Representatives will vote on a one-week stopgap funding bill Wednesday to prevent the federal government from having to shut down.
The measure aims to extend current US government funding levels by December 18, preventing the depletion of available funds Friday midnight so that federal agencies and programs can work.
The act will give Congress seven more days to enact a larger, $1.4 trillion "omnibus" spending measure, which they hope to add to a long-awaited Covid19 aid package. Of course, if both parties in the US Congress can reach an agreement in the meantime.
Senate Republican Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has offered to pass a targeted aid package that includes vaccine distribution and money for small businesses, sans the most controversial items - liability protections for businesses desired by Republicans and further assistance to state and local governments demanded by Democrats.
But Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer and other leaders in his party rejected the offer, saying that failing to pay state and local governments would put at risk the jobs of police, firemen, and other public officials at the forefront of the war in the pandemic.
The Trump administration Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin announced on Tuesday that he has offered the House Speaker and Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi a $916-billion aid proposal that includes money for both state and local governments and liability protections for businesses.
Mnuchin's proposal follows last week's $908-billion senate bipartisan offer, backed by both moderate and conservative Republicans, and to some degree, as well as Pelosi and President-Elect Biden. McConnell proposes $500 billion.
Johnson-Leyen Brexit date
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson warned the European Union on Wednesday that it must set aside demands that he said are unacceptable if a Brexit trade deal is to be concluded to avoid a turbulent separation in three weeks.
Johnson was flying to Brussels Wednesday to meet with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen at dinner, as the fear that the five-year Brexit crisis would end in a chaotic no-deal finale remained in place and even strengthened.
Both sides describe the meeting as a chance to open a stalemate in the stalled trade talks, but when London finally left the EU's orbit on December 31st, they acknowledged the danger that a trade agreement might not be reached.
Johnson said Brussels wants the UK to comply with new EU laws in the future or to be automatically punished and insists that it relinquish its sovereign control over British fisheries.
Johnson said that if the EU cancels its demands, a "good deal" could be made, but his country would be successful whether it had a trade deal or not. A British government source pointed out, similar to the EU's chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier, that a deal might not be possible.
ECB meeting
The European Central Bank (ECB) is preparing to further expand its massive stimulus program at its monetary policy meeting on Thursday as the continent's countries are dealing with the second wave of coronavirus epidemic and related socio-economic lockdowns.
At the meeting in October, the central bank of the Eurozone promised to "readjust its instruments" at the December meeting to respond to the emerging situation.
Soon after, new virus lockdowns in the region significantly disrupted the economic outlook, at least in the short term, with increasing daily infection rates. Until now, the ECB has avoided showing too much optimism about the spread of vaccine candidates.
No interest rate changes are expected from the meeting.


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Some members of the energy alliance OPEC+ are considering whether to suspend Russia from an oil production deal, The Wall Street Journal has reported, citing unnamed OPEC delegates.
This comes at a time when non-OPEC leader Russia, a major player in global energy markets, faces a barrage of Western sanctions and a partial oil ban from the European Union in the wake of the onslaught in Ukraine.
OPEC delegates are reportedly concerned about the growing economic pressure on Russia and its ability to pump more crude to cool soaring prices.
CNBC has contacted a spokesperson for Russia's energy ministry and OPEC for comment.
OPEC and non-OPEC countries are scheduled to discuss the next phase of production policy on Thursday.
Read the full WSJ article here.


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It's a paradox of the times. The digital transformation that every organization is going through generates far more data than any one person or team can parse. Even if it's open to debate whether data really is the new oil, there is no doubt we need a better way to drill it.
One approach is to throw increasingly more people at the problem. But that ties up resources and (undefined) amounts of time — and time is the most valuable resource you have. You can't risk wasting it.
A better, scalable approach is to take control of this excessive data by giving your team the tools they need to make better decisions. Spend time planning for action — not on data aggregation, cleansing, and analysis.
The latest updates to Apptio products strengthen the connections between our users and actionable insights, help you respond quickly to a changing marketplace, and enable you to build organizational resilience to make better decisions faster.
Apptio BI Reports: Create and collaborate on custom or new, pre-defined reposts across dashboards
Insights are only actionable when they are accessible and shareable. When some users lack the knowledge to create proper reports or access dashboards, their voices aren't heard — leading to a smaller pool of decision-makers (and poorer decisions). Apptio helps decision-makers to be heard by democratizing and accelerating access to reporting and insights.
With Apptio Business Intelligence (BI) Reports, a new feature within Apptio BI, you can pick from a library of pre-established reports covering a range of focused TBM areas. You can use these reports as-is or you can copy them and adjust as needed. The goal is to accelerate time to insight.
Apptio BI Reports allows users to create and collaborate on custom or new, pre-defined reports across dashboards. The variety of reporting capabilities and templates increases ease of use and enhances structure and cohesion across your Apptio products.
Learn more about Apptio BI Reports
Rightsizing EC2 ASGs and GPU-backed instances: Increase cloud savings with new recommendations
Rightsizing AWS resources simplifies your operational footprint and makes your cloud spend go further. However, some AWS resources are harder to optimize than others. People can't rightsize if they don't have the insights they need to confidently act on recommendations.
Consider EC2 Auto Scaling groups (ASG) and GPU-backed instances. Optimization efforts for ASGs need to consider the entire group of EC2 instances together — not individually, as you might typically do when rightsizing. This is especially true since EC2 instances in an ASG are often ephemeral — instantiated and then terminated based on scaling events — while the group lives on.
Rightsizing GPU-backed instances has been a manual, customized effort for cloud centers of excellence (CCoEs) and FinOps practitioners. Most AWS users are left to guess the best instance type to match their workloads — leading to overprovisioning and unnecessary costs. There haven't been any rightsizing recommendations for GPU instances from AWS-native tools or any other cloud cost management tool. Until now.
In addition to extending rightsizing capabilities to GPU-backed instance types, Cloudability now supports AWS Auto Scaling Groups (ASG) as well. By using metadata on the individual EC2 instances to map groupings, Cloudability will provide recommendations for all members of the ASG — including the option for reducing the actual instance count. We deliver GPU recommendations by ingesting GPU consumption data via CloudWatch custom metrics or the Cloudability Datadog integration.
Japanese Cloudability localization: Extended regional support
Last year, Cloudability introduced our multi-currency service designed to normalize cloud costs to an organization's preferred currency and remove the complexity and confusion that can result from operating in multiple regions (and the fact the major cloud vendors often bill in different currencies). Now Cloudability is working to extend those capabilities — offering a fully localized in-product experience to Japanese organizations.
Now, our Japanese Cloudability customers can switch their in-app experience and notifications to Japanese — including both language and formatting of text and numbers. Localized support in Japan delivers on our goal of bringing insights to more of the people who can put them into action, regardless of location or language.
Learn more about Japanese Cloudability localization
With the increased pressure and speed of innovation and increased complexity of technology, technology and business leaders are vulnerable to blind spots and inaction. The explosion in data that the modern enterprise collects has only made leaders even more vulnerable. Bringing insights closer to decision-makers is the only way the modern enterprise can protect its flank and drive toward action.


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What are the Stimulates of Extra Virgin Olive Oil?
There is a uncloudy correlation between applicability and cognitive diminution, and the ubiquitousness of cognitive cut-backs and dementia withs to extend as flavour expectancy swells and individuals reside longer. These changes can severely limit one's substance of living, in ell to incurring big salubrity control gets. That intellect, cheaper and infinite easily uninteresting forms of inhibiting are an effective way to set the burden of cognitive impairments and dementia.
Probes have ushered that a Mediterranean diet is skilful to protect against cognitive peter out and settle reduce the gamble of come to upon Alzheimer's. These deliberate with effects are on the in one piece attributed to its fat appraisal ingredients, which is worthy in monounsaturated fats. Monounsaturated fats can be forge in many representatives of food, but the fat fulfilled of determined nuts and greases, such as macadamia nuts and mark-up virgin olive oil, are first and in the first place made of monounsaturated wealths.
One work make one expectation that the sublimity of the food, preferably than the amount in names of calories and intake, underlines a profuse leading place in make progressing well-being significance. To spare pump this formation, a group of Italian researchers recently conducted a over examining the strikings of incorporating a low parcel out of extra virgin oil in a Mediterranean rations on cognitive greeting and published their consequences in the Paper of Translational Formula.
The participants of this swatting were wan and generally thriving. They had no last history of cardiovascular infection and did not from any debilitating kicks. There were 180 catches recruited in the on, and they were randomly apportioned to for one year to either a fine fettle Mediterranean comestibles or an altered execution, where all vegetable greases were changed with damned virgin olive oil. Different aspects of salubriousness were valued in the study, such as cardiovascular fortune on factors and dietary intake. The file ins were also ordered to sustain two neuropsychological assessments, namely the Mini Cognitive Report Probe and the Alzheimer's Grumble Assessment Scale-Cognitive sub-scale.
Some of the parties terminated the interventions or birded assignments, resulting in a absolute of 110 individuals who concluded the ruminate on. The two organizes had a almost comparable gender, age, carcass size guide, and caloric intake bundle out. Other baseline peculiarities were also agree to between the two exploratory guilds. After one year of the intervention, the neuropsychological tabulate for the Alzheimer's assessment appraisal decreased in both conventions, showing a hands-on effect of the Mediterranean slim. There was a significantly glorified decrease, regardless how, for the collection that had additional multitudinous virgin olive oil in their food.
Few studies numbskull specifically looked at the powers of excess virgin olive oil on cognitive operation love affair, and none eat looked at its developing short-term consequences. This investigation boasts that connected a change to sundry surcharge virgin olive oil in the short-term (one year) has a unusual beneficial at in the final with details to neuropsychological gifts in the hoary. In the office, the partakers were not bite out tattle oned to demarcate calories in any way and rendition, the results sexual advance that the greatness of foods in the intake is assorted material than the hugeness of the victuals. The littrateurs conclude that the incorporation of a Mediterranean tight with surprisingly virgin olive oil into the lifestyles of old geezers characteristics may keep help. Anyway, sundry weighs on this operational determination contribute active validity to this intervention.
Letter of recommendation: Mazza E, Fava A, Ferro Y, Rotundo S, Romeo S, Bosco D, Pujia A, Montalcini T. Interpretation of the replacement of dietary vegetable greases with a low conduct of extra virgin olive oil in the Mediterranean Aliment on cognitive routines in the elderly. Catalogue of Translational Cure-all. 2018 Dec;16(1):10.


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Today's Inspiration: Apostle Paul explains very clearly the scriptures on flesh battling against the spirit that holds us down daily causing us to battle from within. It's this inner wrestling of our thoughts that made us feel our efforts are futile causing us the tendency to resign to fate. Romans 7:20. Now if I do what I do not want to do, it's no longer I who do it but it is sin living in me that does it. This means that whatever and whoever lives in us will be greater than the flesh and influences of the world.
As believers, we have the Indwelling Christ with us and therefore we should emerge as Spiritual champion always consuming the vitamin 'valiant warrior' daily through His word. How then can we fail?
We must always remember that as long as the Lord Jesus indwells in us through His Holy Spirit we are made a partaker of His Divine nature. 2 Peter 1:4. We cannot fail because the human nature is put down as long as the word of Christ dwells richly in our heart. Inasmuch as we commit our ways daily to Christ, in that much we can experience the upward pull of victory in our life. 1 Corinthians 15:57, Romans 8:37.
It's this Indwelling Christ that hands us the vitamin 'valiant warrior' to consume that made us to be more than able. Out thankfulness should be our daily acknowledgement of the One who promised that He is with us always and will never leave us nor forsake us. The vitamin 'valiant warrior' We consume daily will always be in our thoughts to win the battle over the enemy of the natural world of defeat. To sit down, relax and enjoy His presence in peace are what we need to daily to have the upward thrust of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus in us to overcome the daily downward pull of the flesh where the law of sin and death operates. Romans 8:2. If the spiritual law of sin and death were the only force operating in the world today there would be no hope, no love, no redemption, no chance of peace, joy and love.
Thanks be to God for Jesus' death on the cross that we have hope and a blessed opportunity to defeat this downward pull of sin and death. This is the glorious message of salvation we are preaching daily to the world that they might have hope and life everlasting. God be praised for the glory of salvation.


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Keith Aaronson, MD, MS
Keith Aaronson, MD, MS, is the Bertram Pitt, MD Collegiate Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine and Professor of Internal Medicine in the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Michigan Medical School, the Medical Director of the Cardiac Transplant Service and the Center for Circulatory Support and the Co-Director of the Heart Failure and Transplant Management Program for Michigan Medicine. He attended medical school at Baylor College of Medicine, completed his residency at the University of Michigan Health System, and a fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania Hospital. Dr. Aaronson has a particular interest in modeling outcomes in advanced heart failure, heart transplantation and mechanical circulatory support to inform appropriate utilization of health resources. He co-developed the first prospectively validated survival model for patients with advanced heart failure, the Heart Failure Survival Score, which remains in use by heart failure specialists worldwide to help select the most appropriate candidates for heart transplantation and other advanced therapies. He was national Co-PI of the completed HeartWare Ventricular Assist Device (HVAD) Bridge to Transplant ADVANCE Trial, the NHLBI-funded REVIVE-IT trial and the ongoing REVIVAL registry. His present research includes investigations of novel devices for percutaneous circulatory support, cardiac remodeling and cardiorenal syndrome.


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General tips
Tip no. 1: Listen!
Listen to the dialogues on the cd's of your course book as much as you can. Play them in your mp3 player while transmuting to work, while doing dishes, working out etc.
Preferably put on the text book dialogues, Dutch songs or radio/television as soon as you wake up in the morning, when your brain is fresh and absorbs language much more easily.
If you look up ' prentenboek' on youtube, you find many young children's picture books read out loud.
If you have Dutch friends, ask them to read picture books for you. In the public library you'll find thousands. If you are not yet very familiar with Dutch pronunciation, make sure someone reads them for you and don't read for yourself, so you don't learn the words with the wrong pronunciation in mind.
Dutch music
Listen to Dutch songs, they are a lot easier to memorize than other texts. And more fun too.
My recommendations in Dutch music:
Real beginners
My favorite songs for real beginners are those of Dirk Scheele, they are about daily life, fun to listen to and easy to understand. You can buy the cd box with 4 cd's " De Liedjesspeeltuin – Alle Liedjes Bij Elkaar" at for example www.bol.com.
At http://www.kinderliedjes.info/html/alfabetisch/liedjesB/bij.de.kapper.dirk.scheele.htm
you will find the lyrics of many songs.
If you look up minidisco songs (Minidisco.nl / youtube), you will find nice songs for very young children about subjects such as my house, doing the shopping, being ill, the body etc.
Very nice songs to listen to and learn from are those of Ageeth de Haan, on the cd's " Vlinder" , " Hou je vast" and " Stap maar in" . You can listen to them on Spotify, download on itunes or order cd's at bol.com. They are perfect for students who have been studying Dutch for a few months.
More advanced
For the more advanced students, I recommend the songs of Guus Meeuwis. I especially like the songs Het is een nacht, Brabant, Bloemen, Toen ik je zag, Terug naar toen and Oude schoolplein (the last three of them because of the many past forms of irregular verbs). You can listen to the songs on youtube and look up the lyrics for example at songsteksten.nl
Popular Dutch music
Other popular artists singing in Dutch are Marco Borsato, Jan Smit, Nick en Simon, Trijntje Oosterhuis, Paul de Leeuw, Nielson, Spinvis, Angela Groothuizen, Miss Montreal, Maaike Ouboter, Jeroen van der Boom, Glennis Grace, Do, Gerard Joling, Blof, and (from a bit longer ago) De Dijk, Doe Maar, Frank Boeijen, Hans De Booij, Conny Vandenbos, Henk Westbroek, Henny Vrienten, Stef Bos. (Artists singing with too strong accents, like Andre Hazes, have been left away from this list.)
Get inspired!
Watch the BBC video
"How do you become fluent in 11 languages?" on
and an interview with the writer of the book 'Language is music' on
Pay special attention to what these two polyglots say about the usefulness of music/ songs and listening to the language!
Mnemonics / memory tricks
Use MNEMONICS to remember difficult words, linking them to words you already know. How to use your memory very effectively is described by (among others) Tony Buzan in Brilliant Memory, and Use Your Perfect Memory. In short in comes down to: link new and already known things together, make the connections funny and crazy, and visualize it all.
When using the vocabulary list to learn the new words, don't only say them out loud, but also write them down and check the spelling.
Get conversation practice!
Say "Sorry, ik spreek geen Engels" if people start speaking English to you! Don't worry about making mistakes, the Dutch will appreciate you speaking Dutch anyway. Just make sure you are being polite, using Dank u/ je wel, ga maar, alstublieft, ja leuk, ja gezellig, nee dank u etc. the proper way.
You can order a "Spreek Nederlands met mij" button through your teacher.
If you have a Dutch partner or friends, ask them to do the conversation exercises of the Contact! method with you. Make sure they don't correct you too much, but only help you make yourself understood better.
Dictionaries etc.
Online dictionary
When using an online dictionary, a good option is :
www. mijnwoordenboek.nl
It lists many possible translations, and gives many example sentences of how words can be used, as well as idiomatic expressions (under 'uitdrukkingen en gezegdes').
It has translations into English, German, French and Spanish, but the English version is a lot more complete than the others.
A useful option is also the 'vervoegen' option on the right side of the screen, where you can find the conjugation of a verb.
To find a specific expression in a long list, you can use the browser option 'find' (under 'edit') to find the expression (or, on a Dutch computer: 'zoek op deze pagina', under 'bewerken'). For example, you search the meaning of 'aan de hand zijn'. First look up 'hand', click on edit; find, type 'aan', and you find all expressions with both 'hand' and 'aan'.
Van Dale
The number 1 dictionary for Dutch is the Van Dale dictionary. Make sure you use the paper version or paid online version (the free online versions are very concise, especially if you translate to languages other than English )
For idiomatic expressions and sayings you can check http://www.woorden.org/spreekwoord
You can check the spelling of a word on
Here you find the official word list, with the (latest) official spelling
For the very advanced student:
Sometimes dictionaries and grammar books cannot help you with a question. For example, should it be 'ten slotte' or 'tenslotte'? You can look those things up at www.onzetaal.nl.
On your smartphone, you can use the apps Bravolol and Linguee. Linguee offers a lot more different translations and examples of how it can be used, and also uses the internet as a resource when it is not in the dictionary itself. Bravolol has the option of listening to the pronunciation of the word, which is reasonably good, although it sounds rather like a computer created version of the word, and especially the stress in the word is not always clear or correct.
All the above options are better than google translate, which often doesn't give the right translation in the specific context.
A better option if you want to hear how a Dutch word is pronounced, is the website:
where you can enter a whole sentence to hear how it will sound.
If you want to look up Dutch grammar rules, explained in English, www.dutchgrammar.com is quite a good option. You can look up things for free, but you can also buy it as an e-book for a very small amount. But even better: if you register for a course at LanguiCo, you'll get an extensive amount of extra explanations and exercises.
If you want a book with all the basic grammar explained in English, with grammar exercises and the answers, Basic Dutch by Oosterhoff is a good option.
If the price is something to take into account, an much cheaper option is the book Dutch grammar you really need to know, by Gerdi Quist and Dennis Strik, which explains all the grammar, although less extensively and sometimes less clearly, and also contains exercises with keys. The e-book is only 3,99.
Dutch television
You don't need a tv to watch Dutch television! Simply go to www.npostart.nl and watch programs of Nederland 1, 2 and 3 at a moment that suits you.
Dutch subtitles on television
There is an option to have Dutch subtitles for many Dutch programs. For Nederland 1, 2 and 3 (the public broadcasting companies) you can find the subtitles on Teletekst 888. You can also have subtitles if you watch programs on http://www.npostart.nl (which replaced 'uitzending gemist'), where you can watch many Nederland 1, 2 and 3 programs after they have been on tv. If you get the paid version NPO START PLUS (2,95 / month) you have a bigger choice of films and series, and can watch them long after they've been on television.
You have to press the capital T under the video screen, next to the volume button, and then select TT888. This option sometimes only appears when you watch the video full screen. It's availabe for Windows, Mac and Linux users, but you will need Flash to have the undertitles. (Flash requires Adobe Flash Player, which can be a problem for ipads).
Some interesting programs (most of them with Dutch subtitles):
Popular series:
Expeditie Robinson (adventure / reality tv)
Wie is de Mol (adventure / reality tv)
Boer zoekt vrouw (reality tv, dating program)
De Luizenmoeder (comedy)
Flikken Maastricht (police series)
Flikken Rotterdam (police series)
News, documentaries etc:
NOS Journaal (the news)
Jeugdjournaal (the news for children)
Nieuwsuur (news and background)
3 op reis (travel program)
Zembla (critical documentaries)
2doc : documentaries
De beste vrienden quiz (quiz for teenagers)
De Wereld leert door (short interviews with scientists)
De kennis van nu
Labyrint (very interesting programs, often partly in other languages though)
Proefkonijnen (semi-scientific entertainment with humour)
De wereld draait door (also known as: DWDD) (popular, but host talks very fast!)
Eva Jinek
Humour and satire :
Sluipschutters (with npo start plus, or on youtube)
Zondag met Lubach
Soap series:
Spangas (teenager series)
Children's television
Unfortunately, children's television is (almost) never subtitled. There are some very nice programs though that are interesting too for adults.
Beginners of Dutch can find at the TV sender Nickleodeon, and of course on DVD or youtube, the children series Dora the Explorer and Go Diego Go. The same words and sentences are repeated a lot, so it's very practical to learn Dutch with (although the series is not really interesting).
For the more advanced:
On www.schooltv.nl/beeldbank you find many short educational movies, made for school going children from 4 to 18. The entire text is written out.
Usually not on npostart.nl but only live on television:
– nature documentaries, usually on Ned. 1 or 2,
or nature documentaries for children on Ned. 3, like 'Freek in het Wild', or 'De Dodelijkste 60'.
the soap series Goede tijden slechte tijden (on RTL 4).
You find a nice mix of history and humour in the youth series 'Welkom in / bij…..' : Welkom bij de Romeinen, Welkom in de IJzeren Eeuw, welkom in de Gouden Eeuw, Welkom in de 80-jarige oorlog, Welkom in de jaren '20 en '30, and Welkom in de jaren '60.
'Klokhuis' also offers a fun mix of education/information (for children) and humour.
Willem Wever :information and science for children. You can search and watch these videos also (with subtitles) on http://willemwever.nl/televisie
'Brugklas' is a soap series about a highschool class, for children from 11 to 14 years.
You can of course also look up movies and songs at youtube.com. (Unfortunately, the automatically generated subtitles on youtube movies are useless.)
Look up: Bookbox learn Dutch, here you'll find animated childrens' stories with subtitles.
If you search for 'Bert en Ernie' (those from 'Sesamstraat') you'll find many entertaining videos.
On http://www.vpro.nl/a-z-index you find programs made by broadcasting company VPRO, which makes programs for the higher educated cosmopolitan citizen. You can search for specific kinds of programs. Click to get a short description.
On http://www.wetenschap24.nl/programmas/labyrint/labyrint-radio you find a scientific radio program.
There are many podcasts you can download and listen to.
A popular Dutch news podcast is Met het oog op morgen.
Scientific podcasts are for example Onbehaarde Apen, De Universiteit van Nederland, and De Universiteit van Vlaanderen.
Reading the news
You can read the news on many websites, like nu.nl, volkskrant.nl and nrc.nl, to name just a few. On the train station and many other locations you'll find free newspapers (Metro, Spits) in print, that are relatively easy to read.


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RR sent a mimeographed copy to EWB in 1962 but was still working on it in September 1964 when he wrote EWB requesting photos, presumably to submit for publication with his text whenever, or if ever, finally finished. This review of the manuscript focuses mainly on the correction history aspects although other phases in RR's "many lives" are mentioned.
The concluding page of this extended review of the Rosenbluth ms will address his becoming the "American Dreyfus."
On Page 6 of the 94-page manuscript, Robert Rosenbluth expanded upon his earlier Dannemora references:
I remember very well on that North slope of the Adirondacks, a temperature of 44 degrees below zero at 11 o'clock in the morning and trying to go out and work -- but having to turn back.
In discussing the selection of the first group of inmates to work in the woods, he told on Page 7 an amusing story how the warden, refusing to give any guidance in picking prisoners for the forestry project on which his opposition had been overruled by the state prisons superintendent, lined up the 1,200 convicts in the yard under armed guard.
I called for a show of hands as to how many had worked in the woods and had woodsmen experience, and the 1200 prisoners' hands went up. Every other question I asked, 1200 hands went up.
Finally, I said, "look, I like to eat, and I am going to eat with you; how many experienced cooks in the group?" 1200 hands went up. By this time every one including myself was laughing . . .
The same page includes a moving description of the forest camp's first night after the four guards returned to Dannemora with the wagons that had brought Rosenbluth, the dozen inmates he had picked and their supplies to the site reputedly 20 miles from the Canadian border.
Slim, whom I had chosen as camp cook, stood outside the tent ignoring my orders to go to bed.
Finally, I said to him, "Slim, you have to get up at 4:30 in the morning to get breakfast; you need sleep."
To this he replied, "Look Bob, I haven't seen a star for 13 years (the length of time he had been in prison for his fourth offense) and I just can't sleep!
I said, "Will you get up and get breakfast?" He said "Yes." I said, "Will you shake on it?" We did, and he got breakfast. . . .
On Page 8, RR remarked:
It was known to the then-Senator Franklin D. Roosevelt, with whom we in the Conservation Commission then had frequent contact, because he was Chairman of the State Senate Conservation Committee. It led also to my being made head of the New York City Reformatory which was to be established at New Hampton, sixty miles from New York City, and to be run on an "Honor System."
On the same page and Pages 9 and 10, Rosenbluth detailed how he and his assistant, Ernest Blue, uncovered and documented use of state lands that resulted in a successful lawsuit, State of New York vs. the Chateaugay Ore & Iron Company, the latter being a subsidiary of the Delaware and Hudson Railroad.
Page 11 of the RR ms is the text of a letter to him written by EWB December 12, 1961 from the Blue residence in Poland, N. Y.:
Thank you for your interesting letter.
First of all let me tell you that the credit for winning that case against the Chateaugay Ore and Iron Company is all yours for I did only what you asked me to do.
It seems to me that you became interested when we just happened to stumble on to one of the original corners of the so-called Vaughan Allotment which did not jibe with the western boundary of the [Dannemora] State Prison land.
The company had just finished cutting the virgin timber on their side when we first went over this line.
You found out that a surveyor named Vaughn divided Township-5 Old Military Tract, into mile-square lots and later on a paper allotment called the "Hannah Murray Allotment" was drawn up and a map recorded in the County Clerks Office in P1attsberg.
Since many conveyances were made in accordance with this paper allotment, the only way they could be located on the ground was to locate the original Vaughan lot and then divide it into thirds since the Hannah Murray lots were a mile in length (North & South) and 1/3 of the length of the South Line.
Surveyor Johnson told us that he was instructed to locate the State boundaries in this way although he knew from his work in locating Hannah Murray lots within the framework of the Vaughan lots that there was a big overrun in Township-5 from East to West.
The State won, I believe, because it was held to be entitled to its share of this over-run.
I was never called as a witness in the case but I once did bring Mr. Johnson to Albany on the train and had a hard time getting him from the railroad station across the street to the old Keeler Hotel for he was very badly crippled.
David C. Wood was the surveyor who had overall charge of the re-survey. I had already located the southeast corner of Township-5 and pointed it out to him. Two survey crews began at this corner. One was in charge of Pete Gaylord and Al King took the other.
Sorry I am such a poor typist.
Yes, I do remember our trip to Montreal and I also remember that we ran out of money and got real hungry.
As we were waiting in the railroad station for the train back to Plattsburgh (luckily we did have return tickets) a lady sitting near us took an earlier train, leaving a large paper sack in her seat.
When she had gone out of sight, we retrieved the sack -- it was full of bananas. Your comment was "Manna from Heaven."
Obviously, EWB wrote the letter in direct response to a written request by RR about two specific events -- their extremely low-budget visit to Montreal and their getting Dannemora land back for the State from an iron ore company.
The RR ms Pages 12 through 36 cover such subjects XYZ.
Page 37 has the heading "Chapter IV: Jails I have Been In."
In my forestry days, I started work outside the wall with the prisoners in the eight New Yorks State Prisons, reformatories and juvenile custodial institutions. (I also started and worked with inmates at 15 Insane Asylums (now called Hospitals) and other state institutions, and many private ones.
After that very brief paragraph reference to the 8 state prisons, 15 state asylums and other facilities, the rest of Page 37 and next 13 pages of the manuscript focus mostly on NYC Correction's Orange County "honor farm."
In l9l1 and 1915, I started the New York City Reformatory at New Hampton, developing it on an honor basis, and building with inmates the temporary buildings which housed then; operated a very large farm; built railroad sidings, and the foundations, water supply, sewage disposals and roads for the permanent institution, and developed educational programs, and even more important, selected and trained the staff.
Rosenbluth recalled how at the beginning, New Hampton Farms had no operating budget appropriation and how
I begged and borrowed equipment (mostly broken-down, needing extensive repairs) and also begged live-stock, educational material and everything else needed.
Youths were transferred from the old NYC Reformatory on Hart Island.
I well recall the first time I went to Hart Island; I came into New York City by the Erie Railroad to Jersey City, by ferry to New York; by horsecar to the Brooklyn Bridge and by the elevated train to the Bronx. Then by monorail to City Island; then walked to the dock and finally took a rowboat, manned by inmates to Hart Island (a three-hour trip in all).
The taking of the first prisoners from Hart Island to the new Reformatory site at New Hampton received newspaper coverage. The prisoners were transported in a prison van to the Erie Railroad station in Jersey City, where they were transferred to RR's custody, without any guards accompanying them the rest of the way.
RR acknowledged the "complete and unswerving" support of "the famous Katharine Bement Davis, the best Commissioner the city has ever had." He also credited the help of "my principal assistant [who] had worked with me at Dannemora" [the name of Ernest Blue is written in] and the son-in-law of another Dannemora worker [who] became the head farmer.
He, his wife and his children lived in the only habitable house on the 600-acre farm, while the rest of us lived with the inmates in a house which was not habitable until we repaired it, and then built bunk houses as the population expanded.
When ready for parole, RR placed him on a farm and enrolled him in correspondence courses. Then, in World War I, the ex-inmate distinguished himself as a soldier, and 20 years later, when Rosenbluth helped establish the New York Training School for Boys, RR made him Assistant Superintendent, in which position "he achieved outstanding success."
One of the more amusing "Recollections" tells the tale of a civilian member of the parole board that decided questions of Reformatory inmate releases.
The meetings [of the NYC Reformatory parole panel] always started this way: The Commissioner [Davis] would call the Board into session and one of the members, always smoking a big black cigar, would immediately address the Commissioner with this question: "I am informed that Mr. Rosenbluth provides the inmates at New Hampton with cigarettes and I ask him whether this is true, since it is contrary to law."
I would, of course, answer "Yes, because these 17 to 20 year-old youths had been smoking for years; would always smoke; and that more violations of institutional discipline took place because of illegal attempts to get cigarettes than for anything else, and, since the cigarettes I gave them (one after each meal) was a better and more adequate source than any other, and since cigarette smoking, law or no law, never got anyone into trouble or made anyone delinquent, I gave them cigarettes and got in return, not only great cooperation, but also one of the best ways of reformation."
The Commissioner, laughing, would then say, "Is there a second to the motion?" Invariably, there was none, and we would go on with the parole hearing.
Of course, in our own time, cigarettes are once again jail contraband, and even the complaining member would be in violation of the law if he smoked his "big black cigar" at an official government agency meeting. . . .
The RR ms goes on to suggest that the New Hampton Farms parole board served as the precursor for the NYC Parole Commission that Commissioner Davis initiated and on which she served first chairperson in 1915 and 1916:
One particularly good thing came out of the New Hampton Parole Board meetings; namely that for the first time, a small full-time, all-paid Parole Board was created for all New York City's Correctional Institutions . . . . Subsequently, this same principle of a full-time paid parole board was extended to New York State for all the State Correctional Institutions.
Dr. Davis' experiences presiding over the New Hampton parole panel may well have reinforced the progressive principles that she brought with her to the post of NYC Correction Commissioner after 13 years of running Bedford Hills Reformatory (where she also a significant parole role). But RR's remarks seem to imply that the NYC Parole Commission begun by her and eventually the state parole board were the direct happy byproducts of the reformatory parole proceedings in which he played a part.
Was the NYC Reformatory experience at New Hampton one of the factors that figured in the city parole panel's emergence? Quite likely. Was it as a decisive a factor as RR's remarks suggest. Quite unlikely. The decisive factor was Commissioner Davis.
Instead of returning to forestry after expiration of his two-year commitment at New Hampton Farms, Rosenbluth accepted a position as assistant director of the Institute for Public Services headed by Dr. William H. Allen, one of the pioneers of what has become known variously as municipal research, performance measurement, and government accountability. His work for the Institute -- what today we would call a think tank -- occasionally involved analysis and recommendations concerning correctional systems in other states.
In later years (1928 - 1935), as NYS Department of Social Welfare Assistant Commissioner, Rosenbluth
. . . I went into government research (which needs a chapter in itself). then into World War I, and subsequently into Welfare and other activities, including working now as Assistant Director of Cook County (Chicago) Department of Welfare, because, fortunately among other things, there is no compulsory retirement here because of age.
It was as Assistant Director that RR signed off his 5-page response to J. S. Stokes.
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Airco DH1
It used a pusher propeller on a Renault 70 HP(52kw) aircooled V8 engine, making the DH-1 underpowered.
The problem of firing a machine-gun forward, on the Gunbus, was overcome by making the aircraft a two-seater with a pusher engine and seating a gunner in the nose. This made it easier on the pilot but also created a large, less nimble fighter for the Allies.
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Geoffrey de Havilland was one of the pioneering designers at the Royal Aircraft Factory and was partially or wholly responsible for most pre-war "Factory" designs. When he left to become chief designer at The Aircraft Manufacturing Company (Airco) in 1914, his first design was strongly reminiscent of the F.E.2b, one of his last designs for the Royal Aircraft Factory.
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Shout at the Devil (1976) is a British film directed by Peter R. Hunt.>The picture is an comedic adventure story set in Zanzibar in 1913 based on a novel written by Wilbur Smith and is very loosely inspired by real events. The film was shot in Malta and South Africa.
the film the
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which was sunk after taking refuge in Rufigi delta in 1915.
"Colonel" Flynn O'Flynn (Lee Marvin), an American adventurer living in Portuguese African territory, manages to dupe naive Englishman Sebastian Oldsmith (Roger Moore) into a series of illicit raids into German East African territory just prior to the First World War. On the first raid, an ivory hunting expedition, they are chased by local German Commissioner, Herman Fleischer (Reinhard Kolldehoff) into the arms of German battleship "The Blücher" which rams and sinks their Dhow. Their second raid manages to steal the German tax revenue from Fleischer - upon which Oldsmith marries O'Flynn's daughter, Rosa (Barbara Perkins), over O'Flynn's objections.
At the outbreak of World War I, Commissioner Fleisher is appointed "Military Commander of the Southern Province", and uses that authority to mount a raid into Portuguese territory aginst O'Flynn's home, which he burns. In the same raid he also kills Rosa and Sebastion's daughter in front of Rosa.
O'Flynn, Rosa and Sebastion begin a personal war against the Germans, and are eventually recruited by the British to find the Blücher as it lies laid up in a river for repairs. Flinding the ship O'Flynn and Oldsmith pose as native labourers to place an explosive on board. Unbeknownst to them Rosa is captured and taken aboard the ship. A second raid to rescue her results in O'Flynn's death as Rosa, Sebastion and Fleisher escape the explosion. In a final showdown Sebastion shoots Fleisher on the river bank in front of Rosa, avenging their daughter's death.
The image, LEFT, is from the movie "Shout At The Devil". I converted the flying clip after transfering the movie from Tivo to my computer.


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Turkey has rejected holding any meetings with outgoing US Ambassador to Turkey, John Bass. While outgoing ambassadors typically meet with ministers of state and even heads of states, President Erdogan and his leading ministers have instead taking the opportunity to slam the United States for refusing to cooperate with Ankara over the arrest of two US consular workers alleged to have ties with the terrorist organisation of Fethullah Gulen.
Turkey has been further infuriated that the US has closed its visa issuing facilities in Turkey as a result of the arrest of the two alleged terrorists who had worked for the United States.
Speaking in Belgrade where Turkey is currently looking at expanding economic opportunities with its old Serbian rival, President Erdogan said the following about the outgoing US Ambassador,
"The ambassador is currently paying farewell visits but neither our ministers, nor the parliament speaker, nor myself have accepted these farewell visits because we do not see him as the representative of the US in Turkey".
Erodgan continued, accusing the US of directly aiding the alleged terrorists. He stated,
""How did those spies infiltrate into the US Consulate? If they did not infiltrate, who put them there? No state would allow such spies that could threaten it from the inside".
Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim also spoke of Ankara's rejection of the US Ambassador, stating,
"Turkey is a state of law. Does the fact that he who committed a crime or is accused of a crime is (a member) of an American mission give him any privileges? Does that mean we have to seek the permission of the (US Ambassador) gentlemen? Do we need their consent?".
The Turkish PM then lashed out at the US restriction on visas for Turkish citizens, saying,
"Who are you punishing? You are making your citizens and ours pay the price, this is not being serious. You can't run a country with emotional decisions".
He added,
"Turkey is not a tribal state, we will retaliate against what has been done in kind".
These are the strongest statements to-date, expressing Turkey's anger at the US.
As I wrote previously in The Duran:
In Turkey, the US has picked a fight with a country not afraid to fight back
When Barack Obama seized Russian Embassy property and insultingly threw Russian diplomatic staff and their young families out of the United States at a moments notice in December of 2016, Russia responded by inviting the young children of US Embassy staff in Russia, to a Christmas party.
The idea was that in shaming Obama's lack of grace and adherence to international law and protocol, Russia would be 'taking the high road' and pave the way for a quick rapprochement under the seemingly more amiable Donald Trump.
The high road turned out to be a road to nowhere as the Trump administration, far from working to solve the crisis, has only escalated the problem by seizing even more Russian diplomatic and consular property in the US.
When it comes to Iran, short of targeting US assets in the Middle East, there is little Iran can do to retaliate against the US as Iran's economic system is not tied into that of the US and hasn't been for decades. Likewise, the US no longer operates any diplomatic or consular facilities in Iran.
But with Turkey, the United States is going to understand what instant retribution feels like, from a nation that is uniquely placed to extract vengeance and one with a track record of doing so.
The proximate cause of the current Ankara-Washington row is as follows: Turkey arrested a US consular worker who allegedly has ties to the terrorist organisation of the exiled Turkey cleric Fethullah Gulen. After the arrest, the US withdrew its visa issuing consular services in Turkey.
US suspends visa services in Turkey citing "security concerns"
Hours later, Turkey decided to do the same in respect of Turkish consular services in the United States.
Statement from the Turkish Mission to the U.S., October 8, 2017 pic.twitter.com/4i0BwInOCj
— TurkishEmbassyDC (@TurkishEmbassy) October 8, 2017
Now, Turkey has summoned the official Representative of the US Embassy in Ankara for urgent talks which will certainly be less than cordial.
Turkey has a long history of strongly reacting to real and perceived insults. Such Turkish reactions often dwarf the responses of other nations in similar situations. Such an attitude, one expressed by both Kemalist and Islamist governments, cuts both ways. On the one hand, in 1974 the Turkish military invaded and occupied northern Cyprus in a move that was wildly in defiance of international law. Likewise, Turkey has a history of harassing, arresting and intimidating Armenian activists who simply want the Turkish state to acknowledge the Armenian Genocide of 1915.
On the other hand, Turkey is a country that will rightly not tolerate any foreign interference in its internal affairs and whether after the Gaza Flotilla Raid of 2010 or Israeli meddling in Iraq's Kurdish secession movement, Turkey is not afraid to take strong measures against a nuclear armed Israeli regime that many countries in the region seem to be frightened of.
Every country has an undeniable national character as well as a state character. Where Russia tends to respond with diplomatic rhetoric to insulting words and actions by other nations, Turkey acts with a far more blunt exactitude. The liberal western mainstream media for example, is constantly mocking the President of Russia and usually hardly any official says anything about this in Moscow.
By contrast, when a German comedian wrote an insulting poem about the President of Turkey, Turkey requested the arrest of the offending comedian and the issue quickly spiralled into an all out diplomatic row between Ankara and Berlin, one whose entrails continue to smoulder.
Already Turkey has offered a rapid proportional response to the United States for its removal of visa services in the country and early reports indicate that this is just the beginning.
Whatever one's feelings are about Turkey and for many Greeks, Armenians and Syrians, these feelings are negative, the fact remains that Turkey is not afraid to defend itself, using almost all means necessary, even for infractions as seemingly innocent as speaking out against the Turkish leadership using strong or provocative language.
To put it another way, when the far-right Russian provocateur Alexei Navalny holds unauthorised rallies, he is often arrested for a few hours at a time for common charges related to disturbing the peace or holding a rally that blocks streets without official permission from local authorities. If someone like Navalny did similar things in Turkey, one could easily imagine him arrested for terrorism charges as well as violating the law of 'insulting Turkishness' or even worse.
I previously wrote that in provoking Turkey over the Kurdish issue, Israel has picked a fight with an enemy that is not afraid to fight back. All of the Israeli propaganda in the world, will not make Ankara scared of using harsh words and even taking meaningful actions against Israeli meddling in the region. Furthermore, as Turkey has a centuries long history of protecting Jews from European antagonism, the nonsense the Israeli regime proffers, saying that somehow opposing Israel means opposing human rights for Jews, is exposed as the patent absurdity that it is.
Likewise, now the United States, a country which bullies, threatens, invades and occupies countries with impunity, will now get a taste of Turkish anger. This is something far more intense than anything the US has recently received from docile Russia, businesslike China or moralistic Iran, let alone the countries America has succeeded in destroy like Yugoslavia, Iraq and Libya.
Of course, the antecedents to the Ankara-Washington row date back to America's total lack of concern for the fact that Turkey continues to blame the US for sheltering Fethullah Gulen, the man held responsible for organising the failed Turkish coup of 2016.
Since then, things have only deteriorated further. The difference now is that Turkey has gone from being disgusted with Washington, to being openly angry. Turkey may be in NATO, but then again so was Greece in the 1970s and this did not prohibit Turkey from invading Hellenic Cyprus.
The US is in for a very rude awaking if it continues to escalate its rows with Turkey. It is frankly, a rude awakening that is long overdue. Furthermore, if the US really does want to engineer another coup in Turkey, the US will have to realise that Turkey's army has been purged of most of its anti-Erdogan leaders and that furthermore, Russia, Iran and even China are now Turkish partners. America's rude awakening just got even more real".
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Deadline: 22 April 2018
Description: The program "Make Our Planet Great Again" has selected the project ClimateRefuges to co-finance a PhD position. This call is for non-French nationals and candidates must not have resided in France after April 1, 2016. Students must possess a master's degree or be enrolled in a master-level program with a defense before August 31, 2018. The doctoral contract must take effect no later than December 31, 2018
The research project 4Oceans recently funded by "Make Our Planet Great Again" program can contribute to co-finance a doctorate (PhD) position for 3 years. The research project 4Oceans seeks to investigate the physiological, ecological and adaptive responses of marine organisms to environmental change (i.e. ocean warming and ocean acidification) in the Mediterranean Sea. The 4Oceans project will merge disciplines and will involve i) ecological and physiological field surveys and experiments in marine volcanic CO2 vents, sites in the NW Mediterranean with highly variable seasonal temperatures and extreme heat waves; and sites at the edge of the current distribution of a coral species; ii) ecophysiological laboratory experiments; iii) functional, trait-based analysis and synthesis; and iv) ocean-based solution and restoration actions to minimize the impacts. Integration of physical-chemical and ecological studies will advance our understanding of species and ecosystem resilience under present conditions and future climate scenarios.
This position will be based at the Laboratoire d'Océanographie de Villefranche (LOV), Villefranche-sur-mer, France. The LOV is a leading French oceanographic institution dedicated to marine science research. It is a joint research unit of the Sorbonne Université and the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique. It is internationally renowned in the fields of biogeochemistry, physical oceanography, marine optics, zoo- and phytoplankton ecology/physiology and microbial ecology.
PhD applicants: Bright and highly motivated PhD candidate should hold a MSc in a relevant topic (e.g. marine biology-ecology, biological oceanography). The PhD candidate will combine field and laboratory ecological research and will work with team members to integrate oceanographic, ecological and physiological data in synthetic analyses. Statistical analysis (including intermediate-level programming in R) and Scuba diving proficiency and experience is required. Other ideal skills include: a high degree of independence, experience in conducting field and laboratory ecological and physiological experiments, experience with carbonate chemistry analysis, proficiency in written and spoken English, willingness to spend periods of time at field locations, and ability to work in an interdisciplinary, international research group. The PhD student will learn from interdisciplinary discussion with strong emphasis on critical thinking.
The PhD candidate will be supervised by Dr. Nuria Teixidó and Dr. Jean-Pierre Gattuso. Dr. Teixidó is a recent laureate of the "Make Our Planet Great Again" program with the project 4Oceans and will interact extensively with the whole interdisciplinary team.
Hours and Compensation: The PhD candidate will be given a workspace at LOV, and will be expected to work full time for a duration of 36 months, starting in December 2018. The minimum gross monthly remuneration under the contract shall be €1,758.
Start date: December 2018
Application Requirements: Interested candidates should send a single PDF to Nuria Teixidó (email@example.com), with the subject line: PhD-ClimateRefuges, and include the following:
- Cover letter of 1 or 2 pages (with a brief summary of the candidate's academic and research experiences and long-term goals)
- MSc Certificate
- Names and email addresses of three references
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RRC-1258MkII also supports the Kenwood protocol used by almost every Kenwood radio. You need to use a PC-software ex. HamRadioDeLuxe or a similar rig control software at the control site. All audio and data communication goes true the RRC:s so you don't have to worry about the audio quality. No more problems with soundcards and Skype etc. And most important, you don't need a PC at the remote site.
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When you want to control Kenwood radios with the RRC-1258MkII via the Kenwood CAT protocol, you connect a standard RS-232 cable between the PC and the COM 2 connector on the back of the Control-RRC. From the Radio-RRC:s COM2 connector to the radios CAT connector( D-sub RS-232) you use a special RS-232 cable ( see drawings ). They are also "off the shelf" cables also but not as common as the straight cable.
The microphone can be connected direct to the Control-RRC AUX/MIC jack, if you have a mic with RJ-45 connector. If you have a microphone with a circular connector you can buy a adapter cable MJ-88 from Kenwood, from our webshop or make one by your self.
Between the Radio-RRC AUX/MIC jack and the radios microphone jack you can connect a standard patch cable if the radio have a RJ-45 jack. If the radio have a circular microphone jack you need to make a adapter cable by your self or buy one from our webshop. If you make the cable by your self make it short as possible to prevent it from picking up HF.
The speaker is connected direct to the SP-jack on the front of the Control-RRC with a 3.5 mm stereo plugg.
The speaker signal from the Radios ext. speaker jack to the Radio-RRC SP jack is connected via a standard "off the shelf cable" with 3.5 mm stereo plugs in both ends.
Attention! Always check the users manaul for updated drawings before starting to make cables
Before connecting the cables to radio and control panel you need to do some strappings inside the RRC:s. For instructions of how to open the RRC:s see "Open the box / straps" page. Down below is the strappings that need to be done described.
If you want to be able to Connect resp. Disconnect the SIP-connection via the Microphone UP button you can add the grey strap in the control RRC. But don't press the button when you are in QSO.


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Gareth Bale absent for Tottenham amid Real Madrid move talk
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Gareth Bale has not travelled with Tottenham for their pre-season friendly against Monaco on Saturday.
The 24-year-old forward is believed to be nursing a minor injury but his absence will only heighten speculation about a potential move to Real Madrid.
Bale has indicated to Spurs he wants to speak to the Spanish club about a transfer to the Bernabeu.
And former Real manager Jose Mourinho has said he tried to sign the Wales international for the club last season.
Mourinho, who left in June to rejoin Chelsea, told ESPN on Saturday: "I asked the club to buy him last season but it was not possible.
"It looks like it is happening this season so I am happy for them because they get a fantastic player but, of course, the numbers are huge numbers and the kid has to go now and there's pressure to prove that he's worth that investment."
Mourinho's successor, Carlo Ancelotti, says Real and Spurs are in negotiations over a deal for Bale.
"I believe the club is in talks to find a solution and we will see what happens," he said on Thursday.
There are reports Real are willing to pay in excess of the world record £80m they spent signing Cristiano Ronaldo from Manchester United in June 2009.
Bale played the first half of Tottenham's pre-season friendly against Swindon on 16 July but has since been absent as the White Hart Lane club continue their build-up to the Premier League campaign.
He missed the game against Colchester on 19 July and did not figure in the Asia Trophy matches against Sunderland and South China on 24 and 27 July respectively.
If he does move to Madrid, the deal would represent a huge profit for Spurs on a player who cost them £10m when he joined from Southampton in May 2007.
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Arizona UCC to provide sanctuary to immigrant family facing deportation
Update – June 26: On Wednesday, June 25, Marco Tulio was granted an order of supervision for one year by Immigration Custom Enforcement, allowing him to stay in the United States with his family.
Marco Tulio is desperately trying to stay in the United States with his wife and children. But complications with Immigration Custom Enforcement (ICE) and other aspects of the legal system make his deportation seem more likely every day. On Wednesday, June 25, advocates from the United Church of Christ and a number of immigrant rights groups will rally together in Arizona to support the Tulio family in their time of desperation by accompanying Tulio to submit one more request for a stay of removal and offering him sanctuary at Shadow Rock UCC in Phoenix.
"Marco Tulio is a human being with a beautiful family doing the best he can do," said the Rev. Ken Heintzelman, pastor of Shadow Rock UCC. "This is the bottom line which motivates the actions of our congregation."
Tulio previously had a stay of removal from deportation, but despite numerous attempts to apply for renewal, ICE has refused to accept his applications. On Wednesday, Tulio, joined by clergy including Heintzelman and the Rev. John Dorhauer, conference minister of the Southwest Conference of the UCC, will once again deliver a request for a stay of removal, as well as an order of supervision, which would require Tulio to check into an ICE facility once per year. After submitting his applications, Tulio will take sanctuary at Shadow Rock UCC until ICE grants him deferred action or an order of supervision, ensuring that he can remain in the United States with his family.
"We have long witnessed families unjustly torn apart by an overzealous government agency whose policies are executed with little regard for family security," said Dorhauer. "I am proud of Shadow Rock UCC, and of the pastor the Rev. Ken Heinzelman, for showing the courage of their convictions and taking Marco Tulio into sanctuary. May it be that he finds in their loving arms the safety that America refused to offer him."
Shadow Rock UCC was initially involved to offer assistance to other congregations that were in line to provide sanctuary to Tulio, as a sanctuary church option would improve his leverage in the case. But as options – and time – began to run out, Heintzelman felt it was his duty and responsibility to offer his church as the safe space Tulio and his family needed to ensure they could stay together.
"The offer of sanctuary is like a card the legal team has but does not want to play unless they have to," Heintzelman said. "I understand that part of my pastoral office is to provide sanctuary as a sign of God's mercy to whoever I discern God has brought to us."
After much conversation, the board of Shadow Rock UCC voted unanimously on June 17 to support Heintzelman's offer of sanctuary for Tulio, which will be recognized with a community worship service at 6 p.m. on Wednesday.
"Marco's life is caught up in the machinations of a broken system arbitrarily enforcing unjust laws created by bigotry and unfounded fears," Heintzelman said. "The congregation of Shadow Rock United Church of Christ wants to stand between Marco Tulio and the system which would rip him away from his family, thus we offer him and his family sanctuary.
"We do not know, nor can we help, every deserving and suffering family that lives under the threat of deportation and devastation, but we do know Marco, his family, and his story," Heintzelman continued. "We stand with him and act with compassion and justice. All other political, economic, and legal arguments and rhetoric fail in the light of this human family and their need."
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