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307 piezas de la biblioteca del exbanquero genovés Jean Bonna, serán subastadas el miércoles 26 de abril por la casa Sotheby's en Paris.
Se destacan los dos primeros libros de poemas del argentino Jorge Luis Borges. El primero es un ejemplar de la primera edición de "Fervor de Buenos Aires" publicado en 1923, estimado entre 40,000 y 60,000 euros. El segundo, "Luna de enfrente", con fecha de 1925 y que está estimado entre 30,000 y 40,000 euros.
También se subastará la edición original de la última gran obra publicada por Galileo en 1638, estimada entre 700,000 y 900,000 euros, así como una Biblia protestante de 1569 valorada entre 10,000 y 15,000 euros.
The Collection Of Jean Bonna - Books & Manuscripts, 15th - 20th Centuries - Auction In Paris On 26 April - SOTHEBY'S INC.
Books & Manuscripts, 15th - 20th centuries
The Jean Bonna collection, simply put, is exceptional! The catalogues of his unique literary library spanning five centuries is now being published and edited by Vérène de Soultrait*. These open a window onto the breadth and depth of the uncommon path traced by the renowned connoisseur and insatiable reader. The remarkable collection to be auctioned next April 26th at Drouot is testimony to Jean Bonna's unusual and far-reaching passions: travel, science, political economy, artists' books, the unique typographical and historical which coexist with great works of literature - from the extraordinary dedication copy of Galileo's Discorsi, all the way to the first book by Friedrich Engels.
What is bibliophilia? Jean Bonna offers a well-structured answer based on the books and manuscripts he has personally selected. Bilbliophilia is not a mania; it is both a curiosity and a taste - a taste, for example, for significant documents such as the drafted autograph essay in defense of Madame Bovary, which Flaubert was forbidden to publish, or, for the beautiful letter by the poet Veronica Gambara to Pietro Aretino, in which the restraint resounds more eloquently than its words. Curiosity, of course, for bindings, among which, here: Rose Adler, André Mare, René Wiener, etc. Some of these were commissioned by the connoisseur, himself, firmly anchoring his library in the present. Hence, no fewer than 15 original creations, by Jean Gonet are presented, covering books covering the 15th-20th centuries. Gonet, the master binder of the end of the 20th century, who upturned the established codes and aesthetics that are the craft of bookbinding, tackled every genre with brio. The dispersion of such a significant number of his creations is homage to his unique talent.
Jean Bonna personifies a way of collecting without a priori and thus follows in the footsteps of some of the finest contemporary connoisseurs such as Jean-Paul Barbier Mueller, Pierre Bergé and Jacques Guérin. It is of no surprise that, in his sale, two items come from the collection of the latter: the fine large paper copy of Genie du Christianisme by Chateaubriand and the autograph manuscript of a poem by Stéphane Mallarmé: A celle qui est tranquille.
Among the old and rare books, several works are preserved in their original bindings, some with polychrome decors as is the case of a 1554 Virgil, a superb Protestant Bible printed in 1570 in a Genevan binding, and Petrarch's Euvres vulgaires, printed in Avignon in 1555: the French translation by Vasquin Philieul from Carpentras is testimony to the importance of Provence in the dissemination of Petrarchism in France during the 16th century. Also found here, a Venetian edition of dante's Divina Commedia (1569) in lovely contemporary gilt vellum.
Without a doubt, the most precious of the Renaissance bindings presented here was executed circa 1540 by the royal binder Etienne Roffet for King François I. Melding in its design the royal coat- of-arms as well as the salamander, the binding holds a copy of the 1533 Aldin edition of the Libri de re rustica. This exquisite volume was housed in the sovereign's renowned "bibliothèque italienne", the royal Italian library which was to become a landmark in the history of bookbinding. Indeed, for the first time, coat-of arms were systematically stamped on books belonging to a private collector.
Of particular note among the illustrated volumes of the 15th and 16th centuries are La Louenge et vertu des nobles et cleres dames by Boccaccio, published by Vérard in 1493 with 80 wood engravings; the Dialogus creaturarum published in Antwerp by Gérard Leeu in 1491, illustrated with a famous suite of 121 archaic woodcuts depicting animals (superb ebony binding by Jean de Gonet) and, also, Eloy d'Amerval's Grant Dyablerie (Paris, 1518) recreating the imaginary dialogue between Lucifer, Prince of Hell, and Satan, his ambassador to Earth. The two devils congratulate each other, praising the evil they generate. The volume bears the manuscript ex-libris of Enguerrand Charreton, dated 1519, undoubtedly a descendant of Enguerrand Quarton, the renowned painter of The Coronation of the Virgin held in the museum of Villeneuve-lès-Avignon.
The books of the 17th century are also distinguished by their armorial bindings or by their illustration.
The first edition of Bossuet's Apocalypse (1689) was bound for police Lieutenant La Reynie in contemporary morocco with his coat-of-arms gilt on sides; the Sermons of Bourdaloue, one of Madame de Sévigné's favorite preachers, is preserved in contemporary morocco and bears the well-known golden emblems of the Baron de Longepierre; the original edition of L'Impiété des Deistes, Athees, et Libertins de ce temps by Marin Mersenne (1624) was bound for Cardinal Richelieu in morocco. In addition, the Traité des obligations des Chrétiens by the Abbé de Rancé (1699) is even more remarkable. A vade mecum of virtues, issued a few months before the author's death (who inspired one of the most beautiful works by Chateaubriand), the Traité was the austere theologian's spiritual testament. The copy was bound at the time in morocco for King James II, with his coat-of-arms gilt on sides: the last Catholic king of England, he was exiled in France and befriended Rancé.
Several illustrated books of this century deserve special attention: the Portraits des hommes illustres by Perrault, a fine copy in contemporary binding and complete with the portraits of Arnauld and Pascal, censored due to their Jansenism; the truculent anthology of the Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles illustrated with 100 engraved vignettes by Romeyn de Hooghe (a lovely copy in 18th century citron morocco) and, also, the delightful Jardin d'hyver by Jean Franeau printed in Douai in 1616: this "cabinet of botanical curiosities" is illustrated with 52 engraved plates, depicting flowers and bouquets by Antoine Serrurier . Finally, Della Cavalleria by Georg Englehard von Löhneysen (1552-1622) ranks among the most spectacular works ever to have been issued by a private press. A large folio, printed in 1609 in the author's castle in Remlingen (Bavaria), the work is an equine encyclopedia. It is illustrated with 89 remarkable engravings, of which 23 are double-page, as well as nearly 250 woodcuts
- an extraordinary burst of baroque images.
A fine selection is devoted to the Enlightenment with the original editions of Choderlos de Laclos's Liaisons dangereuses, l'Histoire des singes by Alletz, a pioneering work on ethology, Bougainville's Voyage autour du monde which was to give birth to the myth of the "noble savage", Le Sage's Le Diable boiteux, destined to become a phenomenal success, or Rousseau's Nouvelle Héloïse - first issued as Lettres de deux amants (1761) - a fine copy in contemporary morocco. Also of note, an autograph letter from Voltaire to d'Argenson and the renowned Contes et nouvelles en vers by La Fontaine illustrated by Fragonard (1765).
Along with these celebrated works are curiosities of great appeal to bibliophiles, such as the Cours des principaux fleuves et rivières de l'Europe printed at Versailles by King Louis XV, at the age of 8 on his private press: on which he learned the basics of the art of printing. Jean Bonna's copy is without equal: it was bound for the Marquise de Pompadour, the future mistress of the young amateur printer. Also of appeal, the original edition of La Guirlande de Julie (1729), one of the finest collections of courtship poetry from the previous century: the copy was bound at the beginning of the 19th century for the personal library of Josephine and Bonaparte in La Malmaison - a poetic garland for the wife of the future Emperor.
Finally, the collection also includes a run of 14 first editions of works by Restif de La Bretonne, the indefatigable chronicler of the mores of the vanishing Ancien Régime, whose own gallivanting filled his gossip columns: often self-printed, his works are usually illustrated with engravings by Binet which add a touch of spice - in accordance with his fantasies: small-waisted women with small feet.
This sale gathers nearly 100 autograph documents dating from the 16th -20th centuries, with fine sets around Baudelaire, Flaubert, Hugo, Nerval, Proust and Stendhal. To deceive the indiscrete reader, the latter used pseudonyms, composing letters in a mix of Italian, English and French: for example, he oddly wrote to his sister in 1810: "You must take the gouvernail". The letters sent by Baudelaire to his mother are moving and those concerning Belgium are filled with rage. To this day, the letters addressed by Flaubert to Louise Colet are masterpieces of amorous correspondence: "Je suis un des gueulards au désert de la vie"(I am one of the gripers in the desert of life), he allows. Further, he confesses: "Je lis du Montaigne maintenant dans mon lit. Je ne connais pas de livre plus calme & qui vous dispose à plus de sérénité." (I now read Montaigne in my bed. I know of no book more soothing & which allows one more serenity)
The hand-written log of observations that Victor Hugo kept in Guernsey in 1856 renders the poet's spiritualist experiences: visions, spinning tables... To protect the memory of the great poet, his heirs withheld this intimate diary. Also, among the 8 autograph letters of Proust offered here, the one written on July 1, 1919 to the son of the actress Réjane, Jacques Porel, has some bite. The writer, subletting the actress' apartment on the rue Laurent-Pichat, complains of the "racket" in the building: "Les voisins dont me sépare la cloison font l'amour tous les 2 jours avec une frénésie dont je suis jaloux" (Beyond the partition, the neighbors make love every two days with a frenzy of which I am jealous)...
Lastly, the set of 24 original letters sent by Guy de Maupassant to Countess Potocka (1883-1891) is exceptional. In a total of over 120 autograph pages, this extraordinary correspondence from the writer to his muse and confidante teems with both intimate and literary considerations ; impressions of travels as well as philosophical notes whilst mirroring the author's slow descent into the madness which would soon overwhelm him.
This collection houses fine artists' books illustrated by: Edouard Manet (the copy of his 1875 Corbeau was beautifully bound by Jean de Gonet), André Masson, Hans Bellmer, Jean Fautrier, Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, Edgar Tytgat (his rare first Petit Chaperon rouge, London 1917, printed in 15 copies only) Paul Jouve, Raoul dufy (10 original watercolors illustrating La Chatte by Colette), André derain (5 books illustrated by him, including Le Nez de Cléopâtre, masterfully bound by Rose Adler), Geneviève Asse, Marcel duchamp (La Mariée mise à nu), Maurice denis, Henri Matisse (5 books including Mallarmé's Poésies and Florilège des amours by Ronsard), Joseph Sima, Wols, Juan Gris...
Also, of special interest, L'Homme et son désir by Paul Claudel, in which the autograph text is illustrated by Audrey Parr in Brazil, in 1917: its form is that of an accordion over 1,50 meters in length (approximately 5 feet).
An additional charm of collecting books lies in the autograph dedication inscribed by the authors on their works, as well as the provenance, establishing the genealogy of each book.
If Jean Bonna acquired the first edition of Galileo's Discorsi e Dimostrazioni matematiche (Leyde, 1638), it is not only because of his taste for seminal works but, also, because it is a unique copy magnificently bound for the dedicatee, Count François de Noailles. Its binding was executed at the time by Le Gascon in morocco, entirely covered with a splendid gilt decor "à la fanfare". Not only is this the most beautiful copy known, but it is unquestionably one of the best association copies to be found: it could be compared to the colored copy of Fuchs bound for Jacques-Auguste de Thou (Pierre Bergé library) or Newton's Principia, annotated by Leibniz (Bodmer Foundation, Geneva).
It is this notion of association that imparts the very depth of the dedications apposed by the authors on the title page of their works.
Thus, Bloy addressing to Rachilde Sueur de sang, his very dark anthology devoted to the War of 1870, tersely inscribes: "Voici la gueule du Monstre." (Here is the Monster's mug) As a sort of revenge, the turbulent high school student from Rouen, expelled for lack of discipline, gifts his freshly printed Madame Bovary with this delectable dedication: "à mon ami Mr Dainez, mon ancien professeur de mathématiques, le plus dévoué et le plus âne de ses élèves, Gustave Flaubert." (To my friend Mr. Dainez, my old math teacher, the most devoted and dumbest of his students...)
Addressing his anthology Charmes, to his former classmate and friend André Gide, Paul Valéry has written: "Que diable veux-tu que je mette ici ? Tante cose !" (What the devil do you want me to put here? So many things!) Indeed, "so many things" bound these two.
Unmistakably, and by far, the two most touching dedications of this collection are those inscribed by Jorge-Luis Borges on his first two books, Fervor de Buenos Aires and Luna de enfrente, for these are dedicated to his lifelong friend Maurice Abramovicz. The two were classmates at the Lycée Calvin in Geneva and remained close forever. At the end of his life, after the death of Abramovicz, Borges dedicated a text in his Los Conjurados: "Esta noche puedo llorar como un hombre, puedo sentir que por mis mejillas las lágrimas resbalan, porque sé que en la tierra no hay una sola cosa que sea mortal y que no proyecte su sombra." (Tonight I can weep like a man; I can feel the tears because I know that on this earth not one thing is mortal and which does not cast its shadow.)
The shadows cast by the books of bygone authors assembled by the bibliophile, are testimony to an uninterrupted life, from one collector to another. What if this celebration of the mind, this effervescence of books, were, in the end, the best definition of bibliophilia?
* The two volumes devoted to the 16th century have now been published. They follow the three volumes published earlier, devoted to the 17th and 18th centuries. Vérène de Soultrait is now editing the next volume devoted to the incunabula.
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'Bet Hur' (賭城群英會) is a TVB drama directed by famous film director, Wong Jing that revolves on revenge started from a lost in a gambling match between two masters. The revenge continues to the younger generations. The drama is categorized as a gambling drama but gambling is only present on the first and the last episode of the whole 35-episodes series. I was very excited for this drama back then because it is a huge production drama and it has a great cast including those we have long not seen in television before such as Patrick Tse, Nat Chan, and Monica Chan. The drama also starred Kenneth Ma, Charmaine Sheh, Raymond Wong, Samantha Ko, Dominic Ho, Carlo Ng, Joseph Lee, Connie Man, Matt Yeung, Louisa Mak, etc.
What do I think of the drama? One word: Lousy! The drama's title itself gives a huge false impression. It is so misleading. I am expecting a drama filled with intense gambling, dramatic action scenes and suspenseful plots. I ended up seeing a drama with extremely poor story, illogical plot that doesn't flow cohesively, and emphasizes more on boring love storyline. I can only see gambling on the first and the last episodes of the drama. That's it. No thrilling actions or plots going in between. The huge amount of time given to develop the romantic relationship between Dominic Ho and the other two girls is so unnecessary and irrelevant to the whole story. Even the love storyline between Kenneth Ma and Charmaine Sheh is not developed to that level. Everything is not balanced.
The presence of heavyweight cast in this series is a total missed opportunity. They are some great scenes for them to showcase their acting (especially some explosive or death scenes) but they are not enough to save the whole drama. It is a waste to their talents. Nevertheless, Kenneth Ma do has one scene that is amazing but that doesn't help to push him for any award recognition this year. The old veteran that acted as the nemesis of Patrick Tse in the drama is very poor on voicing out his lines. I always cannot hear what he said. Patrick looks cool at his age but his role is so 'empty'. Nat Chan and Monica Chan couldn't act and shouldn't be here at all. Louisa Mak, a newbie actress, performed badly but can be forgiven since this is her first time acting. Her crying (Nat Chan's crying too) scenes in this drama are awful. Raymond Wong and Connie Man's characters are very minor and it makes me feel as though they are added to the story just to join in the fun.
I can literally call this drama a rubbish. There is literally nothing going on for almost 30 episodes of the drama. And as the drama nears its ending, the scriptwriter decided to kill as many characters as he/she wants. So many deaths, and surprisingly, I'm not feeling anything. The whole story is badly written. And how about the conclusion? Another bad conclusion. Kenneth's character has to have evil intentions and has to kill innocent people to win in the end. And he is not going to jail for that? Hmm…that is sending out a bad message to audiences. Charmaine's character made a good decision to leave him. The only happy thing is at least that the whole bad family is now gone, and the scriptwriter decided to stress on that again and again in the last episode. That is so not necessary.
Out of 10 points, I rate 'Bet Hur' a total of 5.0. Out of that 5, 3 points are for the stars and 2 points are for the production effort. No point at all for the story. It's a total crap. Very disappointed with this series. Let's get this series out of the mind and I now look forward to the next TVB drama 'The Unholy Alliance'.
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Oracle, fresh off its high-profile patent fight against Google, is heading back to court again, this time in its dispute with former partner Hewlett-Packard over the future of Intels high-end Itanium processor platform.
Jury selection at Santa Clara County Superior Court in San Jose, Calif., is scheduled to begin May 31 in the case, which stems from Oracles decision last year to end software development in support of Itanium, Intels controversial chip architecture that powers HPs high-end Integrity and NonStop server platforms.
Oracle executives have said the decision came after learning from Intel engineers that the giant chip maker was planning to end development of Itanium in favor of its x86-based Xeon server processors. Officials with both HP and Intel have disputed that claim, saying that Intels road map shows more generations of Itanium in the works over the next several years. HP is by far the largest Itanium customer.
HP executives claimed Oracles decision was a ploy to force the companies joint customers off HP systems and onto Oracles SPARC/Solaris Unix platform, which Oracle inherited when it bought Sun Microsystems in 2010. HP estimates that the two companies have about 140,000 joint customers, many of whom run their Oracle enterprise applicationsincluding database softwareon HPs Integrity servers.
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HP sued Oracle, claiming the Itanium decision violated an agreement between the two to continue supporting technology used by those joint customers. Oracle officials have said there is no such ironclad agreement, and countersued HP, claiming that HP had misled customers about the future of Itanium.
Oracle became the third major enterprise software maker, behind Microsoft and Red Hat, to end support for Itanium.
The lawsuits were only the latest step in the fraying relationship between two companies that for a long time had been close partners. Holes in the partnership began to surface in 2009, when Oracle executives announced they were buying Sun, which put it in direct competition with HP in the data center hardware space.
It further eroded in 2010, when HP forced Mark Hurd to resign as CEO after questions about his personal conduct arose. It later hired Leo Apotheker as CEO. Apotheker, who lasted less than a year at HP, had been CEO of SAP, Oracles top enterprise software rival. Tensions increased when Oracle hired Hurd as president. HP sued Oracle, and the two sides eventually settled. HP officials claimed that as part of the settlement, the two companies agreed to continue supporting their joint customers. However, Oracle officials have argued that there was never a binding agreement.


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Long time no see, eh reader? Well, sorry about that, but, as is customary, I had been incredibly busy with DroidArcade; a game my humble self and Kyttaro Games launched on Apple's App Store a few days ago. It's a reworked, free to grab and fully arcade take on the more cerebral, more expensive Droidscape: Basilica and I do hope the iPad, iPhone and iPod touch owning masses really enjoy it. Do, please, let me know what you thought of it and its sci-fi, stop-motion animated self.
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Downloaded it, but I'm a bit confused as to how it's different from DS:B? Having played through that game, is there any new content on DroidArcade or is it just reorganized? By the by, loved Basilica and am hoping for the addition of new levels someday!ReplyDeleteReplies
Hey, thanks! Well, the main difference is the new action based control method. Also, we've redesigned a few bits in most levels and touched up the graphics of the levels. Oh, and made the first world free to grab.Delete
Cheers and thanks again!
Here's to the new levels!
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There's a new trend for the brightest young business minds of today. Skip the traditional method of working your way up the business ladder, found an exciting new business instead and you're already on top.
For entrepreneur Mark Sholin, this is a reality.
Sholin graduated with his Chemical Engineering B.S. in 2010 from the University of Arizona and entered a Ph.D. program at ASU. While working as a research associate in the BioDesign Institute a certain technology called ARBCell captured his interest and this lead to the founding of ARBSource in August 2011.
The ARBCell is a treatment method for water that is cost and energy efficient. Organic waste in water from a high production facility, such as a potato chip factory, is degraded and eliminated using organisms and a unique reactor design. In the end the water is clean and the process produces hydrogen gas which can be sold or used by the company.
"What I like to say is that ARBSource transforms wastewater treatment from a costly liability into a valuable resource," Sholin said.
ARBSource, though still pre-revenue, has already been noticed. It is being supported by the ASU Edson Student Entrepreneurship Initiative with a $10,000 investment and it is a finalist in the CleanTech Open, a worldwide competition for cleantech startup businesses.
The CleanTech finals will be held in San Jose, Calif. November 15 and 16. To win the $250,000 prize, ARBSource must beat out 20 other companies.
Sholin credits his company's success to the young and enthusiastic team behind ARBSource as well as their older, more experienced advisors.
"At CleanTech we were the youngest by far," Sholin said. "But we show that we're knowledgeable and credible."
Being young, in fact, is a benefit, Sholin said. As long as the team stays "leveraged by experienced advisors" youth will make the business more memorable.
Josh Hottenstein, the Arizona director for the CleanTech Open, has worked directly with Sholin and praises the start up. He worked to pair ARBSource with mentors who would be able to foster the newly formed business' growth.
"CleanTech works to find, fund and foster clean technology entrepreneurs," Hottenstein said. "Even though it is a competition, we work with every contestant to be their advocate and connect them with mentors in the field."
Hottenstein said that ARBSource has what a start up needs: a sellable product, unique hook and a solid team.
"There are a lot of ideas in Arizona," Hottenstein said. "I try to connect them with resources to turn them into a company."
Will Curran, a senior at ASU and colleague of Sholin's, said the two of them often brainstorm together about how to build their businesses.
Curran founded and runs Arizona Pro DJs, a business that delivers high quality entertainers and music to events such as birthday parties and High School dances.
"We bring concert and club elements to events," Curran said.
Curran is a two time ASU Edson Student Entrepreneurship Initiative award recipient and couldn't be more thankful for the help it gave.
"Edson was huge," Curran said. "We were able to use that money toward expensive equipment we needed."
Both Sholin and Curran agree that ASU and the resources it provides was a huge boon to their businesses.
"The learning curve for me and ARBSource was accelerated by ASU's resources," Sholin said
"It's important to utilize all resources, and ASU has tons of them," Curran said.
ASU's effort spent on creating an atmosphere that encourages and supports student entrepreneurship has definitely paid off in the cases of Sholin and Curran. Now it's time to see who will succeed next.


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Peeks Crowdfunding Service Generates Over 400 Campaigns in First Week8:47 AMMarch 14, 2017
TORONTO, ON— KEEKF, PEEK, (Marketwired – March 14, 2017) – Peeks Social Ltd. (TSX VENTURE: PEEK) (OTCQB: KEEKF) is pleased to announce that further to its press release dated February 23, 2017, the Peeks Crowdfunding Service ("PCF") has been officially launched inside the Peeks app. The new PCF has generated more than 400 campaigns in its first week, in which users are collectively attempting to raise approximately $750,000 for a variety of initiatives. A typical user generated campaign has aRead more


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April 24, 2006
One Journal Project
A few years ago I became fascinated with the 1000 Journals Project. I signed up, got my journal (Number 768), worked on it for while during a trip to Tibet, and passed it on... then after it changed hands a few times it vanished... (Damn you Matthew Skvasik!) This has always bugged me.... So today I was driving down Flatbush Avenue when I had this thought: "people from around the world read Heading East, I'm sure some of them would enjoy this sort of thing... why not start my own personal journal project both because it would be interesting and because it would be a tangible way to get to know some of you out there."
So here's the deal: if you want to participate, send an email with your name/address to >. When I get enough names/addresses I will drop the journal in the mail to the first person on the list. When you receive the journal you are asked to add something to it, ideally including at least one image of yourself, and send it on to the next person on the list within one week. If you have a digital camera send me a picture of the journal before sending it off to the next person and I will post it here. When journal has made it's way back to me I will scan and post all the images.
I'm thinking of using a small moleskin journal which should be easy to mail.
UPDATE: This project is now closed. The journals are traveling.


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The fact that two of Florida's 200 largest companies sell copy machines is no accident. The proliferation of inexpensive machines and the growth of business in the state has made the copier market hot.
So hot that Delta Business Systems Inc., based in Orlando, and Danka Industries Inc., based in Tampa, each had sales totaling more than $20 million last year, according to Florida Trend magazine, which ranked them as the 174th-largest and the 168th-largest businesses in the state, respectively.


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The Magazine in the Attic
Brenda Deeter got her start as an artist when she and her husband, Eric, bought an old Victorian style house in Silver Lake, KS (about an hour west of Kansas City). They got a good deal because the rehab was only half-way completed. They moved in and went to work on the house. It took all their spare time, and every extra dollar went for construction materials. The budget was busted when it came time for decorating.
Poking around in the attic, Brenda found an old magazine. An article talked about someone who'd done "color washing". Brenda said, "Paint is cheap," and went to work on her first faux finish project. She worked hard to get it right. She experimented with faux painting in other rooms. Sometimes she had to paint over everything and start again, but she developed good DIY skills and had a good eye for color.
From DIY to Pro
A few years later, Brenda needed to make a career change. Eric signed them both up for their first faux finish class. Brenda came home energized. All the amateur faux finishes went away, and she began her journey as a professional artist. She and Eric formed MorningStar Home Specialists. Brenda worked as a faux finish artist and Eric did remodeling and handy man work.
Faux Finish Specialists
Faux finishing took over the business, and Eric shut down the remodeling and handyman work to assist Brenda. Together they created a host of commission works. They committed to weeks of training each year at top schools around the country. They've applied their work on floors, ceilings, walls, cabinets, doors, furniture, woodwork, bricks, concrete, counter tops, and art canvas. Brenda often says, "If it stands still long enough, we can paint it."
Cabinet refinishing was a part of their business since the start. They applied the same attention to detail and product knowledge to kitchen cabinets and furniture. The recent demand for kitchen cabinet refinishing didn't catch them off guard. They simply shifted their focus to cabinets rather than walls.
The Benefit to You
Brenda has the skill of an artist and the eye of a designer. Mixed with these skills she has the practical experience and knowledge of a contractor and the mind of a problem solver. She excels at making every job fit the decor and style of your home.
More than that, she is a genius at selecting the right color for the job. And she knows how to adjust the color she uses to be the "just right" for your home. You will love the way your home looks.
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Remember in Diwali when social media was full of posts asking Indians not to buy Chinese-made fireworks? Their logic was that our money spent on them would benefit China (and indirectly Pakistan, because China supported Pakistan on sensitive issues). Social media nationalists sought to churn nationalism by turning the Chinese-fireworks issue into one of national sentiment and calling those buying it as anti-national. Then following demonetization in November, many of these Bhakt nationalists started posting about the need to use digital payment methods, to show their support for the demonetization move. This included support for platforms like PayTM, the popular mobile digital app which has seen a windfall gain in usage post demonetization.
But they are now changing their stances against PayTM, and have announced anyone using PayTM will be declared as Anti-National! Why? This is because these Bhakt nationalists realized China is the largest investor in PayTM. China's Alibaba, directly and through associates, owns 40% of PayTM, and is its single-largest shareholder. So every transaction that Indians do on PayTM, eventually benefits China, since profits are being repatriated to China – the same way profits from Chinese-fireworks benefited China; and possibly eventually benefited Pakistan if China invested its tax-incomes in Pakistani projects. In short, the nationalist Bhakts were asking Indians to support China (and Pakistan) – while they had asked them to do the exact opposite in Diwali. Realizing the utter fools they made of themselves in front of 1.2 billion Indians, they are now trying the clear their image by declaring that any user of Chinese-owned PayTM will also be deemed an anti-national, just like those who had bought Chinese-made fireworks.
While the Indian government had only raised objections about safety of chemicals used in Chinese-fireworks and that PayTM is a fantastic user-friendly platform that allows digital payments with ease, these nationalistic bhakts had made the fireworks issue into a political affair to flare up nationalism sentiments. Since the fickle nature of their arguments got caught now post demonetization, leaving them embarrassed; they are now covering their faux-pas by declaring PayTM users as anti-national.
However, while the nationalistic Bhakts have redeemed themselves by this new declaration, they are yet to address issues like potential black-money creation on digital payment platforms like PayTM. After all, neither is there a limit on the number of mobile sim-cards one can buy in India, nor does PayTM restrict using only one login id on a single mobile phone instrument. One can login with any number of login ids on the same mobile instrument, provided he has bought several sim-cards on which to download the app and make multiple logins. Multiple logins (and sim-cards) is needed because there is a restriction on the maximum transaction amount allowed per login without declaring one's KYC. Which means distributing the undisclosed money by breaking it into multiple login ids up to the maximum allowed amount. All this sounds cumbersome, but it's a one-time effort. Those desperate to keep income unaccounted and continue to evade taxes, will find it justifiable to make that one-time effort. But the nationalistic Bhakts are yet to raise slogans on such potential black-money creation on digital payment platforms, despite declaring users of PayTM as anti-national.
So while most citizens, including this reporter, support the government's demonetization move and use a fantastic user-friendly platform like PayTM, the nationalistic Bhakts seemed to have made it difficult, but not now!


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Happy Thanksgiving everyone and here's wishing retailers better success in this year's holiday shopping season than the last two:
1) 10 Awesome Turkey Recipes: BuzzFeed (via Fritinancy)
A couple of years ago, I featured the understated elegance of the bacon-wrapped, turkey-bacon combo, the Turbaconducken. That's nothing compared to this, the TurDunkin: "Turkey brined in Dunkin Donuts coolattas, stuffed with munchkins and served with coffee gravy and mashed hash browns." Yum!
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2) How to Make an All-Instant Thanksgiving Dinner: Wired Science
As we continue our tour of the culinary depths, let's turn to Wired Science and its quest to make an all-instant thanksgiving dinner. Apart from the canned cranberry in the photo, they were able to find all the other important ingredients in cans from the turkey to the mashed potatoes and gravy.
3) This outta be good: Indexed
4) Turkey Tussle: Slate
Slate's guide to your annual Thanksgiving arguments with three of the hot topics being TSA pat-downs, extending the Bush tax cuts and how/whether to cut the deficit. Quoting Loudon Wainwright's Thanksgiving prayer: "If I argue with a loved one, Lord, please make me the winner," Slate provides the ammunition you need to upset one or more family members around the table.
5) Thanksgiving Seating Chart: College Humor
6) Saks Fifth Avenue: 3D Holiday Windows
A few weeks ago, I linked to a beautiful video mapping show projected on Prague's famous astronomical clock. Now, here's Sacks Fifth Avenue using video mapping for holiday windows on a grand scale.
That's it! Back soon with more stories from the world of brand strategy and somewhat related topics. More thoughts and comments also available on Twitter (@martinjbishop).


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Thursday, February 13, 2014
Jonathan Franzen on Overrated Books
I would hesitate to describe many books as overrated. I would happily stick my neck out for Captain Corelli's Mandolin, but most of the books I dislike are for reasons that I often can't fathom myself.
I find those chunky, macho 'Great American Novel' candidates as unreadable as the effete sub-Iris Murdoch stories that are populated with characters called Rupert, Gertrude and Axel.
I also struggle to appreciate those 'lyrical' novels by Commonwealth writers that specialise in lengthy descriptions of fruit and grandparents.
On the other hand, give me a novel in translation by a Hungarian author or a recent winner of the Prix Goncourt and I'm an avid reader. I don't know why.
Perhaps it's just harder to spot the cliches when you're reading a foreign novel, but I wonder if there's something else too.
24 comments:
- Canadian Chickadee said...
As an American, two things: First, Jonathan Franzen is a pompous jerk. His high opinion of himself and the value of his work "The Corrections" led him to turn down an offer to be one of Oprah Winfrey's book club selections, a group which included Nobel Prize winners like Toni Morrison. He considers himself to be a "literary novelist" -- I've found that the term usually refers to someone whose work is so arcane as to be unreadable.
As for British novelists, both present and past, I find most of them very good. The only British author whose fame is, in my opinion, undeserved is Hillary Mantel -- the woman never met an unclear antecedent that she didn't love, and I find her books exasperating in the extreme. I have no trouble with her subject matter -- it's her handling of the subject that grates.
- 9:15 pm
- George said...
I would find it hard to say that E.M. Forster is not a novelist. I dislike the novels I've read, but I would have a hard time coming up with a useful definition of "novel" that excluded them. To know whether Greene is overrated, I'd have to know how he's rated, and I don't.
At some point, Forster's work must have crossed the Atlantic just fine: the American critic Lionel Trilling wrote a book on him, and Trilling's opinions carried a lot of weight in his day. I think that it is a healthy sign if Forster is less admired here.
The Corrections is clever, and strikes me as perfectly suited to Oprah's book club. There are a few insights, nothing blinding, and everyone (unless maybe the older brother) learns to be a little bit nicer--what could be more Ophrah? It is not in the least difficult reading, though the length meant that I hurried to finish it for a neighborhood book club.
Whether Franzen is pompous or not, I do think he could have shaved. Oh, and spoken lounder
- 9:50 pm
- ombhurbhuva said...
Brighton Rock is an excellent book and they made a great film out of it. Ditto for Howard's End and Passage to India. Donna Tartt's Goldfinch stole my Christmas.
She's overrated without a doubt.
- 11:12 pm
- Tim Footman said...
Your line about "lengthy descriptions of fruits and grandparents" is more memorable than anything by Franzen I've ever read.
- 9:37 am
- Steerforth said...
Carol - Gosh - you really don't like him. Like Rushdie, he doesn't come across well in interviews, but I understood that it wasn't arrogance that led to the Oprah Book Club debacle, but a fear that he would lose male readers if the covers were branded with the Oprah logo.
Re: Hillary Mantel - I have a problem reading historical fiction and abandoned the only novel of hers that I attempted. My loss, I'm sure.
George - Greene's a confusing case. He didn't make any claims for himself, but his ostensibly middlebrow novels frequently exceed expectations. Our Man in Havana is like an Eric Ambler story that has been rewritten by Evelyn Waugh.
Re: Forster, why is it a healthy sign if he is less admired in the US?
I also enjoyed The Corrections. I wouldn't say that it was any more perceptive than an Anne Tyler novel, so I don't quite understand the 'Great American Novel' hysteria that surrounded its publication. But it was engagaing, witty and perceptive.
ombhurbhuva - Those Merchant Ivory films are a sort of middle class porn and I find them slightly annoying. But the film of Brighton Rock is a corker.
I can't say I've been tempted to read either of Donna Tartt's later novels. The Secret History was enjoyable, but hardly great literature.
Tim - If only I had written 'fruits' instead of 'fruit'.
- 10:34 am
- Thomas at My Porch said...
Franzen is a prick of the highest order. Talk about someone who believes his own hype. I've never heard him open his mouth without wanting to physically shut it again for him.
I need to correct Canadian Chickadee. He didn't turn down Oprah, he accepted--and all of the hundreds of thousands of copies that he sold thanks to her--but then was so trash talking her book club in an interview that she uninvited him. And why should he worry about losing his male audience? Oprah's stamp at the time sold more books than any male fan base he may have had. Would it really be so awful to have female fans?
And for him to rattle off Forster and Greene as being overrated. Is he serious? Yes, it can be a matter of taste, but I don't know how anyone could say they don't deserve their places on their respective pedestals.
I've read other Greene novels and liked them, but I recently discovered The End of the Affair which Franzen singles out. It is a brilliant novel.
And I so agree with you about the giant macho great American novel.
- 6:01 pm
- Annie said...
Jonathan Franzen, TL;DR, as the kids say these days.
Does he have a go at Graham Greene? The utter gall!
Anything described as lyrical makes me think it will be overrated...
- 7:53 pm
- Steerforth said...
Thomas - I didn't realise that Franzen aroused such strong feelings! I noticed that Oprah generously invited him back when Freedom was published.
One of my problems with those macho GAMs is that in order to prove their 'everyman' credentials, they keep droning on about baseball, or something similar. As someone who loathes all sport, I don't want to know. I stopped reading Underworld as soon as the New York Giants made an appearance.
Annie - Your blog post link was spot on. The Dijon was absurd, but also the name - Mary Bella! I can't read that sort of precious nonsense without wanting to play a Chas and Dave record.
When I used to meet publishers' reps and look through the list of forthcoming titles, the word 'lyrical' was a huge help, as it saved me the effort of having to waste time reading the whole blurb. When it came to short stories, the rep would turn the page without even trying to sell the book.
- 9:03 pm
- George said...
A healthy sign: I think it is a healthy sign that Forster's stock has fallen, because I think that his novels are not that good, and that it was the weaker parts that pleased critics such as Trilling. My longer argument you will find at http://dc20011.blogspot.com/2014/02/em-forster-since-you-asked.html.
Great American Novels: Calvin Trillin once proposed that Americans who are not a) WASP and b) male tend to be less boring because nobody's been telling them that they can grow up to be president. Novels that set out to be the GAM do tend to be worth avoiding. Maybe the Supreme Court could rule that Great American Novelist is a "Title of Nobility" under the meaning of Article I, Section 9, of the Constitution, ergo unconstitutional, and so save a lot of novelists from folly.
Lyrical: I am of two minds about that. I think that Marilynne Robinson's prose might be so described, yet I think her a very good writer. Definitely it can be overdone.
Merchant and Ivory: As far as I know, I've seen only "The Unbearable Lightness of Being", which spend a couple hours demonstrating that Juliette Binohe looks marvelous in lingerie, and that Communism is Bad. I think I could have figured out both propositions on my own. Anyway, Harvey Weinstein's empire has taken up the torch, and we won't run out of the sort of movies they made.
- 12:11 am
- Steerforth said...
Thanks George - I've read the post and now understand what you mean.
I think the Supreme Court idea is an excellent one, although Paul Ryan might insist on making an exception for his beloved Ayn Rand.
I read a great American novel six weeks ago - Stoner. It didn't mention baseball once and only took a day to read, but I'm still thinking about it.
- 10:31 am
- Annabel (gaskella) said...
I've still not read Jonathan Franzen - it's the 'big American novel' cliche for me that puts me off, that's probably why The Goldfinch will sit on my shelf for ages too.
However I'd defend Graham Greene to the ends of the earth, and his novels improve upon re-reading for me. They are also a really good length - not drawn out at all, and that's something that many of these writers of thick books could learn from
- 10:31 am
- Steerforth said...
Annabel - I'm reading some very thick books at the moment - Trollope's Palliser novels - but because they're so entertaining the length isn't intimidating. On the other hand I've spent up to two weeks struggling with short novels where every page feels like an ordeal.
I think Greene's strength is that he had the measure of himself and aimed to write a perfect Graham Greene novel rather than strive to be something he wasn't.
- 10:54 am
- Pam said...
Isn't it really just personal preference? For instance, I love books that "drone on" about baseball. I also enjoy Trollope, Hillary Mantel and Marilynne Robinson. Stoner was a wonderful novel. Why not just enjoy reading what you enjoy reading and be nice about it?
- 3:34 pm
- Roget said...
What always amuses me is not the tendency of American writers to have large opinions, but that they are invariably expressed - as here - with a full tank of preening self-regard. I'd be genuinely interested to know exactly why Franzen derides Forster and Greene so completely, but of course he doesn't give us that. "Just take it from me, kids", he seems to be saying.
Maybe this kind of silly arrogance stems from the whole American Dream/Great American Novel tangle all these people get themselves into. I don't think anybody in these islands ever broke sweat trying to write the Great British Novel. He or she would be laughed off court at the merest hint of such vaingloriousness. Our writers and their stories are richer and better for its absence. And though we've had our fair share of notable "pricks" and "pompous jerks" a la Franzen, I think I'm right, Steerforth, in saying that we haven't yet offered up a single novel about bloody rounders.
One other point. Hilary Mantel is, I believe, a truly great novelist and even at this stage we haven't yet seen the best of her. Ain't it weird how opinions differ...?
- 3:40 pm
- Steerforth said...
Pam - Of course it's all about personal preference. But it would take all the fun out of it if we were always completely reasonable and measured in our pronouncements.
If someone critcises an author I love, I'm delighted because I'm genuinely fascinated by the way we can respond in such different ways to a novel or work or art. For me, passion is the important thing and that can either be for or against.
Roget - I suppose the nearest Britain gets to it is the 'London novel', where someone attempts to define the zeitgeist with a predictable list of characters (the media person, the illegal immigrant, the banker etc) and adds a bit of Dickensian polish. John Lanchester tried this in Capital but didn't pull it off. Neither did Blake Morrison.
The one London novel I really liked was Amanda Craig's Hearts and Minds, as I actually cared what happened to the characters.
I suppose the drive to write a GAM is borne out of the desire to make sense of such a multifaceted, dynamic nation that is in a perpetual state of flux (the sport thing always feels like a self-conscious attempt by the author to an everyman). Britain, by contrast, had a strong sense of identity, a stagnant economy and a diminishing role in the world, so a GBN would be absurd.
I'll give Hillary Mantel another go. As I don't like historical novels, it will have to be Eight Months on Ghazza Street.
- 4:27 pm
- Roget said...
Well Steerforth, I so disagree with several of your points here that I think I'll go away and write an angst-ridden book about it.
Meanwhile, I forgot to say that I too loved the "fruit and grandparents" sally. Accurate and true.
- 4:54 pm
- Steerforth said...
Well, I rattle these half-baked ideas off without spending too long thinking about them. I believe Jack Kerouac used the same technique, to greater effect.
- 5:05 pm
- Annie said...
'we haven't yet offered up a single novel about bloody rounders'
haha, excellent!
Can recommend Hilary Mantel's 'Beyond Black' if you want to read something truly dark and scary.
I loved Amanda Craig's A Vicious Circle. Properly Dickensian.
- 9:53 pm
- Debra said...
I'll send you the most recent Goncourt if you send me "Born Free". Much modern French.. "fiction" sounds like medical reports to me.
I listened to Jonathan Franzen's... sound bites in lieu of literary criticism. It's true that Franzen is not Lionel Trilling, and even less Matthew Arnold, but to be fair, do any of you think that the world we now live in could produce another Lionel Trilling, or Matthew Arnold ? (I like Ian MacEwan's "Saturday" for his somewhat subtle transposition of "Dover Beach" onto modern England. Arnold's poem is as timely today as it was when it was written but I fear that we are much less... interesting as characters than our ancestors were. And I'm not setting myself outside this judgment.)
Franzen talks a lot like me. I see no self agrandizement in him, particularly. Think about it... some media person has asked him, what HE, as a novelist thinks, and he answers the questions. He doesn't even resort to a large vocabulary. There is no "jargon" in these sound bites (which, incidentally are not very interesting in my opinion.) He.. IS a novelist. He even manages to put meat and potatoes on the table doing it, which is something not a lot of us can afford to do right now. At least on the basis of what I see in these sound bites, I don't see how he is putting himself on a pedestal. Maybe elsewhere ? I don't know.
I am honestly mystified why so many people decree that others have high opinions of themselves, and on what basis. The logic of this escapes me.
Is there something terribly... wrong with having a high opinion of oneself ? Does it automatically imply that one has a.. low ? opinion of others ?
Not in my world, at any rate.
I do however, agree with somebody on this blog that there is an ocean of difference between the Old World and the New.
Too bad the Old World spends so much time kowtowing to the New, and feeling inferior...
Oh dear.. I seem to be feeling quite contrary these days. Sorry.
- 11:21 am
- Steerforth said...
Annie - Yes, the rounders comment was very good. I Googled to see if there actually was a novel that featured the game - you never know - but drew a blank.
I'm a big fan of Amanda Craig and hope that she's working on another novel.
Debra - Don't worry about being contrary - it would be dull if we there was a bland consensus. I enjoyed Franzen's candour, even if I didn't entirely agree with him.
- 12:12 pm
- James Chester said...
Thomas's link sent me over here today. I watched the clip.... I usually argue that one should never listen to artists (of any kind) talk about their art. They seldom, if ever, have anything interesting to say about it. Readers should be the ones we go to when we want to talk about books; writers not so much.
As for Franzen, all I have to say is that one month after Freedom came out in hardback, I saw four copies at my local Friends of the Library book sale for two dollars each. Let's wait around 30 years and see who's still in print.
- 12:31 am
- zmkc said...
There are some terrible Hungarian novels about, but the Banffy trilogy (They Were Counted, They Were something else I've forgotten and They Were Found Wanting [biblical quote I have a vague idea]) about Transylvanian aristocratic life before the First World War is good in any language, I reckon. Hopelessly romantic, but that's part of what makes it so great.
- 10:34 am
- Steerforth said...
James - I agree. I also fail to see why people are so desperate to meet authors. I've met quite a few over the years and the majority of encounters have been disappointing. I'd rather know them through their writing.
Zoe - Thanks for the recommendation. A mere 99p on Amazon, I see (Kindle version). I must read it.
- 12:26 am
Jonathan Franzen on overrated books. Now there's some irony.
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I made some fresh blueberry jam over the weekend- it tastes like heaven on fresh biscuits, pancakes and toast. Our wonderful neighbors (who regularly watch our chickens for us while we are away) brought us back an entire flat of blueberries from Burgaw, North Carolina in Pender County, the home of the annual Blueberry Festival.
I was so excited to have a sea of fresh, plump, local blueberries to make jam with and enjoy in the weeks ahead!
This was my first time making blueberry jam- I followed a simple recipe below for a small batch:
4 pints ripe blueberries
2 cups sugar
2 tablespoons lemon juice (bottled)
Wash and sterilize jars in a hot water bath. Heat and boil canning lids in a separate pot.
Prepare jam by combining ingredients and bring to a boil, cooking for about 25 minutes or until mixture thickens and sets well. (when a spoonful is set into the freezer for a minute or two and when removed the jam doesn't slide off the spoon easily, it is ready).
Fill hot jars with jam and wipe rims with a damp cloth, leaving about a 1/4 inch of headspace. Place hot lids and rims on jars. Lift jars into hot water bath and process for 10 minutes. Remove jars from water and check seals, drying off jars. Let cool and label jars. Makes 3 1/2 pint jars of jam.
Jams are so much easier to make than canning other vegetables and a great way to use up extra fruit on hand.
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Case study: Dalal Mughrabi, from terrorist to hero
Terrorist murderer Dalal Mughrabi represents "Palestinian heroism," says official PA TV narrator
Official PA TV narrator: "From Lebanon came forth the processions of Palestinian heroism that Martyr Dalal Mughrabi and her companions represented at the height of Martyrdom inside occupied Palestine. The Palestinians have proven – with bold operations (i.e., terror attacks) in Kiryat Shmona, Beit Shean, and in the hundreds of operations that were launched from Lebanon – that they are a living people that is ready to sacrifice all it has in order to gain its freedom and independence."
(Newspaper headline): "Israel: 30 killed and 60 injured in the greatest self-sacrificing operation until now. Three groups hijacked 2 buses between Haifa and Tel Aviv"
[Official PA TV, The Philosophy of Patience, March 12, 2018]
Dalal Mughrabi led the most lethal terror attack in Israel's history, known as the Coastal Road massacre, in 1978, when she and other Fatah terrorists hijacked a bus on Israel's Coastal Highway, murdering 37 civilians, 12 of them children, and wounding over 70.
Kiryat Shmona Massacre – Three terrorists from the Palestinian Front for the Liberation of Palestine - General Command (PFLP - GC) - Palestinian Munir Al-Mughrabi "Abu Khaled," Syrian Ahmed Mahmoud, and Iraqi Yassin Al-Houzani "Abu Hadi" - infiltrated Israel and entered a building in Kiryat Shmona, where they murdered 18 Israelis – 16 civilians, 8 of them children, and 2 soldiers - and wounded 16 on April 11, 1974. They blew themselves up when Israeli soldiers entered the building.
Beit Shean attack – three terrorists from the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP) infiltrated Israel from Jordan and entered an apartment building in Beit Shean where they murdered 4 Israelis and injured more than 20 on Nov. 19, 1974. The terrorists were killed by Israeli special forces during the attack.
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Terrorist murderer Dalal Mughrabi represents "Palestinian heroism," says official PA TV narrator
Mar. 12, 2018
"Women can die in a more spectacular way than men die" - Fatah celebrates terrorist murderer Dalal Mughrabi
Mar. 11, 2018 (1min)
Fatah official posts song by Fatah youth movement honoring terrorist murderers: Abu Jihad, Dalal Mughrabi, Ahmed Yassin, Abu Ali Mustafa, Fathi Shaqaqi, Abu Iyad, and Marwan Barghouti
Dec. 14, 2017 (1min)
Terrorist who led murder of 37 is "heroic," "a role model" for female students, says coordinator of Fatah's university committee for women
Jan. 1, 2018 (1min)
Director of the Palestinian Women's Union in Gaza presents 3 female terrorists as role models; one led murder of 37, 12 of them children
Dec. 27, 2017 (1min)
Palestinian psychologist: Female terrorist hijackers and murderers carried out "wonderful acts of heroism"
Aug. 4, 2017 (1min)
Fatah TV honors 4 terrorists
May 9, 2017 (1min)
Fatah's youth movement honors terrorist murderers in song
Apr. 17, 2017 (1min)
Former PLO ambassador praises murderers Abu Jihad and Dalal Mughrabi
Apr. 16, 2017 (1min)
Head of Palestinian Women's Union on Women's Day: Female terrorist who led murder of 37 was "a role model"
Mar. 6, 2017 (1min)
PA TV: Palestinian female terrorist who led killing of 37 shows women are leaders
May 6, 2016 (1min)
PA TV presents terrorist who led killing of 37 Israelis, Dalal Mughrabi, as role model
Mar. 7, 2016 (1min)
Fatah official names 3 murderers who in total killed 40 people as female role models, among them 2 suicide bombers
Jan. 1, 2016 (1min)
Host on Fatah-run TV: Terrorist who led killing of 37 is "the Bride of Palestine"
Jan. 3, 2015 (2min)
Fatah official calls terrorist who led killing of 37 a "hero"
Apr. 5, 2015 (1min)
Palestinians name square after terrorist who led murder of 37
Mar. 11, 2015 (1min)
PA TV news: Mother's Day and Dalal Mughrabi's massacre of 37 are reasons to celebrate
Mar. 18, 2013 (1min)
Fatah TV broadcasts video celebrating terrorist Dalal Mughrabi on her birthday
Jan. 3, 2015 (1min)
Fatah and PA TV honor terrorist Dalal Mughrabi
Oct. 13, 2014 (1min)
Students swear allegiance to murderers of 37 civilians
Mar. 25, 2014 (1min)
Abbas advisor glorifies bus hijacker who murdered 37 civilians
Mar. 30, 2014 (1min)
Palestinian girl's goal: "to reach the level" of terrorist who killed 37
Mar. 27, 2014 (2min)
Abbas' advisor praises murderer of 37 civilians
Mar. 17, 2014 (2min)
Jordanian children taught that terrorist Mughrabi is role model
Aug. 4, 2013 (1min)
Female terrorists Dalal Mughrabi, Wafa Idris, and others are role models for students
Jan. 1, 2013 (1min)
PA TV: Terrorist Dalal Mughrabi is "a Palestinian and Arab symbol"
Mar. 11, 2013 (1min)
Spokesman of PA Security Forces describes terror attack killing 37 as "honorable"
Mar. 25, 2013 (1min)
Abbas honors terrorist Dalal Mughrabi with birthday celebration
Dec. 29, 2009 (1min)
PA TV song glorifies terrorist Dalal Mughrabi: No fear of death
Dec. 3, 2016 (1min)
PA TV song glorifies terrorist Dalal Mughrabi: Coast stormy with glory
Jan. 4, 2012 (1min)
Summer camp named for Dalal Mughrabi, killer of 37, (in Syria)
Aug. 4, 2010 (1min)
PA TV glorifies terrorist Mughrabi with interview of sister on anniversary of terror attack
Mar. 11, 2010 (2min)
PA TV quiz glorifies terrorist beside Mickey Mouse
Sept. 6, 2008 (1min)
Terrorists who killed 37 Israeli civilians applauded as heroes by Fatah leaders
Aug. 4, 2009 (1min)
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Operation Werewolf is a Melbourne Based, 3 game, 1200 point Konflikt '47 tournament/event brought to you by the same warped minds that delivered many of Melbourne's past successful Bolt Action events and the LRDG Podcast.
Operation Werewolf will be held at The Games Laboratory in Melbourne's CBD on Saturday, November 12th. The event starts promptly at 10AM. Please note the venue opens around that time for those looking to get there early.
The event will be run by Brad "Old Man Morin" with the support from the LRDG Podcast crew and the awesome staff at The Games Laboratory.
The Games Laboratory
328 Little Lonsdale Street
Melbourne 3000
(03) 9602 2075
Contact Information:
For more information, to submit an army list and for registration information please email Brad at: whatisabattle(at)gmail.com
Army Lists:
Although we are not restricting any unit types or weapons, we do ask that you consider the fun of your opponent when creating a force for this event. Operation Werewolf is a celebration of the release of this new set of rules and new unit types to the Bolt Action family. It is definitely not a "win-at-all-costs" event. Submitted army lists that the TO and composition panel deem to be possibly at odds with this philosophy will be met with resubmission requests.
Armies for this event should be no larger than 1200 points.
Forces must be made up using the generic reinforced platoon described on page 126 of the Konflikt '47 rulebook. Theatre Selectors will not be used at this event.
Lists may be chosen from any of the four army lists included in the Konflikt '47 rulebook or from any of the "Armies of…" Bolt Action series. That said, please keep in mind that forces should have a late war feel to reflect the K'47 universe. Please contact the TO if this is a problem or if you have questions about this of any kind.
Operation Werewolf will not be allowing the use of armoured platoons.
Armies may combine units from the "Armies of" series, Bolt Action Theatre Books, and the Konflikt '47 rulebook but units must be taken from matching nations. For example, all units in a German army must be from German lists.
Also please note that if you are playing a Bolt Action army not represented in the Konflikt '47 rulebook (the Japanese army for example), you may choose one selection from a friendly army list in the Konflikt '47 book. For example, a Japanese army could include a unit of Totenkorps from the German army list. If you are not sure about who is allied with who in this universe, please contact the TO. The list is too long to publish here.
Bolt Action armies may be taken at this event as normal.
Players may add Warplanes to their forces instead of air observers.
Please note: THIS EVENT WILL BE USING THE BOLTACTION.NET FORMAT RULES (Season 3). For more details please look here.
Operation Werewolf is a three game Swiss style event. Each round will last 2 hours and ten minutes. In Round 1 players will be chosen at random. You may request to "grudge" a particular opponent in round 1 if you wish.
We will be using 3 Boltaction.net missions. Please check the Bolaction.net mission pack for more information. You can find it HERE.
Game 1: Nuts
Game 2: Breakout
Game 3: Heartbreak Ridge
To submit an army list and for registration information please email Brad at: whatisabattle(at)gmail.com
The event costs $25 which can be paid via PayPal before November 8th (The same day that army lists are due).
For this event you will need:
• Warlord order dice and enough six sided dice to play the game
• 3, 40mm circular objective markers
• A tape measure
• The K'47 rulebook and relevant "Armies of…" book
• Pin markers
• A pen and/or a pencil
• 3 print outs of your army list
• An appropriate dice bag
Though the point of this event is to have fun, build the Conflict '47 community and learn more about the game, there will be a number of awards and prizes given out on the day:
- Best Theme/Era Army: This is for the army that looks and is made up of units that are most appropriate given the theatre and era, in the Konflikt '47 Universe
- Best Appearance (best painted and/or converted army, this is player chosen)
- 1st, 2nd and 3rd place (Decided by game results)
We, on the LRDG Podcast, would like to thank our major sponsors for this event:
The War and Peace gang have once again generously provided prize support this tournament. As the Australian distributor for Warlord Games they have a great selection of product AND have a super friendly and helpful staff that love to "talk shop." Give them a call or check them out online:
We would also like to express our thanks to Warlord Games for consistently providing great prize support for our events. Thanks guys!!!


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Prison Phone Provider for setting up prepaid
ICSolutions: Set up prepaid accounts online at ICSolutions.com
The cost of the calls is set by the contracted
phone provider. In addition to the quoted rate of the call, applicable
taxes and fees may apply. Rates subject to change.
Local calls: $0.25 per minute
In-state long distance calls: $0.25 per minute
Out of state long distance calls: $3.15 per 15-minute call
For additional rates and fees, click here
The following restrictions may be applied by the ADOC to inmate calling:
Limits on length of calls or calling availability hours
Limits on number of inmate calls or total monthly call minutes
Call monitoring, recording, and inmate voice validation (in order to place calls)
Blocks on types of phone numbers (such as 800 numbers) or selected phone numbers
Temporary or permanent denial of phone usage rights based on disciplinary problems, gang affiliations, or requests by a called party
Excerpts from the
Alabama DOC Website:
Alabama Department of Corrections
PROCEDURES (Excerpt from AL DOC
A. Each institution will distribute the ADOC Form 431 to each inmate when received
into their institution. ADOC Form 431 will be available to the inmate population
to request changes.
B. Restrictions of inmate telephone privilege by the Warden/designee will be
provided to the Telephone Monitor on a daily basis to be entered into the
computer as soon as possible.
C. Upon arrival at an institution the Telephone Monitor will check the inmate's
institutional file for their current approved telephone list. If the inmate is eligible
for a change, they will be allowed to do so at this time.
D. The Telephone Monitor should enter the inmate's telephone list into the telephone
computer within 72 hours of receiving the inmate, excluding weekends and
holidays. A copy will be provided for the inmate's institutional file.
E. Each inmate's telephone list will be entered into the telephone computer by
Personal Identification Number (PIN) and name.
F. An inmate will be allowed to change their telephone list:
1. Once every six (6) months, in conjunction with the time of their regular
visiting/funds list change.
2. The inmate's six month period will begin at the reception center with the
first list (telephone/visitation/funds) entered.
3. If an inmate's immediate family member moves prior to the six (6) month
change, the inmate can submit a copy of the old telephone bill and a copy
of the new telephone bill as documentation with the new telephone
4. Prior to the six month change, an attorney's telephone number may be
changed or a new number added, provided a letter is submitted on the
attorney's letter head requesting the change.
G. All telephone calls, except those involving attorney-client privileges, are subject
to being recorded and investigated where necessary to maintain institutional
H. Recorded conversations may be used as evidence at a disciplinary hearing or freeworld
court where there is a violation of a State or Federal law.
Donaldson Correctional Facility
Easterling Correctional Facility
Fountain Correctional Facility
Limestone Correctional Facility
St Clair Correctional Facility
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Terry Kartheiser
Personal Lines Account Manager
Email: Terry Kartheiser
Terry joined the Agency in June of 1979. After completing a comprehensive sales course in Hartford, Connecticut, he was licensed in property, casualty, life, and health insurance. Terry's responsibilities include sales and customer service for personal and commercial clients.
Blanca Townsend
Personal Lines Account Manager
Email: Blanca Townsend
Blanca has been with Konen Insurance since August, 2014. She has extensive experience in the insurance industry in both personal and commercial lines. Blanca worked for Pinnacle Insurance for over 8 years and most recently was with Lenert Insurance Group.
Blanca understands the needs of her clients and gains their trust by outlining the best coverages available. Blanca lives in Aurora with her husband, toddler son and Labrador retriever.
Aaron Weinert
Employee Benefits Account Manager
Email: Aaron Weinert
Aaron joined Konen Insurance in August of 2014. He brings 14 years of insurance industry experience. Most recently, Aaron worked for ConnectedHealth, a Chicago firm that sets up benefits marketplaces for large employers. Aaron has also held positions at Unicare and EBRM, the largest General Agency for Blue Cross/Blue Shield Illinois, as an individual and small group underwriter. His experience and knowledge helps find the right product for each of his clients.
Aaron earned his Associates Degree from Waubonsee Community College. His interests include basketball and chess. He and his wife live in Aurora with their 2 sons.
Sandy Marchesi
Commercial Lines Manager
Email: Sandy Marchesi
Tammy Kolschowsky
Commercial Lines Account Manager
Email: Tammy Kolschowsky
Tammy joined the Konen Insurance team in June 2014. She has over 20 years of insurance experience including personal, health and commercial and life experience. Prior to working at Konen Insurance, Tammy worked at Arthur J Gallagher/Premier Risk Services.
Tammy's enthusiasm about her job helps her to connect with her clients and provide excellent customer care. She takes the time to learn about her clients and make sure she is meeting all of their questions and needs.
Melanie Garza
Commercial Lines Account Manager
Email: Melanie Garza
Kathleen Nass
Commercial Lines Account Service
Email: Kathleen Nass
Zoé Knudtson
Accounting Manager
Email: Zoé Knudtson
Zoé has grown up in the Agency working for her father during high school. Today she manages all of the accounting functions within Konen Insurance. Zoé graduated from Marquette University with a degree in finance.
Liz Simpson
Receptionist & Claims
Email: Liz Simpson
Martin Lipton
Personal Lines Account Manager
Email: Martin Lipton
Martin lives in Oswego with his wife Lindsey, daughter Olivia and their many dogs.
Ann Konen
Marketing Director
Email: Ann Konen
Ann graduated from the University of Dayton with a BS in Marketing and International Business.
Kelly Spang
Commercial Lines Account Manager
Email: Kelly Spang


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From the Trenches: Part 1 (Phil Rynda!)
Hey everyone!
From the Trenches of Adventure Time is here!
"From the Trenches" is a behind-the-scenes video series of the super talented folks that make up the crew of the animated hit series, Adventure Time, by Pen Ward!
For our first segment, we interviewed the amazing & lead character designer of the show, Phil Rynda! In the video above, Phil shows you how to draw Finn, and gives some good advice for any artist.
Phil will also start teaching at CalArts this Thursday night! Congrats Phil and to the students that will be lucky to have him as a teacher!
So what are you waiting for? Get watching already and get inspired by the Rynda-ness!
A special thank-you to my friend and summer intern on Adventure Time, Nathan Connelly for helping me shoot and edit these segments. Check out the trailer for his ambitious student film, The Bayou Blues, by clicking HERE.
And if you missed it, the original trailer [Read more…]


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Prime Minister will never help Anwar
Refering to a letter mail to Malaysiakini :
Therefore, I call upon the prime minister to do justice to Anwar by advising the attorney-general to put an end to this mess as the rakyat already knows that there is no concrete evidence to charge Anwar.
This matter is affecting the image of this country politically, an image which the nation's first three prime ministers took great pains to build. The foreign investors are keeping away from the country and the stock market is down when all Asians markets are up, all because of our political uncertainty.
Reading the context above which part of the letter, we understand that the writer's concern over our political image which is devastated through out the world. The writer calls the Prime Minister which is our Pak Lah to intervene and call it off the case since there is no evidence to charge Anwar.
Remember, People should not be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid of their people.


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We already knew moms are pretty much the most badass people on earth, but this mom really deserves some special recognition. Anna Young decided to run a half-marathon five months after having a baby—a major feat in and of itself—but add on top of that the fact that she pumped while she ran ... and, well, give her all the awards.
The breastfeeding mom from Salt Lake City shares in a Facebook post that she had to leave the house at 4:30 a.m. for a 6:45 a.m. race and that she nursed her infant daughter right before she left. But since she didn't really know how long it would take her to complete the race, she brought along a hand pump just in case.
Young ended up needing to pump around mile 8 when, unknown to her, a race photographer caught her multitasking like a boss. When she later saw the picture online, she was surprised, but decided to share it with the Occupy Breastfeeding Facebook group.
She writes, "This group and Le Leche League motivated me to find a way to run my race and take care of my daughter."
To date, the post has garnered over 11,000 likes and over 2,000 shares with women everywhere cheering her on.
The incredible mom tells Huffington Post, "Even though I was nervous about pumping during my race, I hope it helps other mothers to not be afraid to nurse their children in public. I want other moms to see that you can still take time to do the active things you love and nurture your baby. Breastfeeding and motherhood does not limit what I am capable of, it only enhances it."
MORE: I Breastfed My 3-Year-Old for a Year After His Adoption
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Miss Information tells people where to go.Miss Information cannot give coherent directions. At work, when she is asked how to get to the building next door, she points, stammers and hopes they find it themselves.
This week lots of people seem to need directions. On Wednesday there was a man who was looking for a specific address for a gem show. He'd come to the library because it was in the same district as the address. Unfortunately, the library is in the northern quadrant and the place he needed to go is in the south--about as far as you can get while still in the same district. Miss Information stammered and pointed at the location on Google Maps.
"Hm," said the man. "How do I get there by public transit?"
Miss Information asked him where he wanted to start from.
"It doesn't matter," said the man.
Seems like that's the attitude that got him lost in the first place, but whatever. Miss Information asked if he would like directions from here. The man said that would be fine.
Miss Information found the Google maps transit directions and printed him out a copy and talked it through with him.
"Oh," said the man. "I don't live near here. Can't I get directions from my house?"
Sigh. Miss Information asked him where he lived. He did not want to say. Miss Information finally got it narrowed down to an intersection, an intersection where there happens to be a very nice library that could have helped the man. She printed out new directions starting at the library.
Eventually he went away...somewhere.
On Thursday a woman wanted to know how to get to a specific address north of the city. She had a piece of paper with the information written out. The name of the street had no vowels in it. The woman had the postal code, which was wrong, but it was close enough for Google maps to find the area and then they could take a stab at the correct street name.
"I need to get there on public transit," said the woman.
Miss Information loves Google maps. She asked the woman where she lived. The woman did not want to say. C'mon, people! Miss Information is not going to break into your house! Just a little hint is enough.
The woman chose a nearby subway station. Great. Miss Information found the directions. She offered to print them out. No, the woman, who was wearing winter gloves on possibly the hottest day in history, declined. She would write out the instructions.
They were:
Take Outer Region bus 23 to...
"Wait," the woman said. "You mean the Suburban Transit right?"
"No. The Outer Region transit."
"You mean Big City transit? I can't get there on Big City Transit."
Miss Information explained that she's no transit expert but that Google recommended this route. Outer Region Transit is a different bus company but it would get her where she was going.
The woman thanked Miss Information and began to leave.
"But wait!" said Miss Information. "There's more."
At this point the woman started getting hostile. She was probably hot. She had the bus number. She did not need any more information. Thank you.
Miss Information got a bit huffy herself and insisted the woman needed to know where to get off the bus, other wise she'd just be riding around in the boonies all night.
The woman didn't really want that pesky little detail but rolled her eyes and wrote down the bus stop, clearly just to appease Miss Information.
Getting bad directions and arguing with Miss Information are just two of the millions of reasons people in this town need their libraries.


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Maria Anwander (b. 1980) from Vorarlberg knows how to kiss the walls of the most famous museums of the world so intensely that she not only leaves behind a work in the form of an illegal performance but, above all, questions the hierarchies in the art world. As a conceptual artist she dedicates the majority of her research towards so-called institutional critique, whereby, besides art institutions and their roles, she is also interested in the whole art system, especially artists.
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4 Biggest Mistakes When Renting Office Space
You must be excited to finally open up your own business, or even expand your current business. With this excitement, people tend to make mistakes that they of course regret later on. So here are the five biggest mistakes you should avoid when selecting office space for rent.
- Not considering all optionsOf course you are excited, but it does not mean you should select the first lot that you come across. It often prevents you from finding the right place https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_conditioning and also makes you pay extra at the end. So carefully look at all your options so you could make the best choice with no regrets. Looking around for space all day could be tiring, so you could short list a few and visit them and then select the best option. Do not hesitate to negotiate on terms.
- Underestimating the total costPeople do this often by mistakenly thinking that rent is the only expense they will have to bear. However, when the utility bills and maintenance come in, you may not be prepared to pay such an amount. Building repairs, repainting, re-wiring, commercial air conditioning installation at Linear Air etc. are compulsory costs that you cannot avoid, unless your lease contract states that those will be borne by the landowner. So think of all such costs when deciding on an office space.
- Overestimating what you can do on your ownYou might think you could search for a small office space, repaint it, buy all furniture on your own, fix all equipment and also carry out maintenance whenever needed. Well, you are clearly mistaken. Renting out space is a lengthy process which needs professional help. These professionals could sometimes help you save considerable amounts. For example, an interior designer would know exactly where to buy the furniture that you'd require; an electrician would know how to carry out air conditioning installation with no hassle. So do not always think about the extra costs of hiring commercial air conditioning installation Melbourne such people since if you don't, you might end up paying more.
- Miscalculating your growthThinking your company would grow too fast or too low can both be problematic for you. If you expect fast growth, you'd rent out a large office with ample extra space that you'd end up paying for unnecessarily. If you could separately rent it out to others, well then that is beneficial for you. If you can't, then it would be an utter waste of money. On the other hand, if you thought it would grow slow, you'd have to go in search of more space in a short period. So always estimate well and plan ahead.
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All items > Knives > Folding Knives > Benchmade (Folding) > 550 Griptilian Series
- Overall Length:8.07"
- Blade Length:3.45"
- Blade Thickness:0.12"
- Blade Material:CPM-20CV
- Hardness:59-61 RC
- Blade Style:Drop Point
- Blade Grind:Flat
- Finish:Black
- Edge Type:Serrated
- Handle Length:4.62"
- Handle Thickness:0.61"
- Handle Material:G-10
- Color:Gray
- Frame/Liner:Stainless Steel
- Weight:4.17 oz.
- User:Right Hand, Left Hand
- Pocket Clip:Tip-Up
- Knife Type:Manual
- Opener:Thumb Stud
- Lock Type:AXIS®
- Brand:Benchmade
- Model:Griptilian
- Model Number:551SBK-1
- Designer:Pardue
- Country of Origin:USA
- Best Use:Camp/Hike, Everyday Carry
- Product Type:Knife
Benchmade's classic Griptilian knife just got even better with G-10 handles, blue barrel spacers, and a premium CPM-20CV steel blade with exceptional edge retention!
The Griptilian 551 is a Pardue designed folding knife that utilizes the AXIS lock mechanism, which makes the knife easy to open and close for right and left hand users. The modified drop-point blade has dual thumb studs and the deep carry pocket clip can be reversed, making the Griptilian folder an equally amazing knife for right or left handed users.
This model, the 551SBK-1, has a black finished blade with a serrated cutting edge.


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NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – EMD Millipore today announced a clinical research, licensing, and joint development deal with Japan's Sysmex aimed at creating a flow cytometry platform for blood disorders.
The companies will use EMD Millipore's flow cytometry technology as a platform to accelerate the development of new diagnostic tools. If successful, they will then develop the platform for commercialization in the hematology space, EMD Millipore, division of Germany's Merck KGaA, said.