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You may remember that, a few weeks ago, I started a series a posts about VO's history. This is the second post; part one can be found here.
here.) Since this was in the midst of a major commercial real estate slump, I guessed that it would be many years before the building was replaced and I was overjoyed at the dirt-cheap rent. What I didn't plan on was VO's outgrowing the space in 10 months and having to take more space next door. Then, 8 months later, we outgrew the combined space.
We soon had two more employees - Heidi, who ran the shipping and packing end of it, and Tom who sourced products and also started to develop a wholesale company. Tom had loads of experience in the bike industry and in sourcing parts overseas. He knew which factories had the best quality, knew many of the owners, and had a relationship with a superb trading company in Taiwan. Now I could concentrate on envisioning and designing things, and Tom would take care of having them made.
We also decided to offer semi-custom frames and found two excellent builders to make them. The rando frame was a huge success and we soon had a two-to-three year waiting list. Unfortunately, our rando frame builder promptly declared bankruptcy and left us to refund many thousands of dollars of frame deposits he'd held. The city bike frames did not sell as well. I eventually decided that custom, even semi-custom, frames were simply not worth the trouble. The frames were perpetually late, customers wanted to change specs at the last minute, and I was spending far too much time on each order. Despite all this, the frames were generally brilliant; they were beautiful, rode like a dream, and those who got them loved them.
I realized that in the amount of time it took to have a few custom frames made, we could design and produce hundreds of production frames that were based on our successful custom designs. The production frame project had a steep learning curve, but eventually we managed to have three frames produced: the Rando, the Polyvalent, and the Mixte.
Anther successful project was having fenders made. At the time the only high quality metal fenders available in the US were the Japanese Honjo fenders. These were almost exact copies of French fenders and very nicely made, but expensive. The heavier stainless steel French Canyon fenders, marketed under the Berthoud brand, had temporarily gone out of production. So it seemed an opportune time to introduce VO fenders. Their success emboldened us to move forward on other projects - more racks, brakes, stems, handlebars, bottle cages...
One of my basic business rules was to try to offer things that were unavailable, or at least difficult to find, elsewhere. We were still selling a lot of new-old-stock items, but our suppliers were running out of the good stuff. And our growth meant that we had to look for stashes of hundreds, not dozens, of NOS parts. When we started going to Asia to visit factories I was surprised to learned that we were getting big enough to have many more of our own components manufactured. The focus of the company changed almost overnight; we went from looking for NOS stuff and being reluctant manufacturers to focusing on designing VO products.
As the new products arrived we heard from more and more shop owners who wanted to stock them. VO Imports, our new sister company, was growing even faster than Velo Orange. Before long we had hundreds of dealers all over the world. Interestingly, we often sell VO racks and bars made in Japan to Japanese shops and VO components made in Taiwan to customers in Taipei.
In July 2008 we moved again, to two warehouses in the industrial section of Annapolis. Our new space was a few doors down from my former company, Chesapeake Light Craft. We also hired several more employees and suddenly had a staff of 11.
I'll write about the last couple of years in the next installment.


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2013: (Indoor): Finished sixth in the 200m at the Harvard Challenge (1/19) in 22.73 … came 41st in the 400m in 49.80 and was part of the 4x400 relay that came in 14th with a time of 3:18.09 at the Terrier Classic (1/26) … was first in the 400m with a 50.96 and part of the first-place finishing 4x400 record that crossed the line in 3:24.28, earning the MIT freshman record, at the Tufts Stampede (2/03) … was part of the 4x400 relay that came in second place at the New England Division III Championship (2/16) with a 3:23.97 … came 14th in the 400m at the NEICAAA Championship (2/23) with a time of 49.51, breaking the previous MIT freshman record … was part of the Distance Medley Relay that came in sixth place at NCAAs with a 10:03.97 … part of the MIT varsity record-holding 4x400 relay with a time of 3:14.64.
Off the Track: Also part of the MIT men's soccer team.
High School: A 2012 graduate of the Charlotte Country Day School … MVP … 4x100, 400m and 200m state champion … All-Conference and All-State for soccer … school record in 400m … eight-time varsity letterwinner … captain of the track and field and soccer teams … National Honor Society … Cum Laude … president of Big Brother, Big Sister Club … president of Interact Club … president of Trivia Club.
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Link to story hereBorn rivals
It is the oldest rivalry in the AFC North and one of the nastiest in the NFL. The Steelers and the Browns played for the first time on a Saturday night in October of 1950, a 30-17 win for the Browns in Pittsburgh. Since then, they have played each other over 100 times, more than any other AFC matchup.
But the sense of rivalry between Cleveland and Pittsburgh is even older than the series itself. It is bound up in the identities of two cities that are very much alike at heart. Both Pittsburgh and Cleveland have proud histories as centers of American industry, as blue-collar towns that exalted toughness, perseverance, and hard work as the ingredients for success. Perhaps it is not surprising, then, that football became the passion of fans in Pittsburgh and Cleveland alike, because these same qualities are at the heart of the game of football. And it is toughness, perseverance, and hard work that Pittsburgh and Cleveland fans love to see from their football teams-- win or lose, the Browns and the Steelers are expected to reflect their cities by their battering, grind-it-out style of play. The Browns and the Steelers are the best of enemies, mirror images of each other like the cities they represent. Put them both on one field twice a year, and you have all the makings of a classic rivalry.
It was a natural choice to put the Steelers and Browns in the same division in 1950 when the Browns joined the NFL from the competing All-America Football Conference. Even though Pittsburgh and Cleveland were usually separated by several games in the standings, they were separated by only 137 miles of turnpike on the map, and their games soon became anticipated events for fans in both cities. In a scheduling move that capitalized on the drawing power of the rivalry, the Steelers and Browns played each other on Saturday nights 12 times between 1950 and 1970, including all of the games in Cleveland from 1963 to 1970. The atmosphere of these night games could be quite raucous, with brave fans of the visiting team making the trip across the state line to cheer their team on. The game was often a mismatch, with Paul Brown's perennial championship contenders running all over the hapless Steelers. But it was always hard fought on both sides.
When the American Football League merged with the NFL in 1970, Pittsburgh and Cleveland were two of the three NFL teams that were assigned to the American Football Conference along with the AFL clubs. The move meant leaving traditional NFL foes behind, but it kept the Steelers-Browns rivalry intact as the centerpiece of the new AFC Central division. At the same time, the rivalry began to take on a new character as the Steelers shed their tradition of losing.
Power shift
It's likely that no other NFL rivalry has seen so drastic a reversal of fortune as the one between the Steelers and the Browns. Cleveland dominated the Steelers in the 1950's and 60's, winning the first eight games of the series and 16 of the first 18. By 1972, Steelers fans looked with envy at the Browns' collection of 25 divisional and league championship titles, not having even a single title to claim for Pittsburgh. But under coach Chuck Noll, a former Browns player, the Steelers developed into a powerhouse, the team of the 1970's-- no longer the division's doormat, but rather the team to beat. In 1974, the year of their first Super Bowl victory, Pittsburgh won a game in Cleveland for the first time in a decade.
The Browns were not about to make it easy for the Steelers during their run of success, though. If anything, the games became even more fierce in the 1970's. Some of the most enduring memories of the rivalry's viciousness come from that era, such as the time in 1976 when Browns defensive end Joe "Turkey" Jones lifted Pittsburgh QB Terry Bradshaw off his feet and spiked him to the Cleveland turf head first, sidelining Bradshaw for two games. The games were hard-hitting and often close, but during the years of the Steel Curtain defense, Pittsburgh usually came out on top, winning 11 out of 12 against the Browns.
One of the things that has made Browns vs. Steelers such a great rivalry is the importance given to it by the fans regardless of the circumstances of the season. The overall history of the rivalry has been that when the Browns were up, the Steelers were usually down, and vice versa. But winning the Steelers-Browns game has remained a priority, whether it served as a stepping stone to the playoffs or as the lone bright spot in a disappointing season (or a way to foul up the opponent's season).
Defending home turf
It never took long for new players to come to appreciate the importance the rivalry had for the fans-- it was clear from the frenzy of the Dawg Pound in Cleveland and the blast-furnace-like intensity of games at Three Rivers that the fans cared about these games. That's likely why home field has meant so much in the Pittsburgh-Cleveland series. Wins in opposing territory have been hard to come by. The Browns beat the Steelers nine games in a row at Cleveland Municipal Stadium from 1965 to 1973, for instance. Three Rivers Stadium opened in 1970, but the Browns didn't get their first win there until 1986.
That 27-24 victory marked the beginning of a short run of renewed dominance in the rivalry for Cleveland. QB Bernie Kosar, who grew up as a Browns fan in Ohio hating the Steelers, led Cleveland to four consecutive wins in Pittsburgh. The last of these was a 51-0 embarassment of the Steelers in 1989 on opening day at Three Rivers, still the worst loss Pittsburgh has suffered in its long history in the NFL.
Under head coach Bill Cowher, the Steelers gradually took control of the rivalry back from the Browns in the 1990's, first at home, then in Cleveland. The rivalry was taken to another level of intensity in 1994 when the two teams met in the postseason for the first time ever and the Steelers completed a difficult three-game sweep of the Browns.
It has taken a long time, but things have completely reversed themselves in the rivalry since 1972, when the Steelers started to win. The Steelers have mostly had the upper hand, winning 17 AFC Central and North titles to the Browns' 6. Now, it is Browns fans who envy the Steelers' five Lombardi trophies, while the Super Bowl has so far eluded Cleveland. The Steelers, who at one point trailed the Browns by 23 games in the overall series, finally tied it at 55-55 in a Thursday night game at Heinz Field in 2006. And the animosity runs as deep as ever in both cities. The fans in Pittsburgh and Cleveland, having stuck with their teams through good times and bad, know all the more which one they prefer.
A love-hate relationship
But for all the rivalry's nastiness, there is a begrudging respect between fans of the two teams-- a recognition of the richness of their history, their no-nonsense approach to the game, and the passion of both cities' fans for football. Perhaps this was seen most clearly in 1995, when Cleveland owner Art Modell announced that he was moving the Browns to Baltimore. At a Monday Night Football game against the Browns in Pittsburgh, Steelers fans donned orange armbands to show their support for Browns fans in their attempt to keep their beloved team in Cleveland. Art Modell remains a reviled figure in Pittsburgh-- almost as much as he is in Cleveland-- because the move nearly ended one of the NFL's greatest rivalries.
After three dreary years with no team in Cleveland, the series was resumed in 1999 when Cleveland was granted an expansion team-- with the Browns name, colors, and history intact-- to replace the team they had lost. In the first game of the season, the Steelers gave Cleveland a rude welcome back to the NFL with a 43-0 romp over the new Browns in Cleveland. Later that same year, the Browns delighted their fans by pulling off a 16-15 upset of the Steelers at Three Rivers. The rivalry was back!
In truth, though, it would be a while before Browns-Steelers games carried the weight they once had for the players. Cleveland was starting from a blank slate-- and after three years without the Browns, most of the Steelers no longer thought of Cleveland as their biggest divisional rival.
But the fans will never forget, and every autumn, as the Steelers and Browns take the field again, familiarity breeds a little more contempt.


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Follow-up iPhone 5 Coverage:
- Apple's iPhone 5: A Thinner, Lighter, Taller 4G Phone
- Scenes from Apple's iPhone 5 Announcement
- iOS 6 Here Next Week, New iTunes in October
- Apple Rolls Out 'Maximum Funness' iPod Touch, Revamps iPod Nano Line
- Video: 5 Reasons to Buy the iPhone 5
- Live Coverage: Apple's iPhone 5 Event
- Ask Techland: Best Places to Sell an Old iPhone or Trade for Store Credit?
On Wednesday, September 12, Apple is holding a media event at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco. Let's just say it: It'll unveil the iPhone 5 — and, with any luck, will announce a surprise or two.
Our live coverage will begin at 1pm ET/10am PT. You can simply bookmark this page or join us at TIME.com/iPhone5 on Wednesday.
Greetings, all.
I'm at the Apple event….
Tim Cook is on stage…
"Thank you for coming this morning…we've got some amazing things to show you."
Talking about a store in Barcelona
Beautiful photos…
A signature glass staircase….
We're seeing a video about it.
Lots of happy customers and employees…
83 million people have visited stores in the last quarter.
"On to the Macintosh."
PC Magazine loves Mountain Lion…
Mac notebooks have 27% market share in US — #1
The iPad is driving the post-PC revolution…
Quoting Ed Baig's praise of the new iPad. 17 million iPads sold in last quarter, a record.
More iPads sold than any PC maker's entire line: "Yes, we are in a post-PC world." 84 million iPads sold to date.
iPad accounts for 68 percent of market, 91 percent of Web traffic. "I don't know what these other tablets are doing."
Almost all of Fortune 500 is testing or deploying iPads.
250,000 apps in iOS store now…
"The iPad has been an absolute revolution..it's phenomenal."
Last quarter, 400,000,000th iOS device sold. "No one could have predicted this."
"Today, we're taking this to the next level."
Phil is bragging about the original iPhone being on the cover of TIME in 2007.
"Today we're going to announce iPhone 5."
It's a gem, made entirely of glass and aluminum. Thinnest and lightest iPhone: 7.6mmm 112 grams. World's thinnest iPhone, 20% lighter than iPhone 4S.
"It's really easy to make a product that's bigger."
New phone has retina display — 4″
1136 by 640 — the same width, but taller, 16:9
You want your phone to fit beautifully in your hand.
All the apps take advantage of the taller widescreen display.
All of Apple's, that is.
What happens to the rest? They're centered with black borders.
3rd parties can update apps.
New screen has 44 percent better color saturation, touch screen integrated into display
It now supports seven bands, including LTE
One chip, one radio, dynamic antenna that can switch between networks.
"LTE is the most complicated networking technology ever brought to this earth."
It's be supported on AT&T, Verizon, Sprint in U.S. Other big carriers elsewhere.
It has better Wi-Fi,too
It uses Apple's A6 chip.
2X faster CPU and graphics.
And 22 percent smaller
Rob Murray of EA will talk about the powerful new graphics.
He's going to show Real Racing 3, racing at Laguna Seca
It has rear-view mirrors.
It uses Game Center for "time-shifted multiplay"
You can race against someone, but not at the same time.
Coming to the App Store later this year.
Phil is back, praising the game and recapping. And talking about battery life.
8 hours of talk time, 8 hours of LTE browsing, 10 hours ofWi-Fi browsing…better than 4S.
Next, the camera: 8 megapixel, backside illumination, f/2.4, like 4S, but 25% smaller. New dynamic low-light mode.
Precision lens alignment and sapphire crystal.And a new image signal processor from Apple in the A6 chip with spatial noise reduction.
40% faster photo capture.
"The ocean looks bluer…kids look happier."
iCloud gives you shared photo streams with friends and family.
And now there's a panorama mode.
28-megapixel panoramas.
(The sample photos, at least, look great.)
1080p video, beter stabilization, can take photos during video. Frontside camera is 720p with face recognition.
The phone now has three microphones.
Back, front, bottom, for better noise recognition and better Siri. Better speaker with five-magnet transducer,and smaller. And a noice-canceling earpiece.
And wide-band audio that sounds better.
20 carriers around the world will support wideband audio (but not US ones apparently.)
Now he's talking about the 30-pin connector. A lot has changed: More things are done wirelessly now.
"It's time for the connector to evolve." The new one is called Lightning.
"A modern connector for the next decade." 80% smaller, more durable, plug in either direction.
Working with Bose, JBL, etc. on accessories.
There's an adapter for your current accessories. Plug it in, leave it there.
"That's the new Lightning connector."
Now, on to software. iOS 6, the latest version of the world's most advanced OS. Designed for the 4″ display.
Scott Forstall will demo it.
He's demoing the vector maps.
And turn-by-turn directions, with cinematic camera angles.
Works in portrait and landscape modes.
Now he's demoing the flyover 3D maps.
We're seeing Big Ben…
Now, Notification Center.
And Safari, which now has full-screen mode on the big screen.
Pull up tabs from the Mac on your iPhone.
Mail now lets you mark people as VIPs to get their mail more easily
And better flagging.
Now a new app, Passport. Put your boarding passes, tickets and coupons on your lock screen.
When you're at your airport gate your boarding pass pops up automatically.
Now, Shared Photo Streams.
Share photos with friends. They get push notifications automatically.
They can comment on them, like them…
Now, Siri, which knows about sports. She's telling the 49ers score.
You can launch apps with Siri.
Siri knows about movies. "Can you tell me about a good movie?" "That is a very subjective question." And restaurant reservations.
Facebook is integrated and you can use Siri to post to your wall.
iOS 6 demo is done.
(This has been quick — is there a just one more thing?)
There's a black iPhone and a white one.
Thinnest and lightest iPhones yet…4″ Retina display…ultra-fast wireless and LTE…A6 chip…better cameras…panorama feature…better audio…lightning connector….iOS 6….
We;re seeing a video.
Jony Ive explaining how important phones are.
"We don't want to just make a new phone. We want to make a much better phone."
Explanation by Bob Mansfield of the engineering accomplishments.
LTE can be faster than an average Wi-Fi connection.
A6 chip is up to 2X faster…
The lightning connector is all digital and smaller and reversible.
"I don't think the level of invention has ever been matched by anything else we've done."
Scott Forstall is in video recapping iOS 6.
Explaining new Siri features again…
Facebook integration…
More Jony Ive praising the fit and finish.
And the manufacturing processes.
And how they put all the hardware together.
Measured in microns (at, I guess, Foxconn?)
"We had to go way beyond what we knew to be possible."
Here's Phil Schiller, in person, again.
Prices unchanged: $199/$299/$399. iPhone 4 is free on contract, 4S is $99
Ships on September 21 in a bunch of countries, preorder this Friday, more countries on September 28, 100 countries and 240 carriers by end of year
iOS 6 runs on lots of existing products and is a free upgrade on September 19
Tim Cook is back
The biggest things to happen to iPhone since the iPhone.
Now he's talking about music and how much Apple loves it.
Now, news about iPod and iTunes. Here's Eddy Cue to talk iTunes.
#1 music store, 26 million songs,20 billion songs downloaded.
435 million iTunes accounts with one-click purchasing.
2/3rds of downloads are now on iOS. There's a new iPad iTunes store — beautiful and faster and same design for movies, TV shows, and apps and iBooks. Works great on iPhone too.
2/3rds of downloads are now on iOS. There's a new iPad iTunes store — beautiful and faster and same design for movies, TV shows, and apps and iBooks. Works great on iPhone too.
You can preview a song and move around in the store and keep listening. Better search, Facebook and Twitter sharing. All in iOS 6.
Now let's talk about iTunes on Mac and PC.
200 million customers are using iTunes in the cloud — 15 billion downloads. And now Apple is announcing a new iTunes with built-in iCloud. Dramatically simpler. Jeff Robin will demo.
New edge-to-edge design. Albums expand and play.
You can see the top songs and albums from any artist, with recommendations.
Artists can share photos.
New simpler playlist view that lets you see your playlist and your music at the same time.
New Up Next feature lets you see and rearrange upcoming songs, and add new ones.
Search has been improved. Also the mini player, for listening while you're doing something else. It's been completely redesigned.
iCloud is now built into iTunes, with all your purchases that live in the cloud.
Watch a movie on one device, then pick up on another. We're watching THE AVENGERS.
Now the new iTunes store, looking a lot like the iPad version.
He's listening to a clip of BORN TO RUN in the store, checking out more on Bruce Springsteen while the sample plays. Learning about upcoming Bruce concerts…
Eddy Cue is recapping iTunes news.
"We think you're going to love it and we can't wait for you to get your hands on it."
Greg Joswiak is talking about iPods. Music is in Apple's DNA. Exciting changes. iPod Nano.
Six generations of Nanos so far, and they're reinventing it with a new large display.
Thinner, lighter, better materials, Lightning connector. The best Nano by far.
5mm thin, 40 % thinner now.
Multitouch, 7 colors, FM radio you can pause. And video playback.
Pedometer and Nike Plus and Bluetooth.
It's like a mini-iPod Touch now, almost.
Longest Nano battery — up to 30 hours of music.
Next the iPod Touch, the world's most popular music player and gaming handheld.
Thinnest and lightest iPod Touch — 6mm — same 4″ Retina as iPhone 5.
Tall screen is good for music navigation, rotate it for widescreen video.
It uses the A5 dual-core chip — double the old performance and up to 7X graphics performance
Here's a guest from Natural Motion Games for a demo.
"We're hear to show you Clumsy Ninja," an interactive toy running on the Touch. A real-time character.
He reacts to your movement in real time.
It's like a super-sophisticated version of TALKING TOM.
He's using a punch bag, a trampoline…learning how to use them.
Based on many years of research at the company and Oxford University. Now long ago it would have needed a supercomputer. Clumsy Ninja looking forward to playing with us this holiday season.
New Touch has up to 40 hours of music playback, 8 hours of video…
And the camera is officially an iSight camera — 5 megapixels with a lot of the features in the iPhone 5. Autofocus and flash for first time. Sapphire crystal lens cover.
We're seeing sample photos.
It has the panorama feature and you can run iPhoto for the first time.
"But there's still more."
Now there's a little pop-out wrist strap holder — the iPod Loop.
720p video and you can edit in iMovie, face detection…
Bluetooth 4.0, 802.1 a/b/g/dual-band n, 150Mbps bandwidth, and Airplay Mirroring for the first time–play games on your TV
…and Siri.
And for the first time, 5 colors, with matching straps.
The iPod Shuffle also gets the new colors.
Now Joz is talking about speakers.
Apple is one of the biggest speaker companies in the world – they're everywhere, even in headphones. Apple has shipped 600 million sets of headphones. That's 1.2 billion speakers right there.
They've spent 3 years designing all-new headphones, EarPods.
We're seeing a video on them
No two ears are alike, Jony Ives says….
They scanned ears to find the right shape. Its defined by the geometry of your ears. But they don't seal like an in-ear headphone.
Sorry, Jony IVE.
Sound is so important to Apple products they wanted to make the best possible headphone.
Available standalone today, they come with the Touch, Nano and iPhone 5.
Joz is recapping the iPod news.
Shuffle is $49, 16GB Nano is $149, old Touch is $199 and $249 (16GB and 32GB), new Touch is $299 for 32GB and 64GB for $399. New models next month No mention of iPod Classic.
Product Red models of the new iPods.
Tim Cook is back with an iPod ad.
A short, loud iPod ad.
Tim says Apple is excited about the products, which he's reviewing.
Every product is an incredible industry-leading innovation by itself, but how they work together is the big deal.
"Apple had never been stronger" because of the dedication and creativity of its employees around the world…they're doing the best work of their lives. Products make a real difference for people.
Sounds like we're about to get a musical guest.
A popular respected Grammy-winning band…they sell out arenas around the globe…
Foo Fighters.
They're singing and playing instruments.
As you probably already guessed.
Good listening, but tough to liveblog.
Foo is being fought here, big time.
Interesting swirling light effect.
No friendly foo, obviously.
This is the first musical act Apple has had in awhile, I think.
Foo never stood a chance.
Applause…cheers…another song…
"One of the great things about being here is getting to meet all these incredible people who are shaping our future…" Little Richard, Tom Petty and Jimmy Paige are being namechecked.
(I don't think he's saying Little Richard is AT THIS EVENT.)
They've clearly subdued the foo, yet they still continue to fight said foo.
Dedicating a song to all those people.
Someone in the audience (journalist?) just left. Not a music fan, I guess, or maybe his meter is running out.
"There goes my hero…"
I'm scanning the audience for Windows PCs in use, not seeing any.
That's one TALL phone, people.
There's the Hero Shot, speaking of…
It wears a 4L case.
If it weren't for Apple events, I'd know even less about contemporary pop music than I do (but I'm enjoying this)
Another song…
"It's called Walk"
"It's called Walk"
Sorry for the repetition, repetition
Any surprises today, Harry, based on what you saw?
I wonder if the band gets free iPhones?
And who at Apple chooses them?
Aside from the massive amounts of foo fighting, of course…
At the last Apple Macworld keynote they had Tony Bennett singing "The Best is Yet to Come," which seemed like a message.
Most of this stuff was known. It's cool to see the iPod Touch get so much better.
As usual, it's hard to judge the new iPhone based on specs, photos, features.
It's how it all comes together in use.
The iPod Nano keeps lurching back and forth.
It's big! It's small! It has lots of features! It has almost no features!
And the Foo Fighters are done.
Tim Cook is applauding.
there's a shot of the aluminum backside
Tim is thanking us…there's a hands-on area…thanks for coming.
And thank YOU everyone out there who came here–there were TONS of you for this one.
More thoughts to come!
Yes, thanks everyone!


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Horror writer Stephen King has released dates for his tour to promote his book "Revival."
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Once, from behind the window of the nursery. He was wrapped in a blue blanket, and he was oh so small. They asked her if she wanted to hold him, and she said no. Just as she had in the delivery room, right after he was born, when she had squeezed her eyes shut so that she wouldn't see him, her heart, the heart that she was giving away. She said no.
It would have killed me, she said. It would have killed me. I couldn't have gone on. I loved him.
So she said no. She refused to hold her son."
I was holding my own son – then just two and a half months old – on my lap when my mother told me this story. I would be stating the obvious if I said that I clutched him a little tighter as I listened to her words and watched the tears brim in her eyes, but I'll state it anyways: I held him, tightly, and my heart ached to think of not holding him. My heart ached to bursting at the thought of not holding him, of giving away any opportunity to hold him. And then my heart ached some more, because I had, once upon time, done something that, in some respects, amounts to the same thing.
When an anonymous poster made a plea, last week, for everyone to pause and consider the emotional fallout from adoption – this within the context of debates concerning the emotional consequences of abortion – I immediately thought of my mother and the gut-wrenching turmoil she experienced as a result of giving up a child for adoption. And then I thought of myself, and of the secret inner dialogue that I conducted with myself while she and I sat discussing that boy, that child that she had given up for adoption years before I was born. The secret inner dialogue that went something like this:
Me: Oh, my god, my god, how terrible, how heartbreaking, how did her heart survive it?
Myself: How did YOUR heart survive it?
Me: Survive what?
Myself: Abortion.
Me: That's so different.
Myself: It's not.
Me: The heartbreak of giving up a child…
Myself: Isn't abortion a kind of 'giving up'? Except, you know, MORE FINAL?
Me: Yeah, but…
Myself: But what?
Me: She's mourning a child that she lost, a child who is still out there somewhere.
Myself: Exactly.
I clutched Jasper to my chest and squeezed and thought about the child who is not out there somewhere. A little part of my heart collapsed in on itself.
My mother's heartbreak was almost unbearable to absorb. Her guilt, her worry, her desire to both know and not know whether he'd been given a happy life, whether she'd done right by him to give him up. She insisted that there was no regret – she'd done what she had to do, she had no choice, it was the best thing to do, the only thing to do, at the time – but regret is complicated. She didn't regret making the choice that seemed best for him, but she still hurt over that choice. She hurt over that choice because it represented a loss, for her. Because it represented the loss of an unknown and unknowable future. Because it was a choice that changed someone else's life, someone else's future. Because some part of her felt that she needed to explain that choice, perhaps apologize for that choice. Make it clear that the choice was made out of love.
The choice that caused her so much pain was not the same kind of choice that I made. There is no one to whom to explain my choice. There is no one to whom to apologize. No claim can be made that my choice was made out of love. There is no one to whom I might make that claim. Because that's how abortion differs from adoption: it means that the only person you need ever – can ever – explain your choice to is yourself. It doesn't matter whether you're sorry or not. Abortion means never having to say you're sorry. It means never even having to consider the question.
Which is not to say, of course, that we don't consider the question. I've been considering the question – of whether or not I'm sorry, of whether or not I should be sorry, of whether or not sorry matters – since I first set foot in that abortion clinic. I have agonized over this. As I've explained in these virtual pages before, I can't say that I regret having had an abortion, but I also can't say that I don't. It's complicated. Its complicatedness sometimes hurts my heart. Which is precisely why people talk about the emotional consquences of abortion. Because many women find, like I did, that their hearts hurt. Because many women struggle to figure out how to reconcile the complicated tension between regret and not-regret and find that they're unable, and because many women do so while bearing their children, their wanted children, in arms.
But that struggle – that is, my personal experience of that struggle – is one that can, most of the time, be compartmentalized, tucked away on some back shelf of the psyche and forgotten until some event – pregnancy, say, or miscarriage, or one's own mother's admission of having given one's brother up for adoption – prompts one to go rummaging around on the shelves of Buried Hurts and Ambivalent Regrets and Things That I'd Rather Not Think About Unless My Sanity And/Or Moral Stability Depends Upon It. My mother's struggle with her longstanding conflicting emotions around having given up a child for adoption is not – has never been – something that she can just tuck away on a shelf and forget about. She has never passed a day, she told me, without thinking about her lost boy – without looking at the faces of strangers who seem about his age and wondering is it him, without reading in the newspaper or hearing on the news something about any male person of his vintage and wondering is it him, without casting back to that baby in the blue blankie and wondering what became of him what became of him what became of him?
And that is so hard for her. I have seen the heartbreak on her face. Some 45 years or so after the fact, and the heartbreak is still there. I see the heartbreak on her face and I tell myself, there but for grace went I. And, thank gods for that grace, that I did not go.
But it is not so simple. It is not nearly so simple. For I know that the primary reason I am able to compartmentalize my own, quiet struggle is because it is entirely my own, and it is entirely my own because of the nature of the choice that I made. My child does not wander this earth, living another life. My child – and it is such a mental and emotional wank to even use these terms – was never born. My child never became my child. He/she/it was embryo, barely fetus, not a child. I did not have a child; I had a pregnancy. And then I didn't.
(And yet. Even as I say that – "I did not have a child; I had a pregnancy" – I want to take it back. I'm a mother. I've had a very early term miscarriage. I very nearly lost Emilia to miscarriage. I know the terror of losing or fearing to lose that embryo, that not-quite-fetus, that not-child who is loved none the less for his or her unformedness. I would never have said – could never have said – of the embryo-that-became-Emilia, this is just a pregnancy, there is no child here. For even though she was not yet child, she was the cellular embodiment of my wish that she become a child, that she become my child. In the absence of that wish… is it just cells that remain? I don't know. I do not know. I have not yet sorted this out. It is painful, trying to sort this out, this which might be, simply, unsortable. All I know is that these experiences are different, despite their similarities, and that I remain firmly committed to the rightness of having the ability – the choice – to distinguish between them. Ah, me.)
What remains: my inconstant, ambivalent hurt, and my mother's endless heartache. Neither of these would I wish on anyone, but neither would I hold them up as justifications for tampering with our rights to choose those hurts, those aches, over others. We both chose our heartaches, out of desire to avoid greater heartache for ourselves or for others. In my mother's case – in any birth mother's case, I think – a more difficult choice was made, because it was a choice that opened up another future for another life, a future that she would never be able to see but would always, always feel. I, on the other hand… I chose the road that denied other lived futures, and that has made all the difference.
The right difference, the wrong difference, I don't know. It is, ever and always and only and nevertheless, the one that I chose.
I live with that.
*Because you're asking: yes, we are – I am – still looking for that boy, the lost boy, my brother. There has been some very limited progress recently, and I'm hoping that it yields something, but I don't want to jinx things by speculating. Thank you all for caring so much.


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If you're like me, you get excited when you see a super cute baking cup! I have polka dots, paisleys, zebra print, striped, colored foil, and even though I have stacks and stacks of baking cups, if a cute pattern or color catches my eye, I simply must have it. I wouldn't go so far as to say it's an addiction, but you could call it a habit. Luckily it isn't a very expensive habit to have, but with baking cups ranging from $2 to $7 a package, it can add up. One thing that has driven me crazy about baking cups is when the following happens – You have the cutest most lovely baking cup that is going to be the perfect party accent and ties in with everything beautifully and you know it will just make your cupcake pop, you put the baking cups in the pan, fill them with batter, bake, and when you pull the cupcakes out of the pan you find that your super cute baking cup is completely unrecognizable. You can no longer discern the original color, or pattern, and all of the colors are muted and confused! Disaster! Have you ever had this happen to you? What is the point of having fabulous baking cups if the process of baking the cupcakes ruins them! I promise to get to the bottom of this problem once and for all!
There is a baking cup line out on the market now called ColorCups. This line is manufactured by Wilton and guarantees that colors will remain bright on the outside even after baking. The slogan on the package describes ColorCups as "Always bright, colorful, and fun!" I decided I would put these supposedly super powered baking cups to the test! I decided to test them against a regular baking cup and see what the results were.
Taking a look at the inside of the ColorCup baking cup, you can see that it is actually foil. Of course a foil lined baking cup! The foil makes a barrier between the grease and oil from the cupcake protecting the pretty outside liner! Brilliant! Once I saw this, I had high hopes for these new baking cups. The baking cup on the right is just a standard no frills baking cup. Because I already knew that the standard plain baking cup would probably not fare well against this new hybrid ColorCup baking cup, I decided to throw a third cupcake liner into the mix. I used a standard polka dot baking cup lined with a Reynolds foil baking cup. I wanted to see if I could make a DIY ColorCup by adding a foil liner to any old baking cup.
I baked all of the cupcakes at the same time, in the same pan, with the same batter so that there would be no other variables.
I intentionally used baking cups with white backgrounds since the bleed through shows up best on baking cups with light backgrounds, and I know from previous experience that dark colored batters such as chocolate show through on a lot of baking cups, so I used chocolate for the "worst case scenario."
From the moment I took the cupcakes out of the pan, the results were obvious. There was a clear winner! The Wilton ColorCup had prevailed!
The standard baking cup was the biggest loser! The polka dots were completely lost and the brown from the chocolate of the cupcake became the prominent color.
The standard baking cup lined with the Reynolds foil baking cup came in second. The polka dot baking cup was still vibrant and colorful with no grease seep through or color mutation, but the liner still pulled away from the cupcake since it was not actually attached to the foil liner.
You have to hand it to the Wilton ColorCup; it really is a revolutionary thing to be able to bake a cupcake and still have a perfectly bright and pretty liner! One of the keys to the ColorCup design is that the foil lining is adhered to the pretty paper exterior liner. While the standard baking cup lined with the Reynolds foil baking cup came in second, you could tell that the cupcake had two separate liners. The space between the paper and the foil is visible making the overall cupcake just slightly less attractive. In some scenarios, if you are going for a ruffled look, this could be preferable, but overall the ColorCup wins.
The answer to this baking cup problem that has plagued bakers endlessly has been solved! If you need a perfectly dressed cupcake, use a foil lined baking cup. In addition to Wilton ColorCups, Reynolds has a similar line called Reynolds StayBrite baking cups. Hopefully other baking cup manufacturers will follow suit so that we will have a wider array of designs to chose from. In the meantime, I need to start stocking up on more baking cups!!!


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Revolutionary War Pensions
Records: 10,237,533 · Complete: 99%
This collection is taken from NARA microfilm publication M804, which includes an estimated 80,000 pension and bounty-land warrant application files based on the participation of American military, naval, and marine officers and enlisted men in the Revolutionary War. Most of the records in the files are dated between 1800 and 1900. The files are part of Record Group 15, Records of the Veterans Administration.
The records in this collection include entire pension files for soldiers and sailors who served in the Revolutionary War. Unlike selected records, which were typically chosen subjectively for genealogical content, these records reveal more details about each veteran's history and service, as well as more information about his family, state of health, and life after the war.
If you know the state for which a man served, you can locate him through the alphabetical hierarchy in the browse menu. Select the state, the first letter of his last name, then locate his surname, followed by his given name in the next section of browse titles.
The descriptive pamphlet for publication M804, is available as an 82-page PDF file here. Excerpts from the descriptive pamphlet were used to explain the collection in the following sections of this finding aid.
Types of Pensions
For more than a century before the beginning of the Revolutionary War, British colonies in North America provided pensions for disabled soldiers and sailors. During and after the Revolutionary War, three principal types of pensions were provided by the US Government for servicemen and their dependents.
- Disability or Invalid Pensions - awarded to servicemen for physical disabilities incurred in the line of duty.
- Service Pensions - awarded to veterans who served for specified periods of time.
- Widows' Pensions - awarded to women whose husbands had been killed in the war or were veterans who had served for specified periods of time. The letter "W" is included with the file number for widow pension applications.
The letter "S" before a file number stands for "survivor" and usually indicates the file contains one or more post-1800 approved applications of a veteran for an invalid or service pension. See the timeline below to learn how different acts of Congress affected pension file applications.
"B. L. Wt." signifies a bounty-land warrant.
An "R" in the file number indicates it was rejected.
Full vs Selected Records
If you've previously located a pension file for a Revolutionary War veteran or widow, you may have noticed that some records are identified as "selected service records." This means they were selected from a pensioner's file as the most representative for genealogical purposes. They are usually no more than ten pages. If you check the same file on microfilm at a National Archives location, and online here at Fold3, you'll typically find significantly more information. Fold3 has scanned the full microfilm record for each soldier's file.
Examples of the size difference between full and selected service records include Jeremiah Adams of North Carolina whose selected service file is 18 pages, yet his full file is 66. Thomas Arbuckle of Virginia has 7 pages in his selected service file, while the full file consists of 35 pages. Review the case study below for William Alld of New Hampshire, and you'll see what a difference the combination of selected and nonselected service records can make. His selected service records include 9 pages of letters and affidavits, while his full file is 77 pages long and includes a great deal more information about the man and his widow.
According to the NARA descriptive pamphlet for the Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty-Land Warrant Application Files (M804), records are unarranged within files. However, in each envelope file containing more than ten pages of records, the more significant genealogical documents were filmed first, preceded by a target headed "SELECTED RECORDS." The documents may include pension applications, jackets showing the act under which pension payments were made, bounty-land warrant applications, jackets showing the warrant numbers of warrants granted, property schedules, family-record pages from Bibles or other books, copies of marriage records, and final payment vouchers. All remaining documents in that file were filmed after a target headed "NONSELECTED RECORDS." No distinction was made between selected and nonselected records in filming the envelope files that contained ten or fewer pages of records.
Read more about these differences in the descriptive pamphlet.
Pension legislation evolved as the United States government determined the best system to reward soldiers and their families for military service. The following dates are helpful in understanding when and why a veteran, or his widow, filed one or more types of pension applications.
One of the most important acts was the service-pension act of 1818, in which the US Congress granted pensions to Revolutionary War veterans for service from which no disabilities resulted. A great number of applications were thus submitted and approved, and it explains why the stories of so many Revolutionary War soldiers and sailors can be discovered today.
August 26, 1776
The first pension legislation for the American colonies as a group was enacted. A resolution of the Continental Congress provided half pay for officers and enlisted men, including those on warships and armed vessels, who were disabled in the service of the United States and who were incapable of earning a living. The half pay was to continue for the duration of the disability.
May 15, 1778
Another resolution provided half pay for seven years after the conclusion of the war to all military officers who remained in the Continental service to the end of the war. Enlisted men who continued to serve for the duration of the conflict were each to receive a gratuity of $80 after the war under the terms of the same enactment.
August 24, 1780
The first national pension legislation for widows. It offered the prospect of half pay for seven years to widows and orphans of officers who met the requirements included in the terms of the resolution of May 15, 1778.
October 21, 1780
The Continental Congress resolution of May 15, 1778, was amended to provide half pay for life to officers after the war.
March 22, 1783
The half-pay-for-life provision enacted on May 15, 1778, was changed to five years' full pay.
September 29, 1789
The First Congress of the United States passed an act (1 Stat. 95), which provided that invalid pensions previously paid by the States, pursuant to resolutions of the Continental Congress, should be continued and paid for one year by the newly-established Federal Government. Subsequent legislation often extended the time limit.
March 23, 1792
An act of Congress (1 Stat. 243) permitted veterans not already receiving invalid pensions under resolutions of the Continental Congress to apply for them directly to the Federal Government.
April 10, 1806
The scope of earlier invalid-pension laws pertaining to Revolutionary War servicemen was extended to make veterans of State troops and militia service eligible for Federal pensions. The act (2 Stat. 376) superseded all previous Revolutionary War invalid-pension legislation.
March 18, 1818
Before 1818, national pension laws concerning veterans of the Revolution specified disability or death of a serviceman as the basis for a pension award (with the exception of the Continental Congress resolution of May 15, 1778, granting half-pay to officers for service alone).
Not until March 18, 1818 (3 Stat. 410), did the US Congress grant pensions to Revolutionary War veterans for service from which no disabilities resulted. Officers and enlisted men in need of assistance were eligible under the terms of the 1818 act if they had served in a Continental military organization or in the US naval service (including the Marines) for nine months or until the end of the war. Pensions granted under this act were to continue for life.
May 1, 1820
The service-pension act of 1818 resulted in a great number of applications, many of which were approved. Congress had to appropriate greater sums than ever before for Revolutionary War pension payments. Financial difficulties and charges that applicants were feigning poverty to obtain benefits under the terms of the act caused Congress to enact remedial legislation on May 1, 1820 (3 Stat. 569). The new law required every pensioner receiving payments under the 1818 act, and every would-be pensioner, to submit a certified schedule of his estate and income to the Secretary of War. The Secretary was authorized to remove from the pension list the names of those persons who, in his opinion, were not in need of assistance. Within a few years the total of Revolutionary War service pensioners was reduced by several thousand.
March 1, 1823**
An act of Congress (3 Stat. 782) resulted in the restoration of pensions to many whose names had been removed under the terms of the 1820 legislation, but who subsequently proved their need for aid.
May 15. 1828
Congress passed another service-pension act (4 Stat. 269), which granted full pay for life to surviving officers and enlisted men of the Revolutionary War who were eligible for benefits under the terms of the Continental Congress resolution of May 15, 1778, as amended.
June 7, 1832
The last, and most liberal of the service-pension acts benefiting Revolutionary War veterans, this act (4 Stat. 529) extended to more persons the provisions of the law of May 15, 1828. The act provided that every officer or enlisted man who had served at least two years in the Continental Line or State troops, volunteers or militia, was eligible for a pension of full pay for life. Naval and marine officers and enlisted men were also included. Veterans who had served less than two years, but not less than six months, were eligible for pensions of less than full pay. Neither the act of 1832 nor the one of 1828 required applicants to demonstrate need. Under the act of 1832 money due from the last payment until the date of death of a pensioner could be collected by his widow or by his children.
July 4, 1836
The time limit for making claims under the Continental Congress resolution of August 24, 1780, which promised half-pay pensions to widows and orphans of some officers, expired in 1794. For many years thereafter, unless a private act of Congress was introduced on her behalf, a widow of a veteran was limited to receiving only that part of a pension that remained unpaid at the time of her husband's death.
By an act of Congress approved July 4, 1836 (5 Stat. 128), some widows of Revolutionary War veterans were again permitted, as a class under public law, to apply for pensions. The act provided that the widow of any veteran who had performed service as specified in the pension act of June 7, 1832, was eligible to receive the pension that might have been allowed the veteran under the terms of that act, if the widow had married the veteran before the expiration of his last period of service.
July 7, 1838
This act (5 Stat. 303) granted five-year pensions to widows whose marriages had taken place before January 1, 1794. These pensions were continued by acts of March 3, 1843 (5 Stat. 647); June 17, 1844 (5 Stat. 680); and February 2, 1848 (9 Stat. 210).
July 29, 1848
Congress provided life pensions for widows of veterans who were married before January 2, 1800 (9 Stat. 265). All restrictions pertaining to the date of marriage were removed by acts of February 3, 1853 (10 Stat. 154), and February 28, 1855 (10 Stat. 616).
March 9, 1878
Widows of Revolutionary War soldiers who had served for as few as fourteen days, or were in any engagement, were declared eligible for life pensions (20 Stat. 29).


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Trade & Tourism
Trade & Tourism
Focus on Culture - Trade & Tourism
"If I'm selling to you, I speak your language.
If I'm buying, dann müssen Sie Deutsch sprechen."
Willi Brandt – former Chancellor of Germany
Companies are global enterprises, the world is a much smaller place.
We live in a multilingual market place, where language skills are valued not only for communicating ideas, but as a sign of respect for other people and cultures.
German is the most widely spoken first language in Europe, the second most spoken second language, and is being learnt throughout the world.
German is a significant world language for securing global investment, research and trade opportunities. For example:-
- Australia-Germany Advisory Group
- 2017 Asia-Pacific Conference - in Perth, Australia
- Germany and India - German Missions in India - Infinite possibilities
- Germany and China
- Germany in Africa
- Germany Missions in Australia
- Germany and the United States
Importance of Skills in Languages
The European Council's aim for all citizens is to have skills in 1 plus 2 languages: the first and two additional languages. Skills in languages will improve the life chances for its citizens to move within and across cultures.
The European Commission acknowledge that "The ability to communicate in several languages is a great benefit for individuals, organisations and companies alike. It enhances creativity, breaks down cultural stereotypes, encourages thinking 'outside the box', and can help develop innovative products and services."
- European Union and Australia
- Delegation of the European Union to Australia - Trade information
All major Swiss multinational corporations are represented in Australia.
- Switzerland - AusTrade Country Profiles
- SAAN - Swiss Australian Academic Network
- Austria - AusTrade Country Profiles
- Austrian Foreign Trade Office - Sydney
Germany is the fifth largest economy in the world, making German a significant language of business in world markets and a reliable partner in the European Union.
- Germany - AusTrade Country Profiles
- German-Australian Chamber of Commerce - Investment in Australia's future
In 2010 Germany exported goods worth 951.9 billion euro and imported goods worth 797.6 billion euro. The foreign trade balance achieved a "surplus" of 154.3 billion euro.
- Atlas der Aussenhandelsstatistik - An interactive map for German import and export data worldwide
- List of countries by exports - Information on Wikipedea.
- Foreign Trade - Further statistical information
- Trade and Invest in Germany - Comprehensive information
- Hannover Fairs Australia - A subsidiary of the leading global trade fair company Deutsche Messe AG, organiser of the world's largest trade fairs including CeBIT, Hannover Messe, and Biotechnica.
- MessenInfo - Trade Fairs throughout Germany
The German Federal Foreign Office policy headings on their website include: Bilateral Relations, Europe, Peace and Security, Global Issues, Human Rights, Humanitarian Aid, Cultural and Intercultural Dialogue.
Contemporary Germany
- Entdecke Deutschland - Information about life in Germany.
- Berlin - The place to be - A website promoting new ideas and products constantly emerging in this vibrant capital of Germany.
Germany is a worldwide leader in environmentally friendly technologies. Germany accounts for 40% of the solar energy produced worldwide.
See also Focus on Culture: Ideas & Innovation
Germany and Australia
Germany is an important trading partner for Australia. There are 200 Australian companies in Germany.
Germany is Australia's fifth largest source of foreign direct investment and Australia's fourth largest investment destination.
There are more than 300 subsidiaries of German companies in Australia with more than 650 outlets and contributing to securing 100,000 jobs.
- Economy, Technology and the Environment - German Embassy
- German-Australian Chamber of Industry and Commerce - directory of companies
Germany looks to Australia as part of their interest in the Asia-Pacific region. The Goethe-Institut regional headquarters is in Jakarta in Indonesia.
- German Australian Business Council - in Germany
German Investment in Education in Australia
In 2010, the Federal Republic of Germany government invested 7 million dollars in education in Australia through the provision of educational services to teachers, students and academics. Most of these services are faciliated by Goethe-Institut Australia and the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD).
- Science, Research and Study - German Embassy
Every Australian university has partnerships with German-speaking countries and exchanges not funded by Germany.
- See Why German: German for Your Future - for lists of partner universities
In 2011, RMIT lists 103 of the 133 international partner companies being in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Liechtenstein for their RIIERP industry experience program. RMIT also have partner relationships with universities.
Jobs with German in Australia and Beyond
Transnational companies provide employment opportunities in branches in Australia and throughout the world.
- Hannover Fairs Australia - Deutsche Messe develops, plans and runs trade fairs and exhibitions in Germany and abroad.
"In Australia, there are more than 300 subsidiaries of German companies alone. Including their branches, there are about 750 German-owned establishments in Australia. Most of them are located in the Eastern states of Victoria and New South Wales. German companies are providing some 60,000 jobs to Australians." Article on the German Embassy website, March 2011 [Source]
Given that 135 of the German companies are based in Victoria, knowledge of German will give you an edge on an application, whether it be as an engineer through or a cleaner. Most employers respect the ability to speak more than one language.
Many Australian companies import and sell goods from German-speaking countries in Europe, as well as export to Germany. Many would like to break into this market. Understanding what appeals to German-speakers can only be deeply understood through their language.
Lost in Translation
Direct translations can miss the nuances of words in their cultural and linguistic context. Germans are accused of being too direct in English. If we understand how the imperative functions in German, and how this translates directly into English, we can understand that what is perceived as 'direct' is a direct translation into English and can even sound a bit rude. In German, there is a formal form of the verb, which when used in German is polite. The speaker of German needs an explanation on how to deliver this type of message more appropriately in the specific English-speaking setting. Of course, English speakers need to learn how to use German correctly, and lucky for them, the formal form is easy to handle! Getting familiar is when it becomes difficult.
Intercultural skills in a global market place demand skills in languages.
Non-Government Associations
- German Chamber of Commerce in Australia - an important forum for Australian and German companies
- Australian German Association - another key forum for promoting profitable networks
Australia in German-Speaking Europe
Australian diplomatic presence in German-speaking Europe to promote collaborative partnerships and agreements.
Read about how Australia promotes itself and the types of events staged in these countries.
- Australian Embassy in Berlin - Embassy for Germany and Liechtenstein
- Australian Embassy and Permanent Mission to the United Nations in Vienna - Austria
- Australian Permanent Mission and Consulate General in Geneva - Switzerland
- Country Profiles and Fact Sheets - Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT)
Austrade in German-Speaking Europe
The federal government actively seeks global trading opportunities, one being through Austrade.
Brand Australia aims to better position Australia as a global citizen, global business partner and world class destination.
- Australia Unlimited - Brand Australia
- Student and Teacher Resources - Austrade
History of International Trade in Europe
- Hanseatic League - The tradition of global trade and economic alliance began in the middle ages.
- European Union - Germany was a founding member of this union challenged with securing peace and economic stability in Europe.
A Look Back in Time
- Wirtschaftswunder- post-WWII economic miracle in West Germany
- Mayer Rothschild - founder of an international banking empire
- Wirtschaftsmuseum - Austria
Die beste Bildung findet ein gescheiter Mensch auf Reisen.
The best education for a clever person is found in travel.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Attracting German-speakers to Australia
Germans love to travel the world. Around 160,000 visitors arrive from Germany in Australia each year, a significant market for Tourism Australia.
What attracts so many German tourists to Australia? What are they coming to see and do? How long do they stay? How old are they?
Research on these questions are published on the Tourism Australia website.
- European Market - Focus on Germany and Switzerland
- Tourism Australia - Homepage
- Australien.com - Tourism Australia auf Deutsch
Marketing companies typically trade on stereotypes to attract tourists. They identify their markets and what would appeal to them, tailoring tours for particular profiles of the market.
European tours are offering tours now such as summer bike-riding or leisure cruises along the river Danube, winter skiing trips or visits to traditional Christmas Markets.
Australian Students Traveling to Germany
Many students of German travel to German-speaking countries on exchanges, sister-schools and sometimes scholarships. International travel fosters independence, personal growth and intercultural language skills.
Students from all areas of tertiary education travel to Germany on scholarships funded by the German government, as well as German students studying at Australian universities.
See Students: Scholarships and Exchanges and Why German for more information about scholarships and opportunities for German now and in the future.
Skills in communicating in German in Australia open doors to global opportunities and come in handy when negotiating daily life when you are in a German-speaking community overseas and in Australia. It
Travel and Tourism in German-speaking Europe
Tourism is an important industry and the extensive public transport system in German-speaking Europe is reliable and punctual, making travel both easy and affordable, especially if you speak German.
The concept of Jugendherberge (youth hostel) was the brainchild of a German teacher, Richard Shirmann. The first hostel opened in 1912. By the 1930s there were more than 2000 hostels in Germany. The idea soon spread throughout Europe and the world.
National tourist branches provide comprehensive advice:
- Germany - advice for tourists and Jugendherberge.de and Berlin on Wikipedia
- Austria - advice for tourists and Jugendherberge.at and Vienna on Wikipedia
- Switzerland - advice for tourists and Swiss Youth Hostels and Bern on Wikipedia
- Liechtenstein -advice for tourists and Jugendherberge.li and Vaduz on Wikipedia
Deutsche Welle
- Deutschland entdecken (German) Visit Germany (English)
- Euromaxx: The Truth about Germany: Travelling
Advice for Travelers
- Lonely Planet - enter your destination
- German Survival Bible - Der Spiegel International
Compare with how Australia presents itself to the World
- Australia's Official Tourism Website - What do we see as worth visiting?
- About Australia - Australian Government represents Australia on the world stage
- Visit Victoria - What do you know about Victoria?
Cultural Heritage
Communities keep what they treasure or want to remember to inform current and future generations.
- National Museum of Australia - Canberra - national treasures
- Museum Victoria
- Australian Memory of the World Register
- Bundesarchiv - Germany


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By Todd Cunningham – LOS ANGELES (TheWrap) With "Winter's Tale" misfiring over the weekend, leading man Colin Farrell has suffered another box office bummer.
The romantic fantasy from Warner Bros. is going to take in less than $10 million (5 million pounds) over the four-day Presidents Day weekend. That makes three movies in a row in which Farrell has played the leading man that have tanked.
Of course, it's not all on Farrell. "Winter's Tale," written and directed by Akiva Goldsman, was savaged by the critics (14 percent on Rotten Tomatoes) and the complex time-travel tale had to be tricky to market.
But last March's FilmDistrict thriller "Dead Man Down" was dead on arrival, opening to $5.3 million and topping out at $10 million domestically at the box office.
And before that, "Seven Psychopaths" debuted with $4.1 million and wound up with $15 million domestically for CBS Films in 2012.
There was the disappointing "Total Recall" remake that year as well, and the 2011 horror dud "Fright Night" before that.
The films in which he's had a supporting role have done better.
"Saving Mr. Banks," in which he plays the father of Emma Thompson's "Mary Poppins" author P.L. Travers character, has done pretty well at the box office. It's taken in $82 million domestically and another $17 million overseas since opening in December for Disney.
The 37-year-old Irish actor's biggest box-office score came in 2011's "Horrible Bosses," in which he had a secondary role as one of the title characters. That comedy featuring Jason Bateman and Jennifer Aniston brought in $117 million domestically and another $92 million from overseas.
His breakout role, a semi-comic turn in 2008's "In Bruges" that earned him a Golden Globe, was an indie hit with $33 million worldwide.
Farrell's box office mettle will next be put to the test in "Miss Julie," an historical romance directed by Liv Ullman, in which he'll star with Jessica Chastain. It's due this year, but doesn't have a release date yet. He's also in "Solace," a thriller in which he'll star with Abbie Cornish and Anthony Hopkins, which is in post-production.
And he recently agreed to co-star with Rachel Weisz in the dystopian love story "The Lobster."


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Shipments of smartphone applications processors in China are expected to drop by 1.5% sequentially to 94.95 million units in the fourth quarter of 2013, according to Digitimes Research.
Digitimes Research attributed the on-quarter shipment decrease mainly to MediaTek's weaker performance compared to the previous two quarters.
Taiwan-based MediaTek, which has the largest market share for smartphone processors in China, will see its shipments decline 16% sequentially in the fourth quarter due to rising competition from rivals in the TD-SCDMA and EDGE chip market segments, Digitimes Research said.
In fact, MediaTek has switched its focus to high-margin product lines targeted at mid-range and high-end smartphones in the fourth quarter of 2013. Such move will have an immediate impact on its shipment performance in the fourth quarter, Digitimes Research indicated.
Meanwhile, MediaTek's fourth-quarter shipments are also being affected by seasonal inventory adjustments at some of its clients, Digitimes Research observed.
Qualcomm's smartphone apps processor shipments to China are forecast to increase 4.8% sequentially in the fourth quarter, thanks to growth in shipments of its mid-range and high-end offerings, Digitimes Research said.


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The final cuts are in, and I was wrong on so many counts. Oh well, not all of us can be Geoff Mosher. Here are my last thoughts on the roster as it currently stands:
- I'm really kicking myself for not marking down a cut for Joselio Hanson. It's not like I didn't see this coming. He played poorly in 2011 (Sheil Kapadia noted that his Success Rate dropped dramatically) and the Eagles actually drafted his clear replacement. This should have been an easy call, but I was confused by the Eagles not giving Boykin much of a chance to start in the preseason.
- Speaking of the secondary, is anyone else worried about the safety position? I'm on record as being relatively skeptical about the starters, but all in all they should be fine. The problem comes if they don't play well consistently -- or one of them, shocker, gets hurt. Are you going to turn to Jaiquawn Jarrett? What about newly acquired youngster David Sims? Colt Anderson, coming off an injury, has never been thought of as anything more than a special teams whiz kid. I'm shocked that the Eagles could have five safeties on the roster and not one reliable veteran backup. Les Bowen did have a good quote from Howie Roseman on the bare safety market:
"Everyone's looking for safeties. They're really hard to find. We've talked about this publicly. We've talked about it with our scouts. It's just a position where guys who used to play it are moving to other spots. Some of it is the advent of the spread offense in college football. Some of it is other positions being glorified."
- Not to rehash an extended discussion I had on Twitter last week, but it seems like the Trent Edwards over Mike Kafka decision may have more to it than meets the eye. It wasn't a month ago that Kafka was considered a lock to be Michael Vick's backup. Then he played nine snaps, broke his hand, and was promptly passed by not one, but two players.
Nick Foles certainly played his way into the second-string job, but was Edwards really that impressive? After getting cut by three teams and then sitting out the entire 2011 season, Edwards looked like just a camp body. He didn't get many reps in practice and although he played well in preseason games, that was against third and fourth-stringers. Perhaps it had less to do with Edwards though, and more to do with Foles. Once the rookie showed what he could do (perhaps even established himself as a QBOTF), the difference between Kafka and Edwards was meaningless. All that mattered was picking the player who best complemented (or who was best friends with) Foles.
- Darryl Tapp reportedly took a pay cut to stay with the Eagles. It will be interesting to see if they make five defensive ends active on game day. That's the only reason it makes sense to keep him.
- The team kept both rookie running backs Bryce Brown and Chris Polk. I wonder if, at least for the future, there's some doubt about Dion Lewis. Lewis has shown some flashes, but he's a much better understudy than complement to LeSean McCoy, since everything the former can do the latter can do better. Brown and Polk bring different styles to the table. With any luck, one of them will be able to fill a Correll Buckhalter-type role down the line.


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Date(s) - Sunday 07 Jul
5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Asquith Bowling Club
Sunday's are a great day to be a winner at the Asquith Bowling Club!
Not only do we have loads of meat tray raffle prizes to be won, we also run our Members Badge draw where members can win money simply for being a member of the club. There is also Crazy Cash where each week you can win up to $150 Bowlo Bucks!
End the weekend on a high as you join us for our Super Sunday Meat Trays Raffle. Filled with prime cuts of meat and chicken from Mt Kuring-Gai Village Butcher, there are 28 assorted meat trays to be won. Winners get their choice of meat tray from the selection available.
After 28 lucky meat tray winners, we have an additional 2 MEGA meat trays to be won!
Tickets go on sale from 5pm and the Meat Tray winners are drawn at 6.30pm. Come and join us for a drink or a deliciously easy Sunday Dinner; grab some raffle tickets and hopefully you will go home a winner.


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A newer version of this documentation is available. Use the version menu above to view the most up-to-date release of the Greenplum 4.x documentation.
Installs Greenplum Database extensions such as pgcrypto, PL/R, PL/Java, PL/Perl, PostGIS, and MADlib, along with their dependencies, across an entire cluster.
gppkg [-i package | -u package | -r name-version | -c] [-d master_data_directory] [-a] [-v] gppkg --migrate GPHOME_1 GPHOME_2 [-a] [-v] gppkg [-q | --query] query_option gppkg -? | --help | -h gppkg --version
The Greenplum Package Manager (gppkg) utility installs Greenplum Database extensions, along with any dependencies, on all hosts across a cluster. It will also automatically install extensions on new hosts in the case of system expansion and segment recovery.
First, download one or more of the available packages from Pivotal Network then copy it to the master host. Use the Greenplum Package Manager to install each package using the options described below.
Examples of database extensions and packages software that are delivered using the Greenplum Package Manager are:
- PostGIS
- PL/Java
- PL/Perl
- MADlib
- Pgcrypto
Note that Greenplum Package Manager installation files for extension packages might release outside of standard product release cycles. Current packages are available from Pivotal Network. Information about package compatibility is the Greenplum Database Release Notes.
- -a (do not prompt)
- Do not prompt the user for confirmation.
- -c | --clean
- Reconciles the package state of the cluster to match the state of the master host. Running this option after a failed or partial install/uninstall ensures that the package installation state is consistent across the cluster.
- -d master_data_directory
- The master data directory. If not specified, the value set for $MASTER_DATA_DIRECTORY will be used.
- -i package | --install=package
- Installs the given package. This includes any pre/post installation steps and installation of any dependencies.
- --migrate GPHOME_1 GPHOME_2
- Migrates packages from a separate $GPHOME. Carries over packages from one version of Greenplum Database to another.
- For example: gppkg --migrate /usr/local/greenplum-db-220.127.116.11 /usr/local/greenplum-db-220.127.116.11
- This option is automatically invoked by the installer during minor upgrades. This option is given here for cases when the user wants to migrate packages manually.
- Migration can only proceed if gppkg is executed from the installation directory to which packages are being migrated. That is, GPHOME_2 must match the $GPHOME from which the currently executing gppkg is being run.
- -q | --query query_option
- Provides information specified by query_option about the
installed packages. Only one query_option can be specified
at a time. The following table lists the possible values for query_option.
<package_file> is the name of a package.
Table 1. Query Options for gppkg query_option Returns <package_file> Whether the specified package is installed. --info <package_file> The name, version, and other information about the specified package. --list <package_file> The file contents of the specified package. --all List of all installed packages.
- -r name-version | --remove=name-version
- Removes the specified package.
- -u package | --update=package
- Updates the given package.Warning: The process of updating a package includes removing all previous versions of the system objects related to the package. For example, previous versions of shared libraries are removed. After the update process, a database function will fail when it is called if the function references a package file that has been removed.
- --version (show utility version)
- Displays the version of this utility.
- -v | --verbose
- Sets the logging level to verbose.
- -? | -h | --help
- Displays the online help.


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Aegritudo Perdicae, an anonymous Latin *epyllion narrating the calamitous love of Perdicas for his mother, Castalia. Its ascription to *Dracontius is unwarrantable, though it almost certainly belongs to his period (i.e. 5th cent.
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