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My first memories of baths date back to early childhood, when my father would deposit me along with my two sisters in the tub for an economy-of-scale suds-up. Yes, we all fit: three girls in four years was what my contraceptively challenged parents—while still undergraduate students—managed to produce during the first three years and six months of a marriage which finally ended around my sixteenth birthday. No need to express condolences: divorce was the best thing that ever happened to my parents' marriage. Aside, of course, from its fruits—mistakes though we may have seemed to be at the time...
Both of my parents have been happily remarried now for many years, much longer than they were married to one another, which would seem to suggest that mutual fertility is not a sufficient basis for a stable marriage, notwithstanding the "grand plan" of whoever—if anyone—devised the preposterous pregnancy scheme. Marriage has of course enjoyed a resurgence of popularity in recent times, but I suspect that all of the excitement will eventually die down—perhaps in seven years? In the meantime, I think that any couple—straight or gay—interested in tying the proverbial knot (what a metaphor!) should be required first to do a dramatic reading à haute voix of Ionesco's play Délire à Deux. If, having successfully completed that exercise, the happy couple is still intent on taking vows, all I can say is: more power to them! But I digress...
A civil engineer by training and in mindset, my father, in addition to having fun regaling us with rhymes such as "Scrub-a-dub-dub: three girls in a tub!" undoubtedly derived a measure of satisfaction through conserving both time and water by bathing us in this way. Indeed, his area of specialization is none other than dams and irrigation systems!
I have no other clear memories of baths for many, many years. I believe that I took only showers during high school, and I certainly did not take baths while living in the college dormitories. I am not even sure whether the shared bathrooms had anything but shower stalls. That's how little importance bathing in a tub had for me. I do seem vaguely to recall that someone barfed in a bathtub somewhere, during a party at which Koolaid spiked with Everclear was being served. (Was it, perhaps, me?)
Fast forward to today, and here I am a full-fledged bath addict. This is no exaggeration: I do not even feel clean unless I take a full-on soak in a tub, and on those occasions when I am forced to forgo my bathing ritual because of traveling, I await with great anticipation the opportunity to return home where I'll be able to bathe once again in the manner to which I have grown quite accustomed. Mind you, I am not an obsessive-compulsive hand washer, or anything of that kind.
I observed one of those people recently in the bathroom at the library. She was lathering up and scrubbing her arms and hands when I entered a stall, and she was lathering up and scrubbing her arms and hands when I left the stall. I stood briefly next to her in what may have seemed to be a show of hygienic solidarity, a couple of sinks down. But after I had spent maybe ten seconds washing my hands and reached for a paper towel, she was still standing there, lathering up and scrubbing her arms and hands. No, you may rest assured, I am nothing like that.
I suspect, however, that some shower advocates may view me in just that way when I say that I honestly feel that a thorough cleansing can only be accomplished through a bath. Perhaps they, too, will smile politely and walk quickly away—or the internet equivalent: navigate away from this page... I imagine five-minute hot shower takers asking in their minds, Really? You only take baths? in entirely sincere puzzlement over how someone could waste so much time.
I went from nearly no memory of having taken baths to wishing only to take baths. I am by now so habituated to baths, an important part of which involves lying in a supine reclining position, that I consider showers even to be a form of work. Standing up? Really? is my natural rejoinder of puzzlement to the advocate of showers who cannot imagine spending an entire hour—or even half—on a bath.
Having numbered for so many years among those who take only showers, I do of course understand why people opt for them. Yes, it is true: they are quick. And yes, it is true: they work in shared bathroom arrangements such as dorms and houses where not all inhabitants have private bathing quarters. I recall that a fellow living in a house where I was renting a room at one point in the Los Angeles area used to leave the bathtub half-full of dark gray, opaque water, clogged as the drain was with his body hair. No, this is not a joke. Ian was his name.
Two other renters, Ann and Stan, also lived in that house, and so did the landlord and his wife, but the person whom I'll never, ever forget—no matter how old I eventually become, and even if I lapse into an advanced state of senility—is Ian. In addition to being ape-ily hairy, Ian also left a strong acrid odor behind wherever he went—a trail of sillage, if you like—even after having bathed. I think that it is fair to say that anyone who rejects The Myth of the Skin Chemistry Myth never shared a house with Ian. What would Chanel no 5 smell like on Ian? Honestly, I do not want to know. Come to think of it, although he did not fully bubble up in my mind at the time, Ian was perhaps the ultimate subconscious inspiration for one of my proofs: The case of the stinky guy.
Taking a bath in such a tub, shared with such a fellow as Ian, was never going to happen, for obvious reasons. The whole experience of even wanting to shower in that tub on a day when Ian had already been there was in itself a sheer nightmare, a veritable horror story rivaled only by Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho. At the time, however, I myself was a showers-only type, so the challenge each morning became to beat Ian to the bathroom. I'd scuffle down the hall as quickly as I could in jammies and rubber flip-flops, mug of French roast in hand, fluffy white robe in tow, to take my shower and scurry back to my room, deeply relieved to have escaped the horror which would now await some other poor unsuspecting soul.
A Question of Culture?
Americans, on the whole, are a part of a showering culture. Baths tend to be reserved for special occasions: to soothe sore muscles in Epsom salts after running a marathon, or to help clear one's congested sinuses with an herbal remedy including eucalyptus and the like... I understand that culture, because I, too, was a part of it for most of my life. Even when I lived in a beautiful house in the mountains and had a private bath, I used it only infrequently as a tub, to alleviate stress. Baths back then were a type of event, not an ordinary way to cleanse myself.
So how in the world did this radical transformation, from a showers-only person to a baths-only person, take place? Interestingly enough, the changes in my attitudes toward showers and baths, like the circumstances of my birth, were entirely a matter of chance and, some might even say, negligence. I discovered that an apartment which I had rented with a one-year lease had a bathtub with a malfunctioning shower head. The nozzle barely dribbled any water at all, but when I pointed this out, the skinflint landlord insisted that it was supposed to function like that.
Everyone, I trust, has run into one or more of those "special" landlords who insist that everything is exactly as it should be. Whether I liked it or not, my only real option for cleansing myself during that year became taking a bath. What I found, hundreds of baths later was that I actually enjoy taking baths. Slowly but surely my entire perspective on bathing ended up transforming to the point where I never, ever shower at home anymore. I am so much a bather at this point that after moving to the house in which I now reside, I did not even bother to hang up the shower curtain and rod until some house guests arrived!
Ironic though it may seem, it is nonetheless true: as a direct result of a cheapskate landlord, today I feel deprived whenever I find myself in a shower-only scenario. This happens when I travel to a place where hotels either do not come equipped with bathtubs, or they do but for one reason or another it is infeasible to render them acceptably clean. I am very picky about bathtubs: they must be spotless in order for me to soak my body in one. I realize that this may make me sound a bit like the woman in the library bathroom compulsively lathering and scrubbing her arms and hands, but I do here confess that I will not bathe in a hotel bathtub which I have not scrupulously inspected for cleanliness.
Not a problem in a couple of parts of the world, above all, Japan, the bathing capital of the universe, where spotless baththubs—and sencha tea centers—are de rigueur! I have also often been pleasantly surprised by the accommodations in Europe, especially Italy. Europeans, while not quite obsessed with bathing—as the Japanese truly are, to their credit, I hasten to add—do seem to appreciate that a good bath tub is just as essential as a good bed. Or a bidet! Some of the most beautiful bath tubs and bathrooms I've ever encountered were found in Italy and in Spain.
I never intended to become a bather, but it happened, and now I honestly cannot imagine forgoing what has become my bath ritual. Along the way, I became a major consumer of bath products, and thanks to the ridiculous biannual sales at Bath & Body Works and The Body Shop, I could probably go for years without needing to buy anything. Every time I consider the possibility of moving, in fact, I realize that I need to decrease my gross shipping weight before doing so. I did give away about a thousand books last year, and I no longer buy either CDs or DVDs, but despite having skipped the sales at BBW and TBS, I still have an impressive array of bath and shower gels, scrubs, and lotions. And then, of course, there are the colognes and perfumes.
Am I "hoarding" bath products? I think not, because the variety is very important to me. A day when I wish to take a citrus bath is not at all like a day when I'd rather soak in lavender or jasmine or cherry blossom or... the list goes on and on. I delight in selecting which bath bubbles to run under the faucet, and I coordinate scrubs and soaps and even hair products so as to complement the scented water. As a part of my ritual I also apply Borghese Fango mud to my face, and I may actually hold the record for the most tonnage of that product consumed by any individual person.
Deontology versus Teleology: Showers versus Baths
I suspect that eighteenth-century Prussian philosopher Immanuel Kant, probably the most famous deontologist in history, preferred showers. According to Kant, morality is a matter of duty: it is not because of the benefits which one can expect to derive from doing the right thing that one should do the right thing. No, consequences have no relevance, morally speaking, in Kant's view. You should do the right thing because it is the right thing to do!
|Immanuel Kant, author of The Metaphysics of Morals
Americans certainly seem, for the most part, to regard showering as a duty to execute, not a pleasure to enjoy—except insofar as removing dirt can be a source of relief. One of my sisters, a deeply entrenched shower advocate—who perhaps not uncoincidentally also has a dog—insists that baths increase the incidence of urinary tract infections. She once expressed extreme distaste for my predilection for baths in these terms:
How can you stand to sit there in a pool of dirty water?!
To which I replied:
The water is not dirty, BECAUSE I BATHE!
I do not doubt that a person who takes only showers over many years with nary a bath would indeed create a dirty pool of water just like Ian, the fellow whose sole distinction in my memory bank is to have been the stinkiest person I ever knew. What else did he do? I have no idea.
Anecdotally, I can report that the first time I bathed HRH Emperor Oliver, the bath water was indeed rather dark and gray. He had never been dipped in a tub throughout his entire life, why? Because cats have superlative personal hygiene and shun bodies of water larger than the volume of space which their body occupies.
Since his retirement, it has become necessary to provide some bathing assistance to The Emperor now and then, as a result of which I have become convinced that in fact all cats hold within their minds a quasi-Jungian "collective unconsciousness" fear of drowning. I suspect that it is the image of small kittens being mercilessly terminated "with extreme prejudice" in a pond by some illiterate and sadistic hick which may surface inchoately—to a greater or lesser degree, depending on the intellectual capacity of the cat—when they first face the specter of a bath.
Happily, dozens of baths later, The Emperor has learned that drowning at the Divine Feline Assisted Living Retirement Community is not an option. It's not going to happen, so long as his chief of staff is standing by. Having largely overcome his initial reluctance to bathe, The Emperor today enjoys the benefits of hydrotherapy so dear to bath lovers more generally and especially helpful to those such as he, who suffer from diabetes and debilitating neuropathy in their legs, feet, and toes. But I digress...
|HRH Emperor Oliver relaxes after a bath and blowdry
The Bath-Perfume Connection
While bathing recently—one day in satsuma, the next in grapefruit and citron, the third in lavender and chamomile, and yesterday in Fresh Citron de Vigne shower gel—it occurred to me that the attitudes of many people toward perfume can be mapped onto their attitudes toward bathing along two different axes. First, it seems clear that some, perhaps many, people think of perfume use in purely functional terms, just as they think about showering.
Consider, for example, the "panty dropper" threads which get started over and over again by new visitors to fragrance community websites. This may seem risible to veteran perfumistas, who regard themselves as having a higher appreciation of perfume, often as an art form, but the reality seems to be that most consumers use perfume as a way of increasing their own attractability to persons with whom they may become romantically involved.
I myself found this factoid rather unbelievable, but in a fashion magazine a couple of years ago, in one of the relatively rare features on perfume, the statistic was reported that the number one reason why French women use perfume is to attract a mate! That was a sobering statistic to me, generally inclined to believe as I am that the French tend to be leaps and bounds above Americans in terms of sophistication. Meaning, of course, that the statistic for Americans could only be worse.
There is another axis along which perfume appreciation can be mapped, and this one does not point toward the same rather self-congratulatory conclusion, that most perfume users are philistines and only elite perfumistas appreciate the artistry of vrai parfum and the work of "olfactory artists," to invoke here Chandler Burr's term for accomplished perfumers. This second axis is that of pure sensory experience, which does not seem to me to be relevantly distinct in the case of bathing and perfume use. In other words, thinking about perfume use in purely phenomenological terms, as a subjective experience, the use of perfume may be much closer to bathing than perfumistas ordinarily suppose—unless, of course, they happen to be bath addicts like me.
One reason why I love bathing is because I am enveloped in the process not only by warm water, but also by beautiful scents. This leads back to the question, perhaps vexing to some, whether perfume really is different in any fundamental way from other toiletries, to wit: bath and shower gel, soaps, scrubs, lotions, oils, etc. There are more and less sophisticated toiletries, to be sure, and people may use them and appreciate them to varying degrees. But let us consider the case of bath and shower gels which have been scented with perfumes which we ourselves already affirm as excellent.
Is it any less of an experience of perfume to smell it wafting off the water or off the skin of a freshly bathed and lotioned body than it is to spritz on the perfume itself? In terms of the pure olfactory experience of the perfume, I cannot for the life of me figure out why one of these forms of perfume experience should differ from the other. The truth, it seems to me, is that we appreciate perfume, above all, for the pleasure it provides.
Read all the perfume reviews you like, you will find that the fundamental judgments derive nearly exclusively from an answer to the question whether the wearer enjoys the experience of the perfume being reviewed. That is the bottom line. Reviews invariably circle back to the reviewer: specifically, the effect that the perfume has upon the wearer.
Is this true of the nonperfumic arts? Do we evaluate the quality of a poem or a piece of music or a film by describing their effects upon us? Perhaps on some level and in part, but only a small portion of a review of any object of art explicitly references the experiencer. The rest points outward to the object itself.
In contrast, in the case of perfume, everything turns on the subjective experience, and the very terms which one selects in attempting to convey one's experience point back to the wearer. This seems to me to provide grounds for skepticism about the status of perfume as an art. People who love perfume would naturally like there to be objective truths about the object of their love, but the reason why even "the experts" do not agree, it seems to me, is that their reviews always say much more about them than about the ostensible object of their critique.
The object under review in the case of perfume is tied up essentially with the reviewer, because everything which he or she consciously perceives is determined by facts about him or her, not facts about the perfume. In addition to having entirely different personal histories, human beings are differentially sensitive to all of the various components of any perfume, which is how and why people with vast experience in sniffing perfumes and familiarity with even thousands of them can radically disagree about a question as fundamental as whether it is any good.
What matter in evaluations of perfume are not objective facts about the creation—what particular chemical substances were used to create a certain perceptual quality—but our subjective reception of it conjoined with our personal tastes. In fact, tastes appear to do most of the evaluative work. We like this or that note: patchouli, tuberose, benzoin, etc. We dislike this or that note: rubber, cumin, pineapple, etc. Therefore, if a perfume features those things which we happen to like and we also happen to like their conjunction, then that alone will suffice to make our experience of it a positive one. "Your mileage may vary," but to us, which is all that matters in our own evaluation of a perfume, it ends up seeming like either a masterpiece or a disaster or, more often, somewhere in between those two extremes, based largely upon what we happen to like.
Now, one might reply that people's tastes in art vary as well, and this is true. The difference, however, is that in the case of perfume, tastes do the bulk of the work of evaluation. Everything turns upon individual tastes and preferences. To praise a perfume is to enjoy the experience of wearing it. This is why the more a reviewer writes, the more he reveals—not about the perfume but about himself.
Setting to one side all of the vapid chatter about art, I must own that when I make a judgment about perfume, the bottom line is that a good or bad perfume to my nose is rather simple to define. I derive pleasure from the former and not from the latter. This is not an objective judgment and reveals the folly involved in issuing imperious decrees about which perfumes are masterpieces and which are disasters.
In order to do such a thing, one would first have to assume the exalted status of one's own subjective values and tastes, in addition to one's heightened ability to perceive all of the many components of a perfume. Who can make such a claim, in complete sincerity? I know of no one, to be perfectly frank. Indeed, the two requirements would appear to be mutually exclusive. Moreover, a great or accomplished nose is probably not the best person to seek out for advice on which perfumes to buy. Why? Because your less than great nose will not detect the same things and to the same degree. In other words, you will smell what is essentially a different perfume than did he.
What I have learned about perfume through reflecting upon bathing while bathing is that pleasure, my fragrant friends, is the bottom line. There is no more and no less to perfume than that. We may, in our vanity, wish to follow the lead of thinkers such as the nineteenth-century British philosopher John Stuart Mill, who distinguished higher from lower pleasures, claiming that
It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied;
better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied.
It is unclear from this pithy little adage whether it is supposed to be better to be a pig satisfied or a fool satisfied, but I suspect that Mill was not a vegetarian and may well have joined his compatriots in repasts frequently featuring offal.
|John Stuart Mill, author of Utilitarianism
In any case, what seems indisputable to me is that what we may wish to honorifically label "olfactory art" is in fact an exceptionally pleasurable scent. It may be complex and unfurl in waves so as to induce in us olfactory delight. It may surprise us and lead us down new paths of our thoughts and evoke memories of times past and things lost. Experiencing perfume is a sensual process which begins with our nose and ends in our brain, but the measure of a good perfume is only the pleasure which it provides.
What does hedonism imply?
Just as people may adopt a certain attitude toward cleansing their body, viewing it as a necessity, a duty to be carried out, so, too, do consumers sometimes become distracted by extrinsic factors. They may become concerned by price, status (is it niche—or expensive—and therefore, presumably, refined enough?), or even the celebrities or models suggested or implied to be attached to the perfume through advertising. In view of the size of marketing budgets for many perfumes, it may well be the case that most consumers select the bottles which end up in their boudoir by such olfactorily irrelevant factors.
Such perfumes, once owned, may be spritzed on without stopping to smell the perfume, so to to speak. I see this, too, in the reviews written by many self-styled perfumistas who report quick impressions and often quite dismissively. Did the reviewer give the perfume the benefit of a full wear—or two? Was the experience interrupted, mediated, or curtailed by the wearer's memory of the experience of another perfume in the past? Can we experience a perfume as an isolated thing in itself? Probably not, given that our minds are not a blank slate—and if they were we wouldn't be able to make sense of anything anyway.
The famous deontologist Immanuel Kant never married, nor did he ever leave his hometown of Königsberg. Small wonder, then, that he had so much time for cogitation and the composition of extremely lengthy sentences. Naturally, he had something to say on this matter as well. Kant rejected the possibility of naïve empiricism—the pure, unmediated apprehension of reality—in these terms (translated from the German):
Percepts without concepts are empty; concepts without percepts are blind.
In some ways, bathing provides a superlative opportunity to reflect upon a perfume, as one is not surrounded by all of the usual distractions which can make it difficult to focus upon the olfactory experience itself. How often do we wear a perfume in the way in which we listen to a piece of music or watch a film? True, music is often playing in the background while we do something else, but when we attend a concert, we are there specifically to listen to the music, though we may of course be distracted by such annoyances as audience members who cough or talk during the performance. The same is true of our experience of films and may help to explain why many people today only watch films in the (quiet) privacy of their homes, made possible by the existence of so many new technologies in a series which began with videotapes and appears to be culminating in wireless media streaming.
Even perfumistas who exalt perfumery as an art may not actually dedicate any independent time to the experience of perfume. They may use perfume in the way in which they play background music while engaged in activities very different from what one does while sitting in rapt attention at a concert. Both music and perfume are nonrepresentational, but music is at least sometimes capable of capturing our undivided attention. Even further removed is the experience of a film, which, being representational, can convey a message of one sort or another. In the case of perfume, only one question really makes much sense: Does the perfume provide pleasure? Do beautiful scents fill you with joy?
One implication of this bath-inspired way of looking at perfume would seem to be that the provenance of a scent is irrelevant to one's experience of it. Perhaps this is why I don't care who allegedly made the first perfume in the history of the world to combine certain notes together. It doesn't matter. What matters is that they were brought together by someone—anyone—to produce a perfume capable of inducing in me the sense of pleasure I feel upon donning it. We may tell all the stories we like about perfumes, but our stories are no more and no less personal confessions, in the end.
I leave you now to soak in these ideas and look forward to reading your thoughts on the matter. As for me, I do believe that it's time for a bath!


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Art Inspires.
The Asian or Eastern approach to brushwork painting is transcendent. If it is not coming from the soul, it is neither inspired nor inspiring.
The Western approach to painting is pragmatic. Realism, even abstract realism, tends to underlie inspiration.
The fusion of Eastern and Western approaches to brushwork painting creates a new dimension as to how the art inspires.
Parem Hwah

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Filed under: MLS teams 40th anniversaries | Tags: A-League, American Professional Soccer League, American Soccer League, Associated Press, BC Place, Canadian Soccer League, CenturyLink Field, Empire Stadium, Eric Wynalda, Fall River Marksmen, FC Portland, FC Seattle, FC Seattle Storm, Gillette Stadium, Golden Bay Earthquakes, John Doyle, Kasey Keller, Kingdome, Major League Soccer, Marcelo Balboa, Memorial Stadium, NBC, New England Revolution, New York Cosmos, New York Red Bulls, New York/New Jersey MetroStars, North American Soccer League, Pedro Morales, Portland Timbers, Providence Park, Richard Nixon, San Francisco Bay Blackhawks, San Jose Clash, San Jose Earthquakes, San Jose Hawks, Seattle Sounders, Soccer City USA, U.S. National Open Cup, University of Portland, USL-1, Vancouver 86ers, Vancouver Whitecaps, Victoria Riptides, Watergate, Western Alliance Challenge Series, Western Soccer Alliance, Western Soccer League, White House
Pedro Morales converted a penalty kick in the 19th minute and struck again on a 20-yard shot a minute later to lead the Vancouver Whitecaps to a 3-2 victory over the San Jose Earthquakes in a Major League Soccer match before a crowd of 21,000 at BC Place.
The meeting commemorated the 40th anniversary of the first game between the Whitecaps and Earthquakes, who opened the North American Soccer League season at Empire Stadium as expansion franchises on May 5, 1974. Fans at BC Place were encouraged to dress '70s retro, which many did with long-haired wigs, sunglasses, fake mustaches and bell-bottom pants. [May 3]
Comment: The match was played about a month after the Portland Timbers and Seattle Sounders battled to an entertaining 4-4 draw before yet another standing-room-only crowd of 20,814 at Portland's Providence Park. The Associated Press referred to that encounter as "one of the wilder match ups of a rivalry dating to the mid-1970s." NBC, which televised the game, called it "the 85th meeting of the two teams." MLS noted earlier that the Sounders, along with a third Cascadia rival, the Whitecaps, and the 'Quakes would mark their 40th anniversary seasons this year, with the Timbers celebrating No. 39.
What a stretch of the imagination.
Those clubs have as much right to claim a 40th anniversary as a married couple who experiences divorce, death, ressurection, marriage to other partners, further divorces, identity changes, separation, multiple relocations, and, finally, rebirth, all since the days that Richard Nixon was in the White House.
True, the Sounders, Whitecaps and 'Quakes were born in 1974 as NASL teams, followed by the Timbers in '75. However, Portland, which once boldly called itself "Soccer City USA," folded after the 1982 season, and Seattle, Vancouver and San Jose (known as Golden Bay for its final two seasons) went down with the ship when the NASL itself died after the 1984 campaign.
A year later, with professional soccer in the U.S. resembling a moonscape, two new teams, FC Portland and FC Seattle, joined with a reconstituted San Jose Earthquakes and the soon-to-be-forgotten Victoria Riptides to play in a hopeful attempt to revive high-level soccer called the Western Alliance Challenge Series (San Jose finished first with a 4-2-1 record). The WACS morphed into the Western Soccer Alliance, then the Western Soccer League, then, through a 1990 merger with the East Coast's year-old American Soccer League, the American Professional Soccer League. FC Portland, born as an all-amateur side made up primarily of University of Portland players like Kasey Keller, and their rival, since renamed FC Seattle Storm, folded after that year.
As for the San Jose Earthquakes, they were replaced by the San Francisco Bay Blackhawks in 1989; after U.S. internationals like Marcelo Balboa, Eric Wynalda and John Doyle led them the to APSL title in '91, they dropped into the USISL by '93 as the San Jose Hawks and then folded. After three years of darkness, the San Jose Clash became a charter member of MLS. It shed the regrettable Clash nickname in 1999 and went on to win two MLS championships as the 'Quakes, but it wasn't enough to prevent the poorly supported team from moving to Houston in 2006. Two years later, an MLS expansion team, named the Earthquakes, was awarded to San Jose; this fourth version of the 'Quakes will move into a new, soccer-specific stadium, in 2015.
Vancouver? It returned to action in 1986 as a freelance team, then joined the new, short-lived Canadian Soccer League the following year. After six seasons as a CSL power, the 86ers embarked on an 18-year odyssey that took them to the APSL, A-League and USL-1. Along the way, the 86es nickname was changed to Whitecaps.
These 40-year anniversaries are all well and good, but they ignore the difficult days between NASL and MLS, when there was genuine doubt that pro outdoor soccer would ever be seen again. Ask those in the crowd of 34,012 who watched the Sounders beat the Timbers at the Kingdome in 1979 if any of them were among the 1,500 or so who saw an amateur Portland team play a semi-pro Seattle team at the old Memorial Stadium eight or nine years later. Would any of them have drawn any sort of parallel between the two games? Could any of them have foreseen a day when an MLS Portland Timbers and MLS Seattle Sounders would meet at Seattle's CenturyLink Field in front of 66,452 in 2012 or 67,385 last season?
Given the ups and downs–and glaring gaps–in these and every other major soccer-playing market in the U.S., creating milestones like this is a shameless example of revisionist history. If not, the New York/New Jersey MetroStars (now the New York Red Bulls) should've just claimed the legacy of the New York Cosmos as their own and begun life in MLS in 1996 with five NASL titles to their name. Better yet, the New England Revolution should've simply traced their roots to the Fall River Marksmen, founded in 1921. That would've given the Revs an immediate 75-year history, plus seven American Soccer League championships and four U.S. National Open Cup crowns. A stretch? Fall River, which of course is part of New England, is only 36 miles from the Revolution's home field, Gillette Stadium.
These MLS clubs are right to give a nod to their respective cities' rich soccer histories. But the Whitecaps, Earthquakes (with their new stadium on the horizon), and Timbers and Sounders (with their routine sellouts) should celebrate the here and now without trying to re-write history–especially without forcing themselves to drag memories of mutton chop sideburns, Watergate and disco into the equation.
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: 1998 CONCACAF Gold Cup, 2002 World Cup, Alexi Lalas, Bayern Munich, Bora Milutinovic, Borussia Moenchengladbach, Brad Friedel, Brian McBride, Carlos Bocanegra, CenturyLink Field, Civic Stadium, Clint Dempsey, Dominick Kinnear, Edmundo, FC Barcelona, FC Portland, Frankie Hejduk, Fredy Montero, Fulham, Giants Stadium, John Doyle, Juergen Sommer, Kasey Keller, Leicester City, Los Angeles Galaxy, Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, Marcelo Balboa, Millwall, Olympia WA, Pele, Portland Timbers, Rayo Vallecano, Real Madrid, Romario, Rose Bowl, Sammy Ochoa, San Jose Earthquakes, Seattle Sounders, Southampton, Steve Cherundolo, Tampa Bay Mutiny, Tim Howard, Tony Meola, Tottenham, University of Portland, Western Soccer League
They threw open the gates to the upper deck at CenturyLink Field and 64,140 turned out to see the Sounders defeat the San Jose Earthquakes, 2-1, in the final 2011 regular-season match in Seattle. Sammy Ochoa and Fredy Montero scored in the last 10 minutes and goalkeeper Kasey Kelly stopped seven shots to send the throng home happy.
This was not part of a doubleheader, and there was no fireworks spectacular offered. Both sides had qualified for the playoffs. The attraction was goalkeeper and native son Keller, who plans to retire at the end of the season. [October15]
Comment I: Appropriate, and well deserved.
With all due respect to Brad Friedel, Tony Meola and Tim Howard, Keller, 41, will step down as the best goalkeeper produced by a country known, internationally, for its goalkeepers. The pride of Olympia, WA, never had a three-week stretch like Friedel, who started ahead of Keller at the 2002 World Cup and was spectacular for a hot team. And Keller largely went down with the ship as a starter at the 1998 and 2006 World Cups. But from 1990 to 2008, he was world class in England (Millwall, Leicester City, Tottenham, Southampton, Fulham), Spain (Rayo Vallecano), and Germany (Borussia Moenchengladbach), blazing a trail for the likes of Alexi Lalas, Carlos Bocanegra, Steve Cherundolo, Clint Dempsey, Frankie Hejduk, Brian McBride and, yes, Friedel and Howard.
Keller's career spans an amazing stretch in U.S. soccer history. A star at the University of Portland, he played for FC Portland of the Western Soccer League in 1989. The WSL's players were semipro for the most part, but Portland was made up of college players protecting their amateur status; young Keller posted a 0.38 goals-against average and won the league's MVP award ahead of players like Marcelo Balboa, Dominick Kinnear and John Doyle. Twenty-one years after playing in front of hundreds at Portland's Civic Stadium (future home of the MLS Portland Timbers), the crowd watching him is an adoring 64,140, the third-largest for a stand-alone game in MLS history.
At least Keller will always have the 1998 CONCACAF Gold Cup, where he made 10 saves–most of them bordering on the miraculous–to turn away Romario, Edmundo and Brazil, 1-0, at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum in the semifinals. It was the greatest performance ever by an American goalkeeper in a high-profile match. But some will speculate what might have been had coach Bora Milutinovic decided to put up with what was then a young, headstrong Kasey Keller and chosen him ahead of Meola, Friedel and Juergen Sommer for his 1994 World Cup squad. If Keller, not Meola, was covering the near post during the USA's final first-round match, a 1-0 loss to Romania, maybe the U.S. wouldn't have had to face Brazil in the second round. Instead, the opponent would have been a somewhat softer Spain, in Washington DC, and hard to say if Bora's Boys wouldn't have bought an appearance in the rarified air of the quarterfinals and with it another week in the national spotlight.
Comment II: The crowd at CenturyLink Field was the fourth-largest worldwide that weekend–trailing only those at FC Barcelona, Real Madrid and Bayern Munich. It lifted Seattle to a final average attendance for the regular season of 38,496 (nearly 3,000 above stadium capacity) and made the Sounders the best draw in MLS for all three years of their existence. More important, it helped boost the league's average gate for 2011 to 17,795 with one week remaining, thus breaking the record of 17,406 set in MLS's inaugural 1996 season.
There were a few factors that made that 17,406 possible. First and foremost, there was the novelty factor as an entire league debuted. There also was the blessing and curse of the many gridiron football stadiums the teams were forced to call home: While four-figure crowds looked pathetic in these cavernous stadiums, when it came to home openers or games with post-game fireworks shows, there were plenty of seats for all, like the Rose Bowl crowd of 69,255 that saw the Los Angeles Galaxy's first match. And there were turnstile counts that deserved an asterisk, like the 92,216 back at the Rose Bowl on hand for a twinbill involving the Galaxy against the now-defunct Tampa Bay Mutiny and the U.S. National Team versus Mexico. (Easy to conclude that it wasn't Mutiny fans who flooded the stadium that day.)
No such gimmicks or mitigating factors today, which only makes Keller's big night all the more impressive. No fireworks, no giveaways, no glitzy foreign opposition–just a love affair between the Sounders' amazing following and a hometown boy who makes good and returns to close out his career. Think of it–an American soccer player as a major drawing card, at least for one night. The Emerald City is the exception to the rule in so many things MLS, but Keller's big night suggests the possibility that the league has reached the point where its clubs should consider staging testimonial matches for its most popular American players.
The last true testimonial match held here was Pele's farewell at Giants Stadium in 1977, when he played one half each for the Cosmos and his former Brazilian club, Santos, before a packed house. Since then, the only thing close was the 2004 farewell tour by the U.S. National Women's Team as Mia Hamm, Julie Foudy and Joy Fawcett called it a career. It's too late for favorites such as Cobi Jones (L.A.), McBride (Columbus) and Balboa (Colorado), but it's time for MLS to recognize that the pull of certain popular, long-time players is stronger than it may have previously realized.


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Pivvot ... Pivvot. Pivvot! Now that the word has lost all meaning, let us infuse it with beautiful comprehension: Pivvot is a twitchy, simplistic strategy game in the addictive vein of Super Hexagon, and it's due out on Steam for PC, Mac and Linux on July 14, at a launch sale price of $4.50. The Steam version includes a local co-op mode and full controller support – upgrades from the mobile editions that launched earlier this year – plus Steam achievements, trading cards, cloud support and leaderboards.
"For the Steam launch, Pivvot includes several new elements such as the ability to play seven of the eight game modes in a local co-op multiplayer setting with up to four players," the Pivvot press release reads. "While this might suggest a more forgiving version of Pivvot, don't be fooled. It's riddled with challenges and hectic gameplay that make for an even more adrenaline-rushing experience."
Creator Whitaker Trebella announced the date on Twitter, along with the new trailer. This is Trebella's first game on Steam, and his first launch as a full-time independent developer. To celebrate, he's giving away at least one ticket for the GDC 2015 Indie Games Summit to an up-and-coming developer: "By sharing a screenshot on Twitter of their Pivvot gameplay with the hashtag #PivvotToGDC between the dates of July 14 and July 21, at least one person will be entered to win."
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Into my 5th month of MoviePass, after last month's record of 9 films, here's what I saw this month:
1) Early Man
From the makers of the Wallace & Gromit & Shaun the Sheep films, Early Man is the story of Dug & a group of cave people who are trying to save their valley from the evil Lord Nooth and the impending Bronze Age. It's a fun little film with a really good voice cast featuring Eddie Redmayne, Maisie Williams and Tom Hiddleston.
2.) Samson
Based on the biblical story from the book of Judges, Samson tells the story of Samson, one of the Judges during the time before kings in Israel. As a film, I thought it was good. It had a pretty interesting cast with Billy Zane, Lindsey Wagner among others. Putting on the theologian hat, it got most everything right. There were some things that were taken liberties with. But overall I thought it was fair to the scriptures in telling the story.
3.) Peter Rabbit
Based on the children's stories by Beatrix Potter, Peter Rabbit has all the lovable characters in a modern setting with a new Mr. McGregor (played by Domhnall Gleeson) dealing with the rabbits and other wildlife. It was a lot of fun. I really enjoyed it and laughed out loud a lot of times. Great kids movie and for adults as well.
4.) Red Sparrow
This film (based on the first of a trilogy of novels) centers around a former Russian ballet dancer who gets injured and has to help our her uncle who works for Russian intelligence. This then leads her to live a live as a spy working to find out who the mole is in the Russian government. She does this to save her own life and to help out her mother who is sick. It is a very deep film with lots of layers. Has a great cast. I think though seeing it once was enough for me. It isn't a film I would want to go back and see over and over.
5.) I Can Only Imagine
Based on the story of the life of Bart Millard, the lead singer of Mercy Me & the writer of the song "I Can Only Imagine", the film tells the story of his life growing up in Texas with an abusive father and a gift for singing. Along the way of pursuing a dream of music, Bart had to learn forgiveness for his father and also to find his voice as a singer. It is a tremendous film and one that I would highly recommend to everyone.
Total films seen overall with MoviePass: 28


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Dear guests and partners!
Kherson International Economic Forum "Tavria Horizons"
was held on September 21st, 2018 in Kyiv
Tavrian Horizons 2018 it is:
This year Forum gathered more than 600 participants from 25 countries of the world, including 7 heads of diplomatic missions, People's deputies of Ukraine, representatives of international financial and donor organizations, central executive authorities, domestic and foreign investment companies, banking institutions and civil society institutions.
This year, the Strategic Session was held under the slogan Investments at the «border»
Andrii Gordieiev, chairman of the Kherson Regional State Administration, was moderator of the session. He shared the experience of Kherson region formation of the at the international level after obtaining the status of the border area, facts about changes in the indicators of investment and foreign economic activity, dynamics of the main economic indicators in 2012-2017 years. Thus, the head of the regional state administration noted that during 2016-2018, about 30 large-scale investment projects in various spheres were implemented in the oblast in the amount of more than 5.6 billion UAH. As a result of their implementation in 2017 and the first half of 2018, the consolidated budget received about 57 mln UAH taxes and fees. About 600 new jobs were created. By the end of this year, it is planned to implement 26 projects worth more than 6.2 billion UAH including agro-industrial complexes, recreational facilities and new solar and wind power plants.
Daniel Bilak, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of UkraineInvest noted that one of the key roles in attracting investments is the elimination of artificial obstacles that arise in the way of project implementation, and personal support of investors at all stages.
During the discussion, special attention was paid to the development of the international airport "Kherson". So, Andrii Gordieiev is convinced that the development of the airport directly depends on attracting funds from the investor, namely the implementation of public-private partnership. Incidentally, the relevant bill has already passed the first reading in the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine.
At the strategic session, Yevgen Treskunov, founder and partner of Aviplan LLC, presented the aviation component of the Kherson region. He noted that for the growth of passenger traffic, the following factors are needed: social security of the population in the service area, dynamic economic development, investment and tourism potential.
Thus, CEO Vindcraft Ukraine LLC, Mr. Carl Sturen, and Vice President of NBT AS, Mr. Boerge Tvorg, shared the successful experience of doing business on the border with the temporarily occupied territory of the Crimea and willingness to continue working in the Kherson region.
To confirm the intentions that Kherson Region is moving in the right direction: energy, economic independence, de-occupation of the Crimea by peaceful means, were signed memorandums on the implementation of projects for $ 625 mln USA dollars.
Thus, the Deputy Minister of Infrastructure of Ukraine Yuriy Lavrenyuk, the head of the Kherson Regional State Administration Andrii Gordieiev and the chairman of the Kherson Regional Council Vladislav Manger signed a Memorandum on the assistance and cooperation in the implementation of pilot projects in the form of public-private partnership in the Kherson region.
Also during the Forum were signed the following documents:
Memorandum on cooperation and partnership with the president of the charitable organization "All-Ukrainian Charitable Tavriya Foundation" Mykola Bagrayev. In particular, the date of the XVII All-Ukrainian Charitable Festival "Chornomorski Igry" was announced – July 26-28, 2019, which traditionally takes place in Skadovsk.
The Plan of joint actions on implementation of the project of international technical assistance "Support to the reform of criminal justice in Ukraine" was signed with the director of the International Development Law Organization in Ukraine Levan Duchidze and the chairman of the Kalanchak settlement council Volodymyr Zinchuk. The Plan will provide the functioning of the center for the provision of administrative services of the Kalanchak amalgamated territorial community.
Memorandum on the implementation of the renewable energy project in the Kherson region with the Vice-president of NBT AS Mr. Boerge Tvorg. The project envisages the construction of a 250 MW wind power plant in the Chaplynka district. The volume of investments – 370 million euro. The implementation period is the IV quarter of 2019.
Memorandum on cooperation on implementation of the project in the field of renewable energy in the Kherson region with the director of LLC "Dnipro-Bugska wind power plant" Vitaliy Shubin. The project envisages the construction of a 110 MW wind power plant in the Bilozerka district. The volume of investments – 165 mln euro. The start of the project is scheduled for the I quarter of 2019. In addition, the Memorandum provides for the improvement of social infrastructure.
A Memorandum of Understanding on the Implementation of the Tourism and Recreation Area Project in Kherson Region with the President of the Canadian-Ukrainian Chamber of Commerce Zenon Poticzny in the presence of Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of Canada to Ukraine, Mr. Roman Vashchuk.
Memorandum of Intent on Establishing an Enterprise with Foreign Investments between the Director General of the Sewing Company Limited Liability Company Volodymyr Darmoroz and the Director of the RENESANS GROUP INVEST LLC Shavkat Rahmedov in the presence of the Head of the Regional State Administration Andrii Gordieiev and the Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of the Republic Uzbekistan to Ukraine Mr. Alisher Abdualyev.
Memorandum of cooperation on the implementation of an investment project on the construction of a complex for mineral fertilizers reception, storage, mixing and packaging on the territory of Kherson region with the general director of LLC TerraTarsa Ukraine Mr.Andriy Gogolev. The volume of investments is 7 million USD. The term of the project implementation is III quarter of 2020.
An agreement on cooperation with the president of the Association "National Tourist Organization of Ukraine" Mr. Ivan Liptuha. The agreement provides creation of favorable conditions for attracting investment in the development of tourism infrastructure, implementation of innovative projects aimed at increasing demand for tourism services and revenues from the sale of tourism services.
Memorandum of cooperation on joint intentions aimed at attracting investment in the implementation of the investment project La Perla Azzurra on the territory of Kherson Region with the director of the private enterprise "Master Fish" Boris Goncharenko. The Memorandum coordinates joint actions in the direction of conducting investment activities in the resort and recreation industry within the Skadovsk district. In particular, it is a construction of recreation facilities along Lake Ustryshne on an area almost 600 ha.
A memorandum of cooperation and expansion of the possibilities of competition of Ukrainian producers on the world market with the director of LLC "Agrarian Center" Tetyana Kaskiv. The memorandum will facilitate the sale of agricultural products of Kherson commodity producers and the search for new partners for the development of the agro-industrial complex of the region.
In addition, within the framework of the Forum, a delegation of International Trade Club members established negotiations with entrepreneurs of the Kherson region.
More than 30 business and economic advisers from embassies from Malaysia, Spain, Argentina, Lithuania, UAE, Romania, Belgium, Turkey, Israel, China took part in the B2B negotiations with Kherson entrepreneurs this year.
Members of the delegation noted that Kherson region has a wealth of full-time resources and well-developed alternative energy.
Within the framework of the panel discussion "Tourist Infrastructure for International Practices – Investment Perspectives for Kherson Region" participants presented the tourism potential of Kherson region.
The moderator of the panel was Ivan Liptuga, President of the National Tourist Organization of Ukraine, Advisor to the First Vice Prime Minister – Minister of Economic Development and Trade of Ukraine.
More than 1,000 recreation, health improvement and accommodation facilities provide services to guests of the Tavrian region. Of these 49 children's, 60 farmsteads of green tourism, 51 hotel complexes. The total bed fund is more than 100 thousand places. This was emphasized by the Deputy Head of the Regional State Administration Andriy Balon.
During the discussion, he said that Kherson airport regularly operates Istanbul-Kherson-Istanbul (Turkish Airlines), Kherson-Kyiv-Kherson (Ukraine International Airlines), Bravo – international charter flights to Hurghada, Sharm El-Sheikh (Egypt), Antalya, Dalaman (Turkey), Lublin (Poland).
Over 3.5 million guests have arrived in the region for brilliant impressions and unique emotions. Almost 15 thousand foreigners visited Kherson region for private purposes for 8 months of the current year. Top 5 visitor countries of the Kherson region: Turkey, Germany, Israel, USA, Italy. "Various infrastructure projects that contribute to the further development of tourism in the region, in particular, the construction of yacht clubs, dolphinariums, water parks, hotel complexes, equestrian sports clubs, balneological centers, restoration of regular passenger transportation and excursions along the Dnipro river, etc.", – said Andriy Balon.
He also noted that there is a real need to invest in the material and technical base of already available resources, as well as the creation of an additional platform for accommodation, rest, recreation, related tourist services.
In addition, the Regional State Administration presented a project which provides building a resort on the Black Sea coast "La Perla Azzurra & Costa Azzurra". During the panel discussion, Chief Architect of the Kherson region Grigoriy Khodin described possibilities of investing in the construction of hotels, water parks and other tourist infrastructure on a total area of about 800 hectares. The total investment required is about 1 billion euros. For its part, the regional authorities guarantee the provision of necessary engineering and infrastructural communications.
Another investment attraction is the Tavria SPA Resort project, which involves the use of unique technology for the remnants of the wine industry. Mark Shukman, Head of Tourism Development Department of PJSC "House of vintage cognacs" Tavria" offered to act as a partner in the implementation of the project. During the discussion, he said that the project involves: the reconstruction of the existing building – the former sanatorium Tavria – into a modern hotel for 59 rooms from economy class to suite, the arrangement of a park landscape zone, the construction of a conference hall, a restaurant, a fitness zone, a beach, a spa center . The area of the land plot is 0.78 hectares, and the area of development is 3978 sq.m, including – 697 sq.m. of new construction.
In addition, the prospective direction of Kherson region tourism development is the development of the Arabatska Spit, which can become another international resort.
In the framework of cooperation with the Canada-Ukraine Chamber of Commerce, President Zenon Poticzny presented the investment project that will be implemented with the participation of Canadian investors in the Genichesk Region.
The concept of the event was to highlight the benefits of investing in the development of agriculture in the Kherson region. Demonstrating most viable investment vectors of the agrarian industry of Kherson region, export potential of the agricultural sector in the region.
Deputy Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine Olga Trofimtseva emphasized the innovative approach to the development of the agrarian sector in the Kherson region, which aims to achieve European standards. She emphasized the need for state support and the importance of the development of logistics infrastructure for the possibility of exporting agricultural products abroad.
The FAO Development Coordinator in Ukraine, Mykhailo Malkov, has made meaningful proposals, including: the use of the latest technologies for improving the state of the land and reproduction of forest bands in the Kherson region.
During the discussion platform, special attention was paid to the issue of introducing modern organic production concepts by the president of the Organic Products Union Organic Ukraine Olena Berezovska and Mariia Makhnovets, an independent consultant on organic products exports from Ukraine.
Active participation in the discussion was taken by the National manager of the ITC project "Promotion of the output of small and medium-sized enterprises of the fruit and vegetable sector to foreign markets and their inclusion in the value chain" Olena Kolomoytseva.
Margarita Stepanova, deputy director of the Department of Agricultural Development of the Kherson Regional State Administration, outlined the most important strategic directions for the development of the agro-industrial complex, in particular, the projects on the formation of a fruit and vegetable hub through the development of objects of processing of fruit and vegetable products were presented, business proposals on creation of objects of import substitution and niche production of agricultural products.
In addition, the participants of the event had an opportunity to get acquainted with the concept of an investment project designed to diversify the production of LLC "Fruit and Vegetable Plant Kherson" in the direction of creating additional capacity for freezing and drying of fruit and vegetable products, presented by the head of the LLC "Fruit and Vegetable Plant Kherson" Oksana Badenko .
Also, to the audience were presented scientific technologies on the example of innovative products LLC NPP "5 Element", in particular nano-fertilizers by general Director Volodymyr Biliy.
Another panel discussion of the Forum was devoted to presentations of economic and investment strategies of the amalgamated territorial communities of Kherson region, potential investors were offered specific investment platforms for the implementation of new business initiatives in the communities.
Markiyan Dacyshyn, Projects Coordinator in Civil Society Institute was moderator of the panel discussion. He described in detail the international projects of technical assistance, which successfully involve the Ukrainian communities and thus strengthen their own local budgets.
"Even in 2017, we conducted a large-scale survey among 50 amalgamated territorial communities of Ukraine with one question: "In what spheres amalgamated territorial communities want to involve investments?" The responses were the same everywhere – solar energy, vegetable growing, tourism development. But in further work in these areas, there was a problem communicating with potential investors, inability to properly engage in business creation. In this direction we cooperate with the communities including Kherson region".
Director of the Department of Local Self-Government and Territorial Organization of the Ministry of Regional Development of Ukraine Serhiy Sharshov drew the attention of the platform participants:
"It should be noted that, due to the Law of Ukraine "On the Association of amalgamated territorial communities" and "On the cooperation of amalgamated territorial communities", for today, more than half of the state funds are concentrated in local budgets – 51 %. About 40 % of Ukrainian territories are covered by amalgamated territorial communities, so the task of the Ministry and government is to make become amalgamated territorial communities diamonds!"
In addition, the discussion focused on the formation of community service centers for the provision of administrative services, as described in detail by the coordinator of the implementation of the policy of the U-LEAD Program for Europe, Mariia Tyshchenko.
She talked about the current "Side" program, in which amalgamated territorial communities takes part. Program will provide software and technical support for the creation of center for administrative services with modern and even mobile centers for the provision of administrative services on wheels.
So, from Kherson region, 6 communities have expressed a desire to participate in this program and compete for the right to receive additional assistance in order to bring services closer to the population.
Mustafa Sait-Ametov, Coordinator of United Nations Development Programme in Ukraine reported on the possibility of sustainable development by consolidating efforts at the local level.
Heads of amalgamated territorial communities presented their own investment projects, which can significantly affect the budget and community infrastructure.
Among them: the presentation of the "pink" Lemurian lake in the Prisyvaska amalgamated territorial communities amalgamated territorial communities the concept of the development of the coastal zone of Bile Lake in Bilozerka amalgamated territorial communities, the construction of a modern pig complex in Kochubeyevka amalgamated territorial communities (presentation), available land plots most attractive to investors in the field of alternative energy, agro-industrial complex, tourism sphere on the territory of Tavrichanska amalgamated territorial communities.
The parties also discussed the signing of a Memorandum of Cooperation between Tavrichanska, Prisyvaska and Askania-Nova amalgamated territorial communities and the Tavria United Territorial Community Regional Development Agency for the implementation of the project.
For the first time during the Forum, public-private partnership and privatization projects were presented as part of the panel discussion "Transparent privatization and public-private partnership".
Moderator of the panel was Yuriy Gusev – Advisor to the Minister of Infrastructure of Ukraine.
The top topic for discussion was the concession of the State Enterprise "Kherson Sea Commercial Port" presented by Oleg Kudashov, Investment Officer PPP Transaction Advisory Europe and Central Asia
Volodymyr Shemayev, Head of unit of strategic planning and development State Enterprise Ukrainian Sea Ports Authorities, outlined the opportunities for the development of Kherson and Skadovsk sea ports in, the possibilities of their development on the conditions of public-private partnership are disclosed.
The Deputy Chairman of the State Property Fund of Ukraine Yuriy Nikitin presented the objects subject to privatization in accordance with the new legislation, including the object of large privatization – Kherson electric power plant. A number of small-scale privatization objects were offered to investors by the head of the regional department of the State Property Fund of Ukraine in the Kherson region, the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol, Galina Teslyuk.
The Head of the Department of Intellectual Property and Invention Support of the State Innovation Financial-Credit Institution of Ukraine Yana Pidlisna outlined the main financial instruments for the implementation of innovative and investment projects.
Creative Economy and Urbanism
"Creative Economy and Urbanism" panel was represented by the NGO "Business Association "WE-KHERSONIANS" and presented the following projects:
- Impact Investment Project: Center for Creative Industries "Turbine Art Platform" and Urban_CAD, Speaker – Anna Kasatkina, Internet Marketer, Member of the Business Association "WE-KHERSONIANS" (Presentation);
- Swan Lake Revitalization Project, Speakers – Valery Borzhkov, Deputy of the Kherson City Council, Director of Toyota Center Kherson "Auto-Plaza", member of the Business Association "WE-KHERSONIANS"; Arthur AYMETOV, winner of the competition for sketch projects for the reconstruction of the location of "Lebedinka", architect, interior designer, landscape, visualization (Presentation) ;;
- Project "Urbanization of Genichesk – a way to create a resort and tourist city", the speaker – Olga Otashevska, manager of the affairs of the managing Director of the Genichesk City Executive Committee (Presentation);
- Presentation of the potential of development of IT-sphere of Kherson region, speaker – Kateryna Sheldgaeva, head of IT-recruiting company KAgency, member of the Business Association "WE-KHERSONIANS"; (Presentation)
- Presentation of the Tavrida Active Park project, Vyacheslav Kosteniuk, head of Nova Kakhovka regional development agency (Presentation);
The panel "Creative Economics and Urbanism" was attended by about 50 listeners who took an active part in discussing the above-mentioned projects.
Zemlyatstvo Khersonschiny
Kherson residents received honors "For Merits to the community and to the city" during the meeting of "Zemlyatstva Khersonschiny".
In particular, the reward was given to the head of the Kherson Regional State Administration Andrii Gordieiev, the general director of the "Scientific and technological enterprise "5 ELEMENT" Volodymyr Biliy, the Deputy head of the Regional State Administration Yevgen Ryshchuk, the rector of the National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine Stanislav Nikolayenko, the first vice president of the international community organization" Peasanthood of the Kherson region" Mikhail Kushnarenko.
In addition, during the meeting, the International NGO "Zemlyatstvo Khersonschiny" and the Kherson Regional State Administration signed a Memorandum of Cooperation.
"Together we will work for the benefit of our native Kherson region! In addition, today's Forum will attract a lot of attention and interest in our region", – said the head of the regional state administration Andrii Gordieiev.
"This event is a confirmation that Kherson region needs support at the national level," said Yuriy Gusev, President of Zemlyatstvo
During the Forum, the potential of the agro-industrial complex of the region was presented within the framework of the exposition, which was filled by producers of the agrarian sector of the region, in particular by presenting their own export-oriented products. Brand products were presented by "Bilozersky", "Nash Product" LLC, PJSC "House of vintage cognacs" Tavria", PE "Pani Christina", LLC "Fruit and Vegetable Plant "Kherson", Institute of Irrigated Agriculture, Scientific-Production Enterprise "5 Element" LLC


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Heavy Rain Walkthru: A Visitor - The Nurse
Heavy Rain Walkthru: Scott Shelby - A Visitor
When you gain control, feel free to look in the draws after waking him up. Personally, I'd turn the light on and check the file out on the table. Then stand and feel free to look around. You need to find something to do to pass the time until a visitor knocks on Scott's door. Answer it when someone rings the bell. Ask her if she wishes to take a seat. Sit opposite her. Listen to the dialog and look at the letter, which will prompt Scott to say there's nothing of interest, except the address which was typed by an typewriter. It doesn't matter what you choose when she asks to work with Scott.
Heavy Rain Walkthru: Scott Shelby - Kramer's Party
Get out of the car and head to the front door. Head inside. Go to the left first after talking with Lauren. The guards will stop you from going to see Kramer. Now move to the right and you'll find a drunk guy standing by a pillar, wearing a white suit. Say hey to him and you can now go and see Kramer. Once up the stairs, move to the left onto the landing and open the big doors. Walk over to the television, then back past the people sat down. If you don't start talking with them, wait around and it should trigger. I chose the factual option when the women left and then sarcastic. A fight sequence will occur then. Do your best to do well.
Heavy Rain: Ethan Mars - The Butterfly
Get out of the car and move around the building to the left. Walk along the fence until a button prompt comes up. Follow the prompts and move north-east. Open the door and then turn the wheel inside. Open the metal door and grab the matches, then head inside. The door will shut, so move on. When you crawl on the glass and reach the end of that part of the tunel, follow the on-screen prompt to light a match. Go right. Go left next. Left again. Then right. The way out is just ahead. Get up and slide down the tunnel/chute. Again, get up.
Hop down and move down the screen until you reach the pylons prompting you to hold the X button down. Move forwards twice, then turn left. If you can't see the button prompt, it should be triangle. Move forwards/north then. Then move forwards again and you're done. Again, this is a trial you really should pass.
Heavy Rain: Madison Paige - The Nurse
Help Ethan to bed, then sit beside him and check his wounds. Get up then and get the medicine etc. Treat the wounds. When he wakes up, choose the no choice option, then truth and explanations. Then sorry and help. Again, open the box when she leaves for the next trial location and clue as to what it entails.
Heavy Rain: Norman Jayden - Shrink and Punches
Listen to the dialog between the characters and move Norman to the chair, so he can lean on it. Select the move shrink option, then help and calm Blake. Try to reason with Blake, then threaten.
Heavy Rain: Scott Shelby - The Golf Club
Walk to where the guard is and talk to the man playing golf. Do as the man asks and hit a few balls while talking. There's no choices to make here, so just listen to the dialog and swing the golf club.
Heavy Rain: Ethan Mars - The Lizard
When you're standing at the top of some stairs in a run-down building, loon on the floor and you'll see some lizard like objects. Move to the dark green one just in front of you. Smash it and pick up the key. Go to the door and use the key. Open it and sit down, using the object. Listen to what's said. You're on a timer, so pick up the saw to the right on the floor (and yes, this is another trial you should complete). Place it on the table. Pick the object to the left up then and again place it on the table. Go to the window and pick the object there up. Go into the bathroom and pick the scissors up in the sink. Take the bottle from the cabinet in the bathroom then. Go into the last room and pick up the cleaver. Now the pick up the bottle in the cabinet there. Now sit down. Pick up the wooden plank and pop it in your mouth. Use the saw (at least I did). Use the bottle then (not the whiskey bottle). Look under the table then and grab the item for more letters. Use it. Then leave.
Heavy Rain: Madison Paige - Fugitive
When you gain control of Madison, get off the bike and head into the building with a grey'ish/blue'ish door. Move to the right of Ethan and shift the boards blocking the window. You have to be quick here. Try to open/look through the window. Next, move the crate just in front of Ethan. Open the window and help Ethan out.
Next, move straight on, weaving through the cars. Head into the subway. Keep moving forward and use the turnstile with a green arrow. Move down a ways after the escalator and hop down onto the tracks. Go to the opposite side and take the train.
Back at the hotel, when you get the chance, choose the followed option and then what you wish to say. I didn't choose to say anything. When she leaves, open the box again for the next trial's location and such.
Heavy Rain: Norman Jayden - Jayden Blues
Follow the button prompts to play the piano and listen to the dialog. Afterwards, go through all of the ARI options and make sure you don't miss anything. When he starts suffering from withdrawal symptoms, don't take the drug and follow the button prompt, while heading to the bathroom. Use the shower.


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A Melbourne doctor has started a trial of acupuncture for menopausal women after finding many of her patients did not want to take hormone replacement therapy.
Dr Caroline Ee, a general practitioner and acupuncturist from the Department of General Practice at the University of Melbourne, has already completed a pilot study of 23 women but needs more women for this study.
"I tried using acupuncture for a few women who were flushing and they felt a lot better," Ee says.
Ee says there is controversy about universities teaching complementary medicine, but that it is important to look at these treatments because many people use them.
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Kacey Musgraves Pays Back 'Five-Finger Discount' With New Song Preview [Listen]
If fans have learned anything about Kacey Musgraves, it's that she doesn't take anything lying down — including having her things stolen. The singer-songwriter unveiled pieces of a new song at her show on Jan. 21 in Dallas, Texas called "Five Finger Discount," about a girl who stole a lot of clothes from Musgraves when she first moved to Nashville.
"She stole a bunch of s— from me and was dumb enough to post all these pictures of herself in my clothes on Facebook," Musgraves explained to the crowd. "Anyway, I caught her. Nothing really happened with it. They issued a warrant but never found her. But I did write a song about it …"
She started to sing part of it, but had to interject a little more background to give some context to the first line.
"I won't get too awkward here, but I have this matching bra and underwear set. She literally did take the panties from the set and put that on Facebook, too," the artist explains. "Like, what?! Yeah, winner! But, [that's why] the first line of the song is 'I know you stole my panties 'cause I have the matching bra …'
The chorus of the tune has her signature feisty attitude, with the lyrics: "You want a five finger discount / But nothin' in life is free / You better hope that karma ain't a bigger b— than me." She ends the preview with the clever line, "I'll give you a five-finger discount, and here's 20 percent off."
Poor Musgraves can't catch a break — the artist had her boots stolen from her car earlier this year — but she clearly puts those experiences to good use. Musgraves' Country and Western Rhinestone Revue Tour began in late August 2015 and continues through March of this year.
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A very good friend, who also happens to be a member of my family, is in the finishing stages of a book that has taken him five years to write.
Now, that doesn't sound like any time to a lot of writers, but he's done this living on the edge. The edge of poverty, the edge of sanity, the edge of grief – almost every edge you can imagine.
His motivation is the message he wants to spread. His muse is God.
It's a very touchy, personal subject he's writing about and the audience he's targeting is narrow: abortion within the 19 – 25 year old age group. To top it off, it's fiction.
He'll never make the money he needs from this book if it's ever published. Every agent and publisher he's approached has turned him away. His subject material has made him a publishing pariah.
The author is sixty years old and has never had any experience in the subject matter. However, he says he feels led to preach, I mean write, about this hot ball of wax topic.
When he discusses his book with me, I keep my opinions to myself except when I can be constructive about the mechanics of his writing. The content is his own business.
He is a good example of writing outside the box. He is writing about issues he is only familiar with through research; he has no firsthand knowledge in the area.
Of course, how many writers have the very personal knowledge in the area they're penning? In my case, I've never held an AK-47, I've never been to Austria, and I've never been a man in the military. Yet, my main character has all these attributes and more.
There is often a message, hidden or blatant, in good writing. Without a lesson, the story will leave the reader feeling empty.
What leads you to the topics you read? What leads you to the topics you write? Do you write far from your personal field of experience or do you keep it closer to home?
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London 16th September 2014 - Trend Micro continued its hiring momentum over the past month with the arrival of two information security industry veterans to boost its UK operations.
Matt Poulton joins Trend Micro as Enterprise Sales Director, where he'll provide hands-on management and leadership of the Major Account Management (MAM) sales team.
Poulton has a stellar track record in the industry, beginning his IT career in 2002 with the global reseller Software Spectrum (now Insight) and subsequently PC-WARE (now Comparex). Having received that solid grounding in the channel, he then moved to the vendor side, responsible for enterprise sales account management in UK and Nordics at encryption specialist PGP.
Poulton was part of its acquisition by Symantec where he continued his role for 12 months before moving on to start-up, key and certificate management vendor Venafi. As one of the first employees Poulton set up the UK, Africa and Middle East operations and was responsible for sales and strategic business development.
Also joining Trend Micro UK is Ross Dyer, who is the firm's new Technical Director. Dyer has a CV few can match. He comes to Trend Micro from HP Enterprise Security Services, where he served as EMEA-wide Head of Strategy Group for the CTO function.
Dyer's team provided a critical function by leading senior level engagements with clients, and providing industry focussed information security advice and guidance. Clients included DWP, Ericsson, E.On, GE, and Shell.
He has built EMEA teams for several other organisations in the Information Security industry. Prior to HP, Dyer was a director for start-up BeyondTrust, where he worked on the development of distribution and reseller channels across EMEA and APAC.
Before that, he spent five years as UK & Ireland/South Africa Sales Engineering Manager at Websense. During this time he supported overseeing the growth of the business to become the leading global provider of internet filtering and DLP solutions.
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Arizona police officers step in and buy new Christmas lights for a terminally ill girl and her family after a thief steals their decorations. KPNX's Chris Williams reports.
When thieves snatched the holiday lights off of a terminally-ill child's home, Phoenix police officers made sure that no "Grinch" would steal Christmas from the 5-year-old girl.
The girl's mother, Jessica Smith, decked out the family's Arizona house complete with lighted reindeer, trees and a Santa with sleigh, but Phoenix police say the decorations were stolen a few days later on Nov. 21. Smith told Phoenix NBC-affiliate KPNX that she decorated a couple weeks before Thanksgiving to guarantee that her daughter could celebrate the Christmas season and "have fun with it."
Linzy, 5, has a rare form of dwarfism and has to spend this year's holiday in the hospital for a potentially life-saving bone marrow transplant, KPNX reported.
"Granted nobody really knows who they're stealing from, but it makes it even worse when it comes to light they stole from a terminally-ill child," Smith told KPNX.
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Officer Lewis, left, and Officer Head, right, stand with the Smith family and a representative from Angels on Patrol, far right.
After hearing about the theft, Officers Jake Lewis and David Head from the department's Maryvale Precinct restored the holiday cheer. It started with Lewis contacting Angels on Patrol, which works with Phoenix and Tempe, Ariz. police officers to help families in crisis.
"You don't know who's behind that door. You don't know who's Christmas this is that you're destroying," said the organization's executive assistant Leah Heathcoat on the theft. "It (Christmas) should be magical, it should be special."
Related: The Grinch almost stole Christmas in Papakolea, Hawaii
Together, Angels on Patrol and the police officers helped the family redecorate the house again.
Lewis, who is a father himself with a child on the way, even dipped into his own pocket to help the Smiths with groceries, according to Phoenix Police Department Spokesperson James Holmes.
"I asked [Lewis] about the 'donation' and he told me, 'yeah, when we were in the academy and they asked me why I wanted be a police officer I jumped on the 'fast cars and sirens' bandwagon; but, when I said I wanted to help people, I meant it,'" Holmes told NBC News in a statement.
If Linzy survives her upcoming bone marrow transplant, Smith told KPNX that doctors will attempt a kidney transplant.
"Every day is just a blessing," Smith told the TV station.
A benefit fund has been set up for Linzy: Wells Fargo #1064675190.
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approaching conferences from a different angle
After seeing a few more calls for papers/proposals for various conferences, some specifically mentioning diversity and some not, I started thinking about the notion of diversity and the way it is being done. After writing that last post, I realize that the issue of support is pretty important to me. I think it is also important, overall, to improving conference in particular and professional cultures in general. I've mentioned in the past that welcoming diversity is too passive, as well as some cultural barriers.
I'm also thinking about my personal barriers for attending conferences (either as speaker or attendee). Disability barriers: agoraphobia and anxiety and sensitivity to scents and some cognitive stuff and a sleep disorder. Class barriers: I'm poor and simply can't afford conferences unless they are local (and even then, the registration can be prohibitive). Gender barriers: issues around public accommodations, discrimination legislation, etc. Racial barriers: it is rarely fun to be the only Asian (or one of few poc) in a room.
Also thinking about the way that conferences are organized (and, yes, I've helped organize them before). That many are adopting codes of conduct (which is good), but this only deals with a diverse group once they are physically present at the conference. In most cases, it appears that notions of universal design have yet to significantly impact the actual planning and organization of conferences.
And this is clearly evident in the way that call for papers/proposals are written or the way that the conference website is organized.
If you say you want or encourage diversity in your CFP, but nowhere do you say that diverse applicants will receive support to attend, you don't want poor people to attend. Now, I'm sure that some people are thinking "well, if it is a professional conference, what poor people?", which is disingenous particularly for acdemic related conferences (recall that I'm an academic librarian). In our particular field, it is pretty well understood that there are fewer and fewer tenured positions while contract/adjunct/precarious positions increase. Having a conference in some place with $250/night hotels means that none of these people can attend, should they bother applying.
Moreover, are we really going to ignore the intersections of poverty with disability, race, gender, and other axes of oppression? If you experience just one type of oppression, your chances of being poor are higher. If you experience multiple axes of oppression, these chances only compound and increase.
If your CFP or conference website makes no mention of accommodations for a wide variety of disabilities, then you don't want disabled people to come. Because if one of us does apply, we'll either have to be able to hide it well enough to function or ask for accommodations. And if we ask, then this means that accommodations will either be ad hoc or impossible1.
Okay, I'm getting off my point, but these are only two examples of the many ways that conferences, as most often organized and conceived, are designed to be inaccessible from the very beginning.
It also makes me realize that… I don't want to do this sort of thing. Not anymore. Or, at least, I'm not interested in hustling for the scant scholarships available to attend a conference that, ultimately, doesn't actually want people like me to show up. I've had my fill of trying to shoehorn myself into hostile and unwelcoming spaces. It is exhausting and rarely beneficial to me, as an individual.
So, what I'm saying here, is that unless the conference is in my town and registration isn't too expensive, I'm probably not going to bother submitting a paper or proposal.
Given recent initiatives, I am somewhat learning that I (in a general diversity sense) have more value to conferences than conferences have value to me. In a lot of ways, I'm not really important. However, if you want me at your conference, well, you can read the blog. Pick a post. Ask me to give a talk on one of them. Pay me to show up. Show me what you are doing to ensure other people like me are being welcomed, supported, and given the resources to be successful at your conference.2
Alternatively, you can provide me with a tenured or tenure track position at an institution that will pay for me to attend conferences. I'd be fine with this too.
(But really, the best approach would obviously be aiming towards a universal design for conferences. Because doing the same thing over and over again, with the only difference being that you have a CoC and an explicit mention that you want diversity, isn't actually going to do much. This approach only addresses a very small set of the barriers towards greater participation. What is needed is organizational and cultural change within the profession, not more opportunities for marginalized people to assimilate.)
Are you prepared, if you haven't planned for it, to change your venue if it isn't accessible for people with reduced mobility? Do you know that it is pretty much impossible to get ASL interpretation at the last minute? And that it can be expensive (which means you need to have it in your budget already)? Are you prepared to enforce a scent free space, given that most people take it as a 'suggestion' rather than an imperative to prevent harming others? ↩
A part of this relates to outreach. Opening the doors to a store no one knows about is pretty pointless. ↩


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In the 2003 series, she was a member of the original Justice Force and was killed in a battle. She had previously left the team for a year to keep the secret of her and Dr. Dome's daughter Ananda (ironically it was her rejection of Dome in the mirage series that led to his turning to villainy). Years later Ananda attempted to get revenge on the Justice Force whom she blamed for her mother's death, but when defeated, her father informed her that her mother came back to the team because she wanted to protect others.
- Though she apparently was more attracted to Stainless Steel Steve, in the Mirage comics, neither he or Dr. Dome are Ananda's father. It's most likely she drifted from all her teammates to have a normal life.
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Admission to conservation degree programs is highly competitive. In addition to a formal application with a transcript and letters of recommendation, programs typically require an interview. Candidates may be asked to send or present a portfolio of artwork and conservation projects that demonstrates manual dexterity as well as familiarity with techniques and materials. ECPN has a Basic Advice for Conservation Graduate School Applications for more advise.
While not a comprehensive list of conservation graduate programs in North America, the members of ANAGPIC (Association of North American Graduate Programs) that grant a master's degree are:
There is currently no organization that maintains a complete and up-to-date directory of conservation graduate programs either in North America or internationally, however, Wikipedia and the Conservation DistList provide a more extensive list of conservation programs across the globe.
After graduation, new conservators may find employment in a collecting institution, regional center, or private practice. Many continue their education by applying for institution-sponsored fellowships.


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