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Logo design for new business startup concentrating on personalised/customised print products. Logo must be large-scale but reproduce well at small sizes when printed. Logo must be colorful, fun yet professional at the same time - use bright colors, feel free to experiment with gradients or other effects.
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The logo does not have to contain a symbol, it could simply be the word pluddies done in some sort of clever, appealing way, but of course we will leave feedback on all kinds of entries.
Take the word Pluddies,and work with what it suggests to you. Alternatively, concentrate on our business concentration of print products and somehow suggest what we do in your logo design. Your hands are untied!
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Conservation and Environment in Mexico: Monthly Updates
Conservation in Mexico - Monthly Update March 2010
We have been concentrating on the restoration of all of our facilities this month, making life at camp a bit more comfortable. With an enthusiastic group of volunteers even the chores can become fun and as well as productive and it has become a custom that after a hard day's labor a volleyball match takes place.
The number of turtles has been decreasing as we are getting to the low season for the turtles, even so there are occasionally turtle sightings as they release their precious eggs and patrols must carry on as normal. Every now and then our volunteers have the opportunity to release little turtle hatchlings into the vast ocean, this activity is always a favorite for the volunteers.
The mating season for crocodiles is about to start, the monitoring of possible nesting areas has started and hopefully we will collect precious crocodile nests in order to control the birth rate of every nest. At the moment we are conducting a weekly check up along the lagoon shore and we have been able to spot at least 3 possible Moreletti crocodile nest areas and a couple of Acutus crocodile area clean ups. The proper monitoring for plausible nesting areas is of high importance in order to know when to collect the eggs, disturbing to a minimum the regular activities the female crocodile might have while it keeps her eggs safe from harm.
Our species monitoring in the lagoon is still one of our main prerogatives, we maintain constant presence in the Chupadero lagoon and have spotted over 90 species. Every sighting becomes as exciting as if it was the first time we spotted that very same species for the first time. The scenery is gorgeous, and the tranquility you feel when you cruise through the lagoon gives you a sensation that can't be compared to anything else. Our volunteers at the moment find it very attractive, as the variety of bird species is breathtaking right now with the arrival of stationary birds that make their way to the south using the lagoon as a stop, giving us the opportunity to spot them while they take on their regular activities. It is also nice to hear once again the sound created by the whistling ducks on a nice afternoon just before sunset.
This Easter holidays gave us the opportunity to do a little "crossover" between our conservation volunteers and the volunteers that support the Guadalajara city projects. This is because during Easter the schools shut down for a couple of weeks giving some of the teaching and care volunteers a chance to visit us and take a peek at the work we develop here at the Tecoman Conservation project. Over 16 volunteers had a chance to interact, meet each other and work together, an opportunity they wouldn't have had on their own projects. Lots of laughs and many lasting friendships came as a result of this time. I would personally like to take this opportunity to thank them for their help during their visit!
Oliver Garcia
Conservation Director
March 2010
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George Tumpalov-in Love With The Wind Tourist Attraction
At Design Interviews
Interview with George Tumpalov : Frank Scott: What is the main principle, idea and inspiration behind your design?. George Tumpalov : The main idea was and still is to build the Magic Castle. The same as in the fairy tales and to make the guests smiling and happy. .Frank Scott: What has been your main focus in designing this work? Especially what did you want to achieve?. George Tumpalov : To use the natural materials only and to build the castle strong and immortal. .Frank Scott: What are your future plans for this award winning design?. George Tumpalov : Every day new ideas are arising: New galleries, 3 dimension mapping show, water fountains, new trees and flowers in the garden. .Frank Scott: How long did it take you to design this particular concept?. George Tumpalov : The project starts before 20 years and still is running. .Frank Scott: Why did you design this particular concept? Was this design commissioned or did you decide to pursuit an inspiration?. George Tumpalov : It was my dream from the childhood. .Frank Scott: Is your design being produced or used by another company, or do you plan to sell or lease the production rights or do you intent to produce your work yourself?. George Tumpalov : Everything I did by myself and all details starting from the stones up to the roof are my idea. .Frank Scott: What made you design this particular type of work?. George Tumpalov : The castle really became attractive and magic. .Frank Scott: Where there any other designs and/or designers that helped the influence the design of your work?. George Tumpalov : No any ! .Frank Scott: Who is the target customer for his design?. George Tumpalov : Everyone can come and enjoy. No any specific target or any restrictions. .Frank Scott: What sets this design apart from other similar or resembling concepts?. George Tumpalov : No any other castle in our country. No any new build castle in Europe and most probable no any alive founders of the Castles. .Frank Scott: How did you come up with the name for this design? What does it mean?. George Tumpalov : The wind really loves our castle. .Frank Scott: Which design tools did you use when you were working on this project?. George Tumpalov : Everything came from my own design. No any copies. .Frank Scott: What is the most unique aspect of your design?. George Tumpalov : The castle became the part of paradise. .Frank Scott: Who did you collaborate with for this design? Did you work with people with technical / specialized skills?. George Tumpalov : No any people or companies with the specific skills. Hardworking with the people from the local village is the receipt of our success. .Frank Scott: What is the role of technology in this particular design?. George Tumpalov : We applied the new technology mainly at the game zone and in the additional tourist attractions. .Frank Scott: Is your design influenced by data or analytical research in any way? What kind of research did you conduct for making this design?. George Tumpalov : No any. .Frank Scott: What are some of the challenges you faced during the design/realization of your concept?. George Tumpalov : The main challenge was to convince the people that we are on the correct way. To collect stones only first six years of the project can disappoint many people, but not me. .Frank Scott: How did you decide to submit your design to an international design competition?. George Tumpalov : Our guests and the tourists admire of our project and they suggest us to participate. .Frank Scott: What did you learn or how did you improve yourself during the designing of this work?. George Tumpalov : We god huge experience and even we start from the beginning now for sure we will make the Castle faster. .Frank Scott: Any other things you would like to cover that have not been covered in these questions?. George Tumpalov : The know-how of building castles is: Stones and 20 years handwork day and night. After that - another 200. .
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Saturday, January 29, 2011
At current levels both the S&P and Nasdaq 100 are stretched further above the 200 day moving average that virtually any other time in the last 10 years.
Not surprisingly the further a market stretches in one direction the harder it snaps back in the other once the forces of regression gets its hooks into the market.
The Fed is exacerbating this process with their constant meddling in the markets.
The flood of liquidity unleashed by Greenspan and Bernanke from 2002 to 2007 in the vain attempt to abort the bear market was directly responsible for creating the conditions that led to the market crash of 08/09.
The rally last April was pushed much higher than it would normally have risen by the forces unleashed during QE1. The end result; the correction when it finally came was much more severe than it would have been normally, even including a mini-crash in May.
QE2 has now driven the market even further above the mean than in April. Unless the law of action and reaction has been repealed we should soon see an extreme regression to the mean event .
I believe the Fed has put into place the conditions that will bring about the end of this cyclical bull market and usher in the next leg down in the secular bear.
During the next 3 months we should see the dollar begin to collapse down into the 3 year cycle low unleashing the currency crisis we've been expecting. This will drive a massive surge in inflationary pressure that will poison the fragile recovery and send the global economy back down into the next recession. A recession that should be much worse than the last one as it will begin with economic conditions much weaker than in `07.
The last time the Fed did this it produced a brief period of prosperity by creating a real estate and credit bubble. We all know how that ended. This time I expect the party to last two years tops, which means this cyclical bull should top by March. In their ill fated attempt to get something for nothing the Fed is going to cause a currency crisis and a massive surge in global inflation.
The price we will all pay when the house of cards comes crashing down again will be multiples more expensive than last time.
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Hi Toby,ReplyDelete
If case of another recession which as per you is around the corner, would you suggest one should buy physical gold and silver now or if not now then when.
Gold is due for one more leg up in the current C-wave. we should then experience a severe D-wave correction.ReplyDelete
One could buy anywhere in here for the next ride up but they need to exit at the top of the C-wave later this spring and then re-enter at the bottom of the D-wave sometime this summer.
When you think this push by QE2 last for 2 years, do you mean you expect S&P can stretch up for another 12 months?
I mean the cyclical bull shouldn't last more than two years, which means it should top by March at the latest.ReplyDelete
This bearish call is very bold... If the market was functioning normally, we would have crashed a long time ago. The Fed has taken full control of the markets and all assets have been under de facto price management since the crash of 08. The intervention happens day and night, 24/7. It is obvious to see. If the scoreboard has to be green at the end of each trading day, if no one ever loses, and if everyone gets bailed out, then hard assets like gold, guns, and groceries get purchased. Now this thing in the middle east could be the early signs of disintegration of the monetary system. It's amazing how fast this is playing out. I will buy into the bearish case if I think that there's a force that the Bernank can't overcome. Maybe this is it. Monday is going to be interesting. Let's see if they can jump in after Dow down 200 to start juicing it back green before the end of the day. What a joke Banana Republic this is. What a freaking joke! Buy gold and silver!
If the Fed could really control the markets then what was that thing in May and June?ReplyDelete
Don't let the conspiracy nuts make you lose sight of what's really happening. The Fed can print money but they can't control where it ultimately ends up.
The markets are going to go where the fundamentals lead them. The Fed can no more stop that than one can push water with a fork.
Well Toby one thing is for sure... The Fed doesn't want us shorting any of their precious stock indexes which have become items of national security. How else can you describe the gravity defying feats being displayed almost daily? You see, the Fed wants us to buy something, almost anything really. Ideally, the Fed wants us to take our federal reserve notes and buy the exchange traded fund SPY, to then exchange those shares later on in the day, the next week, or somewhere down the road. What we get back is more federal reserve notes to go out in the economy and buy something, maybe even celebrate with an ice cream cone! That my friend is the wealth effect, a central tenant of the Federal Reserve. It's really that simple. If we want to have more federal reserve notes, we must behave accordingly. If we are buying gold and silver, we aren't behaving correctly so we might not be rewarded for buying those things.ReplyDelete
The Fed cannot stop the coming downwave, which will likely last up to two years. Their QE is starting to backfire here in the U.S., causing margin compression in U.S. companies, which is starting to show up in earnings. Those who are receiving the free money will not be pouring it into companies whose earnings are falling. I would not be surprised if they do start pouring money into gold/silver miners, who are benefiting from the inflation which is killing everything else.ReplyDelete
Hi Gary/Toby,ReplyDelete
allowing to see the subscriber only articles gave a glimpse that you were already bearish at 1156.
Just to mention that.
I agreed couple of days ago with you that a correction is imminent.
I do not agree however with your very bearish view assuming lower lows compared to 2009.
You mention a cyclical bull does not last more than 2 years. I am wondering if you have had the same view back in 2003 and early 2005.
"The markets going there were the fundamentals lead them....." So where are the fundamentals? Did you see any extremely bad earnings in past 12 month?
What are the forward earnings ? Do you know them ? Would you like to share with us your view about fundamentals?
Will commodities be a sector to watch as inflation unfolds? If so, would companies such as oil service, oil E&P and miners be the way to go or the pure ETFs that actually hold the commodities?ReplyDelete
One unspoken market support may be European money.ReplyDelete
As much as they hate us, the smart money there probably sees the Euro shotgun wedding of economies for what it is: mismatched economies with a common currency.
Europe is in worse condition than us.
And so some of that capital is flowing this way.
I think we had the bottom in Gold at 1308. I load full possition.ReplyDelete
Very simple bottom,just few pips down from old low at 1315 and at the same time achieving two goals.
1.Making all the bears thing that we are going down to hell
2.Making all the bulls waiting for test of 1290-1265 which may never hapen
Dear Gary/Toby,ReplyDelete
being too early bearish (since October according to your articles) and calling cycle tops all the time is not the answer. Now it is postponed until March and for certain once you will get it your way.
Don't become a Prechter calling 10 times a major top and get 1 out of 10 right.
It would make far more sense to call a top upon a confirmation of change in trend. The rest is just plain guessing and since October you have guessed wrong and missed 140 points gain in S&P 500
If you have been reading the nightly reports then you would know that I've been pleading with people not to short the market for the very reason we've seen. Trying to time a top in a bull market is extremely hard to do. And even if you get it right the potential on the short side is limited especially if you miss the bottom.ReplyDelete
So you might want to check your facts first next time.
Dear Gary/Toby,ReplyDelete
I did read it right and did not even suggest that shorting the market was stated. Since you mention it, you did enter a short yourself on BKX.
If you would understand my concern, you would notice that guessing a top will cost you ample profits by selling too earlier without entering shorts. This you have failed to mention. An analyst who assumes a cycle top surely does not hold onto his stocks and is selling. Otherwise it does not make sense to call one at all or does it?
Assuming we do see a correction and I do believe we will, all stocks without exception will fall and it would include precious metal stocks as well. If memory serves correctly, the last corrections did include all stocks and USD gained.
Well first off I'm not invested in the stock market and even if I was I certainly wouldn't continue to hold stocks with the market stretched as far above the mean as it is.ReplyDelete
The risk of getting caught in a big plunge down (like the flash crash) is too great and the potential gain is too small. What are the odds of another 10% gain with the NDX stretched almost 17% above the 200 DMA?
I'm not saying it can't happen but I am saying I would never ever take that trade. The odds of winning are too small.
I took a very small, nothing trade on the BKX months ago when it looked like it might break through support at 42.
It sounds to me like you've ignored my warnings and have tried to short the market. If not, and you just exited then you did the right thing. The market is too stretched to stay on the long side. The correct move is to go to cash or better still start buying in the precious metal sector that has already regressed to the mean.
Your odds of making money, a lot more money are much better in metals than in trying to push the long trade on the stock market.
Dear Gary,ReplyDelete
are you saying you do not own stocks?
I find it amusing that your interpretation of my comments are that I am shorting the market according to your analysis. If I would trade to everybody's analysis, I would run out of funds already.
My objective is to wash your eyes a little bit and await a trend break instead of guessing according to your cycles.
Perhaps you had a chance to view the rising trend line today . Would you agree with me it is at 1280 ?
Again, please do not get me in any way wrong, I do indeed believe we will experience a correction. Would it be a new bear market as your lines in the Charts suggest, I honestly say " I do not know". The charts on the right side are blank for me and for you.
Dear Gary/Toby,ReplyDelete
just to clarify, I am not a subscriber of your blog.
I did read your articles of late at safehaven.
I don't own the general stock market if that is what you are asking. I do have ETF's in the precious metal sector.ReplyDelete
I'll take your word for the trend line as they can be just about anywhere depending on how someone constructs the X & Y axis on their chart.
The purpose of cycles isn't to get one in and out at exact bottoms or tops. I don't know any system that can do that consistently. If there was one then who ever found it would be a billionaire in short order.
Cycles are good for getting one "close enough".
Do we have a final intermediate bottom in the precious metal sector? I have no idea.
Are we close enough? Absolutely.
This comment has been removed by the author.ReplyDelete
In one of the reports I read where, for whatever the reason, the markets go up in the third year of a presidency...so which is it up or down and why is there such a disconnect between what is said then and now?ReplyDelete
Understand that I'm not suggesting the stock market will end the year down just that we should have a final top in the cyclical bull sometime this year. Probably in then next 2-3 months.ReplyDelete
Tops are complex and take time to complete. We could see a top in April. A first leg down into July. A bounce into the end of the year that tests the highs and then an aggressive move down next year as the next leg of the secular bear gets underway in earnest.
Very insightful. Artifically inflated market as was the last two bubbles economy. This is their last bullet(QE2),to inflate economy all based on BS.ReplyDelete
You people really believe that QE2 is about inflating the stock market or stimulating the economy? That may be the (temporary) result but if you have a 1.5 trillion dollar deficit and virtually no one wants to buy your bonds its about funding your government spending pure and simple. Therefore, QE2 must necessarily lead to QE3, QE4 and so on until the currency and the economy collapse. The US has passed the point of no return.ReplyDelete
Soon the Dollar bubble will burst and will be a cause to ignite the present smouldering ashes in to a massive fire which will again engulf the world and then their will be peace. Euro and all other major currencies will plummet to zero value. The rich will join the ranks of the poor and guess what?ReplyDelete
I am keeping about 33% of investments in cash and on the sidelines while "guessing" at a 14 to 15 percent correction.ReplyDelete
Toby, what about the coming Euro implosion, or are you already discounting same? The Euro makes up 50% of the Dollar/currencies Index, so where do you see this free fall for the present reserve currency if indeed the EU implodes?ReplyDelete
What makes you think the Euro will collapse? Europe is initiating austerity measures so they don't have to print their currency into oblivion while the US just continues to take on more and more debt and print ever larger amounts of money.ReplyDelete
What would be the fundamental driver for a strong dollar or weak Euro?
The Euro is doomed. The "bailout" is going to the countries that don't even generate enough tax revenue to pay the INTEREST on their debt. (So the solution is more debt?!????) And with the majority of the people working for the government, these folks come out in droves to protest the "austerity" that you refer to. When it finally becomes politically unfeasable for Germany and France to finance these folks the EU will start printing Euros. Might be a couple of years or could happen very fast.


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Feud ends: Giles cashes as VNB heads for buying spree
If anyone were expecting fireworks or fisticuffs at the annual meeting of Virginia National Bank Monday night, they were shown less a feud than a roadmap to riches, as bank leaders said they've been eyeing a stream of opportunities to buy struggling banks. As for former chair Mark Giles, who recently waged a battle to climb back on the board, that fizzled in seconds at the May 21 event as the majority of shareholders voted instead to re-install Giles' rival, developer Hunter Craig.
Afterwards, Craig had little comment other than to agree with the words of the bank president that "we have won the decathlon" and that the recently-completed quarter was a strong indicator of profits and continuing growth. As Craig told a reporter, the first three months of 2012 were "strong as horseradish."
As for what Craig thought of the Giles effort to push him off the board, that was left unknown, as he declined other questions.
But questions from shareholders percolated during the meeting, with the first coming from Richard Miksad, who phrased it in the form of an opinion: "I think the name of the bank," said Miksad, "is not as bright as it used to be in the community."
Chair Bill Dittmar, who took the reins in late December after the sudden Giles resignation, explained what happened at that fateful pre-Christmas meeting: that Giles demanded that he and Craig each nominate a slate of directors.
"The board rejected that proposal," said Dittmar. "It was the sense of the board that it was inappropriate to put up a slate."
"Does that answer your question?" Dittmar asked.
"Well, partially," Miksad replied.
"I don't think you answered his question completely, Bill," said longtime Albemarlean Fred Scott. "What was it that triggered the change?"
In the past two years, Craig has become a lightning rod for controversy, ever since an outgoing governor thanked him for his supposed bargain transfer of a flopped housing development called Biscuit Run for a state park. As it turned out, the $10 million purchase price was the tip of a costly iceberg, as Craig's crew reaped another $11 million in secret tax credits and then sued the taxpayers– in a still-pending matter– for nearly $20 million more.
Craig, as a longtime member of VNB's loan committee (though he stepped down last fall), was allowed to peer into the business of some of the biggest business tycoons in Albemarle, and yet his Biscuit Run finances enjoy a legally-mandated shroud of secrecy.
It wasn't until shareholder David Kudravetz stood up Monday that the issue Giles raised in a May 3 federal filing was asked: What does leadership think about the propriety of letting board members "pledge" their stock– something that Craig has reportedly done– to an in-market competitor bank?
"It says something about your bank," said an approving Dittmar, "that another bank will accept your stock as pledge."
Dittmar noted that VNB sought opinions from both an outside attorney and the federal Office of the Comptroller of the Currency. In the wake of that inquiry, the only ensuing policy change was a requirement that VNB directors must immediately notify shareholders when they pledge their shares as collateral.
Dittmar also announced that over 80,000 shares of stock traded on Friday, the last business day prior to the meeting. The buzz was that Giles– who owned eight percent of the company last week– was trimming his position.
This was the same day that a Hook reporter placed an order for 100 shares, what turned out to be a successful effort to gain admission to the meeting. Less successful (for this individual who owns no other listed securities) was the price: over $15 a share which promptly fell to $14 as the 80,000-share block depressed the price and cost us nearly $200 in one day.
"You shoulda waited four more hours," joked president Glenn Rust after the meeting.
It was Rust who presented a vision of VNB's future, and it came in response to a question from shareholder Bob Coleman about "excess capacity" and "excess capital" that might be parlayed into a better return.
"We still want to do some type of merger," replied Rust, who noted the the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, or FDIC, has shown VNB seven banks on its list of takeover targets.
"We've turned them all down, but we're continuing to look," said Rust. "I think there's going to be some out there we can pick off for a really good price."
Coleman, however, expressed concern that VNB's stock price, at about 80 percent of book value, could put VNB "into play," i.e. find itself the target of a takeover.
"We have not been approached by any bank, ever," said Rust.
And with that, the meeting came to a close.
"They've done a good job," remarked shareholder Dickie Tayloe. "They've been conservative, and that's good."Read more on: Hunter Craigmark gilesVirginia National Bank
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They might want to put Bill Dtittmar on trial for wearing that tie! Makes Paulie Gaultieri's ties look good!
another bank accepting your stock as collateral may say something about the underlying asset but it is hardly a vote of confidence for the obvious cronyism that has gone on and is still in place.
If I have horse with a lousy jockey I can still get a loan on the horse but getting people to bet on it to win is currently reflected in VNBs stock price....
Don't know what the cause of the split was -- but I always heard good things about Giles and tended to hear the opposite about Craig -- so . . . . doesn't leave that good a taste. Wish Ditmar or someone would be more forthcoming -- but bravo, Hook, for buying stock and attending!


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The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science
HarperPress, 2008 - 554 pagine
Shortlisted for the BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction and the Royal Society Prize for Science Books
Richard Holmes, prize-winning biographer of Coleridge and Shelley, explores the scientific ferment that swept across Britain at the end of 18th century in this ground-breaking new biography .
'The Age of Wonder' is Richard Holmes's first major work of biography in over a decade. It has been inspired by the scientific ferment that swept through Britain at the end of the eighteenth century, 'The Age of Wonder' and which Holmes now radically redefines as 'the revolution of Romantic Science'.
The book opens with Joseph Banks, botanist on Captain Cook's first Endeavour voyage, stepping onto a Tahitian beach in 1769, hoping to discover Paradise. Many other voyages of discovery swiftly follow, while Banks, now President of the Royal Society in London, becomes our narrative guide to what truly emerges as an Age of Wonder.
Banks introduces us to the two scientific figures that dominate the book: astronomer William Herschel and chemist Humphry Davy. Herschel's tireless dedication to the stars, assisted (and perhaps rivalled) by his comet-finding sister Caroline, changed forever the public conception of the solar system, the Milky Way galaxy and the meaning of the universe itself. Davy first shocked the scientific community with his near-suicidal gas experiments in Bristol, then went on to save thousands of lives with his Safety Lamp and established British chemistry as the leading professional science in Europe. But at the cost, perhaps, of his own heart.
Holmes proposes a radical vision of science before Darwin, exploring the earliest ideas of deep time and deep space, the creative rivalry with the French scientific establishment, and the startling impact of discovery on great writers and poets such as Mary Shelley, Coleridge, Byron and Keats. With his trademark sense of the human drama, he shows how great ideas and experiments are born out of lonely passion, how scientific discoveries (and errors) are made, how intense relationships are forged and broken by research, and how religious faith and scientific truth collide. The result is breathtaking in its originality, its story-telling energy, and not least, in its intellectual significance.
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From the age of 13, for two years I delivered newspapers. I used to carry about approximately 50-60 pieces: there was AZ EST ( The Night) an evening paper requested by some of the Jewish families, about 16, FRISS ÚJSÁG (Fresh News) a Catholic noon paper, 8 ÓRAI ÚJSÁG ( The 8 OClock News) an evening paper bought by mixed population.
My district also included Újgalambos (Szilia) and the Golambus prarie. They paid most of the time by cash, because they bought them also at Goldbergerné ( in the middle of Tót St) and used to pay there. She kept a tobacco shop. I used to rap on the gate, they either took it there when ordered by elder people I would deliver it in side the house.
I was expected to deliver the papers at exactly the same time that the postman made his deliveries.
Beforenoon, we got the newspaper at the Post Office, in the afternoon at the railway station: winter summer at 4 oclock. We used to walk 3 km to and from.
Petrovics Sanyi used to carry ÚJ NEMZEDÉK New Generation. It was meant to be an ecclesiastic paper. The Pintér childre sold FÜGGETLENSÉG Independent - that was a Burgher paper.
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Perhaps it was Ella who returned. She became a water carrier for the 26th Building Company. She lived for a long time amoung us.
Lusztig Ákos: He was a director and used to live near the artezi well, on the other side of the Catholic church. I used to work there as a domestic. They loved, honored, and payed me well.
Fritz Péter: He had a general store and was our neighbor. I worked there also as a domestic for a short time. Their son Péter was a bachelor.
Albert Rezsõné: She was a pharmacist
Farkas Számi: He had a general store which stood where the Conditory stands today, near the Pentele club house. One of his 3 daughters came home from the deportation. She died.
Wolmann: He had a general store and his house stood opposite the school.
Szekulesz: He was an innkeeper and had a general store at the beginning of Cemetery st. near the Synagogue.
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My mother and I were very surprised when late one night we heard a rapping at the gate. A lady caller appeared. She excused herself and said that she was from America and was on her way to Paks, but wanted to see the place where she had spent her childhood. By way of the church wall she recognized the way that she wanted to go. Her father was a leather merchant, his name was Deutsch. She, Teri, married in 27- and had emmigrated to the U S A. We told her that her old home had been bombed and destroyed.
Auntie Teri then 86,looked around, said good-bye to her cherished place of origin and traveled on .
The modest memorial was innaugarted first on December 7th without names. In 1990 on the first of November the 192 names were added including 56 names of Jewish origin. That was the real innauguration. Taking part were the town principles, directors, Pentele friends circle, the National Prisoners union, and the clerical staff. The Rabbi, in the name of the National Hungarian Jewish Association gave a prayer in Hebrew (a Jewish ceremony seldom seen by a fellow citizen) after the prayer he threw small stones at the memorial where the names of the deportees were inscribed and in Hungarian he thanked all that had given time, strength, and money in order to include the names of the Jewish Victims on the Memorial.
The Jews resided in the center of town or nearby according to their particular occupation. They were peacefull residents of Dunapentele. Some of them were sent to the front for hard labor being cannon-fodder , ( for example the Sziklai boys ; Sándor and György) others were put into the ghetto ( first at Bruck mill on Baracsi St, and then to the school) and then they were deported to be finished in the gas chambers. There was no mercy. Men women and also children had the same fate. The residents, that where at home at the time, saw the Jews being chased to the station between the two rows of gendarmes holding bayonets in 1944, cried for them.
From all those that were deported only one returned, Farkas Ella ( their shop was on the spot where the conditory now stands near the club house ) who lived for a long time amoung us.
Those that did not live through the war can hardly feel the horror and the consequences.
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My grandfather Hingyi was still young and with small children. He was walking homeward on the unpaved alley Rác, dusty and tired. From dawn to dusk was quite enough. He wasnt in a good mood ,he was hungry.
As he neared his house he heard funny rhymmes. He stood still and listened, his tired face turned into a smile. Arriving at his home he peeped through a crack in the fence. He smiled even more as out of his eight children the three youngest were sitting on the kitchen theshold. In unison, like a choir, they were chanting in singing tone, like a studied poem, the leather merchant Deutschs ten childrens names.
My grandfather, the youthful Gyuri at the time, started to laugh already behind the fence. He tried to put on a serious face when he entered the gate.
- Be quite- Do you hear me? Dont sing Deutschs names but your own! You are also eight.
- OK Good But the Deutschs are more, they are ten and we are only eight - argued back one of the little ones. And again they started singing
Oh Ho How well you have learned it. Lets hear if you could chant together your names. Could you tell how many you are?
The three small ones started to sing their brothers and sisters names , altogether eight:
Their father, laughing, put down his hoe and knapsack in the shed.
( Told by my mother ,Nyuli Istvánné, Hingyi Katalin)
In the Pentele quarter there is a bus stop called Baracsi road station. One of my elder female cousins doesnt call it that she says: I got on the bus at the front of Neti.
Nowadays younger residents and immigrants dont know that here at the beginning of the street there was a house ( it was destroyed) that once upon a time, at the beginning of 1900, lived an old maid, Kohn Neti. She had a little shop and from it she made her living.
The neighbors children would quarrel among themselves with lots of agitation --about who would be the one that would light the fire on Saturday in Netis fireplace. Jews that practice their religion were not allowed to light a fire.
Netike was a pious solitary old maid. She liked to read so she had a lot of good books. One of the neighbors young boys asked her for a book to read. Neti told him:
Dont be angry, I take lots of care of my books, but if you would like to read one you may come in the evening, then I have more time and it doesnt make any difference whether I sit alone or some one else also.
So be it. At night there were two reading in Netikes room. The youngster enjoyed the book very much.
-- Miss Neti, Pali would also like to read it.-
-- Pali can also come, there is plenty of room at the table.
After a while there were ten readers. On winters nights they used to bring with them dried pumkin seeds ( with funny names). They would pour them on the top of the table, as the custom of the local folk. They clicked, smacked the seed and read a lot and enjoyed themselves.
-- Boys, perhaps when you come here so nicely to read, you could bring one or two pieces of wood or dried corn stalks ( after they had been snapped) in your pockets.
They did bring wood and other things the carnival arrived and they were enjoying themselves so much at Netikes club that in their pockets they brought doughnuts, corn cakes,and some even brought a zither and a harmonica.
How happy this lonely old maid became! Finally there was a lively activity going on in her apartment too. Something was missing for the boys. It would be nice to have a bit of wine with the doughnuts and the scones. Opposite, on the other side of the road was Mátyás Inn, but they were too young to be served.
- Oh I will go over and bring a pitcher of wine offered Netike but there will be no getting drunk! On this I will take care.
So there arrived a little wine, they ate, drank played music, were singing:
- Miss Neti - says one of the boys one evening--- Please let two girls come in. They are outside at the gate.Rajna,my dog is barking,
Here comes my sweetheart the brown one,
Even if he is brown, hes not a gypsy,
He loves me truly.
- Let them come, its carnival time!- the house owner gave her consent.
So then there was dancing, eating,and fun among themselves.
It became known in the village that in the evenings at Netikes there is a gathering. The parents did not like it. There is the Boys Union, and they should go there because there they would have the watchful eye of the priest. But here at Neti
- Why do they go to Netis? She is too old for them.
- They dont go there because of Neti, they go there because Neti doesnt lend out her books out of the house.
- But they not only read, they also party among themselves. They drink wine and Neti allows the girls to join midst the boys.
- They are not adults, only young boys and the girls are only fourteen.
- There will be trouble opportunity gives possibility to lure
- Oh true! The devil never sleeps. No No !
This was how the parents were talking. Netis door remained open along with her heart for the youngsters. From the readings a romance developed. Józsi one day came to his mother.
- Mother I would like to get married.
- To get married? You are not engaged.
- There is ! Dear mother I do love someone and am engaged.
- But really, who would you take? I dont know of anyone.
- I am taking Kati, my old sweetheart.
- Kati!! This I could miss! It is true that she is your former girlfriend, sure I know about it, dont fret. But what kind of a girl is she that goes regularly to Netike midst the boys.
- Sure she came because dear Mother she loves me also.
- Go away from me. I dont want to see you any more.
What a pity this rejection. The marriege between Józsi and Kati became quite admirable. So as the custom, after the birth of the first grandchild, perfect peace existed between the old and the young.
( My cousin Fekete Feri told the story)
In the past many Jewish families lived in Dunapentele. Most of them were well to do, with lots of money, or industrialists. They had a service maid , and some even had two, an upper maid and a lower maid. A few Jewish families even had a German nanny for the children. They had from where and could afford to spend. A poor mans daughter could use the payment of her small monthly service wage well. Out this she could buy herself a nice dress, nice shoes, and stuff she needed for her dowry.
Goose meat was the best liked Jewish food. In the old world people were religious, and so also were the Jews. As in the Jewish custom poultry was killed at the throat and only the shakter was allowed to do this. He had an instrument, razor-sharp, that he could cut the animals neck with, in one instant it was killed and didnt suffer.
Naturally the servant girl used to take the poultry that was to be slaughtered. They went there very troubled because they were afraid of the shakter. Maybe this was because he had such sharp instruments. In my childhood we used to frighten one another with the shakter.
Farkas Számi ( Samuel) a merchant, once trusted his servant girl Rosi with an especially big-grown goose.
- Are you able to carry it? asked Mr. Merchant to the girl. I can see that you can barely reach the handles of the basket.
- Yes I can carry it if I must! But please liston to me honored sir! I would like it better if I could cut the throat of this enourmously heavy goose. I really dont know why it must be dragged to the shacter?
- Not your mouth should be talking, but your feet should be walking, go already !
The goose was so heavy that Rosi was tottering from one side to the other dragging it in the big basket. Damm, the devil should take care of this thing. I will win out by wit. The devil can take it to the shacter. Anyway I am afraid of him like fire. This goose will perish without the shakter!
Her girlfriend was serving at Kánitz Móric the merchant, so she went by way of that road. The Kanitz family, even the honorable lady, used to work during the whole day at the shop, only for dinner at noon they went to there apartment. Here is a good opportunity, they both, she and her girlfriend will deal with the goose.
Quickly she smuggled herself through the big arched gate.
- You, Marie she whispered into the ear of the other girl quickly take a big sharp knife. Hurry! I m not going to take this heavy as lead goose to the shakter! Come, help me, we will run down to Brettyó stream with it.!
- Oh, you are crazy, how crazy! There will be a lot of trouble from this, you will see. said Marie- but she quickly snatched out the sharpest biggest knife and hurried with Rozi to the Brettyó valley. ( Today Tolstoj Valley). Beside the bridge they crept under the brushes in the brook.
- Oh, oh Rozi! This knife isnt as sharp as the shakters instument? Oh this huge goose will never die!
- Don t you wail any more Marie, I will squeeze it so it wont splash about, and you will cut its neck quickly.
- Look Rozi, how ugly his neck has become. They will notice it, it isnt like it should have been.
- You see my dear friend, you see it is already done. I will even out its neck at home. Tell me when you need anything, I will also help, from now on we will not go to the shakter! But not a word to anybody.
When Farkas Számi met the shakter he asked proudly:
- Please Irvin, what do you say about that enourmous goose of ours?
- When did you have this enourmous goose?
- Oh, the one sent you last week.
- Dont be foolish Számi, you did not send a goose last week.
- Are you serious?
- Really, the servant didnt bring any goose.
- Well then there is big trouble!
The merchant Számi came to the kitchen very angry
- You Rozi! Did you or didnt you take the enourmous goose to the shakter last week?! Listen, you girl! The shakter said that you didnt bring a goose to him! Look into my eyes and not at the stones on the kitchen floor, you, you !!
Rozi became red as pepricka (hot red pepper). She just looked down and wasnt able to look at the master. Farkas the merchant became more enraged , he was guessing as to how it happened. He shouted at the girl:
- You, you girl! Who cut the throat of that goose?!
- Me!! Honorable sir, you must know that it was me! shouted Rozi sobbing - I am also able to cut it, and I am not going to take it there any more. It was so heavy, like the devil! We didnt have any problems even though I cut its neck nobody choked on it. Correct?
- How dare you shout, you good for nothing. Take your bundle right away and dont stop till you reach your mothers house! Dissappear from my sight! I dont want to see you any more.
Rozi collapsed onto a wooden chair because she didnt have any strength in her feet. Home? How can I go home? Her mother would chase her back, why, because there is a big need for the money she earns here. She cant allow herself to go home! She cant stay here either, she was discharged. What should she do? Does she have to go to the Danube over a goose?
She shrieked and wailed bitterly. She was unable to gather her bundle, only cried and moaned.
- You are still her? stamped the merchant master- liston, girl! Your mother takes the Easter food to the church on Easter for blessing because it your religious practice, we have the shacter cut the throat of the goose because this is our religious custom.
- Honorable sir, please forgive me this goose! I can not go home. I have a good position here, and from now on I will always take the poultry to the shakter. cried Rozi.
- Go back to your work! But if another time .
( Story told by my older cousin Újbányi Ilus)
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In May 1996 I went for a visit to the Jewish cemetery, the 6th plot on the left side parralel to the Danube, at the Hundred Leg Bridge, after the upper inlet ( the place where the beach is free).The fence is new: made of red brick, in the middle there is a gate with a black painted Star of David with two wings. Locked. Above the entrance there is an arch built of red brick. This was built by the Organization of Beautification of Pentele.
After the rainfall I was wandering in the high grass, looking around, jotting down notes, and drawing. I was exploring the differences between the Big Cemetery and this one. There are and there aren't. I enjoy going there, taking flowers, a candle, and wreaths. There is always someone to be seen, who is taking care of his loved one's grave. Here is an island of peace where the soul can rest.
There is a deathlike-silence. Right now there are no visitors. Approximately 100 burial places (monuments) can be seen in this plot below the uneven clay bed. The upkeep can be very difficult, (last year the Museum took care of cutting the grass, the Society of Friends of Pentele also takes care, students of Szórád school, and the organization of Town Protectors).
Crosses can not be seen, tombs out of limestone and granite with Hebrew and Latin inscriptions are more than in any other cemetery.
There are family tombs, but I have seen couples buried seperately. Some of the stones are cracked, some where the insrciptions can not be read. Sometimes there is a grave stone that has no name and grave stones that are finished in a curve.
The Hebrew inscriptions were done in Budapest by Bineter, 5 Károly Avenue.
The oldest date of birth I have seen: 1806
I have seen the following inscriptions:
Herczeg Ferencné
Born Freund Emilia
Born 1851 Died 1911
In her 43rd year of happy marriege
May she rest in peace
(black granite obelisk)
(Hebrew inscription,Latin below)
Here lies
Herczeg Ferenc
May he rest in peace
(black granite obelisk)
(black granite)
Farkas Sámuelné
Born Müller Berta
Blessed be her memory
Here liesFarkas Samuel
New plantings:
Snow bells
(grey limestone decorated with a Weeping Willow tree)
Borsodi Sándor
Died January 7, 1890
In his 37th year
Mourning his loving wife
Only child
And grieving parents
Peace on his ashes
Klein Jakabné
Died 1914
(inside a 60cm high black fence)
Pfeffer Ignácz
Died November 15,1895
In his 70th year
Mourning after him his wailing widow
And children
Peace and blessing on his ashes
Pfeffer Ignáczné
Born Vibganer Lídia
Died November 10,1907
In her 72nd year
Mourning her wailing children
(below Hebrew inscription)
(a nut tree with climbing vine)
(grey limestone)
Kánitz József
Former president of Jewish Community
Born 1838
Died November 28, 1916
Mourning his loving family
Jewish scholar and warrior of Jewish thought
He never gave in
His heart great and heroic
His nature strong
His life an example of work and morality
Kánitz Rudolf
Died at the age of 66
July 28,1906
Bruck Simon
Bruck Simonné
Born Rosenthal Johanna
Bruck Rezsõ
Goldberger Dávid
Lived for his family
Died for his country
Bruck Ernõné
Born Bruck Adél
Lived 47 years
Died January 20,1922
Peace and blessing on her dear ashes
Mourning her loving husband
And two sad daughters
Juliska and Aranka
Your memory will live forever in our hearts
A symbolic monument for those dear ones
That were dragged away in 1944
His wife Goldberger Dávidné
His daughter Janka
His son-in-law Bruck Imre
On the right and left side of the cemetery are family dwellings with small plots. There are many on both sides. Whether they(the residents) are there in winter I do not know. I would suggest that there should be a sign put on the cemetery gate (at least from spring to fall) that the key could be found with the neighbors, so that visiters that come unexpectedly would not have to go to the Town Hall to the The Society for Beautification ( the office is mostly closed because of their other occupations, they are not always there at that time), or to the Szórád School, or to the President of the Pentele Community Center on the the Temetõ St.
How could those that come from far away know where to find the key? There are no signs with directions. The fence is high. It is possible to peep from 3 meters, or from the neighbor's side where there is an open iron fence. This is very unsatisfactory.
Long ago the cemetery was an open and unrestricted place with a caretaker. Anyone who wanted could enter.
Many of the residents in town don't even know where the Jewish Cemetery is.
H-né Ilonka: When I was a child I saw a Jewish funural in the north of the country. The deceased was wrapped in white linen tied in two places by black ribbons. Like this he was put into the grave.
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Krámer Simon Goldner Vilmos 1832-1892 Szabados Lajos 1864-1893 Salamon Steiner Lukács Mór 1851-1923 Krausz Joachim 1839-1028 son of Yahuda Krausz Joachimné 1848-1927 born Bruck Flóra Bruck Simonné 1881-1934 born Binet Zsófia * Bruck Mór Dr. Strasser Lipót 1846-1927 Dr. Strasser Lipótné 1848-1886 born Braun Róza Pfeiffer Ignáczné died November 10,1907 Kohn Jakabné 1846-1903 born Grünwald Fanny Goldberger Dávidné
daughter Janka
Bruck Imre
symbolic grave put up by Goldberger Dávid Weisz Mór 1866-1936 Weisz Mártonné died October 7 1902 Weisz Erzsébet lived 24 years Weisz Zsigmond 1877-1941 Yakov Zvi ben Eliyahu This is also a symbolic grave for our dear mother who was abducted in 1944
* Was the mother of Goldenberg Lajosné born Bruck Manci
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From Historical Hungary 300 thousand emmigrated, ( about 10% of Israels population)
Peace should rein under the olive tree!
I showed a lot of pictures of the Holy Land because Jerusalem is also Holy to them. The wailing wall, they dont call it like us, the wall of the destroyed temple, they pray and doven and touch the wall with their face and hands. In the stone gaps many put small folded papers with their requests written on them. These stones have seen Jesus, as they are 2000 years old.
The pictures of Israel let us get to know better their customs, clothing etc. Let us accept the differences and the church too has dropped their inflexible position of the hundreds. There are more ceremonies in ecumenic(universal) style. Pope János II also endorses this modern view.
The graveyard here is visited by the descendants. Newly planted flowers gives evidence to this.
They come from America, Budapest and Pécs.
We make an effort to keep up this reverent place and when we visit the Big Cemetery we put flowers on the right side of the central entrance below the marker with the names of the martyrs.
We cherish their memory
|Date of birth
|Bruck Ernõ
|Grain Merchant
|Bruck Ernõné
|House wife
|Deutsch Lajos
|Deutsch Lajosné
|Deutsch Anna (Panni)**
|Young girl
|Deutsch Áron
|Leather store
|Deutsch Mózes
|Leather store
|Farkas Sámuel
|Merchant: textiles/iron
|Farkas Sámuelné
|House wife
|Feith Andor
|Frankl Zsigmond
|Land owner
|Frankl Zsigmondné
|Land owner
|Fritz Móricz
|General store
|Fritz Oszkár
|General store
|Fritz Oszkárné
|Fritz Péter
|Goldenberg Aladárné *
|Former Cantor's wife
|Goldenberg Lajosné
|Goldenberg Éva
|Hermann Árpád
|Kánitz Móricz
|General store
|Kánitz Móriczné
|House wife
|Kánitz Friderika
|KhonnéDeutsch Rozália
|Fowl Merchant
|Khon Márta
|House wife
|Khon Endre
|Kiss Miklós
|Spice merchant
|Kiss Miklósné
|Kiss Sára
|Krámmer Márta
|House wife
|Krámmer Marianna
|Dr.Lax Jenõ
|Dr Lax Jenõné
|Lax Péter János
|Lusztig Ákos
|Lusztig Katalin
|Lusztig Áron
|Paskus Endre András
|Parkus Endre Andrásné
|Paskus Edit
|Paskus Ella
|Paskus Endre
|Paskus Mária
|Pechner Dávid
|Tailor shop
|Szekulesz Mihály
|Szekulesz László
|Public house
|Szekulesz Rozália
|Szekulesz Lászlóné
|Szekulesz Sarolta
|Szekulesz Pál
|Sziklai Miklós
|General store
|Sziklai Miklósné
|General store
|Weisz Jakab
|Inn: owner
|Weisz Rozália
|Inn: family
|Weisz Katalin
|Inn: family
|Weisz Irén
|Inn: family
|Wolmann Béla
|General store
*Grandmother of Vera, not in original list.
** Her nickname
|Family Name
|Lajos House Today
|Ihász auntie
|Tót St. ( now Petõfi St.)
|Coffee House
|Rezsina auntie
|Sziklai family
|(general store)
|Goldenberg Lajos Bela
|( Bicycle shop)*
|Goldenberg Aladárné**
|Wife of former cantor
|Paskus Endre András
|Tot St. ( now Petõfi St.)
|Jewish cantor
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The Mendon-Upton Regional School Committee heard a positive report on the state of the district's finances at its Monday night meeting.
Timothy Craven, a Norwood-based accountant, presented the results of his fiscal year 2013 audit of the district, saying he was giving an "unqualified" report.
"An unqualified report is the best report you could have, " he said. "If something were wrong, you would have a qualified report and, if something were really wrong, you would have an adverse report."
Craven said the district's financial health had improved dramatically over the span of a few years.
"The district has done a remarkable job of turning itself around," he said. "Five years ago, you had a negative fund balance."
According to Craven, the district now has a positive fund balance, completing a $2.5 million turnaround.
"I think (the district has) been incredibly well-run over the course of the past five to six years," he said. "You've changed from really, really rocky to really, really solid."
Committee Chairman Phil DeZutter asked what the district's risk areas are for the future. Craven said the district lacked the risks that other entities might have.
"You hear about Detroit and a lot of other municipal entities filing for bankruptcy - it's principally due to two numbers," he said, specifying pension obligations and post-employment benefits. "Your pension obligations are borne by the state."
Craven did say that the district should seek to continue controlling costs.
"That's something that's happening with every industry - it becomes a factor of how much you can squeeze," he said. "I'm not sure how much more money the state is going to be giving you to fund your operations."
Superintendent Joseph Maruszczak praised district business assistant Jay Byer for the work he had done in improving the system's finances.
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Tuesday, May 22, 2012
Guys With Pencils Redux
Guys With Pencils has had many interesting guests, so take a look at their roster of shows.
3 comments:
- Mitchel Kennedy said...
Fantastic podcast! I always love hearing your sobering perspective on the animation industry.
- May 22, 2012 10:56 PM
- tilcheff said...
Thanks for sharing, Mark!
So many bitter truths about the industry and the lives of animators in only less than 2 hours; so much useful information.
I enjoyed every second of it.
- Nickolay
- May 24, 2012 1:38 AM
- Matthew said...
Here's some light reading for you Mark.
Leo Baker has just returned from a tour of seven countries on a Winston Churchill Fellowship. His mission: to meet with animators, studios and educators from around the world and help bring some of the world's best practices back with him.
An industry envoy for animation & the arts. Sounds like a pretty good idea. Perhaps faculties like Sheridan & others should collectively support & sponsor a similar industry envoy endeavour program every couple of years with the aims of researching, amassing & updating a network industry map in service of helping to bring the global arts & animation industries & educational institutions closer together, with the additional benefit of creating a leavers document with further reports & knowledge of value for students to refer to once out in the big bad world.
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PIERRE - A new juvenile corrections program will open this summer near Sioux Falls.
The South Dakota Department of Corrections juvenile division has awarded a bid to Sequel Youth & Family Services to create a 32-bed group care program that will provide transitional services to DOC youth returning to the Sioux Falls area.
Sequel will lease state-owned property and operate the Sequel Transition Academy program. The program will offer services to youth who have been placed out of state and are returning to the community.
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The widow of Chris Kyle, the former Navy Seal and best-selling author shot dead in February, has contributed a foreword and afterword to a book her husband had been working on at the time of his death.
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, announced Monday that Taya Kyle's tribute will be included in "American Gun: A History of the U.S. in Ten Firearms." The book comes out June 4 and was written by Chris Kyle and William Doyle. Chris Kyle's previous work was the million-selling autobiography "American Sniper."
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President Barack Obama's bid for universal preschool couldn't have come at a better time. According to a new report, state pre-K programs endured the largest collective funding cut in their history last year, and enrollment stalled for the first time in years.
Total state pre-K funding fell nearly $550 million from 2011 to 2012, reports an analysis released Monday by the National Institute for Early Education Research (NIEER). The national total spent was $5.1 billion.
The bad news was widespread, but there are still significant disparities across states, which the president's plan would aim to reduce. Florida (with 79 percent of four-year-olds enrolled in state-funded) and Oklahoma (74 percent) continue to lead the pack in participation by a significant margin. Vermont comes in third with 65 percent of children enrolled in state-funded pre-K.
Only nine states enroll more than 50 percent of their four-year-olds in state-based preschool, while 19 states enroll less than 20 percent. Rhode Island (0.9 percent) and Minnesota (1.4 percent) rank at the bottom. The figures suggest that most states have significant work to do to achieve universal enrollment, as Obama has proposed.
Collectively, 28 percent of four-year-olds and 4 percent of three-year-olds (1.3 million altogether) attended a state-funded early education program last year -- the same as the year before. That number had been steadily rising since 2002, when 14 percent of four-year-olds and 3 percent of three-year-olds were enrolled.
National per-pupil funding hit its lowest point in a decade ($3,841) -- down from a high of $5,020 in 2002. More than half of states cut their per-pupil spending, but there was again movement in dramatically different directions across states. California, Connecticut and Rhode Island cut their per-student funding by more than $1,000. But Arizona and Alaska significantly increased their investments in early education in 2012.
The president's plan, introduced in his State of the Union address and outlined in his FY 2014 budget, would theoretically help to even the playing field across states. He's set the goal of enrolling every four-year-old in the country into a pre-K program in the coming years.
"Let's do what works, and make sure none of our children start the race of life already behind," the president told Congress in February. "Let's give our kids that chance."
The White House wants to pump $75 billion in federal matching funds into state pre-K programs over the next decade, using the money to enroll low-income children into programs and incentivizing states to expand access to middle-income families. The program would be fully funded by an increase in the federal cigarette tax from $1.01 to $1.95.
With states also contributing a growing share of the funding in later years, the plan would represent a huge increase in public funding of early education from the $5.1 billion that states spent last year. The administration envisions a gradual rollout of the initiative. Fifteen states are expected to participate during the first year, with every state joining by the third year.
Pre-K advocates, including NIEER, praised the president for his proposal. As Governing has reported, investments in early education slowed significantly during the economic downturn, and advocates hope Obama's initiative could reverse that trend -- if it earns approval from Congress.
"There was already a lot going on in the states. The finances were always the problem, and the recession just doubled down on the problem," Steven Barnett, NIEER's director, told Governing at the time. "They just got stuck. But I think we will see a dramatic growth pretty quickly because these states were poised to do it. Now the federal government has put its thumb on the scale."


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From his very first state‐of‐the‐union utterance last night, associating himself with President Kennedy, President Obama got it wrong, and it was mostly downhill from there: "51 years ago," he began, "John F. Kennedy declared to this chamber that 'the Constitution makes us not rivals for power but partners for progress.' " Great alliteration; bad constitutionalism.
Yes, in a very narrow sense the Constitution makes the political branches partners for progress. But it also, most definitely, makes the branches, and those with authority within them, rivals for power. Indeed, throughout the Federalist Papers we learn how the Constitution pits power against power in order to limit power — and government itself.
But limited government was the furthest thing from the president's mind last night. As Senator Marco Rubio responded, Obama's "solution to virtually every problem we face is for Washington to tax more, borrow more, and spend more." Even the Washington Post subtitled its editorial this morning, "Obama's wish list."
What then is the narrow sense in which the Constitution makes the political branches "partners for progress"? That takes us back to first principles, which Obama seems not to have encountered when he studied law at Harvard or taught parts of the Constitution at the University of Chicago. The purpose of the political branches is to refine and run the institutional and legal structure the Constitution establishes. That will then enable private individuals and the private organizations they create to flourish. And in a free society, that mainly is how "progress" comes about, not through government but through private initiative. For Obama, however, progress is mainly for government to engineer, through a vast array of manipulative regulations and government "investments."
Not since Franklin Roosevelt have we had a president with so little appreciation for our basic constitutional system, or so little understanding of basic economics. And like his New Deal mentor, Obama has overseen an economic recovery that is stalled from the political uncertainty his policies have engendered — from Obamacare to Dodd‐Frank, green energy, and so much more — with the slowest economic growth since the Great Depression and unemployment refusing to budge. In fact, during the last quarter the economy actually contracted.
So what is his response to four years of failure? He doubles down on those failed policies. Yet he frames that agenda with a perfectly American premise — "it is our unfinished task to restore the basic bargain that built this country, the idea that if you work hard and meet your responsibilities, you will get ahead" — seemingly oblivious to the fact that once you do get ahead, in the name of equality and fairness he'll tax and regulate you back, as his subsequent comments on taxing the rich make clear.
But the irony does not end there, because he next says, seeming to illustrate that point, that "it is our unfinished task to make sure that this government works on behalf of the many and not just the few." There, apparently, he's calling for redistribution — from the few to the many? But at a deeper and far more sinister level he's saying that government today does work on behalf of the few at the expense of the many. And on that, he's right. It's called "crony capitalism." But how better to illustrate that process than by pointing to Obamacare, Dodd‐Frank, and the many "public‐private partnerships" he goes on to propose, all of which invariably amount to massive wealth transfers from the middle class to the few who know how to work the system. It's no accident that Washington, under that system, has become one of the wealthiest parts of the country.
Do we suppose it will be any different with the three "manufacturing hubs" he announced the launch of last night, "where businesses will partner with the Department of Defense and Energy to turn regions left behind by globalization into global centers of high‐tech jobs" — or the network of 15 such hubs he wants Congress to help create? Or the oil and gas revenues he proposes to draw from public lands and waters "to fund an energy and security trust that will drive new research and technology to shift our cars and trucks off oil for good"? Or his other green‐energy proposals, or high‐speed rail, or federal‐state partnerships to construct more efficient buildings? But when, "to make sure taxpayers don't shoulder the whole burden," the president proposes a "Partnership to Rebuild America that attracts private capital," we have to wonder what on earth he's thinking. The implication seems to be that private capital should shoulder some of the "burden" of infrastructure. That's what taxation and public debt are for — to underwrite public goods. Why would private capital be attracted to "burdens"?
This ignorance about basic economics is the mark of Obama's vision — no more simply illustrated, perhaps, than by his call for raising the minimum wage to nine dollars an hour, presumably to help not only the worker but the economy, "since for businesses across the country, it would mean customers with more money in their pockets." If that were so, why stop at nine dollars — why not $20, why not $30? If he doesn't grasp such simple dynamics, how can we expect him to grasp the Public Choice dynamics that lead to crony capitalism? Or does he grasp all of that, and the explanation is more sinister?
We get a hint along those lines right at the end of his address when he says that "this country only works when we accept certain obligations to one another and to future generations, that our rights are wrapped up in the rights of others and that well into our third century as a nation, it remains the task of us all, as citizens of these United States, to be the authors of the next great chapter in our American story." Whatever it may mean that "our rights are wrapped up in the rights of others," it's clear that Obama is driven by the idea, as he often says, that "we're all in this together." The "national industrial policy" that runs through his address is a vision of "America, Inc.," with the president its chairman and CEO. It's a far cry from the Founders' vision of liberty through limited constitutional government, which is the truly great chapter in the American story — and the reason we'll survive this administration.


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Vancouver will open its Olympic lanes and shut down the Georgia and Dunsmuir viaducts to all traffic later this week, putting more pressure on the city's already crowded arteries unless more commuters leave their cars at home.
And judging by the city's recent TravelSmart trial runs, it appears the city still has its work cut out to convince drivers to take transit, cycle or walk to work during the 2010 Winter Games. In its fourth trial run last Friday, the city saw only a four per cent drop in traffic into Vancouver's downtown core — up to 13 per cent during the morning rush — despite a lofty 20 per cent goal.
It is now pushing to cut traffic by 25 per cent this Friday, the day it closes the Georgia and Dunsmuir viaducts to all traffic, pedestrians and cyclists.
Dale Bracewell, the city's director of Olympic operations, said commuters who insist on driving to work Friday will likely experience congestion on the Cambie and Granville bridges, especially with closures around BC Place and GM Place in effect.
"That is the most significant major road closure that we have," he said Tuesday. "We are concerned when it comes to the vehicle numbers. You don't want to be thinking of taking an alternate route; you really should be thinking of getting on transit or walking and cycling."
The viaduct closures will occur a day after the 170 Olympic lanes — set for the curb lanes on routes such as Cambie, Granville, Hastings and Broadway— come into effect, along with 24-hour parking restrictions along 650 city blocks.
With little more than a week before the Opening Ceremonies, both the city and Vanoc continue to harp on the public to start taking transit or cycle, walk and carpool as they close roads and restrict parking to cut traffic by 30 per cent. They are also urging them to avoid travel during the peak hours of 7 a.m.-9 a.m. and 2 p.m.-7 p.m.
The viaduct closures, coupled with other major road shutdowns already in effect across the city, will mean the loss of 20 per cent of lanes in and out of Vancouver.
In addition, the Olympic lanes, which will be used for regular transit buses as well as buses carrying athletes, Vanoc officials, dignitaries, spectators and the media, will leave just two or three lanes available to the public.
About 150,000 people are expected to surge into downtown Vancouver daily during the 17-day event.
"We're getting ready for 30 per cent more trip demands coming into downtown. We know they can't all come by car," Bracewell said. "We think it's going to be best to plan ahead and take transit in terms of a more reliable trip.
"When people are thinking of driving, they have to remember there is no parking at the venues and a lot of our on-street parking won't be available."
The city has already closed major routes such as the area around the Olympic athletes' village, Pacific Boulevard east of the Cambie Bridge, ring roads around BC Place and GM Place, part of Renfrew Street at Hastings Racecourse and Canada Place and Waterfront Road around the Vancouver Convention Centre.
It is also restricting parking dozens of blocks from venues to protect on-street parking for residents to encourage transit use.
TransLink expects a 20 per cent lift in ridership during the Games, which translates to about 960,000 trips daily. Only about 12 per cent of people who travel in Metro Vancouver now use transit for 800,000 rides per day.
TransLink spokesman Ken Hardie warned visitors and commuters could face waits of an hour or more for a bus or train at certain peak hours of the day, but noted the transportation authority will be running longer hours and will add a third SeaBus, 48 extra SkyTrain cars and 180 buses. The N10 NightBus will also run 24 hours.
Bracewell said more people are already taking transit and he expects more will jump on board once the Olympics start. During the Friday trials, he said, Canada Line has been reporting ridership of 122,000 while SeaBus has seen 20,000 daily riders. Cyclist numbers are also up across the False Creek bridges, he said, with 3,000 reported to be on the road last week.
The city has had to reroute several cycling lanes around the city, such as blocking off a path along Columbia Street between Keefer and Union and setting up detours along the popular Seaside route, such as around the Westin Bayshore. Cyclists will also have to share the east sidewalk with pedestrians on Quebec Street.
Pedestrians will continue to have access to most sidewalks and bridges except behind security zones, Bracewell said.
The city has been monitoring traffic patterns using its new Vancouver Transportation Operations Centre, which features large screens showing what's happening at various intersections around town, based on 30 cameras that can take different angles at the intersections.
"We're confident we've got the right plans and partners to manage [the traffic]," Bracewell said.