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TchoPairings Chocolate Bars Review
Is Tcho's Oddball Line of Chocolate Bars a Win?
What happens when a chocolatier best known for its exacting, scientific take on bean-to-bar chocolates enters the candy bar game? Judging from Tcho's TchoPairings ($16 for two bars), the result is a variety of creative, slightly crazy confections like the line's astronaut ice cream bar. Eager to find out if that and its other flavors (hazelnut and strawberry rhubarb pie) could live up to the high standards of the brand's other treats, we dug in.
Rather than dance around the inspiration behind its hazelnut bar, Tcho proudly pays homage to Nutella in its name: Tchunky Tchotella. Even better, we'd argue that Tcho one-upped the gianduja spread by toning down the sweetness a notch by using a higher cacao milk chocolate and a just-right dose of salt. As one taster put it, this bar is "like Nutella you're allowed to eat without bread," something we can definitely get behind.
Keep reading to find out how Tcho's more unusual bars fared.
Remember astronaut ice cream? Tcho took the concept down a playful path in its Galactic Gelato bar, which has dark chocolate studded with bits of freeze-dried mint gelato. (In other words, fancy astronaut ice cream.) If you answered with an emphatic, fond "yes" to the first question, this confection will likely please. Fair warning: tasters who looked past the bar's novelty felt that while tasty, it wasn't remarkably different (or better) than comparable mint chocolate candies. One taster even griped that the astronaut ice cream inclusions added a distracting sandy texture.
Strawberry rhubarb pie . . . chocolate? If you're scratching your head at Tcho's Strawberry Rhubarb Pie bar, you're not in the minority. That said, while odd in concept, this unusual option won us over on first bite. Chips of crumbly, crunchy, freeze-dried fruit added a pleasantly tart note to the silky-smooth milk chocolate base. And while not all feedback was positive — some tasters just felt it wasn't their cup of tea, and we're not sure that we discerned distinctive notes of rhubarb or pie crust — we can't wait to see this inventive combination on shelves and to see what's next from Tcho.


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The advisory firm of certified financial planner Steven Pomeranz, host of the radio show "On the Money," which appears on NPR, has been acquired by private wealth counseling firm United Capital Financial Advisers, the companies announced Wednesday.
Newport Beach, Calif.-based United Capital's addition of Steven L. Pomeranz Financial Management of Boca Raton, Fla., brings the acquiring firm's number of offices to 38 around the United States.
United Capital is a strategic acquirer, not a financial acquirer, of Pomeranz (left). As of April 1, United Capital and its affiliates had $14 billion in assets under advisement. Pomeranz is an advisory firm with approximately $200 million in assets under management and 140 family relationships.
In March, United Capital CEO Joe Duran appeared on Dylan Ratigan's MSNBC show to talk about his firm's free web-based behavioral finance application, the Money Mind Analyzer—an indication that United Capital's media expertise continues with the addition of the NPR host.
Pomeranz, president of his firm, has been in the advisory industry since 1981 and opened his firm in 1996. As the creator and host of "On the Money! with Steve Pomeranz," he appears on stations including WPBI and WLRN, public radio affiliates for South Florida and in four other states.
"Not since the mid-'90s have I been this excited about my firm's growth potential and our opportunity to help investors. United Capital is changing our industry and they reflect what I believe to be the direction the advisory space is going, not where it has been," Pomeranz said in a statement. "My firm and radio program are now able to take advantage of everything United Capital can provide. Its approach to working with clients and managing a business were two solutions I have been seeking for my practice."
Pomeranz will continue with his weekly regional radio show that began in August 2001. The program will include feature segments about United Capital's proprietary systems Honest Conversations and the Money Mind Analyzer. An advertising campaign will launch in some markets around the country before a planned national rollout of the radio show.
"Steve's radio show allows us to create an additional growth strategy for our firms around the country. said Jason Del Col, senior vice president of advisory services, in a statement. "We believe this partnership represents a massive opportunity to take what Steve has built and combine it with United Capital's offering for a national program."
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Cassevah aiming for spot in Angels' bullpen
TEMPE, Ariz. -- It's a tad dramatic, but in no way inaccurate: This is the most important Spring Training of Bobby Cassevah's life.
Coming off a season that was hindered by shoulder woes and spent in Triple-A, the 27-year-old right-hander is out of options and looking to find his way into a crowded Angels bullpen by Opening Day.
Late last spring, Cassevah suffered a slight tear in his right rotator cuff, an ailment that didn't require surgery but one that ensured he started the season in the Minor Leagues. Then, a 6.22 ERA in 44 games at Triple-A Salt Lake mostly kept him there, save for a one-week stint in the big leagues.
Cassevah said he wasn't dealing with any physical issues in the Minors, just mental ones.
"I felt like I should've been in the big leagues, and obviously wanted to, and I obviously started struggling and never picked it back up," said Cassevah, who posted a 2.87 ERA in 59 2/3 innings with the Angels from 2010-11. "I finished strong, but the season obviously didn't go the way I wanted it to go."
Cassevah was then sent to the Arizona Fall League, where he stretched himself out longer than he has since pitching in rookie ball in 2006. He served as a starter for the Scottsdale Scorpions, learning how to go through lineups two or three times over and pitching as deep as five innings.
It was there, as one of the elder statesmen in a league typically designed to showcase prospects, that Cassevah believes he learned how to pitch again.
"Just facing the lineup two or three times instead of just chucking as hard as you can for three outs is a totally different mindset," said Cassevah, who went 2-0 with a 3.13 ERA in six AFL starts. "If I carry that mindset over to relieving for those three big outs, it's key."


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With apologies to Mark Girouard (who published the well-known social history of the country house, Life in the English Country House, in 1979) I thought it might be interesting to show this small set of Chinese paintings of interiors and gardens.
These pictures in body colour on paper depict elegant company engaged in various leisure activities in a series of interiors and gardens.
We can see people playing musical instruments, playing a board game, arranging flowers and serving drinks (possibly tea).
Miniature trees can be seen growing in pots placed on balustrades and stands. Some people are sitting on chairs, others on seating platforms with bolsters, little tables and objets d'art close at hand.
One of the pictures appears to show a courtyard of a high official's mansion or a palace. The symmetricality of this view seems reminiscent of western pictorial taste. Indeed, the style of these pictures generally is rather 'western', with the use of single-point perspective and shading.
Paintings such as these were made for export to the west. This particular set is thought to date to about 1800. It would be interesting to learn more about how realistic these images were – whether the painters produced fantasy views of a semi-mythical 'Cathay' for foreign consumption, or whether these pictures, in spite of being destined for ignorant foreigners, were nevertheless based on indigenous traditions of realistically depicting upper class life. Do please comment if you know more about this subject.
These paintings were bequeathed to Claydon House in 1995, where they form an interesting counterpoint to the outrageously fantastical chinoiserie decoration by Luke Lightfoot of the 1760s.


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Xuyang Li, founder of TrustGo Mobile Inc., says that when he downloaded WhatsApp, he inherited the account information of a woman named Jessica, the previous owner of Mr. Li's phone number. Mr. Li's WhatsApp messages appeared to recipients to be messages from Jessica—complete with a profile photo of Jessica wearing a red scarf.
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The sunniest spot in Queensland, Townsville has grown from a regional port to a sophisticated city known for its food and shopping. The region is close to the centre of the Great Barrier Reef, flanked by national parks, lush rainforest and rolling sugar cane fields.
Founded in 1864, Townsville was the first capital of Tropical North Queensland. Today, it's a thoroughly modern city with excellent boutique shopping, a brand new creative dining and retail precinct called City Lane, and the popular Strand foreshore lined with beaches, parks, lagoons and barbecue areas.
Townsville Airport is 10 minutes from the city, with direct flights from Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Darwin and regional Queensland towns, as well as international flights to Bali and PNG.
Two-thirds of Magnetic Island is national park, home to an incredible variety of wildlife including northern Australia's largest colony of koalas in the wild and rock wallabies that greet you off the ferry. The island is ringed by 23 bays and beaches, dotted with towering hoop pines and rocky granite headlands.
Magnetic Island is a 25-minute ferry ride from Townsville. Boats depart every day from the ferry port in central Townsville.
The largest national park island on the Great Barrier Reef, Hinchinbrook Island is mostly uninhabited and covered with virgin rainforest and isolated beaches. Hike the Thorsborne Trail, a tough 32km track that ranges from mountains to mangroves or take one of the many other trails that are suitable for all levels. Campsites are rugged and remote, providing a real connection with nature.
Boats to Hinchinbrook Island depart from Cardwell and Lucinda on the mainland.
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TV dance stars celebrate Stamford studio opening
STAMFORD -- Fresh from her victory with Donald Driver on the season finale of "Dancing With the Stars," Peta Murgatroyd barely had time to catch her breath before jetting from Los Angeles to Stamford Wednesday night.
The professional ballroom dancer and television personality turned out to support the grand opening of Dance With Me studios, the latest venture her colleagues from the show, Maksim Chmerkovskiy, Val Chmerkovskiy and Tony Dovolani, have embarked on.
"It's amazing," Murgatroyd said, looking around the burnished wood floors and dripping chandeliers of the expansive studio. "I have gotten no sleep, but it's great to be here supporting Maks and Tony and Val. It's going to be a booming success here."
Perched on the fifth floor of 20 Summer St., the studio has been open to clients for just over a month, but Dovolani and the Chmerkovskiys used the occasion of the show's season finale to invite new students, business owners, and the Stamford community to view the space. This is the fourth dance studio the three business partners have opened in the tri-state area since 2005.
"One of the things we take pride in is that we can teach anybody how to dance," Dovolani, a Stamford native, said. "People always ask, `What's the appropriate age?' Now is the appropriate age. There's no one who's too young or too old."
Since finishing their appearance on this season of "Dancing With the Stars," the dancers will have a little more time to devote to their budding enterprise in the city.
"This is where I'm going to live until this studio is completely successful and everyone in Fairfield County is dancing," Dovolani said.
Even when Dovolani and the Chmerkovskiys are not in attendance, the studio will still offer a high level of instruction, Val Chmerkovskiy said, with a widely recruited and well-vetted staff.
"What we're trying to do is give people the experience that our stars get on `Dancing With the Stars,' " Chmerkovskiy said. "Yes, they will get our interaction, but they will also get the same education and end product. You will get that end product with us or without us."
Already, Dance With Me has generated a considerable amount of interest in the local community.
"We've basically reached in six weeks what most people get in six months," David Thomas Moore, the studio's manager, said. "We try to offer something for everyone, from hardcore enthusiasts to curiosity seekers."
A number of those curiosity seekers and enthusiasts were in attendance at the grand opening, milling with the "Dancing With the Stars" cast members and watching some of Dance With Me's six full-time dance instructors perform a demonstration.
Jennifer Catalano, of Bridgeport, took up ballroom dancing a few weeks ago on a whim, after winning a free lesson at the studio from a radio drawing. Now, she and her friend, Barbara Convertito of Fairfield, are taking regular classes at Dance With Me.
"It's very good, I think they do the right kind of stuff first," Catalano said.
Convertito is both a veteran ballroom student and a fan of the show.
"I think anyone who knows ballroom has to watch it from time to time," she said. "I've been away from it [ballroom dancing] for a while and I'm so happy to be back into it." For Dovolani, who can recall a time when he worked at a diner on High Ridge Road, opening the studio in downtown Stamford was particularly satisfying.
"Overall, what we're proud of, at least for me, is that I was able to come back home," Dovolani said. "We're not just like business partners but like family. This is the best way for us to teach as many people as possible with our work."


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Denton was born in Nashville, Tennessee and grew up in Goodlettsville, Tennessee, the son of J. T. Denton, a dentist who served in the military. He attended the University of Tennessee where he was a member of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity, majored in television/journalism and earned a degree in advertising. Before he became an actor, he sold advertising for two radio stations. He began acting at 23, at a community theater in Nashville. He eventually moved to California to become a full time actor.
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text: Good times for camera sales in FLA On The Editor's Desk By Martha Entwistle Updated Thu October 11, 2007 This story, from First Coast News in Florida, is classic mainstream journalism regarding security systems - in that it's terrible. Basically, the story is "Security Camera Sales Skyrocket," but, of course, they give no actual evidence for this supposed skyrocketing, they don't consult any of the easily available market research data gatherers (Frost & Sullivan have overall camera sales growth at about 8.6% for 2006), and they take the word of one integrator, Certified Security, as gospel for the entire industry. Now, Certified is a fine First Alert dealer and I'm sure owner Joe Hassan knows what he's talking about, but check this part of the story: Hassan says business has skyrocketed in the past 18 months because the devices have become less expensive, and more necessary. "People do less bad and more good when they know they're being watched. It's a fact of life," said Hassan. Actually, this is not a fact of life. There isn't, in fact, a direct correlation between people knowing they're being watched and their behavior. Just see this study on intersections where people are told they're being filmed and the rate of red-light running. Or, even better, this study about convenience store robberies. And I quote: Cameras were removed from control stores that previously had them and put into experimental stores. Also, the experiment was announced publicly to make potential robbers aware of the changes. The results of the experiment showed that there were no statistically significant differences between experimental and control stores. In fact, robberies decreased in all stores except Baton Rouge, where the increase was too minimal to be considered significant. These results suggest that increased reliance on cameras as opposed to other robbery prevention techniques is not effective. However, there are problems with drawing inferences from this experiment since randomization was not used. People who commit crimes are not rational actors. They're motivated by something much stronger than reason - usually a need for drugs, really. I believe cameras are great for business efficiency and for catching people after they commit crimes, but they simply don't work as deterrents unless they have analytic capabilities that can alert a responder in real time to prevent the crime from occuring. You'd think a news organization would look into that sort of thing. It's a kind of interesting slice of human behavior. Here's more from the news article: "Your alarm systems prevent and detect, your video camera's actually after the fact, help catch, prosecute, and basically give proof to put someone in jail," said Hassan. Okay. Sounds reasonable. Is there a reason we're making cameras plural by using an apostrophe? "Camera's catch everything," said Shea. Wow, they did it again. Hassan says some businesses that have really gotten into the surveillance systems are day cares and insurance companies that are requiring the companies they insure to have the cameras installed. Another feature of the surveillance camera's, is that you can access them from anywhere in the world on the internet. A third time! Cameras are apparently so special and selling so fast that you need to make them plural with apostrophes! Now that's skyrocketing. Also, I love that this is the last paragraph of the story. They didn't feel any need to elaborate on this point? Also also, I'm sure Hassan is mostly selling to day cares and small businesses that are mandated by insurance companies to have cameras installed, but is it likely that these two verticals are where you find most cameras installed? I'm thinking not. Good reporting First Coast News. Don't you have a car crash to cover somewhere?


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Apple is set to open a shrunken version of its Apple Store in the toffs' shopping establishment, Harrods.
Unlike the company's outlets in London's Regent Street and Covent Garden, the Harrods boutique will lack a Genius bar to provide technical assistance to the hordes of posh shoppers.
Harrods moles say the Cupertino giant's shop-in-a-shop will, however, sport all of Apple's iconic iTech, 9to5Mac reports.
It's not the first time Apple has been in Harrods. Back in the early 1990s, the posh shop played host to one enterprising local retailer's small Mac concession for some years.
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Beyond the exoticism and mystique that's always been associated with India lies one of the greatest emerging market growth stories of recent times, one to which, until fairly recently, it seemed there could be no end.
But then one day, the glowing narratives that had toasted India's high growth potential and its impressive GDP rate, the stories that had exalted the enormous investment opportunity India offered, changed. Rather than marvel at India, commentators and observers began to question the sustainability of its growth, particularly when placed against a backdrop of soaring inflation and a serious fiscal deficit.
As much as India, like any other emerging market, was a victim of the fall in demand that resulted from Europe's problems and the rise in commodity prices that was a consequence of the global financial crisis, increased frustration with what's inherent to the Indian model has led to increased investor disenchantment. More and more foreign investors have been taking their money out of India, seeing better opportunity in other emerging markets or even elsewhere in the world. The dramatic fall in foreign investment meant that India became one of the worst performing emerging stock markets in 2011.
While increased government spending and domestic consumption have made up for the decline in foreign investments in the short term, it's clear that India cannot achieve broader and sustained economic growth without foreign investment. The Indian government is reportedly aware of that, but what is it going to take to get investors to buy back into the India story? What are the sticking points that have led many foreign investors to change course and shift their view? What does India need to do in order to get investors to commit for the long haul, and what's the best way for investors to go forward in a country that undeniably still offers great investment potential?
Politics and Policy
For foreign investors, India has been one of the hardest countries to invest in. While it's only natural for a sovereign nation to protect its own best interests before it throws the doors open too wide to the interests of others, many feel the Indian door has been one of the toughest to open. They would like to see it opened wider, with measures that would make it easier for investors to access the Indian market, which would benefit the country by meeting the great needs it has for private sector funding (both foreign direct investment and foreign institutional investment) in various sectors of the economy.
Investors who want to continue to invest in India, who believe that there is potential there, feel they cannot do so unless the government takes some serious action on the reform front by putting in place measures that really do seek to encourage foreign investment over government spending and domestic protectionism.
The logistical difficulties of investing in India have caused many foreign investors to pull away from the country, particularly when they compare India to other emerging market nations like Brazil and Indonesia, where investing from overseas is easier.
"We've viewed India from afar without directly investing there because of the trading limitations that we have faced," says Jonathon Brodsky, managing director at Advisory Research in Chicago. "We view any country where the processes to trade and the transactional and frictional costs are negative as unattractive. Compared to other emerging markets, we view India as unattractive because of the many limitations that the government imposes, which makes investing there an onerous process."
Despite India's great need for foreign investment, the government has up till now taken very small steps to enable it, says Robert Davy, deputy head of global emerging markets at Schroders in London. This is particularly frustrating to foreign investors and one of the main reasons, he says, why they withdrew so dramatically from the Indian stock market in 2011.
Of course, investors are still very keen on the India growth story, which is why any small measure taken by the government does help in improving sentiment, Davy says. The Indian government, for example, recently passed legislation that would make it easier for foreign investors to invest directly in the Indian equity market, in the hopes of attracting more investors and lifting the market from its 2011 low. This resulted in a rise, as investors are still very keen on India and are waiting for steps like this. "But this is also an example of a small change that won't make a very big difference in the long run, because there are still so many hurdles that foreign investors need to clear," Davy says.
In the long term, he says, only a sustained commitment to reform and a clear-cut economic agenda by the Indian government can help keep foreign investment coming in.
That said, the enthusiasm over India's potential has evidently lent itself to great investment fervor, Brodsky says, and this resulted in periods of time when stocks were very much overvalued. Even today, Brodsky has not seen the inefficiencies in pricing that would make investing in Indian equities a worthwhile venture for a value investor like himself, which is why he is still in favor of investing in the country indirectly through Indian ADRs listed in places like London, Hong Kong and Singapore—a path that is less cumbersome yet affords some of the gains to be had from the Indian growth story.
"As an active manager, I stay away from places where I see limitations," he says. "I would have to find a really incredible opportunity to overcome those limitations, and I haven't found it yet in India."
Investing in India would be much more attractive and worthwhile for Brodsky if the Indian government seriously committed to reform and showed that commitment in measures that would make it easier for foreign investors to invest in India. Removing the stringent restrictions India currently imposes on foreign direct investment, for instance, would be a huge help, Brodsky says, and would provide a great deal of encouragement and incentive to foreign institutional investors. It's a step he's hoping the government will take shortly.
"As India matures and becomes more integrated with the rest of the world, I do think that the government is looking more and more at things from our perspective and realizing that you have to view a market holistically and compare it to other markets," he says.
Infrastructure—Or Lack Thereof
There is no way that economic growth, no matter how robust it may be, can be sustained without a country having in place solid infrastructure. Infrastructure—or the lack thereof—has been the bane of India's existence for years and one of the main reasons why economic growth forecasts have taken such a hit and investors have shied away from the country. Improper infrastructure, and what many view as a half-hearted commitment from the Indian government to implement the reforms needed to encourage investments in infrastructure, is one of the biggest sticking points for investors.
For Joel Wells, co-portfolio manager of the Alpine Emerging Markets Real Estate Fund (AEMEX), infrastructure is India's "central nervous system." Without a proper infrastructure in place, India's growth story won't make a lot of sense and would get to a point from which it could go no farther.
"In other emerging markets, you've seen infrastructure develop in tandem with or even leading growth in other areas of the economy, but in India, the lack of a plan on the infrastructure side has been a significant dampener on the growth trajectory," Wells says. "India's infrastructure needs are huge. We're talking about a need across the board for roads, highways, ports, airports, energy and more."
While there have always been plans on the table for infrastructure development, Wells would like to see a clear-cut commitment from the Indian government toward enabling investment into infrastructure. The cost of doing business in India becomes extremely high "if you don't have good roads, if you don't have power and so on," he says. The more the government can get behind infrastructure initiatives and put in place the proper policy, the more investors will feel encouraged to put their money in India, and economic growth will be supported as it should be.
A firm commitment to infrastructure is key to the continued attraction of India as an investment destination, and sentiment toward the country would greatly improve if the proper measures were put in place. Nevertheless, investors are still unsure about how infrastructure development will fare, as it's been a sore point vis-à-vis India for years.
As much as projects in sectors like power, highways and roads may get approval and even get off the ground, bringing them to fruition and ensuring they are viable in the long term is an even greater problem, says Davy.
"A few years ago, a lot of investments in the power sector got approval, but many of them have run into problems because they didn't have the coal required to run the power stations," he says. "Or, if coal was imported, the plant was not economically viable. A lot of people get enthusiastic about infrastructure projects, but then it seems that profitability is miscalculated, and problems always seem to arise later on."
In the absence of more widespread and reliable infrastructure, the viability and growth prospects of many businesses comes into question. Businesses, for instance, that operate inside spaces built by companies like Ascendas, a leading provider of business space solutions in Asia, don't need to face shortages of power and water, but what happens if they need to move outside those boundaries? What about businesses that are outside such enclaves to begin with?
"Moving outside the gates of designated business spaces means that those businesses can't be guaranteed modern world infrastructure, so there's a huge risk to investing in companies that are outside of the gates," Brodsky says.
Clearly, proper infrastructure would make India's long-term growth sustainable, particularly as some believe it has the potential to one day replace China as the world's low-cost manufacturing economy. But making that happen will mean a holistic, end-to-end commitment to infrastructure, one that's properly planned and executed from start to finish.
Real World Investment Strategies and Careful Stock Selection Can Work
Should investors stay away from India because of the current impasse? As they wait for broader, more lasting changes, what should they be doing?
Sanjeev Kumar, director and group CEO at Delamore & Owl in London, knows that the long-term India story does offer great potential, but he feels the best approach at this juncture is to look for opportunities where they might not be so obvious and where they might be less subject to the greater forces of policy and politics.
"If you want to get involved in the real Indian economy, then you have to understand that there are actually layers of economies in India. You need to go beyond the obvious and look for growth below the surface and even past the problems," Kumar says. "It's important not to paint Brand India with the same broad brush."
Kumar believes in committing capital to "real economy businesses" in various sectors. As opposed to buying equities—which Kumar feels have been mostly overvalued in India and, even today, after a fallback, continue to trade at a premium—the Delamore Group's India strategy is focused on taking equity positions in these "real economy" companies and providing skills and expertise to management so that they're equipped to grow the business more. Take infrastructure, the Big, Bad Wolf that's holding India hostage: While waiting for the kind of commitment from above that would shape infrastructure for the future, Kumar looks for opportunities in industries that service infrastructure assets, that provide the "secondary level of servicing" that's so necessary to keep infrastructure projects viable.
"There are smart guys operating those kinds of companies, and we feel that we'd be investing in good ventures if we commit the capital and take on equity positions," he says. "There are pockets of India where the growth is not visible, but in the second and third tiers of the economy, there is a lot of growth to be generated."
The aviation sector is another "below the surface" play that Delamore likes. While Indian airline companies are struggling for a number of reasons including industry saturation and the high cost of fuel, there is a serious need for companies in the leasing and servicing side of the business, Kumar says. These are the growth areas within the overall industry, he says.
For Sunil Asnani, co-manager of the Matthews India Fund (MINDX), the sectoral approach that so many investors have favored toward a country like India is definitely a no-no. He believes it's best for investors with a long-term view to stick to careful stock selection. Rather than embracing India en masse or eschewing India entirely, Asnani thinks it's important to look inside sectors and sift through the good and bad companies.
"In our strategy, we have found a lot of opportunities in small- and mid-cap stocks, and there's a huge range of companies with attractive pricing to choose from," he says.
In India, investors have either loved or hated entire sectors. Retail, for instance, was viewed as having one of the greatest growth potentials because retail penetration in India is still relatively low. Yet for many retail companies, returns were fairly low, Asnani says, and although sales may have grown, they did not necessarily create value for all companies.
"Being able to find companies within a particular sector that make money is important," Asnani says. "The market does seem to be discriminating between the good and bad companies that you'd find in a particular sector, and I would say that to find the best opportunities, you have to take a longer-term view and perform company-specific, bottom-up analysis."


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Internationally recognized experts, politicians, CEOs, activists and indigenous leaders will be at the forefront of a series of public debates during the IUCN World Parks Congress 2014 taking place this November in Sydney, Australia.
The Congress is a once-in-a-decade event on the world's national parks, marine reserves and other protected areas and the solutions they offer to some of today's biggest development challenges, such as climate change, health and food and water security.
The Congress' prime time debates, the World Leaders' Dialogues, will gather prominent personalities from all walks of life to tackle the most pressing issues related to protected areas, conservation and sustainable development, and to guide the implementation of practical solutions for a sustainable future.
President of Gabon Ali Bongo Ondimba, Australian Minister for the Environment Greg Hunt and UN Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme Achim Steiner are amongst the speakers leading the debates. They will be joined by:
• CEO and President of the World Business Council on Sustainable Development, Peter Bakker;
• Renowned marine conservationist and National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence, Dr Sylvia Earle;
• Chairperson and CEO of the Global Environment Facility, Naoko Ishii;
• Social entrepreneur and great-grand son of Nelson Mandela, Luvuyo Mandela,
• Secretary-General of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), John Scanlon and
• Co-Founder & Co-Chair of The B Team, Founder of the Zeitz Foundation and Director of Kering, Jochen Zeitz.
"We are delighted to announce such a prominent line-up for this landmark event," says Julia Marton-Lefèvre, IUCN Director General. "Through their personal achievements, these exceptional individuals have strongly influenced others, translating words into concrete actions.
"We hope that their engagement in the debates will inspire more people around the world to take action in our common effort to conserve our planet's most precious places and tackle some of the biggest development challenges we face today."
The Dialogues will explore nature's role in protecting people against disasters, new forms of sustainable financing of protected areas and their value, new approaches to combating the illegal wildlife trade and the often hidden costs of our consumption patterns and the growing appetite for resources.
The IUCN World Parks Congress 2014 will take place in Sydney, Australia from 12-19 November under the theme "Parks, people, planet: inspiring solutions".
More participants of the World Leaders Dialogues will be announced in the coming weeks.
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Ewa Magiera, IUCN World Parks Congress Media Manager, Tel. +41 22 999 0346; Mob. +41 76 505 33 78, firstname.lastname@example.com
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Additional information about the World Leaders' Dialogues:
The World Leaders' Dialogues will be held daily from 13-18 November, from 5-7pm:
13 November: The Future Is Not What It Used To Be — how parks can help build a more resilient future
14 November: Ante Up — money matters and the value of parks
15 November: Stand Up for Your Rights — parks and social equity
16 November: Food for Thought — feeding nine billion within our planetary boundaries
17 November: The Nature of Crime — the extent and impact of illegal wildlife trade
18 November: A Balancing Act — how global appetite for natural resources defines the fate of vulnerable countries
The World Leaders' Dialogues will take place thanks to the generous support from MacArthur Foundation and The Rockefeller Foundation.
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About the IUCN World Parks Congress 2014
Conserving the earth's most valuable natural places and promoting nature's solutions to global challenges is the focus of the IUCN World Parks Congress 2014 taking place in Sydney, Australia from 12 to 19 November.
Today's 200,000 protected areas, established to conserve nature and the benefits it provides, cover over 14% of land and nearly 3% of the oceans. They are home to magnificent wildlife and unique cultures and allow people to connect with nature for inspiration, education and recreation.
While protecting ecosystems that are essential for life, these areas support human livelihoods and are the foundation for a green economy. Protected areas provide drinking water to many of the world's largest cities, including the Congress host city, Sydney, as well as New York and Beijing. They keep climate change in check by storing vast amounts of carbon, sustain the burgeoning tourism industry and protect communities against disasters. When managed and resourced properly, protected areas make a significant contribution to national and regional economies.
Engaging a wide range of sectors including agriculture, health, forestry and fisheries, the IUCN World Parks Congress 2014 aims to find better ways to conserve natural and cultural diversity, involving governments, businesses and citizens and to showcase protected areas as the best investment in our planet's future.


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The History of Stanton High School
Once heralded by the Florida Times-Union as the "crown jewel of Jacksonville's public schools," Stanton College Preparatory School's nationally recognized academic magnet program has attracted widespread publicity since the Duval County School Board first implemented the curriculum in the early 1980s. In 2016, U.S. News and World Report ranked Stanton fifth out of Florida's 889 public high schools and 33rd out of all public schools in the nation. But Stanton's roots as an exceptional scholastic institution stretch back much further than the inception of the magnet program. For nearly a century, from Reconstruction until school desegregation orders came in the 1950s, Stanton High School operated one of the most well-regarded secondary schools for African-American students in Florida.
Named after Abraham Lincoln's Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton, Stanton Institute, which later became known as Stanton High School, opened in 1868 as the first and only public secondary school for African-Americans in Reconstruction Florida. There were approximately 62,000 newly emancipated slaves living in Florida, and many of them flocked to Jacksonville looking for job opportunities and cheap land in the port city. Eager to start their own communities after emancipation, local blacks built churches, schools, social organizations and businesses. The Colored Education Society of Jacksonville formed out of these grassroots efforts. At the same time, both the American Missionary Association (AMA), a northern benevolent aid society, and the federally funded Freedmen's Bureau established a presence in northeast Florida. The three entities worked together to support the establishment and staffing of schools for blacks.
In 1866, the Florida Legislature sought to abate white anxieties over educated blacks and passed a law requiring the establishment of separate schools for blacks and whites. At that time, three schools for Jacksonville's freedmen and women existed, but they employed only a total of four teachers responsible for the instruction of a total of 530 pupils. In response to the shortage of qualified black teachers, the Colored Education Society of Jacksonville and local black freeholders raised $850 to purchase a large plot of land on Beaver Street, from white unionist and future Florida governor Ossian B. Hart, and his wife, Catherine. The Harts endowed the black community with a 99-year lease, specifying the plot be used for the express purpose of educating blacks and training them as teachers.
Unfortunately, no additional capital was available for the immediate construction of a training school. The Freedman's Bureau donated $16,000 to build Stanton Institute with the purpose of training African-American women from the ages of 16 to 25 as educators. The Freedmen's Bureau erected the Stanton Institute on the corner of Ashley and Bridge (later Broad) streets in December 1868, and officially opened it for use on April 10, 1869. In addition to operating a teacher training program, the new building also facilitated a grammar school. The first class at Stanton was comprised of 348 black students, six white teachers and a number of black staff.
When Reconstruction ended in 1877, the presence of northern aid societies quickly diminished in Florida, and the financing of public education for African-Americans came under control of local school boards. The Duval County School Board first listed Stanton as a public school in 1882. Once staffed by a majority of white teachers, black educators made up the entirety of Stanton faculty by the 1880s; they worked to upgrade the curriculum to meet new state standards. Even in its infancy, reviewers touted Stanton as the "best school for blacks in the state." The news about the black educational marvel in Jacksonville extended across state lines, as the site developed into a popular destination for late nineteenth century tourists.
Principal James Weldon Johnson, a Stanton alumnus and the first African-American to serve as Executive Secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, elevated Stanton to a high school level in the 1890s. For a number of years Stanton was the only secondary school for African-Americans in Jacksonville, and one of the few in the state. By 1900, a reported 73 percent of local blacks could read and write. Other notable Stanton alumni include journalist T. Thomas Fortune, Olympic long-jumper Edward "Ned" Orval Gourdin and Jacksonville philanthropist Eartha M.M. White.
A consistent lack of maintenance funding from the county school board plunged Stanton into physical disrepair by the early 20th century. Stanton's trustees filed suit against the Duval County Schools (Floyd v. Board of Public Instruction, 1915), alleging the unacceptable conditions of the school. Officials agreed to construct a new brick building in its place, but again refused to allocate proper funds for building maintenance. By the 1920s, the new Stanton building was already deteriorating.
This negligence reflected general trends afflicting black education in Florida during Jim Crow. As of 1942, Duval County operated a total of 42 schools for African-Americans, but only one of those, Stanton, offered courses at the high school level. Beginning in 1938, Stanton stopped offering all grade levels and taught secondary education students only. Nearly every black school in the district suffered from a disparate level of resources. For example, in 1946, the annual per capita expenditure of $70.24 at black high schools in Duval County could not compete with the $104.50 spent on each white student pursuing a secondary education. Out of the 95 black teachers in the county holding at least a bachelor's degree, 91 received a monthly salary of $189, while whites with the same credentials received an average $233 per month in 1946.
After two decades of petitioning the Duval County School Board for an updated African-American high school plant, officials finally obliged. On November 24, 1953, student, faculty and interested locals dedicated the new $1.5 million Stanton High School. The previous structure on Broad and Ashley became known as Old Stanton, and the new high school, New Stanton. The new school was equipped to educate a maximum of 1,500 pupils on a 24-acre plot located at 1149 W. 13th Street. After the high school's student body relocated, the school board converted the old Stanton building first into a middle school, and then into the designated black vocational school, until 1971, when officials condemned the dilapidated structure. In the 1990s, the structure reopened as a private school called the Academy of Excellence.
A year after the new Stanton building opened, rumblings on the national level began to steer the school in a new direction. In 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled segregated schools unconstitutional (Brown v. Board of Education). The judicial body later ordered segregated school districts to desegregate "with all deliberate speed." The vague implementation language allowed southern school boards to delay integration for over a decade. In the video clip below, Florida Attorney General Richard Ervin and State Superintendent of Public Instruction Thomas Bailey discuss some of the tactics used to circumvent the order.
During this time, life at Stanton carried on much as it had before the landmark legal ruling. Overcrowding forced students to attend classes in shifts and a lack of resources handicapped instruction. Despite these shortcomings, Stanton students and faculty took great pride in their school. In 1959, Jacksonville's black newspaper, The Florida Star named Stanton "the best landscaped school in the city." In 1961, New Stanton's yearbook and newspaper staff won multiple awards at the 11th Annual Intercollegiate Press Workshop held at Florida A&M University.
Faculty also made certain to instill strong character in their students. Alumnus Rudolph Daniels recalled Principal Brooks' infamously stern demeanor: "If it was time to be in class, they'd better be in class. It if it was time for sports or activities, they should be involved in those. He wanted students to be equally involved in different things to make them well rounded people." During Brooks' tenure the school flourished as an asset and centerpiece of Jacksonville's middle-class black community. "Almost every Black [sic] who is in business in this city finished under me," concluded the retired educator.
Though Jacksonville's black parents sued Duval County School Board for refusal to integrate local schools (Braxton vs. Duval County, 1960), meaningful racial integration did not commence until the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Title VI of the federal legislation empowered the Department of Health Education and Welfare to withhold funding from those districts non-compliant with integration orders. Florida lawmakers responded. The following school year, all 67 counties in the Sunshine State adopted plans for integration, including Duval. Later Supreme Court rulings in Green vs. New Kent County (1968) and Alexander v. Holmes County (1969) placed additional pressure on local school boards to integrate immediately and dismantle segregated school systems "root and branch." A federal judge ordered all student, faculty and staff fully integrated by Feb 1, 1970.
While Jacksonville schools officially achieved a unified school district by federal standards in the early 1970s, the majority of schools, including Stanton, remained racially divided. In the post-desegregation era, Stanton's identity as an outstanding community school began to change. The school board converted it into a vocational school in 1971. Principal Charles D. Brooks left the school in 1968, but went on to characterize Stanton after 1971 in telling detail: "It seemed that one objective of the school board was to keep white students out of Stanton. We integrated with them, but they didn't integrate with us." Just as before Brown, African-American pupils at Stanton still suffered from the legacy of Jim Crow. Throughout the 1970s, New Stanton's student body faced a new battle with poor performance. A 1977 report of standardized test scores ranked Stanton with the lowest pass rates in Duval County for both math and reading. Further, the school reported the highest dropout rate in the district.
Though fortunate to survive the consolidation process of school desegregation in the 1960s–school boards routinely closed black high schools to meet integration standards–Stanton's reputation as the best school for blacks in Florida waned in the 1970s. Once plagued by overcrowding, by 1980 the one hundred percent black school filled only one third of its capacity; the school board had anticipated the matriculation of hundreds of white students after integration, but none chose to enroll at Stanton. Board officials even considered closing the plant, just as they had done with the Old Stanton building ten years earlier.
Desperate to preserve Stanton as a piece of Jacksonville's history, the black community rallied to save the school. The school board appointed Stanton graduate and University of North Florida professor, Dr. Andrew Robinson to find a solution for revitalizing and integrating the school. Duval County ultimately chose to tap resources from the Emergency School Aid Act (ESAA), the federal government's primary source for funding school desegregation efforts. In an effort to attract a more diverse mix of students, the school reopened as Stanton College Preparatory School in 1981 and began offering a magnet program with a focus on academic excellence.
Thirty-five years later, however, the effectiveness of the magnet program in achieving racial integration remains questionable. According to the most recent data compiled by the Florida Department of Education, Stanton's student body is 48 percent white and only 17.7 percent black, but blacks comprise 44 percent of Duval County's total student population. Moreover, only 13.2 percent of Stanton students are economically disadvantaged, whereas 43.8 percent of pupils living in the district come from low-income households.
From 2000-2003 Newsweek rated Stanton as the number one public school in the United States, and it continues to enjoy an outstanding reputation. For all of Stanton's modern achievements, though, current students and faculty are careful to remember the school's important place in the history of African-American education in Florida.
Selected Sources:
Stanton High School Collection. Jacksonville: Jacksonville Public Library Special Collections.
Eartha M.M. White Papers. Jacksonville: University of North Florida Special Collections.
Bartley, Abel A. Keeping the Faith: Race, Politics, and Social Development in Jacksonville, Florida, 1940-1970. Westport: Greenwood Press, 2000.
Florida Times-Union
Florida Star
Florida Department of Education


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Brush-On Primer
Anti-Shine Matt Varnish
Gloss Varnish
Quickshade Wash Mixing Medium
Warpaints Mixing Medium
Disgusting Slime
Wet Mud
Dry Rust
The famous and ground-breaking Quickshade is a pigmented varnish which will shade your miniatures perfectly and still let the colours come through. Painting armies of miniatures to fantastic results has never been easier - especially if you combine this high quality product with the revolutionary Colour Primers.
This product has been specifically designed and engineered to work with 10-28mm. miniatures and should not be confused with the many dodgy floor varnishes or shoe polishes...
This products sole purpose is for use with miniatures ONLY, and although it could possibly be used on a floor or a pair of shoes as well, we do not recommend it!
The technique of dipping is not new. Shading your miniatures with a single dip is old, especially within the historical scene - but finally, a product which will shade your army perfectly and is fantastically easy to use - just have a look at every single Gallery on this site - you will not be disappointed!
SOFT Tone
STRONG Tone
DARK Tone
Model Glue
Model Glue
The Army Painter has some of the best quality superglue and Plastic Glue on the market. Packed in an Army Sized pot you will have a great quality product and save a lot of money in the long run.
The glue has been chosen for it strong bond and its superb use with all miniatures and models and ALL our glues are manufactured in Europe to ensure a consistent quality.
Magic Super Glue Activator (2019)
Starter Sets
Starter Sets
All our Starter Sets have been made with one purpose: to be excellent value for money.
All the sets have their different uses and comprises of quality products packed in a way that you need look no further - everything you need is included and to a price where the individual products would cost a lot more than the compiled sets.
Whether you are a beginner or a core hobbyist - the Starter Sets will be a natural choice.
Most Wanted Brush Set (2019)
Hobby Starter Brush Set (2019)
Wargames Mega Brush Set
The Army Painter is proud to present its top quality & complete brush range.
in its design and with the right price, these brushes are arguably the best value brushes in the industry. There are 2 series of brushes from The Army Painter:
WARGAMER series (White):
Special purpose brushes with sleek triangular handles for absolutely perfect grip. These brushes are top-end and each has the correct hair type for its purpose
including Rotmarder Sable on the detail oriented models
. All are handmade and manufactured in Europe.
HOBBY series (Red):
These brushes are made form the finest quality Toray synthetic hair and offers a great introduction to the painting hobby.
Masterclass: Drybrush Set
Masterclass Brush
Wargamer: Insane Detail
Wargamer: Detail
Wargamer: Character
Wargamer: Regiment
Wargamer: Small Drybrush
Wargamer: Large Drybrush
Wargamer: Vehicle & Scenery
Hobby: Super Detail
Hobby: Precise Detail
Hobby: Basecoating
Hobby: Drybrush
Colour Primers
Colour Primers
An ingenious combination of Primer and Colour Spray in one. The Colour Primers unique formula has been designed to be used on all metal, plastic and resin miniatures and leaves a perfect finish. The extra-fine pigment and special nozzle combination makes the Colour Primers easily cover the first time. The colours are matt, making your freshly sprayed miniatures or models ready for basecoat almost right away.
Save both time and money. No need for 2 different sprays - all you need is 1 Colour Primer for perfect results.
All primers are acrylic based, matt and dries very quickly.
1. Shake for minimum 1 minute
2. Spray at a distance of maximum 20 cm. (no further)
3. spray in long burst whils moving the spray back and forth
We advise you try out your Colour Primer on a old test model or similar first, to test the colour and finish before trying them out.
Matt Black Colour Primer
Matt White Undercoat
Anti Shine Matt Varnish
Aegis Suit Satin Varnish
Leather Brown
Army Green
Pure Red
Barbarian Flesh
Plate Mail Metal
Uniform Grey
Desert Yellow
Skeleton Bone
Necrotic Flesh
Daemonic Yellow
Fur Brown
Crystal Blue
Dragon Red
Alien Purple
Angel Green
Wolf Grey
Goblin Green
» More..
Hobby Tools
Hobby Tools
The Army Painters Hobby & Model tool range has been tried and tested in the gaming community for many years. Although with their new and reduced prices they are arguably the best value tools on the market today.
The Army Painter offers a range of useful tools all designed to fit a special purpose, be it conversion or cutting models out of frames.
Wet Palette
Paint Mixing Empty Bottles (2019)
Hobby Knife (2019)
Tweezers Set (2019)
Mixing Balls (2019)
Self-healing Cutting Mat (2019)
Precision Side Cutter (2019)
Plastic Frame Cutter (2019)
Miniature and Model Drill (2019)
Drill Bits (2019)
Miniature & Model Magnets (2019)
Miniature and Model Files (2019)
Sculpting Tools (2019)
Green Stuff (2019)
Markerlight Laser Pointer (2019)
Rangefinder Tape Measure (2019)
Project Paint Station
Wargamer Dice, Black
Wargamer Dice, Green
Wargamer Dice, White
Battlefields Essentials & XP series
The Battlefields series has been made to give unlimited options to the wargamer, when he/she decides on what type of bases the miniatures should have.
All the materials are the best quality the market can offer the range has 2 series: the Essential series is the foundation of the base, with gravel, rocks, scatter and Static Grass. The Essentials are where you decide the theme of your army.
The specialised Battlefields is called XP, and these will add very realsitic and cool effects to any base. If you want to make an army a cut above the rest - look through the XP series for just that!
Basing: Brown Battleground (2019)
Basing: Snow (2019)
Basing: Grass Green (2019)
Basing: Field Grass (2019)
Basing: Steppe Grass (2019)
Basing: Summer Undergrowth (2019)
Basing: Battlefield Rocks (2019)
Basing: Battlefield Razorwire (2019)
Battlefields: Swamp Tuft (2019)
Battlefields: Highland Tuft (2019)
Battlefields: Winter Tuft (2019)
Battlefields: Woodland Tuft (2019)
Battlefields: Frozen Tuft (2019)
Battlefields: Wasteland Tuft (2019)
Battlefields: Mountain Tuft (2019)
Battlefields: Jungle Tuft (2019)
Battlefields: Scorched Tuft (2019)
Battlefields: Deadland Tuft (2019)
Battlefields: Meadow Flowers (2019)
Battlefields: Lowland Shrubs (2019)
Gamer's Downloads
Guides, Resources,
Colour Comparisons etc.
Dungeons & Dragons
The Army Painter
The Army Painter has loads of Hobby Galleries for whatever system, size or theme.
Take a look below or search our Gallery to find inspiration for your next army project. Don't be fooled - it is a s easy as it looks!
New Stuff
Painting Guides
Zombicide Green Horde Rolf Barbarian
A step-by-step guide of Rolf the Barbarian painted with Colour Primer: Barbarian Flesh and Warp..
Zombicide Green Horde Orc Walker
A quick way to paint Orc Walkers using Colour Primer: Army Green spray and WP Horde Shader.
Zombicide Black Plague: zombie skin
A how to paint guide for Zombie Skin using Colour Primer Necrotic Flesh and Plague Shader.
Single Miniatures
Large Models
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More than 2,500 cyclist set off on Trek Across Maine
Three-day ride raises money for American Lung Association
More than 2,500 cyclists and 700 volunteers will bike 180 miles in three days to raise money for the American Lung Association. They will leave each morning at 7 a.m. and finish their ride between 1 and 3 p.m.
The Trek Across Maine began Friday morning at Sunday River Ski resort in Newry.
On Friday, cyclists will end the day at the University of Maine in Farmington.
Saturday's ride goes from U-Maine Farmington to Colby College in Waterville. The ride will end Sunday at Steamboat Landing Park in Belfast.
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Good news: the justice system in Sacramento has finally done something good for the teenaged rape victim who was being held in a juvenile detention facility to ensure she would be in court to testify against her alleged attacker. You may remember that she was held after she failed to show up to two previous court dates. Her attacker has a long criminal record and is considered a threat to public safety; thus the District Attorney is eager to have him prosecuted successfully.
The case has been getting considerable attention since she was first jailed on March 27th. She could have been held until the trial starts on April 23rd, but, fortunately, the judge decided at a review of her case earlier this week that she could be tracked using GPS monitoring. One wonders why that couldn't have just been done in the first place, but better late than never in terms of releasing her from custody, since she was no doubt suffering every day she was detained.


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Missouri, river, c.2,565 mi (4,130 km) long (including its Jefferson-Beaverhead-Red Rock headstream), the longest river of the United States and the principal tributary of the Mississippi River. The length of the combined Missouri-Mississippi system from the headwaters of the Missouri to the mouth of the Mississippi is c.3,740 mi (6,020 km), making it the world's third longest river after the Nile and the Amazon. The Missouri River drains an area of c.580,000 sq mi (1,502,200 sq km), including 2,550 sq mi (6,600 sq km) in Canada.
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In 1993, a freighter ran aground off Queens, N.Y. The Golden Venture had nearly 300 people on it who were being smuggled into the U.S. from China.
Passengers cited China's forced-sterilization program and governmental persecution from political expression as reasons to climb aboard the Golden Venture. Some paid the smugglers $30,000 to board the ship. An organized crime syndicate would front the money, and the passengers would have to work off the debt, often in restaurants like indentured servants.
Some people jumped from the ship, trying to swim ashore. Ten people drowned, while about 200 people were treated for exhaustion and exposure. Shengqiao Chen was among 110 people smuggled in the ship who were detained in U.S. prisons while they waited for political asylum.
'This Is United States'
"After three months, we finally see the land," 38-year-old Chen told Zehao Zhou during a recent visit to StoryCorps in Philadelphia. "They told us, 'This is United States.' "
The two men met while Chen was in prison. Zhou, an academic librarian at York College in Pennsylvania, was his translator. At StoryCorps, Zhou asked Chen how long he swam that day.
"You can't really swim. The waves move you back, and I passed out," Chen said. "And then a couple of my friends carried me out of the water.
"When I woke up, I was in the hospital," Chen said. "I had my hand handcuffed on the bed."
Shrines And Letters
Chen was sent to a detention center in Pennsylvania.
"I think the most difficult time is after six months, and you don't know what your future is going to be," he said.
Chen's mother thought he was dead and had set up a family shrine for him.
"I have 20 letters that you wrote me while you were detained," Zhou said. "The letters described all the, you know, suicidal thoughts, attempts, people giving up. Remember we had the vigils outside the prison?"
Every Sunday, Zhou and others held vigils, while Chen and the other detainees watched through the window.
"A lot of us would tear up because there's still good people in the world who have a kindness heart," said Chen, who has now lived in America longer than he lived in China.
"I told my mom, I said that, 'I will either die or I will arrive to the United States.' After 20 years, I feel like I'm a part of this country, you know? I would do it again," he said.
Chen was released on parole in 1995 and was allowed to wait for political asylum outside of prison. He is still waiting for asylum to be granted, though he is able to work in the U.S. legally while he waits.
Audio produced for Morning Edition by Jasmyn Belcher with Matt Martin.
Diptychs are composite images by photographer Katja Heinemann who has been working on a long-term photo project about the Golden Venture.
Twenty years ago this week, a freighter called the Golden Venture ran aground just outside New York City. On board were nearly 300 people who were being smuggled into the United States from China. Ten people drowned trying to reach land. Many who made it ashore were detained in U.S. prisons for years, waiting for political asylum.
In today's StoryCorps, we hear from one of those survivors. Shengqiao Chen sat down with his friend Zehao Zhou. They met while Chen was in prison. Zehao was his translator.
SHENGQIAO CHEN: After three months, we finally see the land.
ZEHAO ZHOU: You knew that was America?
SHENGQIAO: They told us: This is United States.
UNIDENTIFIED BROADCASTER #1: The freight ship that carried them ran aground off the coast of Rockaway Peninsula, in Queens. Some people actually jumped from the ship, to try to swim to shore...
SHENGQIAO: The water was very cold.
ZEHAO: How long did you swim? Do you remember?
SHENGQIAO: You can't really swim. The waves move you back, and I pass out...
ZEHAO: You passed out...
SHENGQIAO: And then a couple of my friends carried me out of water.
UNIDENTIFIED BROADCASTER #1: ...About 200 people were treated for exhaustion and exposure...
SHENGQIAO: When I woke up, I was in hospital. I had my hand handcuffed on the bed.
ZEHAO: You were in a hospital bed, handcuffed.
SHENGQIAO: Yeah.
ZEHAO: Then you were sent to a detention center.
UNIDENTIFIED BROADCASTER #2: Immigration officials shipped off 110 of the illegal aliens to a prison in York, Pa., this morning...
SHENGQIAO: I think the most difficult time is after six months, and you don't know what your future - going to be.
ZEHAO: You mother thought you were dead, and she set up a family shrine for you.
SHENGQIAO: Yeah.
ZEHAO: I have 20 letters that you wrote me while you were detained. The letters described all the - you know, suicidal thoughts, attempts, people giving up. Remember, we had the vigils outside the prison?
SHENGQIAO: I remember. Every Sunday, when you guys were outside, we would watch you through the window. A lot of us was - tear up because there's still good people in the world who have a kindness heart.
ZEHAO: You have lived longer in America than in China, correct?
SHENGQIAO: Yes.
ZEHAO: When you came, you were only 18 years old. And you went through so much. But is it worth it?
SHENGQIAO: I told my mom, I said that I will either die, or I will arrive to United States. After 20 years, I feel like I'm a part of this country, you know? I would do it again.
ZEHAO: You would do it again.
SHENGQIAO: I would definitely do it again.
WERTHEIMER: Shengqiao Chen, who survived the Golden Venture shipwreck, with his friend Zehao Zhou, in Philadelphia. Their conversation will be archived, along with thousands of other StoryCorps interviews, at the American Folk Life Center at the Library of Congress. You can get the podcast at npr.org. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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A man in Virginia has pled guilty to criminal actions associated with what he says is a scholarship program. Three women received money from the man to use for educational expenses, and in return, the man got to spank them when they "misbehaved." And you thought the Miss America pageant was a dubious scholarship program.
The Washington Post reports that 54-year-old Henry Allen Fitzsimmons has pled guilty to sexual battery after spanking three women to whom he was providing scholarships. According to Fitzsimmons he and the women had a tit-for-tat agreement wherein the women agreed to call Fitzsimmons at prescribed times and refrain from drinking alcohol. He called it the "Spencer Scholarship Program," where "Spencer" means "felony." Fitzsimmons has been sentenced to 2 years in prison as a result of his ass antics.
One might wonder what would possess someone to enter into an agreement where certain conditions allow an old guy to touch your butt, but maybe this sort of thing is the inevitable result of the skyrocketing cost of postsecondary education.
Virginia restaurateur who spanked women he gave financial aid to pleads guilty to battery [WaPo]
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Belgium Prepares to Welcome the World
Coverage Sponsored by Paris To Ancaster: Canada's Spring Classic
Belgium is considered the heartland of cyclo-cross racing, so a world championships in Belgium is always a special thing. Tomorrow, the Worlds return to the small North Sea town of Koksijde for the first time since 1994, when a Belgian man won the Elite title (Paul Herygers). Already, the organizers have announced that they have cut off sales at the gate for the Elite races on Sunday, with over 40,000 tickets sold, and the King of Belgium will be attending. Organizers are expecting some 30,000 litres of beer to be sold. Clearly, this is a very big deal.
2010 World Cup start
The weather looks to be excellent as well - mid single digits, sunny with some showers just to keep things muddy and interesting. The Koksijde circuit is quite unique, with much of the course run through, over and around massive sand dunes, and the rest on an air force base. There aren't many places to rest on this course, and one mistake in the sand could easily put a rider out of contention. When Herygers won, he had a sand dune named after him, and organizers have promised to do the same for this year's Elite champion.
Running the sand dunes, Stybar leading
"The start is more important than ever," agrees Canada's lone Elite men's entry, Craig Richey. "The first five or six guys will be able to ride it, but then if one guy makes a little mistake and has to get off, it bottlenecks, and it's almost impossible to make up ground after that."
Richey will be hoping for a top-40 results, and felt good in training on the circuit. He has been over racing the World Cup circuit - including Koksijde - since early November, with some good results. However, illness has struck more than once through his season, so he isn't sure what to expect on Sunday afternoon for his 60 minute race.
The favourites include two-time defending champion Zdenek Stybar of the Czech Republic, a trio of Belgians - Sven Nys, Niels Albert and World Cup champion Kevin Pauwels.
Team Canada (L to R): Patry, Richey, Coté Bouvette and Beaudoin
Canada does not have any entries in the Elite women's race, where the prohibitive favourite is Dutch rider Marianne Vos, going for her fourth consecutive title, although her only loss this season was at Koksijde. Others to watch for the podium are American Katie Compton and Vos' team mate Daphny van den Brand. These two have dominated the race in Koksijde over the past few years, with Compton winning in 2008 and 2010, and van den Brand just last Fall. Missing from the women's field is multi-time champion Hanka Kupfernagel of Germany, who announced earlier in the season that she was going to focus on Olympic preparations.
The Worlds open on Saturday with the Junior men and U23 men. Canada has two Juniors - Yohan Patry and Samuel Beaudoin - and one U23 - Felix Coté Bouvette. Number one ranked Mathieu van der Poel (Netherlands) is the clear favourite in the Junior race, and his team mate Lars van der Haar is equally dominant in the U23 category.
Koksijde World Championships Bar Cam Footage from Behind The Barriers on Vimeo.
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Atmora, also known as Altmora or Elder Wood in Ehlnofex,[1][2][3] is a frozen continent located far to the north of Tamriel, across the Sea of Ghosts. It was home to a race of men known as Atmorans around the Merethic Era.[4][5]
Expeditions to Atmora in the Third Era describe a place of permanent winter, with little life and no sign of human habitation.[5] Reports describing the climate before the freezing vary. The Songs of the Return series of books makes several mentions of "distant green summers"[6] and "chilling green shores."[7] Other reports assert it was never a temperate place, and as such the early settlers were hunters with no knowledge of agriculture.[5]
Origins of men
Legend has it that the first pre-literate humans came to Tamriel from the continent of Atmora in the late Merethic Era.[2] It was not a single invasion but a series of them over hundreds of years, giving birth to the Nords, Imperials and Bretons.[4][5] The last of the invaders was the legendary Ysgramor and his Five Hundred Companions.[2]
Pre-Return events
Ysgramor gathered those who wished to leave Atmora due to the violent civil war. They sailed south and eventually the fleet landed at Hsaarik Head at the extreme northern tip of Skyrim's Broken Cape. It was here they built there the legendary city of Saarthal.[2][8]
Upon arrival in Tamriel, the Atmorans met and befriended the local Snow Elves. The Nords called the land "Mereth," in recognition of the vast number of Mer that lived there. The elves quickly took notice to the rate at which Man's population was growing, and soon realized that these men were the first great threat to Elvish civilization on Tamriel.
The Snow Elves led raids throughout the settlements of men that had come to Tamriel. Most of the Atmorans were hunted down and the city of Saarthal was burned to the ground. These events became known as the "Night of Tears." Ysgramor and his two sons, Yngol and Ylgar, survived and fled back to Atmora.[8][2]
When Ysgramor and his sons returned to their homeland they discovered Atmora had developed into a peaceful land. They told stories of elven treachery and murders in Saarthal. This inspired men of Atmora to raise an army and avenge the fallen, claiming Mereth for themselves.
Ysgramor gathered an army known as the Five Hundred Companions and set sail from the southernmost city of Jylkurfyk to invade Tamriel, this became known as the Day of Final Passage.[9] When they arrived, they retook Saarthal[10] and hunted Snow Elves and other Mer alike, and made possible the rise of men, eventually establishing the First Empire.[11] These series of events gained the name of "The Return" and have since led to a strong hatred and prejudice between the races of Men and Mer.
Tiber Septim was the last purported immigrant from Atmora, who was said to have left the continent in his youth during the Second Era.[12] However, given the last recorded wave of migration took place in 1E 68, the veracity of this is questionable.[5]
It is unknown what exactly caused the climate to deteriorate so drastically. The Atmorans that did not manage to flee, doubtlessly succumbed to the ever-worsening climate many centuries ago.[5]
According to the 36 Lessons of Vivec, Sermon 17, Vivec and Nerevar traveled to Atmora but found only frozen bearded kings.[13]
- ↑ Mysterious Akavir
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Before the Ages of Man
- ↑ The Monomyth
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Pocket Guide to the Empire, Third Edition: Skyrim
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 Pocket Guide to the Empire, Third Edition: Atmora
- ↑ Songs of the Return, Vol 2
- ↑ Songs of the Return, Vol 7
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Pocket Guide to the Empire, First Edition: Skyrim
- ↑ Songs of the Return, Vol 2
- ↑ Imperial Report on Saarthal
- ↑ Fall of the Snow Prince
- ↑ Pocket Guide to the Empire, First Edition: Cyrodiil
- ↑ 36 Lessons of Vivec, Sermon 17
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