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In the early 1920s, times were tough for Spanish gunmakers. World War I had been over for a number of years, and the market was awash with surplus arms sold for less than the cost of new production. Also, beginning in 1920, the federal police force, or Guardia Civil, had to approve all pistol sales, except single-shot .22s. It was only natural for Spanish firms to look abroad, but it was difficult to compete against such established giants as Colt and Smith & Wesson in the United States. Opportunity came in Asia, a part of the world with a growing demand where trademarks were not as deeply entrenched.
Despite China's great size, plentiful resources and burgeoning population, the Ch'ing dynasty had never seen fit to establish a modern, centralized military. China was defeated by Japan in 1895, and faced with huge reparations and loss of face, China's intellectuals clamored for revolution. In 1911, the Ch'ing Dynasty was replaced by a Republican government presided over by Yuan Shih-k'ai, a former general whose personal ambitions invariably superseded those of the state. To ensure his position, he eliminated all serious competition. Following Yuan's unexpected death in 1916, China found itself leaderless and with a corrupt government. As many potential successors struggled for individual power, China plunged into an era of turmoil punctuated by a relentless series of military conflicts.
The "warlord period," from 1916 to 1928, was a dark age for modern China, characterized by military instability, greed and social disruption. Resolute in their desire for absolute control, numerous warlords fielded huge armies to battle for regional dominance and personal gain. By any measure, their troop strengths were extraordinary—and everyone needed arms.
As China's isolationist policy had left its arms industry in technological backwater, virtually all the guns and munitions had to be imported. Cash was not an issue—in some cases the warlords allotted up to 90 percent of their tax revenue on arms—and there was no standardization. New or used, it didn't matter. The most important issue was to get arms and ammunition to their troops as quickly as possible.
But there were a few obstacles. To limit the warlords' access to materiel and presumably to promote peace, Britain, France, Russia, Spain and the United States signed the May 5, 1919, Arms Embargo Agreement to "restrain their subjects and citizens from exporting to or importing into China, arms and munitions of war and materiel destined exclusively for their manufacture." Curiously, handguns—considered a secondary arm of minimal importance—were exempt from the agreement. Not surprisingly, in spite of the public posturing, the Arms Embargo was widely ignored. The reason was economic. The warlords were desperate for guns, and everyone else wanted the warlords' money. If one country refused to negotiate there were always others. In the end, practicality superseded politics as arms were ultimately shipped from virtually every country that had signed or expressed support for the embargo.
At first, the Spanish makers competed voraciously against each other, supplying small-caliber blowback pistols, largely 7.65 mm "Eibar-type" guns as had been used by the French in World War I. Mauser Werke of Germany found itself in a very different position. In 1896, the firm developed its C96, or "broomhandle," that could be used as a traditional pistol, stored in the shoulder stock or—when attached to its stock—function as a short-barreled carbine. The cartridge was potent and the guns highly reliable. Any and all versions could be legally sold to the Chinese. Although Mauser's production was then curtailed by the Treaty of Versailles, there was such an incentive to sell guns that all sorts of loopholes were explored with unbridled enthusiasm. The Chinese were particularly delighted with the C96 and purchased the design with wild abandon. According to author Thomas B. Nelson, more than 300,000 were eventually exported from Germany, either directly or via Japanese traders. For a few years, Mauser couldn't make the guns fast enough.
That success did not go unnoticed. The first Spanish firm to take up the competitive reins was Beístegui Hermanos, a factory in Eibar. Although the peculiarities of Spanish patent law would have allowed Beístegui to have made an exact copy of the C96, the firm chose to make an externally similar pistol with different mechanics for more expedient production. In some cases, the changes were real improvements. While the C96 had an integral barrel and barrel-extension, Beístegui assembled the unit with separate pieces—a process that required less setup time and allowed the barrel to be replaced as an individual component. Making the bolt with a cylindrical shaft rather than a squared shaft allowed further economy. As Mauser held the upper hand, the Beístegui pistol had to be equally reliable but significantly cheaper.
Beístegui had its first C96-type pistol, designated the Model H, in production by 1926. To more closely emulate the C96's looks, the firm milled similar panels onto each side of the frame and fitted the gun with a small ring hammer and a Bolo grip. Curiously, though the "Royal" trade name was already recognized in Asia, the markings on the first Model Hs were largely limited to the serial number and Eibar test proofs. By 1927, the Model H had evolved to its most common configuration in which the rear frame panels were eliminated and wherein the grip was enlarged to more closely mimic the standard C96. By that time, Beístegui had also changed to marking most of its guns "'Royal' Patent No. 105614," a reference to the locking block patent.
Meanwhile, in Guernica Astra-Unceta y Cía decided to enter the fray. Export Director Ernesto Borchers went on a several-month trip to Asia. After visiting with a number of Japanese traders and mainland distributors, Borchers wrote back, "There are sought fabulous quantities of 7.63 mm pistols and, according to the indications, Echeverría (Star–another firm in Eibar) must be doing good business. We could do more, since we know the clientele better." In another letter he mentioned, "Some clients are interested in Astra, but most want to buy 'Royal,' and there is no one who can cure them of this mania." He returned from the voyage with a contract for 72,000 pistols in calibers 7.63 mm Mauser and 7.65 mm through a three-year period.
By December 1927, Astra had completed the first of its M900-series pistols. Like the Model H, the M900 was externally similar to the C96, with a small ring hammer and Bolo grip, but with distinctive mechanical differences. Unquestionably, its hallmark feature was the removable sideplate. Pushing out a single pin allowed the sideplate to slide off the frame, exposing the lockwork and dazzling the first-time observer with its jeweled inner surfaces. Other important changes from the Mauser included the use of a pinned locking block, a screwed-in barrel and a separate barrel return spring.
As the Model H and M900 were designed using the standard C96 as a benchmark, it should not be surprising that the three guns shared a number of features. Initially, they were all semi-automatic with a fixed 10-shot magazine that was loaded with a stripper clip. They also had a tangent rear sight graduated to 1,000 meters and came with a separable shoulder stock that was matched to the pistol. But over time, as in any competitive market, changes ensued.
In late 1927, Beístegui introduced a selective-fire version of the Model H. An advertisement from the period called the implementation a "sensational invention," in which the pistol with shoulder stock combination was billed as "the most handy, cheapest and completely reliable machine gun." Of course, practicality was an issue. With a cyclic rate of 900 rounds per minute (r.p.m.), it took less than a second to empty. But that didn't really matter to the warlords who found the prospect of "wild shooting" irresistible. Rather than train recruits to lightly tap the trigger, they advised them to rotate their guns 90 degrees before commencing fire. Under those conditions, the uncontrolled recoil would spray the bullets in an arc parallel to the ground. The warlords were ecstatic, and Beístegui's sales boomed. Not to be left behind, Astra developed its Model 901 in 1928. Though it would have been more user-friendly to mount the selector switch on the left side of the frame, this area was already occupied by the sideplate. Rather than undertake a major redesign, Astra mounted the selector switch on the right side, a precedent that continued throughout its series of pistols.
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Ghaziabad Lok Sabha seat no cakewalk for RajnathApr 16th, 2009 | By Elections2009 | Category: Uttar Pradesh
|Dissension in BJP over denial of ticket to veteran Ramesh Tomar
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Ghaziabad: The BJP is portraying the polls for Ghaziabad Lok Sabha constituency as an already won battle, but victory may not come easy to party president and candidate Rajnath Singh.
The Thakur community forms a substantial part of the electorate in the rural belt of this constituency that also spills over to the National Capital Region, and Rajnath being a Thakur can rely on their support to beat his main Congress rival.
But many partymen loyal to Ramesh Tomar, former BJP MP, feel their leader has been wronged.
Mr. Tomar lost the 2004 Lok Sabha polls from here and Mr. Singh was nominated to fight from this constituency plagued by crime and notorious for its illegal arms manufacturing units. Mr. Tomar, who served BJP for 37 years, has since joined Congress.
"As Mr. Tomar has represented the seat for four terms, it was wrong on the part of the party to have denied him a ticket," said a BJP worker with the Rajnath camp, underlining the mood of Mr. Tomar's supporters.
But apprehensions of dissent were dismissed by party spokesperson Siddarth Nath Singh, who said: "The BJP is united in Ghaziabad as it is in the whole of the country. Ghaziabad seat would be won by the BJP with a record and a thumping majority."
Congress has re-nominated sitting MP Surendra Prakash Goel.
Mr. Goel hopes that he would get a substantial chunk of the 1.75 lakh-strong Vaishya voters since he belongs to this community
BJP's media manager Narendra Singh Rana, however, feels that irrespective of Mr. Goel's claim the contest is going to be one-sided given Rajnath's stature — that of BJP's national president — and his ability to bring about change.
"Rajnath Singh has the capability to make Ghaziabad a safer, greener and a modern industrial hub. An airport, university, Metro connectivity, better civic amenities is the need of hour for this town and the BJP will cater to all such requirements," says Mr. Rana.
The Congress strategists, who are banking on the support of over one lakh Gujjar voters, share a similar development plan for the town.
The Congress candidate and sitting MP S.P. Goel said, "Improving infrastructure is the main issue. Road, water supply, sewerage are main problems. Crime-rate is the biggest worry and gaining grip over the law and order will be a prime area for action once we win."
The BSP candidate Amar Pal Sharma pins his hopes on the support of Muslims and the overall development oriented attitude of the Mayawati government in U.P.
The Ghaziabad Lok Sabha seat — with 17,69,918 voters, has five Assembly segments Loni, Sahibabad, Ghaziabad, Muradnagar, Dhaulana — that need immediate attention on crime incidents and basic civic amenities.
"Buildings and residential township have come up all over but not all of them have proper drainage facilities, approach roads that will last very long. These are areas that the government should look into," said Gopal Pal, a real estate agent.
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May 17, 2006Facing efforts to improve the dismal status of women and minority- group members in the N.Y. Times newsroom of the 1970s, Abe Rosenthal resisted like an emperor who believes his power absolute. Someone named A.M. Rosenthal got a front-page obituary in the New York Times on May 11. Most of us at the Times knew someone called "Abe," with comic-strip fright marks around each letter. Abe was in charge of the paper for 17 years. The Times obit emphasized his corporate role as managing editor and executive editor from 1969 to 1986, in a time of major journalistic change. The Washington Post lead spoke of his "key role" in modernizing the paper, and the Los Angeles Times referred to an era of "tumult and innovation." In charge he was, and an innovator, but he did not rush to embrace certain types of innovation. Facing efforts to improve the dismal status of women and minority-group members in the newsroom of the 1970s, he resisted like an emperor who believes his power absolute. The Times obit expended 4,196 words without mentioning the two Federal discrimination lawsuits brought against the newspaper on his watch: Boylan et al. v Times (1974-78) and Rosario et al. v Times (1974-1980). It also omits all reference to Abe's loony refusal to allow "Ms." in the news columns until 1986. None of this is secret. These events were covered in Nan Robertson's 1992 book, The Girls in the Balcony, in oral histories taken by the Washington Press Club Foundation, and in articles in Ms. magazine, Media Report to Women, Women's eNews, and the Freedom Forum's Media Studies Journal. Accounts of the settlement of the suits even appeared in the Times itself. But no one who vetted the obit thought these items fit to make the cut. Both lawsuits started out as complaints to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, which issued permissions to sue after a year of talks with no progress. Only then could the women and the nonwhite employees, most of them black, get lawyers and begin the tedious process of discovery. Harriet Rabb, lawyer for the women's caucus, considered her three days taking Abe's deposition to be most difficult period in the four years the suit dragged on. "He did not want to be called to account," Rabb told her clients. In Nan Robertson's portrayal, "Rosenthal yelled at Rabb, waggled his finger at her, jumped up from his chair as if to storm out, and . . . frequently demanded of Floyd Abrams, the famed First Amendment lawyer . . . : 'Do I have to answer this?' 'You have to,' Abrams replied." The suits covered employees of many departments, but both had their genesis in the newsroom. The reporter Grace Lichtenstein had a fierce confrontation with Abe in 1972 after she said on TV that the Times could use more women, blacks, Hispanics and American Indians on staff. Abe declared her a traitor in what she called the worst chewing-out of her life. At about the same time, when Ms. magazine came into being, Lichtenstein began to chafe about having to ask women their marital status in order to call them "Miss" or "Mrs." in the paper. No one had to ask men such questions. Complaints multiplied, and representatives from Ms. magazine and other feminist groups picketed on the pavement outside. They had no more effect than those of us inside. The feminist publisher Paula Kassell took another tack. She bought 10 shares of Times stock and taxed the publisher at stockholder meetings about paying membership dues for executives at blatantly exclusionary clubs and other such issues. A lot of that stopped. At the meeting on April 30, 1986, she finally got the publisher to agree to a debate by linguistic experts on "Ms." He wrote her soon after that "Ms." would be accepted as of June 20 and thanked her for raising the issue. June 19 was an odd day in the newsroom. The style notice was posted on the bulletin board, and an Editor's Note was prepared for the paper. I was on the National Desk, handling SCOTUS, the Supreme Court story. That day, the Court ruled that sexual harassment at work was illegal, based on a case brought by Mechelle Vinson, a former bank employee. I found myself creating the first page 1 use: "Ms. Vinson said that the supervisor had forced her . . . ." From my seat I could see some sort of fuss going on. Several Ms. magazine staff members were heading for Abe's quarters with a large basket of flowers. I was taken aback. He hadn't acted with the speed of light for heaven's sake. But the ploy was probably good enough public relations, I thought. What I didn't know was that Abe's response to the Ms. women was typically imperceptive of his own blockheadedness. "If I had known it had meant that much to you, I would have done it sooner," he said. No surprise: All of Abe's honorary pallbearers were drawn from his favorite genus, white males.


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People from across greater Cincinnati came together for a flash dance on Thursday evening.
Hundreds of people volunteered their time and resources as they planned the surprise dance over the past eight weeks.
"It started with a few people from theater, dance, music, museums, and the Fine Arts Fund staff. We nicknamed ourselves the Creative Team and wrote to our family and friends and invited them to support our community arts by participating in a video filming,' said Margy Waller, Vice President, Arts & Culture Partnership of the Fine Arts Fund. "Even though the initial invitation didn't say what the participants would be doing, hundreds of people agreed to help out."
The recruiting effort brought people together from across the entire region. Friends of musicians, actors, dancers, and staff of the region's large and small arts organizations all participated in the flash dance surprise.
Participants had to pledge to keep the secret via the online sign-up for "The Ta-Da" surprise. They learned that they would be dancing and had three weeks to attend a rehearsal and practice at home with an online video breakdown of the dance.
Working with the video producers from Lightborne, The Creative Team spent an afternoon together picking the music. They chose songs by five local bands, all of which donated the music for the surprise: Chocolate Horse, The Kry Kids, Freekbass and Tobatius, The Hiders, and The Sweep.
Rehearsals started with sixteen "captains" recruited by the choreographers – Heather Britt and Alena O'Donnell, both Rhythm and Motion instructors at the Cincinnati Ballet.
The captains learned the dance in a Sunday session while Nutcracker auditions went on in the next room at the Ballet. They began teaching other volunteers during rehearsals scheduled in donated space at the Aronoff Center and the Know Theatre.
On Wednesday night, all of the dancers came together for the first time for a "dress" rehearsal in the Music Hall Ballroom – a practice space also donated for the flash dance surprise.
When the volunteer dancers ran through the routine, the collective effort and support for and from the arts community was apparent. "Dancers and organizers alike were smiling and teary from the shared experience," said Waller.
On Thursday evening, dancers gathered on Fountain Square. They talked in small groups and listened to the opening band for Mid-Point Music Festival – also a partner in the Creative Team planning group. As the first band of the festival wrapped up, everyone on the square noticed as taped music started.
After three and half minutes of dancing, the dancers dispersed, smiling broadly, without a word. None were necessary.


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Just in time for the dog days of summer, here's Kid Sister's new candy-colored ode to rollerskating and junk food (mmm.... Chicago-style hot dogs). While other songs from her debut album, Ultraviolet, seemed to be aiming for straight-up pop styles, this jam, "Big N Bad," goes back more towards her roots.
It's three minutes of sassy club-rap that breaks into a full-on, old-school electro workout at the chorus, first appearing at about 0:37. Thank track producers Herve and Sinden for that one. Look out for little cameos from A-Trak and, of course, her brother's group Flosstradamus.
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Dancehall superstar, Mr. Vegas has been no stranger to drama throughout his illustrious career and now looks to stir some up in a brand new reality show he is set to unveil in the near future.
On Wednesday, the highly-acclaimed singjay confirmed he is in the early stages of planning the reality series, Bruk It Down in Reality, which takes a behind the scenes look into the life of a Dancehall queen. Auditions will be held as hundreds of women from across the world compete for 12 spots on the show.
The 12 women selected by Mr. Vegas will then be given the chance to live with him as well as selected judges in his home while he mentors each of the contestants.
Auditions from the show are set to commence in November across the United States, including in Miami, New York and Los Angeles.
Meanwhile, Vegas, who has been promoting his newly-released Bruk It Down 2.0 studio album, says he is working on a new remix album for VP Records. Additionally, he is working on a remix to his single, Party Tun Up, which will feature former nemesis Sean Paul, with whom he fell out with several years ago over their hit song, Hot Gal Today.


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All Methodist Healthcare Hospitals in San Antonio Earn 'Top Performer on Key Quality Measures®' Recognition from The Joint Commission
November 13, 2014
Methodist Healthcare today announced that all of its hospitals have been recognized as 2013 Top Performers on Key Quality Measures® by The Joint Commission, the leading accreditor of health care organizations in the United States.
Facts About Ebola Virus
October 06, 2014
At Methodist Healthcare, the safety of our patients, staff, volunteers, physicians and visitors is always a top priority. Though NO cases of the Ebola Virus Disease have been found in San Antonio, Methodist Healthcare is following all recommendations of the Federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Texas Department of State Health Services in the event that we should receive a patient infected with Ebola.
Methodist Specialty and Transplant Hospital, a Campus of Methodist Hospital, Opens a Kidney and Pancreas Satellite Clinic in Lubbock
July 16, 2014
The Lubbock clinic will provide pre- and post-transplant care to patients in the West Texas Region to include Lubbock, Midland, Odessa, San Angelo and Abilene.
The E-lemon-ators Meet the DaVinci Robot
July 01, 2014
On June 16, Metropolitan Methodist Hospital, a campus of Methodist Hospital, hosted the competition robotics team, The E-lemon-ators, from Vanguard Christian School in Boerne, TX.
Methodist Hospital Gives New Hope to High Risk Patients Needing Heart Valve Replacement
July 01, 2014
Methodist Hospital is the only private hospital in San Antonio and South Texas offering the TAVR procedure using the new self-expanding Medtronic CoreValve System. A ninety-three year old San Antonio man with severe aortic stenosis is among the first South Texas patients to benefit from a new valve.
Methodist Healthcare Hospitals Honored with Mission: Lifeline Quality Achievement Award
June 20, 2014
SAN ANTONIO, Texas, June 20, 2014 — Methodist Hospital, Metropolitan Methodist Hospital and Northeast Methodist Hospital have received the Mission: Lifeline® Bronze Receiving Center Quality Achievement Award for implementing specific quality improvement measures outlined by the American Heart Association for the treatment of patients who suffer severe heart attacks.
Methodist Healthcare Scores Exclusive Health Care Sponsorship of Largest Co-Ed Soccer Club in South Texas
May 16, 2014
Agreement with Lonestar Soccer Club launches unique health care recruitment pilot program Methodist Healthcare and Lonestar Soccer Club of San Antonio have formed an unprecedented partnership that combines a traditional sports sponsorship with a unique opportunity that allows parents to earn money by helping Methodist Healthcare recruit qualified health care professionals.
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Methodist Healthcare is a proud sponsor of Big League Weekend. On Saturday, March 27, we partnered with Mended Little Hearts support group, physicians and Big League Weekend to take eight Heart Kids on the field to meet the players before the game. Heart Kids are young patients who are overcoming heart disease.
Methodist Healthcare: First and Only Hospital in South Texas to Receive Texas Award for Performance Excellence
March 14, 2014
Methodist Healthcare has been selected to receive the Texas Award for Performance Excellence (TAPE) from the Quality Texas Foundation, representing the highest level of quality an organization can achieve in the state of Texas. Methodist Healthcare is the first health care system in South Texas and the third organization in San Antonio to receive the TAPE award since the inception of the award in 1994.
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Acer has made some questionable design choices with the Aspire One range in the past, but the new 533 is possibly its best-looking netbook to date. Gunmetal grey has been Acer's colour of choice for a while now, but that's because it looks sleek and won't appear out of place at home or the office. The 533 is also finished in this colour, and has an understated black lid embossed with the Aspire One logo. We think the glossy black screen bezel detracts slightly from the overall design.
The keyboard is mostly full-size; only the function and arrow keys have been shrunk to make room for the rest of the Chiclet-style keys. Although the keyboard is entirely flat, the case is angled so the typing position is comfortable on a flat surface. It can become uncomfortable after using it on your lap for a few hours, but few people will need to do this. There was an average amount of flex in the keys, which was only noticeable when applying a lot of pressure. The touchpad is flush with the wrist rest and marked out by a series of raised ridges. It was responsive, although slightly resistant to movement, while the buttons are awkwardly placed at the very edge of the chassis, and the single-bar design has a very large central dead spot which frequently interrupted mouse clicks.
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LOS ANGELES James Franco has discovered Ovation. So have Jon Hamm and Vogue's Anna Wintour.
Now the cable channel is counting on a program lineup including those glittery names, along with unexpected artists, to convince viewers that arts programming can be expansive and engaging. Or, as executive Robert Weiss puts it, Ovation isn't "my parents' arts network."
The aim is to broaden the definition of art beyond the traditional areas, said Weiss, who came aboard as Ovation's chief creative officer in late 2012.
"It's not having it be so precious," he said. "There's a whole generation of people between the ages of 20 and 50, when they think of art they think of a painting hanging in the museum or classical ballet."
But the contemporary arts also comprise, for instance, graffiti and hip-hop, Weiss said. Those are among the subjects covered in Ovation's The Art Of series, which has also explored artistry in sneakers, mixology, fashion and even sushi.
"Our show on sushi was never what you'd see on the Food Network. The chefs we focused on, they view themselves as Picassos, sculpting the fish," Weiss said.
Upcoming The Art Of episodes explore fashion design and burlesque.
There have been other channels that started as arts-centric but found different paths to follow, notably A&E and Bravo. There is substantial arts content on PBS but as part of a broader range of programming, while channels such as IFC and Sundance tend to focus on films and other narrative-driven fare.
That makes Ovation unusual and gives it cachet with those who want to color outside the standard TV lines, said Weiss. Under his push for more original programming, the channel will end 2013 with about a dozen original series and the addition of more than 200 first-run hours, compared with last year's 40 hours.
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The peripatetic Franco will be part of the growth next year, among the splashy names that are a key part of Ovation's effort to raise its profile.
Details of the upcoming James Franco Presents are under wraps, but Weiss said the series will include extensive footage the actor shot in recent years of his art installations, poetry readings, teaching, movies and more, along with new projects and artists he's fostering.
"I am thrilled to work with Ovation, a network that has devoted itself to the arts. It is a truly unique situation and will yield unique results," Franco said when the series was announced. It's set to debut in the first quarter of 2014.
Ovation's approach also lured Mad Men star Hamm. A Young Doctor's Notebook, co-produced by Hamm's Points West production company and starring Hamm and Daniel Radcliffe, followed its British debut with an airing on Ovation despite offers from other U.S. networks, Weiss said.
The same was true with The Fashion Fund, featuring Vogue editor Wintour. The series, debuting Jan. 22, will follow the up-and-coming designers who vied for this year's $300,000 fund grant from the Council of Fashion Designers of America and the magazine.
"We knew that Ovation would represent the experience of the competition in a way that no other network could," said Dawn Ostroff, president of Conde Nast Entertainment, a unit of Vogue publisher Conde Nast.
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Weiss' focus on original programming has already paid off. Time Warner Cable, which dropped the channel at the beginning of this year, said it will restore carriage Jan. 1 and, in a joint release with Ovation, cited its increase of original arts programming and the launch of in-house production unit Ovation Studios.
The new deal with Time Warner restores the channel's reach to more than 50 million U.S. homes. According to Weiss, the channel also has rebounded from layoffs that he said were part of a reorganization that increased digital and social media staff.
Ovation declined to provide ratings, but industry analyst Bill Carroll of Katz Media sees reason for optimism: Time Warner's decision to bring back Ovation — even as other startups are vying for distribution — demonstrates the cable operator's belief in the appetite for arts programming and Ovation's ability to satisfy it.
But it's the audience's economic status, more than its size, that will decide Ovation's future, he said.
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Max Gaylard: Memories of a Diplomatic Life
When I caught up with Max Gaylard on Saturday he was in the back of the Hotel Richards sorting through books, passports and photos that got wet in the Mitchell flood. When he was last back in Mitchell he put all his memorabilia in boxes and left them in his niece Alison's house. Like 70% of the town, Alison's home was flooded and much of Max's memorabilia was destroyed.
That's a big shame and not just for Max's memories. Maxwell Gaylard is one of Australia's finest diplomats and remains a problem solver for the UN in difficult places like Somalia, Sudan, Kurdistan and Gaza. He is a special coordinator for the Middle East peace process and will return to his offices in Jerusalem and Ramallah next week.
Born in the Sunshine Coast and living most of life overseas, Mitchell is an odd place to find him though he has good reasons. Along with his brother Rob Struthers and his brother's wife Irene, Max owns the Hotel Richards on the sleepy main street. Rob and Irene are the normal custodians, with daughter Alison, but whenever Max gets back to the country, he heads out west and gives the other two a break.
"I try to get out here once a year but it was two years ago I was last here at Alison's place packing away all my stuff," he said. "I joked that the only thing that could get them was a flood."
Max regrets tempting fate but clearly enjoys the change of pace in Western Queensland. But why Mitchell, I asked. "We were looking to buy a pub in 2002 or 2003, and Mitchell was the closest place to Brisbane we could afford," he said.
As we talked, Max continued rifling through salvageable photos of his student days and he picked out several of prominent people. There was former defence force chief Peter Cosgrove in fatigues. There was another of a university rugby league team with Stuart McCosker , husband of Queensland Governor Penelope Wensley whom he also knew well. "Penelope started as a diplomatic cadet in same batch as me," he said.
There was another with former Victorian premier Jeff Kennett in Officer Training. I looked at him closely and couldn't help myself, "Now you mention it, you and Jeff look very alike," I said. He laughed and told me the story about giving a serious talk on international matters when some heckler shouted out from the back "that's all very well but why do you look so much like Jeff Kennett?"
Gaylard was full of little breakaway anecdotes as I teased out his life adventures.
He grew up in Nambour and left in the summer of 1964 bound for the University of Queensland. He studied history and politics and he was also a fine footballer who played first grade for Wests in Brisbane. He remembers an early game against Redcliffe. "This huge fellow from Roma crashed into me and flattened me for two weeks," he said. That bone-crunching opponent was Artie Beetson and he was one of many to leave a mark on the impressionable young Max.
He had his heart set on a career in the Diplomatic Service but his name came up in the army ballot. At college Gaylard had protested against the wars Australia was involved in, now he was called up to serve in one. He deferred the call-up until he finished his studies. He rolled up at the Foreign Affairs Department hoping in vain to get some sort of diplomatic immunity. On the day he started in Canberra, Max was called into the forbidding office of the head of the Department's office and was told congratulations, he was the first diplomatic cadet to be selected in the army.
The year was 1968 and while many Australians ended up in Vietnam, Max did Officer Training Unit and then went to Singapore and Malaysia with the First Battalion of the Royal Australian Regiment as part of the Five Power Arrangement. Two years passed by there, before he returned to Canberra. Billy McMahon was then foreign minister, having failed in his first bid to become Prime Minister. Max said it was a wild and entertaining time before he got his first overseas posting in Mexico.
There his highlight was to spend $2400 on a painting. A Mexican man approached him and asked him if he wanted to buy Eugene Von Guerard's painting North-east view from the northern top of Mount Kosciusko. "I had no idea what it was worth but looked up its bibliography and the new Whitlam Government said yes they wanted it for the new National Gallery".
At the end of the 1970s he was posted to Burma. The ice was melting in the relationship with China and Gaylard remembers being invited to the Chinese Embassy in Rangoon for afternoon tea and table tennis. "They beat the crap out of us at pingpong," he said.
After Burma, he was appointed deputy High Commissioner in Singapore, a place he knew well from his army days. He was finally appointed High Commissioner to Solomon Islands in 1985. The pinnacle of his career in Australian diplomacy, his three year stint in the Solomons was dogged by controversy. "The Solomons was threatening to be a failed state then, we could see the signs."
The cause of his problem was an irascible Dutch-Australian called John Meint Smith. Smith had a chequered career in Australia as a resort manager and in a similar role in the Solomons he get the natives restless. He exhorted a group of warriors to force the management team of a resort off the island at spear-point. Gaylard played a prominent role in the police response, by-passing the Solomons Foreign Ministry and causing a major diplomatic incident.
The Solomons PM demanded Gaylard's withdrawal but he was opposed by his deputy causing a serious rift in government. Meanwhile Smith threatened to kill him. Smith further muddied the waters with allegations of corruption against Australians in the country. The ABC sent Chris Masters to investigate and in a bizarre interview Masters asked Gaylard if Smith had him by the short and curlies. "I assure you," Gaylard bristled in response, "no one has me by the short and curlies." But his tenure was fatally undermined and as the situation deteriorated, Gaylard's three year assignment came to its natural end.
It was time for a change and Gaylard signed up on secondment with the Commonwealth Secretariat in London. There he became director of Political/International Affairs. Gaylard was thrown into the problems facing many Commonwealth countries transitioning from one-party-state to democracy. Though it is now ignored because of Robert Mugabe, the 1991 Harare Declaration gave the Commonwealth a fresh sense of purpose in reforming the political system of its members based on the rule of law.
A succession of dictators came to Gaylard saying they thought a one party state was the best form of government but they were willing to change. He solved issues in the Seychelles, Kenya, Guyana, Bangladesh and many other countries. In South Africa, he was involved in the transition from de Klerk to Mandela but his proudest achievement was helping the king of Lesotho return from exile to become head of a constitutional monarchy.
Eight years passed by and it was too late to consider another Australian ambassadorial position. He quit in 1997 and joined the UN. He received a letter from Kofi Annan, then head of peacekeeping asking him to stand by to go to Bosnia. "Thankfully he never sent me that message," he said.
Instead he went to northern Iraq to oversee Kurdistan's emerging semi-democracy in the wake of the First Gulf War. "Saddam didn't want to deal with the Kurds, but of course he had to," he said. Gaylard's job was to ensure the UN's $260m budget was spent wisely across its many agencies. "It took us a couple of years but eventually things settled down."
The Kurds were a resourceful lot and they quickly learned to gain the most out of the oil passing through their borders from Mosul to Turkey. "What do you need", the truckers asked the Kurds. "Potatoes", they replied and Kurdistan's potato shortage disappeared. Though the UN were not involved in the money end of the oil for food program, Gaylard could see it was getting corrupted at both ends of the supply chain. He was not surprised to see the Australian Wheat Board implicated in the eventual scandal. "I kept asking where the wheat for the food basket was coming from. The answer was always Australia. Why not Canada, I wondered."
Gaylard was then transferred to Sudan where he dealt with dictator Omar Bashir and Southern Sudan's strongman John Garang. Southern Sudan was moving towards war with the North and eventual independence but Gaylard sees it as a tragedy they could not work together in Federation. "When we met the leaders of Sudan and Southern Sudan, they all knew each other well and had gone to school together," he said.
But among the frustrations there were triumphs too with Operation Lifeline Sudan providing humanitarian assistance throughout war-torn and drought-afflicted regions. Gaylard left Sudan in 2002 when the civil war ended but returned for the 2004 Power Sharing celebrations in Nairobi. He remains despondent about the two nations' future. "There is still a lot of low level conflict – particularly over the oil fields along the border."
If Sudan was difficult, the next assignment was even more dangerous – Somalia. Yet Gaylard's face lit up from the first mention of the anarchic Horn of Africa country and it is clear it is his favourite mission. "All through the war, there were two pieces of infrastructure no one would harm," he said.
"The first was the mobile phone towers and the second was the khat supply route."
Somalia has had no government in 20 years but their telecommunications is first-class though even Gaylard was not quite sure how they managed it. "The Somalis have a great sense of entrepreneurship, they think they can do anything," he said."They would go off to the Gulf and somehow buy bandwidth."
Gaylard's proudest achievement was to bring law and order to the semi-autonomous regions of Somaliland (formerly British Somaliland) and Puntland. "It was based on sound policing and a British-style justice system," he said. "It helped the British protectorate didn't dismantle the clan system and there was only clan to deal with, not four or five like in Mogadishu."
Just as in the Solomons, there were threats on his life. One clan leader told his office that if "Mr Max" came to Baidoa next week, he was going to kill him. When Mr Max finally met the leader, he asked him was he still intending to kill him. "No, of course I'm not," came the reply. Among his achievements in Somalia was helping wipe out polio with a vaccination scheme. Somalia has been polio free since 2007.
Gaylard was in Somalia when 9/11 happened. His wife rang him from London and told him to turn on the television. He watched live as the plane slammed into the second tower. He agreed it changed everything in international politics yet Somalia stayed mostly immune. "There was so much else that was going on there." Gaylard say Somalia was the best job he ever had. "No one from head office ever bothered me."
In 2007 however, another even more difficult conflict came calling. New UN Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon appointed him as Deputy Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process. "Journalists said I had the longest job title ever," he joked. But he was deadly serious in his opinions about the problems in Palestine. He puts it down to three man-made issues or "SOS" as he calls them: settlement, occupation and siege.
"Gazans are natural traders but they cannot trade at the moment," he said. "The city is a big open-air prison, with walls on the Israeli and Egyptian borders and the Israeli Navy three miles out to sea. There has got to be a better way of dealing with this than a siege."
In 2012 he released a UN report showing forced displacements were on the rise as were illegal settlements. "The Israelis know this is madness but they cannot seem to get out of it," he said. "Maybe like the South African apartheid system it will all collapse of its own accord. Or maybe it won't."
Complex international challenges have never fazed Max Gaylard but as we walked to the front bar and he poured me a beer, it was clear he enjoyed escaping to the simple serenity of Mitchell.
"This place has been my lifesaver, I don't get out here often enough," he said.
Fighting for Woolly Days: why Google are thugs and censors
Some of you may remember the other version of my blog Woolly Days on Google's Blogspot. I founded it in 2005 and since then I have posted 1548 entries with well over a million words. In 2009 I duplicated the content here on WordPress. But all my writings between 2005 and early 2009 are only on Blogspot. Whether those words are worth saving is anyone's guess but at moment Google does want anyone else to see them. And you cannot visit the site anymore because Google has locked it and made visible to me only as the author.
I've always found it difficult to dislike Google. Though they are one of the world's largest information technology companies driven by profit imperative they continue to have good karma. Evangelists like Jeff Jarvis see them as the gamechanger benchmark constantly asking us in any situation what would Google do? What their search engine did do was revolutionise our relationship to information. Over 10 years they ensured an enormous store of knowledge was no further away than our fingertips.
I still use their search and I also love their maps, even their blogs (I update my second site Irish I's irregularly where I post anything I see that amuses me.) But my experiences with them are increasingly dominated by their thuggish practices.
On January 20, 2013 I got a terse email from an address called "Google Blogger Support". However the email's contents weren't very supportive. Signed off by the "Google Team", the email told me Google had received a Terms of Service complaint regarding malicious code on my blog. "After conducting our review, and in accordance with Google's Terms of Service, we have removed the content at issue," the "Google Team" said.
They provided links to the Terms of Service and their Content Policy but there was no explanation which element I was in breach of or what code was malicious. Was it some content that offended someone? Who knows and there were plenty of words bound to offend someone. Google wouldn't say who made the complaint or how I could respond to the charge.
I responded immediately to the address "Blogger Support" that sent me the email. I replied this was absolutely outrageous, "Woolly Days is a respected blog of 7 years standing," I said. "It covers serious issues of politics and media with over a million words. Why on earth has it been deleted without Snyder eexplanation (sic,)? Please undo this disgraceful unwarranted action. Even a quick look would assure anyone of its merits."
I was angry when I wrote it and in my hurry it had a very curious mistake.My "Snyder eexplanation" is a combination of a typo and 'damn you autocorrect' moment – it meant to read 'any explanation'. Why my Google powered Android phone changed "any" to "Snyder" is anyone's guess. But I need not have been embarrassed by that or worried that Google would pay any attention to my screed.
I got the standard auto reply "Unfortunately, we are unable to answer email that is sent directly to this email address." They gave me places to go if I wanted help with a technical issue, answers from the help forum, wanted to learn about features or even if I wanted to report a violation of Blogger's Terms of Service. But there was no place to go if you were a victim of such a report.
The blog remains visible to me, but no one else can see it. On my blogger dashboard, I found it was listed as a locked blog but I could request an unlock review. I did so but received no reply. When I next logged onto the dashboard I saw another cryptic message that the blog was "in violation of Blogger's Terms Of Service". They advised me to "fix the problem" before Google would re-review.
But what was the problem? The Google terms of service are 1691 words long and I have no idea whether I am violating all of it or some sentence of it. Frustrated, I got rid of a few things they mentioned might be issues that I thought were harmless. So I removed the html code for my stat counters and a few modest ads. But that didn't help. I put in a second unlock review after I removed the possibly offending content. Google responded with silence. I remain in a Kafkaesque world guilty of some unknown offence with no way of redressing the problem.
I don't know what the 'malicious code' (and doubt I have the html skills to be really malicious) nor do I how what the TOS violation is, but I suspect it is a very minor infraction of inconsistently-applied rules. I still want Google to unlock my blog though I will never update it again. Blogspot is their platform but Woolly Days is a part of the public record and Google have no right to interfere with it. It is the behaviour of thugs and censors.


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Keynote Speaker
Ronald C. Arnett (Ph.D., Ohio University, 1978) is chair and professor of the Department of Communication & Rhetorical Studies at Duquesne University, and is also the university's Henry Koren, C.S.Sp., Endowed Chair for Scholarly Excellence. As chair, he has developed the IMC curriculum at the undergraduate, master's, and doctoral levels, informed by the department's dual mission of "Walking the Humanities into the Marketplace" and "The Ethical Difference."
Dr. Arnett is the author/co-author of six books and three edited books, including Communication Ethics Literacy: Dialogue and Difference (with Leeanne M. Bell and Janie M. Harden Fritz, Sage, 2009). He received the 2006 Everett Lee Hunt Award for Outstanding Scholarship for Dialogic Confession: Bonhoeffer's Rhetoric of Responsibility (Southern Illinois University Press, 2005). Additionally, he has two books in press: the forthcoming Communication Ethics in Dark Times: Hannah Arendt's Rhetoric of Warning and Hope, (Southern Illinois University Press), and An Overture to Philosophy of Communication: The Carrier of Meaning (with Annette M. Holba, Peter Lang). He has authored more than seventy scholarly articles and essays and was the recipient of the 1999 and1979 Article of the Year Awards from the Religious Communication Association.
In 2010, Dr. Arnett was awarded the Elizabeth G. Andersch Award from the School of Communication Studies at his alma mater, Ohio University, and in 2011, was named to the Collegium of Fellows of the International Communicology Institute. Dr. Arnett is the immediate past editor of the Review of Communication and the current executive director of the Eastern Communication Association.


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When you're preparing for a family vacation to Orlando, the last thing you think of packing is your raincoat. But even in Orlando, the sun can't always shine. We're not saying you should dig out your umbrella, but we are saying that you'll probably want to make some back-up plans just in case the rain clouds follow you south. Luckily, this doesn't mean you have to visit some second-rate attraction just to fill some time; rather, Orlando offers indoor attractions that will entertain the whole family for hours. One such attraction is WonderWorks Orlando ⎯It's also a great escape from the sun and the heat on those treacherous summer days. However, WonderWorks is such a beloved attraction that you'll likely want to check it out whatever the weather; whole tourist groups … [Read more...]
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Ready, set, run around Disney this weekend
Updated On: Jan 11 2013 09:02:58 AM EST
Disney's 5K Family Fun Run began at Walt Disney World early Friday morning. Other races are set for this weekend.
The crowd danced as they waited at the starting line until the run began, taking to Epcot at 6:30 a.m.
It's the first of three large races that will take runners across several Disney parks.
More than 65,000 runners are set to take part in Disney's Marathon Weekend.
The Walt Disney World Half-Marathon will be held Saturday. The full Walt Disney World Marathon takes place Sunday.
Unseasonably warm temperatures are expected throughout the weekend.
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