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Spa Francochamps (Belgium): Chennai-based race driver Armaan Ebrahim survived a high-speed crash in a Formula 2 qualifying session here recently after his car veered off the track and ricocheted into a wall.
The accident took place in the second qualifying session on a damp track when Armaan clipped the exit kerb of a high speed corner and then skidded off the wet paint there.
The driver was rushed to the medical centre bleeding profusely from the mouth. Clinical examination revealed severe bruising of the neck, back, knee and mouth. The complete rear end of the car was destroyed in the crash and Armaan had to miss both races.
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A system (10) and method is provided for calibrating a tire pressure monitoring system using an EM transmitter (14). The present invention includes a first pressure sensor coupled to a wheel of an automotive vehicle (12). The EM pressure transmitter (14) is coupled to the pressure sensor (32). The transmitter (14) has a serial number associated therewith. An EM calibration device has a transmitting range. The EM transmitter device has an actuator. When the actuator is activated, a calibration signal (34) is transmitted within the transmitting range. The calibration signal causes the EM pressure transmitter (32) to transmit a serial number. A controller (16) is EM coupled to the pressure transmitter. The controller (16) receives the serial number and associates the serial number with a tire location of the vehicle.
1. A pressure monitoring system for a tire of an automotive vehicle comprising:
a first pressure sensor coupled to said wheel;
an EM pressure transmitter coupled to said pressure sensor, said transmitter having calibration information associated therewith;
an EM calibration device having a transmitting range, said EM calibration device having an actuator therein, said actuator when actuated generating an EM calibration signal within said transmitting range;
wherein said calibration signal causing said EM pressure transmitter to EM transmit said calibration information,
a controller EM coupled to said pressure transmitter, said controller receiving said calibration information and associating said calibration information with a tire location relative to said vehicle.
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The present invention relates generally to a system for monitoring tire pressures in an automotive vehicle, and more particularly, to a calibration method and system for calibrating the tire pressure system upon assembly and upon the maintenance of the tires.
Various types of pressure sensing systems for monitoring the pressure within the tires of an automotive vehicle have been proposed. Such systems generate a pressure signal using an electromagnetic (EM) signal which is transmitted to a receiver. The pressure signal corresponds to the pressure within the tire. When the tire pressure drops below a predetermined pressure, an indicator is used to signal the vehicle operator of the low pressure.
Various tire manufacturers have suggested various locations for the pressure sensors. Known systems include coupling a pressure sensor to the valve stem of the tire. Other known systems and proposed systems locate the pressure sensors in various locations within the tire wall or tread. Tires are mounted to wheels that are commonly made from steel or aluminum.
During assembly and during routine maintenance such as tire rotation or tire replacement, the tire pressure system must be calibrated. Calibration involves associating the various tire positions with the pressure transmitters that are located on the tires. One proposed method for calibrating a system uses a magnet device to initiate the calibration. Such a device is described in PCT Publication WO 94/20317. In this system, an internal display panel with locations corresponding to the tire location is activated. When the tire locations are illuminated on the display, the vehicle operator or service technician places the magnet near the indicated tire. The transducer then sends a code corresponding thereto to the central controller. When the indicator indicates another tire location, the magnet must be brought near each tire location until each of the tire locations have a tire registered thereto. One problem with this device is that a separate component such as a magnet must be provided to the vehicle operator that is used only in the calibration process. One problem associated with a separate magnet device is that such a device is subject to loss. Thus, the tire pressure sensing system would be rendered inoperable.
Another drawback with such a system is that because many wheels are made from steel and steel is a magnetic material, the various proposed tire pressure sensing systems may not operate properly because the steel wheels may shield the magnetic energy therefrom. Therefore, the system may also be rendered inoperable because the pressure transmitter will not be activated by the magnet.
It would therefore be desirable to provide a tire pressure calibration system that overcomes the drawbacks mentioned above.
The present invention provides a system and method for calibrating a tire pressure monitoring system using an EM transmitter. The present invention includes a first pressure sensor coupled to a wheel of an automotive vehicle. An EM pressure transmitter is coupled to the pressure sensor. The transmitter has a serial number associated therewith. An EM calibration device has a transmitting range. The EM transmitting device has an actuator. When said actuator is activated, a calibration signal is transmitted within the transmitting range. The calibration signal causes the EM pressure transmitter to transmit a serial number. A controller is EM coupled to the pressure transmitter. The controller receives the serial number and associates the serial number with a tire location of the vehicle.
In a further aspect of the invention, a method for calibrating a tire pressure system comprises: generating an EM calibration signal from a transmitter;transmitting calibration information from a tire pressure sensor in response to said EM calibration signal; and receiving said calibration information in a controller.
One advantage of the invention is that the calibration device is preferably incorporated into a remote keyless entry device such as those that are commonly used in automotive vehicles. These devices typically transmit EM signals and therefore can be modified to transmit an additional EM signal to provide the activation signal to the pressure transmitters. This eliminates the problem in the prior art with the expense of a separate calibration tool along with the drawbacks of loss or theft of a separate evaluation tool. That is, because keyless entry devices are coupled to the key chain, they are not subject to easy loss.
Other advantages and features of the present invention will become apparent when viewed in light of the detailed description of the preferred embodiment when taken in conjunction with the attached drawings and appended claims.
FIG. 1 is a high level diagrammatic view of a pressure monitoring system according to the present invention.
FIG. 2 is a block diagrammatic view of a pressure monitoring system according to the present invention.
FIG. 2A is a block diagrammatic view of a pressure transmitter according to the present invention.
FIG. 3 is a diagrammatic view of a digital word from a pressure transmitter.
FIG. 4 is a flow chart illustrating a preferred embodiment of operation of the pressure calibration system according to the present invention.
In the following figures, the same reference numerals will be used to illustrate the same components. The present invention is illustrated using a preferred arrangement in a preferred order for calibrating the system. Those skilled in the art will recognize that the various orders and components set forth herein could be changed without varying from the scope of the invention.
Referring now to FIG. 1, a pressure monitoring system 10 is illustrated relative to an automotive vehicle 12. Pressure monitoring system 10 has a transmitter 14 that is EM coupled to a controller 16. Transmitter 14 is a calibration device used in the calibration of the pressure sensors.
Transmitter 14 is preferably a hand-held transmitter such as those commonly used in keyless entry systems. Preferably, transmitter 14 incorporates the functions commonly used in keyless entry systems as well as the calibration of the pressure monitoring system according to the present invention. For example, transmitter 14 may have an unlock button 18A, a lock button 18B, a panic button 18C, a trunk open button 18D, and a calibrate tire button 18E. Buttons 18A-18D are actuators that are commonly found on keyless entry systems of Ford Motor Company vehicles. Each button sends an unique EM signal through transmitter 20 that generates an EM signal through antenna 22. The EM signals are received by an antenna 24 which is coupled to controller 16. Automotive vehicle 12 has a lock 26 which is controlled by unlock button 18A and lock button 18B. A trunk latch 28 is controlled by trunk latch button 18D. Panic button 18C controls the operation of a horn 30 within the vehicle.
Calibrate tire button 18E also generates an EM calibration signal 34 that is directed to a tire pressure sensor 32 located in each of the tires 36 of automotive vehicle 12. Of course, other types of actuators may be used including levers, subminiature buttons, and recessed buttons. Also, the same function could be accomplished by actuating two existing buttons simultaneously to trigger the emission of the calibration signal. The EM signal generated by transmitter 20 during actuation of buttons 18A-18D has a range which is preferably around 50 feet. In contrast to that, calibrate tire sensor 18E preferably has a limited range so that only one tire pressure sensor 32 answers in response to tire calibration signal 34.
Preferably, transmitter device 14 has a battery 38 therein. Battery 38 preferably powers the device and transmitter 20. Battery 38 preferably provides a long life for uninterrupted operation of transmitter device 14.
Referring now to FIGS. 2 and 2A, a more detailed block diagrammatic view of pressure monitoring system 10 is illustrated. The present invention may be used in an automobile type of automotive vehicle 12. The automotive vehicle 12 is illustrated with four tires 36A, 36B, 36C, and 36D. A pressure sensor transmitter 32A, 32B, 32C, and 32D are associated with a respective tire. As illustrated, tire 36A is associated with the left front position of the automotive vehicle, tire 36B is associated with the right front tire position, tire 36C is positioned in the right rear tire position, and tire 36D is positioned in the left rear tire position. The present invention also applies to other types of automotive vehicles having various numbers of wheels and tires. For example, in some pickup trucks, four rear tires may be present. In other types of cargo trucks, eighteen tires or more may be used. Other types of automotive vehicles having pneumatic wheels may also benefit by the present invention. Of course, the range of the transmitter 14 may need to be adjusted to avoid EM interference with unintended pressure sensors. Another example of an automotive vehicle is an airplane.
As mentioned above, transmitter device 14 preferably generates calibration signal 34 having a predetermined range D. The predetermined range is preferably short relative to the distance between the tire positions. For example, the range of calibration signal 34 may be less than three feet and preferably less than two feet. At maximum, the range of EM calibration signal 34 is less than half the distance between the shortest distance between the tire positions. That is, the distances between tire 36A and 36B, or 36D and 36C, or 36C and 36D, or 36D and 36A. In response to the actuation of calibration sensor button 18E shown in FIG. 1, tire pressure sensor transmitter 32A generates a calibration information signal 40A through antenna 33A to antenna 24 which is coupled to a receiver 42. Receiver 42 is coupled to controller 16 which receives the calibration information. The calibration information is stored in a memory 44 that is also coupled to controller 16. An indicator 46 is also coupled to controller 16. Indicator 46 may include an indicator light 48 which generates a visual signal or an audible device 50 such as a speaker or buzzer that generates an audible signal. Indicator 46 may provide some indication as to the operability of the system such as confirming receipt of a calibration information signal 40 or other command or controls as will be further described below. Indicator 46 and memory 44 may also be a part of the tire pressure monitoring system which is used to indicate the presence of a low tire pressure in one of the tires.
As is best shown in FIG. 2A, a typical tire pressure sensor transmitter 32A having respective antenna 33A is illustrated. Tire pressure sensor transmitter 32A has a pressure sensor 52 coupled to a transmitter/receiver 54. Other sensing devices such as temperature sensors may also be included as well as other data that may contain information about the tire and wheel construction. This may also be referred to as a transceiver. Transmitter/receiver 54 is also coupled to a serial number memory 56 and the antenna 33A. A battery, which is preferably a long life battery, is coupled to serial number memory 56, pressure sensor 52, and transmitter/receiver 54 to power the tire pressure sensor transmitter 32A. Transmitter/receiver 54 transmits the serial number located within serial number memory 56 through antenna 22 to controller 16 through receiver 42. The receiver portion of transmitter/receiver 54 recognizes the calibration signal 34 from transmitter 22. In response thereto the calibration information signal 40 is generated.
Referring now to FIG. 3, the calibration information signal 40 is illustrated. The calibration information signal may include information such as serial number 60 of the particular tire pressure sensor transmitter 32. Also, any other data associated with the calibration information may also be provided in data portion 62 immediately following the serial number 60. This information is preferably provided as a digital word. However, an analog signal may also be used.
Referring now to FIGS. 2 and 4, a method for calibrating the pressure monitoring system includes the step of initiating a calibration routine in step 70. The calibration routine may be initiated by a button 64 coupled to controller 16. Thus, upon the rotation of the tires or assembly of the vehicle, the initiation process may be initiated. Instead of providing a discrete button 64, various combinations of existing buttons may be employed in the vehicle to initiate the calibration process. Also, it is envisioned that by bringing the transmitter 14 close to a predetermined location within the vehicle, controller 16 may be set to the calibration routine. The calibration routine after initiation in step 70, the EM transmitter device 14 is activated in step 72 by depressing calibrate tire sensor button 18E near tire pressure sensor transmitter 32A. That is, calibrate tire sensor button 18E is activated so that tire pressure sensor 32 is within the range D of antenna 22. In step 74, the calibration information signal 40 is received by controller 16 through receiver 42. The location of the transmitter 32A is stored along with the serial number or other information from calibration information signal 40 into memory 44. Steps 72 and 74 are performed for the left front tire first then the right front tire, right rear tire and left rear tire are performed sequentially. To simplify the operation of the calibration system, a predetermined starting location such as the left front tire is used. The operator may be notified of this through the owner's manual or through an indicator. Also during this process, indicators may be used to signal the operator to move to the next tire or flash or provide an audio signal to confirm the successful receipt of the calibration information signal 40. The respective calibration signals may be performed in any order but are separated temporally.
In step 76, the right front transmitter is queried. That is, the transmitter device 14 is brought in close proximity to the tire pressure sensor 32B. The calibration signal or pertinent information therein is stored in memory associated with the right front tire position in step 78.
The transmitter device 14 is then moved within the range of the right rear tire pressure transmitter 32C. In step 80, the transmitter device 14 is activated. The calibration information signal 40C is thus received at the controller 16 and stored in the associated memory 44 for the right rear tire position.
The transmitter device 14 is then placed within the range of left rear tire pressure sensor transmitter 32D. The transmitter device is actuated by the calibrate tire button 18E wherein a signal is generated therefrom. In step 86, the calibration information signal 86 is transmitted to the controller where it is stored in memory for the left rear tire location. After the calibration process is complete, the pressure monitoring process 88 is initiated. This process monitors the tire pressures by receiving tire pressure data and the serial number of each of the tire pressures at predetermined times. The controller knows the location of each serial number as determined in the calibration process so that upon the detection of a low tire pressure, the vehicle operator may be warned.
It should be noted that more than four vehicle tires may be included in the process. For example, a spare tire may also be programmed in a similar manner. Likewise, various light duty and tractor trailers may also utilize the present invention. Tractor trailers may have up to eighteen or more wheels that can be calibrated in a similar manner.
While particular embodiments of the invention have been shown and described, numerous variations and alternate embodiments will occur to those skilled in the art. Accordingly, it is intended that the invention be limited only in terms of the appended claims.
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Along with 3,000 Pakistani cricket fans, India will host some 300 VIPs from across the border for the upcoming India-Pakistan limited overs cricket series. Sources in the Ministry of Home Affairs said though the Pakistan government has not disclosed names of dignitaries who would be visiting India to watch the matches, certain "top leaders" were likely to come. "In view of improving Indo-Pak relations, Mr. Shinde is likely to invite a few important leaders for the matches," a senior official said. In a first, the government has decided to give multiple-city visas to Pakistani visitors provided they have valid match tickets and other necessary documents.
"It has been decided that the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) would send 50 VIP tickets per venue to the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) for the four venues (other than Delhi) and for Delhi, they would send 100 VIP tickets to PCB. Further, 500 spectator tickets per venue would be sent by BCCI to PCB for the four venues (other than Delhi) and for Delhi, 1,000 spectator tickets would be sent to PCB," Minister of State for Home Mullappally Ramachandran said in reply to a question in the Lok Sabha.


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MANILA, Philippines—Twenty policemen involved in the Atimonan incident are now under the custody of the police in Camp Crame while 15 soldiers of the Army's Special Forces who were part of an augmentation team are now restricted to quarters at the Army Headquarters in Fort Bonifacio.
Thirteen people were killed, including a police colonel, his two aides, two Air Force men, and Victor "Vic" Siman, an alleged jueteng operator, in the incident which the police initially said was a shoot-out with a gun-for-hire group.
The National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) has been tasked by President Aquino to investigate the killings that had left many questions even to the President himself.
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Mr. Aquino told the Inquirer in a chance interview earlier this week that he wants an "unassailable" report by the NBI.
NBI investigators led by Danielito Lalusi and Frederico Criste arrived in Camp Crame late Friday afternoon and proceeded to the Philippine National Police (PNP) Hospital where Police Superintendent Hansel Marantan, the leader of the police team in the Atimonan incident, is now confined.
Marantan will undergo therapy for the gunshot wounds he allegedly sustained during the shoot-out.
"We didn't ask him any questions. He just submitted his affidavit," NBI special investigator Frederico Criste told reporters.
From the hospital they proceeded to the Kiangan Hall, a lodging for policemen, where 20 of the 22 policemen involved in the Atimonan incident are staying. The 22 policemen are now facing administrative charges.
Lalusi said that 10 policemen, including Marantan, submitted their affidavits yesterday.
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"They are all very cooperative," Lalusi said, adding that of the 22 policemen involved, only one has yet to submit his affidavit because he has yet to consult with his lawyer.
Lalusi said the policemen's affidavits would help the NBI determine the position of each policeman at the scene as investigators are reconstructing the incident—what happened before, during and after.
"We got their statements to find out what was the participation of each one. The investigation cannot be a sweeping one. We have to find out from each soldier and policeman where there were at that time and their individual participation," said Criste.
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Shortly after an open letter from CentOS project-members to Lance Davis, a "routine meeting" was held, with the missing administrator in attendance. "During the meeting a majority of issues were resolved immediately and a working agreement was reached with deadlines for remaining unresolved issues." One of the main problems for the project members was the control of the web presence and IRC channels. This now seems resolved: "The CentOS project is now in control of the CentOS.org and CentOS.info domains" says the project. Marketing rights for logos and graphics appear to have already been transferred.
How the project can protect itself from similar difficulties in the future is to be looked at in the next few weeks. Administration of donation money still seems to be unclear. James Byrne packs the worries of many members into his question on the discussion list: "What steps, if any, have been taken to establish the CentOS project as a separate legal entity distinct from any individual contributor? What protections are being put in place to prevent future misappropriations of donations and advertising revenue, even if it turns out that no such thing has as yet happened?" These issues, according to Karanbir Singh who was at the meeting, will also be addressed in the next weeks, and adds that donation and advertising options will for now remain turned off. Further developments can be followed on the project page.
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Critical Essay by Lynne Diamond-Nigh
SOURCE: "Eva Luna: Writing as History," in Studies in Twentieth Century Literature, Vol. 19, No. 1, Winter, 1995, pp. 29-42.
In the following essay, Diamond-Nigh examines Allende's treatment of Latin-American literary history in Eva Luna.
In the beginning was the Word. And in the end. The opening lines of Isabel Allende's Eva Luna (1989) place us squarely in a world created and structured by the written word: "My name is Eva, which means 'life,' according to a book of names my mother consulted." Indeed, the entire first chapter of that novel functions to displace our center of reference from the real world to the world of the Book where the life of the imagination is privileged. The epigraph to Allende's work comes from the paradigmatic Arabian Nights, in which Scheherezade's story-telling keeps her from a certain and undeserved death, setting up a primary theme of salvation through fabulation. Fabulation is here redemption of the collective, for Scheherezade's fables save not only herself but all women, thus putting an end, by nonviolent means, to the death sentence enacted upon the harem/population. The importance of this becomes more evident when we reflect upon the novel and the cultural context from which Isabel Allende writes.
The lack of connection between writing and political activism has been one of the major charges levelled at the self-reflexive literature characteristic of the Boom that immediately preceded Allende's work. Although her literature is not innovative in the formal way that high modern Boom literature was, she very clearly believes in the revolutionary possibilities of literature to create and remake life and the impossibility of an authentic literature that is not intimately connected with reality. In Eva Luna and in The House of the Spirits (1985) as well, she shows that writing has a sacred, transcendental quality, which is explored in the creation and resurrection myths and stories that appear in those novels. Eva describes her mother and the legacy she passes on:
Words are free, she used to say, and she appropriated them; they were all hers. She sowed in my mind the idea that reality is not only what we see on the surface; it has a magical dimension as well and, if we so desire, it is legitimate to enhance it and color it to make our journey through life less trying.
Allende's language here reflects the commodification/impoverishment of reality in a world ruled by economic and political repression as a counterpoint to one lightened by the liberating potential of words. But if instead fiction is not integrated into reality, the opposite occurs, as with Zulema, Riad Halabí's wife: "My stories did not make her happy; they merely filled her head with romantic ideas, and led her to dream of impossible escapades and borrowed heroes, distancing her totally from reality." Eva tells the Minister of Defense that her ideas come from "things that are happening and things that happened before I was born…." What she doesn't say is that Bolero, her telenovela, which he is questioning, is the story of her (made) life.
Clearly, then, because fiction is so intimately entwined with life, it is a priori political. Rolf Carlé, the documentary cinéaste, and his mentor and boss, Señor Aravena, debate this concept numerous times in the book, even though they genuinely agree that art can change history; it is for that reason that they run the risk of arrest, torture, and even death.
At the very end of the book Rolf and Eva merge the personal and the political when they agree to tell the story of the guerrillas' escape from Santa Maria through an episode in her telenovela, a story in which they both had participated and which Rolf had filmed. This device, quite common in Chile and other similar political regimes, ensures the diffusion of the truth that censors will not allow on the regular news channels.
This Bildungsroman of Eva's professional development as a writer reflects—in a somewhat fragmented manner—important developments in Latin American literary history. While reading this novel I felt that her personal quest was paralleled by an aesthetic quest, manifested in the trying on and taking off of various genres, literary movements and myths characteristic of Latin America; she even goes so far as to explicitly allude to specific authors and their individual works. Although some of these are simply lightheartedly parodied, others are reworked and reinterpreted in the light of the feminist enterprise of the past twenty-five years. Eva Luna transgresses fundamentally because it has an intellectually strong, sexual, nurturing, very feminine protagonist, setting up an initial rupture with the dichotomy so clearly demarcated by Octavio Paz between "the mother and the whore."
Four primary categories suggest themselves: myth and the mythic consciousness; magical realism; Boom writers; and then a miscellaneous grouping that subsumes a host of other significant literatures and literary themes: the picaresque, the neo-romantic, novels of the dictators, the ever-present conflict between civilization and barbarism, and testimonial literature. As the novel's contact with soap operas and radio serials is so evident, this article will not address that connection.
The critic Wolfgang Karrer has suggested the importance of the creation myth in chapter one of this novel. I would like to suggest that two other chapters, six and ten, also participate in a creation myth, and that all three of these are linked by the idea of creation through words. Chapter one gives us the physical creation of the first woman, Eva/Eve, chapter six her recreation as an erotic being, and chapter ten a further incarnation as a politically committed writer.
In "Transformation and Transvestism in Eva Luna," Karrer suggests that the "opening story of Consuelo and the Indian gardener, dying and resurrecting under Consuelo's love making, carries overtones of a creation myth. Man and woman, Indian and Spanish races (in a neat gender inversion of the Pocahontas/Malinche myth), death and life, moon and 'Sándolo Sol' … snake and life essence, all fuse to create Eva Luna." From the beginning, then, traditionally masculine frameworks of separation and hierarchy are deconstructed and converted to traditionally feminine ones of wholeness and fusion, a changeover that the critic Z. Nelly Martinez has read as a political act in Allende's The House of the Spirits (1991). Karrer also suggests that Eva fulfills the archetypal code described by Della Grisa (1985) which:
begins both with the title and her name. It determines her miraculous creation, the heroic liberation from mother to father figures, it provides friendly helpers and magical gifts, and leads to her magical transformation from domestic prisoner to liberator of prisoners…. But instead of reflecting Latin American history in this circular myth … Allende chooses to thoroughly feminize it. It is Eva Luna who rescues Rolf Carlé from the dragon of his past, who brings the treasure to Mimí, helps to free the prisoners and take the good news to the people. Her individuation owes more to mother, "grandmother" Elvira, and "sister" Mimí than to male help from Huberto Naranjo or even Riad Halabí.
It is Halabí, however, who gives birth to the second Eva in chapter six. He rescues her and brings her to Agua Santa where she says that "for the first time in my life, I was free to come and go; until then I had always been confined behind walls or forced to wander lost in a hostile city." He teaches her to read and write; he gives her the emotional and financial security and leisure to do so; just as important, he provides her with a birth certificate, the only proof of her existence in the world. Like Scheherezade with the sultan in the Arabian Nights, he brings her to life as an erotic being, as an embodiment of the life-force Eros. Most interestingly, however, he does not become her lover until the night before she leaves, as a result of her metamorphosis and not as its cause. Thus, it is as nurturer and guide (a "helper" in Della Grisa's terminology) that he functions. And the agency of this instruction is through none other than that book which reigns over all of Eva Luna, the Arabian Nights, "in which I immersed myself so deeply I completely lost sight of reality. Eroticism and fantasy blew into my life with the force of a typhoon, erasing all limitations and turning the known order of things upside down." Z. Nelly Martínez, in the aforementioned article, describes Allende's concept of Eros and its connection to writing and the feminine artist:
Also useful here is Michel Foucault's opposition between ars erotica and scientia sexualis, an opposition that brings attention to the repressive power of Western sexuality and to the liberating power of Eros. Thus Foucault equates (Western) knowledge with (patriarchal) might and sees art as expressive of Eros and hence as a liberating force. Free and creative. Eros is evidently subversive and hence demonic in the Western imagination.
And thus it functions, for Eva is wrongly accused of Halabí's wife's death, arrested, tortured and driven out of town by people who cannot understand the nature of her relationship with Halabí, but instead interpret it as a clandestine sexual liaison that causes Zulema's death.
Eva's last birth, as committed writer, is one that fuses both her erotic and intellectual being and brings together her personal relationship with Rolf and her source of inspiration in the collective unconscious:
I awakened early. It was a soft and slightly rainy Wednesday, not very different from others in my life, but I treasure that Wednesday as a special day, one that belonged only to me. I took a clean white sheet of paper—like a sheet freshly ironed for making love—and rolled it into the carriage…. I believed that that page ha[d] been waiting for me for more than twenty years, that I had lived only for that instant…. I wrote my name, and immediately the words began to flow, one thing linked to another and another…. I could see an order to the stories stored in my genetic memory since before my birth, and the many others I had been writing for years in my notebooks.
When we examine the language used here and the language used later to describe Eva and Rolf, we see that both evoke the same suggestion of eternity and destiny:
He strode forward and kissed me exactly as it happens in romantic novels, exactly as I had been wanting him to do for a century, and exactly as I had been describing moments before in a scene between the protagonists of my Bolero. Once we were close, I was able unobtrusively to drink in the smell of the man, recognizing, at long last, the scent of the other half of my being. I understood then why from the first I thought I had known him before.
What is just as interesting here, it seems to me, is the plenitude of existence that Eva experiences when she writes, the complete fulfillment of herself as a unique being; the day that belongs only to her and the fact that the mere inscription of her name calls forth her creations.
Naming: in the mythic consciousness the use of a name is a sacred ritual, calling what had previously been unnamed into existence, creating a destiny if given to a person. It is intimate, private and personal and speaks to the very core of a person's being. When Eva returns to the Indians at the end of the novel, she asks the name of one of them whom she was sure she had previously known, "but El Negro had explained that it would be discourteous to ask. For these Indians, he said, to name is to touch the heart; they consider it offensive to call a stranger by name or to be named by him…." With this sense of the sacred replacing the patriarchal appropriation signaled by a child's taking of the name of the father, Eva's name creates her destiny and marks her as a part of a larger community:
Her name will be Eva, so she will love life.
"And her last name?"
"None. Her father's name isn't important."
"Everybody needs a last name. Only a dog can run around with one name."
"Her father belonged to the Luna tribe, the Children of the Moon. Let it be Luna, then. Eva Luna…."
Consuelo, too, is marked by her name: time and time again after her death Eva calls on her for strength, courage and guidance, and she even becomes a visible presence in much the same way as Eva's characters who will invade her house and make a hurricane of chaos for Elvira to clean. Eva herself notes her mother's destiny when she says that "she realized that the moment had come for her to justify the name Consuelo and console this man in his misfortune." But Consuelo is not only defined by her name; she also embodies Jung's collective unconscious, always present, never forgetting: "She placed at my feet the treasures of the Orient, the moon, and beyond…. she retained all the anecdotes she had heard and those she had learned in her readings. She manufactured the substance of her own dreams, and from those materials constructed a world for me." We saw that this collective memory was part of the wellspring pouring from Eva's writing of her name, and we later see that she in turn passes it on to Rolf: "she understood that in her desire to please him she had given him her own memory: she no longer knew what was hers or how much now belonged to him; their pasts had been woven into a single strand."
The sense of time as being eternal and undifferentiated, flowing in a circular movement that subverts the Western idea of progress, evolution, sequence and non-connection, is explicitly elaborated in the first chapter of Genesis. Mircea Eliade, in his Cosmos and History (1959) characterizes it as sacred time, "in illo tempore." In the Mission where Consuelo was raised, "time is bent and distances deceive the human eye, persuading the traveler to wander in circles"; it is a Garden of Eden where "she roamed outdoors, sniffing the flora and the fauna, her mind filled with images, smells, colors, and myths borne on the river current." This cyclical, repetitive, mythic time sense dominates the narrative, fusing the beginning and end of the novel, when Eva returns to the Indians (her origins) in the jungle close to Agua Santa and takes part in an act of political commitment that makes her part of a collective. Riad Halabí's gift of the belly dance, only to be performed for the man Eva loves, is a mirror of the tooth-shaped gold nugget given by El Portugués to Consuelo, who would wear it "until she met someone she would give it to as a gift of love."
The belief in the unity of all things, this fusion and change, the nondiscrimination between seeming opposites, also characterize the mythic world-view. Gender differences disappear and the animate/inanimate dichotomy as nature is invested with mystery, potential and life. Masculine and feminine principles metamorphose and meld, producing "mythological beings" more complete than either of the two genders: this may be the only way we can understand Mimi's puzzling decision not to take the step of having a vagina constructed, one that would finally complete her sex change. I would like to suggest that Riad Halabi embodies a feminine principle: he gives birth to Eva's second incarnation, thus fusing the father and mother into one. Highlighting the beginning of chapter six are words which seem somewhat disorienting when applied to a man: "Riad Halabí was one of those persons who are undone by their own compassion." Although he has a successful businessman, most of what we know of him focuses on his sensitivity, gentleness, and emotional life, a focus most usually reserved for feminine characters. And in a foreshadowing of the end of the book he incarnates a woman:
Sometimes he covered the lower half of his face with a dishcloth, in the manner of an odalisque's veil, and danced for me, clumsily, arms uplifted, belly gyrating wildly. So it was, amid shouts of laughter, that I learned the belly dance.
"It is a sacred dance—you will dance it only for the man you love most in your life," Riad Halabi told me.
We can view Eva's time with Riad as an apprenticeship for her relationship with Rolf, who also embodies mythic and feminine principles of wholeness and fusion. This we have already seen in his enactment of the myth that lovers are one soul split and thrown to separate parts of the earth, from which they must make their way back to each other to form a complete being. Throughout the novel, Eva's and Rolf's geographical, social, professional and personal orbits come ever closer. Emotions, not the intellect, rule Rolf's life: "He denied his emotions but at any unguarded time was demolished by them."
On the other hand we have Huberto Naranjo who, despite his apparently revolutionary ideas; will never allow revolution in gender roles and relations, which makes a permanent relationship with Eva impossible: "For Naranjo and others like him, 'the people' seemed to be composed exclusively of men; we women should contribute to the struggle but were excluded from decision-making and power. His revolution would not change my fate in any fundamental way…."
Allende here deconstructs the Western idea of transvestism/travesty with its emphasis on unnaturalness and evil, separation and otherness, and uses the mythic consciousness of Latin American history to change its polarity to plenitude and wholeness. On a smaller scale, this idea obtains throughout the novel, as prostitutes and transvestites become major commercial and social successes, delinquents and street roughs guerrilla heroes, and the picaresque adventure a romantic melodrama. Rupert's faith in cross-breeding to create the strongest and best breeds, the madrina's Siamese twins of different races and the use of the word "she" to refer back to the usually masculine "person," are examples in miniature.
Eva's experience of the mythic world unfolds in the first part of the novel, most specifically in the Genesis portion of the first chapter. Her stories form part of literary oral tradition. She learns the art of storytelling from her mother, learns to use her stories as tools of barter, survival, escape and emotional comfort, but it is not until chapter six, the exact midpoint of the novel, which takes place in Agua Santa, that she gains the skills of reading and writing.
Allende's acknowledgment of magical realism occurs both as specific references and in the creation of the microcosm of magical realism, La Colonia, where Eva's masculine counterpart, Rolf Carlé, grows up. There are clear allusions to the two foundational figures of magical realism in Latin America, Jorge Luis Borges and Alejo Carpentier. Carpenter's idea of "lo real maravilloso" is echoed by Eva the first time she goes to La Colonia and says, "I had the feeling that I was in a world so new that sound had not yet been created." Borges' idea of the simultaneity of times and spaces, most explicit in his short story, "El Aleph," (1948) is reflected in Eva's description of the garden in the Mission:
The world was bounded by the iron railings of the garden. Within them, time was ruled by caprice; in half an hour I could make six trips around the globe, and a moonbeam in the patio would fill my thoughts for a week…. Space expanded and contracted according to my will: the cubby beneath the stairs contained an entire planetary system, but the sky seen through the attic skylight was nothing more than a pale circle of glass.
There seems to be no irony or parody in these descriptions, which is not the case in the extended meditation on La Colonia, which represents magical realism imposed from the outside. It is a fairytale village, a transplanted Austrian homeland marked by self-isolation and imposition, a place where no one speaks Spanish, and where many of the children have defects because of inbreeding, another reference, perhaps, to the Nazi policy of the "pure race" suggested by the concentration camp episode; a colony in Allende's damning terms. It is basically sterile, unreal, "preserved in a bubble where time had stopped and geography was illusory…. For Rolf it was like walking into a movie." Aravena urges him to leave:
You can't stay in La Colonia forever, he said. It's fine for a neurotic like myself to come here and fortify my body and get the poisons out of my system, but no normal young man should live in this stage set. Rolf Carlé was familiar with the works of Shakespeare, Moliére and Calderón de la Barca, but he had never been in a theater and could not see its relationship with the village.
It seems significant that the three authors cited are not Latin American, but represent the three most important colonial powers, England, France and Spain. Rolf's knowledge of literature, then, has no connection with the world that surrounds him. Elzbieta Sklodowska suggests in an article on Miguel Barnet that "this perception … resembles the construction of the so-called magic realist narrative in that it frames the 'other' as fantastically exotic. What we get instead of difference is awkwardness." Magical realism, then, in the context of La Colonia, is not indigenous but an overlay that represents the desire by outsiders to marginalize Latin America.
The authentically "magic" is Agua Santa. The road/threshold to and from it passes by the Palace of the Poor, which materializes and etherizes as a hallucinatory apparition. It is a microcosm of the Arabian Nights, dominated by the guiding force of the Arabian Riad Halabí. The differences between Agua Santa and La Colonia focus on the dichotomy between integration and domination: although not Hispanic, Riad integrates himself into the life of the community and becomes its guiding force in commerce, village improvements and education. He brings Eva there; the Indians come from the jungle every week and join them. The only person who does not become part of the community is his wife, Zulema, who ends up committing suicide. It is there that Eva discovers three magic forces in her life, reading, writing, and the erotic, while it is significant that no creation takes place in La Colonia. In Agua Santa, it is only when the forces of repression take over that everything changes, including the townspeople, and Eva is forced to leave.
No discussion of magical realism or the Boom can possibly take place without discussing Gabriel García Márquez and One Hundred Years of Solitude (1970); it seemed at one point that no scholarship on Isabel Allende could take place either, particularly none on The House of the Spirits, without that same discussion. In Eva Luna, Allende parodies this obsession (and cites herself intratextually) through Mimi: "Ever since she had seen a line of people outside a bookstore waiting to have their books signed by a thickly mustached Colombian writer on a triumphal tour, she had showered me with notebooks, pencils and dictionaries. That's a good career, Eva. You don't have to get up too early and three's no one to order you around…." Nonetheless, the marks of García Márquez remain evident: prolepses, levitations, fairies that appear in the surreal clarity of dusk, notebooks that encapsulate life, the military that tries to annihilate history, "wiping out entire tribes and erasing every trace of their passage on earth," a clear reference to the end of One Hundred Years. It is, then, not the influence of García Márquez to which Allende objects, but his patriarchal appropriation of all following writing and literature, whether explicitly fostered by him, by scholars, or by readers.
Other writers of the Latin American Boom, Isabel Allende's direct literary predecessors, can be read in Eva Luna. Several of the borrowings/allusions come from protagonists in major new novels: Alejandra of Ernesto Sábato's On Heroes and Tombs (1981) finds her way into Eva's soap opera Bolero; the transvestite La Manuela in José Donoso's Hell has no Limits (1972) is completely reinterpreted as Melesio/Mimí; Jorge Amado's Gabriela: Clove and Cinnamon (1962) resonates in Rolf's two cousins with their "natural aroma of cinnamon, clove, vanilla and lemon." The narrative structure of an interlocking soap opera narrative with an autofiction has a precedent in Mario Vargas Llosa's Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter (1982), and Alejo Carpentier's Lost Steps (1956) is mirrored in Eva's return to her Indian origins in the jungle: while there, she "re-gains" her life by resuming the menstrual periods that had ceased after Zulema's suicide but, like the protagonist in Carpentier's novel, she cannot stay and returns to her life in the city.
It could be argued that these are mere coincidences and show more of this writer's flights of fancy than any authorial intention. I would like to counter with the idea that the specular quality of the Arabian Nights profoundly informs this work, that Eva Luna explicitly is a coming to terms with the literary currents and movements of Latin American history, the closest of which, in chronological terms, is the Boom, and that the allusive interplay and resonating structure I have just mentioned is a way of forming an intertextual web that unites all of Latin American literature, a device which is totally compatible with the feminist ideology of fusion and integration I have been mentioning throughout this piece.
Chapters three and five clearly embrace that paradigmatic Spanish form of literature, the picaresque, which Pilar V. Rotella defines in "Allende's Eva Luna and the Picaresque Tradition" as "that of an unheroic protagonist caught up in a chaotic world, enduring a series of adventures and encounters that make him both a victim of the world and its exploiter." Along with first-person point of view and episodic structure, "picaresque narratives often remain open-ended and often laced with interpolated tales…." Allende reinterprets this genre in significant ways, most particularly the use of a feminine pícara (not without literary precedent but unusual), and the changeover of Eva from a picaresque character to a genuine heroine, one who risks her life and uses her narrative gifts for the service of others. With the changeover in the protagonist, the novel itself changes modalities, a transformation that Rotella aptly describes: "Eva Luna's and her friends' efforts to create a better world by destroying at least one bastion of political oppression and, especially, her own surrender to—supposedly—extra-ordinary love and lasting happiness, lead toward the idealized vision of romance." The romance modality, too, undergoes important changes in the hands of Eva and Allende, as it remains firmly planted in reality. One of the characteristics of Eva's stories is the elimination of characters polarized into villains and heroes/heroines. The traditional romance/soap opera ending of "happily ever after" is replaced by a more realistic ending, one which she suggests is more suited to her morbid temperament. It is also one which is often more feminist in its overtones and, as such, is not at all pleasing to Huberto Naranjo. The ending of Eva Luna itself is ambiguous, with the traditional happy ending suggested as only one of several equal possibilities.
The romance polarized characterization is mirrored in the polarized thematics of the regional novel, which has often been implicitly subtitled "civilization and barbarism." The first story Eva tells Rolf and Aravena begins thus: "Times were hard in the south. Not in the south of this country, but the south of the world, where seasons are reversed and winter does not occur at Christmastime as it does in civilized nations, but in the middle of the year, as in barbaric lands…." This allusion is not only to the internal geography of Latin American literary history but to the same spirits that see Latin America as a barbaric/exotic land, framing it in the same way as do the magical realist narratives we have already discussed.
Literature of the dictators, with a long history in Latin America and a more recent flowering in the 1980s, at which time many of the major Boom writers penned such works, is also cited in Eva Luna: the figure of El Benefactor who could not be buried because the people would not believe that "the tyrant's immortality was only a myth," shows in a humorous way the logical consequences of the mythification of a person, a mythification which is too often used for repressive ends. But Allende here, as she does in the ending of The House of the Spirits, suggests that there is a way out: in The House of the Spirits, Alba breaks the evolutionary pattern of crime, oppression and revenge by deciding not to hate her torturers; in Eva Luna, the Minister of Defense, who knows all about her, her contacts with the guerrillas, and her use of Bolero to disseminate the truth, does not arrest her but requests her mediation to reach an agreement with them.
The reverse side of this literature, what we have come to call testimonial, embodies one of the primary themes of Eva Luna, memory, and the resurrection of lost and never-heard voices. From the beginning of this novel, memory takes its place as a life-sustaining force: Consuelo tells Eva that she never will die if Eva continues to remember her; Eva writes from the "genetic memory" which has been passed on to her by her mother; she re-creates her own and others' memories so that they become positive rather than negative remembrances; she passes on to and fuses her memories with Rolf until they are one. Allende's long, allusive meditations on Latin American literary history ensure that this history, too, will remain alive. In the novel, Eva tries to avoid telling about Zulema and her lover, Kamal, but comes to the following conclusion: "My first thought was that if we kept silent, it would be as if nothing had happened—what is not voiced scarcely exists; silence would gradually erase everything, and the memory would fade." Without memory, without voice, without stories, life ceases.
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I don't think there is a clear definition when the opening becomes a middlegame and when the middlegame becomes an endgame. Some might argue that you are still playing the opening when you follow theory moves, even if the position is closer to a middlegame or endgame. In the Fischer and Petrosion game I certainly wouldn't call it an endgame after the queens get exchanged. The play is more about the open files and piece activity rather than getting the king active after all, so I would consider it to be more of a middlegame. If someone would say they study endgames I certainly wouldn't expect them to study games like that.
The olders say that the opening is completed when the rooks face each other and the ending starts when the king feels safe to activate him self. From a practical point of view a huge percentage of openings acomplished that rule. Those who dont its because one of the two players have done a positional mistake or there is a forced sequence ( like Berlin ) who leads that situation. Its more difficult to point the moment when the middlegame its an endgame because depends a lot from the position. The fact is that with out Queens in the game, the king is more safe to mobilise and thats why, many times players dont castle when Queens are out. The Fischer- Spassky game , Bobby has castled before the exchange and Borris has to castle cause the file its open with the rook opposite. The position has already simplified, there are not so many tactical issues to been solved. Fischer activate his Bishops better, use the dark squared bishop trade, to force an another exchange with his knight, to penetrate the 6th or the 7th rank. Spassky loses the position and resign... Its not a typical or a clasical endgame, but its the endgame of this certain sequence. Some times happens because we cant defin the quntinuation...
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An endgame is when there are only a few pieces left. There is no strict criterion for when an endgame begins, and different experts have different opinions (Fine 1952:430).Alexander Alekhine said "We cannot define when the middle game ends and the end-game starts" (Whitaker & Hartleb 1960). With the usual system for chess piece relative value, Speelman considers that endgames are positions in which each player has thirteen or fewer points in material (not counting the king). Alternatively, an endgame is a position in which the king can be used actively, but there are some famous exceptions to that (Speelman 1981:7–8). Minev characterizes endgames as positions having four or fewer pieces other than kings and pawns (Minev 2004:5). Some authors consider endgames to be positions without queens (e.g. Fine, 1952), while others consider a position to be an endgame when each player has less than a queen plus rook in material. Flear considers an endgame to be where each player has at most one piece (other than kings and pawns) and positions with more material where each player has at most two pieces to be "Not Quite an Endgame" (NQE), pronounced "nuckie" (Flear 2007:7–8).
Alburt and Krogius give three characteristics of an endgame: (Alburt & Krogius 2000:12)
Some problem composers consider that the endgame starts when the player who is about to move can force a win or a draw against any variation of moves (Portisch & Sárközy 1981:vii).
Mednis and Crouch address the question of what constitutes an endgame negatively. The game is still in the middlegame if middlegame elements still describe the position. The game is not in the endgame if these apply:
If you consider it to be an endgame in the Fischer Spassky game, then fine with me, but my main point is that there is no clear definition when an endgame starts. I would not consider it an endgame since I don't feel the characteristics for an endgame like active king is important yet.
Agreed. No position with five pieces per side can be considered an endgame and four pieces per side is murky ground, sometimes even when one is a queen.
So, done with the academics? Then let's get back to the topic ;)
I believe there are positions you can't put your self in trouble to learn about them if you first don't become an expert. With your hand in your heart, how many of you are prepared to play an pawnless endgame two bishops vs one knight? It's an endgame that requires a presiacly technique and before computers arrived many GM where consider it as a draw. It's an endgame that beginners would never understand and those who are in a level between intermediate and advanced will also have a tough moments to realize. The procedure to study some parts of the game should be adapt to the general knowledge of the individual player has plus his tactical ability. You can't teach someone how to run if he don't knows how to walk...
I think 2 bishops vs one knight is one of the endgames that is negatively effected by the 50 move rule with perfect play. I'm not sure if that matters though, I have never reached that endgame and if I did I might try to win it, although I doubt I would be successfull.
I think trying to learn how to win with 2 bishops vs knight is a waste of time for both expert and those who are not expert players. Pawn endgames and rook endgames for example are more important.
I've lost that endgame twice haha
I agree with you, but when it happens...the feeling is awfoul because you didnt know how and when. Like suddenly you play a different game with no theory at all.
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I am in lebel 26 how do i get 3 stars i try alot of outfit but i just can pass that level any kind of help would be nice
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I used this to get 3***
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I did what Thumper did except I used basic denim shorts and the white and red striped *** star sandals. DON'T use the sandals I used! Although I got 3 stars I got 0 points for them:)
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I got 3 *** using these:
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A police commissioner in a predominantly white New Hampshire town says he won't apologize for calling President Barack Obama the N-word, and he sat with his arms crossed while angry residents at a meeting called for his resignation on Thursday.He was overheard at a restaurant by a new town resident who complained to the city manager. Copeland responded with an email.
Wolfeboro Police Commissioner Robert Copeland, who's 82 and white, has acknowledged in an email to his fellow police commissioners he used the racial slur in describing Obama.
"I believe I did use the 'N' word in reference to the current occupant of the Whitehouse," Copeland said in the email to his fellow police commissioners, part of which he forwarded to O'Toole. "For this, I do not apologize — he meets and exceeds my criteria for such."Whatever criteria Copeland himself meets and exceeds, the town's elected officials apparently lack the authority to remove another elected official.
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8:35 PM PT: Thanks to JoanMar for finding this link, because the racism is officially systemic:
Commission Chairman Joseph Balboni Jr. told the Concord Monitor he doesn't plan to ask Copeland to resign. He said, "He's (Copeland) worked with a lot of blacks in his life. ... He said some harsh words about Mr. Obama, and here we are. This woman, she's blowing it all out of proportion."A lot of standard excuses in that: The bigot has worked with blacks, it's only "harsh words," and it's the woman's fault for making a big deal out of nothing.


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High Liner Foods Completes Icelandic USA Integration07:00 EST Monday, November 26, 2012Company now offers fully integrated customer service and fulfillment process for foodservice and retail businesses DANVERS, MA, Nov. 26, 2012 /CNW/ - High Liner Foods, Inc. (TSX: HLF; HLF.A), the leading value-added frozen seafood supplier in North America, announced today that it has completed the final stages of the Icelandic USA integration, well ahead of schedule and less than a year after the acquisition of Icelandic Group's U.S. assets.Since the acquisition of Icelandic USA in late December 2011, High Liner Foods has worked aggressively to integrate all facets of the business. Within the first six months, High Liner Foods fully integrated the foodservice and retail sales forces, broker networks, product lines, and operations.High Liner has now completed the final milestone, completely integrating customer service and order fulfillment. All High Liner Foods foodservice products in the U.S. have begun shipping from one location, the company's Newport News, VA distribution center. All retail products have begun shipping from its distribution center in Peabody, MA. The new High Liner Foods centralized electronic appointment scheduling system implemented company-wide will significantly simplify the ordering process for customers. Customers now only need to submit one order, process one invoice, and handle one single delivery.The completion of this project completes the final stage of integrating Icelandic USA into the High Liner Foods business, well ahead of the original projected deadline."We're extremely proud of the efforts of our entire organization to complete the integration of the Icelandic business in less than a year, which is an achievement for an acquisition of this size," said Keith Decker, President and Chief Operating Officer of High Liner Foods (USA) Inc. "Now our customers can interact with a single, unified High Liner Foods streamlined with one sales force, broker network, and customer service team. This will greatly enhance High Liner Foods' ability to provide our customers with the best service possible."For more information about High Liner Foods, visit www.highlinerfoods.com.About High Liner Foods Incorporated High Liner Foods Incorporated is the leading North American processor and marketer of prepared, value-added frozen seafood. High Liner's branded products are sold throughout the United States, Canada and Mexico under the High Liner, Fisher Boy, Mirabel, Sea Cuisine and Royal Sea labels, and are available in most grocery and club stores. The Company also sells its products under the High Liner, FPI, Mirabel, Viking, Icelandic Seafood, Samband of Iceland, Seastar, and Seaside brands to restaurants and institutions, and is the major supplier of private label seafood products to North American food retailers and food service distributors. High Liner Foods is a publicly traded Canadian company, trading under the symbols HLF and HLF.A on the Toronto Stock Exchange.SOURCE: High Liner Foods IncorporatedFor further information: Salvador Diaz Investor Relations TMX Equicom Tel: (416) 815-0700 ext.242 firstname.lastname@example.com Erik Arvidson Matter Communications 978-518-4542 email@example.com www.matternow.com


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How well do you know your own clothes? Do you usually read the tag before purchasing to see the country of origin? More often than not, we as consumers are ambivalent about where our clothes are manufactured.
But this is changing, as a society, we are beginning to challenge the ignorant system. A spillover effect from the food industry has created a mini-boom of labels and companies worldwide that are proudly trumpeting their provenance. In fact, 'local' is fast becoming a common unique selling point for almost anything. But when you dig deeper, the problem gets more complicated.
For decades the fashion industry has been producing its garments in developing countries. China, Bangladesh, India and Cambodia all offer low labour costs, a seemingly endless workforce and reasonable shipping costs – China alone amounts for a fifth of all manufacturing globally. But in the last few years, with the rise of oil prices and transport costs worldwide, these attractive margins are shrinking. Costs associated with land, environmental and safety regulations as well as production taxes have also seen a hike, which is making manufacturers rethink their supply chain strategies. A return to domestic production has been seen across the world, from America to the United Kingdom, and seems to be here to stay.
The budget speech by UK chancellor George Osbourne had one fil-rouge throughout: "We want the words 'made in Britain, created in Britain, designed in Britain, invented in Britain' to drive our nation forward." This call to action was not unheeded. The British Fashion Council's Report on The Future of Fashion highlighted a rise in domestic fashion manufacturing from 2.0 to 2.5 per cent. It is also predicted that by 2015 UK fashion manufacturing will contribute 2.1 billion to the GDP and employ nearly 70,000 people. This is promising. A brand returning home will increase their brand equity and gain a certain cachet - something essential in the fashion industry.
But certain questions are beginning to crop up. Burberry still makes its iconic trench on British soil. Mulberry does the same – manufacturing 30 per cent of their fashion forward bags at their factories in the Mendips. But Mulberry is foreign owned and Burberry still manufactures well over half of its garments overseas. Does this take away from the attractive Britishness of the brand? Even Sir Paul Smith, the golden boy of Britain and a fashion ambassador for the UK, designs in the UK but manufactures in Italy. So do these factors have weight on how we as consumers view these brands?
The UK is not the only country experiencing these woes. Italy has long been celebrated for retaining its manufacturing sector inside its geographical borders – in 2011 it employed 447,000 people and generated a turnover of €52 billion. Yet even Italy has has been experiencing its own "Made in…" crisis. Prato, a major manufacturing hub in Italy has been fiercely protectionist about retaining their "Made in Italy" status, to the point where outsourcing has come to them. The city is facing a culture clash as roughly 15% of the population – an estimated 25,000 Chinese migrant workers – have poured in to work the city's garment and textile factories. This makes Prato the home to the largest concentration of Chinese people in Europe, and an educational goldmine. Many migrant workers have come over – legally and otherwise – to learn from Italian craftsman before striking out and establishing their own form of "pronto moda" – fast fashion.
By mastering the supply chain they have drastically slashed the overall production time - it only takes two weeks to produce a catwalk 'patterned' garment in Prato, compared to the two months it takes back in China. Using homegrown connections, they are able to source cheap cloth, dye it to spec, use local trimmings and sell to European buyers all under the "Made in Italy" label. This situation is estimated to channel $1.5 million of profit a day to China – with the wages steering clear of the local economy, as the Chinese prefer to repatriate their earnings.
Policy makers are addressing these issues in both Italy and the UK, but the broader topic seems to require a re-evaluation of the 'Made in…' labelling concept. As country of origin lines are becoming increasingly blurry and the majority of production now takes place in low-labour cost countries, with finishing treatments completing the garment in Europe to add value, how much traceability should be involved in fashion? What is the long-term fate of fashion manufacturing in post-industrial countries, and does it warrant concern? As the 'locavore' continues to value and seek out products with intrinsic heritage that are domestically produced, will this create a more transparent attitude towards production, or continue the hunt for the lowest bottom line? A fundamental change is afoot, but the processes behind need to be clarified before a real difference can be made within the industry.


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Wide receiver Vincent Brown was placed on injured reserve by the Chargers with a broken ankle. He was injured in the preseason against the Dallas Cowboys and likely won't be cleared to return until late October, at the earliest. But thanks to the NFL's new rule on injured reserve -- allowing one player with a "severe injury" to be activated from the reserve/injured list if they are designated for return at the time of the transaction -- Brown is expected to play again this season. Brown can be activated after spending at least eight weeks on IR. If he's not healthy enough to play or suffers a setback, Brown does not have to be activated. Brown was a third-round pick in 2011 and had 19 receptions as a rookie.
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