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Prior to Sunday, I had never actually had an opportunity to see the 49ers play in person. I've never actually been to San Francisco, and the 49ers don't play in New York very often. But this season, they were, coming to visit the Jets on Sunday, and when the opportunity to go to the game and see my team for the 1st time dropped into my lap, I jumped at it. The result was much to my approval.
It's rare that I've walked into a stadium rooting outright for the visiting team. Most of my excursions to Yankee Stadium have involved this circumstance. Sunday, I decked myself out in 49ers gear and headed out to the Meadowlands. I wasn't sure what to expect. But when I saw a group of 49ers fans in Penn Station looking for the New Jersey Transit area, I realized I wouldn't be alone. At the stadium, 49ers fans were out en masse. I was really surprised at how many red shirts and jerseys I was seeing. Huge pockets of red were present throughout the stadium. I wasn't sure if it was because the 49ers fans travel well, or there's more 49ers fans in New York than I realize, or the Jets fans just have no faith in their team. It's probably a combination of all three.The Jets fans that were there seemed to have an attitude of defeatism before the game even started. The 49ers fans were up and loud throughout the game. Most of them seemed to be pretty confident. I have to admit that I was a bit nervous; I wouldn't have wanted to come out there with all my San Francisco stuff on only to have them lose and get brutalized by hordes of Jets fans.
However, the Jets put up a mostly noncompetitive effort in getting shut out by the 49ers, 34-0. That doesn't mean that the 49ers necessarily played a perfect game, though. For most of the first half, neither offense was able to get anything going. The Jets put forth their best drive at the beginning, moving the ball well before their drive stalled. The 49ers offense kind of just slogged along, not doing anything exciting. I began to worry about a hangover from last week's game, because things seemed to be starting out in similar fashion. But the 49ers did something this week that they hadn't done at all over their first three games. They started running backup Quarterback Colin Kaepernick out there in wildcat formations, many of which seemed to work. Kaepernick burst for a 17-yard run in the 1st quarter, and ultimately scored the 49ers first Touchdown on a similar play early in the 2nd quarter. This personnel change, something the Jets have tried, with little success, with Tim Tebow, appeared to keep the Jets mostly off balance.
With the lead, the 49ers defense began to dig in and control the tempo of the game, something that has generally led to a winning effort. Well, that's exactly what happened. The 49ers defense, clearly playing angry after last week's loss, forced a punt and a pair of fumbles out of the Jets on their next three possessions. But given the turnovers and ensuing good field position, the 49ers weren't getting any points on the board. A pair of sacks on Alex Smith, who was little more than effective, led to a long missed Field Goal from David Akers, and with under a minute and 2 time outs, the 49ers opted to run down the clock instead of try for a score, and Akers Field Goal to close the half made the score 10-0. I wasn't particularly pleased, since 10 points is nothing in the NFL, and the 49ers offense just hadn't clicked at all. However, the upshot of this was that the Jets offense was just putrid, and the 49ers defense was exploiting this to the point of embarrassment.
The 2nd half is where things really got out of control. The first Jets possession of the half ended when a bad screen pass from Mark Sanchez ended up intercepted by Patrick Willis. But David Akers missed yet another Field Goal, keeping the score at 10-0. Still, the 49ers Defense didn't allow the Jets an inch. Sanchez was flinging passes aimlessly, and the restless Jets fans began chanting for Tebow. Or was it the 49ers fans chanting for Tebow? It could have been both. Either way, the Jets looked completely lifeless, and it clearly wouldn't take much more points-wise for the 49ers to put the game out of reach.
The 49ers didn't score another Touchdown until Frank Gore punched one in on a 4th down play with just over 2 minutes to go in the 3rd Quarter. That's when the Jets fans started to give up. The Jets hadn't been able to move the ball past the 49ers 25 yard line, and not at all in the 2nd half until the end of the 3rd Quarter. But on the first play of the 4th Quarter, the game was put away when Sanchez hit Santonio Holmes on a little out route. But Holmes injured his foot on the play and ended up flipping the ball aside before actually being tackled. Carlos Rogers then picked it up and returned the fumble for another Touchdown, making the score 24-0, and sending a majority of the Jets fans to the exits. And with the Jets fans departing, the 49ers fans started getting loud. The stadium was still about 1/3 full, but it was now all people in red, cheering on the 49ers. It was great. The players even noticed it too. Anthony Dixon, for one, started pointing and waving at all the fans in red when he came out for the ensuing kickoff.
There was still a quarter left to be played, but it appeared the Jets had given up completely. Instead of trying to pass and get a garbage time score, they played like a team that just wanted to get the hell out of there. But they couldn't run the ball well enough to run down the clock, and ultimately, they ended up getting a punt blocked on a 1-man rush because nobody bothered to block Larry Grant. Grant's punt block set up the 49ers final score by Kendall Hunter, making the score 34-0, much to the delight of everyone remaining at the game.
the 49ers didn't have any particular outstanding performances in this game. The winning effort was accomplished as a team, above all. It helps, I suppose, that the Jets' performance was so putrid that even the worst of teams could have handled them on this day. But you still need to make plays, and the 49ers did that. Though nobody clearly dominated, they gained 245 rushing yards as a team. On defense, though no singular player dominated, they forced 4 turnovers and kept the Jets off the board completely. I still don't think the 49ers are playing at the level they're truly capable of. But, much like their win over Detroit, when they make the plays they have to make, they're going to win, more often than not. And, for once, I can say I'm glad I was there to see it!

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The writers of NBC's new comedy "Up All Night" should not lack for material — they're creating a TV show about the travails of new parenthood in, at least by showbiz standards, an unusually baby-heavy environment.
Creator Emily Spivey and stars Christina Applegate, Will Arnett and Maya Rudolph all have young children, as does semi-regular Nick Cannon. There's even a nursery adjoining Applegate's and Rudolph's dressing rooms, Spivey says.
"The babies are here a lot. Down the whole hallway there are signs that say 'Quiet – sleeping babies,'" Spivey told Zap2it when we spoke with her in early September. "Poor Nick is flying back and forth, because his family is in New York. But everyone's just managing — it's what you have to do. It hasn't been a problem — it's actually been kind of nice. There's nothing that makes the blood pressure do down more than holding a sweet baby."
It also helps that, according to Spivey, working on "Up All Night" has so far been "super-duper fun." We talked with the former "Saturday Night Live" writer about changes she's made since the pilot and what she hopes viewers will get from the show, which premieres Wednesday night (Sept. 14). Some highlights of our conversation:
Zap2it: Is writing for a weekly series a different discipline than working on "SNL," where you're starting fresh every week?
Emily Spivey: It's more like a long-term, intense thing. At "SNL" you [write] it quickly, and then it's over. But there was always that pressure of starting from scratch and sitting down in an office with a blank page every week, unless you had a recurring thing. But this is all recurring characters. … Both are challenging. It's a challenge to come up with new stuff, but it's also challenging to keep it fresh with the same characters week after week, and come up with stories and discover who they are.
You've changed Maya's character since the original pilot from a celebrity publicist to a talk-show host. How is that working so far?
I think it's great. It's been really, really fun. It's so much more in Maya's and my bag of tricks. … It's a more complete world, and I think it's a world more people will be able to relate to, especially with all the "Oprah Behind the Scenes." She's not Oprah, but people know so much about the talk-show format and what goes on.
Has that shifted the balance of the storytelling much from Reagan and Chris' (Applegate and Arnett) home life to the workplace?
No, I think it's still the same. Because the show is about her striking that balance, so we still devote the same amount of time … that we would have to the old workplace. I think this workplace, the talk show allows Christina's character to be a little more involved. It's not just about them trying to sign clients or something. There's a lot more interpersonal stuff that goes on.
I would think that there would just be more stories to tell in that environment too.
Right. And [stories] that just involve our characters, without having to have outside people come in every week.
What was Chris' job before he became a stay-at-home dad?
He was a lawyer before. He left his law firm to stay at home with their daughter, Amy.
Does he have any regrets about the decision?
He does not have regrets. He chose to do it because he felt it was important that Reagan have her career. He had sort of done his thing in his firm and was ready to do something he felt was more meaningful to him.
Will we be meeting the grandparents during the season?
Yes — that episode we're actually working on as we speak.
Have you cast them yet?
I can't really talk about that yet. It's still in the ether a little bit, but it's some fun casting.
What can you tell us about Nick Cannon's character? He's playing Maya's sidekick on the show, correct?
He's basically in the office keeping it really positive. He's very spiritual. His character raised his sisters on his own after the death of his parents, and he's putting them through college. We wanted him to be a light, so he's the light of the office. He's funny and positive and unflappable.
Is that energy always welcome?
People are sort of stunned by it and at times a little irritated, but for the most part it's welcome.
Do you have any feelings about how the show will be received? Have you gotten any early feedback?
I can't predict — but I hope people like it. We're all having fun, and I hope it's reflected in the shows. I hope people will laugh and relate to it, even people who don't have babies. There's something for everybody. We're just trying to keep it relatable and fun. At the end of the day, if you're having fun, that's the most you can hope or ask for. I just hope that comes across.
"Up All Night" premieres at 10 p.m. ET Wednesday, Sept. 14, following the finale of "America's Got Talent." It moves to its regular home at 8 p.m. Wednesdays on Sept. 21.


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How Clown Phobias Start
While getting jacked up on sugar, this face stares back at the child from the kitchen table. This trauma can spill over into daily life, so much so that the child goes to great lengths to avoid numerous situations with any remote possibility of encountering psychotic clowns.
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Thursday, May 17, 2012
Doomed Obsession.
On this day in 1959, Nikita Khrushchev (after a trip to the San Fernando Valley) announced his five year plan to become the world's leading producer of marital aids. The rest is history.
Thursday, April 26, 2012
Venture Capitalism or Applied Cycle-Finding Algorithms
In a moment of absolute inspiration, Tonto Fielding decided to enter his prize tortoise, Zeno's Paradox, in this year's Kentucky Derby, He is doing so with total confidence that it will not only advance thoroughbred Testudinidae racing, but will also attract venture capitalists. He can envision a whole new sport that the public will embrace, and a fortune to be made. Tonto, if asked, would also admit that this stunt is also a way for him to demonstrate that movement is impossible to define satisfactorily.
Wednesday, March 7, 2012
Amateur Sleuth
Once again Tonto Fielding found himself in the service of billionaire, Ewbank Manchip. Tonto had earned a reputation as an amateur sleuth, ever since he famously solved the "who stole the kishke," case. Manchip was certain that his business and tennis doubles partner, Eduardo Boner, was out to exploit, harm, and deceive him, even though no evidence existed to support this expectation. After an initial inquiry, I assured Manchip that he was being hyper-vigilant for potential threats, and had to explain to him that his suspicious nature would elicit a hostile response from others at the club. People were starting to perceive him as hostile, stubborn, and sarcastic. That was why no one else would partner with him on the courts. He responded by indicating that this only served to confirm his original theory. I had to explain that another billionaire would have no need for stealing one of his slippers. "That ball at the net was Boner's to take. Yet he let it drop only to spite me," he said.
Tonto then believed that a rational discussion about paranoia was hopeless. He had to solve the crime. It wasn't really that hard for a master sleuth. I only had to follow the trail, which led to an fiendishly adept thief named Spot.
Friday, February 24, 2012
Quid Pro Quo
Tonto Fielding has a new television reality show that he is pitching to several producers. In it, the members of the cast display an instinctive set of characteristics, not learned through written or spoken words, but instead, simply understood by all members of the group, who must follow these unspoken rules to be accepted and considered normal. Essentially they will interact under a mask of acceptable behavior with regards to the other members of the group with whom they choose to interact, respecting each other's essential needs, wants, and desires. This will include safety, food, sleep and the emotions of love, pleasure, anger, and fear. The "hook" here, and what will differentiate it from other reality shows, is that the group will look for ways to fill each member's essential needs. The better someone in the cast is at successfully interacting with others; the more likely he or she will be to have a large portion of their life and behavior influenced by the opinions of his peers. And then at the end of each show, the cast will have five minutes to verbally abuse, spit at, pull hair, punch, and claw each other.
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Sorry about the absence, everyone. I'm still sort of decompressing from several crazy-but-wonderful weeks of summer parenting time. It's pretty much baptism by fire for me, compared to the typical parenting learning curve, and considering I'm still somewhat new to this. It feels a little jarring to be unceremoniously thrown into "mom" mode, including being called "your mom" by many well-meaning (but presumptuous) strangers, while not actually being Khymi's mother--not wanting to be, not pretending to be; just assuming similar responsibilities. I guess some would say a stepmother is a kind of mother, but I'm quite aware of the fact that I am not Khymi's mother. That title has always belonged to someone else, and it always will.
Every now and then I read another stepparent's account of their integrating a partner and the partner's child(ren) into his or her life, and although I hear a lot of familiar experiences, I've never much liked the "instant family" image that is often described. Maybe many people think of blended families as something like The Brady Bunch. The thing about the Bradys is that Mike was a widower, and no one really knew what Carol's story was, but each set of children was supposed to have been raised exclusively by one parent for some time, before Mike and Carol met and they were just one big happy family--emphasis there on one.
The Brady Bunch and its cousins like Yours, Mine and Ours (also about the blending of two widowed families) don't really portray the typical blended family, because they conveniently eliminate any need to discuss divorce/separation and shared custody by making the parents' ex-partners either deceased or completely out of the picture. For most of us, that's just not the case. In my opinion, to call one's new nuclear family an instant family isn't entirely fair to the child(ren) involved, or to the other adults. To me, "instant" it makes it sound effortless for a child to automatically become "ours" and have that be the end of it, when in most cases, the child is also someone else's, and that's a significant part of who that child is. This is true even when one of the parents is deceased or absent, and it's certainly true if the child's other parent is present and involved in his or her life.
The fact that the kids have another parent/family somewhere else isn't a bad thing, nor should it reflect negatively on them. Although the two-family situation can sometimes present challenges that non-blended families do not have to face, for the most part, it's just the way it is. I really don't think it would have been that complicated or inconvenient for Marcia, Jan and Cindy to take an episode off because they were with their father that day. Sitcom writers have made far more unlikely storylines happen when they really wanted to.
If I were to make a movie or sitcom about our family... well, it wouldn't be interesting enough. (That's why we all have blogs, right?) But hypothetically, I couldn't even consider making it seem like it's just about the three of us and our life here, no matter how simple it might be to edit here and there to make it look that way. So much of who Khymi is comes from her mother and maternal family, her life and experiences at her other home, and also from her past, years before either her stepfather or I even knew she existed. None of those parts of her life involve me or are under my control. That doesn't mean, though, that I can just operate as if those parts don't exist or matter. If I did, I would essentially be rejecting my stepdaughter's integral, whole being. And so, while we spend most of our time together focusing on maintaining a good family life in the everyday and in this place, Jacob and I know that we are just one side of her uniquely multifaceted life. We are one family, but we are not her one and only.
It's a little tiresome, but when one of those well-meaning counselors or teachers says to Khymi, "Let's show your mom what you've learned," I smile and say kindly, "I'm her stepmom, but I'd love to see what she's learned. And maybe we can take a picture to show her mom, too."
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the invisible stepfamily
Posted by maria at 8/22/2008
Labels: kids, popular culture, stepfamily
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- Jo said...
I can easily imagine you smiling and saying that. Which is why you rock.
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- Bean said...
I'm not sure if you ever knew Sarah very well, but as you went to the Silver Spring Church I'm guessing you knew James Bank, the minister there for some time. Cathy, his wife, is the stepmother to Sarah and Julia who grew up in my neighborhood with their mom and saw Dad only on weekends. Cathy was very much in the same place you are. . .
Your life sounds extremely similar to how it was watching Cathy around Sarah and Julia. - Saturday, August 23, 2008
- Ferocious Kitty said...
Thank you for sharing this wonderful image of your "emerging" (as opposed to "instant") family. In particular, I love this line:
"We are one family, but we are not her one and only."
Please let me know if you would be willing to cross-post this (with a little explanatory intro added) at coparenting101.org.
~Deesha - Thursday, June 18, 2009


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The Western Australian Electorate gets to vote on the behaviour of the Barnett/Buswell/Bear Grylls over the past four years.
One of the things we are being asked to do is "Trust the good economic management" shown by the Buswell/Porter/Buswell Treasureships under the Barnett Government.
Should we look closely at that?
Probably not!
We may accidentally see the Perth Arena.
We may accidentally discover that, in the midst of the State's greatest ever boom, our deficit is the highest in history. This must be of some embarrassment to the Liberal Party Australia-wide given the Tony Abbott hatred of anything less than a surplus. The West Australian Barnett government has flagged the boom state's first deficit in 13 years, sparking calls for a complete review of capital expenditure programs.
Then we may, again accidentally because it won't be drawn to our notice, discover that our State debt is a little bit bigger than under the last Government.
Off again, on again treasurer Troy Buswell appears to be using Hockeynomics to unbalance our State books.
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Don't be caught thinking "Of course, we have a billion for the Stadium, we have a couple of billion for the railway and we have 2.6 billion for Elizabeth Quay." That money has not yet been spent. That will only increase our debt levels to the point where we will lose our AAA credit rating! And with the Perth Arena example, how can we trust these numbers?
Listening to the leader's debate on the ABC last night I was left with the impression that Colin Barnett belives it is the job of his Government to spend up big at the moment because the state will get a lot of revenue "over the next few years."
Mark McGowan was the leader who sounded prudent and careful about our finances.
So we have a choice on the 9th.
The good economic management" shown by the Buswell/Porter/Buswell Treasureships under the Barnett Government and go into so much debt our grandchildren will still be paying it off.
Or we can be prudent, elect an ALP Government and wait till the cash is in our hands before we spend it!


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SALT LAKE CITY, Jan. 18, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- In 2012, online broker-dealer Zions Direct experienced substantial growth in its auction platform, which allows both retail and institutional customers to purchase securities in its daily web-based auctions. Since the inception of its auction platform in 2007, Zions Direct has sold over $2 billion of securities in over 7,500 auctions of FDIC-insured CDs, municipal bonds, corporate bonds, preferred stock, and US agencies. Over the course of the past six years, offerings have expanded from one auction per day to an average of 15 to 20 per day, with over 3,000 successful auctions in 2012 alone.
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(bwā`nəs ī`rēz, âr`ēz, Span. bwā`nōs ī`rās), city and federal district (1991 pop. 2,960,976; metropolitan area 11,255,618), the capital of Argentina, E Argentina, on the Río de la Plata. Buenos Aires is inhabited mostly by people of Spanish and Italian extraction, but there are many residents of French, British, German, Eastern European, and Syrian background and some communities of Paraguayans and other Latin Americans.Economy
One of the largest cities of Latin America, Buenos Aires is Argentina's chief port and its financial, industrial, commercial, and social center. Located on the eastern edge of the Pampa, Argentina's most productive agricultural region, and linked with Uruguay, Paraguay, and Brazil by a great inland river system, the city is the distribution hub and trade outlet for a vast area. The historical importance of its port, one of the world's busiest, has led the citizens of Buenos Aires to call themselves porteños [people of the port]. Meat and dairy products, hides, wool, flax, and linseed oil are the chief exports. Buenos Aires, the most heavily industrialized city of Argentina, is a major food-processing center, with huge meatpacking and refrigeration plants and flour mills. Other leading industries are metalworking, automobile manufacturing, oil refining, printing and publishing, machine building, and the production of textiles, chemicals, paper, clothing, beverages, and tobacco products. Factories began to move into some of the suburbs in the 1980s.
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Buenos Aires is a modern city of great wealth. In its center are the Plaza de Mayo, a square whose buildings include the Casa Rosada [pink house], the office of the Argentine president, and the cabildo, the former meeting place of the colonial town council and now a national museum. The Avenida de Mayo extends from the square to the Palace of the National Congress, c.1 mi (1.6 km) away. Other famous streets are the Avenida 9 de Julio (commemorating the date of Argentina's independence from Spain, July 9, 1816), said to be the world's widest boulevard; Calle Florida, the main shopping thoroughfare; and the Avenida de Corrientes, which is the nucleus of the theater and nightclub district, often called the Broadway of Argentina. Buenos Aires also has many beautiful parks, including Palmero Park. The cathedral (completed 1804) is a well-known landmark containing the tomb of José de San Martín. Among the numerous educational, scientific, and cultural institutions are the Univ. of Buenos Aires and several private universities; the National Library; the Teatro Colón, one of the world's most famous opera houses; and the Museum of Latin American Art (Malba). La Prensa and La Nación are daily newspapers famous throughout the Spanish-speaking world. The city has a subway system and is a railroad hub as well as a center of inland seaborne traffic. Nearby, at Ezeiza, is a large international airport.
The city was first founded in 1536 by a Spanish gold-seeking expedition under Pedro de MendozaMendoza, Pedro de
, b. 1501 or 1502, d. 1537, Spanish conquistador, first adelantado [civil and military governor] of Río de la Plata (present-day Argentina).
..... Click the link for more information. . However, attacks by indigenous peoples forced the settlers in 1539 to move to Asunción (now the capital of Paraguay), and in 1541 the old site was burned. A second and permanent settlement was begun in 1580 by Juan de GarayGaray, Juan de
, c.1528–1583, Spanish conquistador, refounder of Buenos Aires. He went to Peru (1544) in the train of the first viceroy, Blasco Núñez Vela, and was active against Gonzalo Pizarro in the civil war.
..... Click the link for more information. , who set out from Asunción. Although Spain long neglected Buenos Aires in favor of the riches of Mexico and Peru, the settlement's growth was enhanced by the development of trade, much of it contraband.
In 1617 the province of Buenos Aires, or Río de la Plata, was separated from the administration of Asunción and was given its own governor; a bishopric was established there in 1620. During the 17th cent. the city ceased to be endangered by indigenous peoples, but French, Portuguese, and Danish raids were frequent. Buenos Aires remained subordinate to the Spanish viceroy in Peru until 1776, when it became the capital of a newly created viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata, including much of present-day Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay, and Bolivia.
Prosperity increased with the gradual removal of restrictions on trade, which formerly had to pass through Lima, Peru. The creation of an open port at Buenos Aires by Charles III of Spain, however, only made the porteños more desirous of separation from the Spanish Empire. In 1806, when Spain was allied with France during the Napoleonic Wars, British troops invaded Buenos Aires; their expulsion by the colonial militia without Spanish help further stimulated the drive for independence from Spain. Another British attack was repelled the following year. On May 25, 1810 (now celebrated as a national holiday), armed citizens of the cabildo, or town council, successfully demanded the resignation of the Spanish viceroy and established a provisional representative government. This action inaugurated the Latin American revolt against Spanish rule.
Argentina's official independence (July 9, 1816) was followed by a long conflict between the unitarians, strongest in Buenos Aires prov., who advocated a centralized government dominated by the city of Buenos Aires, and the federalists, mostly from the interior provinces, who supported provincial autonomy and equality. In 1853 the city and province of Buenos Aires refused to participate in a constituent congress and seceded from Argentina. National political unity was finally achieved when Bartolomé Mitre became Argentina's president in 1862 and made Buenos Aires his capital. Bitterness between Buenos Aires and the province continued, however, until 1880, when the city was detached from the province and federalized. A new city, La Plata, was built as the provincial capital.
Argentine railroad construction in the second half of the 19th cent. stimulated settlement and cultivation of the pampas, whose products Buenos Aires marketed and exported. The city's spectacular economic development attracted immigrants from all over the world through the 1920s. Shantytowns built on the city's margins remained through the 1950s. The development of the city's transportation system in the 1970s and 80s facilitated economic growth.
Buenos Aires
province in Argentina. Area, 307,600 sq km. Population, 7.7 million (1965 estimate). Its administrative center is the city of La Plata (southeast of the city of Buenos Aires). The La Pampa Plain makes up most of the province. The climate is mild. Precipitation varies from 250 mm in the south to 1,000 mm in the northeast. The soils are chernozems. Buenos Aires is the most economically developed and urbanized province of Argentina. Its economy is oriented to export. The greater part of the country's industrial production—particularly heavy industry (which is located primarily around the city of Buenos Aires and on the lower reaches of the Paraná River)—is concentrated here, as is about half of the country's production from livestock breeding and nearly a third of its production from plant growing (including more than half of the harvest of grains).
Buenos Aires
capital of Argentina; main economic, political, and cultural center of the country. It is located on the Río de la Plata estuary (where the Riachuelo River empties into it), in a well-protected inlet on the right bank, 275 km from the ocean. The average July temperature is 10° C, the average January temperature 24° C; precipitation is 987 mm a year. Buenos Aires is one of the largest cities in South America, with a population of 3,447,000 (1968). It forms an independent administrative unit, the Capital Federal District. Besides the federal district, Greater Buenos Aires includes 18 suburbs. The area of Greater Buenos Aires is 3,646 sq km; its population is 8 million (1968), constituting one-third of Argentina's population and one-half of its urban population.
Administration. Under the country's constitution, the capital is governed by the president of Argentina. In practice, the capital is administered by the president personally or by the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The municipality is headed by the intendente, who is appointed by the president and to whom the entire staff of municipal employees and district intendentes is subordinated. Immediate direction of city institutions, services, and enterprises is provided by two secretariats—the secretariat of public works, sanitation, and security, and the secretariat of finances and administration. The Ministry of Internal Affairs controls the city's police, the Ministry of Education controls the schools, the Ministry of Economics controls the work of the municipal enterprises, and the Ministry of Public Works controls urban construction and the municipal economy. The functions of the municipal council, which is elected by the population of the city, include the confirmation of the budget and certain acts of the municipal administration, questions of city planning, and so on.
History. Buenos Aires was founded in 1536 (according to other data, 1535) by the Spanish conquistador Pedro de Mendoza under the name Ciudad de la Santísima Trinidad y Puerto de Nuestra Señora de Santa María de los Buenos Aires—city of the Holy Trinity and port of the Holy Mother St. Mary of the good (fair) winds (that is, the patroness of sailors). The city was devastated and burned by the Spanish in 1541; they abandoned it under pressure from the Indians, who waged a bitter struggle against the conquerors. Renewed building began in 1580. In 1776, Buenos Aires became the capital of the viceroyalty of Río de la Plata. From May 1810 it was one of the centers of the war of independence of the Spanish colonies in America. From 1816 to 1826, Buenos Aires was the capital of the United Provinces of Río de la Plata. In 1880 it was proclaimed the capital of the republic of Argentina. The city's population has grown rapidly since the mid-19th century; it was 91,000 in 1853, 1 million in 1905, 1.5 million in 1914, and 3.8 million in 1958. Buenos Aires has been the center of the country's workers' movement since the beginning of the 20th century. The proletariat was involved in armed class battles in Buenos Aires in January 1919; there were large-scale strikes in the city during the 1950's and 1960's.
Economy. Buenos Aires is an important transportation center of the country. It is one of the largest seaports of Latin America, with a freight turnover of 20 million tons; through it pass 85 percent of Argentina's imports and 40 percent of its exports. In the area of exports, agricultural products predominate: meat, wool, and grain. Among imports, industrial equipment, iron ore, coal, and oil predominate. Most of the railroads (18 radials), highways, river routes, and air lines cross in Buenos Aires. The city has a subway. Ezeiza, a major international airport, is 40 km from Buenos Aires.
Buenos Aires is the country's most important industrial center; over half of the country's industrial proletariat and over half of the industrial output are concentrated here. The main branches of industry are machine building (first and foremost, electrotechnical); oil refining; and chemical, food, and textile industries. Meat packing holds first place in the food industry. The city consumes three-fourths of the country's electric power.
Architecture and city planning. The layout of Buenos Aires is based on a right-angle network of streets and the main square, which opens toward the Río de la Plata. Industrial enterprises are concentrated in the southern portion of Buenos Aires, around the port; the capital's center—old Buenos Aires—is the city's business and commercial center, the site of government institutions, the president's residence, banks, and stores. The bourgeois sections of the city, with their luxurious private residences, are richly planted with trees and shrubs. There are slums on the outskirts and in the industrial sections of the city. The churches of San Ignacio (1710-34, architects H. Kraus and A. Blanqui) and El Pilar (1716-32, architects A. Blanqui and J. B. Primoli) and the town hall (1725-54) have survived from the 18th century. During the 19th and 20th centuries, the small houses of the colonial period were displaced by splendid, eclectic multistory structures, and then by buildings in the contemporary style. Main thoroughfares have been built—Avenida de Mayo (1889), Avenida Nueve de Julio (1930's; 140 m wide, with an underground garage), and Avenida General Paz (1937-41; about 30 km long and 100 m wide). Multistory apartment houses, private residences, large public buildings (Congress Hall, early 20th century, and the Colon Theater, 1909, by the architect V. Meano; the Municipal Theater, 1958, by the architects M. R. Alvarez and M. O. Ruiz), and port, industrial, and sports buildings have been erected. During the 1960's, tall residential buildings, the London and South American Bank (1966-67, architects C. Testa, Sanchez, and others), and a new university building were constructed. There are numerous monuments (including the monument to C. Alvear, 1915-23, sculptor E. A. Bourdelle; the monument to C. Columbus, marble, sculptor A. Zocchi).
Educational, scientific, and cultural institutions. Buenos Aires has a university, technological institute, conservatory, and other educational institutions; there are 11 branch academies and many other scientific research institutions. The National Historical Museum, Ethnographic Museum, Museum of the Natural History of Argentina, National Museum of the Fine Arts, National Museum of Decorative Art, Museum of Modern Art, Municipal Museum of Fine and National Arts, and others are located here, in addition to the National Library, Congress Library, Colon opera theater, and other libraries and theaters.
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