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A Bitter Battle
Trip Start Jun 08, 2010
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Today was my first (and only) full day in the city of Pecs. It was definitely a city worth spending a day in, and probably the most lively city I'd been in since Budapest. I'm not sure if it was always that way, or if the extra visitors were just there for the European Capital of Culture and associated conferences and activities. Whatever the case, it was also my favorite city since Budapest.
There were many small museums scattered around the old town, but I spent most of my day wandering the area visiting churches and admiring the buildings
There were a few things open today, mostly churches. I went to the St. Peter and Paul Basilica, which had a couple of associated exhibits you could also by tickets for. I went with a combo ticket because it was only about a dollar more. The main ticket got you into the chapel, which was elaborately decorated in same colorful style I had seen throughout Hungary, for example in Matthais Church in Buda.
In the 11th century crypt, a modern artist was creating a large mosaic of triangles using colored sand. I was told it would take six days to complete and tomorrow night, the artist would use a broom to mix the sand together while performing some sort of dance. The mixed sand would then be distributed to the audience. It was supposed to symbolize life with it's fragility and mix of experiences, I think. Apparently, the artist traveled Europe putting on this exhibition
The next exhibit on the combo ticket was the lapidary. It took the lead in the Best Lapidary of the Trip category. Like the lapidary in Esztergom, care had been taken to arrange the stones in groups and present them in a manner close to how they were originally displayed. Compared to Esztergom, this exhibit had a much better selection of stones, including a few stones with traces of paint and one display where the original stones from a series of carvings leading into the church crypt had been assembled, so it took first place from the previous leader.
The combo ticket itinerary concluded with a tour of the church winery museum. I wasn't into wine, but I had the ticket and spare time, so I decided to poke my head in. It really wasn't a tour, and there really wasn't a museum. You went into the winery and there were signs for the "museum", which was just the wine cellar without any explanation. The only thing the ticket really got you was a glass of wine, which I didn't stick around for.
The other church I visited today was the unusual "Mosque Church", so named because it was a mosque that had been turned into a church when the area was recaptured from the Turks
Along with two churches, I stopped by the Pecs Synagogue. It followed the standard layout I had begun to associate with neolog churches, but with two levels of balcony. I guess they had a lot of women. An old man at the entrance gave me a rather lengthy set of English-language sheets with the history of synagogue and it's members.
When I told him I wanted English, he asked if I was American or English. I told him I was from the US, and he said, "That's good. America is a friend of the Jewish people." I wondered what he would have said if I was from Britain, or what he said to the many German visitors, since much of the information was related to German activity during the Holocaust (no mention of fascist Hungarian collaborators). Around 88% of the Jewish population of Pecs died during WWII.
After lunch, I wasn't sure what to do. I'd been around the town, the sky was gray, the museums were closed and even the Capital of Culture festival was taking Monday off...
A few days ago, I started thinking about going to visit the battlefield of Moh�cs. Moh�cs was the scene of the pivotal battle where the Turks defeated King Louis II of Hungary in 1526, shattering Hungary into three pieces and ushering in over 150 years of Turkish rule in the Hungarian heartland
and castles I'd been to that I thought it would be neat to see it.
The battle was a disaster. Due to turmoil and in-fighting within Hungary, Louis II had been unable to raise a sufficient army to face the Turks, but nonetheless he felt compelled to face them quickly. On the day of the battle, the Hungarians and Turks were apparently both awaiting reinforcements when one of the Hungarian commanders decided they should attack. Initially the Hungarians were successful, but additional Turkish forces soon arrived and overwhelmed them in a counter-attack. On top of the slaughter of 18,000 Hungarian soldiers by the Turks in under two hours, the fleeing King fell into the river and drowned.
I decided to go there this afternoon because I saw signs for it on the highway and it was only around a half hour away from Pecs. A few kilometers outside of the town of Moh�cs was a memorial built in an area where unmarked mass graves were found in the mid-20th century. Apart from a single sculpture in the form of a map at the entrance, there wasn't a lot of information about the battle itself. Certainly, there was nothing like many US battlefields which have monuments with troop positions and explanations of the conflict
The main sense I got from the memorial information was a sense of bitterness. Here are some samples from the brochure: "The breakage at the apex symbolizes the trauma that was suffered in the development of the country as a result of the lost battle." "The route then leads across the atrium of a sunken building, recalling the atmosphere of monasteries that perished under Turkish rule." "The white stone-rose water feature stands in the middle, symbolizing with its split flower the breakage of the country into three parts, shedding tears for Hungary.", and so on.
The memorial area itself was actually rather large, with concentric circles cutting through an open plain, surrounded by a thick ring of trees. The major feature was a small army of carved wooden poles with the features of soldiers or horses, and a few with items distinguishing them as symbols of specific people. The use of a less durable material like wood was a little different. I'm not sure I've seen a large memorial before that didn't rely on giant slabs of stone or metal. The choice of wood carving came from a desire to reflect local funeral traditions.
Despite all the talk of tragedy, the memorial did attempt to go out on a hopeful note. The last poster on the way back to the parking lot read: "Yet, there is hope opening its flowers on the old stems of sacrifice and suffering. There is hope that we can acknowledge all the values, multicultural variety and beauty that were eventually brought about by the defeat." It also had a quote from Hungarian poet Joseph Attila: "The war fought by our forefathers is absolved into peace by remembrance."


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I've been watching a few 49ers highlights recently and its apparent to me that they seem to run a lot of reverses and sweeps; their read option is coming in pretty handy for them too. Their OC always has something up his sleeve in every game. I know that they're an old school down-hill running football team but I've noticed they've gouged defenses with 12-15 yards a pop with reverses and sweeps. Is it just me or we suck at defending these type of plays?
Whenever an opposing team runs these kinds of plays we seem to give up huge yardage because these guys can't seem to shed their blocks. We aren't able to blow these up at the LOS because we can't seem to get penetration. And when we do get penetration we seem to get undisciplined on containment. Besides, Alex Smith can actually gain a few yards when he breaks from the pocket. That's gonna be a huge theme this Sunday: Containment! Containment! Containment! Thoughts?

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Both parties ducking Muslim issue
AT THE weekend, the online channel, American News Project, captured footage of a man outside a John McCain rally in Woodbridge, Virginia, handing out "Obama for Change" stickers, in which the O and the C had been morphed into an Islamic crescent and a communist hammer and sickle.
The three handing out the stickers were soon surrounded by moderate supporters of the Republican presidential contender - Christian and Muslim alike - who expressed disgust at the message in the stickers.
"I'm from the campaign and we do not condone this behaviour," said a young man identified as Daniel Zuberi. "What are you trying to say?"
The man with the stickers retorted: "Obama is a socialist with an Islamic background."
"Shame on you," said a woman captured on film. "I am Muslim and I support McCain."
Northern Virginia has an estimated 50,000 Muslim voters. There are between 3 million and 6 million Muslims nationally, and many live in important swing states, including Ohio and Pennsylvania.
Yet despite the messages of inclusiveness and tolerance from both major parties, neither campaign has been overly anxious to court the Muslim vote.
Neither presidential candidate has visited a mosque, yet both have made multiple visits to churches, according to the Washington DC-based Muslim Public Affairs Council.
When the council organised a voter registration evening in Manassas, Virginia, 10 days ago, neither the Obama nor the McCain surrogate turned up to speak, although the local congressional candidates from both parties did.
Safiya Ghori-Ahmad, the director of communications, says the council is more hopeful the campaigns will send someone to similar events in Cincinnati and Dayton in Ohio this weekend.
"I think there has been some reluctance to be seen to be reaching out to Muslims," she said.
"But it's a very diverse community - indigenous African, Americans, South Indians and Arabs. We are more hopeful we will get representatives from both campaigns to our Ohio events."
The most serious affront has come from Democrat Barack Obama's campaign in June, which received negative publicity after two volunteer campaign workers at a rally removed two girls wearing headscarves from within camera shot. Democrat Keith Ellison, from Minneapolis, the first Muslim elected to Congress, intervened on the women's behalf and Senator Obama rang to apologise, which seems to have placated the community.
"I think they learnt a lot," Congressman Ellison said of the incident. "They did respond and they have tried to have a campaign that reflected the diversity of our society."
His early offers to help the Obama campaign during the primaries in Cedar Rapids, Iowa - which has a significant Islamic population - were rebuffed by Obama aides who told him thanks, but no thanks. "We have a very tightly wrapped message," one told him.
There remains concern though, about the vehemence with which Senator Obama has sought to set the record straight about his religious beliefs and the fact that he is not Muslim but Christian - and the fact that McCain surrogates, though not Senator McCain himself - have tried publicly to hint that he is Muslim.
The Republican former secretary of state, Colin Powell, took his own party to task on the use of religion in the campaign as he announced his support for Senator Obama.
"I'm also troubled by, not what Senator McCain says, but what members of the party say," Mr Powell said. "And it is permitted to be said such things as, 'Well, you know that Mr Obama is a Muslim.' Well, the correct answer is, he is not a Muslim, he's a Christian. He's always been a Christian.
"But the really right answer is, what if he is? Is there something wrong with being a Muslim in this country? The answer's no, that's not America. Is there something wrong with some seven-year-old Muslim-American kid believing that he or she could be president? YetI have heard senior members of my own party drop the suggestion, 'He's a Muslim and he might be associated terrorists.' This is not the way we should be doing it in America."
Mr Powell is now a hero among Muslims for saying what even Senator Obama has been afraid to say.
According to a Pew Poll in August, American Muslims are likely to vote 70 to 80 per cent Democrat, though in 2000 there was significant support for George Bush because of fears the Democratic vice-presidential candidate, Joe Lieberman, would skew foreign policy in favour of Israel.
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Analogue Day Activity: Be a Street Musician for a Day2013-04-07 5 Share Tweet
Now, you might think that this sounds crazy and that being a busker is quite a lonely path, but if you'd stop and give it a chance (even if only for a day), you might find yourself picking up some invaluable insight.
Remember that time we encouraged you to pick an instrument and learn how to play? How about when we all learned how important it was to stop and appreciate beauty?
Now how about you take it to the next level and combine those two together?
Try to walk on their shoes and experience for yourself what the life of a street musician is like, even just for a day. It's a definite step out of the comfort zone for some, but the perspective and experience that it give will be like no other.
How do you make your life a little bit more analogue with each day's passing? Aside from these Analogue Day Activities we've been sharing, why don't you inspire your fellow lomographers as we inch closer to the worldwide Film Photography Day celebrations and share with us your own stories? Remember, you can also schedule your own meet-ups for the big event, show your analogue life through an awesome video, and profess your love for all things analogue with some of your best snaps!
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It's here! New Zealand's favourite boat show starts this Thursday! The 2011 Hutchwilco New Zealand Boat Show, at the ASB
Showgrounds Greenlane Auckland, starts Thursday (May 12) and runs
through to Sunday (May 15). Gates are open from 10am until 6pm and there is
one late night: Friday, May 13, when the show stays open until 9pm.
If you're planning to come to this year's Hutchwilco New
Zealand Boat Show and would like to avoid the queues – and save money
– pre-purchase your tickets on line today.
Pre-purchased adult tickets are just $16 (instead of $18 at the gate)
but there is a catch: they are only available until 5pm this Wednesday, May
here to buy
There's plenty for the young ones to see and do at this
year's show. They can go fishing in the Discover Boating Centre,
enter the colouring competition (download it here), have a go at
model yacht racing and try a sailing simulator. They can also play the
Great Brain Drain, have a go at packing up a real America's Cup
spinnaker, use the surf rescue simulator and try windsurfing or paddle
They can even bring their togs and
get a free swimming lesson in the new heated pool!
There is a full programme of events, designed to appeal to the whole
family, in both the Discover Boating Centre and the new Youthtown Aqua Fun
Zone. Check them out here
There is plenty to appeal to us slightly older folk, too. Discover
Boating Centre MC's Bruce Duncan. Adam Clancey and Pio Tere will
share their favourite fishing spots and show how to catch, fillet and cook
our most popular fish. Bob McDavitt will explain what that marine weather
forecast really means and there will even be special guest appearances by
sailing adventurer Tony Mowbray, sharing his Sydney-Hobart experience.
It's got to be the ultimate fishing
experience and it could be yours for free! Radio Hauraki, the long-time
sponsor of our popular Hauraki Fishing Hall, is giving away a Heletranz
heli-fishing trip. Simply visit the Radio Hauraki stand (in the
Hauraki Fishing Hall, of course), fill in the entry form and you are in the
draw to win a trip for you and two mates. Of course, there is a catch but
it's not a bad one: you'll be "escorted" by
Hauraki breakfast host and mad-keen fisher, Nick Trott.
There's so much to win at this year's Hutchwilco New Zealand
Boat Show, it sometimes seems like everyone will be going home with a
prize! As well as the main gate prize: the very cool Extreme/Yamaha Family
Fishing Boat Package and the four daily $3000 Viking Kayak Packages (and
the heli-fishning trip), there's also a $3000 Cressi dive package, a
trip to Rotorua to go trout fishing, charter trips on Auckland boat
Wavedancer and so much more.
For all the details, visit our website or check out the Official Show
Guide in next Tuesday's copy of the New Zealand Herald.
We want to know what you think
about the show. What you liked, what you didn't, what we can do to
make the experience even better for you and your family next year.
Please help us by visiting the easy-to-use TouchPoll screens in the Gate
Prize Entry area in Hall 5 (where you enter to win the Extreme/Yamaha
Family Fishing Boat Package and the four daily $3000 Viking Kayak
Our survey takes just a few minutes and every one that is completed goes
in the draw for a flight over the Hauraki Gulf in the Telecom "Catch
Fish Not Cables" patrol plane.
If you missed our TV ad or would simply like to see it again, click
here to see it on our site!
And finally, this is the way to go fishing, seriously…click
here to have a look on Youtube!


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Who is betting on what
Will Sydneysiders be betting on the Melbourne Cup or buying a ticket for the $100m Lotto draw on Tuesday?
Opinion: It's great fun just living in Lotto's fantasy land
EITHER the people of Campbelltown are very lucky or they buy a lot of lottery tickets. Data from NSW Lotteries spanning the past four years reveals that Campbelltown is the number one suburb in the state for lottery winners.
If you are on a low income you're likely to think that the only way out of your circumstances is to buy a lottery ticket.
Analysis of the 552 winning ticket sale locations reveals other suburbs or towns in the top five are Penrith, Cabramatta, Queanbeyan and Sydney.
The director of the Council of Social Service NSW, Alison Peters, said gambling activity tends to be higher in lower socio-economic areas.
"We know from poker-machine revenue data that there is a higher level of revenue from pubs and clubs in Sydney's south-west and central Sydney, which may be related to where people work," she said. "So the areas are very similar to lottery tickets."
She said people under financial stress were more likely to believe that winning the lottery may be the answer to their worries.
"If you are on a low income you're likely to think that the only way out of your circumstances is to buy a lottery ticket," she said. "It shows optimism, even if the chances of winning are very, very low."
Dr Rohan Miller, a gambling expert from the University of Sydney, said as the data only showed where the tickets were sold rather than where the buyers lived, it was hard to definitively say that sales are higher in lower socio-economic areas.
However, he said there was plenty of anecdotal evidence to suggest that this was the case.
"These people are getting sold a dream," he said. "They may have mortgage stress, they may be under financial pressure. Maybe they feel that buying a lottery ticket is the only option they have for alleviating that financial pressure.
"A merchant banker from Macquarie Bank is is less likely to be seduced by that dream than a truck driver from Bankstown."
Higher socio-economic areas such as Rose Bay and North Sydney have produced comparatively few winners over the past four years according to the data, which includes Oz Lotto, Lotto, Lotto Strike, Powerball, The Pools and $2 Lucky Lotteries.
About 7.5 million people - or one in two Australian adults - are expected to buy a ticket in today's $100 million Oz Lotto jackpot.
And people who live in Casino are not especially lucky, having produced only two lotto winners in the past four years.


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Fair Avenue flooded on Monday evening near Ingalls Street as utility workers continued to try to contain it at 7:30 p.m.
Water from underground spilled on to the street near 1010 Fair Ave. about 5:45 p.m., said Santa Cruz police Sgt. Greg Crofts.
An officer notified Santa Cruz Public Works and the Santa Cruz Water Department. Authorities closed Fair Avenue toward Delaware Avenue. The flooding did not appear related to recent construction on the road, Crofts said, but it was not clear what started the flood.
More information was not available Monday night.
Santa Cruz
EXPENSIVE BICYCLES STOLEN OUTSIDE HOTEL >> A Southern California family vacationing in Santa Cruz lost some $7,800 worth of property when they left their four bicycles locked to the car overnight.
Video surveillance from the Riverside Avenue hotel they were staying at shows three males using a bolt cutter to cut the cable lock around the bikes about 4:30 a.m. Saturday, said Santa Cruz Deputy Police Chief Steve Clark. He did not immediately have detailed descriptions of the suspects, as investigation into the case continues.
The family, from Hemet, outside Los Angeles, reported the loss of bicycles separately worth $2,800, $2,700, $1,300 and $1,000, Clark said.
"The bike is only secure as the lock. Especially, things of value are going to attract attention," Clark said. "My recommendation is you don't leave them out and you don't leave them vulnerable. And know your serial number."
Clark said bike thefts are not uncommon, but victims do not always report the missing property and often to do not know their bikes' serial numbers.
"We regularly find people on bicycles that we suspect are stolen and we run the serial number and they don't come back as stolen," Clark said. "We love catching people with stolen bikes, and oftentimes we love being able to reunite people with their stolen property. A bicycle's like an old friend. People really feel a sense of being violated when their stuff is stolen, and bicycles in particular.
Clark said bike owners can visit their local police departments to register their bicycles for free, or even use online fee registration services like nationalbikeregistry.com.


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Nicola Finetti's core offering of pretty above the knee cocktail dresses never moves too far off course – which says something for the success of his long serving aesthetic. Resort 2013 works in fresh floral prints and classic ivory whites atop full skirts, petal hems, and the occasional peplum. If anything feels a departure it's the draped, pastel-coloured numbers, which – in their easy shapelessness – have a sort of 1920s sensibility.
The kind of dresses that are sure to be a hit with Finetti's devotees, it's a resort collection you can view more of by clicking on the gallery.


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Event: Actress Vidya Balan, who is in Melbourne as the Indian Film Festival's Brand Ambassador, was given the honour of handing over the Match Ball at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG).
Guest List: Vidya Balan
Bollywood babes Shraddha Kapoor, Sona Mohapatra, Shamita Shetty, Karishma Tanna, Adaa Khan, Mouni Roy among others were snapped at the success bash of HALF GIRLFRIEND.
Bollywood celebs Arjun Kapoor, Shraddha Kapoor, Mukesh Bhatt, Mahesh Bhatt, Mohit Suri, Chetan Bhagat, Udita Goswami, Ronit Roy, Tusshar Kapoor, Karan Johar, Rajkummar Rao, Upen Patel, Sushant Singh R...
Bollywood actress Huma Qureshi was spotted at Khar.
Bollywood actor Ranveer Singh was spotted at the airport.
Bollywood actor Shahid Kapoor was snapped at the airport.


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Windy McPherson's Son HTML version
Through the summer and early fall Sam continued his wanderings. The days on which
something happened or on which something outside himself interested or attracted him
were special days, giving him food for hours of thought, but for the most part he walked
on and on for weeks, sunk in a kind of healing lethargy of physical fatigue. Always he
tried to get at people who came into his way and to discover something of their way of
life and the end toward which they worked, and many an open-mouthed, staring man and
woman he left behind him on the road and on the sidewalks of the villages. He had one
principle of action; whenever an idea came into his mind he did not hesitate, but began
trying at once the practicability of living by following the idea, and although the practice
brought him to no end and only seemed to multiply the difficulties of the problem he was
striving to work out, it brought him many strange experiences.
At one time he was for several days a bartender in a saloon in a town in eastern Ohio. The
saloon was in a small wooden building facing a railroad track and Sam had gone in there
with a labourer met on the sidewalk. It was a stormy night in September at the end of his
first year of wandering and while he stood by a roaring coal stove, after buying drinks for
the labourer and cigars for himself, several men came in and stood by the bar drinking
together. As they drank they became more and more friendly, slapping each other on the
back, singing songs and boasting. One of them got out upon the floor and danced a jig.
The proprietor, a round-faced man with one dead eye, who had himself been drinking
freely, put a bottle upon the bar and coming up to Sam, began complaining that he had no
bartender and had to work long hours.
"Drink what you want, boys, and then I'll tell you what you owe," he said to the men
standing along the bar.
Watching the men who drank and played like school boys about the room, and looking at
the bottle sitting on the bar, the contents of which had for the moment taken the sombre
dulness out of the lives of the workmen, Sam said to himself, "I will take up this trade. It
may appeal to me. At least I shall be selling forgetfulness and not be wasting my life with
this tramping on the road and thinking."
The saloon in which he worked was a profitable one and although in an obscure place had
made its proprietor what is called "well fixed." It had a side door opening into an alley
and one went up this alley to the main street of the town. The front door looking upon the
railroad tracks was but little used, perhaps at the noon hour two or three young men from
the freight depot down the tracks would come in by it and stand about drinking beer, but
the trade that came down the alley and in at the side door was prodigious. All day long
men hurried in at this door, took drinks and hurried out again, looking up the alley and
running quickly when they found the way clear. These men all drank whiskey, and when
Sam had worked for a few days in the place he once made the mistake of reaching for the
bottle when he heard the door open.


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Big Time Rush Take Fans Higher in 'Elevate' Video
"We're here to see Big Time Rush!"
A chorus of screaming girls opens up the new Big Time Rush clip, which features live, as well as backstage and fan footage, of the Nickelodeon band.
"Are you ready? 'Cause I'm ready," Carlos Pena, clad in a varsity style jacket, says backstage. The band hits the stage to blinding pyrotechnics, a roaring crowd and a literal elevator taking them into view.
The video shows the stage being set before the show, as well as fan signs, screams and video tributes to BTR. We see the band on the bus playing with puppies (too cute!), serenading and taking photos with fans.The BTR fanatics are the true stars of the show here, and it's a sweet way to thank them for their support.
Two things we don't see that were on tour and at the 'Big Time Movie' premiere? One Direction and Demi Lovato. It's understandable, though — the spotlight can only fit so many, and the fans stole it!
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Google Inc. has been developing plans to launch retail stores in the U.S., said people familiar with the matter, in another sign the company is studying Apple Inc.'s playbook for building a consumer-electronics brand.
The stores would likely sell Google-branded hardware, these people said. But it isn't clear when or where any stores would open, and one of the people said the Internet giant might not move forward with the plan this year.
Report: Google Planning Retail Stores [online.wsj.com]


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"Sir Charles Augustus FitzRoy, KCH, KCB (10 June 1796 – 16 February 1858) was a British military officer, politician and member of the aristocracy, who held governorships in several British colonies during the 19th century.
Family and peerage
Charles was born in England, the eldest son of General Lord Charles FitzRoy and Frances Mundy. His grandfather, Augustus FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton, was the Prime Minister of Great Britain from 1768 to 1770.
Charles' half brother Robert FitzRoy would become a pioneering meteorologist and surveyor, Captain of HMS Beagle, and later Governor of New Zealand.
Early life
The young Charles FitzRoy was educated at the Harrow School in London, before receiving a commission in the Royal Horse Guards regiment of the British Army at the age of 16. Just after his 19th birthday, FitzRoy's regiment took part in the Battle of Waterloo, where he was wounded. He travelled to Lower Canada with the Duke of Richmond in 1818. On 11 March 1820, he married Lady Mary Lennox (daughter of the Duke of Richmond), just after his promotion to Captain. In 1825, he was promoted to the rank of lieutenant-colonel and appointed Deputy Adjutant General of the Cape Colony (now the Cape of Good Hope).
Governor of Prince Edward Island and the Leeward Islands
Sir Charles was appointed as the eleventh Governor of Prince Edward Island off the coast of Canada on 31 March 1837, and was granted a knighthood just before his departure. He returned to England in 1841 and shortly afterwards was made Governor of the Leeward Islands in the West Indies until 1845.
Governor of New South Wales
Sir Charles was chosen as the tenth Governor of the colony of New South Wales by Lord Stanley in 1845. FitzRoy replaced Sir George Gipps as governor who had been a strong ruler but had provoked the animosity of many in the colony. It is likely that FitzRoy was chosen because he tended to be more appeasing in his approach. FitzRoy, his wife and his son George arrived in the colony on board HMS Carysfort on 2 August 1846. His wife and other children joined them later. Soon after his arrival he was asked to use his influence to procure the disallowance of an act of the Tasmanian legislature imposing a duty of 15% on products imported from New South Wales. Fitzroy brought before the British government the advisability of some superior functionary being appointed, to whom all measures passed by local legislatures should be referred before being assented to. In the long discussion over the separation of the Port Phillip district, Fitzroy showed tact and himself favoured bi-cameral legislatures for the new constitutions. The need for some type of federation between the various colonies was recognized, and as a step towards this Fitzroy was given a commission in 1850 appointing him governor-general of the Australian colonies. During his governorship great steps were made in the development of New South Wales. Transportation of convicts ceased, the Sydney University was founded, a branch of the royal mint was established and responsible government was granted. In 1847, Fitzroy served briefly as Governor of the Colony of North Australia, although his lieutenant-governor, George Barney had the main responsibility for establishing the new colony under FitzRoy's direction.
After sixteen months in the colony, Sir Charles' wife Mary was killed in a coach accident on 7 December 1847. A distraught FitzRoy considered resigning and returning to England, but his finances did not permit it.
In 1851 he named Grafton, New South Wales, after his grandfather Augustus FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton.
Sir Charles remained in New South Wales for eight eventful years, which saw many changes take place in the Australian colonies, not in the least being the first tentative steps towards Federation of the Australian states. In 1853, FitzRoy was appointed as Governor of Van Diemen's Land, South Australia and Victoria – essentially a pre-Federation Governor-General of Australia, with wide-ranging powers to intervene in inter-colonial disputes.
Later years and death
On 28 January 1855 he departed Australia and returned to England. On 11 September, his eldest son Augustus (a Captain in the Royal Regiment of Artillery) was killed in the Crimean War. On 11 December, he married Margaret Gordon (widow of a Melbourne land agent).
Sir Charles Augustus FitzRoy died in London on 16 February 1858 at the age of 61.
Sir Charles Augustus Fitzroy married, firstly, Lady Mary Lennox (15 August 1790 - 7 December 1847) on the 11th March 1820. They had 4 children:
- Captain Augustus Charles Lennox Fitzroy (20 September 1821 - 11 September 1855)
- Mary Caroline Fitzroy (20 December 1823 - 22 November 1895)
- George Henry Fitzroy (13 September 1826 - 8 July 1868)
- Commander Arthur George Fitzroy (20 March 1827 - 9 January 1861)
Lady Mary died from a carriage accident in Parramatta Park, outside Government House, in 1847. Within a year of her death, rumours were circulated about the colony of New South Wales about Fitzroy's 'womanising' ways. In 1850, Fitzroy made a visit to Berrima, to inspect the Fitzroy IronWorks. The Governor stayed at the Surveyor General's Inn, operated by former boxing champion Edward "Ned" Chalker (sometimes Charker). Ned's step-daughter, Mary Ann Chalker, who was 18 at the time, worked there. Nine months later, she gave birth to a son, named Charles Augustus Fitzroy, after his father, the Governor.[4] This boy was, later, adopted by ex-convict John Fitzsimons and his family.
- Charles Augustus Fitzroy Fitzsimons (9 November 1850 - 19 July 1921)
Sir Charles Augustus Fitzroy married, secondly (after his return to England), Margaret Gordon, on 11 December 1855. There was no issue from this marriage."
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Interview: Lucy Wainwright Roche @ Eddie's Attic 2/18
Singer/songwriter Lucy Wainwright Roche, daughter of Loudon Wainwright III and Suzzy Roche (The Roches) and half-sister of Rufus and Martha Wainwright, has been traveling with her large musical family pretty much her whole life. On February 18th (that's tomorrow!), she'll be gracing the stage at Eddie's Attic with her mother Suzzy and special guest Gina Breedlove
We got to chat with Lucy about family, album inspiration, and the 4th of July in Ireland. Read on to see what she had to say!
Both of your parents are musicians. What was it like growing up in a musical family? Did you spend a lot of time on the road with them?
Yes, I spent a lot of time on the road with my mom and her sister's (The Roches). We would tour in the summers and weekends when I was not in school. I loved that because it was fun to travel around in a van with my mom and aunts and sometimes my uncle Dave would come open the shows and my grandma would come along and sell CDs! As an adult I've toured more with my dad but as a kid I didn't very much.
You and your mother are playing together at Eddie's Attic on February 18. What is it like performing with her?
We have a really good time on tour together – we're very used to traveling together since we've been doing it for my whole life. We share hotel rooms and share driving and it all works out very well. For me, who usually travels alone, it's really nice to have some company. The shows are also really fun because we get to sing in harmony which is another thing I miss when I travel alone.
You released "There's A Last Time For Everything" in October of last year. What were your main inspirations or influences behind this record?
This record was a bit of a surprise because I originally wasn't setting out to make an album. I went down to Nashville to visit my friend Jordan Hamlin are we thought we'd maybe maybe record a song or two at most and then we ended up making this whole album in a whirlwind. It was really fun to work quickly (we made the album in about 9 days) and to work in a really relaxed and spontaneous way.
What has been your most memorable gig to date?
I once played at the Ulster America Folk Park in Northern Ireland on the 4th of July. They have a reenactment of the Irish coming to America complete with a model ship and fake cobblestone streets. I thought it was going to be a folk festival so I was very surprised.
Do you have any pre-show rituals?
Not really… usually what I do before the show is drive all day and then soundcheck and then it's time to play!
Music aside, how do you connect with your audience during a show?
I really like talking to the audience. As I said, usually I travel alone and so it's nice for me to connect with the people in the room and I'm also really curious about who the people are who have found their way to my show.
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The rest of the list is going to change quite a bit over the next two months. There will be some movers and shakers so keep an early eye on a guy like Austin Freeman. The wing posted big numbers at the Spring Fling to kick off the year and everyone should be watching for a similar explosion in the month of April. Freeman checks in at No. 26 but he could be coming on fast!


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The Cedar Key Historical Society invites you to join in a monthly coffee to be held on Thursday, Jan. 20, at 10 a.m. at the Cedar Key Community Center, at the intersection of F and 6th streets.
The Levy County Republican Executive Committee will resume monthly meetings on the third Monday at Bubbaque's Restaurant in Chiefland. The next meeting is on Jan. 17, starting with food and fellowship at 6:30 p.m. followed by the meeting at 7 p.m. If you need a ride, please call Juanita 352-339-0747.
Joanna Finch, left, places a bag of food into a pile set to be distributed last Saturday at First United Methodist Church, in Chiefland. USDA provided enough food to fill about 150 bags. The next Chiefland distribution will be in March.
A K-9 officer with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) has been selected as its North Central Region's candidate for the 2010 Officer of the Year.
Two keepers of exotic animals in Levy County agreed to a court order on Tuesday that requires them to remove the animals from their property in Morriston, according to County Attorney Anne Bast Brown.
Duke Energy and Progress Energy announced Monday that both companies' boards of directors have unanimously approved a definitive merger agreement to combine the two companies in a stock-for-stock transaction, a $13.7 billion stock-based deal.
The combined company, to be called Duke Energy, will be the country's largest utility.
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The balloon went up on Friday that Progress Energy possibly was talking to another utility, Duke Energy, about a merger that would form the largest utility in the United States.
The news first hit a Wall Street financial-reporting site called DealReporter.com. It named no source, but the news spread to newspaper websites in Raleigh, N.C. – the city of Progress Energy's headquarters – and Charlotte, N.C. – home of Duke Energy.
Progress Energy Florida customers are being warned by the utility to be wary of offers for complimentary energy audits made by telemarketers.
Representatives of the Nature Coast Regional Water Authority, the regional utility that hopes to provide water and sewer service in the tri-county area, paid a call on the Levy County Commission.
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1 lb phyllo pastry
1/2 lb unsalted butter melted
1 lb walnuts, chopped well
2 C sliced (not slivered) almonds
1/2 C sugar
1 tbsp cinnamon
For the syrup:
3 C sugar
4 C water
smal slice of lemon peel
2 Tbsp lemon juice
2 inch cinnamon stick
Mix walnuts, almonds, sugar and cinnamon in a bowl. Using a large rectangular pan the size of the phyllo- or if you are using a 9x13 rectangular glass pan- measure the phyllo- it should be about double that size and you can cut it in half.
Butter the bottom of the pan with melted butter, using a pastry brush.
Unwrap the phyllo pastry. lay one sheet on the pan. Brush with butter. Sprinkle about 2 tbsp of nut mixture over the pastry. Cover with another sheet of pastry, butter then add another sprinkling of nuts. Continue to do this until all the nuts are used. You will end up with one or more sheets of buttered pastry on top. Butter the top. Cut in diamond shapes- the only way to do this easily is with an electric knife.
Bake at 400 degrees for about 10 minutes and then reduce heat to 350 for about 30-35 minutes- watch to make sure the pastry is not getting overly browned.
While the baklava is baking prepare the syrup. BOil together the sugar, water, lemon juice, lemon slice and cinnamon continuously until syrupy. A good indicator that it is done is that the lemon peel is transparent and candied. REmove the lemon peel and cinnamon stick from syrup and pour over the baklava immediately upon removal ffrom the oven.


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Federal regulations set cost of living adjustments
SALEM, Ore. - Next Tuesday, the federal government will make changes to the calculations used to determine how much an eligible person may receive in Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits, formerly known as food stamps.
The annual changes are cost-of-living adjustments to the income requirements and allowable deductions for SNAP eligibility, known as the SNAP standards. The change takes place October 1.
Currently, one in five Oregonians -- or 808,244 Oregonians -- receive food benefits through SNAP.
The amount of benefits a SNAP participant receives is based on many factors, including income and deductions for things like shelter and utilities.
With these changes on October 1, some may see a very small increase in their monthly benefits. The monthly increase will range from $0 to $13 for SNAP participants.
SNAP participants do not need to take any action. The state will automatically recalculate cases and increase benefits for those who qualify. Any additional amount in food benefits will show in the October issuance of benefits to SNAP participants.
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DOWNEY - Downey Calvary Chapel needed a big play, a momentum-changer down the stretch in Friday night's game against Faith Baptist at Downey High.
The tide was moving the way of the visitors, as the Grizzlies saw a 14-0 lead turn into a 38-30 deficit heading to the fourth quarter. Then B.J. Bell answered the bell for the home team.
The senior came up with two interceptions - the first an exciting 45-yard touchdown return in which he eluded many a would-be tackler - and helped the Grizzlies post a 44-38 triumph in the first round of the CIF Southern Section 8-Man Division 1 playoffs.
"My teammates encouraged me," Bell said. "I give credit to my teammates for the blocks."
He said the key on the long TD return was, "Don't stop and don't think too much."
Wearing pink socks in honor of his late mother, Kelly, Bell said of his team's rebound from the late deficit:
"We brought each other up. We kept going."
He added of the senior-dominated team: "We all work together and we're very well balanced."
His long scoring return turned out to be the game's final points as it lifted the Grizzlies from a 38-36 deficit to the victory. Then in the final minutes, he put an end to the Contenders' deep drive with a pickoff near the goal line. DCC then ran out the clock.
Grizzlies QB Nathan Jewell completed 13 for 21 passes for 169 yards and three touchdowns, two of them going to Jamin Lee.
Matthew Sanchez ran fort 74 yards and one TD for the Grizzlies, while backfield teammate Zachariah Laidlaw rushed for 94 yards and one TD on eight carries.
One of Laidlaw's TDs was a 65-yard run, and he also hauled in a TD pass of 42 yards.
Downey Calvary Chapel moved to 9-1 with the win and dropped Faith Baptist to 3-7.
The Grizzlies play in the second round next week against either top-ranked Desert Christian Academy or Dunn.
"We toughed it up. The seniors stepped up," said DCC coach Tom Laidlaw, the father of Zachariah. "Faith Baptist is a good team."


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Kohl: We Are Far From One Germany
Only a mile from German Chancellor Helmut Kohl's office, striking workers are blockading the Bonn subway as public-sector employees stage their first national walkout in 18 years. As if that isn't enough, Kohl's center-right coalition is reeling from the surprise resignation several days before of veteran Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher. Yet, sitting amid the dozens of model elephants bedecking his teak-and-leather-furnished office overlooking Bonn's Chancellery gardens, Kohl, 62, remains the picture of self-assurance. His response to speculation he might quit after a decade as Germany's leader? "Garbage."
On Apr. 29, the 6-foot-4-inch Chancellor took time out from his labor troubles and other matters for a two-hour conversation with BUSINESS WEEK Assistant Managing Editor Robert J. Dowling, Bonn Bureau Manager John Templeman and Correspondent Gail E. Schares, and European Economics Correspondent Bill Javetski. Seated beneath a portrait of former Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, Kohl spelled out his prescriptions for Germany, Europe, and the North Atlantic alliance.
Q Is the strike weakening your government?
A This strike is no threat to the ability of my government to govern, nor to the economic stability of our country. But it is absurd. Many people in western Germany have not yet fully understood that German unity is not some passing event, but has consequences. We have to do something about our competitiveness. We have to ask ourselves--and unification intensified this--whether we are living beyond our means. We have to concentrate our financial resources, sustain monetary stability and the climate for investment, and bear the financial burdens we took on for eastern Germany, central, eastern, and southeastern Europe, and the former Soviet Union.
Q What is your economic plan?
A We are steering a strict budget course, limiting the rise in government spending to 2.5% a year. We have to get inflation down below 4% this year. Our finances have not spun out of control, and I am determined to keep it that way. You can't win elections in Germany without reasonable economic policy.
Q Are German interest rates too high?
A There are a lot of unfair complaints about the Bundesbank. Long-term interest rates are about the same as in the U.S. My economic policy is directed toward a sound fiscal policy, strict budget cuts, and a reasonable wage policy, so that we can cut interest rates.
Q Did you underestimate the burden of unification?
A Socialism's legacy is very much more devastating in both material and nonmaterial ways than could be foreseen. Everybody, including myself, underestimated the extent to which the economic and, above all, ecological substance of eastern Germany had been destroyed. The state of the railroads and highways is simply unbelievable. However, the main problem of unification is not material, but human. Over 40 years, we drifted much further apart than we realized. Dictatorship and the Stasi secret police marked the east Germans much deeper than we in the west assumed.
Q How do you view Foreign Minister Genscher's resignation?
A It isn't sensational at all. He has been a member of the federal government for 23 years, 18 as foreign secretary. Hans-Dietrich Genscher is now 65, and he's had health problems. There aren't any secrets. If he stays in office, he'll be drawn into the next election campaign at the age of 67. Despite occasional political differences, we've been friends for decades.
Q Wasn't Mr. Genscher most closely identified with East-West relations?
A If you look back over the past 10 years, it is completely clear who was deciding policy on everything important. It was Helmut Kohl who decisively supported implementation of the NATO double-track agreement. Chancellor Kohl has been the driving force for European integration. And it was quite certainly Chancellor Kohl who strengthened the foundations of German foreign policy: the German-American and German-French partnerships.
Q Will Germany have to take a leading role in Europe-U.S. relations?
A Our demographic and economic position has changed enormously through unification and the collapse of world communism. Our basic political values and vital interests have not. United Germany is part of the West. With 80 million people, we are the most populous country in western Europe. We are the strongest economic power in Europe. We no longer have any excuse for not accepting international responsibility. Take the gulf war. We can't be in the United Nations and then when it comes to obligations say it doesn't suit us. Now, we have to clarify our constitution so we can participate in the U.N. with full rights and duties, and I underline duties.
Q What is America's role in Europe?
A There is a lot of stupid drivel about the U.S. and its alleged weaknesses. The U.S. is the strongest country in the world and will remain so. As such, Americans have to play a decisive role in the world. As German Chancellor, it is part of my job to support you. That doesn't mean that we won't have differences over specific issues. But German-American friendship is a basic condition for the political future of my country. I want to deepen that, starting with security. We need NATO for many more years. I want American soldiers to stay in Germany and Europe. I'd like to see greatly intensified German-American economic relations. We talk about transatlantic bridges. They have to stay, but they need more lanes.
Q Can Germany mediate between Europe and the U.S. to extend the General Agreement on Tariffs & Trade?
A My role is not as an intermediary, but as a German in the European Community, which negotiates through its Commission. We need success in the GATT negotiations because we need free world trade as much as we need air to breathe. Any thought of an economic Fortress Europe is unacceptable.
Q What should Japan's role be?
A If we have the same trade conditions in Japan as the Japanese have here, I won't have any worries. We have as many gray cells as they do. Japan has to take on more responsibility. They had relatively little to do, compared with the Europeans and Americans, during the whole cold war period. We are facing challenges from the Third World, from the global environment, for example, destruction of the rain forests, holes in the ozone layer. I cordially invite the Japanese to join their partners in meeting these challenges.
Q What about the fight in the EC between protectionists and free-traders?
A There are no more protectionists in Bonn than there are in Washington, and there are at least as many protectionists among the Washington industrial lobbies as there are in Germany. As far as subsidies are concerned, German industry is like U.S. industry. With us, it is coal. Others have the Strategic Defense Initiative and give big research contracts, the results of which are available for private use later.
Q Why does Europe need common political and defense policies alongside economic union?
A Economic union cannot work in the long run without a political union. History shows that you can't have a common currency and be completely at odds over fundamental political questions. If the EC, the future European Union, has a common currency in 1997 or 1999, it will need basic agreement on fiscal, economic, and budget policies. You need a European central bank. Those are also political decisions.
Q European election results show voters are very concerned about immigration. How are you addressing this?
A Neither Europe nor Germany can solve the problems of the whole world on their soil. Unfortunately, many people who oppose immigration also maintain we should refuse financial aid to these countries. That's stupid. But we made serious errors in Germany because we did not modify our asylum laws fast enough. If people are persecuted on political, racial, or religious grounds, they can still come here any time. This constitutional guarantee will not be changed. But when our constitution was drafted in 1948-49, nobody imagined that 25,000 people would come to us in January, 25,000 in February, and 30,000 in March, for overwhelmingly economic reasons.
Q Are you tired?
A I'm not tired at all. I don't know what sort of impression I convey after 30 years of 15- to 16-hour days. Sometimes my sons say: "Isn't it crazy what you do?" But I'm not complaining. That's the way I wanted it.


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We caught a speedboat down the Mekong to Luang Prabang, a white-knuckle journey with our bums squeezed onto impossible small bench seats. By the end of the 6 hour journey our legs and bums were dead and we had been burnt bright red down the front only, despite having fruitlessly tried to protect ourselves with hats and sarongs. We did not warm to Luang Prabang, which is meant to be Laos' 'sparkling jewel' and a famous UNESCO world heritage site
The bus trip outta there was one in a million: squeezed up the back of an ex-Japanese school bus with two other farang (foreigners) and a lot of luggage, we quickly realised this was going to be the most hellish ride we had ever faced. The luggage was a precariously balanced tower and stuff kept sliding forward and hitting the other farang on the head. The seats were tiny and we were cramped. The man in front of me was chain smoking. More people and luggage were being loaded - there were people sitting on plastic stools in the aisle. The bus was careening wildly down steep descents and taking hairpin turns at high speed. We realised why no foreigner travels on the Laos public buses, and decided that in the future we, too, would opt for the only slightly more expensive airconditioned tourist buses. At one stop, a lady headed for the market boarded - and so did her large woven baskets of produce. They were loaded into the aisle next to us, and soon ants were crawling over Chris's arms. To get out of our seats, we had to climb over the seats in front and walk over sacks of rice that were blocking the aisle further down... There were some highlights of the 6 hour trip though: the scenery in the mountainous route at sundown was truly stunning...
Our next stop was Vang Vieng, which is a backpackers paradise. We got stuck there for many days doing absolutely nothing and loving every second of it. Check out an article I wrote for more insight into this little gem of a town: The Scene
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Partnership with Shelby County Schools to Provide Family Care Centers
After nearly two years of intense planning, an innovative and expanding trend in employee healthcare convenience is now a reality for Shelby County Schools (SCS). Two new SCS Family Care Centers are the results of a partnership between the school system and Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare.
"We're thrilled to be able to offer this convenient and affordable wellness care option to our 5,000-plus employees and their families," said SCS Superintendent John Aitken. "We're extremely fortunate to have Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare's expert staff on board and thankful for the vision and efforts of our School Board and Coordinated School Health team in making this all possible."
There are two SCS Family Care Centers. The locations are the SCS Facilities Maintenance complex at 2800 Gray's Creek in Arlington and the Central Office East at 130 Flicker St. in Memphis. Both SCS Family Care Centers are open and serving SCS employees.
"This is an excellent partnership between Shelby County Schools and Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare," said Cato Johnson, senior vice president of corporate affairs for Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare. "This is a relationship we are very proud of."
SCS is one of four large school systems in Tennessee (Metro-Nashville, Rutherford County and Williamson County) to successfully implement on-site employee wellness centers. Staffed by Methodist Le Bonheur's advanced nurse practitioners and trained medical assistants, both SCS Family Care Center sites operate similar to a minor medical clinic. They offer quick attention during the workday for non-emergency health conditions, vaccinations and preventive treatments, in addition to providing limited pharmacy services. All services provided on-site, including in-stock prescriptions, are provided at no cost to SCS employees. Plus, any family member covered on an employee's SCS insurance plan can receive treatment at both Family Care Centers at a fee comparable to a doctor's office co-pay.
Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare has successfully partnered with several prominent employers in the development and opening of similar on-site employee wellness centers in recent years, including International Paper, Tunica's Hollywood Casino, Harrah's (Corporate) and M.S. Carriers.


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"Manual for Use in the National Guard," 1933 (11 pages) - produced by the Young Communist League to instruct members on how to infiltrate the National Guard. This fascinating record is part of the Communist Activity Intelligence Reports record series.
"Oregon Military History, Forts-Camps-Roads", 1805-1976 (JPEG, 880k) - large scale map produced by the Oregon Military Department in 1976. It shows the locations of historic forts, camps, and military roads in Oregon and includes descriptions (map is part of Oregon State Library holdings).
Sample Military Department enlistment and service case file, 1914 (20 pages) - includes various documents related to service of one individual in the Oregon Naval Militia.
Sample Military Department finding aid cards:
Citation card, 1898-1924
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Houston taxpayers may foot the bill for people who want homes but can't qualify for loans based on credit card debts, car loans or other bills, The Chronicle's Carolyn Feibel reports.
The government already lowers the bar for low-income, first-time homebuyers. There are grants for down payments, help with closing costs, as well as specific programs for veterans.
But all that do-gooding is apparently not good enough for Houston, where some officials want it to be even easier to rack up bills you haven't paid but still be able to claim "the American dream" of homeownership.
This is all as city and county officials across the country line up at the federal tax trough, cry about their deficits, and warn Armageddon will descend if a government worker is laid off.
So where's the money for the Houston plan coming from? Chronicle says ...
The $444,000 for the program is leftover money from a $1.5 million appropriation the city made for emergency home and roof repairs after Hurricane Ike.
And where's it going?
The "Credit Score Enhancement Program" will give up to $3,000 in grants to individuals who are trying to qualify for mortgages through the city's homebuyers assistance program.
So, instead of hiring a few more firefighters, putting a dent in Mayor Bill White's one million trees initiative, or even laying down a sidewalk or two, City Hall would rather pay for the flatscreen TVs our fellow citizens purchased on credit at an 18% APR.
You don't like those ideas? Here's another one: Seems like we have a hurricane scare or two here every year. Could be we have another situation like the one post-Ike, in which the populace may want tax money spent for home repairs.
Should we save the money for a rainy, post-hurricane day?
Nah, we've already got it in our hot hands. Better just spend it.
Also see blogHOUSTON's discussion and a lively conversation at the Chronicle's forum.


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Spies Like Us
Two old trucks, $16,000, and a great idea--that was all Greg Laube needed to launch The Paint Bull in 1989. Competition was the last thing on his mind. After all, his special system for touching up scuffed bumpers and key scratches quickly turned into a huge hit with used-car dealers. Sales took off and kept growing--until 1994. That was when Laube suddenly realized he wasn't alone anymore. He was starting to lose customers to competitors he never knew he had. "People began to tell us they were `looking at someone else,"' says Laube. But who?
Laube instituted a crash plan to gather intelligence. Relying mostly on information from customers, trade shows, and automotive magazines, he and his staff combed the marketplace for competitors--and phoned every single one, without identifying themselves as rivals, to find out what they were offering. Then they rigorously reviewed their own products and services to see how they could be improved. One resulting product: a trademarked repair system called Micropatch, which reduces the time for a paint touch-up to one hour.
Since then, Laube has moved from what he calls "primitive" intelligence gathering to a more formal system, hiring computer whiz Peter Avery in 1997 to head up Paint Bull's intelligence efforts. Avery, who is also in charge of vendor sales, keeps tabs on their competitors and the automotive industry with Web monitoring services that cost, in total, about $200 a month.
For years, big corporations have practiced competitive intelligence (or CI)--a system for gathering information that affects a business, analyzing the data quickly, and then taking action. Used properly, CI can speed a company's reaction time to changes in the marketplace, help preempt and outmaneuver competitors and protect a business' own secrets from prying eyes. To be sure, CI is a billion-dollar growth industry of seminars, books, and high-priced consultants. But small companies such as The Paint Bull are learning that CI can help them, too--and it doesn't have to cost a bundle. ("Getting Started," page F.31) "CI enters the small-business person's world first as a mental model, as a way of thinking about who you are in the world," says Pamela J. Noe, a Central Intelligence Agency officer on loan to George Washington University, where she's teaching small-business owners and others the discipline of competitive intelligence. "You may start playing around on the Internet, and discover not only that you have competitors all over the world--`My God, I'm not the only one who does this!'--but that your customers can do the same." Noe teaches, among other things, how to protect trade secrets and spin out competitive scenarios, imagining new products that could threaten yours--even if they haven't been invented yet.
More than anything, competitive intelligence, says Laube, is "a catalyst to product innovation." He credits such astute use of information with helping The Paint Bull discover 10 new competitors, beat rivals' special offers, and develop new services, such as training and research, to stay ahead of the pack. Without those steps, he adds, "I would have lost 40% of my market share." Instead, The Paint Bull has grown to $3.1 million in annual sales with 42 employees.
To the uninitiated, the very mention of the term "intelligence" may conjure up a torrent of John Le Carre/cold war spy fantasies. Don a trench coat if you must. But CI isn't spying. Unless you're willing to serve a prison term for violating the federal Economic Espionage Act, don't plan on bugging your competitors, stealing files to get trade secrets, or assuming a false identity to gain access to your rival's inner sanctum ("When Temptation Beckons," page F.32). And while frontier isn't suggesting you paw through your competitor's garbage (yucky, but legal as long as you don't trespass), do be aware that someone could go after yours. Just ask Michael Smolensky, CEO of Lifeway Foods Inc., based in Skokie, Ill., which sells kefir, a cultured milk product popular in his native Russia. Four years ago, Smolensky, who had developed his own secret recipe, got a call from his supplier, saying: "Michael, someone is trying to steal your secrets." Turns out, a prospective rival had called to ask the supplier for certain ingredients by their secret codes, known only to Smolensky and the supplier. He had picked them out of Lifeway's refuse. Smolensky immediately bought a shredder and hired a commercial espionage expert Boris Parad, author of Commercial Espionage: 79 Ways Competitors Can Get Any Business Secrets in Any Country (Global Connection, 1997). He vowed never to be caught napping again.
Think nobody is watching? Spy shops around the country do a booming business in such gadgets as fountain-pen-size video cameras, encryption devices, infrared viewers, and other espionage tools. Sean Rogers, a manager at the Spy Shop in downtown Washington, says most of his store's sales are to "corporate customers." Investigator James M. Atkinson, whose Granite Island Group in Gloucester, Mass., sweeps offices for "technical surveillance" devices, tells of a videoconferencing camera that turned itself on and began recording a board meeting of a client, a small East Coast medical company, to the astonishment of everyone in the room. Atkinson traced the culprit to a rival company halfway across the world in East Asia, where someone who had visited the company months earlier had found a way to activate it remotely. Richard J. Heffernan, a corporate security specialist in Branford, Conn., says that sort of thing "happens all the time."
Page-turning stuff. But, the truth is, you won't need any high-tech listening devices to get the information you need. The resources are rather prosaic, and mostly in the public domain. Information can be gleaned by surfing your competitor's Web site, reading the local paper, or hanging out at the bar where your rival's staff congregates (If you ask point-blank for information, they might just volunteer it). Also useful: trade shows and publications, your local library, and your own employees.
You never saw James Bond poring over census data, but it's a useful resource for competitive intelligence. It's how Paul and Vicki Scharfman, who run their $7.5 million Specialty Cheese Co. out of an old farmhouse in Lowell, Wis., zoomed in on an underserved but growing demographic--Hispanic and Middle-Eastern families--and carved out a competitive niche selling specialty ethnic cheeses to those groups rather than battle the Krafts of the world. "We make good cheese in small batches," says Paul Scharfman. "But our most important ingredient is information."
The techniques for finding and analyzing that information are easily taught. The Canadian government considers CI such an important tool for small companies, which account for 98% of the country's enterprises, that it has been sponsoring seminars and mentoring programs since 1992 to help them survive in a global economy. "If you're Coca-Cola, and you read the market wrong, you can buy your way out of the problem," says Jonathan Calof, who directs the two-year-old Canadian Institute of Competitive Intelligence, a research and advocacy organization. "If you're a small business, and you read the market wrong, you're dead."
That has been Scharfman's ongoing concern. Constantly keeping abreast of business trends and his competitors, he has successfully launched, repackaged, or withdrawn many products over the past decade because of dogged market analysis. Two years ago, he studied market data and retailers' comments that pointed to the growing popularity of low-carbohydrate foods, and quickly came up with a plan to reposition his unsuccessful gourmet baked-cheese snack. He repackaged and relaunched it as "Just the Cheese." It's now featured on diet doctor Robert C. Atkins' Web site, with a link for easy ordering. Sales have grown to 7% of revenues and now account for a third of the company's profits. What took this out of the realm of ordinary marketing and made it competitive intelligence was the alacrity with which Scharfman moved to transform this slow-moving "gourmet" iteook for, but if you can get them to play nice and share their toys, you're on your way."
Scharfman has made such information sharing an integral part of his corporate culture. He routinely tells his employees and suppliers to feed any relevant news, good or bad, "up the ladder to Paul." That's how he surmised that a competitor was on the verge of raising prices. In 1996, one of his vacationing employees went 20 miles out of his way to pass a rival's cheese plant in a drought-stricken area. He made two vital observations and related them to Scharfman when he returned: The plant was not only running on the weekend, when milk could be bought more cheaply, but also accepting delivery from larger trucks (a tip-off they came from far away).
Scharfman grasped the significance of this right away: This competitor was evidently in distress if he was going to such lengths to stay open. Evidently, local milk was scarce and expensive. Soon, he would have to raise his prices, Scharfman reasoned. So he took advantage of that opportunity to roll out a new line of Hispanic cheeses in Chicago, his rival's stronghold. Sure enough, the competitor hiked prices and Scharfman's new cheese took off, getting the toehold it needed in the marketplace.
Scharfman's CI costs are negligible, but some small companies, especially in the hotly competitive high-tech and pharmaceutical fields, will pay big bucks for fancy consultants and sophisticated databases to ferret out juicy market data. Bill Lipsin, CEO of Ironside Co., a manufacturer of business-to-business software based in Pleasanton, Calif., last year spent more than $100,000 on Web-based monitoring and analytical services, such as Current Analysis, that he says helped him to outflank two of his rivals. He learned by analyzing industry reports that his competitors were about to introduce e-commerce software that could check the status of prices and orders. So he beat them to the punch with a more affordable system. As a result, he says, his revenues climbed 50% in the last four months of 1999, and his 91-person staff grew by more than half.
Others, more concerned with the defensive aspects of CI, go so far as to hire high-priced security consultants and counter-espionage experts. Kristine Doyle of Clik Communications, a New York company that creates reports and presentation materials for financial institutions, couldn't land certain clients without ironclad guarantees that their confidential merger-and-acquisition data would be safe. So she hired Clarence M. Kelley, the former FBI director, to advise her. He installed hidden cameras, bulletproof windows, an electronic key system that only she can program, fingerprint scanners to alert her if an unauthorized person tries to open a door, and other James Bond-ish paraphernalia totaling $50,000. "I wondered at first if I was being excessively paranoid," she says, but those measures satisfied her most elusive prospects. Within two years, her four-person, $1 million-a-year company has grown to 30 employees, and she expects it to pull in close to $4 million this year.
But CI can be downright basic--as simple as paying attention to a rival's public utterances and acting on them. Jay Bloom's Pet Assure, a national pet health-care provider network based in Dover, N.J., recently took advantage of a rival's naivete. When a West Coast provider of catastrophic pet coverage "pre-announced" the addition of a wellness component (Pet Assure's specialty) in an interview with a tiny community newsweekly, six months prior to launching it, Bloom was notified immediately through a Web-based news monitoring service. This not only gave him time to add catastrophic benefits to one of his own wellness products, it also got his offering to market first. "That's a mistake a lot of small businesses make," Bloom says. "You should never lose sight of the fact that competitors are watching everything you do." Spying? Well, probably not. More likely, just using intelligence.


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