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University Chorale MUSC 3420
Directed by David Kowalczyk, the study and performance of choral arrangements and masterworks for large mixed ensemble. Open to all students with some choral experience and/or vocal aptitude.
University Mastersingers MUSC 3440
Also under the direction of David Kowalczyk, this ensemble is a highly selective, small group of vocalists who appear in frequent public performances of early choral music and a capella works. Entrance by audition only.
Jazz Ensemble MUSC 3450
Directed by Eric Warren, the Saint Louis University Jazz Ensemble provides students with an opportunity for serious jazz performance. Typically, there is a standard big band and one or more smaller combos, depending on personnel.
Guitar Ensemble MUSC 3480
Directed by William Hopkins, the Saint Louis University Guitar Ensemble is a group of classical guitar players that performs on several recitals each year. Permission of the instructor is required.
String Ensemble MUSC 3460
Two sections of String Ensemble are offered, the Saint Louis University String Orchestra, and a Section focusing on String Quartets, both under the direction of James Nacy. These groups present at least one concert each semester. Permission of the instructor is required.
Saint Louis University Wind Ensemble MUSC 3490
The Saint Louis University Wind Ensemble, under the direction of Aaron Bounds, concentrates on the rich American wind band tradition and offers one concert per semester.
Billiken Pep Band MUSC 3470
Qualified instrumentalists should consider performing with the Billiken Band, a 100+ member pep band sponsored through the Athletic Department, and directed by Austin Turner, a soon to be triple SLU alumnus who is working on his PhD in addition to being a full-time faculty member in the Department of Medical Imaging and Radiation Therapeutics in the Doisy College of Health Sciences. For more information, call Saint Louis University Athletics at 314-977-3177, or contact Mr. Turner at 314-977-8601.
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Ready for yet another quasi-useful mobile app?
Today I am introducing the Prize Patrol, a small application built on Sencha Touch!
I came up with this idea a few weeks ago while I was preparing for one of the Chicago Sencha User Group meetings. I wanted a way to build a list of contestants (people who attended our meeting) and raffle-off a series of prizes… we eventually used the ghetto names-in-a-hat approach. We're a small group at the moment, so that worked just fine.
However, it occurred to me that we're a bunch of developers using Sencha products (duh!). Wouldn't it be a better idea (and a bit more professional) to build an app to handle this?
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Why is any of this cool?
As I said before, I basically conceived of this idea for use at the Chicago Sencha User Group's monthly meetings to give away a variety of prizes. I figure we can pass an iPod/iPad/mobile device around the room instead of a sheet of paper. It's just a bit classier.
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The Politics Hour – November 17, 2017
Virginia Democratic Party Chairwoman Susan Swecker is in studio. And Aisha Braveboy, candidate for Prince George's State's Attorney, joins us.
Simon Bolivar is often called the "George Washington of South America." But his influence in the modern world can be seen in Latin American countries that are growing increasingly defiant of the United States. Bolivar is credited with leading several countries to independence two centuries ago, a legacy that continues to define the politics of places like Bolivia and Venezuela. Kojo and biographer Marie Arana discuss what we can learn about the modern world by becoming better acquainted with the history of Bolivar's time.
From BOLIVAR: American Liberator by Marie Arana. Copyright © 2013 by Marie Arana. Reprinted by permission of Simon & Schuster, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
MR. KOJO NNAMDIFrom WAMU 88.5 at American University in Washington welcome to "The Kojo Nnamdi Show," connecting your neighborhood with the world. The American Revolution conjures up images of George Washington crossing the Delaware and Paul Revere riding into the night alerting that the British were coming.
MR. KOJO NNAMDIBut in many Latin American countries, an overlapping period of history, evokes revolutionary images of a different kind and at the front lines stands Simon Bolivar, the George Washington of Latin America, the man who led half a dozen countries to independence from Spanish rule.
MR. KOJO NNAMDIBolivar may have drawn inspiration from America's founding fathers but he also accomplished many things his U.S. counterparts did not. And to this day Latin American leaders strive to embody both his political ideals and his charisma as the American liberator.
MR. KOJO NNAMDIToday we're exploring the complex history behind Bolivar's story and what it can teach us about the modern identities of countries throughout the Latin American world. Joining us in studio is Marie Arana. She is the author of "Bolivar: American Liberator." She's a biographer, essayist, novelist and former editor-in-chief of the Book World at The Washington Post.
MR. KOJO NNAMDICurrently she's a guest columnist for The New York Times, writer-at-large for The Post and senior advisor to the U.S. Librarian of Congress. Marie Arana joins us in studio. Welcome.
MS. MARIE ARANAThank you so much Kojo. Thank you for having me.
NNAMDIThank you for joining us. And if you'd like to join the conversation yourself give us a call at 800-433-8850. Are you from or have lived in Latin America? How do you view Bolivar? How do you think it compares to the way Americans view the founding fathers like George Washington and Thomas Jefferson? Give us a call 800-433-8850 or send email to email@example.com
NNAMDIMarie, Bolivar is both very much the past and present of Latin America and he continues to provide inspiration for leaders across much of that part of the world. Why do you think understanding the history behind Bolivar is so important to understanding the region's modern identity?
ARANAWell, Simon Bolivar has been for these 230 years, in fact today, Kojo, is his birthday, 230th birthday.
NNAMDIHappy Birthday, Simon.
ARANAExactly, it's a very great day to be on talking about him. But he embodies a Latin American identity, I think. When I tried to think of the single person who would tell the most of a story of the history of Latin America, it had to be Simon Bolivar to the amount of territory that he covered, the liberation of a huge, powerful force on the continent, Spain and the whole story of how he brought together the races to win the revolution because it was the only way that he could do it.
ARANAThe life of Bolivar still speaks today, I think, to Latin Americans in a very immediate way. I think that other leaders don't speak to their nation's contemporary times. In the streets of the United States, nobody goes down the streets shouting the name of Jefferson.
ARANANobody, there's no Washington party. In England, there is no shouting of the name of Cromwell in the street. But in Venezuela, in Columbia and Ecuador, people are still, particularly in Venezuela, shouting the name of Bolivar, using his name to head, to title their parties and their movements so he is very much a presence still.
NNAMDIHe is called the George Washington of Latin America. While other people chose George Washington to be our country's first president, Bolivar was self-selected. How else are the two leaders different?
ARANAWell, they are actually alike in a few ways. They both came from very wealthy families and they both you know lived in the lap of luxury. They both didn't want to rule and turned down the power, you know wanted to. Both expressed a desire to sort of retire into a nice, happy old age and both were forced really to power.
ARANABut they were very, very different in many, many ways as well. Washington, you can see through his writing was very staid, very stately. There's a very orderly mind at work. Bolivar's writing and Bolivar, what he has left for us to read is incredibly passionate. I think that he singlehandedly changed the Spanish language.
ARANABefore Bolivar, the language was very ornate very what we call an adorned, kind of Spanish language. The locutions were very complicated and long. And when Bolivar came he turned the language into a fresh, young, vibrant language. You can see it in his letters.
ARANAAnd it was at that point I think that we can say that he changed the language by the force of his charisma and his abilities as a writer. He is one of the great Latin American writers. I don't think we can say that about George Washington but, and they also differed in the way that they looked of course on slavery which is the crucial part, the center story of Bolivar.
ARANAGeorge Washington was a slave owner. He, it never occurred to him or perhaps if it did he did not say so, that it was absurd to free the colonies and not free 100 percent of the people. Bolivar did it differently. He had, was persuaded by the Haitian example that he did have to free the slaves in order to proclaim liberty for all. It was simple for him.
NNAMDIWe're talking with Marie Arana. She is the author of the book "Bolivar: American Liberator." She's a biographer, essayist, novelist and former editor-in-chief of Book World at The Washington Post, currently guest columnist for The New York Times, writer-at-large for The Post and senior advisor to the U.S. Librarian of Congress.
NNAMDIWe're taking your calls at 800-433-8850. Children in the U.S. grow up hearing stories about George Washington chopping down the cherry tree and have the image of him crossing the Delaware ingrained in their minds. You were born in Peru and you've received national acclaim for your memories of a multicultural childhood. How did you hear about Bolivar? It's my understanding that that depends apparently on what country you happen to be in.
ARANAYes, that's absolutely true. In fact in Peru where I was born and where my family has lived for hundreds of years Bolivar was roundly hated. I mean my father did not admire Bolivar for obvious reasons because when Peru was liberated and it became a republic it became just that, a republic instead of this extraordinary power that it was when it was a colony of Spain.
ARANAIt was large, influential, and wealthy and it had. Bolivar always said you know Peru is a land of gold and slaves and the Peruvians when independence came, the country shrank, the borders shrank and life changed for the very wealthy and the very powerful of Lima so they've never liked Bolivar very much although it was he who actually executed the liberation of Peru which San Martin could not really complete.
ARANABut I grew up, you know my forbearers, I had two ancestors who fought in the Battle of Ayacucho and the Battle of Ayacucho was the defining battle that won independence in Peru and once and for all booted the Spanish from the continent and freed all the Spanish colonies.
ARANAIt was the Waterloo, the Yorktown, the Battle of Ayacucho was really the moment when liberation was complete and one of my ancestors was a Spanish general. He was the first one to be killed at the Battle of Ayacucho and my other ancestor was a rebel general. So, you know the rebel actually very strangely and wonderfully in a way after 17 years after the Battle of Ayacucho married the daughter of the Spanish general who was 17 at the time so she had never even met her father.
ARANASo I came from a family that really, for whom the Battle of Ayacucho and the story of independence was really a very big deal. So growing up it was always a curiosity for me.
NNAMDIHow was the Peruvian perception of Bolivar different from other countries?
ARANAWell, you know in other countries he, there's a different opinion depending on where you are. Venezuela of course adores Bolivar. He is the favorite son. He is the liberator, libertador and Columbia also admires and reveres Bolivar. Ecuador a little bit less so because he was critical of Ecuador and then when the Ecuadorans started reading his writing about them, you know they could see that he was not. He thought they were stubborn. He thought they were very difficult to govern.
ARANAAnd of course, then Peru, as I say, Peru was shrunk, was made less powerful by Bolivar. Even though he liberated Peru, it never was the same thereafter. And Bolivia, on the other hand, reveres him as well because there is. It is a country that bears his name. It was originally going to be called the Country of Bolivar, the Republic of Bolivar and then it was changed to Bolivia.
ARANAAnd you know he had carved Bolivia out of the land that used to be Peru so of course they're very grateful for their existence to Bolivar. But there's a different, there's a different opinion of him and different emotions about him wherever you go.
NNAMDIOn to the telephones, here is Victor in Vienna, Va. Victor, you're on the air, go ahead, please.
VICTORHello, you mentioned San Martin by just passing, but the fact that Kojo started that conversation by saying the one man that liberated South America, that's the wrong historical perspective. So maybe you could say a little more about San Martin.
ARANAI would love to say more about San Martin. San Martin is considered in the country where I was born, in Peru, a real hero. The main square in Lima bears San Martin's statue, not Bolivar's statue. But San Martin of course came and liberated the City of Lima and he could never get the liberation of the rest of Peru done.
ARANASan Martin was an extraordinary general of tremendous military talent and when he arrived in Lima and his army became an army of occupation he lost shall we say, the rhythm of independence and little by little there were complications. He was also not well. He had a crippling disease of rheumatism, arthritis and there were times when he had to be carried on a litter from one place to another, from one battle to another.
ARANAAnd San Martin arrived in Lima and it really, it became very difficult because the parties in Lima became very difficult to control. The Spanish hated him because the people of Spanish origin, because all the wealth had stopped because there was. The City of Lima was completely separated from the rest of the country and so all the gold, all the silver, all the copper couldn't get through to the ports and so day by day people were losing money with San Martin being in the city.
ARANABut he was the one who, without shedding a drop of blood, had liberated the capitol of Lima. He was a tremendous hero for that reason. And because he didn't shed any blood, I think he is greatly loved and greatly revered, and because he stepped aside when he knew that he couldn't get the job done. He met with Bolivar in (word?) in a very famous what they call intravista, interview, with Bolivar. And Bolivar said there's basically -- I mean, what was said was there isn't really room for both of us in Peru.
ARANAAnd San Martin had the grace and the -- I think the consideration, the sort of political acumen to step aside and let Bolivar come. San Martin left Lima in the middle of the night, rode by horseback to (word?) and slipped out of history, you know, eventually to go into exile in Europe. And Bolivar was allowed at that point to come in and actually finish the job in what was a war of independence all the way down from Venezuela that were absolutely bloody and terrible. But the countries -- or the republics were liberated in a very different way than San Martin wanted.
NNAMDIVictor, thank you very much for your call. From praise for San Martin to controversy. We got an email from Patrick who says, "It is dishonest to portray Simon Bolivar as a liberator. Simon Bolivar exterminated the indigenous peoples of the Andes Region. The liberator of South American is General Jose de San Martin." But Patrick was not satisfied to just send us an email. He's also on the phone. Patrick, you're now on the air. Go ahead, please.
PATRICKHi, very quickly just to reiterate what the earlier caller said, that the liberator of South America is General Jose de San Martin. Simon Bolivar's ethics are questionable. He slaughtered a lot of indigenous people in the northern region where he was active.
NNAMDILet me hear a response to that before you go any farther, Patrick. Here now is Marie Arana.
ARANAIt really -- thank you, Kojo, for having the telephone contributors because you can see that here's still very much passion about Bolivar. It's really quite extraordinary, quite wonderful for me to engage in it. He did not exterminate the indigenous. He -- his armies were filled with indigenous people, filled with pardos, filled with blacks. He -- in the war there was systematic elimination, extermination of armies in general of battalions. But there was -- that is just simply wrong, I'm sorry to say, that he did not exterminate the indigenous.
ARANAIn fact, he was very much a part -- what he did do is he said the indigenous, you know, will -- I think the reason why the indigenous don't like Bolivar is because he said there will be no nobility. There will be -- and so he absolutely stopped forever the Inca nobility in Peru. As he said, if there's no nobility for the whites there will be no nobility for the Indians as well. And he is resented very much for that but you can hardly call that extermination.
NNAMDIGot to take a short break. When we come back we'll return to this conversation with Marie Arana, author of "Bolivar: American Liberator." We're still taking your calls at 800-433-8850. How do you view Bolivar? You can send us an email to email@example.com or send us a Tweet at kojoshow. I'm Kojo Nnamdi.
NNAMDIWelcome back. Our guest is Marie Arana, author of "Bolivar: American Liberator." She's a biographer, essayist novelist and former editor-in-chief of Book World at the Washington Post. Currently she is a guest columnist for the New York Times, writer at large for the Post and senior advisor to the U.S. Librarian of Congress. We're interested in having you join the conversation by calling 800-433-8850. Marie, you write few heroes in history have been dealt so much honor, so much power and so much ingratitude. What did Bolivar do to receive such a conflicting reputation?
ARANAIt's very interesting, Kojo, but when he -- by the time he got to Ceto (sp?) and he was working his way down, he had liberated Colombia first and then Venezuela and then moved to Ecuador. By the time he got to Ceto, I mean, the -- it was a terrible war, as I've said earlier, terrible wars of independence. Whole populations were razed, whole towns were -- disappeared. The expeditionary forces of Spain were pretty much eradicated in the process.
ARANAThe -- it was a terrible, terrible bloody war. And by the time it got down to Ecuador and to Ceto and started heading down to Bolivar -- I'm sorry, to Peru, Bolivar began to -- interestingly began instead of using the word -- you can see this in his letters -- instead of using the word liberty, liberation he was using the word victory. And there was a change, I think, in the psyche of Bolivar as he went down. He really began to concentrate on victory. And there -- it was a sort of perceptive change.
ARANAAnd by the time he got to Peru and he was -- he found the Peruvians incredibly difficult -- I can say this as a Peruvian -- very stubborn, and very slippery because the Peruvians would go back and forth from wanting to be liberated to wanting to stay Spanish, back and forth depending on the winds of change. And this really frustrated Bolivar. And he didn't trust Peruvians to the core. I think he was found -- was suspicious of them.
ARANABut -- so by the time he got to Peru and then to Bolivia and then started his way back up again, with all of this triumph, in spite of all of the triumph, the liberated areas that he left behind were really chaotic. And he had predicted this. He had said, you know, behind me will be chaos because the liberated lands did really not understand how to govern themselves. And he feared that this would be the case.
ARANAAnd in fact, that was the case. And he began to make a lot of political mistakes. He was not a politician. And he began to give his generals different order. He began to treat them differently. He began to forgive some and not forgive others. He began to say things to one group of people and say another to another. And he was politically not the man that he was as a military man. So little by little I think his generals began to distrust him, began to think that he was too hungry for power.
ARANAHe was, in a sense, hungry for power and that what he wanted to do was to unite all of those republics and to make one large United States of Latin America, which he thought would be a bulwark against North America -- against the United States of America. And to have it be as powerful a force as could be. They were united by the Spanish language. They were united by the church. They were united by a spirit of liberty. He wanted all of the region to be one.
ARANAAnd he began to be very passionate about that and it became suspect because the people who wanted Venezuela to be Venezuela and Colombia to be Colombia wanted their own power in their own territories. And they did not really cotton to the sense of a larger America for Latin America. And so his star began to wane at that point. And his generals who were interested in ruling in their little fiefdoms began to, you know, speak openly against him.
ARANAAnd so he really -- for -- I would say since -- starting in 1926 -- I'm sorry, 1826 to 1830 when he died, the last four years of his life, were really -- ingratitude is the word, that he was railed against. He was not permitted to go back to Venezuela. The Jose Antonio bias forbad him to go back to the land where he was born. And he finally ended his days in (word?) because he was poor. He had given all his money, all his wealth away. And he was on his way to exile when he died, really a very sick man from tuberculosis, a very poor man. And roundly despised by the leaders who had actually been made leaders by him.
NNAMDIThere are a lot of people who want to join this conversation. If you would like to join it also we still have a couple of lines open at 800-433-8850. But if the lines are full you can shoot us an email to email@example.com. Here is Clayton in Purcellville, Va. Clayton, you're on the air. Go ahead, please.
CLAYTONHi there, Kojo.
NNAMDIHi, Clayton.
CLAYTONI'm a student of history and I was just curious. What aspect, Marie, do you think -- what aspect of Bolivar's character made him the great liberator, the great -- yeah, liberator of South America?
ARANATo my mind it was his incredible sense of surprise. He had this talent for guerilla warfare, whereas San Martin planned his -- the crossing of the Andes for a couple of years and prepared for it, where Hannibal also, to cross the Alps, prepared for two years to do it. Bolivar just did it. And he didn't announce it. he kept it from his troops for the longest time. And then he simply did it. That sense of surprise, that sense of power rushing upon the enemy, really frightened the Spanish. They weren't quite used to the kind of warfare that Bolivar was delivering, was prosecuting on the battlefields.
ARANAAnd that was -- his contribution was that determination and that ability to turn on a dime, really, to make decisions. He was excellent at it. He was a great military leader for that reason. He knew he could outwit the enemy and he could outfight the enemy with much fewer forces and with less arms. I mean, the Spaniards were very, very well armed. It was a great war machine that was coming against Bolivar.
ARANAAnd very often, particularly in the beginning, before the British began to help with arms and munitions, the war was being fought by barefoot soldiers with sticks, you know. It was just this sense of will and the ability to move quickly and outwit that was so great about Bolivar.
NNAMDIClayton, thank you very much for your call. On now to Jose in Arlington, Va. Jose, your turn.
JOSEYes. I appreciate the show. This is an amazing opportunity to showcase one of the most impressive men in history. And in particular based on the fact that most Latin American countries were founded on the basis of almost a cash system by the Spanish Empire at the time, made it extremely difficult for Bolivar and any of those generals to rule those countries or those areas in a very uniform manner.
JOSEAnd Bolivar basically run based on vision. He didn't care how many people he had onboard. He just had a vision of uniting all of these different countries and cultures into a powerful force. And that basically was his driving force. I guess he had run out of health and he ran out of time and energy. But it's an amazing story that should be told more often. Thank you.
NNAMDIThank you very much for your call.
ARANAThank you.
NNAMDIBolivar formed his political views based on the teaching of his favorite teacher Rodriguez who was a staunch supporter of enlightenment notions of self determination. Yet Bolivar went on to advocate lifelong terms for president. What was his reasoning?
ARANAWell, he knew -- just as our caller -- thank you very much for that most recent caller. Very smart nugget of wrap up on Bolivar. But the question of Bolivar's change really was that -- something that he always feared from the beginning which was that, exactly as the caller says, the Spanish had really been such a force for paralysis in South America in many ways. By that I mean, paralysis in that the laws -- the laws of the Indies were very, very strict.
ARANAAnd, for instance, nobody was allowed to cross borders from colony to colony. Nobody was allowed to till their own land or mind their own shaft of mining. Everything had to be done through the power and the order of the Spanish rule. And so what happened -- and Bolivar felt this very strongly -- was that Latin America had been infantilized by Spain. It had really not learned how to govern itself. It had not -- it had been systematically deprived of education in many ways. You can see in the laws of the Indies that there were very clear ways that education was being denied to the people because it was easier to rule -- to govern the ignorant than the educated.
ARANAAnd what happened to Bolivar, who was always a man of the enlightenment, was always for the liberty and believed very deeply in the enlightenment notions is that he simply didn't see how government could be done without sort of a long term vision and a long term ability to build the power that one would need to govern with strength. His constitution, which he wrote for Bolivia, included a president for life.
ARANAHe always said, well you know, if you look at the powers of the president for life, they're not anywhere near the powers of any president in the world. They're quite curtailed powers. But nevertheless, he felt that the continuity would be what was necessary. He very much admired the English system with the continuity of the monarchy, even though he hated and was often accused of wanting a monarchy. He did not want a king. He despised the notion of a monarchy.
ARANABut he really admired the idea of a government that could last for a long time that would be respected, that would be seen as benevolent, patriarchal, if you will. And that was why he made that change. And he made that change probably right around the time that he got all the way down to (word?) in Bolivia.
ARANASpeaking of his philosophical and ideological orientation, we have an email from Tom in Baltimore who says, "The late Hugo Chavez used to claim Bolivar was a Socialist. Is there any truth to this assertion?" And here now is David in Bethesda, Md. along the same theme. But, David, you're on the air. Go ahead, please.
DAVIDThank you, Kojo. Yes, specifically if you could tell us a specific example of how you feel that Chavez was faithful to the legacy of Bolivar. And secondly, a specific example or two of areas in which you feel that he was not -- Chavez was not faithful to Bolivar's legacy.
ARANAThank you for that question, David. It's so interesting to me to see how so many leaders after Bolivar have used his name for very different ends. I mean, Pinochet, who was a very, very conservative leader of Chile, admired Bolivar and claimed that he was a follower of Bolivar's thought. And then you have someone on completely the other side of the spectrum, Hugo Chavez, a socialist, who -- Marxist who renamed Venezuela the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and spoke of Bolivar constantly, revered him, dug up his bones to sort of -- to be able to talk about Bolivar and sort of renew, which happened very often in Venezuela, three times, actually.
ARANAPaez, Guzman Blanco, than Chavez all dug up Bolivar's bones and sort of to -- what one of Bolivar's generals called to bask in the magic of his prestige. Chavez really, apart from the fact that Bolivar wanted complete liberty and justice for the people of Venezuela without any conditions, and for all races, I think Chavez wanted that too. The beginning of Chavez's rule in Venezuela, I think was very promising in that way.
ARANAI mean, he really was turning a very oligarchical society upside down. Bolivar in certain ways would have admired that. But, you know, Chavez forgot, I think, that his idol, Marx, had actually been very hard on Bolivar, and Marx wrote a very, very critical essay on Bolivar in which he called him...
NNAMDIA dastardly, most miserable, and meanest of blackguards.
ARANAIndeed. Indeed. Those were exactly the words, Kojo. And so hardly could you say that Bolivar had any sort of coloration of Marxist thought. But Chavez was very smart to know that the ideals of Bolivar were something that any really liberal-thinking republic would want. Bolivar always complained that Santander, who was his great friend and vice president, but became his worst enemy always claimed the liberal side and kept accusing Bolivar of being conservative.
ARANAAnd he said, how did this happen, you know, I have always been liberal. I have always believed in liberty, and somehow I've been cast in this role. The reason why he was cast in that role, of course, is because he very deeply believed in the military as being a very strong and important part of Latin America, and it always has been, and he believed that the church ought to be respected. He was not particularly a faithful man, but he believed that there was a very civilizing force to the church, and that, of course, was considered conservative as well.
NNAMDIDavid, thank you very much for your call. We've got to take another short break. When we come back, we'll continue this conversation with Marie Arana, author of "Bolivar: American Liberator." If you have called, stay on the line, we'll try to get to your calls. You can also send email with your questions or comments to firstname.lastname@example.com, or send us a tweet @kojoshow. I'm Kojo Nnamdi.
NNAMDIOur guest is Marie Arana, author of "Bolivar: American Liberator." She's a biographer, essayist, novelist, and former editor-in-chief of "Book World" at The Washington Post. Currently she's guest columnist for the New York Times, writer-at-large for the Post and senior advisor to the U.S. Librarian of Congress. About the United States, Bolivar said a democratic system, far from rescuing us can only bring us ruin. How did that apparent contempt for the U.S. compare to the U.S./Latin American relationship today?
ARANAYou know, Bolivar spent a few months in the United States of America. He was coming back from Europe and he stopped in -- he landed in the Port of Charleston, and he was actually very sick with a bad case of the flu or something like that, and he stayed in Charleston for a while. Kojo, I think, you know, being in Charleston, you could imagine in 1807...
NNAMDIOh, yeah.
ARANA...you're in the Port of Charleston, you are seeing the commerce of slaves at its peak in the United States. Slavery was a huge business. In fact, the historian Gordon Wood, in his wonderful book "Empire of Liberty," says that, you know, in that period of time between 1800 and 1830, the largest GNP of the United States was based on Slavery, on the selling of people, and on what slaves -- the cotton and the -- all the agriculture wealth of the U.S. was based on slavery.
ARANAAnd you have to wonder, Bolivar looking at this, and he was a very young man at the time. He was -- he had really been shaping his vision for Latin America, and he -- stepping into the United States of America, which is burgeoning with the slave trade, and building, I mean, there was an amazing time of growth in the United States of America. Everything -- there was great construction, great, you know, sort of pressing westward and all of that.
ARANAAnd he could see a kind of unity at work there that would be impossible for Latin America to achieve in the state that Spain had left it. The enormous cast system in Latin America, the ignorance, you know, the lack of education, the poverty, the alienation of so many of the people. This was going to be an impossible thing for Latin America to get to democracy in the way that the United States of America had, and he, I think, knew from that moment coming back to Caracas after his visit to the United States that that was something that he -- it was just not going to happen.
NNAMDIHow did his views on slavery and race evolve over the course of the revolution and his time in power, and presumably, how was it affected by that visit to the U.S.?
ARANAWell, you know, the revolution began in Venezuela and in -- well, everywhere in Latin America. It was being talked about by people who could -- by the rich. In Venezuela it was the mantuanos, the very, very wealthy, the highest cast of Venezuelans, creoles, and Creole in Latin America means people of Spanish background but who were born in Latin America, so are not considered Spanish. That highest Creole class was the class that began the revolution.
ARANABut after experience with exile, and Bolivar found himself in Haiti, and he found himself a guest of Alexandre Petion who really counseled Bolivar very closely on this, and extracted a promise from him. He said, I will help you, but when you go back you must promise that you will free the slaves in Latin America. And for Bolivar it was an obvious thing because he had realized at that point he either had been -- several attempts to get the revolution going, and there was no way that he would be able to get the revolution going without engaging the blacks and the Pardos and the indigenous.
ARANAIf he could not bring all of those races together against Spain, he would not be able win independence, and I think Petion was a clarifying force for him because the -- when he went back for the revolution that actually worked at that point in 1816, when he went back, it actually did gel with all the races and he was able to employ the races to his side and won the loyalty of the Mestizos and the Pardos and all the color -- the mix, the great sort of cosmic race that was building in Latin America which was, you know, at that point, had been a cauldron of race mixing for 300 years already. But he was able to employ everybody at that point to his side.
NNAMDII want to get back to the relationship between Latin America and the U.S. today, because as one born in South America, I know the resentment that occurs any time people in the north refer to themselves as Americans, excluding people from the south. But the only countries that have granted NSA leaker Edward Snowden asylum are from that region of the world. And in response to the forced landing in Vienna of Evo Morales' flight home from Russia for fear of Snowden being on board, Bolivia's vice president said Morales was kidnapped by imperialism.
NNAMDIObviously it was an insult to a democratically elected head of state, but can you talk about what fuels the Latin American apparent empathy for somebody like Edward Snowden?
ARANAYes, of course. Well, you know, there's a long history, and it goes all the way back to the days of Bolivar of mistrust of the United States' motives. Bolivar actually wrote quite a bit about this, and said that Americans were basically just interested in their own power, you know. The interest that they pretended to have in Latin America was just to extend their power, not really to build, liberate it, and free a continent or hemisphere I should say.
ARANAAnd so Latin American resentment had very, very deep roots. It goes all the way back 250 years for the feeling that the United States has only been interested in Latin America for commercial reasons. Of course, Latin America has always -- Hugo Chavez made a very big case on this -- has viewed the United States as a bully, as a power that wanted everything its way, and really didn't -- was not willing to negotiate on certain issues.
ARANAOn the other hand, there was this love/hate thing because of course what Latin Americans have wanted most was a kind of commercial relationship and a successful, economic conviviality with the United States. And so that has -- it has been a very complicated dance. But you're right when you say about America having been stolen as a name, because I remember my grandfather always used to say that, you know, we are American, and how is it that now we have been deprived of that.
ARANAAnd he would have -- were he alive today, I think he would say it was the greatest case of identity theft that, you know, that Latin Americans were robbed of the nomer of being able to be called Americans.
NNAMDIThey were. Here's Christina in Rockville, Md. Christina, you're on the air. We're running out of time, so please try to make your question or comment brief.
CHRISTINAYes. I only wanted to say that being a Bolivian, I have a strong feeling about our libertador because if it wouldn't be for him and for -- and for Sucre -- Antonio Jose de Sucre, another Venezuelan, you know, the Spaniards were very -- were there in our territory to get all the riches, all the silver from the federal (word?) . So it wouldn't have been for their help, it would have taken a lot longer to get independence. So from that point of view, I -- we, in Bolivia, admire the figure of Simon Bolivar as a great warrior, and who gave us our independence.
NNAMDIThank you very much. At the top of the broadcast, Marie talked about the difference with how he is regarded in Bolivia as opposed to Peru for instance, but we got an email from Jack who says that "It seems that Bolivar combined in one personality, the military strategy of Washington, philosophical insider Jefferson, and the diplomatic touch of a Franklin, Santander and Sucre and others seemed very much distant seconds of the revolutionary generation. Please have your guest speak to this."
ARANAAbsolutely. The -- Bolivar combined, he was an intellectual at heart. He loved to read. He took books onto the battlefield. He took a printing press onto the battlefield which, you know, the Spaniards laughed at him because they were -- they could see the soldiers struggling across the terrain carrying this cumbersome printing press. But he really believed in the power of the intellect, the power of the word, and he was a -- very much as we've said before, Kojo, a man of the enlightenment.
ARANABut he -- and he was a wonderful military man. He was very, very talented at that as well. But, you know, he was incapable of going from a war model to a peace model, and Santander, who was the man -- he called him the man of laws, who was very, very good at office business, and at writing the laws and it's -- he was the vice president to Bolivar, and he was, as you say, a real distant second, and Sucre, who was mentioned by the caller from Bolivia, thank you so much for mentioning Sucre who was a great beloved sort of sun figure of Bolivar.
ARANABut he was assassinated in the course of the last years of Simon Bolivar, who wanted Sucre to take his place, was assassinated. There were many assassination attempts on Bolivar's life as well. But there were jealousies because there was not real sort of gathering, no team of rivals like Lincoln had. Nobody who was Bolivar's equal at the time who could actually collaborate and bring, you know, the -- what Hamilton brought and Jefferson brought and Madison brought, and all of these people brought in the course of the founding of this country. It wasn't the same in Latin America by a stretch.
NNAMDIAnd I'm afraid that's all the time we have. Of course, Bolivar wanted a unified South America, a unity that today remains elusive. But if you want to understand the history of all of this, you'll simply have to read, "Bolivar" American Liberator." Marie Arana is the author of the book. She is a biographer, essayist, novelist, and former editor-in-chief of "Book World" at The Washington post. Currently she's a guest columnist for the New York Times, writer-at-large for the Post and senior advisor to the U.S. Librarian of Congress. Marie Arana, thank you so much for joining us.
ARANAThank you, Kojo. It was wonderful.
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We're going to Venice for 3 days this Saturday, so apart from the obvious must see's (st Marks Square, Rialto bridge etc) i would really love to hear about your best experience or must see/do's... Whether it's a restaurant to eat, a bar to have a drink or two, a special museum or quartier to wander around..
I'm looking forward to your recommendations!!
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IMO, the best experiences are often those you don't plan. My favorite memory of Venice is just walking the little alleyways in the evening and getting away from the tourist spots. We happened upon a little bar, ordered a couple glasses of wine and sat outside on the steps of the bridge nearby. As the evening went on, the bar became pretty full of locals, all joining us on the bridge to relax.
I also really enjoyed walking around Venice at sunrise. We went to St. Marks to take pictures and there was no one around! We watched the delivery boats unloading along the canal, the shops opening up and the city come to life - all before breakfast.
Enjoy your trip! Venice is magical.
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I'm a big fan of a drink on the floating dock at the Westin Europa Regina with views across the Grand Canal to the Santa Maria della Salute church. Especially good at cocktail time around 6 p.m. when the gondolas queue up and they sing Santa Lucia. Hokey but romantic.
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I suggest a vaporetta ride along the Grand Canal - preferably at high tide - it is amazing to see how much Venice is sinking and to see the water lapping into the ground floors of the old palazzos. Also a ride out to one of the islands - Murano, Burano, Torcello - the best part is the return to Venice and seeing it from a distance over the lagoon. You might also want to go out to the Zattarere / Guidecca - there are several floating restaurants out there where you can eat "on the water" and watch all the ships going by. Enjoy!
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I found it fun to cross the Grand Canal on a traghetto, a type of gondola that ferries passengers across the canal at set points for a very small fee. It is traditional to ride standing up, but sitting is allowed.
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A few fun outings should include..
Try the drink Spritz Aperol (sp) at DuChamps.
It is in Campo Santa Margherita. I love this area.
There is a great little supermarket right around the corner.
Try Ombre y cicheti (wine and snacks) at Cantina do Mori.
Get up real early as others have said and wander..wander.. and wander....
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ooo - what a difficult task.
personally i love starting at the rialto market early in the morning, then heading to the area around the frari - pop into the scuola san rocco to look at the tinterettos on the ceiling, peek into the frari to see the monstrous monuments, then wander down to the zattere dropping into any bars you fancy for an "ombra" [glass of wine] or spritz, and finally lunch in the sun on the zattere, watching the world go by.
regards, ann
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Last year i took in one day of Carnivale - and it ranks amongst my very best travel memories in 4 decades of such
Folk in traditional elaborate garb with masks everywhere - i was stunned how great it were. Troubadors too.
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Not certain if it's available in March weather but the "battle of the bands" in Piazza San Marco at night is a singularly special moment. I made my husband go back for a second trip to Venice just for that experience - and everything else the city has to offer.
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The sagest advice I can give you is this: Venice is a completely different city when you get off the San Marco- Rialto - Train station axis.
On the above route, you will be squeezed in with 1000s of tourists. Gerbil wheel. Chicken run. You get the picture.
Get off that route and enjoy yourself.
PS: If I had only one bldg to visit in Venice it would be the Doge's palace. Huge, opulent, varied and unforgettable -- and uncrowded, when I was last there.
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I agree with tedgale. Even though I loved the San Marco area (and the Doge's Palace), we had so much fun in the other sections of Venice. Just wandering around and enjoying what we found at the moment - churches, art, wine bars, small restaurants, sidewalk soccer games - it was all great. And no crowds.
And I agree with Nikki - cross the Grand Canal on a traghetto. But do it standing up - lots of fun. The cost is 50 cents.
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Didn't see any museum, palace, house, or church listings, so I'll suggest some:
-Basilica di San Marco
-Campanile di San Marco
-Ducal Palace and Bridge of Sighs
-Peggy Guggenheim Collection
-Galleria dell'Accademia
-Church of the Frari
-Scuola Grande di San Rocco
-Museo Civico Correr
-Ca' Rezzonico
-Ca' d'Oro
But if you do nothing else, wander! Getting lost in a long walk is great in Venice.
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Go inside the basilica when its mosaics are lit up (around 11:30am-noon)
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I never go to Venice without catching a concert. Some of them have been memorable, e.g
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Are you into classical music?
If so, a MUST SEE is a live performance of Vivaldi's "Four Seasons" (or quattro stagioni). Vivaldi is from Venice, so it's like a "when in Rome" kind of thing.
I found a link online... looks like a church offers the show at 8:45 p.m. on Sunday March 1. Here is a link. http://eventful.com/venice/events/ensemble-antonio-vivaldi-vivaldi-mozart-more-/E0-001-018696319-8
One of the churches we saw this at was La Quiesa di Vivaldi Don't ask me where it was... I only found it by stumbling upon it. Whatever it costs to see the show is worth it. The music was very emotional, and I have never heard anything so beautiful.
Also, eat a lot of gelato. It tastes nothing like it in the US... believe me, I've tried to find it.
Have a wonderful time. It is a good time to go -- it's miserably hot in the summer!
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pull4you - Still miserably hot in mid-September?
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Seeing Venice at dusk and sunrise can't be beat... walk, walk, walk but also taking the vaporetto to Murano is a must. On Murano, eat in Busa alla Torre (before 3:30) And yes, eat as much gelato as you can, preferable at Gelateria Nico on the Zattere in Dorsoduro.
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Take the #82 vaporetto across to the island of San Giorgio Maggiore and ride the elevator to the top of the church for spectacular views of Venice.
Go early to St. Mark's Square, when it's only you and the vendors setting up and the pigeons.
Eat at Alle Testiere, a tiny place with wonderful fish.
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Thanks so much for all the wonderful suggestions so far!!
Do you recommend Murano or Burano (or both)?
I'm not very keen on spending all day outside Venice though.
Also i think it would be lovely to attend a classical concert. Thanks for the suggestions! Do you know what is the dress code there? This is our first trip where we'll try to take only carry-ons so we we won't have much space for suits and formal dressing!
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Firstly, buy a good map of Venice.
My favorite place is the Frari at opening time 10:00AM?? Vap Stop = St Toma
Afterwards, the Scuola San Rocco, just behing the Frari.
There is a very nice sidewalk cafe names "Chaik" back at Campo San Toma. As you are looking at the church, turn left and walk around to the smaller campo just to the left of the church. Good inexpensive lunch, you get to see the locals walking by, and, if you head towards the Grand Canal, behind the restaurant, you can take the bargin-priced fifty-cent gondola ride back to San Marco Siestiere (don't sit, stand like the Venetians do).
Back on the San March side, you can easily find San Setefano, with a wealth of Venetian paintings in the Sacracy (entrance right transept).
PS, most people leaving Venice are either (a) disappointed, or (b) be planning their next trip back.
Following youe obligatory stop at the Rialto, work your way north and west (on the San Marco side of the bridge), following the map carefully, find the church of Santa Maria di Miracoli, one of the most breathtaking (and smallest) churches in a city of churches. just a hop skip and jump east is Saints Giovanni E Palolo, the burial place od most of Venices Dodges and also the location of a very lively campo.
For the best eperience in Venice, try to stay away from San Marco Siestiere and spend most of your time in the other five Siestiere.
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Yes, try both. Absolutely different. Gorgeous glass on Murano. Burano is charming! And has the lovliest lace. Enjoy it all. Venice is such a wonderfully fascinating destination, so much to see, delights around every corner, along every allyway!
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if you are planning on visiting the Dodge's Palace in the morning (opens at 9:00 AM). Don't get into the very long line to buy a ticket, instead go to the Correr Museum, opposite end of Piazza San marco, on the second floor, and buy a ticket there. Return to the Dodges Paalace and walk to the frot of the line.
Additionally, if you Google San Marco, you can find their web site where you can print out a reserved ticket for Basilica San Marco, which allows you to skip the line there.
Dress code for Basilica (strictly enforced), no mini-skirts, shorts, halter tops or bare shoulders, no open toe sandals.
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Climb the Campanile di San Giorgio Maggiore (a small island you can both see and reach from a vaporetto stop near St. Mark's Square. You will see this:
Yes, there is an elevator!
Next, write this down:
You should ask for this after every meal in each restaurant. However, the best one may be found at Taverna San Trovaso.
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ps. Mom and I went into pretty much every church that was open. I'd suggest that, as well.
Also, if you have time, read "Miss Garnet's Angel" before you go. It is not so terribly far from Taverna San Trovaso - a nice walk and a way to explore some of the off-the beaten path areas of Venice (as much as you can say that about Venice, anyway).
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We attended a concert and there was no dress code that I was aware of. It was chilly out (November). No one was "dressed up" - meaning in formal attire. Just no mini-skirts, etc as Edwards_RJ mentioned. I think we both wore nice jeans and tops.
We went to Burano for just a few hours. It's a beautiful, charming place, but also a small island. The lace museum wasn't open when we were there, so might have stayed longer if we could have visited that. It was on my "must see" list and I was thrilled with the place, but didn't feel the urge to stay longer.
Hope you have a wonderful time!
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One of my all time favorite moments in Venice (aside from renewing my vows with my husband on a gonodola) was sitting at Osteria Bancogiro enojoying wine and cheese in the evening while watching the gondolas slowly glide by on the Grand Canal. But get there a bit early if you can before all the tables are taken. Osteria Bancogiro is noted as a favorite in the destination guide here.
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hi again,
you don't have to take all day going to the islands, though i don't think you would regret it if you did. on our last trip we went twice - the first time to Burano where we had lunch then stopped off on Murano on the way back, and then teh 2nd time, we went to Torcello, had lunch [spot a theme here?] and then back to Burano for tea. if you click on my name, you'll find my trip report from our week in Venice last easter. " we went to Venice and we saw.."
have a great trip,
regards, ann
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GET LOST. it's the best in Venice. best way to discover & enjoy the ambiance. especially evening when everyone is strolling, stopping as they desire for little cichettas (sp?) & spritz (prosecco w/aperol) at small bars & cafes. just walk & walk & walk, then take a vaporetto or two, and walk some more...
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The best way to visit the DOGES (not Dodges) PALACE is to reserve a spot on the "SECRET ITINERARIES" Tour. This is one of the most fascinating things to do in Venice--it will take you into the secret recesses of the Doges Palace (and prison)and you'll learn the story of Casanova and how he was one of only 4 people to ever escape from there. You should make advance arrangements, if possible, or go there immediately upon arrival to arrange this tour, as it's not offered all the time, or even every day. Then plan the rest of your wanderings around this tour. After the "Secret Itineraries" tour, you can wander around the public parts of the Doges Palace with the other tourists and not have to pay an additional admission.
The other thing I recommend is to walk by the gondola repair and manufacturing site--it's out in the open, on the same island as the Accademia and the Peggy Guggenheim museum. I came across it accidentally, but your hotel concierge should be able to mark it on a map for you.
There is a non-touristy side of Venice that's wonderful. I also would try to see an opera or a concert at the Teatro Fenice. Vivaldi's church is near the Doges Palace, on the Riva della Schiavoni (along the Grand Canal). If you can catch a concert there, it's a beautiful venue. Enjoy!
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It's almost a cliche to say this, but getting deliberately lost on foot in Venice (as chefkate and others have suggested) is one of the premier experiences that one should not miss.
Not just in the context of Venice; not just in the context of European travel...I'm saying it's one of the premier experiences of life itself.
But that's just me. Your mileage may vary.
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I agree with chefkate and others who have said the same thing: take enough time to GET LOST IN VENICE; this is the best experience of all.
Anyway, my favourite "sestieri" are Cannaregio and Dorsoduro. The most quiet area in Venice is probably the Giudecca island.
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You have got to check out the guggenheim museum. It is wonderful. There are also some great shops right behind St. Mark's Square. I bought a nice leather purse there and some nice silver jewelry.
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Thanks everyone for your support, you're the best!!
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I'm an early riser and thoroughly enjoyed just watching all the "work" boats early each morning.
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I liked how they dealt with garbage (garbage boats similar to our garbage trucks stateside).
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My favorite thing to do in Venice is to visit the fish market in Rialto in the early morning.
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This is my favorite thing to see in Venice, the gondola boatyard:
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#1 vaporetto to the Rialto bridge, early morning wandering the fish and fruit/veggie markets, then lunch at Trattoria Antiche Carampane, San Polo, 1911. A wonderful seafood restaurant where I had the most delicious fritto misto.
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Spend one day doing boat rides to the islands. Go to Murano and buy yourself a little glass souvenir. Go to St Michaels - the cemetery island and get the surprise of your life!
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The recalls importance and potential impact are even more pronounced in resource-constrained organizations such as small and medium-sized businesses (SMB). Since the price of outsourcing is consistent vigilance, heres a few of the areas on which organizations should focus:
Choose Your Providers Carefully Before you thank me for pointing out the obvious, ask yourself how carefully youve chosen your providers. In addition to the mainstream decision criteria for outsourcing, how many organizations have done the diligence to understand how current or potential providers will work proactively to prevent service failures? What sensory mechanisms and processes are in place to deliver that prevention?
One of my previous clients operated a blended inbound contact center while outsourcing their outbound marketing contact operation. Ill spare you the technical details, but the outsourcing provider experienced a rather troubling data integration failure. My clients customers received marketing contacts that were either completely contrary to their targeted segments, or in many cases no contact at all. Even worse, some customers received contacts for other marketing campaigns being managed by this provider resulting in disconnects akin to a toddler being asked to consider buying life insurance for their pet rock.
The outsourcing provider took very quick and decisive action in reporting the failure to their clients and apologizing for its occurrence. Then they stumbled by calling the failure a computer error and said they were closing the case. I suggested to the provider they involve their clients more deeply in the solution process by explaining exactly what went wrong, identifying the solution options and trade-offs, and soliciting their clients input for developing more preventative controls. The provider did follow some of these suggestions, and I believe it helped them reestablish their clients trust.
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I once worked with client who was outsourcing their asset management operations to a third party. The outsourcing provider was looking to change the contractors they were using for data conversion. Because my client had a good relationship with the asset management provider, they became aware of this potential change and were able to help influence the providers choice of contractor based on previous experience as well as industry best practices. This proved mutually beneficial to my client and the asset management provider.
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It seems like the consequences of inconsistent vigilance have been exposed on a frequent basis lately. The question for organizations with outsourcing initiatives is whether youd like to look at yourself in the mirror, or on camera?
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In their short time on the force, Dallas police officers Jon Llewellyn and Randolph Dillon made lots of dope arrests.
That's evidenced by the 80 cases that were awaiting trial when Dallas County prosecutors dismissed them amid the recent arrest and firing of the two officers. Llewellyn and Dillon are accused of lying in two drug cases, making all of their work suspect.
But dozens of the other cases involving the officers have already wound their way through the criminal justice system. Prosecutors now are trying to decide what can be done to assure justice for those who have been convicted or agreed to plea deals in drug cases that may have been tainted by officers' lies.
"We've just got to figure out what we can legally do," said Jamie Bagnall, chief of the public integrity division for the Dallas County district attorney's office. "We want to make sure that there's a just result."
Legal experts say prosecutors have a constitutional obligation to notify defense attorneys of cases involving the fired officers. That's particularly important because many of the defendants would have been represented by court-appointed attorneys with heavy caseloads. And they may not realize their client's cases involved the fired officers.
Bagnall said that when this situation came up, his office already had started developing a protocol to comply with a Supreme Court ruling that requires prosecutors to disclose to the defense when a police officer has knowingly lied in an official capacity. He hopes to soon have an electronic notification system in place.
"The wheels were already in motion," he said.
But Bill Wirskye, whose client was arrested by Dillon on a cocaine charge in August 2012, said he learned of Dillon's integrity issues from The Dallas Morning News in late December in a story about the ruling of a judge who found that the officers repeatedly lied in court.
"It's sad that I had to read it in the paper instead of the DAs fulfilling their duty and obligation to tell the defense attorneys what was going on with these bad officers," he said.
His client's case was soon dismissed after he approached prosecutors. His client was then released from jail.
Some defense attorneys say prosecutors need to go further to unwind what has become the biggest legal mess since the 2001 fake-drug scandal in which paid Dallas police informants planted drugs on innocent people.
They want the DA's office to also notify the trial courts that handled cases involving the officers so that judges can appoint attorneys to file motions to re-examine the cases.
Like its predecessor, the recent cases largely involve the same type of defendant: poor people, many of them illegal immigrants, and many the kinds of people who take plea deals just to get out of jail.
"Why do people plead guilty to triable cases? If they're sitting in jail, they want to get out," said Brian O'Shea, a court-appointed attorney whose client took a plea deal on a case involving the two officers in June 2012. "They've got kids to feed. They got jobs they don't want to lose. … They're going to take the first shot at probation. It's fertile ground for a lying cop."
Llewellyn and Dillon, who face perjury and evidence tampering charges, have denied any wrongdoing. They remain free on bail.
Taking a deal
The disputed cases include defendants such as Terry Gonzalez, who'd been in the county jail for about four months awaiting trial. Then, in late October, he agreed to plead guilty and accept a sentence of five years of deferred adjudication probation. That means he must successfully complete probation and would get no conviction on his record.
Dillon arrested Gonzalez in June 2012 after claiming to see black tar heroin on the floor of his car.
But Gonzalez's court-appointed attorney, Bill Fay, said his client told him "it wasn't sitting out in plain view."
That's in line with many of the cases in which those arrested actually possessed drugs. The question is whether the officers violated their civil rights to make the arrest.
Many arrested on those kinds of drug charges take plea deals rather than go to trial or wait for a judge to toss out a case because, Fay said, judges invariably side with the officer no matter how unlikely the scenario.
Fay, like several other court-appointed attorneys, did not recall that Gonzalez's case involved Dillon until contacted by The News.
"I don't have my cases cross-referenced by officer," Fay said. "How am I supposed to remember that Dillon made this stop?"
For a defendant such as Gonzalez who agreed to a felony probation deal, attorneys can file a motion and the trial court judge has the authority to toss out the sentence. Fay said he expects to do so on Gonzalez's behalf.
But it becomes more complicated if the person was sentenced to prison on a felony charge and more than 30 days has elapsed since the sentence: In those cases, the law says a trial judge can make a recommendation. But the Court of Criminal Appeals has the final say on whether to toss the sentence.
Some still in jail
Even though the disgraced officers were kicked out of DPD, people remain in jail as a result of their arrests.
The pair arrested Hector Hernandez in May 2012 on gun and drug charges. The charges triggered a parole violation. Prosecutors have dismissed the gun and drug charges. And his attorney, Cynthia Barbare, expects the parole violation charge will soon go away and Hernandez will be freed.
Another caught up in the fray, Hector Jimenez, already is out, and the cases against him have been dismissed.
Jimenez told The News he had drugs in his pocket when Llewellyn and Dillon pulled him over on a traffic stop in October 2011. He said the officers yanked him out of his car and began searching him without his permission.
"I wrote down on a piece of paper, 'Please make these disappear,' and they disappeared," Jimenez said.
Bagnall, the prosecutor, said a few cases handled by the officers do remain in the system. He said prosecutors continue to review them to determine if they should be dismissed or can be prosecuted with testimony provided by other officers.
He also said he's identified a few cases where plea deals were accepted after prosecutors became aware of Dillon and Llewellyn's integrity issues. He said he's reviewing those cases to determine if there's a problem with what occurred in the cases.
Barbare gives the DA's office high marks for its handling of her client's case. She said prosecutors did alert defense attorneys to the integrity questions surrounding the officers. "They were really trying to do the right thing," she said.
"If these two were the arresting officers or the main ones involved, they've got to do something," said Barbare, who also helped clients with convictions from the fake-drug era. "They're going to have to undo them."


text: [xFLOAT=left]http://www.wiichat.com/wiiworld1.jpg[/xFLOAT]MySpace, Facebook, YouTube, Blogger, Second Life and now PlayStation Home, the world of online social networking is growing at a huge rate. At his recent GDC keynote address in San Francisco Shigeru Miyamoto gave us an insight into how the Mii system came to be. Dating back over ten years, the system has only finally come to light on the Wii. It is clear that this personalised approach to gaming and networking is now seen as the way forward in the gaming industry now. Sony's surprise announcement of Home now poses a key threat to Nintendo's Mii system, but I think that the cute little characters might have a few tricks up their sleeves yet. Nintendo have been hinting at an expansion to the Mii Channel for a while now. We all know they can do, so for me it is more a question of when. It is the very simplicity of the Mii system that is its biggest asset. It can be manipulated and wrapped around so many things that Nintendo can really begin to exploit it if they are clever enough. Some people have called for the Mii characters to be used in Animal Crossing, which could work very well indeed. But how about we take it on to another level? MySpace is one of the most popular websites in the world, and love it or hate it, it is a very clever idea. If Nintendo can get around privacy and kiddy safety issues, I'm sure they could use the Wii to create some sort of Mii-centric social universe. By linking together a Mii profile to your Wii, Nintendo would be able to track the games you play, your friends, your interests and your Wii related activities. If your page was only available to people you swap Wii codes with, then it would be perfectly safe. Link in your Wii Sports age, your scores on other Wii related games and some of the Miis you have created. [xFLOAT=left]http://www.wiichat.com/wiiworld2.jpg[/xFLOAT]If you create this all in a little Mii virtual world (similar to a very small Animal Crossing vil-lage) where you can pick up your mail, catch up with friends, perhaps play some basic games and catch up on the latest Mii news and even hang your favourite pictures from the Photo Channel on your virtual walls. Shove it all on a Wii Channel called WiiWorld or something similarly stupid and you've got a license to print money in console sales. Heck, they could even do some very evil in game advertising and have posters and clever product placements dotted around from time to time. Nintendo aren't stupid and they really do realise what makes the industry tick right now. This would be a great way to make the Mii a more personal place. They have already snagged people with the idea of the Wii, so why not expand on it and make the Wii into a tool that everyone in the family can enjoy? We all love getting mail on our Wiis, so why not get it in a little Virtual World and be able to catch up with friends and see if they want to play you online on Pokémon or Smash Bros? Companies are trying harder and harder to try and inch their ways into our everyday lives. Nintendo have said right from the off that they want people to 'turn on their Wii everyday', but for me they haven't yet given us a good enough reason. The news, weather and voting systems are all well and good, but there isn't yet a massive opportunity to connect with other people and feel part of a network. Risky as it may be, I think Nintendo have to embrace it to move the Wii forward. Home will be a massive thing for the PlayStation and we already know how important XBOX Live has become for Microsoft, so Nintendo need to build a hub around which the Wii's future online services will revolve. A centralised WiiWorld that links together your online persona, your friends, your online gaming and your Wii profile would be a hugely powerful tool. Link in the Wii Shopping Channel in some way and Nintendo will finally have the Wii Channel system networked and linked together in a coherent and cohesive way. Linking together our lives has become hugely important. Being connected is essential to how we operate, so if Nintendo want people to turn on their Wii everyday, they need to make it part of this connected world. At the moment, the online system on the Wii is a major letdown. Had it not been for the major stock market deal silencing Nintendo during the GDC they would probably have unveiled a new Wii Channel. As things stand, how the Wii will function online and bring together the great Wii community is something of a mystery. I'm just speculating on what I feel Nintendo might chose to do, but also what they have been hinting they might have in the pipeline. 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So what was it like to work for Rebekah Brooks, the former chief executive of News International now under arrest for her involvement in Rupert Murdoch's News of the World scandal?
Not much fun, apparently.
That's the word from former employees who are now dishing to the Associated Press.
The Brooks regime was marked by "ruthlessness and misogyny," Michael Taggart, who worked at The Sun in 2003, told the AP.
"The reporters who were prepared to subject themselves and others to the most ridicule were the ones earmarked for success," he added.
The most surprising treatment so far reportedly revolved around Charles Begley, a journalist who was News of the World's Harry Potter correspondent in 2001 when Brooks was the paper's editor.
Here's how the AP put it:
The then 29-year-old reporter said he wore a Harry Potter costume to work and officially changed his name to that of the fictional boy wizard, all part of the paper's attempt to tap into the Pottermania sweeping both sides of the Atlantic.
On Sept. 11, hours after the fall of the Twin Towers, Begley was stunned to be chewed out by News of the World management for not wearing his costume. He said he was then ordered to attend the next news meeting in full Potter regalia.
Shaken by the demand, Begley never showed up, and soon afterward parted ways with the paper.
Other former employees are now speaking out against Brooks, too.
"It was very hierarchical," one said on condition of anonymity. "If your immediate boss told you to drive to Norfolk and stand in a field ... that's what you were expected to do."
The News of the World scandal, meanwhile, plays on today in London.
Here's the latest on how British PM David Cameron is holding up to questioning over his involvement with some of the key players.
And be sure to catch GlobalPost's London corresondent Michael Goldfarb's review of all the Murdoch drama yesterday.
It's the story that keeps on giving.


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Here's my modest attempt at a Manhattan list. Suggestions would be much appreciated.
"Fave 5 Happy Endings: When more and more intense alcohol seems like a good idea"
1) Marc (Daniel): Hard to find Marc at all, especially this good and well-priced. Great light for lingering in the afterglow. Gracious service may help nudge you over the abyss, i.e. a second. See M.F.K. Fisher on what happens if you order the third!
2) High-end Grappa (Alto): Best 25 dollars I've spent on liquor. The oak-aged grappa was profound and complex and memorable and worth sharing. I'd take the oaked grappa over añejo or aged rum any day.
3) House-made hooch grappa (Otto): Fun flavors, relatively cheap and served with Señor Frog's Cancún flair. This is a digestivo that doesn't take itself seriously.
4) Blue Smoke Bourbon (Blue Smoke): Helps settle the barbecue, but beware when you settle the tab–it'll set you back 25 bucks or so.
5) Deli-coffee and Gramercy Tavern thank-you muffin at 3AM: Best way to fight off the cold-sweats after knocking back the seven-course menu with cheese supplement. A seltzer chaser helps as well.
And a recurring question of mine: Where can I get Orujo? Doesn't seem available anywhere in the City, even clandestinely.


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POLICE have agreed to cancel charges for attending Sheffield's Christmas lights switch-on and Fright Night Hallowe'en celebrations after public pressure and lobbying by MPs.
Sheffield South East Labour MP Clive Betts, who was part of a delegation which met district police commander Chief Supt Simon Torr, said police 'are not going to pursue charges'.
Police had levied a bill of around £8,000 to Yellow Bus Events, which organises Fright Night, and was set to charge Sheffield City Council £3,700 for last Sunday's Christmas lights switch-on.
Mr Betts, who met Mr Torr with Brightside and Hillsborough MP David Blunkett and council leader Julie Dore, said: "There will be no attempt to charge for Fright Night or the Christmas lights switch-on.
"Mr Torr also indicated that the police are not going to pursue the charges in the future and will instead work with the council to see how future events should be policed."
Mr Betts, who investigated the legal situation, added: "The legal position is that police cannot charge for an event in a public place with open and free access."
Fright Night organiser Scott Barton said: "I'm delighted that the charges are being cancelled after these high level discussions, which will ensure the future of the event."
Council chief executive John Mothersole said: "I have always felt that this issue could be sensibly resolved."


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We offer this service to all types of industries including domestic, retail shops, office buildings, construction, marine and transport. Below are just a few examples of the industry sectors that we work in.
Shop fronts/ Retail outlets
These locations are prime candidates for damage:
Graffiti caused by spray paint or hard onbjects
E.g. knives, screwdrivers, sharp stones/rocks
As well as being detrimental to the image of your business, graffiti often obscures your shop front making your goods/services on view very hard, if not impossible to see.
Replacement glass can be cost prohibitive. We offer a cost effective solution that is specifically designed to polish out defacement and restore your glass so that it looks optically clear. We always consider replacement price before restoration and on average we save our customers up to 80% of replacement price, we always endeavour to improve our prices wherever possible.
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In the building and construction environment the damage we encounter frequently;
Careless cleaning damage
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We repair all of these damages on site at a considerably reduced cost when compared to replacement. The glass polishing system we use is safe and clean.
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As each client is unique we take this into account when doing an on-site project quotation. We are realistic in our assessments and if we feel that the damage is too severe or that we will not be able to achieve the result that you require then you will be informed accordingly. We can tailor any job to be charged hourly, daily or a price to completion dependent upon your requirements.
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We repair conservatories, patio doors and windows. Have you got cracks, scratches, hazing through careless cleaning or chips on any of the above? Frequently people presume that the glass has to be replaced and are very often not aware that such glass reparation and restoration services exist. We can repair for a fraction of the cost of replacement.
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Ritesh Madan received his Ph.D. degree in 2006 and his M.S. degree in 2003 from Stanford University, Stanford, USA, and B.S.E.T. degree from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bombay, India, in 2001, all in electrical engineering. At Stanford, he has received the Sequoia Capital Stanford Graduate Fellowship. He is currently an Algorithms Architect at Accelera MB where he develops resource allocation algorithms and system architectures for self-organizing wireless networks. Prior to that he worked at the New Jersey Research Center (NJRC), Qualcomm, NJ, USA, and developed technologies for interference management in 4G heterogeneous cellular networks, increasing capacity of WiFi networks by increasing spectral reuse and proximal data services in LTE via wireless peer-to-peer connections. His research interests include computational methods for resource allocation in wireless networks, stochastic control, and optimization.
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Viking Northwoods Montana Pine Log BedThis unique log bed features wooden inserts of pine trees or animals. It is constructed of knotty pine logs, which are hand draw-knifed to give each a uniquely different rustic look. The knotty pine logs have a creamy white color, with occasional very light streaks of reddish and bluish hues running through.
This bed, which is constructed of logs that are approximately 3" in diameter, features all wood construction with cross running logs to support the box spring and mattress. Some easy assembly is required, in this sturdy and stable piece of furniture which will last for years to come.
Optional drawers (See "Additional Images" thumbnails above) are available and may be added under this or any other of the beds from the North Star line.
The Montana log bed is available in a clear or "Honey Pine" finish - See "Additional Images" thumbnails above for examples. Free curbside delivery to the lower 48 states!
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Three thousand miles from New York, and several hundred from L.A., Nika is well isolated from currents fads and so she follows her own muse. This allows her to exercise her sense of whimsy by juxtaposing jazz standards, some of her own originals, and quasi classical renditions of Piazzolla and Telemann. To add to the variety, she mixes up the instrumental combinations: "Telemann" is for solo flute, "Café 1930" for flute and guitar, "Stardust" a flute/piano duo, "Twisted" features flute with octave divider, and several tracks are for overdubbed flutes, with and without accompaniment.
The incongruities stood out on first listening but after further listening it does hang together. Rejto is perhaps at her best on the ballads and the classical pieces-the Piazzolla is particularly appealing. The least successful tracks are, for me, the vocals; I would have preferred to hear more of Rejto's flute playing. A small gripe; overall, Nika Rejto goes her own way which is always something to admire. Available from CD Baby.


text: As the home of the European Commission and the European Parliament, Brussels is often considered the 'Capitol of Europe.' So, you'd think the city's subway system would reflect the city's place in the world. But as The World's Clark Boyd reports, many in Brussels find plenty to sniff at when it comes to their Metro system.


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USD/CHF (a 4 hour chart)
General overview
The American currency pulled back from the 6th maximum area achieved the day before against major currencies in the Fed's chief Yellen's speech anticipation.
Fed official, George, said that the labor market growth suggested that rates could start to grow.
The price is finding the first support at 0.9090, the next one is at 0.9060. The price is finding the first resistance at 0.9130, the next one is at 0.9170.
There is a confirmed and a strong buy signal. The price is above the Cloud and it is above the Chinkou Span. The Tenkan-sen and the Kijun-sen show an upward movement and form a "Golden Cross". The upward movement will be until the price is above the Cloud.
The MACD indicator is in a positive territory. The price is growing.
Trading recommendations
We advise to long with the first target - 0.9130. When the pair consolidates above the first target, we can start a deal to the level of 0.9170.


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The Senators got some good news Saturday.
Winger Clarke MacArthur, who injured a tendon in his hand fighting with Calgarys Chris Butler Wednesday, wont require surgery after being sent back to Ottawa to see a specialist.
MacArthur didnt suit up Saturday against the Jets and wont play Monday against the Nashville Predators at home either. He could return next Saturday at in Montreal against the Canadiens.
"The only update I have is they dont need to do surgery so thats as positive as it could be," said coach Paul MacLean before Saturdays game.
"Its more to do with pain threshold and ability to hang onto the stick. Those will be the factors that go into it."
The incident took place 19 seconds into the third period of the 4-1 loss. MacArthur had just made a clean hit on Jiri Hudler and had to drop the gloves with Butler because thats the law of the land.
"It appears thats the way it is in the NHL: Its a No hitter league. If you hit anybody too hard you have to fight all the time. Thats just the way it is but I dont think he had much recourse," said MacLean.
With MacArthur out of the lineup, the Senators decided not to call anybody up from their AHL affiliate in Binghamton for the final game of this trip. Winger Matt Kassian played instead.


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Measuring The Impact Of Universities
Two recent reports, one by the Atlanta Regional Council for Higher Education (ARCHE) and the other by the Iowa Board of Regents, utilize different approaches to help communicate the importance of higher education institutions to a local economy.
The ARCHE report combines economic development statistics derived from input-output analysis with the personal stories of seven individuals who in some form are heavily influenced by the presence of the 49 degree-granting, accredited higher education institutions located in the Atlanta region. The report emphasizes the economic and social impact that the region's universities have on hundreds of thousands of individuals and the state of Georgia.
From the press release: "The report, 'How the Atlanta Region's Colleges and Universities Are Enriching Georgia,' brings together data from Atlanta-area private and public institutions and shows a spending impact from the institutions, their students, employees and visitors of more than $9.2 billion a year. Spending on capital improvements adds another $1.5 billion impact in Georgia."
...Each year, the Iowa Board of Regents collects quantifiable information about the sources for external research support and the technology transfer production at the state's three public universities. For the most recent fiscal year, the total sponsored funding for research at these universities was $442 million. During the same period, Iowa State University, the University of Iowa and Northern Iowa University were responsible for 235 patent applications, 80 new patents, $24.62 million in royalty and fee income, and $44.79 million in revenue from Iowa companies as a direct result of university technologies.
[Thanks to SSTI and the SSTI Digest for the summary of the reports.]
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Michael Zucchet came to scorn, not praise them.
The former San Diego City Councilman, now head of the city's largest union, the Municipal Employees Association, attended on Tuesday his first public meeting regarding the Torrey Pines North Course renovation being proposed by Phil Mickelson and his course design group.
As Zucchet himself would say, there still is "scar tissue" from his last very public battle over Torrey Pines when Zucchet, on the council in 2005, convinced the entire City Council to vote against a proposed North Course redo by Rees Jones, the architect who controversially and dramatically altered the South Course.
The '05 North proposal ultimately was a reasonable "no" to sell, given that the city's golf leaders didn't have architectural drawings to show and did a poor job of communicating the need for the change.
That's why Zucchet, an avid golfer who has played Torrey since childhood, surprised even himself with his reaction to the latest proposals to refurbish the North Course.
"I think I told myself to have an open mind, but I sort of didn't just because a lot of us feel that there's nothing wrong with the North, and what's old isn't necessarily bad," Zucchet said.
What changed his mind is the professional, thoughtful way in which the new plan is being presented, and the care being taken to communicate the vision to the public.
"I think you're being honest about what you're trying to do," Zucchet told the presenters.
The Tuesday meeting was the third with the public, and Phil Mickelson Design Director Mike Angus spent more than an hour presenting a hole-by-hole portrait of the renovated North. At the heart of the work – estimated to be $7.8 million with a completion date of summer 2015 -- are a modernization of the greens and bunkers, more playability for the average golfer, and an aesthetic change that will eliminate 22 acres of plant material to create more "natural" terrain on the edges of the course.
And not to be underplayed: The course likely will be more appealing to the PGA Tour's Farmers Insurance Open, though plenty of pros have said they haven't seen any need to change the North.
When you see the architects' renderings of some select holes, the changes are intriguing. Among the most eye-catching:
In the only significant routing change, the eighth hole would become a par-5 with the green tucked closer to the canyon, while No. 9 would be made into a long par-4.
For the holes on the canyon's edge, large areas of turf and ice plant would be removed to create a firm sand edging that golfers could play from when they reach it.
To echo a sentiment by Zucchet, the look of the edging will be the key to its success. If it's too desert-like, it fails. If they do well to match the beautiful sandstone cliffs, it could be spectacular.
There were a couple of ideas presented that didn't go over well with the golfers at the meeting:
A reversal of the nines, which was rejected by most who said they much prefer the scenery on the front if they're only playing nine holes.
The placement of either a handful of casitas or an event lawn (read: weddings) in the current maintenance yard above the sixth hole. Golfers railed against the possible noise of the event lawn and the loss of naturalism with the casitas.
Bill Evans, owner of the Lodge at Torrey Pines, said his idea for that space is to transfer a few Craftsman-style homes to the site and create a small "colony" of accommodations similar to Crystal Cove State Park in Laguna Beach. Transportation to the site would be carts only, Evans said.
Honestly, that seems a lot more appealing than the din from wedding singers, though the need for anything there at all is the biggest question.
Torrey North changes
Among some of the interesting North Course alterations being proposed by Phil Mickelson:
Creating two short, drivable par-4 holes at Nos. 2 and 16.
Removing the two ponds on the par-3 17th hole.
Re-introducing a pine tree to the middle of the fairway on the par-5 14th; the original tree was diseased and had to be removed.
Reversing the nines to create a more "memorable" finish.


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Stemming from a lifestyle of late nights, early mornings, and a passion for snowboarding Oneoheight turned an idea into reality in 2010. Realizing how rich their roots are on the east coast, they decided to let them flow through to their designs; filling a unique niche in the soft goods market. Focused on fit, style and above all quality, Oneoheight strives to be a leader. They are proof that with numerous friends and family, and a lot of energy, anything is possible. They aim to capture people who do what they love and exemplify where they're from.
Oneoheight Apparel Ltd is a high-end street wear collaborative piloted by a love for snowboarding and the community that surrounds it. They have a lot to offer in their debut product line, bringing their own ideas on fit, quality and style to the table to create an image that exemplifies their lives and the lives of those they surround themselves with. Oneoheight's products are designed from the thread up with the end user in mind, striving to make them action friendly while still retaining that premium / custom feel you want when you're out to get down. Their full Spring 2011 product line is currently available online at http://www.oneoheightapparel.com. You can also find them in select retail locations on the east coast. (See the website for retail locations)


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Glamis Castle is a popular destination for a great day out. Come with your friends, family or as part of an organised group trip.
Whether you choose to visit Glamis to admire its stunning architecture, to explore its history, legends and myths or to attend one of our various Events, you will not fail to be touched by the magic of Glamis.
Glamis has been the family home of the Earls of Strathmore since 1372 when Sir John Lyon was granted the thaneage by King Robert II. In 1376 Sir John married the King's daughter and since then Glamis has been visited and lived in by many members of the Scottish and British Royal Families.
The present owner is Simon Patrick Bowes Lyon, 19th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne who succeeded his late father on the 27th of February 2016.
The castle is famed as being the childhood home of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, birthplace of HRH The Princess Margaret and the setting for Shakespeare's 'Macbeth'. It is situated in the fertile valley of Strathmore, only 5 miles from Forfar and 12 miles from Dundee.
Our website provides a host of information for our visitors and we welcome your feedback. Please let us know if you have any specific questions or comments about Glamis, its grounds and its people by contacting 01307 840393 or email@example.com
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