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The (Re)birth of Ivan Ilyin
Comments off · Posted by Andrew Stuttaford in politics
Here's a thought-provoking take on, if you like, "Vladimir Putin, conservative", from John Schindler. The piece covers too much ground to be summarized in a few excerpts, so I'll focus on just one aspect of it, the way that Putin is looking to base the legitimacy of his regime on older, far older, notions of what the Russian state should be:
[T]he reconquest of Crimea has caused a clear change of tone in Moscow, with celebration of old fashioned Russian nationalism coming into fashion. In his speech to the Duma announcing the triumphant annexation of Crimea, when speaking of Russians, Putin specifically used the ethnic term – russkiy – not the more inclusive rossiyskiy, which applies to all citizens of the Russian Federation. This came among incantations to the full Great Russian program, with a Moscow-centric view of Eastern Europe seemingly endorsed by mentions of great Orthodox saints. Unstated yet clearly, this was all of a piece with "Third Rome" ideology, a powerful admixture of Orthodoxy, ethnic mysticism, and Slavophile tendencies that has deep resonance in Russian history.
Westerners seemed shocked by this "Holy Russia" stuff, but Putin has been dropping unsubtle hints for years that his state ideology includes a good amount of this back-to-the-future thinking, cloaked in piety and nationalism. Western "experts" continue to state that a major influence here is Aleksandr Dugin, an eccentric philosopher who espouses "Eurasianism," an odd blend of geopolitical theory and neo-fascism. While Dugin is not irrelevant, his star at the Kremlin actually faded a decade ago, though he gets some Kremlin attention because his father was a GRU general. Far more important to divining Putin's worldview, however, is Ivan Ilyin, a Russian political and religious thinker who fled the Bolsheviks and died an emigre in Switzerland in 1953. In exile, Ilyin espoused ethnic-religious neo-traditionalism, amidst much talk about a unique "Russian soul." Germanely, he believed that Russia would recover from the Bolshevik nightmare and rediscover itself, first spiritually then politically, thereby saving the world. Putin's admiration for Ilyin is unconcealed: he has mentioned him in several major speeches and he had his body repatriated and buried at the famous Donskoy monastery with fanfare in 2005; Putin personally paid for a new headstone. Yet despite the fact that even Kremlin outlets note the importance of Ilyin to Putin's worldview, not many Westerners have noticed.
They should, however, because Putinism includes a good amount of Ilyin-inspired Orthodoxy and Russian nationalism working hand-in-glove, what its advocates term symphonia, meaning the Byzantine-style unity of state and church, in stark contrast to American notions of separation of church and state. Although the Russian Orthodox Church… is not the state church, de jure, in practice it functions as something close to one, enjoying a privileged position at home and abroad…
Ilyin is a complicated figure, and perhaps more of 'liberal' (these things are relative) than the synopsis above might suggest, but he does play an important symbolic role in what has become the key intellectual project of the Putin regime, the reconciliation of imperial and Soviet Russia, an idea that is (I'd argue) at its core, absurd, but comes with the advantage that it spares the Russian people the necessity of a full reckoning with what was done to, and by, them in the Soviet era.
As to what Putin actually believes, well, that's anyone guess, but there should be no doubting his willingness to make use of the ideological position he has developed to support his agenda at home, in the territories of the former USSR ('the near abroad') and even further afar than that. Schindler has plenty to say about what the implications of that could be, none of them reassuring.
As the saying goes: read the whole thing.
God and Mr. Putin
3 Comments · Posted by Andrew Stuttaford in politics
Pat Buchanan, writing in Human Events, appears to suggest that Vladimir Putin may, so to speak, be on the side of the angels:
In his Kremlin defense of Russia's annexation of Crimea, Vladimir Putin, even before he began listing the battles where Russian blood had been shed on Crimean soil, spoke of an older deeper bond.
Crimea, said Putin, "is the location of ancient Khersones, where Prince Vladimir was baptized. His spiritual feat of adopting Orthodoxy predetermined the overall basis of the culture, civilization and human values that unite the peoples of Russia, Ukraine and Belarus."
Russia is a Christian country, Putin was saying.
This speech recalls last December's address where the former KGB chief spoke of Russia as standing against a decadent West:
"Many Euro-Atlantic countries have moved away from their roots, including Christian values. Policies are being pursued that place on the same level a multi-child family and a same-sex partnership, a faith in God and a belief in Satan. This is the path to degradation."
Heard any Western leader, say, Barack Obama, talk like that lately?
…Author Masha Gessen, who has written a book on Putin, says of his last two years, "Russia is remaking itself as the leader of the anti-Western world."
But the war to be waged with the West is not with rockets. It is a cultural, social, moral war where Russia's role, in Putin's words, is to "prevent movement backward and downward, into chaotic darkness and a return to a primitive state."
Would that be the "chaotic darkness" and "primitive state" of mankind, before the Light came into the world?
This writer was startled to read in the Jan-Feb. newsletter from the social conservative World Council of Families in Rockford, Ill., that, of the "ten best trends" in the world in 2013, number one was "Russia Emerges as Pro-Family Leader."
In 2013, the Kremlin imposed a ban on homosexual propaganda, a ban on abortion advertising, a ban on abortions after 12 weeks and a ban on sacrilegious insults to religious believers.
"While the other super-powers march to a pagan world-view," writes WCF's Allan Carlson, "Russia is defending Judeo-Christian values. During the Soviet era, Western communists flocked to Moscow. This year, World Congress of Families VII will be held in Moscow, Sept. 10-12."
Will Vladimir Putin give the keynote?
In the new ideological Cold War, whose side is God on now?
On the corruption of the Russian Orthodox Church: nothing.
On the bullying of other (non-Orthodox) Christian denominations: nothing.
And on so much else: nothing.
People believe what they want to believe and they see what they want to see.
Pat Buchanan · Religious Right · Russia · Russian Orthodoxy · Vladimir Putin
"Black Cassock, Gold Epaulettes"
Comments off · Posted by Andrew Stuttaford in politics
The latest issue of the British magazine, Standpoint, has a fine profile of Pussy Rioter Nadezhda Tolonnikova by Rachel Polonsky.
The whole piece is well worth reading, but this, in particular, caught my attention:
The dissident priest Gleb Yakunin regards the performance in the cathedral as a miracle in the full Christian sense of the word. Pussy Riot's words "black cassock, gold epaulettes" drove "to the very heart of Patriarch Kirill", he said. During their imprisonment, Yakunin composed a verse cycle in Pussy Riot's honour, The Pussiniad. He too did time in prisons and labour camps in the Soviet period. In 1993, five years after his amnesty, the Russian Orthodox Church excommunicated him for exposing its infiltration by the KGB. Yakunin had unmasked Kirill as a high-ranking agent codenamed Mikhailov.
Let's scroll back to the controversy last year involving remarks by two Republican congressmen, Steve King and Dana Rohrabacher, over Pussy Riot, a controversy that led Rohrabacher to write a comment over on NRO's corner that included this:
The group snuck its way onto the altar of Moscow's Cathedral of Christ the Savior without permission and performed a punk rock song with vulgar lyrics. Their stunt was disrespectful and completely irreverent…There is a distinction between a group engaged in outrageous acts for the sake of notoriety and those engaged in political speech. This group's activities certainly appear to fall in the former category.
Yakunin or Rohrabacher? It's not a difficult choice.
Orthodoxy, Nationality, Autocracy (Again)
2 Comments · Posted by Andrew Stuttaford in Church & State, politics
Having long lost out in his efforts to woo Russia's liberals, and increasingly struggling with opposition in Russia's metropolitan centers, Vladimir Putin has instead being appealing to Russia's 'silent majority'.
I wrote about this for National Review a week or two ago, noting how this latest pivot by Putin has been winning him some (mistaken) approval on the right over here too.
Meanwhile, the Washington Times has more on Vladimir Putin, conservative:
"Many Euro-Atlantic countries have moved away from their roots, including Christian values," Russian President Vladimir Putin said in a recent keynote speech. "Policies are being pursued that place on the same level a multi-child family and a same-sex partnership, a faith in God and a belief in Satan. This is the path to degradation."
In his state of the nation address in mid-December, Mr. Putin also portrayed Russia as a staunch defender of "traditional values" against what he depicted as the morally bankrupt West. Social and religious conservatism, the former KGB officer insisted, is the only way to prevent the world from slipping into "chaotic darkness."
…Mr. Putin's views of the West were echoed this month by Patriarch Kirill I of Moscow, the leader of the Orthodox Church, who accused Western countries of engaging in the "spiritual disarmament" of their people. In particular, Patriarch Kirill criticized laws in several European countries that prevent believers from displaying religious symbols, including crosses on necklaces, at work.
Well, Kirill may be a thoroughly disreputable figure but he is (broadly speaking) right about the stupidity of not allowing people to display religious symbols at work. That said, this claim, to put it mildly, is a stretch:
… Other figures within the Orthodox Church have gone further in criticizing the West. Archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin, a church spokesman, suggested that the modern-day West is no better for a Christian believer than the Soviet Union. Soviet authorities executed some 200,000 clergy and believers from 1917 to 1937, according to a 1995 presidential committee report. Thousands of churches were destroyed, and those that survived were turned into warehouses, garages or museums of atheism.
To argue that Christians in the West today are treated in a manner in any way comparable to that is to insult the memories of those murdered (not to speak of the countless others subjected to 'lesser' persecution) for their faith in the Soviet Union, and to trivialize their fate.
Back to the Washington Times:
…The Kremlin's encouragement of traditional values has sparked a rise in Orthodox vigilantism. Fringe groups such as the Union of Orthodox Banner Bearers, an ultraconservative movement whose slogan is "Orthodoxy or Death," are gaining prominence.
Patriarch Kirill has honored the group's leader, openly anti-Semitic monarchist Leonid Simonovich, for his services to the Orthodox Church. The Banner Bearers, who dress in black paramilitary uniforms festooned with skulls, regularly confront gay and liberal activists on the streets of Moscow.
Although Mr. Putin has never made a secret of what he says is his deep Christian faith, his first decade in power was largely free of overtly religious rhetoric. Little or no attempt was made to impose a set of values on Russians or lecture to the West on morals.
However, since his inauguration for a third presidential term in May 2012, the increasingly authoritarian leader has sought to reach out to Russia's conservative, xenophobic heartland for support.
It has proved a rich hunting ground.
Indeed it has.
Patriarch Kirill · Russia · Russian Orthodoxy · Vladimir Putin
Church and States
Comments off · Posted by Andrew Stuttaford in Church & State, politics
Cross-posted on the Corner:
Russia's first modern 'official' ideology was developed in the early 19th Century, primarily as a response to the potential liberal challenge from both home and abroad, and was summed up in the words Orthodoxy, autocracy and nationality. And by nationality, it meant Russian nationality, a key concern for a czar presiding over a multinational empire.
Some traditions die hard. Here's the Kyiv Post reporting on the disagreement between Patriarch Kirill, head of the Russian Orthodox Church, and a firm supporter of the Putin regime, and the Ukrainian patriarch, Filaret:
Commenting on the statement of Russian Christian Orthodox Church Patriarch Kirill that the EuroMaidan demonstrations are a threat to the spiritual unity of Ukrainians and Russians, the Patriarch of Kyiv and all Rus-Ukraine Filaret stated: "This is not true."
"If we take the idea that Kirill defends – Rusky Mir (Russian World) – it is not unity, it is empire, wrapped in a nice package. In fact, it is about creating a new empire. The Customs Union is the beginning," said Filaret, referring to Russian President Vladimir Putin's revival of an economic and political union of former Soviet republics including Russia, Kazakhstan, Belarus and Armenia. Putin also hopes to include Ukraine, the second largest former Soviet republic, in the grouping.
According to Filaret, "the truth is to practice the Orthodox faith, and each nation will have its own independent church, as required by the canons of the church."
I've no idea about the canon law, but Filaret is clearly onto something about the politics of all this.
Vladimir & Kirill
2 Comments · Posted by Andrew Stuttaford in Church & State
There were some here in the US, particularly a few on the Religious Right, who failed to appreciate the extent to which the Pussy Rioters' decision to stage their brief event in a cathedral was not just some childish blasphemy, but a very deliberate protest against the way in which the Russian Orthodox church was using, and being used by, the Putin Regime, a process which some might consider to be rather more of a descration than a few seconds of mime near an altar.
Now here's this from Window on Eurasia:
President Vladimir Putin at Valdai and Patriarch Kirill at the more recent World Russian Popular Assembly chose exactly the same themes: "isolationism and the opposition of Russia to the West, Russia's moral supremacy over other countries and especially 'rotten' Western democracy, and Russia's special path as a great power."
Taken together, Roman Lunkin, a leading Russian specialist on religious affairs at the Institute of Europe of the Academy of Sciences, says, these constitute "a farewell to democracy," something that Kirill has been promoting since long before he became patriarch but that until now Russian leaders would not have permitted themselves to say so explicitly…
In speech after speech…Kirill has spoken about the unique qualities of the Russian people and about "the need to build a corporate Orthodox state on the basis of the concept of 'Russian civilization.'" Earlier, he spoke about democracy only as "the harmonization of the interests of the authorities and the people." Now, he has dispensed with that.
Moreover, this year as he has in the recent past, the patriarch rejected the notion of universal human rights and said that "the observance of traditional moral values and way of live" must have "primacy," even if that requires the use of force by the state itself, views that have attracted many Russian nationalists to his side, even if they are not especially religious.
And, Lunkin continues, "it is no accident that the patriarch cited the philosopher Ivan Ilin who spoke for the establishment of a corporate-social strata national-orthodox state" and who infamously but consistently "greeted at the outset national socialism in Germany" under Adolf Hitler.…
Patriarch Kirill · Pussy Riot · Russia · Russian Orthodoxy · Vladimir Putin
Russia Takes on the Pastafarians
1 Comment · Posted by Andrew Stuttaford in Church & State
I've always thought that the joke about the Great Spaghetti Monster was a touch on the leaden side, but compared with Russia's response to the "Pastafarians"…
NBC reports:
MOSCOW, Russia — The march of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster had all signs of being a satirical stunt – some of its 100 participants were armed with colanders on their heads and pasta in their mouths.
But the reaction of Russian authorities to so-called Pastafarians has been anything but lighthearted.
Police and members of a Russian Orthodox group set upon the group last Saturday, knocking some to the ground. Eight members of the church were detained and subsequently charged with organizing an unsanctioned rally. Although those detained have since been released, they are due back in court before the end of August. Pastafarians are part of an international 'religious' movement founded in the U.S. in 2005 in opposition to the teaching of intelligent design and creationism in public schools. It has become an international movement, generally recognized as satirical poke at organized religion. But its adherents insist that it's a 'real religion' and the dogma they follow is the rejection of dogma. They claim to have 15,000 adherents in Russia.
Aside from demonstrating how some Muscovites may not appreciate the Pastafarians' sense of humor, the recent crackdown reveals just how close Russia's Orthodox Church and state agencies have become in what was once an officially atheist nation…Alexei Romanov, a member of the Pastafarian Church, called the move and subsequent legal proceedings against it "absurd."
"The country is gradually turning into an authoritarian state," he said.
Romanov's fellow Pastafarians are falling victim to a recently introduced law that bans insulting the religious feelings of believers.
This time members of an unregistered Orthodox Christian group who call themselves "God's Will," called the police when they found out about the procession, according to Romanov.
They accused the spaghetti worshipers of insulting the religious feelings of believers – an accusation that, if found to be true by a court of law, can have mean up to three years in jail….
blasphemy and defamation of religion · Russia · Russian Orthodoxy
Nice One, Kirill (Not)
1 Comment · Posted by Andrew Stuttaford in Church & State
Pope Francis thinks that same-sex marriage is the work of the "father of lies". The head of the Russian Orthodox Church, dodgy Putin crony Patriarch Kirill may be even more uneasy.
Russia Today reported this (my emphasis added) back in July:
The Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Kirill sees the recognition of same-sex unions by Western countries as a portent of doom. He called upon Russians to ensure that sin is never formalized by the rule of law.
"This is a very dangerous apocalyptic symptom, and we must do everything in our powers to ensure that sin is never sanctioned in Russia by state law, because that would mean that the nation has embarked on a path of self-destruction…"
Okey dokey.
Gay Marriage · Patriarch Kirill · Russia · Russian Orthodoxy
Mission to Moscow (Theocon Edition)
Comments off · Posted by Andrew Stuttaford in Church & State, politics, Religion
This is about a piece that comes from the Daily Beast, so a few caveats are in order, even if we ignore a headline ("Why American Social Conservatives Love Anti-Gay Putin") that may not be the work of James Kirchick, the article's author.
I doubt, for example, whether this "many" is accurate:
Many of those self-same religious conservatives who cheered wildly when Ronald Reagan denounced the "Evil Empire," are citing Russia as the world's foremost defender of traditional values.
"Many"? Really?
And this is ludicrous:
Russia today under the heel of President Vladimir Putin is arguably less free than it was in the late stages of the Soviet Union under Mikhail Gorbachev.
Uh, no.
The direction of change in the late-Gorbachev era (unless, say, you were a Lithuanian border guard), might have been more favorable than it is in Russia today, but, for all the reversion to authoritarianism seen in recent years, Russia is still infinitely more free than it was in 1989-91.
On June 30, Putin signed into law a now infamous measure banning "non-traditional relationships propaganda," a catch-all term which legal experts say prohibits everything from gay pride parades to gay couples holding hands in public.
The law had earlier passed in the Duma by a vote of 436-0.
Back to the Daily Beast:
"Russians do not want to follow America's reckless and decadent promotion of gender confusion, sexual perversion, and anti-biblical ideologies to youth," Peter LaBarbera, of the outfit Americans for Truth About Homosexuality, proclaimed on his website.
"You admire some of the things they're doing in Russia against propaganda," Austin Ruse, president of the U.S.-based Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute, told the Associated Press last month, before lamenting, "on the other hand, you know it would be impossible to do that here." Ruse recently traveled to Russia, and wrote a piece for the Daily Caller entitled, "Putin is not the gay bogeyman," in which he defended the draconian legislation.
"Openly gay ambassadors are now placed in largely religious countries," Ruse complained. "Gay celebrations are now held in U.S. embassies, even in countries like Pakistan where such parties are calculated to deeply offend legitimate religious sensibilities and beliefs." Of course, Christians are also discriminated against in Pakistan. Presumably Ruse also opposes the U.S. Embassy's Christmas Party, which is similarly "calculated to deeply offend legitimate religious sensibilities and beliefs"?
…Scott Lively, an American conservative activist largely credited for inspiring legislation in Uganda that would impose the death penalty on homosexuals, praised the Russian legislation on his website, writing, "I can't point to any country of the world today that is a model for the rest of the world, except perhaps for Russia, which has just taken the very important and frankly necessary step of criminalizing homosexual propaganda to protect the society from being 'homosexualzed [sic].'" In 2007, Lively traveled across Russia on a 50-city tour, during which he recommended the very measures included in the Russian bill. Lively is the author of a book entitled "The Pink Swastika," which argues that German Nazism was a gay conspiracy.
So supportive of Russia are social conservatives that many of them plan to travel to Moscow next year for the 8th international conference of the World Congress of Families, which proclaims on its website that, "Ideologies of statism, individualism and sexual revolution, today challenge the family's very legitimacy as an institution." Russia, the organization proclaims, is known for "its historic commitment to deep spirituality and morality."
Well yes and no at an individual and cultural level. But the use that the czarist state made of religion was not so much about "spirituality and morality" as it was about creating an ideology that both cemented an idea of Russianness across very disparate peoples, and provided a justification for absolutism, a notion that was reduced to the formula "authority, orthodoxy and nationality" under Nicholas I.
Kirchick, again:
Social conservative love for Vladimir Putin's Russia should not come as much of a surprise. After the fall of the Soviet Union, Russia eventually reverted to an authoritarian system that more resembles the governance of the Tsarist period than a modern liberal democracy. Russia is now heavily influenced once again by the Orthodox Church, which has essentially become a state religion and has openly declared its support for Putin's gangster regime. Writing in Newsweek last year, Peter Pomerantsev reported that the Church has "been critical in helping Putin recast the liberal opposition's fight against state corruption and alleged electoral fraud into a script of 'foreign devils' versus 'Holy Russia.'" Shorn of its communist atheism, Russia is now a reactionary's paradise. Those who sensed authoritarian tendencies lurking within the American religious right have had their suspicions confirmed by such vocal support for the Russian dictator.
The idea of a monolithic "religious right" is absurd, but nevertheless…
This preference for the strong, righteous hand was visible in the saga of Pussy Riot, the Russian feminist punk rock collective whose show trial last year after a "blasphemous" performance in an Orthodox Church became an international cause célèbre. While everyone from Madonna to Amnesty International protested, the Russian Foreign Ministry boasted that the harsh sentencing of the group to two years in prison demonstrated that it was Moscow which today stands for "Christian values" forgotten in the "postmodern West," a point echoed by American social conservatives. "In an ironic reversal in time, as America has declared war on the church and Christians, Russians have come back to the church," the Reverend Austin Miles wrote on the website of the Christian Coalition. "While America has allowed itself to be kicked into the gutter, Russia, the former Communist Soviet Union, has picked up the baton, rapped some knuckles and proclaimed sternly: 'Do not foul religion or the church.'" What he and other defenders of Putin forgot to mention, however, was that the Pussy Riot protest was specifically aimed at the Church's open and unapologetic collaboration with an undemocratic and oppressive regime.
Indeed it was (something that, as I noted here, appeared to have been forgotten/ignored by at least two Republican congressmen, Reps Rohrabacher and King).
At this point it might be worth linking again to a post I put up here in January.
Here's an extract:
Vladimir Putin's attempt to blend social conservatism and Russian Orthodoxy into the mix that is (nominally: the reality is rather grubbier) the ideology of his regime continues. The Guardian has the details.
First, we have an unpleasant piece of anti-homosexual legislation (in wording, context and intent far broader—and far nastier than the "Section 28" that was, to say the least, one of the Thatcher era's less glorious achievements):
"The law in effect makes it illegal to equate straight and gay relationships, as well as the distribution of material on gay rights. It introduces fines for individuals and media groups found guilty of breaking the law, as well as special fines for foreigners."
And then we have this:
"Minutes after passing the anti-gay legislation, the Duma also approved a new law allowing jail sentences of up to three years for "offending religious feelings", an initiative launched in the wake of the trial against the anti-Kremlin punk band Pussy Riot."
There ought, of course, to be no 'right' not to be offended. What's particularly interesting about the latter law, however, is the way that it borrows from western neo-blasphemy legislation…
For a glance at where Putin's efforts could lead, this post by Andrew Sullivan on an incident of bullying recently video-recorded in St. Petersburg is well worth reading. As he notes, it is "a scene reminiscent of fascist states in the early 1930s", down, I might add, to the undertone that Sullivan also detects…
This is not something to be cheering on.
blasphemy and defamation of religion · homosexuality · Pussy Riot · Religious Right · Russia · Russian Orthodoxy · Theocons · Vladimir Putin
2 Comments · Posted by Andrew Stuttaford in Church & State, law
Vladimir Putin's attempt to blend social conservatism and Russian Orthodoxy into the mix that is (nominally: the reality is rather grubbier) the ideology of his regime continues. The Guardian has the details.
First, we have an unpleasant piece of anti-homosexual legislation (in wording, context and intent far broader—and far nastier than the "Section 28" that was, to say the least, one of the Thatcher era's less glorious achievements):
The law in effect makes it illegal to equate straight and gay relationships, as well as the distribution of material on gay rights. It introduces fines for individuals and media groups found guilty of breaking the law, as well as special fines for foreigners.
And then we have this:
Minutes after passing the anti-gay legislation, the Duma also approved a new law allowing jail sentences of up to three years for "offending religious feelings", an initiative launched in the wake of the trial against the anti-Kremlin punk band Pussy Riot.
There ought, of course, to be no 'right' not to be offended. What's particularly interesting about the latter law, however, is the way that it borrows from western neo-blasphemy legislation. Back at the time of the Pussy Riot trial, I noted this:
An interesting angle to this whole case is that the women have been charged under Article 213 (2) of the Russian criminal code: "hooliganism" motivated by religious hatred or hostility. The language of western political correctness, not to speak of Islamic efforts to suppress free speech, have, it seems, found an echo in Moscow, the Third Rome.
The echo is even louder now.
And while I am on this topic, I ought to mention that there was a spot of bother over at the Corner over the unfortunate (let's be kind) intervention of a GOP congressman into the Pussy Riot controversy. My contributions to the fracas are here and here.
blasphemy and defamation of religion · Pussy Riot · Russia · Russian Orthodoxy · Vladimir Putin


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This pressure cooker recipe for hearty beef and Guinness beer stew can be whipped up quickly in your pressure cooker. Traditionally served on St. Patrick's Day, it's a warming feast that is delicious any time of year, especially served alongside mashed potatoes, but luckily, in a pressure cooker it doesn't have to simmer all day. For step-by-step instructions on making this stew in a pressure cooker, see my tutorial.
Cooking Equipment Needed: Measuring spoons, kitchen scale, chef's knife (one to try: Victorinox Chef's Knife), cutting board, vegetable peeler, pressure cooker (one to try: WMF Perfect Plus Pressure Cooker)
What You'll Need
- 2 to 3 tablespoons vegetable oil
- 2 1/2 pounds beef stew meat, 1-inch cubes
- 1 medium onion, chopped (about 1 cup)
- 2 cloves garlic, minced
- 4 medium carrots, peeled and sliced on the bias into 1-inch pieces (about 2 cups)
- 8 ounces frozen pearl onions, thawed (about 1 1/2 cups)
- 1 can stout beer, such as Guinness (14.5 ounces)
- 1 teaspoon dried thyme
- 1 bay leaf
- 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
- Kosher salt and freshly ground pepper
How to Make It
- In the pressure cooker, heat the vegetable oil over medium-high heat. Working in batches to avoid overcrowding the pan, sear the stew meat on all sides, about 3 to 4 minutes per batch, until browned. Transfer the seared meat to a plate and set aside.
- Adding more oil to the pan if needed, saute the chopped onion for 4 to 5 minutes or until it is softened and translucent. Add the garlic and saute for 30 seconds, stirring constantly. Return the stew meat to the pot. Add the beer, thyme, and bay leaf and stir to combine.
- Lock the lid onto the pressure cooker and bring it to high pressure over high heat. When high pressure is reached, cook for 20 minutes, then remove the pot from the heat and quick-release the pressure by pressing the valve (make sure to hold it away from your face to avoid burns). Let stand for 5 minutes. Add the carrots and pearl onions, stir to combine. Replace the lid on the pressure cooker, bring to high pressure, and cook 5 minutes. Remove from heat, and quick-release the pressure again. Remove the lid.
- Find and remove the bay leaf and sprinkle flour over stew, stirring to combine. Simmer over medium-low heat until stew liquid thickens, about 5 minutes. Season to taste with salt and pepper.
Serve on buttered egg noodles or Mashed Potatoes, or serve with crusty bread for dipping.


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So, another Transformers film by way of Michael Bay. First I have to say that after the second film Revenge of the Fallen and the even more dismal Dark of the Moon, why would Hasbro even think to allow him to do yet a fourth installment? I mean did anyone actually see these pictures and leave feeling like they were even sort of interesting?
I have to just point out that while in the theater trying to wrap my head around Revenge of the Fallen after the first few minutes and honestly hearing Ironhide say "PUNK ASS DECEPTICONS", I literally got up and walked out of the theater and did not regret that decision. I am glad I did because after seeing the entire film later in it's entirety I was underwhelmed and disappointed at the same time. And Dark of the Moon left me feeling the same. Neither one gave anything new in the way of characters either human or robot(except some idiot twins who talked like ghetto rejects) and honestly the story-lines in both didn't make a whole lot of sense to me being that I am from the original Transformers era when the animated T.V. series had just been released.
So, onto the fourth film now called Age of Extinction. Rumors have flown and still continue to fly as to what actual robot characters will be in this one but from so much now seen and things I have read it looks like the Dinobots are a sure thing. I mean who really knows exactly yet but it is looking more and more that the rumors are true. Now I have issue with this and please let me tell you why. I am sure much like the other films that this one introducing the Dinobots will leave out the actual reasons why the Dinobots exist in the first place. Because the Decepticons were actually kicking Autobot ass and based on some information received while in a museum, the Autobots along with Spike, Sparkplug and Chip get the go ahead to create them, to give the Autobots some much needed muscle and firepower. Now they were also not given very much in the way of brains so they were primitive to say the least.
To leave this out or change the origin story of these classic and awesome characters would be, well to me and I am sure others, WRONG! They need to be one set of robots in these films with their story intact and not twisted around, like some other lame cause or reason why they are what they are. I mean for once can something taken from either a comic book and or animated television series be given the right treatment and be allowed to be what they were originally? Well I doubt it since the other three movies did very little to satisfy this in me and so many others that have an interest in these characters.I mean come on just look at how badass these robots are, were, and could be if someone would stand up and say use this as a chance to make up for the garbage spilled onto film with these other Transformers offerings and give something for once to the fans without whom there would be no Transformers. They are not here because of Michael Bay and his, shall we say vomit that looked like Robots in Disguise. They are iconic because people like me gave them a chance back in the early to mid 80's. They wouldn't be here if not for true fans of the series and I count myself as one of the true fans.
What do you think? Am I too much of a purest? Maybe crazy to expect anything good to come from this newest film. I believe both are true.


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WINDERMERE, Florida (Reuters) - Tiger Woods took a step forward but acknowledged he had a lot of work ahead after Friday's second round of the Hero World Challenge where he trailed leader Jordan Spieth by 14 strokes.
Woods, back in competition after nearly four months away due to back injuries, improved to a two-under 70 after an opening 77 despite suffering from a fever, but a wobbly short game continued to plague him.
"It's not very good," conceded Woods, who stood last in the 18-man field. "Just going to take more time, more patience."
Not so for rising American Spieth, who scorched the back nine with five birdies including three in a row from the 12th to reach 11-under with one hole to finish when play was halted due to darkness after an 82-minute weather delay late in the round.
Spieth said the rain helped his birdie run.
"It was nice for us," he said. "The greens putted a little slower."
Australian Open winner Spieth held a two-shot lead over Sweden's Henrik Stenson, who posted a 68 despite back-to-back bogeys from the 15th.
Another shot back at eight-under were England's Justin Rose (64) and Patrick Reed, who played alongside fellow American Woods and went out in a sensational seven-under 29 on his way to a 63.
Woods came to the first tee with his gray shirt already drenched in sweat and coughed before several shots, but got through the front nine in even par and reached four-under for the day before a flubbed chip led to double bogey at the last.
The poor finish came right after the rain delay and washed away some of the gains of a back-nine stretch where Woods made eagle and two birdies in a span of four holes from the 13th.
Short game shortcomings hampered him again a day after flubbing three chips on his former home course of Isleworth.
The 14-times major winner, who is undergoing a swing change, also bladed a short chip some 60 feet past the hole at the eighth where he took a bogey.
Woods said it was all related to his swing changes, adding that two previous major swing revisions earlier in his career should help him.
"The good news is I understand the process," he said. "I've made changes before in my game and it takes time."
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Wes Welker sounded like he had no plans to hold out during an interview on Monday. On Tuesday, it became official that he wouldn't.
Welker has signed his franchise tender with the Patriots, according to a source. He will be paid a guaranteed 9.5 million this year.
The Patriots wideout announced the news himself moments after it was reported.
I signed my tender today. I love the game and I love my teammates! Hopefully doing the right thing gets the right results. leapoffaith Wes Welker (@WesWelker) May 15, 2012
Now that he has officially signed, Welker will be able to participate in organized team activities, which start on Monday.
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Evaluation of Tumoral Perfusion Modification by Dynamic Imaging After Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy Combining Gemcitabine and a Hedgehog Inhibitor (Vismodegib) in Patients With Resectable Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma
Pancreatic cancer is characterized by a high stromal density and is a hypoperfused tumor,
precluding cytotoxics delivery to the epithelial tumoral compartment. There is thus a
rationale for combining chemotherapy and antistromal drugs like Hedgehog inhibitors.
Targeting the resectable primary tumor offers an appropriate setting to (1) evaluate and
monitor early treatment effects on the tumor, (2) correlate dynamic imaging changes
(perfusion and diffusion coefficient) to pre- and post-therapeutic tissue changes, (3)
identify specific predictive biomarkers for the drugs used (i.e. gemcitabine transporters
and Hedgehog pathway genes and proteins) and (4) assess if this early "dynamic and
biomolecular response" can predict treatment benefit and patient outcome.
Endpoint Classification: Safety/Efficacy Study, Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment, Masking: Open Label, Primary Purpose: Treatment
"Dynamic" tumor response rate as defined by a 20% modification of tumoral perfusion and cellular density parameters.
In order to detect changes in the tumor microenvironment and to monitor treatment efficacy, Dynamic Contrast-Enhanced-Magnetic Resonance Imaging (DCE-MRI) and Diffusion Weighted-Magnetic Resonance Imaging (DW-MRI) constitute tools more and more used. The acquired data can be analyzed using a pharmacokinetic model to obtain quantitative parameters relative to tissue perfusion and vascular permeability (Ktrans, a volume transfer constant of contrast agent between blood plasma and the extravascular extracellular space; Apparent Diffusion Coefficient as a surrogate marker of tissue cellularity). DCE/DW-MRI will be achieved weekly before each neoadjuvant chemotherapy treatment and before surgery. Each patient will be his/her own control by comparing serial imaging results with those of the baseline MRI.
4 weeks (duration of the neoadjuvant chemotherapy).
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JAMB Stops Admission Posting Of Students For 2016/2017- You Can Now Apply To Your School Of Choice
Gooday all members and visitors of this great blog, i want to personally address the 2016/2017 Direct Entry students based on the current JAMB Admission posting saga ongoing.
Few Weeks ago we made an update where we informed all that JAMB has taken charge of admission by posting qualified students to their various school of choice, Later on we also brought an information to all that the JAMB Admission posting is not the real admission list, that candidates will need to attend their various school screening exercise before being fully admitted.
Since all these past weeks my phone number havent been at rest from students especially Direct Entry Students, Most of them called asking so many questions ranging from:
When will JAMB Begin Admission Posting For Direct Entry Students?
Will JAMB Truly Post Direct Entry Students?
How Will This Year Direct Entry Admission Be Like?
My Name Is Not Yet Being Posted By JAMB Whats Wrong?
After Purchasing My JAMB Direct Entry Form What Next Should I Do?
I Tried Checking If I Have Been Posted By JAMB But Get This Response "Cant Find Table1" e.t.c
Well today am here to clarify you guys on all this issue, just continue reading below:
UTME Students Can Read This: Updated: Reasons Why Your Name Haven't Been Posted By JAMB Yet For Admission Consideration [2016/2017]
ABOUT JAMB 2016/2017 ADMISSION POSTINGFor the fact that JAMB Began posting students doesnt mean that Direct Entry Students are included in the new admission policy, All Direct Entry students should note that for now that UTME Students are the one currently affected by the admission posting.
As far as am concerned JAMB Never mentioned or make provision for admission posting for Direct Entry Students.
Direct Entry students are expected to buy the Official JAMB DE Form and after processing their registration, you are expected to wait for your school of choice to announce their admission screening exercise for Direct Entry students.
Dont be suprised that your school might have started selling their DE Screening admission forms without you being aware, because you are busy wasting your time waiting to be posted by JAMB which is not possible because posting is only for UTME Students.
The reasons why most of the Direct Entry Students keep getting this response "Cant Find Table 1" its because Your Reg numbers are so different, and most of them were acquired in different years and not yet compiled or grouped by JAMB For posting even if its going to happen.
Am advicing all Direct entry to always check their respective school website to be updated when their DE Admission screening form is out, as of now this post is made many schools have already started sales of DE Screening forms alongside their UTME Forms, that why we recommend you visit our admission checking page to be update when a school DE/UTME Form is out.
In Conclusion:All I Have to say to all DE Students that they should forget the JAMB Admission posting because DE Students are not involved in the new Posting policy, even though you guys are involved later you will be informed, but for now focus on preparing for your school admission screening exercise and not running helter-skelter seeking for numbers to call, this might lead you ending up in the hand of admission defrauders!!!
Let us just wait till after July, 29th When UTME Admission posting is expected to end and see the next action of JAMB.
A word is enough for the wise!!!
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Voicent Predictive Dialer - Agent Dialer
Voicent Agent Dialer is a predictive dialer and semi automatic dialer combined for telemarketing campaigns. In predictive dialing mode, the system can utilize multiple phone lines and supports unlimited agents. The system can automatically dials on multiple lines, and only connect the call to agent when there is a live answer. It improves agent efficiency by reducing wait time. In semi automatic dialing mode, the system can rapidly dial a phone number by pressing a key or clicking of a mouse. Once connected, you can talk on the line, play pre-recorded audio files, and record conversations. It also allows you to transfer a call to another line. AgentDialer helps to generate leads, reduce work load and boredom, save your voice, increase productivities. Key features include - multiple phone line predictive dialing - unlimited agent support in predictive dialing.Visit publisher site: Voicent Predictive Dialer - Agent Dialer
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Below you can see your results from the two views/surveys from the other two pages. All you have to do is use your two scores like an X and Y axis. The Political view is your X axis. You economic view is your Y axis. This is not scientific results. But it is pretty close. Notice where I am (Hamilton Big Blue). Now you know where you stand compared to me and famous leaders. You can click on it to get a bigger picture. You may also copy it anytime you want. Keep in mind these could possibly change from time to time when new/more information about a person comes out. By the way this looks so much better in WORD, not Paint.
Quadrant I (top right):
- High government influence either by choice or necessity, based on religious affiliations, moral standards, considered more conservative. Believers in a more free market system. Yellow area though borders monarchist ideas.
- Less government influence. Believes in a free market and societal attitudes, considered individualist and libertarian. Gray area though borders chaos.
- Less government influence when it comes to regulation of society but control over montary systems. Considered to be highly liberal but also believers in more of a command economy. Gray are borders radicalism.
- High government influence either by choice or necessity based on societal needs. Believes government intervention is needed for humanitarian reasons. Considered to be socialist and believers in a command economy. Yellow area borders communist dictatorships.
From the chart above you can see why/how some elections turned out the way they did. But first here are some other explanations:
- The circles you see are pretty much the 6 main political parties of the US and where they would more than likely be compared to each other, not including those independents (which I am, just a very conservative one). Libertarian, Constitution, Republican tend to be the "conservatives" and the Green, Democrat, Socialist tend to be "liberals". See point #2.
- In reality there are no left-wing nuts or right-wing fanatics. So this does not really measure that.
- The people on this chart are: in the yellow from top to bottom, Benito Mussolini, Adlof Hitler, Josef Stalin; in the green, Michelle Bachmann, Sarah Palin, John Boehner, Tim, GW Bush, GHW Bush, Mitt Romney, Karl Marx, Vladimir Lenin; in the blue, George Washington, Ron Paul, Ronald Reagan, Thomas Jefferson, Bill Clinton, Al Gore, Joe Biden, Hilary Clinton, Jimmy Carter, Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi; in the pink, Ralph Nader, Denis Kucinich. If you want more then ask.
- Those outside the circles are really outside American politics and should probably stay outside of America.
- Most independents would tend to be where Thomas Jefferson would be, and the majority of the rest would be leaning towards Reagan on one side and Clinton on the other. Now you know why they were elected twice with popularity. They played the center very well.
- You can see why Bush and Gore were split equally in 2000. They are equidistant from the center and very polarized in there views causing feelings of disenfranchisement on some. And you can see the few votes Nader "stole" from Gore with the slight overlap.
- You can see why some Democrats are compared to "socialists" since many ideas overlap, especially Obama compared to Clinton (either). But no where near close to the ideas of Stalin who took the ideas of Utopian society and ruined them.
- Both major parties are equidistant from Hitler which is why both will be compared to him in times of dissent or elections, although neither are true, Pelosi being the exception. :)
- And you can see why Nader, Pelosi, Bachmann, Kucinich, and Paul will never be president.
- Although Democrats are right in the middle, that does not mean they are correct. They just believe in a perfect balance of between government control and economic freedom. American values though are more like Jefferson and Washington, both of whom are not "centered".
- Quadrant 1 (top right) believe in economic freedom and have government control over moral issues (whether being right or wrong).
- Quadrant 2 (top left) believe in economic and moral freedoms.
- Quadrant 3 (bottom left) believe in government control over economics but moral freedoms.
- Quadrant 4 (bottom right) believe in government control over economic and moral issues.
Hopes this helps. If any other questions, let me know. Have fun.


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I decided to try making pizza in my new Napoleon gas grill to take advantage of the ultra high heat. I put the stone in the infrared side (I have the Gemini), preheated for 1/2 an hour, and tried a pizza. Slid it in, closed the lid. Well, the bottom crust burned charcoal black within 2 minutes, with the top of the dough still somewhat raw.
I figured the infrared was simply putting out too much heat too close to the stone, and not diffusing enough around the chamber. So, I next tried putting the stone in the tube burner side of the grill. This time, cranked all 3 burners to high, put the stone in, closed the lid, and preheated for an hour. Slid in the pizza. Not quite the disaster the infrared side was, but still the bottom crust was getting too charry before the top cooked (and I LIKE a few char spots).
So, what's the trick? I can't imagine it's lowering the temp -- that puts me right back to indoor oven temperatures. What about cranking on 2 burners, positioning the stone over the third for more indirect heat? or cranking all 3 to get the temp up, but killing the heat over the stone when I actually slide in the pizza)?
Before I try these alternatives (and waste some more beautiful Mozzarella, sopressata, fresh basil, etc...), has anyone got this down?


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It is now 2 years since I closed my studio in town and retreated to home. Since then I have had a dining room full of strobe lighting gear.
There are 3 x 5000 Joulle power systems, one is a city 5000.
4 striplights with stands.
2 small fish fryers 3 x 2 ft with stands
1 2ft square soft box
2 swimming pools one with stand and one which was used vertical.
1 mono head with reflectors and foot square soft box.
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I am open to offers around £750 for all of these items and would prefer collection from Blackpool, but can arrange courier for smaller items if I have to split.
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Madonna Donates Costumes to Auction for Sandy Storm Victims
Madonna is auctioning her tour costumes to benefit those affected by Hurricane Sandy.
Some of the outfits the singer donned on her MDNA Tour, including the much-photographed majorette costume and caged basque, will be included in the auction, according to New York Post. Madonna visited some of the hard hit neighborhoods in the Northeast after the storm.
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THE small village of Clunes on the far north coast has convinced the government to save its beloved speed camera.
The camera was one of the most lucrative in NSW, raising more than $1.2 million in fines this past financial year, but it was identified in an auditor-general's report last week as one of 38 cameras that had little impact on road safety.
It was to be turned off but after community outrage the Roads Minister Duncan Gay agreed to keep it yesterday.
Two cameras that were also on the hit-list, outside Epping West Primary School on Epping Road and St Catherine Laboure Primary School on President Avenue in Gymea, have also been saved after lobbying by parents.
A spokesman for Mr Gay said the people caught speeding by the retained cameras would not be sent fines.
The cameras will act as a deterrent but they ''will operate only in warning phase'', the spokesman said. ''If a driver is caught by a camera … they are issued warning letters but not infringement notices.''
Clunes residents fought hard for a speed camera after a fatality and crashes on the town's main street and for a decade it has been slowing down the semi-trailers speeding through the town.
It was so popular, locals even lobbied the Roads and Traffic Authority for a second one.
The news comes as the NRMA vowed to travel the state to collect 10,000 signatures to force a debate in Parliament about redirecting revenue from speeding fines to improving road safety and funding extra highway patrol officers.
The Premier, Barry O'Farrell, has guaranteed to debate any issue in parliament that attracts 10,000 signatures.
The NRMA president, Wendy Machin, said if the government was serious about reducing the road toll then the revenue from speed fines should not be used for anything other than improving the safety of the roads.
"For years we've been calling for the revenue raised from traffic fines, in particular enforcement cameras, to be hypothecated to specific road safety measures such as funding road improvements, road safety education and more highway patrols across the state," Ms Machin said.
"We want the NSW government in its first term to legislate the hypothecation of the more than $140 million collected by speed cameras each year and the best way to make this happen is to get the 10,000 signatures we need to get this issue debated by Parliament.''


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We are traveling to France for the first time this Oct/Nov.
We want to travel by train btwn Marseille and Paris. I am completely unfamiliar with train travel in Europe
I went online and came across Capitain Train and TGV Rail Europe.
I'm confused, what is the difference btwn the two or 3? And why is there such a significant price difference?
Any specific advice helping me to purchase tickets and info on the differences btwn these train companies would be most appreciated!
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Those are two of three companies selling tickets on the exact same trains so take the lowest price - probably capitainetrain.com which compete with the French National Railways (SNCF) in selling tickets but on the same SNCF trains.
www.capitinetrain.com is said to be infinitely easier to get to work for Americans than www.voyages-sncf.com - the French National Railway site but check both.
RailEurope (www.raileurope.com) is largely owned by the SNCF but as an American subsidiary and does not routinely offer the deep discounted fares on either of the two French sites - so eschew them for France and best bet Capitain Train.
TGV trains are high-speed trains on which all three companies sell tickets (Train a Grande Vitesse' or High-Speed Trains) - there is a 4th site www.idTGV.com that has their own trains - and low low prices with less comfort - also owned by the SNCF I believe.
For lots of great info on European trains I always spotlight these IMO fine sites: www.budgeteuropetravel.com; www.seat61.com - great info on discounted tickets - and www.ricksteves.com.
The problem with the www.voyages-sncf.com site is that if you say you are from the U.S. it will throw you over to www.raileurope.com so say you are a resident of France (these are e tickets for the most part I think) and also using an American credit card often it seems will not work (tell your local c c issuing bank always that you will be having a foreign charge come in so it is not automatically blocked.)
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OK, here's asummary:
1. www.voyages-sncf.com (English language version en.voyages-sncf.com) = French railways own site. Correct prices. No booking fee. Full range of products and seating options. However, it has a nasty habit of diverting you to one of its overseas Rail Europe subsidiaries, so (for example) you cannot select 'United States' as your country, you should select 'Afghanistan' to avoid diversion.
2. www.raileurope.com = Rail Europe Inc, based in the USA & selling to the US & Canada. I've seen higher prices on here than on voyages-sncf leading me to believe that they suppress the cheapest fares for the US market. They add a booking fee ($7 even for a print at home ticket when voyages-sncf change nothing) and allocate seats with no seat choice. Doesn't sell some products eg iDTGV, forfait bambin (€9 ticket to give infant under 5 their own seat), espace privatif (special sole occupancy rate for couchette compartment on French night trains).
3. www.raileurope-world.com = Rail Europe 4A, based in Paris and marketing to Australia, Asia, Africa, S America (hence 4A, geddit?). Same prices as voyages-sncf but with a fee added and no seat choice options. Doesn't sell some products eg iDTGV, forfait bambin, espace privatif.
4. uk.voyages-sncf.com = the artiste formerly known as Rail Europe UK. Looks similar to en.voyages-sncf but chrages in pounds. Doesn't sell some products eg iDTGV, forfait bambin, espace privatif.
5. www.capitainetrain.com = private agency started by four young French entrepreneurs who though they could sell SNCF tickets quicker and easier than voyages-sncf itself (and they're right). Same prices as voyages-sncf, in euros, no booking fee, full range of seating options and products as voyages-sncf including iDTGV and forfait bambin, though not currently espace privatif. Accepts overseas cards no problem, and has none of voyages-sncf's Machiavellian diversionary tactics. Frankly, it's the ideal way for overseas visitors to book French train tickets cheaply, with no added fees, AND you get to choose seat options including upper or lower deck on a TGV Duplex - I recommend upstairs seats on a Marseille-Paris TGV Duplex for the best views!
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I can't thank you enough, you explained it beautifully.
Am I correct when I look on the Capitainetrain.com website that we would be better off originating out of Avignon for a non stop to Paris vs originating from Marseille where we would have to transfer in Avignon?
Thanks again!
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I don't think there is any website "TGV Raileurope" Raileurope has a website and it is a travel agency. French high speed trains are called TGV. There is a French website for their TGV trains alone (in addition to their main website) but it isn't called Raileurope, so something is off here in your description.
SOme people use the TGV site because they don't know French and the main website is in French. It used to be www.tgv-europe.com but I think SNCF may have done away with that separate website and it resolves to the regular SNCF website now. It didn't used to. If that's true, you couldn't have seen it, I guess. It had the same prices if you filled out the info correctly and didn't say you wanted tickets in the US.
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Are you from the US?
RailEurope offers safety blanket treatment for US travelers at often stunning price premium. I don't use them for point to point tickets.
www.voyages-sncf.com used to be where I bought French train tickets until they started rejecting all my US credit cards. Also, the ticket delivery options are confusingly worded as well as not offering self print option, if you included "extras" in your shopping card that prevent self print of any segments. I don't use them any more.
www.capitainetrain.com is what I used for my May trip to France. Same low prices and same seats as www.voyages-sncf.com site using a stunningly simple web site. They take US credit cards without fuss.
They seem to offer only just one way of retrieving the ticket - retrieval in France. This is actually very simple. This means they give you a SIX letter code when you buy your ticket. Using that SIX letter code and your name, walk up to one of the many yellow self-service ticket machines at SNCF stations/offices, punch in these two info only (no CC needed) and out pop your tickets.
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So how is captainetrain making money? inquiring minds want to know.
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commission - same as RailEurope gets from its parents SNCF and the Swiss Railways - 25% stakeholder or about. Same as Man in Seat 61 gets from his www.seat61.com commercial site's link to RailEurope - RE pays him or his site a commission on all tickets and railpasses bought thru that link.
Capitaine Train under EU laws about monopolies or something sued to get the right to sell SNCF tickets (for reasons Man in Seat 61 gives above) and I assume they get a commission or perhaps also like www.seat61.com they have banner ads - like the ones inundating users of www.seat61.com - more and more all the time.
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Capitainetrain's current business model? Just go to their web site:
Notre modèle économique est simple : comme toutes les agences de voyages, les transporteurs nous versent une petite commission sur chaque billet vendu. Contrairement à d'autres agences de voyages, nous vendons les billets aux tarifs fixés par les transporteurs, sans surcoût ni surtarification. = commission
How much commission?
Côté modèle économique, Capitaine Train se rémunère sur la commission reversée par la SNCF à chaque vente de billet. "C'est transparent pour les clients. En gros, quand un client commande un billet à 100 euros, nous ne le payons qu'environ 96 euros à la SNCF." = about 4% at the time of interview.
In addition, a site that gets this much internet traffic has a potential portal value not yet realized.
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In addition, a site that gets this much internet traffic has a potential portal value not yet realized.>
That's exactly why I think Man in Seat 61 continually pops into dozens of Fodor-like sites to flog his commercial site - Man constantly promotes discounted tickets and nothing else (rarely if ever mentioning the many draconic restrictions these tickets may have - kind of like IMO a used-car salesman - making his name of being the expert like that - and rightly so - not complaining that's just how it works. Use whatever you can to build traffic to your site and Man in Seat 61 is no doubt increasing his site's potential value by his rather clever tactic. Hats off to him and he deserves it for the help he gives to many to get the lowest ticket cost.
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You may look at it as flogging his site ( Man-in Seat-61 ) but he gave the best and most concise response to the OP.
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I agree and said so many times.
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Capitainetrain does not allow you to select exact seats on iDTGV cars; that is a problem for me as I cannot ride backwards.
Using the iDTGV site, I am able to select 2 seats facing each other and am assured that one will face forward [DH sits in the backwards facing seat]. My US credit card works with no effort at all on iDTGV.
I would suggest taking the train from Aix, not Marseille or Avignon. We are doing this in December. I was able to get seats for 19 euros when the new booking period opened last week.
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But if leaving from Avignon TGV you must of course first take a train from Marseilles to Avignon - how much would that cost added onto the 19 euro fare IF available and do not assume it will be on the trains you want - there is a certain limit on number of seats at that price so hop on it as soon as it comes on the system - also price a Marseille to Paris ticket if you did not - seems like you did but what you find today and what you may find tomorrow may be all different.
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There is a bus from Marseilles airport to Aix-en-Provence's TGV station that costs just a few euros - check on fares from Aix to Paris as well.
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{Assuming PalenQ is talking to OP; in post immediately above}
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PalenQ, I'm not sure what I've done to upset you (excuse me a moment, folks...).
I post on Fodors and a couple of other forums for exactly the same reasons that you or anyone else does, and for the same reasons that I've always done, because my passion is travel, especially rail and sea travel, and I have some knowledge from 30 years travelling and 15+ years in the rail industry which others may find useful. And it's good to help people.
It's precisely that ethos which led to me starting my website 13 years ago. I don't think the travel industry or even the train operators themselves do enough to promote train travel, or make it easy to find the cheap fares that compete effectively with budget airlines and long-distance buses. The Rail Europe Goliath versus Capitainetrain's David debate is a classic example.
I don't mention my own site at all on two other forums where is strictly verboten, and only mention it on Fodors if it's directly relevant to the OP's question - given of course that you can't put photos or maps or diagrams on a Fodor's post, and can't always put a complete explanation.
I added 'banner ads' and so on to the site ten years ago, hopefully without compromising the actual content, and no-one has been more surprised than me that it's enabled me to run the site full-time rather than on a laptop squeezed between fellow commuters on a 50-minute train ride to and from work. Just as well, as updating it has indeed become a full-time job. But I'm the same person, doing what I love, for the same reasons. Just now I can work from home, do a proper job on the content instead of a rushed half-job, and see my young kids grow up instead of leaving the house at 7am and returning at 7pm.
There's no charge for the advice on my site, I just lightly suggest that those who find it useful might make a donation to my charity - and so far I've raised almost £5,000 for UNICEF's Syria appeal, and yes, I'm proud of that!! I found the Syrians the most hospitable people I've ever met, which is why I'm glad I can do something instead of just sitting on my backside. OK, WHILE sitting on my backside, whatever! ;0)
Sorry to hijack this post, peoples - oh yes, and for calling the OP an Australian... - but I don't think Fodorites should take pot-shots at fellow Fodorites who are trying to help.
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No need to change trains in Avignon if you are coming from Marseille -- the train just goes through Avignon.
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Man I continually recommend your site - your excellent site time after time here on Fodor's as you well know so you or your site does not upset me - the discussion was about sites and how they make money.
I was just illustrating. Your site is terrific and I will keep flogging it anytime a rail question comes up. My remarks were not an attack on you or your excellent site - I will keep mentioning your site.
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There used to be this guy who posted constantly on various travel websites about Paris, he fancied himself an expert (Fred something). Regardless of what he said, his tag line was his website URL (there is another guy on Fodors who does that, also, Vic something). This isn't coincidental, they are advertising as they want people to come to their website, either because they get paid by traffic or in the hopes they will get business. Some people who had never traveled before and had his style found him useful on AOL (he only stayed near the Opera and did the same things all the time). But he claimed he wasn't running a business and as far as the IRS was concerned, maybe not, but he would ask people to voluntarily send him money if they found his information useful (he set the rate they should send). I found that really distasteful and the old AOL travel boards allowed that stuff all the time. He posted a few times on Fodors but he didn't really know that much so kind of got drowned out on a website where people knew more than he did. He would deliberately post just to add his tagline even when he had almost nothing to say or didn't know anything about the topic.
I have never used manseat61 or whatever and have no opinino except it does have some useful info, and there are some similar website where people really do offer useful advice (Madridman is one) that are supported by ads. I don't have anyting against them per se if they are honest and if they don't post a lot on many posts just to have their tagline showing as advertising, while claiming they are innocent (which is what that Fred guy did). And if they don't solicit funds from people using their website.
On another note, I am very surprised that Capitainetrain gets a 4% discount from SNCF and that is their revenue source. I also wondered what it was, but if they had to get a legal argument to win the right to sell SNCF tickets, why would SNCF cooperate and give them discounts? They couldn't exist without them, I bet. Maybe they decided they did benefit from the sales and it didn't cost them anything, but they could have improved their own website if they wanted more foreign purchasers.
I do disagree with someone above who claimed voyages-sncf's retrieval options were confusing. I thought they were very clear, they said exactly what they were.
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<< I am very surprised that Capitainetrain gets a 4% discount from SNCF and that is their revenue source.>>
Every travel agency in France sells SNCF tickets for the same price as the SNCF (and they have always done this) because they get a commission, same as for hotel bookings and other stuff like that.
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The Morgon name is Celtic in origin, arising from the ancient Britons of Wales. It comes from the Old Welsh personal name Morcant, composed of the Welsh elements "mor," meaning "sea," and cant meaning "circle."
Morgon Early Origins
Caernarvonshire (Welsh: Sir Gaernarfon), a former county in Northwest Wales, anciently part of the Kingdom of Gwynedd, and today divided between the unitary authorities of Gwynedd and Conwy. The surname is derived from the " Welsh personal name of high antiquity. The founder of the Pelagain heresy, in the fourth century, was a true Welshman and a monk of Bangor. His name was Morgan, which signifies 'Of the Sea' and this was correctly Latinized Pelagius. The Morgans of Golden Grove, co. Flint, descend from Marchudd ap Cynan, founder of the eighth noble tribe of North Wales and Powys. " [1]CITATION[CLOSE]
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The Welsh have an extremely large amount of spelling variations of their native surnames to their credit. It was up to the priest or the scribe taking the official records to determine how the spoken name was to be made literal. As time progressed, the old Brythonic names of Wales were recorded in English, which was especially problematic since the English language had extreme difficulty recording the highly inflected sounds of Cymraeg. Spelling variations were, however, also carried out according to an individual's design: a branch loyalty within the family, a religious adherence, or even patriotic affiliations could be indicated by spelling variations of one's name. The spelling variations of the name Morgon have included Morgan, Morgen, Morgain, Morgaine and others.
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Prominent amongst the family during the late Middle Ages was Admiral Sir Henry Morgan (ca. 1635-1688), Welsh pirate who raided Spanish ships and settlements in the Caribbean, and became acting Governor of Jamaica (1680-1682); William Morgan (1560-1653), a Welsh politician who sat in the House of Commons of England in 1624...
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North America in the 1800s and 1900s saw the arrival of many Welsh people hoping to share in the wealth of land, work, and freedom that they felt North America held. Those who made the journey often attained those expectations, but only through an enormous amount of hard work, perseverance, and often a bout of good luck. These immigrants helped contribute to the growth of industry, commerce, and culture of both Canada and the United States. Discovered in the immigration and passenger lists were a number of people bearing the name Morgon:
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I see that the latest controversy on the Great British Bugger Off is that they have swapped the KitchenAid Artisan food-mixers for Kenwood ones in the big tent. While Mrs FEEG swears by (and sometimes at) her Artisan, I cannot see that this really makes a lot of difference. Mary Berry is still an annoying old dear, Paul Hollywood still deserves a bit of a slap, and the contestants are still fairly weird. Some nice, but sometimes overcomplicated, breads, cakes, pies and pastries result from the contest, though.
There is an ITV alternative, the BBQ Championship. It is a similar thing, but using charcoal grills and ovens rather than electric ones. Also, the contestants are (even more) weird, and judges just as annoying. Still, the results look great and make a chap slobber. There is one other big difference. The GBBO is presented by Mel and Sue, while the BBQC presenter is Myleene Klass. Which to choose………???
BoadiceaAugust 8, 2015 at 12:44 pm
Can you please translate? None of this makes any sense to me – a poor antipodean. 🙂
August 8, 2015 at 12:48 pm
I feel deprived! I have no place to bake anything.
Four-eyed English GeniusAugust 8, 2015 at 1:12 pm
Glossary for Boadicea:
GBBO = Great British Bake Off. A competition that starts with ten or so contestants who claim to be good bakers and have to bake various items within a set time limit. They are judged by Mary Berry who used to write cookery books about a million years ago, and Paul Holloway who used to work as a baker. Each week the baker judged to have produced the worst items is eliminated. This is, believe or or not, is one of the most popular programmes on British TV at the moment (now the Ashes have been won 🙂 ). Also, there is nearly always some, somewhat contrived, controversy in each series.
KitchenAid Artisan. = A popular make of American made food mixer
Kenwood = A British (well, nominally) firm that makes food mixers amongst other kitchen appliances.
Mel and Sue = Mel Gedroyc and Sue Perkins. A couple of middle aged TV presenters (nominally, ex-comediennes)
BBQC = BBQ Champ. A similar competition to the Bake Off but using charcoal barbies and various meat, fish and veggie dishes cooked on them or in a charcoal oven. It is on an alternative TV channel, and the two barbecuers who are deemed to have cooked the worst dishes in each round have to have a "grill off" to see who is eliminated. Also, there is a £25,000 prize at the end of this one, and no-one has heard of the judges.
Myleene Klass = a bit of a babe, who is a TV presenter, former pop-star, classical pianist, model and all round good egg.
Hope that clarifies the issue for our Antipodean friends. 🙂
BoadiceaAugust 8, 2015 at 1:25 pm
Thanks FEEG! I avoid all cookery programmes since I have never, ever understood why people will spend hours making something that will be eaten and gone in a matter of a few minutes. I expect a blast from Christina here!
I was in the UK in May this year – and decided that the UK programmes are worse than they are here – since they all seemed to be about cooking. How boring! (Another blast from Christina expected!)
I find it especially odd that the UK has so many cookery programmes since the ready-to-cook food industry there is so wonderful. 🙂
August 8, 2015 at 5:20 pm
TV food shows? Cures for insomnia. Not content with teaching grannies to suck eggs they even ask wannabe celebrities to join in. The only TV cook I warmed to was Keith Floyd whose advice was excellent – in his cups.
christinaosborneAugust 8, 2015 at 5:43 pm
Actually Bo, I rather agree with you. I detest cookery programmes. Either over the top, over complicated. full of poseurs etc etc. In real life the odd recipe here and there is long winded but there are generally ways and means of short cuts all over the place, generally known to the professionals who don't have the time to waste. Some very ugly results too by the odd still I have seen from the papers of the GBBO. One wonders why these people think they can cook?
I used to have a Kenwood in the UK, (wedding present!) I was singularly unimpressed with it, seemed to spend all its time clarting up the ingredients against the walls, endless scraping down etc. Flogged it! (after a suitably diplomatic period of time!)
Took one look at the Kitchen Aid and thought it would have the same problems here. I use an electric hand held beater for creaming and whipping. Short cut-20 seconds in the microwave for the butter before you begin! I'm all for speed, too much to do! The one electric appliance I would not be without is a Cuisinart food processor, chops, slices, grinds, liquidises -totally bloody brilliant and goes in the dishwasher. Also a hand held wand liquidiser, marvelous for processing passata.
Yesterday I rendered 7lbs of figs into a compote for the freezer, Made a cauldron of passata for the freezer, (haven't bought a tin of tomatoes in years!) Picked all of the above from my garden. I only eat real food, nothing preprepared, disgusting muck.
Have you ever washed off a lump of so called chicken from a ready meal?
Don't! It is frightening, looks somewhat akin to a lump of foam rubber, air holes in a matrix of ground beak, foot and soy! Then people wonder why they get cancer? Cancer of the bowls is I believe the next prevalent to lung cancer as a prime killer in the UK, one wonders why! Or rather one doesn't! The chemicals used in meat processing plants for the fast food industry are seriously frightening. Which is why I went organic and grow your own 20 years ago. Well worth the time and effort.
We seem to be getting more and more Australian TV here on the Public Service stations, must say they are very good indeed, very watchable.
Interestingly the Kitchen Aid in the papers was touted to be 386.00 sterling or so, well it is the same price here in dollars, so at 1.55 exchange that makes it 50% or so dearer. What a bloody rip off the UK has become. Same is true for all these sports shoes, Nike etc. A friend asked me to price some for her son. 50% dearer for internet delivery into the UK. Robbers.
christinaosborneAugust 8, 2015 at 5:46 pm
Interesting J, I actually have his recipe book of round Britain recipes here and now. Useful for bizarre regional dishes. I never saw him, was away at the time, gather he was permanently pissed on the show?
Now how about a Singing Hinnie?
August 8, 2015 at 6:23 pm
Yes please, C! With my afternoon tea. 😊
christinaosborneAugust 8, 2015 at 6:47 pm
Bugger, haven't made one of them in 30 years. Now I'll have to.
Used to love old fashioned lardy cake, but here you cannot get the lard anymore, only the inestimably bloody awful Crisco. There ought to be a law against that stuff! I suppose the only people who buy are mechanics.
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FORMER Dell workers, who are still waiting on millions to pay for their retraining, yesterday said they could not trust FAS to administer the funds.
The Dell Redundant Workers' Association (DRWA) hit out at the State training agency's slowness in dealing with queries from former employees.
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