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Tobacco Retailers' Alliance
The Tobacco Retailers' Alliance (TRA) is a tobacco industry funded campaign group, representing UK independent retailers selling tobacco. Until May 2008, it was known as the Tobacco Alliance (TA).
The TRA's website says it is a "coalition of 26,000 independent shopkeepers who all sell tobacco products" and adds that it is "funded by the Tobacco Manufacturers' Association which means we can offer a free membership to all independent retailers who sell tobacco. We campaign on issues of relevance to both their businesses and to the industry".[1]
Not only is the TRA funded by the TMA, the two are housed within the same building,[2] and the TRA's website was registered by the TMA.[3]
In the financial year 2000/1 the Tobacco Manufacturers' Association (TMA) budgeted to spend £180,000 on the group, but forecast that the actual spend would be £190,000.[4]
TRA has been represented by the public relations (PR) companies PR21 and its sister company Edelman.[5]
- 1 Policy Positions and Campaigning
- 2 Direct Lobbying Activities - 2013
- 3 Direct Lobbying Activities - 2011
- 4 Relevant TobaccoTactics Resources
- 5 Notes
Policy Positions and Campaigning
Against a Tobacco Retail Display Ban in Shops
The TRA is opposed to a ban on retail displays of tobacco in shops. Spokesperson Ken Patel said: "This measure will placed [sic] a terrible burden on small businesses like mine, and there is no evidence to suggest it would have any positive impact on youth smoking rates."[6]
Save Our Shops - Lobby Campaign Funded by the Industry
In 2008, the TRA launched 'Save Our Shops', an initiative where the TRA provided shops with materials to run their own campaign in-store, and get customers to demonstrate their support. Customers could sign postcards which retailers would send on to their local MP, demonstrating public opposition to a display ban.
The campaign was large. MPs received hundreds of postcards bearing the Save Our Shop campaign logo, urging them not to back the government's proposals. The cards stated: 'As my local MP, I hope you will protect our independent local shops by opposing this proposal.' More than 100 MPs signed an early-day motion in Parliament agreeing with the proposal that any plan to sell cigarettes under the counter should be firmly 'evidenced-based', a key message pushed by the Save Our Shop campaign.
In December 2008, however, the Guardian exposed 'Save Our Shops' as an industry-funded campaign. MPs expressed dismay that the campaign had been orchestrated and funded by the tobacco companies, the paper wrote:[7]
- "[M]any MPs had been unaware the campaign was the brainchild of the Tobacco Retailers' Association (TRA), an offshoot of the Tobacco Manufacturers' Association, which represents the interests of three tobacco companies: BAT, Gallaher and Imperial Tobacco."
- "The Save Our Shop campaign did little to make its links with the tobacco lobby apparent and its postcards bore no reference to the connection between it and the cigarette manufacturers. The TRA, which also spoke out against the proposals, did not publicise its links with the manufacturers' body, although the latter's website carries a small reference to the connection between the two organisations."
Deborah Arnott, chief executive of Action on Smoking and Health, accused the tobacco lobby of "hiding behind the cloak of retailer respectability."
Against Plain Packaging
According to the TRA, "Traders are concerned that a ban on branding will make life tougher for shopkeepers who sell tobacco without doing anything to reduce smoking rates."[6]
No To Plain Packs - Lobby Campaign Funded by the Industry
In May 2012 the TRA launched the 'plain packaging postcard campaign' in response to the UK Department of Health's consultation on standardised packaging. 'No to plain packs' postcards were distributed to retailers who were then encouraged to send them to the Department of Health. TRA spokesperson John Abbott said that "it's really important that independent retailers air their views on plain packaging through this consultation", arguing that[8]:
- "When we are serving customers, it will take much longer to find the product a customer wants if they are all in plain packs and look similar."
- "Customers may also focus more on price if plain packaging is introduced and this will affect the turnover of retailers."
The TRA offered members arguments against plain packaging and also advised retailers on how they could respond to the consultation on its website. The TRA included its own submission to the consultation as an example.
Throughout the duration of the consultation, retail magazines such as the Grocer and Retail Newsagent consistently featured opposition messages to plain packaging and advertised the TRA plain packaging postcard campaign.
In July 2012, the TRA reported that 30,000 retailers had so far signed postcards, demonstrating how public consultations on tobacco control measures can be flooded with industry influenced opinion.[9]
In the Department of Health's 2012 Consultation summary report the official number of postcards submitted was 26,530. The text read:
- "I am a retailer who sells tobacco. I am opposed to 'standardised' packaging and support option 1 of the consultation: to maintain the status quo for tobacco packaging. Plain packaging would:
- Fuel the black market in counterfeit and smuggled tobacco;
- Make my customers focus more on price and affect my turnover;
- Increase my transaction times and impact my customer service;
- Be yet another burden on my shop in addition to the tobacco display ban."
In 2013, BAT acknowledged it had granted funding support for the Tobacco Retailers Alliance postcard campaign via the TMA.[10] During the second consultation in 2014 the TRA submitted a further 10,001 "No to Plain Packs" postcards.
Following the government's January 2015 announcement that it intended to proceed with legislating for plain packs before the forthcoming May General Election, the TRA's national spokesman Suleman Khonat issued a statement
- "This announcement is a hammer blow to the tens of thousands of small retailers across the country. We are already dealing with the negatives [sic] impact of measures such as the display ban but the evidence from Australia shows that plain packaging has led to an increase in smuggled and illicit tobacco. This will damage the incomes of legitimate businesses and make it easier for children to buy tobacco off street corners. Organised criminals don't care who they sell to or how old they are. The government needs to rethink this decision if it cares about the future of local retailers and the communities they serve."[11]
However, a Cancer Research UK report published in March 2015, in which 62 retailers were interviewed, revealed that although 81% of retailers believed that tobacco sales were essential to footfall in their stores, 94% acknowledged that the profit margins on tobacco products were low.[12]
Against Tobacco Smuggling
The TRA is emphatic that the illegal trade will profit most from plain packaging:[8]:
- "When around one in every six cigarettes in this country is already illicit, the criminals operating out of tab houses and street markets, undercutting proper shops and not caring who they sell to, will be rubbing their hands in glee."
- "The TRA supports enforcement acting by Trading Standards to identify, fine and ban from selling tobacco those shops and retailers who do not take proper precaution against selling to minors."
Against the EU Tobacco Products Directive
When the revision of the Tobacco Products Directive was discussed in Brussels in 2013, a TRA Magazine press release once again argued that such regulation would lead to an increase in illicit trade.[13]
According to the press release a TRA survey found that:
- "one in six corner shops (17%) in the UK are under threat due to lost sales from tobacco smuggling and cross-border shopping. The figure is up from last year when the survey found that one in eight corner shops (13%) were under threat."
The TRA also discussed the European debate on banning certain ranges of tobacco products from retailers' shelves including packs of cigarettes under 20, packs of loose tobacco under 40gms, menthol cigarettes and "slim" cigarettes, as well as dramatically increasing the size of health warnings.
The TRA cited Debbie Corris, a Whitstable shopkeeper and then National Spokeswoman for the TRA, who said:
- "If the EU bans these products, it will play in to the hands of the smugglers who will happily be able to provide them to anyone that wishes, no matter what their age. This will affect the livelihoods of independent retailers across the UK and ensure that the criminal activity of tobacco smuggling blights our communities for years to come."
Direct Lobbying Activities - 2013
In 2013, the TRA paid the Liberal Democrats thousands of pounds for an exhibition stall expressing "relief" that the government dropped plans for plain packaging and arguing against the proposed Tobacco Products Directive. One leaflet stated "It was a great relief … that the government has decided to wait on making any decision on plain tobacco packaging until evidence on the effects it has had in Australia is available. However, now is no time to sit back!"[14]
Direct Lobbying Activities - 2011
The political party conference season is one of the busiest times in the TRA's calendar. In 2011, the TRA team went to the Liberal Democrats, Labour and Conservative conferences, and also to the SNP conference. The report on the tour in the TRA Newsletter reads as an overview of those MPs and party-members responsive to direct lobbying.[15]
Liberal Democrats
Those who stopped by the stand at the LibDem conference included Danny Alexander, the Chief Secretary to the Treasury (and MP for Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch); Vince Cable, the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation & Skills (and Strathspey and Twickenham MP) and Stephen Gilbert, the MP for St Austell and Newquay. Ed Davey, the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills (and Kingston and Surbiton MP) also visited and his discussion focused on the business side of retailing. Another visitor was the Deputy Chief Whip, Alistair Carmichael, MP for Orkney and Shetland.
"Solly Khonat raised the issue of the display ban with the Labour leader, Ed Miliband, himself!" The team also met with Camberwell and Peckam MP, Harriet Harman and with the Shadow Deputy Prime Minister and "rising Labour star", Chuka Umunna (MP for Streatham) and Shadow Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills. Other "leading lights of the party" that stopped by the stall were the Shadow Chancellor, Ed Balls (MP for Morley & Outwood), Stephen Timms, the Shadow Minister for Business, Innovation and Skills (East Ham MP) and Shaun Woodward, the then Shadow Secretary of State for Northern Ireland (MP for St Helens South and Whiston) The focus of the conversations was on the the effect of tobacco smuggling on local communities.
The TRA stand was "pride of place in the exhibition area and attracted numerous visitors over the four days" and Iain Duncan Smith the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (Chingford and Woodford Green MP) stopped by.
Scottish National Party
Geoff Barrett, the Scottish TRA Spokesman (left) took part in a panel discussion held by CitizenCard, the UK's leading proof-of-age scheme. The event was entitled: "No ID No Sale; "Guess their age and face a £10,000 fine". Also on the panel were: Edinburgh Councillor Tom Buchanan; David McNeill of Young Scot; Gordon Robb from Highland Trading Standards; Janet Hood from the British Institute of Innkeeping; and Paul Waterson of the Scottish Licensed Trade Association.
MP: Conflict of Interests?
In June 2009, then Labour MP for Tyne Bridge, David Clelland, was criticised by public health advocates for campaigning against Government plans to ban the display of cigarette packets in shops and newsagents without declaring a family link to a senior TRA lobbyist. The Sun newspaper reported that Clelland is the stepfather of Katherine Graham, who was the TRA's campaign manager. The MP told the newspaper that the family link had no impact on his views, and that he did not declare this link "because he didn't want to give the impression he was raising issues in Parliament because his stepdaughter worked for the Tobacco Retailers Alliance".[16]
Relevant TobaccoTactics Resources
- Countering Industry Arguments against Plain Packaging
- PMI Mobilised Support from Retailers
- Craig Mackinlay MP, who has raised concerns about the potential negative impact of illicit tobacco trade on retailers' businesses.
- David Clelland
- ↑ Tobacco Retailers Alliance website, About the Tobacco Retailers Alliance, undated, accessed 23 January 2012
- ↑ Personal Communication with Royal Mail PO Box Team, 23 January 2014
- ↑ register.com,Who Is Lookup, accessed 23 January 2014
- ↑ Tobacco Manufacturers' Association, Statement to Accompany Account Submitted to TMA Board of Directors, 20 February 2001, accessed 23 January 2012
- ↑ TMA Campaign Group, Minutes of meeting, 11 January 2001, accessed 23 January 2012
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 TRA, Retailers' disappointment at Lansley's back-track on display ban, undated, accessed 31 January 2012
- ↑ J. Doward, MPs fall foul of 'dirty' tricks by tobacco giants, The Guardian, 14 Dec 2008, accessed May 2013
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 TRA, Retailer Plain Packaging Postcard Campaign Launched, 11 May 2012, accessed 31 May 2012 Cite error: Invalid
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- ↑ TRA, 30,000 shop staff against plain packaging, 2012, accessed August 2012
- ↑ Simon Millson, Group Head of Corporate Affairs for BAT, Letter to Deborah Arnott, ASH, 20 May 2013
- ↑ S. Khonat, Government takes decision to move ahead with plain packaging for tobacco products, Tobacco Retailers Alliance homepage, 22 January 2015, accessed March 2015
- ↑ R. Calder, S. Hitchman, C. Rooke, A. McNeill. Closing the doors on tobacco promotion: An assessment of small retailer preparations for tobacco point of sale display removal and longer-term tobacco disinvestment. March 2015. A report commissioned by Cancer Research UK
- ↑ TRA press release, One in Six Corner Shops Face Closure Due To Tobacco Smuggling and Cross-Border Shopping, 7 August 2013, accessed May 2014
- ↑ R. Mason, Tobacco Lobby group holds stall at Liberal Democrats conference, The Guardian, 17 September 2013, accessed September 2013
- ↑ TRA, Newsletter, November 2011, accessed June 2013
- ↑ C. Ford, MP David Clelland blasted over "smokescreen", Sunday Sun, 21 June 2009, accessed 31 January 2012


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Topic: Christmas Carols/Carolling (10/02/08)
- TITLE: Connecting to Tradition
By Glynis Becker
"Whose authority?" She was my best friend, so she was right in knowing that I did want to go, but I didn't want her to know that I knew she was right. Or something like that.
"Jake's." She lifted her eyebrows. "See. You do want to go. That settles it."
"Christmas caroling? Isn't that a little old-fashioned? Besides, I can't carry a tune in a Gucci handbag. You've heard me when I've got my iPod on. Dogs howl." I twisted up my lip. "Jake is a music major, in case you forgot."
And the ever-pragmatic Jillian countered with: "Well, in the event that this does work out, Jake will probably find out at some point before your silver anniversary that you're tone deaf. So why not make it sooner rather than later?" She got up from the booth. "You're impossible."
I was not impossible, just nervous. She gave me a hug. "Be ready at 6:45. We're supposed to meet the group in front of the nursing home at 7. And wear your red sweater. Very festive."
So here we are. I'm standing in front of Pine Meadow Assisted Living Center in my festive cranberry-colored sweater, sweating. I knew I should have worn something lighter-weight.
Leaning over to Jillian I whispered dramatically, "How could I have let you talk me into this? This is worse than the time you roped me into that yoga class. And I'm sure that I will end up being nearly as embarrassed and twice as sweaty."
A large, noisy group coming around the corner stopped me from haranguing her any further. Jake might as well have had a spotlight over his head. I could zero in on him from anywhere.
Soon the time came to break off into smaller groups and Jillian took her position as social director, linking her arm through Jake's and saying, "Jake. You and Patrick come with Amy and me. We'll take the second floor." Subtlety, thy name is Jillian.
Jake smiled and moved closer. "Hey, Amy." He stepped back to study me. I think my cheeks are the color of my sweater. "Did you change your hair? You look great."
I'm sure I mumbled something, but I don't have a clue what it was. I fear I'm beaming.
As our group walked the hallway to the second floor, Jake said, "Do you sing alto or soprano?"
"No," I answered too quickly. Then I laughed a little. "I mean, neither, really. I can't sing."
Jake shook his head. "I don't believe you. Everybody can sing. Granted, some voices are more…" He waved the air with his hand, as if the perfect word might materialize in front of him.
"Pleasing?" I offered.
"Technically accurate." He smiled and moved a little closer so I could share his lyric sheet. "Just sing whatever you like and I'll fill in the rest."
So there was no choice but to sing.
What else could I do? We muddled through "Away in a Manger" and a few others, though we certainly weren't ready for Radio City. But neither was our "audience".
A loose congregation of the aged and forgotten, they sat, paying scant attention to our performance. Except one tiny old lady whose eyes sparkled with something—recognition, perhaps? A memory breaking the surface? Or a glimpse of the Divine?
I was trapped in my thoughts, and amazingly, they were no longer about Jake, but the joy that is Christmas, when the movement caught my attention. The woman had stretched out a wrinkled hand, holding it just above her wheelchair's armrest. I instinctively moved to grab it and bumped into Jake, who had mirrored my movement. We smiled and each took one of her hands, not missing a beat.
A connection made through the power of tradition. It might be old-fashioned, but that doesn't make it useless. And although the old adage says that love is blind, I'm pretty sure it's deaf too.
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The mission of the BB&T Center for the Study of Capitalism is to encourage the study and examination of the nature and effects of capitalism.
Our larger purpose is to encourage the study of the political, economic, and cultural institutions that lead to humane and just societies. Wake Forest University's motto is Pro Humanitate, "in the service of humanity." In keeping with that motto, and cognizant of the Center's home in the School of Business, the Center seeks to foster an intellectual community dedicated to understanding the role that business and capitalism play in the creation of a peaceful and prosperous society. We aim to develop, encourage, and provide teaching at both the undergraduate and graduate levels; to support and produce cutting-edge interdisciplinary research; and to become the leading academic home for rigorous and substantive investigation and discussion of the nexus of business, capitalism, and political economy. The Center encourages students in every program in the Business School to think seriously about not only what they are doing, but why, and to understand the crucial contribution they themselves can and must make to human prosperity.
Programs and Activities
The Center provides a robust and encouraging intellectual community that supports investigation into the theory and practice of capitalism, business, and human prosperity. The experience and opportunity available through the Center aims to contribute to our understanding of what capitalism has been, is, and can be; what its central challenges and shortcomings are; and how we can contribute to generating and maintaining the political, economic, and moral institutions required for peaceful, prosperous, and humane life.
The Center offers both curricular and research programs:
Our curricular activities are driven by our proprietary educational model called "Why Business?"™. The Center integrates this model into all aspects of the School of Business's curricula, complementing students' training in the how of business with the why of business. What is the moral purpose that honorable business can, and should, serve?
The Center and its partners extend thought leadership on a global stage, establishing the Wake Forest University School of Business as the premier source for knowledge and programs in the study of capitalism. It aspires to become the place for students, faculty, media, and policy makers who wish to understand both the nature of capitalism and the role it can play in a society of flourishing, free, responsible, productive, and moral citizens.


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Three strategically placed cameras are keeping track of pedestrian traffic as part of a five-year business data gathering effort.
(TNS) — If you're walking through downtown Durham, there's a good chance you're being counted.
Three cameras mounted inside businesses at three busy intersections downtown — Five Points, Corcoran and Main streets, and Duke and Main streets — collect data about how many people are walking by and going which direction. Plus the weather, too.
Matt Gladdek of Downtown Durham Inc. said the organization put up the cameras to provide better data to retailers — and potential retailers — about the pedestrian traffic outside their buildings. Downtown Durham Inc. is a nonprofit founded in 1993 to spur the city's downtown revitalization. The sensors have already collected a month's worth of walkers.
Of the three intersections, Corcoran and Main streets is busiest by far. The camera is mounted inside 21c Museum Hotel's bar and restaurant Counting House, across from One City Center, and faces Main Street.
Corcoran and Main streets: 85,278
Five Points: 36,150
Duke and Main streets: 36,243
The Five Points camera is installed in an office above the clothing boutique Vert & Vogue, facing Main Street. The Duke and Main camera is in the Chesterfield building and faces Main Street. Gladdek said the sensors can also tell which direction people are walking. The sensor at Duke and Main streets showed 19,020 people walked toward downtown, with 17,232 walking toward Brightleaf Square.
The cameras, will be up for five years. Downtown Durham Inc. can see an hourly breakdown of how many pedestrians have passed by the counters along with the weather. They view the numbers on a dashboard sent via a SIM card.
The cameras were installed by Motionloft, a company based in San Francisco, which tracks pedestrian and vehicle data in real time. According to the company, Motionloft has counted 4.5 billion objects in the past three years.
Businesses volunteered the space and power for the cameras, Gladdek said.
Downtown Durham Inc. isn't the only city business group using the technology. Motionloft sensors are installed in downtown Boston and New York City, as well as Sacramento, New Orleans and Minneapolis. Durham, however, is the only city to use them in North Carolina.
Justin Miller of Motionloft said the cameras are used in urban cores to track the busiest blocks. He said they've noticed trends of higher pedestrian traffic with a morning rush, lunchtime activity and evening rush across cities. Downtowns with tourist traffic even out those peak walker times.
Kelli Cotter, owner of Toast, the restaurant at Five Points, said she didn't even know the pedestrian counters existed downtown.
"I would love to see more data on foot traffic at different points of the day. I don't know if it would make me change our hours, but I'd be curious to learn about it," Cotter said. "I know it's certainly different from when we first opened!"
Toast celebrated its 10th anniversary in February.
Miller, director of sales at Motionloft, said that some retail clients use the cameras inside buildings for data like "dwell time." That's how long someone stays in one area of the store. Durham isn't collecting dwell time on city streets yet, he said.
The cost of the cameras is $3,600 for installation, delivery and wireless data transmission per unit for one year. Miller said longer contracts, like Durham's five-year one, reduce the cost by half in subsequent years. Many of the company's clients are cities who want to study pedestrian traffic for a set amount of time, with the minimum being one month.
For those who worry about Big Brother watching them, Gladdek said that no pictures are stored.
"It's just a count," he said.
Miller said the cameras track a walker, not the person, so if a person walks by the camera twice in one day, they are counted twice. "We can't tell who it is," he said.
The technology itself isn't new, but it has gotten cheaper. It's "basically plug and play," Miller said. The Motionloft data is cloud-based storage using Amazon web services.
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Legislature Adds Cell Phones To No Call Act
KSCB News - March 21, 2014 1:15 pm
The Kansas House of Representatives voted to approve Senate Bill 308, which extends the Kansas No-Call Act to protect consumers' cellphones from unwanted telemarketing calls.
The House approved the bill 117 to 0. The Senate earlier approved it 38 to 0. The legislation, proposed in January by Attorney General Schmidt and others, now goes to the Governor for his consideration.
Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt today issued the following statement:
"The Legislature deserves credit for its pro-consumer action in passing this legislation. When the Kansas No-Call Act first became law more than a decade ago, cellphones were far less widely used. Today, many Kansans are abandoning landlines entirely and using only wireless numbers for telephone service. By updating and strengthening the Kansas No-Call Act, the Legislature is ensuring that Kansans' privacy is protected and consumers can enjoy the same freedom from unwanted telemarketing calls on their cellphones that they now can expect on their landlines."
Complaints about telemarketers violating the Kansas No-Call Act are the single largest group of complaints received by the attorney general's Consumer Protection Division. During 2013, the attorney general filed 17 lawsuits to enforce the No-Call Act, and obtained $3.4 million in judgments as well as injunctions against violators.
To register a consumer cellphone or landline number on the do-not-call list, or for more information, go to the attorney general's consumer protection website at www.InYourCornerKansas.org or call (800) 432-2310.


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Boston, 1859. A nation on the brink of war.
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A System for Our Entire Community
DART is an essential part of the fabric of North Texas. Our transit system does so much more than get folks from Point A to Point B. DART drives economic development, builds communities, and defines a lifestyle for all who live and work in our region. That's why, as we have embarked on the project development process for the second downtown rail alignment (D2), we have sought participation and input from stakeholders, technical staff, policy decision-makers, and the public to make sure the design we settle on balances everyone's interests—and that's why, based on stakeholder input to date, we are now planning to build D2 as a subway rather than the mostly aboveground light rail route associated with the original Locally Preferred Alternative (LPA).
Building a subway changes the scope of the D2 project significantly. DART is committed to keeping the process open and transparent as we now delve into finding a subway alignment that works both physically and financially.
DART is starting to develop route options and determining how to proceed with this new underground transit solution in terms of budget, design, and route. To submit our project plan to the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) by September 2017, which we must do to be able to take advantage of current federal funding possibilities, we will need to have solidified the new LPA route by June 2017.
That's where you come in! Stay involved and informed via our public meetings, newsletters, and updates. DART wants to collaborate with everyone in the North Texas community, and hearing what you believe is most important for D2 is essential as we continue to make the vision of D2 a reality.
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Fawlty Towers (1975–1979)
Basil Fawlty: Your *name*, please, could I have your name?
Lord Melbury: Melbury.
[the phone rings; Basil picks it up]
Basil Fawlty: [to Melbury] One second please.
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Basil Fawlty: Hello?... Ah, yes Mr O'Reilly, well it's perfectly simple. When I asked you to build me a wall I was rather hoping that instead of just dumping the bricks in a pile you might have found time to cement them together... you know, one on top of another, in the traditional fashion.
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Basil Fawlty: there - there!
[to phone]
Basil Fawlty: Yes, but when? Yes, yes... ah!... the flu!
[to Melbury]
Basil Fawlty: *Both* names, please.
[to phone]
Basil Fawlty: Yes, I should have guessed, Mr. O'Reilly that and the potato famine I suppose...
Lord Melbury: I beg your pardon?
Basil Fawlty: Would you put *both* your names, please?...
[to phone]
Basil Fawlty: Well, will you give me a *date*?
Lord Melbury: Er... I only use one.
Basil Fawlty: [with a withering look] You don't have a first name?
Lord Melbury: No, I am *Lord* Melbury, so I simply sign myself "Melbury".
[there is a long, long pause]
Basil Fawlty: [to phone] Go away.
[puts phone down]
Basil Fawlty: ... I'm *so* sorry to have kept you waiting, your lordship... I *do* apologize, *please* forgive me. Now, was there something, is there something, anything, I can do for you? Anything at all?
Basil Fawlty: Where's Sybil?
Manuel: ¿Que?
Basil Fawlty: Where's Sybil?
Manuel: Where's... the bill?
Basil Fawlty: No, not a bill! I own the place!
Basil Fawlty: [about Sybil's laugh] Sounds like somebody machine-gunning a seal.
Basil Fawlty: Do you remember when we were first *manacled* together? We used to laugh quite a lot.
Sybil Fawlty: Yes, but not at the same time, Basil.
[she leaves him alone]
Basil Fawlty: Well, that was a warning, wasn't it? Zhoom! What was that? That was your life, mate. Oh, really, do I get another? No, that's your lot mate. Back to the World of dreams...
Basil Fawlty: Polly, what's that smell?
Polly: Flowers, I just got them from the garden.
Basil Fawlty: Well, what are you stinking the place up with those for? What's happened to the plastic ones?
Polly: Being ironed.
Sybil Fawlty: [on the phone] I know... I know... I know... Oh, I know!
Basil Fawlty: Then why is she telling you?
Basil Fawlty: Right, well I'll go and have a lie down then. No I won't; I'll go and hit some guests.
Basil Fawlty: Manuel will show you to your rooms - if you're lucky.
Manuel: I know nothing.
[Basil has accidentally set off the burglar alarm during the fire drill, guests start walking out of the building thinking it's the fire alarm, but Basil stops them all in the lobby]
Mrs. Wilson: Oh I thought that was the drill.
Basil Fawlty: Yes there is, at twelve o'clock.
Mrs. Wilson: But, it is twelve o'clock.
Basil Fawlty: Well not quite.
[to guests that try to leave]
Basil Fawlty: Excuse me!
Mrs. Wilson: Well, I make it twelve o'clock.
Basil Fawlty: [to guests] Im afraid that wasn't the...
Mrs. Wilson: What time do you make it, Major?
Basil Fawlty: [annoyed] Look...
Major Gowen: Burglars about, I think.
Basil Fawlty: Look, it doesn't matter what time he makes it, it hasn't started yet.
Mrs. Sharp: What?
Basil Fawlty: It hasn't started yet!
Mrs. Sharp: But, that was the bell wasn't it?
Basil Fawlty: No!
Mrs. Wilson: He means the *drill* hasn't started yet.
Mr. Sharp: What drill? We didn't hear a drill.
Basil Fawlty: [trying to explain] No, no no no, look, look - that was the burglar alarm.
Major Gowen: See!
Mrs. Wilson: The burglar alarm?
Basil Fawlty: Yes!
Mrs. Wilson: Are there burglars?
Major Gowen: Evidently!
Basil Fawlty: [increasingly annoyed] No! Look, what's the matter with you all? It's perfectly simple: we have the fire drill when I ring the fire bell- That wasn't the fire bell!
Mr. Sharp: Well, how are we supposed to know that wasn't the fire bell?
Basil Fawlty: Because, it doesn't sound like the fire bell.
All guests at once: It did.
Basil Fawlty: It didn't!
Basil Fawlty: Is this a piece of your brain?
Basil Fawlty: You'll have to forgive him. He's from Barcelona.
Basil Fawlty: Next contestant, Mrs. Sybil Fawlty from Torquay. Specialist subject - the bleeding obvious.
Miss Gatsby: And don't do anything *we* wouldn't do!
Basil Fawlty: Oh, just a little breathing, surely.
Basil Fawlty: Don't be alarmed, it's only my wife laughing.
Basil Fawlty: Have I ceased to exist?
Sybil Fawlty: [Basil's won some money on a horse and he doesn't want Sybil to know because she's very against gambling so Polly is pretending it's her winnings] Polly?
Polly: Yes, Mrs Fawlty?
Sybil Fawlty: What was the name of the horse?
Polly: The name?
[Basil, overhearing this quietly comes running into the dining-room]
Polly: I've gone blank.
[Basil frantically tries miming the answer by flapping his arms]
Polly: Birdbrain.
[Basil nods no]
Polly: No, no. That came in third. Uh...
[Basil points at Sybil]
Polly: Fishwife.
Sybil Fawlty: What?
Polly: [Basil tries pointing at his zipper] Fly! Fly!
[Basil points at Sybil again]
Polly: Flying tart!
[another wrong answer]
Polly: No, no. It got off to a flying start and it's name... was dragonfly.
[Basil hightails it]
Basil Fawlty: Coming my little piranha fish.
Basil Fawlty: We have a Spanish porter at the moment, he's from Barcelona. It'd be quicker to train an *ape*!
Basil Fawlty: It's almost worth staying alive for little moments like that, isn't it Sybil? I know it's true because I read it on the back of a matchbox.
Major Gowen: [Audrey's separated] I think it's very sporting of Mrs Fawlty to go over there and listen to all that rubbish!
Basil Fawlty: Salt of the Earth, couldn't live without her.
Major Gowen: She's a fine woman, Mrs Fawlty.
Basil Fawlty: No, I wouldn't go that far.
Major Gowen: No, nor will I.
Guest: [Bill dispute] What's this for?
Polly: My painting, you said you liked it!
Guest: No thankyou.
Polly: Oh, only a fiver, go on!
Guest: No, sorry.
Polly: It's for my sister's eye operation!
[he leaves]
Polly: You BASTARD!
Basil Fawlty: [to Sybil, while having dinner] Why don't you have another vat of wine, dear?
American: Is this a Hotel or isn't it?
Basil Fawlty: Well, within reason.
Basil Fawlty: Thank you, darling, where would I be without you? Land of the Living, probably.
Basil Fawlty: Do I detect the smell of Burning Martyr?
Basil Fawlty: Crecy? Poitiers? Yom Kippur?
Terry: I hear Manuel's doing you a paella. I did go to Catering School, you know, Mr Fawlty.
Mrs Richards: You lying hound!
Mrs Richards: Faulty? What's wrong with him?
Major Gowen: Fawlty!
Basil Fawlty: Yes, Major?
Major Gowen: There's a Psychiatrist in the Hotel!
Basil Fawlty: I know!
Major Gowen: And apparently, he's dressed up as a Guest!
Basil Fawlty: He is a Guest, he's on Holiday here.
Major Gowen: Oh, well your Guest is as good as mine!
Basil Fawlty: Maybe he has come for you.
Basil Fawlty: [to Manuel] Stupidissimo! Continental cretin!
Basil Fawlty: So this Finnish floozy is your karate teacher is she?
Terry: Well. It's a sort of karate isn't it?
Basil Fawlty: Not pureeing your loved ones, that's the tricky part.
Basil Fawlty: A blow on the head like that is worth two in the bush!
Basil Fawlty: He can't tell me anything about myself that I don't know already. All this Psychiatry's a load of tommyrot! You know what they say it's all connected with, don't you? Sex. What a load of cobblers!
Major Gowen: Did you know that the Female Gibbon Gestates for Fourteen months?
Basil Fawlty: [Manuel's started a fire in the kitchen] Fire!
Sybil Fawlty: I can't abide cruelty to living creatures.
Basil Fawlty: I'm a creature and you can abide it to me.
Sybil Fawlty: You're not living.
Basil Fawlty: Deaf, mad and blind.
Polly: What's the point of being Alive?
Basil Fawlty: I don't know, we're stuck with it, I suppose.
American: Mr Fawlty, I'm really not interested.
Sybil Fawlty: Psychiatry, that's a relatively new profession isn't it?
Psychiatrist's Wife: Freud started in 1886
Sybil Fawlty: Yes, but it's only now we're seeing them on the Television.
Miss Gatsby: Mr Fawlty! There's a Psychiatrist in the Hotel!
Basil Fawlty: I know!
Miss Gatsby: Has he come for the Major?
Basil Fawlty: Oh, what a terrible dream!
Nurse: The Doctor's coming.
Basil Fawlty: My God, a Doctor, here in the Hospital, whatever shall we do?
Nurse: You can leave!
Basil Fawlty: Why do they call you Sister, is it a term of endearment?
Basil Fawlty: My God, you're ugly, aren't you? Look at that.
Nurse: I-I'll get the Doctor.
Basil Fawlty: You need a Plastic Surgeon, love!
Basil Fawlty: I shall of course refund your money, I know how important it is to you Americans. But here in Britain there are things we value far more!
Mrs Peignoir: While the Cat's Away, eh?
Basil Fawlty: Stall them! Tell them some Lie!
Basil Fawlty: Yes, very Socialist.
Guest: Only Joking!
Basil Fawlty: [Infuriated with old women] There's been a lot of bloodshed at the Nell Wynn's Tea Rooms, you know?
Major Gowen: I hate Germans! Love women...
Polly: What about German Women?
Major Gowen: Good card players! But I wouldn't give them the time of day.
Basil Fawlty: [reading "Jaws" in bed]
Basil Fawlty: Winnie Atwul?
Major Gowen: Well, Marjorie Atwul, then. I just called her Winnie because she looked like Winnie!
Basil Fawlty: She's not Black!
Major Gowen: Black? Churchill wasn't Black, Old Boy!
Polly: Could I have a raise? Mrs Fawlty said it would be alright.
Basil Fawlty: I don't think we see eye-to-eye vis a vis the frozen assets.
Basil Fawlty: A satisfied customer! We should have him stuffed...
Basil Fawlty: [a hotelier, not a linguist] Why don't you talk properly?
Basil Fawlty: I'm sorry, I got confused because Everyone keeps mentioning the War!
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Pink Skull is the result of an unlikely musical marriage between a carpenter and an automobile service station owner. Julian "S Process" Grefe (the former) and Justin "JG" Geller (the latter) — both longtime staples of Philly's music scene in capacities including but not limited to DJ'ing, remixing, producing, and collaborating — create primarily electronic music that can be ass-shaking, thought-provoking, and possibly flashback-inciting, sometimes all at the same time.
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We recently talked to both JGs about creating the new album, their kindred musical spirits, and why metal leaves a bad taste in their mouths … literally.
It's been four years since Blast Yr Akk came out — why the long wait between releases?
Julian Grefe: The audio's been done for about 12 months — we just took forever to put it together. I don't know if there's a real reason to wait two years in between. I was DJ'ing a lot …
Justin Geller: We did a lot of remixes …
Grefe: We kind of held off until conceptually we got something that worked from top to bottom.
What did you set out to achieve with Zeppelin 3?
Grefe: We kind of wanted to make it sound more like a band. The [full] band wasn't together when we initially did the record. We put the band together about a year ago, started practicing, played the songs live, and then it sort of … I haven't heard an electronic album that was particularly diverse, dynamically speaking, in a long time — think back to The Chemical Brothers, The Future Sound of London, things like that that we grew up on.
Geller: People get too scared to make albums …
Grefe: The only electronic music groups that I find have a good amount of dynamics and diversity in what they do are DC Recordings artists, Oscillation [Records], Emperor Machine, 20/20 Vision … There are definitely moods and varying emotions that go into it. When I hear things like the Digitalism record, I find it very one-sided.
Why call it Zeppelin 3?
Grefe: Zeppelin III is my favorite record of all time, and it's the best Zeppelin album.
Geller: [Pretends to be Grefe:] 'I've got a name for the record: Zeppelin 3.' [As himself:] 'Seriously? Why do you want to name it Zeppelin 3?' [As Grefe:] 'Because it's the best Zeppelin record.' [As himself again:] 'OK, fair enough …' I have no real opinion on Led Zeppelin … Every time we tour, invariably Zeppelin will be played for like four hours straight.
Shortly after the album came out, you released the dancefloor darling "The Drugs Will Keep Us Together." Is there a reason you kept it off the album? Were you worried about it taking attention away from the full-length?
Grefe: We felt it didn't fit in with the full-length's "rockier" feel. It was a straight-up house piece, you know what I mean? We felt it needed to stand by itself, and it found the love and support it needed from The Savant Guard [label that released the EP]. I don't think they played against each other at all — it all worked out nicely.
As an artist who has DJ'd for years, is it important for you to create music people can dance to, or do you see it as a completely separate part of what you do musically?
Grefe: When I make a record that's dancy, it certainly helps, but I don't know if it essentially makes me make dancy music, because I don't really listen to too much in the way of dance music when I'm at home just kind of hanging out or whatever. But I definitely think it gives you an edge in determining if something will sound good on the dancefloor.
So how did you guys first meet?
Grefe: We met through mutual acquaintances in the mid-to-late '90s. JG was business partners with my bass player in The Transmegetti. We both worked at record stores on the same strip [in Philly] — Repo and 611 — and were always bumping into each other.
And the rest is history … How would you describe each other and your working relationship?
Grefe: I would say JG's a total fag.
Geller: Julian's a total dick.
Grefe: I don't know, I'm maybe more alpha male than he is …
Geller: I'm gonna have to remember that!
Grefe: It's pretty much just give and take.
Geller: I tend to be extremely patient …
Grefe: I'm extremely nitpicky, Justin is not as nitpicky. I'm also very punctual, Justin is not. At the same time, I tend to rush things and then get really anxious …
Geller: It works out well.
Grefe: He'll pick up on things that I fuck up all the time … I make the same mistakes over and over again.
Your music certainly has a psychedelic edge … Are hallucinogens a big influence in your musical process?
Grefe: Yeah. No. Sometimes … Yeah. I used to do a lot more, but I had to take a break … Every once in awhile I'll eat mushrooms to get inspired …
How about musical influences?
Grefe: Justin has always been a huge electronic music fan, very much into industrial and ambient. I was all over the place. We were both big fans of acid. For production, I was a huge fan of both Rick Rubin's and Tony Visconti's drum sounds, [Brian] Eno's guitar treatments and overall vibe, Teo Macero's work … some really amazing stuff. I'd say I tend to sound a bit primitivist — probably why I always like Eno's arrangements. For percussion: John Bonham, Les Tambours du Bronx, and Jaki Liebezeit. I've been listening to a lot of Neil Young lately — best cocaine-binge comedown music ever. And the German Oak 12". And the Steve Reid album Nova.
The Philly music scene has recently been getting lots of attention for artists like Diplo, Amanda Blank, and Plastic Little. Do you see yourselves outside of that?
Grefe: No, not at all. We're definitely not the comedy rap contingent …
Geller: Although we do contribute to it …
Grefe: They're good friends. We're definitely a bit of a different beast musically, but it all kind of comes from the same place. As far as mutual respect and stuff, it's there — we all do work with each other and work for each other. It all makes sense in the end.
Is there anyone you're dying to work with?
Grefe: Andy Meecham from Chicken Lips …
Geller: Good answer. Julee Cruise …
Grefe: Julee Cruise, Diamanda Galas … that's about it.
What's up next for you guys?
Grefe: We just finished a remix for Crystal Castles, and we have a limited edition hand-screened 12" coming out that we did with our friends Parra Soundsystem from the Netherlands. It's quite fun — the one track is our version of a song one might hear at halftime at a sporting event, you know? Like our version of Kernkraft 400 or something. The B-side is a totally woozy, uncomfortable, acid-techno work with live instruments, complete with pitched-down vocals. We'll also be playing shows throughout the fall and winter.
Where do you see Pink Skull in five years?
Grefe: Ibiza. Or Berlin. Berlin, New Jersey, that is.
Tell me something shocking about Pink Skull.
Grefe: I don't like to eat with silverware.
Geller: He doesn't.
Grefe: I don't let metal touch my mouth. I also can't touch certain types of metal because it makes me very uncomfortable. Remember I was talking about how I don't do psychedelics as much any more? Shit like that, man! Seriously, I can't touch the threads on screws …
Geller: It's weird for a carpenter.
Artist: www.pinkskull.com


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The France forward missed a penalty for Atletico Madrid in the Champions League final in May and his team went on to lose on penalties to city rivals Real with Ronaldo sealing the shootout win.
"I've just lost my second final in just over a month and it sucks," Griezmann told reporters after Les Bleus lost 1-0 in extra-time to Ronaldo's Portugal in the European Championship final on Sunday.
Eder stunner hands Portugal first ever European title
Griezmann's usual boyish looks were on display as ever but not the smile that normally goes with them when he collected his trophy for the top scorer in the tournament.
The speedy 25-year-old netted six goals in the finals — more than any player at one European Championship since Michel Platini hit nine in France's 1984-winning campaign on home soil.
"We came close, really close," said Griezmann, who has reached a totally new dimension this season, prompting Atletico coach Diego Simeone to say his disciplined and hard-working forward was among the top three players in the world.
"Portugal did not create many chances but they were smart," he added.
Portugal beat France 1-0 in Euro 2016 final
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Host: Good Afternoon. Hello welcome, Debt Relief Program with Ziona Kopelovich. We do this every couple of weeks just talk about you know folks looking for some sort of debt relief, and sometimes it results in having to go through the bankruptcy system. You know every one and a while Ziona the topicality is much more important than the debt relief and that sort of thing especially when you have so many ties back overseas into Israel.
Ziona: That's right, that's right so I was born in Israel and I have family in Israel. In fact I was there I last September or October I went on a trip, so it's very consuming to follow the events back home.
Host: And just in the past couple of minutes since she walked in. We just been talking in detail about the things that are going on there and we can't as Americans, we understand what's going on but we have we have no idea the detail, and it is like you said even as we speak right now.
Ziona: As we speak there is fierce fighting going on in the Gaza Strip in [???] which is suburb of the city of Gaza in fighting over the tunnels deep tunnels. Dug underneath homes, underneath buildings, underneath hospitals, underneath the whole structure is built two stories down and as I told you the first story is for the Hamas regular soldiers and weaponry and the deeper level is where they are commanders sit. They're even better protected than the civilian population sitting on top exposed, it's unfair.
Host: It's unfathomable to us to sit here and think about you know that kind of idea where you exposure your population your civilians to this while you hide yourself you know 40 50 feet underground and the depth and the extremes of these titles as you can drive large trucks through these tunnels.
Ziona: Train tracks are there, they have train tracks. And you don't really see the fighters, you know the Hamas fighters out in the streets. They hide in the tunnels, they come out the doors and try to get back into the tunnels. And in fact many time that's how the tunnels are being discovered when they come out. And then they have holes through which they shoot the missile stored [with the] civilian population. Three quarters of the countries under threat of being bombed daily and one hundred and sixty some missiles falling a day in one country. One hundred and sixty you know. How do you expect a country to put up with that?
Host: Well you have to you have to defend the right to defend themselves. And it's just I think that we fail, I talk about this all the time is that we cannot conceptualize the history of conflict that has gone on there. We are talking about nations consumed with eliminating, getting rid of eliminating these people. And it's just like us saying well one you one day you know what we don't want Canada to exist anymore.
Ziona: And you start bombarding Canada.
Host: And we start sending bombs to Canada. And we're talking about a space between Gaza and Israel and someone pointed out last week it's kind of like Springhill bombing Brookesville.
Ziona: Right exactly exactly. And we just don't like the people from Brooksville.
Host: All of a sudden Springhill is decided we want Brooksville completely eliminated. Not just off the map we want them to never ever exist anymore.
Ziona: And Right we think it's really horrible if Brooksville shoots back.
Host: And in the meantime one of the things that you point out to is that it's not and I know this the
fact because I've had friends work the intelligence field that they say that the
they will strap explosives to donkeys and send them out or they'll send children out with
Ziona: Right? Children and it's just mind blowing.
Host: And it's just makes you sad and makes you sick to your stomach that that's going on and we feel completely, and I mean we feel kind of helpless with them. But I can't imagine right now that you know with what you're thinking and I know your thoughts are probably at home and if I were you I would of called and said you know what I'm going home today and I'm not going to talk about this.
Ziona: And it's not that. It is apparent that some of the airlines have canceled flights to Israel yesterday. And I think I heard on Israeli TV that American Airline is going to resume tomorrow, going to resume the flights.
Host: Well I saw on what is it [????}?
Ziona: [???] is flying yes, [???] is flying, I think there is this two or three other Israeli airlines that are still flying. Absolutely and a lot of people are transferring from them.
Host: And yeah Former Mayor Michael Bloomberg has said today, and he said I'm going to do it and fly today because I'm going to show you by canceling the flights you're giving Hamas a victory.
Ziona: Also a nice thing that [???] airplanes do and I'm not being paid by [???] they have antimissile capabilities, protection capability so that they can divert the missile coming toward them, toward the plane. While the pilot doesn't even know it's happening I mean the system is automated and takes care of an incoming attack.
Host: Isn't it [????] Airport in Tel Aviv. That place. People talk about security blanket at International or even someplace like Boston or Atlanta though somewhere like that. It's nothing compared to when you're flying out of [???].
Ziona: When you fly in and they stop you at the gates and they look today make eye contact with you and they say hello. You answer they hear they hear your answer and these people are so well trained. So just at the first hello you know they know who they're dealing with. And around the airport I'm sure that there's a battery of you know the Iron Dome.
Host: I know that the airport in the country and that Iron Dome technology is just unbelievable, and I believe it's only what one missile is gotten through from Hamas and into Israel
Ziona: Successful it's like 95% to 99% so I don't know why the American military's not using to protect our soldiers in Afghanistan. Because the technology exists.
Host: What is it a mobile is the iron Dome mobile or is it all over the place?
Ziona: They have several battery. They added you know I don't talk about what I don't know I mean I know it's out there, but I really feel funny talking about numbers. They have added several. Yes, you know I believe it is a mobile but they several batteries around the country and they're building them in Israel. Since the beginning of the war they added several too. And I have to say thank you to the Americans because Americans financed it. The planning and all that came from Israel, Israeli technology, but they the financing actually came from the US so thank you thank you America.
Host: Well once in a while we get stuff right.
And you know that's why I am amazed that the American military is not using it. Well maybe they are and I'm just not aware of it.
Host: I don't know, but Ziona is military service still compulsory in Israel? Everybody serves?
Ziona: Oh yes, you know we say compulsory but people are lining up lining up to serve. We have found, you know I read a lot that you know the publications, newspapers, TV, and all that you can get online. Which is very easy, but on how one of the high commanders and I don't know that the terminology in English but a high commander was injured. Apparently he is a [???] that's an indigenous people that lived in the area. So he was injured not heavily injured and was sent to get medical treatment and stayed in the hospital for maybe five days and he's on the way back, and he's going back. The dedication not just him but the soldiers and people are just in general the Israelis they hear there is a war. They go to the airport and they go back home, they go home.
Host: You mentioned something very fascinating to you from America who were just killed.
Ziona: It was just chilling two young Americans who decided to immigrate to Israel I don't know the last names, one is Max and the other is Sean. They went, they volunteered to enlist in the army in the military. They went with their group to the conflict in Gaza and both of them died. Not in the same incident, a different event but they are part of the damage to the Israeli military. One of them was an admirer of a soccer team in [???], the city of [???]. Some pictures have been published of him and he is wearing a scarf, wearing the colors so the fans of that group of this soccer team recognized it and they said you know started on Facebook. We cannot let one of our own go on his last way by himself because he is here alone in the country. So they ask people to show up to the funeral, that was in [???] two days ago. 20,000 people showed up, 20,000 people drove from all over the country this young man's funeral. Yesterday in Jerusalem, that was Shawn's. Max was buried yesterday in Jerusalem. This time 30,000 people show, I mean 30,000 the whole city was shut down with people coming from all over the country in cars. People from the neighborhoods walking, so the feeling of the closeness between the military and the people and the recognition of the people of that sacrifice of these two young guys. You know they didn't have to come, they didn't have to it. So that the dedication and the love is mutual. It's mind-boggling.
Host: it truly is. I think that we really tend not to, I don't know if it's just unfathomable to us if we just don't we don't understand we don't care to know about it. But it's so deep and it's so rich and just the heritage. Let me ask you this, when you when you go home. Where do you go in Israel?
Ziona: Last time I went there, actually that's a little bit unusual as I stay with family but a year earlier I received a phone call sitting in my office worrying about my clients in bankruptcy. And I get a phone call and I see that it's from Israel, and this woman calls and says "Hi, do you remember me?" No, can you give me a hint. Well "Okay this is [???]?" I asked for a little bit more. So she started telling me how we knew each other, and I sort of knew that the last name [??] [??]. Yeah I remember that. She sent me some pictures, and oh my god this is my girlfriend! So I went and stayed with her and she lives not too far from my hometown which is [???] in the center of the country. A little bit north of Tel-Aviv. So I went and stayed with her, and then you know my family was just around the corner. I also traveled with girlfriends from the US, which we when traveling the country which is a lot of the time we stayed in hotels but it's unusual for me to go to Israel and stay in a hotel. Because I normally go and stay with family.
Ziona: No matter what your leaning political religious or otherwise I've always contended everybody should make a trip to Jerusalem at some point.
Ziona: It is absolutely stunning, it is gorgeous, it is emotionally giving you rejuvenation it's just beautiful. If you know there are no words to describe it, you have to go to see.
Host: Your face, you should just see your face it's lit up and illuminated and that tells a lot!
Ziona: It's an amazing place. And you see people from all over the place, all of the world. And you know that Israel as a country, you know people come from all over you have an amazing enriching mixture of cultures and cultures and people and different traditions. Not just in terms of Jews from different countries that is what Israel is made out of. But you do get there is a community of Christians. A lot, fairly large and you know Muslim as well and we just try to get along. I mean we try to get along.
Host: But obviously I'm sure there is tension in somewhere like Jerusalem, but by in large on
when things aren't so in the situation we're now I am told that you yes you have different parts of the city that are different neighborhoods but by and large it's a very easy and comfortable city to go into.
Ziona: It is a Western country and it has so much art and the buildings are beautiful. I mean they have to shut down the center of Jerusalem and make it into a pedestrian mall, because people made it into a pedestrian mall. So they gave up and said okay well no cars can go here because people are walking here… So it's just beautiful to see you know it's like at the closest I can think of is South Beach. Okay? In Miami. Where you have people walking, you actually see people as a whole country where people are walking. They see each other, and the talk in the sitting coffee houses, and they drink coffee, and eat great fresh food, and it is just a country filled of young people. A lot of young, young people.
Host: By the way I think you are the only person to make the correlation between Jerusalem and the South Beach.
Ziona: Well it's alive. 11 o'clock at night or 12 o'clock at night people are sitting at coffee house. While sitting and talking. People walking in the street, you have to sort of like navigate your way between people not to lose your friends because of so many people out there just living the joy of life. So this is what Israel is like. Which is beautiful. Science in Israel is amazing, the arts are just amazing. It's like you go to I don't know how to explain it. Israel per capita has more museums than any other country. Yes. Museums galore and the beaches that we have.
Host: And I wanted to ask you if I were to go and I were and to make that trip. Which is one of the things left I need to do in life. I would want to see the historic standpoint, I want to see Tel Aviv but I want to see [???] I want to see all of it.
Ziona: They have tours not just during the big cities but in the historical sights. This year because two of my girlfriends that I went with, I went with three girlfriends. Two of them were are Christians, so we did the Christian tour of Israel. And that was very interesting something of never done before.
Host: See to me if I would do it, the organized tours and such. I would want to go with a local, I want someone to show me that this is my Israel. That's what I want to see.
Ziona: So you get you have different kinds of tours, tours galore. And it's not necessarily huge bus but it's a minivan that has maybe 12 seats, you know a fairly small group and they speak all languages, definitely English.
Host: I've had several friends of mine take off and go over there, and all three of them said the same figure was very difficult for them to come back. You know that one of them is Jewish and other two are Christian. It's just such an amazing place on this planet and it survives the way it does. I always question people who question why it's important for us to support.
Ziona: Well we are the canary to the Western world. We are the canary, the canary in the mine. You know, in the mind of others you know often people say why do they hate you? Why do they hate Israel? I think that they had identify us with the Western world. Like that the spearhead of the Western world and they just don't like us. Well some of them, I don't mean to say "they" it is very broad. A broad brush that I am painting it with and obviously it's more complicated than that.
Host: I think that there are two supporters there. You look at the Egyptian and Israeli Camp David Accord, that's been there for decades now.
Ziona: You know cleaned up the Islamic Jihad, you know the Hamas and Islamic Jihad are basically the same thing. We couldn't do it to can do it or doing Gaza today if not for the support of the Egyptians. And everybody is talking about the Israeli blockade but you know the Egyptians are part of it too. So the Egyptians don't want the Palestinians in Gaza to bring in all that destruction.
Host: And Hamas doesn't want to talk to Egypt and that's really proven to be difficult in part of Egypt is trying to broker a cease-fire that situation that is going on.
Ziona: Egypt is not in a hurry from what I understand. And I mean they try, and Hamas said no. So Egyptians said okay let's try it your way now. Going to get bombed again.
Host: And the absolute tragedy of this whole thing is you see on TV of those who were are getting the casualties, the fatalities, happening there are not the soldiers. Some yes, but majority of the Palestinians are civilians but it's because. It is wrong for me to really comment on without knowing everything about it you know? But you just go by what you see on the surface and say are you trying to create some sort of sympathy by throwing your women and children out there in front of the weapons while you hide underground?
Ziona: Yes it's two fold. One is the strategic propaganda value and other actual like blanketing yourself you know, it's another layer of insulation between you to protect yourself. It serves both purposes.
Host: There are so many things about this that we are just.
Ziona: Can I tell you something? I haven't told you before, I mean my close friends know that but you know something about myself I don't advertise. I married an Arab, okay so I'm Israeli American and he is a Lebanese Arab. So if I sound like I am anti whatever, I mean I try to bring peace in a very personal way. It means a lot to me, it does.
Host: That says something, I think that just Kopalovich is a mouthful. I'll tel you though, it's fascinating and to me it's something that I could like a question just for days and days we just don't have the opportunity to talk to people who are still connected there. And every day when you see one of the stories and every day when you get one of those alerts on your phone you have to think my God, please not my family. You don't want you don't want your family's home to be that 1% that gets passed the dome but I feel terrible because we have to do anything other than this. But I feel like this is been very heavy on your heart, and I know that that I want to know.
Ziona: It's my pleasure. You know it's my pleasure to talk about it.
Host: It's a little cultural enlightenment.
Ziona: it is. Next time you talk about bankruptcy, we will talk about if you get divorce and you have domestic support obligations or property settlements. What happens at those in bankruptcy.
Host: Let me tell you because I have some friends going through some stuff right now who one of them need to call you really quickly. Okay, I tell you I thank you so much and again this is I know this is a lot of very personal and I know that means a lot to you and I think I can speak for a lot of folks in saying that they wish for you only the absolute best for you and your family.
Ziona: I appreciate that, thank you.
Host: It is absolutely our pleasure and we should at least mention okay if anyone has any questions regarding they contact you how?
Ziona: Well they can call me, I can give out a few phone numbers. I'll do it quick, 727-849-3328 and352-678-2265. And we are really close to you Rachel Boulevard in Springhill and we are actually out of the offices of Carlson and Meisner. Which is a wonderful law firm that deals with PI cases, car accidents, disabilities of that nature.
Host: Alright, thank you dear.
Ziona: You're welcome.


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Math 2300 Section 005 – Calculus II – Fall 2010
Quiz – Friday, November 12, 2010
We will be having a review in class every day until the next midterm exam on Wednesday of next week. For this quiz, you are given 10 minutes to decide which problems you think you can solve and which ones you want to see solved during our review session today.
If , , , , and , calculate
Solution: Using L'Hopital's rule we have
Find the first four nonzero terms of the Taylor series about 0 for the function
Solution: Notice that
Since this is a binomial series with we will expand this series and then integrate it term by term to obtain the series that we need. We have
Now integrate term by term and find
Since we're only looking for the first four terms, we're done.
Find the Taylor polynomials of degree approximating for near 0.
Solution: This is actually one of the Taylor series that you should remember. In any case, we first find the derivatives using the chain rule. We'll denote and then
But, notice that all of these derivatives evaluated at zero are . Also, since , the constant term of is zero. (Thus, we write the Taylor polynomials as a sum starting at since the first degree term is the first that will appear in the expansion.) So, we form the th degree Taylor polynomial as
Use a fourth degree Taylor approximation for for near 0 to evaluate the limit
Solution: We know that the fourth degree Taylor polynomial for is
Using this in the limit we find
Find the first four nonzero terms of the Taylor series about 0 for the function .
Solution: Just take the Taylor series for and replace the by .
Find the third-degree Taylor polynomial for about .
Solution: Remember that the first four terms make up . We discussed the Taylor polynomials of polynomials a long time ago. The result really shouldn't come as any surprise. We have
That is, the th degree Taylor polynomial (and all subsequent higher degree Taylor polynomials) of an -degree polynomial is just the polynomial itself.
Find the first four terms of the Taylor series for the given function about .
Solution: Notice that this is a binomial series
So, the first four terms are given as
By recognizing the series as a Taylor series evaluated at a particular value of , find the sum of the following convergent series.
Solution: Notice that this is just the Taylor series for centered at zero with .
Use the Taylor series expansion of to approximate .
Solution: We know that
Thus, if we can find the Taylor series for this function, we can integrate it and get back to . We can perform a substitution and find
Then, we integrate and find
So, we now have a Taylor series for around . Approxmating is then a simple trick. We recall that
Using our Taylor series we then have
Find the first four terms of the Taylor series for about .
Solution: This can be done directly. The derivatives are
We evaluate each derivative at and find (some reducing happens in the first couple of terms)
Find the radius and interval of convergence for the Taylor series of around .
Solution: Whenever you want to find the radius and interval of convergence of a Taylor series, you're really just using the fact that a Taylor series is a power series. So, we use the ratio test. We know that the Taylor series for around is given as
That is, a general term of the series is given as
Thus, by the ratio test, the series will converge whenever
That final step may seem a bit confusing. Why in the world would we rewrite as ? The reason is, as I've mentioned before, that provides a convenient way to say "the distance between and ." So represents the distance between zero and . Saying just says "the distance between and is less than one." Now, by the ratio test, we have that the given Taylor series converges when , and so the radius of convergence is 1.
We now find the interval of convergence. It will be one of the following intervals:
We need to plug in and to the series and determine convergence individually at these points. At we have
does not converge. So, we do not include in the interval of convergence. At we have
converges by the alternating series test. Thus, the interval of convergence is .


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The day had to come where I had to say I'm not able to start at the IM Frankfurt. This day was this week and with a heavy heart I had to say that I'm not at the start line. The preparation were really going great and the training races showed that I have a good shape to rock Frankfurt. But sometimes your body tells you that it might be better to rest and you should do it. It's very tough when it is in the middle of the season and all the big races are going on at the moment. This weekend half of my team mates were starting in Frankfurt and Haugesund, next weekend is Roth! But I've to stick to my plan and try to improve my swim and bike right now. You never know what is good for something! I've already chose other races and put my focus on them;-) Meanwhile I enjoyed things I haven't done for a long time, e.g. sitting in the sun while eating some cherries and doing nothing, took some pics of Jo how he is flying in his cloudracers, read good books and doing nothing;-) Pretty sure that I want to do such things more often from now on!
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Shelter - Green Building
The need for shelter is as ancient as humanity itself, and the ways in which this need has been met over the millennia has been one of the most durable manifestations of human culture. The collective quest for shelter, community, and livelihoods gave rise to the settlements that nurtured civilisations around the globe.
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In the postindustrial era of globalisation, urbanisation and population growth, the pace and intensity of building is unprecedented. Mainstream building technology is capital intensive, depends on the cheap availability of fossil fuels and generates large amounts of pollution. Currently, most buildings are not designed according to ecological principles: they are often placed without sensitivity to the immediate environment, inefficient in their use of energy and materials, and encourage wasteful and consumptive resource streams. It is unsustainable in the extreme, generating ever-increasing costs throughout their life-cycles and placing great strain on the environment and on human health.
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