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Thus far, Beijing has found little wiggle room to resist the U.S.-E.U.-Saudi common vision that severe sanctions be used to shut down the bulk of Iran’s oil exports by June.
The reality being revealed in this confrontation is that China has much less ability to maneuver independently in the global oil system—whether in the market or in diplomatic and military matters—than most analysts would lead us to believe.
Preface: What are Washington v. Beijing´s strategic objectives here ?
In my assessment, there are clear underlying energy’market security reasons why the U.S. is pursuing this geopolitical path. The U.S. aim is to prevent Iran from projecting greater influence over key Gulf oil-market players Saudi Arabia, Iraq, the UAE, Kuwait and etc. as the U.S. withdraws from its over-extended presence in Iraq and Afghanistan. This draw-down is very important for U.S. strategy globally; but Washington will not accept Iran gaining greater influence over other local OPEC producers and thereby the global oil market (aka, The Global Barrel) as it steps back.
Stopping any Iranian nuclear program is of course a significant part of this; but really, for Washington, the more general issue is that if sanctions were lifted, Iran would soon become the oil powerhouse it is ultimately destined to be, its income would grow rapidly and its conventional military capacity along with it. Nuclear weapon or no, Iran would increase its regional weight, and, considering the region, gain a level of world oil-market clout the U.S. and its allies (whether local or European) deem unacceptable.
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Let’s look at Beijing’s initial responses to date, and consider what they imply about the oil-market and geopolitical realities it now faces:
Saudis help Beijing respond to U.S. demands
As I mentioned in a previous post, U.S. Treasury Secretary Geithner went to Beijing early in the year, on January 9, after Obama signed the new U.S. sanctions law late in December. He went to “urge” Beijing to stop buying Iranian oil. This included an ultimatum. Beijing was told to stop buying oil from Iran (in stages would be fine), or else Chinese banks found to be making payments to any Iranian bank for that oil, including to Iran’s central bank, will be barred from doing business with U.S. banks. And, the EU has since passed its own sanctions which basically do the same.
And, then, within days of Geithner’s visit to Beijing, China’s Premier Wen Jiabao went on a five-day visit to Saudi Arabia and its allies in the Persian Gulf. This trip is quite interesting as it´s the first time in over 20 years that a Chinese premier has gone to see the Saudis.
But, the second interesting thing about this trip is that, even though China is estimated to have made some $120 billion in investments in oil and gas projects in Iran just since 2009, nevertheless, the premier skipped visiting Iran while he was in the Gulf region. [In Talks With the Chinese, Geithner Faces an Uphill Climb, by Michael Wines, NYT, 11 Jan 2012.]
Just for some sense of comparison here: in Venezuela, PDVSA and the state under Hugo Chavez have accepted about $36 billion in loans from China. Even if one assumes say, another $10-to-20 billion Chinese investments in Venezuelan oil fields, Iran’s $120 billion investments–only since 2009–are immense by comparison. Premier Wen’s visit to the Gulf, yet skipping Iran, should be seen in this light.
And, what did the premier have to say as his visit progressed? This also was quite out-of-the-usual for Beijing:
“Mr. Wen’s comments on Iran were unusually pointed for Chinese diplomacy. In Doha, Qatar’s capital, he said China “adamantly opposes Iran developing and possessing nuclear weapons.” He also explicitly warned Iran not to close the Strait of Hormuz, the Persian Gulf bottleneck through which roughly a fifth of the crude oil traded worldwide passes, saying that such action would be regarded as aggression against most of the world’s nations. Iran had earlier threatened to shut down the strait should the United States strengthen sanctions against Tehran.”
Yes, this is quite an unusually assertive stance for China, normally so wedded to its political “non-interference” policy as its businesses acquire basic commodities across the Middle East, Africa and Latin America. But, the full message still had the distinctive mercantilist bent:
“But throughout his visit, Mr. Wen repeated that China’s business deals with Iran — its No. 3 supplier — were separate from diplomatic questions and that sanctions threatened global trade more than any individual nation.” [China Leader Warns Iran Not to Make Nuclear Arms,” by Michael Wines, NYT, 20 Jan. 2012.]
Along these lines, the key aspect of the visit is that Premier Wen was also assured by the Saudis that they would make up for the Iranian oil imports China would lose if it gets on board U.S. sanctions [There was a good lead on this in Petroleum Intelligence World: “Saudis Play Silent Role in Iran Sanctions” PIW, Vol. LI, No. 4, 30 Jan 2012], and the Saudi’s had some interesting business deals to offer.
Beijing gets the Saudi-U.S. ¨Good Cop-Bad Cop¨ Treatment
So, basically, Beijing was treated to a coordinated “good cop, bad cop” routine by the Royals and the Obama administration. Washington played the ‘bad cop,” with Geithner delivering the demand to start cutting its Iranian imports. But, immediately, the Saudi’s played the “good cop” role, offering Beijing a way out for its two big concerns:
First, they offered a new, significant stream of oil imports from the Saudi’s presently ample surplus capacity. Outside PIW and some industry-insiders, the fact that this is a relatively advantageous time, from a market perspective, for the U.S. to push for sanctions on Iran, has not been stressed. World demand is down and the Saudi’s have a significant surplus production capacity, probably about 2.5 million barrels that they can use to wean Beijing from its Iran dependency.
The exact volume promised is not clear, but one should not assume it was only Saudi oil that was offered. (For example: In order to get the Chinese to vote at the UN for the previous instance of sanctions [Security Council Resolution 1929 of 9 June 2010], the Obama administration had pressed the Saudis beforehand to provide the Chinese with increased exports. These started to flow from the UAE after Secretary Clinton personally met with the King and pressed him on this. [I confirmed this in side discussions with other U.S. analysts during a dinner we were invited to with Pres. Ahmadinejad in NYC in Sept. 2010] )
Second, besides substituting for lost Iranian oil imports, Primer Wen also was offered new opportunities for joint investments in oil development projects:
“The arrangements included a plan by China’s Sinopec Group to build a $10 billion, 400,000-barrel-a-day refinery on the Saudis’ Red Sea coast. While Mr. Wen was in Qatar, the China National Petroleum Corporation unveiled plans to build a refinery at Taizhou, on China’s Pacific coast, in a venture with Qatar Petroleum International and Royal Dutch Shell. “ [Ibid, NYT 20 Jan 2012]
Interpreting China´s Response Thus Far
The last time the Obama Administration wanted new sanctions on Iran, in 2010, Beijing started out rather loudly opposed, even threatening to block the sanctions at the U.N. …
Part II: TO BE CONTINUED Wednesday, 15 Feb 2012
- With a USA-dependent oil sector, Chavez can’t help Ahmadinejad (globalbarrel.com)
- China forges Arab ties, hedging bets in the Gulf (seattletimes.nwsource.com)
- China’s Wen presses Saudi Arabia for oil access (thehimalayantimes.com)
- China’s Wen to visit key Mideast energy powers (reuters.com)
- China boosts ties with Gulf with expanding presence (thehimalayantimes.com)
- China criticizes Iran sanctions as Merkel visits (seattlepi.com)


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Coppell is another triumph of community synergy, where the city, a developer and farmers market volunteers joined forces to transform the area around the farmers market in sleepy Old Town into a vibrant, residential- and-retail development—without losing the market’s heart. Today Old Town Coppell beckons with yesteryear charm, including shotgun-style houses, quaint buildings for small businesses, and a large, open commons. Significantly, the composition of the market is unchanged and remains one of the area’s best, with longtime vendors such as Wackym’s Kitchen (see profile on Page 24) and Rehoboth Ranch, which is into its second generation under Mark Hutchins’ guidance. It’s worth a drive to see the transformation—and pick up some mighty good, locally grown veggies.
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At the center of a growing hive of apartments and lofts, all that remains of Dallas’ venerable 78-year-old farmers market is The Shed and The Market. One of the early advocates of this new configuration was Shannon Wynne, who expressed his support by opening Mudhen Meat and Greens in 2016. His kitchen sources in part from the nearby farmers market pavilion (The Shed), which mixes honest-to-goodness farmers and ranchers with artisans, arts and crafters, and events. Veteran vendors include JuHa Ranch, Bois D’Arc Meat Co., D’s Sourdough, White Rock Granola, Texas Honey Bee Guild, T-Rex Pickles, Denton Creek Farms and Williams Farm, to name a few.
Just a stone’s throw away in The Market building (formerly Shed No. 2), it’s worth a trip to discover Market Provisions Co., a kind of mini-farmers market of local treasures run by Chad Julka, local program director for Susie Marshall’s nonprofit Grow North Texas. Also Stocks & Bondy, home of chef Joanne Bondy’s stocks and soups made from local ingredients. And the satellite location of Scardello Artisan Cheese, with many Texas selections.
Community is something that arises around markets, born both out of intention and neighborhood. White Rock Farmers Market is a great example, started ten years ago by Sarah Perry to answer growing demand. Perry has been a fierce market advocate whose influence continues today as the city considers changing its farmers market regulations. White Rock outgrew its Green Spot Market & Fuels location and ultimately moved to Lake Pointe Church on Garland Road. There’s something about the mix of vendors, as well as the strict vetting. Everything sold at White Rock is grown or produced within a 150-mile radius. But then, Sandra Daniels, the baker behind Hippos and Hashbrowns, lives within walking distance of the market.
Saint Michael’s Farmers Market has likewise developed a sense of community organically. The nonprofit project of Saint Michael and All Angels Episcopal Church started eight years ago and gradually developed a substantial following for its artisan food producers, including Dolci Creazoni home-cooked Italian foods and Becerra’s Tamales. In recent seasons, it has explored upping its game with produce and becoming a growers’ market, with farmers like Demases Farm and Irving’s urban Braga Farms. Slow and steady wins the race.
WHERE VISION LEADS
It’s hard to list all the accolades earned by Chad Houser and Café Momentum. Only last year, Houser was named to the roster of CNN Heroes. The former chef is the perfect example of what one person with a dream can achieve. In his case, when he was at the top of his game in 2008, he decided he wanted to do something concrete to help juvenile offenders break the pattern that led to their incarceration. Through many fundraiser dinners, where the young men and women were part of each team, plus support from myriad others (not least, Parigi’s Janice Provost), he finally opened Café Momentum in 2015. There, he offers youths a 12-month, post-release paid internship to learn the ins and outs of the restaurant business and take away a skill set to break the crime cycle—an amazing win-win.
AMANDA THE AVATAR
If anyone embodies the spirit of the North Texas locavore movement, it’s Amanda Vanhoozier. She was there to help organize the Coppell Community Garden in the late 1990s. To create and manage the Coppell Farmers Market, which has set the standard since for excellence. The Coppell resident went on to reconfigure and manage the Dallas Farmers Market before striking out on her own as a farmer-rancher advocate with her JustPickedTX website. Pragmatic and self-effacing, Vanhoozier quietly presses for progressive solutions for small producers, now with Profound Foods, a Lucas-based farm collective seeking to streamline the link between farmers and chefs. She’s also fulfilling a personal dream, growing and selling fresh-cut flowers with her Bishop Hill Farm Flowers.
KIM PIERCE is a Dallas freelance writer and editor who’s covered farmers markets and the locavore scene for some 30 years, including continuing coverage at The Dallas Morning News. She came by this passion writing about food, health, nutrition and wine. She and her partner nurture a backyard garden (no chickens – yet) and support local producers and those who grow foods sustainably. Back in the day, she co-authored The Phytopia Cookbook and more recently helped a team of writers win a 2014 International Association of Culinary Professionals Cookbook Award for The Oxford Encyclopedia for Food and Drink in America.


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- Treat DUT-to-tester links like transmission lines. Kelley, Tom // Test & Measurement World;Mar98, Vol. 18 Issue 4, p51
Discusses strategies on how to overcome the impedance-matching problems in ATE systems. Basic characteristics of transmission lines; Steps on how to circumvent distortion problems; Addition of a resistor to series circuit; Parallel termination circuits; Role of programmable diode clamps.
- Near field or far field? Capps, Charles // EDN;8/16/2001, Vol. 46 Issue 18, p95
Focuses on the far field of an antenna system. Definition of far field and near field systems; Criteria for defining the boundary between far field and near fields; Existence of wave impedance in the system.
- A low-noise wide-band transimpedance amplifier for current noise spectra measurements. De Geronimo, G.; Bertuccio, G.; Longoni, A. // Review of Scientific Instruments;Jul96, Vol. 67 Issue 7, p2643
Presents a low-noise wide-band transimpedance amplifier designed to measure the spectral noise densities of currents in submicroamplere range. Design of the feedback transimpedance amplifier; Description of the design criteria and experimental tests.
- Modeling a voltage-locked Josephson junction array amplifier: Gain, input impedance, and bandwidth. McDonald, D. G. // Journal of Applied Physics;11/1/1986, Vol. 60 Issue 9, p3247
Presents a model of a voltage-locked Josephson junction array amplifier. Determination of the effective circuit; Model for input impedance and available power gain of the amplifier; Results using the slowly varying amplitudes method.
- IMPROVED ACCURACY IN ANTENNA TUNER EVALUATION. Schetgen, Bob // QST;Oct2003, Vol. 87 Issue 10, p73
Comments on the usefulness and accuracy of the indirect method used in antenna tuner evaluation. Impedance analysis; Analysis of error sources for the indirect method; Advantage of the method.
- Active voltage biasing of very low impedance devices. Dolabdjian, C.; Robbes, D.; Lesquey, E.; Monfort, Y. // Review of Scientific Instruments;Mar93, Vol. 64 Issue 3, p821
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01 Apr 2021 This week in tax
In this week’s TaxVine, Chris Kinsella, CTA, Co-Chair of The Tax Institute’s National Dispute Resolution Committee provides an update on the ATO’s independent review service, which is being made permanently available to small businesses.
ATO independent review permanently available for small businesses
The ATO introduced their independent review service in 2013.
Initially there was some scepticism as to whether it would be effective or truly independent. Over time, it has become increasingly popular and taxpayers have become more comfortable with the idea of a different and fresh set of eyes from within the ATO reviewing a looming or potential tax dispute. After all, if the matter can be settled or resolved without going to court, then, on most occasions, this is preferable for both the taxpayer and the ATO. A fresh set of eyes will review both the facts and the technical arguments.
Until now, the independent review service was predominantly available only to large taxpayers (turnover above $250 million). Results showed that a significant number of matters were resolved without the need to go to court. So, in principle, why not extend it to small businesses too?
Pilot projects were run by the ATO starting in 2018 in Victoria and South Australia to ascertain the demand for, and feasibility of, extending independent review to small businesses as well. According to the ATO, 180 small businesses participated.
On 26 March 2021, the ATO issued a statement announcing that, following the pilot program, the ATO would offer a small business independent review service on a permanent basis. This is a welcome development, especially after the challenges of the last 12 months.
The independent review service is available for eligible small businesses with an annual turnover of less than $10 million in relation to disputes about income tax, GST, excise, luxury car tax, wine equalisation tax, and fuel tax credits. Disputes about employer obligations such as superannuation and fringe benefits tax are not eligible for the independent review service.
As the announcement noted, eligible small businesses now have an additional opportunity to resolve a dispute with the ATO in a cost-effective and time-efficient manner. This is commendable.
Matters can now be resolved at audit stage, at independent review (before assessment notices are issued), at objection stage or by going to court.
The protocols for engaging in an independent review are well set out on the ATO website. Key points to note include the following:
- When the ATO audit case officer sends a final audit letter to a small business taxpayer, it will include a written offer of independent review and a fact sheet explaining the process (assuming the taxpayer is eligible for an independent review).
- Within 14 days of the date of the final audit letter, taxpayers need to decide whether to engage in the independent review process and email the ATO at this address: Independent_Review@ato.gov.au. The taxpayer’s email must clearly specify and outline each area of disagreement with the audit position.
- An independent review is not available once an assessment has been issued.
- There should be a case conference (an informal meeting) with the ATO within three weeks of the taxpayer’s request. This allows the independent reviewer to discuss the matter with the taxpayer and with the ATO audit team.
- New facts are frowned upon — they are unlikely to be considered by the independent reviewer but rather referred back to the audit team.
- Following that conference, the reviewer will make recommendations to the audit team.
Some further comments
It will be interesting to see the take-up by small businesses of this option going forward. Small businesses often don’t have the funds or time to commit to contesting tax matters in court, so this change may prove popular. Plus, a key design feature is that the process is fast and that should appeal to small businesses.
While this change is a welcome one, it does give rise to the rather odd result that an independent review is available only to taxpayers with turnovers greater than $250 million or less than $10 million. What of the many taxpayers in the middle with turnovers between $10 million and $250 million? The logic of excluding this group is not clear.
Also, what happens to the objections process? As things stand, a taxpayer can still object where the ATO position has prevailed following an independent review. In those circumstances, the objections officer within Review and Dispute Resolution (RDR) will effectively be a third fresh set of eyes to review the matter but will they be inclined to disagree with the earlier decision makers? Will the objections process still have merit?
For more information, the ATO has published the following articles:
- ATO affirms importance of independent review service for small businesses to help resolve disputes;
- Independent review for small businesses with turnover less than $10 million.
As always, we welcome your views and thoughts, which you can provide here.
Chris Kinsella, CTA


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Mr. L. David Montague, an independent consultant, is retired President of the Missile Systems Division at Lockheed Missiles and Space Co. and a former officer of Lockheed Corporation. He has more than ten years experience in the general management of large product organizations. A member of the National Academy of Engineering, Mr. Montague has more than 40 years of background in design, development and program management of military weapon systems, particularly ballistic missiles, and ballistic missile defense systems. In addition to his development expertise in both tactical and strategic strike and defensive systems, his experience includes the requirements, development, and policy issues of strategic forces and defense systems to protect against weapons of mass destruction.
A graduate of Cornell University Mr. Montague is a fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and received that Institute's Missile Systems Award. Mr. Montague has served on numerous government advisory groups and studies, including eight years on the Navy Strategic Systems Steering Task Group, various Naval Studies Board committees, and task forces for both the U.S. Army and the Defense Science Board. He is currently a member of the National Research Council Naval Studies Board and the Los Alamos National Laboratory Director's Senior Advisory Group.
Expert in complex systems engineering, effectiveness, integration and management of ballistic and cruise missile systems, UAVs, as well as exo and endo-atmospheric interceptors engaging these classes of threats.
Knowledgeable about surveillance, threat detection and cueing technology, application of that data for offense and defense system employment and evaluation of foreign missile technology.
Expert in strategic and tactical stand off weapon system definition, threat assessment, requirements, measures of effectiveness, weapon system synthesis, design, test and evaluation, production, deployment and utilization. Includes knowledge of current and emerging technologies for guidance and control, targeting technologies and surveillance capabilities and the application of that data for strike engagement planning, weapon targeting through weapon on target and post strike damage assessment.
Participation in national boards and studies
US Army Advanced Ballistic Missile Defense Agency Minuteman Site Defense Study 1970
National Research Council Navy Studies Board committee on Advanced Weapons Concepts for the 21st Century, circa 1987
Georgetown CSIS Study on Deterrence and Stability into the 21st Century 1987
DSB task force on Strategic force Modernization 1988, Issues for Strategic force modernization
DSB Task force - Strategic Forces and Supporting C3I 1990
DSB TBMD summer study 1991
Member Steering Task Group, USN Director Strategic Systems Projects. 1988-1996
Naval Studies Board Committee to assess Navy Undersea Weapon Science and Technology, 1999
Naval Studies Board Committee to assess Navy Theater Missile Defense Capabilities 2000
Member of Panel chartered by the American Physical Society to study the technology and science of Boost Phase Systems for National Missile Defense July 2001 to April 2002
Member Naval Studies Board Committee for the Role of Experimentation in Building Future Naval Forces 2002
Member Naval Studies Board Committee for the Role of Distribute Remote Sensors for Naval Undersea Warfare 2005


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“COVID-19 is a reality some of us don’t seem to understand”
— says CWI President Ricky Skerrit
— players given “benefit of the doubt” regarding availability
By Brandon Corlette
The novel coronavirus continues to hit the globe since its deadly rise in 2020, and has recently hit some Caribbean cricketers, with Guyana’s Romario Shepherd being the Caribbean’s first active player to have returned a positive result for COVID-19, and Hayden Walsh Jr. being the next player to have tested positive, in Bangladesh.
The Barbados Pride duo of Shai Hope and Kyle Hope were the other players who tested positive and were ruled out of the Regional Super50 Cup, while Guyana Jaguars’ opener Trevon Griffith has been the latest player from the Caribbean to have returned a positive COVID-19 test, and he also was ruled out of next month’s Regional Super50 tournament to be staged in Antigua.
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To Petya Psymuline
I appear in my hometown and I have to spend a couple of days here. I crouch down at the seaside and touch the water, I collect sleek shiny stones. Once they are dry they lose their shine. The water is of bright turquoise, as it never happens in reality, I guess. I talk to the sea with movements of my palms.
I never really could understand where I do come from. The birthplace in my international passport doesn't match with the national one — they are two different countries. First we lived in one town, then in another and now it's been 16 years that I’ve been living in Moscow. Now it feels like my whole life has been spent here. Sometimes, especially in summer, here and there I run into different beacons, signs, signals and clues: certain angles of light, specific taste or smell, architectural form and the feeling I get from it, a familiar plant or object. They desperately indicate how close I am to something hidden and real, to an important place where I really strive and dream to return. They say: right here, around the corner! stop! listen! but the ray of light gets hidden behind a cloud, the smell dissolves in the air, the architectural form becomes unrecognizable once you get closer and see it from another angle. As if some kind of a different reality is trying to break through another one; and fails, but keeps sending me signs and greetings in the form of meetings with plants, familiar smells, elusive sensations. I can only really get there while dreaming, perhaps.
I walk out the entrance. Suddenly I recognize the buildings around me and the road I am walking on. I am surrounded by familiar advertisements with faded letters. As I keep walking I already know what I am going to see and I'm afraid to believe it. But what I see is real. Yes, it's true: I'm home.
I was born in a tiny seaside town. It used to be famous because of the initial intention to build a nuclear plant there. Everyone who came to participate in the construction was given an apartment. This is how my grandparents ended up there. My mother had been studying at an art school, and she joined them when the time to give birth had come. This is how it all happened.
The construction of the nuclear plant was shut down after the Chernobyl. But the city and the apartment were there still. We came there every summer. From the window one could see the ruins of an abandoned hospital and a small strip of forest. Cherry and mulberry were growing there. Cicadas were singing outside the window in the pitch darkness of the night, and my grandmother in a long nightgown was litting an anti mosquito coil.
Every day we went to the sea, taking each time the same road: passing by the hostels, the post office, the bread kiosk, the local Сultural center, along the market, greeting the familiar saleswoman Lidia Ivanovna. In response, she was presenting us with a photographic film and her other goods. Past the household store and the school stadium, past a huge block of stone lying in the courtyard of the house number - I can’t remember it now, across the road, along the reeds and the abandoned summer cinema, along the thickets of the silver goose tree and unknown thorns, to our usual place under the tree.
I remember this route, I can easily recall it in my head. I take this very road every time in my dreams.
I get to my hometown. Each time it gets more real. These dreams are the most real. I know that everything around does exist, I even get angry when I accidently touch the tops of the flower heads with my hand: everything is too real and too boring. So I am here, where are we going to go? I go to the sea. Sand under my feet, plants around me — everything, everything is real. You have been wanting this for so long, have been dreaming of it, and finally it is not a dream.
Now I want to remember and to recollect in my head every detail, every tiny bit of information, just to be able to see the town’s map like the back of my hand.
Salty lakes by one side. Abandoned hospital and the forest — by another. Empty half broken five-storey apartment block by the third side. Its project was problematic, the building was constructed on the hills and cracked down as a response to seismic vibrations even before people moved in. The house was left this way. Also there: bakery, swings. Hills, steppe everywhere. Hills, stones with red and gray lichens. Purple immortelle, feather grass (you shouldn’t pick it: it brings bad luck). Happiness: God knows how you’ve found a wild tulip in the steppe. Subtle smell of thyme and other herbs. A school stadium, an abandoned greenhouse, ruins of a summer cinema. Empty spaces, lots of empty spaces pierced by rays of light. A nondescript monument to Soviet soldiers with a huge bouquet of wildflowers brought by me and my grandmother. Silhouette of a brick gazebo on the rocks by the sea. Burnt-out fields at sunset.
There is a sketched map of our courtyard: a large rectangle marked with dots and inscriptions. Some information is carried in inscriptions, the rest I can find in my memories. Our courtyard was gigantic, surrounded by 5, if not more, houses. The courtyard equalled the universe when I was a child. Here are some of my hand-marked locations:
Laundry hanging on a roupe
Place to refuge
Unknown but still beloved. In this reality every tree receives its own name and a mark on a map, houses are standing next to other important objects, such as a place for hanging wet clothes, a path; a pile of rocks left over after construction works, for some reason they were dumped in the middle of the yard; a small stage which the only remained part is a stone curb, it is overgrown with young aspens and reminds the foundations of ancient buildings.
Everything is important. Even the cat's footprint, that remained forever in the asphalt by the house.
Dressed up in a blue dress I am sitting on a bench at the entrance under mulberries and walnuts. The entrance is blue as well, and everything around is as soft as it appears on a blown out film. I came home; but there is no one to open the door for me, because we no longer live here, the phone does not pick up a single network, but it doesn’t really bother me. There are people walking by. I have not seen them for ages, but I recognize them still.
I said: ruins. Everywhere I was surrounded by ruins — I saw them from the window, on the road to the sea and in other places too. The very same stage for performances in the courtyard, the one with only foundation remained, the ruins of the hospital, the abandoned cinema, where you always had been wanting to get in, but couldn’t, a five-story ghost building on the outskirts of the city. The red-brick gazebo on the seashore, it became a part of the landscape depicted by every local craftless artist. It reminded me of ruins as well: half-broken windows, broken steps. The real ruins were a little further from the city, once there were the settlements of the ancient Greeks. One can find there real foundations remained of their houses, shards of antique pottery beneath the cliffs, sometimes with remnants of the simplest drawings: those pieces were left unused after the excavation — they couldn’t make a completed vessel and were left just like that, waiting for tourists and travelers who would take them away for souvenirs ...
This city played in antiquity the best it could.
Yes, I remember that I come from my own toy Hellas. The gods and heroes of Ancient Greece surrounded me coming from the books that I carried with me to read by the sea. The sea rustled next to me, sand flew between the pages, and Jason went to Colchis for the golden fleece, Athena struck with a spear, and a wonderful tree appeared, just like the one under which we sat on a spreaded blanket, and other trees around us that were the same, these trees with silver foliage and delicate golden flowers, blue-gray, like the sea in bad weather. It turned out later that this tree is not an olive tree grown by Athena, but its relative, with an amazing name “silver goose”.
But who cares. My origins are forever in my own child antiquity.
I appear in my hometown. As always, this time it’s not a dream, everything is real. I’m taking a road from the market to the sea, touching the herbs, smelling and recognizing them, they all are very real, I remember it clearly — all of it has already happened to me. But maybe I’m just tired, maybe something just goes wrong: I do realize that I should be happy, but instead I barely can feel a thing.
Last time we were in this town when I was 14. Now when I’m writing it I’m 28, which means we haven’t been there for 14 years already.
I’ve learned a lot during this period: you can get in the field and feel lonely, because the plants do not look like those at home — they are different — there are lakes that look like sea, but it’s a trap, an illusion: they do not smell salt, algae and a bit of decay — all those things that smell like the sea, smell like home. Instead they smell like usual fresh water.
What I needed was the smell of my sea and all the plants I got used to.
During this period I’ve lived a completely different life and am still living it. This life got filled with other places connected to lots of different impressions. Memories overlap with locations, they cover and come through each other, forming their own private map. Another space hidden deeply inside of me keeps existing, time has stopped there. It unfolds in my dreams.
Sometimes I open google Maps and start wandering around my town’s ridiculously stitched panoramas. Old well-known locations are changing unrecognizably, new locations appearing.
Half-ruined gazebo on the cliffs that collapsed several years ago was replaced with another, concrete one. The market where Lydia Ivanovna worked burned down. Some trees have died from frost and disappeared. Perhaps they were already replaced with others. It looks like a dream too. Suddenly the space is distorted, and you do not recognize familiar places anymore.
Two virtual pictures cannot connect in my head: one I see in front of me now, on the computer screen, and the other that lives in my memories. Even if they miraculously overlap, they will not be able to create a volumetric reality. Maybe it’s for the best.
I appear in my hometown, I’m walking along the seashore taking the usual route from my childhood, it leads to the brick gazebo on the cliffs. The gazebo remained intact, in reality it collapsed several years ago. I’m climbing up, the usual child’s fear to slip down the cliffs right on the sharp rocks. The sea of very bright colour, almost hyper-saturated, this time it’s not a dream, I can really see it. I’m taking out the phone to take a couple of pictures to send to my friends, but the phone is broken, the touch screen is not responding. Glass is falling apart, it’s melting down rapidly and I can’t make a shot.
God only knows how many times I’ve started this text in my head. But after all, no text can describe what I want to express here and I’m not satisfied at all with the result. It should be better, should be more precise — but how can it be precise if I don’t remember things well. When I see virtual panoramas of my town, I see cracked asphalt and faded walls. I don’t remember any of this, it didn’t bother me at the time, didn’t matter. What mattered were: plants and how they live; an ant in the grass dragging a twig, fierce wasps circling over smashed mulberries on the asphalt. Almonds and apricots bloom, a mantis lurks in its green shelter, a wasp spider spreads its nets. A grasshopper spreads its pale blue or bright pink wing and flies up. The sea brings its treasures to the coastal strip, an invisible comb jelly hides inside its waters. The sea sways in its shores, as if they are sandy palms, and breathes deeply, the sea and the sky change their color one after another. The hot sun falls at sunset right into the salty water and cools down slowly. That's what mattered. This is what the optics was adjusted to. Everything else is blurred as soon as I try to remember something more detailed. As if brightness and sharpness were shifted to the maximum in some places, and moved to zero in others.
My town is not a place on a map. My town — what I can see scrolling pictures in my mental stereoscope. These are incredibly bright and voluminous images, like it was in childhood. And the more voluminous and close they are, the more inaccessible they are. I will never pass through this piece of glass. But even remaining inaccessible, they still continue to live inside of me.
I’m in my hometown with a friend of mine. We are walking towards the seashore and I realize that this is exactly the landscape of my town I wanted to show him. I ask him to hold my stuff, knee down first and then fall in the water with my face, arms open, as if embracing it. The way I‘ve always wanted. I get the feeling of the water and it is real, it’s not a dream.
I’m afraid to look back at you, my town, so you won’t turn into a salty lake. I’m afraid to return, so my memories about you won’t be replaced with others and my treasure won’t turn into broken pieces. My town is not a place on a map. My town is a handful of sleek stones, sand between pages of my favorite books, the smell of thyme and other herbs that I don’t know by name but recognize once I see it.
My town is my own private Hellas. Not so much of it has left, but it keeps living unseen, coming through my everyday life, reflecting in the broken pieces of reality, sending me signals and signs and I’m running towards them. My town is behind a dim piece of glass, and the more it is blurred, the more beautiful it is. And I don’t need anything else.
In the “Moscow’s conceptualist’s vocabulary of terms” in the very end mentioned the place where I was born. Here’s the explanation: “A place in the head that reminds of something important”. What else to add? Probably everything that I’ve written here could’ve been explained in this one sentence.
I remember you, Athena and the way you came into my life, through all its strange turns and glimpses. I recall your eyes of the best colour in the world, the silver goose’s colour of leaves. With my inner sight I see you walking in the grass barefoot, through sun-bleached fields, past the abandoned summer cinema. Lilac immortelle, thyme and wormwood grow in your footprints. I'm following you, afraid to step on a wasp, afraid to step on a sharp shard of glass. You lead me along familiar paths, past girls from our courtyard, that spreaded a blanket and sell beaded bracelets, they make them right there. You lead me to the sea. Here, facing the sun, I feel myself at home. I want to fall down and embrace the land, embrace the sea. Someday I will come back here for real. Someday, maybe not in this life, I will come back home.
My town is a place in the head that reminds of something important.
Translated from Russian by Liubov Startseva
Illustrations by Anastasia Keineahnung
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i have old (late 1980's) recessed lighting. i cannot figure out how to remove the can. there are no springs,ears or anything i can see inside the can. the bulb holder is secured by 2 spring clips that fit into slots at the top of the can. the cover is white plastic that fits into notches in the can and screws to lock in place. i have removed the plastic cover and removed the bulb holder and felt around the top of the can for any type of release pin. it appears that the can is pushed into the ceiling and then spring clip secure it to the drywall.
Chances are that this fixture was installed at the time of the home's construction. It'll likely have two crossbars that were installed across the gap between the two adjacent roof trusses or floor joists:
Removing it would require access above the ceiling, or you can attempt to cut and disassemble the unit through the hole in the ceiling. If you can release any tabs that secure the can itself to the base plate you may be able to push the can up out of the way, allowing access to the crossbars.
Be aware that there's likely blown or batt insulation above and around the can. Take precautions to not get it in your eyes or any other sensitive or delicate places.
Can you see what brand it is?
What you describe sounds very similar to what I had in my ceiling. It was an older Lightolier model.
My Lightolier can was shaped more like a rounded cone, rather than a cylinder. At the top of the "cone" was the electrical connection and bulb threads, which you could pop out by pressing on two spring clips. I couldn't figure out how to remove the can either, but my electrician managed. My guess is he twisted it about or released some of the clips somehow. But he managed to remove it pretty easily.
At any rate, if you can get the brand and model, maybe instructions are available online.


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Here's a shot of the Noble Lobby stained glass ceiling that's being installed. The ~12' x14' leaded glass panel hasn't been in place for decades, but it will restore a new element of historic accuracy and elegance to the high-ceilinged lobby.
This restoration, by Wyoming artist Janet Zambai, is part of our donor-funded International Base Camp Initiative.
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This is a beautiful ceiling!
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That is beautiful!
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They walk the line like Egyptians.
Slide your feet up the street, bend your back
Shift your arm, then you pull it back
Life is hard you know (oh whey oh)
So strike a pose on a Cadillac
A stance or style of walking meant to resemble ancient Egyptian murals. Common in animation (especially as it's hard to twist your limbs this way in Real Life
), often in Knife Outline
It should be noted that real ancient Egyptians did not walk like this, it was only a centuries-long artistic style meant to show a person's body from several angles at once
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- Dogs in the old King Kuts dog food commercials.
- In the album Astérix and Cleopatra, we see the latter discussing her latest portrait:
It's quite good, but I'm tired of being painted in profile. Can't you do it in a three-quarter view? Artist:
Oh, you know how I feel about these modern arts
- When seen in other books, they keep up this style, such as when crossing the street in single file.
Films — Animation
Films — Live-Action
- In Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra, the second Astérix live movie, the Big Bad loses a fight and ends slammed into a mural in this pose.
- In To Kill a Mockingbird, Scout's brother, Jem, insists on walking like an Egyptian after a school assignment on them causes an Egyptian obsession. According to him, though, that's how they actually walked.
- Pyramids has a scene where the people are described as walking like this.
- The Art of Discworld features, of all people, Havelock Vetinari doing this in artwork for Jingo. (Note that the book itself does not describe him doing this.)
- Surprisingly, the children in The Egypt Game do this at one point.
Live Action TV
- When reviewing The Last House on the Left, The Cinema Snob takes exception to a transition going from a rather dark moment to a humorous one and vows to react with comedy the next time someone gives him bad news. When his wife tells him her great-grandmother died, he reacts by doing this trope naked on his front porch.
- Total Drama World Tour features a two-part episode titled, "Walk Like an Egyptian"... During which nobody walks like one. Not even the people dressed like ancient Egyptians.
- The Simpsons: In "Simpsons Bible Stories", Pharaoh Skinner dictates a letter:
Skinner: All right, read me back what I have so far, Mrs. Krabapatra.
Krabappel: Bird, bird, giant eye, pyramid, bird.
Skinner: Mmm-hmm, very good. Uh, giant eye, dead fish, cat head, cat head, cat head, guy doing this...
- The Bugs Bunny cartoon A Hare Grows in Manhattan (1947). Bugs tries to hide from a bulldog by becoming part of an animated advertising sign with such images.
- In an Egyptian-themed ChalkZone episode (where Rudy and Penny enter ChalkZone through an ancient Egyptian artifact that happens to be a chalk surface — It Makes Sense in Context), all the Egyptian chalk drawings (and, to fit in, Rudy, Penny, and Snap) walk like this. And we only see the profiles of their faces, like on (stereo)typical carvings in Egyptian temples.
- In the prequel movie for Totally Spies!, there is a montage of Sam, Clover, and Alex doing this — to the song — while ducking the strict principal.
- Bender from Futurama dances this way after being Pharaoh of an Egypt-themed planet.
- During an Arthur Imagine Spot to Ancient Egypt, Arthur's Mom and Dad are walking this way. Also, Arthur knocks off the Sphinx's nose.
- In the Tom and Jerry short "The Lonesome Mouse", Jerry does this dance to taunt Tom after he gets thrown out of the house and a mop lands on his head making him look like the Sphinx.
- Bobby occasionally does this in his comedy routines in King of the Hill. Hank also did it in an old video of his highschool football state championship after scoring a touchdown.
- Tintin: In the animated Nelvana adaptation of the album The Cigars Of The Pharao Professor Sarcophagus is seen walking like an Egyptian after going crazy. This is an addition of the animation crew, not Hergé.