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Mark Power: Good Morning, America
Mark Power's new book explores the landscapes of the United States from the perspective of a British photographer raised on American cultural exports
Mark Power Harlan, Kentucky. December 2015. © Mark Power | Magnum Photos
In a short afterword to his new photobook Good Morning, America (Volume One), Mark Power writes about his lifelong relationship with the country, which began well before he would travel there himself. "For as long as I can remember I've wanted to explore America, an ambition fueled by a legion of TV shows that crossed the Atlantic in the 1960s," he writes. "As a young and impressionable child I devoured The Man from U.N.C.L.E. and The Fugitive, but it was the westerns, evoking a landscape altogether removed from the congested English suburbs surrounding me, that I loved most: Bonanza, High Chaparral, The Virginian and in particular Casey Jones, the adventures of a middle-aged railroad driver putting the world to rights."
Mark Power Pearsall, Texas. January 2018. © Mark Power | Magnum Photos
His dream became a reality when Power began to travel and photograph the country as part of the Magnum project Postcards from America, a group of photographers working collaboratively and finding innovative ways of disseminating their work. "I began – although I may not have realized it at the time – to search for the America which lived in my imagination, the one generated during childhood, the one that had probably never existed at all."
Here, in his own words, Mark Power explains how an idea rooted in his formative years, which was encouraged by Postcards from America, has developed into this ongoing and in-depth exploration.
Mark Power Bridgeport, Oklahoma. January 2015. © Mark Power | Magnum Photos
Mark Power Pennington Gap, Virginia. December 2015. © Mark Power | Magnum Photos
"My work in the U.S. has evolved, inevitably, over time, especially since Postcards came to an end in 2015. I never begin a project with a thesis I want to prove; if I did that I'd surely limit myself, denying myself all sorts of opportunities. I try to remain open-minded and, certainly, the longer I spend in America the more I learn… but the more confused I get as well. It's such a complicated country, beset with problems, many running so deep it would be far too simplistic to blame them all solely on Trump.
Mark Power Little Rock, Arkansas. October 2016. © Mark Power | Magnum Photos
Mark Power Aftermath of the Atlas fire. Napa, California. January 2018 © Mark Power | Magnum Photos
"I'm a foreigner in America and I never forget that. In fact, I'm never allowed to forget it; being British makes me something of a mini-celebrity in every small town I visit. 'Why', I'm asked again and again, 'of all the places I could go, am I here?' That said, my English accent has often come in handy; it's got me access to places I might otherwise have struggled to reach and it's kept me safe (so far) when things have looked a little dicey, as they have on a few occasions.
"I keep a physical and metaphorical distance between myself and the subject."
- Mark Power
Mark Power Flint, Michigan. November 2017. © Mark Power | Magnum Photos
Mark Power Baton Rouge, Louisiana. January 2017. © Mark Power | Magnum Photos
"I'm seeing America through the filter of an imposing cultural legacy that helped define me"
Mark Power Selma, Alabama. January 2017. © Mark Power | Magnum Photos
Mark Power Orderville, Utah. March 2017. © Mark Power | Magnum Photos
"I keep a physical and metaphorical distance between myself and the subject. It's a way of delineating my 'foreignness' and is a similar stance to the one I took while working in Poland making The Sound of Two Songs (2004-09). It's comes very naturally to me; I've always felt I'm better at observing than participating, so to stand back and watch from afar suits me very well. It's so different from working at home, in the UK, where I have a deeper understanding of why things are as they are. But, on balance, I quite like being from somewhere else. Remember, I'm seeing America through the filter of an imposing cultural legacy that helped define me. As such, it's a strange mix of the familiar and unfamiliar, of fact and of fiction.
Mark Power Pierre Part, Louisiana. January 2017. © Mark Power | Magnum Photos
"I was involved in education for 25 years so I think I have a decent understanding of the history of photography in America. My tastes are eclectic, from Timothy O'Sullivan through to Onorato and Krebs, and I carry this legacy with me. I've lost count of the number of times I've looked at my ground glass screen and thought 'that looks like a Baltz, or Eggleston, or Evans, Friedlander, Shore, Soth, Sternfeld etc.' so I've taken to openly referencing this great history. I can't pretend it isn't there.
Mark Power Cleveland, Ohio. November 2017. © Mark Power | Magnum Photos
Mark Power Killeen, Texas. January 2018. © Mark Power | Magnum Photos
"I wouldn't say I'm doing anything particularly new or innovative, but I'm not worried about that. Naturally I hope the work, when complete, will one day be seen as an important comment on America now, but only time will tell. Perhaps one marginally original (or foolhardy) idea is to publish the pictures across five volumes as 'work in progress'. Another, I guess, is the equipment I use. I don't like to get too technical, but my camera gear is a fundamental part of my process and I'm unrepentantly nerdy about perfection. Blame my Dad, who was an engineer.
Mark Power Dogpatch, Arkansas. October 2016. © Mark Power | Magnum Photos
"I use an Alpa Max technical camera with a Phase One back. I have only two lenses (a standard and a slightly wide) but the camera is extremely versatile, so this isn't really a problem. The Alpa allows me, when appropriate, to slide the digital back left and right without moving either camera or tripod (all of Good Morning, America is made using a tripod). Because the perspective doesn't alter, this technique produces two images that merge seamlessly together, giving a wider view but without distortion. The results are extremely detailed – far more than the human eye can see – a useful tool for someone who likes to stand back and observe. It took me a while to find a digital equivalent to the trusty 5×4 I used for 20 years, but this is it, and more besides.
Mark Power Barstow, California. January 2015. © Mark Power | Magnum Photos
"When outside the big cities, anyone visiting the States from the congestion of Europe can't help but notice the enormity of the space, and the layers of history that are inevitably produced when a country is so big it's not necessary to knock a building down in order to build another."
"David Chandler wrote about my approach for The Financial Times Magazine, where he described how it speaks to my 'sense of intimate distance because, as the enlarged scale and breadth can be achieved relatively close to his subject without distortion, the final image combines to give an impression that the photographer is at once detached and dispassionate but also in touch.' He went on to describe how, as a fitting response to American space and culture, the cinematic appearance of the photographs echo a 'widescreen experience' and that 'what we are looking at is already a representation; that uncanny sense of America as an image of itself.'
"That reference to space is fundamental to my fascination for America. When outside the big cities, anyone visiting the States from the congestion of Europe can't help but notice the enormity of the space, and the layers of history that are inevitably produced when a country is so big it's not necessary to knock a building down in order to build another.
Broken Manual: Alec Soth in Conversation with Aaron Schuman
Mark Power Atlanta, Georgia. January 2017. © Mark Power | Magnum Photos
Mark Power Memphis, Tennessee. October 2016. © Mark Power | Magnum Photos
"I'm writing this from North Dakota, where the winter has come early, and where town after town has a main street wider than London's Piccadilly. It takes me right back to the westerns of my childhood. I work on foot, with tripod and camera slung over my shoulder, trudging around for hours everyday. From experience I've realized that pictures of places glimpsed from a passing car are rarely successful; they tend to be overt, and too much about the thing itself. On foot one notices the subtle nuances, how a space alters from step to step. My pictures from this particular trip are extremely quiet, some might say boring, and certainly wouldn't be to everyone's taste. But I'm trying to portray the monotony of these places, which are neither exciting nor dramatic; why, therefore, should I try to portray them as such? This strategy continues throughout all the work; I don't believe that a picture of a demonstration, or a riot, is the only way of talking about economic or racial inequality. It's manifest everywhere in the landscape. You just need to look for it.
Buzzing at the Sill
Mark Power Pittsburgh. Pennsylvania. November 2017. © Mark Power | Magnum Photos
David Chandler wrote that the work is a 'grand sweep of American time and space' across diverse environments and experience. But, most emphatically, it is a portrait of a 'post-industrial culture still in the throes of convulsive change; a society where the signs of extreme inequality and degradation are now so commonplace that all across the country America seems not only to be falling into ruin, but falling back in time.'
"I'm continuing to work in America, fingers and toes all crossed, for at least another four years, so the separate volumes can be neither thematic or geographic. I'm trying to juggle several subjects all at once; I believe this the right approach given the vastness and complexity of America. There is no text, yet, apart from captions and dates, but the current plan is that Volume Five, the final book, will contain a number of essays contextualizing the work."
Signed copies of Good Morning, America (Volume One), published by GOST, are available on the Magnum shop here.
Mark Power Pearlington, Mississippi. January 2017. © Mark Power | Magnum Photos
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■ Qur'an 2:87 and 5:70: Was Jesus Christ killed?
Both verses start with a short summary about the people of Israel and their negative reactions to God's messengers. The conclusion of both verses is that the Children of Israel even killed God's messengers. The Qur'an is silent about prosecution of God's messengers, but is also referring to the Bible in case of doubts (Qur'an 3:50-51 and 10:94). Therefore Muslims have permission to read the Bible.
"Who killed the Lord Jesus" means that the characteristic of the people of Israel to be engaged in the work of persecution, and that it is not strange that they have been persecuting the prophets, that they also had put their own Messiah to death .
The above mentioned verse is saying that they did not aim to please God and that they could not have peace with God, because they had been engaged in persecuting the most holy people that had lived.
"Hostile to everyone" is saying that the prosecutors of the prophets and Jesus the Messiah dad an active opposition to all other people. They were "cherishing hatred against all others" . In all ages have been people who act with violence against the rest of mankind. Unfortunately the violent fundamental Muslims today are no exception. However Qur'an 2:87 and 5:70 are showing us a way out by following the holy messengers.
Conclusion: Qur'an 2:87 and 5:70 is a call to the heart of the believer to make a decision to do God's will by following Jesus the Messiah, the most holy messenger, because only he will bring blessings and salvation.
 Karel Steenbrink, The Jesus Verses of the Qur'an, Henry Martyn Institute, Hyderabad, 2011, 41.
 Barnes' Notes on the Bible, 1 Tessalonians 2.
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Handling Major Complaints by the BBC
Israeli-Palestinian Impartiality Review
BBC Governance Unit
Room 211, 35 Marylebone High Street
London, W1U 4AA
By Air Mail and e-mail
Sub: Take-A-Pen's Submission II:
We, Take-A-Pen, are a volunteer international and multilingual organisation, or rather an internet network, founded in 2000. Our purpose and that of our readers around the world is to counter with truth the widespread inaccuracies, misinformation and anti-Israel propaganda about the Arab-Israeli conflict.
This Submission II relates to the impartiality aspect of BBC procedures and practice for Handling Major Complaints. We believe that an open and fair complaint handling procedure is an essential tool for maintaining impartiality.
We use as a case study the handling of our major complaint addressed to Director of BBC News Ms Helen Boaden on August 2005. And how by next mail I received legal threats signed by the BBC Litigation Department. That Take-A-Pen complaint in August was an earlier version of our Submission-I to your select review Panel, regarding the BBC News' false and libellous coverage of the battle of Jenin. However here we do not deal with the content of that complaint but focus on the complaint handling procedures of the BBC.
1/ Take-A-Pen's general impression on the BBC's Complaints Procedure
We have been in intensive communication for years with more than one hundred active viewers, listeners and readers of the BBC News. The widespread view among this group during the last decade except for the last year was that there was no use submitting complaints to the BBC. Most complaints then were not answered or received flat negative responses.
Even the extremely well-researched and most prestigious BBCWatch Reports http://www.bbcwatch.news/ received lengthy denials only as responses from the BBC, signed by News Director then, Mr Richard Sambrook. Beyond the commonplace that 'even the BBC make mistakes sometimes' he never admitted to any one mistake deserving correction. As the BBCWatch Report IV put it in 2004: '...we are still waiting for the BBC's first formal and public acceptance and correction of any of its mistakes we have found ...'
On a humorous note about the BBC's previous standard disregard of complaints; when I received the first legal threat to me from the BBC, my media-watch friends 'congratulated' to me as being one of the few to whom the BBC related.
In the last year or a bit earlier however our BBC watching community noted and started to spread the news that there had been an improvement in the BBC's complaints handling. Complaints on minor technical errors have been more readily corrected - although not necessarily fully and practically still never by publicly admitting the error or apologising to those hurt by the error. Anyway, it was an improvement.
The appointment of Mr Malcolm Balen as kind of Complaints Officer seemed to be a step in the right direction. It brought to more corrections and also some fair and human responses to complaints which had been practically missing from the BBC News' complaint-handling repertoire for several years.
However this small step had its obvious limitations too. Mr Balen has not operated as an empowered Ombudsman but rather as a solitary watchman. In such a huge corporation one man or a small unit which is part of the operation hierarchy and not independent of it can not do very much to implementing the due results of the complaints of millions of consumers.
Errors in articles of the BBC News internet edition were now more easily corrected and acknowledged privately and politely by Mr Balen. But the mistakes were still not admitted publicly. And admitting mistakes is an essential aspect of the transparency BBC demands from other public services.
In summary, there has recently been an improvement in handling minor complaints on current matters, but there is still a long way to go.
2/ Handling major complaints
As stated, major complaints were previously totally doomed to failure.
But even after the recent improvement, the limitations of the present hierarchy-dependent complaint handling procedure became apparent very soon regarding major complaints. We consider as major complaints those which relate to BBC policy, to ethical or strategic issues; or directly or indirectly criticise senior managers, i.e. senior ones to the 'watchman'.
The rationale behind the BBC's refusal to deal with major complaints was as if conceptual issues can not be objectively measured and only complaints on concrete and exact single events can be objectively examined.
Thus, from a practical point of view there has not existed a channel for major complaints!
3/ A Case Study: Handling our complaint on the BBC's coverage of the Jenin Battle
Our earlier Submission I to the Select Panel describes our complaint on the BBC's coverage of the Jenin battle; how the BBC spread the false and libellous story and 'data' on an Israeli 'massacre' that never was.
In August this year we tried to submit this issue to the BBC as a formal complaint. In the present Submission II we shall not relate at all to the content, the rightness or wrongness of that Jenin complaint. We'd like to use it as a case study only to illustrate how the BBC handles major complaints. This may result in useful conclusions.
Early this year I wrote to the Chairman of the BBC Board of Governors Mr Michael Grade several letters about complaints of strategic weight. His responses convinced me that the present Board of Governors was firmly committed to the principle of impartiality. However he did not relate to my specific complaints. He explained to me that the Board of Governors could not handle individual complaints and that formal complaints must be submitted to BBC managers directly responsible for the field in question or to the formal complaint channels.
So, as he suggested, on August 9, notwithstanding my reservations about the effectiveness of such a step, I sent our complaint about the BBC's Jenin coverage to Director of News Ms Helen Boaden and to BBC's complaints officer(?), Mr Malcolm Balen. It was a clearly defined complaint about the BBC's false coverage of the 'Jenin massacre' ( though I admit that I complicated it by including another general complaint in the same letter).
The final result of my complaint was - legal threats to me personally and a wholesale denial, supported by no facts whatever. First I received a polite reply from Ms Boaden asking me for time to prepare a proper answer. Time being duely given the 'proper' answer arrived on 30 August - signed by the BBC Litigation Department and containing legal threats. Amongst these threats were demands that I remove a whole web article from our site, without any factual rebuttal of the facts we had presented. A rather peculiar way of handling complaints, one may think.
Two days later Ms Boaden's reply also arrived. She dismissed (quote) "every word you have written", praised the BBC high principles and practice, with self-confidence but without any facts and figures opposing my data. On one item she briefly echoed the litigation people. To my main complaint regarding Jenin Ms Boaden stated (quote): "The BBC did not claim there was a massacre at Jenin, and it took great care to establish casualty figures before broadcasting them".
In one single Google search with the words "Jenin", "BBC", "Israel", "massacre", "2002" I had found 57000 items, thousands of them closely relevant to our complaint. How is it possible that News Director Ms Boaden and the thousand professionals in BBC News did not do such a simple Google search or learn of a few of the 57000 items in any other way?
I would willingly have shown to Ms Boaden hundreds of examples of how BBC spread the false story of 'massacre', but I was not allowed to do so. Ms Boaden's closing paragraph declared that "I see no point in continuing a correspondence with you (i.e. me) in relation to this complaint". I had to understand that my audience was over - before it started.
Mr Balen never responded to my letter. I wouldn't be surprised to learn that it was Ms Boaden who took over from Mr Balen the task of independent inspector of her own case.
(1) In the handling of minor complaints on current matters there has recently been a visible improvement in the BBC, although there is still a long way to go.
However, complaints on major or sensitive matters like policy, or criticism of senior management, still can not be handled properly by complaint officials who are not independent of the same senior management.
(2) The case study we presented in Chapter 3 and similar unfair ways of handling by some officials in the BBC of major complaints made by the public, as I know from first-hand experience as well as from friends, are proof that the present complaint procedure of the BBC is inadequate.
(3) We think the complaint procedure would deserve itself an investigation. Such an investigation would probably justify thorough changes in the BBC News' complaint handling procedures. An open and fair complaint handling procedure is an essential tool for maintaining impartiality.
(4) Personally I believe that major complaints - i.e. more than strictly technical ones - can only be handled in a transparent way by a properly designated body which is independent from the operational management that is being criticised. This body must report directly to the Board of Governors.
Endre Mozes
Chairman, Take-A-Pen
http://www.take-a-pen.org/


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As part of the recent ShapingEDU gathering I was invited to develop a brief utopian/dystopian vision for education in the year 2039. I chose to imagine what Humanized Learning could become, if we stay true to human values (utopia) or use it as a commercial buzzword (dystopia). I'm happy to share these scenarios here & interested in your response.
Utopian: Institutional and political leaders understand and support the essential role of meaningful human interaction in the learning process. Artificial intelligence and other algorithmic strategies are used thoughtfully and carefully scrutinized for bias, with constant oversight and shaping by human hands. Students never feel that they are learning from machines because there are thoughtful, sympathetic, well-trained experts (teachers!) with whom they maintain constant communication and connection. In addition, student to student interaction and connection is incorporated into the learning journey. An ethic of humanized learning ensures that every student has the opportunity to achieve their potential, especially those who start with the greatest disadvantages. As institutions, teachers, and students get progressively more adept with learning in the online space, a greater proportion of learning is online, at a distance, technology mediated, but always with the right balance of computer and human interaction and caring teachers present throughout the journey. Over time, the student becomes a learner and the learner becomes a teacher, with each human maintaining agency in their educational journey of a lifetime.
Dystopian: Humanized learning continues to be a buzz-word, but is anything but human. The default learning interaction for students is based on a shallow conception of artificial intelligence, typically touted as "personalized" but reinforcing social, cultural, and economic boundaries. The shrinking class of those who can afford it opt-out of the teaching machine for themselves and their children, choosing to use instead highly-trained, human teachers and mentors. Everyone else is shunted to a dull machine-delivered curriculum focused mostly on the short-term needs of employers and the profit motives of the providers. Human interaction, when available, is typically provided by poorly-paid "customer service representatives" who are trained primarily in how to get students to sign up and continue to pay for instruction, regardless of quality. Students who fail to thrive in this system are blamed for their failure, attributed to a lack of intelligence, grit, or character.
Thanks to Samantha Becker (@sambeckertweets) and Lev Gonick (@levgonick) and everyone who helped organize and participated for a very interesting conversation at ShapingEDU. Also big thanks to Michelle Pacansky-Brock (@brocansky) and Audrey Watters (@audreywatters) whose writing and presentations have deeply influenced my thinking on this issue. And special thanks to the shameless & fearless Heather Castillo (@hlcdance) and her students for giving us a glimpse of what humanized learning utopia can look like.
As I watch the activity on campuses around the US on #NationalWalkoutDay, I'm vividly reminded of my own experience as a student growing up in the last great era of student protest.
In 1968 I was in sixth grade at Mar Vista Elementary in Los Angeles. 1968 was a remarkable, violent, turbulent, divided year, not just in the US but notably in Mexico and much of Europe. I'm the oldest in my family, but I had friends with brothers and sisters at UCLA, Venice High, and other centers of protest - as well as friends with siblings, cousins, and neighbors in the middle of the violence that was the US intervention in Vietnam.
At some point, a group of us at Mar Vista decided we needed to protest. I honestly can't remember what the issue was, but we decided we would occupy the flagpole in front of the school and prevent the flag from being pulled down at the end of the day. As class ended for the day, we assembled in a ring around the flag pole, sat down, and waited.
As I recall, at some point the campus custodian came to furl the flag and found a small group of 10 and 11 year old kids surrounding it and informing him (politely) that they were protesting and that the flag could not be taken down. He probably scratched his head a couple of times and headed to principal's office to get advice and counsel.
Next, our principal Lorna Round came out to talk to us. She asked us calmly what we were doing and we explained the issue and our actions. She listened patiently and respectfully to her students, who were probably confused both about the meaning and means we had chosen to protest. She was not patronizing, but did inform us that the custodian couldn't go home until the flag was down, so she was hopeful that we could wrap up the protest before too long.
So we sat and maybe sang a song or chanted something, then got up and headed home.
You could say that this was just an act of entitled children (which we mostly were) playing at protest, and you'd be right. But it also taught us that if we spoke up, there were people who would listen. I was also taught by Mrs. Round that respect is the cornerstone of civil society, and that children have ideas and rights, and deserve to be heard. I remember this action more vividly than any civics lessons or lecture on the First Amendment.
The Undead Factoid: Who Decided 65% of the Jobs of the Near Future Don't Exist Today?
Amid the questionable - do we really live in a world of accelerating change? - and the obvious - things are evolving - we find the very specific claim: 65 percent of the jobs our elementary school students will do don't exist today. Supposedly this startling fact has now been revealed by the World Economic Forum, and thus we should do... something. As if we thought everything was great about education, but now that we have this 65 percent figure, it's a call to action and we need to start changing education right now! Think of the children and their futures!
What follows in the article is a set of mostly non-controversial recommendations - like, teach students to think critically, and communicate well, which sound like excellent suggestions. But I (and others) bristled at the 65% - how could you reveal such a thing? I mean, you could predict it, but why 65% and not 55% or 72%? It just feels arbitrary and made-up. And I knew I'd seen this number before, so I decided to do a bit of digging.
This is a YouTube video that you've probably seen that's loaded with facts and figures of various levels of reliability, designed to convince you that the world you know is changing rapidly, to generate gasps and chuckles from audience, and perhaps, to lead to some good conversation. I admit, I enjoyed it the first 20 times I saw it and even showed it a couple of times. I did have trouble with the statement that "We Live in Exponential Times" - what the heck does that even mean? But it does have a gee-whiz quality that's entertaining if not particularly enlightening.
Anyway, this version from 2006 has more than 5 million hits on YouTube, and there have been subsequent versions and it even seems to have launched a cottage industry for the creators - but I couldn't find any reference to the 65% statistic, neither in the presentation nor on the website. The website referenced by the World Economic Forum report has links to sources but most of them are broken (that exponential change at it again, I guess.) I suppose it may have appeared in one of versions, but I couldn't find it - so the trail seemed to end at "possibly invented for a YouTube video".
One of the foundational facts of your book comes early on. "By one estimate," you write, "65 percent of children entering grade school this year will end up working in careers that haven't even been invented yet."
But just six weeks after the BBC debunked - and Cathy Davidson largely walked away from - the 65% claim, it becomes the lead of a brand new article, attributed to the World Economic Forum. It will no doubt be the reference for a presentation in the future, be cited in strategic plans, and quoted at school board meetings. Some factoids live on as zombies, like bits of urban legend, and I'm sure that this blog will do nothing to kill this one off.
By the way, thank you to the many K-12 public school teachers, and the liberal arts faculty members, who educated me pretty well for the job I do, which didn't exist when I was in Kindergarten.


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Coach Courbis était une émission radiodiffusée sur RMC animée par Rolland Courbis et Gilbert Brisbois.

Histoire
À l'instar des autres consultants vedettes de la station Luis Fernandez et Jean-Michel Larqué, Rolland Courbis a également une émission éponyme. Créée le 30 août 2005, Coach Courbis est d'abord diffusée du lundi au jeudi entre 20 h et 21 h avec Yann Lavoix aux commandes de l'émission.

Dès la saison suivante Jean Rességuié remplace Yann Lavoix . L'émission change d'horaire et a désormais lieu du mardi au jeudi entre 20 h et 22 h, les soirs sans match.

Alors que Rolland Courbis s'apprêtait à animer sa cinquième saison de Coach Courbis, RMC annonce le 20 septembre 2009 qu'elle suspendait sa collaboration, après qu'il a été interpellé la veille par la police au Stade Vélodrome à Marseille. Condamné en octobre 2008 à deux ans de prison ferme, Rolland Courbis a été écroué le dimanche 20 septembre pour effectuer le reste de sa peine. Son émission a donc été remplacée par Intégrale Foot Made In Di Meco avec Éric Di Meco et Jean Rességuié jusqu'à sa libération conditionnelle le 12 février. Il a ensuite repris son émission le 18 février. Il reste toutefois soumis au port du bracelet électronique jusqu'à mai 2010.

Le 31 août 2010, Gilbert Brisbois remplace Jean Rességuié qui aura animé cette émission pendant 4 ans.

À la rentrée 2012, l'émission Coach Courbis revient sous le nom de l'Intégrale Foot avec Jeff Pérès à sa tête.

Concept

Le mardi, le mercredi et le jeudi, Rolland Courbis alias « Coach Courbis » est sur RMC entre 20 h et 22 h, à l'exception des soirs de matchs.

Les soirs de matchs (Ligue des champions, Ligue Europa, Coupe de France, Coupe de la Ligue, Équipe de France), on peut retrouver le "Coach" dans l'avant-match (Intégrale Foot) à 20 h puis dans l'après-match (After Foot) jusqu'à minuit.

Le weekend, Rolland Courbis est sur RMC dès samedi : de 10 h à 11 h 30 dans l'émission consacrée aux paris sportifs Les Paris RMC et commente le multiplex de Ligue 1 entre 18 h 30 et 21 h avant de le retrouver dans l'After Foot à la fin de tous les matchs du samedi de 23 h et 0 h. Le dimanche, il est dans Larqué Foot  où il participe au débat de 11 h, à 20 h on le retrouve dans l'avant-match (Intégrale Foot) du grand match de Ligue 1 du dimanche soir et dans l'après-match (After Foot) entre 23 h et 0 h.

Rubriques de l'émission
 L'invité : c'est le face à face. Des grands témoins du football français et international sont reçus dans les studios de RMC pour un entretien vérité : actualité, carrière, références et révélations.
 Les collègues : après 21 h, Rolland Courbis accueille un collègue de profession, c'est-à-dire un entraîneur.
 La causerie du Coach : dans l'Intégrale Foot avant chaque match Rolland Courbis se met à la place de l'un des entraîneurs et improvise un discours.

Audiences
Selon Médiamétrie, RMC est en tête des audiences des radios généralistes privées de 20h à minuit avec Coach Courbis de 20 h à 22 h. À la rentrée 2008, il faut rappeler que la station Europe 1 avait voulu recruter Rolland Courbis, mais il avait formellement refusé de quitter RMC.

Générique
 Le soir sur RMC, quand il n'y a pas match il y a entrainement, 20 h-22 h, Coach Courbis, Gilbert Brisbois-Rolland Courbis
 RMC, 20 h-22 h, le Coach est sur RMC, Gilbert Brisbois-Rolland Courbis
 RMC, Coach Courbis, Gilbert Brisbois-Rolland Courbis

Références

Lien externe
 Blog de Coach Courbis

Média de football en France
Programme quotidien
Programme d'avant-soirée
Programme de soirée
Programme contenant une chronique
Programme contenant une conversation
Émission de radio depuis la France
Émission de radio en français
Émission de sport à la radio
Émission de radio sur RMC
Émission de radio créée en 2005
Émission de radio disparue en 2010
Ancienne émission de radio
Podcast radiophonique

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COVID-19 Adjustments to MetroPlan Orlando Meetings & Operations
Posted on: March 16, 2020 in Transportation News
MetroPlan Orlando is doing its part to slow the spread of Coronavirus (COVID-19). We are following mitigation strategies and recommendations from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC).
Adjustments have been made to meetings in March and early April to reduce personal contact:
2045 Metropolitan Transportation Plan Working Group scheduled for March 19 at 9:30 a.m. has been changed to a virtual meeting. See details on how to join the meeting here.
Central Florida MPO Alliance meeting originally scheduled for April 10 has been canceled. See event calendar details.
Our 2020 meeting calendar did not have any scheduled March committee meetings or April board meeting, so MetroPlan Orlando board and committees are not affected at this time. If adjustments need to be made to meetings in late April and early May, we will provide a future update.
MetroPlan Orlando employees who can work from home are being encouraged to do so. Our office lobby will be closed for the time being, but you can continue to reach our staff via email and can call the main office number at 407-481-5672. See staff contact information here.
We will continue to closely monitor the situation and make adjustments as needed. Future updates will be posted to MetroPlanOrlando.org.


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With this line you can produce standard short shapes, such as penne and rigatoni, special shapes such as paccheri and maccheroni, but also nests and lasagna, using the specific optional device.
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We offer an optional guarantee that can last up to 5 years for main mechanic parts. This shows how much reliable we believe our plants are. We build lines that can work non stop 24/7: we are aware of how important reliability is for our Customers. In this production line you can find all this. From choosing the best components, suppliers and partners to worldwide after-sales support. 100% reliability means to you "the comfort of the right choice".
Short pasta line can be set up according to your needs. There are several available choices that make it adaptable to any need, either you like to produce standard shapes or nests and lasagna.
We have stored all the information that you can find in this page, together with other useful tips, in a easily readable document. Download our catalogue clicking here below. You will need Adobe Reader.
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Popular Bottle Opener Short Strap.
Price includes split ring & bottle opener.
If you're looking for a great promotional short strap that has a handy little feature we could all use, you can't go past our Short Strap Bottle Opener. This is one of our more popular branded short strap items and comes with an included split ring for attachment to a keyring, and bottle opener.
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Our promotional Short Strap Bottle Opener is a great option for any business, whether you are giving these to your clients and staff as gifts, or using them as giveaways or promotional merchandise. They are a great way to get your branding in front of people who normally wouldn't see your brand.
If you need a great little promotional item for your next campaign, you can't go past our branded Short Strap Bottle Opener as a welcome gift.


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Only 150 bottles of the premium whisky will be produced.
The latest expression from The Glenlivet Winchester Collection celebrates 40 years of expert scotch making from Master Distiller Alan Winchester in an ultra-exclusive package.
The Glenlivet Winchester Collection Vintage 1967, valued at $25,000, will be limited to just 150 examples. Each contains a masterfully-crafted blend of aged single malts, the youngest of which is dated 1967.
The cask-strength whisky was matured for 50 years to develop an extraordinarily robust nose and flavor.
The whisky boasts a rich and fruity nose, notes of apricot jam and sweet ripe peaches, and a hint of toasted almonds.
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A unique, hand-blown glass bottle was conceived by award-winning British designer Bethan Gray, who used the rolling Scottish hills that surround The Glenlivet distillery as inspiration for the elegant Dhow ship-shaped pattern.
Each is elegantly presented in a birds-eye maple case embellished with delicate copper and mother-of-pearl inlays.
"The launch of Vintage 1967 is a momentous occasion for The Glenlivet, and a particularly proud one for me personally," says Winchester.
"To have my name associated with one of the finest single malts that money can buy is an honor—what a fantastic way to celebrate more than 40 years in the Scotch whisky industry."


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Expression of the candidate circadian photopigment melanopsin (Opn4) in the mouse retinal pigment epithelium.
Peirson SN., Bovee-Geurts PHM., Lupi D., Jeffery G., DeGrip WJ., Foster RG.
A number of responses to light, including circadian entrainment and pupillary constriction, are preserved in mammals that lack rod and cone photoreceptors. Recent studies have demonstrated that a subset of retinal ganglion cells (RGCs) are intrinsically photosensitive, and that these RGCs project to regions of the brain associated with the regulation of the circadian clock and pupil constriction. The photopigment gene(s) that mediate these effects of irradiance remain unidentified, although melanopsin (Opn4) has emerged as a strong candidate. For example, Opn4 is expressed within intrinsically photosensitive RGCs, and Opn4 knock-out mice show attenuated circadian and pupillary responses to light. In this study we provide the first clear evidence that Opn4 expression is not confined to these photosensitive RGCs, but is also expressed in the retinal pigment epithelium (RPE), a tissue with no known photosensensory role. We can preclude retinal contamination of RPE extracts as levels of Opn4 expression were higher in the RPE than in the retina, and the expression of rod opsin and Thy1 (a marker of the RGC layer) were barely detectable in RPE extracts. Our results raise questions about the presumed function of melanopsin, and highlight the need for biochemical studies on this protein.
10.1016/j.molbrainres.2004.01.007
Brain Res Mol Brain Res
Animals, Circadian Rhythm, Gene Expression Regulation, Light Signal Transduction, Mice, Mice, Inbred C57BL, Pigment Epithelium of Eye, RNA, Messenger, Retinal Ganglion Cells, Rod Opsins, Thy-1 Antigens


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 * @package WordPress
 * @subpackage Users
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 */

/**
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 *
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 *
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			$this->role_names[ $role ]   = $this->roles[ $role ]['name'];
		}

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		 * @since 4.7.0
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		do_action( 'wp_roles_init', $this );
	}

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	 * Sets the site to operate on. Defaults to the current site.
	 *
	 * @since 4.9.0
	 *
	 * @global wpdb $wpdb WordPress database abstraction object.
	 *
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	 */
	public function for_site( $site_id = null ) {
		global $wpdb;

		if ( ! empty( $site_id ) ) {
			$this->site_id = absint( $site_id );
		} else {
			$this->site_id = get_current_blog_id();
		}

		$this->role_key = $wpdb->get_blog_prefix( $this->site_id ) . 'user_roles';

		if ( ! empty( $this->roles ) && ! $this->use_db ) {
			return;
		}

		$this->roles = $this->get_roles_data();

		$this->init_roles();
	}

	/**
	 * Gets the ID of the site for which roles are currently initialized.
	 *
	 * @since 4.9.0
	 *
	 * @return int Site ID.
	 */
	public function get_site_id() {
		return $this->site_id;
	}

	/**
	 * Gets the available roles data.
	 *
	 * @since 4.9.0
	 *
	 * @global array $wp_user_roles Used to set the 'roles' property value.
	 *
	 * @return array Roles array.
	 */
	protected function get_roles_data() {
		global $wp_user_roles;

		if ( ! empty( $wp_user_roles ) ) {
			return $wp_user_roles;
		}

		if ( is_multisite() && get_current_blog_id() != $this->site_id ) {
			remove_action( 'switch_blog', 'wp_switch_roles_and_user', 1 );

			$roles = get_blog_option( $this->site_id, $this->role_key, array() );

			add_action( 'switch_blog', 'wp_switch_roles_and_user', 1, 2 );

			return $roles;
		}

		return get_option( $this->role_key, array() );
	}
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Roberto Daniele Peccei (italiano: [petˈtʃɛi], nascido em 6 de janeiro de 1942 — 2 de junho de 2020) foi o ex-vice reitor de Pesquisa da Universidade da Califórnia em Los Angeles, uma posição que ocupou durante os anos 2000-2010. Foi um físico de partículas cujos interesses principais estavam na área das interações eletrofraca e na interface entre a física de partículas e cosmologia física, conhecido por elaborar a Teoria de Peccei-Quinn.

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Nascidos em 1942


The Embassy of the United States in Kabul has issued a security alert regarding a possible attack on foreign guesthouses in capital Kabul.
"The U.S. Embassy in Kabul has received reports that as of early February 2016, unidentified insurgents are planning to attack unidentified foreign guesthouses in Kabul City, possibly near the Qala-e Fatullah neighborhood," a statement b U.S. Embassy said.
The attack could also occur near Ansari or Haji Yaqub roundabouts in Kabul City, the statement said, adding that there is no further information regarding the timing, target, location, or method of any planned attack.
The security alert by the U.S. Embassy in Kabul comes amid deteriorating security situation across the country, including capital Kabul. Khaama press reported.
The Taliban-led insurgency has been rampant during the recent months as the group has launched numerous coordinated attacks and offensives in various provinces of the country and in capital Kabul.
At least 20 people were killed and 29 others were wounded in a suicide attack near the Headquarter of the Public Order Police Forces in Kabul city.
The Taliban group claimed responsibility behind the attack which comes amid ongoing efforts to put an end to the ongoing violence through peaceful negotiations.
The attack on Public Order Police Forces headquarter followed ten days after a suicide bomber targeted a vehicle carrying media workers in the city, leaving at least seven people dead and 25 others wounded.


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Why IBM, AWS, others care about open government data
Written by Samantha Ehlinger
Apr 5, 2017 | FEDSCOOP
More than 80 organizations, including big tech companies such as Yelp, want the government to act quickly on the OPEN Government Data Act.
The bill, reintroduced recently by a bipartisan, bicameral group of lawmakers, would set a presumption that all government data be published in open, machine-readable formats. Tech companies and trade organizations alike urged its passage in a letter Wednesday to several members of Congress.
Committing to providing government data to the public, they said, "would encourage businesses, non-profits and others to invest in innovative tools that make use of government data."
With signees such as Amazon Web Services, IBM software company Esri and the development platform GitHub, the letter says the legislation "would institutionalize the federal government's commitment to open data and allow the United States to remain a world leader on open data."
The letter reads, too, that "adopting a policy of open by default for government data would ensure that the value of this public resource would continue to grow as the government unlocks and creates new data sets."
The OPEN Government Data Act passed the Senate last year but the House never acted on its version.
Some of the 80-plus organizations had also signed on last year to a nearly identical letter advocating for the 2016 bill.
"You know Americans' taxpayer dollars went to create this data, the American people ought to have easy access to this data," said Rep. Blake Farenthold, R-Texas, one of lawmakers who introduced the bill, in a recent Oversight and Government Reform hearing.
He added, "With the state of innovation going on in the tech community and actually all throughout the world today, we have no idea what information we'll be able to glean out of this — how the government might be able to save money, what new inventions might be coming, what scientific advances may happen."
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Panasonic's LQ70 Series of 4K UHD LCD displays employ 4K picture quality to render intricately detailed, large-screen images.
They literally fill the screen with dynamic, large-scale pictures. And unique video technologies accumulated from Panasonic's development of projectors and broadcast monitors deliver images with high precision and faithful color reproduction.
The LQ70 Series has protective grass with 3.5J* impact resistance on the front of the display. With its strong resistance to external impacts, this rugged design allow s safe installation in places where many people walk by, such as train stations, airports, and shopping malls. The special frame construction also resists twisting to boost reliability during installation. Ideal for rental applications, where the panel is frequently transported and installed.
* This value is from a Panasonic test. It does not imply a guaranteed value.
When the LQ70 Series is installed vertically, it can display a person in almost life-size dimensions. It is also ideal for digital signage use because it faithfully reproduces the textures and colors of a model's clothing and accessories. It helps to maintain a high-quality brand image. Vertical installation also has no effect on the lifetime of the panel.
The LQ70 Series' high-resolution images clearly show even the fine textures of objects. When placed near the entrance of a store, the display will effectively catch the attention of people walking by.
* In case of long time, the moving image is recommended to be displayed. If you display a still picture for an extended period, the image retention might remain on the screen. However, image retention can gradually disappear by displaying a moving images.
* A comfortable viewing distance varies depending on the type of image, the viewing environment, and the physical condition of the viewer.
Panasonic's new-generation image processing technology (Detail Clarity Processor3*) also reproduces non-4K image content, such as Full-HD images and PC signals, with high picture quality. In addition, it compensates motion images for smooth, non-blurry display, which was difficult with conventional models.
* Optimize the frequency and level of the input signal in horizontal and vertical directions to produce beautifully sharp, clear images.
The LQ70 Series includes interfaces for 4K60p video input as standard equipment. In addition to HDMI video input, it is equipped with DisplayPort that support 4K60p video. This enables input from a variety of 4K devices. SDI connection is also possible using an optional 3G-SDI terminal board.
The color space on LCD displays tends to narrow when the luminance level drops, and it's often accompanied by color phase shifts. 3D-LUT (Look Up Table) Color Correction on the LQ70 Series has a look up table for each luminance level. Six Axis Coordinate Correction applies image processing to balance the six axes of the three primary colors (RGB) and their complementary colors (CMY). This keeps the intermediate shades of extremely fine colors vibrant and lifelike.
* Images on screen are simulated.
The LQ70L Series is 23% lighter than the LQ70 Series (for the 98-inch model). By mounting eyebolts to the installation holes of the LQ70L Series and attaching hooks to the eyebolts, the unit can be easily moved and installed using a hoisting device such as a crane. The tough frame resists twisting and distortion, thus reducing the burden on the installation staff.
* The unit must be installed or uninstalled only by a specially trained.
The size and positions of mounting holes on the LQ70 Series are the same as those on a large Panasonic plasma display (103-inch/85-incy model). This enables the use of existing peripheral accessories. When replacing a Panasonic plasma display with the LQ70 Series, the existing mounting fixtures can be used, thus reducing the labor and cost of replacement.
The LQ70 Series features a 4-Input Multi Display function. The image can be switched from a full-screen display to a 4-Input Multi Display with a single press of a remote control button. Ideal for checking details in various applications, such as videoconferences, digital signage, and surveillance monitoring.
* Some restrictions exist for input signals and display splitting.
* 3G-SDI input and 4K image are not supported by the 4-Input Multi Display function.
with one press of the MULTI DISPLAY key on the remote control.
A new SLOT NX makes it possible to change the interface to match the application. If the optional 3G-SDI Terminal Board is mounted, the LQ70 Series can be connected with SDI. This feature is convenient for use in broadcasting stations, for rental use and for long-distance connection. The LQ70 Series is expandable and will accommodate 4K input in the future.
* All images shown are simulated.
* SLOT NX is not compatible with SLOT 2.0.
The high-resolution screen is ideal for fine text in airport flight displays and train schedules. The rugged design also provides excellent durability.
Product details and textures are very true-to-life. The outstanding expression of the large 4K display effectively captures attention.
Superb durability and easy installation allow for safe and secure use in events. High-quality images and the large-screen presence raise the level of excitement. Real-time presentation is also achieved by suppressing the delay time from input to display.
The high resolution and large screen size make previously difficult-to-see images sharp and clear. It's ideal for monitoring, because even slight movements can be easily detected. It's also fully capable of 24/7 operation.
The beautiful 4K large screen provides sharp real-life images. Color temperature can be set from 3000K to 11500K. And an optional terminal board enables SDI connection, ideal for broadcast station or studio use.
The large-screen display provides clear visibility even for meetings with a lot of people attending, and high-definition images are ideal for design and simulation use.
The 20W (10 W + 10 W) speakers are built into the rear of the display. There is no need for external speakers when using content that has a soundtrack.
* For higher volume sound, use an external audio output and more powerful speakers.
This function controls the LED backlight intensity of particular parts of the displayed image. This significantly increases the contrast ration of a certain area of the screen image.
The screen saver reduces the afterimages that can occur when continuously displaying still images or 4:3 images for long periods of time.
The backlight brightness is automatically adjusted according the viewing environment. Can reduce power consumption.
* [Sensor] of [Power Save] mode is ON.
Optional ET-SWA100 Early Warning Software lets you check the status of system equipment with a tablet of PC located at a distance from the monitoring server. This helps to quickly solve any problems that might occur.


Nicky Romero is a household name within the music industry. For years he has cultivated and grown a fan base through his memorable original productions, innovative remixes, and collaborations with a slew of different artists. Just a week ago he ranked at Number 43 in the 2018 DJ Mag Top 100 DJ poll announced recently at Amsterdam Dance Event (ADE). In addition, he performed at yet another sold out Protocol X ADE 2018 label night.
To add to that his record label Protocol Recordings is now a well-respected institution that has become a haven for some of the biggest and smallest names in the industry. Nicky supports various genres of music through his label which culminates in an eclectic array of music.
In 2018 alone Nicky Romero has collaborated with a staggering number of talented artists including Steve Aoki, Taio Cruz, Stadium X, ROZES and most recently Deniz Koyu.
His radio show Protocol Radio is going from strength to strength and is currently syndicated in over 100 countries globally. It is also available worldwide on iTunes and YouTube.
One EDM caught up with the Dutch producer after his set at Creamfields Festival to discuss his new music, life lessons and future goals.
It's the follow up to "Harmony" which we did together a couple of years back (2015-2016). I'm trying to keep up the collabs with Stadium X because I believe in the guys and they've delivered so many great records for Protocol. I really think they stand for progressive house at its best so we're trying to keep that thing going every year. I like to work with them a lot.
I'm always happy to hit the studio with the guys from Coldplay. I hope that will happen some time in the future because I'm a huge fan. I'm also very thankful to have worked with so many artists to date. I never would have believed this would have happened. If you'd have told me this 20 years ago, as a young kid that wanted to play the drums I would not have believed you.
There are many other artists that I look up to but one other would be Deadmau5. I think he is a genius. He is one of the most creative people I know.
It would have to be "I Could Be the One" with Avicii because it's a mixture of memories I have with that song and also because Avicii is not with us anymore. A lot of people also love that record. Those factors combined make it very special.
More touring, Asia and America are next. A holiday and of course Amsterdam Dance Event.


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6 Близнецов (), BU Близнецов (), HD 42543 — одиночная медленная неправильная переменная звезда в созвездии Близнецов на расстоянии приблизительно 5 000 световых лет (около 1 400 парсеков) от Солнца. Видимая звёздная величина звезды — от +5,74 до +8,10.

Характеристики
6 Близнецов — красный сверхгигант спектрального класса M1-M2Ia-Iab. Масса — около 20 солнечных, радиус — около 821солнечного, светимость — около 86000 солнечных. Эффективная температура — около 3789 К.

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Красные сверхгиганты
Медленные неправильные переменные
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Arado Ar 196A-3
Arado Ar 196A-3 seaplane
The Ar 196 was a shipboard reconnaissance aircraft built by the German firm Arado starting in 1936. The next year it was selected as the winner of a design contest, and became the standard aircraft of the Kriegsmarine (German Navy) throughout World War II.
The Ar 196 prototypes were all delivered in summer 1937, V1 (which flew in May) and V2 with twin floats as A models, and V3 and V4 on a single float as B models. Both versions demonstrated excellent water handling, and there seemed to be little to decide one over the other. Since there was a possibility of the smaller outrigger floats on the B models "digging in", the twin-float A model was ordered into production. A single additional prototype, V5, was produced in November 1938 to test final changes.
10 A-0s were delivered in November and December 1938, with a single 7.92 mm (.312 in) MG 15 machine gun in the rear seat for defense. Five similarly-equipped B-0s were also delivered to land-based squadrons. This was followed by 20 A-1 production models starting in June 1939, enough to equip the surface fleet.
Starting in November production switched to the heavier land-based A-2 model. It added shackles for two 50 kg (110 lb) bombs, two 20 mm MG FF cannons in the wings, and a 7.92 mm (.312 in) MG 17 machine gun in the cowling. The A-4 replaced it in December 1940, strengthening the airframe, adding another radio, and switching props to a VDM model. The apparently mis-numbered A-3 replaced the A-4, with additional strengthening of the airframe. The final production version was the A-5 from 1943, which changed radios and cockpit instruments, and switched the rear gun to the much-improved MG 81Z. In all versions, 541 Ar 196s (526 production models) were built before production ended in August 1944, about 100 of these from SNCA and Fokker plants.
Packed in the standard end opening Revell box, the 13 light grey and 1 clear sprues are packed in two and threes in bags. The clear sprue is packed in its own bag, so that should avoid any scratching of the glazing.
The rest of the contents are the sizable instruction book and a set of decals.
For those interested in Revell's skill ratings, this kit has been classed as a "5 = difficult, models with over 500 parts requiring a high level of skill".
The kit does have over 190 parts, so although its not as part happy as some of the other leading brands, it is still a quite a complex kit.
The plastic has a slightly puckered effect but there is very little in the way of any distortion in the plastic. There is a few pin marks here and there but most of them do look to be in places that won't require any filling or removing.
I haven't a clue how accurate this kit is or not, as I haven't any books on the Arado, but it does look like its supposed too. Maybe Rowan can check the accuracy once he gets one (hint hint Rowan).
Detail wise for the exterior is very good with fine recessed panel lines and a nice fabric effect that the real aircraft sported.
Interior detail is well thought out and includes a detailed cockpit, engine, with separate cowling panels and wing fold mechanisms.
The cockpit has a tubular space frame structure. Levers, wiring and switches are moulded onto the two sides of the frame with various other parts needing to be attached.
The cockpit floor has recessed rivet detail, and once all the bulkheads, seats and paraphernalia go in the cockpit will look quite stunning.
The pilot and gunner/radio operator seats have lap belts moulded onto them, and although they are a little on the thick side, don't look to bad.
The pilots seat also has chair adjustment wheels that fit on the sides.
The instrument panel and radio have some nice looking raised dials and switches, and once painted should look quite good.
The gunner/radio operator station has several ammo magazines and a nicely detailed six piece MG 15 and mount. A nose cannon completes the cockpit area.
The BMW 132 engine is a broken down into about twelve parts, and is very nicely detailed. The engine firewall is adorned with raised detail and has a oil cylinder (?) to be attached, the barrel of the nose cannon is protruding from one side.
The cowling as mentioned can be modelled completely opened, and is broken into the several panels, each with its own support arm.
Both wings can be modelled in the folded position and inserts are supplied for the open ends. Wing restraints for the folded wings are present, and complete the look of the stowed aircraft.
The wings also have positionable flaps.
The floats are broken down into five parts each, two sides, the top, and two internal braces, and have some gorgeous rivet and panel line detail.
The float supports are rather thin and care will be needed taken them off the sprue trees.
Two propellers are supplied, one of which is the wide, adjustable three bladed prop and the other is thinner bladed. Checking your references will need to be done as you are not told which propeller to use for any of the schemes.
The canopy is supplied as individual glass panels so a little building will need to be done. This could prove to be the most difficult part as care will really need to be taken in gluing it all together. The canopy can be modelled open or closed. The frames are are raised so masking the canopy should be pretty easy, especially if you mask them before assembling it.
Two × 50 kg (110 lb) bombs are supplied for the external pylons on the wings.
A nice touch from Revell is the inclusion of a round stand for the kit, which gets the floats to slot into two inserts.
Instructions and decals
The instructions are printed as a book on A4 size sheets.
The build sequence follows a logical pattern and is spread over 58 steps. The typical black and white line drawings we are all used too is standard.
Internal paint numbers, optional parts and where drills and other tools are needed are given along the way.
The decals are thin and in register. The colours look quite good, with maybe the exception of the red, which to my eyes seems to be more pinkish then red.
There are no Swastikas for the tail supplied and no mention of them in the instructions, but all photos of the Arado I have seen do show them adorning the aircraft, so these will have to be sourced elsewhere.
The two schemes for this aircraft are -
Arado Ar 196A-3 of III./KG 100, at Kalamaki, Crete, January 1943.
Arado Ar 196A-3 of Bordfliegergruppe 196, on board the German battleship "Tripitz", summer 1943.
Both aircraft wear a upper splinter camo scheme of RLM 72/73, with RLM 65 undersides.
The first scheme also has yellow lower engine cowling and wingtips.
Both colour schemes are shown in profile views but are in black/grey/white drawings which doesn't help a great deal when trying to figure out what colours go where.
Highs: Very well detailed. The option of having the wings folded are nice.
Lows: The canopy is in separate parts, which could be a little difficult to assemble.
Verdict: This kit is extremely good value, with multiple options for showing everything off. Even for those who don't build in 1/32nd scale, this is worth looking at, as the size isn't that much of a major issue.
Mfg. ID: 04688
For that price, you can count me in!
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thanks for the review Andy. Hope to get to MZ before the VAT increase ! A bit of a heads up for decent refs - they could be a little hard to come by.. Apart from bits & pieces in the Classic Colours series, a photoscope feature in an old Réplic and a five part article series in Avions magazine (Lela Presse), there is only the Luftwaffe Seaplanes book also from Lela Presse for all those difficult to find cockpit and internal shots. The chapter on the Ar 196 is 130 pages in this super volume... http://www.avions-bateaux.com/en/catalogue-livre-catalogue_995.html


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Riyadh Says UN Report on Khashoggi Case Has Obvious Contradictions
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MOSCOW (Sputnik) - The UN Human Rights Council special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions said in a Wednesday report that she did not find sufficient evidence Ankara or Washington could have known of any real danger to the life of journalist Jamal Khashoggi who was killed in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul last October.
"Special Rapporteur has concluded that there is insufficient evidence to suggest that either Turkey or the United States knew, or ought to have known, of a real and imminent or foreseeable threat to Mr Khashoggi's life", Agnes Callamard concluded in a report.
Callamard said in her report that "credible evidence" existed to warrant further investigation into Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and other high-level Saudi officials over their alleged role in the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
"The Special Rapporteur has determined that there is credible evidence, warranting further investigation of high-level Saudi Officials' individual liability, including the Crown Prince's. She [the rapporteur] warns against a disproportionate emphasis on identifying who ordered the crime, pointing out that the search for justice and accountability is not singularly dependent on finding a smoking gun and the person holding it. The search is also, if not primarily, about identifying those who, in the context of the commission of a violation, have abused, or failed to fulfill, the responsibilities of their positions of authority", the report said.
Callamard recommended in her report on the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi that the UN Security Council convene an informal meeting on the implications of the case.
The rapporteur suggested that the members of the UNSC should "convene an Arria-formula meeting to consider the implications for peace and stability of the execution of Khashoggi and more generally of the extraterritorial targeting of individuals."
The UN Special Rapporteur recommended that United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres open a follow-up investigation into the case.
"[We recommend that United Nations Secretary General] initiate a follow-up criminal investigation into the killing of Mr Khashoggi to build-up strong files on each of the alleged perpetrators and identify mechanisms for formal accountability, such as an ad hoc or hybrid tribunal. The Secretary General himself should be able to establish an international follow-up criminal investigation without any trigger by a State", the report said.
Later in the day, Saudi Arabia's minister of state for foreign affairs Adel al-Jubeir rejected the UN report saying that it had 'baseless allegations'.
"Nothing new...," tweeted Adel al-Jubeir. "The report of the rapporteur in the human rights council contains clear contradictions and baseless allegations which challenge its credibility."
Report Conclusions
The death of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, who was killed at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul last October, was a premeditated extrajudicial murder for which Saudi Arabia is responsible, the special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions of the UN Human Rights Council concluded in a report released on Wednesday.
"Mr Khashoggi's killing constituted an extrajudicial killing for which the State of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is responsible. His attempted kidnapping would also constitute a violation under international human rights law, a violation of the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations (thereafter VCCR) and of the prohibition against the extra-territorial use of force in time of peace, may constitute an act of torture under the terms of the Convention Against Torture, an enforced disappearance since the location of his remains has not been established", Agnes Callamard concluded.
According to the report, the journalist "has been the victim of a deliberate, premeditated execution, an extrajudicial killing for which the state of Saudi Arabia is responsible under international human rights law."
The report has demanded, "that those responsible be identified and held to account for their role in the execution of Mr Khashoggi."
The rapporteur listed four potentially credible hypotheses related to Khashoggi's death — "1) premeditated killing; 2) kidnapping with premeditated killing if kidnapping proved impossible or unsuccessful; 3) the result of an accident in the course of kidnapping; 4) a decision to kill on site by members of the Saudi team."
All four hypotheses "would point to a crime constituting a serious human rights violation," the report said.
"[Callamard] has reached the conclusion that either the first or second hypothesis is the most credible," the report added.
Callamard called on Saudi Arabia to apologise to the family and friends of murdered journalist Jamal Khashoggi and pay compensation for his death.
"[We recommend that Saudi Arabia] issue a public recognition and apology to Mr Khashoggi's family, friends and colleagues for his execution. Accountability demands that the Saudi Arabia government accept State responsibility for the execution. This also includes State-based financial reparations for the family of Mr. Khashoggi," Callamard said in a report on the case.
The special rapporteur recommended in her report that targeted sanctions against people and entities suspected of killing journalist Jamal Khashoggi must continue, adding that the punitive measures should also be extended to Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
"Targeted sanctions against the individuals and/or entities in Saudi Arabia that were likely involved in the murder of Mr Khashoggi must continue. However, in view of the credible evidence into the responsibilities of the Crown Prince for his murder, such sanctions ought also to include the Crown Prince and his personal assets abroad, until and unless evidence is provided and corroborated that he carries no responsibilities for this execution," Agnes Callamard said in the report.
She welcomed the sanctions imposed by the United States shortly after the murder on 17 suspected perpetrators, noting, however, that their impact was "questionable."
"It is difficult to escape the impression that these particular sanctions against 17 or more individuals may act as a smokescreen, diverting attention away from those actually responsible. The current sanctions simply fail to address the central questions of chain of command and of senior leadership's responsibilities for and associated with the execution," Callamard added.
Handling of the investigation by Saudi Arabia and Turkey
Saudi Arabia's and Turkey's investigations into the death of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi both "failed to meet international standards", Callamard said in Wednesday's report.
"The Special Rapporteur has found that both the investigations conducted by Saudi Arabia and Turkey failed to meet international standards regarding the investigation into unlawful deaths", the report read.
According to the rapporteur, there is "credible evidence pointing to the crime scenes having been thoroughly, even forensically, cleaned."
"These indicate that the Saudi investigation was not conducted in good faith, and that it may amount to obstructing justice," the report said.
Saudi Arabia placed certain restrictions on the Turkish probe that, according to the rapporteur, "cannot be justified by the need to protect Consular operations."
"Turkey's fear over an escalation of the situation and retribution meant that the consular residences or consular cars were also not searched without permission even though they are not protected by the VCCR," the rapporteur said.
She expressed regret that "it appears no international body or other State came forward with an offer to "mediate" between the two parties to negotiate prompt and effective access to the crime scene."
Callamard said that while a trial over the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, currently underway in Saudi Arabia, was a crucial step toward accountability, it failed to meet specific procedural and substantive standards and therefore should be suspended.
"The on-going trial in Saudi Arabia of 11 suspects in the killing of Mr Khashoggi, while an important step towards accountability, fails to meet procedural and substantive standards. The trial is held behind closed doors; the identity of those charged has not been released nor is the identity of those facing death penalty. At the time of writing, at least one of those identified as responsible for the planning and organizing of the execution of Mr Khashoggi has not been charged," the report read.
In view of these concerns, Callamard called for the suspension of the trial.
Riyadh had initially denied any involvement in the murder, but later admitted that Khashoggi had indeed been killed inside the embassy, charging 11 people for the crime.
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