On this and three other pages we'll show all the cards that we've already shown on Facebook in one of the groups about playing cards. We have limited the shown number of cards, not only because we fear illegal copying and printing, but also because we are thinking of publishing a reproduction of this deck. There are enough collectors who can appreciate transformation decks to justify a limited edition and an actual reproduction is always better to have than shared pictures on a screen.
We've only just started the process of researching. We'll work our way through the book about transformation cards by Field, just to see if we can find cards that have been copied or used as inspiration. The 8 of spades has already been spotted as a scene from the Cotta deck from 1805. Besides that we'll contact some experts from museums about the clothing of the jacks and maybe other ways to determine the age.
There's little doubt here about the origin of the deck. A few cards show the Dutch flag and the King of Hearts shows a famous Dutch admiral, Michiel Adriaenszoon de Ruyter. So we've concluded that the deck must have been made in the Netherlands. In that case it will be the oldest and probably the first Dutch deck of transformation cards.
We have enlarged some cards and details to show the craftsmanship of the artist.
The large tombstone on the 4 of spades looked promising as a place to find a name or date, but enlarged it was a disappointment.


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Most people, when asked about their favorite book, will invariably include a book they read as a child. Hemingway famously proclaimed that "All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn". Twain's book, like its predecessor, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, were books whose intended audience was young readers. Such books speak to us on multiple levels. As literature, they are well-crafted and clever with memorable characters and conflicts, but they matter to us for more than these reasons because we discovered them at a formative period of our lives. Their ideas helped to form our own, and so they are more personal ...
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Subject Author Title Highest Price Lowest Price Most Recent Publisher Newest Published Oldest Published
(19th Century)
The Most Delectable History of Reynard the Fox.
Jacobs, Joseph
London: MacMillan, 1895. Octavo. xxxviii, 260, (4)pp. With Frank Calderon's ten black & white plates, and many smaller illustrations in the text. Introduction and notes by Joseph Jacobs. In an attractive publisher's binding of blue cloth, liberally gilt-stamped with a picture of the fox and some chickens among twining Art.....	More
Original drawings for "The Fox and the Stork"
La Fontaine, Jean de
(Moscow: 1929). Six pen-and-ink drawings colored with watercolor, with an expressionistic look, each measuring 7 3/4 by 6 1/2 inches. These delicate, stylized illustrations are tinted with shades of orange, purple, and green. The first drawing has the title and illustrator's name, Ausbrey, below it in Russian. The images recount.....	More
(Aesop)
The Fables of Aesop.
London: David Nutt, 1889. Two small octavo volumes. xx, 283; (v), 322pp. One of 550 copies. Frontispiece engravings preface both volumes, the first of which discusses the history of Aesop's Fables, and the latter of which contains the text, after William Caxton's edition of 1483. Both bound in plain wrappers.....	More
(Alphabet)
Arabic Alphabet Poster.
(c. 1970s-80s). Pictorial Arabic alphabet poster, each letter of which is presented beside an image of an object beginning with that letter, with the full word beneath. The full word is written with the harakat or tashkil phonetic aids, which provide the correct pronunciation for children who are learning to.....	More
Every Girl's Alphabet.
Bingham, Kate
(United Kingdom): Kate Holland, 2017. Octavo. (60)pp. One of 150 copies. Signed by both the artist and the author at the colophon. The reproductions of Martineau's paintings depict the exploration and bravery of girlhood through the alphabet, mirroring Bingham's sweet text with images of girls as musicians, painters, nurses, and.....	More
(Alphabets)
Pair of alphabet-themed posters.
Two modern posters, with alphabet themes, containing: "Jerry Pallotta's Alphabet Books." Watertown, MA, Charlesbridge Publishing, (early 1990s). An advertising poster for artist Jerry Pallotta's alphabet books, measuring 24 1/2 by 19 1/4 inches (622x489mm) and showing the full cover for "The Extinct Alphabet Book," published in 1993. A list of.....	More
(American Sunday School Union)
The Snow-Drop.
Philadelphia: American Sunday School Union, 1827. 48mo. 16pp. Engraved frontispiece and title page, as well as several devices in text. A moral tale told through the nature of snow-drop flowers, the lesson providing greater resolve in Christ's provision and righteousness. The final two pages rephrase the lesson into a poem.....	More
(American Tract Society)
Mary Jones; or, the Soldier's Daughter.
NY: American Tract Society, (n.d.). 32mo. 16pp. Engraving on the title page and full-page engraving on the title-page verso. A narrative following the persistent purity and faith of Mary Jones throughout her life, with firm encouragements that readers adopt a similar devotion. Crisp in engraved paper wrappers with repair work.....	More
(Artzybasheff, Boris)
Aesop's Fables.
NY: Viking Press, 1933. First edition. Inscribed by the illustrator, Boris Artzybasheff, to Dorothy Lathrop. Twenty of Artzybasheff's inventive, cartoonish wood engravings illustrate ninety of Aesop's famed fables. Artzybasheff's work, both in book illustration and commerical art, adopted the graphic and the grotesque, imbuing humanity, both in implicit emotion and.....	More
(Babcock, Sidney)
Bible Stories and Pictures from the Old and New Testaments.
New Haven: Babcock, Sidney, (c. 1845). 16mo. 16pp. Illustrated with title-page vignette of the Crucifixion and seven wood engravings. A collection of seven stories from the Old and New Testaments, retold for children: Moses Viewing Canaan; Samson Carrying Away the Gates of Gaza; David and Goliath; John Baptizing Christ; Water.....	More
The Flock of Sheep; Or, Familiar Explanations of Simple Facts.
New Haven: S. Babcock, 1840. 32mo. 16pp. A moral chapbook with many engraved illustrations throughout. The titular explanations are told from a mother to her daughter. They primarily deal with the origins and uses of various textiles, but by the end of the story they encompass all living things designed.....	More
(Bailey & Noyes)
The Affecting History of the Children in the Wood. Seventh Series No. 8.
Portland, ME: Bailey & Noyes, n.d. 64mo. 16pp. A moral tale of two orphaned children and the retribution of their wicked uncle, with six woodcut illustrations. The images show a depth of detail, with particular care applied to the leaves on the trees and the feathers on an angel's wings.....	More
Mary's Book of Hymns. Seventh Series No. 7.
Portland, ME: Bailey & Noyes. 32mo. 16pp. Illustrated with woodcuts throughout. A volume filled with short, lyrical hymns aimed at simplifying and presenting moral lessons to children. The woodcuts emphasize this point of childhood learning; the largest of them, which occupies a full page, depicts a boy and a girl.....	More
(Bewick, John & Thomas)
Select Fables; with Cuts, Designed and Engraved by Thomas and John Bewick, and Others, Previous to the Year 1784. Together with a Memoir; and a Descriptive Catalogue of the Works of Messrs. Bewick.
Bewick, John & Thomas
Newcastle: Printed by S. Hodgson, for Emerson Charnley, and Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, London, 1820. Large paper edition. xl,332pp. Imperial octavo issue, with an engraved frontispiece portrait of Thomas Bewick by Charlton Nesbit, one of Bewick's students, after a portrait painted by Bewick's friend, William Nicholson, whose Bewick-designed bookplate is.....	More
(Birch, Reginald)
"Fauntleroy and the Greenaway Girl"
(Burnett, Frances Hodgson)
(N.p. c. 1886). A signed original drawing in ink over pencil by Birch, who is best known for illustrating Burnett's classic work for children, Little Lord Fauntleroy, published in 1886. Fauntleroy is immediately recognizable in his plumed hat and lace-trimmed velvet suit, standing near a little girl in a costume.....	More
(Blow Book)
[The Magic Picture Gallery].
(Anderson, John Henry)
(London: c. 1850). Small quarto. (64)ff. A delightful, and uncommonly large, blow book featuring hand-colored, double-page engravings of a variety of actors and entertainers emblematic of its era. Blow books operate by tabs incised into their edges, so that the magician can hold his thumb to one tab and show.....	More
(Breed, Butler & Co.)
The Bunch of Grapes.
Aunt Laura (Frances Elizabeth Barrow)
Buffalo, NY: Breed, Butler & Co., 1863. 64 pp. One of six titles in the second series of miniatures authored by popular children's writer Barrow under the noms de plume Aunt Laura and Aunt Fanny. Noted by Bradbury as "high spots in any miniature book collection," the volumes offer children's.....	More
(Brown, John F.)
The Medley.
Concord (NH): John F. Brown, 1837. 64mo. 16pp. Engravings throughout. Descriptions, with both moral and functional value, of various objects, including a windmill, a cannon, a tent, and a barge. In printed pale orange paper wrappers. Foxed, else near fine and very scarce. Signature of former owner on title page.....	More
Little Lord Fauntleroy.
NY: Scribner's, 1886. Octavo. xi, 209pp., + (16)pp. ads. First edition, first printing. Includes twenty-six illustrations by Reginald B. Birch, twelve of which are full-page. Some rubbing to corners and spine, otherwise a near fine copy of this important children's classic. (PPP 80, BAL 2064).	More
(Caswell, C.)
A Lesson from a Bed-Quilt.
(Taylor, Ann)
Birmingham: C. Caswell, (c. 1870). (16)pp. Engraved frontispiece. A moral tale on the ills of covetousness and theft, and the corresponding rights of honesty and confession. Bound in yellow paper wrappers. Untitled hymn (first line: "Among the deepest shades of night") appears on lower cover. Scant foxing and creasing to.....	More
(Chamberlain Press)
The New Vestments.
Lear, Edward
(Easthampton, MA): Chamberlain Press, 1978. Octavo. (6)ff., frenchfold. One of 100 copies, signed by the artist. Designed, printed, and illustrated by Chamberlain. Lear's poem tells of an old man "who invented a purely original dress"; it was edible. Printed in two colors on beige Japanese paper and illustrated with two.....	More
(Chamberlain, Sarah)
Beasts from Belloc. A Selection of Poems from Hilaire Belloc's The Book of Beasts for Bad Children and More Beasts for Worse Children.
Belloc, Hilaire
(Portland, OR): Chamberlain Press, 1982. Small octavo. (20)ff. One of 125 copies, signed by the artist, Sarah Chamberlain. Contains eleven whimsical poems by Hilaire Belloc, illustrated with seventeen wood engravings cut and hand-colored by Chamberlain. Bound by Barbara Blumenthal in patterned boards, with a morocco spine stamped in black. Fine.....	More
The Three Bears.
Chamberlain, Sarah
(Portland, OR): Chamberlain Press, 1983. Octavo. (16)pp. From an edition of 125 copies, this is one of twenty-five deluxe copies signed by Chamberlain and with an extra signed print. This well-loved tale is designed, printed, and illustrated with ten delightful wood engravings by Chamberlain. The book is bound by Barbara.....	More
(Chapbook)
An Entertaining History of Little Jack Horner.
Baltimore: William Raine, (c. 1840). 24mo. (8)ff. Hand-colored engravings on every page illustrate clever Jack Horner's tale of generosity and moral rectitude. Bound in pictorial yellow wrappers, with advertisements on the back cover. Light soiling to interior, some edgewear, else near fine.	More
History and Anecdotes of the Elephant with Beautiful Engravings.
New Haven: S. Babcock, (c. 1840). 48mo. 16pp. Seven full-page illustrations of elephants. An naturalistic and moral introduction to elephants, including their habits, environments, and uses, with unsubtle scoffs toward animal cruelty. Minimal expected wear, else fine in yellow printed wrappers.	More


We are coming into the annual Lunar New Year season as Chinese and other Asian communities prepare for the more important festive occasion of their year.
This year, Sunday February 10, 2013 ushers in the New Year, the Year of the Snake on the Chinese zodiac. People born under the year of the snake (1954, 1966, 1978, 1990, 2002) are said to possess gracious morality and good manners, are good tempered and skilled but cautious speakers. Though calm on the surface they are intense and passionate. Polite but headstrong they can also be jealous and suspicious.
Leading up the New Year we will clean our homes to sweep out the old year's luck and start fresh for the new year ahead. New clothing and shoes will be worn and fresh haircuts will symbolise a fresh start.
The New Year will be welcomed with celebrations of family and community; including family dinners featuring traditional items, cured meats, dumplings, chicken and importantly fish (which in Chinese sounds much like the word for surplus, signifying there will be surplus all year long). Dragon and Lion dances will take place in parades and parties along with fireworks and firecrackers to ward off the bad spirits and welcome the new year's good omens, wealth and prosperity.
In Victoria, February 10th will see Canada's oldest Chinatown host traditional Lion & Dragon dancing, martial arts performances and special restaurant menus. A week later Vancouver's Chinatown will host one of the 40th Annual Chinese New Year parade, 'snaking' its way through Pender, Main and Keefer Streets in Chinatown, thousands will gather to take in parade and Vancouver Chinatown Spring Festival .


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Siegel, et al. v. Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc., et al.
USDC C.D. California October 30, 2009
Court denies defendants' motion for reconsideration in copyright infringement action involving the Superman character and works; court holds that plaintiffs' termination notice with respect to certain works, which did not contain certain required information, was still effective as to those works because the omissions were "harmless error"
Plaintiffs are heirs of Jerome Siegel, one of the creators of the Superman character. Plaintiffs provided a termination notice to defendants in an attempt to recapture all of the copyrights in Superman and the many works created featuring the Superman character. The 546-page termination notice contained a long list of specific works, but it did not specifically identify two weeks' worth of comic strips that appeared in The Milwaukee Journal in 1939. These strips introduced certain elements of the Superman story including the identity of his parents and the destruction of his home planet, Krypton. The notice did contain a catch-all phrase that applied to:
[E]ach and every work (in any medium whatsoever, whenever created) that includes or embodies any character, story element, or indicia reasonably associated with SUPERMAN or the SUPERMAN stories, such as, without limitation, Superman, Clark Kent, Lois Lane, Perry White, Jimmy Olsen, Superboy, Supergirl, Lana Lang, Lex Luthor, Mr. MXYZTPLK . . ., Ma and Pa Kent, Steel, the planet Krypton, Kryptonite, Metropolis, Smallville, or the Daily Planet. Every reasonable effort has been made to find and list herein every such SUPERMAN-related work ever created. Nonetheless, if any such work has been omitted, such omission is unintentional and involuntary, and this Notice also applies to each and every such omitted work.
In August 2009, the court held that the plaintiffs had successfully served a termination notice to defendants for some of the Superman works, and that the omission of the title, name of one author, date copyright was secured and the copyright registration number for the two weeks' worth of comic strips was harmless error because of the existence of a catch-all phrase in the termination notice, the unique nature of the copyrighted work, and its seventy years of exploitation in many media.
The defendants moved for reconsideration of the court's August decision, and in this proceeding the court denied the motion. In an exhaustive analysis of the "harmless error" rule contained in 37 C.F.R. § 201.10(e)(1), the court held that even though the plaintiff's notice did not comply with the regulatory requirements by listing the title, name of at least one author, date copyright registration was secured and the registration number, the notice nonetheless was adequate for providing defendants a "reasonable opportunity" to identify what works were the subject of the termination notice.
Section 304(c) of the Copyright Act provides that a termination notice must "comply, in form, content, and manner of service, with requirements" prescribed by the Register of Copyrights. The Register of Copyrights provided such regulations which require that a termination notice contain a clear indication of: the name of each grantee whose rights are being terminated; the title and the name of at least one author of each work and the date copyright in such work was originally secured; if possible the copyright registration number; a brief statement reasonably identifying the grant to which the notice applies; and the effective date of the notice.
The regulation also contained a "safety valve that could operate to relieve terminating parties from mistakes or other traps for the unwary that would be created by requiring strict conformance to the regulation's requirements." Section 37 C.F.R. § 201.10(e)(1), called Harmless Errors, declares that "harmless errors in a notice that do not materially affect the adequacy of the information required to serve the purposes of section 304(c) of title 17, U.S.C., shall not render the notice invalid."
After examining the language in the Copyright Act, the regulations promulgated under the Act, the legislative history of the Copyright Act of 1976, and the Register of Copyright's commentary to the regulations, the court determined that its task was to examine the "purpose of the termination right contained in section 304(c), and what information is needed to adequately fulfill that purpose [which is] to provide authors or their heirs a meaningful opportunity to recapture the right to the extension of the copyright term afforded to such earlier works by the 1976 Act, while at the same time ensuring that reasonable notice is given to grantees (or their successors) and to the public so as to identify what work(s) are affected."
The court noted that the termination notice was not completely devoid of information about the two weeks' worth of comic strips at issue, and distinguished this case from Burroughs v. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 683 F.2d 610 (2nd Cir. 1982), in which the court held that failure to provide the title of the work, the name of at least one author, the date copyright was originally secured and the copyright registration number was not harmless error. In this case, the court highlighted that the plaintiffs' termination notice did contain some information about the works in question and that such information did enable the defendants to identify the particular works. The court stated that it is only the works in which the named elements (e.g., Krypton, Superman's parents, etc.) were introduced that were subject to the termination notice. "[T]he copyrightable aspects of a character — the thing for which a notice is designed to declare its intent to recapture — are protected only to the extent the work in which that particular aspect of the character was first delineated remains protected, but not in the subsequent sequels in which that attribute is later repeated or used. . . . Thus understood, there can be only one work upon which plaintiffs could ever seek to recapture the copyright to 'the planet Krypton' aspect of the 'Superman character' – the work or series in which that aspect of the character was first explored." According to the court, the information provided in the catch-all phrase was adequate for defendants to have had a "reasonable opportunity to identify" the work.
The court emphasized the iconic nature of the copyrighted works, their exploitation for over seventy years in all media, and the painstaking work done by the plaintiffs to identify all of the Superman works. The court also held that the plaintiffs' failure to identify the two weeks' worth of comic strips was inadvertent and that their notice was sufficient to provide the pubic with notice of which grants of copyright they were terminating.
The court summed up by saying "The Court is mindful that the information that was actually conveyed in the notice did not touch upon the specific types of information called for in the regulation. This fact has given the Court some pause, but in the end it is clear that recital of the precise incantation of information in (b)(iii) is not as important as whether the information (whatever it may be) that is contained in the notice in that regard serves to apprise the recipient of the work affected."


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Passion project: Upshall seizing opportunity with Stars
The veteran is hoping he can push his way back from major knee surgery and onto an NHL lineup
by Mike Heika @MikeHeika / Senior Staff Writer
When Scottie Upshall's season ended before it even started last fall because of major knee surgery, he promised himself he would be back on the ice giving it another go at some point.
That's why even a few exhibition games for the NHL veteran have been a blast this fall. Upshall, 35, is on a professional tryout (PTO) contract with the Stars and had a great game Thursday at Colorado. He scored a goal, registered six hits and had four shots on goal. In a game where a young Stars lineup struggled, Upshall was a leader.
"You've got to love his passion for the game," said Stars coach Jim Montgomery.
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The passion is real, and it's the reason he's still fighting for a spot in the NHL. After hip, ankle and sports hernia injuries slowed Upshall down from 2011-2014, he went on a PTO with the St. Louis Blues in 2015 and earned a contract. He played so well that he earned another contract the next season, and looked to be in good shape.
However, St. Louis opted not to re-sign him in 2017, so he went on a PTO with Vancouver that camp. After Vancouver released him and the Blues suffered several injury issues, Upshall was back on a PTO in St. Louis and signed another one-year deal.
That diligence gave Upshall 206 games over three seasons with the Blues, all earned on a one-year deal. Once again, though, he was set free and had to go try another PTO, this one with the Edmonton Oilers in 2018. Before Upshall even got started, he had to have major knee surgery that kept him off the ice for all of last season.
Video: DAL@COL: Upshall tallies after racing down loose puck
"It's been a long road, a lot of grueling hours rehabbing, working out, watching hockey," Upshall said. "I've been on these PTOs before, and you know what's at stake. You play every game like it's your last."
Upshall appears to be doing that. He is skating hard, he is trying to create puck possession, and he's trying to lead a large group of young players. While Montgomery is letting veterans rest during the road stretch of Dallas' preseason schedule, Upshall is being tested.
"Having an opportunity with these guys, you've got to take advantage of it," he said after the Colorado win. "Playing in a game like this with a young team, you've got to be a leader and show what it's like to play hard hockey."
Upshall knows about hard hockey. The Alberta native had a nice junior career with Kamloops and then has pushed his way through a 16-year pro career that has included six NHL teams. He has 285 points (138 goals, 147 assists) in 759 games.
Montgomery said he likes everything that Upshall offers.
"I love his communication, his presence on the bench, he manages games really well," Montgomery said.
Video: Veteran Upshall excited to be playing with Stars
And as examples go, just knowing Upshall's story can be motivating for Stars players.
"I think it should only help," Montgomery said. "I think for a lot of players that do have contracts right now, it's a reminder of how quickly you can be on that side. Sports is what have you done for me lately, and for veteran players I think it's a good reminder."
For Upshall, it's not that bad of a place. The fact that he has had to work so hard to come back from him knee surgery, and that he feels so good about where he is right now, is almost reward enough. And while Thursday's exhibition affair in Denver was invigorating, there is still the drive to be on the ice for another NHL regular season game, be it in Dallas or someplace else.
"For me, I've had a great career, but it's still a dream to be here playing hard hockey, and I'd just like the opportunity," he said, indicating he'd love that opportunity to come with the Stars.
"I'm very familiar with the group," Upshall said. "I think the group is ready to rock and roll. They've got a really driven coaching staff that wants to win, the goaltending is Vezina talent, and quite frankly, watching playoff hockey last year really lit the fire inside me to come back and try to win.
"The opportunity is here now. This is the team I want to make."
This story was not subject to the approval of the National Hockey League or Dallas Stars Hockey Club.
Mike Heika is a Senior Staff Writer for DallasStars.com and has covered the Stars since 1994. Follow him on Twitter @MikeHeika.
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Blogger Sattar Beheshti died four days after Iran's Cyber Police Unit took him into custody in 2012. Numerous reports have surfaced detailing the harsh nature of his interrogations and the torture he suffered at the hands of the authorities — including being hung from the ceiling by different parts of his body. Beheshti was the author of a blog entitled "My Life for My Iran," which is thought to have been the reason for his arrest.
Sattar Beheshti, who lived in Robat Karim, one of Tehran's least privileged suburbs, was a laborer by trade. He wrote a blog called "My Life for My Iran," which was critical of the Iranian regime. Despite it only having a small readership, this angered the authorities.
In one of his more controversial posts, Beheshti was critical of Iran's financial contributions to the Hezbollah movement in Lebanon. As part of this, he published images of young Lebanese people enjoying themselves at parties alongside pictures of Iranians living in poverty.
Then, on October 29, a day before Iran's Cyber Police Unit (FATA) arrested him, Beheshti published a post saying that officers had called him and warned him that there would be repercussions for his critical blog posts. "Your mother will soon don a black shroud because you refuse to shut your big mouth," they told him. But Beheshti was defiant. "I will not remain silent even at the moment of my death," he wrote.
It was reported that Beheshti was initially detained at Kahrizak detention center before he was moved to the communal Ward 350 at Evin Prison. Other prisoners have since described the torture marks visible on his body and injuries he endured, which they say were consistent with reports that he was hung from the ceiling by his wrists.
Amnesty International reported: "In the complaint, which has been made public, the blogger stated that he had been arrested without an arrest warrant and that his interrogators had tortured him – including by tying him to a table and kicking him in the head." After he lodged the complaint, he was very quickly transferred to an unknown location.
On November 6, Behesthi's family was told to come and collect his body. According to records at the Behesht Zahra Cemetery in Tehran, he died on November 3, four days after he was arrested.
Beheshti's uncle told a news site that authorities failed to provide details to Beheshti's family about how and why he died. "Shut up. It has nothing to do with you," was the sole official response they received.
On November 9, authorities arrested Reza Heydarpour, the doctor who had examined Beheshti's body, He was sent to Ward 209 at Evin Prison.
On November 10, Kaleme published a letter signed by 41 political prisoners held in Evin Prison. It read: "Beheshti's body bore signs of torture and that he was beaten during interrogations, repeatedly threatened with death, and hung from his limbs from the ceiling." On November 8, Kaleme published a letter by Beheshti. It stated that he had been subjected to "physical and verbal abuse" during interrogations. It also said that any confessions he made while incarcerated made were false and extracted under torture. The international media and campaign groups, including the Committee to Protect Journalists, reported widely on Beheshti's death, and his treatment in prison.
Although the judiciary in Iran remained silent on the case, certain officials did speak up. Tehran MP Ahmad Tavakoli protested against the judiciary's conduct and the parliamentary Commission on National Security and Foreign Policy formed a committee to investigate Beheshti's death. The body initially announced that no torture marks were detected on Beheshti's body; several hours after the announcement, the coroner published a report that contradicted that claim.
On the evening of President Rouhani's 2013 trip to New York to attend the UN's General Assembly, Beheshti's mother wrote a letter to the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, asking him to talk to Rouhani about her son's case. During her first trip to Iran in 2014, Catherine Ashton, the High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs, met Gouhar Eshghi and six human rights activists, including Narges Mohammadi, who was sentenced to six years in prison for her activities as the deputy head of the Iranian Defenders of Human Rights Center (DHRC). "Ashton wept as she embraced Eshghi; I was absolutely touched," Mohammadi told the Guardian. "Ashton told Eshghi that as a mother herself she could completely understand how it feels to lose a child like that."
On August 7, 2014 a court sentenced a FATA agent to three years in prison, two years in exile and 74 lashes for committing manslaughter. Although Beheshti's family objected to the ruling, the verdict was upheld.
Sattar Beheshti is buried in Robat Karim Cemetery, in the neighborhood where he lived.


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$35,083 Avg 4-Year Student Loan
Vermont ranked #52 in the nation for trade school degrees handed out in 2019. Around 744 students received some type of diploma that year. Students who are able to take advantage of in-state tuition will only pay an average of $23,511 per year to get their degree at a college in Vermont, while out of state students will pay an average of $31,964 per year.
About 63% of students who go to college in this state take out loans, with the average yearly loan amount being $8,771 per year.
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Vermont Technical College
Randolph, Vermont
Public Public vs. Private
353 Yearly Degrees
$16,044 Yearly Tuition & Fees (In-State
There are 1,520 students at Vermont Tech in total, 1,516 of which are undergraduates, and of those, 829 are full-time. It takes the average Vermont Tech undergraduate about 4.6 years to complete their degree.
About 58% of students who apply get accepted. Around 69% of accepted students are men, and 31% are women.
Approximately 83% of the students who attend this school take out loans. The typical student loan amount is $11,104 a year. The student loan default rate of 6.5% means most graduates are not struggling to pay off their loans.
A typical bachelor's-degree holder from this school earns an average of $42,000 during the early-career years.
75 Yearly Degrees
$6,920 Yearly Tuition & Fees (In-State
The total student population at Community College of Vermont is 5,102, which includes 812 full-time undergraduates. The school has a student-to-faculty ratio of 15 to 1.
21% of CCV students take out loans to afford college costs. The average amount of student loans is $4,440 a year. Students should know that the student default rate at this school is 18.4% which is higher than the national average of 10.8%.
Champlain College
Private not-for-profit Public vs. Private
There are 4,137 students at Champlain in total, 3,512 of which are undergraduates, and of those, 2,325 are full-time. For undergraduates at Champlain, the average graduation time is 4.1 years.
Around 85% of students who apply get accepted. Around 48% of accepted students are men, and 52% are women.
Roughly 66% of students at Champlain take out loans to pay for college. The typical student loan amount is $8,974 a year. Champlain has a 4.2% student default rate. This is excellent when you compare it to the national rate of 10.8%.
The total student population at University of Vermont is 13,292, of which 11,136 students are undergraduates and of those, 10,235 are full-time. The average graduation time for an undergraduate student at UVM is 4.2 years.
50% of UVM students take out loans to afford college costs. The average amount of student loans is $10,657 a year. The school reports a student loan default rate of 2.4% which is much lower than the average rate of 10.8%!
Advanced Welding Institute
Private for-profit Public vs. Private
The total student population at Advanced Welding Institute is 66, which includes 66 full-time undergraduates. Students tend to stick around at AWI. The freshman retention rate is 100%.
Roughly 71% of students at AWI take out loans to pay for college. The average amount of student loans is $8,676 a year. Students should know that the student default rate at this school is 12.1% which is higher than the national average of 10.8%.
New England Culinary Institute
The total student population at New England Culinary Institute is 22, which includes 21 full-time undergraduates. For undergraduates at New England Culinary Institute, the average graduation time is 4.0 years.
50% of New England Culinary Institute students take out loans to afford college costs. The average amount of student loans is $4,458 a year. This school's student loan default rate of 11.1% is close to the national average of 10.8%.
O'Briens Aveda Institute
Williston, Vermont
The total student population at O'Briens Aveda Institute is 111, which includes 111 full-time undergraduates. Students tend to stick around at O'Briens Aveda Institute. The freshman retention rate is 89%.
Approximately 62% of the students who attend this school take out loans. The typical student loan amount is $6,684 a year. Students should know that the student default rate at this school is 18.8% which is higher than the national average of 10.8%.
Castleton University
Castleton, Vermont
There are 1,744 undergraduates at Castleton, of which 1,466 are full-time, and there are 2,211 students altogether. It takes the average Castleton undergraduate about 4.2 years to complete their degree.
Around 88% of students who apply get accepted. Of the accepted students, 50% are men and 50% are women.
Approximately 76% of the students who attend this school take out loans. The average amount of student loans is $9,131 a year. The student loan default rate of 6.4% means most graduates are not struggling to pay off their loans.
Students who graduate from Castleton with a bachelor's degree make an average of $32,000 during the early years of their career after graduation.
Norwich University
Northfield, Vermont
7 Yearly Degrees
There are 3,975 students at Norwich in total, 3,236 of which are undergraduates, and of those, 2,522 are full-time. It takes the average Norwich undergraduate about 4.2 years to complete their degree.
Roughly 73% of students at Norwich take out loans to pay for college. The average amount of student loans is $9,659 a year. The school reports a student loan default rate of 5.6% which is much lower than the average rate of 10.8%!
The early-career average earnings of bachelor's-degree holders from Norwich is $41,900.
Northern Vermont University
Johnson, Vermont
The total student population at Northern Vermont University is 1,999, of which 1,706 students are undergraduates and of those, 1,183 are full-time. It takes the average Northern Vermont University undergraduate about 4.3 years to complete their degree.
The school doesn't accept everyone who applies - it has an acceptance rate of 76%. Around 43% of accepted students are men, and 57% are women.
Approximately 78% of the students who attend this school take out loans. The average amount of student loans is $8,465 a year. The student loan default rate of 10.8% is very similar to the national average of 10.8%.
Students who graduate from Northern Vermont University with a bachelor's degree make an average of $28,000 during the early years of their career after graduation.
Colchester, Vermont
The total student population at Saint Michael's College is 1,724, of which 1,537 students are undergraduates and of those, 1,492 are full-time. Saint Michael's has a freshman retention rate of 86%, which is a good sign that once students arrive at the school, they want to stay.
Approximately 61% of the students who attend this school take out loans. The typical student loan amount is $14,231 a year. Saint Michael's has a 2.3% student default rate. This is excellent when you compare it to the national rate of 10.8%.


Black Republican Senator Tim Scott has chosen race over party in the nomination of white Republican judge.
If Republicans had pushed forward with the vote, Bounds's nomination would have failed after Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.), the lone Republican African-American senator, told leadership that he could not vote for Bounds's nomination on Thursday.
Republicans hold a slim 51-seat majority in the Senate. With Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) absent as he battles brain cancer, McConnell would have needed the support of every GOP senator to confirm Bounds. No Democrat was expected to support his nomination.
The thing that makes Judge Bounds "Controversial" is some college writings critical of diversity, susceptible to what we call "Ransom Note Racism". In addition to Scott complaining of racism, Rubio, a white Republican who thinks of himself as Hispanic because he has the same kind of last name as Mexicans do, also complained.
It's all "Current Year" BS, but this "Current Year" is supposed to be a Trumpian year. This kind of treachery doesn't help.
A number of Republicans, including Rubio, voted last week for a 9th circuit nom who believes gay marriage is in the Constitution but not #2A. Yet, he opposes a nominee who criticized dividing people by race and identity.
This is not a one off. The fact that Rubio/Scott are bothered by the writings and would scuttle a nominee because of it in the time we live in with the judiciary demonstrate a much deeper problem - the dogma lives loudly inside of them.


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Disinformation campaign threatens rights of Pakistan's trans community
The gains the Khwaja Sira made could soon be washed away.
Anmol Irfan
Posted on Dec 15, 2022 Updated on Dec 19, 2022, 6:29 am CST
In 2018, Pakistan's government passed the historic Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act.
The bill tried to counter the discrimination trans people in Pakistan, called Khwaja Sira, face. In South Asia, the Khwaja Sira community has long had its own subculture and unique identity. But where historically this was revered, today they are shunned, living on the margins of society.
Nisha Rao, a trans-Pakistani lawyer and community activist, described to the Daily Dot how the community often had to make a living begging and searching for shelter from other community elders because of a lack of family support and employment opportunities.
In recent years, community activists like Rao created shelter homes, set up sewing centers for employment, and raised public awareness online. When the act was passed, it was a massive win for human rights and the community.
But since then, progress slowed and backlash grew.
Four years on, an online disinformation campaign against Pakistan's trans community is causing increased violence and trying to take away years' worth of protection. Right-wing groups in Pakistan have pushed back against the few liberties that the Khwaja Sira community gained. Groups have tried to get movies banned, spread disinformation on social media, and hosted conferences and protests about the law legalizing same-sex marriages all in an effort to get the law overturned.
Much of the campaign has been led by right-wing politician Sen. Mushtaq Ahmad Khan, who took the law to the Federal Shariat Court because he deemed it unIslamic.
Khan, along with other senators like Fauzia Arshad, has brought in suggested amendments to remove what they believe are parts of the law that normalizes same-sex relationships, which are both illegal and taboo in Pakistan.
The same campaign has been aimed at Pakistan's entry to the Oscars, #Joyland, a film that explores the lived experience of a trans woman in Pakistan.
Using the hashtag #BanJoyland, which was picked up on Twitter and Instagram last month, right-wing community leaders and citizens demanded a ban on the movie, saying it promotes homosexuality.
Under pressure, the Central Board of Film Censors initially banned the movie, only for a flood of online support to cause provincial governments in Sindh and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa to lift the ban. But it still remains censored in Punjab.
Alongside Sen. Khan, prominent fashion designer Maria B has promoted the online campaign against both the movie and the trans rights movement in the country. The fashion designer has made multiple claims saying she won't support "fake transgenders," stoking opposition to the law, who want to limit the definition of trans people to what they believe are "real transgenders."
Khan, Maria B, and others against the legislation have repeatedly said they believe "real transgenders" are people who are intersex, while anyone biologically born as one gender and choosing to transition to another is a "fake transgender."
Maria B was previously also involved in the controversial removal of trans activist Dr. Mehrub Moiz from a Tedx conference at a school in Lahore. Maria B supported the removal of Moiz, saying that such influences should be kept away from their children.
Meanwhile, Orya Maqbool Jan, a journalist prominently known for his misogynistic views equated the Khwaja Sira community to being gay in a recent tweet.
It shows a rising tide of anti-trans sentiment in Pakistan, despite the country passing one of the Middle East's most progressive trans protections.
"Gender and sex are seldom talked about regardless of the class of people because it's a taboo. The only times when such topics do surface is when there's a 'scandal,'" fact-checker and journalist Haseem Uz Zaman, who covers the vulnerability of gender minorities to disinformation, said to the Daily Dot.
These scandals and false claims, stoked by people like Khan, coupled with a cultural taboo around these topics, can often create dangerous situations for gender minorities in the country.
This online campaign has had real-life repercussions as well. As many as seven trans people have been killed in the last five months in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province alone, where a majority of the votes of Senator Mushtaq's party come from.
Violence against the trans community isn't new, but this campaign is normalizing it—and moving progress back instead of forwards.
"Now when I come to university I feel unsafe. My relatives have told my mom that they won't come to my house because I live there. All we asked for in the bill was fundamental human rights," trans activist Aradhiya Khan tells Daily Dot.
Khan's experiences are not unique. Many trans people find themselves ostracized or abandoned from their homes and families as children or young adults and rely on the internal Khwaja Sira community system that adopts young Khwaja Sira to protect them.
In a news conference, community activist Bubbli Malik pointed out the rising religious undertones of violence against trans people, citing one case of a man who murdered a transgender person and called it an act of "jihad"'
The unfortunate use of religion as a political tool is not new to Pakistan.
"When we talk about religion, it makes people very vulnerable. We've witnessed so many blasphemy cases in our country, you can easily use religion to turn people against each other. They may not be practicing Muslims, but they'll use religion to impose their beliefs on someone else," Khan told the Daily Dot.
It's a powerful tool, but all the efforts willfully misrepresent the law. It focuses on preventing discrimination against trans people in the public sphere, employment, housing, and other areas due to their identity.
It also allowed them to identify as "X" on their ID card instead of Male or Female.
The law further prohibited harassment of any kind—including catcalling—against trans people in the country while facilitating the creation of support centers and shelter homes. For a community that has long been left to fend for itself, many saw this as one of the most progressive examples of trans rights across the globe.
But the disinformation campaign around it has led right-wing factions in the government to move to amend the law to focus solely on the rights of intersex people, hoping to change the definition of Khwaja Sira to only include people with ambiguous genitalia. It would only allow a change in identification after a medical test.
Khan's proposal—which was sent to the relevant committee to be considered after being discussed in Senate—wants to limit the self-identification of trans people, further police their lives, and remove the protections granted for basic human rights. Currently, there are complaints that the process is being stalled.
Pakistan transgender lawyer Rao clarified to the Daily Dot that the intention of the bill is "to focus on the fundamental rights of the trans community, [as] we had no rights in inheritance, no rights on gender identity on our ID cards," she said, adding that there is absolutely no mention of marriage in the law, despite the online campaign.
"In fact, the bill only allows trans people to self-identify, to change their gender marker to X. And anyone with an X marker is not legally allowed to marry," she told Daily Dot.
But the power of several hashtags and posts, based on wrong information, has supercharged a campaign to take even those most basic rights away.
*First Published: Dec 15, 2022, 7:00 am CST
Anmol is a Muslim Pakistani freelance journalist and the founder of Perspective Magazine. Her work focuses on global gender justice movements, education, culture, and more, with a particular focus on Pakistani narratives
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According to American Trucking Assn. Chairman Harold Sumerford of J&M Tank Lines in Birmingham, Ala., "High fuel prices and finding drivers were two of our industry's biggest challenges," and those issues were made more difficult by the economy.
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Welcome to The Best and the Worst! This is the brand new movie podcast that breaks down the absolute best and the absolute worst in the film world. From specific movies to genres, franchises, and of c...
Welcome to The Best and the Worst! This is the brand new movie podcast that breaks down the absolute best and the absolute worst in the film world. From specific movies to genres, franchises, and of course the biggest actors & directors to ever grace the silver screen. Each week, multimedia hosts and movie trivia pro's Andrew Ghai and Ben Bateman use a carefully crafted brand of movie science to definitively prove the best and the worst. Whether it's to argue about the worst MCU film or to crown the best Nic Cage film, this show will never be short of hot takes, laughs, and debate. Join us weekly!
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Nightmare Alley (2021) - The Best and the Worst of... Guillermo Del Toro
The Batman (2022) & The Best and the Worst of... Batman
300 (2007) 15th anniversary & The Best and the Worst of... Zack Snyder
Death on the Nile (2022) & The Best and the worst of Gal Gadot
Moonfall (2022) Review + The Best and the Worst... of Roland Emmerich
Lord of the Rings is the Greatest Movie Trilogy of All Time - The Best and the Worst of Middle Earth
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Scream (2022) - The Best and the Worst...of the Scream franchise
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'Towards an Integrated European Market for Card, Internet and Mobile P...
'Towards an Integrated European Market for Card, Internet and Mobile Payments': Striking the Balance - Interoperability and the Access Dilemma
European Commission publishes feedback report on its Green Paper
01 August 12
Why do cards, internet and mobile payments matter?
The Green Paper 'Towards an Integrated European Market for Card, Internet and Mobile Payments' (the Green Paper) (see 'related links' below), gave rise to intense debate in the payments community. It is worth noting that of the responses received, 50 percent were on the supply side and 29 percent on the demand side of the market2. As the European Commission (the Commission) admits: "many of the respondents...criticised the Green Paper for an excessively negative assessment of the current interoperability on e- and m-payments"3.
In a previous
Newsletter article, which outlined the European Payment Council's (EPCs) response to the Green Paper4, it was noted that despite the fact that "Europe is not a fully integrated market in terms of economic development, cultural background, customer preferences or regulatory framework", "the e-commerce market has been experiencing double digit growth rates". This article cited a position paper of the e-Payments Merchant Initiative (see 'related links' below) which confirms that this is a mature, growing market. The vibrancy and innovation of the e-commerce market results from imperfections in the European payments landscape, which bring opportunity to create new and more efficient methods to consumers and merchants5. With only 3.4 percent of the value of all European retail sales being made on the internet, and with a projected worldwide value of mobile-payments (m-payments) surpassing USD 1 trillion in 2014, everyone is looking closely at the current state of the market and at the regulator's next move.
On 4 May 2012, during the Conference on Card, Internet and Mobile Payments in Brussels, Joaquin Almunia, Vice-President of the European Commission responsible for Competition, stated that "we must prevent some of the bad habits developed in the cards sector over the years from spreading to new forms of payment"6 - but what does this mean in practice for the payments sector? This article primarily focuses on the merits of the standardisation approach and on the regulatory implications arising from the suggestion of allowing non-bank actors to obtain access to bank account information, as raised in the Green Paper.
To the 'integrated market' - follow the standardisation or the regulation route?
In its response to the Green Paper, the
highlights its opposition to following the regulatory route, which risks stifling innovation and is not appropriate for keeping pace with technology, fraud and market developments. The Commission itself acknowledges in its feedback statement that "the majority of [payment schemes]...and banks claim that [the relevant obstacles to cross border acquiring]...should not be removed through regulation, but that market-driven initiatives should be favoured"7. Many actors, including non-banks and payment service providers, consider that the ideal option would be standardisation through technical requirements and 'best practices' that are not too prescriptive. In the cards sector, respondents were unanimous in considering increased competition and lower operational costs as the key benefits arising from technical standardisation; the standards in question should be open, preferably developed by the industry and in keeping with the global context.
Views were however, divided in respect of enforcing these standards, with some respondents arguing in favour of setting regulatory migration end-dates. When discussing the electronic payments (e-payments) and m-payments sectors, some stakeholders were of the view that the existing standardised payment instruments could be used as a basis. Conversely, retailers and terminal manufacturers voiced their request for the establishment of new and more neutral common standards, primarily due to the fact that the new payment channels in question amount to a new market, whose complexity is not comparable to the traditional bank-dominated markets.
In any case, standardisation is expected to breed cross border interoperability. The lack of common standards in the domains relating to card payment data exchanges between the merchant and the acquiring payment service provider (the T2A domain) and card payment data exchanges between the acquiring and issuing payment service provider (the A2I domain) as well as the different certification criteria and procedures in different member states, are illustrative examples of the present state of the market, despite efforts at integration.
The access dilemma
Another significant aspect of the Green Paper relates to the question of whether non-bank actors should be allowed access to bank account information in order to check whether such accounts contain adequate funds. Information on the availability of funds is necessary for obtaining the requisite authorisations and payment guarantees that are essential for the business model of most payment services; and, in the words of the Commission, banks have a "gateway function" to such information8. Accordingly, and in light of potential conflicts of interest, the Commission is of the view that this access should be opened up to more actors, in order to minimise barriers to entry, subject to certain safeguards, for example, obtaining the agreement of the customer so as to ensure that the new system is "at least as safe and as confidential as the present one"9.
argues however, that it will be difficult to ensure that the customer is aware of the scope or implication of this agreement; moreover, such agreement may not in all cases operate so as to absolve banks from contractual obligations and liabilities. It is precisely the scope of these safeguards and the question of how the access in question will operate in practice that are the source of various complications. As Daniela Russo, Director-General Payments and Market Infrastructure of the European Central Bank, states: "the current legal and regulatory framework does not consistently meet the challenges that arise relating to access to payment accounts required by [non-bank, unregulated entities]"10. For example, as these entities do not clearly fall within one of the categories of the Payment Services Directive (Directive 2007/64/EC) (the PSD), they are not subject to its provisions on duties and liabilities.
It is arguable that until this issue is addressed, the access dilemma will not be resolved in a manner that is satisfactory to all actors involved. The Commission therefore needs to consider how to balance the request for access by non-regulated actors without unduly burdening banks from a liability or cost perspective (in the form, for example, of investments in security) and without undermining consumer confidence, data security, data protection and bank secrecy. The PSD liability provisions may not operate as intended in the event of disclosure of bank account information to unregulated third party entities, as, for example, it will not be possible for the payment service provider to be aware of the instances where the payer has disclosed information on the personalised security features of a payment instrument to a third party.
Resolving the access dilemma will most probably entail regulatory change, possibly through a combination of the work currently being done on revising the PSD, as well as various security initiatives aimed at strengthening the safety and efficiency of the market infrastructure, without compromising flexibility. This is aimed at ensuring that technological evolution and market needs, including user-friendliness, are met. Moreover, it will be essential to ensure that there is a level playing field between the actors in question, by bringing the relevant non-bank entities within the scope of regulation and prudential supervision and by ensuring that in the event of fraud or information misappropriation, the liabilities are correctly apportioned between the actors. The difficulty will be, of course, in striking the right balance.
Simon Crown is a Partner and Maria Troullinou is an Associate in the international financial regulatory team at Clifford Chance.
European Commission Green Paper 'Towards an Integrated European Market for Card, Internet and Mobile Payments', European Payments Council Response, EPC 079-12, 6 April 2012
Green Paper 'Towards an Integrated European Market for Card, Internet and Mobile Payments' - Frequently Asked Questions, Memo/12/6, 11 January 2012
European Commission Feedback Statement on its Green Paper 'Towards an Integrated European Market for Card, Internet and Mobile payments'
E-payments Merchant Initiative: Position Paper on 'Online Payments in Europe' (June 2011 by the 'e-payments Merchant Initiative')
CEPS Conference on 'Innovations in Mobile and Electronic Payments: Challenges in Promoting Security and Efficiency', Brussels, 31 January 2012
Related articles in this issue:
What Happens Next? European Authorities to Communicate Their Vision for SEPA 2.0 by End 2012. EPC looks forward to learning more about the authorities' views on the continued merit of creating harmonised payment schemes and frameworks in the cooperative space of payments
What Drives Innovation in Payments? The Market Perspective. The most important factors incentivising innovation are customer demand and a viable business model
Committee on Payment and Settlement Systems' Working Group Publishes Report 'Innovations in Retail Payments'. Central bank research identifies market trends and elements geared to assessing what an innovation-friendly environment should look like
Related articles in previous issues:
EPC Response to the European Commission Green Paper 'Towards an Integrated European Market for Card, Internet and Mobile Payments'EPC identifies key policy considerations with regard to potential European Union initiatives impacting the euro payments market (
Newsletter, Issue 14, January 2012)
The New European Decision-Making Landscape: How the European Commission Rules Through 'Delegated Acts'. SEPA Regulation empowers the European Commission to mandate technical requirements applicable to SEPA payment schemes (
The 2012 Payment Services Directive Review: Too Much too Soon? The European Commission must present its report on the application of the Payment Services Directive by 1 November 2012 (
SEPA Regulation: European Legislator Mandates Migration to SEPA by 1 February 2014 in the Euro Area and Transfers the Responsibility for SEPA Scheme Management to the European Commission (
Newsletter, Issue 13, January 2012) For references to Recital 5 of the
Regulation, see the section headline 'Recital on
governance introduced with the
Regulation' in this article)
The Economy of Standards: the 'Pros' and 'Cons' of Standards CompetitionAn introduction to a comprehensive qualitative efficiency comparison using the example of payment cards (
Newsletter, Issue 12, October 2011)
Innovacompegration (This is Not a Typo). Reflections on the best approach to innovation, integration and competition in payments (
Newsletter, Issue 10, April 2011)
Newsletter articles published in the section 'SEPA Case Studies' highlighting successful
migration projects of bank customers
1 The use of the term "interoperability" in this article is based on the usage of the term by the Commission in the Green Paper and is confined to the sectors of card, internet and mobile payments. For the avoidance of doubt, the term relates to being able to process payments without such processing being hindered by technical obstacles.
2 European Commission Feedback Statement on the European Commission Green Paper "Towards an Integrated European Market for Card, Internet and Mobile Payments ".
3 Ibid, p.23.
Response on the European Commission Green Paper "Towards an Integrated European Market for Card, Internet and Mobile Payments",
Newsletter, 27 April 2012, p.4.
5 Online Payments Position Paper, June 2011, E-Payments Merchant Initiative.
6 Joaquin Almunia speech/12/325, "Integrating Payments in the
: A New Approach", p. 3.
7 European Commission Feedback Statement, op. cit., p. 6.
8 European Commission Green Paper "Towards an Integrated European Market for Card, Internet and Mobile Payments" COM (2011) 941 Final, p. 11.
9 Joaquin Almunia speech., op. cit., p. 4.
10 Daniela Russo speech, "Challenges for Retail Payment Systems", 4 May 2012, p. 5.
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The European Commission's (the Commission's) Green Paper, entitled 'Towards an Integrated European Market for Card, Internet and Mobile Payments' (the Green Paper), was published on 11 January 2012 for a three month consultation. It identified four main drivers for market integration in electronic payments: security; transparency and choice; competition; and innovation. The Commission stated that the contributions to the consultation will determine the need for European Union action on the various issues raised in the Green Paper and the form this action should take. In June 2012, the European Commission published the feedback statement which consolidates the responses received during the consultation. The Commission notes that the
initiative, which operates to eliminate the distinction between cross-border and domestic euro credit transfer, direct debit and card payments, could yield benefits of an indirect and direct nature of more than 300 billion euros over a six year period. In this article Simon Crown and Maria Troullinou discuss the standardisation approach and some of the regulatory implications arising from the issue of whether non-bank actors should be allowed to obtain access to bank account information.
Key Information in this Article
The European Commission's (the Commission's) Green Paper 'Towards an Integrated European Market for Card, Internet and Mobile Payments' (the Green Paper) identified four 'main drivers' for market integration in electronic payments (e-payments), namely: security; transparency and choice; competition; and innovation and gave rise to intense debate in the payments community. As the e-payments and mobile payments market is growing, the payments sector is closely monitoring the regulator's approach.
The discussion concerning the best route to achieving interoperability1, as well as other issues that impact different types of payment actors to varying degrees, remain open and have become even more pertinent as a result of the Green Paper. It remains to be seen whether the European Commission will favour a regulatory approach, or follow the standardisation through technical requirements and best practices route. Moreover, striking the right balance in addressing the issue of access to bank account information by non-regulated payment sector actors will not be an easy challenge.
Simon Crown
Clifford Chance, Partner
Maria Troullinou
Clifford Chance, Senior Associate
SEPA Schemes: 2012 Public Consultation is Ongoing. Effective Date of Next Rulebook Versions is 1 February 2014!
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One Thing is Crystal Clear: Praise Belongs to Gerard Hartsink and Claude Brun for their Invaluable Contributions to SEPA!
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What Drives Innovation in Payments? EPC Invites European Authorities to Take the Market Perspective into Consideration
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El santuario de Vicoforte, también conocido como santuario basílica de la Natividad de María Santísima o santuario-basílica Regina Montis Regalis, es un santuario monumental católico de Italia, erigido en la localidad de Vicoforte, en la provincia de Cuneo (Piamonte). Comprende una iglesia monumental, una de las más importantes de Piamonte, de estilo manierista y barroco, que está rematada por una cúpula de planta elíptica que es la mayor de esta forma del mundo. Tiene la dignidad de una basílica menor.

Historia

El complejo tiene su origen en un santuario medieval,  que consistía en un modesto sagrario con un fresco del siglo XV representando a la Virgen con el Niño, erigido por un miembro de una cerámica para propiciar la buena cocción de los ladrillos. En 1592, durante una expedición de caza, un cazador llamado Giulio Sargiano golpeó accidentalmente la imagen de la Virgen que, según la tradición, comenzó a sangrar. La realidad quiere, en cambio, ver al cazador arrepentido que colgó su arcabuz en el sagrario y comenzó una recaudación de fondos para reparar el daño y expiar su pecado. El arcabuz se conserva en la capilla del santuario, en las nuevas salas destinadas al museo.

En pocos años, el lugar se convirtió en un destino de peregrinaciones cada vez más frecuentes y también atrajo la atención del duque Carlos Manuel I de Saboya, quien, en 1596, encargó la construcción de un gran santuario al arquitecto de la corte Ascanio Vittozzi. Era intención del duque que el santuario, además de acoger a los numerosos peregrinos, fuese el mausoleo familiar de la Casa de Saboya. Sin embargo, la muerte del duque (que fue enterrado posteriormente en el lugar) y del arquitecto, se paralizaron las obras y esa función fue asumida por la basílica de Superga en la colina de Turín.

Vittozzi murió en 1615, cuando la gran construcción había sido erigida hasta la cornisa, donde debía insertarse el tambor de la cúpula. El duque también murió (quería ser enterrado en el santuario), quince años después del arquitecto, la construcción se detuvo por completo, dejando el santuario descubierto por mucho tiempo. El interés de los fieles se renovó en 1682, cuando la Virgen del sagrario fue coronada solemnemente, como agradecimiento por el final de la guerra de la sal. Desde entonces se retomó la construcción, sin contar más con el apoyo de los Saboya (que en ese momento estaban prestando toda su atención a la construcción de la basílica de Superga), gracias al compromiso del arquitecto e ingeniero monregalese Francesco Gallo quien, alentado por Filippo Juvarra, se aventuró en la gran empresa a partir de 1728. Sobre la poderosa base de piedra arenisca de estilo manierista, construyó rápidamente el tambor, con evidentes líneas barrocas, y después la cúpula, que se terminó en 1732. La cúpula elíptica erigida por Gallo, de 74 m de altura, tiene 37,15 m de largo en el eje mayor y 24,80 m en el eje menor, y fue descimbrada no sin temor, dada la audacia de la construcción, por lo que se dice que tuvo que ir él mismo para remover el andamiaje, ya que nadie pensaba que semejante estructura pudiera mantenerse en pie.

Fue controvertida la construcción de los campanarios, cuatro según el proyecto de Vittozzi. El primero se construyó rápidamente, a petición de la señora real Cristina de Francia, en una visita a Vico (1642), y conectó el Santuario con el monasterio cisterciense cercano. Diez años más tarde, se levantaron los dos campanarios frontales y, por simetría, también el cuarto, frente al primer campanario, que se mantuvo hasta 1830, como único campanario en funcionamiento. La vieja cuestión de la disposición de los campanarios fue remediada en 1880, cuando el Santuario se convirtió en un monumento nacional, cuando se anunció un concurso, en el que Alessandro Antonelli también participó con un proyecto. Finalmente, en 1884, se iniciaron los trabajos de la reforma, con la construcción de potentes y elaboradas agujas barrocas, revisando el estilo del que estaba colocado en la linterna que sobresale de la cúpula. Sin embargo, por razones de estabilidad, las agujas fueron demolidas en 1906 y los campanarios obtuvieron la conformación actual.

Las decoraciones al fresco de los más de  de superficie fueron completadas entre 1746 y 1748 por Mattia Bortoloni y Felice Biella;  el tema es el de la Salvación. En 1709, el escultor Giuseppe I Gaggini  asumió la tarea de crear el monumento con la estatua de Margarita de Saboya, hija del duque, terminada en 1714. El santuario tomó su forma actual en 1884, cuando se construyeron los campanarios y las tres fachadas, obra del ingeniero y arquitecto Camillo Riccio (a quien también se debe el pedestal de la imponente estatua que representa a Carlo Emanuele I con una capa y una espada).

En 1881 se inauguró el tranvía Mondovì-San Michele, cuya parada central estaba ubicada frente al santuario, facilitando los movimientos de los peregrinos. Después de numerosos cambios de propiedad y electrificación, que tuvieron lugar en 1923, la línea fue suprimida en 1953.

El 15 de diciembre de 2017, después de años de planificación, los restos de la reina Elena de Italia se trasladaron desde Montpellier, Francia, hasta la capilla de San Bernardo en el santuario. Dos días después, los restos del rey Víctor Manuel III de Saboya, tras más de 70 años de su muerte, se trasladaron desde Alejandría, Egipto, donde murió en el exilio, y fueron enterrados junto a los de su esposa.

Véase también

 Historia de las cúpulas del período moderno temprano

 Museo diocesano histórico Ghislieri de Vicoforte

Notas

Referencias

Bibliografía
 Beatrice Bolandrini, Giuseppe Gaggini. Uno scultore neoclassico a Torino e nella residenze sabaude, in Giorgio Mollisi (a cura di), Svizzeri a Torino nella storia, nell'arte, nella cultura, nell'economia dal Cinquecento ad oggi, «Arte&Storia», anno 11, numero 52, ottobre 2011, Edizioni Ticino Management, Lugano 2011.

Enlaces externos

Santuarios de Italia
Basílicas del Piamonte
Iglesias de Italia del siglo XVIII
Iglesias de Italia del siglo XIX
Iglesias de Piamonte
Iglesias barrocas de Italia
Iglesias con cúpula de Italia

Arquitectura manierista en Italia
Arquitectura de 1732

Arquitectura de 1884
Provincia de Cuneo
Italia en 1884
Casa de Saboya
Lugares de enterramientos reales en Italia

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Momentum Children's Charity, a local organisation that supports children with cancer and life-challenging conditions, celebrated their 15th anniversary year with world renowned soprano Lesley Garrett singing for their Opera Gala. The event took place on Sunday 17th March 2019 at the Landmark Arts Centre in Teddington.
Attendees described the night as a magical event that warmed the heart with such powerful voices. Lesley wowed the crowd with 10 mesmerizing songs, including some of her favourites, such as Medley composed by Rogers and Hammerstein, All Around My Hat made famous by Steeleye Span, Brindisi composed by Verdi, and many more.
Lesley Garrett was also joined by other soloists and special guests including The Tiffinians and Viva Voce, with a chorus comprised of ROH, ENO and WNO, conducted by Stephen Harris and Johann Stuckenbruck. We'd also like to thank our presenter, Michael Simkins.
It finished with Lesley Garrett singing as the crowd lifted-up glow sticks to light up the night in honour of all the families the charity has supported.
"What a fantastic evening. Lesley was sensational. It was very emotional to see some of the families we've supported over the past 15 years watching in the crowd. I'd like to thank all the performers and everyone who chose to attend. We are already looking forward to next year's event" Bianca Effemey, Founder and CEO of Momentum Children's Charity.
For information on our upcoming events, click here.