Panama Hat articles from the web

[Panamabob]

The President of Xavier (New Orleans) with a very familiar panama hat:

http://newsite.xula.edu/mediarelations/TMAX/tmax.php

 

[Panamabob]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/18/AR2008071802952_2.html

For many Ecuadorans, the takeovers are difficult to separate from what is happening 160 miles west and nearly 9,000 feet below Quito, in the low hills along the humid Pacific coast. In Montecristi, a town best known for making Panama hats, the 130-member national assembly is in the final days of writing a new constitution for Ecuador, a major initiative for Correa. Several political observers have said the president seized the companies to further his political agenda and ensure the passage of the new constitution in a September referendum.

Maybe the prices will fall again, as the politicos leave town.

 

[HungaryTom]

Goodwood&more

A Good Day at Goodwood
http://ie.youtube.com/watch?v=iIH013Phg_s
You see a plenty of Panama hats on this clip

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Oil refinery at Montecristi, the cradle of panama hats - hey, it seems to be a quite turbulent topic!!!!
Ecuador, Venezuela give details on plans for joint oil refinery on Pacific coast
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/05/12/business/LA-FIN-Ecuador-Venezuela-Refinery.php
Venezuela, Ecuador team up on refinery

Published: May 14, 2008 at 1:38 PM
http://www.upi.com/International_Se...analysis_caracas_quito_in_refinery_deal/2122/
Ecuador Won’t Allow ‘Childish Environmentalism’ to Harm Country
http://www.ecuadorminingnews.com/news.php?id=84

Ecuadoreans Seek More Suckers who Stupidly Believe their Manipulative Games: Plan Ecuador is a Fraudulent Faustian Bargain
http://ecrisis.net/search.aspx?q=Ec...ckers who Stupidly Believe&sc=t&dt=3m&al=none
Sociopaths Chavez and Correa Make the Best the Enemy of the Good
http://ecrisis.net/2008/05/15/sociopaths-chavez-and-correa-make-the-best-the-enemy-of-the-good.aspx

Ecuador Meets with Several Companies to Invite Investment in New Refinery
Global Refining & Fuels Report, February, 2007 by Haldis, Peter
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb5630/is_200702/ai_n23646546

All those heavily political articles can be summarized with this panama hat photo:

http://dvd.ign.com/dor/objects/802738/syriana/images/syriana-20060620045004912.html?page=mediaFull

From the Movie Syriana (2005) - guess what it is about? Oil.

Encyclopedia of the Middle East
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk:
After most civil servants had adopted the western hat with their own free will, in 1925 Mustafa Kemal wore his "Panama hat" during a public appearance in Kastamonu, one of the most conservative towns in Anatolia, to demonstrate that the hat was the headgear of civilized nations.

Nice paintings:
Rippl Rónai: My brother
http://www.smmi.hu/muvtort/gyujtemeny/rro2.jpg
Pippl Rónai: My Brother Eugene and Lajos
http://www.btmfk.iif.hu/kepek/Ripplr.jpg

Rippl Rónai: Portrait of Aristide Maiol - I know how to write it but then the name ends with a smiley: like this Maillol

http://www.sulinet.hu/eletestudomany/archiv/1998/9836/rippl/1137-3.jpg

 

[HungaryTom]

THE REAL-LIFE HANNIBAL LECTER

Fugitive mass murderer - ex-psychiatrist, gifted in arts (poetry) - conceals identity wearing a panama hat - captured. Finally.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7519039.stm
http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/44854000/jpg/_44854485_hat_afp466.jpg

 

[HungaryTom]

OLYMPICS

http://network.nationalpost.com/np/...e-olympics-of-fashion-opening-ceremonies.aspx

"Hats
Head cover is the most important weapon against the blaring Beijing sun (not that you can see it, with all the smog) and chief among them with the athletes was the Panama hat. In variations worn by Paraguay, the Cayman Islands, France, Colombia (an elaborately woven two-tone number), though Peru took the prize for the most enormous brim (looked like 7 inches on that white straw hat, easily) and Russia for practicality with crushable canvas bucket hats."

Check out the photo of French male athletes in Panama hats...Martine Buchet rulez...

http://www.gettyimages.com

Colombia:
#82220337

Ecuador:
#82215655

France
#82219970, #82217992, #82218001, #82217981, #82217111, #82217326

Paraguay:
#82216567, #82216875

Peru:
#82220375, #82218542

Russia:
#82219436, #82216994, #82216989

 

[HungaryTom]

Jack Vettriano (*1952-)

Mr Cool
http://www.okpainting.com/upload/Oil/bigimg/Masterpiece_replicas/Vettriano_Jack/Vettriano8 C.jpg
Rebus incognito
http://www.shapesauctioneers.co.uk/successes/images/467v.gif
On happy Days
http://www.vettriano-art.com/acatalog/ohhappydaysl.jpg
Lazy-Hazy Days
http://images.easyart.com/i/prints/rw/lg/6/9/Jack-Vettriano-Lazy-Hazy-Days-69136.jpg

Bluebird at Bonneville
http://www.videposters.co.uk/static/images/510x510-14201/Jack-Vettriano-Bluebird-at-Bonneville.jpg
http://www.artexpression.com/images/IMA/jpgs/20298.jpg

LEGO version- Bluebird at Bonneville - Jack Vettriano - copia d'arte

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1093/541902692_a78f86f86c.jpg
The picnic party
http://us.st11.yimg.com/us.st.yimg.com/I/yhst-18792632006815_1998_6305899
Mad dogs
http://images.easyart.com/i/prints/rw/lg/2/0/Jack-Vettriano-Mad-Dogs--small-size--205022.jpg
http://www.lifestyleart.co.uk/images/categories/DC4949_3D.jpg

 

[indycop]

Lazy-Hazy Days
http://images.easyart.com/i/prints/rw/lg/6/9/Jack-Vettriano-Lazy-Hazy-Days-69136.jpg

I love this one! I had to go and look at his work on allposters and now i want some of them!:eusa_doh: Also liked Brent Lynch's work.

 

[cookie]

The Actual Best View of the Hats

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2008/08/08/sports/olympics/20080808-olympic-fashion2/index.html#

 

[HungaryTom]

The Panama hat 1912

Here goes the translation of the Hungarian panama hat article I found dated April 1912.
http://www.huszadikszazad.hu/index.php?apps=cikk&cikk=6846
It has a nice vintage photo and features all the major contents of the articles written a century later:

*misnomer - hence the desinformation of the true origin country
*cottage, 'real panama hats' (Montecristi) and factory (Cuenca) hats
*the hat fashion fading but the 'real panama' having still has its fans
*price increase weaver vs. final sale price
*USA top prices being higher than in Europe
*price ranges are on par with the current prices:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austro-Hungarian_krone (crown) used to be the currency of the Austro-Hungarian Empire
1913 exchange rate / 1 US dollar = 4.96 Kr.
100 kr - approx. 400+ USD in today's money for Europe
2000 kr - approx. 8300 USD in today's money as USA high-end price

Inflation calculator:http://www.westegg.com/inflation/


QUOTE
The Panama hat - April 1912
One still remembers how fashionable panama hats were a few years ago – and people did not regret to pay good money for them – up to hundred krone for finely woven specimens. Fashion conscious men plied this straw hat into all imaginable forms, some folded up the brim on the front others on the rear. Respecitble family fathers looked like true „daredevils” in their multiple-folded panama hats, not to mention the young swells who could have easily passed as Paris dandies with their seven-folded hats.
Panama hats went out of fashion as it happened with so many other items, however there are enough aficionados still today. The real panama hat is namely worth its money since it is strong, light and beautiful. Panama hats are more popular in America where higher prices are paid for them than in Europe.
It is not uncommon that a rich yankee pays a few hundred dollars for a great specimen. However it is also not unheard that masterpiece panama hats are sold for amounts equalling two-tousand krones. The famous hat generates good income for the producers. Just as the weaving of wheat straw hats in Hajdunánás has been a cottage industry for ages – local people work in the hat industry in Panama.
The picture shows women of such a hat weaver family; a mother with three daughters holding unfinished hats. All of them are skilled weavers and all the four were weaving hats even while the photograph was taken.
Men are also engaged with hat weaving, still women are more skilled. Women learn the hat weaving trade already as children and develop considerable skills as they go along, which provides them with good income. A lot of families live off the weaving and if they are diligent and clever they can even make a small fortune -it was mentioned before how well the better woven and fine panama hats are paid.
There are also large enterpreneurs who employ hundreds of hat-weaver women in factories and deliver hats by the thousands to all parts of the world. Normally it is these large entrerpreneurs who purchase the ready hats form the weaver families too.
Naturally the initial sale price of hats is much less than the final price. Custom fees, the middlemen, the wholesaler, the small and the grand trader all make their profits and so this adds up and has to be paid ultimately by the end user who puts the hat on. The maiden, who has woven the hat wouldn’t even believe for how much her handiwork is sold in Europe.
Panama hats are woven form the Carludovica-plant being common in New Granada, Ecuador and Panama. It grows in shady, humid places and has palm-like leaves being 1,25 m broad growing from 3-4 meters tall stems. This is the raw material of the panama hat. The stems are cut open and split into ribbon-like strands from which the panama hat is made. First the top of the hat is woven, than the rest of the hat follows with a tedious and slow work, since great attention is needed to ensure that the strands are tightly woven together. The fineness of the weave and the thinness of the fibers determine the value of the work.
It must be also mentioned that the Carludovica-plant is named after the Spanish King Carlos IV. and his wife, Queen Ludovica. Well-woven panama hats are flexible and durable; considering their lightness it is no wonder why they are this expensive
END OF QUOTE

Nothing new under the sun.

 

[HungaryTom]

Lee Sherman Robot with Panama hat

http://th01.deviantart.com/fs30/300W/i/2008/151/8/8/Robot_with_Panama_Hat_by_Lee_Sherman.jpg

http://www.earlyblues.com/Maryport07 141a.jpg


The Old man and the sea
http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00004YRID.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg
http://www.hollywoodusa.co.uk/images/spencer_tracy.jpg
http://www.sethbarnes.com/blogphotos/sethbarnes/www/old_man.jpg

Spencer Tracy
http://www.libertyfilmfestival.com/libertas/wp-content/uploads/2006/10/inherit333.jpg

http://lh3.ggpht.com/_LS3Bq3A29BI/R0SvhJ_WavI/AAAAAAAAAOI/ppAQUEq8rLQ/IMG_1630.JPG

http://k53.pbase.com/g4/02/422202/2/61871160.OD9QmDEB.jpg
http://www.rayjeanne.com/Images/MX2005photos/E7MX2005photos/MX2006-0323-AcapulcoPanama-640.JPG
http://www.forestdata.com/sshatladies.jpg
http://prairiehome.publicradio.org/features/photos/performances/2006/02/04/01.html

Mike Lockett
http://www.mikelockett.com/cp/we7/uploads/1000/doc463a3e7341028912590330.jpg

Al Lettieri – Virgil Solozzo
http://www.findagrave.com/photos250/photos/2008/19/8398_120083158129.jpg
http://www.horroria.com/i/nstills/30/43/3043/3043-32067.jpg

Lionele Tommasino
http://b9.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/01246/96/46/1246486469_s.jpg

 

[RBH]

Thought this fine thread needed a bump...

here are a couple of 1940 photos of a man planting crops in Puerto Rico.


<a href="http://imageshack.us"><img src="http://img60.imageshack.us/img60/2812/farmmerem1.jpg" border="0" alt="Image Hosted by ImageShack.us"/></a> <a href="http://imageshack.us"><img src="http://img261.imageshack.us/img261/1446/21783641132c578c6c70ht8.jpg" border="0" alt="Image Hosted by ImageShack.us"/></a>

 

[HungaryTom]

Barry Obama, the student who would be President

Article
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...e-student-who-would-be-president-1202311.html

Youtube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrffaX8oHe0&feature=related

 

[Panamabob]

Amazing to see three panamas within the first 4 advertisements in a new magazine that arrived yesterday. Two cheapies on some models and then what looks like a dinger on Sean Connery. Sweet!

 

[RBH]

Amazing to see three panamas within the first 4 advertisements in a new magazine that arrived yesterday. Two cheapies on some models and then what looks like a dinger on Sean Connery. Sweet!

Hey Robert, which magazine?

 

[Panamabob]

Details (magazine).

My wife had an ebay transaction go awry and the young lady she bought from has signed us up for about 60 different magazines (so far). We've filed mail fraud and are doing exactly what the postmaster tells us to do. The young lady (dolt!) seems to have sent herself gift subscriptions with some of our subscriptions and we're getting the thank you notes with her name and address on them. That's how we knew it was the ebayer.

Postman says we get to keep the magazines. So far, I only like Conde Nast Traveler, though Cosmopolitan was interesting, if not slightly pornographic. We got a thank-you from Hef the other day, but I'm sure that one will hit the garbage can before I see it! :rage:

 

[HungaryTom]

15 September, 2008
A jewelled ring, a Panama hat and a cane
http://vinvarma.com/2008/09/jewelled-ring-panama-hat-and-cane.html

The Adventures Of Philip Marlowe "The Panama Hat" (10-10-48)
http://odeo.com/episodes/23889939-The-Adventures-Of-Philip-Marlowe-The-Panama-Hat-10-10-48

I take off my Panama hat to you

http://www.flickr.com/photos/balam/3154106336/

En Roland Garros 2008, Ecuador presente
http://www.eluniverso.com/2008/06/29/0217/1055/noticia.html
click más fotos below the photo for the slide show

Historia
http://www.eluniverso.com/2008/06/29/0217/1055/07A63F562053489690F9161607D0A919.html cool sculpture

sombrero.MOV
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APeeHFKhUw0&feature=related

Cuenca, Museo del Sombrero de Paja Toquilla
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1NUDbtomig&feature=related

 

[HungaryTom]

Veni, Vidi, Vici

Deportes y aventura (Pile). Sports and Adventure (Pile)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_GM6zTy6ow

Visita a la comunidad Pile en Manabí - Ecuador, avistamiento de los monos aulladores.
Visit the community in Manabí Pile - Ecuador, sightings of howler monkeys

Fabrizzio Canizzares went to the weaver village of the best Panama hats, saw the forest and chased howler monkeys on the top of trees... to each his own. Now it's clear that it is a true jungle where the toquilla palms grow.

I hope he got himself a nice panama at least.

 

[HungaryTom]

I'm too sexy

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_5L213Ip_Dg4/SLarbHmQLaI/AAAAAAAABFc/Jc2dcHQNYso/s1600-h/pitt.jpg

 

[HungaryTom]

Petrol or Montecristi? Be or not to be?

CASE FOLLOW-UP
Is is about the establishment of a large petrol refinery in the heartland of Manabi the home of fine panama hats.
Headlines were in 2006/early 2008 "construiran", "crearán".

Lately headlines aroud PetroEcuador switched to keyword "reducira".

The articles:
Feasibility studies begun back in 2006
http://dr1.com/news/2006/dnews092906.shtml

PetroEcuador plans $ 4 bn refinery in Manabi http://www.gasandoil.com/goc/company/cnl71348.htm

Manabí refinery studies to begin 15Jan 2008 - Ecuador
Published: Tuesday, January 8, 2008 11:53 (GMT -0400)
Studies to advance development of Ecuador's planned 300,000b/d Manabí refinery will begin on January 15, mines and oil minister Galo Chiriboga

CORREA Y CHAVEZ, PETROECUADOR Y PDVSA CONSTRUIRAN UNA REFINERIA EN MANABI.
http://garitaroja.wordpress.com/200...-y-pdvsa-construiran-una-refineria-en-manabi/

Youtube
Chávez Refinería del Pacífico 4 "Plantas de regasificación"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9RKjwiOUBw

***

2009
…http://www.eldiario.com.ec/noticias-manabi-ecuador/106261-petroecuador-reducira-unos-1-500-empleos/

http://www.bharatbook.com/Market-Re...led-Analysis-and-Forecasts-of-Refineries.html

So will the howler monkeys continue to walk up in the trees "avistamiento de los monos aulladores" and the toquilla grow down in the shades meaning the Montecristi prevail? Or will it be the the "Plantas de regasificación"? What say you?

Ecuador, Venezuela Build Oil Refinery on Pacific
July 16th 2008, by AFP
http://www.venezuelanalysis.com/newsbrief/3652
" The refinery will go up in El Aromo, in Ecuador's coastal province of Manabi, and should be ready in 2013."

Black panama hats will be the new trend:
http://derbyhats.com/images/PanamaHats/BlackPanamaHat.gif
http://www.cliffedge.co.jp/images/item/080123/MS-HA4-90-2-02.jpg

 

[HungaryTom]

Montecristi appellation control

CASE FOLLOW-UP VOL 2.
The issue was taken up at WIPO (World Intellectual Property Organization) on 12 June 2008.

Agricultural Products: Denomination of Origin Montecristi, Ecuador
http://www.wipo.int/meetings/en/doc_details.jsp?doc_id=102733

Don't miss the .ppt presentation (33 slides).
Union de Artesanos de Paja Toquilla de Montecristi finally got the issue to WIPO after filing the case in 2005---A big thank to Sra. Catalina Toko Arias for raising the issue and to all concerned!!!

Has anything progressed? Will the DO for Montecristi finos be registered by WIPO? Will it be implemented? What will be the change?