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Panhellenic Socialist Movement
|Panhellenic Socialist Movement
|Πανελλήνιο Σοσιαλιστικό Κίνημα
|Evangelos Venizelos
|Nikos Androulakis
|Andreas Papandreou
|With the power of the democratic bloc
|3 September 1974
Hippocrates Street 22,106 80 Athens, Greece
|Youth wing
|PASOK Youth
|Social democracy[1]
Third Way[1]
Social liberalism[2][3]
|Political position
|National affiliation
|Olive Tree
|International affiliation
|Socialist International,
Progressive Alliance
|European affiliation
|Party of European Socialists
|European Parliament group
|Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats
28 / 300
|European Parliament
2 / 21
373 / 725
|Politics of Greece
Political parties
The Panhellenic Socialist Movement (Greek: Πανελλήνιο Σοσιαλιστικό Κίνημα, IPA: [paneˈlinio sosjalistiˈko ˈcinima]), known mostly by its acronym PASOK (Greek: ΠΑΣΟΚ, pronounced [paˈsok]), is a social-democratic[6][7] political party in Greece.
It was founded on 3 September 1974 by Andreas Papandreou as a democratic socialist party.[8] As a result of the 1981 legislative election, PASOK became Greece's first left-of-centre party to win a majority in the Hellenic Parliament.
PASOK is a member of the Socialist International,[9] the Progressive Alliance[10] and the Party of European Socialists.[11] PASOK MEPs sit with the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats (S&D) group in the European Parliament.
Formerly one of the two major parties in Greek politics, PASOK lost much of its popular support as a result of the unprecedented austerity measures that accompanied an international bailout requested by the government of George Papandreou in response to the Greek government-debt crisis. Following two legislative elections which failed to produce a parliamentary majority for any single party, PASOK agreed to form a coalition government with its conservative rival New Democracy in June 2012.
- 1 History
- 2 Ideology
- 3 Party leaders
- 4 Electoral Performance in Parliamentary Elections since 1974
- 5 See also
- 6 References
- 7 External links
The first members of the party were the main organizers of the collapse of the military junta of 1967–1974 and the re-establishment of democracy on 3 September 1974 . Its founder was Andreas Papandreou, son of the late Greek liberal leader and three-times Prime Minister of Greece Georgios Papandreou Sr. Its founding mottos were "National Independence, Popular Sovereignty, Social Emancipation, Democratic Process." Andreas Papandreou was offered the leadership of the liberal political forces immediately after the restoration of democracy, but in a risky move he declined, so the leadership was assumed by Georgios Mavros. Papandreou, a very powerful orator and charismatic leader, explicitly rejected the ideological heritage of his father, and stressed the fact that he was a socialist, not a liberal.
The first years[edit]
At the November 1974 elections the Party received only 13.5% of the vote and won 15 seats (out of 300), coming third behind the centre-right New Democracy of Konstantinos Karamanlis and the Centre Union – New Forces (EK-ND) of Georgios Mavros. At the November 1977 elections, however, PASOK eclipsed the EK-ND, doubled its share of the vote and won 92 seats, becoming the main opposition party.
In government[edit]
At the October 1981 national elections the PASOK won a landslide victory with 48% of the vote and capturing 173 seats; it formed the first socialist government in the history of Greece since 1924. Although Papandreou had campaigned for withdrawal of Greece from NATO and the European Economic Community, after a strong request by the rest of the party members and its supporters, changed his policy towards both institutions. He proved to be an excellent negotiator when it came to securing benefits and subsidies for Greece from the EEC. For example, in 1985 he openly threatened Jacques Delors to veto the entry of Spain and Portugal in the Community in order to secure more monetary aid for Greece.[12]
In 1986, the PASOK government amended the Greek constitution to remove most powers from the President and give wider authority to the Prime Minister and the Executive Government. Civil marriages, not consecrated by religious ceremony, were recognized as equally valid with religious weddings. The left-wing Resistance movement against the Axis in World War II was recognized after, and leftist resistance fighters were given state pensions, while political refugees of the Greek Civil War were finally given permission to return to Greece. The National Health System was created and various repressive laws of the anti-communist postwar establishment were abolished, wages were boosted, an independent and multidimensional foreign policy was pursued, many reforms in Family Law to strengthened the rights of women and the Greek Gendarmerie was abolished in 1984.[13] At the June 1985 elections, received 46% of the vote and won 161 seats, thus securing a stable parliamentary majority for its second term in power.
It continued to be popular for much of its second term, especially in March 1987 when Andreas Papandreou vigorously and successfully handled a crisis in the Aegean with Turkey. By late 1988 however, both the government's popularity and Papandreou's health had declined. The former, because of press reports of financial and corruption scandals that surfaced, implicating Ministers and, allegedly, Andreas Papandreou himself as well as because of fiscal austerity measures imposed after the Keynesian policies of the first term. PASOK lost the June 1989 elections with 40% of the vote while the opposing New Democracy received 44.3%. PASOK had changed the electoral law before the elections, making it harder for the leading party to form a majority government, so the legislature was deadlocked. Its share of the vote in June 1989 was not considered a failure; for months there was a concerted mudslinging aiming the party (mainly by the conservative press) .
Another election in November produced a very similar result. After a brief period of a grand coalition government, in which PASOK participated, a third election in April 1990 brought New Democracy back to power. Despite a 7% lead in popular vote over PASOK, New Democracy could only secure a marginal majority in the Hellenic Parliament, electing 152 MPs out of a total of 300; PASOK had secured a larger number of representatives on a lower percentage of votes, as well as a smaller lead, in the elections of 1985, under the previous electoral system. Its representation in the Parliament shrunk to 121 MPs in 1990.
In opposition, PASOK underwent a leadership crisis when Andreas Papandreou was prosecuted over his supposed involvement in the Bank of Crete scandal. He was eventually acquitted and, in a dramatic reversal of fortunes, at the October 1993 elections he led the party to another landslide victory. Papandreou returned to office with 47% of the vote and his re-election was considered by many a vote of confidence of the public against his prosecution. In November 1995, however, Papandreou's health began to deteriorate and the Party was racked with leadership conflicts.
The "modernization" period[edit]
In January 1996 Andreas Papandreou retired after a protracted three-month long hospitalization, during which he retained the role of Prime Minister; he died six months later. He was succeeded by Costas Simitis, the candidate of the modernising, pro-European wing of PASOK (the so-called "modernizers", εκσυγχρονιστές), who won an internal vote against Akis Tsochatzopoulos, a Papandreou's confidant. In the first days following his election, Costas Simitis faced the biggest crisis in Greek politics for over 20 years, with the Imia crisis. He was criticized for his soft stance against Turkey and especially for praising in public the American intervention on the issue .
In a PASOK conference held in the summer of 1996, following Andreas Papandreou's death, Costas Simitis was elected leader of the party and called early elections seeking a renewed public vote of confidence. Although the Imia crisis had somewhat tarnished his image, the country's economic prosperity and his matter-of-fact administration won him the September 1996 general election with a 41.5% of the vote. Under Costas Simitis' leadership, PASOK had two major successes: In September 1997 Greece won the right to stage the 2004 Summer Olympic Games and in 2001 it was confirmed that the country would be included in the Eurozone, for which it had failed to meet the convergence criteria in 1998. Costas Simitis won another term in April 2000, narrowly winning with 43.8% of the vote and 158 seats: a substantial achievement for a Party which had been in power almost continuously for nearly 20 years.
In 2000, after the assassination of Brigadier Saunders by the terrorist group 17 November (17N), and especially with the forthcoming Athens Olympics being a major terrorist target, a significant international pressure was exerted on PASOK to recognise that Greece had a terrorist problem and do everything possible to bring the terrorist group to justice. Some amongst the western media had even falsely accusing the party of colluding with the terrorists, due to the fact that the authorities were unable to arrest the terrorists. Under the guidance of British and US experts, the government intensified its efforts and finally, with a string of events starting at 29 June 2002, the 17N members were captured and put to trial.
Nevertheless, the party was losing its traditional appeal to the Greek lower and middle classes. In order to revitalize the party's chances for the next elections, Costas Simitis announced his resignation as the leader of the party on 7 January 2004 . He was succeeded by George Papandreou, son of Andreas Papandreou. The party members were expecting that Papandreou could reverse the slide in the opinion polls which saw the opposition New Democracy (ND), under Kostas Karamanlis, 7% ahead at the start of the year.
Although Papandreou reduced ND's lead in the polls to 3%, was unable to reverse the view of a majority of Greek voters that PASOK had been in power too long and had grown lazy, corrupt and had abandoned the inclusive, progressive principles of economic parity on which it was founded. ND had a comfortable win at the 2004 legislative elections held on 7 March 2004, placing the party in opposition after eleven years in office with 40.55% share of the vote and 117 seats.
2007 elections[edit]
On 16 September 2007, New Democracy headed by Costas Karamanlis won re-election with a marginal majority of 152 seats in the Parliament. Despite ND's falling performance in the 2007 legislative election, PASOK suffered a crushing defeat, registering 38.1% of the vote, its lowest percentage in almost 30 years, and 102 seats in the Hellenic Parliament.
The dismal result led to activation of the procedure to select new leadership, or to reaffirm the previous one. The main competitors for the leadership were the incumbent George Papandreou and the Party's informal second in command, Professor Evangelos Venizelos, M.P. for Thessaloniki. M.P. Kostas Skandalidis also announced his candidacy in September. According to Party regulation, leaders are elected in a voting process open to all members. During the leadership election of 11 November 2007 George Papandreou was re-elected by the friends and members of the party as its leader.
2009 elections[edit]
In June 2009, the PASOK won the 2009 European Parliament election in Greece.[14][15] Four months later, the Party enjoyed a resounding victory in the October 2009 general elections with 43.92% of the popular vote to ND's 33.48%, and 160 parliament seats to 91.[16] Due to a number of defections and expulsions after 2009, PASOK by November 2011 held a slim majority of 152 of the parliament's 300 seats.[17]
A poll in October 2011 on behalf of the Greek TV channel Skai TV and the newspaper Kathimerini (after the necessary austerity measures that were taken to tackle the financial crisis) however, revealed that of the people asked, 92% felt disappointed by the government while only 5% believe that a PASOK government would be best for the nation in the next elections.[18] In the same survey, when asked about whether people have a positive or negative opinion of the various political parties in Greece, PASOK scored as the lowest, with 76% answering "negative" .It should be acknowledged that all the parties had strongly negative assessments.[18] The same survey showed that the support on the PASOK if elections were to be held, would be 22.5%,[18] the lowest since 1977,[19] while gaining only 53–77 seats.[18]
2012 elections[edit]
Because of the financial crisis and the measures that were taken by the party from 2009 to 2012, PASOK, having been the largest party in the outgoing coalition government, achieved only third place with a mere 13.18%, retaining just 41 seats.[20]
After the elections of 6 May 2012, the President of Greece, Karolos Papoulias, mandated New Democracy leader Antonis Samaras to form a coalition government. On 7 May 2012, Samaras gave up the attempt and on the following day, President Papoulias mandated Alexis Tsipras, president of the Synaspismos political party and head of the Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) parliamentary group. After Tsipras was also unable to form a government, Evangelos Venizelos was mandated, but he too had no success. The legislative elections of June 2012 resulted in a further reduction in PASOK's popular support, probably as a result of the unpopular memorandum signed by former Prime Minister George Papandreou with the IMF, European Commission and European Central Bank. PASOK's share of the overall vote was its worst ever showing since the party was formed (12.28%). However PASOK decided to help the formation of a government by joining with New Democracy as well as the Democratic Left of Fotis Kouvelis in a coalition under Prime Minister Samaras.
To contest the 2014 European election, PASOK founded the Olive Tree electoral alliance on 7 March 2014.[21][22][23] In the May 2014 European elections, the Olive Tree list came in fourth place nationally, receiving 8.02% of the vote, electing 2 MEPs.[24][25]
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The Panhellenic Socialist Movement is a social-democratic party, and a member of the Socialist International,[9] Progressive Alliance, and Party of European Socialists.
During Andreas Papandreou's leadership, wages were substantially boosted and capital gains were progressively taxed. At the very beginning, the members and the leadership of the party, were very critical of NATO and the European Economic Community, but this attitude was soon abandoned and the Greek participation in EEC was enforced. Andreas Papandreou wished to create a world where wealth and power would be shared by more countries than just the United States.
After Andreas Papandreou's death, Costas Simitis was elected as President of PASOK which represented the centre-left and centrist factions of the movement and he moved to modernize the party, making it purely social democratic. Tight fiscal policies, privatization of state enterprises and a broadening of the tax base (by shifting the tax burden to the lower quintiles) were implemented. As a result of these policies, the party was defeated at the polls in the election of 2004. The strictly neoliberal New Democracy policies adopted by the new government, forced the PASOK to turn left under the promising leadership of George Papandreou. Five years later, the Party triumphed in 2009 elections..
After the 2009 electoral sweep, expectations ran high. However, it very quickly emerged that the deficit that had run up in the years leading to 2010 was of an enormous, unmanageable scope. Greece was faced with imminent insolvency – would be unable to either make current debt payments or borrow to fund government obligations unless it received urgent large loans from the International Monetary Fund and European Central Bank. In exchange for further loans, the European Union required neoliberal austerity policies. Such austerity measures included further privatization of state enterprises, further salary cuts, and heavier taxation of working and middle class citizens.
Party leaders[edit]
- Andreas Papandreou (1974–1996)
- Costas Simitis (1996–2004)
- George Papandreou (2004–2012)
- Evangelos Venizelos (2012–present)
Electoral Performance in Parliamentary Elections since 1974[edit]
|Party Leader
|Number of votes
|Percentage of votes
|Seats in the
Hellenic Parliament
|Position in Parliament
12 / 300
93 / 300
172 / 300
161 / 300
125 / 300
128 / 300
123 / 300
170 / 300
162 / 300
158 / 300
117 / 300
102 / 300
160 / 300
41 / 300
33 / 300
European Parliament[edit]
|Election year
|# of overall votes
|% of overall vote
|# of overall seats won
|40.1 (#1)
10 / 24
|41.6 (#1)
10 / 24
|35.9 (#2)
9 / 24
|37.6 (#1)
10 / 25
|32.9 (#2)
9 / 25
|34.0 (#2)
8 / 24
|36.6 (#1)
8 / 22
|8.02 (#4)1
2 / 21
1 Participated in the party coalition Olive Tree.
See also[edit]
- History of Greece
- List of political parties in Greece
- Politics of Greece
- Party of European Socialists
- Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats
- Socialist International
- ^ a b Parties and Elections in Europe: The database about parliamentary elections and political parties in Europe, by Wolfram Nordsieck
- ^ Μητρόπουλος, Αλέξης Π. [1] Το... μέλλον του ΠΑΣΟΚ [Τhe... future of PASOK], Ελευθεροτυπία, 20 November 2011.
- ^ Νταβανέλλος, Αντώνης [2] Η σοσιαλδημοκρατία στην εποχή του σοσιαλφιλελευθερισμού: Ποιο μέλλον έχει το ΠΑΣΟΚ; [Social democracy in the age of social liberalism: What is the future of PASOK?], Διεθνιστική Εργατική Αριστερά, 25 January 2012.
- ^ http://www.voanews.com/content/reu-greek-pm-fall-short-first-round-presidential-vote/2563269.html
- ^ The counselors of the Regions.
- ^ Dimitrakopoulos, Dionyssis G.; Passas, Argyris G. (2011), "The Panhellenic Socialist Movement and European integration: The primacy of the leader", Social democracy and European integration (Taylor & Francis): 117–156
- ^ Dimitri Almeida (2012). The Impact of European Integration on Political Parties: Beyond the Permissive Consensus. Routledge. p. 61. ISBN 978-0-415-69374-5.
- ^ Καταστατικό ΠΑΣΟΚ (PDF) (in Greek). ΠΑΣΟΚ. Retrieved 10 June 2014.
- ^ a b "MEMBER PARTIES of the SOCIALIST INTERNATIONAL". Socialist International. Retrieved 8 November 2011.
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- ^ http://progressive-alliance.info/participants/
- ^ http://www.pes.eu/parties
- ^ Richard Clogg, Parties and Elections in Greece, 1987
- ^ Richard Clogg, a Concise History of Greece, 2002
- ^ "European election results 2009 for Greece". Results of the 2009 European Elections. Ministry of Internal Affairs. Retrieved 6 October 2009.
- ^ "PASOK Wins EP Elections – Abstention Rate High". ERT (ert.gr). 8 June 2009. Retrieved 6 October 2009.[dead link]
- ^ "Greek legislative election, 2009 results". Results of the 2009 Greek legislative elections. Ministry of Internal Affairs. Retrieved 6 October 2009.[dead link]
- ^ "Βουλευτές – Ανά Κοινοβουλευτική Ομάδα" [MPs – By Parliamentary Group]. hellenicparliament.gr. Retrieved 25 August 2011.
- ^ a b c d "Πολιτικό Βαρόμετρο 95 – Οκτώβριος 2011". Public Issue (skai.gr). October 2011. Retrieved 7 October 2011.
- ^ "Public Issue: Σε αδιέξοδο η κοινωνία, δημοσκοπική κατάρρευση για ΠΑΣΟΚ". Skai TV (skai.gr). October 2011. Retrieved 7 October 2011.
- ^ "Greece set for deadlock". en.europeonline-magazine.eu. 7 May 2012. Retrieved 7 May 2012.
- ^ http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_wsite1_1_08/03/2014_538011
- ^ http://www.ansamed.info/ansamed/en/news/sections/politics/2014/03/07/Greece-UE-elections-Pasok-alarm-slide-opinion-poll_10195402.html
- ^ http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_wsite1_1_06/03/2014_537960
- ^ http://ekloges.ypes.gr/may2014/e/public/index.html
- ^ http://www.balcanicaucaso.org/eng/Regions-and-countries/Greece/European-elections-in-Greece-SYRIZA-wins-the-government-resists-152539
- Dimitris Michalopoulos, "PASOK and the Eastern Block", in Greece under Socialism, New Rochelle, New York: Orpheus Publishing Inc., 1988, pp. 339–337. ISBN 0-89241-460-X
External links[edit]
|Wikimedia Commons has media related to Panhellenic Socialist Movement.
- Official website (Greek)
- Official Website of M.P. George Papandreou (Greek)
- Official Website of M.P. Evangelos Venizelos (Greek)


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Dawn Lundy Martin has been named a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in the category of Poetry for her book A GATHERING OF MATTER / A MATTER OF GATHERING. The Lambda Awards recognize writers of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender literature. The winners will be announced at a ceremony in West Hollywood on May 29.
A GATHERING OF MATTER / A MATTER OF GATHERING was chosen by Carl Phillips for the 2006 Cave Canem Poetry Prize; the UGA Press published the book in 2007. Martin is the author of one other poetry collection, The Morning Hour, chosen by C. D. Wright for the Poetry Society of America's National Chapbook Fellowship.
Martin cofounded the Third Wave Foundation a feminist, activist foundation that supports young women and transgender youth working towards gender, racial, economic, and social justice. She is also coeditor of The Fire This Time: Young Activists and the New Feminism. She teaches in the English Department at the University of Pittsburgh.
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Wednesday, March 19, 2008
Poet Named Finalist for Literary Award
Dawn Lundy Martin has been named a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in the category of Poetry for her book A GATHERING OF MATTER / A MATTER OF GATHERING. The Lambda Awards recognize writers of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender literature. The winners will be announced at a ceremony in West Hollywood on May 29.
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Friday, March 14, 2008
Short Story Writer Recognized
Margot Singer has received an honorable mention for the 2008 Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award for her short story collection THE PALE OF SETTLEMENT. One of the most prestigious literary awards for first books of fiction, the PEN/Hemingway Award is given by PEN New England and the JFK Presidential Library. In addition to this year's winner, Joshua Ferris for the novel Then We Came to the End, two finalists and one other honorable mention were recognized.
Read an interview with Margot Singer in Next Book.
Check out reviews of THE PALE OF SETTLEMENT in NewPages.com, the Miami Herald, Columbus Dispatch, and Venus.
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Monday, March 10, 2008
Short Takes
Peter LaSalle, author of TELL BORGES IF YOU SEE HIM, in Bookslut.
Major Jackson, author of LEAVING SATURN, on NPR's New Letters on the Air.
Authors in the news:
Mary Jo Bang, author of THE DOWNSTREAM EXTREMITY OF THE ISLE OF SWANS, has won the 2007 National Book Critics Award for Poetry for her collection titled Elegy.
David Crouse, author of COPY CATS, has won the Mary McCarthy Prize for Short Fiction for a short story collection that will be published in August by Sarabande Books.
Sue William Silverman, author of the memoir BECAUSE I REMEMBER TERROR, FATHER, I REMEMBER YOU, is also author of the novel Love Sick, which has been made into a movie by the Lifetime Network.
SOUTHERN COMFORTS by Sudye Cauthen has won the bronze in Florida Nonfiction from the Florida Book Awards. Winning books and their authors will be featured in the July issue of the Florida Humanities Council's Forum magazine.
Three UGA Press titles have been named finalists for the ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Award: THE RINGING EAR (Anthologies category), DOUGH (Autobiography/Memoir category), and PROPHET FROM PLAINS (Political Science category).
DOUGH in Jbooks.
SPRAWLING PLACES is part of a feature on modern architecture in a recent issue of the Chronicle of Higher Education.
The spring issue of the Jewish Book World features a great review of THE PALE OF SETTLEMENT: "Singer writes clearly, succinctly, and effectively. The characters are believable, and the stories uplifting but realistic. Modern issues—terrorism and the second Lebanon war—intrude, but do not overwhelm, a testament to Singer's skill and artistry."
The unaugural volumes in the VQR Poetry Series were featured in a full-page spread in a recent issue of Publishers Weekly:
- BOY (starred review): "This second collection from Kate Tufts Award–winner Phillips ... is haunted by memories, could-have-beens and what-ifs ... Phillips is consumed with his vulnerability as a parent and finds himself lost in the cyclical recurrences of time."
- THE HISTORY OF ANONYMITY: "[Chang] is at her best and boldest in raw poems ... The final section continues the narrative of the victimized child, her sister, and her mother, with frankness and a refreshing lack of melodrama."
- HARDSCRABBLE: "This debut showcases a wild and powerful wit in action."
- FIELD FOLLY SNOW: "The sharp, pastoral imagery of Parks's debut is set ablaze by an ominous tone and the author's fine musical ear. Her tight tercets and prose blocks convey a sense of isolation, which, when broken by the appearance of someone other than the speaker, is as jarring as a rock heaved into a still pond."
PROPHET FROM PLAINS by Frye Gaillard in the National Catholic Reporter.
GROUNDED GLOBALISM by James L. Peacock in the Nashville Tennessean.
THE PALE OF SETTLEMENT by Margot Singer in NewPages.com.
NEW ORLEANS AFTER THE PROMISES by Kent Germany in the American Historical Review.
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Sudye Cauthen, author of SOUTHERN COMFORTS, has a new blog.
Recommendation for THE UNABRIDGED DEVIL'S DICTIONARY by Ambrose Bierce in Etcetera Whatever
Praise for Michael Martone, author of RACING IN PLACE, in Zyzzyvaspeaks
Reflections on Erskine Caldwell's TOBACCO ROAD and GOD'S LITTLE ACRE in The View from Graustark
Mention of EQUIANO THE AFRICAN by Vincent Carretta in African Disapora, Ph.D.
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Monday, March 03, 2008
Get to Know Donny Hathaway
For many fans of old school R&B, the music of Donny Hathaway is sacred. Hathaway's suicide in 1979 at the age of thirty-three ended a troubled and enigmatic life, but in that short time he left a body of compositions and recordings that continue to earn devoted fans around the world.
Hathaway continues to inspire musicians and his presence is being felt in more mainstream circles today. In Amy Winehouse's Grammy-winning hit "Rehab," she sings, "I'd rather be at home with Ray / I ain't got seventy days / Cause there's nothing / There's nothing you can teach me / That I can't learn from Mr. Hathaway." And recently on American Idol, contestant Chikezie sang Hathaway's "I Believe To My Soul." Not only did he perform Hathaway's music, but he did so with backing vocals by Kenya Hathaway, a daughter of Donny who is in the American Idol house band.
Poet Ed Pavlic has long been fascinated by Hathaway and his music. In WINNERS HAVE YET TO BE ANNOUNCED: A SONG FOR DONNY HATHAWAY, he uses poetry to get inside the performer's head and to portray how he saw and was seen by the world. "To capture the monumental paradoxes and prismatic genius of Donny Hathaway," says Michael Eric Dyson, "one must have an epic imagination and a sense of language that flames in poetry toward transcendent truth. Ed Pavlic rises to the task admirably."
If you don't know Hathaway's music and want to hear what all the fuss is about, check out the wonderful reissues on Rhino Records. Here's hoping that Hathaway is finally starting to get his due, more widely, for the musical genius he was.
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BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – Robert Samuels has joined the Sagicor West Indies High Performance Centre as an Assistant Coach.
The former Jamaica captain and West Indies opening batsman recently completed a stint as Assistant Coach of the West Indies Under-19 team and said he is delighted by his continued involvement in West Indies cricket.
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Hi! I have the sally hansen kit/LED light. The sensational nail polish says you must use LED light to cure it. That is what the SH one is as well. Anyone try it and know for sure if it works? I just wonder if it's strong enough of an LED. I just bought a pretty french manicure nail polish kit and wanted to do it but before I waste the $12, I want to make sure it will cure. :)
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Ooh, good question! I've seen the nail polish interchanged — using the sally hansen base with the sensational nail polish. The girl used a sensational LED light.
Now, I did just find this, which says you can. http://project-swatch.com/do-it-yourself-gel-nail-polish-faq/
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Blazers hold off HPU
UAB just had a little extra in the tank down the stretch.
In a frenetic, back-and-forth game, the Blazers made a key 8-2 key with the game tied inside the final four minutes to hand the High Point University women's basketball team a 58-53 loss on Tuesday evening in the Millis Center.
"We played seven or eight kids tonight, so we were able to rotate in and out and stay a little more fresh," HPU coach DeUnna Hendrix said. "But, at the same time, those toughness plays at the end, where we have to come up with loose balls and take care of the ball, we didn't make them."
With the score tied 47-all, UAB (7-1) scored on four straight possessions — including back-to-back-to-back buckets by Karisma Chapman — while the Panthers (2-4) converted just once to lead 55-49 with two minutes to go.
HPU, after scoring on Cheyenne Parker's layup to remain within two, went the final 2:40 without a field goal and only one free throw by Stacia Robertson before Lindsay Puckett hit a 3-pointer with 5 seconds remaining.
"When we watch film, we talk about toughness plays, and that's what we try to define them as — as them coming up with those loose balls, as them executing," Hendrix said. "That's where we need to get better. ...
"I think the past week or two weeks, we've talked about just competing for 40 minutes. And I felt like we did that. Now, we're working hard and competing for 40 minutes, so we have to execute and work smart for 40 minutes. So we're making steps."
Chapman finished with 17 points while Amber Jones had 16 to lead the Blazers. Parker had 17 points and 19 rebounds while Puckett had 13 points to lead HPU, which continued to be without point guard Erin Reynolds, who is out indefinitely with a concussion suffered at Xavier.
The Panthers now hit the road for its next seven games, starting Friday against Monmouth in the Navy Classic in Maryland. Their next home game will be Jan. 3 against Charleston Southern.
"That's why we play nonconference; that's why you hit the road — because the conference tournament's on the road," Hendrix said. "So, we're trying to prepare for the conference tournament the best we can. It's going to be a long stretch, but we feel good going in."


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SpiderPet Mod for Minecraft. SpiderPet allows for the ability to tame spiders to be usable as pets – much like wolves – and as rideable mounts.
Simply craft the taming wand and load it with the appropriate items. Once the tool is ready, right-click the target spider with the tool. The tool will not be consumed, but the item within will be. Taming can be extremely dangerous due to proximity to a hostile spider, so the taming process grants some experience.
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Core Areas of Whitetail Bucks and how to Properly Hunt the Core Area
There are many deer hunting strategies one may employ to harvest a trophy whitetail.
1. You can scout field and food plots and set up your tree stand on the location where you see a trophy whitetail buck entering and exiting the field.
2. You can study aerial photos and select topographical advantages, like funnels, and play the waiting game.
3. You can hunt scrape lines.
4. You can hunt rub lines.
But what about when you scout an area of timber and find a bucks core area. Recently I hung a game camera on a clover food plot placed inside the timber on a small field, which cannot be viewed from the road. I call these types of food sources, hidden feeding sites. Hidden whitetail deer feeding sites are locations where crops are located on a field totally hidden from any roadway that can be seen by passing vehicles. After hanging the game camera for five days I returned to retrieve the camera only to discover a monster Boone and Crockett Buck was using the food plot, but only at night. Immediately I called a couple of our annual pass hunters that have purchased deer hunting on an unlimited basis for one year. With an annual pass one can hunt Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, Nebraska, and Kansas for an entire year on an unlimited basis for the cheap price of $15,000. While at first that figure may seem high it is relatively low when compared to purchasing a lease in five different states or buying five deer hunts in five different states. IMB Outfitters only sells six annual passes per year.
I called a couple annual pass holders, and told them they should come out as I knew where some big bucks were at right now, and that if they wished they could look in our photo gallery at the infrared camera page and see the deer for themselves. A couple hours later the annual pass holders called and indicated they would come later in the season when the rut was going on as the photos I had obtained with the trail camera were taken at night. Their theory was the bucks couldnt be killed because they were moving at night. I disagreed with them respectfully and was unable to convince them to come on out and start hunting in early October. While I respect their opinion of hunting during the rut, I dont agree that whitetail bucks captured at night via game cameras are only moving at night, however I realize some bucks are nocturnal. I also realize that during non rut conditions you need to be in a whitetail bucks core area.
After they declined to come out and start whitetail deer hunting, I ever so gently slipped into the food plot and determined what direction the big whitetail bucks were coming into the food plot from. I went to that end of the food plot and found a few decent deer trails leading into the food plot at the Southern end of the food plot. It was here I would begin to try and locate the whitetail bucks core area. I found a faint log road that looked to be the chief entrance into the Southern end of the food plot. My guess was that this faint log road if walked in reverse would take straight to the whitetail bucks core area. Scent free, rubber boots, medalist scent elimination clothing, and all with the right wind I began slowly walking down the faint log road that was leading into the food plot. Of course the further I walked down the log road the deeper I was getting into the timber. The first 100 yards of the log road just held some minor tracks and nothing more. The next 50 yards of the log road revealed a whitetail deer scrape that was active but no rubs were present thus far. The 50 yards yielded two more active scrapes that were slightly larger. It looked as if the whitetail buck had just hit the scrapes as they were very fresh. Then scrapes along the log road became more and more frequent and all of them were active and fresh. Looking to my right was two cedar trees about 18 inches in diameter. Both were literally demolished. Huge sign post rubs were on these cedar trees, and underneath them was the largest scrape of all. Within that sign post rub area I discovered a half a dozen active scrapes. Now a mere 150 yards was left of oak timber before the log road dropped off the ridge top, and into a nasty dense bed area, that looked something like out of Africa. I stopped walking and began to back up. I had found the perimeter of the trophy bucks core area. The sign post rubs, frequency of scrapes, and amount of tracks will become denser as you get closer to the core area.
The dumb whitetail deer hunter would have kept walking down into the bed area, and went to find a tree stand setup down in the bed area or too close to the core area of the whitetail buck. Since Ive been deer hunting a few years I knew better than to go any further no matter how much interest I had in looking. The last thing as a whitetail deer hunter you want to do is kick up a 5 year old Boone and Crockett Deer off his sanctuary and spook him from his core area. If you do this sometimes the buck will return without problem having associated no danger with you spooking him, some bucks will move to another core area, and some bucks will go nocturnal. Sometimes we give the whitetail deer too much credit, and sometimes we dont give them enough credit intellectually. Somewhere in the middle is where their intellect lies. However the smart whitetail deer hunter doesnt just charge into a whitetail bucks bed area to begin a series of hunts. Stay on the bed areas outskirts or what I call the core area of the whitetail buck.
I chose to setup where the sign posts rubs were located on the big scrape. Let me interupt here to say this. Note that during this scouting mission I did not have a deer stand with me. I do this on purpose. If you take a deer stand with you while doing scouting for whitetail deer, one is prone to hang the tree stand at the first good ambush location. Perhaps if I would have had a tree stand with me I would have gotten over anxious and set up the stand at the entrance to the log road, or at the first scrape I came to. I may never have continued my journey down the log road to discover the bed area of the whitetail deer. Perhaps I wouldnt have ever discovered the sign post rubs.
Upon determining that I needed to stay a good 125 yards away from the bed area, and begin a series of hunts over the sign post rubs and biggest scrapes, I had to pick the right tree to hunt from. I dont just hunt from a tree. I hunt from the tree. In this case I located the tree however it was a pin oak that took much work to set up a tree stand in. I marked the tree with a small piece of orange tape. I returned the next day and hung the tree stand. The scrapes again were active, thus that told me I probably hadnt been detected so far by the whitetail buck or bucks using the scrapes. I hung the tree stand in the middle of the day by myself without making too much noise, and left after cutting minimal shooting lanes. With shooting lanes in core areas you can cut too much, or not cut enough. You have to be able to have some windows to shoot through or there is no point in sitting there. However you can cut so much that the deer notice something is wrong. After I erected the tree stand and prepared my shooting lanes I left. Thats right I left. Patience and stealth is the key to being successful in core areas of whitetail bucks.
Two days later I returned for my first hunt from the location. As I sat in the tree stand I was about as excited as Ive ever been. I kept envisioning this monster buck walking up the log road, hitting the scrapes, and taking one of my arrows through both his lungs. That night I only saw 3 does. The dumb whitetail deer hunter would have moved the tree stand closer to the bed area for the 2nd hunt into the area. The wise deer hunter is patient.
The next day the wind was wrong for the tree stand. As bad as I wanted to hunt the monster buck in his core area I refused to do it in the wrong wind. The next day I had the same wind. I refused to hunt this location again. Wrong wind direction. We are literally talking about a buck I know I can kill, and am having trouble sleeping at night because I want on that tree stand so bad, but I had to discipline myself and stay out until we have the right wind.
The end to this scenario is unknown as I have the wrong wind again today, but tomorrow looks super. Perhaps I will post the results of this venture at another time, but we need to address several things in order to prepare you for hunting core areas of whitetail bucks.
WHERE TO START HUNTING THE CORE AREA: Whitetail deer hunters have to begin starting the core area on its outskirts. Im not telling you to stay 500 yards away from the core area. Im simply telling you not to begin hunt the core area from its closest distance to the bed area. Start on the outskirts and every couple hunts that you dont see the trophy buck, move the stand location a little closer to exactly where you think the buck is bedded. In the scenario above I will probably make 100 yards moves closer and closer to the bed area until I put an arrow through his lungs for him.
WHEN TO HUNT THE CORE AREA OF A WHITETAIL BUCK: No matter how impatient you are as a person or how good the deer sign looks, dont hunt the core area with a bad wind. This will push the buck from the area quicker than anything else.
WHY WE HUNT THE CORE AREA OF A WHITETAIL BUCK: You want to hunt core areas of trophy whitetail bucks as this is where the majority of their time is spent. As one may assume you want to be where he is. Especially during non rut conditions, I feel if you wanna kill a monster buck you need to either have one patterned on a food source or find the core area. Anything less is most generally luck. (Not to say luck isnt a part of any trophy whitetail buck strategy that produces results.) Think in simpler terms. If you wanted to kill me, you could wait at one of the restaraunts I eat at, or wait where I pick my wife up from work, or you could sit in my living room and wait for me to come home. When you hunt the core area you are in the living room. Success rates soar in the core area for harvest of a whitetail buck.
SENSITIVITY OF THE CORE AREA OF THE WHITETAIL BUCK: Remember that unlike hunting other ambush locations you will need to take special care and take enhanced precautions to effectively hunt a bucks core area. You will want to cut as few shooting lanes as possible. You will want to sneak into your tree stand and not just walk in. You will never hunt the core area in the wrong wind. You will be on special alert as in the core area it will be denser more often than not. One minute you may have no deer in sight and the next minute they be right under your tree. Core area hunting of whitetail deer, in close proximity to the bed area is not a location for a casual or novice whitetail hunter. When using a climbing tree stand you dont just want to climb up the tree. You want to crawl up the tree and make no noise with the climber at all. Move easy. Use scent elimination products from Hunter Specialties and Medalist Clothing. Dont rattle horns. I know rattling horns for bucks does work but more often the buck will be immediately placed upon alert and be looking for your location. If you want to give your location away in a core area of a whitetail deer then go rattling some horns. You wont even know hes located your position, but he will. Especially during non rut conditions in the Midwest, Boone and Crockett Bucks dont run blindlessly into a hunter smashing a set of horns together.
HOW OFTEN DO YOU HUNT THE CORE AREA OF THE WHITETAIL BUCK? Be careful. Not wreckless. Remember that every time you sit in a tree stand, whether you are seeing deer or not your body is depositing human scent beneath your stand. I rarely hunt a core area with a bow, more than 1 out of every 3 days. Have a backup or alternative location to hunt so you wont wear out an area.
WHEN TO GIVE UP ON HUNTING THE CORE AREA OF WHITETAIL BUCK. As aforementioned you should start hunting the perimeter of the core area of the whitetail buck at its further destination that you believe may yield a shot chance. Then every couple hunts move 100 yards closer to the bed area or whatever distance you feel most comfortable with. Youve exhausted all strategies when the series of whitetail hunts is over and your actually positioned in the bed area, as youve moved closer and closer from the outskirts of the core area. After a couple hunts in the bed area if you havent seen him then one of a few things has occurred.
1. Youve been detected at some point and he has left the area for good, only to return during the rut to chase does.
2. Youre hunting a buck that is solely nocturnal.
3. Hes moved onto another area.
Sometimes you just gotta know when your beat and quit to move to another location. The quickest way to lose the battle with that trophy buck is being over zealous and getting in too close too fast and hunting it too often. Core areas will cough up huge deer if you hunt them right and follow these rules.
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Luo Qing Chuan is a modern day girl with a love of history who accidentally travels back in time to Emperor Kang Xi's era of the Qing dynasty. She becomes embroiled in the princes' struggle for the throne and is torn between her love for Yin Si, the eighth prince, and Yin Zhen, the fourth prince and future Emperor Yong Zheng. Caught in the crossfire of political intrigue, her wit and historical knowledge serves her well in her bid to stay alive as she begins to realize that true history is much darker and uglier than books portray.
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The beginning of the Drama begins with Luo Qing Chuan, the Time Traveling Protagonist being back in the Qing Dynasty. She is in a Dream where Yin Zhen had gotten a Shaman to bring her back. But through many dialogues and action, she wakes up from the dream. It turns out she has returned with her Husband, Yin Si and they live a modern life. Qing Chuan had written her Journey and turned it into a Drama, which she starred in. She just finished writing the Sequel and was supposed to be shooting the Drama on the day of Yin Si's and her Anniversary. She had remembered as she talked to Lian Er and quit the acting job and suggested Lian Er to take her place. The Director had questioned it but then agreed. The Series revolves around Lian Er, a girl in the Qing Dynasty who lived during the reign of Emperor Yong Zheng. She is stuck in a Love Triangle of Yong Zheng and Prince Guo.
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At birth, Lian Cheng was exchanged for a baby boy Heng Tai. From then on their fates became totally different. Lian Cheng grew up in the streets and worked at brothels, while Heng Tai grew up in the majestic Wei'e general's mansion. By a mysterious coincidence, Lian Cheng and Heng Tai meet and gradually fall in love, resulting in Lian Cheng returning to the general mansion, her birth home. However, their love is not looked upon kindly, and meet with several obstacles along the way.
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Police in Belarus have arrested dozens of people in a crackdown on planned anti-government protests, according to activists.
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The comments were in reference to the series of protests that led to the change of leadership in other ex-Soviet republics such as Georgia and Ukraine in 2003-2004.
"They want to bring us to our knees," the former Soviet state farm director declared. "This is not going to happen."
Plain-clothes police started leading away several young people apparently identified as potential protesters even before Lukashenko had begun speaking.
Around 20 people were arrested, including Pavel Sverdlov, the correspondent for EU-funded and Poland-based Belarussian radio Evroradio, said Nastasya Loiko of the Vyasna (Spring) rights group.
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The protesters, responding to calls on the site, sought to show their dissatisfaction with Lukashenko by continuously clapping their hands, with police moving in to arrest those who participated.
Opposition to Lukashenko has grown bolder in the tightly controlled eastern European nation of 9.5 million as it struggles to overcome a currency crisis. The balance of payments crisis was caused by a 30-40 per cent hikes in public sector wages and pensions last year.
It was aimed at ensuring Lukashenko's comfortable re-election last December, but ended up creating a current account trade deficit.
That led to a 36 per cent devaluation of the Belarussian rouble last year, virtually wiping out the gains of the wage rises and severely curbing companies' means of purchasing vital imports.
The crisis has emboldened a younger wave of protesters, outside the established opposition mainstream, to issue online calls for "silent" protests, marked only by clapping.Long a pariah in the West because of his rough handling of the political opposition, Lukashenko is being pushed further towards Russia which long subsidised the Belarussian economy with cheap oil and gas supplies.
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I will immediately disappoint all conspiracy addicts by saying "There ain't no gold conspiracy." No one is keeping the paper (futures) price down while the physical market is up.
I am soooo tired of reading these silly conspiracy ideas about everything. Who started this way of thinking, anyway?
If anyone seriously thinks that the securities like GLD, SLV, and futures contracts are being depressed unduly, they should be loading up on them!
You can buy bullion at bullionvault last I looked and at any number of other mints and places like Perth Mint or Royal Canadian.
I know my saying so won't stop this. In fact, my conspiracy e-mails will now go up as everyone attempts to prove to me that I'm wrong. Sorry, I'll just delete any of them without my usual courteous reply.
There is some economic content here. Coin dealers have had stockouts of coins because of a rush to buy coins in the last few weeks. Some who deal on e-bay and are not established dealers raised their prices to ration the short supply. But the established dealers took orders at market prices and told people there would be delivery delays.
A grocer running low does not suddenly jack up prices because that alienates customers who have a long-term relationship with that grocer. He gives a raincheck. There is more than one way to clear a market.
The coin market is not the same as the bullion market, but they cannot disconnect for very long. The gold coin mints use bullion to make the coins.
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SOUTH KINGSTOWN–The South Kingstown boys lacrosse team controlled Cumberland for the majority of Saturday's hard-fought Division II matchup on its way to an 8-3 victory.
Junior captain Chad Mitchell was a force for the Rebels, netting five goals and assisting on two others.
His points were also timely, breaking a tie game and scoring five of SK's final six goals.
Both teams set a defensive tone early, exchanging turnovers and a few meager scoring opportunities.
Senior Owen Glanville got the game's first points for the Rebels, slinging in an unassisted goal with around six minutes left in the first quarter.
Junior Nick Zaroogian then doubled the Rebels' advantage with a little over 20 seconds remaining in the opening quarter off an assist from Mitchell to give his team a two-goals lead heading into the second.
Clipper Conor Fleurant scored off an assist from Christopher Hayes to put Cumberland on the scoreboard with 9:51 to go in the first half. and soon after midfielder John Buckley netted a goal of his own to tie the game.
The rest of the half, however, belonged to Mitchell.
The SK captain scored three straight goals to end the half to put the Rebels ahead 5-2 at the break.
His first two scores were unassisted and the second was scored off a Zaroogian assist with a man-up advantage.
SK came out in the second half just as motivated. Zaroogian netted his second of the game with a little over nine minutes left in the third quarter and Mitchell added two more goals to round out the scoring for SK.
"It was a good game, Cumberland is a real good team [and] we always enjoy playing them," SK head coach Tom Duggan said. "What was good from our perspective is that we played four quarters and we played both ends of the field.
"We got some good, solid offensive play and we got some good, solid defensive play and that's what we've been trying to nail down all season thus far."
Though the final score may seem distorted, the game was a hard-hitting, defense-driven matchup for the most part and Duggan was encouraged with the way his team battled through some early missed opportunities.
"When things aren't going just like you want them to go the tendency is to start doing things you normally don't and we remained focused on the game plan and it worked out," said Duggan. "Defense is getting more and more confidence. We don't have any seniors; we have one junior, the rest are sophomore and freshman. They've really been starting to come together."
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Stevia just doesn't seem to sweeten...
I have used Sweetleaf Stevia powder extract in about 10 different baking projects now and it seems to have very limited ability to sweeten. Thankfully I'm not really detecting any bitterness or nasty overtones but just a lack of sweetness. Anyone else notice this? Maybe I'll throw in a little of the E to it and that will do...
I never found stevia sweet enough until I started mixing it with Splenda. I found that to be a very good mix.
All sweeteners seem to pack a stronger punch of sweetness in combination with 1 or 2 sweeteners. Even Dr. Atkins said this in DANDR. I have always used at least 2 mixed, and sometimes 3 different sweeteners in chocolate desserts, which I find particularly hard get sweet enough to suit me.
My favorite mix is Erythritol, sucralose, and stevia, but any 2 will do.
Just remember that erythritol is 70% as sweet as sugar and compensate accordingly.
The only way stevia is sweet is mixed with something. Otherwise it is just so bitter to me
I use 1/2 tbsp sweet leaf to 1/2 cup sugar. So, if my recipe calls for a cup of sugar I use 1 tbsp sweet leaf.
I also find that it will get sweeter the next day. This is particularly true in my coffee and tea. I will add sweet leaf to my coffee as I brew it in my keurig and put it in the fridge for iced coffee the next morning. It's definitely sweeter.
And if that doesn't work, I'm resorting to a combination of erythritol + stevia from now on, because I just tried that method today and it worked really well. I used mostly stevia and added a little bit of the E to it, and it achieved sufficient sweetness.
I have never noticed an aftertaste with it. I buy them in a two pack from Amazon. I use it in my tea, coffee and baked goods and I can get a month out of each container.
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I have used several brands of stevia and was only disapointed with SweetLeaf.
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DALLAS, November 2, 2013 ― Two days after Halloween, most kids' candy stashes are thinning out and most of the chocolate bars have already been eaten. If industry predictions are correct, chocolate bars may become a rare treat not found in as many candy buckets next year.
Demand steadily outpaces supply capabilities, which could result in the price of cocoa doubling in less than a decade.
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While demand has stayed mostly flat in Europe and North America, experts expect Asian markets to expand rapidly, leading to a shortfall of one million tons of cocoa beans by 2020. Cocoa demand rises on average three percent a year while supply has remained flat, according to Christopher DaVault of Mars, Inc. Unless this trend changes, it could lead to shortages that will drive up prices and make chocolate treats harder to come by.
Many other crops experienced a "green revolution" in the 20th century. For example, corn yields have increased five fold since the 1930s. In that same time, cocoa yields have remained flat. Until recently, cocoa has been an "orphan crop" that was not studied by scientists, thus missing the green revolution that lead to massive increases in crop yields for most cash crops.
There are between five and six million cocoa farmers worldwide, the vast majority of which are small family farms in Africa. These small farms — an average of 7-10 acres in West Africa — are in developing countries that may face political instabilities among other problems according to the International Cocoa Initiative.
Child labor is also a problem in cocoa farming. While many children help on their families' cocoa farms, much as on any other farm, there are reports of unsafe and inappropriate child labor and even child trafficking. Additionally, because of the impoverished areas in which many cocoa farms are located, many children do not have access to education. In 2002, industry leaders formed the International Cocoa Initiative to address the issues of child labor and adopted the Harkin-Engel Protocol to eliminate the worst forms of child labor.
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To meet future demand and insure the future of cocoa, the major cocoa companies have adopted goals that all cocoa be certified as sustainable by 2020. "Mars is on track to meet our goal to certify 100 percent of its cocoa as sustainably produced by 2020," said DaVault. "If the industry works together we can help millions of cocoa farmers worldwide and ensure that cocoa is sustainable."
Addressing the problem of flat crop yields, researchers have "adopted" the orphan cocoa crop. In 2011, Mars and IBM successfully mapped a cocoa genome. They released the data to other researchers with hopes that increased research will increase the productivity of the small farms. They are working on mapping the genomes of 150 other varieties of cocoa beans. Among other things, they hope to learn how to allow farmers to know which trees are high producers and disease resistant without waiting the three to five years for the tree to mature and begin producing fruit.
There are also efforts being made to help farmers increase yields through increased productivity, such as Mars's Sustainable Cocoa Initiative. In addition to creating stronger plants through the genome mapping project, these efforts hope to increase productivity through providing training in agricultural methods that have improved other crops, such as grafting, pruning, and improved fertilizer use.
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- 1 tablespoon extra-virgin olive oil
- 1 scallion, chopped fine
Halve squash lengthwise and discard seeds and strings. Using outer ridges as a guide, cut squash lengthwise into sections. Arrange squash on a steamer rack in a saucepan and steam over boiling water, covered, until tender, about 15 minutes.
While squash is steaming, in a bowl whisk together lime juice, oil, and salt and pepper to taste.
On a platter drizzle squash with dressing and sprinkle with scallion.
my notes
Nutrition Informationper serving (2 servings) POWERED BY Edamam
- Calories124
- Carbohydrates17 g (6%)
- Fat7 g (11%)
- Protein1 g (3%)
- Saturated Fat1 g (5%)
- Sodium6 mg (0%)
- Polyunsaturated Fat1 g
- Fiber2 g (10%)
- Monounsaturated Fat5 g
- Cholesterol0
recipe at a glance
type: Quick & Easy, Vegetable
main ingredients: Squash
dietary considerations: High Fiber
holiday/celebration: Fall