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The culture cup | Copping awards for purple prose, Icelandic chic and fish graphics
In a football tribute that defies category, Hakkeijima Sea Paradise in Yokohama staged a piscine World Cup, with matches twice per day. Their website advertises the spectacular. |
FIFA may have its Golden Boot, but notable performances at the 2006 World Cup finals were not confined to the pitch:
Best use of website graphics to promote alternative World Cups (underwater division): We preferred the manga-inspired efforts of Hakkeijima Sea Paradise in Yokohama to get football lovers out to the fish tanks to see the matches pitting yellow tang versus blue palette surgeonfish. The blue fish stood in for Japan, naturally, while the yellow tang represented group-stage foes Brazil, who swam rings around the blue-paletted "Japanese." Blue palette surgeonfish "tend to stay at a corner of the fish tank," according to an aquarium spokesman.
Cover art for the "Allez Zizou" single comes from Polish illustrator Jacek Wozniak. |
Best musical tribute to tonsured French footballer (over 30): Well before the unfortunate clash between Zinédine Zidane and Marco Materazzi in the final—the inspiration for the post-Cup sensation "Coup de boule" (Head butt)—an ad hoc assemblage tagging themselves "Les Zizous" created a more conventional homage. A bistro operator at Ménilmontant in Paris and musical friends combined on "Allez Zizou (Wallé)," which climbed the charts as Les Bleus survived the group stage and then gathered momentum versus Spain, Brazil and Portugal. They sing of the side's merits and Zizou's essential role, of a goal coming from the sky and a cock crowing:
L'équipe mérite, le match de la finale
Ta porte est chance, Berlin est amicale
Une tête qui plante, le but arrive du ciel
Esprit du groupe, le coq sonne le réveil
The song represents a large improvement over repetitious wailings of Polish band Trawnik and their own "Zinedin Zidane."
Best shoe advertisement featuring Baptist Church–inspired gospel choir: We return to Japan with acknowledgment to The Spirit of Football 2006 for calling our attention to an upbeat promotion for the Onitsuka Tiger Injectorâ"¢ DX athletic shoe. Known for its offbeat advertising, the Onitsuka Tiger brand, a division of Asics, has existed since 1949. According to the company website:
As the Japanese people recovered from the war and began to appreciate the benefits of sports, Onitsuka Tiger shoes were on their feet. The first basketball shoes in Japan had a tiger face design on the arch of the foot and this became Onitsuka's trademark.
In the past, marketers have devised an ongoing saga tied to the Summer Olympics, in which Kenshi, the so-called Running Fish Gutter, tries to "run" to the site of the Games, wearing tiny Onitsuka Tiger shoes on his miraculous fish-gutting fingers. For the 2006 World Cup, an extremely zealous church choir, with swaying polyester robes, sings of the shoe's merits for scoring goals. They even have a kind word for "lovely linesmen."
Most lamentable absence of European nation renowned for a bewitching waif-like singer: Again we were crestfallen not to see Iceland represented in the finals stage. This is mainly because we want to know the precise relationship between punk/techno vocalist Björk Gudmundsí°ottir and football, and we thought that the side's qualification might help flesh this out, as well as gain more prominence for the oeuvre of Björk favorite Halldór Laxness. It was not to be, as Iceland finished next to last in Group 8 of the European qualification zone.
Our suspicions about Björk were stirred through an 8,800-word New Yorker profile in 2004. First, she shows a passion for Brazilian carnival. Hmm. She mentions fascination with the marriage of David and Victoria Beckham. Then, she points out an obscure Reykjavík newspaper story with the headline, "Tire tracks in football field." Can it be much longer before she is booked for halftime festivities at a major FIFA or UEFA competition? Certainly a step up from Las Ketchup.
Most egregious oversight by Montevideo press bureaus in advance of a World Cup qualifying playoff: Could Australia's qualification-playoff victory versus Uruguay in November 2005 have been motivated by the plight of Melbourne Park Hyatt maid Louise Kelsey? We doubt it very much, but foreign correspondents in the Uruguayan capital appear to have sidestepped the question.
Before an identical qualifying tie preceding the 2002 finals—a tie that Uruguay won in November 2001—Kelsey, 58, said her nystagmus, a congenital condition causing involuntary eye movements, became aggravated following an unsolicited kiss from one of the Uruguay players after she had finished cleaning a room. Last October, according to Australian Associated Press accounts, her employer's insurance company conceded liability in Victorian County Court. Kelsey was declared blind in 2002 and now requires a guide dog. In her court testimony, Kelsey said the player flirted with her, complimented her "Spanish eyes" and pulled at her uniform. "I just put my hands up in a stop signal," Kelsey told the court, "and I said, 'Don't, this is Australia.' "
Best use of Flash animation in depicting immigrant football cultures: The film that captured our eye in the Australian Special Broadcasting Service telecast of short films about football is Amine, by Susan Danta of the Australian Film Television and Radio School. The animated short depicts the life soccer memories of an Algerian immigrant, particularly his attachment to and memories of his father. Laboriously created by a rotoscoping technique, which involves drawing over preexisting film frames and reintegrating them into video, the movie incorporates scrapbooking, street soccer and Algerian football history to weave a story of integration into multicultural Australia. Other films are Fab Fabi, about a female Australian player with Uruguayan background; Street Soccer, about a homeless team; JFC Blue Winds, about a team in Sydney's Japanese community; and Round Ball, about one youth's obsession with the game.
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Best Web posting on a Lusophone theme: Jose Murilo Junior thrilled us with his posts on Global Voices Online throughout the tournament. Translating from Web logs from Brazil, Portugal, Angola and other lands that have histories of Portuguese influence—the "Lusophone" countries, derived from the name of the ancient territory that coincided with modern Portugal, Lusitania—Murilo Junior pleasantly renders accounts of zeal for and disaffection with the game. He shows that not everyone was so smitten with the daily media overdose. He quotes from the writer of "Não-post" (The non-post, Jun 19) on "The Estrogen Diaries" from Portugal: "If everybody knows that blog posts are supposed to be a kind of augmenting / distorting / diminishing mirror of daily life, and if I can't hear about anything else, how to escape this state of trying not to write a post about football?" The sentiment runs harsher in the words of Carlos Narciso, in "A alegria do povo não é o ópio de toda a gente" (The people's happiness is not the opiate of everybody, May 19):
I am running from the great slaughter. I can't stand any more "information" about the World Cup. I am on the verge of getting crazy with the fans, the fans' opinions, the commentators' comments, the coaches, the ex-players. … Also the "reports" about the football stars and the showbiz, the wives, the players' girlfriends, the ex-wives and the soon-to-be girlfriends, the ex-wives and ex-girlfriends of the presidents, or the ex-wives and ex-girlfriends of the ex-presidents.
From East Timor, colonized by Portugal in the 16th century, Murilo Junior quotes blogger Angela Carrascalão Sábado, who praises Radio-Televisão Timor Leste (RTTL), the national broadcaster, for showing the games on terrestrial television.
With the attacks at various places in the city, not all have TVs. … Portugal, Angola and Brazil capture the largest degree of sympathy from the Timorese, fans of Ronaldo, Deco, Figo, Pauleta, among others. Speaking for myself, today I froze all my anguishes about the present situation of my Timorese country. I have traded for the anguishes of football as I watch my Portuguese countries play. I suffer, from my balcony—which is to say, my living room's sofa—I scream, I get up, get nervous, turn the face. "¦ So to say, all those senseless things done by those infected by the ball! ("Mundial," Jun 17)
Jason and Randy Sklar (left to right), hosts of the cable show Cheap Seats on ESPN Classic. (Copyright © Cole Stratton) |
Most embarrassing perpetuation of hooliganism stereotype in the guise of irony-laced witticisms: We suppose that cringeworthy comedy is not all bad. But when it shows off Americans as ignorant smart-asses, we are not so sure. We were actually cringing when listening to Jason and Randy Sklar on National Public Radio ("Additions to the U.K. World Cup Etiquette Guide," May 25). The pair recycled the tired tweaking of English hooligans as if misbehavior surrounding sports events were completely unfamiliar back home.
These violent bands of rogues have been known to travel to other cities for soccer matches and start bar fights …
light cars on fire …
break storefront windows …
urinate freely on historical monuments …
and this is all before the game even starts.
We're sorry but this sounds more like a typical weekend evening on campus at one of America's eilte universities.
Best use of alliteration and off-color analogies to characterize football as the primary hope for world peace: Naturally with an event as large as the World Cup the tendency is for writers to overelaborate. We think that few, however, reached farther for words of praise than Justus Nwakanma of the Daily Champion of Lagos. Nwakanma's column of Jun 9, "Football, Metaphor of Mankind," no longer is available online, but it well represents an extreme that places football among the noblest human pursuits. Nwakanma begins: "There is no single event in world history today or in time to come, that can uproot the flurry of excitement, or the flutter of followership that football commands; not even the worst tragedies of mankind have the propensity to elicit joy and sadness simultaneously, while crowning their denouement in a feast of flowing camaraderie." Later, he adds to football's credit:
As a universal language of globalization, its permissive potency in destroying the oppressive tendencies of nationalistic, class-based, ethnic-oriented, hegemonic and gender-specific notions of identity and culture [is] unmatched.
Football is like lovemaking. It begins with the foreplay, touching of the sensitive parts, the penetration then the orgasm and finally, the ejaculation. In loving-making, there is no winner, nor loser. In football, there is no victor, no vanquished, only a recess. And when football is on stage, even love goes on recess.


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We beat LA. We swept LA. We took first place from LA. They kind of took It's Magic Inside from us but, really, that's fine, they're welcome to it. They're also welcome to It's September Inside. (You don't say! Here was me thinking it was a different month inside and outside the stadium. Nice to hear it's September inside, too.)
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FermerFerrari leads the Constructors' World Championship after the opening round with thirty points.
Fernando Alonso finished the Australian Grand Prix, the first and unpredictable round of the world championship, in second place, Starting from fifth on the grid at the Albert Park circuit, the Spaniard finished behind the Lotus of Kimi Raikkonen, while in the other Ferrari, Felipe Massa came home fourth.
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Honda Civic Accessories and Modifications
after two years of owning my 1999 civic ex i was beginning to get bored. last year i installed a bozooka tube. please bear in mind that if you splice the wires it will void your new car warranty. couple of months ago i installed an air horn system. again all work was done by me without splicing any wires. ask here or e-mail if interested in details
gasguzz Posts: 2142k-EX. That could be relative. How did you hook up the Bazooka signal, speaker level? That voids your warranty - installation of a non-spec part. I swapped out the head/speakers with aftermarket units, and added a 10" passive bazooka. That effectively voids the stereo system.
Personally, I saw no point in getting a connector/adapter to mate between the factory dash wiring connector and the Blaupunkt CD-Player. What for, since you have to splice somewhere - I made my own custom distribution-block. Besides, you're still out of warranty the moment you installed the aftermarket head (irrelevant of keeping the oem connector intact).
I did, however, disassemble the speaker connectors and hooked up the spade female terminals directly to the Pioneer Front-6.5s/Rear-6x9s. No splicing, but still voiding the warranty - again, installation of non-spec parts (even though the oem speakers are Pioneer).
Finally, when you plan and verify every connection with a multi-meter, then specific warranties are relative. -
dudka Posts: 451the bazooka is connected at the speaker level, i just stripped the bazooka wire and stuck it in the connector on either side, ran a power wire from the fuse block (i bought "add a circuit" fuse block) and put in the spot where the lighter fuze was. if i have to take my honda to the dealer and i have a suspision that he will be a prick, i can easily disconnect the bazooka, and take it out. it will take less than a minute. i am a little bit weary of replacing the rear speakers, it seems like i would have to remove the hat shelf (rear shelf), the door speakers are easily replacable, but i haven`t done anything, because bazooka gives me enough base, so i don`t have to crank the stereo, and i don`t get to the point where the stock speakers start fuzzing.
deluxcar Posts: 47butler13:
Just installed the Clarion DB225 AM/FM CD Player (with digital clock) in our 2002 Civic LX Sedan. Total price for the 50Wx4 player, including mounting kit and installation was $200.
The system is in a brushed aluminium color that blends perfectly with the other interior components of LX. The blue display is particularly impressive. -
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moparbad Posts: 3,842I want to add a 12 V lighter or power outlet to the right of the shifter where a blank button is located. Anyone done this and can you help me do it? The Si TypeR that is sold in UK has a lighter already installed in the location that I want to install one.
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jfigueroa1 Posts: 209I am a happy owner of a 02 civic 2dr lx a/t and a 02 cr-v the floor mats on the civic are twice as thick and look better than the cr-v. The cr-v are very thin and after a few month the right heel area was looking thinner i bought a set of all weather mats they are nice and thick and that will protect the mats.
Greetings from sunny Miami -
edwarda1 Posts: 18I purchased my 2001 Civic EX Coupe used with 10,250miles. The original owner had started to modify the car with a Apexi performance exhaust and Motegi wheels. For whatever reason he traded the car for a new Maxima.The exhaust was too noisy for me and I replaced it. I would like to sell it but don't know how. The list on it was $599.00. Would appreciate ideas. Thanks
tdat Posts: 27I just bought '03 LX Coupe and am looking to install security system and keyless entry. I know I could get the parts/system from www.honda-accessories.com but I was wondering...
Are they pretty easy to install? I read in the installation instruction that Honda doesn't recommend the installation to the do-it-yourselfers... -
jfigueroa1 Posts: 209I did installed a keyless entry on my o2 cr-v and it was very easy, about the Security System it might take a little more reading and time but, what tell you that if you take it to the honda dealer to have it done the guy might be doin the same thing "reading the instruction" and charge you lots of $$.
Greetings from sunny miami. -
tdat Posts: 27http://www.handa-accessories.com is selling them for $120 each ($240 total). I had one dealer match their price plus shipping with $100 for installation. the second dealer wouldn't budge from $190/$175 for parts and over $200 for installation! Guess which dealer I'm never going back to!
I placed an order with Handa-accessories and am planning to install myself. I will report back with my experience.... -
tdat Posts: 27I received my order from Handa-accessorries and attempted installation tonight. After an hour an half, I managed to install the security system but not keyless entry.
The installation instruction for security system mentions "removeing the bold that secures the cruise control unit to the steering column bracket". I looked everywhere for 30 minutes before giving up on locating the cruise control unit. Since the cruise control unit itself is not involved except securing the security system unit, I found another location to secure the security system unit.
The manual for keyless entry system instructs "Remove the dashboard center lower cover by gently prying out the lower cover to release the six retaining clip". It looked to me, however, that won't be possible without either taking out entire center colsole from the dashboard or taking out the center console. I could figure out how to do either. So, I gave up.
Any insight on how to remove "the dashboard center lower cover" would be appreciated. By the way, it's the one with accessory socket and the optional flog light switch.
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12.28pm: This is from ITV's Tom Bradby on Twitter.
It is amazing to think that the emerging countries weren't even invited to
these summits 5 years ago. Now they are dictating terms.
11.53am: Arnaud isn't the only journalist being told that the summit could
tank. We've just heard heard exactly the same message. The talks are an a
"knife edge", we're told, and there is no guarantee that there are going
to be any firm conclusions. There will be a communique, of course, but the
issue is whether it contains specific measures to firm up the eurozone
rescue plan or whether it is largely waffle. From what we can tell, it
seems that the eurozone countries are coming under firm pressure to firm
up the details of the Greek rescue package that they announced last week.
(As is said earlier, it is woefully thin - as you can see for yourself, it
only runs to seven paragraphs.) It looks as if the Americans and others
are refusing to put money into the IMF unless the eurozone countries firm
up their plans too.
There is often brinkmanship in the final moments of these summits, and it
is probably too soon to sell all your shares and run for the hills yet,
but a glittering success looks unlikely. Nicolas Sarkozy is due to give
his press conference at 2.15pm. The markets will still be open. It will
probably be up to them to deliver the final verdict.
11.42am: Leparmentier Arnaud is a Le Monde journalist, and he thinks the
summit could fail. He's just posted this on Twitter.
Il faut peut etre le dire: #echec du #G20 est tres possible
That translates as: It has to be said. Failure at the G20 is a real
11.24am: More on Italy. This is from Sam Fleming, the Times's economics
editor, on Twitter.
Italy was pushed in the G20 talks to accept an IMF credit line but
unsurprisingly rejected this; some sort of IMF monitoring more likely
John McDermott on the Financial Times's Alphaville blog has a good post
explaining why Italy is so important. Here's an extract.
The Italian endgame is getting nearer and a crisis is "increasingly
probable, and would do much to expose the inadequacies of the bailout
mechanism as a whole", warns Citigroup's Matt King.
Earlier I said that Italy was "on the naughty step", which I'm afraid is a
bit of cliche and probably on for John Rentoul's banned list. (I haven't
read his Banned List book yet, but I'm told it's excellent.) Channel 4's
Gary Gibbon has got a more vivid metaphor. He says on his blog Silvio
Berlusconi, the Italian prime minister, is "under economic house arrest".
The German political establishment sees Silvio Berlusconi as a
catastrophic menace and perhaps the biggest single obstacle to world
economic stability. They would dearly like him removed from the political
picture and it will be interesting to see what phone calls there are
between now and next week between senior European figures and Italian
politicians to, how shall we put this, reconfigure Italian politics.
11.12am: Brendan Barber, the TUC general secretary, is in Cannes as part
of the L20, a group of trade union leaders invited by Nicolas Sarkozy to
the summit alongside the B20 group of business chiefs. Barber held a press
conference this morning. My colleague Larry Elliott was there and he sent
me this.
Barber said the G20 would announce an employment task group with a
particular focus on youth joblessness amid growing concern about the
worsening outlook for global labour markets. G20 ministers will be be in
charge of the task group with input from both business and unions.
"We have met 10 heads of government in the last 36 hours, including Barack
Obama and David Cameron", Barber said. "Our main message is the need to
put jobs up the agenda. Obama said he thought the emphasis should be put
on jobs and growth rather than austerity. He was very positive about the
labour movement having a strong voice and said that in some parts of the
world the financial crisis was being used to attack labour rights."
11.00am: I have never really thought of Japan as a pioneer in the field of
open government, but now I'm revising my opinion. I've just seen the
Japanese government's English language briefing on the meeting between
Yoshihiko Noda, the Japanese prime minister, and David Cameron. It wasn't
a particularly interesting meeting. But the Japanese told us a lot more
about it than the British.
This is what Number 10 told us in their read-out.
The Prime Minister met Prime Minister Noda of Japan this morning. They
discussed the global economy and agreed on the importance that the
eurozone made progress on implementing the deal agreed last week. Prime
Minister Noda welcomed the Prime Minister's report on Global Governance
and said he looked forward to seeing the full report when it is discussed
later this evening. They also agreed to build on the strong relationship
between our two countries, particularly through trade, investment and
defence co-operation. The Prime Minister expressed regret that his planned
visit to Japan was postponed and said that he looked forward to
rearranging his visit to Japan.
And here is the first paragraph of the Japanese statement about the
On Thursday, November 3, Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda, who is visiting
Cannes for the G20 Summit, held a meeting with the Rt Hon David Cameron
MP, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (UK), from 11:39 a.m. local time
(7:39 p.m. Japan time) for around 20 minutes. The overview of the meeting
is as follows (Attending on the Japanese side were: Mr. Jun Azumi,
Minister of Finance; Mr. Hiroyuki Nagahama, Deputy Chief Cabinet
Secretary; Mr. Hiranao Honda, Special Advisor to the Prime Minister; among
others. Attending on the UK side were: Sir Jonathan Cunliffe, Europe and
Global Issues Adviser; Sir Peter Ricketts, National Security Adviser;
among others.).
There are five more paragraphs, covering all the subjects that came up. (I
notice that Cameron tried to flog some Eurofighters.) As I said, it's not
paticularly interesting. But it is very thorough.
10.42am: ActionAid produced a helpful summary of development news from the
G20 yesterday. Here's their summary from today.
o On Friday G20 leaders are signing what is described as a "convention on
fighting tax evasion". It is the only convention that will be signed by
all the G20 leaders at the Cannes summit. Martin Hearson, ActionAid's tax
policy adviser, said: "The convention is a tool to help countries share
information on taxpayers with each other. A number of countries will sign
only letters of intent, but the collective endorsement is nonetheless a
step forward on tax transparency."
The proliferation of bilateral deals with Switzerland, which leave secrecy
intact, demonstrates that a global initiative on tax havens is necessary.
However, ActionAid says there are reasons to question the effectiveness of
the convention. It is based on standards set by the OECD on information
exchange between the tax authorities of different countries, but the
effectiveness of those standards is unclear.
o A 'blacklist' of uncooperative jurisdictions published at the 2009
London G20 summit was effectively updated in advance of the summit with a
higher standard of compliance. Eleven jurisdictions have been included in
'black' and 'grey' lists, although the report will not describe them as
such. President Sarkozy told NGOs on Wednesday that the fight against tax
havens "will be no use without a [black]list."
ActionAid understands the current communique draft acknowledges for the
first time the damaging effect on developing countries of tax havens and
tax dodging by multinational companies. These are welcome words which need
to be backed up with action by the G20.
o ActionAid understands that the current draft of the G20 communique will
not take up the recommendation made by the Gates report as well as a
report commissioned by the G20 from international organisations including
the OECD, IMF and UN to force oil and mining companies to publish the
payments they make to governments. This would be a missed opportunity.
10.21am: Here's a summary of some of the overnight G20 news from the news
o G20 leaders are reportedly discussing boosting the IMF's lending power
by $250bn. As Reuters reports, the idea being discussed is to replicate a
2009 decision by G20 leaders that agreed to a special allocation of $250
billion of IMF Special Drawing Rights, the IMF's internal unit of account,
to its 187 member countries. Some members could choose to sell part or all
of their new SDR allocations to other members in exchange for hard
currency, for example to meet balance of payments needs, while other
members could buy more SDRs as a means of reallocating their reserves. One
source from a large emerging market country said that if euro zone
countries combined their SDR allocations, it could make available roughly
$200 billion to Europe.
o China has firmly resisted calls to allow it currency to appreciate. As
Aaron Back reports in a post on the Wall Street Journal's G20 blog, Hu
Jintao, the Chinese president, said: "To keep asking emerging markets to
revalue their currencies and reduce exports will not lead to balanced
growth. On the contrary, it would only plunge the global economy into a
'balanced recession,' and make sustainable growth impossible." Back says
that Chen Deming, the Chinese commerce minister, told reporters on the
sidelines of the summit tha the yuan has already appreciated to a
reasonable level. Chen said the yuan had risen around 30% against the U.S.
dollar since 2005, and that China's external surpluses were declining as a
percent of its gross domestic product.
o Russia has said that it is in the verge of joining the World Trade
Organisation. President Dmitry Medvedev said that a trade deal it had
agreed with Georgia would pave the way for it to be allowed into the
trading bloc. According to one report, this will be "the biggest step in
world trade liberalisation since China joined a decade ago, making its
$1.9tr economy more attractive to investors 20 years after the collapse of
the Soviet Union."
o G20 leaders are going to toughen the rules governing the regulation of
shadow banking. According to Reuters, they will call on the global
securities regulator IOSCO to assess credit default swap markets and agree
to strengthen oversight of shadow banking.
They will also call on IOSCO and the Financial Stability Board to prepare
'too big to fail' rules for non-bank financial entities by the end of
o Ban Ki-moon, the UN secretary general, has warned of "dark clouds"
hanging over the world's economy. At a meeting of the L20, labour
organisations meeting alongside the G20 in Cannes, he said: "We come
together at a critical moment. Dark clouds have gathered once again over
the global economy. Some may speak of 'recovery.' Too few actually feel
it. On the contrary, all too many people cannot even see the light at the
end of a long, long tunnel."
10.16am: The G20 leaders are in a meeting now. The first few minutes were
filmed, and the footage was shown in the press room, but there was no
sound. Barack Obama and David Cameron seemed to be having a heated
discussion. It wasn't a row, but there did seem to be rather a lot of firm
hand-waving. At times like this you could do with a lip reader.
10.11am: Italy is on the naughty step. According to Reuters, it has agreed
to allow the IMF to monitor whether or not is implementing its austerity
programme. It's a measure usually reserved for a country that is in
trouble. Here's an extract from the Reuters story.
Italy, under fierce pressure from financial markets and European peers,
has agreed to have the IMF and the EU monitor its progress with long
delayed reforms of pensions, labor markets and privatization, senior EU
sources said on Friday.
Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, his government close to collapse after
more loyalists defected on Thursday, agreed to the step in late-night
talks with euro zone leaders and U.S. President Barack Obama on the
sidelines of a G20 summit in Cannes, France.
The Italian move came after Greece stepped back from a proposed referendum
that could have triggered its exit from the euro area and agreed to seek
national consensus in support of a 130 billion euro ($178 billion) new
bailout program.
"We need to make sure there is credibility with Italy's targets -- that it
is going to meet them. We decided to have the IMF involved on the
monitoring, using their own methodology, and the Italians say they can
live with that," one EU source said
9.55am: Here are some more extracts from the interview that Jose Manuel
Barroso, the European Commission president, gave to the Today programme.
I've taken the quotes from PoliticsHome.
o Barroso said that he expected the Greeks to accept the austerity
measures being demanded as the price for their bailout.
What is the other option for the Greek people? It is to have default and
ot have real difficulty to pay their wages to the public servants to the
schools to the hospital sit will be the paralysis of the country so I'm
sure that the majority of the Greek people are reasonable people and they
don't want this kind of chaos to come to their country.
o He confirmed that European leaders had discussed the possibility of
Greece leaving the euro.
What I heard from [France and Germany] and from others is, in fact the
possibility of a country that does not respect the commitments to leave
the organisation to which it belongs, namely the euro, but, of course,
it's a decision of the country itself, it's not a decision of the other
o He said there would have to be closer fiscal union in the eurozone very
We have a common currency amongst 17 countries but we have not yet created
all the instruments that a common currency demands and it is true that is
unfinished business. Until the financial crisis it was possible to live
without those instruments but now we have been creating new instruments,
for instance the European Financial Stability Facility and others.
Some of these changes may require a treaty change, he said.
9.43am: "L'Histoire s'ecrit `a Cannes" - that's the slogan on the posters
at Cannes.
When I mentioned this at the start of my live blog coverage of the G20
summit I was sceptical, but yesterday history probably was being written
in Cannes. It just wasn't being written about anything happening in
It was, of course, all about Greece and the eurozone crisis, which will
continue to dominate the summit before it winds up just after lunch today.
Yesterday evening, at a news conference, Nicolas Sarkozy, the French
president and the conference host, expressed insisted that France and
other countries were determined to defend the euro:
We cannot accept the explosion of the euro, which would mean the explosion
of Europe. The problem must be posed in this fashion, and not otherwise.
If the euro is the core of Europe, the explosion of the euro would blow up
Europe. And Europe is the guarantee of peace on the continent where people
have behaved in the most brutal and violent manner of all continents of
the world - not in the 15th century, but in the 20th century.
It is perfectly normal that two founding countries of Europe [France and
Germany], and the two largest European economies, should take up the front
line to defend a European heritage that has been bequeathed to us by our
predecessors. The crisis of the euro is one of the most important crises
that Europe has known since its creation.
I've taken the quote from the Economist's Charlegmagne blog. There's a
full transcript of Sarkozy's press conference on the Elysee Palace website
(in French).
Late last night, the US president, Barack Obama, met Sarkozy, Angela
Merkel, the German chancellor, and officials from the EU and the IMF to
discuss the eurozone crisis. The eurozone countries produced a rescue plan
for Greece last week, but it is desperately short on detail and, if it is
going to retain credibility with the markets, the G20 leaders need to be
able to explain how it is going to be implemented.
In an interview on the Today programme a few minutes ago, the chancellor,
George Osborne, said details of today's announcements were still being
thrashed out. Unlike other G20 summits, this one was "not pre-cooked", he
It was a bad-tempered interview because Osborne repeatedly failed to
answer questions about the extent to which Britain's contributions to the
IMF may have to increase. Osborne criticised the BBC and other news
organisations for suggesting that other countries were not also going to
increase their lending to the IMF. All countries had a responsibility to
protect the global economic system, he said.
Earlier, the European commission president, Jose Manuel Barroso, was on
the programme. He was asked about the uncertainty in Athens - where George
Papandreou, the Greek prime minister, is facing a confidence vote tonight
- and he said he expected a government of national unity to be formed. He
was upbeat:
The government will conclude agreement with us for a new agreement, the
European Union and IMF programme, so I believe all the problems will be
But Barroso also conceded that the option of Greece leaving the euro had
been discussed. I'll post more comments from his interview later.
There is a series of working sessions at the summit this morning, followed
by a working lunch. Sarkozy will wrap up the summit with a press
conference at 1.15pm UK time (the timestamps on this blog are in French
time), and David Cameron will give a press conference soon afterwards.
I'll be covering all the G20 news, as well as bringing you the best
comment from the internet, until the summit ends.


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Re: [OS] US/IRAN/UK/CT/MIL/ECON- U.S. to join U.K. in new Iran sanctions --Central Bank
Released on 2012-10-11 16:00 GMT
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Iranian Central Bank.
Iran Stays Away From Nuclear Talks
By MARK LANDLER
Published: November 21, 2011
WASHINGTON a** The United States and its allies are rolling out a new set
of sanctions against Iran on Monday, with the countrya**s central bank and
petrochemical industry as targets. The move tightened the vise on Tehran
after a United Nations report on its nuclear activities, but demonstrated
the continued limitations to international pressure.
The Treasury Department will name the Central Bank of Iran as a a**primary
money laundering concerna** on Monday, an administration official said a**
a symbolically important step, but one that is short of formal sanctions,
which would probably be resisted by China and other Asian countries that
import oil from Iran.
The United States will also impose sanctions on a range of companies that
are involved in supporting Irana**s nuclear industry, as well as on its
petrochemical industry a** expanding existing measures that aim to weaken
the Iranian regime by depriving it of its ability to refine gasoline and
export crude oil.
Earlier on Monday, Britain announced that it would cut all ties with
Irana**s financial sector, declaring that Iranian banks play a role in
financing its nuclear and ballistic-missile programs. Leaders of the
European Union will meet on Thursday and are expected to approve similar
measures then, diplomats said.
a**We have consistently made clear that until Iran engages meaningfully,
it will find itself under increasing pressure,a** said the British foreign
secretary, William Hague. a**The swift and decisive action today,
coordinated with key international partners, is a strong signal of
determination to intensify this pressure.a**
Taken together, the steps deepen the isolation of Iran, which has been
under pressure since the International Atomic Energy Agency published
evidence on Nov. 8 that Iran has continued to work on a nuclear weapon and
delivery system.
But the Obama administrationa**s decision not to sanction the central bank
reveals the obstacles Washington faces in applying draconian measures that
could cripple Irana**s economy. Under American law, a formal designation
would require the United States to cut off access to any foreign
institution that continued to do business with the bank.
China, Japan, and other countries use the central bank to process
transactions from their purchases of Iranian oil, in part because most of
Irana**s major commercial banks are already subject to sanctions. They
would be likely to resist an order to stop dealing with the central bank,
which would put the Obama administration in an untenable position, since
the United States could not sever its ties with Chinese or Japanese banks.
Mr. Obama could request a waiver to exempt such institutions from the ban,
but experts on sanctions said that such a waiver would undermine the
credibility of the United States. The White House has been under pressure
from Republicans to designate the central bank, and has worked to
forestall such legislation.
The administration has telegraphed its intention to seek further sanctions
on Iran since the publication of the nuclear agencya**s report. The White
House pushed the agency to be as detailed as possible in its evidence of
Irana**s nuclear activities, as a way of building international support
for sanctions. But Russia and China both pushed back, with Russia arguing
that diplomacy is still the best course.
For its part, Iran reacted angrily to the agencya**s report, and renewed
its display of displeasure on Monday by staying away from a gathering of
97 countries at the Vienna headquarters of the atomic energy agency, which
was called to discuss nuclear issues related to the Middle East. Tehran
says its nuclear program is solely for peaceful, civilian purposes.
Yukiya Amano, the agencya**s director general, said he hoped the two-day
meeting, which unusually includes both Israel and Arab states, would
a**promote dialogue on a nuclear weapon-free zonea** in the region. While
there is a widespread assumption that Israel is now the only Middle
Eastern country with nuclear arms, Israel has never confirmed that
Iran has accused Mr. Amano of pro-Western bias and of failing to address
Israela**s presumed atomic arsenal. While no clear result is expected from
the Middle Eastern discussion, it was billed as having potential symbolic
importance, and Iran had accepted an invitation to attend.
a**It is my earnest hope that your discussion will be creative and
constructive, moving beyond simply re-stating long-established
positions,a** Mr. Amano told participants on Monday. a**I hope it will
nurture fresh thinking, creative thinking, on the possible relevance of
the experience of the five existing nuclear weapon-free zones to the
Middle East.a**
But Syrian representatives reached for more traditional arguments, saying
Israela**s undeclared and unconfirmed nuclear capability posed a a**grave
and serious threat,a** The Associated Press reported. Along with Iran,
Syria ranks among Israela**s most virulent regional adversaries. Other
Arab states at the meeting were more measured in the tone of their
Administration officials have said that Irana**s economy is suffering
badly because of existing sanctions against it over the nuclear issue, and
that its oil industry is unable to refine enough gasoline to spare having
to import any.
Analysts said the latest measures would intensify that pressure, but
warned that changing Irana**s behavior would require patience.
a**Wea**re trying to do two things: Stress the Iranian economy as a means
of impacting the Iranian decision-makersa** attitude, and using sanctions
and other tools to slow the nuclear program,a** said Ray Takeyh, an expert
on Iran at the Council on Foreign Relations. a**Ita**s a long-term
Alan Cowell contributed reporting from London.
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Subject: [OS] US/IRAN/UK/CT/MIL/ECON- U.S. to join U.K. in new Iran
sanctions --Central Bank
*the original articles about UK are at the bottom
November 21st, 2011
U.S. to join U.K. in new Iran sanctions
By Foreign Affairs Correspondent Jill Dougherty
The United States will name Iran, as well as its Central Bank, as a
a**primary money laundering concern,a** on Monday but not place sanctions
directly on the central bank, a senior Treasury Department official tells
The U.S. will also sanction a number of Iranian companies allegedly
supporting Irana**s nuclear program, the senior Treasury Department
official said.
The announcement comes on the same day Britain cut all financial ties with
Iran over concerns about Iran's nuclear program, the first time it has
ever cut an entire country's banking sector off from British finance, the
British Treasury announced.
The Treasury Department released a statement saying that Treasury
Secretary Timothy Geithner and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will be
make remarks at 430p ET Monday to "outline new steps the United States is
taking to increase pressure on Iran."
The actions come in response to a recent report by the International
Atomic Energy Agencya**s (IAEA) which expressed serious concern over what
it said was Irana**s continuing work on its nuclear program.
Israel's Defense Minister Ehud Barak told CNN's Fareed Zakaria that Iran
is probably less than a year away from being at a point that it will be
too late to stop its nuclear program.
"It's true that it wouldn't take three years, probably three quarters,
before no one can do anything practically about it because the Iranians
are gradually, deliberately entering into what I call a zone of immunity,
by widening the a** the redundancy of their plan, making it spread over
many more sides," Barak said on Fareed Zakaria GPS .
U.S. has been considering action against the Central Bank of Iran but
officials became concerned that a full sanction could have a negative
effect on the world economy because of the potential impact on oil prices.
This weekend, Elise Labott reported the US will impose fresh sanctions
against Irana**s petrochemical industry, citing diplomatic sources.
A number of congressional members have been calling for sanctions against
the central bank amidst questions about how much the current spate of
sanctions are actually working.
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Sent: Monday, November 21, 2011 10:38:42 AM
Subject: Re: [OS] IRAN/UK - Britain imposes new financial sanctions on
UK says Iran sanctions coordinated with U.S., Canada
(Reuters) - Britain is coordinating financial sanctions imposed on Iran
Monday together with the United States and Canada, a spokesman for Prime
Minister David Cameron said.
"The coordinated action is with the U.S. and Canada," the spokesman said.
"We want to talk to other European countries about it too ," he added,
saying Britain expected to discuss further sanctions against Iran at
meeting of European Union foreign ministers in December.
Britain imposed new financial sanctions on Iran Monday, ordering all UK
financial institutions to stop doing business with their Iranian
counterparts and with the central bank of Iran.
On 11/21/11 9:32 AM, Yaroslav Primachenko wrote:
Britain imposes new financial sanctions on Iran
LONDON, Nov 21 (Reuters) - Britain imposed new financial sanctions on Iran
on Monday, ordering all UK financial institutions to stop doing business
with their Iranian counterparts, as well as with the central bank of Iran,
Britain's finance ministry said.
It said the sanctions were in response to the International Atomic Energy
Agency's (IAEA) latest report on Iran, which highlighted fresh concerns
about the possible military dimensions of Iran's nuclear programme.
Finance minister George Osborne said Iran's actions posed a serious threat
to national security and that the action was being taken in coordination
with other countries.
"This follows the International Atomic Energy Agency's report uncovering
evidence of Iran's development of nuclear weapons technology. It is also a
response to calls from the Financial Action Task Force for countries to
strengthen safeguards to protect their financial sectors from money
laundering and financing of terrorism risks emanating from Iran."
"We believe that the Iranian regime's actions pose a significant threat to
the UK's national security and the international community. Today's
announcement is a further step to preventing the Iranian regime from
acquiring nuclear weapons." (Reporting by Fiona Shaikh)
Yaroslav Primachenko
Global Monitor
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STRATFOR www.STRATFOR.com
Sean Noonan
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Sean Noonan
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The planting and sale of the grapes by the Ludys was the heart of the other grower's "public use" argument against the USDA and the commission.
However, the judge said, even though the vines were in public view the grapes they produced were not in public use because the plant stock had been ill-gotten and the fruit was not marketed as the named varieties.
Also, the judge said, not even the inventors of the two varieties — David Ramming and Ronald Tarailo from the USDA breeding facility — could identify the Scarlet Royal and Autumn King varieties in the courtroom when they were presented with grapes and plant material.
That lack of visually identifiable traits proved no one knew the specific varieties were in use, the judge wrote, making the public use argument unsupportable.


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M.K. Gandhi and the Birth of Israel
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By Geoffrey Cook, MMNS
Oakland–My Pakistani friends have no great respect for the "great soul," because they are of the opinion that his great political skills dominated his moral authority, but it must be remembered that, although a Hindu, he supported the Caliphate Movement (the Sultan of Turkey as the temporal leader of Islam) during the 1920s. Further, he gained the ire of international Zionism's claims to Palestine which was an exacerbating point to South Asian Islam, in addition. Therefore, your essayist has decided to write about the ideas of this great man on Palestine. It must be remembered that he spoke up for the welfare of Muslims as well as Hindus in India. If many of his ideas had been incorporated at the birth of an independent South Asia, there may not have been a Partition, nor would we be staring down a nuclear "gun" in that region, too.
Your author starts his composition with a remembered reading of "The Jews in Palestine" (Harijan of November 26, 1938: Collected Works, Volume 74). As remembered, it permitted some room for a one-State solution in Israel-Palestine, but reading it closely again, there is not; yet, in a comment to a reporter, shortly before his death the profound man gave a suggestion for a solution to resolve the conundrum. If that proposal had been taken seriously, the crisis in the Middle East might not be before us today.
Gandhi's mind was a curious mixture of the practical and impractical. His ideas on the Abrahamic "Holy Land" bear this out. "I cannot…say…I have made a…study of the…religion [Judaism], but I have studied as much as a layman can…" (Interview in The Jewish Chronicle, London, Oct. 2nd, 1931). In fact, he makes no references of the traditional Indian Jewish communities — the Cochin, the Bombay and the Baghdadi. He seems to have known little about them. In fact, as he states in his article we shall be discussing, he knew "…the Jews…in South Africa…" ("The Jews in Palestine," the Harijan Nov. 26th 1938). Incidentally, South Africa was where he developed his methodologies on non-violence.
Although he states that he will be talking about the "Jewish Question" in relation to Palestine and Germany, he knows very little about European Jewry and Palestine itself. He states in the same commentary as mentioned above: "I should love to go… [to]…the Holy Land…" Much of what he does know about contemporary European Jewry and Palestine comes from Central European (German) and Zionist itself propaganda.
The whole question of a one-State resolution of the Israeli issue, which I do not personally hold, came in a conversation I had with Richard Falk, the United Nations' Human Rights Rapporteur to (Israel's) Occupied territories (Palestine) [Muslim Observer, March 19, 2009]. The Legal Doctor stated "The two-State solution is being undermined…because of the expansion of the Settlements and house demolitions…" Although some Palestinian intellectuals themselves are beginning to come to this position, too, such as Ali Abunimah who founded and maintains the Electronic Infitada (see his One Country). A one State solution would not work well in my opinion because the Israeli right would repress it due to the fact that Israel would cease to be a Jewish State. Within Israel itself, it has support within their Left, though.
Curiously, Falk had not read Gandhi's central essay which we shall look at, and he made a note to do so. In other collections of what M.K. Gandhi said and in Zionist replies to the piece the subject is often called the "Jewish Problem." Most scholars who discuss it today note this is not how we speak of it today. No way is Judaism a "problem," but a perversion of it, Zionism, is. Most politicized aspects of all religions do have a "perverted" wing, also. Politics and religions make devious bedfellows.
First I shall go through an exegesis of his text "The Jews in Palestine." He refers to it as the "Arab-Jewish" question – not the Palestinian issue. Moreover, in accord with my statement above, when Gandhi applies the words "Jew" or "Jewish," etc., please mentally replace it with "Zionist" or "Zionism" to avoid the sectarianism of the time. The founding and maintaining of the State of Israel was a Zionist project that involved only a small part of the Jewish people. Furthermore, the function of Christian Zionism cannot be ignored although it is not relevant to this paper; and, thus shall be ignored in this paper.
Mohandas Gandhi, ever the adroit politician, states, "My sympathies are…with the Jews," Then, he switches his position "…my sympathy does not blind me to the requirements of justice." He points out the "mythical" basis for the demand for homeland for the Jews in Palestine within the text of the Bible itself. Clearly, he states his opposition to a Jewish State with these famous words, "Palestine belongs to the Arab…[as]…England belongs to the English or France to the French. It is wrong and inhuman to…impose the Jews on the Arabs." Further, the Mahatma, as in his struggle in India, appeals to his readers' ethical sensibility: "What is going on…cannot be justified by any code of conduct." It is quite apparent here that Gandhi's perceptions are still relevant in this century.
More importantly, "It would be a crime against humanity to reduce the…Arabs…that Palestine can be restored to the Jews…" This is a pretty strong attack upon the Zionists of the time since the principle of "crimes against humanity" had not been established in International Law. Strangely, Gandhi had accused Zionists of collaboration with the Nazis as Lenni Brunner's book (Zionism in the Age of Dictators), written in our generation, does. Gandhi states in the essay under discussion, "…a cry for a national home affords a…justification for the German expulsion of the Jews…" to which, curiously, the archives of the Third Reich, that Brenner utilizes in his book, attest.
M.K. Gandhi goes on to damn the National Socialist regime in Berlin. He asks "Is England drifting towards armed dictatorship….?" Here he is equating his struggle in British India and the conflict in West Asia. He makes assumptions that often are inaccurate because he cannot get away from his Indian environment. He applies the Jewish concept of God with his Hindu perception of the Divine: "…Jehovah of the Jews is a God more personal than the God of the Christians, Mussalmans [another word not used much anymore because it is in bad taste] or the Hindus." Gandhi's theology is quite mistaken here. Muslims and Christians look to a most personal God, too. All three religious systems deriving from the Numen of Abraham share this principle. Therefore, for Mohandas Gandhi "…the Jews ought not feel helpless." Further, "The same God rules the Jewish heart…[that]…rules the Arab heart."
M.K. Gandhi felt that the Jews (Zionists] were going about it the wrong way. He does not say that they cannot emigrate there, but they have to do so under Palestinian law. "The Palestine of the Biblical conception is not a geographical tract." This is, also, true for non-indigenous Muslims and Christians — except for their sacred places. Thus, it is mere a locality "…in their hearts."
"…it is wrong [for the Zionists] to enter it under the shadow of the British bayonet…" Here Gandhi is speaking in terms of the Indian reality again, and, I believe, does not fully understand the crisis in the Levant of his period in history!
" They can settle in Palestine …by the goodwill of the Arabs." That is under their law and permission, and it follows that they can only buy the land that the Arabs may alienate – not grabbing it violently from the Palestinians as they have proceeded to do! He advises them to "…seek to convert the Arab heart." Further, he emphasizes the commonality between the two peoples, "…there are hundreds of ways of reasoning with the Arabs, if they [the Zionists] discard…the…British bayonet." (Again he is in looking at Palestine from the perspective of India once more, and considers the two resistances as one against the same Imperialism,) but the Mahatma accuses the Zionists that "…they are co-sharers with the British in despoiling…people who have done [them] no wrong…" For the Mahatma his interest and attraction for Palestine is that they are both English "possessions," which is only partly accurate. For him what pushes this view askew is the Zionist factors that are actively plotting to steal the land when the Colonialist leaves. Fortunately, this was not true in South Asia where the dominant demand was just as disrupting – a homeland for the Muslims. Gandhi seems to have envisioned Palestine as a Muslim majority Mandate, which in actuality it was not so. Although the United Kingdom invented the census for British India, they never had a chance to apply it to their Middle Eastern jurisdictions. The best estimates are that before 1948, 45% of the population were native Christians; next the Muslims; then Palestinian Jews.
It was a multi-sectarian State or Province that worked! There was little tension between the three groups. The establishment of the State of Israel lowered the Christian population to 7%; the Muslims now dominate the Occupied Territories, and the Arab Jews there were forced into Israel proper where they are treated rather shabbily for being "Oriental." Historically, the Jews were treated better in Islamic dominated areas than in Europe. The Christian less so probably because of the mistrust generated from the Crusades. After the establishment of Israel, unfortunately, Jews in other Islamic lands became highly resented. Israel itself, also was perceived as a European neo-colony in the midst of Arab territory, and a threat to all of Islam.
Although Gandhi did not approve of the ferocity of the Arab defiance, for he wishes they had chosen non-violence, under the circumstances, "…nothing can be said against the Arab resistance…"
M.K. Gandhi concludes his important essay by urging the Jews to employ non-violence in Germany since it had been effective in India, but, realistically, would not in Germany. Unfortunately, Zionism itself was entwined within the fascist goals by destabilizing the British Empire in the Middle East. In his last paragraph Gandhi says "[The Jews] can command…[the] respect of the world by being [truly] the chosen creation of God instead of the brute beast…forsaken of God."
Shortly before the end of his life, when it was likely that a State of Israel would be formed, a Doon Campbell of Reuters (the news gathering agency) asked our subject, "What is the solution of the Palestine problem? Gandhi replied, It "… seems almost insoluble. If I were a Jew, I would tell them: Do not…resort to terrorism [in which the Zionists were engaged at the time]. The Jews should meet the Arabs, make friends with them, and not depend on British [non-players now]…or American aid." (A.K. Ramakrishnan, The Wisdom). How much different would the world be if we followed Mohandas Gandhi's words, and that includes the Islamic world in the Middle East!
M.K. Gandhi, a South Asian thinker has had a tremendous influence worldwide during the last century into this century. Although his solutions were or seemed impractical, many of them can be re-examined now to see if we can extract anything practical for our times. Though he had never been to West Asia, if his suggestions had been factored into the equation, the crisis that presently threatens a World War, which, most assuredly, would bring in the West, would never have unfolded in such a dangerous manner. Still, what he replied to Doon Campbell's question is even now applicable. Washington should step aside from acerbating the conflict, and let the two parties negotiate amongst themselves. At this point both sides should follow non-violence to allow the talks to proceed, and the West can enforce non-violence only if it has to do so. M.K. Gandhi even at this time has much to say to our world.


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Some media pundits have called farm labor shortages fake or contrived.
It is true, that despite a high level of concern about agricultural labor, it seems not much fruit is rotting in the fields because of worker shortages this fall.
A September report from the state of Washington showed that the numbers of workers in the state were up with the expected record apple crop. The report said the state's total agricultural
employment increased 10.1% over the period of September 2011 through September 2012.
The increase was driven by a 22.8% increase in apple harvesters, the report said.
The report did reveal a shortage of workers of 8.8%, based on responses from agricultural employers to the question whether they failed to complete some work because of a shortage of labor, and a question about how many more workers they could have used.
Wages were up the most in the Yakima region, or the south central part of the state. Wages in September were close to $11 per hour, or $15 to $25 per bin. Compared with a year ago, wages in Yakima were up 10%, according to the report.
Looking to the national election, immigration reform has not been a key issue in the race for the presidency. President Obama did say he is confident that he can deliver immigration reform if he is elected to a second four-year term.
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GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney, after engaging in harsh immigration-control rhetoric during the GOP primary, has pledged to Hispanics that he will "work with Republicans and Democrats to permanently fix our immigration system." Obama has no record of reaching across the aisle in Congress, while Romney does have a history of working with a Democratic-controlled legislature as governor of Massachusetts. Who would history suggest has a better chance of achieving bipartisan immigration reform?
Still, jobs is the top issue for most Hispanics, just as it is for most Americans. The unemployment rate for Latinos is around 10 percent, 2 percentage points higher than for the overall population. As Romney notes, 2 million more Hispanics live in poverty than when Obama took office.
Polls show Hispanics hugely favoring Obama. But Romney has a record in business for being a turn-around expert who, as National Review writer Kevin Williamson noted, has never disappointed anyone who hired him. He proposes a five-point economic turn-around plan. Obama is promising only more of the same that has left Latinos in dire economic straits — and little hope for immigration reform.


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I dream of the power of individuals, whether alone or in small groups, to unleash their creative spirits, their imagination, and their talents to develop a wide range of innovation.
Imagine an Africa with women leading it into the future. They would not just be left to pick up the pieces after war. They would be integral to averting conflict in the first place.
No doubt you've heard the old business cliché that hope is not a strategy. I disagree. Hope is a sustainable value that inspires us to see the world as a source of meaning.
Technology will advance to humans the ability to touch objects to gain the physical, emotional and historical experience behind each thing.
By fusing technology with telepathy, we could simultaneously look to the past and the future to generate solutions to current problems.
In the future, I hope people will enjoy and work with the light and color the world has to offer; go out on a limb and turn dreams and ideas into reality.
No one can predict the future with any certainty. But I look forward to the day when the United States of America gets its mojo back—and it's not 100 years away, either.
Life is no longer about working to make money to buy "stuff." It is about making the best decisions possible together to make systems work better, so we can enjoy our time together.
One hundred years from now, the world will go about its work unhampered by systems of inequality.
Let's create a world that will facilitate health and happiness in the future. Most importantly, let us behave more responsibly today so that our dreams of tomorrow can be realized.
Detroit's future is promising. We are blessed with a wealth of talented young people, committed residents and unlimited potential.
We are revolutionaries, evolutionaries, and solutionaries finding the power within ourselves to make the world anew.
We are in the infancy of civilization…In a hundred years, we will watch mankind mature into adulthood.
We think having Google at our disposal has changed how we think about knowledge retention, but imagine when that knowledge is literally integrated into your being.
We live in a spirited system laced by connectivity with each other and the planet. What we do has a ripple effect. Make yours humane.
Everyday citizens can be producers and distributors of information, which can then travel the world in an instant. Social media can amplify and extend the voices of individual.
The future of work and the richness of life is not tied to a desk.
With a commitment to health care for all, nations will be pushed by economic necessity to adopt preventive medicine that is based on scientific research and best practices.
We don't just eat the apple. We grow a tree that will feed generations to come.
The workplace of tomorrow will regenerate each one of us, our families and our communities, sharing access to precious resources and to the sustaining qualities of nature.
Just imagine the brain power when people from all the different continents can come together and collaborate to find solutions to the biggest problems of our day.
In 2112…Work and life have come to be valued as a holistic understanding of what it means to be creatures that value connectivity, accomplishment, creativity, and beauty.
In 100 years, machines may manage the economy, not economists or politicians.
One hundred years in the future, our world would at last follow the Buddhist mantra "to live our lives to increase the happiness and decrease the suffering of all sentient beings."
Imagine. Companies will produce embryos for implantation made from engineered DNA which will yield physically and mentally enhanced, disease-resistant people.
We dream of a world where children are raised as global citizens and people are not dying from hunger as people are socially aware and emotionally concerned for the welfare of others.
In 2012, isn't the whole world up in arms because they want to be Meaningful Participants? Why wait 100 years?
Human intelligence itself is about establishing an inner dialog between what is and what could be, between actualities and possibilities.
Can multidisciplinary industry leaders and competitors collaborate and harness their expertise to eliminate healthcare-associated infections and other hospital-acquired conditions?
We must prepare the next generation of informed global citizens who address global challenges. I believe that the key to creating this change is education.
Tomorrow we will be what today we are becoming. In reality we are what we're not: we are what we want to become. This happens at the individual and collective level.
The single largest technology driver in terms of time conservation (and one of the most challenging as well) will be the development and the deployment of teleportation.
The wasteful "version 2.0" mentality that incessantly forces obsolescence of "product" will give way to refreshable "platforms" that simply allow for future modification and enhancement.
The future should be what you think is what you get—by means of advanced technology and innovative material, we can directly translate our abstract ideas into products.
The global world is tied together in unprecedented ways where the collective "we" is no longer a company, culture, or nation, but a very interconnected, shared world.
Any major goals for the future will be difficult to achieve unless we increasingly view the world through the lens of emerging complex systems and long time frames.
Think of it: a world without borderlines or flags and where geography no longer defines lifespan or lifestyle; a world as a blank slate.
I believe that "being human" will transcend our current notions to include powers of creation that remain unacknowledged today.
I envision a world where we have transcended the need for spatial limitations. Personal expression will ebb and flow with the rhythm of our lives and creation will be truly mobile.
Education is the key to transform society and make it progress. We can´t build a better world made up of the dreams of millions of human beings who have no access to education.
"If businesses celebrate cultures, people will fall in love with the companies they work for. Diversity will be made tangible and ignite creative thinking."
Dreams unlock not just a better version of something, dreams unlock the possibility of addition, subtraction, opposites and void. Dreams unlock a space in which ideas are formed.
Curiosity and its cousins Exploration, Learning, and Investigation have been at the center of human evolution and history. They will play an even greater role going forward.
Imagine workplaces where employees are encouraged to take risks and failure is not viewed as a negative but is seen as an opportunity to learn and grow.
In the future, there will be virtual spaces for the most energetic and imaginative people to come together and change the world.
In 100 years, what we require from a workplace will change beyond our recognition.
In place of a global solution, instead of locating a constructed mono-cultural life world, the concept for a better world has to be reflected in very different scales.
Hard work, perseverance and creativity will play a key role in success – and Michigan's workforce and innovative companies will continue to lead the way in the century to come.
I dream of [...] a transformation in collective consciousness resulting in a peaceful, just, sustainable, healthy, and joyful world.
The power of computing technologies is directly measured by how computing extends human expertise; knowledge, learning, communication and discovery.
In 100 years, design will be at the center of things, a benign and necessary force in all facets of human experience.
Almost all of last century's developments placed a high, heedless demand on energy. Almost all of next century's developments need to work to mitigate that demand.
I love change. Change is important. With change comes innovation.
Learn how to celebrate our ecological footprint instead of worrying about minimizing it...how to be beneficial and not "less bad."
For me, simple pleasures are what most make life worth living.
We need to ensure that the seed of education is planted deep into the thinking of mankind and its diverse societies.
Let's reinvent participative democracy for the 21st Century.
I am a big fan of "homeostasis in nature."
Creative collaboration between experts and everyone else is the key to cultural vitality in the future.
My dream is to see that we succeed in improving many more lives and make India 100 percent literate.
The power of the people is far greater than that of people in power.
In the future, Architecture will be defined by its materiality and its intelligence. The role of the Architect will morph into a choreographer of infinite spaces in one space.
As it escapes the screen, the potential of the digital enters into the realm of architecture and an entirely different wealth of knowledge.
Gender, race, sexuality, ideology, and faith are just going to be unimportant characteristics that will not define ourselves.
...the parks, trails, streets, open spaces, and green infrastructure that we are building now will profoundly affect how the world lives and works in the future.
The next 100 years give us an opportunity to bring back in alignment material well-being and personal/social well being.
I see a world full of magic and stories. Artists, technologists and storytellers will come together to engender empathy!
We have to rethink how we utilize workers in our advanced economy.
Over the next 100 years, we have an opportunity to shape a new story, a positive vision of what it means to live sustainably in our world.
In 100 years, we simply won't work for companies that don't represent our core personal values, no matter how much they pay us.
Our vision is for humanity to dream anew.
Creative confidence—the natural human ability to come up with new approaches to solve a problem and the courage to try them out—is one of our most precious resources.
...I dream that we don't erode or lose the rich cultural diversity that exists around the globe - that it continues to inspire creativity and innovation...
Knowledge is the most powerful weapon to fight geographical, social and economic adversity.
As creators we must demand of ourselves to invent new ways to live by rather than inventing new places within which to live.
Forget fanciful, futuristic forecasts. Give more people the freedom to dream – and the future will take care of itself.
The one big challenge of future urban systems is the smart use of resources. The holistic use of cradle-to-cradle systems for production and consumption will be imperative.
One hundred years from now, the role of science and technology will be about becoming part of nature rather than trying to control it.
My dream for the future is a working world that is more inclusive of all people irrespective of age and ability.
I am proposing performance-based consumption. And an economy based on values not markets, driven by innovation but respecting the environment.
Imagine what would happen if you started respecting your own wishes of how to spend your time.
Being inspired is not a luxury. It is a right.
We come to understand that there is struggle in every dream.
Meet the Dreamers
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(08-19-2012 08:00 AM)blingting Wrote: whoa sick MJs, the old finest refractors are awesome very nice pickups
(08-19-2012 08:16 AM)kenarm79 Wrote: I always wanted to get my hands on that SP Championship and that Jam City is real nice. Great pickups
(08-19-2012 09:19 AM)buckunteer Wrote: Just gotta keep dangling all these MJs I need over me, don't ya? Love that playoff heroes die-cut, that's way up on my want list, as is that MJ/Kobe topps insert. Refractors go without saying. I pretty much consume every Mitch Richmond refractor I can get my hands on and pray I hit the MJs in packs cause I can't afford them haha (have 4 MJ refractors, all were pulled). Great stuff man!
(08-19-2012 11:49 AM)jeterfan5128 Wrote: that finest refractor is awesome! sweet MJ cards
(08-19-2012 05:01 PM)buckunteer Wrote: I wish I had the discipline to buy the singles instead, I'm just too addicted to busting the wax! I have picked up a lot of singles of my other PC guy though, Mitch Richmond, because they can be had so much cheaper. Got a $25 Mitch for 99 cents. NEVER gonna happen with an MJ lol.
(08-19-2012 05:04 PM)nickm1123 Wrote: Yeah I was the same way when I first got back into collecting. Primarily when MJ was still in UD products. Now that he isnt, I said no more busting wax because for 1 I couldnt get MJ and 2 I couldnt get even close back to what I was paying..not even in trade value. I just felt I was spending so much money on stuff I didnt want. The cards I needed/wanted were higher end MJ cards and people dont usually trade those. So instead of spending 100 on a box and taking the risk of getting nothing, I just put that 100 towards a MJ card.
(08-19-2012 09:05 PM)buckunteer Wrote: I get that completely. But if, for example, I spend $100 on an old school box, let's say I hit a $25 MJ and get $40 in trade value from the box. That leaves $35 left over, but to me that's money spent on entertainment, like going to the movies or something, because I enjoy it so much. Terrible justification? Absolutely, but I do it anyway haha.
(08-20-2012 02:54 PM)bengu Wrote: Buying singles is so much better in my opinion as well! Like nick said, then for SURE you get what you want. Plus if you save and save, sure you might only be able to get one expensive card every 6 months... But over time you'll eventually have a SUPER high end collection that'll make it all worth it!!
(08-20-2012 03:22 PM)buckunteer Wrote: just picked up this one on eBay. Paid $1.50 over bv, but it's always nice to add a gem mint to the collection, even if it isn't a high-end one!
(08-20-2012 04:02 PM)nickm1123 Wrote: Yeah, ever since I stopped buying boxes my MJ collection has slowly became better. I have a ton of 100-200 BV cards. I wish I could afford the cards that book for more than that, but I personally still find it hard to buy a card for 300+ dollars. Nice card man! I think you did good on this because if you would have sent the card in to grade yourself it would of cost at least $7 dollars to get graded, if not more depending on your service.


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(10-22-2012 09:43 PM)crazyforkinsler5 Wrote: I believe the week-long layoff will hurt the Tigers. But it will also allow them to get their pitching rotation ready where Verlander can go Game 1, 4 and 7 if need be. Although Bleacher Report believes Giants will dominate Tigers in the World Series. I can't believe baseball didn't make 1 of the big wigs (Yanks, Dodgers, Red Sox, Cubs) at least get to the World series. That would have shot the ratings up. I don't think ratings will do good in this series. That being said, I don't really care who wins at this point. The Giants just won it 2 years ago and didn't the Tigers beat the Cardinals not too long ago? That's not the reason I have no interest. I probably won't watch a single game because I can't stand Tim McCarver's announcing. I might find it on ESPN Radio in my office at home and listen while I do card stuff, or watch other stuff on TV. But won't be watching.
(10-22-2012 09:35 PM)uvaspina Wrote: So, the Giants are en route to a pretty impressive comeback (only the 3rd or 4th team to come back from a 3-1 deficit in the NLCS). Giants are as hot as can be right now. How do you guys think they'll stack up against the Tigers? Despite having a few star players (Verlander, Prince, and Cabrera) I don't get the sense that the Tigers are very well liked by the casual baseball fan. From that perspective, I see more people rooting for the Giants. Am I off-base here? In my opinion, despite the Giants hot streak, the Tigers will be a tough team to beat. They seem to have a clear edge in starting pitching and hitting. The Giants have better defense, relief, and speed. With that said, it's late-October baseball and it's hard to predict the Tigers performance. They've been a frustratingly streaky team all season. The bullpen is a major wild card with Valverde's status somewhat up in the air and the rest of the case performing above expectations so far (aside from Benoit). Win or lose, the World Series is my favorite time of year. When all is said and done, I'm picking the Tigers in 5. (might be optimistic, but what the heck). At the same time, it wouldn't shock me to see the Giants run away with it. You just never know. I'm concerned that the Tigers weren't tested against the Yankees and might be rusty after the nearly week long layoff.


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Fiery Phil Hughes.
You heard it hear first.
I have it on very good authority that HowardJ is actually....
Fiery Phil Hughes.
You heard it hear first.
phil hughes a noted tory
Indians can't bowl - Where has the rumour come from as I myself and many indian friends arwe competent fast bowlers ?
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more likely to be Clinton Perren imo
I'm Carl Rackemann.
how unlucky
Hi Monk
My appologies for an incorrect spelling. May the bird of paradise fly up my nose.
(think appologies is spelt correctly - if not, feel free to point it out)
Big Carl once chased a spectator over the fence at the Gabba at a Shield game after the latter yelled out to him "Hey Rackkemann, there never was such a thing as a Dutchman til a Kraut ****ed a pig".
Can't say I blame him really.
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#408. Sixty three not out forever.
I'm completely lost for words trying to come up with a response to this. Congratulations, you've broken my brain.May the bird of paradise fly up my nose.
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