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Like many nontraditional students, Tami Frankenfield began many years ago following her career opportunities and aspirations. While exploring her options and personal interests she soon found her passion and place in today's technology-driven world. Here she shares with us her journey to personal and professional success.
Exploring My Options
I am a proud Brandman/Chapman University College graduate, class of 2009, with a degree in computer information systems. My career and education have clearly followed my passions. Notice how I mention career, then education? Maybe not the traditional path, but I think I have always let my work and the opportunities it has presented drive my direction, then supplemented that with the formal education I needed to succeed. Brandman fit the bill.
Yes, I did attend college straight out of high school, even during high school, way back when in the early 80's. I jumped from major to major, trying to discover not only what I was good at, but what I loved. First it was accounting, then art, then marketing...quite a mixed bag. I struggled to apply my academic work to real life. Eventually work got the better of me and I made a decision to follow a career opportunity during my junior year.
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I always loved the precision and order of numbers, and the creativity that analysis offered. I started out as a bookkeeper, moving to accounting manager, then finally financial analyst. In the latter position, I discovered my passion for technology, really out of necessity. I couldn't get to the information I needed to get my job done, and the IT guys just didn't understand my needs. I befriended an IT manager who ran the accounting system, learned the nuts and bolts of the underlying databases, and was soon designing solutions. And that is what I've been doing ever since, developing business-driven information management, data warehousing and analytics solutions for the insurance industry.
Although I had the hands-on experience and aptitude to succeed, I was missing the formal discipline and structure that I felt my peers had. Throughout my journey, I supplemented my work experience with targeted classes and certifications, but felt it was reactive. I was missing the end-to-end big picture. Although I had tactically gained knowledge, I had not strategically laid down a framework to guide me. This is where Brandman came in. In 2004, I clearly knew my path, and it was time to formalize my education. While working I was able to complete the degree that truly complemented my passions. Today, I actually think I have a leg up on my peers because my education is relevant, current, and offers me a fresh perspective.
Personal And Professional Success
As for my personal life, my husband Ralph and I have been married for 28 years. Our daughter, Rachel, is a student at Chapman University. We live in Cowan Heights, in the foothills where Orange and Tustin meet in Southern California. We have a large extended family; Ralph is one of five children and I am one of six, so we spend much of our time on family vacations. Oh, and that large family? I think it is the reason I am just a little competitive...well maybe a lot. I am also a do-it-yourselfer at heart and somewhat addicted to HGTV. I use our rental properties as outlets for renovation projects.
Today, I am a director at Deloitte Consulting and serve in multiple leadership roles. I am the West Regional Service Line Leader of our Information Management practice, I serve a global role representing the U.S. in our Financial Services/Insurance Analytics practice, and am the Insurance Sector Leader nationally for Information Management. I travel each week to my clients, who are primarily in New York, across the Northeast and Midwest. I love what I do, who I've become professionally, and most of all, how I got here.


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Admission to the University is highly competitive, so simply completing one of these qualifications does not guarantee you a place in your chosen course. You also need to have achieved a certain result in that qualification.
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General international qualifications recognised by the University of Sydney
Qualification name |
Qualification level you need to have completed |
Advanced International Certificate of Education |
Pass level or above |
Cambridge Pre-University Diploma |
Accepted (from 2010 onwards) with required score. |
European Baccalaureate |
Completion of ONE of the following:
GCE A Levels |
A minimum of three Advanced Level subjects are required. Refer to the Undergraduate entry table for more information. |
International Baccalaureate (IB) Diploma |
University entry is based on the total score for completed Diploma. |
National qualifications recognised by the University of Sydney
Country |
Qualifications you need to have completed |
Austria |
Reifezeugnis; Matura; Reifeprufungszeugnis; Maturazeugnis |
Belgium |
Diploma d'Aptitude a acceder a l'enseignement superieur'; Bekwaamheidsdiploma dat verleert tot het hoger onderwijs; Getuigschrift van hoger secundair onderwijs; Certificat d'humanities |
Bosnia and Herzegovina |
Bosnia and Herzegovina Secondary School Leaving Certificate |
Bulgaria |
Zrelostno Svidetelstvo; Diploma za Zavrsheno Sredno Obrazovanie |
Canada |
Alberta High School Diploma; British Columbia Senior Secondary School Graduation Diploma; Manitoba High School Graduation Diploma; Newfoundland Provincial High School Graduation Certificate; New Brunswick High School Graduation Diploma; Nova Scotia High School Completion Certificate; Ontario Secondary School Diploma; Prince Edward Island High School Graduation Certificate; Quebec Diploma of Collegial Studies; Saskatchewan Complete Division IV Grade XII Standing |
China |
Achievement of a Tier One result in the National Higher Education Entrance Examination, commonly known as the Gaokao. For detailed entry scores, refer to the Academic requirement page |
Croatia |
Croatian Matura (2010 and onwards) |
Czech Republic |
Vysvedceni o Maturitni Zkousce; Maturita |
Denmark |
Studentereksamen (from a Gymnasium); Bevis for Hojere Forberedelseksamen; Tekniskeksamen; Handelseksamen |
Eire (Republic of Ireland) |
Leaving Certificate; Matriculation Certificate |
Fiji |
Fijian Seventh Form Certificate |
Finland |
Ylioppilastutkintotodistus; Studenteksamensbetyg |
France |
French Baccalaureat |
Germany |
Abiturientenzeugnis; Reifezeugnis; Zeugnis der Allgemeinen Hochschulreife; Zeugnis der Reife |
Greece |
State University/General Entrance Examination; Greek Panhellenic Examination; Greek Certificate of Access |
Hong Kong |
Completion of at least three Hong Kong Advanced Level subjects in one academic year (up to 2013); Hong Kong Diploma of Secondary Education (from 2012 onwards) |
Hungary |
Gimnaziumi Erettsegi Bizonyitvany; Erettsegi Vizsga; Matura; Szakkozepiskolai Erettsegi_kepesity Bizonyitvany |
Iceland |
Studentsprof (from a Gymnasium) |
India |
All India Senior School Certificate (CBSE); Indian School Certificate, Indian Higher Secondary Certificate |
Israel |
Teudat Bagrut |
Italy |
Diploma di Maturita Classica; Diploma Maturita Scientifica; Diploma di Maturita Linguistica |
Kenya |
Kenyan Certificate of Secondary Education; Kenya Advanced Certificate of Education |
Korea (South) |
Korea Republic College Scholastic Ability Test |
Lebanon |
Lebanese Baccalaureat |
Liechtenstein |
Liechtenstein Maturitatszeugnis |
Luxembourg |
Diplome de Fin d'Etudes Secondaires |
Macedonia |
Macedonian Secondary School Leaving Certificate or Matura (2008 and onwards) |
Malaysia |
Sijil Tinggi Perskolahan Malaysia (STPM); Malaysian Matriculation Certificate (Matrikulasi) |
Malta |
University of Malta Advanced Matriculation Examinations |
Montenegro |
Montenegro Secondary School Leaving Certificate (2010 and onwards) |
Nepal |
Higher Secondary Education Certificate |
Netherlands |
Voorbereidend Wetnschappelijik Onderwijs (VWO) (from a Gymnasium, Atheneum or Lyceum) |
New Zealand |
National Certificate in Educational Achievement (NCEA); University Bursary |
Norway |
Examen Artium; Vitnemal Den Videregaende Skole; Eksamen fra Okonomisk Gymnas |
Poland |
Matura; Swiadectwo Dojrzalosci Liceum Ogolnoksztalcacego; Swiadectwo Dojrzalosci Liceum Zawodowego; Swiadectwo Dojrzalosci Technikum Zawodowego; Swiadectwo Dojrzalosci Technikum; Egzamin Maturalny |
Portugal |
Carta do Curso Complementar Liceus; Certifico de fim de Estudos Secundarios; Diploma de Decimo Segundo Ano de Escolaridad; Certidao do Decimo Segundo Ano; Diploma Tecnico Profissional |
Romania |
Diploma de Bacalaureat (Maturitate) |
Scotland |
Scottish Certificate of Education (SCE) (with passes obtained in two sittings or less over four or more subjects at the Higher Level); National Courses |
Serbia |
Serbian School Leaving Certificate (Diploma o Zavrsenok Srednjoj Skolij) (from 2006 onwards, with required score) |
Singapore |
Singapore GCE A levels |
Slovak Republic |
Vysvedceni o Maturitni Zkousce; Maturita (with required score) |
Slovenia (Republic of) |
Slovenian Matura (Splosna Matura); Secondary School Leaving Certificate (Maturitetno Spricevalo) (from 1994, with required score) |
South Africa |
J.M.B. Matriculation Certificate; South African Senior Certificate (prior to 2008); South African National Senior Certificate (2008 onwards) |
Spain |
Technico Especialista; Curso pre-universitaria; Curso de Orientacion Universitaria; Titulo de Bachillerato |
Sri Lanka |
Sri Lankan GCE A levels |
Sweden |
Studentexamen; Gymnaisie Kompetens; Avgangsbetyg fran Gymnaiseskolan |
Switzerland |
Federal Maturity Certificate (Certificate de Maturite; Baccalaureat; Maturitatszeugnis; Attestato di Maturita |
Tanzania |
Tanzanian Advanced Certificate of Secondary Education |
Thailand |
Thailand Certificate of Secondary Education (Matayom 6) |
Uganda |
Uganda Advanced Certificate of Education |
United Kingdom |
GCE A Levels (see 'General international qualifications' above) |
Required SAT or ACT results with evidence of graduation from a senior secondary qualification |
Zimbabwe |
Zimbabwe School Examinations Council (ZIMSEC) GCE A Levels |


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. Regional forum to kick off in Panama Dec. 2
. Venezuela, Colombia agree to lengthen natural gas duct towards
Ecuador, Panama
Costa Rica
. US undersecretary for global affairs and democracy, Maria Otero,
will visit Honduras, Guatemala and Costa Rica this week
. 85% Homicides in 2010 Went Unpunished
. Chief Prosecutor's Office will file extortion charges against
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. Protest At Recope Plants Cause Of Fuel Shortages Monday
. Doctors union declares nationwide strike Tuesday
. Chinchilla says wave of protests is because her government is
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Foro regional celebrara su asamblea el proximo viernes en Panama
Por Agencia EFE - hace 14 horas
Panama, 28 nov (EFE).- El Parlamento Latinoamericano (Parlatino) celebrara
el proximo viernes en Panama su XXVII Asamblea Ordinaria, centrada en como
debe enfrentar America Latina la crisis economica mundial, informo hoy una
fuente oficial.
De acuerdo con un comunicado del Parlatino, a la Asamblea Ordinaria, que
coronara una serie de reuniones de comisiones a partir de manana lunes,
asistiran unos 300 parlamentarios de 23 paises de la region.
La XXVII Asamblea Ordinaria tendra como principales asuntos de su agenda:
"la crisis economica mundial y como debera afrontarla America Latina y si
la region cumplira al ano 2015 con los objetivos de desarrollo del milenio
establecidos por la ONU", acota.
Acciones contra los delitos ciberneticos, la prevencion de la
delincuencia, la aprobacion de una ley marco contra toda forma de
discriminacion y normas para la donacion y trasplantes de organos humanos,
son los temas principales que discutiran las comisiones de Seguridad
Ciudadana, Derechos Humanos y Salud del Parlatino.
La Comision de Seguridad Ciudadana analizara como ha afectado el crimen
organizado en la seguridad nacional y a la soberania de los paises
Otra de las comisiones que se reunira en la Sede Permanente del Parlatino
en Amador (Panama) sera la de Educacion, Cultura, Ciencia, Tecnologia y
Comunicacion, que analizara el proyecto de "escuelas abiertas", mientras
que los diputados evaluaran las politicas aplicadas por los estados en
materia de ciencia y tecnologia.
Por otra parte, la Comision de Derechos Humanos, Justicia y Politicas
Carcelarias trabajara en la elaboracion de una ley marco que regule la
alfabetizacion digital de los infantes de los paises miembros, apunta.
Venezuela y Colombia asumiran construccion de gasoducto a Ecuador y Panama
28-Nov 08:58 pm|AVN
Asi lo informo el ministro de Energia y presidente de la estatal Petroleos
de Venezuela S.A. (Psvsa), Rafael Ramirez
Ministro de Energia y Petroleo, Rafael Ramirez | Raul Romero
Venezuela y Colombia acordaron este lunes construir la extension de un
gasoducto entre ambos paises hacia Ecuador y Panama, informo el ministro
de Energia y presidente de la estatal Petroleos de Venezuela S.A. (PDVSA),
Rafael Ramirez.
Ambos Gobiernos suscribieron un acuerdo para la ampliacion del gasoducto
Antonio Ricaurte durante la visita oficial que el presidente de Colombia,
Juan Manuel Santos, cumplio este lunes a Caracas, en la que se reunio con
su homologo venezolano, Hugo Chavez.
"Lo que estamos haciendo aqui es que de manera conjunta vamos a asumir esa
gestion", explico Ramirez a periodistas. Indico que cuando fue inaugurado
el gasoducto Antonio Ricaurte en 2006 y que permite el intercambio de gas
entre Venezuela y Colombia, los presidentes de Panama, Colombia, Venezuela
y Ecuador "habian asomado la idea" de que se extendiera a esos dos paises.
Ramirez no preciso de inmediato el monto de la inversion, al explicar que
es objeto de estudio.
"Hay que definir sobre todo en el lado panameno la ruta: si es una ruta
subacuatica o es una ruta que va por la costa", preciso. Aseguro que se
preve que el gas saldra del pozo Perla 3X, que es parte del proyecto
gasifero Rafael Urdaneta y esta situado en el estado de Falcon, en el
noroeste venezolano.
Ese bloque es desarrollado conjuntamente por la espanola Repsol, la
italiana Eni y la estatal venezolana PDVSA. Segun Ramirez, el tema de la
exportacion del gas "ya esta conversado" con las dos empresas socias que
PDVSA tiene en el proyecto Rafael Urdaneta
Costa Rica
Alta funcionaria de EE UU visitara Honduras
06:04 pm - AFP
Los temas que Maria Otero abordara en el pais seran seguridad y derechos
humanos. Tambien estara en Costa Rica y Guatemala
Una alta funcionaria del Departamento de Estado norteamericano visitara
Costa Rica, Guatemala y Honduras esta semana para hablar con autoridades
locales sobre democracia y derechos humanos, informo este lunes un
comunicado oficial.
La subsecretaria de Estado para Asuntos Globales y Democracia, Maria
Otero, partio este lunes hacia Costa Rica, donde se reunira con miembros
del gobierno y de la sociedad civil para hablar sobre cooperacion
bilateral en seguridad ciudadana, trafico de personas y derechos humanos,
indico el Departamento.
Luego Otero viajara luego a Guatemala, donde los temas principales que
abordara con lideres locales seran prevencion del crimen, inclusion social
y derechos humanos.
En su ultima parada, Honduras, la funcionaria abordara la situacion de la
seguridad y los derechos humanos, agrego el comunicado.
Washington ha aumentado en los ultimos anos su cooperacion con America
Central ante la explosion de la violencia en la zona producto del
narcotrafico y el crimen organizado.
Doctors union declares nationwide strike Tuesday
Posted: Monday, November 28, 2011 - By Tico Times
Medical professionals will join anesthesiologists in a strike that has
delayed more than 2,000 operatoins.
The National Medical Union announced late Monday that some 5,000 public
and private doctors will go on strike at 7 a.m. Tuesday against the
policies of the Social Security System (Caja).
The doctors will be joining Caja anesthesiologists who have been on strike
for nearly two weeks, protesting alleged unsanitary and unsafe working
conditions and a lack of vacation time.
The union declared the nationwide strike hours after members skipped a
meeting with Caja representatives scheduled for Monday afternoon.
A labor court in San Jose ruled the 12-day anesthesiologist strike illegal
last Wednesday, and doctors could be facing penalties and jail time. The
Prosecutor's Office had charged anesthesiologists from Hospital San Juan
de Dios, in San Jose, with disobeying an official Health Ministry order to
return to work.
The demands of the strike are for the Health Ministry to recall an order
that could result in criminal chargers for the strikers, to rehire two
fired anesthesiologists and to reduce the role in the negotiations of Caja
Executive President Ileana Balmaceda and Zenith Rojas, the Caja's medical
The ongoing strike by the doctors has postponed more than 2,000 surgeries.
Costa Rica: 85% Homicides in 2010 Went Unpunished
The chances of going to jail for murder in Costa Rica are slim, very slim,
as 85% of the homicides last year went unpunished, that is of the 506
murders, there were only 76 convictions.
According to the Poder Judicial (Judiciary) of the 145.284 overall
complaints filed in 2010 only 3.856 convictions were registered. In terms
of rape, there were 1.613 allegations but only 157 sentences, leaving in
impunity more than 90% of the cases.
On the issue of auto theft, 42.434 cases were reported but only 801 people
convicted, while in cases involving drugs of the 64.217 charges there were
only 217 convictions.
According to Juan Diego Castro, criminal lawyer and former ministro de
Seguridad Publica, the impunity last year is the highest in more than a
decade. And, according to Castro, it is not going to get better if the
situation is not taken seriously by the government.
Chief Prosecutor's Office will file extortion charges against legislator
Posted: Monday, November 28, 2011 - By Karla Arias Alvarado
National Liberation Party rep Jorge Angulo to face charges of extortion,
fraud and influence peddling.
Chief Prosecutor Jorge Chavarria said Monday that a formal accusation will
be filed against National Liberation Party representative Jorge Angulo by
The next step is to set up interviews with construction company COINKRJ
S.A. representatives who have accused Angulo of extortion.
As a legislator, Angulo is protected by legal immunity. However, earlier
this month, Angulo agreed to give up his immunity if the Chief
Prosecutor's Office presented a formal accusation against him.
The prosecution plans to charge Angulo with fraud, influence peddling and
and extortion.
Costa Rica government to slash budget by $50 million
Posted: Monday, November 28, 2011 - By Adam Williams
Opposition parties vote 31-to-25 to defeat majority party and approve 2012
After days of tense negotiation, the Legislative Assembly voted Sunday
night to trim Costa Rica's budget by ₡25 billion ($50 million) in
2012. The largest cuts in the government budget will be in the Finance
Ministry (₡9 billion), the Public Security Ministry (₡4
billion), and the Public Works and Transport Ministry (₡3.8
Costa Rica's current fiscal deficit is expected to surpass $7 billion by
the end of 2011. Slashing government expenditures, as well as the current
tax reform proposal, which is expected to be voted on in the Legislative
Assembly in mid-December, are considered the two most vital elements to
re-establishing national financial stability.
On Sunday night, the approval of the 2012 budget narrowly passed with a
31-to-25 vote and was the first time since 1957 that the minority parties
in the Legislative Assembly ratified a budget unsupported by the majority
party. The majority National Liberation Party and the Libertarian Movement
Party voted against the budget that was pushed through by the Citizen's
Action Party, Social Christian Unity Party and four other minority party's
aided the approval.
Though members of the ruling National Liberation Party voted against the
budget approval, Luis Gerardo Villanueva, head of the party in the
Legislative Assembly, applauded the transparency of the process.
"The important thing is that there was an understanding. We were able to
sit and converse and demonstrate that we are able to arrive at
agreements," Villanueva said. "The government wanted to give examples of
austerity with a single vote and the various budget cuts accepted
accomplished that feat...In the end, we agree with the budget approved."
For more on how the budget cuts will affect the 2012 economic landscape,
see the Dec. 2 edition of The Tico Times.
Protest At Recope Plants Cause Of Fuel Shortages Monday
The latest to join the protests and strikes that have taken over Costa
Rica in the last couple of weeks are gasoline retailers, on Monday
blocking with their tanker trucks the Recope distribution plants.
The protests affected the distribution of gasoline, leaving some gasoline
stations without fuel and slow service. Truckers on Monday morning blocked
access to the La Garita (Alajuela), Ochomogo (Cartago), Moin (Limon) and
Barranca (Puntarenas) plants.
A number of gasoline stations in Curridabat, Tres Rios, San Jose, San
Ramon and Naranjo reported empty tanks by noon.
At some gasoline stations, service was very slow in support of the
distribution plants protests.
The measure was in protest of the decision by the Autoridad Reguladora de
los Servicios Publicos (Aresep) - regulator of public prices and services
- for not setting rates, waiting on the Constitutional Court to rule on an
appeal filed against the regulator.
"Our protest is to draw attention to the Constitutional Court, the Aresep
and the Procuraduria General de la Republica (Attorney General's Office),
to agree and resolve this issue", said Jose Miguel Masis director of the
Camara de Empresarios del Combustible.
Although the Camara had threatened to continue the strike into the
afternoon, the protest was over shortly after noon and gasoline tranker
trucks began supplying gasoline stations again.
Chinchilla dice que ola de protestas es porque se esta ordenando Costa
29 de noviembre de 2011 o 10:27
La presidenta de Costa Rica, Laura Chinchilla, afirmo hoy que la ola de
protestas de diversos sectores en las ultimas semanas se debe a que el
Gobierno esta poniendo orden en el pais y no concediendo peticiones "a
manos llenas".
En una entrevista en la Radio ADN, la mandataria dijo: "no vimos huelgas
ni paros por un tiempo es porque se estuvo concediendo a manos llenas,
pero ya no estamos para eso, hemos venido a pedir sacrificio a la gente y
hemos estado metiendo en cintura a muchos sectores".
Chinchilla subrayo que su administracion esta "conteniendo el gasto con
una estricta posicion en cuanto a conceder beneficios a los sectores" y
que esto siempre generara descontento entre algunos grupos.
En los ultimos dias grupos como los medicos anestesiologos, taxistas,
trabajadores de la Imprenta Nacional y del Consejo Nacional de Produccion,
motociclistas y expendedores de combustible han protagonizado protestas y
huelgas en todo el pais en busca de reivindicaciones sectoriales.
El caso mas grave es el de los anestesiologos, cuya huelga desde hace mas
de una semana ha causado la suspension de mas de 2.000 cirugias en el
sistema publico de salud y cuyo dialogo con las autoridades esta en punto
Chinchilla nego que la situacion del pais "se le este saliendo de las
manos al Gobierno" y por el contrario, senalo que este ambiente
efervescente se debe al "sacrificio" que se ha pedido a diversos sectores
en vista de la fragil situacion fiscal de Costa Rica.
"Con tal de evitar conflictos no podemos seguir por la via por la que
venia este pais de dar aquello que no se puede sostener. El pais esta
requiriendo una actitud responsable y haciendo un llamado al sacrificio
relativo de muchos sectores para sacar la situacion fiscal y la de algunas
instituciones", aseguro.
La presidenta hizo un llamado a los sectores para evitar nuevas jornadas
de protestas, como la que tienen programada hoy los motociclistas, quienes
consideran excesivo un aumento en el monto que deben pagar para obtener su
permiso de circulacion para el proximo ano.
"Por mas legitima que sea la preocupacion de un grupo no podemos empeorar
las cosas tirandonos todos a la calle y violentando derechos fundamentales
de los demas", expreso la gobernante.
Chinchilla invito a los sectores descontentos a acudir a las vias
institucionales para expresar sus disconformidades y aseguro que las
puertas del dialogo en todas las instituciones estan siempre abiertas.
"No se nos ha ido el control del pais, simplemente muchos de estos
conflictos se vienen acumulando desde hace anos y nos toco atenderlos en
este momento", puntualizo la mandataria.
Para hoy, ademas de la protesta de los motociclistas, continua la huelga
de los anestesiologos que exigen mejoras en sus condiciones laborales y se
espera que se restablezca el abastecimiento de combustible a las
gasolineras, mucha de ellas cerradas durante las primeras horas de la
manana, luego de que ayer los expendedores paralizaran este servicio con
un bloqueo para pedir una alza en las tarifas.
La Presidente de Costa Rica no vendra a cumbre de Celac
Esta noticia ha sido leida 136 veces
La presidenta de Costa Rica, Laura Chinchilla, no asistira a la
cumbre de jefes de Estado y de Gobierno de los paises del Grupo de Rio y
de la Cumbre de America Latina y el Caribe que se realizara en Caracas del
2 al 3 de diciembre, indicaron fuentes del pais centroamericano.
No se precisaron las razones por las cuales la mandataria no estara en
presente para firmar la declaracion que dara vida a la Comunidad de
Estados Latinoamericanos y Caribenos o Celac. En su lugar asistira el
primer vicepresidente Alfil Piva.
Tampoco estara el canciller Enrique Castillo que sera representado por el
vicecanciller Carlos Roverssi.
La Celac agrupara a 32 Estados del hemisferio, entre ellos Cuba. No
tendran cabida Estados Unidos ni Canada.
El surgimiento de este grupo de integracion se acordo en febrero de 2010
en Mexico en una cumbre del Grupo de Rio.
El silencio ha caracterizado las negociaciones para la constitucion del
organismo. Se sabe que sustituira a la Cumbre de Cancilleres de America
Latina y el Caribe y al Grupo de Rio. En abril se dijo que habra una
presidencia pro tempore.anual.
Belarus, Cuba sign civil aviation cooperation agreement
Text of report by Ukrainian Defense-Express website on 29 November
Belarusian and Cuban aviators have signed a memorandum on civil aviation
cooperation, belta.by has said, quoting the press service of the
Belarusian Transport and Communications Ministry.
The document on partnership was signed by the first deputy aviation
department director of the Belarusian ministry, Uladzimir Lohinaw, and the
vice-president of the Cuban civil aviation institute, Ricardo Santillan.
Under the memorandum, the Minsk aviation repair plant will at Cuba's
request supply components and equipment as well as provide repair works
for the Cubana de Aviacion air company. The issue of Cuban specialists
studying in the Belarusian civil aviation college is being considered.
Also, the expediency of setting up a joint aviation repair company in Cuba
is being studied. "Also, we are considering the possibility of the Minsk
aviation repair supplying Yak-40 and Yak-42 aircraft whose next repair is
sufficiently far off to Cuba," the press service said. "The Cubans showed
quite an interest in Belarusian unmanned aerial vehicles as well."
The cooperation documents were signed during an international fair in
Havana, which was held this month.
Wife Of US Man Imprisoned In Cuba Wants Obama's Help
Published November 29, 2011
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Alan Gross and his wife, Judy. Gross, a 61-year-old Maryland native, was
arrested in 2009 by Cuban authorities and charged with undermining the
Cuban government by bringing communications equipment onto the island
illegally. On Aug. 5, 2011, the Cuba Supreme Court rejected the U.S.
government contractor's last appeal seeking dismissal of his 15-year
sentence. (AP2011)
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The wife of U.S. aid contractor Alan Gross, who is serving a lengthy
prison sentence in Cuba on subversion charges, asked Monday for President
Barack Obama's intercession in the case.
"I spoke with Alan two days ago. Never have I heard him more hopeless and
depressed," Judy Gross said during a protest outside the Cuban Interests
Section in Washington.
Accompanied by a score of supporters from the Jewish Community Relations
Council of Greater Washington, she called on Americans to write letters to
newspapers and politicians, including President Obama, urging action on
behalf of her husband.
Gross, now 62, was arrested in Havana on Dec. 3, 2009, in possession of
satellite communications equipment he said he was planning to distribute
among Cuba's Jewish community.
The Cuban government said he was illegally aiding dissidents and inciting
subversion on the Communist-ruled island. In August, Cuba's highest court
upheld the 15-year jail sentence imposed on Gross in March.
Judy Gross asked for increased pressure on Congress and Obama to obtain
the release of her husband on humanitarian grounds, on the eve of the
second anniversary of his arrest and imprisonment.
"Please join us in the effort to keep Alan's case top-of-mind with
policymakers," she said Monday. "Tell everyone you know about Alan."
A Washington-area rabbi who visited Alan Gross in Havana said earlier this
month that the Maryland native wants to be swapped for five Cuban spies
held in the United States.
Gross expressed "anger and frustration" about his situation, Rabbi David
Shneyer said in a message to his congregation in Bethesda, Maryland. He
said he spent nearly two hours with Gross.
"Having learned about the recent swap of (Israeli soldier) Gilad Shalit
for more than 1,000 imprisoned Palestinians, (Gross) felt that the U.S.
and Cuba could do the same for him and the 'Cuban Five,'" Shneyer said.
The five - Gerardo Hernandez, Rene Gonazlez, Ramon Labanino, Antonio
Guerrero and Fernando Gonzalez - were arrested in 1998 and convicted three
years later by a federal jury in Miami.
Though one of the group, Rene Gonzalez, completed his custodial sentence
in October and was released, he has not been permitted to go home, as the
federal courts say he must serve his three-year probation on U.S. soil.
Press accounts said Havana rejected a U.S. proposal to allow Rene Gonzalez
to return to Cuba now in exchange for Gross' freedom, countering with a
demand for the release of the four spies who remain in prison.
While acknowledging that the five are intelligence agents, Havana insists
they were spying on Miami's Cuban exile community, not the U.S.
Cuba said the men were sent to Florida in the wake of several terror
bombings in Havana allegedly masterminded by anti-Castro militant Luis
Posada Carriles, a former CIA operative.
Saturday will mark two years since Alan Gross, 62, was arrested in
Cuba.Judy Gross said that in the past year she twice thought her husband
might be able to return to the United States, but both times she was
"The Cubans will say one thing one day and change their minds the next,"
said Gross, who had to sell the couple's home and now lives in Washington.
Gross has rarely talked about her husband's situation, giving interviews
only infrequently and waiting for her husband's case to work its way
through the Cuban legal process. She hired a prominent Washington
litigator who advised her against saying much because of the sensitivity
of the case and also because it was working through the Cuban courts. But
she acknowledged Monday that staying silent "didn't work."
Gross said in an interview that her husband asked the company he was
working for to contact the Cuban government to clear his work setting up
internet for the island's small Jewish community. But the company,
Maryland-based Development Alternatives Inc., refused to contact Cuban
officials and refused to let him contact anyone either, she said. He was
told separately not to worry about the project by a co-worker, she said.
I spoke with Alan two days ago. Never have I heard him more hopeless and
- Judy Gross
A spokesman for DAI, Steven O'Connor, said in a statement that Gross
"designed, proposed, and implemented this work" for the company, which had
a government contract for a democracy-building project on the Communist
island. Gross was a subcontractor for the company, which had a contract
financed by the U.S. Agency for International Development. The company
wants to correct some of the misconceptions surrounding his work, O'Connor
wrote, but "now is not the time."
Judy Gross said her husband believes he was duped by the company, a
characterization O'Connor disputed. Gross called himself a "trusting fool"
in Cuban court testimony released by his lawyer and said, "I was duped. I
was used."
In September, former New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson visited Cuba and told
reporters he had been invited to negotiate Gross' release. But
Richardson's efforts imploded after he called Gross a hostage in one
interview. Cuban officials accused him of trying to blackmail them, and he
returned empty handed.
Gross said she "had a lot of hopes dashed" when Richardson was
unsuccessful and that he had been very confident before going down.
"I don't fault anyone or anybody on that because I don't really know what
happened," she said.
U.S. officials also reportedly tried to negotiate Gross' release by
offering to let a convicted Cuban spy return home, but Cuba rebuffed the
Gross said both she and her husband are now less hopeful about his release
anytime soon. And she said she is worried that if President Barack Obama
isn't re-elected, a Republican president may be less willing to work with
Cuba to secure his release. She urged Obama to make a statement about the
case, which arose just as the Obama administration was making tentative
movements to ease decades of U.S. tensions with Cuba.
For now, Alan Gross is generally allowed to call his wife once a week, on
Fridays. Judy Gross said she last spoke to him days ago and he sounded
"more hopeless and more depressed" than before. He has lost more than 100
pounds while in Havana's maximum-security Villa Marista prison but is now
gaining weight, she said, adding arthritis now makes it difficult for him
to walk.
She was allowed to visit him in Cuba earlier this month, her third visit
since his arrest. She said she brought chocolate chip cookies, pictures of
his family, and issues of his favorite magazine, The Economist.
Based on reporting by EFE and the Associated Press.
Website publishes personal details of top Cuban officials
By JUAN O. TAMAYO - McClatchy Newspapers
MIAMI - Want to know the home address of Cuban ruler Raul Castro's
daughter? How about the home phone number for his No. 2, Jose Ramon
Machado Ventura? Or the cell number for Minister of Communications Ramiro
A Miami-based website is publishing those and myriad other details on the
private lives of top Cuban officials, saying it wants to warn "the
darlings of the dictatorship" that they will face a dark future if the
government collapses.
Also obtained from inside Cuba are digital lists of the cellphone numbers
for tens of thousands of security and intelligence officers, and the
street addresses of virtually every single military base on the island,
contributors to the site say.
The leak of such personal details, out of a communist-ruled country where
secrecy has long been paramount, reflects the Castro government's growing
inability to control the flow of information in the age of the Internet.
"Technology is going to destroy them," said one post on the website
CubaalDescubierto - Cuba Uncovered - where the details are being posted by
FUEGO, or "fire," a group that claims to be made up of Cubans in Cuba and
on the outside.
The site already has published what it says are the home addresses, phone
numbers and other personal information of more than 20 top Cubans since it
started posting those kinds of details about six weeks ago.
They include Machado Ventura, Castro's No. 2 in the ruling Council of
State and the Communist Party; former Defense Minister Julio Casas, who
died Sept. 3; and Valdes, a former Interior Minister, widely viewed as one
of Cuba's most powerful officials.
It also published the address and home phone of Castro's daughter Deborah
and her husband, Luis Alberto Rodriguez Lopez Callejas, an army colonel
who runs military-owned businesses that account for an estimated 60
percent of the island's economy.
The addresses and phone numbers for Angela and Agustina Castro Ruz,
sisters to Raul and Fidel Castro, and for Sonia and Jose Alejandro Espin,
sister and brother of Raul Castro's late wife, Vilma Espin, also appeared
on the page.
El Nuevo Herald could not confirm all of the details published, but its
calls to eight of the phone numbers confirmed that five were correct. One
was confirmed by a female relative and two by housemaids. Three others did
not answer, including Valdes' purported cell.
Percy Alvarado, identified by the Cuban government in the late 1990s as
one of its intelligence operatives, told El Nuevo Herald that he received
a threatening call on his cellular phone earlier this month from people
who identified themselves as members of FUEGO.
He called the publication of the addresses and phone numbers a "flagrant
violation of the right to privacy and international laws."
Miami blogger Aldo Rosado Tuero, a member of FUEGO and publisher of the
blog Nuevo Accion, said publishing the details about the Cuban officials
and relatives was designed to "send some of them the message that they are
known, that we know where they live."
"We also want to try to push these people to ease the repression (against
dissidents) in Cuba, and we believe there should be some record for the
future, so that crimes do not go unpunished," Rosado added. "We're talking
about justice, not vengeance."
CubaalDescubierto's postings are the latest effort by some government
critics to shine a spotlight on Cubans who actively work for the island's
totalitarian government, in hopes of persuading them to temper their
The Web site and Twitter account CubaRepresorID publishes the names and
photos of people it describes as State Security agents, "snitches" who
collaborate with them and Cubans who repeatedly join government-organized
mobs that harass dissidents.
Part of the information posted on CubaRepresorID and CubaalDescubierto has
come from FUEGO, the Spanish acronym for the United Front of Exiles and
Organized Groups, which describes itself as being dedicated to "damaging
the tyranny and helping the internal opposition."
Other details have come from digital lists that have been making the
rounds among Cuba watchers this year - including one list of more than
60,000 unlisted phone numbers for sensitive sectors such as State Security
and senior government officials.
The blog Penultimos Dias - Penultimate Days - recently noted that if it
hears of a crackdown on dissent in eastern Santiago de Cuba, for example,
it can send text messages to every single State Security agent in the
province saying, "stop the repression."
Some Cubans say that list was accidentally posted on the website of the
island's telephone company, the Cuban Telecommunications Company SA, or
ETECSA, and was quickly taken down. Others say it was leaked on purpose by
a government opponent.
The Armed Forces Ministry recently banned the use of portable memories,
such as flash drives, CDs and DVDs, as well as personal computers for
ministry work, according to Penultimos Dias.
Another digital ETECSA list included a home phone for Juan Pablo Roque,
one of the Havana spies linked to Cuba's 1996 shootdown of two Brothers to
the Rescue airplanes in which four South Florida men were killed. The
listing was later removed.
Making public such details is the flip side of the "acts of repudiation"
staged by government supporters to harass and intimidate dissidents,
argued Luis Dominguez, part of a group within FUEGO that calls itself the
Cuban Cyber Commandos.
"No one can imagine the amount of information that reaches us from Cuba
through the CCCs," Dominguez told El Nuevo Herald. Government officials
"should start thinking that they can never again be anonymous."
Asked if publishing the private information for Cuban officials was not a
way of threatening them, Dominguez replied, "I don't threaten anyone. Each
person can decide what to do with this type of information."
Dominguez, 48, a Miami security company administrator, has been involved
in several previous digital jabs at the Cuban government, and sometimes
jokes about starting a website for leaks about Cuba called "WikiCuba."
In 2009, he passed himself off online as Claudia, a Colombian woman, and
maintained an eight-month exchange of salacious emails with Fidel Castro's
oldest son, Antonio Castro Soto del Valle.
Dominguez says FUEGO and CCC have plenty more details that will be
published slowly on Cuba al Descubierto.
On Wednesday, the website posted the Havana street address and two
telephone numbers for the recently created Special National Brigade of the
National Revolutionary Police - an elite unit trained in crowd control and
SWAT tactics.
A man who answered the phone confirmed it was the home of the Special
National Brigade, known in Cuba as "the little roosters" because their
shoulder patches feature a black fighting cock on a red, white and blue
"Today we already know where each one of Fidel Castro's bodyguards lives,
and each one of Fidel's neighbors," he told El Nuevo Herald. Castro's
house in western Havana has long been marked on some of Google Earth's
satellite photos.
"But that's not the worst for them," Dominguez added. "What is really
going to hurt them is when we publish precise information about (the
location of) ALL the units" of the armed forces and the Interior Ministry,
in charge of domestic security."
Chinese carmaker Geely sells 1,560 vehicles to Cuban government
Publish date: Nov 29, 2011
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Geely, one of China's largest privately owned carmakers, exported 1,560
cars to Cuba on October 22, 2011. The exports represented the Chinese
automaker's second procurement contract signed with the Cuban government
since 2009, according to a spokesperson for Geely. The Cuban government
inked an agreement with Geely for the purchase of 1,500 Geely cars in
March 2009.
The 1,560 cars included 1,310 Geely Free Cruisers, 150 Emgrand EC718s and
100 Emgrand EC820s, all of which will be used by Cuban government
departments including tourism and defense. Geely Emgrand EC718 and EC820
are two of Geely's models that are widely available in China's domestic
market. The exports play a significant role in encouraging Chinese
carmakers to further tap the Cuban market and demonstrate that the quality
of made-in-China cars is increasingly recognized in the country.
Establishing a strong footprint in Latin America is an important strategic
change for Geely following the global financial crisis, when Chinese
carmakers faced a very tough market environment in Middle Eastern and
African markets. Geely sees Cuba and Chile as their key springboards to
the Latin American market.
Geely executive director Hong Shaolun said that Russia, Ukraine, Turkey,
Iraq and Chile are Geely's five main export destinations. The strong
exports to Latin America also have laid a solid foundation for Geely to
meet its ambitious export goal by 2015. Previously, Geely announced that
the company intends to reach a production capacity of 2 million units by
2015 and exports will account for 50 per cent of the total capacity.
Geely recorded car exports of more than 100,000 units between 2007 and
2010, making it one of the leading car exporters in China. The company has
established over 400 sales and service outlets in more than 50 countries
and regions worldwide, including a dozen 4S dealerships.
Reclama Cuba reforma urgente y profunda del Consejo de Seguridad de la ONU
Editado por Barbara Gomez | | |
La Habana, 28 nov (RHC) Cuba reitero su demanda de una reforma urgente y
profunda del Consejo de Seguridad de la ONU y la eliminacion del
privilegio del veto, por anacronico y antidemocratico.
Durante una sesion de la octava ronda de negociaciones
intergubernamentales sobre la reforma de ese organo, el representante
permanente alterno de Cuba ante la ONU, Oscar Leon, abogo por una
ampliacion inmediata del Consejo de Seguridad, tanto en la categoria de
miembros permanentes como no permanentes.
El diplomatico cubano reclamo una mayor representacion de los paises
subdesarrollados en calidad de permanentes, pues nada justifica que
regiones como Africa y America Latina y el Caribe no lo tengan, cuando mas
de la mitad de los temas del Consejo estan relacionados con el continente
Oscar Leon subrayo que los actuales metodos de trabajo del Consejo de
Seguridad de la ONU no son transparentes ni democraticos, por lo que
requieren de una profunda transformacion.
En ese sentido, propuso que las consultas a puertas cerradas sean una
excepcion y que se garantice un nivel de acceso real a los Estados no
miembros de ese cuerpo.
El representante permanente alterno de Cuba ante la ONU preciso que
aspiran a un Consejo que se ocupe de los temas que le corresponden, no
invada los de otros organos y goce de capacidad y legitimidad real para
movilizar a la comunidad internacional en el enfrentamiento a los retos
globales en materia de paz y seguridad internacionales.
Cuba y Mexico se unen para desarrollos biotecnologicos
2011-11-29 o Tendencias
Cuba aspira a colaborar con Mexico a partir de su experiencia de "cerrar
el circulo", desarrollando producciones propias en la biotecnologia, dijo
a MILENIO el doctor Carlos Borroto, quien encabezo el inicio ayer en La
Habana de un congreso internacional sobre la especialidad, al que asisten
importantes investigadores mexicanos.
Aclaro que los "mexicanos tienen excelentes cientificos", pero que, como
ocurre en otras partes de la region, la concrecion de sus investigaciones
en la produccion "queda en manos de empresas extranjeras, es decir, el
circulo (ciencia basica-produccion) queda abierto".
Particularizo ademas que al foro, que se extendera hasta el 3 de
diciembre, viajaron "investigadores de Mazatlan, Baja California, la UNAM,
el Centro de Investigaciones Cientificas de Yucatan" y de otras
instituciones mexicanas, y dijo sentirse "muy satisfecho" del rimo que
lleva ahora la colaboracion cubano-mexicana.
Vicedirector del Centro de Ingenieria Genetica y Biotecnologia de Cuba,
Borroto agrego en conferencia de prensa que unos 600 cientificos de 20
paises discuten en el congreso los avances a nivel mundial en "la
evaluacion del sistema inmunologico de peces y crustaceos" -en momentos,
puntualizo, "en que en Mazatlan los camarones estan afectados por una
enfermedad"-, asi como en el desarrollo del maiz geneticamente modificado.
En este aspecto, Cuba expuso sus experiencias en la produccion "de maiz e
hibridos geneticamente modificados", con vistas a sustituir importaciones
de Estados Unidos.
Entre las personalidades que asisten al congreso de La Habana figuran el
belga Marc Van Montagu, considerado uno de los "pioneros de la bilogia
molecular en plantas", y el Premio Nobel de medicina en 1993, Richard J.
Biotecnologia acuatica; bioseguridad de los organismos geneticamente
modificados; interaccion molecular planta-patogeno; y produccion de
farmaceuticos en plantas, son algunos de los temas a debate.
Entre los ponentes mexicanos destacan Emilio Medina, del Research &
Development de Probiomed; Jesus Gerardo Garcia, del Centro de
Biotecnologia Genomica del IPN, y Agustin Lopez y Alfredo Martinez, del
Instituto de Biotecnologia de Cuernavaca.
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- "Options"
Gomez seemingly came out of nowhere in 1998 when the British band released the Mercury Prize-winning album, Bring It On. Since then, the band has cranked out another handful of albums and toured both sides of the Atlantic. With each new record, the band has grown tighter and more confident.
Gomez's latest album, Whatever's On Your Mind, is its catchiest yet — a folky yet funky take on low-key rock. In this Live Friday concert, the band had to do without vocalist Ben Ottewell, who lost his voice the night before in New York City. In his stead, Gomez recruited their pedal steel-playing bus driver Brooke Langton and played a special acoustic set that turned out to be just as good as the real thing.
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MOOSE, Wyo. — The 60-year-old Minnesota man injured in a fall in Grand Teton National Park in northwest Wyoming is doing well.
Steve Markusen, of Minneapolis, was rescued from Grand Teton Mountain on Friday after falling about 50 feet.
His son, Max Markusen, said his father suffered a concussion and lacerations but was in surprisingly good shape at St. John's Medical Center in Jackson on Sunday.
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The disintegration of Daniel Bard continued Wednesday night in Portland, as the former Red Sox reliever -- throwing only 8 strikes in 30 pitches -- walked five and threw two wild pitches in one-plus innings for the Double-A Sea Dogs.
Since being sent back to Portland after a brief stint in Boston, Bard has walked 13 batters in 3 2/3 innings, covering five appearances.
"It was never going to be a quick fix with him, because of the residue of everything that has happened through a whole year of battle," Red Sox pitching Juan Nieves told the Boston Herald's John Tomase after the Sox' 9-2 over Tampa Bay Wednesday night. "It's going to take some time. I think the strength is there, the arm strength is there, it's a matter of him buying into it and creating some consistency.
"You know what it comes down to? Him not thinking about hitters or anything like that, just hit the glove, hit the glove, hit the glove. Let the stuff play. His stuff is too unbelievable to be turned off, or to be aware of, 'Oh my God I'm going to get hit,' except he's not getting hit, because he's walking guys."
Nieves said that, as of last night, no thought had been given to sending Bard back to extended spring training in Fort Myers in an attempt to rebuild his mechanics and restore what has to be his shattered confidence.
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EL PASO - With summer just around the corner, new bikinis for girls are pushing the limits.
Abercrombie Kids is selling push-up bikini tops for girls as young as seven.
Last week the "Ashley Striped Triangle" was described as a "push-up" top.
After bad publicity the company updated the controversial description of the bikini online and it now reads "padded."
NewsChannel 9 will speak with a local child psychologist today who says she's mad that a company would sell bikinis like these to girls this young.
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What the HE** are they thinking ????????
and instead of being mad at parents that buy them, this psychologist is going to be mad at the company that sells them? right... like this type of swimsuit is the ONLY option for parents to buy their young girls.
and check the inerrant bias and untruth in this article's language. what bikini manufacturer is selling directly to 7-year olds? when's the last time you saw a second grader shopping by herself? ummm, never.


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DUBLIN, July 10, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- BNY Mellon, the global leader in investment management and investment services, has been appointed portfolio administrator, trustee and custodian to BlueBay Ireland Corporate Credit I Limited, an investment vehicle intended to lend to Irish small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and medium-sized corporates.
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The investment vehicle was announced in January this year and forms part of a wider SME funding initiative referenced by Irish Minister for Finance Michael Noonan in the December 2012 budget. The investment vehicle, in which Ireland's National Pensions Reserve Fund (NPRF) is a cornerstone investor, was launched in June this year and has capital commitments of €450 million.
"By funding SMEs we are stepping into an area which has traditionally been dominated by Ireland's banks," said Pat Walsh, Head of Irish Investments at BlueBay Asset Management LLP. "This vehicle will originate term loans to Irish companies and is also able to acquire existing loans from banks that may be seeking to exit the Irish market. We are delighted to have worked with the NPRF and BNY Mellon on such an innovative and important project".
"SMEs are the backbone of Ireland's economy and vital to the country's nascent recovery," observes Dean Fletcher, Head of EMEA Corporate Trust, BNY Mellon. "BlueBay's innovative and ground breaking investment vehicle offers a crucial lifeline to these businesses, many of which have struggled to raise finance since the financial crisis. This is positive news for Ireland's business community and the future health of the country's economy." Joe Duffy, Country Executive for Ireland at BNY Mellon, adds: "BNY Mellon is a major participant in Ireland's financial services industry and has significant global expertise in investment services. We are thrilled to work with BlueBay on this project and contribute to supporting the recovery of Ireland's economy." The portfolio will comprise loans to high quality, mid-market borrowers and the use of proceeds will include refinancing, acquisition funding and growth capital. SMEs will be able to start applying for loans from the investment vehicle immediately.Check Out Our Best Services for Investors
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On December 12, after $91 million, nearly three years of renovations and a name change, the newly christened Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum reopens on the Upper East Side in the renovated Carnegie mansion. It kicks off with 10 new exhibitions, including a show of more than 350 objects from the museum's permanent collection, ranging from old toast racks and Rolodexes to complex, contemporary 3-D printed objects. Other floors on the new property help tell the museum's history, such as the legacy of the Hewitt sisters, who founded the collection in 1897, while New York City–based artist Maira Kalman pairs up the museum's objects—a 1926 Lobmeyr glass, the restored gold pocket watch of President Abraham Lincoln and a 1966 Ingo Maurer bulb—with a few of her personal items and illustrations.
Two curious portraits emerge over the winter months. Through February 22 at the New-York Historical Society, Vanity Fair photographer Annie Leibovitz—perhaps best known for her picture of John Lennon and Yoko Ono taken the day he was killed in the City—turns away from her celebrity-focused portraiture with Pilgrimage, a show of 70 photographs taken over a recent two-year stretch, and instead depicts living rooms, bedrooms and landscapes like Niagara Falls. At the Metropolitan Museum of Art, through March 15, Madame Cezanne groups together the second-most-painted model in Paul Cézanne's paintings: his wife, Hortense Fiquet. (His favorite animate subject was himself.) Over 20 years, the artist commonly thought of as the bridge from Monet to Picasso would paint 29 known portraits of his wife, and 24 of them are here—including Madame Cezanne in the Conservatory and Madame Cezanne in a Red Dress, from the Met's own collection.
Long before Chinatown became synonymous with fake Rolexes and Louis Vuitton bags, the knockoff had a long and uneasy history with high fashion. Faking It, a look at the history of authorized and unauthorized copying, illustrates the sometimes indistinguishable difference between the two. The exhibition, on display from December 2 through April 25 at FIT's Fashion and Textile History Gallery, opens with two identical suits from 1966, one from Coco Chanel and another a licensed copy, before continuing with dresses by Charles Frederick Worth (1903), Madeleine Vionnet (1925) and Christian Dior's famous 1947 collection, and moving through bags from Gucci, Chanel, Louboutin and others. Stick around to watch the video that outlines how to spot a counterfeit.
Opening at the Brooklyn Museum on February 20, Kehinde Wiley: A New Republic will give an overview of the artist's 14-year career with 60 paintings and sculptures, a healthy sample of his works that place contemporary black subjects in poses that mimic those of European aristocrats in Old Masters paintings. He uses a process he calls "street casting," where he asks people to sit for portraits and reproduce a pose from any painting found in a book in his studio.
Two winter-long group shows are worth noting. MoMA PS1's Zero Tolerance, named for the 1990s policy in New York City that enforced a tough stance against crime, brings together more than 20 artists, from Belgian-based installation and performance artist Francis Alÿs to more conceptual artists such as Joseph Beuys and Yoko Ono, for a wide-ranging exhibition about freedom of expression (through March 8). At the Museum of Modern Art, The Forever Now: Contemporary Painting in an Atemporal World surveys the state of painting through the work of Matt Connors, Josh Smith, Mary Weatherford and many others (December 14–April 5).
But the big groups shows begin in earnest as March approaches. On February 25, art-fair season in the City kicks off with the spectacle of the New Museum's triennial, Surround Audience, an assemblage of works from 51 artists and collectives organized by video-art celebrity Ryan Trecartin. From March 5 to 8, Armory Arts Week will be centered on Piers 92 and 94, where more than 200 galleries will exhibit their collections of 20th- and 21st-century art. This year there will be a special focus on artists from the Middle East, North Africa and the Mediterranean, organized by curator Omar Kholeif, and a commission from Lawrence Abu Hamdan.
The first week of March contains a wide-ranging list of options for culture vultures of all stripes and types: blue-chip seekers can search out the Art Dealer's Association of America's Art Show at the Park Avenue Armory on the Upper East Side; European-style works by emerging artists can be found at Volta NY on Pier 90, right near the main Armory show; and the open-plan Independent show has more of a studio-visit vibe down in Chelsea's Center 548. From March 13 to 21, Asia Week New York celebrates the Far East, with exhibitions up and down Fifth Avenue featuring everything from Korean folding screens to Chinese bronzes.
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John Waters: Beverly Hills John
Marianne Boesky Gallery
January 9–February 14
For his third solo exhibition at the Chelsea gallery, the Hairspray and Female Trouble director will be presenting photographs, sculptures and a sure-to-be-talked-about new video. That film, titled Kiddie Flamingos, shows young children reading an expurgated, family-friendly version of his masterpiece of filth, Pink Flamingos. We're certain it will be just as strange and wonderful as it sounds—and probably needs to be seen to be believed. The cult filmmaker's previous shows have drawn on his history in the film industry, incorporating in-jokes and vocabulary of movie culture but always filtered through his eccentric brand of campy humor.
Tyson Reeder
Canada Gallery
January 9–February 15
This artist's brightly colored scenes have been compared to Francis Picabia's, thanks to their mix of surrealist and Dada influences. But there's a much more pronounced mischievous quality in Reeder's work, which ranges from playful landscapes on Miami Beach (made outdoors with quick-drying materials) to naively drawn portraits that seem inspired by Paul Klee.
Amalia Ulman
James Fuentes Gallery
January 11–February 8
Is she the ultimate social-media performance artist, one who posts pictures of her (or someone else's) plastic surgery on Instagram? Or someone who is poking fun at selfie culture, all while constructing elaborate installations of pregnancy clinics as a comment on the state of health care for women? Or both? Decide for yourself at the newest installment of this controversial artist's work.
Tony Cragg: Walks of Life
Madison Square Park
Through February 8
The Scotland-born, Germany-based artist has created three elegant bronze sculptures that stand in three different sections of the park. At 18 feet high they're impossible to miss, but walk over to them and you'll see that the massive pieces are surprisingly light on their feet.
Mamma Andersson: Behind the Curtain
David Zwirner
Through February 14
The Stockholm artist is better known in Europe, but this is her third solo show at the ever-expanding Chelsea gallery, where the canvases seem filled with a peculiar Nordic light and pastoral interior scenes. They are never not beautiful and can approach a slightly sentimental perspective, like an innocuous room accented with palm trees. Others hang with a moody sense of dread, like Peeping Tom, which depicts a barren, snowy landscape empty save for a track of footprints.
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Rachel Uffner
Through February 22
This exhibition is as close as contemporary art gets to slapstick. Curator Wyatt Kahn brings together five artists who have steadily built a following with playful art-fueled hijinks—from morbid trickster Jamie Isenstein to Lucas Blalock, who toys with the boundaries of digital photography, and Zachary Leener's cartoony ceramic sculptures. The Paul McCarthy parody video, Painter, is sui generis.
Paula Hayes: Gazing Globes
Madison Square Park
Opening February 19
Call it "Almost Frozen." On the west gravel section of Madison Square Park, 18 snow-globe-like sculptures are filled with the technology of not-so-distant yesteryears: vacuum tubes, batteries and discarded computer parts on a bed of finely ground-up compact discs. Set atop elegant pedestals ranging from 2 to 4 feet tall, the crystal balls give the park a picturesque winter vibe, as if it's December all over again.
Everything Is Design: The Work of Paul Rand
Museum of the City of New York
Opening February 25
The revered Rand was responsible for some of the most enduring trademarks of the 20th century—think of the blue-striped IBM logo, the black dot used by broadcasting giant ABC or the box-with-a-bow that defined UPS for decades. But the Brooklyn native was also a gifted painter, writer, professor and design evangelist who treated his commercial jobs as works of art.
Romare Bearden: A Black Odyssey
Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery
Through March 14
Seen in New York City for the first time since they were created in 1977, this series of 20 collages and watercolors by African-American artist Romare Bearden is based on Homer's epic poem The Odyssey. Bearden's vividly illustrated version, however, connects the ancient Greek tale with contemporary African-American culture, and the pieces are done in a way that draws on the vibrant colors of Henri Matisse while also prefiguring the urgent social commentary of Kara Walker. In total, the exhibition includes roughly 50 works that reflect the artist's longstanding interest in classical themes.
Freedom Journey 1965: Photographs of the Selma to Montgomery March by Stephen Somerstein
New-York Historical Society
Through April 19
For much of his life, Stephen Somerstein was a physicist who worked at the Harvard-Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory. But before he began his career in science, as a 24-year-old City College student, he traveled to Selma, Alabama, in March of 1965 and took more than 400 photographs, documenting what has become one of the most potent moments of the civil rights movement. Timed to the 50th anniversary of the 54-mile trek, these newly released photographs include folk singer Joan Baez, Martin Luther King and scenes that the budding scientist captured along the way. Now retired, Somerstein has taken up his photography once again.
Philip Taaffe
Luhring Augustine
Through April 26
The spacious Brooklyn outpost of the venerable Chelsea gallery serves as an inspired landing spot for the local artist's growing canvases, and these—up to 20 feet long—are some of the biggest of his career. But the New York artist is still defiantly old school, as he still (at least pretty much) creates the richly layered, tapestry-like paintings by hand, using as little technology as possible. For fans of throwback large-format painting.


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yeah I did it now I just have to figure how to make 1600x1200 smaller. Any suggestions will be appreciated the picture is of my daughter and her son. |
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Thank you janis they live in Marietta now I will have to figure out how to use a digital camera. next step lol |
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Justin Bieber Booed in Native Canada During Grey Cup Halftime Show (VIDEO & PHOTOS)
It seems not all Canadians are Beliebers.
Justin Bieber faced a far-from-welcoming homecoming as he performed during Canada's football Grey Cup championship on Sunday. Rather than a sea of screaming tween girl fans, Bieber was met with throngs of boos from the Toronto crowd as he took the stage in an all-black ensemble for the halftime show.
But the Canadian pop-star powerhouse took it all in stride, continuing on with a medley of hit hits "Boyfriend" and "Beauty and a Beat" despite the unenthused crowd. "Thank you so much Canada," Bieber told the crowd. "I love you."
"Honored to perform for my country," he added after the the show on Twitter. "#ProudCanadian. Good luck in the second half."
Just a few days ago, Bieber was honored with a Diamond Jubilee Medal by Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper. But it was what he wore to accept the award that hit headlines: overalls, unbuttoned on one shoulder, with a white tee, backwards baseball cap and sneakers.
The outfit choice sparked severe criticism, with some media outlets even terming Bieber "white trash." But Harper came to the singer's defense on Saturday: "In fairness to @justinbieber, I told him I would be wearing my overalls too."
Then Bieber — who has been on-and-off with girlfriend Selena Gomez — himself took aim at his detractors. "The pic of me and the Prime Minister was taken in a room in the arena where i was performing at that day," he posted on Instagram Sunday. "I walked straight from my meet and greet to him.""If you ... expect me to have a change of clothes let a loan [sic] a suit at that specific time that's crazy," he continued. "It wasn't like it was like I was going into his environment we were at a hockey arena. Wow am i ever white trash."
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Oh how time flies when you are having fun. It was my intention to write up the latest installment of The State of Solid State as soon as I returned from CES. That didn't happen because of Battlefield 3, it was DICE's fault and because of DICE I'm going to have to let the cat out of the bag early. 2012 is not going to be an exciting year for performance SSDs. The focus for 2012 is value and market share for manufactures. It is time for the big price squeeze that inevitably will push some companies out of the market entirely and prop others to superstar status.
You may remember this chart of the SF-2200 Series Client Launch article from about a year. Listed on the far left is the SF-1222, the reigning champion of SATA II, first released in 2010. Just to the right is the challenger, SF-2141. The new SandForce controller is essentially a four channel 2281 with a 64GB capacity limit. On paper the 1222 and 2141 have nearly identical performance other than the IOPS. The newer 2141 doubles sustained read 4K IOPS (from 30K to 60K) and has a 6x increase in burst write 4K IOPS. The new 2141 does still have that 4 channel limit and we'll explore what that means today while testing the new ADATA S396 30GB SSD.
The new ADATA S396 30GB SSD will cost around $60 when it reaches e-tail shelves sometime in the next two weeks. If you do not already have an SSD, the ADATA S396 is built for you. Personally I think if you don't have an SSD now then the issue is not something a new product release can fix. You either have a defect, don't value your time or you have no idea what the hell an SSD is. Then again what do I know about actually buying an SSD with real money.
Still, the idea of low cost, low capacity SSDs has been around for quite a while. The problem has always been low cost and low capacity size means low performance. To make matters worse most of these low cost products shipped with bottom of the barrel controllers and that ruined the user experience all together. Most people who purchased drives in that category ended up switching back to their low cost, low performance platter drive that offered 500GB of capacity.
Today we're going to see if the new ADATA S396 with the all new SandForce SF-2141 controller is able to redefine the extreme value SSD market and deliver a good user experience.