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19 April 2012
Anglo American plc
Annual General Meeting − Address to shareholders
Anglo American plc held its Annual General Meeting for shareholders in London today. Sir John Parker, Chairman, and Cynthia Carroll, Chief Executive, made the following remarks:
Sir John Parker, Chairman, Anglo American plc:
Good afternoon, everyone. Many of you, I know, have travelled a long way. I also see that we have here with us today interest groups from as far afield as Alaska and South Africa. May I extend a warm welcome to you all.
In opening my address this morning, I should like to say a few words about the governance of your company and what your Board has been doing to promote the long-term success of the company for all of its stakeholders.
The Board owns the strategy and its role encompasses the establishment, review and monitoring of strategic objectives. This includes taking a balanced and disciplined approach to capital management; the approval of major acquisitions, disposals and capital expenditure; and overseeing the company's systems of governance, internal control and risk management. It is also part of the Board's remit to approve business plans, budgets and all material expenditure.
But to do its job properly, any board has to have an appropriate set of skills and experience to challenge and stress-test its company's strategy. Since I became your Chairman some two and a half years ago, I have endeavoured, therefore, to ensure that your Board is a strong and influential one, while being reflective of a constantly changing business environment.
In terms of enhancing the Board's contribution to our affairs, during the year Anglo American's directors and the company's most senior executives participated in an internal strategy forum spanning nearly two days. I also reported back to the Board on its performance against the objectives set in an internally facilitated Board-effectiveness review conducted the previous year. In addition, I commissioned an external effectiveness review of the Board and its various committees; the results of that review will be detailed in the 2012 annual report.
At the AGM in 2011, the Board also became an 'early mover' in adopting the idea of annual re-election of directors as part of our commitment to setting the tone of the company's governance from the very top. We also reiterated our objective to increase the representation of women on the Board from 20 per cent to 30 per cent by 2013 (excluding the chairman).
I should like to thank all the members of the Board team collectively for their contribution to Board debates, as well as those individuals who are doing such sterling service on the Board's important committees.
I would also like to pay tribute to Cynthia Carroll and her management team. Cynthia, as many of you know by now, is a leader who works tirelessly in executing the Group's strategy. She has assembled an impressive executive team around her that I believe is best in class over a range of fields from exploration to mining engineering and environmental engineering, backed up by a highly skilled workforce.
Turning to some of the most important developments in our business over the past 12 months... Not surprisingly, I will start with Safety, because that remains our No. 1 agenda item. Most regrettably, the significant improvement in our safety performance over the previous four years was not maintained in 2011. The number of people who lost their lives while on company business increased to 17 from 15 the previous year − though that compares with 40 five years ago − while there was an accompanying levelling-out in our injury rate.
In light of this, we are redoubling our efforts to seek solutions, particularly at site level. The Board fully supports Cynthia in her drive to bring about real and lasting change in the way in which we approach safety − only by changing people's mindsets, and fostering a climate of openness, will we start to make lasting improvements and further progress towards our ultimate goal of zero harm Group-wide.
2011 was characterised by difficult conditions for many mining company operations around the world, and across the industry. In the early months, our Australian operations (and, to a somewhat lesser extent, those in Chile and South Africa) experienced exceptional flood conditions. Indeed, I saw the devastation for myself in Australia. Throughout the year, too, the effects of various operational difficulties were compounded by ongoing pressure on unit costs resulting from lower grade profiles and higher-than-inflation cost inputs, while in the second half we were confronted by a more uncertain macro-economic landscape.
Against this background, Anglo American recorded a sound set of financial and operational results. Operating profit rose by 14 per cent to a record $11.1 billion from $9.8 billion in 2010. The Board has proposed a final dividend of 46 cents per share, giving a total dividend for the year of 74 cents, a 14% increase, and at the higher end of market expectations.
It is very satisfying to report that in 2011 Anglo American commissioned no fewer than three major new mining operations, all of them on or ahead of schedule and in the lower half of the cost curve - an extraordinary achievement in an industry that is often criticised for its shortcomings in the project-delivery field. I have great confidence in the engineering and project-delivery ability of Anglo American.
The Barro Alto nickel project in Brazil came on stream in March, the Los Bronces copper expansion in Chile was commissioned in October and the Kolomela iron ore mine in South Africa shipped its first ore in December, five months ahead of schedule.
We also continue to keep a close eye on value-enhancing M&A opportunities. A key development during the year was our announcing our intention to acquire the Oppenheimer family's interest in De Beers. This is a unique opportunity to gain control of the world's most famous diamond company - and its unsurpassed assets. As you know, in early January 2012, our shareholders voted overwhelmingly to approve the transaction, and we expect closure of the deal sometime in the second half of this year.
Shortly afterwards, we announced a major value-enhancing divestment with the sale of a 24.5 per cent interest in Anglo American Sur (AAS) in Chile to Mitsubishi for $5.4 billion. AAS, which includes the Los Bronces and El Soldado mines and the Chagres smelter, is a world-class copper business with extensive reserves and resources, and significant growth potential. The transaction enabled us to realise an attractive valuation for a minority stake in AAS, valuing 100 per cent of AAS at $22 billion - almost double that of analysts' valuations.
The decision by the Board to sell a 24.5 per cent stake in AAS was considered with the utmost care. We have acted to deliver very significant value to our shareholders, in full compliance with what is a very clear legal contract between ourselves and the Chilean state-owned copper producer, Codelco. We have also made it clear, from the outset, that we are wholly amenable to working with Codelco to find a commercial solution for the benefit of Codelco and for Chile, though such a solution must recognise our rights within the contract.
Anglo American has invested $6.5 billion in Chile over the past 30 years, and has paid more than $6 billion in taxes in the last five years alone, reflecting the strength of our relationship with the Chilean government, while our future investment plans for the country are also very considerable. Anglo American represents the very best standards and practices in our industry; we are an approachable company, but we stand up for what is right by our shareholders.
Turning to another matter... Even though our Platinum business is performing in line with the rest of the platinum industry, we recognise that the current level of returns is not acceptable to our investors. With the full support of the Board, therefore, Cynthia and her team are carrying out a top-to-bottom review to ensure that the business is configured optimally to deliver value in the long term.
As the Chairman of a leading global mining company, I am often asked these days about the risks posed by the upwelling of resource nationalism. Certainly it is the case that countries are becoming far more aware, and protective, of the value of their mineral inheritance. Developing nations and developed economies alike are seeking to increase their share of the mining cake through a range of means, from establishing joint ventures with mining companies, to windfall taxes and increased royalties, and even in some cases threatening to push matters to the point of nationalisation of mining assets.
At the same time, the growing demand for metals and minerals means that mining companies are exploring in regions beyond their traditional mining jurisdictions, with all their attendant climatic, infrastructural, logistical, security and other challenges. This inevitably presents a heightened degree of risk and may be accompanied by political instability in some countries where good governance is still developing.
But where there is risk, there is generally opportunity - and it is the duty of the Board and management to seek out and unlock such opportunity. I believe the best way to do that is to always conduct ourselves to the highest standards of corporate conduct and to build strong links across the wide stakeholder spectrum.
In our own Group, our leadership in the social and sustainable development arena has been recognised once again by Business in the Community recently awarding Anglo American a platinum ranking in its 2012 Corporate Responsibility Index - the UK's leading voluntary benchmark of corporate responsibility. We are the only mining company to secure platinum status - and we have now done so for three years running, which is a great reflection on our people.
In recognising our responsibilities to all shades of stakeholders, we always need to bear in mind that there are important constituencies who may not be directly invested in companies such as Anglo American, but who are nevertheless influential stakeholders. They perform an important role, for example, in keeping up the pressure on our industry to act in a transparent and responsible manner, in examining the feasibility of ethical accreditation in respect of the origin of minerals and metals and, more generally, monitoring what companies such as Anglo American are doing on a wider, sustainable development canvas.
Our own long-held view on sustainable development is that, as a leading international player in the extractives industry, we should take a proactive approach, and that we should seek to take the lead in the key sustainability issues facing our industry.
But how does such an approach play out in practice?
Take the issue of water - a serious one for Anglo American because more than 80 per cent of our operations are in water-stressed regions. The need to use water wisely and efficiently has led us to establish a new Group technical standard for water management, while an important focus in 2011 was the implementation of our new Water Efficiency Target Tool across every single business unit. Current major water projects include building a desalination plant at Mantoverde copper mine in Chile and, in South Africa, doubling the capacity of the eMalahleni water treatment plant on the Witbank coalfield and bringing an assured supply of potable water for the first time to nearly two million people who neighbour one of our Eastern Limb platinum mines.
In the long run, climate change may well become a major issue for the mining industry, and Anglo American seeks to play its part in helping address its causes and mitigating its effects. We are an active and vocal participant in the debate that is taking place on a global, national and local level, and we areengaging with governments and other key stakeholders to develop equitable and effective climate-change policies, and to enable our communities to access clean energy. At a grassroots level, we are investing in clean coal research and development projects in Australia, South Africa and the US, and we are assisting in funding a private-public partnership to develop a fuel cells industry in South Africa.
With regard to carbon abatement, we support government actions to put in place policies that lead to a long-term price on carbon - but we want to see this done in full consultation with stakeholders, from a solid fact base and over a realistic timeframe, so that it does not jeopardise jobs, industry competitiveness, or social and economic development.
I would like to turn now to say something about the Pebble copper project in Alaska … and I extend a warm welcome to those of you who have travelled from Alaska, including the Pebble Partnership's CEO John Shively, who is an Alaskan. I appreciate that here today we may have both critics and supporters of the Pebble project, as well as those who have not yet made up their minds but do support the project's right to be allowed to go through the permitting process. We are fully aware that there is a range of concerns over the project − we have an Alaskan management team at Pebble who understand this better than anyone. I would like to stress that it is our hope that all interested parties participate in what will be a very extensive dialogue and long drawn-out permitting process, and to base their opinions and decisions on the facts.
I believe we may have amongst us people representing former miners who claim to have contracted silicosis as a result of working in South Africa's gold mines. Anglo American is very sympathetic to the claimants' situation - but, more than that, we are doing something about it for those individuals whose claims in South Africa have taken so long to be resolved. As the Chairman of Anglo American, I want to assure you that progress is being made in alleviating those claimants' plight - as Cynthia will tell you in a few minutes.
We have listened, and we have acted.
Finally, turning to the economic outlook... In 2011, there was a distinct slowdown in the major emerging economies, alongside continuing fragility in the US and Europe. Thankfully, decisive policy response from the world's central banks has helped to stabilise financial markets and the broader economy. In the US, there are encouraging signs that the economy is finally shrugging off the effects of the financial crisis. In Europe, policymakers have headed off extreme downside risks, though some sizeable structural problems remain in many economies.
In China, the economy has slowed in response to earlier policy restraints on the housing market. With growing evidence of a much-needed adjustment, there is scope for some selective policy easing to cushion the economy. In the medium to long term, China and India will continue to benefit from technological and productivity catch-up, driving sustained strong growth. Rising living standards and a growing middle class should drive more demand for industrial commodities. In addition, The US should overcome its recent difficulties, with a resumption of healthier long-term growth rates as positive trends in demographics and productivity reassert themselves.
Cynthia Carroll, Chief Executive, Anglo American plc:
Over the past five years we have been on a journey to transform Anglo American into a leader in the mining industry, a company that delivers on its commitments by driving for performance and shareholder value.
The transformation started with safety. We developed a performance culture, a more efficient organisational structure, and a more joined-up business capturing synergies across the Group.
We turned around business unit performance and became a cohesive company, with a clear vision and strategy, and with the ability to successfully deliver large complex projects.
We established relationships with governments, unions and other stakeholders around the world.
And we are now reaping the benefits and the rewards of that transformation. In 2011, four out of seven business units delivered record operating profit.
Take Metallurgical Coal, for example. In 2007, the business barely broke even. The transformation we began in Australia five years ago delivered record profits in 2010 and 2011. As you all know, in 2008 we took the hard decision to invest through the downturn.
The result is that, in 2011, three of our four big, complex projects were delivered on or ahead of schedule. It is really an extraordinary achievement to commission three major new mining operations in the same year.
Our Los Bronces expansion project, one of the most challenging and complex in the world, started production five months ago and is already operating at 75 per cent of capacity - an outstanding achievement. At full production, Los Bronces will more than double current volumes.
The Barro Alto project in Brazil, which we commissioned a year ago, is already operating at 70 per cent of capacity. It will increase production from our Nickel business by 180 per cent.
The Kolomela iron ore mine in South Africa, was commissioned five months ahead of schedule, and is already producing at around 50 per cent of capacity. In December, we shipped our first load of iron ore from the new mine.
In the meantime, our asset optimisation and supply chain initiatives delivered $3.2 billion worth of value in 2011 against a target of $2 billion.
In addition, we are delivering transformational, value-generating transactions, with the acquisition of the Oppenheimer family's stake in De Beers and the sale of a minority interest in our Chilean copper business to Mitsubishi.
We are, however, facing some headwinds, including calls for higher taxes and royalties, rising input costs, shortages of skilled workers, infrastructure constraints and tighter environmental regulations.
There are also the constant challenges of depleting resources, declining grades at existing mines, and the diminishing likelihood of finding large-scale, world-class deposits.
Despite these challenges, our efforts delivered an operating profit of $11.1 billion in 2011, an increase of 14 per cent on 2010. Underlying earnings were up 23 per cent to $6.1 billion.
Dividend pay-outs were 74 cents per share for the year. These are results for which you, our shareholders, along with our management and employees, should feel justifiably proud.
We still have much work to do, and other challenges lie ahead.
Turning to safety...
Over the past five years we lifted safety standards and put systems in place across the Group to improve performance.
The result has been a 57 per cent reduction in fatalities across the Group.
Platinum operations have seen a 52 per cent reduction. Despite these figures, safety performance at Platinum has, and continues to be, our biggest challenge.
We are determined to reach a point where we have zero fatalities, and we have taken bold steps to bring about cultural change.
In 2007, we shut down Platinum operations following a number of fatalities.
In November last year, I went to South Africa to address 30,000 Platinum employees, joined by Neville Nicolau, Norman Mbazima as well as trade union leaders and government safety inspectors to re-emphasise our commitment and our drive towards zero harm. There I launched 'Zero Harm in Action', an initiative that aims to bring about a cultural transformation in Platinum by applying a zero-tolerance approach to unsafe behaviour.
We have shown zero harm is achievable in all parts of the organisation, including Platinum's operations.
In 2011, excluding Platinum, Lost Time Injury Frequency Rates dropped by 16 per cent, while at 91 per cent of our operations there was not a single fatal injury.
But we had 17 fatalities last year... and that's 17 too many.
We still have a long way to go on safety.
Looking ahead, although there continues to be uncertainty in the global economy in the short term, particularly in Europe, I remain optimistic about the long-term outlook for Anglo American's diversified mix of commodities.
Despite China's slowdown and structural adjustment towards a consumption driven economy, its inland provinces, are experiencing and will experience double-digit growth over the next decade.
In India, a growing middle class and rising disposable incomes should continue to drive demand for coal, diamonds and platinum group metals.
In the emerging economies overall, we expect sustained growth driven by rising increasing standards.
Anglo American is well placed to take advantage of medium to long term growth in the developed and emerging economies, having one of the largest, most diversified and balanced growth pipelines in the mining industry, with around $100 billion in total projects.
Our project pipeline will allow us to increase production by more than 50 per cent by the end of 2014, by 75 per cent in the medium term, and 100 per cent in the longer term.
As you know, our largest strategic growth project is Minas-Rio in Brazil.
This is a high-quality Tier One iron ore asset. It has a large and expandable resource base, which currently stands at 5.8 billion tonnes.
At full production, the delivered cash cost to China will be around $45 to $50 a tonne. This is at the very low end of the cost curve.
And we are making good progress.
Earthworks at the beneficiation plant are 86 per cent complete. More than 94 per cent of land access has been secured along the pipeline, compared to 86 per cent a year ago. More than 200 kilometres - or 38 per cent - of the pipeline has been installed.
As to be expected, we are encountering environmental realities such as caves, while land access and permitting in an ever-changing regulatory environment, adds complexity.
Since the start of activities at Minas-Rio, we have experienced seven State legal interruptions relating to different environmental licences and permitting processes.
In March, work was suspended for three days on parts of the beneficiation plant, following a legal interruption on archaeological studies that had been carried out in the mine area.
In all cases, but one, activities were able to continue or were suspended for just a few days.
We are currently in discussions about another legal interruption notification on a power transmission line licence, and we are confident construction activity on the line will resume soon.
Added to these challenges are rising labour and construction costs in Brazil.
But we are overcoming these by implementing cost-reduction programmes, engaging proactively with permitting authorities and locking in labour costs to deliver first ore on ship in the second half of 2013 - within the 15 per cent capital increase we announced to the market.
We are also maintaining momentum on our next phase of growth, where in 2011 we got Board approval for six growth projects across six commodities.
These projects are in the right commodities, at the low end of the cost curve, offering attractive returns.
They include our five million tonnes a year Grosvenor export metallurgical coal project in Queensland, where we have also been awarded preferred respondent status for the development of a dedicated 30 million tonne export coal terminal at Abbot Point.
In the meantime, our eyes are fixed firmly on the next generation of Tier One assets.
Since 1999, our exploration team has made 15 major discoveries and received international recognition for Los Sulfatos in Chile and Sakatti in Finland.
Our discovery of copper, nickel and platinum group metals at Sakatti in northern Finland is a great example of our greenfield exploration expertise.
We are using innovative drilling technology to deliver value and reduce our environmental impact as we work towards defining the resource.
We do, however, have some other challenges.
They are challenges we are meeting with confidence and the full weight of Anglo American values of integrity, accountability, collaboration, and care and respect.
Above all, we are facing these challenges with the courage of our convictions in the knowledge that this company stands for the very best.
I will start with Codelco...
Adding to the comments Sir John made earlier, I wish to reaffirm that your company is ready to work with Codelco on a commercial solution.
We are open to sensible negotiations conducted in good faith, but we will not be moved from defending our very clear rights and protecting value for our shareholders.
This is how we do business − with integrity and a spirit of collaboration.
Codelco's management knew what our alternatives were - we made them very clear on a regular basis − in terms of selling down our holdings to a third party prior to any valid exercise of the option, and it sought to prematurely exercise the option.
Unfortunately, it has not yet been possible to reach a settlement that takes account of Anglo American's strong legal position.
Moving to Platinum...
Since 2007, we have made significant progress on the Platinum business, delivering improvements in safety, increasing production, containing costs and increasing productivity.
In 2011, operating profits increased to $890 million despite 81 safety stoppages at our own operations.
We have seen substantial improvement, and the returns have been in line with the rest of the industry.
However, these returns have declined in recent years and are not acceptable to us for the medium to long term.
The platinum industry faces significant challenges, including cost inflation, safety stoppages and lingering concerns over European demand.
As a result, we are embarking on a review to assess the optimal configuration of the Platinum portfolio.
We are doing this with a single purpose in mind - maximising shareholder value and returns through the cycle.
We expect to complete the review by the end of the year.
Turning to the Pebble project in Alaska...
I wish to welcome visitors and friends from Alaska who are with us today.
As you are aware, we are still developing a proposal for a mine plan to take to permitting.
So we have not yet even put preliminary plans on the table.
This is an early-stage project.
Nevertheless, we understand the environmental sensitivities.
That's why Pebble has spent more than $120 million on a ground-breaking environmental study, something that to the best of our knowledge has never before done on such a scale for a project anywhere in the world.
The information we have gathered will be considered carefully in the process of defining what a project may look like.
So, as of today, no mine plan has been finalised.
Yet there are organisations in the United States, such as the Natural Resources Defense Council, that are distributing misinformation to thousands, if not millions, of Americans.
My 89-year-old mother, who is sitting in the audience, and lives in New Jersey, receives regularly personalised correspondence and pamphlets from the NRDC making outlandish claims, on the implications of a mine which has not even been defined, or submitted for review, by the rigorous permitting processes of the United States.
This correspondence claims that - and I quote:
"The mine would be absolutely huge in scale, with a gaping pit wide enough to line up nine of the world's longest cruise ships, and deep enough to swallow the Empire State Building."
And the reality is that salmon and mining can co-exist, and we see examples in Alaska such as Red Dog and Fort Knox, where mining and fishing do co-exist. Another example is in British Columbia, where the Fraser River had a record salmon count of 34 million in 2010.
This is a proven fact.
So Anglo American will approach the Pebble project as we do with all projects, with care for the people and the environment; with professionalism and integrity; and on the basis of rigorous science, not inflammatory rhetoric.
I ask people to consider the facts before wrongly misrepresenting the situation.
I would like to add my own voice to that of the Chairman and express my personal sympathy and concern.
At the AGM last year, I informed shareholders that a proposal would be developed to provide appropriate medical treatment for those claimants who had instituted proceedings in South Africa against Anglo American, prior to the date of the proposal.
The cost of this treatment would be borne entirely by Anglo American, and the treatment would continue for as long as it took for the claims to be finally resolved in court.
The proposal was made and accepted.
Since then, Anglo American South Africa has worked with all parties and agreed on the best possible way to provide this medical care.
All 16 available claimants in South Africa have been examined and are receiving ongoing care, support and treatment.
Our care for the health of our people and the development of the communities in which we operate sets us apart in the industry.
There are no better examples than our HIV/AIDS testing and treatment initiatives and our Zimele enterprise development programme.
Anglo American is a world leader in these areas and it is something we should all be proud of.
In 2011, more than 110,000 of our people were tested for HIV in South Africa alone.
More than 90 per cent of our employees in southern Africa participated in voluntary HIV counselling and testing. More than 60 per cent of HIV-positive employees in southern Africa participated in disease-management programmes.
And more than 4,500 employees received free anti-retroviral drugs.
In June last year, we pledged $3 million over three years to the UK Government-led Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisations. This is a public-private partnership that is increasing access to immunisation in the world's poorest countries.
In January this year, I joined other world business leaders at the World Economic Forum, in Davos, to launch the Business Leadership Council for a Generation Born HIV-Free. This is a private-sector-led initiative that aims to end the transmission of HIV from mothers to children by the end of 2015.
Our Zimele enterprise development programme was the first mining initiative to be recognised by the United Nations' Business Call to Action.
We committed to a job creation target in South Africa of 25,000 by 2015.
We have invested $78 million in more than 1,000 new small businesses that have already generated more than 19,500 jobs, largely outside of direct mining.
In total, around the world, we have created more than 47,000 new jobs as part of small enterprises.
More than 36 per cent of Zimele-supported businesses are run by female entrepreneurs, and more than 48 per cent are run by young people.
Five years ago there was only one Zimele main office in South Africa - today there are 31 enterprise development hub offices.
These are real jobs making a real and positive difference to local communities.
In addition to this, the fact that 66 per cent of our total operational water requirements are met by recycling or re-using water, and you can see and appreciate that our approach to sustainability is a key differentiator for Anglo American.
Sustainability is fundamental to the way we do business and is embedded in everything we do.
In closing, I reiterate that the journey we embarked on five years ago to transform Anglo American into a performance driven company is delivering real value for you, our shareholders.
We have come a long way by transforming the safety culture; streamlining the organisational structure; bringing in people with the right skills; and capturing synergies and efficiencies across the Group.
We have done this while building relationships with stakeholders around the world - underpinned by a clear vision and strategy.
So, we continue on our journey and work through the challenges with determination and the courage of our convictions, while caring for people and protecting the environment.
Above all, we have world-class assets on which to build an even stronger future - and great people committed to making a difference.
This is what sets Anglo American apart and positions us well to deliver value for you - and prosperity for the communities in which we operate.
Note to editors:
Anglo American is one of the world's largest mining companies, is headquartered in the UK and listed on the London and Johannesburg stock exchanges. Anglo American's portfolio of mining businesses spans bulk commodities - iron ore and manganese, metallurgical coal and thermal coal; base metals - copper and nickel; and precious metals and minerals - in which it is a global leader in both platinum and diamonds. Anglo American is committed to the highest standards of safety and responsibility across all its businesses and geographies and to making a sustainable difference in the development of the communities around its operations. The company's mining operations, extensive pipeline of growth projects and exploration activities span southern Africa, South America, Australia, North America, Asia and Europe.
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40:8–14 This section emphasizes God's power over pride and wickedness (vv. 11, 12). The monsters in the verses following, Behemoth and Leviathan, probably represent such forces of evil that God can control but before which Job is helpless.


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Born, raised, and educated in Taiwan. I write about current Taiwan issues and events as well as the Taiwanese blogosphere.
Latest posts by I-fan Lin
24 November 2014
Young Independent Candidates Are Shaking Up Taiwan's Local Elections
Many young activists are throwing their name into the pool of candidates for local village chiefs in an effort to combat the "rotten" culture of community politics.
28 October 2014
As Taiwan Considers Marriage Equality, Tens of Thousands Attend Pride Parade
Hope was in the air at the colorful 2014 LGBT Taiwan Pride Parade, where two participants in particular wrote on their T-shirts that the looked forward to getting married.
Taiwanese Facebook Users Are Tagging a Death Row Inmate in Their Travels to Demand Justice
Cheng Hsin-Tse was sentenced to death in 2002 for the murder of a police officer. Due to the lack of hard evidence, his supporters want a review of his sentence.
8 October 2014
With an Eye on China's Future, Mainlanders Brave Arrest to Support Hong Kong's Umbrella Revolution
At least 34 activists in China had been arrested. Some in mainland China hope a win for democracy in Hong Kong will mean democratic development at home.
29 September 2014
Taiwanese See in Hong Kong's Pro-Democracy Protests What a Future With China Might Be Like
More than a thousand people gathered in the Freedom Square in Taiwan to express their solidarity with Hong Kong protesters.
12 May 2014
Should Anti-Nuclear Parents in Taiwan Bring Their Kids to Protests?
As police razed tents and shot water cannons at people protesting the island's fourth nuclear power plant, there were children among them.
5 May 2014
PHOTOS: Protesters in Taiwan Turn Barbed-Wire Barricades Into Art
Police set up numerous chevaux de frise around government buildings to prevent anti-nuclear protesters from gathering. In response, Taiwanese have created what some have dubbed a contemporary street art exhibition.
20 April 2014
How Technology and Citizen Media Shaped Taiwan's Sunflower Movement
Members set up a number of websites dedicated to the protest against a trade deal with China, whose passage without a clause-by-clause review sparked the occupation of the legislature.
17 April 2014
Would Confucius Support the Sunflower Movement in Taiwan?
"Children should bow to their parents, students should pay respect to their teachers, and people should obey the government. As a result, the students' resistance must be wrong."


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Emmy Rossum in 7 For All Mankind Mid Rise Skinny in Night Blue
Emmy Rossum was another celebrity to be spotted leaving LAX airport a few days ago and bumping into the paps.
Emmy wore a pair of the 7 For All Mankind Slim Illusion Luxe Mid Rise Skinny jeans in Night Blue for the flight. She paired them with a colour block roll neck sweater and some black boots. I think the burgundy bag is a great touch! You can buy 7 For All Mankind jeans online at Shopbop.com.
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Emmy Rossum was spotted wearing a pair of the STRÖM Brand Tio Zip Opus skinny jeans yesterday in Los Angeles, California.
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Stars including Halle Berry, Tom Hanks, Susan Sarandon and Jim Sturgess premiered the epic film CLOUD ATLAS last night at the legendary Grauman's Chinese theater. Hanks will be making his Broadway debut in Lucky Guy, a new play from the late Nora Ephron in March. Check out photos from the premiere event below!
The drama, mystery and action film is an epic about enduring love thread through a single story that unfolds in multiple timelines over the span of 500 years. Characters meet and reunite from one life to the next. Born and reborn. As the consequences of their actions and choices impact one another through the past, the present and the distant future, one soul is shaped from a killer into a hero, and a single act of kindness ripples across centuries to inspire a revolution.
Academy Award® winners Tom Hanks (Philadelphia, Forrest Gump) and Halle Berry (Monster's Ball) lead a stellar international cast that also includes Oscar® winner Jim Broadbent (Iris), Hugo Weaving, Jim Sturgess, Doona Bae, Ben Whishaw, James D'Arcy, Xun Zhou, Keith David and David Gyasi, with Oscar® winner Susan Sarandon (Dead Man Walking) and Hugh Grant. Each member of the ensemble appears in multiple roles as the story moves through time.
Cloud Atlas is produced by Grant Hill, Stefan Arndt, Lana Wachowski, Tom Tykwer and Andy Wachowski, with executive producers Philip Lee, Uwe Schott and Wilson Qui.
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A two-volume e-book claiming to contain images of one hundred previously undiscovered drawings by Caravaggio has been pulled from Amazon in the wake of suspicion over its scholarly legitimacy. While art historians Maurizio Bernardelli Curuz and Adriana Conconi Fedrigolli say that they found the lost sketches at a castle archive in Milan, archivists contended that they had no record of working with the pair. "A serious scholar doesn't produce an e-book," said former archive director Maria Teresa Fiorio.
Serious scholars may not produce e-books, but apparently the Vatican does.
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Hello –
We hope this letter finds everyone doing well and enjoying the holidays and time spent with family and friends.
We have been busy planning for the 2015 season. We are looking at seed catalogs and we have been ordering plants. We are looking to add some new and different crops to our list this year. We are hoping for a better garlic season and pepper season this year – last year was not the greatest! We like to try different varieties of produce every year and this gives you a chance to try something new as well!
This will be our 6th season running our CSA. Every year we try to do a better job than the year before – there is always room for improvement. This year we are hoping to GO GREEN! By this we mean that you will have your Fenton's Produce CSA Bag (or receive a new one for new members) to use to take home your produce. I am hoping to do away with the plastic bags (so if you want – start saving your plastic bags this winter to use at the CSA – by doing this it helps to keep the cost of the CSA the same as last year!) This year we will be maxing out at 200 members (this past year we were at 185 members). We already have a waiting list for this year! If you know what day you want, make sure you get your application and money it to reserve your spot. If you have any questions about this, just let me know.
We will again be offering either a full share or a half share this year. (Typically a full share will feed a family of 4). The cost of the half share is $250 and the cost of the full share will be $425.
The days (Tuesday and Thursday) and the pick up times (2 p.m. – 7 p.m.) will remain the same. The season will start on Tuesday, June 9th or Thursday, June 11th and will run through Tuesday, November 3rd – Thursday, November 5th. If for some reason you can't make it on your day, you will automatically come on the other day that the CSA is offered. With us being GAP certified (Good Agricultural Practices) our food safety program, we will not be able to have people just randomly stop by to come and get their produce. Sorry if this will cause any inconveniences.
When paying for your membership you can pay by cash, credit/debit and we also accept credit cards. We take either Mastercard, Visa, Discover or American Express. If you want to pay by credit card you will have to stop by the house so I can run your card. I have to run your card manually, which for security reasons, will be better for both you and me.
We are looking forward to the 2015 growing season and growing the freshest produce possible.
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Remember, this is a working farm with lots of moving vehicles and equipment – an occasional dog or two (Lacee and Lexi who are both very friendly) and uneven ground. So PLEASE be aware of your surroundings when coming and going each week. Our driveway is long so please drive slowly when coming down it in case their are small children walking with their parents to the CSA building – we want this to be a fun and pleasant experience for all of our CSA members.
So, whether it be Tuesday or Thursday this week – we are all very excited to welcome you to our farm!
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Track & Field Announces 2015-16 Signing Class June 30, 2015 | Track & Field Colorado Mines track & field head coach Matt Sparks has announced his 2015-16 signing class, which is made up of 37 future Orediggers. [read more]
Swimming Represented On CSCAA Scholar All-America Lists June 30, 2015 | Swimming Colorado School of Mines swimming continued its academic excellence Tuesday as the men and women were recognized as Scholar All-America Teams for a fifth consecutive semester by the College Swimming Coaches Association of America. [read more]
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Robert Patrick Returns to True Blood
Deadline's reporting Robert Patrick will be returning to the HBO sexy vampire/werewolf series True Blood. He first appeared as Alcide's dad, Jackson Herveaux, in three episodes of season five and he'll be reprising the role as a new series regular beginning in season six.
Patrick had a starring role in ABC's Last Resort which didn't get picked up for a second season. He's also been keeping busy in feature films and was most recently seen on the big screen in Trouble with the Curve. He has Lovelace, Gangster Squad, and Identity Thief heading to theaters in 2013.
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Android TV Launcher now on Google Play
The Android TV Launcher has arrived on Google Play. A lot of people have been pushing for the program to come to Google Play and finally it's being published there. This is a response to the need to simplify apps more by unbundling related software. Instead of packing all sorts of functionality and variety in just one software, developers are now trying to simplify their stuff. The simpler, the better. People don't want to be too saturated now with other features they don't really use.


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I always had high hopes for T.J. Ford. I think a lot of people did. When he led the Longhorns to the Final Four back in 2003 he just had the look of somebody that was going to be a special player.
Unfortunately, sometimes injuries trump potential.
We will never know what Ford could have been. A freak injury during his rookie year resulted in spinal surgery and the loss of an entire season. He wasn't ever the same after that. He mostly played the backup role instead of the All-Star one I thought he'd be playing.
He's gone against doctors' orders for years by continuing to play in the NBA, putting his health and his future at risk every time he stepped onto the court. But after a scare against the Knicks, he decided it was time to call it quits.
I don't blame Baron Davis for what happened, I think it was an aggressive play that just ended with a terrible result. Davis tweeted that he talked to Ford on Monday.
"Great phone convo wit @TJ Ford. sad that he is retiring and feeling worse that I was involved in that play! love and respect bro. #tears"
As much as I'd like to hope that this retirement isn't permanent, I know that spine and neck injuries are nothing to mess with. I'd love to see T.J. Ford back out on the court again, but if an elbow to the back is enough to leave him lying on the court unable to move for a few minutes, he's smart to take that as his last warning.
I know he's making the right decision to retire, but it sucks to look back and wonder what could have been. T.J. Ford could have been one of the greats, it just wasn't in the cards.
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Bugzilla – Bug 20145
unicode-bidi: bidi-override incorrectly reported as error at CSS Level 3
Last modified: 2012-12-13 09:24:07 UTC
The declaration unicode-bidi: bidi-override causes an error message when CSS Level 3 is selected:
Value Error : unicode-bidi bidi-override is not a unicode-bidi value : bidi-override
Other values of the property as per CSS 2.1 are accepted. And bidi-override is accepted when other CSS levels are used. It is still a correct value as per CSS Writing Modes Module Level 3:
(The new values defined there aren't accepted by the validator either, but that's understandable since the document is just a WD.)
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Windows Server 2003 systems using IPsec tunnel-mode functionality may experience problems after you install the original version of 893066
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After you install the original RTMQFE version of security update 893066 on a Microsoft Windows Server 2003-based computer that is running a firewall product that uses Internet Protocol security (IPsec) tunnel mode functionality, you may experience one or more of the following symptoms.
Note An example of of a firewall product that uses IPsec tunnel mode functionality is Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration Server.
This problem is caused by a kernel-mode exception in the Tcpip.sys file that can occur in scenarios that use IPsec tunnel mode.
Security update informationSecurity update 893066 has been updated to correct this issue. Security update 893066 was released in security bulletin MS05-19. For more information, visit the following Microsoft Web site:
PrerequisitesNo prerequisites are required to install this hotfix.
Restart requirementYou must restart the computer after you apply this hotfix.
Hotfix replacement informationThis hotfix does not replace any other hotfix.
File informationThe English version of this hotfix has the file attributes (or later file attributes) that are listed in the following table. The dates and times for these files are listed in Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). When you view the file information, it is converted to local time. To find the difference between UTC and local time, use the Time Zone tab in the Date and Time tool in Control Panel.
Windows Server 2003, 64-bit Itanium-based versions
Date Time Version Size File name ---------------------------------------------------- 25-May-2005 19:10 5.2.3790.336 977,920 Tcpip.sys
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Date Time Version Size File name ---------------------------------------------------- 25-May-2005 19:21 5.2.3790.336 336,896 Tcpip.sys
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed in the "Applies to" section. This problem was corrected in Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1.
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This problem may occur as a spontaneous restarting with system, so this behavior is not configured to capture a crash dump. Event logs may not show crash parameters. For more information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
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Apartment Seven (Kindle Edition) by Greg F. Gifune (DarkFuse) It's Christmastime in the city, but all is not merry. Something is happening in Apartment Seven. Something evil. Charlie Cerrone thought he had it all—a loving marriage, a good job, a nice home and financial security—until the night his wife betrayed him and his entire world came crashing down. Angry and ...Read More »
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Marshall Leaver has 25 years' teaching experience and has worked on curriculum development for the Board of Studies. He has been the President of the Society and Culture Association. He currently teaches at Monte Sant' Angelo Mercy College, North Sydney.
Kate Donnelly teaches at Sydney Secondary College, Blackwattle Bay. Kate is the treasurer of the Society and Culture Association and has HSC PIP and script marking experience in the subject.
Philip Webster has been teaching Society & Culture for 10 years and has been an HSC Marker since 2001. He is HSIE coordinator at Casimir Catholic College, Marickville and lectures students and teachers on behalf of the Society and Culture Association.
Sarah-Jane Grove has 8 years' teaching experience and currently teaches at Monte Sant' Angelo Mercy College, North Sydney. She is a Committee Member experienced in professional development and also a regular contributor to CultureScope. Sarah-Jane has also participated in the HSC Marking for the subject.
Felicia Lieberman has been teaching Society and Culture for 18 years. She is a HSC PIP and script marker. She is a consistent speaker for Society and Culture HSC lecture days and teacher professional development days.
Terry Lovat is a Professor of Education and Pro Vice-Chancellor at the University of Newcastle. He has taught and researched at both school and university levels for the past 25 years.
Comprehensive definitions and exploration of key concepts and terminology e.g. social construct, cultural relativism, socioeconomic status
Discrete 'Research Methodology' sections in each chapter e.g. ethnographic studies, structured interviews
Discrete 'Research Methodology' sections in each chapter e.g. ethnographic studies, structured interviews
Activities in each chapter, with opportunities for extension
References to relevant websites and films, for further study
A detailed framework for completion of the Personal Interest Project and all four depth studies, with techniques and strategies for choosing topics and models of work drawn from a range of focus studies


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Audit rights are two words that most software customers would be glad never to hear.
Major software vendors say they aren't invoked often - only when a customer is uncooperative or thought to be willfully non-compliant with their license terms.
But that doesn't mean that vendors aren't taking a very keen interest in how their licenses are used.
In the past three months, the Department of Defence and three NSW state government agencies have found themselves in the Federal Court over license disputes.
Scott & Scott LLP associate attorney Andrew Martin notes the renewed interest by software publishers in "auditing their customer bases".
"It's a pretty simple equation where the publishers are losing revenues on new software purchases," Martin says.
"[Customers] are deferring purchases, upgrades or migrations from one platform to another as the economy is still trying to get itself righted.
"As that happens our experience is that these software companies are generally looking for new revenue streams and those streams are contained in software deployments they haven't been compensated for."
Audits come in two flavours - those where a customer co-operates and those where they don't.
Co-operative customers are targeted by vendor-led consultancy programs that fall broadly under the banner of software asset management (SAM).
These incorporate some form of audit. However, if customers are found to breach software licenses, any restitution to the vendor could be characterised as non-punitive.
Microsoft and Oracle are among vendors who use this strategy, partly to sate their aversion for using the 'A' word.
"Oracle usually does not like to use the word 'audit' and instead tends to ask its customers to engage in a 'license review'," Martin said in a recent blog post.
Customers who don't play ball with the vendors typically face a more formal audit that is invoked from the license contract terms. These audits can involve having to run scripts on your network, paying back-maintenance and quite possibly legal action.
Microsoft Australia's director of license compliance and software asset management Renee Gamble says the company would "only do a handful of formal audits in a given year".
"We leverage the [formal] audit scenario really where a customer might be more willfully non-compliant or where they're not willing to work with us on the SAM program," she says.
Oracle similarly plays down the number of customers that are subjected to formal audit.
Oracle partner Red Rock Consulting's chief executive officer Jonathan Rubinsztein says customers of his company are hit with "one or two" full-blown Oracle-led audits a year.
"It's not a common occurrence... but it does happen," he says.
What's in a (Microsoft) SAM?
Gamble says Microsoft Australia embarks on "literally thousands" of software asset management (SAM) programs a year.
All of those companies are put through a "license reconciliation process" and about 95 percent are found to have some "basic form of non-compliance", Gamble says.
The nature of the SAM process - and who performs it - is determined by the customer's size.
While Microsoft has its own SAM personnel, it also contracts work to a number of third parties.
Small-to-medium businesses are often targeted by the Accordo Group, who act on Microsoft's behalf worldwide. Larger businesses might hear from iComply or Unified Logic - or the likes of KPMG if Microsoft decides to invoke a formal audit clause.
Gamble says Microsoft operates on a set of "guiding principles" when it approaches customers for participating in a SAM process.
"Fundamentally, we assume positive intent on behalf of the customer, so [when] we go into a SAM process, we don't assume there's any willful or malicious non-compliance," she says.
"But absolutely it is the customer's responsibility to be compliant and Microsoft has a right to protect our intellectual property and to get paid for that intellectual property."
The audit component of a SAM program is a mix of self-reporting and scripts. For SMBs, Microsoft supplies an assessment and planning (MAP) toolkit that is used as a "self-reporting exercise".
"We send them a licensing statement and we send them a spreadsheet so they are filling it out themselves," Gamble says.
"There's an ongoing element of trust there because we are collaborating with them."
The "larger end of town" is asked to run scripts on their networks that seek out unlicensed software, Gamble says.
"We will work with their IT teams around some scripts just to help with that data collection, and we'll also do some onsite testing as well," she says.
Gamble says that addressing compliance gaps "for the vast majority of customers [is] really... a bit of housekeeping and some good governance."
"Whatever gaps they do identify we simply ask them to address those and [we] give them better recommendations on how to manage their assets going forward," she says.
"Through the SAM process, we don't go after past use. We're not seeking retribution of damages - that would be a separate legal escalation if someone wasn't working with us.
"But as long as they're working with us on the SAM process, we simply ask them to pay for the licenses they've been using."
Oracle partner Red Rock Consulting similarly provides SAM services to its customers, as does channel partners of Microsoft Australia.
Formal audits
The consensus on formal audits - those invoked from license terms - is they are bad news.
"Typically when you're getting audited there's an expectation of non-compliance," Red Rock Consulting's Rubinsztein says.
"It's not a situation a customer really wants to be in with their key software vendor."
In a blog post, Scott & Scott LLP says that IBM's international license agreement, for example, "includes one of the most onerous audit-rights provisions that we see in standard-form license agreements".
Andrew Martin of Scott & Scott LLP says that red flags identified by Oracle may lead it to seek permission "to run a set of scripts [across the customer's] network to perform an in-depth network deployment audit".
"The mere thought ... should make even the most confident CIO squirm," he blogs.
Read on to page two for legal opinions on what to do if your vendor wants you to run their scripts.
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- Rehearses first week of July in NYC; shoots July 10-12 in NYC.
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Casting "Pickings," a professional trailer for an upcoming crime thriller film, a story of a single mother and local bar owner who gets bullied and pulled into a cycle of violence, murder, and terror when she refuses to give in to the demands of a short-tempered mobster. However, the mobster ...Jun 18
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Casting "Street Kings," an urban gangster film about two friends recruited by the mob to organize the drug trade in Brooklyn. Note: This is an independent production two or three cameras small crew.Jun 18
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News And Announcements
Today we are presenting to you the announcement of "Viking Conquest: Reforged Edition", a 100% free major update coming soon to all owners of the Viking Conquest DLC for Mount & Blade: Warband.
Tonnes of content and features are being added, with not just visual but also gameplay improvements, new quests and a brand new, original storyline.
We hope that you will enjoy the extra attention that has been given to the Pagan Gods, and the expanded gameplay focused around the religious features of the DLC in general.
In the coming days we will be presenting some of the key features of the new edition in detail.
NOTE: Old saved games will be compatible however some of the new features will require a new save to activate.
Hello all!
After a couple of weeks in beta, we have decided to push this patch out for a full release.
Thanks to everyone who helped out with testing and reports for this patch! Hopefully this patch brings the game into a much more stable state and you enjoy some of the new features, which include:
For the server hosters and non-Steam users, you can get the latest version from the Viking Conquest Downloads Page.
Our 10th Bannerlord Blog, "Materialistic Approaches", covers a brand new feature in Bannerlord that we'd like to share with you and a little bit about its place in the game. That feature is bartering.
Hello Mount & Bladers!
For the sixth year running, our Warband community has organised the Nations Cup, a competitive tournament between warbanding nations (much like the football World Cup). The tournament is still in its group stages but progressing well with a high number of sign ups!
To find out more, the best place to go is the Nations Cup 2015 board, hosted right here on the TaleWorlds Forums. There are livestreamed matches to watch and publicly displayed groups and brackets, as well as comment threads, so lots of ways to get involved and support your national team, even if you're not taking part as a player.
Check it out and go support your nation's march to Warband glory!
Hello Mount & Bladers!
Today marks the day that Caribbean! goes on full release. After almost a year of Early Access, developers Snowbird Game Studios have worked with your suggestions to bring you this release version! It's a unique project and a very different game from when it was first made playable.
As reflected by the name, this project isn't a TaleWorlds or Mount & Blade game but a project developed by Snowbird Game Studios, using a licensed version of Warband's engine, tailored in areas to the specific needs of the title. Given that, you can expect to see a lot of differences, when compared to games from the Mount & Blade franchise.
You can pick up the game from GOG.com and Steam right now.
You can also check out the Caribbean! release trailer here!
Alongside the release, we are having a Mount & Blade sale on the TaleWorlds Store, with savings of up to 66% on certain titles!


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I think it's easiest to describe myself based first on what I'm not, and then break into a little 'am'. The all encompassing clichés (traveler, laid back, happy going out or staying in, etc) I could list ad nauseam, so I'll save you from that. I should start by saying that I'm not laid back, I am most certainly intense. I try and bring a lot of passion to everything I do, and I take my work very seriously. That is not to say I can't have fun though, :). See? Look how much fun that smiley face was. I may have a different definition of taking life seriously though. When I make a decision I want it to be important, when I see something I don't like about my life I want to fix it. Whether we like it or not (and most don't), we all are likely on this site because we spotted a problem we thought needed fixing. Unless that is you enjoy impersonal contact and writing emails. I am not a social butterfly, you can probably figure that out from my use of the phrase "social butterfly". I love my family and friends, but I think the person who knows and hangs out with 50M people is just that, a person who knows 50M people. Relationships are important to me, and I think developing real ones requires attention and effort. I would far prefer my family and a few close friends who I can count on. Lastly, in my apparent quest to repel every woman who reads this, let me address the issue of being "happy going out or staying in". You've just covered roughly the entire spectrum of free time, it would be the equivalent of me saying I'm perfectly happy running a marathon or being absorbed into the couch while eating Cheetos. I'm firmly in the 'staying in' crowd. I go out on special occasions, to see friends, or a good classy bar, but in general I like staying in with a good beer and a good movie. So just a few things about what it is I am. I run the research wing of a small investment company, mostly we design products and algorithms to sell to larger firms. Always challenging, always interesting, I'm in love with it. I'm half Indian and went back to India every four years as a kid. Best part was we did an around the world thing (four days in Europe on the way, four days in SE Asia on the way back). Dream trip now is definitely Iceland (I realize the irony of covering a cliché I listed, nobody likes a know-it-all). Love to lift weights blah blah blah, you can figure out how the rest of that goes. Finally, I hope from the nature of my post above you can tell that I'm a genuine person. I'm not interested in casting as wide a net as possible (clearly), I want something with a bit more substance. I don't know exactly what I'm looking for in a significant other, life wouldn't be very interesting if we knew 'exactly' what we wanted, but I know I want someone who likes that I turned an 'about me' into a sarcastic rant, and isn't the least bit afraid to tell me what a load of bs they think it was. Success doesn't mean much if you can't share it with someone.
Dining out , Movies/Videos , Exploring new areas , Playing sports , Travel/Sightseeing , Video games , Watching sports
Auto racing / Motorcross, Baseball, Football, Weights / Machines
I exercise 3-4 times per week.
I don't believe in astrology
I like Birds, Dogs
Honestly I want an elephant, but they told me that wasn't "reasonable".
Middle of the Road
The Misfit, Tar and Roses, The Palm, anywhere with good food and good beer
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
I love to work out, I didn't have a football team in high school and made it a project to try out for the football team at USC when I was there. I'm sure you can imagine how that turned out, but I fell in love with lifting weights afterwards.
New restaurants, a nice speakeasy, the beach, I feel like this section coupled with "Favorite things" is a little redundant.
Fiction wise my favorite book is The Great Gatsby, love the era. Last read was probably a textbook.
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I went to Catholic school when I was a kid so I was baptized, but I also had a Hindu Hoven ceremony in India. So who knows what religion I am. I'm open to all schools of thought, but religion isn't a large part of my life.
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Chesapeake Academy begins its 45th year
Kindling the fire is what education in the 21st century is all about, and Chesapeake Academy opened its doors last week solidly on that forward thinking path.
09.16.2009CCS students expand the oyster reef
On Monday, Christchurch School students got wet for a good cause—to carry bags of baby oysters to the school's growing oyster reef in the Rappahannock River. The reef was started last year, and Monday's effort will make the reef bigger.
09.16.2009RCC to host 'Fishing Gone' Sept. 25
A free performance of "Fishing Gone," a performance-art play by versatile free-lance author Roger Vaughan, will be presented at Rappahannock Community College's Glenns Campus at 7 p.m. on Friday, September 25.
09.16.2009Rogers inducted into NSCS at Auburn University
Courtney Rogers, a 2008 graduate of Niceville High School, was inducted into the National Society of Collegiate Scholars at Auburn University on September 13.
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