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Conducted from 1994 through 2002, the Evaluation of Family Preservation and Reunification Programs was intended to evaluate rigorously programs designed to prevent the placement of children in foster care when it can be avoided. A related effort to reunify families who had at least one child placed in foster care was also evaluated, and related issue papers on family preservation, fiscal reform, and cost estimation were produced. The evaluation was originally undertaken as directed by Congress in the 1993 Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act which created the Family Support and Family Preservation Program, since renamed the Promoting Safe and Stable Families Program. Westat, Chapin Hall Center for Children, and James Bell Associates conducted the evaluation and wrote the reports.
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HOLDEN, Mass. — Members of Holden's American Legion Post will be in the center of town this weekend to conduct their annual poppy sale, a fundraiser that allows the group to extend a helping hand to other local veterans.
In honor of the multitude of American servicemen and women who served the country in war, families across the United States will observe Veterans Day this Sunday. Originally known as Armistice Day, the national holiday was set aside to honor veterans of World War I, to be observed annually on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month, when fighting first ceased between the allied nations and Germany.
The symbol of poppies also harkens back to World War I, as the bright red flowers emerged from the torn up trenches and covered battlefields in parts of Europe, and now signify remembrance of the sacrifice of veterans.
To help raise money for veterans' families, John E Harkins Post 42 will be at the Mobil Station in the center of town from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday, giving poppies away for a suggested donation of $1.
"One hundred percent of the what's raised goes right to local vets," said American Legion Commander Anthony Renzoni, who said each year the post helps 10 to 20 families with gift-cards to stores like Walmart and Toys R' Us so veterans can enjoy the holidays with their families.
Renzoni has likened the endeavor to how soldiers carry their fellow soldiers through the battlefield – not as a form of charity, but as veterans helping veterans.
Veterans Service Officer Karen Greenwood gives the post recommendations for families of veterans she knows may need help.
Additionally, veterans can contact Renzoni at email@example.com, or the veterans agent at (508) 210-5529 if they are in need of assistance or would like to nominate someone for assistance. Those who would like to donate gift cards or funds to help the effort can also reach out to Renzoni.


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A 67-year-old Charleston man being booked into the county jail on a loitering charge was found with prescription painkillers stuffed into his sock, according to police reports.
William David Jenkins of King Street was arrested Thursday afternoon after he failed to show up for a court appearance on the loitering count.
Authorities who searched him in the booking area of the Cannon Detention Center later found 21/2red pills wrapped in a napkin lodged in his sock.
The capsules were reported to be acetaminophen and propoxyphene napsylate, a Schedule 4 narcotic that is similar to the painkiller brand Darvocet.
Jenkins did not have a prescription for the pills, an incident report stated. He faces charges of possession of a controlled substance, which is punishable by up to six months in jail, and possession of contraband in the jail, a felony that includes a sentence of one to 10 years in prison.
Jenkins and another man, 58-year-old Leroy Nathaniel Jones Jr. of Allway Street, were first cited Dec. 31 at a bus stop near Meeting and Columbus streets in downtown Charleston.
Jenkins was ticketed for the offense, and he was supposed to answer the charge during a court appearance Jan. 8.
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My sales person Ty was really helpful and informative. I will be shopping there again! The customer service girls were enjoyable as well.
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My sales person Ty was really helpful and informative. I will be shopping there again! The customer service girls were enjoyable as well.
worst store ever for customer service.they take your money and then traet you like scum.
Really annoyed with the customer service they are way to slow at addressing my issue. we bought a all leather couch and the 5 yr warranty that is supposed to cover "everything we can think of" from here and it is tearing at the stitching all over and now they're jerking us around and saying they're not sure if that is covered.we may have bought this so called 5yr insurance for nothing at all as it seems to me.The person that sold us the couch assured us that everything we could think of would be covered, sure doesn't seem that way to me.
Last July 2009,I bought tv, sectional, etc...around 3000.00.Mr George Glesmann assured me that I will not pay a penny for for 15 months. I got my bills,I was charged with insurances,interests etc.At the brick, they never explained that to me.Now, they told me can't do anything about it!I called CitiFinancail who is sending me the bills, I was advised to request cancellation.Cancellation???In the first place I never applied that??Rigth now, I can't get hold of anybody at the brick who can do something about it, George said its not his job, its customer service, and customer service said, she can't do anything too and she told to talk to Frankie Garcea,somehow, I never get a chance to speak with him,everytime I called he is not there. When I went there, he is not there as well..This is my 3rd billing, I tried addressing this when I first received the my bill....
went shopping at the St. James location and found a bed we loved. went home to do some measurements and called the Regent location, since they are closer, to ask for measurements on the bed we are interested in.
Got a guy named George who said not a problem, that he would call us back asap with the measurements we wanted.
an hour passes by and no call back, so we called the regent location again and this time got a guy named Dan. Dan didn't even let us go, put us on hold for barely a minute and came back with the measurements we asked for. How hard was that?
Long story short, we never heard back from George, not even a courtesy call. If you decide to go with the Brick at the Regent location, don't give George your hard earned money, go with a different sales person or a different store all together.


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'Unsexy scents' that drive men wild
Man magnet scent. If you think you need expensive perfumes to attract men — you're mistaken.
Many women think that "sexy" perfume can attract men. Perfume manufacturers, of course, reinforce this notion with their slick ads. But do scents really have an impact on how men react towards women? To a degree, yes.
Sniff science
There is no doubt that our sense of smell influences our perceptions.
In The Smell Report, Kate Fox, director of the Social Issues Research Centre, a UK-based non-profit organization that focuses on social and lifestyle issues, explained: "Our olfactory receptors are directly connected to the limbic system, the most ancient and primitive part of the brain, which is thought to be the seat of emotion."
This is probably why women practically douse themselves in perfume when they want to attract men. Unfortunately, their money and strategic perfume placement may be wasted. Chances are, they're using the wrong perfumes.
"Women who believe that the use of 'sexy' perfumes will attract men, however, may be misguided," wrote Fox. "Women's sensitivity to musk, an ingredient commonly used in perfumes, is (a thousand) times greater than men's. 'Sexy' perfumes containing musk are therefore much more likely to arouse the woman wearing them than any potential male partners."
Yummy perfume. If you smell like a doughnut or buttered popcorn, men are supposed to go crazy over you.
This goes to show that what women think are sexy scents aren't necessarily attractive to men's noses.
Tantalizing aromas
A study conducted by Dr. Alan Hirsch, founder of the Smell and Taste Treatment and Research Foundation in Chicago, and his colleague Dr. Jason Grussman, listed the real odors or odor blends that are sure to pique men's interests.
Hirsch and Grussman spearheaded the testing of 31 men, aged 16 to 64. The subjects were each hooked to a plethysmograph and their reactions to 30 odor samples were subsequently measured. Specifically, the blood flow to their nether regions was monitored each time they sniffed a scent.
The study revealed that men reacted intensely to the following scents:
1. Lavender and pumpkin pieHirsch's team asserted that since pleasant scents usually brought about positive feelings, it was highly likely that men would also be attracted to them. The team's findings supported their initial hypothesis. "However, a multitude of mechanisms could be at play," they said. "The odors could induce a conditioned response reminding (men) of (their partners) or their favorite foods."
2. Doughnut and black licorice
3. Pumpkin pie and doughnut
4. Orange
5. Lavender and doughnut
6. Black licorice and cola
7. Black licorice
8. Doughnut and cola
9. Lily of the valley
10. Buttered popcorn
That being said, it would seem that a woman doesn't need to bathe in expensive perfume to get men to pay attention to her. Perhaps, all she has to do is hang out in the kitchen and make sure that the smell of her chosen man's favorite food sticks to her clothes and hair. (Hopefully, his favorite food isn't danggit or durian.)
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Dean Richard Gelles of the School of Social Policy and Practice comments on the Department of Human Services' investigation methods.
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Dave Chokshi of the School of Medicine discusses a movement to make pharmaceuticals more affordable for the poor.
Peter Stallybrass of the School of Arts and Sciences discusses historical encrypted messages.
William Ewald of the Law School critiques "Fear of Knowledge," a new book discussing cognitive relativism.
Penn's Wharton School is among those chosen to collaborate on and publish the world's largest business management text.
Yoram Wind of Penn's Wharton School studies the importance of commercial-free music programs on satellite radio as opposed to talk radio.
Michelle Antonio of Penn's Wharton School participates in a career recruitment Q&A.
Walt Palmer of the School of Social Policy and Practice says disenfranchised children benefit from an environment that encourages leadership.
Jonathan Steinberg of the School of Arts and Sciences authors a letter on the Iraq war.
Serguei Netessine of Penn's Wharton School discusses online retail.
David Silverman of the School of Arts and Sciences and Penn Museum provides insight into ancient Egyptian lore, as Penn hosts the "Amarna: Ancient Egypt's Place in the Sun" exhibit.
Lawrence Sherman of the School of Arts and Sciences is cited for research on using aggressive search tactics to combat concealed firearms.
Mauro Guillen of Penn's Wharton School authors an op-ed on Spain's rising stake in international business.
Max Kelz of the School of Medicine discusses the potential of a new anesthetic compound found in saliva.
Garret FitzGerald of the School of Medicine is cited for his research on the new painkiller Arcoxia.
Chris and Natasha Ashton of Penn's Wharton School are cited for founding pet insurance company, Fetch Inc. Jean Lemaire of Penn's Wharton School and Barry Stupine of the School of Veterinary Medicine discuss pet insurance.
Paul Sehnert of Facilities and Real Estate Services comments on Penn's past redevelopment strategies.
Jonathan Moreno of the School of Medicine comments on the stem cell issue and its role in recent mid-term elections.
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They come back from war broken…
"I struggle with everyday life things."
Their injuries, both seen and unseen.
"I wake up and don't know where I am, I have flashbacks."
And these service dogs become their lifeline, able to bring back some semblance of normalcy.
"He's my little battle buddy."
But now, their way of life is under attack…from fakers.
"These dogs pee, destroy things, bark noisily."
"She literally had to chain it to the cart to walk around."
Aided by a growing online industry, taking advantage of loopholes.
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HOUSTON -- Alex Avila hit a two-run home run in the ninth inning, lifting the Detroit Tigers to a 4-3 win over the Houston Astros on Friday night.
After Houston closer Jose Veras (0-2) walked Don Kelly to open the inning, Avila hit a 3-1 pitch to deep center field and help the Tigers get their second straight win.
Jose Altuve's RBI single in the seventh inning capped a three-run rally and gave the Astros a 3-2 lead.
Houston, which has the worst record in the American League, lost its fourth in a row and eighth in the last nine games.
Tigers left-hander Drew Smyly (2-0) pitched two scoreless innings for the win, and Jose Valverde finished the ninth against his former team for his third save in three chances.
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I had to laugh at Caryn's comment, "When your baby is born she will have some explaining to do"--the same thought has occurred to me more than once! Caryn's hilarious. She always makes me laugh. It's so cool that through blogging I've met so many smart, funny, likeminded, diverse women, and kept in touch with some pretty amazing friends and family in my life. Blogging's not a relationship exactly, but it helps connect people in a certain way that is pretty cool, and opens up the opportunity to meet other people whom you wouldn't otherwise meet! It's an odd way to get to know people, because of course it's very filtered and edited, and entire chunks of life are left out entirely (like, for example I'll talk about sex with friends face to face quite openly, but I NEVER blog about it), and you never get to see any of those all important non verbal communication cues. Anytime I've gotten to know someone local who also reads my blog it creates an awkward too soon intimacy. But all that suffice it to say I'm grateful for you who read, it's a cool medium for communicating and I really appreciate you all.
Blood sugar update: I've found a daytime pre-meal dose that works; still working on the nighttime dose but it's coming down.
Weather update: it's snowing big, beautiful flakes outside thick and fast. I love snow.
Baby update: s/he seems to have a lot of elbows and knees. Like, a LOT. Eight or nine. The other day I was lying on my bed and there was lots of visible activity going on so I called everyone over to see. Ayden and Matthew thought it was the coolest thing ever~Matthew especially liked to feel it and see it at the same time. But it freaked Riley out like nobody's business. He knew it was the baby, and I think he thought it was coming out RIGHT THEN, and the rest of the night he kept grabbing at his tummy and shrieking in fear, and yelling about babies coming out of tummies (he is adamant he has a baby in his tummy too). Fortunately he forgot by the next day. Hilarious!
House update: I love it. Oh my gosh do I LOVE IT! We have enough space! We have no strata rules! We have a backyard and a playroom and a huge livingroom/kitchen/eating space with tons of windows and lighting and a double garage and WOW, it feels fantastic. We're unpacking at a good pace, so at some point I'll find that camera cord and share some pictures with you. I know my sad sorry blog is photoless far too often.


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TO MARY WILLIS SHELBURNE: On keeping to a regular pattern of religious life during the storms of life.
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I agree: the only thing one can usually change in one's situation is oneself. And yet one can't change that either—only ask Our Lord to do so, keeping on meanwhile with one's sacraments, prayers, and ordinary rule of life. One mustn't fuss too much about one's state. Do you read St. Francis de Sales? He has good things to say on this subject. All good wishes.
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This cookbook is a winner! I love Middle Eastern food and everything I have made from this book has been wonderful. I cooked a dinner entirely of Roden's dishes for friends, and they bought the book on their way home. Roden intersperses her recipes with vignettes of history and folklore surrounding her subject, as well as instructions on particular techniques, ingredients, and recipe variations, all of which make this book a rich read and an enticing resource.
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In this updated and greatly enlarged edition of her Book of Middle Eastern Food, Claudia Roden re-creates a classic. The book was originally published here in 1972 and was hailed by James Beard as "a landmark in the field of cookery"; this new version represents the accumulation of the author's thirty years of further extensive travel throughout the ever-changing landscape of the Middle East, gathering recipes and stories.
Now Ms. Roden gives us more than 800 recipes, including the aromatic variations that accent a dish and define the country of origin: fried garlic and cumin and coriander from Egypt, cinnamon and allspice from Turkey, sumac and tamarind from Syria and Lebanon, pomegranate syrup from Iran, preserved lemon and harissa from North Africa. She has worked out simpler approaches to traditional dishes, using healthier ingredients and time-saving methods without ever sacrificing any of the extraordinary flavor, freshness, and texture that distinguish the cooking of this part of the world.
Throughout these pages she draws on all four of the region's major cooking styles:
- The refined haute cuisine of Iran, based on rice exquisitely prepared and embellished with a range of meats, vegetables, fruits, and nuts
- Arab cooking from Syria, Lebanon, and Jordan--at its finest today, and a good source for vegetable and bulgur wheat dishes
- The legendary Turkish cuisine, with its kebabs, wheat and rice dishes, yogurt salads, savory pies, and syrupy pastries
- North African cooking, particularly the splendid fare of Morocco, with its heady mix of hot and sweet, orchestrated to perfection in its couscous dishes and tagines
From the tantalizing mezze--those succulent bites of filled fillo crescents and cigars, chopped salads, and stuffed morsels, as well as tahina, chickpeas, and eggplant in their many guises--to the skewered meats and savory stews and hearty grain and vegetable dishes, here is a rich array of the cooking that Americans embrace today. No longer considered exotic--all the essential ingredients are now available in supermarkets, and the more rare can be obtained through mail order sources (readily available on the Internet)--the foods of the Middle East are a boon to the home cook looking for healthy, inexpensive, flavorful, and wonderfully satisfying dishes, both for everyday eating and for special occasions.
Containing more than 800 recipes collected from Morocco, Turkey, Greece, Egypt, and other Middle Eastern countries, this updated edition includes extensive variations and new techniques for preparing these exotic dishes. Color photos.
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Claudia Roden was born and raised in Cairo. She completed her formal education in Paris and then moved to London to study art. She travels extensively as a food writer. Her previous books include the James Beard Award-winning Book of Jewish Food, as well as Coffee: A Connoisseur's Companion, The Good Food of Italy--Region by Region, Everything Tastes Better Outdoors, and Mediterranean Cookery, which was published in conjunction with her BBC television series on the Mediterranean. In 1989 she won the two most prestigious food prizes in Italy, the Premio Orio Vergani and the Premio Maria Luigia, Duchessa di Parma, for her London Sunday Times Magazine series The Taste of Italy. She has won six Glenfiddich prizes, including 1992 Food Writer of the Year for articles in the Daily Telegraph and The Observer magazine, and the Glenfiddich Trophy awarded "in celebration of a unique contribution to the food that we eat in Britain today." In 1999 she won a Versailles Award in France, and Prince Claus of the Netherlands presented her with the Prince Claus Award "in recognition of exceptional initiatives and achievements in the field of culture." She lives in London.
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The following is a Recap of Lost Season 6, Episode 14 entitled "The Candidate", originally airing May 4, 2010. If you haven't seen the episode, stop reading, cause this is full of mad spoilers, yo. No one says "mad" to mean "many" anymore? I guess I just mean the spoilers are angry then. What's the new word the kids are sayin' these days? "Asteroid"? Ok – this Recap is full of asteroid spoilers, yo.
Locke awakens from getting run over by Desmond, and Happy Jack makes an important announcement:
"Congratulations, Mr. Locke, you are A CANDIDATE…
…For surgery! Not anything Jacob related. As a Lost doctor, bedside manner dictates that I pause for seven minutes in the middle of any sentence that could have symbolic double meanings before completing that sentence with the literal meaning."
Locke respectfully declines, saying "No thanks, I wouldn't wanna impose — it's not that I'm punishing myself for crippling other family members, I'm just not a huge fan of having the ability to use half my limbs. Good day to you, sir!" "Hrrrm," Jack wonders, "Most people I meet DO enjoy the ability to walk. I wonder what's stuck in this guy's walking craw?"
To get some answers, Jack first asks himself, "Which character hasn't done anything in this reality yet? Daniels from The Wire? Oooh wait, how 'bout Bernard, his job's kinda medicine related!" He approaches Bernard about the emergency oral surgery he performed on Locke after Locke's dad peed on his teeth while he was lying unconscious, and Bernard recognizes Jack from the Oceanic flight, saying "You're the guy who was hitting on my wife when I was in the bathroom." Jack's like, "I've done absolutely everything wrong ever, but that is one thing I was definitely not doing." A skeptical Bernard replies "While I can't breach doctor/patient confidentiality, I can tell you to go visit his meaningfully crippled dad Anthony in a nursing home, revealing the event which permanently scarred Locke. But that is ALL I can do for you."
After the jump, spinal surgery gets a Dikembe-Mutombo style rejection, and there's no eating fresh on this Sub-way! [Note To Self: Retire from writing after this sentence]
Jack arrives at the nursing home and pleads with Helen to see Anthony, and when he finally does, he realizes that Locke's dad is completely paralyzed and unable to speak or react, and exclaims into his face "Well this was a big bust!" Looks like we got ourselves another flash-sideways Opposite Day: In this reality, Locke took his loving father on a flight with him and permanently crippled himself and his father even worse, and regrets it every day of his life. In the old reality, though, Locke's dad very intentionally crippled Locke, then showed the opposite of remorse when he threw an "I Crippled My Son" party and used Locke's wheelchair to cart around the keg. Moral of the story: If you don't want to end up crippled in your reality, be a conniving a-hole and push your son out a window – The More You Lost.
Now understanding the surgery decline, Jack confronts Locke and whines "How come you still get to feel super guilty about your dad but I have to let my dad go? It's not faiww! I want to perform cool science surgery on you!" Locke continues to refuse the surgery, say bah humbug a lot, and rejects ice cream whenever it's given to him. Jack concludes their interaction with a barrage of Lost catchphrases, telling Locke "What happened happened" [Ding!] and "I wish you'd believed me" [Ding!] and "Makin' copieeeees!" [Ding!] Locke ultimately leaves the conversation, but hearing his own island-words thrown back at him seems to resonate just a tad. Are you thinkin' what I'm thinkin'? Just mayyyyybeeeeee…….
Most likely, judging by Locke's unnaturally content greeting to Jack when he first wakes up from surgery and him talking to himself in his sleep about pushing buttons, he's already had the island visions, but if they didn't resonate with them then, they certainly do now. Next week, it's time for crippled, ungrateful Locke to wheel himself up the ramp of APOLOGY.
But Jack couldn't be right twice in one episode, could he….?
Meanwhile, on the island, Widmore's goons force Sawyer and Co. back into the polar bear cages at gunpoint, but Sawyer decides "I ain't no king of the arctic" and turns the gun back on 'Dough Boy', but Widmore quickly holds a gun to Kate and says he has no qualms shooting her because she's not on the candidates list (she is, but she's crossed out). Sawyer drops his gun and complies, and recognizing the cage as the one he and Kate got intimate in, he chivalrously volunteers to sleep on the wet spot.
Widmore tells Sawyer he's doing this for their own good, which Sawyer doesn't really believe, because every character on Lost says this after doing anything (Hurley only buried Nikki and Paulo for their own good). Team Locke arrives shortly, and the smoke monster kills the lead guard and scatters the rest, even though the guards all shoot at it with guns because shooting magical entities with bullets always works in sci-fi movies / horror movies / any movies / previous episodes of Lost.
Jack grabs the key, rescues the group, and leads them to the Ajira plane, but Locke is already there and shows them the bomb that Widmore allegedly wired the plane with, and says they'll only be safe if they take the sub. Sawyer quickly agrees, but pulls Jack aside and says he doesn't trust the giant evil murdering smoke monster, and asks Jack for one final favor: Don't let Locke get on the sub. Jack agrees "You got it, I won't let him eat a sub. Haha just kidding! I heard what you said, I won't let him murder all of humanity."
The group returns to the sub and Sawyer quickly takes it over, and as Jack and Locke walk towards the entrance with Locke failing to convince Jack to board, Jack acts out his brilliantly conceived plan and pushes the immortal magic smoke monster into the water and runs toward the sub. Suddenly, Kate is shot in the shoulder, and bullets rain down on the group from Widmore's henchmen stationed all around the sub — aiming only for the non-candidates? — but everyone manages to board the sub with Claire and Locke left behind. They sail home unmolested and resume their lives and that's the end of the series. LOST.
Uhoh! Looks like Locke took a page from the Spy vs. Spy school and slipped a bomb into Jack's bag! Sayid begins to explain how to disarm the bomb, but Sawyer's like "We ain't got time fer that, Solutions" and pushes him out of the way, but before he does anything, Jack stops him with an explanation that actually makes sense: What if the immortal magic smoke monster actually set them up and wants them to pull the bomb wires because he needs them to kill each other, just as he needed Ben to kill Jacob, and needs all of them dead to leave the island?
Sawyer listens to Jack's reasoning, then checks his trusty card:
Sawyer then brashly rips the wire out of the bomb, which freezes the countdown briefly because Locke wired the bomb really specifically to punk them for a couple seconds, but the countdown quickly resumes even faster, and before Jack can gloat about being right for the first time since he admitted he didn't know anything anymore, Zombie Sayid grabs the bomb and runs several rooms away to save the candidates from the blast.
The bomb goes off, Sayid's gone, Frank gets hit by a door, and the sub quickly begins filling up with water, leaving everyone to scramble and disagree about who should take who where and who shouldn't leave who:
Hurley escapes with shot-but-doing-much-better Kate, then Sawyer gets knocked unconscious while helping to rescue Sun, and Jin convinces Jack to escape with Sawyer and leave him to fail at rescuing his wife.
Call me Captain Unromantic if you want — I will take pride in having achieved such a prestigiously unromantic Naval rank — but could Jin's death have been any more senseless? YOU HAVE A FRICKIN' DAUGHTER, DUDE. Isn't raising your daughter more important than killing yourself needlessly to achieve tidy closure on your regrets for leaving Sun in the first place? Isn't staying alive for the well-being of your child who's never met you and is now motherless more important than dying in an idealistic faux-Titanic pose next to your suffocating wife (who lied to you and cheated on you and pretty much had stopped loving you before the island thing)? Not to mention staying alive to help your friends and keep the frickin' devil from eating the universe? The only thing that's LOST here is Jin's marbles! That review is going on the Lost marquee, if they ever release Lost in old timey movie theaters.
If you're counting, that's Sayid, Jin and Sun all down in one episode, and possibly Frank, meaning that this score will have to be settled by all white people — the way it should be, am I right white people?? Tricked you! If you clapped you're Hitler. Found you, Hitler! Thought you could hide out forever reading pop culture blogs, didn't you? I knew if I wrote this Lost crap long enough, it'd provide some shred of value to someone at some point.
In the end, Jack, Sawyer, Hurley, and noncandidate Kate escape the sub alive, striking the list of remaining candidates down to three (though really, as predictable as it could've been from day one, Jack appears to be the only one in line to replace Jacob. But maybe it'll be Hurley! It will not be Hurley.)
The episode concludes with Locke acknowledging the sub has sank, but knowing in his magical bones that some of the candidates are still alive. Claire asks him where he's going, and he ominously answers "To finish what I started." LOST. Well, we knew that. It's not really an episode-ending cliffhanger, and we did just witness three major characters all die in a row, so the episode closer was only like 60th percentile of episode craziness. But it was an exceptionally crazy episode, so we'll grade on a crazy curve (crazurve). A!
— What's the deal with Claire's music box that she inherited from her father, and why did she have to show it to Jack? This series better not conclude with an ominous music box scene, or it's getting the biggest "Phantom of the Opera did it!" in the history of "[BLANK] did it!"s.
— Does the Smoke Monster showing his hand imply that Charles Widmore is, in fact, acting in the right here? Or are his intentions also unpure? Hard to imagine he'll just defeat the Smoke Monster and be like "We did it!" [high fives Jack, freeze, Kenny Loggins "Lost" theme kicks in, credits]
— Who will Claire ultimately side with? Most likely, I foresee her dying a valiant death, a la Sayid, and Kate vowing that she'll raise her baby and Claire tearfully agreeing this time. Hopefully Kate doesn't die too, or there'll just be a bunch of Lost babies crawling around Los Angeles unsupervised. Spin-off!
— Next Week On Lost: A bunch of footage from the Season 5 finale. Clip show!!! I hope it's Christmas themed.
"The Candidate" episode thoughts?Theories? Questions? Sayid / Jin / Sun death reactions? Frank / music box predictions? Only three episodes left, so comment now or forever hold your Lostpeace.


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Two much better articles than I could write linked below. In short, artist Roger Hiorns has covered the walls and ceilings of a soon to be demolished flat near Elephant and Castle in blue copper sulphate crystals. Looks phenomenal.
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Is MySpace Dead Yet?
But none of this really means anything without some context, and the announcement last month that the Newscorp-owned site would lay off 30 percent of its workforce might have given a clue as to which direction things are headed. That's because even at $250 million in annual revenue (five times that of its closest rival, Facebook) MySpace is still losing money. And anyone who uses the Internet on a regular basis can tell you that most people just don't use MySpace that much anymore. Those 125 million MySpace users are pretty much the same ones it had six months ago, and Facebook is kicking its butt with a user base of 250 million.
Yep, it's becoming clearer every day that Rupert Murdoch's Newscorp bought a dog when it picked up the Myspace for $850 million in 2005.
Now Murdoch didn't become a billionaire by buying media that loses money. So he must have plan for turning the "Place For Friends" around, right? Of course he does. The visionary, 70-year-old media mogul dropped some hints at an annual meeting of media and technology executives in Sun Valley, Idaho. The Wall Street Journal (also owned by Murdoch) reported that Murdoch (in his best 1990s Internet speak) believes people need an online "Entertainment Portal" to find entertainment and related information.
Umm, thanks Rupert. There isn't any place like that now on the Internets! (Obviously he has almost no clue what is going on with MySpace other than it's losing money.)
Recently, though, there has been a shakeup at Myspace with the company hiring Owen Van Natta, a former executive at Facebook. TechChrunch published an email to the company from Van Natta that offers a few clues as to how he plans to change MySpace into an "Entertainment Portal" that more people will want to use.
MySpace should feel like one platform - not 15 sites loosely stitched together. We consider our diverse content offering a strength but too many logos and disorganized verticals makes the site difficult to navigate and creates confusion about our brand identity. Our users don't know if we're a social portal, a music site, or an entertainment hub. In the last week, we've made some small but meaningful site changes that will lay the groundwork to provide more clarity on our brand and business.Good observations. I guess that's why he makes the big bucks. By the way, as near as anyone can tell, the only small meaningful change at MySpace recently is that they dropped ".com" from the logo and they are no longer calling themselves "a place for friends."
So is MySpace dead? It's kinda hard to tell. Newscorp is obviously trying to keep it alive. But for a lot of MySpace users, the site died a long time ago.
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That's Sir Martin Faulkner Broughton, chairman of British Airways, of course, one of a few civil aviation personalities who've survived the torturous nominations process for a New Year Honour.
Airbus' deeply-Scottish executive vice-president of programmes, Tom Williams, is named a CBE, while the chief executive of
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A North Carolina string quartet with James Travis Creed and Billie Karel raises its voice against Amendment One
"Just outside the frame of the video, I am rocking my 3-month-old daughter with my foot while we play. I am taking a stand against Amendment One because I want Nora to learn that the best weapons with which to fight intolerance and fear are beauty and generosity of spirit." --Karen Strittmatter Galvin
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It's Friday, you ain't got no job and you ain't got nothing to do but run to Arizona, Pennsylvania, Kentucky or Nevada because online retailing giant Amazon is hiring more than 15,500 people to aid in their holiday shopping season. The number Amazon is hiring this year is more than they took on last year […] [Read More]
U-verse Mobile recognized as innovator
TelcoTV 2010, which calls itself the largest video conference and expo for U.S. telecommunications companies, has given AT&T a Vision Award for AT&T U-verse Mobile. The mobile application of AT&T's Internet Protocol-based television service won for innovation among the largest telecommunication companies, those with more than 10,000 video subscribers. The other finalist in that category […] [Read More]
Call of Duty breaks own record
The Michael Jordan of video game franchises, Call of Duty, has taken the old opening day sales record for a video game and shot it in the head. The new "Call of Duty: Black Ops" shoveled in $360 million in its first 24 hours, selling 5.6 million games, shattering the previous record. The old record, […] [Read More]
Time Warner looks back
Digital customers of Time Warner Cable now have access to a new feature that allows them to go back three days and watch certain TV shows they missed. No, this is not time travel, though I have not tried it out yet myself so I can't say that with a hundred percent certainty. But the […] [Read More]
Time Warner honors vets
Time Warner Cable and The History Channel teamed up to celebrate Veteran's Day with a pair of visits to area schools. Earlier today at Rhodes Middle School, the "Take A Vet to School Day" event featured music, a reading of a letter from World War II and an address by Major Mike Burns of the U.S. Military […] [Read More]
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Toyota of Boerne is partnering with Boerne Walmart to give thanks to America's troops this holiday season. On Friday, November 19, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., the companies will give away 500 turkeys to all U.S. active duty military, guard and reserve personnel and their families at Toyota of Boerne. The turkeys will be delivered to […] [Read More]
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Tootie Pie Co. announced that October sales rose 25 percent compared to the same month a year ago. The October showing was the 12th month in a row the company posted a sales increase. At the company's cafes, same-store sales were up 17 percent over last year. CEO Don Merrill said he expects this to be the "best year ever" […] [Read More]
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The Omni La Mansión del Rio became a member of the Historic Hotels of America, officials announced on Thursday. Historic Hotels of America, a program housed under the National Trust for Historic Preservation, identifies buildings that are at least 50 years old and are previously recognized as having historic value. Hotel officials said the building was […] [Read More]
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Abortion and Divorce in Western Law, by Mary Ann Glendon
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Abortion and Divorce in Western Law.
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Nearly twenty years ago, a movement was undertaken to modernize two major areas of family law, abortion and divorce. At the time, advocates of both no-fault divorce and abortion-on-demand heralded the sought-for changes as a victory for individual rights: the right of a woman to terminate her pregnancy and the right of a spouse unilaterally to terminate a marriage. Today, both the fractious debate over abortion and growing discontent with the debilitating effects of divorce on women and children suggest that these legal developments have not been quite the boon for American society that their initial sponsors thought they would be.
That there is something askew with the American "solution" to these problems is suggested by Mary Ann Glendon's extraordinary study. Professor Glendon, who teaches at the Harvard Law School, shows that as compared with Europe and Scandinavia, American law concerning abortion and divorce is consistently on the far, libertarian end of the legal spectrum. In light of our reputation for social puritanism, this is, to say the least, ironical; in Professor Glendon's view it is also responsible for fostering an ongoing battle between the rights of individuals and the interests of society.
As she understands it, the American problem lies not in bad law but in the way we have come to think about law and the role it should play in our lives. That way of thinking is best expressed in the language of modern liberal theory, according to which each person must be treated as an "unencumbered self" whose "personhood is inviolable." Law, according to this view, should not articulate a desired way of life, but should be so constructed as to allow individuals to choose their own way of life for themselves. Virtually abandoned is the idea that law should be educational, that it should tell us something about the subject it regulates.
The courageous goal of Mary Ann Glendon's book is precisely to try to resurrect the idea of law as educational, an idea embraced by political thinkers going back to Plato. For guidance, she turns to Europe, where the laws pertaining to abortion and divorce manage to exhibit respect for individual rights while also seeking to shape a socially responsible policy.
With regard to abortion, recent American practice, as exemplified in the 1973 Supreme Court decision, Roe v. Wade, has been to couch the debate entirely in the rhetoric of rights, whether those of women ("pro-choice") or those of the fetus ("pro-life"). The pro-choice movement in particular maintains that any shift away from Roe v. Wade would lead immediately to "back-alley abortions." Yet Professor Glendon's survey of European law shows just how false such a belief is.
In France, for example, a 1975 law made abortion available up to the end of the tenth week of pregnancy to any woman "whose condition places her in a situation of distress." Since "distress" is never defined, the pregnant woman becomes the sole judge of what it means. The French restriction on abortion would therefore seem to be merely symbolic: any woman who claims to be in distress, for whatever reason, can get an abortion. But as Professor Glendon points out, it is precisely through the symbolic and hortatory functions of a law that the state can promote a view without forcing everyone to adhere to it. Thus, another part of the same law announces that "the voluntary termination of pregnancy must under no circumstances constitute a means of birth control." Once again, although the state does not forbid a woman from using abortion as a method of birth control, it attempts to discourage such practice by terming it undesirable. The idea behind this type of legislation, argues Professor Glendon, "seems to be simply to try to make sure everyone knows that abortion is considered to be a serious matter."
If abortion is a serious matter, if it is more than just a "preferred lifestyle," as the late Justice Douglas put it, then the Supreme Court has given us no indication of how we might think about it other than as a serious matter of privacy. The West German Supreme Court, by contrast, while not ruling out all liberalized abortion legislation, has insisted that such legislation avoid "the false impression . . . that termination of pregnancy involves the same social [significance] as, say, a trip to the physician for healing an illness, or even that it involves a legally irrelevant alternative to contraception." To Professor Glendon, this statement suggests that the West German court, unlike the American, has been willing to confront the fundamental question of the circumstances under which it may be legally permissible to take a life. By avoiding that question, the U.S. Supreme Court turned the abortion debate into an all-or-nothing struggle over "rights."
As Professor Glendon readily admits, her own approach—which amounts to a search for what law can do to permit abortion without undue harassment and at the same time communicate the idea that abortion is a crucial moral issue—may never satisfy the ardent pro-life or pro-choice advocate. Yet it does attempt to replace the feverish debate over whose rights are being violated with a more reasoned discussion about the grounds and conditions under which abortion might be deemed legal.
The tendency of American law to be neutral on the very things about which society cannot afford to be neutral is also seen in divorce legislation. Since California passed its "no-fault" divorce law in 1969, nearly every U.S. state has adopted some version of it. Yet once again the United States, this time along with Canada and Sweden, finds itself on the extreme end of the legal spectrum. In Britain, France, and West Germany, where laws regarding divorce are lenient by anyone's standards, a judge may still dismiss a divorce petition if he is persuaded that the dissolution of a marriage would result in undue hardship for one spouse. The absence of such a clause in American law has created exactly what European lawmakers have tried to prevent, namely, divorces that grant child custody to one spouse, usually the wife, but without the necessary financial support she has depended upon while married.
Professor Glendon also points to a second, albeit less direct, consequence of American divorce law: the shortness of the route from "no fault" to "no responsibility." The individual-rights language of divorce legislation, which was supposed to take the moralism out of the law, has simply established a more subtle but no less powerful teaching: "Marriage is a relationship that exists primarily for the fulfillment of the individual spouses. If it ceases to perform this function, no one is to blame and either spouse may terminate it at will." By effectively putting an escape clause into every marriage contract, the new legal attitude has radically undercut the traditional American notion of marriage "till death do us part."
To be sure, Professor Glendon is not advocating a rollback of American family law to some traditional standard. As she tells it, the lesson of the European experience is that updating and modernizing statutes do not require throwing aside the moral authority of the law itself. The false promise of the abortion and divorce reform movements was that by transferring the moral questions from lawmakers to the individuals involved, the state would be constrained from imposing its values on men and women who did not share them. But the new, supposedly neutral, laws do in fact send a very distinct message. They tell us, writes Professor Glendon, "that if a marriage no longer suits our needs, or the continuation of a pregnancy would not fit in with our plans just now, we can choose to sever the relationship." The damaging consequences of this message should now be clear: a nation bitterly engaged in a fight over abortion and over a divorce law that imposes hardship on the very parties that looked to it as an engine of liberty. Abortion and Divorce in Western Law, a serious and compassionate book, shows us that another way is both possible and eminently sensible.


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2005 NCAA Skiing Championships Stowe, Vermont
Hosted by the Universty of Vermont
Schedule of Events
All Times Eastern
Tuesday, March 8, 2005
5:30pm - Opening Ceremony/Pep Rally at the Stoweflake - Public Welcome
Wednesday, March 9, 2005
Alpine Competition Day - Giant Slalom
Stowe Mountain Resort
9:30am-10:00am - Women's Giant Slalom First Run
11:15am-11:45am - Women's Giant Slalom Second Run
1:00pm-1:30pm - Men's Giant Slalom First Run
2:45pm-3:15pm - Men's Giant Slalom Second Run
3:45pm - Men's and Women's Flower Ceremony at Midway Lodge
Thursday, March 10, 2005
Nordic Competition Day - Classical Races
Trapp Family Lodge
9:30am - Start of Men's 10K Classic Race
9:50am - Last Men's start
10:25am - Last Men's finish
11:30am - Start of Women's 5K Classical Race
11:50am - Last Women's start
12:10pm - Last Women's finish
12:15pm - Men's and Women's Flower Ceremony
Friday, March 11, 2005
Alpine Competition Day - Slalom
Stowe Mountain Resort
9:30am-10:00am - Men's Slalom First Run
10:30am-11:00am - Women's Slalom First Run
12:15pm-12:45pm - Men's Slalom Second Run
1:15pm-1:45pm - Women's Slalom Second Run
2:15pm - Men's and Women's Flower Ceremony at Midway Lodge
Saturday, March 12, 2005
Nordic Competition Day - Freestyle Races
Trapp Family Lodge
10:00am - Start of Women's 15K Freestyle Race (mass start)
10:50am - Last Women's finisher
12:00pm - Start of Men's 20K Freestyle Race (mass start)
12:50pm - Last Men's finisher
2:30pm - Awards Ceremony
The University of New Mexico ski team is gearing up to defend their national title at the 2005 NCAA Skiing Championships on March 9-12, 2005, hosted by the University of Vermont. The Stowe Mountain Resort will host the giant slalom on Wednesday and the Slalom on Friday, and the Trapp Family Lodge will be the site of the Nordic events on Thursday and Saturday.
New Mexico enters the event as the defending national champions, capturing the school's first NCAA title in any sport last year in Reno, Nevada. New Mexico finished the regular season in third place in the Rocky Mountain Intercollegiate Ski Association standings. UNM qualified 11 of a possible 12 skiers for the NCAA Championships, including returning All-Americans Martina Stursova, Trine Lundamo, Kathrin Spendier, Lars Loeseth, Peter Roering, Dirk Grimm and Geir-Endre Rogn.
Despite not qualifying a full team, head coach George Brooks is confident in this year's squad. "Our Nordic team is outstanding and one of the best groups in the country," stated Brooks. "We also have a strong group of Alpine skiers, we just needed one more on the women's side to step up and that did not happen. However, in 1992 we skied without a full team and placed second at the NCAA's which was our best finish ever until last year."
George Brooks is in his 35th season as the head coach of the Lobo ski team, which is coming off the most successful season of any program in UNM history. The Lobos won the 2004 NCAA Skiing Championship, the first national title in any sport at the University of New Mexico. The Lobos were picked third in Ski Racing Magazine's 2005 preseason top-10.
What New Mexico lacks in quantity this season, they make up for in quality. Ten of the 11 skiers have qualified for the NCAA's at least once in their careers, nine have competed at the NCAA Championships and seven are All-Americans. The Lobos have come on strong late in the year, including a season-high second place finish at the NCAA West Regional last week in Bozeman, Mont.
The Lobo Alpine team finished the regular season ranked fourth in the RMISA
Men's Alpine team was second only to Denver in the RMISA, while the women were ranked sixth.
The Lobos had the top men's giant slalom squad in the RMISA.
Competing at this year's NCAA Championships are juniors Kathrin Spendier and Gladys Weidt and sophomores Lars Loeseth, Alex Mach and Peter Roering.
Three members of the Alpine squad are returning All-Americans, including Spendier, Loeseth and Roering. All five members have qualified for the NCAA's at least once before.
Loeseth scored four wins this season, two each in the slalom and giant slalom. He won the slalom at the New Mexico Invite and the NCAA West Regional and the giant slalom at Denver and New Mexico. Loeseth is ranked fifth in the slalom and first in the giant slalom RMISA standings.
Roering won the giant slalom at the NCAA West Regional and is ranked fifth in the RMISA standings.
Mach scored four top-10's in the giant slalom and is ranked seventh in the event in the RMISA.
Spendier ranks 22nd in the slalom and 16th in the giant slalom in the RMISA standings.
Weidt ranks 16th in both the slalom and giant slalom events.
The Nordic squad finished the regular season ranked 2nd in the RMISA.
UNM's women Nordic squad was the top team in the RMISA while the men ranked third.
The Lobo women were also tops in the RMISA freestyle and classic.
New Mexico's men were second in the classic and third in the freestyle RMISA standings.
Competing for the Nordic squad are seniors Martina Stursova and Pirkko Pulkkanen, junior Trine Lundamo and Geir-Endre Rogn, sophomore Dirk Grimm and freshman Inge Kristofferson. Kristofferson is the only one without and NCAA Championship experience.
Stursova is a two-time All-American who missed the first two meets of the year training with the Czech National Team. She finished no worse than second in six races this season, including four wins. She won all three classic races she entered and is the top-ranked classic skier in the RMISA. She is ranked second in the freestyle.
Pulkkanen is returning to the NCAA's for the first time since 2002. She has four top-10's this season and is ranked 17th in the classic and 14th in the freestyle in the RMISA.
Lundamo finished in the top-10 in all 10 of her races this season. She is ranked third in the RMISA in both the classic and freestyle events.
Rogn was slowed at the start of the season due to illness, but is healthy now. He has three top-10's in his last four races, including a career-high third place finish in the freestyle at the NCAA West Regional. He is ranked ninth in both the classic and freestyle RMISA Standings.
Grimm finished the season strong with five top-10's in his last six events. He recorded his first career win in the freestyle at the NCAA West Regional. Grimm is ranked 11th in the classic and fourth in the freestyle in the RMISA.
Kristofferson had four top-10's this season and is ranked 13th in the classic and sixth in the freestyle RMISA standings.


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Six years after brokering the first American investment in Mozambi-que I got a call at my then home in Windhoek, Namibia from a friend I had made while working on Mozambi-que in Washington. Bill Friedman called me from Mozambi-que where he had built a new fish processing factory on an island about 500 meters off the coast of the country in the Gulf of Beira.
I had seen Bill earlier in Johannesburg where we discussed his new venture. The idea was to process shrimp and crab bought from local fishermen to ship to Johannesburg. He needed my help. Bill had built the factory on Chilowan Island using a small plane he had purchased in South Africa to carry all the materials to the island and to be used in shipping the product to Johannesburg. The factory would clean and pack the shrimp, prawns in that part of the world, and send them quick frozen to the market. He counted on having the freshest product in the very competitive Johannesburg market. However, there was a shortage of shrimp in the bay so Bill added picked crab meat taken from giant crabs to his offer. The key to his success would be to ship the products directly from Chilowan to Johannesburg without having to pass customs in the capital Maputo, you see, even exports had to pay a tax.
Bill called me over to draw up and get through the Mozambican authorities a charter for his company as a foreign investment and, more importantly, permission to ship directly from the island to Johannesburg. To do this Bill offered to set up a customs station on the island near the factory to be staffed by a customs official at Bill's expense.
I arrived in Maputo to disturbing news, the rebels, Mozambi-que was in a civil war, had occupied the factory. None of his employees was harmed but the rebels held the place. Bill took me to see the commander for that region in Maputo and demand he drive the rebels out of the factory. He made a passionate appeal and the general said he would do what he could. I am sure he called the rebels after our visit and told them to either leave or face a fire right and no armed force in Africa ever wants to actually duke it out with another armed force. They prefer to kill the poor sots caught in between the armies. The next day the rebels had left carrying away most of Bill's supplies.
I had to dissuade Bill from forming a militia from his workers and having his security chief, an ex-French Foreign Legion professional who you knew meant business, train them. I told him that if the rebels returned to do the same thing, i.e. have the workers scatter into the bush and the French security chief take Bill's cabin cruiser, named "Dollar Bill," to sea while the rebels had their fun. I said the last thing we needed was bloodshed.
I then turned to the task of preparing the proposal for a charter as a foreign investment. In the process I also reorganized the business to cut costs and improve efficiency.
While preparing the documents I visited the various government offices that would be reviewing the proposal in order to soften them up and alert them to what we were going to do. My first stop was at the Office for Foreign Investment where I was ushered into a room and told that, "Mr Sambo would be seeing me." Soon after a diminutive coal black man came in and it suddenly hit me, I was face to face with "Little Black Sambo." I smothered a smile and got down to business. He was soon joined by his foreign advisor who I instantly recognized as "Rosie the Red." Fresh out of the London School of Economics she started with a litany of evils visited on Africa by "Western Imperialist" Corporations. I did not take the bait but simply took notes to use in preparing the proposal.
My most important visit was to the Directorate of Fisheries where I first met with an affable Irishman who was that office's foreign advisor. While we were talking in came the Director of Fisheries, a rather chubby man who obviously had issues. He started in instantly accusing Bill's enterprise of being "illegal." I showed him the commercial license Bill had taken out and explained that we wanted to upgrade the status of the business to a chartered foreign investment for several reasons.
The director brushed past my comments and continued to accuse Bill of "illegally" fishing without a permit. I looked the director in the eye and said Bill was not fishing, in fact the project had been designed to buy fish, really shrimp and crabs, from small fishermen, process the products and export them to Johannesburg. I asked the director did he not want to help small fishermen in his country? Further, did he only want foreign companies to come in as were the Soviets with large factory ships that were draining Mozambi-que's fisheries with truly unsustainable practices? He quickly replied that of course he wanted to help the small fishermen and wanted to end the ruthless exploitation of Mozambi-que's fisheries. I smiled and then showed him a draft article I had prepared and said, "I'm glad to hear that since if you were ready to sacrifice your small fishermen to foreign factory ships, this article would appear in most of Johannesburg's newspapers the following day." The article slammed Mozambi-que for preferring to work with foreign mega-fishing companies instead of their own fishermen. The director quietly said he thought Bill's project merited approval.
A word about the fishermen. When I say small I mean really small. These brave souls went out to sea in hand carved dugout canoes with small, tattered nets to catch shrimp. They caught the giant crabs with their bare hands and you could tell how long the fisherman had been at this trade by the number of fingers that had been clipped off by the giant crab claws.
We got approval of Bill's enterprise as a foreign investment and permission to fly directly from Chilowan to Johannesburg using the small customs post Bill put up at the factory. No one believed we could get this but I guess the fisheries director wanted to make sure he was not skewered in the press.
So there you have it, I brokered the first American investment in Mozambi-que and got a charter for the second, as well as reorganized it. In the process I had lots of opportunity to instruct and advise the Mozambican authorities on how to treat foreign investors. The lessons took hold and Mozambiq-que is now the most desired location for foreign investors in Southern Africa.
Foreign investment plays a key role in Africa's economic growth. The main difference now is that most comes from the East instead of the West. China and India are investing heavily in Africa to the advantage of both sides.