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Our Junior Members have activities all their own. They meet monthly, generally 30 minutes prior to the Educational Meeting (if there is one) or 30 minutes before the General Meeting. See the EVENTS page for meeting dates and locations.
Junior members are actively involved in the Sebastion Murabito Golf Tournament, where they plan, prep, and serve all the food served at this event. They also participate in supporting the annual Mardi Gras and Trivia Night fundraisers.
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John Morales
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The first Junior meeting of 2016 was held on Monday, February 29th, at the Gatesworth at One McKnight Place. We discussed upcoming volunteer and learning opportunities, and were joined by two guest speakers. Executive Chef Anthony Lyons informed everyone about the Mentorship Program and how it can be a very valuable tool for anyone who is serious about succeeding in the culinary field. We also had our very own Junior, Dorsey Lawrence, who talked about his journey as an apprentice and how it helped him master every aspect of the kitchen.
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While most teams consist of students all from within an individual culinary school, the Chefs de Cuisine Association of St. Louis sponsors one of the few teams that are chapter-wide rather than from an individual school.
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|2008 National Champs
|2006 National Champs
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Meredith Frank
Erin Hoffmann
Amanda Losh
Richard Mueller
Vicki Davenport
Joseph Mueller
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Charles Conners
Brian Horton
Reagan Irwin
Vicki Davenport
Joseph Mueller
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Richard Braznell
Joel Cormam
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Susie Judy
Vicki Davenport
Joe Mueller
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While the total scholarship amounts may vary by year, the school which wins the competition receives a generous scholarship from PFG. The second and third place schools and all remaining participating schools receive declining amounts in scholarship funds.
The competition, judged by 2 or more ACF-certified judges, consists of two phases:
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- A 90 minute hot-food cooking competition featuring a fish starter, salad, Escoffier's Poulet Saute a la Catalane entree, and a dessert.
The competition is held annually in the spring in conjunction with the Chefs de Cuisine Spring Salon and Certification.
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Dori Lattina, Shayne Taylor, Jeremy Kosydor, Kelsey Meyer
|Southwest Illinois College
Natasha Chairs, Amber Merriman, Jason Clark, Michae Taylor
|L'École Culinaire
Elizabeth Schuster, William Dileo, Benjamin Belding, Marcus Daily
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Chuck Hess, Marie Wittenauer, Kendra Couch, Meredith Frank, Paul Holthaus
|St. Louis Community College at Forest Park
T. Lisa Muhammed, Andrew Missey, Margaret Grant, Dayton Bill, Joe Morgan
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June 4, 2016 - June 5, 2016Madison
No charge for admission to state parks, forests, recreation areas and trails. Special activities at most locations. An excellent opportunity to reconnect with your nearest State Park or to sample a new one. Camping fees are not waived. Per person admission fees at Heritage Hill State Park are not waived.
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It is no coincidence that the Yitzhak Rabin Center for Israel Studies stands deserted, while on the soccer fields, the murderer is cheered and the victim is booed.
It is no coincidence that the Yitzhak Rabin Center for Israel Studies stands deserted, while on the soccer fields, the murderer is cheered and the victim is booed.
The real Rabin legacy should be sought on the soccer fields, in the classrooms, the outposts, the yeshivas, among the secular, the religious and the traditional; in fact, everywhere in the country where - according to surveys - 38 percent of the religious public view Yigal Amir as a hero. The Rabin legacy is in fact the anti-Rabin legacy. At the present time, ahead of talks with the Palestinians, the legacy will be updated to become an anti-Olmert legacy.
The rally in Tel Aviv's Rabin Square was a protest against Amir and his growing status. The preoccupation with the circumcision of his son has resulted in an unfortunate deviation from the main issue, because the problem is not Amir's biological son, but rather his spiritual sons, who walk among us by the thousands.
Some of their voices are heard, and will be heard even louder the closer we get to the Annapolis conference. Most will make do with prayers hoping the talks fail; a minority might resort to violence, bolstered by Amir's success. The preoccupation of the media with the assassin and not the assassin's legacy blinds the public to the real danger.
You cannot preach democracy to those who scorn it, and who consider the land of Israel more important. That is not to say that there is no point to debates between right and left; wisdom certainly does not reside with one side or the other. We should and must debate Annapolis like Oslo, Taba and Camp David, as long as common ground exists between those involved in the debate, including a desire to reach an end to the conflict with our neighbors.
The concern is that the religious right takes no interest in explanations by this side or that, and views eternal war with the Palestinians as better than giving up parts of the homeland. That is the source of the belief that no leader has the right to give in during negotiations, no matter how large of a majority supports him in the Knesset; and anyone who does give in is a traitor.
If the Annapolis talks evolve into an agreement, Ehud Olmert will need strong public backing to stand in the breach. It is a pity, therefore, to waste time on Amir's marital relations, and unnecessary to wallow in vengeance against the man and his family.
The mourning public should conduct a political struggle over Amir's path rather than singing dirges. From this perspective, the rally was an encouraging sign that cannot be considered a-political, after signs and speakers mentioned the Annapolis conference and the need to reach an agreement.
We can hope that those who believe the country should be divided between two peoples will not express themselves only on November 4. In the face of the weeping and wailing already heard from the rabbis, in the face of the prayers for the land to remain whole, the other camp must prove it is alive and kicking.
Rabin's assassination proved that with demagoguery and violence it is easy to undermine the elected government, even if its decisions are backed by a majority in the Knesset. The cries of the Beitar fans on the soccer field are the first warning signs of the horror that awaits. Benjamin Netanyahu, Reuven Rivlin, Dan Meridor, Roni Bar-On, Benyamin Begin, Uzi Landau - the erstwhile Beitarists cannot make do with short responses to the occasional reporter.
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APS, solar industry at odds on value of power from rooftop units
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Sometime this summer, what had been 17 acres of useless space atop a capped landfill on Holyoke Street will start generating 2.7 megawatts of power with solar panels.
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Despite Supreme Court Decision, Clean Energy Revolution Continues to Grow
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Let's make one thing perfectly clear—while the Supreme Court's decision to put a temporary hold on the Clean Power Plan was disappointing, it won't revive the fortunes of the coal industry, slow the transition to clean energy or cripple progress toward meeting the climate commitment the U.S. made in Paris last year.
Tuesday's decision means the Supreme Court is temporarily pausing the Clean Power Plan from going into effect, while the courts consider the merits of the case. As that legal process unfolds, likely into 2017, something else will continue unfolding as well—the steady progress of the Sierra Club and our allies to retire coal plants and replace them with clean energy. As we outlined in a report released late last year, our strategy gives us a pathway to meet our climate targets, even as the Clean Power Plan makes its way through the courts.
Thanks to coal retirements and the rise of clean energy, U.S. carbon emissions are at their lowest level in two decades and are continuing to fall. In 2015, the U.S. got just 34 percent of our electricity from coal, the lowest level in recorded history and experts don't see a reversal of that trend. Since 2010, we've won retirement of 231 coal plants that make up one-third of the U.S. coal fleet and we're just warming up, with the goal of securing retirement of half the U.S. coal fleet no later than 2017.
California Farmers Irrigate Crops With Chevron's Oil Wastewater
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When most people think of California, the first images that probably come to mind are the state's sun-soaked beaches, the Hollywood hills and the fog-drenched Golden Gate Bridge. But a new documentary web series, Spotlight California, wants to show viewers the California you don't see on postcards.
The five-part series, hosted by actress and comedian Kiran Deol, is investigating the impact of drought, water and air pollution, and gas price gouging in California.
The goal is to "raise awareness of these issues, give voice to the Californians being directly impacted and create an opportunity for people to join together and to take positive actions in communities across the state," explained NextGen Climate, which is funding the project.
"With this project, I want to shed some light on the powerful players who have tilted the economic tables in their favor, profiting at the expense of our families," Tom Steyer, president of NextGen Climate, said. "But I also want to highlight stories from people working hard to balance the scales; folks who maintain a positive attitude during tough times, while making a big difference."
Stop Spending Dollars on War; Use the Money to Defuse Our Toxic Environmental Time Bomb
Maybe if we declared "war" on poison water, we'd find a way to invest money in its "defeat."
David Rosner and Gerald Markowitz, writing at Tom Dispatch this week about what they called "The United States of Flint," make this point: "The price tag for replacing the lead pipes that contaminated its drinking water, thanks to the corrosive toxins found in the Flint River, is now estimated at up to $1.5 billion. No one knows where that money will come from or when it will arrive. In the meantime, the cost to the children of Flint has been and will be incalculable."
I sit with these words: "No one knows where the money will come from."
In the president's latest budget proposal, $7.5 billion is earmarked to "fight ISIS," an absurd non-threat to the nation's survival, but no matter. We're engaged in endless war with whoever the latest enemy happens to be and this war is endlessly funded, no questions asked. Mostly we're engaged in war preparation, of course (and the containment of the consequences of past wars — at least the ones that can't be ignored). As usual, the Pentagon and other war-engaged institutions will consume well over half the nation's discretionary spending, including a $59 billion "slush fund that permits the Pentagon to break through Congress' legislated budget caps," according to the National Priorities Project.
Coffee Farmers Sue Monsanto for Hiding Cancer-Causing Impact of Glyphosate
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Monsanto Co. is facing another lawsuit alleging that exposure to glyphosate, the primary ingredient in the company's flagship product Roundup, causes cancer.
Christine and Kenneth Sheppard, the former owners of Dragon's Lair Kona Coffee Farm in Honaunau, Hawaii, have accused the multinational agribusiness of falsely masking the carcinogenic risks of glyphosate and is responsible for causing the woman's cancer, non-Hodgkins lymphoma, the Hawaii Tribune-Herald reported.
The civil suit, Sheppard et al v. Monsanto Company, was filed Feb. 2 in U.S. District Court in Honolulu by the Miller Firm of Orange, Virgina and Honolulu attorney Brian K. Mackintosh on behalf of the husband-and-wife duo.
Gruesome Tumors on Sea Turtles Linked to Climate Change and Pollution
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A turtle hospital in Marathon, Florida is treating an increasing number of green sea turtles affected by fibropapillomatosis (FP), a global sea turtle disease caused by a herpes virus. The disease leads to the formation of tumors on the turtles' eyes, flippers and internal organs. The possible culprits? Pollution and warming waters.
In all, the Florida Keys-based Turtle Hospital rescue and rehab facility has admitted 93 sea turtles in 2014, 68 in 2013 and 56 in 2012, The Miami Herald reported.
"Marine turtles with FP have external tumors that may grow so large and hanging as to hamper swimming, vision, feeding and potential escape from predators," hospital manager Bette Zirkelbach told the publication. "Over 50 percent of the green sea turtle population in and around the Florida Keys is infected with FP."
Ted Cruz's Chief Dirty Trickster and the Degradation of Politics
Almost a year ago, Jeff Roe, the founder and principal of the Kansas City, Missouri-based Axiom Strategies, was knocking out attack ads aimed at trashing the gubernatorial candidacy of former Missouri State Auditor Tom Schweich. A sixty-second radio ad "labeled Schweich as a weak candidate for governor and pointed out that his political foes would 'squash him like the little bug that he is,'" The Kansas City Star reported. The radio ad also compared Schweich to Barney Fife, the hapless fictional deputy sheriff of Mayberry, on "The Andy Griffith Show."
According to a 2011 Kansas City Star piece by Steve Kraske, Team Roe was involved with "instances of Dumpster diving when Roe's minions would sift through an opposing candidate's household garbage to find something embarrassing. There were stories about Roe employees dashing out of the nighttime shadows to snap photos for use in unflattering campaign fliers. The thing was, Roe admitted it all. 'Politics ain't beanbag,' he would say. In 2006, there were TV ads that chastised one opponent in a wheelchair for working for Penthouse magazine. In reality, she sold ads for a company that owned the magazine."
Right-Wing Think Tanks Are Factories of Cruel Ideas
Right-wing think tanks are often idea factories whose finished product is the peddling of cruel and soulless public policy papers and positions.
Consider the upcoming implementation of a federal policy that - thanks to the "improving" economy - may cut off food stamps for as many as 1 million people, according to the Associated Press:
Advocates [for the provision of food stamps] say some adults trying to find work face a host of obstacles, including criminal records, disabilities or lack of a driver's license.
The work-for-food requirements were first enacted under the 1996 welfare reform law signed by President Bill Clinton and sponsored by then-Rep. John Kasich, who is now Ohio's governor and a Republican candidate for president.
The provision applies to able-bodied adults ages 18 through 49 who have no children or other dependents in their home. It requires them to work, volunteer or attend education or job-training courses at least 80 hours a month to receive food aid. If they don't, their benefits are cut off after three months.
Then consider the response of a right-wing think tank to this regulation, which is now kicking in, in many states, because of lower unemployment rates.
Mark Ruffalo: We're Heading Toward a National Water Crisis
For the past two years, the 100,000 residents of Flint, Michigan, drank, cooked and bathed with lead-contaminated water. Rates of lead poisoning - which can impair brain development and cause other serious health ailments - among the area's children have skyrocketed, from 5 percent before the water turned bad to 16 percent today.
Residents have long reported brown, bad-tasting and foul-smelling water and unexplained sicknesses. Almost a year ago, water tests showed dangerous levels of lead. Yet state, local and federal officials did nothing. Worse, they assured residents that the water was safe. In recently released emails, state officials demonstrated indifference and even contempt toward the complaints that came mostly from poor, black residents. Furthermore, according to some witnesses and media reports, state officials diluted water samples or took incomplete "slow drip water samples" to game results and claim that the water was safe.
Flint's man-made water disaster is an outrageous tragedy and a human health crisis. And unfortunately, it's not an isolated case. It's one instance in a pattern of government failures to take water testing seriously and respond to evidence of water pollution.
Incremental Change Will Not Resolve the Injustices of the Racially and Economically Oppressed
US plutocrats are afraid of too much change. But it's too late for gradual change. Only a popular uprising against big business greed can restore a semblance of justice to our perversely unequal society.
The election should be about oppression and the economy - but the economy of the 99% in the US, not of establishment wealth. So many in the US are in need of justice, including the following members of the US commons.
Black Americans and Other People of Color in the United States
"I cringed when people would ask me where I lived ... Just to say 'public housing' was basically saying that you're dirty, you're bad, you're dumb, you're lazy, you're a problem." - Shana Griffin, New Orleans activist
Emergency home repairs? Not for Black families. The average African American family had readily available liquid wealth of only $200 in 2011, less than $1 for every $100 owned by whites.
We tend to believe that education is the great equalizer. But a middle-aged Black person with a graduate degree has about the same odds of being a millionaire as a white person with only a high school diploma.
In NH Debate, Hillary Clinton Touted Henry Kissinger, War Criminal, as Character Reference
In most of the post-New-Hampshire-debate punditry, a consensus seems to have emerged that Bernie Sanders won the domestic economic debate by appealing to aspirations, while Hillary Clinton beat him on gravitas and stature in the foreign policy field.
That "conventional wisdom," however, is morally bankrupt and tone-deaf. Why? Consider the fact that the corporate media hardly took note of Clinton's use of Henry Kissinger as a character reference for her self-proclaimed acumen as secretary of state. "I was very flattered when Henry Kissinger said I ran the State Department better than anybody had run it in a long time," she proudly proclaimed Thursday night.
Last year, I interviewed historian and author Greg Grandin about his deeply disturbing book about Kissinger's responsibility for the deaths of millions of people through the implementation of his cynical and duplicitous realpolitik, Kissinger's Shadow: The Long Reach of America's Most Controversial Statesman. I asked Grandin about a brief passage in the book concerning Clinton:
Mark Karlin: Help me out with this one. On page 223, you recall how in a 2014 review by Hillary Clinton in the Washington Post of Kissinger's latest book, World Order, she states that she "relies" on Kissinger for advice. You write that [Hillary believes that] "Kissinger's vision is her vision: 'just and liberal.'" Uh, what's up with that?
Greg Grandin: Well, Kissinger is 92, and at this point in life he is as much pure affect as he is power broker. The gestures Clinton mentioned in her review -- I rely on his council; he checks in with me and gives me reports from his travels - are ceremonial, meant to bestow gravitas. Ironically, the worse things get in the world, the more Kissinger's stock rises. He's seen with nostalgia by our political class, as a serious person who had a serious vision. Again, the reality is otherwise.
The headline for the interview was, "Millions Died Because Kissinger Prolonged the Vietnam War for Years After Betraying Peace Treaty."


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Bungalows to abound in new Edmond, OK, neighborhood
EDMOND — Caleb McCaleb has come up with another one from the history books — housing architecture history.
The success of his Arbor Creek neighborhood, tucked on the east side of Interstate 35 a hop north of Second Street, is the inspiration for Town Square, a new addition he's barely started a mile or so to the northwest.
At Arbor Creek, McCaleb Homes revived the Arts & Crafts bungalow.
The homes, on the cozy side for McCaleb at 1,400 to 3,100 square feet, were a hit when they started coming out of the ground in late 2008. The country was reeling from the Great Recession and even in the Oklahoma City area, where the national housing collapse was just a slump, buyers were thinking smaller than usual.
At Town Square, McCaleb is hitting the architecture archives again: The addition, on the north side of Danforth Road between Coltrane and Sooner roads — just west of I-35 — will have three vintage styles:
More Arts & Crafts homes, also called American Craftsman; plus Mission-style bungalows; and what McCaleb calls "jewel box" Tudors — so-called partly because the front elevation makes the rest of the house seem, but only seem, tiny.
Arbor Creek is in its final phase, with just a few of 172 lots remaining among its rolling, wooded acres. Proximity to I-35 helped. The land, just 15 miles north of downtown Oklahoma City, had been locked from development as a family homestead as Edmond grew around it.
Town Square will start with 40 sites in the first phase, room for another 120, and McCaleb said he has the option on land for another 300 — all carefully carved from the woods.
As McCaleb puts it in a glossy, 60-page brochure: "Living in Oklahoma, we see so many sprawling tract communities platted on flat and treeless wheat fields. Our goal is to find rolling, wooded land that reflects the natural beauty of Edmond. We also look for spring-fed streams and lakes that attract an abundance of wildlife."
Town Square, old-growth trees left untouched, will have a central lake and winding streets with names including Merchant Lane, Farm Market Way and Station Street "for a vintage feel," McCaleb said.
Why another trip down architecture Memory Lane?
He said it's what people want.
"What inspired it is Arbor Creek, with its early-1900s Arts & Crafts bungalows. A lot of people fell in love with the historical look," McCaleb said.
McCaleb said he looked again to Edgemere and other historic Oklahoma City neighborhoods, as well as vintage neighborhoods adjacent to the University of Oklahoma campus in Norman, for guidance for Town Square. McCaleb Homes and builder Jeff Justice of Justice Homes will be the builders.
McCaleb plans to have the three styles of architecture spread across the new neighborhood — with three or four different floor plans representing each.
Another feature of Town Square homes: rear garages, separate from the houses, which will have porte cocheres.
"A lot of these carriage garages in historical areas were done prior to the automobile revolution," he explained.
His said his favorite of the three styles is the jewel box Tudor found in Edgemere, with covered front porches and side courtyards. Interior designer Terri McCaleb, his wife, said she prefers the Arts & Crafts style with its simple lines, low-pitched roof, hipped or with gables — and interiors with a mix of textures.
Variety — within well-established historical parameters — is the point, Caleb McCaleb said.
"People in Oklahoma City got tired of building these steep-pitched, country French (homes). We all overdid it. We overdid it ourselves. We probably went 10 years too long with that European country look," he said.
Town Square homes will range from 1,500 to 3,000 square feet with most from 2,200 to 2,500 square feet, he said.
With housing in hit-and-miss recovery nationally, and Oklahoma City's economy still the envy of most of the rest of the country, McCaleb said homebuyers aren't as spooked away from big houses as they were a few years ago.
In fact, he said, younger well-paid engineers and executives moving in to work for the likes of Devon Energy, Continental Resources and Boeing Corp, are buying houses as big as they can afford.
Not that anyone is throwing money to the wind.
"Everybody is still cautious. The Great Recession was tough on everybody. People are still putting a lot of features in their houses, but we're not seeing the megahouses. We're not building the 5,000-square-foot ones anymore," he said.
For McCaleb Homes at least, the future of housing looks like a bungalow.


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Tablets could blow the dust off these web offerings.
You just don't hear much in Internet retailing circles about catalogs that reside on e-commerce sites. To me they seem like afterthoughts, something a retailer posts because they have all the assets in digital form already and there might be a chunk of loyal customers who will browse them. Nothing to write home about.
I will say that online catalogs likely play a somewhat larger role with apparel merchants, many of whom present tremendous-looking web catalogs with plenty of pizzazz. But in general, I believe web catalogs are not a key component of an online retail strategy.
That is until the iPad came along. I was having a discussion today with two of my colleagues about web catalogs. And we concluded that there may indeed be new life for online catalogs because of tablet computers. Tablet owners use their devices to read books and magazines, and tablets are approximately the size and shape of those physical products. Catalogs fall into this same category. Just like a tablet user will flip through the pages of a magazine in the magazine's app or web site, he can flip through the pages of a catalog.
It seems like catalogs are a natural fit for tablet owners. Where someone sitting at their desk using their PC might not be attracted to a web catalog and instead prefer to shop the other parts of an e-commerce site, a tablet user kicking back in his recliner may be more inclined to browse a catalog. It's all about context, and routine human behavior.
If you are a retailer that already has a catalog on your site, I would strongly suggest you test it on the iPad and a couple of other tablets to make sure it works nicely on those devices. The pages should fill the screen and be touch-sensitive. If a retailer creates a great web catalog, it could even promote it on the home page using wording such as "Browse our tablet-friendly catalog."
Tablets could turn dusty web catalogs into tools that help generate more sales. Tablet traffic to e-commerce sites is rising quickly. Retailers should really consider just how helpful a tablet-optimized catalog could be—and act accordingly.
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After meeting your guide at the airport in Puerto Montt, we drive to Puerto Varas, a beautiful town bordering Lake Llanquihue - a quick 15 minutes away. On the drive, keep an eye out for the magnificent Osorno Volcano, a breathtaking view you can not miss. In the early twentieth century, Puerto Varas experienced significant German immigration and has a very unique architecture to show for it. After we arrive at the hotel, you will have a few free hours to check-in and have some lunch before the afternoon excursions. The guide will pick us up for a tour of the nearby Frutillar village for a visit to the local museum and an artesian brewery for a beer tasting (not available on weekends).
Today visit a National Park named after the millenary Alerce tree, native to the region and undoubtedly one of the most interesting species of tree in Chile. In this park some of the Alerce trees are more than 3,000 years old! Drive down Los Colonos route heading to the city of Puerto Montt, passing by the small town of Alerce and other small farming villages with a distinctly European look.
Arrive at the almost 10,000 acre park and start a beautiful hike on the different trails going through the Park. Keep an eye out for the interesting fauna that lives in the park including the Chilean deer (huemul), puma, pudú (the smallest deer in the world), condor, black carpenter bird and many other birds. Stop for lunch in one of the picnic facilities then continue hiking among the ancient trees, looking out over the lake. Return to Puerto Varas in time to explore more of the town, go for dinner, or enjoy a chilled pisco sour.
Today head off to one of the most beautiful and oldest parks of Chile, Perez Rosales National Park. Depart Puerto Varas for Ensenada and drive to the Osorno Volcano and ski center. From here we get an incredible view of Lake Llanquihue and the surrounding volcanoes. After taking in the view, we head back down the hill and start our trek along the El Solitario trail, a small track formed by lava which weaves its way through ancient native forest. After approx 3.5 miles (6km) of this undulating trail, with constant views of the volcanoes and the lake, reach Saltos de Petrohue, close to Lake Todos los Santos.
Lots of activities to choose from today! Kayaking on Todos los Santos, hiking through local forests or go fly fishing. Any excursion you choose will surely be fulfilling and will let you get in touch with this natural place. In the afternoon return to the Lodge and have free time to rest and relax, enjoying your last night in the Lakes District zone.
After breakfast you have the option of doing a short walk along the Lake shores, enjoying our final views of the beautiful scenery. Around midday you will return to Puerto Montt. Along the way see Perez Rosales National Park, along the shores of Lake Llanquihue, past Puerto Varas and to Puerto Montt airport. Adios Lake District!
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Guest Post: Africa - China And Japan's Next Battleground?
We have long held that Africa is a crucial region of the world in the near future because there is no more incremental debt capacity at any level: sovereign, household, financial or corporate - in any other region. As we noted previously:
without the ability to create debt out of thin air, be it on a secured or unsecured basis, the ability to "create" growth, at least in the current Keynesian paradigm, goes away with it. Yet there is one place where there is untapped credit creation potential, if not on an unsecured (i.e., future cash flow discounting), then certainly on a secured (hard asset collateral) basis. The place is Africa, and according to some estimates the continent, Africa can create between $5 and $10 trillion in secured debt, using its extensive untapped resources as first-lien collateral.
Africa is precisely where the smart money (and those who quietly run the above mentioned "power echelons"), namely China and Goldman Sachs, have refocused all their attention in the past year precisely because they both realize that Africa is the last and only bastion of untapped credit growth and capacity.
Africa in geographical perspective...
So it is perhaps unsurprising that China's current arch-enemy Japan - and its apparently bottomless well of printed money - are taking aim also...
Submitted by Shannon Tiezzi, via The Diplomat,
As tensions between China and Japan multiply, there is an increasing battle for influence in other states. For example, in his recent article in The Diplomat, Jin Kai noted China and Japan's global media war. There has also been an upswing in more traditional diplomatic wrangling, with Japan seeking to increase its influence in ASEAN as an attempt to reduce China's sway in the region. With both China and Japan seeking to assert their leadership over the Asia-Pacific, it makes sense that both countries would woo ASEAN. It's a bit more surprisingly to see China-Japan diplomatic competition supposedly pop up in Africa.
Recently, China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi and Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe both visited the African continent. Abe left on January 9 for a week-long tour of the Ivory Coast, Mozambique, and Ethiopia. Meanwhile, Wang was in Africa from January 7 to January 11, visiting Ethiopia, Djibouti, Ghana, and Senegal. Given the current chill in China-Japan relations (and the tendency for both countries to snipe at each other in the media), the two trips quickly morphed into a sign of 'competition' over Africa.
Both countries rejected the idea that they were competing. When Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying was asked to comment on the idea that Wang Yi's visit to Africa "is directed against Japan," she responded that anyone harboring this idea "is not so acquainted with the past and present of China-Africa relations." Indeed, as Hua pointed out, it's traditional for Chinese Foreign Ministers to visit Africa as their first overseas trip of the new year. Hua praised China "sincere and selfless help" for Africa, and warned that trying to stir up a rivalry in Africa is "a wrong decision which is doomed to fail." This comment was likely directed at Japan, but could just as easily apply to the United States and other countries seeking to increase their influence in Africa.
Japan also denied that Abe's visit to Africa had anything to do with China. Hiroshige Seko, a deputy chief cabinet secretary, was quoted in an Associated Press article as saying that competing against China is "not our intention at all." Seko added, "As far as the African nations are concerned, they are important regardless of China." African countries are important to Japan for the same reason they are to China — a wealth of natural resources as well as ample opportunity for foreign investment. The New York Times pointed out that increasing ties with Africa is just one aspect of Abe's diplomatic strategy, all of which is designed to support "Abenomics."
In a speech in Ethiopia, Abe reaffirmed Africa's importance. "A considerable number of Japanese believe that Africa is the hope for Japan," he said. His speech focused almost entirely on the potential for a positive relationship between Africans and Japanese companies — including how Japanese management strategies can benefit African people. "When Japanese companies that value each and every individual come to Africa, a win-win relationship in the truest sense can emerge," Abe said. By contrast, his vision of the Japanese government's role in Africa seemed like an afterthought. Abe did discuss his wish for more cooperation with the African Union, and offered to increase Japans' assistance and loans to the continent, but he spent far less time on this point than on extolling the virtues of Japanese businesses.
Japan's strategy, in other words, is economically focused. It's clear that Abe's pursuit of a relationship with Africa is closely connected with Japanese businesses. China, on the other hand, constantly emphasizes the "friendship" between its government and those of African nations. Though Chinese companies do big business in China, Beijing almost never alludes to this fact in its official remarks. When joint projects (such as roads or government buildings) are brought up, these projects are always a sign of China's friendship towards Africa.
Accordingly, in his speeches Wang Yi focused on the government-to-government relationships between China and African nations. In Senegal, Wang called for both countries "to firmly support each other's core interest[s] and major concerns." In Ghana, he spoke about the need "to promote practical cooperation through strengthening traditional friendship." China's relationships with African countries are focused not just on business opportunities (although of course that's an important aspect) but also on gaining African diplomatic support for China's policies.
Whereas Abe seems content to have Japanese businesses make profits, China is actively pursuing soft power on the continent. This is nothing new for China. A 2013 study by Gustavo Flores-Macías and Sarah Kreps of Cornell University found that, since the mid-1990s, China has been quite successful at parlaying its trade relationships in Africa and Latin America into tangible foreign policy support. Japan doesn't seem to be seeking this sort of influence (at least, not yet). Instead, Abe is more openly concerned with increasing economic interactions. While China and Japan may look like they're competing in Africa, the two countries are actually playing different games.
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Whoever gets the resources gets the African immigrants. Sounds fair to me.
No thing is new, Amerika is already got African moron for president.
Ooops, Boris is mistype, not intend racist remark, is really mean, "a frick'n moron for president".
Just more killings to take over the region. They'll find a way. The USSA will defend the 'savages', but arm the initiative.
lol...you funny man Boris.
meh, it's tired.
Since day 1 the media called him blk when he's clearly an Oreo
Stop perpetuating bullshit racist shit the media pushes
Boris is not be racist, is detest white half of Barry same as black half.
for a Russian you have a phenomenal command of the English vernacular !
I'm thinking of way to is bring Boris to USSA so is to do tour and give speech in lots glorious cities USSA.
Right now is thinking of a Boris Tour Kicksstarter.
Colonization is alive and well in Africa - the poor locals will be raided and stripped of their resources by the likes of China/Japan , before they realise what has hit them. On the other hand their African leaders/ politicians wiil be handsomely rewarded. Nothing ever changes in Africa.
The Japanese government is the taxpayer-funded global marketing arm of Japan, Inc. In that sense, it is no different than the communist Chinese propping up it's own state owned operations abroad.
One should note this statement,
"Abe reaffirmed Africa's importance. "A considerable number of Japanese believe that Africa is the hope for Japan,"
The same was said about SE Asia in the late 1930's. Resources.
The problem with articles like this is the default presumption that economics and money has any meaning. It doesn't. Only joules do.
So incremental debt capacity is just a silly thing to focus on. Rather, have a look at how many joules are required to get joules out of the ground, because frankly nothing else matters.
The other BIG problem with this article is that apparently the author has apparently just crawled out from under a rock and never actually spent any time doing business in Africa.
The FDI (economic cold war) between China and Japan has been going on for YEARS (almost since that other "Cold War" supposedly ended). In Africa, the Chinese have a lead but Japanese firms and State investment vehicles (like JICA) are also on the ground slugging it out (in way that USAID and ExIm aren't).
But yeah, who gives a shit about debt capacity? It's simply tool to facilitate INFLUENCE and ACCESS, with an eye to CONTROLLING the stock and flow of food and energy (and to a much lower extent- building new markets and buyers for their domestic exporters, who are already beneficiaries of their States' pursuits of ambition).
Just as well. Once Africa gets out from under the yolk of the evil Western European oppressors they'll no doubt flourish as never before.
Yes, exactly, see Rhodesia, Kenya, Congo, South Africa, etc to refresh one's memory.
Heavy sarcasm, for those new to the interwebz.
not to be racist but every country in history that was and is rules by a negro went bankrupt...
To be fair, the Empire of Mali was pretty rockin'.
"Mansa Musa's crowning achievement was his famous pilgrimage to Mecca, which started in 1324 and concluded with his return in 1326. Accounts of how many people and how much gold he spent vary. All of them agree it was a very large group (the mansa kept a personal guard of some 500 men),[43] and he gave out so many alms and bought so many things that the value of gold in Egypt and Arabia depreciated for twelve years.[44] When he passed through Cairo, historian al-Maqurizi noted "the members of his entourage proceeded to buy Turkish and Ethiopian slave girls, singing girls and garments, so that the rate of the gold dinar fell by six dirhams."
Musa spent so much that he ran out of money and had to take out a loan to be able to afford the journey home.[citation needed] An alternative explanation is that he borrowed gold from Cairo's money-lenders at high interest to attempt to correct the depreciation of gold in the area due to his spending.[45] Musa's hajj, and especially his gold, caught the attention of both the Islamic and Christian worlds. Consequently, the name of Mali and Timbuktu appeared on 14th century world maps."
"Workers on Robert Mugabe's pet construction project say they suffer regular beatings and miserable pay and conditions"
African Migrants Rioted In China Today After A Man Died In Police Custody
http://www.therightperspective.org/2012/06/26/african-immigrants-riot-in-china/#sthash.yBQt5YJF.dpbs19 African students of Lovely Professional University arrested for theft, rioting
It's like that old joke
"Earth first!" We'll strip mine the other planets later.
Japan is our "Shabbos Goy"*, our "Bitch", so to speak.
We use them for the menial task of running interference on our behalf, to test the strengths and vulnerabilities of the Chinese. Don't be fooled by the propaganda and psy ops.
IDK, Japan offered to help Iran with nuclear enrichment back in 2011, then that whole Fukushima thing happened (oops), and since then, Israel and Japan just aren't as tight as they once were.
" because there is no more incremental debt capacity at any level: sovereign, household, financial or corporate - in any other region. "
Brilliant observation Tylers. -- /nosarc.
"Japan's strategy, in other words, is economically focused. It's clear that Abe's pursuit of a relationship with Africa is closely connected with Japanese businesses."...
No. No. ...
Let's be blunt and rather truthful. Abe is the U.S.'s "ass puppet" and will do and say much like his political counterparts in Washington will when they are told to by there financial patrons.
I think this helps explain the tectonic shifts rather well.
Let me add as really crucial areas going forward. #1 Greenland, as their ice cover receeds, the resources under all that ice are exposed. Greenland already is signing exploration contracts right and left. #2 The arctic seas, Russia is trying to drill, one American company tried and failed to drill in the arctic seas, but we now have most of the entire sea ice free in summer, allowing exploration and drilling. The fight for rights up there is underway with all the big players involved. Plus the shipping lanes are now open, the first large bulk freighter made the Northwest passge this year, around 7 tankers have made the passage in recent years. #3 In the more distant future, Antarctica will be a major field of struggle. Major nations have a permanent presence and exploration for resources is underway on a scientific scale. I see the far north as a growing scene of struggle for access. Canada and the US are already in open dispute over Canadian claims to territorial waters. The USN sails through the Canadian claims every so often to show Canada that we don't accept their claim.
All I will say is, my sympathies for those who have to work on those boats, and who have to work/live in those Arctic communities that will be developed further, as a result of increased NW Passage shipping. I did my time! I'm done, and ain't going back.
You'll do whatever Obama tells you to do.
China and Japan are falling all over themselves to supply money to the dictators of Africa. That is not going to end well.
Sorry for the Japanese, but I do believe they have missed the boat. They will be a "protectorate" of China down the road. Debt loads, dependence upon the "Zombie States" for defense, etc., China's command and control of world resources and proximity will make it so.
"Dear Germany, We have your gold, but give us a few years to find it. We have Jon Corzine diligently searching for it. Sincerely, the Federal Reserve."
Japan invades Africa
African "comfort women"
Get HIV
China wins.
Spungo Cultivators of fine Japanese bonzai trees would never enter into African "wild bush" for comfort.
the "vast empty space" on Earth is Europe itself. That's what is in fact being fought over. to some extent this is also true of the USA as well...although because of the railroads they not only claimed but monetized the entirety of the American Continent. If there is any "earthling plan" I think it remains the same from the time of Napoleon. Name one major war fought since that time fought outside Europe? The only one is the US Civil War (and to some extent the Mexican/American war.) Iran/Iraq war was big as was Vietnam....but that's about it.
The Chinese are building ghost cities in Africa in exchange for resources (see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilamba ).
While it's easy to be critical, this is actually an improvement compared to how Europe and America historically "traded" with Africa.
Been in North Africa for the past 12 months.
You couldn't design a more boring pit with lazier people if you tried.
Why are you in North Africa? Do you have a death wish or just work at the State department and have a death wish as well?
My engineering career in the US has been stalled for a few years and I thought this would be a good way to shake things up and make some money. I also thought I was getting in on the ground floor of a solid long-term project.
Boy was I a maroon.
Suicide is painless, right?


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Of course, Persona succeeds not because it's intrinsically Japanese -- it succeeds because it's simply so unique.
And with Persona 4, you can add one more descriptor to this controversial demon collector/school sim/dungeon crawl/Japanese cultural primer: stylish murder mystery. A serial killing spree's gripped the quaint rural Japanese town of Inaba, and it's up to a scrappy band of high schoolers to nab the culprit. So if Persona 3's secret shadow-slaying society played out like Harry Potter in a metropolitan Japanese high school, this adventure's more small-town Scooby-Doo -- complete with a (shockingly not annoying!) fuzzy anthropomorphic teddy bear sidekick.
Like its predecessor, Persona 4 divides the day-by-day progression into two distinct segments: the social aspect, where you forge various Social Links with classmates and assorted town denizens, and the dungeon portion, where you explore randomly generated otherworldly labyrinths and engage in fast-paced turn-based combat (and for the uninitiated, all enemies are visible on the field map). What elevates the game above Persona 3 -- in my mind, at least -- are more tangible goals, a more cohesive narrative, and more enjoyable dungeon exploration. Rather than tackle one gargantuan, intimidating tower over the course of a 100 hour-plus adventure (as in Persona 3), you confront a series of challenging, bite-sized dungeons, which now even take a cue from Atlus' other stellar dungeon crawler, Etrian Odyssey -- gather materials from felled foes and sell 'em at the ironmonger in town and he crafts some potent weaponry. You've got a finite amount of time to complete each dungeon before the killer strikes again, though, which lends the game a frenetic pace and contributes to a foreboding sense of dread.
Though Persona 3's much-maligned A.I.-controlled party setup returns, you now have the option to assume direct control over your entire crew. Combat's quick and fun but not brainless; success is about exploiting your enemies' weaknesses, so you can't simply mash buttons to succeed. And other RPGs could take a cue from Persona: Status-effect spells even work on bosses (hell, that they also work on regular enemies is a novelty itself!), which actually adds to the strategy. Perhaps best of all, you can now view all Persona ability descriptions both on the battlefield and when fusing them in the enigmatic Velvet Room. That may sound like a tiny detail, but trust me -- it makes a big difference.
The interface is even streamlined outside the labyrinths: Since you'll become familiar with dinky backwater Inaba pretty quickly, the developers smartly realized that you don't need to see the entire shopping district or riverside path each day; you can handily transport in and out of each area with a press of a button. And the accompanying music's a bit more diverse this time around, with each labyrinth featuring a novel take on rock, techno, and other genres. You wouldn't think a jazzy J-pop ballad would work as a dungeon theme, but it does! While the music's awesome and definitely on par with the previous game, Persona 4 ultimately suffers from the same problem as its predecessor here: Any song gets old over the course of 100 hours. How about offering different in-town tunes for spring, summer, autumn, and winter instead of playing the same songs for the entirety of the game? And no, the chirping summer cicadas don't count.
What really sets Persona 4 apart, though, is its endearing, relatable cast. While I loved Persona 3, I never really warmed to most of my cohorts, who suffered from what I like to call Ian Ziering Syndrome -- thirtysomethings impersonating high school kids. From the moment my spunky tomboy classmate invited me to sit next to her in Persona 4, though, I felt an immediate connection -- and the sense that these could've easily been guys and gals I went to high school with. They're all normal kids with mundane problems: a big-city dude who's adjusting to life in the country, a girl whose friendship with a classmate might not be without ulterior motives, a girl who's trying to reconcile her public image with her private desires. Nothing earth-shattering -- just the personal, internal battles we all fight. Moreover, spending time with your Social Link party members offers tangible combat enhancements this time around -- a friend may take a lethal blow for you in battle, for example.
Of course, that connection to your comrades wouldn't work without smart writing and engaging dialogue, so I can't overlook the folks at vastly underrated localizer Atlus, who've authored yet another sublime translation. Once again, they manage to capture the cultural implications of the original Japanese while still sounding colloquially cool.
And despite minor problems here and there -- slight loading issues and a few dead periods while you're waiting for the plot to advance -- I've got very few qualms with how Persona 4 unfolds. In fact, my biggest concern isn't actually related to anything in the game. Nope, it's the inevitable message-board flame wars the Persona 3/Persona 4 rivalry's sure to inspire among the hardcore fandom. See, great as Persona 4 may be, some players will doubtlessly prefer its predecessor. Really, they're both incredible games, so it all boils down to what you're looking for. Would you like one single, seemingly never-ending labyrinth, or do you want a little more variety in your dungeon crawling? Do you prefer Persona 3's stylish big-city protagonists, or Persona 4's more down-to-earth crew?
But before that gaming holy war breaks out in earnest, here's something everyone can agree on: Persona offers some of this decade's finest RPG epics. If you're a role-playing freak who somehow still hasn't given this series a shot, I got news for ya, buddy: I'm comin' to take your nerd card.
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AmazingPosted: Dec 30, 2012 12:00AM PST by donstarlancer
I just recently purchased this. I only just now got my 4th character last night but I'm loving the heck out of this game. This is awesome. Other developers should take notice.
(Insert Positive Adjective Here)Posted: Sep 01, 2011 12:00AM PST by AkaiNeko4
This game is amzing. It is sincerely one of teh best I've ever played - maybe teh best, period. It's really pretty difficult to overstate it's flat out greatness without resorting to obvious hyperbole. And much of teh legitimate (and deserved) praise can easily be mistaken for hyperbole by anyone who hasn't witnessed it.
Long story short, just go play it. Now.
BEST GAME EVER :DPosted: Nov 02, 2010 12:00AM PST by Uzukii8106
This game is pure amazing sauce, I loved every minute of it and it took me close to 90 hours to beat on my first playthrough haha XD Everything was done well about this game: the voice acting is superb, the anime art is well done, the idea of the japanese life style/ school system being implemented into your charachter's choices, the story was phenomenal, everything about this game makes it deserve the A+ it got :D
What no comments for this gem!Posted: Oct 17, 2010 12:00AM PST by Halo4@e32011XBOX720
well count me as a fan.
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