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Pensabas en la vida llena de rostros como viajes.
You would think of life as full of faces like journeys.
Juan Gelman
In the spring of 2005 Bowdoin students participated in the fourth annual service trip to a shantytown called San Juan de Miraflores in Lima, Peru. Over the past three trips we have been able to transform what was once a pile of trash and rocks into a park complete with many types of plants, grass, benches, pathways, a large, open-air shaded area, a swing set, monkey bars, see-saws and a slide for the children. While this may not seem like much for us, Lima, which is located in one of the driest deserts in the world, has a great shortage of water. This is why green areas have come represent wealth and are a visual reinforcement of the tremendous class differences that exist within the city.
The work of Bowdoin students has thus helped to create a virtual 'oasis' in the middle of one of Lima's poor shantytowns, an area that is dominated by the gray and brown of its omnipresent sand, rocks and cinderblock housing, helping to change the way the people of that community feel about themselves. Repeated trips to San Juan have allowed us to see the way in which this park has brought the people of this neighborhood together, and they now take great pride in maintaining their own 'green space.' This year, after seeing the tremendous success of the park constructed by previous trips, we had the exciting opportunity of using this same model and spreading it to other areas the city. We started a new park in the nearby community of Dos Cruces, ten-year old community on the top of a large hill in San Juan de Miraflores. The communities located in the hills tend to be much poorer than nearby ones at lower elevations due to the difficulty of access and the quality of the land, even within the shantytowns. Dos Cruces, like many similar communities is comprised of recent immigrants from rural areas who have come to Lima either for economic reasons or to escape the violence that plagued the countryside in the eighties and early nineties, creating "squatter settlements" until they were officially recognized by the government.
The 2005 trip was remarkable in that the smaller size of the site allowed us to finish an entire park in one week. The participation of the people of Dos Cruces was extraordinary and a true testament to the value of what we were building together. We contracted the community's leader, who is also a mason to supervise our construction and also received volunteer support from a Limeñan woman who was finishing her doctorate in architecture as well as the humanitarian organization Solidaridad en Marcha. The experience of establishing a bond with the community was also extremely rewarding and enjoyable, as we ate in the local soup kitchen where the mothers of the community cooked us meals, worked side by side with many of the residents who were also volunteering their time and effort, and also as we visited the homes and talked with the people who live there. Needless to say, the children were also a major inspiration and the opportunity to play with them and provide them with a playground was enormously gratifying. Thank you for your interest and we invite you to participate in this exciting and meaningful new chapter of Bowdoin's relationship with the people of San Juan de Miraflores!
- Text by Colin Doyle, trip leader
|Pictures, Jan 2005
Site before park construction
|Pictures, Mar 2005
Finished Park
I am a second-time Peru trip participant,
and before returning, was still skeptical about the possibilities for a group
of American students to accomplish a goal and make connections in such a short
period of time. I was especially concerned about the perception of our group
and the assumption that we could affect change. Yet I think I underestimated
the power of the human heart, and my apprehension slowly dissipated. Although
initially hesitant and guarded, the community at Dos Cruces quickly warmed up
to our presence and purpose. We worked side by side, with no sense of separation.
They opened their arms, and taught us of acceptance and brotherhood. We, for
our part, instilled in them a sense of hope. You could see the gratitude in
their eyes, and feel it in their embrace. While Spring Break is only two weeks
long, I have begun to believe in the power of genuine care and compassion in
creating small change. Small change is a beginning.
-Bret McEvoy
I will remember most the children
carrying the sand up the hill. Already, that memory has become the symbol of
the trip in my mind. For me, their willingness to help us in this work, to build
a park in their neighborhood, struck me very deeply. Really, they could have
been playing, or maybe riding on our backs as a joke, but instead, they carried
small bags of sand to build their park. For me, it represented the connection
and synthony we created with the people in la comunidad de los Dos Cruces.
-Adam Ureneck
One moment from this trip which I will probably remember from this trip would
be the looking out at the city of Lima from the worksite/ park on the second
to last day. The reason that I will remember this moment is because it was especially
surreal in that we had finished most of the playground, kids were playing and
laughing, and there was a picturesque sunset in the background. It was a moment
where I was not only proud of what we had done, but was also glad that is was
adding, though something small, to the lives of the people in the community.
-Adam Ureneck
The most important realization that I have made on this trip would have to be
that I should never take for granted my privilege because it truly is a blessing.
I have also realized that as a privileged individual, I am obligated to give
to the less privileged whenever possible. Participating in a trip like this
seems to reinforce this idea and allows me to put my own life into a perspective
that is more universal and less self-centered.
-Adam Ureneck
One idea that I would bring back to Bowdoin in merely the fact that everyone
should be aware of the privilege that they have to be living in this country,
as well as having the opportunity to attend a college like Bowdoin. Though people
from Bowdoin come from numerous socioeconomic backgrounds, we are all united
in that we are in an environment that allows us to share ideas and experiences,
as well as gain knowledge that can lead us somewhere in the future. It is especially
easy here at Bowdoin to look only as the small picture, and become consumed
by the stresses of school work, however, remembering certain aspects of the
bigger picture will allow us to be more appreciative of our Bowdoin experience.
Basically, I would like to emphasize the idea that our education, and the country
that we live may not be perfect, but should not be taken for granted, as there
are people all over the world who will never have such an opportunity.
-Shrinidi Mani
I don't believe that my perception of poverty has really changed as a
result of this trip, however, visiting Lima instead reminded me of the fact
that being wealthy and being happy do not go hand in hand. It is easy to observe
poverty on a surface level, and assume that the people are unhappy. However,
the enthusiasm and genuine pleasure with which the community of Dos Cruces welcomed
us was really a surprise. I am always in awe of the willingness of people who
have so little to give with such generosity. This idea that giving is more pleasurable
than receiving was most definitely reinforced through our interactions with
the people of Dos Cruces.
-Shrinidi Mani
The moment that I think I'll
remember was at the end of the long week of working our asses off to make the
park happen, when Victor (the head hauncho) invited us to the tenth anniversary
celebration of the community. It was the perfect culmination to all of our hard
work—it was the people expressing that they were proud of their neighborhood,
and that they believed that we shared that sentiment with them, and had perhaps
fortified that feeling for everyone through the park. It just helped me move
past a lot of the issues I have with community service projects of this nature—it
didn't feel like we were being condescending, we were just caring about
other people.
-Max Tyler
I think that my most important realizations
resulting from the trip stemmed from the people in Dos Cruces. Here at Bowdoin,
and even just in the United States in general, it is so difficult to comprehend
or even imagine what serious poverty looks like. As a result, I think I had
a tendency to dissociate myself from it. That's why going to the shantytowns
in Lima was so incredible—not only did I concretely associate myself with
poverty and make it less alien in my own mind, but I got to hang out with people
living in those conditions. For them it wasn't anything extraordinary
or inconceivable, it was just life. I loved how proud they were of where they
lived, and how happy they were, and how much pleasure everyone got from working
together on something like the park.
-Max Tyler
I think that it can be easy to segregate ideas of places in our minds. I had
associations with poverty in my mind before I went to Lima, and many of those
are very different now. Being back hear at Bowdoin though, I think that it's
important to take it a step further, and to not let what we experienced in Lima
be connected solely to Lima. I think that working in poor neighborhoods in Lima
is an opportunity to establish a better and more realistic conception of the
world, in terms not only of the conditions that people live under but also in
terms of what people need (or don't need) in order to be happy.
-Max Tyler
On the third day of our work two boys who lived near the previous park we had
built hiked all the way up to our new work site to help us on our new project.
When one of the residents of the community asked them why they were there they
responded, "these people build a park for us last year so now we want
to help them build a park here." This made a huge impression on me because
it demonstrated the appreciation of the people we were trying to help in past
years, but perhaps more importantly it showed me how one act of charity or neighborly
love can act as a seed from which many more can bloom.
-Colin Doyle
I think I will long remember our last
visit to the Dos Cruces community after the completion of the park where we
were able to spend a couple of hours playing and talking with the kids and saying
goodbye to everyone in the community. The end of our work coincided with a celebration
of Dos Cruces' 10th anniversary, and the event turned into a free-for-all
of running, laughing, dancing, and smiling – a perfect, energetic finish
to what had been a demanding and joyful week. It felt as though we had made
a real connection to the people we had worked with and gotten to know in the
community. During the celebration it struck me that our time there was about
more than simply constructing a park and public space for Dos Cruces; a community
had been formed between our group and the people in the neighborhood, and in
some way, these kinds of personal exchanges and interactions will last longer
in helping to shape cross-cultural understanding, social change, and a larger
global community.
- Vivian Jaynes
After working and spending time in
a place that is so different from where I come from, I certainly have been thinking
a lot about issues of power and privilege and my own position in the world.
It is easy to see the contrast between the relatively comfortable life that
I lead and the more challenging lives of the people of Dos Cruces: I've
never had to worry about having enough food, or about having sturdy, decent
shoes, or about getting an education. It is definitely more difficult to understand
why these kinds of disparities exist and persist. What are the larger forces
that contribute to these unequal living conditions and life opportunities? While
I'm sure I will spend my whole life trying to figure out these kinds of
issues, this service trip has definitely reminded me of the need to examine
the power and privilege that I hold on many different levels (as someone from
the U.S., as a white person, as a member of the middle-class, as an educated
person), how this privilege relates to the position of others both in this country
and throughout the world, and how I can perhaps use what power I have to address
injustice and effect change.
- Vivian Jaynes
I was amazed by how open and welcoming
the people of Dos Cruces were toward us. Although we came in service to the
community, the people there had every right to regard us as a bunch of privileged,
clueless kids from the U.S. who know nothing about the way they live or the
everyday struggles they face. Instead many of the people opened their homes
to us, talked with us, fed us, worked with us on the park, and generally made
us feel welcome in their community. It was humbling and refreshing to experience
this kind of generosity and acceptance
-Vivian Jaynes
I will never forget the party we attended in the community on the Saturday after
we finished the park. All the children were so thrilled to have us there, and
their energy for dancing and playing that evening seemed ceaseless. They clung
to us and hugged us as if they'd known us for years. Everyone was smiling,
including the adults. It was hard to leave the celebration knowing that I might
never see a lot of those people again. I didn't realize until that night
how attached I'd become to the children and the town itself. Despite the
dirt, smells, and heat, it was somehow incredibly beautiful.
-Martina Welke
I was impressed with the resilient spirits of the people living in the shanty
town we worked in. They were always eager to help us in anyway they could and
even more eager to sit down to talk and laugh with us. The presence of joy in
a place that appears so destitute is very powerful and made me realize how unnecessary
material privilege is for happiness. There was never hint of resentfulness from
the people of the community towards us; perhaps curiosity and awe for the lives
they imagined we live in the mythical United States, but never jealousy or coldness.
I was greatly saddened that such wonderful people had so little, but amazed
with how they persevered so admirably.
-Martina Welke
What moment will you remember most in 10 years and why?
All the kids playing on the park by the time it was finished because when we
first got there, that area was the furthest thing from being a playground.
- Anonymous
There have been far too many realizations for me to even realize at this point. One of the
most basic is how much water we have available for us to drink and bathe with.
I have been struck by how many communities there are outside of Bowdoin and
all over the world that a group of students could interact and connect with,
and in so doing make a positive impact on both the students and the community.
I am not quite sure yet how I would begin to find one of these communities,
but I know change can only come about when one works for it bit by bit.
The happiness that existed in the shantytown we worked in and the sense of community
that existed there. The happiness and compassion within the children was astounding
as was the extent to which they welcomed us into their lives. The strength of
their community was much more than I have experienced anywhere in the US.
- Anonymous
Poverty cannot direct one's way of understanding another culture. In order
for me to become more immersed in the lives of those in the town, I could not
let my reaction to their poverty get in the way.
- Anonymous
Though fewer than two weeks long, this trip was surprisingly influential as, within days of our arrival in Peru, we began forming strong connections with the country and some of the local people. Because I had not previously done service work in such an impoverished setting in such an in-depth manner, one of my lasting impressions will be that the conditions in which the people in Dos Cruces live are not temporary. I think that there is a tendency toward a mentality of "out of sight out of mind," which I have certainly applied to some things in my life. I know, however, that I will not be able to ever forget the people and places with which we connected in Peru. One thing, thus, that I will bring back to Bowdoin is simply this heightened awareness. Thinking of the people of Dos Cruces, I cannot imagine ever being able to deny the existence of poverty or to sugar coat its manifestations. - Anonymous
The most shocking element of life at Dos Cruces was probably
the level of hygiene and sanitation in which the people live. I was
surprised to find myself surrounded by trash, though I could have
logically expected that to be the case. And, while I like to think that
I adapted just fine to the environment, I still kept my liquid hand
sanitizer within reach and got to go home at the end of the day
and take a warm shower in a lit tiled bathroom. Ultimately, I think
that, beyond the physical conditions there, I am most shocked by my engrained reluctance to embrace them--nonetheless accept them truly. I think that this reluctance (and inherent repulsion) speaks to the importance of remembering the pervasive, permanent nature of such shantytowns and, thus, the significance of working to improve existing physical conditions as we have done. Our work may seem simple and merely an exertion of physical ability, when analyzed at face value, but neighbors' obvious reactions to our presence and our work and seeing the colorful, planted park in its dusty urban shantytown setting made the greater meaning of our project palpable.
La semilla
La experiencia de dirigir la construcción de un parque en Dos Cruces, Lima este marzo pasado fue una de las más impresionantes y hermosas de mi vida. Trasladar la idea del otro parque que construimos a distintas partes de Lima había sido un sueño mío desde el marzo del año anterior y cuando al fin me di cuenta de que este sueño se realizó estuve muy emocionado y sobrecogido por la gracia que yo había observado y en que había participado. Más que todo me sentía afortunado de haber sido un instrumento que facilitó la reunión de tantas almas estadounidenses y peruanas para trabajar por una meta bella y compartir el amor verdadero. La manera rápida en que los habitantes de Dos Cruces nos aceptaron fue un testimonio para mí de la falsedad de las barreras socioeconómicas que normalmente determinan nuestras relaciones cotidianas y el hambre que todos tenemos de compartir nuestro amor. Además del apoyo para la comunidad que ofrecimos, la oportunidad de ver el cambio que sucedió en varios miembros de nuestro grupo por la comprensión de estas verdades y saber con una sola mirada que entendimos esa belleza justificó para mí este viaje. Creo que todo el grupo entendió que eramos parte de algo más grande que la simple construcción de un parque, y por eso todos estábamos enfocados y dedicados al proyecto, trabajando hasta la noche varias veces y regresando al parque para terminar el proyecto el sábado en vez de ir a la playa sin quejarse ni una sola vez.
Otro aspecto de este viaje que me impresionó un montón fue la participación de la gente de Dos Cruces, los niños así como los adultos. Aunque contratamos al dirigente del barrio para trabajar como maestro del proyecto, aparecieron varias personas de la comunidad que ofrecieron gratuitamente su tiempo y sudor para contribuir a la construcción. Aunque unos se quedaron más tiempo que otros cada persona que nos ayudó me impresionó bastante y me hizo recordar que a esta gente le importaba el trabajo que estábamos haciendo. Me alegraba mucho ese apoyo también porque afirmó la propiedad de estas personas del proyecto, y nos hizo a todos darnos cuenta de que ese parque pertenecía a ellos. Aunque hablaban muy humildemente de su comunidad, ese apoyo también demostró el orgullo que tenían a pesar de su situación económica. La manera en que los habitantes de Dos Cruces ayudaron para terminar el parque, los señores mezclando cemento o los niños llevando bolsas de arena desde la calle arriba hasta el parque, fue muy impresionante, pero la ayuda que tal vez me tocó más fue la de dos jóvenes que vinieron del barrio donde se ubica el parque que habíamos construido en los tres años anteriores. Job y Miguel subieron el cerro el segundo o tercer día para ayudarnos y regresaron cada día desde entonces. No pedimos a estos dos individuos que nos ayudaran sino que llegaron sin avisarnos y se metieron en el trabajo. El primer o segundo día que estaban, oí por casualidad un residente de Dos Cruces preguntando a estos jóvenes por qué trabajaban y contestaron: "este grupo construyó un parque para nosotros pues ahora queremos ayudar a construir un parque para ustedes". Esta respuesta fue un testimonio para mí de la manera en que buenas obras y amor se multiplican. Me dio mucha esperanza porque eso significa que no necesitamos preocuparnos por cambiar el mundo entero de una sola vez sino que solo necesitamos sembrar semillas y el mundo se cambiará por sí mismo. Siempre se escucha esta idea, pero es muy difícil creer si uno no ve una realización de ella.
No creo que fuera coincidencia que el día que terminamos el parque fue el décimo aniversario de la comunidad de Dos Cruces. Fue providencia que el parque estaba listo para esta celebración y muy significante y simbólico de la unidad y orgullo que tenía este grupo de gente. Para nosotros también fue muy simbólico de la conexión que logramos con los habitantes de Dos Cruces. Aunque obviamente no nos vieron como miembros de su comunidad, sí nos vieron como hermanos que compartían una conexión especial. Como dijo el Señor Víctor, el dirigente, siempre va a llevar Norteamérica dentro de su corazón igual que nosotros siempre vamos a guardar un espacio especial para la gente de Dos Cruces dentro de cada uno de nosotros.
- Colin Doyle


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Shortly later, a wave of Spanish Lords arrive to destroy the store. There is a damage meter on the top. and if any gang members throw Molotov Cocktails to firebomb it, it goes up. If it fills up, the mission is a failure. Instead, try to kil the gang members before they throw the Molotov Cocktails. If you kill a wave of Spanish Lords, another will come in a different direction. Several waves will come, but when they are all killed the mission is passed.


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This is the second part of my listener conversations. This time my guest is Tim Flood of El Paso, TX. Tim is a long time listener of Two Beers With Steve and fellow Chris Martenson Forum contributor.
In this episode we focus in on how a regular Joe Six Pack has taken preparations in his own life to preparre for an uncertain future. We discuss gardening, investing, food storage, water filtering and home brewing.
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Tamera Mowry-Housley decided to marry to love of her life, Adam Housley, a couple of years back and the couple has a young son, Aden John Tanner. And while Tamera got the support of her fans, friends and family, many people have a hard time accepting this marriage because Adam is white. According to a new People report published on Jan. 21, Tamera Mowry-Housley is now revealing that she is still very much bothered by the racist comments that people make about her marriage.
"People choose to look past love and spew hate," Tamera has previous revealed. "I get called 'white man's whore.'" She has been open about this issue on Twitter, on her reality show, and in various interviews. "What I've learned, honestly, is people who are saying this, it's their issue, it's their hate," she tells PEOPLE. "As long as you don't pass that along and be a part of that hate, you can be a change in the world. And that's the reason why, honestly, I chose to speak of it."
And it sounds like she is getting props for tackling such a big problem on her own. "My father is very proud of me, my mother is very proud of me, and also interracial couples are very proud of me," she says. "It was very important to voice it, but at the same time move on from it and focus on positivity from now on."
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In a new book –"A Scent of Champagne" – author Richard Juhlin takes the reader on an incredible journey through 8,500 French champagnes.
This is an outstanding treasure with superior writing and gorgeous photos. For those who have not been to France and do not understand the delicate process of crafting champagne, this book is an eye opener.
"I tasted champagne a few times as a kid and loved it from the start," the author said. "But the magic day that turned my life around was at the age of 24. I was 51 when I tasted my 8,500th glass."
Juhlin warns against looking for bargain basement bargains. "Avoid the cheapest champagnes," he said. "They are crude with earthly flavors and no not provide value for the money."
The highest number of glasses he sampled in a day was 150 and he admits and it worked fine, taste wise. However, he said it is awfully difficult to concentrate and to find the proper words to describe the taste.
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The author agrees with most star chefs when he says champagne is the best food wine in the world as long as you avoid sweet and hot ingredients.
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College Hockey:Wisconsin Outlasts Cornell for Final Milwaukee Slot
Jack Skille Has Game Winner in 1-0 Triple Overtime Win
GREEN BAY, Wis. — After 111 minutes on the clock, four hours and 40 minutes of actual time and 100 shots on goal, this game ended in what seemed like a split second.
When Cornell goaltender David McKee played the puck behind the net, swiping it out around the side board, Wisconsin defenseman Josh Engel could have fallen back to play defense. Instead, he made a quick decision to jump up and play the puck, a decision that paid off with a trip to the Frozen Four.
He heard teammate Jack Skille calling his name as he got to the puck, and quickly Engel backhanded a pass toward the freshman who was streaking through the center of the UW offensive zone.
"I just heard him and looked last second and saw him," Engel said. "I wasn't really thinking, I just backhanded it to him."
The pass was dead on, and Skille one-timed a blazer over McKee's left shoulder to end the second-longest game in NCAA tournament history and fifth-longest game ever, at 11:13 of the third overtime in a 1-0 thriller.
"It was just a line change and I saw the puck being wrapped around and was just driving towards the net and called for the puck," said Skille, a native of Madison, Wis. "[After it went in] I saw my teammates clearing the bench and coming toward me."
In the blink of an eye it was all over, though what came before the goal will not be forgotten anytime soon by those who were in attendance.
"When was the last time you've seen 100 shots in a hockey game and goaltending of that caliber and efforts from everybody on the ice?" UW head coach Mike Eaves pondered. "I said to [Cornell head coach Mike Schafer] after the game, 'It's a shame that someone had to walk away from this game not going on to Milwaukee, because both teams definitely deserve to be there.'"
For the Badgers, the win punched their ticket to the Frozen Four for the first time since 1992. For the Big Red, however, it meant their season ended in the Regional final for the second straight year.
"That's one of the most exciting…games that hockey has seen," Schafer said. "It's tough to explain in words how proud I am of our guys. I asked them not to have any regrets and they don't."
While it was undoubtedly one of the hardest ways to end a season – and for some a career – looking back on it a few days from now, it would be hard to have any regrets. And it was not just due to the length of the contest, but also because, despite the low score, it was such an exciting game.
Contributing to that excitement was one of the best goaltending battles in recent memory. It was no secret that McKee and UW's Brian Elliott were probably going to keep the game a low-scoring affair, but nobody could have expected this.
McKee made 59 saves in 111 minutes, but it was the 60th Badger shot – and 100th of the game – that finally found its way by him. Along the way he made some brilliant saves, but considering the outcome, McKee was still not happy in the end.
"A loss is a loss," the junior said. "We really wanted to move on and go to the Frozen Four. We're just pretty bitter."
Somehow, at the other end of the ice, Elliott pulled off an equally impressive outing. He made 40 saves in the contest, and probably none of them bigger than two quality opportunities minutes before the game-ending goal.
"The first one I thought the guy was going to shoot…and then he passed it over, so I just went back to the post and got my blocker on it," Elliott said. "The other one was just something I knew that part of the net was open and that was the only place he could score so I just fired a leg out there and got some piece of equipment on it."
Even more impressive than 111 minutes of shutout hockey are the numbers Elliott has posted in recent weeks. The win marked his third blanking in a row and fifth in his last eight starts. Elliott and the defensemen in front of him have not allowed a goal in more than 252 consecutive minutes.
The Hobey Baker Award finalist has picked a great time to make his last-ditch campaign.
"As far as having three shutouts in a row, I don't think that I would have ever thought that could happen," Eaves said. "It's just one of those moments when Brian is playing terrific and the people in front of him are playing well too."
Playing well is an understatement. Heading into the game the Badgers had already moved into the No. 1 spot in the country defensively, allowing just 1.90 goals per game.
Earlier this year, they had proved to the world that they did not have a defense-first mentality. They can still say that, as they boast 3.42 goals per game themselves, but that defense certainly is coming in handy.
And Wisconsin put the exclamation point on the success of its defense recently by blocking 20 shots.
"The guys in front of me have been unreal lately," Elliott said. "Everybody's all-out and you can't say enough about the guys in front of me."
Eaves has played and coached in as well as seen a number of great games, and this is just another to add to his list.
"I think that's a college game that everybody who was in the building will be talking about for a long time."
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According to the Egyptians, the solar god Re had two golden barks in which he navigated the skies. By offering these solar barks, they associated the Pharaoh's last journey with Re's daily movements. Cheops's solar bark is one of two models unearthed..
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BEIRUT — A rejuvenated al-Qaeda-affiliated force asserted control over the western Iraqi city of Fallujah on Friday, raising its flag over government buildings and declaring an Islamic state in one of the most crucial areas that U.S. troops fought to pacify before withdrawing from Iraq two years ago.
"We don't want to hurt you. We don't want to take any of your possessions," the man told the crowd, according to the journalist, who attended the prayers. "We want you to reopen the schools and institutions and return to your normal lives."
The extent of the militants' control over the city was unclear, however. Some local tribes were challenging their presence, and there were scattered firefights, according to another Fallujah resident who also did not want to be named because he is afraid. The Iraqi army fired shells into Fallujah from bases outside the city, killing at least 17 people, and most residents spent the day hiding indoors, he said.
In the provincial capital, Ramadi, tribal fighters have succeeded in ejecting al-Qaeda loyalists, according to Ahmed Abu Risha, a tribal leader who fought alongside U.S. troops against al-Qaeda in Iraq following the "surge" of U.S. troops in 2007.
The tribesmen are cooperating with Iraqi police, Abu Risha said, and are receiving weapons and support from the Iraqi army. Among those killed in the fighting was Abu Abdul Rahman al-Baghdadi, the emir, or leader, of ISIS in Ramadi.
"All the tribes of Anbar are fighting against al-Qaeda," he said. "We are happy this fight is taking place. We will confront them face to face, and we will win this battle."
But it was unclear whether all the tribal fighters battling the al-Qaeda-affiliated militants were doing so in alliance with the Iraqi government. The current violence evolved from a year-long, largely peaceful Sunni revolt against Maliki's Shiite-dominated government that drew inspiration from the Arab Spring demonstrations elsewhere in the region. But it was rooted in the sectarian disputes left unresolved when U.S. troops withdrew and inflamed by the escalating conflict in neighboring Syria.
Those disputes include the exclusion of Sunnis from important decision-making positions in government and abuses committed against Sunnis in Iraq's notoriously inequitable judicial system.
When Maliki dispatched the Iraqi army to quell a protest in Ramadi this week, local tribes fought back. Maliki ordered the troops to withdraw, creating an opportunity for al-Qaeda fighters to surge into towns from their desert strongholds and triggering battles across the province.
Though some tribes have turned against the al-Qaeda-affiliated militants, others have not, said Kirk Sowell, a political risk analyst based in the Jordanian capital, Amman, who edits the newsletter Inside Iraqi Politics.
"Basically, no one is in control," he said. "The situation was really horrible anyway, and the operation against Ramadi made it worse."
A group representing the tribal fighters, calling itself the Military Council of the Anbar Rebels, posted a video on YouTube in which masked men declared their opposition to Maliki's government but made no mention of al-Qaeda. The fighters called on local members of the Iraqi security forces to desert, hand over their weapons "and remember always that they are the sons of Iraq, not slaves of Maliki."
Whether or how the Iraqi security forces will be able to regain the initiative is unclear. ISIS fighters have steadily asserted their control over the province's desert regions for months, buoyed by their consolidation of control over territory just across the border in Syria. They are more disciplined and better armed than the tribal fighters drawn into the fray over the past week, and the Iraqi security forces lack the equipment and technology that enabled U.S. troops to suppress the al-Qaeda challenge.
In the past year, al-Qaeda has bounced back, launching a vicious campaign of bombings that killed more than 8,000 people in 2013, according to the United Nations. Sectarian tensions between Iraq's Sunnis and the Shiite-led government have been further inflamed by the war in Syria, where the majority Sunni population has been engaged in a nearly three-year-old struggle to dislodge President Bashar al-Assad, a member of the Shiite Alawite minority.
Al-Qaeda's ascendant influence in Syria has given the militants control over the desert territories spanning both sides of the Iraqi-Syrian border, enabling them to readily transfer weapons and fighters between the arenas.
In Syria on Friday, there were demonstrations in several rebel-held towns against ISIS's presence, and in at least one town ISIS fighters opened fire on protesters, echoing the suppression of anti-government demonstrations by Syria's government in the early days of the revolt. Clashes also erupted between the al-Qaeda-affiliated fighters and Islamist fighters from the newly formed Islamist Front in the rebel-held north, in a sign of growing tensions between Syrians and foreign-influenced extremists.
Most residents of Fallujah do not support the al-Qaeda fighters, the journalist there said, but they also lack the means to oppose them, and they also oppose the Iraqi government.
"It is sad, because we are going back to the days of the past," he said. "Everyone is remembering the battles of 2004 when the Marines came in, and now we are revisiting history."


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"The government has amended the Mizoram Motor Vehicles Rules last week making it compulsory for citizens to first ensure parking space before one intends to purchase a car," said Transport Secretary P Lalthlengliana.With several major Indian jurisdictions debating similar rules, the Mizoram measure has triggered a hostile editorial in the Times of India and an approving opinion from Rudroneel Ghosh in the same edition.
This prompts me to explain how this works in Japan and the apparent results. I hope this may help inform the debate in India and other countries where this policy is being considered.
|One result of Japan's proof-of-parking regulation has been to foster a market for off-street parking places for lease. Here is an example in an inner Tokyo neighbourhood.
Japan's version of proof-of-parking (shako shomeisho) does not require ownership of a parking space. Permission to lease the space is good enough. If you are renting in a building with no parking you are not prevented from buying a car. You would just have to find a parking space to lease nearby and prove this to the local police.
The policy was imposed in the 1950s in Japan as car-ownership first started to take off. With very narrow residential streets, there was an urgent need to prevent them becoming hopelessly clogged with parked cars. The policy generally succeeded on that goal.
However, it has had several even more important effects.
Here is how I put it in the draft report of the Asian cities parking study:
Perhaps most importantly, the policy created a demand for leased parking near homes, which the market has generally managed to meet, at a market price.and
The proof-of-parking regulation eliminated the need to adopt American style parking requirements for residential buildings in which every building would be required to have parking. It made it easier to adopt a pragmatic approach, in which small buildings are exempted.
The regulation removes residential parking from streets which also removes the need to have residential parking permits.
It has also probably had the indirect effect of avoiding the pressure to increase street width standards for residential areas to accommodate parking...
It is likely that the policy slowed the growth of car ownership in Japan's cities. This impact must obviously be greatest in places with high property prices, where leased parking prices are also high. This deters car ownership in precisely the highly accessible, densely-developed, transit-rich contexts where car ownership is least necessary.and
... proof-of-parking regulation must have helped foster low car ownership in the urban cores of Japan's large cities, where high real estate prices translate into expensive overnight parking. For example, leased residential parking prices of more than $300 per month were seen advertised in inner-city Tokyo during late 2009 fieldwork for this study.and
The policy has been widely cited but with little detail. It may have much to offer other countries. Unfortunately, we were unable to locate systematic studies of its details and of lessons learned over time, or of whether it has potential elsewhere. International parking policy discussions could benefit greatly from a stronger effort to translate Japanese knowledge on this policy and to investigate its suitability to other contexts.
Do you know of any good documentation or analysis of Japan's proof-of-parking policy and its effects? I would love to hear of any!
Note also that the proof-of-parking policy involves a remarkable shift in the locus of responsibility for off-street parking when compared with other parking policy approaches. In Japan the onus is on the vehicle owner to ensure they have off-street night-time parking NOT the government and usually not building developers or owners.
An online guide for foreigners wanting to drive in Japan explains how to get one:
How do I get proof of a parking space?
Find the person who is renting (or willing to rent) you a parking space within 2km of where you live, often the landlord, building owner, real estate agent, building management company of the building you live in, and ask for an official document showing that the space is yours. This document is a Certificate of Permission for Use of Parking (hokan basho shodaku shomei) and it must be stamped by the agent. Then go to the local police station and fill out an application form as well as an application form for a badge (hyosho) so you can certify the space. You have to draw two maps in a detailed manner: one of the area (including nearby landmarks) and one of the parking space, including the space number if there is one, the dimensions (in meters) of the spot and the width of any adjacent roads. This takes about a week to process. Note that small / light cars may not need this certificate in less urban areas.
By the way, although Seoul has considered and rejected the idea, Korea's Cheju Island is actually conducting a trial of this policy. (Sorry can't find a link to the trial. Can anyone help find one?)
Hat tip: Faizan Jawed via the sustran-discuss listserv on urban transport policy in developing countries.
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It will be quiet tonight with lows in the upper 30s.
The active weather pattern starts moving in by Tuesday afternoon. Clouds will increase through the afternoon with a chance of rain by late afternoon.
Periods of rain will be likely by Wednesday night. Showers and thunderstorms will be likely on Thursday, Halloween, as the powerful system pushes into the Great Lakes. Heavy rainfall will be possible. Some areas could pick up 1″ to 2″ of rain. It will also be very windy Thursday. Keep checking back for the latest updates on the timing of this system.


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Hope may be on the horizon for the endangered bluefin tuna as a worldwide ban on trade gains momentum. A number of countries including France, Italy and Australia are considering or implementing bans in the catch and trade of the sushi staple approaching a critical vote during the Convention on International Trade in Endanger Species (CITES) in March. Without limitations or even elimination of bluefin fishing many biologist and environmentalist believe the bluefin population will not recover and could become extinct as early as next year.
"Atlantic and Southern bluefin tuna are both listed as endangered by IUCN, with populations of the former reduced 80% since the 1970s. At current fishing rates, which far exceed the official quotas due to rampant illegal fishing, Atlantic bluefin will likely become extinct by 2012. Pacific bluefin tuna are not listed as endangered, but the National Marine Fisheries Service says they are still being overfished."
Adding oil to injury the negative effects from last years Deepwater Horizon disaster on the bluefin population has yet to be evaluated: "The Deepwater Horizon disaster could not have come at a worse time for bluefin survival. The western North Atlantic bluefin population spawn each year in the north-central Gulf of Mexico during May - this year beginning just after the blowout started. Its eggs and larvae were carried by the "Loop Current" directly into the oil. Any eggs or larvae coming in contact with oil will die. The oils' effects on young bluefin have been magnified by the use of dispersants which are also toxic and which dissolve the toxic oil and can spread it top to bottom throughout the water column."
Coming to the rescue of the critically endangered fish is the French who have pledged to support listing the bluefin under CITES Appendix 1, which will give the large fish the highest level of agency protection. Unfortunately, the French also want an 18-month delay on enforcing the measure. France follows Italy, which has the third largest catch quota, in supporting the ban. Together France and Italy held over one half of the catch quota for the EU. The powerful French fishing lobby, which are threatening blockades if the measure passes, is seeking an urgent meeting with President Nicolas Sarkozy. Countries still in opposition to the proposal include: Spain, Greece, Malta and Cyprus.
Meanwhile, across the globe - In November the Australian Government announced it would be protecting the southern bluefin tuna by naming it a threatened species. The move offered bluefin more formal protection, however, bluefin is still listed as conservation dependent meaning it can be fished. As Environment Minister Tony Burke explained, "Fishing can continue under existing arrangements, but it will now be a legal requirement that the species remain under a plan of management that includes actions to stop its decline and support its long-term recovery." The move was criticized by conservation groups as not drastic enough to save the decimated population. The southern bluefin is a migratory fish so protection in Australian waters will not mean much when then fish crosses into Japanese waters.
To learn more about the rapidly disappearing but never the less fascinating bluefin tuna (Fun Fact – they accelerate faster than a Porsche) follow this link to the WWF BlueFin Tuna page. And to find out which restaurants are fish safe and which ones need to be boycotted for continuing to serve bluefin go to www.fish2fork.com.
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- "Individually ventilated apartments reduce the mixing of air between units, for better indoor air quality. Fresh air is drawn in continuously through window trickle vents and expelled horizontally
- through voids in the concrete plank, as opposed to vertical ducts." ( this is significant; in traditional buildings, corridors are pressurized to keep smells in the units, but if anyone has their door open or smokes in the corridor it goes everywhere.)
- Solar shading on the south facade;
- "A Rainwater Harvesting System will funnel water from the roof into storage tanks to be used for irrigation, reducing utility costs and stormwater run-off."
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Dave "Papa" Dermon was born in Kiev, Ukraine on April 15, 1885. In March 1905 he left Russia and came to the United States on board the Etruria. His final destination was Memphis, where his older sister Esther was living. Esther had married Sam Bronstein and arrived in the United States in 1897, having sailed on the Maasdam. Mollie Dermon came later in 1905 aboard the Lucania. Arriving with very little, Papa was able to become one of the most prominent real estate men of the city. He had the uncanny ability to predict where the city would grow, and bought and sold property in these areas.
His first job was for the Power and Light company. By 1910 he had opened his own, very successful, tin business.
After beginning the naturalization process in 1910, Papa was finally naturalized in 1914, almost ten years to the day after his arrival.
At this time, he was president of Baron Hirsch Synagogue. In the late teens, Papa became a partner in Godlove Motor Corporation. By the early 1920's, he was involved in real estate, and in 1924, Dave Dermon Realty Company was formed.
Notice that this letterhead shows the address as the Dermon Building. The Building was constructed in 1925 and opened in 1926, the date of this paper. Click here, or below, for more information on the Dermon Building. The Company continued to grow and prosper, and an insurance agency was formed about 1930.
Many book and newspaper articles have been written about Dave Dermon. The histories of Baron Hirsch, for example, mention how Papa was against building the 'new' synagogue on Vollintine. He wanted to build at Poplar and Goodlett, a site that could still be serving the congregation. Years later, his wisdom showed because the Synagogue moved again!
Even today, the Memphis Commercial Appeal frequently mentions him in its daily "News from Bygone Days" column. Most old time Memphians have very fond memories of Papa and Mama Dermon and the Dermon Building.
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The on again-off again plans to move the operations and ambulances of the Cambria Community Healthcare District (CCHD) to the Cambria Community Services District Fire Station on Burton Drive are off once again. Trustee Lemming reported that the August 31 meeting of the ad-hoc co-location committee has started off well, but gradually turned sour. The ad-hoc committee is made up of CCSD Directors Clift and Sanders, CCHD Trustees Lemming and Headding and the head administrators of both districts, Tammy Rudock and Don Melendy. Fire Chief Miller also attended the committee meeting.
The CCHD trustees also heard from Administrator Melendy on the plans during a later part of the meeting. According to Melendy, there were a number of problems with the proposed plan, among them:
- insufficient private space at the fire station for CCHD crews needing "safety naps" so they can be sharp and awake when it counts
- disagreement over issues of sharing employees and chain of command
- an overall sense that the CCSD was unwilling to meet the Healthcare District halfway or be flexible
- the CCSD wanted the move to happen by this October 1
In the end, what seemed to influence the Trustees' decision to reject the plan was that it would not even address the main reason they re-started talks about the co-location: better (or at least equal) service to the community and conditions for staff and money saved from sharing overhead costs and staff resources. Administrator Melendy pointed out that the move as the current plan suggested would be a net loss for the CCHD, since they would be incurring costs for the move itself.
The Trustees aren't ruling out co-location and Trustee Bates went as far as to say it was "inevitable" that would happen someday. But all four Trustees agreed (Kristi Jenkins was absent), not with this plan.
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Love movies that are fun romps, that combine horror and comedy elements? Are you staying in this Saturday night? Then check out BIG ASS SPIDER, which premieres in your home, on the SyFy network tonight, Saturday April 19th, 2014 at 9/8C.
Los Angeles Horror, is a tight knit community, and there is proof to that in how many people showed up to support "Big Ass Spider," both while in production and during their grass roots tour across the world, film festival to film festival, Facebook to twitter, with legions of fans to follow. The hard work has paid off with Director Mike Mendez, and his team, now bringing the world a hilariously entertaining horror movie, "Big Ass Spider," via the SyFy network.
"Big Ass Spider" is a movie that was shot entirety in Los Angeles. Directed by native Los Angeleno Mike Mendez, using Downtown LA as a backdrop. Personally, this Los Angeleno enjoyed watching LA in danger from a ridiculously large spider, with portions getting demolished.
"Big Ass Spider", is, you guessed it, about a very large alien spider, originally titled Mega Spider, starring Greg Grunberg (Heros, The Client List, Alias, Felicity), Clare Kramer (Buffy The Vampire Slayer), Lin Shaye (Insidious, Insidious: Chapter 2), Ray Wise (Twin Peaks), with guest appearances from pretty much everyone in horror, see close knit community statement above.
Wondering if "Big Ass Spider" is for you? If you like the blatantly campy, yet well done and fun genre of horror, then "Big Ass Spider" is for you.
You might be wondering, Yes! But other than a spider what is this movie about?! A military lab looses a gigantic alien spider, or better said the spider escapes. The military's efforts of capture fail. Logically the only people who can save Los Angeles are one exterminator and some scientists. It's basically Ghost Busters, sans ghost and with only one buster, and a team of Scooby-Doo, sans dog, with an alien spider antagonist. Like I said, campy fun.
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UMass Women's Basketball 2014-15 Season-In-Review
Minutewomen boasted +8.5 win improvement in 2014-15 over previous campaign
Minutewomen Meet With Spiders In A-10 Second Round Thursday
UMass women's basketball looks to advance to quarterfinals with win over Richmond
Richmond Pulls Away Late For Win Over UMass Women's Hoops
Women's basketball season ends in A-10 Tournament Second Round with 67-63 loss
Women's Hoops Heads To Richmond Coliseum For A-10 First Round
Minutewomen make 31st conference tournament appearance in program history
UMass Senior Day Brings Rhode Island To The Mullins Center Sunday
Minutewomen will honor four members of the program prior to the 2 p.m. tipoff
MBB VS. URI Photos by Thom Kendall '93
WBB VS. GMU Photos by Thom Kendall '93
WBB vs. URI
WBB vs. URI Photos by Thom Kendall '93
WBB vs. RUTGERS
WBB vs. RUTGERS Photos by Thom Kendall '93
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Photo Gallery: Paula Tarnachowicz
2014-15 - Senior: Game-By-Game Statistics ... Played 109 minutes over 21 games played for an average of 5.2 per contest ... Scored 19 points, ripped down 13 rebounds, nabbed five steals and blocked two shots ... Had three points, all on free throws, over five minutes in her season debut at Western Michigan (11/14) ... Added five points (2-2 FG, 1-2 FT) in 14 minutes at Central Michigan (11/16) ... Grabbed two rebounds and earned one steal during six minutes in the 65-47 win at Saint Joseph's (1/10) ... Notched four points (1-2 FG, 2-2 FT) in as many minutes on the floor during the 71-68 win over La Salle (1/15) ... Had two rebounds and a steal in five minutes starting during Senior Day versus Rhode Island (3/1).
2013-14 - Junior: Game-By-Game Statistics ... Scored 26 points and grabbed 39 rebounds during her first season with the Minutewomen ... Played 159 minutes on the year for an average of 6.9 per her 23 appearances, which included two starts ... Made her first appearance with the Minutewomen against Central Michigan (11/10), totaling five rebounds and as many points over 20 minutes ... Tallied a career-high six points and seven rebounds to help the winning effort at Kent State (12/17) ... Tied her career-high with seven rebounds over 12 minutes on the floor before suffering an ankle injury against Dayton (1/22) ... Did not play at Fordham (1/25) or George Washington (1/29) due to the ankle injury suffered against Dayton on Jan. 22 ... Also did not play against Saint Louis (3/2) or George Mason (3/5) due to injury.
Before UMass: Is a transfer student from Panola College in Carthage, Texas, and enters UMass with two years of eligibility remaining in 2012-13 ... Played in 35 games at Panola during her two seasons ... Assisted the Fillies in reaching the Region XIV Conference Tournament with a .442 field goal percentage (23-of-52) in 21 appearances, scoring 3.4 points while grabbing 2.8 rebounds per game ... The native of Gdynia, Poland, also competed for Panola College during the 2011-12 season, contributing 2.4 points and 2.4 rebounds over 14 appearances ... Helped Panola increase its win total in each of her two seasons with the team from one victory in 2010-11 before her arrival to 14 during the 2012-13 campaign ... Is the daughter of Piotr and Beata Tarnachowicz ... Born on August 27, 1991.
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News of practices of Chinese companies like Sany could cause United States citizens to wonder how to fit Chinese tactics with American business practices. Some recent examples are suing the U.S. President for blocking a wind farm near a sensitive Oregon naval base, stealing business secrets from a rival in China, alleged bribing of a reporter to inaccurately report on a rival, hacking into other companies' computers, and concerns over possible acquiring of a rival company's intellectual property in the U.S.
The Beijing-based largest construction equipment company in China, mentioned in the October 9, 2012 article China company sues Obama over blocked wind farm deal, lost share value in the Shanghai Stock Exchange and Hong Kong market in 2013 after news of a possible Sany connection in bribes to New Express EXPR reporter Chen Yongzhou who remains jailed.
Chen reported negative information in 14 articles about Sany's number one rival in China, Zoomlion. He confessed on government-owned CCTV news in October 2013, not saying who paid the bribes, but a very brief half page appeared on screen with legible words "…reached agreement. Sany Heavy Industry at our New Express…." Later in the day, Chinese newspaper Caixin reported the memo Chen signed contained the words "San Yi Zhong Gong" which is the Chinese name of Sany Heavy Industry.
The articles began appearing after November 2012 when a Sany employee was arrested for stealing business secrets from Zoomlion. A Zoomlion executive said the company lost RMB 1.4 billion (US $227,782,800) in just one day. The Chinese government owns 27 percent of Zoomlion. The Southern Metropolis Daily reported the rumor that Chen was picked up by a Zoomlion-owned Mercedes-Benz after police purportedly wanted to talk with him about his burglarized apartment.
The New York Times in an article on May 22, 2013 about how corporations employ freelance hackers to spy on competitors. in China said, "Sany Group, one of China's biggest makers of construction equipment, hired hackers to spy on Zoomlion, a rival, according to official news media reports confirmed by the former hacker. Sany declined to comment."
The Whitehouse in March 2013 demanded that the Chinese government stop the widespread theft of data from American computer networks and join in setting cyberspace standards, saying American businesses are concerned.
In the Ralls company lawsuit over the Oregon wind farm deal, a district judge ruled that the company could not challenge the U.S. president's authority making them sell their wind farm rights based on grounds of threat to national security. They could continue their request for an explanation on how the president arrived at his decision. The owners of Rawls are Dawei Duan, a CFO at Sany, and Jialiang Wu, a group vice president and general manager of Sany Electric Co. Plans were to install turbines made by the Sany Group Company at the four wind farm sites.
Sany Heavy Industry was also in the news in mid-March 2011 for its giant 100-foot blowup poster of John Lanning at the Las Vegas Conexpo/Con Agg trade show for the multibillion-dollar construction equipment industry. Lanning is a/the top expert American crawler crane engineer who got his 24 years of expertise at Sany rival Wisconsin-based Manitowoc. Crawler cranes are the huge ones used to hoist dome roofs over nuclear power plants. Lanning was served papers by Manitowoc attorneys at the show for helping Sany recruit former Manitowoc colleagues.
In October 2009, Manitowoc crane division president Eric Etchart wrote Sany accusing recruiters of contacting employees at their offices. Solicitations continued so a later letter was sent in which Etchart said, "Please be aware that Mr. Lanning and other engineers possess Manitowoc information and intellectual property regarding products, product design, engineering, project plans, etc. … , that may not be shared or used."
Management Fortune says Sany executives are trying to shed Sany's "Made in China" image that their products are not as high quality as Made in the U.S. One way is by hiring Americans like Lanning and Tim Frank, chairman and CEO of Sany America, who worked for Caterpillar and Volvo. The caption under Lanning in front of a Sany crawler crane at the Las Vegas trade show said QUALITY CHANGES THE WORLD.
Sany rose to fifth place in the 2013 KHL Group's Yellow Table world rankings behind Caterpillar, Komatsu, Hitachi and Volvo. In China it is the largest construction equipment company with revenues of $7.6 billion, but with the slowdown of Chinese infrastructure development, Sany is looking for markets outside China. The Malaysian Reserve reported in February 2014 that Sany International Developing, part of the Sany Group of China, and Top-Mech Provincial have partnered with Minetech Resources to leverage their business opportunities to make more competitive bids for projects locally and abroad. Minetech provides specialized civil engineering and quarry services and rental of machinery and manufacturing.
Sany is 37 percent owned by Liang Wengen who joined the Communist Pary in 2004, reportedly after applying 3 times, and was called "one of the party's most influential members" by K Vinotharan in The Malaysian Reserve on February 17, 2014. Private entrepreneur applicants have been historically turned down by the party. Liang came under fire for saying at a press conference in Beijing in 2012 that communists tend to attract "prettier" wives.
Dozens of other Chinese companies are seeking investment and expansion in the United States. They may study Sany America for how to succeed in business in the United States. There are some lessons to be learned such as applying to the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) before buying land near military bases.
Watch the attached video of an interview with Xiang Wenbo, President of Sany Heavy Industry, and his comments on the Obama's attitude on the wind farm lawsuit and loss of jobs for Americans.


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|National Maritime Safety Association
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|Dear, Joseph A.
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"This document was published prior to the publication of OSHA's final rule on Ergonomics Program (29 CFR 1910.900, November 14, 2000), and therefore does not necessarily address or reflect the provisions set forth in the final standard."
Rev. 6/6
Thank you for that kind introduction. I am delighted to have this opportunity to meet with officials of important maritime groups and companies who assist OSHA in providing safe and healthful working conditions for the workers in the American maritime industry.
I also want to compliment you on your intensive emphasis on safety training in the industry. Training workers in specific job hazards and how to avoid them assists greatly in reducing injuries.
The association and the International Longshoremen's Association, AFL-CIO, also are to be congratulated for their joint efforts in drug and alcohol control on the East Coast and the Gulf. Those are pioneering efforts to deal with a substantial problem.
The Problem
If today is like every other day in America, seventeen people won't come home from work because they will be killed in a job related fatality.
If today is like every other day in America, 17,000 workers will be hurt, perhaps maimed for life, on the job.
And countless others will die each year from illnesses that result from being exposed to harmful substances.
The costs to society from injury and illness in the workplace are substantial. The Rand Institute for Civil Justice has estimated that accidents occurring on work time in 1989 imposed costs of $83 billion, and the National Safety Council estimated that the total cost of work-related accidents was $115 billion in 1992.
OSHA'S Mission
A great deal of this cost, in human and economic terms, is avoidable because so much of the illness, injury and death occurring in America's workplaces is preventable. To increase the scope and impact of prevention activities by business, labor and government, many things must happen. Among the first things that must happen is that OSHA must become revitalized and recommitted to its mission of saving lives, preventing serious injuries and protecting the health of America's workers.
There is a tremendous gap between OSHA's mission and the resources available to it. We are responsible for: 6.2 million workplaces, with 92 million workers. We have a budget of only $297 million and 2300 employees to carry out our mission of assuring, as far as possible, that all these workers have a safe and healthful workplace. By comparison EPA has a budget of $6.6 BILLION. Even the Mine Safety and Health Administration has $195 million for 247 times fewer workplaces.
The result has been that Federal OSHA inspections are down. The 1985 high was 71,700 and in 1993 the total was 40,000.
Therefore, OSHA must reinvent itself. OSHA must focus on the most serious threats to worker health and safety and be prepared to redirect its enforcement, standards setting and education and training resources to where they can do the most to protect workers.
OSHA needs to encourage new and innovative ways for workers and employers to cooperate so they will be able to create the safest and healthiest workplaces possible.
A strong, energized and more effective OSHA will implement and enforce programs and policies that improve the health and safety of American workers and make American businesses more profitable and competitive.
Now let me discuss some of the major issues and programs we have under way. I will talk about our enforcement strategy; standard-setting, including our work on the new longshoring standard, and ergonomics and comprehensive safety and health program standards; training and education; OSHA Reform legislation; violence in the workplace; and our plans to work more closely with the states that operate their own OSHA-approved occupational safety and health programs. I also want to discuss briefly two other major Administration initiatives to benefit the economy---health care reform and the Reemployment Act.
Enforcement is really the cornerstone of OSHA. An effective, credible and visible enforcement program is what deters employers from taking the low road.
Enforcement stimulates voluntary compliance and the demand for consultative services to help employers reduce worksite hazards.
We plan to build a stronger enforcement program. It will be backed by forceful litigation when necessary and will be a program that is balanced and supported by flexible policies and creative use of public and private resources.
We will increase penalties. We will authorize the OSHA field enforcement staff to use our full statutory authority on penalties and to do so with streamlined inspection procedures, especially for repeat offenders, willful violators of the safety and health standards, and others who show disregard for worker safety and health---the "bad actors". Such revised procedures will address the public's sense of outrage that such violators are "let off" with minimal penalties.
We will continue to use egregious cases and referrals for possible criminal prosecution, involving appropriate publicity and involvement of the Office of the Secretary of Labor.
In our enforcement efforts, we will stress consistency, so that employers in different parts of the nation, such as the East Coast, the West Coast and the Gulf Coast, know that they are getting equal treatment.
Targeted and more timely standard setting is one of our principal goals.
OSHA takes too long on standards. For example, the confined space standard took 17 years. People are injured and become ill because of the length of time required to produce a standard.
OSHA is creating a system of priorities based on the nature of the hazard; number of workers at risk; and the level of exposure.
We also are exploring opportunities to streamline the process through such techniques as negotiated rulemaking and by developing generic standards.
Longshoring Standard
Last week we published our proposed standard for greater protection of workers in longshoring aboard vessels and in related activities ashore in marine terminals. We estimate that it would prevent 1,300 injuries a year.
These proposed revisions in longshoring and marine terminal regulations also are expected to prevent three deaths each year, avoid the loss of more than 30,000 work days due to such injuries annually, and save more than $18 million annually.
As you know, the longshoring industry has changed dramatically since 1971, when the present OSHA standards were adopted. Methods of cargo handling and the equipment associated with those methods have undergone significant modification. This proposal would modernize OSHA's regulatory approach to deal with these changes in the industry.
One major issue brought about by intermodalism (containerization) is containertop fall protection. Longshore workers often are required to work on top of containers on ship decks where the fall distance is typically 50 feet.
As a result of recent technological improvements in container securing devices, OSHA believes that many work operations that expose workers to fall hazards now can be eliminated. The use of semi-automatic twistlocks which secure one container to another, for example, eliminates the need for workers to go aloft in 90 percent of the cases. These devices represent an initial investment cost, but also result in significant productivity increases.
These engineering controls would be phased in over a three-year period to allow the international community to come into compliance with this provision. In the meantime, the fall protection requirements of the existing longshoring standard would apply.
Other hazards that are addressed by the proposal include those associated with cargo lifting gear, vehicular cargo transfers, manual cargo handling, and hazardous atmospheres and materials.
We are accepting comments on the proposal now, and we also will be holding public hearings in some of the major port cities---Charleston, S.C., Seattle, Wash., and New Orleans, La. We also will entertain requests for hearings in other locations.
This is a major new proposal affecting your industry, and we welcome your comments and testimony as we work toward a final rule.
I want to thank the Technical Safety Committee for the help it gave OSHA on this very important revision of the longshoring standards, as well as the assistance rendered by various locals of the ILA and the International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union.
Ergonomics Standard
We also plan to propose an ergonomics protection standard by end of this fiscal year in September.
There is an escalating problem of musculoskeletal disorders in the workplace. The problem is the product of a mismatch between the design of the workplace or the worker's tools and his or her ability to respond to the demands of the job. The result is an imbalanced work system.
Not only does it contribute greatly to the costs of workers' compensation, but this imbalance also results in poor productivity, poor quality and much pain and suffering.
The solution requires looking at the individual in the context of the organization, the task, the technology and the environment. This must be integrated into the design phases of future work.
We must put ergonomic principles and design into new jobs and minimize the ergonomic risk factors on existing jobs.
And workers have to be involved in this process. Workers provide the detailed knowledge achieved only by doing the job. They have eight hours per day to think about how the job could be improved. That feedback rarely makes it back to the process or design engineer. High performance means closing the feedback gap through continuous worker input.
OSHA is now in the process of developing a proposed ergonomics protection standard that will be used to assist and promote the process of improving workplace design and performance to eliminate or minimize the risk of all work-related musculoskeletal disorders.
Such a standard could provide protection for workers in longshoring, many of whom now perform manual lifting tasks that produce musculoskeletal disorders such as back injuries.
Comprehensive Safety and Health Programs
The Agency also is pursuing the development of a standard requiring employers to establish comprehensive safety and health programs.
Successfully implemented safety and health programs generally result in facilities that have a lower incidence of occupationally related illnesses and injuries.
While the specific elements of existing comprehensive safety and health (COSH) programs may vary, the general concept is the same.
Rather than addressing problems one by one, COSH programs are designed to coordinate and integrate all facets of occupational safety and health into the management practices of the facility.
The logic of this approach is simple. Prevent adverse effects from occurring by identifying hazards, and implementing a plan to eliminate or control them.
By doing this systematically, resources are not duplicated or wasted, and a coordinated, integrated strategy can be implemented.
You should be aware that we have included this in the longshoring proposal as a separate issue. We are very interested in your input on this issue.
Training and education
We also are stepping up our training and education efforts in private industry.
Our budget request for FY 95 includes a substantial increase for training and education, including more money for expanding our training and education grants to the private sector.
The OSHA Training Institute is overseeing the establishment of additional regional Education Centers to expand the availability of OSHA-sanctioned safety and health training. We now have such centers in New Hampshire; New York State; Washington, D.C.; Texas; Georgia; Missouri; Colorado, and California.
With the promulgation of the new standards in the longshoring industry, the Training Institute's maritime curriculum will be updated and outreach materials will be developed.
The Office of Maritime Standards and the Office of Training and Education are exploring new ways with the industry in the development of these materials.
Cooperation with State Plans
As you know, there are 23 states and territories that operate their own OSHA-approved occupational safety and health programs on a full coverage basis. Two other states, New York and Connecticut, have state programs that cover state and local government employees only. Four of these states cover the marine terminal aspect of longshoring operations. They are California, Minnesota, Vermont and Washington.
Having come from a state plan in the State of Washington, I am particularly sensitive to the relationship between federal OSHA and the state and territorial plans.
Outsiders often make the mistake of thinking there are two OSHA systems in this country: federal and state plans. But it is far more useful to look at government regulation of safety and health as a unified system with a federal component and a state component. Improving communication between the two partners is one of my highest personal priorities.
I want to be sure that we incorporate consideration of the States into our thinking and planning. I also asked the State plans to assist in assuring nationwide applicability of consistent policies. That does not mean that programs must be mirror images. But the bottom line is that employers and employees should expect similar treatment from OSHA, whether from the Federal Government or a State plan.
Deputy Assistant Secretary Jim Stanley, who oversees the agency's enforcement and field programs, has said incorporating the field offices and the state-plan States in actions of the federal office is one of his principal aims.
He already has been including regional and state-level offices in some of his regular staff meetings, and he intends to continue this practice.
In early April, we held a State Plan Monitoring Reinvention Conference in Chicago, attended by representatives of most of the states operating their own occupational safety and health programs as well as federal OSHA personnel who deal with the States. A total of 40 recommendations for streamlining State-Federal relationships resulted. The conference facilitator reported that the suggestions will assist federal and State programs to develop a "new partnership--one that allows all the different components to meld into a single, recognizable entity that is dedicated to workplace safety and health."
The public must perceive that the efforts of Federal OSHA and the state-plan States and territories in occupational safety and health are united.
OSHA Reform
Both Secretary of Labor Robert Reich and I have testified before Congress in favor of OSHA Reform legislation.
OSHA Reform is good for workers, good for employers and good for the nation. It will save lives, prevent injuries and illnesses, and save money. Through safety and health programs and joint committees, employees will be empowered to work with employers to improve the safety and health of their individual workplaces.
Advocates of safer and healthier workplaces, and I believe that we can include all of you in that group, can take some satisfaction from the successes of the Occupational Safety and Health Act since its passage in 1970. Rates of fatalities from traumatic injuries have been cut in half, standards have produced measurable improvements in worker health in specific industries, enforcement accompanied by monetary fines produces lower incidence of worker injuries.
But the overall incidence of injury and illness measured by the Bureau of Labor Statistics has not declined significantly, and costs of these injuries and illnesses continue to skyrocket.
A concentrated focus on a management agenda to increase OSHA's organizational effectiveness can yield some substantial improvements. That is why I am committed, determined, to conduct a program that will reinvent OSHA in enforcement, standard setting and education and training.
But it won't be enough. Congress must improve the Act. The Act needs strengthening to:
* get workers involved in plant health and safety through joint safety and health committees;
* provide coverage to seven million state and local government employees;
* adopt air contaminant standards that are truly protective; o establish meaningful criminal sanctions for those few situations where injury or death is the result of willful violations of specific standards; and
* address the unique hazards and conditions of the construction industry.
The House Education and Labor Committee completed its markup March 10. It made some changes, but preserved the major provisions of the legislation.
As Secretary of Labor Reich has noted, in a highly competitive global economy, we simply cannot tolerate the high costs of workplace injury and illness. In today's economy -- where capital and information cross national borders instantly -- a nation's comparative advantage comes from the only resource that stays more or less fixed within its borders: its workers. That is why the centerpiece of this Administration's economic strategy is investing in our workers -- their skills, their abilities and their capacity to innovate. Investing in their health and safety is a part of this strategy, for healthy and safe workers are productive workers.
Health Care Reform
Not only will OSHA Reform assist in building the New American Workplace, but so will passage of the Administration's proposals for Health Care Reform.
Health care now consumes nearly 15 percent of our gross domestic product, far higher than in any other industrialized country. Business health care expenditures, currently $200 billion, now nearly equal after-tax profits.
A major factor is the bloated and highly inefficient structure we have for health insurance. Over $45 billion went for administrative expenses in 1992.
Another reason for the soaring cost of employee health insurance is that the premiums businesses are paying are inflated by $25 billion to cover the health care costs of those without insurance.
The pressures experienced by businesses as a result of skyrocketing health care costs are felt with full force by their employees. Businesses pass on rising health care costs by holding down employees' compensation, redirecting money that would otherwise have gone for wages. The Brookings Institution estimates that rising health care costs have consumed 58% of workers' potential wage increases since 1980, and, if left unchecked, will soon consume 100%.
Another response of some employers has been to require workers to pay an increasing share of their health care costs.
For some, the alternative to reductions in compensation is to reduce or eliminate entirely the health care coverage itself. Employer coverage of the non-elderly population fell from 66.8% in 1988 to 62.5% in 1992.
Also, up to 30% of workers feel "locked" into current jobs because they fear that a new employer may not offer insurance, or someone in their family has a pre-existing condition that would not be covered if they switched jobs.
Some of the benefits of the Administration's Health Security Act are that it would:
--Provide a truly competitive health insurance market and major administrative efficiencies that would result in major cost savings to both employers and those employees who contribute to health plan coverage.
--Lessen the burden that workers' compensation costs impose on American industry by partially integrating workers' compensation medical costs into the new system.
--Facilitate greater productivity growth. As health care costs decrease, the economy will be able to produce more output than it would have without reform. This productivity increase will raise living standards, which is the principal objective of this Administration's economic policies.
--Health insurance also would be completely portable, removing fears of employees who feel locked in by fear of losing health insurance on a new job, removing fears of those on welfare that if they join the workforce they lose health insurance coverage, and the fears of those who would like to start new businesses but are prevented by fear of losing their health insurance or by the prohibitive costs of providing their employees with health insurance.
The Administration also has proposed a Reemployment Act, designed to equip all Americans to participate in the new, improving economy. Basically, it would consolidate all major dislocated-worker programs into an integrated service system geared to deliver what workers need to get their next job, regardless of why they lost their last job; and allow states to develop one-stop career centers to streamline access to a wide range of job training and employment programs.
Concluding remarks
OSHA is moving ahead, in standards, enforcement, training and education, and compliance assistance. You are leaders for better safety and health in the maritime industry. I salute you and applaud your efforts.
There's a common ground between workers' concern about the human cost of injury and illness and employer concern about the economic cost. Both concerns can be met simultaneously. We in OSHA, with your help, want to find and enlarge that common ground. We will help businesses compete, save lives, prevent injuries and protect the health of workers.
We want to work with all of you as we build a revitalized OSHA. Once the National Advisory Committee on Occupational Safety and Health (NACOSH) is reappointed, we plan to establish a special maritime working group to serve as liaison between NACOSH and the industry.
Together we can make safety and health in the maritime industry a model of excellence.
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