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Ethical Implications of Intercultural Audiences
We live in a world of the global market. Even if you have never set foot in a foreign country or spoken a word of a different language, the impact of the global market is evident; you watch your Japanese television while sitting on your Swedish furniture eating your German chocolate and talking on your Malaysian phone. Similarly, more and more American- made products are being exported overseas. Problems arise when we need to explain the product or process of the product to the various cultures purchasing our merchandise.
Audience adaptation has been a prime concern for technical communicators since the beginning of the field. How do technical writers create documents targeted to such a wide and diverse audience? One way of coping has been to implement standards, such as writing to specific discourse communities and creating a minimalist style. However, the audience for professional communication documents has been recently growing more complex as the market globalizes. With the changing audience conditions, the previous standards of audience adaptation need to be reanalyzed to accommodate for the complexity of languages and respect the diversity of cultures. For instance, the use of English as a standard language can no longer manage these complexities and diversities. For example, in 2004, employees of General Electric Medical Systems, a US company located in France, sued because the company documents and instruction manuals being written primarily in English. Workers complained that not only did "being forced to speak English" promote discrimination, but it also caused safety issues when French speaking employees were expected to put together medical equipment using instruction manuals in a foreign language (French). The employees' protest demonstrates the need for technical writers to be aware that their standards imply more than technical messages; they have ethical and cultural implications attached as well. Technical writing courses need to integrate cultural awareness throughout the curriculum, and as technical communicators, we need to be aware of how our words might reflect cultural biases or how they might promote cultural dominance.
Why We Should Teach Cultural Awareness
There are many reasons why technical communicators need to be aware of how to cope with multicultural and multilingual audiences. Perhaps the most obvious reason is so the readers in other countries can use the documents that we create. However, other factors contribute to this growing need as well. With a global market, more and more businesses and workplace employees will be culturally and linguistically diverse. An awareness of cultural differences will help English speaking employees relate and work with co-workers from different parts of the world because "without realizing this cultural interference in the writings of their foreign-born colleagues, many native speakers of English are often lost when they have to read or edit their international colleagues' writing" (Subbiah 16). Furthermore, technical documents may serve as a tool to assist selling a product. An international company might pick a specific product based on the accompanying document's readability in their own language and culture (St. Amant 298).
Besides the marketing and employee cooperation, an awareness of cultural issues in technical writing can also promote awareness of ethical implications in technical writing. Dombrowski explores the past and present connections between rhetoric and ethics. For example, he discusses how modern rhetoricians such as Toulmin, Gates, and Foucault place rhetoric in a direct relationship with social and cultural values. Dombrowski claims, "In more recent times, rationalists, social constructionalists, and other theorists have shown that all language use entails ethical values and cannot due otherwise. We should, therefore, always be conscious of the ethical values communicated through the rhetoric of discourse" (31). This connection between values and language is particularly prevalent when audiences are intercultural. Therefore, it is crucial for technical writing students to gain an awareness of how their writing reflects social and cultural values. I am not necessarily saying that we should teach a strict code of ethics within technical communication courses, but what I am suggesting is that we provide our students with enough knowledge for them to have the ability to make ethical decisions on their own. By teaching differences in international audiences, linguistically, rhetorically, and culturally, we are helping our students become aware of the issues at hand. However, I believe that we need to not only establish an awareness of the differences, but offer knowledge of the approaches used to cope with this complex diversity. Furthermore, I propose that we need to show our students how to recognize the political and ethical implications these solutions have. In doing so, we can emphasize the importance that technical communicators' decisions have, not just in the usability of documents, but on a more universal level.
The Myth of a Universal Standard
One method to cope with the diversity of a diverse international audience is through implementing a standard that is applicable to a variety of communities. Visual documents tend to be more adaptable to the internationalization approach than text because visuals are already somewhat universal since they do not require textual translations. However, visuals still carry a large amount of cultural connotations. As Charles Kostelnick examines both the globalization and localization of visuals, he observes that when designing visuals for a universal audience, these associations are what must be examined and removed to "bridge cultural gaps" and create a "culture-free design" (Kostelnick 183). He gives the example of the modernist flatman design which "forms display high figure-ground contrast and appeal to basic, presumably universal, cognitive functions of the mind; aesthetically, with their clean, simple geometry and machine-like precision, they embody pure modernism; and pragmatically, they are as easily reproducible and transplantable across cultural boundaries as steel and glass buildings" (Kostelnick 183). In the internationalization approach, the goal is to avoid creating visuals with cultural connotations. For instance, colors can have different meanings in different countries, so technical communicators should be aware of what their visuals may mean in a variety of cultures.
The internationalization approach to audience adaptation attempts to unify meaning by a single universal mode of communication. This method would perhaps be ideal if there were a true universal way of communication that had no cultural connotations attached, however, no ideal standard exists. Ikea, a home furnishing store with a vast global market, provides a good example of how attempts to internationalize instructions through culturally neutral visuals can backfire. In an attempt to eliminate cultural connotations in their instructions, Ikea used more pictures of men than women to avoid offending their customers in Muslim countries. Instead, Norway's Prime Minster charged Ikea of sexism for not including enough women in their instructions (Ikea). It appears that creating a universal standard without any cultural connotations, even in visuals, is nearly impossible to accomplish because too many differences exist between cultures. Similarly, St. Amant explains:
Unfortunately, there is no single, universal rhetorical standard. Rather, human rhetorical preferences vary from group to group and culture to culture. Moreover, these cultural rhetorical differences can occur on a variety of levels (from the sentence to the overall document) and can affect how certain cultural audiences perceive a given English-language document" (298).
No single standard can erase all cultural connotations, which still leaves the task of writing to international audiences a problematic issue.
English Language as a Global Language
Since a universal standard is so difficult to achieve, internationalization often ignores the distinct rhetorical features of individual cultures and gives power and authority to a single community as a standard. With the rise of globalization and with America as one of the significant driving forces behind globalization, Western, and more specifically American standards became the accepted universal ideal. According to 2004 statistics, English was spoken by 402 million native speakers, but it is also the most learned second language in the world with approximately 600 million people speaking it as a second language (Wikipedia). English is particularly the standard in the business and scientific realms. For example, according the British Council:
- English is the main language of books, newspapers, airports and air-traffic control, international business and academic conferences, science, technology, and diplomacy
- Over two-thirds of the world's scientists read in English (Britishcouncil).
In order to survive and succeed in the business and scientific world, knowledge of English has become a necessity which can cause nonnative speakers frustration need to work with a plethora of English documents like the French employees at General Electric Medical.
However, not just the English language is an international standard. Cultural preferences are also used as a universal idea; for example, the overall design of documents has been suited to Western standards. Mary Lou Fisk illustrates how "spatial arrangements" vary from culture to culture, particularly with the ratio of white space and text (176). She explains, "Comparing these spatial differences suggests that since English is the international scientific language, our rules of document design prevail in these international journals. But recent work, particularly on technical writing documents designed for localized audiences, indicates that we cannot always accept the fifty-fifty ratio as the paradigm" (Fisk 176). The American standard of spatial arrangement, as Fisk observed from her American students, is a "linear orientation". Her two Navajo students, however, designed documents with more of a circular orientation which is representative of their culture. Fisk reflects on her decision to make the Navajo students conform to the Western standard, when she could have used the experience as an example of how cultural differences affect preferences in documents. Like the French employees at General Electric Medical Systems, the Navajo students were expected to conform to the standards of English speaking culture.
In one way, internationalization can be viewed as a positive force that attempts to find a universal means for communication that connects people together. However, we must carefully examine why a particular language has the power to become the universal standard and what implications this has on the other cultures who must adapt to the standard. By using English as a standard, it implies, in some way, that English is superior to other languages since, in many instances, it is the only way to communicate which echoes the imperialistic mentality. In order to adapt, these other communities must compromise part of their own language and culture to become like the universal standard. Of course, one might argue that this adaptation is not violent or forceful and is only intended to help other communities survive and compete in the competitive global market, and that many nonnative speakers of English choose to learn English out of their own desire. However, the very fact that they need to trade in their own language for another to survive is a form of hegemony; the universal language becomes so appealing because it is a necessity to become successful. Seen from this point of view, the charitable benefits English internationalization becomes an issue of a power struggle and cultural dominance. In this way, the standard creates a binary between the English culture and the adapting cultures. Hoft warns about the standards implemented by internationalization:
At the department level, these agreements and concessions might be achieved through power plays. At the multinational or world level, they might be achieved through economic influence and power. Standards in these situations might end up representing and resembling the more 'dominant' culture rather than many cultures. If you happen to be a member of the dominant culture, you might not even notice the problem. But if you are a member of a minority culture, the bias is obvious. (Hoft, 4).
Hoft makes an important point of the tendency to overlook cultural implications if you are part of the standard used which shows even more of a need to teach an awareness of how language can create ethical dilemmas and power struggles. Technical communicators must be aware of the ethical implications they portray when using an internationalization approach to address international audiences
Striving for Clarity
With the English language as a global standard, our focus on clarity naturally follows as the same path as well. Technical communication in English speaking countries places significant value on the importance of clarity which appears to become the prime virtue of technical writing: "a universal business and technical writing principle" (Weiss 324). However, this emphasis on clarity can be considered as a culturally biased ideal, since not all cultures place the same amount of importance on clarity; for example, many Asian cultures value silence and politeness over clarity. However, clarity in meaning has been the prime focus of technical writing in exported technical documents through the use of Plain Style. This method attempts to further standardize English by using guidelines for clarity such as common words, pronouns, active voice, and short sentences Plain Style also recommends replacing words such as 'accomplish' and 'utilize' that are Latin in origin with 'everyday' words like do and use that come from Germanic languages. Plain English promotes further clarity by using phrasal verbs, or two-word verbs, such as 'fill in' and 'put off', which are idiomatic in nature. One reason for these guidelines for clarity is to create simpler English texts that can be more easily read by nonnative speakers. However, even this standardization of English fails to accommodate the complexity of international audiences (Thrush 292-293). Emily A. Thrush conducted a study that examines the usability of Plain English for nonnative speakers and found that Plain English was not always an ideal of clarity for all nonnative speakers who had difficulties with phrasal verbs since they tend to form unfamiliar idioms. Furthermore, speakers of French, Spanish, and Italian were more competent with the Latinate words before the texts were converted to the Germanic words used in Plain Style. Thrush's study offers an illustration of how the attempt to clarify texts for nonnative speakers can lead instead to more interpretive confusion. Timothy Weiss agrees that "It seems to me that those who argue that clarity (singularity of meaning) is achievable in business and technical writing texts are really defending a very limited idea of clarity; they are arguing that a text can be clear for a certain audience at a certain time only" (Weiss 327).
Weiss suggests that the insistence on clarity, or a unified meaning, has led technical communicators astray. Instead, they should be more concerned with "astuteness of interpretation and translation." He says that "we have been taught to assume that the real problem in communication is getting the words right; we would not be so confident about that assumption if we considered communication in intercultural and international contexts where words tend to be more unstable, where the ambiguity of meaning of the simplest sentences can surprise and frustrate" (Weiss 329-330).
Weiss's definition of clarity as singularity of meaning portrays the international approach similarly to Shannon and Weaver's communication theory in which communication is a message delivered from the writer to the reader with a single meaning in mind and with as little noise, or interruptions in meaning, as possible. This theory, however, fails to accommodate the diverse and complex situation of international audiences with variances in language and cultural connotations when it assumes that there is only one meaning bound within a text, which is what we imply as we strive for clarity. A more appropriate theory to apply is Stanley Fish's notion of interpretive communities which consists of a group of people who are guided by the same set of beliefs. This discourse community decreases the number of variances because "texts and readers lose the independence that would be necessary for either of them to claim the honor of being the source of interpretive authority" (Fish 142). Stanley Fish's notion of an interpretive community is based upon the standard rules and beliefs that a group of people have in common; it is the standardization of these rules and beliefs that guide the interpretations of the community members. Although Fish applies interpretive communities to literature academics, different cultures around the world can be looked at as different interpretive communities; each cultural community guides its members in their preferences of rhetorical patterns (Subbiah; Hoft; St. Amant). For instance, circular orientation is part of the Navajo discourse community just as the focus on clarity is part of the American discourse community.
Rise of Globalization
The need for teaching technical writing students how to cope with intercultural communication is more of a need today than it has been in the past. The past standard of English as the global language allowed technical writers to assume that audiences read English and were familiar with English culture. Weiss observes that "in American colleges and universities we have taken a US-centered approach to business and technical communication; we have assumed that our principles are universal" (330). Because of the increasingly global market, as Mahalingam Subbiah says, "we can no longer enjoy the 'we-are-the-world syndrome'" (14). Americans can no longer assume our readers will be English speakers nor should we expect them to be. For instance, other languages are beginning to rise to prominence and spread throughout much of the globe, such as Mandarin, which is predicted to become the next global language. Weiss argues that technical communicators "must become much more adept at interpretation and translation, at functioning in high-context environment…" (331). Because of the global marketplace and the decline of English as a form of standardization, technical communicators need to be aware of and learn how to deal with the cultural and linguistic differences they are bound to face instead of assuming that the universality of English is adequate for our diverse readers.
Localization and Translation
More recently, the approach of localization has gained popularity as a method of addressing multicultural audiences. For instance, Microsoft has recently released versions of Windows to other countries geared specifically towards their culture and language. Unlike internationalization which tries to erase cultural traces in documents, localization makes these cultural differences its focus. Localization works by writing towards a specific discourse community, in this case, a certain culture instead of a universal standard. However, to what extent do we teach cultural awareness, and is an awareness of the issue enough? Do we teach about specific cultures and languages? Do we pick and choose which cultures we think our students will most likely be targeting? Once again, the extent of the audience becomes an issue.
Translation is one technique used to implement the theory of localization and to help cope with the diversity of an international audience. The emphasis of translation as been hindered in the past from internationalization as Bruce Maylath observes that "the spread of English as a foreign language, particularly in science, business, and technical writing, has probably deterred both instructors and students from focusing much attention on preparing texts for translations" (33). By translating English documents into the languages of the cultures targeted for the product, communicators beginning to reverse internationalizations method by adapting to different discourse rather than forcing them to adapt to English speaking standards; localization keeps cultural diversity in focus which in turn, diminishes the 'we-are-the-world' attitude. Focusing on translation also provides a solution to the diverse audience issue as technical communicators can write to the translator as a standard audience. Standardizing the audience in this way can point out key issues needed to keep in mind for the intended audience. Therefore, it is important to teach technical writing students how to write to the translator audience. "Practical skills include learning how to choose and work with translators, a skill that many technical communicators today learn through a costly trial and error process. A closely related skill is how to write for translation" (Hoft). Flint et al instruct technical writers to "include your documents' translator as a crucial member of your reading audience" (238), and describe and analyze an online tutorial created for the company Medtronic to help writers consider different aspects for intercultural communication. To write help assist translators, they suggest:
- Carefully selecting word choices (for example, avoid using metaphors)
- Provide translators with contextual information
- Chunking information (243).
Teaching our students how to write to translators is one way that we can help to prevent the cultural hegemony associated with internationalization.
Expanding the Field
For localization to succeed, technical writers must become aware of cultural and linguistic differences of their audiences so they can write their documents with these specific aspects of the audience in mind. By adapting technical documents to the specific patterns of these discourse communities, technical communicators can avoid the dominant mentality of the international approach. Localization can further be implemented through promoting a curriculum that expands outside the field of technical communication. Timothy Weiss encourages a curriculum that will counteract the internationalist attitude of previous course as he explains, "Our courses are simply not sufficiently demanding; they do not put sufficient emphasis on interpretation of words and actions…We need to get beyond a literacy-oriented, rhetoric-oriented, technology-oriented approach and teach interpretive and translation skills as well (i.e., how to read human behavior and messages and how to work with presences and absences in messages)" (Weiss 335-36). He promotes an "interdisciplinary approach" to teach these skills (336) "to learn to be better prepared to interpret differences in human behavior, to 'read' what is taking place in a particular situation and how they might act and respond given their 'reading' of what is going on" (335). Many authors suggest encouraging our students to engage in courses outside the field of technical communication such as anthropology and linguistics (Hoft). Establishing a cross-discipline curriculum would help in teaching our students some of the differences they need to be aware of both linguistically and culturally as they write to international audiences.
Dangers of Localization
However, standards are still established through localization. Criteria must be decided what constitutes as a culture, where the boundaries lie, and what the characteristics of the culture are. For instance, writing to the audience of discourse communities does not offer a flawless solution in how do address such a diverse audience; discourse communities do not entirely eliminate disagreements because different communities can form different interpretations, and even a single community will rarely have unanimous interpretation. According to Fish, these disagreements are not hindrances to the field, because they serve to fuel the changes that take place and advance the field. These changes within discourse communities, though, provide even more complexities when analyzing the audience.
Furthermore, Nancy Hoft notes a potential danger in localization as "we find a strong trend toward generalization. Excessive generalization can lead to myth and stereotyping, among other extremes" (Hoft 3). In attempts to refute the dominance of power created by globalization, localization can create the same type of powerful hierarchy through stereotyping. However, as Hoft observes, localization also has additional drawbacks and "is a strategy adopted by very few companies because it is expensive and time consuming" (Hoft 4), which leads to another ethical concern. Our capitalistic society is focused on materialism and wealth. However, should ethics ever be compromised for the sake of making a profit? Hoft claims that we now have the technology and the ability to make localization work, "yet we continue to struggle to find economic, timely, and effective ways of addressing the blatant cultural differences in our audiences" (Hoft 5). Perhaps the problem lies in our own motives. We realize what we should do, and what we have the capability of doing, but we fail because we are indifferent. Cultural localization has not been a central concern in years past, and perhaps we still carry some of the "we-are-the-world syndrome". Teaching cultural awareness and ethical implications of intercultural communication in the classroom would help to raise awareness of the importance of the issue and be a starting point to change our attitude
Learning prescribed guidelines for writing for translation writing is an essential tool in addressing intercultural audiences and offers the most ethical standardization. However, even with the standard translator in mind as an audience, technical communicators must learn to adapt their writing to the situation and the context they are writing for. Perhaps this is one of the most valuable lessons a technical writer can learn – adaptability. We create standards to help us cope with the wide diversity of the audience, yet we must learn that these standards are subject to change; they do not cover every audience for every situation. A technical writer needs to learn when to implement these standards and when to adjust them to fit a specific situation. I am not saying that any of these approaches should be considered an absolute solution. Instead, I suggest that we need to show students that these are options for them to use, show the advantages and disadvantages both for usability and ethically. However, the most important lesson we can teach our students is adaptability. Students need to be able to decide when it is appropriate to use each method. For example, the universalist approach would most likely be the most efficient and ethical solution to use when designing airport signs (cite). A localist/translation approach would be much too complicated for the complexity of the audience. In this instance, the efficiency would overrule to mentality of imperialism that the universalist approach instills. Likewise, a product geared towards a specific country would benefit the most from localization and translation. A universalist approach in this case would undermine the specifics of the culture. Therefore, it is essential to give students the tools of knowledge needed to make their own decisions.
With this in mind, technical communicators are more than just translators or messengers for scientists. The decisions that technical communicators make are crucial in the audience's ability to use a certain product or understand a certain piece of technology. Furthermore, the choices technical writers make in their approach to intercultural communication reflect a whole mentality and attitude towards the target culture and their own. Therefore, it is crucial that technical writing courses raise the awareness of the implications of intercultural communication, and specifically, how to include the translator as the target audience. We can't expect technical communicators to bring peace to warring countries or eliminate biases among cultures. But, we can put our best effort forth to make contentious decisions about our audience and examine the ways our words will affect and influence them. Technical documents can be more than just user manuals; they can make political statements about the relationship between the technical communicator's culture and the culture of the audience.
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College Hockey:Jubinville Seeking To Pace Princeton Parade Again
Princeton has gotten off to a superb start this season in winning nine of its first 10 games. Imagine what the Tigers will be like once senior center Lee Jubinville gets going.
Jubinville, who has led Princeton in scoring the past two seasons, had just four points in his first 10 outings this fall, but recorded nearly 60 percent of his 39-point output last season after the calendar flipped over to January and went on to earn All-America accolades. His team also went on to claim the ECAC championship and advanced to the NCAA tournament for the first time in a decade.
"We had a sniff of success with the NCAAs, and it's something we want to get back to," said Jubinville following a November home win against Colgate.
A prolific scorer in junior hockey, Jubinville finished with a plus-10 plus-minus rating last season and has been a plus-player most of his Princeton career, even as he has increased his personal point production every season.
"That's just Jubs," said Princeton head coach Guy Gadowsky. "He changed his game for the good of his teammates, and is the epitome of an all-around player."
Gadowsky has been saying for the past few years to any and all who will listen that Jubinville is actually a better defensive player than he is a scorer, and that his prowess in his own end of the ice actually keys his offensive success.
"Defensively, he's as good as any forward, and he's always on the defensive side of the puck," said Gadowsky, who like Jubinville hails from Edmonton, Alta. "He has great speed, but his mentality is that of a defensive forward who also has great skills."
Jubinville posted a total of 93 points in two campaigns with the Camrose Kodiaks of the Alberta Junior Hockey League prior to enrolling at Princeton, a place which wasn't initially on his list even though he knew he wanted to go the NCAA route.
"Coach (Gadowsky) came to talk to me, and I was humbled," admitted Jubinville, an economics major who did not personally know Gadowsky prior to being recruited. "He did awesome with the Alaska Fairbanks program, and this was an opportunity I couldn't turn down."
Despite ultimately notching a school-record 21 victories last season, the Tigers really didn't get going until suffering a two-step sweep at home to eventual national runner-up Notre Dame last December.
"That series didn't go too well," admitted the 5-10, 165-lb. Jubinville of the games against the Fighting Irish, which included a 7-0 setback. "The guys came back in good shape. After Christmas we had four lines who could put the puck in the net, and that carried us on through March."
Princeton began calendar year 2008 with five straight wins, and eventually the Tigers took 16 of their last 23 games overall. Jubinville fashioned a nine-game scoring streak from early February through mid-March, and also wound up leading the ECAC in scoring. He also assisted on Princeton's lone goal in its 5-1 loss to North Dakota in the NCAA Midwest Regional, a game in which the Tigers outshot the more-experienced Fighting Sioux.
Jubinville's 39 points last year equaled his total output in his first two seasons at Old Nassau, and he also recorded nine multiple-point outings, including five contests with three or more points. He also copped Ivy League and ECAC Player of the Year honors, and accomplished something no Princeton player ever had before in being selected one of the ten finalists for the Hobey Baker Memorial Award, the same trophy named for the renowned Princeton athletic star of the early 20th century.
"That was a huge honor, and our guys helped me get in that position," said Jubinville, who added he was also proud of his team's success last season. "Hobey Baker was an alumnus, and knowing what he accomplished in both football and hockey, it's pretty special."
Jubinville himself has progressed every year he has been at Princeton, starting with a rookie campaign in which he said he looked and learned.
"The first year I took on a defensive role, and tried to find a place in the lineup," he admitted. "My second year I played with a defensive guy in Darroll Powe, and he gave me the opportunity to jump in offensively."
Powe made his NHL debut this season with the Philadelphia Flyers. His Princeton protg obviously learned his lessons well, considering the success Jubinville enjoyed last winter with a little help from his linemates.
"Last year I had real chemistry with Brett Wilson and Cam MacIntyre, and it's pretty easy to get results playing with those guys," said Jubinville.
The trio led the Tigers in scoring with 40 goals and 106 points to go along with a plus-23 rating.
Princeton's No. 6 was a little too young himself to recall the exploits of a certain No. 99 in his hometown back in the 1980s; but Jubinville, 23, admitted that the championship exploits of Wayne Gretzky and the rest of the Edmonton Oilers still leaves an indelible impression upon him.
"You still hear so much about them and the glory days," said Jubinville. "They played up tempo, and there were a lot of highlights."
Now in his final season at Princeton, Jubinville is hoping to help the Tigers create some more up tempo highlights of their own as they strive to improve upon last year's success.
"Obviously we want to win a championship," he said. "We got the ball rolling last season, with four lines contributing and a great goalie (Zane Kalemba) who stood on his head, especially in the ECAC Tournament. The opportunity to play North Dakota, with their history, was a pretty good experience, and we'll use it to our advantage this year."
Especially since this time out, the Tigers won't have the element of surprise that served them so well last season.
"It's a fresh start, but we're not going to sneak up on anyone," said Jubinville. "We'll have to come prepared every night."
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United Nations leaders appealed again today for help for the suffering war victims in Syria. With the civil war escalating the humanitarian situation continues to deteriorate.
The joint appeal was issued today from leaders of the UN humanitarian agencies including UNICEF, the World Food Programme, UNHCR, OCHA and the World Health Organization. They warned, "for the civilians remaining in the cities of Aleppo and the Old City of Homs, as well as other parts of the country experiencing heavy fighting, the worst days seem yet to come."
Across all of Syria there are at least 9 million who are impacted by the fighting. In Aleppo alone there are about one million now in need of help as fighting has intensified. Millions of others have already fled to neighboring countries and need assistance too.
Syrians are being killed by the artillery fire of the combatants. There is very little medical care available for those wounded. In Aleppo there are about 40 doctors for around 2.5 million people. Resources are scarce, further limiting treatment.
Hunger, malnutrition and water shortages continue. There is a complete breakdown of basic services. Aid groups are not able to access all those in need because roads are blocked by the fighting.
The UN leaders appealed today for the military forces to allow aid groups to reach the suffering. The appeal concluded,
"Thus far, diplomatic efforts designed to end years of suffering have failed. What have not failed are the courage and determination of extraordinary Syrian civilians to survive. Can those with the responsibility and the power and the influence to stop this terrible, tragic war find the same courage? The same will? For if the civilians of Syria have not given up, how can the world give up on its efforts to save them - and save Syria?"
The international community needs to help find an end to the conflict, and press for humanitarian access. In addition, the world needs to ensure that humanitarian agencies are funded so they have the supplies to provide life-saving aid. Already, there have been cases where WFP has reduced food rations because of low funding.
The UN appeal was signed by Valerie Amos, UN Emergency Relief Coordinator, Anthony Lake, Executive Director, UNICEF, António Guterres, UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Ertharin Cousin, Executive Director, World Food Programme, and Dr. Margaret Chan, Director-General, World Health Organization.
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Photo: Paul ZimmerFlavia Pennetta at the 2009 final
When Italy and Russia meet in the 2013 Fed Cup by BNP Paribas World Group Final it will be the fifth time the two nations have met in the last eight years but Flavia Pennetta doesn't believe this familiarity will give either team an advantage.
"We have played against them so many times and we know almost every player and they know us really well…I think it's going to be really tough for both teams but it's 50-50 - you never know what will happen," explained Pennetta, who has been a member of three Fed Cup winning teams.
Two of those title-winning ties came alongside Francesca Schiavone, Sara Errani and Roberta Vinci and it is anticipated that Italian captain Corrado Barazzutti will call upon the same faithful quartet for November's Final.
"The captain is going to bring the best team he can bring," continued the Italian. "[Karin] Knapp and [Camilla] Giorgi play really good so maybe he will decide to switch with some of us but I think he loves this team and the way it is."
It will be Barazzutti's 30th tie as Fed Cup captain - a role he has undertaken for the past 12 years.
"In the beginning it was really tough for him because he was always coaching a guy so it was not easy for him to come with four women. But now he understands how to talk with us and what he has to say to us," said Pennetta. "He's a really good captain; I would love to give him the chance to have another victory."
While Italy has fielded the same foursome for 11 of the past 13 ties, Russia has such strength in depth that you can never be sure who captain Shamil Tarpischev will choose.
"We don't know who will play for them," continued the 31-year-old. "They have so many choices they can make three teams not one! We are not going to know anything until the last moment but it's going to be difficult whoever they decide to bring to the team."
One advantage Italy holds over its opponents however is where the Final will take place – on home soil at the Tennis Club Cagliari in Sardinia.
"It's a really nice place - Cagliari is a lovely city so I think a lot of people can come and support us. We are really happy to play in Italy, we are really happy to play another final and we are looking for another win - we hope!"
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User acquisition and marketing campaigns have so many different levels of implementation and analysis that it truly becomes the foundation to any early-stage startup. In order for you to target certain demographics or specific markets you need to understand the types of people that are most prone to not only use and enjoy your platform but share it with others. In doing so you can almost guarantee success with organic growth.
The first step is to run as many micro-experiments as possible to determine which marketing campaigns are most effective and least expensive. Once you have run enough campaigns, you must analyze them by importing all of the data you receive into a spreadsheet. By creating as many formulas as possible you can determine the cost of acquisition, activation, retention, customers, and referrals. By using this crucial data you can eliminate all of the campaigns that aren't truly driving your growth, while focusing on the ones that do.
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[ANNOUNCE] Apache Mahout 0.1 Released
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Real CEP News: Amazon Announces Elastic MapReduce
Yesterday Amazon announced the public beta of Amazon Elastic MapReduce, a web-based service that enables businesses, researchers, data analysts, and developers to easily and cost-effectively process vast amounts of data. Amazon Elastic MapReduce utilizes a hosted Hadoop framework running on the web-scale infrastructure of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) and Amazon Simple Storage Service […]Read more
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A 3D adventure into the world of big wave surfing with Aussie tow-surfing legend Ross Clarke-Jones and two-time World Champion Tom Carroll.
Reviewed by Paul Byrnes The surf movie may be many things, from travelogue to spiritual journey to psychedelic headtrip, but it is rarely dramatic in a human sense.
This movie is by far the best 3D film I have seen, for anyone who has ever surfed, you're in the water with Tom, Ross and the crew, it feels as though you're just lying off the main break waiting for your turn to ride one of these monsters, the cinematography is captivating.
Riding some of the biggest waves ever surfed using Jet Ski's to tow into the waves, visiting some of the most remote parts of Australia's shoreline and off-shore, it's like a chapter out of a boys own novel. The chemistry between Tom and Ross works a treat, typical of surfie mates, giving each other a hard time, yet not one expletive in the whole film makes this a movie all the family could go and see, subtly narrated by Toni Collette building the drama as winter creates larger storm cells and bigger waves, this film has all the attributes to entertain and not leave the audience disappointed. 95 minutes of adrenaline and testosterone.
Some great flashbacks to the surfing history of Tom and Ross, a great cameo from Kelly Slater as Tom revisits the Pipeline and carves it up, some of the most exciting footage in the film that depicts the speed of the break at the Pipeline, after seeing the movie it's not hard to understand why Tom Carroll took 26 career world tour wins, 3 Pipe Masters victories (87, 90, and 91), and 2 world titles.
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November 12, 2015
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Love the reception dinner.
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August 11, 2015
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I liked everything about the hotel. The suite I rented was great. I also had a free breakfast which was fantastic.
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August 9, 2015
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Loved the 2 hour happy hour of wine, beer, salad, chili, hot dogs, and fruit. Breakfast was great and free as well. People were fantastic!
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February 27, 2015
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Everything. Very conveniently located! Great service
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February 18, 2015
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Friendly Staff!! Great Breakfast!
Carpet dirty and room had chemical smell, not fresh
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Location is great! Staff is friendly and helpful! Breakfast and happy hour times are good!
Location of room this trip made it very noisy! Could hear doors opening and closing at all hours.
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Clean and quiet room with kitchen, nice breakfast in the morning
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(by Tim Griffin) If it's early May, it must be about time for Sporting News.com to provide its annual ranking of the nation's 128 Division I-A football coaches. The Big 12 was well represented at the top as Oklahoma's Bob Stoops was No. 4 and Baylor's Art Briles at No. 11...Read more


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Aug. 24, 2011
By Gregg Bell
UW Director of Writing
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SEATTLE - He looks like Mean Gene Okerlund, the old WWE wrestler, announcer and interviewer.
He sounds even meaner than that.
"MOOOOOVE!!!" Dan Cozzetto screams at a Huskies offensive lineman that is not getting off the ball during preseason practice fast enough for his ultra-demanding taste.
"ATTACK!!" the 30-year veteran of coaching college and NFL offensive lines barks at his Dawgs blockers during a running-game drill.
"How about you get your pad level DOWN?!"
Offensive line coach Dan Cozzetto has spent a total of 16 years at four different Pac-12 schools.
At one point Tuesday night he shouted, "Our quarterback is back there getting KILLED!" - even though a Husky QB hasn't really been touched since December's Holiday Bowl. They are off-limits to contact in all practices.
From halfway up the first deck during Monday's wet practice I could tell the wind was whipping down at field level inside Husky Stadium. Because when Cozzetto threw down his play sheet in disgust over a missed block, it blew about like the debris around Dorothy early in The Wizard of Oz.
"Oh, I love him," said his boss, Huskies head man Steve Sarkisian.
How about the guys he drives so hard?
They wouldn't have it any other way.
"Man, I love Coach Cozzetto," left tackle Senio Kelemete, the line's anchor and only senior, told me after another of his coach's uh, teaching points. "He's a great coach."
Junior center Drew Schaefer also loves Cozzetto -- then points out with a chuckle, "Us linemen, we have our own interpretation of fun."
But this isn't some mad scientist of a line coach who only rants at his guys to get them to perform. The rapidly jelling line executed flawlessly on a play Tuesday night and provided time for a long pass play. Cozzetto pumped his fist from behind the offense's huddle while the receiver was catching the ball.
Of course, he then yelled at his blockers, "Why don't you do that every time?!"
"He loves his guys - I know it doesn't always look like that out here," Sarkisian said with a laugh. "And I think in turn, they love him. That's that great camaraderie that offensive lines and their coach have. I think that's neat.
"And we have that here."
Us linemen, we have our own interpretation of fun.
Sure, Washington and new starting quarterback Keith Price have to try to replace many of the talents Jake Locker took to the NFL. The Huskies' skill players can potentially carry games -- foremost among them, junior Chris Polk. The 1,400-yard rusher will be running again soon following last week's arthroscopic knee surgery. In Polk's absence, the Huskies will count on Jesse Callier to keep Sarkisian's power run-game going.
But none of that will happen if Cozzetto's men aren't settled and, eventually, stalwarts. In that way, this demanding native of Spokane, one who has pushed college and NFL linemen from Idaho and Arizona State to the San Francisco 49ers to great heights, could be as important as anyone to Washington's season.
Cozzetto put out seven different combinations as his starting five on UW's offensive line last season. Only one grouping stayed together for more than two games - Kelemete, Ryan Tolar, Schaefer, Greg Christine, and Cody Habben from left to right across the line.
That wasn't because Cozzetto wanted it that way.
"Mixing and matching, that was because of the way it was," he said of 2010 up front. "We came here to clean that up, OK?"
Yes, OK. Got it. I knew not to follow up that question.
"Now that we've got our own people in here and we are starting to develop our own players, it's critical that those guys who have been playing here for us, who have been through the system, they start solidifying positions," Cozzetto said of his 2011 line.
They've done it this month. And it's one of the biggest accomplishments of Washington's preseason.
Kelemete was the only O lineman to start all last season at the same position. He's back anchoring at left tackle. Schaefer started last season at center 11 times and right tackle twice after finishing 2009 as the starting left tackle. He is set at center now. Colin Porter, who started six games at right guard as a true freshman, is back there for 2011. Erik Kohler, the 6-foot-5, 298-pounder started four games at left guard and one at right tackle in 2010, is the right tackle.
And redshirt freshman Colin Tanigawa has won the job at left guard with quickness, a keen knowledge of line calls plus a mean streak that almost makes Cozzetto smile.
Cozzetto brings a grizzled toughness to an otherwise young, smooth staff.
"Colin is doing pretty well - but he hasn't played a game yet," Cozzetto said. "We'll see."
I asked Kelemete what he's learned most entering his third season with Cozzetto.
"Just his passion for the game," he said. "It's a physical game. You can't just come out here and expect to get through. He always coaches us about pride, you know. You have to take pride in everything you do, in accountability, in making sure we have each other's back."
See, not everything Cozzetto says on the field is at rock-concert volume and intensity. He spent the early part of Tuesday's practice on the back field clapping and encouraging his guys during yet another pass-rush drill with the D-line.
At one point during team drills inside the stadium, he calmly directed Kohler after he got his hands up quickly on a charging defensive lineman but then did little more than that with them.
"Erik, you put your hands on him, you either knock him off his path or you take him where you want to go!" Cozzetto said, more instructively than angrily.
And by all accounts he's just as forceful and loud while praising and supporting his guys in front of the entire team as he is while correcting them. That strengthens the already tight bond they share with their coach.
"I need a CALCULATOR!!! Somebody get me a CALCULATOR!!!" Cozzetto roared the other day, razzing the defense and joking he'd lost track of so many wins for his line in a one-on-one blocking drill.
I wish I could print some of his best ones, but my 8-year-old sometimes reads these.
Cozzetto's theatrics are more than enough to make a bystander laugh. But not a player. Not as far as the coach can see, anyway.
"Yeah, it's kind of hard. You've got to make sure you keep that straight face," Kelemete said. "But then as soon as he turns, you get a little smirk in there. As soon as he walked 10 or 20 yards down, then you can get in a little laugh."
Kelemete was kidding - we think.
"I mean, some of the stuff he says is funny," Tanigawa said. "But you definitely learn a lot. He's been in the game a long time. He tells a lot. I'm definitely going to listen to him. I think definitely everyone else is listening, too."
The husband and father of two sons and two daughters has coached a total of 16 years for four different Pac-12 schools. He spent eight seasons as Arizona State's offensive coordinator and line coach, including the one in which Jake Plummer led the Sun Devils to 43 points per game and the 1997 Rose Bowl.
He is in his second stint as a UW assistant after coaching its line in 2003, before he headed to the NFL to work for Dennis Erickson with the 49ers.
He has been a smash hit with fellow Huskies coaches and players since he began showing up for work early in this latter UW tenure with free bagels. His wife Debbie, who got her MBA from Washington, used to run a bakery in the Madison Park section of Seattle.
But it was more than sourdough and pumpernickel that made Cozzetto valuable to Sarkisian.
Johnny Nansen, Sarkisian's defensive line coach and recruiting coordinator, worked with Cozzetto at Idaho. And Sarkisian interviewed Cozzetto for the line-coach job at USC when Sarkisian was the Trojans' offensive coordinator a few years back, "but that didn't end up working out," Sark said.
(Cozzetto) has pushed college and NFL linemen from Idaho and Arizona State to the San Francisco 49ers to great heights, (and) could be as important as anyone to Washington's season.
Every coach in the Pac-10 had known for decades how good a coach and tactician Cozzetto was when Sarkisian was putting together his Huskies staff early in 2009.
Plus, let's face it, Washington's staff needed experience - and some toughness.
"When you assess our staff, we are obviously young. We are upbeat, energetic," the 37-year-old Sarkisian said.
Sarkisian, offensive coordinator Doug Nussmeier and wide receivers coach Jimmie Dougherty are all former quarterbacks. Running backs coach Joel Thomas was a running back.
The Huskies had the pretty boys on staff. They needed a grunt, to best relate to game's fundamental instincts.
"I really wanted a guy on our staff that had a wealth of experience. That had a real hard-nosed, tough-minded approach about him. That could really bring some attitude to our offense," Sarkisian said.
"I think it's been a perfect fit."
He's also proven to something of a coaching sage for Sark, "a guy I can really lean on for situations and things that pop up, and get his opinion," the head man said.
This could be the season we see the payoff to all of Cozzetto's teaching. All but Kelemete and fellow seniors Nick Wood and Skyler Fancher have been recruited by this staff for the system they've been in for up to two-plus years now.
Does that mean the Huskies will be far more settled and effective up front than they were last year?
"Of course it does," Cozzetto said. "We had to live and die with (playing freshmen and shuffling) because we had to make a statement as to who we are and as to what we are trying to get done here," Cozzetto said, meaning being more physical up front.
"We've recruited quality players who have been through the system. ... We've got athletes who can run, who can do a lot of things.
"The mindset's a hell of a lot different than it was when we walked in here."
Of course it is. With Cozzetto driving them so hard, do they have any other choice?
About Gregg Bell Gregg Bell is an award-winning sports writer who joined the University of Washington's staff in September 2010 as the Director of Writing. Previously, Bell served as the senior national sports writer in Seattle for The Associated Press. The native of Steubenville, Ohio, is a 1993 graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y. He received a master's degree in journalism from the University of California, Berkeley in 2000.
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I was born in Cape Town in 1981 and I continue to live there today. I received a Bachelor's Degree in Fine Art from the University of Stellenbosch and during the course of my studies I was drawn to photography and I have remained passionate about it ever since.
Solo Exhibitions:
2014 - For What It's Worth, Brundyn+, Cape Town, South Africa
2012 - Landmarks I, Blank Projects, Cape Town, South Africa
2011 - Lay of the Land, AVA Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
Selected Group Exhibitions:
2015 - Africa/ Architecture, Culture and Identity, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark
2014 - Pangaea: New Art From Africa and Latin America, Saatchi Gallery, London, England
2013 - Present Tense, Next Future, Lisbon, Portugal and Paris, France
2013 - POPCAP'13, Piclet.org, Basel, Switzerland, Dublin, Ireland and Lagos, Nigeria
2013 - ExtraOrdinary, Noorderlicht, Drenthe, Netherlands
2013 - The Benediction of Shade, David Krut Projects, Cape Town, South Africa
2012 - Material / Representation, Brundyn + Gonsalves, Cape Town, South Africa
2012 - Landscape Re-Orientation, David Krut Projects, Cape Town, South Africa
2011 - A Natural Selection: 1991 - 2011, AVA Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
2011 - e-SCAPES, Workshop Gallery, Parkwood, Johannesburg, South Africa
2010 - Spier Contemporary, City Hall, Cape Town, South Africa
2008 - Sasol New Signatures, Pretoria Art Museum, Pretoria, South Africa


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The Puppets of Buckminster Fuller
[An expanded, corrected and illustrated update of this article appears in The Lost Inventions of Buckminster Fuller.]
Synergetics was Buckminster Fuller's attempt to bridge science and the humanities. Fuller employed many forms of communication to teach synergetics. He was the author or subject of dozens of books and hundreds of essays. He was a tireless public speaker, lecturing before hundreds of thousands in over one hundred globe-circling tours. Less known than these means of communication, Buckminster Fuller also used puppetry to teach synergetics through a long association with his friend and professional puppeteer Bil Baird (August 15, 1904 – March 18, 1987). Baird and Fuller crossed paths several times, and are known to have collaborated in several ways.
Baird's troupe, The Baird Marionettes, was formed in the early 1930s and gave their first performance at the 1933 Chicago World's Fair. Fuller was also at the 1933 Chicago World's Fair, exhibiting the Dymaxion Car. Their paths may have crossed again at the 1964/65 New York World's Fair where the Baird Marionettes were performing The Show-Go-Round at the Chrysler Pavilion. Fuller was also in New York City at the time, making television and radio appearances in July, August, September and November of 1964 and in July of 1965. Fuller was in New York City again in October 1965 to attended an opening at the Museum of Modern Art.
The Baird Marionettes performed in the 1951 Broadway musical Flahooley. According to Wikipedia, Flahooley was "a fantasy about a mass-produced laughing doll who unintentionally threatens the American industrial system." Fuller, too, sometimes found himself at odds with the American industrial system due to his enthusiasm for mass production in the housing industry on-par with the automotive and aviation industry.
Another connection between Fuller and Baird was Evelyn Schwartz. Fuller had an affair with Schwartz in 1927. Schwartz later joined the Baird troupe and married Bil Baird in 1932. After Baird and Schwartz divorced, Schwartz married Vilhjalmur Stefansson. Schwartz and Stefansson first met Schwartz at Romany Marie's a restaurant where Fuller gave weekly 'thinking out loud' lectures in exchange for food. Fuller had exhibited the Dymaxion House at Romany Marie's, using nude female dolls as yet another way to draw attention to his ideas.
The preceding are all incidental connections between Baird and Fuller, but more concrete connections exist. In 1955 Fuller designed and built what the New York Times called "an abstraction […] two metal frames that dance enchantingly" for the Baird Marionette troupe. What the times was referring to was a cuboctahedron performing what Fuller called the Jitterbug Transformation. These puppets were used by the Baird Marionettes in 1958 for Adventures in Number + Space, which may represent the first time Fuller's Jitterbug Transformation appeared on television. Adventures in Number + Space appeared on the Westinghouse Broadcasting Company network in the late 1950s. The television program taught mathematics through puppetry. The illustration above is an uncredited photograph of the Fuller puppets from an advertisement for Adventures in Number + Space that appeared in the New York Times.
Fuller made puppets for the Bairds. He was also made a puppet by the Bairds. The thousands of marionettes made by Baird's troupe included a Bucky Fuller marionette. The Baird marionettes were sold at auction in 1967. This presumably included the Fuller marionette. Its location is currently unknown.
– Trevor Blake
Trevor Blake is the author of the Buckminster Fuller Bibliography, available at synchronofile.com
Atkinson, Brooks: Bairds' Marionettes, The. New York Times, 27 December 1955, p. 29. New York, NY USA.
Blake, Trevor: Buckminster Fuller Bibliography. synchronofile.com, Portland 2008.
Gargle Came in the Nick of Time. New York Times, 6 March 1958, p. 28. New York, NY USA.
Wikipedia: Bil Baird. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bil_Baird
Wikipedia: Romany Marie. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romany_Marie
Wikipedia: Vilhjalmur Stefansson. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vilhjalmur_Stefansson
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The World Baseball Classic has proven important for the countries involved. Now that Baseball has been removed from the Olympics, this has become a venue that intersects the Olympics with the World Series. Each country has its dream team of players from Major League Baseball and other Professional leagues in Asia, Europe, and Latin America. Cuba, who has been a major factor during international amateur competition for decades, is always an interesting part of the Classic. The history of baseball in the Caribbean basin traces back to Cuba.
It takes about three to four hours to drive down to Miami from Central Florida. I took that trip last year to see something that happens once every four years now. I actually bought the tickets to Game 6, at a discount, a few months before without knowing what teams would be playing. Round two of the World Baseball Classic was held in two pools. This one was at Marlins Park in Miami. The other was at Japan Dome in Fukuoka, where Japan, Chinese Taipei, Cuba, and the Netherlands played.
Needless to say, I was pleased to know that the game I would see was Dominican Republic vs. Puerto Rico. I had been following the Team Puerto Rico (my fellow Boricuas) since the beginning of the tournament. They earned every win of the World Baseball Classic, having a margin of three runs or less in each game. In their first match with Team USA, they lost 7-1 but came back in the second match 4-3 to narrowly advance.
Marlins Park, home of the Miami Marlins, opened in 2012. It has a retractable roof, and a giant glazed wall behind right field that frames the new Miami skyline of condominium towers. Its the only park with a fish tank that wraps around the backstop behind home plate, holding 600 gallons of seawater. And yes, players have check how durable the glass is with a few baseball line drives.
Some other unique things you'll see are a Bobble Head Museum, a Clevelander Bar & Swimming Pool, and lots of artwork displayed throughout (The owner is a world renowned Art dealer). Then there is the Home Run Sculpture behind centerfield. Some people are still trying to make sense of it. I'm one of them. Neon lights, fog, and moving parts turn on when a Marlin hits a home run.
Financing of the park is controversial in Miami. Seating capacity is 37,442. That makes it the third smallest park in Major League Baseball. But, when you're there, it seems much larger for some reason. Maybe its because the playing field appears further away from the seats. Its either that or the other amenities that were built into this contemporary building.
There is nothing like the level of competition in the World Baseball Classic, more than just a playoff atmosphere. It's a patriotic electricity. Every corner of the park had a rally. The noise carried on long after the game. Puerto Rico lost to Dominican Republic 2-0 on Saturday march 16, 2013. These two teams would go on to the Semi-Finals with Teams Japan and Netherlands at AT&T Park in San Francisco. Ultimately, Puerto Rico and Dominican Republic would face each for the third time in the final game.
Puerto Rico had great wins along the way that included beating Teams USA and Japan (2006 and 2009 Champions). But, the Dominican Republic was too stacked with talent, going undefeated to win it all. They had something to prove from their shocking early exit in 2009 after being eliminated by an up and coming Netherlands program.
The currents of patriotism were hard to resist by fans. But, it was a victory in itself to see two teams from the Caribbean basin, where baseball roots run deep, to play in the championship game.


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