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IMF Executive Board Concludes 2010 Article IV Consultation with St. Kitts and NevisPublic Information Notice (PIN) No. 10/145
November 3, 2010
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On July 7, 2010, the Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) concluded the Article IV consultation with St. Kitts and Nevis.1
St. Kitts and Nevis' tourism-dependent economy was severely impacted by the global financial crisis, and near-term growth prospects remain challenging. Economic activity is estimated to have contracted by 5.5 percent in 2009 reflecting sharp declines in tourism and tourism-related construction activities. In the island of Nevis, the prolonged closure of its largest hotel due to damage by Hurricane Omar in 2008 has contributed to the Federation's weak economy. The outlook is challenging, with output projected to decline again in 2010 and to remain depressed over the medium term. Inflation has declined from 7.6 percent in 2008 to 1 percent in 2009, and is expected to remain in the low single digits over the medium term.
The fiscal situation has deteriorated significantly. The government recorded a primary surplus for the fifth consecutive year of 5 percent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in 2009, helped by one-off tax revenue increases and non-tax revenues as well as higher grants. Efforts notwithstanding, the public debt ratio as a percent of GDP increased by 15 percentage points in 2009, and arrears on energy imports continued to accumulate. The fiscal situation is projected to deteriorate markedly to a primary deficit of 6.8 percent of GDP in 2010, largely due to a significant drop in revenue and in the absence of one-off factors in the previous year, without stepped-up efforts to reign in expenditure. With a debt ratio at 185 percent of GDP at end-2009, the debt service burden leaves no room for fiscal policy to respond to the adverse shocks. Fiscal consolidation is critical not only for debt reduction, but also to support competitiveness and underpin the quasi-currency board arrangements.
The government's heavy reliance on financing from a captive domestic market has led to the high exposure of the banking system to public sector debt. High and increasing debt, along with the heavy exposure of the banking sector, poses a major risk to macroeconomic stability. Moreover, there is a risk of spillovers to other ECCU countries if a fiscal crisis were to develop and undermine public confidence. In addition, the non-bank financial sector has been impacted by the collapse of the CL Financial Group, underscoring the need to strengthen the supervision of financial institutions.
External imbalances have narrowed in 2009. The external current account deficit is estimated to have declined by about 8 percentage points of GDP, primarily reflecting lower Foreign Direct Investment-related imports and weak domestic demand. Tourist receipts are projected to marginally increase with arrivals expected to remain subdued. Similarly, remittances are projected to increase by less than 5 percent (year-on-year) in line with employment conditions in migrant host countries.
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The Executive Directors observed that St. Kitts and Nevis' tourism-dependent and highly indebted economy has been severely affected by the global financial and economic crisis and that the outlook remains challenging. Directors noted that the weak economic environment is contributing to a widening of existing fiscal imbalances, and recommended the authorities forge a national consensus for reforms to put public debt on a firmly downward trajectory, increase competitiveness, and help sustain the economic recovery. Against the background of a continued threat of natural disasters and other risks, Directors advised the authorities to stand ready to take forceful additional measures as needed to ensure macroeconomic stability.
While welcoming recent efforts at fiscal consolidation, Directors emphasized that a combination of both revenue and expenditure measures, including reducing the wage bill and prioritizing capital spending, is needed to maintain primary fiscal surpluses. They welcomed the authorities' commitment to introduce a value-added tax and the recently announced fiscal measures, and looked forward to swift implementation.
Directors underscored the need for structural fiscal reforms over the medium term to underpin fiscal and debt sustainability, including corporatization of the electricity department, rationalization of the civil service, and strengthening of public financial management. Given that fiscal adjustment alone will not be sufficient to achieve fiscal and debt sustainability, they encouraged the authorities to speed up land sales and to consider seeking financial support from multilateral institutions.
Directors noted the staff's assessment that the real exchange rate appears broadly in line with current economic fundamentals. Given the currency board arrangement, they called for further structural reforms to enhance competitiveness, reduce vulnerabilities, and support growth. In particular, Directors observed that greater labor market flexibility is needed.
Directors emphasized the need to step up the supervision of banks and change the fiscal financing model, given that domestic banks are heavily exposed to the government. They also observed that strengthening regulation and supervision of nonbanks will address major shortcomings in the regulatory framework.


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Clauss, M; Polster, C; Kienzle, E; Wiesner, H; Baumgartner, K; von Houwald, F; Ortmann, S; Streich, W J; Dierenfeld, E S (2005). Studies on digestive physiology and feed digestibilities in captive Indian rhinoceros (Rhinoceros unicornis). Journal of Animal Physiology and Animal Nutrition, 89(3-6):229-237.
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We performed intake, digestibility and ingesta passage studies in 11 Indian rhinoceroses (Rhinoceros unicornis) from four zoological institutions, using total faecal collection for the quantification of faecal output. The regularly fed zoo ration of roughage and concentrates (ration RC) and a roughage-only ration (ration R) were used; the roughage source differed between the facilities and comprised grass hay, grass silage, straw and lucerne hay. Dry matter intake ranged between 0.8 and 1.3% of body weight on ration RC and 0.5-1.2% on ration R. Digestibility coefficients achieved were similar to those reported for horses on diets of comparable composition. Endogenous losses as determined by linear regression analysis were within the range reported for horses. Measurements of faecal volatile fatty acids, faecal lactate and faecal pH also showed similarity to similar measurements in horses. The mean retention times of fluids (Co-EDTA) and particles (Cr-mordanted fibre <2 mm) in the whole gastrointestinal tract averaged 42 and 61 h, respectively, and were the longest ever recorded in a monogastric ungulate with this marker system. The results suggest that the horse is a useful model animal for designing diets for Indian rhinoceroses. Why digestive parameters are similar between these species in spite of enormous differences in body weight and retention times remains to be answered.
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Army junior Chris Nguyen successfully defended his Patriot League title in the men's one-meter dive Friday night.
Feb. 17, 2012
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ANNAPOLIS, Md. – Navy remained in front of the 2012 Patriot League Men and Women's Swimming and Diving Championships Friday after the second day of competition at Lejeune Hall at the United States Naval Academy.
The Navy men, who have won eight consecutive League championships, lead with 677.5 points, ahead of Bucknell (438.5) and Army (341.5) to complete the top three. Lehigh is in fourth with 291 points, followed by American in fifth place with 179.5 points and Colgate in sixth with 164. Lafayette sits seventh with 129 points, while Holy Cross is in eighth at 96 points.
The Mids have 610 points to lead the women's standings, ahead of defending champion Colgate, which has 474 points so far. Bucknell is third with 363, while Army is fourth with 284 and Lehigh is fifth with 207 points. Lafayette is sixth with 169 points, American seventh with 141 and Holy Cross eighth with 91.
In all, the Mids have combined to capture 23 of 26 events at this year's championships. The record of 30 combined titles between the men and women was set in 2010. The men captured 16 golds that year, while the women accounted for 14.
Navy captured the women's 200 medley relay to start off Friday's championship session. Olivia Kosaka, Laura Gorinski, Toni Paruso and Kellie Darmody won in 1:42.18. Colgate captured silver in 1:44.92, while Lafayette's foursome took third in 1:31.71.
The Mids made it 13 straight event victories when Gage Trotter, Sean Murphy, Steve Dukleth and Zach Ingold touched the wall first in the men's 200 medley relay in 1:28.60. That time broke the overall Patriot League, the championship meet and Lejeune Hall records. Bucknell took second in 1:31.40, while Army captured bronze in 1:31.71.
Colgate senior Erica Derlath became the first not from Navy to capture a League title. She won the women's 400 IM in 4:17.42, eclipsing her championship-winning clocking of 4:17.61 from a year ago. Derlath becomes a three-time champion in the event and the first since Navy's Kelly Zahalka won it from 2006-08. Bucknell's Stephanie Koziol and Liz Porcellio finished second and third, respectively.
Navy won the men's 400 IM, with Justin Vagts securing gold in 3:51.27, just three-hundredths of a second off the Patriot League and meet records. Bucknell's Mike Nicholson finished second in 3:55.92, while the Mids picked up more points as Joe Stark and Conor Campbell collected third and fourth in 3:57.50 and 3:57.59, respectively.
Paruso collected her second gold of the night when she won the women's 100 fly. She was the top qualifier in the morning session with a time of 53.58, which set the Patriot League and championship meet records. She won the evening's final in 53.92. Rheanna Vaughn was the runner-up in 55.53, just ahead of third-place Jenna Jacoby of Colgate, who took bronze in 55.55.
Navy's Steve Dukleth captured the men's 100 fly with a time of 48.01, giving the Mids 16 of the first 17 races. The senior was just one-hundredth of a second in front of junior teammate Ben Bondurant, while Army's Ayman Andrews, the defending League champion, finished third in 48.08.
Lia Kunnapas won Colgate's second gold of the night when she won the women's 200 free with a time of 1:49.60. Army's Paige Brink took second place with a clocking of 1:50.08, while Navy's Ange Sawick touched the pad in 1:50.45 for third.
Mac Anthony became a four-time Patriot League champion in the men's 200 free when he won in 1:37.10. He edged his Navy teammate Hugh Davison, who secured silver in 1:37.99. Bucknell's Matt Segar earned third place with a clocking of 1:38.19. Anthony is the only three- and four-time League champion in the men's 200 free.
Gorinski returned to the pool for her second first-place finish of the evening. After being the top qualifier in the morning session, Gorinski won the women's 100 breast in 1:01.47. Colgate's Becca Murray finished second with a time of 1:03.97, while Navy's Colleen Randolph secured the bronze with a clocking of 1:05.36.
Navy's Sean Murphy gave the Mids their 19th title of the meet in 21 events when he touched the pad first in the men's 100 breast in 55.70. Bucknell's Christian Treat won silver in 56 seconds flat, while Navy's Luke Hoffer was third with a time of 56.07.
Darmody earned her second gold of the night when she finished first in the women's 100 back with a time of 55.27. Colgate's Lia Kunnapas, the defending champion in the event, took silver in 55.50, while third place went to Colgate's Jenna Jacoby with a clocking of 56.38.
Navy's Gage Trotter broke his own Patriot League record in the 100 back when he finished in 48.34. He set the previous mark March 5, 2011 with a time of 48.54. In addition, his clocking was a League Championship meet record. Trotter edged teammate Zach Ingold, who clocked a 48.97 to take second, and American's Bobby Ballance, who logged a time of 49.88.
Army junior Chris Nguyen became the first two-time Patriot League champion in the men's one-meter diving since Navy's Kevin Teague when he successfully defended his title Friday night. Nguyen scored 371.05 points from the board, while teammate Zachary Woods finished second with 331.75 points. Navy's Ben Freedman won bronze with 325.70 points.
Navy wrapped up Friday night by sweeping the 800 free relays. Hollis Capuano, Bryn Moriarty, Ange Sawick and Gorinski won the women's race in 7:22.88, while Will Norton, Ben Bondurant, Hugh Davison and Anthony touched the wall first in the men's competition in 6:33.61.
Bucknell and Army took second and third in the men's 800 free relay, while Colgate and the Black Knights went 2-3 on the women's side.
The third and final day of the championships will take place Saturday. The trials are set for 10:30 a.m., while the finals will begin at 6 p.m.
Day Two Results
Women's 200 Medley Relay – Navy (Kosaka, Gorinski, Paruso, Darmody) – 1:42.18
Men's 200 Medley Relay – Navy (Trotter, Murphy, Dukleth, Ingold) – 1:28.60 &
Women's 400 IM – Erica Derlath, Colgate – 4:17.42
Men's 400 IM – Justin Vagts, Navy – 3:51.27
Women's 100 Fly – Toni Paruso, Navy – 53.92
(Toni Paruso set Patriot League and meet record when she qualified in prelims with a 53.58)
Men's 100 Fly – Steve Dukleth, Navy – 48.01
Women's 200 Freestyle – Lia Kunnapas, Colgate – 1:49.60
Men's 200 Freestyle – Mac Anthony, Navy – 1:37.10
Women's 100 Breaststroke – Laura Gorinski, Navy – 1:01.47
Men's 100 Breaststroke – Sean Murphy, Navy – 55.70
Women's 100 Backstroke – Kellie Darmody, Navy – 55.27
Men's 100 Backstroke – Gage Trotter, Navy – 48.34 &
Men's 1-meter Diving – Chris Nguyen, Army – 371.05
Women's 800 Freestyle Relay – Navy (Capuano, Moriarty, Sawick, Gorinski) – 7:22.88
Men's 800 Freestyle Relay – Navy (Norton, Bondurant, Davison, Anthony) – 6:33.61
& - Patriot League and championship meet record
Team Standings
1. Navy – 677.5
2. Bucknell – 438.5
3. Army – 341.5
4. Lehigh – 291
5. American – 179.5
6. Colgate – 164
7. Lafayette – 129
8. Holy Cross – 96
1. Navy – 610
2. Colgate – 474
3. Bucknell – 363
4. Army – 284
5. Lehigh – 207
6. Lafayette – 169
7. American – 141
8. Holy Cross – 91


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MONTVILLE TWP. — Three months before classes begin at Ralph E. Waite Elementary School, construction is wrapping up and contractors are busy finishing the playground and installing plumbing fixtures.
The gymnasium floor also must be installed, and parking lots for bus and car drop-offs must get paved.
"It's basically a big box,†Jon Burkhart, director of business affairs for Medina City Schools, said during a tour of the construction site Friday.
The building, which can be seen from the intersection of state routes 3 and 162, is one of two new elementary schools. Eliza Northrop Elementary, which is identical in design to Waite Elementary, is located on East Reagan Parkway in Medina.
Each building, which will house kindergarten through grade five, is 71,000 square feet and will house up to 650 students. Both schools are scheduled to be completed by mid-July, Burkhart said.
The classrooms, which will be grouped by grade in three different "pods,†are located on the buildings' edges, while common areas such as the gymnasium and cafeteria, will be in the middle.
Along with coat hooks, a sink and bookcases, each room will have an LCD projector so teachers can show students PowerPoint presentations, Web sites or DVDs onto dry-erase boards.
There will be four classrooms for each grade level, along with separate special education classrooms and other rooms for small student groups. Each grade's section of the hall will be a different color, Burkhart said, to help younger students know their area.
What makes these new buildings better than others in the district are safety procedures and the use of energy-efficient systems, he said.
Visitors will be prohibited from entering the front lobby without signing in at the office, located next to the front door, Burkhart said. The buildings also will have two parking lots — one for buses and one for other vehicles.
The installation of triple-pane windows, motion-sensitive lighting systems and the use of fluorescent light bulbs help make the buildings as energy-efficient as possible, he said.
Burkhart said 11 other schools in the state have the same design, including several in the Olentangy Local School District in Delaware County where Burkhart previously worked.
"All the bugs have been worked out of it,†said Burkhart, since slight improvements were made with each new building. "It's a compact, efficient design where there's no wasted space.â€
He said the district has tried to use durable materials, such as having tile instead of carpeting in classrooms and installing portable walls in classrooms so teachers can have separate areas for team-teaching.
Waite's main entrance, located on Cobblestone Park Drive off Route 3, will open in August.
Currently, construction crews have to enter the building off Poe Road or Route 162 and drive through a housing development.
A traffic light will be installed at Route 3 and Cobblestone Park Drive to help with traffic. Although the light will not be installed until next year, Burkhart said Montville Township police will assist with traffic control before and after school.
The township also is planning to construct baseball fields around the school, he said.
At Northrop Elementary, the installation of extra turn lanes on East Reagan Parkway will help with the increased traffic in the area, he said.
The cost of the schools' construction, about $20 million, was funded through revenues from a county sales tax increase voters approved in 2007.
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"THE OPPOSITE OF BEING DEPRESSED"an interview with Sascha Altman DuBrulby Al Burian (Berlin, Germany. Late June, 2011)Sascha Altman Dubrul AKA Sascha Scatter is an anarchist, a bi-polar activist, and co-founder of the radical mental health organization the Icarus Project. He was also a founding member of the New York punk band Choking Victim. During Sascha's recent visit to Berlin, we took a long walk around the airfield at historic Tempelhof airport, and I tried out my new portable recorder on him.A: (turning on recorder) I think it's working. Cool. But we're both so soft-spoken, it's just going to just be a mumble.S: I can be soft-spoken, but I can be really loud too. You should have seen me yesterday with all those Germans. They were so, uh… It was really hard to get them to react. There were about fifty people in the room, and I literally got up out of my chair, stood in the middle of the room, and was waving my arms around, making these huge hand gestures. "Do you all understand me? Say YES!" (laughs) People were very uncomfortable. A: Well, Germans are pretty reserved.S: But I got a lot of positive feedback afterwards! (laughs)A: Sounds like playing a show. In Germany, the audience just stands there and doesn't react, but then afterwards everyone has a really intelligent commentary.S: Yeah, that's even more infuriating, actually. Because it's a concert, where you're supposed to be losing your shit.A: Right, whereas you were… well, what were you doing, exactly?S: I was facilitating a workshop on radical peer-based mental health support. What I was trying to do is create a space for people to think about issues that normally are really uncomfortable for people to talk about, even among themselves, let alone in a big group of people. This is kind of the stuff I've been doing for years: getting a room full of leftists, anarchists, radicals, punks– whatever– together, and saying, hey, look: as you might have noticed, people in our community often have a really hard time with their mental health, and don't know what to do when someone's in a crisis. The language we use to talk about mental health stifles us. So I present some new words and ideas to talk about. And the other part that's really important is, I tell a personal story about myself. I don't just make it theoretical. I actually reveal things, talk about getting locked up in a psych hospital, talk about what it was like to be really alienated and suicidal. You know, things that it's normally uncomfortable for people to talk about.A: Did it seem to you like social circumstances in Germany are different? Were people concerned with the same issues that they are in the US?S: Well, one very striking difference between the US and Germany that I've been seeing is, in the US, psychoanalysis really fell out of fashion in the Eighties. It's very hard, unless you have money, to actually go see a therapist. It's a luxury. Whereas here, that didn't happen in the same way. The reason it happened in the States is that the pharmaceutical companies are so powerful there that they just crushed it… But, as far as your question: are people in Germany concerned with the same things? Are the issues the same? The answer is, yeah. Sure. Feeling alienated and lonely, wanting people to understand them, not knowing how to take care of someone in a crisis, needing support, wanting more resources, wanting better language to talk about these things. It was all the same stuff.A: The social context isn't that different, I guess.S: One thing that is intriguing to me about the culture where we come from in the US, which can't really be separated from the economics, is the whole ideology behind bio-psychiatry, the idea that our problems reside within our brains, and that there's brain chemistry—A: That our brains are like car engines that just need more oil.S: Right. It's incredibly ahistorical. Which I think is something that... I think we come from a very ahistorical land.A: It's very American to reinvent yourself.S: Yeah, but it's spreading– obviously– it's spreading all over the world. Part of me was very conscious of that; I knew, when I was coming to Berlin, that I was coming to this city with an enormous amount of history. And that I was going to be doing a workshop in a community that was very conscious of that history. So that was interesting. I feel like I'm doing this work from the belly of the beast, you know? That model of bio-psychiatry is really coming out of the US.A: You said it was the Eighties where it shifted. Is there a—S: There's a year.A: Is there an entity?S: The best way to trace it is, 1980 was the year that the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Psychiatric Disorders was published. The DSM, which is the Bible of modern psychiatry. That's the book that has all the diagnoses in it. And it was also the year that Ronald Reagan was elected president. It really corresponds to the rise of neo-liberalism, and the idea of breaking down social institutions and the welfare state. And it was a reaction to the 1960s and 70s: there were actually all these alternative ideas about what was meant by mental health and wellness. Psychiatry as a discipline was really discredited in the 1970s. There was a famous experiment where people would check themselves into psych hospitals who didn't have any symptoms of what would be considered schizophrenia, and they would all get diagnosed as schizophrenic. There was One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest– there was a real culture of anti-psychiatry. In the 1970's there was actually a rising political movement that was pressuring the US government to create community supported and controlled mental health facilities. Because the available mental health facilities were these big, old hospitals that were archaic; no one wanted to end up in them. And there was a lot of support for it: there was a movement for what people called de-institutionalization. What ended up happening was, in 1980, Reagan just let everybody out, without putting any funding into community mental health projects. All that stuff fell apart, there was a kind of bait and switch thing, and all of a sudden there were all these crazy homeless people out on the streets, and there were no support services for them. That's history that's easy to find. The part that's not as well documented, and that's really more interesting, is all the alternative services that were creeping up in the 60's and 70s, and all the different ideas about how people could handle their mental health crises. The most famous one is R.D. Lang in England, he had a place called Kingsley Hall, it was a place where people could go where they wouldn't be medicated or given electroshock or anything like that, and they could just work through their issues. And there were a lot of ideas—you can go back and look through the literature, there was primal scream therapy, and all kinds of other therapies… there was actually a lot of really useful stuff, stuff that was at the intersection of eastern spiritual practices and western psychotherapy. Things like gestalt therapy and psychodrama, various community practices, that really fell out of fashion in the 80's. Mostly because there was a lot of sketchy stuff that was going on. There were all these charismatic leader figures who would end up sleeping with all the young women.... you know, the usual stuff that happened in the 70's. One of the things we've done with the Icarus project which is really good is, we've created this system, people call them "mad maps" or "wellness maps." First of all, you figure out what it means to be in a good state of mind– which is a pretty good question– how do I know when I'm up? How does it feel in my body? What kind of stuff am I thinking about? And then, you work that stuff out. Like, if you don't see me come out of my room, then you're allowed to knock on the door and ask: "Hey, what's going on? Have you eaten? Have you slept?" I think it's a process; for sure, in my early years it would have been very hard for me to talk about stuff like this. One of the things I feel really good about with the culture of the Icarus Project is that we've created the space to be able to have those conversations.A: How did you get involved in this kind of work?S: I was raised by really intense people. I was raised by a man who grew up in the 1950's in Queens, New York– he was a working class Irish Catholic guy who got politicized when he was a teenager and worked for the civil rights movement. He was a radical journalist who went down South in the freedom rides. He was a really angry man. He had an enormous temper. And also, he had a disease called cystic fibrosis, so he was dying from the time I was a little kid. So I got to watch this man who was, you know–my dad. I watched him die slowly and painfully. And then, my mom, who was equally intense– she was raised a working class Greek Jew in the South Bronx. She came of age and got politicized working for the John Kennedy campaign. It was that generation. She was more idealistic than my dad, My mom is the classic good liberal. Those are the people that raised me, and probably what had a big influence on me as a kid is that they hated each other. (laughs). I grew up between two different houses…A: They were separated?S: Yeah. My mom left him, in 1977, when I was three. At the height of when lots of women were leaving their husbands. Actually my first memory is from the famous NYC blackout of '77, when I was two and a half. The lights were off in the little room I lived in. That's the only memory I have of my parents being together, and I can pinpoint it to that specific moment. I have a step-mother, too, who was married to my father, who is a Jewish lady that was raised by communists in San Jose, and came of age in the United Farm Workers Union, and was raised around Mexicans. So I come from this very political family…A: Activism is not something you had to seek out.S: No, but my way of rebelling when I was a teenager was, I started hanging out with the anarchists. A: Why was that such a rebellion?S: Because I was raised by people who really believed in electoral politics. And who were culturally pretty straight. My parents were both a little bit older. When the sixties were happening, they were… I mean, they listened to the Beatles. But other than that, they were pretty straight. They were definitely not hippies. My father actually died the night before my bar mitzvah. So right when I turned thirteen. When I found the anarchists and the punks is when I was fourteen. I caught the last few years of, like, I ended up right in the middle of the Thompkins square riots. As a fourteen year old, I was so into it. (laughs). I was really into the Sex Pistols, for some reason… well, OK: there was a girl at camp. I kissed a girl at camp, and she had a Misfits T-shirt, she listened to the Sex Pistols. And then, a friend of mine went to Bleeker Bob's, which is a record store in New York city, and he got two tapes: Operation Ivy Energy, which had just come out, and the day the country died by the Subhumans. We listened to that shit incessantly. I remember listening to the day the country died and thinking, "oh my god, this is real music! The Sex Pistols is just some bullshit, and this is for real!" When I was sixteen, my mom really wanted to get me out of New York for the summer, because I was getting arrested all the time at demonstrations. I was a pretty angry and rebellious teenager. This is one of the things I always say in the workshops, is that we do the political work that we do because we want to change the world, but underneath that we have our own internal reasons, whatever it is that fuels it. We often have these ghosts that we carry around. And for me, it was the death of my father. I was just so angry and heartbroken. Punk was a really important part of my life. I was really into the scene in New York, and then I went to Berkeley for the summer to study. And that was the summer when all the riots happened in People's Park. That was also very formative.A: You were talking earlier today about the need to be part of something bigger than yourself…S: The first time I felt that was being at a punk show on the lower east side. Being in a little squatted basement somewhere, pressed up against all these people, knocking into each other. It was like, "oh my god, this is where I belong." Meanwhile, my mom was going to Friday night services over at the synagogue. Which was the most boring thing I could imagine.A: Perfect thing to rebel against.S: Well, that's what's so ironic, all these years later… I mean, I studied Hebrew last summer.A: You've come around to it?A: Well, it's old. Punk is not so old. That's one thing that's so fascinating about being in Berlin. I mean, what it means to be a Jew here compared to being a Jew in New York City. Being a Jew in most places is pretty different; there are more Jews in NYC than there are in Israel. It's the dominant culture where I come from, in a lot of ways. I didn't even notice it. I wasn't raised to think of myself as Jewish. I was raised to think of myself as another white person. Which is the American thing…. I took this class at graduate theological union last year, called "from Spinoza to Seinfeld: the history of secular Judaism." And one of the things that I learned is, it's actually American Jews that have played an enormous role in the creation of American white identity, and what it means to be a successful American. So many Jews were so determined to give up their identity because it was so stigmatized. And America offered the ability to do that. But this idea of whiteness: where does it come from? It's complex.A: Maybe this is too big of a jump, but how did you go from punk shows on the Lower East Side to living in a yoga ashram for a year?S: Man, that is a really big jump. (pause) Do you remember where we first met?A: Sure. Portland. We were both going to Reed College. We hung out a few times and went to a couple of shows. And then you disappeared. But that happened, like, once a week at Reed.S: My senior year of high school, I had all these friends that started shooting up. My girlfriend started shooting dope. I got really scared. My plan was, when I finished high school I was going to ride freight trains around the country and have adventures. Instead, I studied really hard, I got good scores on my SAT's, and I got into Reed, which is where my step-mother had gone. My dad wanted me to go to Harvard. He went to city college– we could talk about class issues, and that would be a whole other aspect of madness. I was raised by this guy who was very strongly identified as working class and hating rich people. Yet he wanted his son to go to Harvard. He wanted something better for me, but he also had very traditional ideas of what that meant. In retrospect, going to Reed was a terrible idea. I went there and left all my friends behind. These are good times, I think, to articulate what we mean when we say "friends." That's the first thing I do when I go into college classrooms, I ask, "how many of you have a facebook account?" Everybody raises their hand. "OK, of all those 'friends,' how many people would be there for you in a crisis?" I had friends, but no one who was really close. No one who could see what was really going on with me. When I was eighteen I was locked up for the first time and diagnosed as bi-polar. I was down in Berkeley visiting some friends, and I was freaking out, so they put me on a plane home to New York and then… then I had this day. It was late summer of 1993. I spent the whole day walking around New York City, and I was convinced that it was my last day on earth. That the world was going to end. See, there's this thing that happens when you get manic: it's like the opposite of being depressed. When you're depressed, nothing has any meaning, but when you're manic... AB: Everything is loaded with hidden messages and subtexts.S: Right, exactly... So, that day in New York, I got down in the subway tunnel and started walking along the tracks. I walked through two stations before they pulled me off. It was a Friday night at rush hour. I didn't actually think that I was trying to kill myself, I just thought it was what I was supposed to do.A: Do you take bi-polar medication now?S: I've been taking Lithium for the last ten years. People have really different experiences taking these types of drugs, that's one thing that's really important to keep in mind. It seems like there's a lot of people that take lithium and have a really bad reaction to it. On the other hand, it's the only drug that works for a whole lot of people. I don't plan to be on this stuff forever. But I have a pretty intense personality, you know? We get this range of emotions, and lithium blocks some of them. When I go off of my lithium it's going to be a slow process, and it's going to be hard. For years, what I used to say was that I regulated my brain chemistry through a mixture of lithium and marijuana. Because they are like opposites to each other. I could stay stable with the lithium, and then smoking weed is instant mania. Now I've learned that I have to be really careful with it. Three years ago, I lost it again. That's how I ended up in the ashram.A: what happened?S: I lost interest in other people. I felt connected to larger forces.... I can't let myself go there too much. For sure, if I'm going to get off of lithium, I'm not going to be able to smoke weed!A: In that sense, it isn't so ahistorical.S: what do you mean?A: the idea that you've got some brain chemistry that you need to regulate. Coming up with some chemicals to level you out— people have been using drugs and alcohol for that purpose for a long time, pretty much for as long as there have been people.S: Well, you could draw a parallel between Monsanto trying to regulate seeds, and governments telling people, no no, you can't use those kinds of drugs, even though you can grow them, you can produce them yourself, you have control of them– you have to do these kinds of drugs, that we have control over.A: Do you know much about the writer David Foster Wallace?S: I know the name, but I haven't read anything by him. What's his story?A: He was on this anti-depressant medication called phenelzine for years and years; I guess his entire literary career basically happened on this medication. And then at some point, he was experiencing side effects and wanted to get off of it. The problem was, once he did, nothing else worked for him. He killed himself not long after he stopped taking it. A lot of people were really shocked by his death. He was "the voice of his generation," who seemed to have it all: literary acclaim, commercial success, a university teaching job, recently married... the main thing about it was, he was just so damn intelligent. It's especially unnerving when really smart people decide to kill themselves.S: what's his writing about?A: A lot of it is about addiction, alienation, depression, and anxiety. Most of his characters seem like they are about to lose their minds. He describes the disorienting effect of living in an information-overloaded society very well. His stuff can be pretty brutal, but the weird thing about it is that it's also incredibly fun to read. A lot of critics seemed to be too busy fawning over his style to notice the content. He'd write the darkest, most horrific stuff and the cover blurb on the book jacket would say, "Hilarious! Laugh out loud funny!" I don't know... he's a great writer, but... I don't know if I'd recommend it. I'm personally trying to keep away from him, actually. In a way he represents, to me, the futility of trying to think your way out of it.S: The futility of trying to think your way out of it. I think that's really key. I thought about that quite a bit yesterday, interacting with all those Germans, who are all clearly so up in their heads. Part of me wanted to just say, "everybody up, out of your chairs! Let's do some breathing exercises!" That's what the yoga ashram taught me. I was depressed as fuck when I showed up in that place. And it was regimented, it was almost militaristic in its regimentation– praying, meditating, doing yoga. You make a three month commitment, and you can go live there. So I put up a tent on the beach. You'd get up at five, at 5:30 you're sitting in the temple meditating, you do that for half an hour, chant in sanskrit for another half an hour, then you go do two hours of yoga, eat breakfast, and then you work all day.A: Work on what?S: I worked in the garden, I worked in the kitchen. Depending on what your skills are. Just physical labor, stuff that keeps you occupied. The idea is that you're supposed to think about God all day. It was fascinating to me. I was– like you, it sounds– raised in a very secular environment. But there is something missing from that, you know? And it wasn't that I need to be bowing down to statues of Ganesha or Vishnu. It was the feeling of being around a bunch of people who actually, really valued feeling that connection to something higher. I could relate to it. Even though I wasn't raised in a spiritual context, the experiences that I've had with mania have been so spiritual, if I had been raised a Christian I would have thought I was Jesus.A: Instead you're an anarchist.S: I've read my history. I learned about the European Enlightenment, made sense of where the philosophies of the sub-culture I came from drew their historical understanding. Marxism is in some ways very Biblical. There are a lot of things about Buddhist philosophy that are pretty punk. All of these things eventually overlap. I don't think there's any future in de-spiritualized communities, or cultures. You can look at the Left in the United States, and how much better the religious right is at organizing, because they have God on their side. Compare that to my mom in her apartment in Manhattan, reading the Nation magazine. For myself, it came from having what I didn't realize at the time were spiritual experiences– in the punk scene, with the anarchists. The ashram was so weird, but it was so good for me too. I had been living there for two months already, and I asked this question to the Swami, who is this Israeli guy wearing an orange robe– the ashram was run by Israelis, that's why it was so militaristic (laughs). I asked, what is the relationship between hinduism and yoga? And he gave me a good answer, which is that every major religion has mystical components to it, the Jews have kabalah, Christianity has all these sects, Muslims have sufism, and yoga is the mystical element of hinduism. It's more complicated than that, but if you just take that and think about it– all of these mystical philosophies have a lot more in common with each other than the larger religions do. There is a core set of beliefs. You can see where the religions come from. They come from these brilliant people who are in touch with stuff that not everyone is in touch with. And then, ideas get formed around them, and at some point it gets really fucking stupid, because it doesn't make any sense when it's so removed from the original context. Because I come from the punk scene, which is very much a sub-cultural community, I have a large appreciation for how subcultures end up effecting the mainstream. But in order for them to continue to do it, they have to stay subcultures, they can't totally become mainstream. The metaphor I started using some time ago is dandelions, check it out—(he walks over to the side of the airstrip, where, in a patch of scraggly grass there are, indeed, dandelions blooming)Anytime you see stuff growing, there's the topsoil that it's growing in and then there's the sub-soil below it– that's the heavier stuff that's based on the bedrock that's further below. Most of the action is happening in the topsoil, but then there are certain plants, like dandelions, that have tap roots that go down into the sub-soil, and pull up nutrients from the sub-soil that can't be accessed by the other plants. When the dandelions die, that stuff breaks down into the topsoil. So they are a neccesary part of the eco-system. You have to have the plants with the deep tap roots.
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Now it is only a stump
The last standing dead tree in this permanently flooded field was the subject of last year's last post.
I drive past this lake about 10 times a week. It was about a month ago when I first noticed that the last tree wasn't there anymore.
May it be in the service of turtles for a long time to come.


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Reduce Your Food Print: Use Your Juicing Pulp to Make Muffins
Like to drink your carrots and apples? Great, but don't throw their pulp away. Instead, use it to make delicious carrot-apple muffins!


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Some Lawmakers Warn Against Afghanistan Escalation
By Naftali Bendavid
Lawmakers opposed to President Barack Obama's decision to send more troops to Afghanistan are not waiting for his speech tonight to voice their opposition.
In a press conference, Democrats from both chambers of Congress—as well as a Republican, Rep. Walter Jones of North Carolina—warned that a major escalation would be a major mistake, because al Qaeda has largely moved to Pakistan and the government of Afghan President Hamid Karzai is corrupt.
"The president said he wants to send in these additional troops to finish the job," said Sen. Russell Feingold (D., Wis.). "I say, and I think the American people say, 'What job?' What's the job that he's talking about? That's not at all clear."
Rep. Jim McGovern (D., Mass.), was especially critical of Karzai. "President Karzai is corrupt and incompetent," McGovern said. "He cheated in the last election. I don't want any more American service men or women to risk their lives for this corrupt government…What I fear is that we're getting sucked into a war without end."
Jones warned that the additional deployments would "wear out" the U.S. military, and like other critics, he suggested the mission is unclear and there are greater needs at home. "When we were home during the Thanksgiving holidays, I cannot tell you the number of people, I'm not exaggerating, who said, 'What are we trying to accomplish in Afghanistan? What about our country? We can't even fix the streets in your district, congressman. We need to start thinking about that.' "
While a significant number of Democratic lawmakers may defect when Congress considers whether to fund the Afghanistan surge early next year, most Republicans will probably support it, especially since it has the backing of top U.S. commanders in the region. Its passage is likely, but Obama and the Democrats risk losing the enthusiastic support they enjoyed in the last election from their party's active loyalists.
"Sending 34,000 more U.S. troops to Afghanistan will make it 34,000 times harder to extricate ourselves from this mess," McGovern said. "If our fight is truly with al Qaeda, then we're in the wrong country. They've moved to Pakistan. I've seen this movie before, and it doesn't have a happy ending."


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Though he may not speak of them, the memories still dwell inside Jacob Jankowski's ninety-something-year-old mind. Memories of himself as a young man, tossed by fate onto a rickety train that was home to the Benzini Brothers Most Spectacular Show on Earth. Memories of a world filled with freaks and clowns, with wonder and pain and anger and passion; a world with its own narrow, irrational rules, its own way of life, and its ownway of death. The world of the circus: to Jacob it was both salvation and a living hell. Jacob was there because his luck had run out-orphaned and penniless, he had no direction until he landed on this locomotive "ship of fools." It was the early part of the Great Depression, and everyone in this third-rate circus was lucky to have any job at all. Marlena, the star of the equestrian act, was there because she fell in love with the wrong man, a handsome circus boss with a wide mean streak. And Rosie the elephant was there because she was the great gray hope, the new act that was going to be the salvation of the circus; the only problem was, Rosie didn't have an act-in fact, she couldn't even follow instructions. The bond that grew among this unlikely trio was one of love and trust, and ultimately, it was their only hope for survival. Surprising, poignant, and funny, Water for Elephants is that rare novel with a story so engrossing, one is reluctant to put it down; with characters so engaging, they continue to live long after the last page has been turned; with a world built of wonder, a world so real, one starts to breathe its air.


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Metro 2.0.1 is here
By alexismp on Jun 21, 2010
Metro 2.0 was released together with GlassFish v3 and Java EE 6 last December (2009) and had a lot in store around JAX-WS, WSIT (WS-\* beyond the Java spec), and good old JAXB. As announced by Marek, it's now time for Metro 2.0.1.
Metro 2.0.1 includes JAX-WS (RI) 2.2.1 (update: see Jitu's announcement) and is already integrated into GlassFish 3.0.1 but will also work with other containers such as Tomcat. The best developer experience at this point is probably using NetBeans 6.9 but support in other IDEs are making good progress and there's of course the command-line.
Plans for GlassFish 3.1 are to integrate Metro 2.1 and offer session failover for WS-RM and SecureConversation sessions (see recent community update from earlier this month). Full details in the Metro 2.1 one-pager.


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"When you get into the larger aircraft it becomes like a hotel, with dozens of staff supporting the plane based in a galley area down below. You have very comprehensive cooking facilities, and on larger aircraft we have looked at theatres, with spiral staircases and a Steinway grand piano. The limitations for what you can put inside a plane are pretty much the limits of physics, and even money cannot always overcome that. Even so, people are still always trying to push [the limits]. "
Up Front: June 2011
Oliver Wendell Holmes said, "Controversy equalizes fools and wise men–and the fools know it." When we first began working on our Donald Trump feature, it was many months and many circuses ago. Like most magazines, we plan our covers well in advance, and we had been keeping The Donald on a back burner while we waited for the right time to spotlight him and his participation in business aviation. For obvious reasons, it seemed the right time was now.
Discussion about Donald Trump can set an ordinary conversation ablaze. Every single person I've mentioned our upcoming cover to has lit up with a
range of emotions, and the reaction has always been passionate. Despite his sometimes-outlandish antics, Trump's joie de vivre definitely has had an impact on American culture.
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By the way, many of you have mentioned editor Jeff Burger's article in the April 4 edition of Barron's and the feature in the May 23 Barron's (Penta section) by Charlie Alcock, who is a frequent BJT contributor and international editor for our sister publication Aviation International News. We're proud of our ongoing collaboration with this Dow Jones publication, which began in 2008, and are pleased that so many of you like the results.
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ONE woman dead, believed to have committed suicide. A global media frenzy. Two DJs accused of having ''blood on their hands''. And a radio network under siege - again.
It all started with a prank phone call: a staple of FM stations around the world. Thousands are made each year. Never has one ended so badly.
Australian presenters make hundreds of these calls each year - but before they broadcast them, they must get the subject's permission.
It's a little murkier if the prank victim is overseas. Fairfax Media spoke to former Austereo presenters who said that, in these instances, company policy does not require consent.
At a news conference on Saturday, Southern Cross Austereo CEO Rhys Holleran refused to specify if permission was sought from the nurse.
Comedian Wil Anderson, a former presenter on Austereo's Triple M network, said he felt sorry for DJs Michael Christian and Mel Greig.
''Firstly, I have sympathy for the nurse and her family because this is a terrible tragedy,'' he said. ''But I also have a fair degree of sympathy for these kids.
''At an Austereo meeting, the number one thing is often, 'Which prank or gotcha calls are we going to do today?' ''
''These are kids who are trying to make a name in an industry where Kyle Sandilands gets all the attention. It's a culture where you're told, 'Make some noise, be talked about, get in the papers'.
''Is the culture of radio to blame? Possibly. But people make thousands of these prank calls each year and they usually result in good material.
''It all comes back to, 'Who's the adult in the room?' After the surprise of actually getting through to the hospital, it's the job of the adults to decide whether it goes to air.''
Former Triple M presenter Paul Murray said this incident should not be considered an example of ''malicious'' radio.
''It was a big mistake. Contrary to popular belief, people in FM radio don't sit in front of a whiteboard and say, 'Who can we hurt today?' And I doubt these announcers thought, 'How can we bring global embarrassment to the nurse and the hospital?' ''
Murray confirmed that Austereo's policy ''is that you must get the subject's permission before you put the prank call to air'', but that ''those rules don't extend to subjects who are overseas''.
Peter Helliar, a former 2Day FM and Triple M host, agreed this was his understanding. ''I don't think you can blame these guys completely for what happened. Nobody knows what frame of mind the nurse was in.''
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Juice Cleanse #2
Posted on : 21-02-2012 | By : Liz-Ann | In : Breakfast, Dinner, Homeopathic, Lunch, Organic
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What a way to start a Monday – sleep in, start my juice cleanse from Love Grace Foods and have the rest of the day to do as I please!
I have to say, doing a juice cleanse on a day when you can just lounge around is absolutely ideal. It really makes the entire process so relaxing and enjoyable.
As you already know from my birthday post, one of the highlights of my day was getting our juices hand-delivered from Love Grace Foods. The service we received from Carissa-Ann and Jake was superb. They really made sure that we had the best experience possible with our cleanse – extremely professional, and most importantly, we could tell they truly care about what they do and the product they sell. Why can't more people be like that?!?! (Don't worry I'll save my rant for another post)
I immediately unpacked the boxes and separated our 3 days of juices so that my boyfriend could do 2 days and I could do 1. The bottles were pretty cool, if you ask me:
Granted, I am no juice cleansing guru, but I could tell from the first sip of "Purify" that this cleanse was legit. My boyfriend was already on his 2nd (and last) day and he was debating trying to order more to extend his cleanse. Unfortunately, he has tons of work to do and no matter how you slice it, juicing does take some getting use to and for him, requires frequent naps throughout the day – something that he CAN NOT afford to do tomorrow. Everyone is different though, because I seem to have tons of energy from juicing for the first half of the day, and then I poop out extra early.
My absolute favorite juices were the sweeter ones, of course – that dang sweet tooth! I loved the "Apple, Carrot, Lemon, Ginger" juice and of course, the smoothie was fantastic. Whereas my boyfriend fell fast and hard for the "Ginger Bomb".
With the day coming to an end, I have to say, I feel great – but definitely excited to get to bed! We made one fatal error in our juicing day, today…we went to Costco!!! We actually managed to easily walk past the free samples, and even spoke to one of the "free sample" guys about our cleanse, but our imaginations were definitely running wild with what we would be eating tomorrow! As a result, I think our bill was slightly more inflated than usual. However, I am more than excited to chow down on seaweed salad, quinoa, grapefruits, flounder, and a trunkful of many other things that we purchased and can't remember!
Until then, I'm going to bed!


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College Hockey:Spartans Topple Buckeyes In Back-And-Forth Affair
COLUMBUS, Ohio — It was a 4-3 Michigan State win over Ohio State, but the Spartans took the scenic route to victory.
"We don't always win pretty," said MSU head coach Rick Comley. "We have to work really hard to win."
On goals by Justin Abdelkader and Tim Kennedy, the Spartans led 2-0 before the game was three minutes old, but OSU goaltender Dave Caruso and the rest of the Buckeyes settled down enough to take a 3-2 lead by midway through the second. David Booth's late second-period goal knotted the game going into the third, and Bryan Lerg found the net at 6:05 in the final stanza to win the game.
"When you get up two-nothing before you can blink, everybody thinks you're in," said Comley. "But [Caruso] made a couple of tremendous saves to keep it two. To come down here and get a win, we'll go home very happy, believe me."
"The first five minutes … from the goalie on out, we were not prepared to start that game," said OSU head coach John Markell. "We were just totally asleep. You can't do that against a team that's hot like Michigan State. We did not look like a team that was prepared to play."
It was Abdelkader who initiated the play that led to his own goal, picking Buckeye Tom Fritsche clean in the neutral zone and sending the puck across the ice to the right boards, where Tim Crowder found it on the bounce. Crowder fired and Caruso kicked it aside — and right back to Abdelkader, who shot into the wide-open left side of the net for the 1-0 lead at 2:07.
Fifteen seconds later, Kennedy made it 2-0 when he found a sliver of space between Caruso and the left post. Kennedy won the faceoff at center ice and passed back to Jared Nightingale, and Nightingale threw the puck down the right boards and back behind the net where Abdelkader found it in the left corner. The puck squibbed to Kennedy, and Kennedy scored at 2:22.
Two minutes and two near-misses later — the Spartans also hit the pipes twice within the first five minutes of play — and the Buckeyes finally decided to play some hockey, resulting in persistent cycling down low on the power play and Matt Waddell's goal from the top of the slot to make it 2-1 at 4:50.
"Obviously, they bump up two-nothing right away…and now you're spinning your wheels," said Markell. "You're not moving your feet, you're not closing gaps, you're not doing anything right. Quite frankly, we were lucky to get out of that period just being down two to one."
OSU went on to score two more goals for the brief 3-2 lead, Dave Barton's opportune goal while MSU goaltender Jeff Lerg was tangled with Nick Biondo at 2:26 and Andrew Schembri's shot from the left circle just after a faceoff at 12:48, but Booth had the equalizer at 15:05 — a gorgeous one-timer from the right side of the crease on Jim McKenzie's quick cross-slot feed — and the game was tied 3-3 at the end of two.
"I thought we did a good job coming back," said Markell. "We created enough opportunities for ourselves. From what I hear, the net was off."
Markell was referring to Lerg's game-winning goal, scored as OSU's net was dislodged from its moorings, on first glance by a Buckeye defender. There is no video review in Value City Arena, and after a brief consultation, the on-ice officials ruled the goal valid.
"That was the difference in the game," said Markell, "a controversial goal."
The goal was the 11th of the season for Lerg, who has struggled offensively this season. "I think it's been hard for him a little bit," said Comley, "but I thought he made some great passes tonight, to McKenzie and [Colton] Fretter. That was kind of one of those underrated plays, where he followed his pass to Fretter and had the open net to put it in.
"We need him, obviously. That kind of looked like he was earlier [in the season], and then he kind of went a little bit quiet on us. I keep hoping that we're going to…get it going offensively, which we have not done yet. I think we have the capability of doing that."
The Spartans were 0-for-6 on the power play, the Buckeyes 1-for-6. Jeff Lerg had 31 saves to Caruso's 30. The shots in the game were even, 34 apiece.
Michigan State (17-10-7, 11-7-6 CCHA) returns to East Lansing for a bye week, and returns to action at home against Miami Feb.17-18. Immediately after the game, the Buckeyes (14-13-4, 10-11-2 CCHA) boarded a bus and headed to the airport for a charter flight to Green Bay, Wisc., where they'll play Wisconsin in Saturday's Frozen Tundra Classic in Lambeau Field.
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Hill Harper Discusses the African-American Family
Hill Harper is not only a world-famous actor and speaker, but he has also made his mark as a bestselling author and philanthropist. He has worked to become a critically acclaimed author of three New York Times bestsellers: Letters to a Young Sister, Letters to a Young Brother, and The Conversation. Letters to a Young Brother has been named "Best Book for Young Adults" by the American Library Association since 2007. The main highlight of Hill's acting career is starring in the most successful television drama (and franchise) in history, CSI: NY, playing the part of Dr. Sheldon Hawkes.
Hill's recent video in a series he has been releasing on YouTube called "Harper Hill Discusses the African-American Family" is a friendly and informative discussion piece about the history and roots of the challenges and changes the African-American family can often face, personal opinions modern African-American families and methods to overcome such obstacles.
In this particular video in the series Hill does a lot of in-depth exploration of the actual common dysfunctions modern African-American families versus common disillusions about African-American family dating back to times of slavery and racial hardships. He discusses the modernly typical occurrence of multiple racial roots in African American families as well. Hill puts a great amount of emphasis on the dysfunctions' and disillusions' effect on African-American youth and the family structure they currently live with. He talks about the socio-economic and socio-psychological benefits of both parents being present in a family structure and the importance of problem solving amongst dysfunctional families.
Harper Hill's warm and friendly personality combined with his informative and racially enlightening content creates an incredibly watchable and captivating five minutes for the viewer. The success of his series in without a doubt due to his in-depth knowledge of historical racial roots and global issues, but the pretty face doesn't hurt either. (Did we mention he was voted of People Magazine's Sexiest Men Alive?) Make sure to check out all of our other family speakers as well.
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According to Thursday's CBS News, one participant in the Sochi Olympics is making arrangements to bring home a family of stray dogs that he found wandering in Rosa Khutor.
The big-hearted dog lover is U.S. Olympic freestyle skier Gus Kenworthy.
Kenworthy has been utilizing social media to share his encounters with some of the strays in the area. On Feb. 11, he posted the following update to his Facebook page:
Spent all afternoon playing with a gang of stray puppies here in Sochi! Looking into finding a way to bring them home with me but also don't want to take them away from their mama because she was being super cute and protective over them. I bought them some food and I'll go visit them again tomorrow
According to CBS News, Kenworthy has made arrangements to bring the puppies, and their mother, back home to Telluride, Colo., and his family and friends are apparently ready to adopt.
Puppies are not the only thing this compassionate guy is bringing home...he also will have a silver medal to show off thanks to a great run on Thursday.
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5.1 out of 10
"Pompeii" 3D is the epitome of a "love/hate" relationship with a film. There are parts that are easy to love and plenty of parts that are easy to hate. The film is not good enough to be good and it is not bad enough to be awful, or bad enough to be laughably good. It hangs in limbo, balancing the scales almost perfectly to be one of the most average films ever created.
"Pompeii" 3D is incredibly average. One minute you will love it. The next minute you will hate it. It's a rollercoaster of emotion that leads to the predictable ending.
Any spoilers will be clearly marked so you can avoid reading them if you so choose.
"Pompeii" 3D opens in Baltimore on February 21, 2014.
The Good
"Pompeii" flashes moments of greatness with scenes on par with HBO's "Rome" series. There are some great, albeit toned down for PG-13, gladiator fight scenes. Much like the film "Gladiator", "Pompeii" follows a main character that is forced into that life. He is one tough hombre. With chiseled abs and perfect hair, he defeats foe after foe. He is driven by revenge and only wishes to live long enough to exact it (sound familiar?). These scenes are some of "Pompeii's" finest moments. They are well choreographed and the shot selection shows the scope and fierceness of the fighting. The only downside is the fact that we have become accustomed to a certain level of blood and gore with these scenes. You won't find that in the PG-13"Pompeii".
The special effects and 3D are actually pretty well done. 3D is still not worth the extra money here, only being utilized during the opening credits and destruction scenes. There is not much call for added depth to most scenes and you won't notice any. Still, when it is used, it is done well. The special effects are pretty good. By today's standards, they won't blow you away. But they don't look cheesy like a bad video game trailer. The destruction scenes as the volcano erupts are pretty believable, in regards to the effects.
Some of the acting and character interactions will bring a smile to your face. It is nice to see Kiefer Sutherland back on the big screen. He does well with his pompous politician character. Emily Browning is also very good as the lead female. If she can just land a role in a semi-successful film, her career could really take off (No, "Magic Mike" does not count).
When "Pompeii" is good, you will enjoy what you are watching. There are stretches in the film that are a lot of fun. Then, you hit a bad spot…
The Bad
In the same way that this film is quite good when it gets good, it is also quite bad when it gets bad. First, the filmmakers took the cheese level to DEFCON 1. Some soap operas aren't as cheesy as scenes in "Pompeii". After certain scenes it is easy to sit there and think, "There is no way a human being would ever do/say that." Sure, many things in films are complete fiction or fantasy; that's why we watch them. But there is a difference between watching something that would not happen in real life and watching something that you can't even believe in the setting of the film. "Pompeii" suffers from the latter. Examples in spoiler section below.
I don't care how much you hate someone. When a freakin' volcano is erupting, you don't stop to fight your enemy. You run like hell. There were several lengthy battles while all of Pompeii is being destroyed.
Even Seabiscuit couldn't stay ahead of lava as long as that horse did.
The love story is so sickeningly sweet it will give you cavities. Instead of "Awwww", we get "Uhhhhh". They cram the love angle so far down our throats we have to tighten our shoelaces to keep it from knocking our shoes off. Enough with the really bad jokes. You will not believe one second of this love tale. It is awful.
The ending is the worst of the worst. Not only is it a straight "Titanic" rip-off (ok, so it's a little different), but it is not the least bit romantic.
The Bottom Line
This film received a rating of 5.1 because the parts I loved were ever so slightly more numerous than the parts I hated. So, it is one tick above perfectly average. This site does not use half stars or it would be 2.5 out of 5 stars. "Pompeii" is the perfect movie for a rainy day a few months down the road when you are stuck in the house and you see it on Netflix Streaming. It's a time killer. There is enough to enjoy that you won't feel like you wasted the 105 minutes, and you'll be glad you didn't pay more than your monthly subscription fee to see it. Please don't spend theater money on this one. The best part of this film is the fact it made me want to go back and watch "Dante's Peak" again; "…wherever there's a volcano with an attitude."


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What is marketing? Kotler's definition of marketing
Definition of 'Marketing'
What is Marketing: According to Philip Kotler, "The term Marketing is defined as a social and managerial process by which individuals and groups obtain what they need and want through creating, offering and exchanging products of value with others" is known as Marketing.
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"Marketing is defined as the economic process through which goods and services are exchanged with the means of money value". Here, the term "What is Marketing
It is well said that, "marketing is incomplete without the term market". The term market represents the needs or wants of the potential customers who might be willing and able to engage in exchange of goods and services to satisfy that need or want. Thus, there might be shoe market, Malls, teenager market, Restaurants, labour market, complexes etc. As started earlier on What is Marketing, marketing is an activity that is performed by business and non-business people with equal force.
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The fun of football doesn't have to end all at once. This week ahead in Nashville proves that there is hope for happiness after all the confetti has fallen on the field.
Monday, February 3rd, from 6-8pm, Scarritt-Bennett Center and Nashville Fair Food are joining together to provide Advocacy for Justice: Farmworker Exploitation, Anti-slavery & The Fair Food Project … for starters. At the Scarritt-Bennett Center, 1008 19th Avenue South, YOU can come learn directly from farmworkers about one of the most successful anti-poverty and anti-slavery programs of our generation. You can learn more about the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) work on modern-day slavery, human rights abuses, AND their pioneering model for social responsibility of a Fair Food Program based on a partnership with farmworkers, Florida tomato growers, and buyers. RSVP online here- http://conta.cc/1lPR885, and know that it is completely FREE to attend.
Speaking of FREE fun to attend, come out Tuesday night, February 4th, at 7pm at Mad Donna's for another wonderful chapter of East Side Storytellin'. East Side Storytellin' 30 will feature words from the local poet Stephanie Pruitt Gaines and then music from the cool Colour of London! The show will start at 7pm sharp, and there will be plenty of literature, music, creative conversations, food, drinks, art, and fun for everyone who takes the time to liven up their night and week. You can see more information about the details and how you can get yourself a good seat here- http://www.nowplayingnashville.com/event/detail/441815895.
Then, back to Scarritt-Bennett Center on Wednesday, from 7:30am-9am, in order of celebrating the first week of February as Wold Interfaith Harmony Week (as designated by the UN) and the 4th Annual World Interfaith Harmony Breakfast. There will be such renowned panelists present- Aisha Lbhalla (The Muslim Women's Council), Rev. Jennifer Bailey (SNAP outreach coordinator with Community Food Advocates), and Miriam Leibowitz (Reproductive Freedom Organizer with the ACLU-TN. The program is only $12, includes breakfast and program, and you can register online here- http://conta.cc/1ev3OP8.
The week's events really ramp up on Thursday. Here is a list, outline form to preach it simple, for you to make plans accordingly (in chronological order):
1- From 6-7:30pm, at Art and Invention Gallery (1106 Woodland Street), novelist Victoria Schwab will celebrate the release of her latest novel called Unbound. Hosted by Art & Invention and East Side Story, YOU ALL (Y'ALL) are welcome to meet the author, enjoy some champagne (age willing) and hors d'oeuvres, and take home an autographed copy of Victoria's latest book with purchase. Unbound is the follow-up story in the Archived series. It will be spectacular for sure!
2- On both February 6th at 6:30pm until February 7th at 8:30pm, Company Rose is partnering with the Frist Center for the Visual Arts and The Martha Rivers Ingram Commons at Vanderbilt University to present "Pools of Glass." Both nights, from 6:30-8:30pm, at the Frist Center (919 Broadway), this FREE choreographed contemporary dance performance is completely FREE to attend and brings to movement the passage from Asia to the West.
3- From 7-8pm, at The Parthenon (Centennial park, 2600 West End Ave), come out and listen to the Artist Symposium: Talk by Kristin Llamas. Llamas is represented locally by Tinney Contemporary Gallery and her work can be seen at www.KLlamas.com and the collaborative work at www.AKLlamas.com. The artist will be speaking about the Socratic Dialogues at the Parthenon Museum on February 6th, 2014.
4- And then you can finish your night with East Side Storytellin' 1 alum The Smoking Flowers playing a Palaver Records Showcase performance at Foobar at 9pm. Seriously, don't miss it!
Jump, skip, and rest over Friday so you'll have enough energy for Saturday's fun in store.
Here, again in chronological order, are another round of events you need to check out, plain and simple form for your easy eyes and schedule:
1- In store, speaking of East Side Story (1108 Woodland Street, Unit B), from noon-2pm, you should drop by to see the latest from one of the most hard-working independent authors on the rise in that of Megan Duke. She is officially celebrating her book Small Circles with one and all. Snacks and free goodies will be available so you really don't have any excuse. I know I'll be there! I hope you will too.
2- From 1-4pm, at Turnip Green Creative Reuse (535 4th Avenue South), you can come make art and be a part of the Nashville Collage Collective. Bring a project, some materials to share, or just come and explore some cool stuff with some cool people.
3- For all of the people fearing Valentine's day, present and/or past, leave it to The Porch Writers' Collective to save your day. They will be presenting a special show, from 5-7pm, at The Stone Fox (712 51st Avenue N.) for their first Annual Heartbreak Happy Hour. Stories of romantic failures, songs, tears in beers, and ovational eating will take place with storytellers and singer/songwriters alike. It is FREE and fun for everyone who comes out!
4- Then, to end the night and weekend for good, besides the Second Saturday art crawl over at 5 Points East Nashville, from 6-9pm, YOU should quench your hunger for poetry and prose by heading on over to Portland Brew East (1921 Eastland Avenue) for Poetry in the Brew Open Mic Poetry Reading. The guest host is the lovely and talented Leslie LaChance, the feature will be Alita Terry, and readings begin at 6pm. Come correct and come early for a good seat.
I think the above is enough for you to get along just fine without football, despite whatever weather and/or storms come your way.
Thanks for taking time to visit and share the above. Remember to be nice to one another.
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MP Alex Greenwich urges Kevin Andrews to withdraw from World Congress of Families
Sydney Independent MP Alex Greenwich has written to the Minister for Social Services Kevin Andrews urging him to cancel his planned attendance at the World Congress of Families.
The WCF – which is being staged in Melbourne over the weekend – opposes both gay marriage and abortion and is dedicated to fighting their decriminalisation.
Both Kevin Andrews and Senator Eric Abetz will attend the conference, a move which has angered the LGBTI community.
In his letter, Alex Greenwich urged Minister Andrews to cancel his appearence at the conference which "risks embarrassing Australia's human rights records and and is in direct contradiction of the work done by the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade in counties such as Uganda, Nigeria, and Russia to support their LGBTI citizens and advocate for fairer laws".
He went on to explain the negative implications Andrews' attendance and subsequent association with the event would bear on the wider LGBTI community.
""The World Congress of Families supports a narrow and discriminatory definition of families, your attendance and support of them risks condoning their exportation of anti-LGBTI bigotry, ideology and legislation abroad," he stated.
News.com.au reports a spokesperson for Kevin Andrews has said the Minister will still attend the conference as it relates to families which is part of his portfolio.
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