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Proroguing Parliament and the Death of the Canadian Monarchy
Mr. Coyne sums up my feelings on this issue (he usually does). He comments in the video below that it is not so much a matter of the rules but of bad behaviour. Even if Proroguing Parliament was constitutional, it is a bad precedent to allow a Prime Minister to escape public scrutiny in this way. As Mr. Coyne comments, if this is truly allowed under the rules then the rules should be changed.
Ultimately, what has been revealed here is the farce of constitutional monarchy. A modern day Monarchist would have you believe that we need the office of Governor General and ties to the British Queen to ensure constitutional stability and continuity. The Governor General is suppose to be the vehicle in which bad behaviour is prevented and constitutional norms (such as responsible government) is enforced. Yet Governor General Jean has repeatedly demonstrated that she will not stand up to the PMO on constitutional matters.
The past few years of minority Parliament has made it clear that the Monarchy in Canada is truly an anachronistic institution.
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The GG has correctly judged that there is not a viable alternative to the Harper government. As we work through these years of "liberal Conservatives" and "statist Liberals" with the added filip of the Bloc, the Monarchy is responsible for providing stable government.
- January 8, 2010 at 7:55 AM
- Blame Crash said...
I know a lot of people get all giddy and starry eyed over Coyne, but the truth of the matter is that he can be best described as a CBC "Made for TV" conservative. He's as full of it as they come and a true windbag.
He's just another member of the Toronto based "Journalinista National Liberation Front" who has his own "conservative act" to perform. As I said, it's all "made for TV".
Good Gawd ! Is their anyone in Toronto who isn't a leftist kook of one sort or another? It sure doesn't seem so!
But hey, I'm with you on the ditching of the monarchy. Nothing against the Queen of course, but the though of a "King What's His Face" will hopefully be enough to get Canadians to re-think this whole monarchy thing.
I'm just not into replacing it with a gaggle of pretentious "Celebrity" journalinista's from hogtown.
- January 8, 2010 at 10:09 AM
- wilson said...
'...it is a bad precedent to allow a Prime Minister to escape public scrutiny in this way'
like the way Chretien prorogued govt in 2003, 13 months after he prorogued in 2002,
and the purpose was to halt the AG report on Adscam and install Paul Martin, his best buddy.
That precedent, that scrutiny?
- January 8, 2010 at 10:54 AM
- Hugh MacIntyre said...
Wilson, complaining that someone else did something bad before doesn't make it right to do it. Besides you notice that the Liberals didn't do to well after that.
- January 8, 2010 at 10:58 AM
- Alberta Girl said...
So here's my question...how does a government, under our system, shift gears in the middle of a mandate when circumstances (the economy) change without proroging?
I really want to know the answer to that.
- January 8, 2010 at 11:15 AM
- kursk said...
Hugh, what about the other 100 times that it has been used in our parliamentary history?
It's a legitimate tool of the govt., it just seems that when Conservatives use it, democracy somehow is at 'risk'.
- January 8, 2010 at 2:07 PM
- ridenrain said...
Is there a way that the senate comities could have been reset without a prorogue?
- January 8, 2010 at 2:26 PM
- Hugh MacIntyre said...
It is not meant to be used to dodge Parliamentary scrutiny, nor is it usually used twice in two years. I don't think that anyone is claiming that proroguing is inherently evil, just the way it is being used.
Alberta Girl,
What exactly do you mean by shift gears? What changing circumstances exactly are you refering to? Why is "shifting gears" necessary?
- January 8, 2010 at 2:27 PM
- Joe said...
Well Hugh I guess you just won the Darwin award for political blogging comments.
Proroguing is often a good thing and does nothing to prevent 'scrutiny'. All that proroguing does is cool off an overheated house and allow the reformation of the committees in both houses. Of course some would say "Yes but it kills legislation". This is true on the surface but all it takes is a unanimous vote for all such legislation to resume exactly where it left off. In our present circumstance the loss of legislation is probably a worthwhile trade off since the legislation was not being passed anyway. The senatorial committees were obstructing and re-writing legislation passed unanimously in the House. Put it another way: Is it better to not prorogue Parliament and have unelected senators play silly bugger with the people's clear choice of action or is it better to prorogue Parliament re-set the committees so the people's legislation is passed?
- January 8, 2010 at 3:28 PM
The other hundred plus times Parliament was prorogued were not, generally, when a minority prime minister was facing mounting challenges to how he has been exercising his offical and unofficial authority. In the last thirty years prorogation has barely been used.
I've written a note on why for entirely non-partisan reasons this prorogation needs to haveheaps of scorn dumped on it.
Please feel free to comment on it: http://tinyurl.com/yfpyzhd
PS - The Senate was only holding up 3 of the over thirty pieces of legislation torched by the Prime Minister.
- January 8, 2010 at 3:41 PM
- Gadget said...
If the lefties were so concerned about this "dictatorship", they'd force an election, something that could never happen in a real dictaorship. They won't because they're afraid of raising the voter's ire of facing another election so soon. They're also afraid of what the results might actually be. That makes them complicit in this "dictatorship" illusion of theirs.
- January 8, 2010 at 3:52 PM
- Hugh MacIntyre said...
I thought that I had made it clear before but I'll say it again. I have nothing against the powers to prorogue per se, it is just inappropiate to use at this moment.
You say that Parliament is overheated. In what sense is it overheated? There was no violence or disruption by MPs. There was no instability or chance of a crisis. There was only legitimate questions being asked. Proroguing is not meant to avoid political pressure.
And I don't really care if legislation was lost.
I agree calling Harper a dicator is overstating the case. I would stick to the assertion that he has acted inappropiatly.
- January 8, 2010 at 5:53 PM


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For 30 years, my wife and I owned and operated a Ben Franklin Store in the center of town, retiring at age 56, then spending 27 years rambling over a large part of these United States. My travels thoroughly convinced me that there is no place better than Southeast Missouri, Stoddard County and especially "My Home Town" of Advance, Missouri.
The census records for 1900 show Advance as having a population of 221. When I came to town, there were only 614 people living here, and today we have 1,245 good citizens living in town, most of them living in beautiful modern homes.
Basically, Advance has been a quiet and tranquil town, but over the years we have had a few exciting moments. The Bank of Advance was robbed on May 27, 1959, when three men took about $18,000.00, but they were quickly apprehended and convicted. This bank was robbed again n October 15, 1962, when a lone bandit took about $9,000.00. The robber had cut the telephone lines, so the bank could not report the robbery, and when Alma Mashek, one of the bank employees, came rushing into our store to report the robbery, I thought she was drunk. She was white as a sheet and staggering, as she came rushing down the aisle to use our telephone. The robber made a clean get-away, but was recognized about a year later by Claudine Lorch, another bank employee, as he was conducting a band concert at Jackson, Missouri. He was apprehended and convicted of the crime.
Another big event in the history of my hometown was "the Tornado of 1963." It was a rather hot day for the 29th day of April, and a gentle breeze of high humidity was coming in from some dark clouds that were building up back in the west. By about 3:00 p.m., these clouds seemed to be rolling and tumbling, and there was an oppressive stillness around us.
At 4:00 p.m. on this Monday afternoon, the engineer of the Frisco train noticed a funnel cloud low on the ground and following along behind the train. He gave the engine full throttle and kept his whistle screaming, as he came into Advance. The train passed within a few feet of the Inland Shoe Company warehouse, where 14 employees were working. The wailing scream of the train whistle alerted these workers, and they didn't have to ask any questions, as this black funnel cloud could be seen bearing down on them. They all jumped in their cars and headed out of town. The warning of this train whistle no doubt saved their lives, as the 180 X 140 foot warehouse was completely demolished, and 300,000 pairs of shoes were strewn over the countryside along the tornado's path.
The whistle of the train alerted the entire town and people were running in every direction to seek shelter in a storm cellar or leave town. One lady, a Mrs. Scott Wright, said that she didn't really run, but she went around some that were running. As for myself, my wife and I were at home working in the yard, while Eula Bruce and Lucetta McCullough were managing the store.
When the train whistle alerted everyone, our telephone rang and Eula asked what they should do. I told her to lock the doors and come to my basement or get out of town. They jumped in a car and headed south, past the warehouse, and when they were about � mile south, they looked back to see the shoe factory explode into the air. At this point,the tornado bounced back in the air and other parts of the town received very little damage.
The next day there were people with boxes and burlap bags coming from every direction to pick up shoes. In this salvage process, everyone wound up with mismatched shoes, and it was interesting to watch as one person would ask another one if they had a size seven for the right foot to match the size seven they had for the left foot.
This matching process went on for several days, and the next week I ran an ad in the local paper asking everyone who had unmatched shoes to bring them to the city park on Saturday and do some trading for shoes that would match the ones they had. This turned out be an interesting and hilarious brawl, as dozens of people poured their boxes and bags of shoes out on the ground, and started digging through them to find a mate for the shoes they were carrying in their hands.
After this ball was over, there was about a pick-up truck load of shoes left in the park, which I hauled to an abandoned building out on my farm. I told people they could stop by to try to find a pair of shoes. I finally brought this episode to an end by burning the mismatched shoes.
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Excellent history! So many people don't know the history of the buildings in their town. There is such wisdom out there, if we could just tap into it!
I wonder if people today would get out there and search for matching shoes like that? Has our society changed too much to appreciate FREE SHOES??
-- Posted by goat lady on Wed, Dec 9, 2009, at 10:04 PM
Wonderful recount of days gone by. Mr Corbin you are a treasure and I always look for your stories in the NSC. And Mrs Eula Bruce it has been a pleasure knowing you these past days.
-- Posted by Dexterite1 on Wed, Jun 26, 2013, at 6:14 AM
I love Paul's history telling. He makes it so interesting. It would've certainly been interesting to be at that park watching all those people go through those shoes! That must have been quite a smell coming from those burning shoes!
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Paul Corbin is a 100-year-old historian, humorist, and amateur archaeologist from Advance, Mo. He grew up in the Greenbrier area west of Advance, where he attended Stepp School on the banks of Cato Slough and the Castor River, important waterways throughout his life. In an age when many area residents did not go to high school, the young Corbin made the decision to walk the five miles to Zalma, graduating in 1933. Throughout his life, he was an enterprising businessman, selling Watkins products from house to house throughout a large area - and later opening a variety store in Advance. He and his wife Geneva traveled throughout the United States, even following the route that the Lewis and Clark expedition traveled. His knowledge of Native American culture is extensive, and he has donated a sizeable collection of his artifacts to the Cape Girardeau Conservation Nature Center and the Bollinger County Museum of Natural History in Marble Hill. Throughout the years, he has submitted articles to TBY, the North Stoddard Countian, the Ozark Mountaineer, and several other Missouri publications. He has also written two books - "Reflections in Missouri Mud," and "Fragments of my Feeble Mind." The first one is out of print.
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The area has seen several audits by the state Comptroller's Office recently – Hanover, Forestville, Dayton, Otto and Chautauqua, to name a few – that showed a variety of flaws in how those governments handle the public's business. Whatever the cause, the end result has been sloppy government and wasted taxpayer dollars.
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When in 1967 Diogenes
Allen was offered the position in philosophy at Princeton Seminary, at
first he was inclined not to accept it. Teaching in a theological seminary
was not how one advanced a philosophical career. It was Jane Allen who, as
her husband pondered the choice, pointed out that this might not simply be
an offer, but a call; its importance might be its opportunity to serve.
The point was not wasted on a man who after returning from England and a
Rhodes scholarship nearly 10 years earlier had, instead of going straight
to graduate school, gone to seminary and taken a Presbyterian parish in
Windham, New Hampshire. The church had been formative of Allen, and he understood the importance of serving its
Diogenes Allen retired in June from his position as Stuart Professor of
Christian Philosophy after 35 years of committed service as a teacher in
the mission of the church. That is how Allen has always understood his
role as a teacher, and he has worked hard at teaching philosophy that way.
For example, in 1985, noting that fewer and fewer entering seminary
students knew the philosophical background of so much theological thought,
he wrote Philosophy for Understanding Theology precisely to teach it to
them. That book and a companion anthology of primary readings published
later have been the texts for a course that has long been immensely
popular with PTS students. The books have also been regularly used in many
other seminaries across the country. Numerous PTS students, who usually
take the course in the semester they are taking introductory church
history, have exclaimed how much more accessible it has made the history
of Christian thought to them.
Allen will long be remembered as an extraordinary teacher, particularly
for the clarity he brought to his difficult subject matter. Few have been
able to make difficult thought so understandable and so attractive. Though
care was required—as former student George Conway (Class of 1973, M.Div.),
now himself a school headmaster, remarked—lest one mistakenly believe it
was simple thought that could easily be put some other way than Allen had
explained it!
That ability to bring clarity has also made Allen a speaker much in demand throughout the country. When he entered the parish he told the people of
Windham he couldn't promise to be always interesting, but he would promise
always to talk about what is important—and he hoped that would be
interesting enough. It always has been. Because he is willing to talk
about what is important without sounding self-important, Allen has always
been able to draw in the seemingly most unlikely listeners and to excite
them. One former student remembers during the 1980s inviting him to give a
lecture at the college where the student was then teaching. The lecture
was to take place during a mandatory convocation, which guaranteed a large
but restless audience of potentially hostile post-adolescents. Allen chose
to speak on Kierkegaard, causing his host to hold his breath anxiously.
But not only was the audience attentive, afterwards students streamed up
asking where they could find a copy of Kierkegaard.
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As Jeffrey Eaton (M.Div. 1971, Ph.D. 1979) once introduced Allen, "He
teaches with authority, and not as the scribes and Pharisees." And he has
that ability with a wide range of people. Recently I was taking a cab at
6:00 a.m. to the airport in South Bend, Indiana, when much to my surprise
the radio station to which the cabby was listening broadcast an interview
with Allen on the difference between eternal life and long-lasting life! I
proudly told the cabby that that was an old friend and teacher. The cabby
didn't talk much, though. He was listening to the interview, even though
it was the end of an all-night shift. But as I got out of the cab, he told
me to make sure I told my friend that he was really good.
If Allen's career has been a life of service, he still has had an
important philosophical career. Stanley Hauerwas once called him "one of
the good guys." Allen has authored and edited 14 books, establishing
himself as an authority on Leibniz and as a major interpreter of Simone
Weil—and has been instrumental in drawing attention to her. Work he has
done on the problem of evil is continually referred to in philosophical
Yet, it isn't that he has also had a philosophical career. The service to
the church he has thought so important has shaped what he has written. He
has brought concerns of spirituality both to philosophical discussions of
Christianity and to Christians who have forgotten that "theology is
prayer; and prayer, theology," as Allen is fond of quoting the desert
father Evagrius. Whether it is in his approach to the problem of evil and
suffering, or to apologetics in Christian Faith in a Postmodern World, or
in his discussions of spirituality in Spiritual Theology, Christian
practice has informed his thinking and writing. And the importance of that
link between thought and practice has been an invaluable lesson Allen has
passed on to his students.
Eric Springsted received both his M.Div. (1976) and Ph.D. (1980) from
Princeton Seminary, and has taught on its faculty. He is currently
teaching at General Theological Seminary in New York City. He recently
published The Act of Faith: Christian Faith and the Moral Self (Eerdmans)
and in 1998 edited a festshrift in Allen's honor titled
Spirituality and Theology: Essays in Honor of Diogenes Allen
(Westminster/John Knox Press).
Eric Springsted received both his M.Div. (1976) and Ph.D. (1980) from
Princeton Seminary, and has taught on its faculty. He is currently
teaching at General Theological Seminary in New York City. He recently
published The Act of Faith: Christian Faith and the Moral Self (Eerdmans)
and in 1998 edited a festshrift in Allen's honor titled
Spirituality and Theology: Essays in Honor of Diogenes Allen
(Westminster/John Knox Press).
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HEY Clink! Notice how my Tagline is just as apropos now as 3+ years ago?
American Socialist States.
It took 100 year to get to this tipping point.
I say let us have it out. They can take their phucking fiscal cliff and shove it.
If these communist bastards bastards want CWII, lets have it now. I would rather go to my grave a freeman in Washingtons country than a slave in Obamas.
The top tax rate is currently 35%. Once state and local taxes are added in the total rate is obscene.
I heard a person on radio today rationalizing increasing the rate, because Romney paid 14% last year. She forgets that he is retired and is paying on income from investments. He does not receive a salary. She also forgets that before he gets his money, it has already been taxed repeatedly.
The Left keeps wanting to tax the rich, but they forget that most of those who are really wealthy do not earn a salary, and will never be affected by a raise in taxes.
The Left will end up destroying the middle class in their effort to demonize the "rich". They will destroy the same individuals, who create the jobs they currently have. There are times when I suspect that that is their ultimate goal anyway. Socialism cannot exist with a strong middle class, so its only way to success is to destroy those who produce wealth.
In most cases the individuals on which the Left wants to impose additional taxes worked hard and invested in their future. They pursued and education, set goals for themselves, and worked hard to build a future for themselves and their families.
I really have a problem with those who borrowed a large amount of money to go to a "prestigious" school (read expensive)and majored in an area they knew had limited potential. They are now part of the Occupy Wall Street Crowd, and demand that someone fix their situation.
Compared to the rest of the world even the poorest among us is very rich. All anyone has to do is visit India, Haiti, the Gypsies of Romania, or anywhere in Africa, and they will realize that America has really been blessed.
Obama is not economically illiterate , he read Cloward Piven and knows exactly what he is doing
Third and final...the medias attempt to explain everything is like asking a drunk to explain nuclear fusion. You eventually realize that you have to ask a ton of questions to figure out what the facts are, and then ration yourself to a few trusted sources.>>>>>>>>>>>>
Try this: ( sung to the tune of walkin in a winter wonderland)
Walkin in a Winter Wonderland.
Leftists sing, are you listening,
In Bohners brain, Reid is pi$$ing
A beautiful sight,
Were happy tonight.
Walking in Obamas wonderland.
Gone away is the budget,
All we can do, is try to nudge it
Obama sings a love song,
As we go along,
Walking in Obamas wonderland.
In the meadow we can build Rices snowman,
Then pretend that she is Secretary State
Shell say: Are you married?
Well say: No man,
But you can do the job
If thats your fate.
Later on, well conspire,
As we dream by Reichstag fire
To face unafraid,
The treason weve made,
Walking in Obamas wonderland.
In the meadow we can build a snowman,
And pretend that hes Obamas clown
Well have lots of fun with mister snowman,
Until the Constitution knocks Obama down.
When in debt, aint it thrilling,
Though your wallet gets a chilling
Well frolic and play,in the fascist way,
Walking in Obamas wonderland.
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Heroes are sadly lacking today. Politicians to be worshiped, celebrities, sports figures – all but gone. But there are two exceptions that still stand out.
For half a century, we have applauded John Glenn as a heart-stirring American hero. He lifted the nation's spirits when, as one of the original Mercury 7 astronauts, he was blasted alone into orbit around the Earth. And yet, for all these years, Glenn has had a hero of his own, someone he has seen display endless courage of a different kind: his wife, Annie Glenn.
Married for 68 years, our hero is now 92 and his wife just made it to 93. Recently, there has been news coverage of the 50th anniversary of Glenn's flight into orbit. He is still America's hero, though he has never bought that as uniquely his, because the heroism he most cherishes belongs to the woman he has known longer than anyone else in the world.
John Glenn and Annie Castor first knew each other when they really shared a playpen in New Concord, Ohio. His parents and hers were friends, and when their families got together, the two children played together.
John – the future Marine fighter pilot, test-pilot ace and astronaut – was pure gold from the start. He wound up having what it took to rise to the absolute pinnacle of American regard during the space race. Imagine what it meant to be the young John Glenn in Ohio, a three-sport varsity athlete, most admired boy in town.
On the other hand, Annie Castor was bright, talented, generous of spirit, but rarely noticed. She had a serious physical difficulty. She could talk only with a severe stutter.
It haunted her. Her stuttering was so severe that it was categorized as an "85 percent" disability. When she tried to recite a poem in elementary school, she was laughed at. She was not able to speak on the telephone. She could not have a regular conversation with a friend.
Yet John Glenn loved her.
Even as a boy he was wise enough to understand that people who could not see past her stuttering were missing out on knowing a rare and wonderful person.
They married on April 6, 1943. As a military wife, she found that a life of moving around the country could be quite hurtful. She once wrote: "I can remember some very painful experiences — especially the ridicule."
In department stores, she would wander unfamiliar aisles trying to find the right section, embarrassed to ask for help. In taxis, she would have to write requests to the driver, because she couldn't speak the destination out loud. In restaurants, she would point to her selected items on the menu.
A fine musician, Annie, wherever she and John moved, would play the organ in church as a way to make new friends. But, she once wrote, "Can you imagine being afraid to use the telephone? I worried that my children would be injured and need a doctor. Could I somehow find the words to get the information across on the phone?"
John, as a Marine aviator, flew 59 combat missions in World War II and 90 during the Korean War. Every time he was deployed, he and Annie said goodbye in the same way. His last words to her before leaving would be, "I'm just going down to the corner store to get a pack of gum."
And, with just the two of them there, she was able to reply, with some effort, "Don't be long."
On that February day in 1962, when the world held its breath and the Atlas rocket was about to propel him toward space, those were their words once again. And in 1998, when, at 77, he went back to space aboard the shuttle Discovery, she knew what he would say before boarding the shuttle. He did – and this time he gave her a present to hold onto: A pack of gum. She carried it with her until he was again safely home.
Many times in her life she attempted various treatments to cure her stutter. None worked. But in 1973, she found a doctor in Virginia who ran an intensive program for stutterers, so she traveled there to enroll and to give it her best effort. The miracle she and John had always waited for at last finally arrived. At age 53, she was able to talk fluently.
John has written: "I saw Annie's perseverance and strength through the years, and it made me admire her and love her even more." He has heard roaring ovations in countries around the world for his own valor, but his awe was reserved for Annie and what she accomplished.
Once again, on the last Mercury space shot, the press spoke of the heroism of Glenn the astronaut. But if you ever find yourself at an event where the two are appearing, and you want to see someone brimming with pride and love, wait until the moment that Annie stands to speak a few words to the audience.
And as she begins, take a look at her husband's eyes.
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I was certain I had written specifically about the Celine Trapeze bag on PurseBlog, but I haven't. It seems I spend time writing posts it my head and they never make it to my virtual paper. The Celine Trapeze came in after the never-ending hype of the Celine Luggage Tote and has only helped pick up speed (along with the rest of the Celine train) since then.
Let's break down the Celine Trapeze and see what everyone is buzzing about (and trust me, the buzz is worth it). While the Luggage Tote became recognizable for it's face-like front, the Trapeze is known for clean, sleek lines and extra-wide gusset sides. The flap front adds dimensionality, and, in some of my favorite Trapeze renditions, multiple colors and materials are used to bring this bag to life. The top handle has ample space to carry in your arm, and while you could fling it over your shoulder, majority just carry it in their hand or crux of their arm.
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In the last week, I've travelled from Johannesburg to Cape Town to Addis Ababa. Along the way, I've been struck over and over again by the ingenuity, entrepreneurship, and innovation of the people I have met -- from townships to capital cities, from villages to major metropolises. Innovation parks are taking a place next to factories, investment banks next to mobile phone banking kiosks, and internet startups next to mom-and-pop store fronts. As I touched down in Ethiopia for the World Economic Forum on Africa, I was struck by the thought: Africa is emerging.
Buoyed by a decade of growth and bullish predictions for the future, Africa is on track to become the next big investment destination. The Economist indicates that six of the world's ten fastest-growing economies over the past decade were in sub-Saharan Africa. McKinsey & Company, Boston Consulting Group, and the Center for Global Development have all recently released their own reports or surveys supporting the case for Africa's emergence into the global economic landscape.
Information technology in particular seems to be taking off. In today's hyper-connected society, it is hard to believe that only 11 percent of Africans have access to the Internet through a computer or mobile phone. But this is changing too: Internet usage in Africa has grown faster than on any other continent over the past decade. Africa's information technology sector is ripe for development and ready for growth.
The awakening of the African economy provides an opportunity for global and African entrepreneurs and enterprises to forge partnerships for mutual economic benefits. At the World Economic Forum on Africa today, I had the pleasure of launching a new partnership -- Liberalizing Innovation Opportunity Nations -- or LIONS@FRICA, alongside the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), Microsoft, Nokia, DEMO, the World Bank Group's infoDev, African Development Bank, and Global Entrepreneurship Week.
LIONS@FRICA is a new public-private partnership platform aimed to enhance and deepen the startup and innovation ecosystems of targeted fast growing African economies. Modeled after the Startup America Partnership, LIONS@FRICA seeks to bring together key private and public institutions to support and amplify Africa's budding startup and innovation ecosystem.
Across the continent, startups such as Cobi Interactive, a leading South African mobile software development company that provides mobile technology and strategy consulting for top African corporations; and PesaPal, a payment platform that enables Kenyans to buy and sell on the Internet using M-Pesa, Zap, and credit cards, are making waves. What's more, we are seeing these startups develop from local businesses into multinational entities. Tanzania's TechnoBrain, and award-winning software development firm, has expanded to 13 countries around the world and has plans to continue its expansion into new markets. We need more success stories like these. That is why we launched the LIONS@FRICA partnership.
LIONS@FRICA seeks to capitalize on this growth and create new opportunities in sub-Saharan Africa by providing a platform designed to inspire and challenge African innovators and entrepreneurs. This partnership will provide African startups with capacity building and training in business development, provide connectivity to global innovation grids, promote access to capital, create opportunities for partnership, and showcase best practices and successes in African-led innovation solutions.
Planned activities for the partnership include a series of programs across the continent featuring promising African startups and entrepreneurs as well as venture capital roundtables and innovation bootcamps, and Startup Weekend events in over 20 African cities. Qualifying startups can join Microsoft BizSpark with access to a range of Microsoft technology for three years at no cost, to the community of BizSpark Network Partners in Africa, and to programs at Nokia's mLabs in the region.
LIONS@FRICA will also launch the first-ever DEMO Africa, a global platform to connect African startups to the global ecosystem, where the most innovative companies from African countries come to launch their products and announce to Africa and the world what they have developed.
We are very excited about this partnership, and I look forward to meeting the real lions of innovations and we invite more partners to join us in this noble endeavor. Visit the LIONS@FRICA website at www.meetthelions.org for more information. For partnership opportunities, please contact Thomas Debass, and follow @lionsafrica and #meetthelions on Twitter.
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Many schools today offer a quick six month certificate or diploma program in culinary arts. RMU's accredited Culinary program provides students with the cooking, management and critical thinking skills to become chefs, managers and leaders in the industry. We do more than prepare you for a job in the culinary field, we help you launch and advance an exciting, rewarding career.
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TAMPA - There are treasures worth billions of dollars on the oceans' floors, Greg Stemm says. To find your share, all you need is precise research and the right equipment.
And about 12 years.
For much of that time, Odyssey Marine Exploration Inc. suffered the indignities of perceived failure. The Tampa company spent millions of dollars trolling the globe's deepest seas for sunken treasure, without success. At one time, its stock could be had for a nickel a share.
Starved for money, the company took loans from co-founders Stemm and John Morris. It paid some contractors in shares of stock. It sold millions of shares more for a song to investors who were wealthy or gamblers or a little of both. To preserve cash, it skipped annual shareholders' meetings.
All that changed last summer, when Odyssey's search vessel finally homed in on a Civil War-era wreck thought to have sunk with a cargo of thousands of gold coins.
Suddenly, two executives whose primary business challenge to date had been avoiding bankruptcy were given an opportunity to cash in on one of the biggest numismatic events in years.
They haven't disappointed. With masterful skill, Odyssey's founders have cultivated a storm of media coverage, a dream team of coin experts and a marketable product - historically significant coins - they hope will keep their search boat afloat for years to come.
In May alone, the publicly traded company took in more than $3-million from initial sales of coins it recovered from the S.S. Republic. Not enough to tempt Leonardo DiCaprio into filming Titanic II, perhaps, but 10 times as much money as Odyssey took in during the prior 10 years combined.
"We knew that if we could just stick it out long enough, we could prove that a real business existed," Stemm says.
"This is a very big thing in the numismatic world," says Chris Cipoletti, executive director of the American Numismatic Association, a nonprofit membership organization for coin collectors.
The salvage of the Republic, located about 100 miles off the Georgia coast and some 1,700 feet beneath the Atlantic's surface, is not complete. But Odyssey's crew has discovered items of value. Among the more than 51,000 coins recovered at last report were several thousand $10 or $20 gold coins, including a particularly rare 1854 specimen for which the company says it has turned down a $450,000 offer.
In many cases, the salt water and lack of handling left Republic's gold coins in better condition than their earthbound counterparts.
Of far less interest to traditional coin collectors are the more than 47,000 silver half-dollars found so far. Because silver is porous, company officials say, many of these coins show the wear and tear of 138 years undersea. Under an electron microscope, some even display coral and other organisms.
Shrewdly, Odyssey's team decided to turn a negative into a positive by marketing the coins as historical relics - the Republic sank in a hurricane while en route from New York to New Orleans on a post-war reconstruction mission - to noncollectors. Thousands have been packaged in handsome wood cases and sold since May for $1,000 to $2,000 apiece via cable TV's Shop at Home Network and through conventional coin retailers.
But "the gold coins are where the big money's going to be," says Steve Carnow, general manager of Swiss America Trading Corp. of Phoenix, one of the half-dollars' distributors. "They could be worth upwards of well over $10,000 per coin."
John Albanese, a New Jersey coin marketing consultant Odyssey hired in February, estimated the retail value of the more than 51,000 coins at more than $75-million. That figure could climb higher if the company finds more coins on the Republic.
Odyssey won't rest its future on the coin sales alone. Entertainment experts, historians and archaeologists it hired are developing traveling and permanent exhibits of Republic memorabilia, a strategy that helped Titanic's owners draw thousands of customers to St. Petersburg's Florida International Museum in the 1990s.
Not that Odyssey's cash-flow problems are forever solved. Recovering, conserving, grading, marketing and auctioning its remaining coins will take time. For short-term cash needs, the company plans to close on a $5-million line of credit this month with the Bank of Tampa, using $20-million worth of gold coins as collateral.
For the long term, there is the challenge of boosting Odyssey's stock price, which rose to nearly $7 over the past year but closed Friday at $3.34 per share, up 7 cents.
One problem: share dilution. In the 12 months ended April 30, the number of Odyssey shares ballooned 31 percent to 38-million, thanks to the exercise of warrants and stock options ladled out over the lean years to investors and employees.
Another problem, spokeswoman Laura Lionetti Barton says, is that Odyssey's business type is unusual for a publicly traded company. "We don't fit any traditional mold," she says. "Also, since we have not issued any financial statements that show significant revenue, we haven't had the traditional "benchmark' numbers that people look for."
On Tuesday, Odyssey will have a rare chance to boost its financial reputation at a ThinkEquity Partners LLC event in Chicago. CEOs from 28 small, public companies will tout their businesses to mutual fund managers and stock analysts there.
Meanwhile, Odyssey's search vessel is cruising the eastern seaboard for other likely shipwrecks. Later in 2004, its recovery ship will travel to the Mediterranean to begin salvaging a wreck thought to be a British warship that sank with up to $1-billion worth of coins in 1694. Odyssey would share proceeds of the find with the British government, with whom it engaged in an arduous legal, political and contractual battle.
Can Odyssey strike gold twice? Stemm, who along with Morris received a substantial bonus and salary hike this year, is sure of it.
"Our next step," he says, "is to help people understand that this isn't a one-shipwreck company."
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All Houghton and Keweenaw County schools are closed. All Houghton County B-H-K Centers are closed.
All Baraga County schools (L'Anse, Baraga, Sacred Heart and Arvon Township), all Baraga County B-H-K Centers, and KBIC Early Head Start are closed.
Ontonagon Schools and Ontonagon Head Start are closed.
Ewen-Trout Creek Schools and Ewen-Trout Creek Head Start are closed. The boys' basketball game against Lake Linden-Hubbell has been postponed no make-up date has been set.
Keweenaw Bay Ojibwa Community College is closed.
Northern Michigan University daytime classes are canceled. An announcement will be made by early afternoon regarding evening classes.
Gogebic Community College's Copper Country Campus will open two hours late.
MTU Pre-School is closed.
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