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Shares of Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) rallied Monday, as the world's largest online retailer played a key role in the Cyber Monday frenzy.
Starting at midnight on Sunday, November 25, Amazon.comopened its Cyber Monday Deals Store, offering thousands of "Lightning Deals" and "Deal of the Day" doorbusters through the end of the week, with items eligible for Free Super Saver Shipping and Prime Free Two-Day Shipping.
Digital analytics provider ComScore (NASDAQ:SCOR) Sunday reported that for the holiday season so far, or for the first 23 days of the November-December season, $13.7 billion has been spent online, marking a 16-per cent increase versus the corresponding days last year.
Black Friday saw $1.042 billion in online sales, making it the heaviest online spending day to date in 2012 and representing a 26-per cent increase versus Black Friday 2011.
Amazon ranked #1 among online retailers on Black Friday, according to ComScore. A total of 57.3 million Americans visited online retail sites that day, representing an increase of 18 per cent versus year ago.
Amazon ranked as the most visited online retail site on Black Friday while also posting the highest year-over-year visitor growth rate among the top five retailers.
Wal-Mart (NYSE:WMT) ranked second, followed by Best Buy (NYSE:BBY), Target (NYSE:TGT) and Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL).
Thanksgiving Day, while traditionally a lighter day for online holiday spending, achieved a strong 32-per cent increase to $633 million.
"Despite the frenzy of media coverage surrounding the importance of Black Friday in the brick-and-mortar world, we continue to see this shopping day become more and more prominent in the e-commerce channel – particularly among those who prefer to avoid crowds at the stores," said ComScore chairman, Gian Fulgoni.
"With Thanksgiving now behind us and most consumers returning to work tomorrow, we can look forward with anticipation to Cyber Monday, which according to norms we've observed over the past three years should be the heaviest online shopping day of the season with sales approaching $1.5 billion or even higher."
In the online retail world, Amazon shares rallied almost 1% to $242.19, Best Buy gained around 2.2%, Apple jumped nearly 3%, while Target and Wal-Mart lost 2.5% and 0.6%, respectively.
Apple was higher as the AllThingsD blog reported that the company inked a deal to offer iTunes credits through Facebook Gifts in time for the holiday season.
Elsewhere in technology today, Yahoo (NASDAQ:YAHOO) shares rose 0.9% as Goldman Sachs added the company to its conviction list, and raised its 12-month price target to $24 from $22.
The analysts noted that Yahoo's balance sheet assets and its core business are worth more than the current stock price, but key risks remain, including its ability to monetize the remainder of its assets and in its transition to mobile, among other risks.
Shares of Facebook (NASDAQ:FB) also flew higher looking to close above $25 for the first time in four months, as Bernstein Research analyst Carlos Kirjner raised the stock's rating to outperform, saying the company "is on path to beat consensus revenues over the next 12-24 months."


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"Don't give them what they want, give them what you are..."
From Veterans in Film & Television's Business of Acting Q & A with David Brandon, Linc Hand, Max Martini, Adam Farabee and Jack Kennedy earlier this week. Written by David Tenenbaum
Moments before a candid Q&A with four talented actors begins, Max Martini tells me he has no interest in sitting on stage in the already and beautifully laid out directors chairs with his colleagues.
I mention he'll have to tussle with the Jason Statham doppleganger and 6' 2" mass of Army veteran and VFT Director of Programs Jack Kennedy to sort it out. Laughs ensue.
But this is Max, Max Martini, the American-Canadian-Euro citizen who has had held some of the most dominant roles in combat films like Saving Private Ryan, Colombiana, Captain Philips, Pacific Rim, 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi and Spectral. No one argued. Did I mention he's also boxed for the past 12 years or so?... (read more)

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The Hudson Valley Community College baseball team (30-16) competed in the Region III Baseball Tournament, beginning Friday, May 7, as the number-three seed despite being ranked number six in the NJCAA poll. The tournament was a double elimination.
In the Vikings' first match-up against number-two seeded Niagara Community College, Ace, Alex Sardo (Chatham, Chatham), got the nod and performed brilliantly. He pitched seven innings, scattering 10 hits and only giving up two earned runs. The Viking offense backed up their pitcher as Mike McCrone (Whitney Point, Binghamton) tied the game up at two with a solo jack and then knocked in two more runs for a 4-2 lead. The Vikings went on to shut the door on Niagara, 6-3.
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Makes 36 servings
1/2 pound semisweet chocolate
3 tablespoons butter, at room temperature
2 eggs
1/3 cup sugar, plus more for rolling
3/4 cup ground almonds
Powdered sugar, for garnish
Instructions: Melt chocolate in the top of a double boiler set over, but not touching, simmering water. Remove from heat. Cut butter into a few pieces and mix into chocolate until melted.
Beat eggs with an electric mixer, gradually adding the 1/3 cup sugar, beating until ribbons form. Fold in the chocolate-butter mixture. Gently add ground almonds. Cover and refrigerate overnight.
Heat oven to 325 degrees. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
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By Howard Hurlbut
Guest columnist
A United Nations inquiry has produced evidence that war crimes in Syria were authorized by President Bashar al-Assad and other high-level Syrian officials.
UN human rights commissioner Navi Pillay reported that her commission has uncovered "massive evidence of very serious crimes, war crimes, crimes against humanity."
Pillay said that the evidence indicated responsibility "at the highest level of government, including the head of state."
"The scale of viciousness of the abuses being perpetrated by elements on both sides almost defies belief." The crimes include torture, rape, and mass killing.
The UN investigators have consistently observed that the Syrian government appears responsible for the majority of crimes, and that the systematic nature of the abuse points to government policy.
The United Nations estimates that more than 100,000 people have died in the Syrian conflict.
One problem is that most Western nations are reluctant to replace Assad with revolutionaries that may be radically Islamist with likely connections to al-Qaida.
Marilyn Snyder warns against complex laws
In her column "Stop with the 4-letter words," Marilyn Snyder makes a very important point that lawmakers at all levels should take seriously.
The "nasty, vile, four-letter word" that she refers to, with subtle irony, is "comprehensive."
She writes, "Any time a governmental body attempts to pass a 'comprehensive' law such as Obamacare, both the intended and unintended consequences of a gargantuan law create well-observed massive problems for the people."
As a primary example, she cites "the 900-plus pages of the Affordable Care Act, AKA Obamacare, turned into about 10,000 pages of regulations."
All U.S. citizens and organizations are legally obligated to know and abide by every provision of every law and regulation passed by local, state and federal bodies.
This, of course, is impossible, but it underscores the need for laws that are brief, focused and uncomplicated.
America needs laws that address complex problems like healthcare one step at a time — each stage providing a foundation for the one that follows.
President Clinton's 1993 healthcare proposal and Governor Brown's 2013 realignment of prisoners are further examples of excessively "comprehensive" programs.
Democratic leaders aren't alone here. For example, there's President G.W. Bush's attempt to privatize Social Security comprehensively.
And Gov. Scott Walker (R-Wisc.) favors one-party rule in Washington so a future GOP president could make "big reforms."
Marilyn Snyder commends Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Florida), who advocates "individual bills that build on each other sequentially."
200 CEOs favor age 70 for full S. Sec. benefits
The 200 CEOs of large corporations who belong to the Business Roundtable have proposed raising the minimum age for full Social Security benefits to 70 years.
These CEOs also advocate replacing the present system for Social Security cost-of-living increases with one that reduces adjustment amounts.
Social Security retirees receive an average of $1,237 a month. These CEOs' retirement checks will average $86,043 a month, with some CEOs to receive nearly $1 million per month.
Since 1980, CEOs of large corporations have cut traditional pensions from 89 percent of their employees down to 11 percent.
Most corporations have switched from traditional "defined" pensions to 401(k) stock market accounts in which the employee bears most of the investment risk.
At present, one-third of all retirees receive at least 90 percent of their income from Social Security.
As those of us with "defined" pensions die off, younger workers with 401(k) accounts, or just meager savings, will have to rely heavily on Social Security.
Workers henceforth will more than ever need Social Security payments that increase with annual inflation, not the CEO-favored cutback.
Air Force plan to cancel Global Hawk drone fails
The Air Force planned to stop buying Global Hawk spy drones and mothball 18 of those it already bought, noting that its 33 older U-2 spy planes are more cost effective.
Since it costs $35,000 to fly a Global Hawk for one hour, the Air Force expected to save about $2.5 billion over five years.
But House Armed Services Committee Chairman Howard "Buck" McKeon (R-Santa Clarita) got Congress to restore funding for the Global Hawk drones, which cost $222.7 million each.
McKeon's district includes Palmdale where Northrop builds the Global Hawks. Northrop is one of McKeon's largest campaign donors.
Doesn't the GOP support cost-effectiveness in government spending?
Howard Hurlbut is an emeritus professor of the University of Redlands and a resident of Redlands.


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John Turturro directs and stars with Woody Allen, Sofie Vergara and Sharon Stone in the new film Fading Gigolo.
John Turturo's first order of business in directing Woody Allen?
"My big thing was to not have him wear khaki pants and an Army coat," John Turturro says with a broad smile. "And I got him out of that. I said, 'That's not in my color scheme. I'm an Italian director.' "
This dash of bravado about dictating sartorial choices to Woody Allen might sound pretentious, or even ludicrous, on paper. But when it comes from a tall, impeccably groomed man in an elegant blue velvet suit (double breasted, blue shirt buttoned to the top, no tie), it seems perfectly reasonable.
For his fifth feature behind the camera, Fading Gigolo, the renowned actor and filmmaker solicited ongoing (and ruthless) feedback from the New York screen icon during the lengthy screenwriting process. Allen also accepted a rare acting assignment in the film, hence the discussion of his costume.
Allen plays Murray, a newly retired Manhattan bookstore owner who, in need of money, convinces his friend, floral arranger Fioravante (Turturro), to provide sexual services to affluent women. Murray claims a fee for arranging the liaisons, which take Fioravante in an unexpected and ultimately poignant direction.
Fading Gigolo starts out as a slightly absurd sex comedy and deepens into a mature, empathetic study of big-city loneliness against a backdrop of cross-cultural and ethnic identity.
The crucial relationship in the film is between Fioravante and Avigal (French actress Vanessa Paradis), an astute mother of six and the widow of a Chasidic rabbi. Sex isn't part of the equation but Dovi, a protective and covetous neighborhood Satmar watchman (touchingly played by Liev Schreiber), can't know that.
"I met all these people who've left the [Satmar] community" in the course of his research, Turturro says in a recent interview at a San Francisco hotel. "They're like the strays of the community. They gather in this place, people who left, and people who hadn't left who just went there to see what was going on."
Paradis got to know one woman in particular who had left the Satmar community and explained the various directives, such as keeping her hair concealed under a wig.
"All these things are made up by men," Turturro declares. "Women didn't make these rules. And to me, that says it all."
Fading Gigolo is unambiguously respectful toward observant Jewish practice while inviting us to empathize with a woman trying to reconcile autonomy and conformity.
"Avigal's not looking to escape," Turturro explains. "She's just looking to receive."
The film climaxes with a religious trial where Murray is confronted with the query, "Are you proud to be a Jew?" It's the question we've long wanted Woody Allen to answer — onscreen or off, and at that moment it's difficult not to conflate the character and the actor.
Turturro's experience of Judaism goes well beyond growing up in New York and now living in the Park Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn. His wife is Jewish and his son went to Hebrew school, and Turturro himself has spent a fair amount of time in Reform synagogues.
He has played several Jewish characters onscreen, most famously in the Coen Brothers' Miller's Crossing and Barton Fink, and immersed himself in the life of Primo Levi to portray the Italian-Jewish Holocaust survivor in Francesco Rosi's The Truce.
"If you're raised a Catholic, you realize there's not a debate that goes on," Turturro says. "And if you're raised a Jew, there's a debate that goes on. And I really like that. Therein lies one of the greatnesses of Judaism."
At Allen's behest, Turturro brushed up on Isaac Bashevis Singer's short stories while he wrote the screenplay that would become Fading Gigolo. But after all his various and diligent research, some things just came down to intuition — and style.
"I only chose Satmar because I liked the hats the best," Turturro says. "I don't want the Borsalino. I'm Italian. It's an aesthetic choice, understand. That's how it goes with me. The hat dictates. That's it."
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The schedule is not surprising given 90 per cent of Brambles's' earnings come from outside Australia, but Todorcevski has also had a lot to learn about a deceptively complex business that is in the middle of divesting the last part of its conglomerate model.
Deutsche Bank transport and logistics analyst Cameron McDonald knows Todorcevski from when they were both in the graduate program at BHP nearly 20 years ago. He was pleasantly surprised to see his old colleague back in a global company when Todorcevski was hired to replace Greg Hayes, whose retirement was announced in July 2012 on the same day as Brambles said it was aborting the sale of its document management business, Recall.
As his career has all been in the resource sector, the choice of Todorcevski was a bit left-field and McDonald agrees it is a much higher-profile role. "But all good CFOs should be able to shift sectors, they just need to understand the accounting and cash-flow implications of the business and the way it is run," McDonald says. "Being the CFO of
Todorcevski has relished the challenge of understanding a new company and sector and the return to a large, global business. He has had to grasp the ins and outs of what makes the biggest Australia-based logistics business tick, plunging straight into the new strategy to divest Recall and figuring out how Brambles can make the most of its slimmer business. The sale process foundered last year because debt markets moved against bidders, and the cost of funding became too high to meet the price Brambles wanted. "I have been leading the review of divestment options since the sale was pulled," Todorcevski says. "A lot of that work has been about understanding what the options were."
In July, the company announced it would demerge Recall, offering shares to existing shareholders and listing in Australia. Todorcevski says a problem with the original sale process was the lack of an alternative strategy, as well as being subject to volatile funding conditions. "Without a plan B, the only alternative was to pull the sale when we couldn't get the certainty we needed."
One reason the sale option was chosen was because the company wanted to raise cash to reduce debt used to pay for the company's biggest buy to date, plastic crates pooling business IFCO Systems, in 2011. Brambles did an equity raising to cover the missing sale proceeds last year, so this time round it didn't need the money.
After nine months of deliberations, the board judged there was enough demand to spin Recall off to its own shareholders and list it in Australia. A demerger would give them the most certainty of completing the transaction successfully.
One eye on growth
Born in Macedonia, Todorcevski's family moved to Wollongong, south of Sydney, when he was 18 months old. He went to the University of Wollongong and started his career at BHP Steel as a graduate entrant while he was still studying in the early 1990s. He rose through the ranks in various divisions, including moving to the London-based emerging markets business, where he was involved in acquisitions in Russia, Africa and the Middle East. He became CFO of energy based in Houston in 2005, before returning to Australia in 2009 to be finance chief of Oil Search, which has oil and gas projects in PNG. He has also maintained an interest in Macedonia. For a time he was a member of Macedonia 2025, a global organisation promoting economic development in the eastern European country. But the workload of the new job, not to mention five-year-old twins, has forced him to give that up, along with other external commitments such as Habitat for Humanity, which uses volunteers to build houses for the disadvantaged.
The demerger will take up much of Todorcevski's time until the end of the year, especially in setting up new bank debt facilities for Recall. Beyond that, Todorcevski says Brambles still has work to do to improve its internal decision-making structures, including capital allocation that involves a budget of about $1 billion annually. "I have been spending some time rethinking our capital allocation methodology," he says. "Part of it is that Brambles used to be a conglomerate. So there was more of a distant relationship in which the corporate centre would make portfolio allocation decisions, and the operating businesses' role would be to go off and implement that decision."
Decisions also still need to be made on how Brambles capitalises on the IFCO purchase and the demerger. "With the size of company we are and the complexity of the business, we need to focus on how we simplify things and do them consistently and get some leverage and synergies," he says.
The chief opportunities for growth lie where there is little pooling of pallets as well as diversification of products and sectors, such as in the emerging markets of Latin America and eastern Europe. But entering new markets takes time, as Brambles needs numerous customers to maximise efficiency. There is also opportunity in the US. "Although we have been in the US for 20 years, penetration of pooled pallets is nowhere near what you see in more mature markets," he says.
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Sounds of U.N. silence: Stuffing whistleblowers
A United Nations whistleblower who exposed the world body's culture of corruption has asked Secretary of State John Kerry to withhold 15 percent of the U.S. government's allocation to Turtle Bay. Not surprisingly, the Obama administration responded by stuffing cotton in its ears.
Under U.S. law, the withholding is required if the secretary of State concludes that the United Nations failed to protect whistleblowers from retaliation, The New York Times reports. But while ex-U.N. staffer James Wasserstrom prevailed in his landmark case against the U.N. for retribution because of his internal criticism, a U.N. oversight panel judge awarded him a pittance ($65,000) of his claimed $3.2 million in total damages.
What this tells U.N. staff is that "even when a whistleblower wins, he loses," says Mr. Wasserstrom, an American who spent 30 years with the world body.
As a direct result of his litigation, he's now financially worse off than if he had kept his mouth shut, according to an officer with the Government Accountability Project.
Nevertheless, the response from the State Department to Wasserstrom's request was as predictable as it was pathetic: There'll be no formal review. No taking it under advisement. A State official told The Times that Wasserstrom's claim doesn't reflect the department's position and it doesn't believe "any withholdings are required ... at this time."
Not only deaf but exceedingly dumb is the U.S. policy that helps silence U.N. whistleblowers. And this, when the United States plays the fool by paying the largest share of the U.N.'s budget.


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Police have arrested a 40-year-old man who allegedly broke into a northwest Salt Lake City home, assaulted several people and abducted his estranged girlfriend.
Salt Lake City police Detective Josh Ashdown said the incident began about 10 a.m. Wednesday when the man allegedly forced his way into a home near 800 West and 400 North. His live-in girlfriend, 42, had apparently taken refuge with friends at the residence.
"He got into a fight there with the homeowner and the homeowner's son and at one point threatened them with an ice pick," Ashdown said. "He took [the woman] back to their home and wouldn't allow her to leave."
However, the woman managed to flee through a bathroom window and called 911.
Ashdown said when officers arrived they found the woman appeared to have been assaulted and was suffering numerous bruises. She refused, however, to be taken to the hospital for examination.
The suspect was taken into custody at the residence and booked into Salt Lake County jail, where he was being held without bail Thursday on suspicion of first-degree felony aggravated kidnapping, second-degree felony aggravated assault and first-degree felony aggravated burglary.


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Overall, they added some nice features, and I'm loving the frosted-glass look and *some* of the icon redesigns. I'm so glad the gray linen and glossy plastic elements will be gone.
I'll still wait for a jailbreak to upgrade (though it sounds like p0sixninja is already making good progress), but it seems like I'll need *far* fewer tweaks to get my phone the way I like it.
Impressive stuff for the most part.
I must say, I'm impressed by what Apple has done w/ iOS 7. It's not mind-blowing (only because we have most of these features w/ a Jailbreak or on Android) but its definitely a step in the right direction. It actually feels like they thought about the consumer again instead of their control.
That said:
-Do I want iOS 7? Very much so!
-Is it worth losing the JB? Not yet, Betas are unfinished and buggy. I can't risk losing a JB AND eventually resorting to a 6.1.4 downgrade
-Will I get iOS 7 when its public? Of course, cuz I'm getting the 5S! I hope Control Ctr. worx on Lockscreen, as well.
finally i'm impressed. I cant wait for IOS7
finally i'm impressed. i cant wait for IOS7
Here's my two cents: With all that's done in iOS 7 much of what I jailbreak for is gone, little tweaks such as browser changer and color keyboard and atom still aren't there, but those are just fun gimmicks. Am I incredibly impressed with what apple has done? Yes. Am I going to lose my jailbreak? Possibly. You can't say it's not worth it until you've seen videos of the beta running on real iPhones, if people say that iOS 7 is worth losing a jailbreak I probably will update. I know the drawbacks, but you just have to weigh your options. Just my opinion though.
Cant see how the new icon style thing will work unless they intend to make every single developer change their application icons apple are going to end up with a system where the stock icons look completely different to your app store icons removing any consistency in the style
Haven't seen it yet. Only thing I'd like to comment on it is have the sbsettings and Ryan petrich (parallax) patented their idea? Otherwise good luck fighting apple I guess. I also agree with why are people complaining "stealing" from jailbreak community" it's kinda the point in my opinion
Do not like.
I wish this plain & ugly trend Microsoft started with Windows Phone 7 would just go away.
Now it matches Jelly Bean, Windows Phone 8, and Windows 8. Yay. Whenever they get to changing Mac OS to look like this, then everything will look the same. Yay.
I, too, am glad that Apple is taking from the JB Scene. Less tweaks to install that take up space on my device! But, I'm still gonna need: MyWi, Quick Reply, 5 columns, Gridlock, Display Recorder, ScrollingBoard, CallBar & Wraparound.
Here's what I'm most excited about!
Music.app - I'm excited about iTunes Radio! One less app on my device (Pandora)!!! It'd be cool if, eventually, they add song recognition and then I could ditch Soundhound.
NC on Lockscreen - I wonder if Notifications can collapse now?
Safari looks DOPE! Unlimited pages and cool UI = Win!
Weather eliminates TWC, now!!!
Unlimited apps in folders
Camera & Photos.app
[QUOTE=z3r01;6897030]Ummm....no no....they haven't.....only thing they got from android is notification center....iOS came first....so...]
You can't say certain things haven't come from android, the new multitasking window looks identical to HTC Sense and from what I've read Palm Pre, the auto update of apps is from Android, the way tabbed browsing of Safari is exactly the same as Google Chrome, camera filters have been in since 4.0 as far as I know. The new lock screen with the bubbles could be mistaken for jelly bean with phase beam. At first when I saw the airdrop feature I thought I was exactly the same as one of samsungs all share features were you share pics with someone else over the same Wifi.
Not saying it's a bad thing, it's the way of the world. Companies will borrow stuff but no point in denying a lot of features have been taken from elsewhere.
I know it has no functional purpose, but the new parallax wallpaper thing is badass.
Now I will say, while there's really Mobile OS exclusives that android has like using the proximity sensors to scroll a page or navigate your device, some features are taken from jailbreak tweaks from earlier iOS days that developer made for the iDevices first.
I strongly agree with you that the majority of features came from elsewhere...but I know for a fact that these features (with regard to the notification center) came exclusively from android.
Does it have live wallpapers like on Android though?
Really liking the new features and the fresh look!
Maybe folks need to look closer at your typical 'Metro' idea as the iOS7 design is nothing like it.
The whole update is fresh, Apple have implemented some popular features amongst other devices and even apps out there, but given their own spin on them.
For those who haven't yet watched the presentation, I certainly recommend it.
All in all looking forward to the update!


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It is with the greatest pleasure (and just a skotch of anxiety) that I share my vision for what jewelry should be: fun, colorful, and genuine.
Having grown up in the jewelry business, surrounded by all things sparkly, I have a natural love of fine jewelry. It occurred to me a few years ago that my friends were wearing pretty jewelry but so much of it wasn't real and wouldn't last. How could I use what I know of jewelry and gemstones to create something real that they could buy for themselves and love wearing?
Tagging along on buying trips I love seeing new designs and imagining the person who will end up wearing it. It has always brought me such satisfaction to help select a piece of jewelry and then to see someone wear and enjoy it.
Now I have been given the latitude to put together a collection of my vision to live inside our Ben Bridge stores. Creating these pieces has been an incredible joy and I hope that that is the feeling they give to the women wearing them. Enjoy!
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After a 24-year run, the Fujitsu Cup has ended. The popular international tournament – won this year by Park Junghwan (right), the youngest 9-dan pro in the world — featured top players from the Japanese, Korean, Chinese and Taiwanese professional go scene, joined by representatives of North and South America and Europe. "The Fujitsu Cup has been the most important event in promoting international go for the longest time," said Thomas Hsiang, the American Go Association's representative to the International Go Federation, where he's vice president. "I personally was fortunate to have been one of the players. The world of go owes a profound debt of gratitude to the Nihon Kiin and to Fujitsu for supporting and organizing this event for so many years." Founded in 1988, the Fujitsu was organized by the Nihon Ki-in, the Kansai Ki-in and the Yomiuri Shimbun and sponsored by Fujitsu Ltd. "Many great games were played and recorded during that time," said T. Urasoe of the Nihon Kiin. "It is a great shame that it will terminate. But we will continue to seek a chance to hold an international tournament in Japan."
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Fujitsu Cup Ends After 24-Year Run
Monday December 19, 2011
China Tops World Mind Games Mixed Doubles
Sunday December 18, 2011
China took the gold medal in the SportAccord World Mind Games mixed doubles event, with Korea winning silver and Japan bronze. The U.S. team of Feng Yun and Jie Li (photo) defeated Europe's Vanessa Wong and Catalin Taranu in the final.
Click here for Ranka Online's full coverage of the World Mind Games, which ended on December 16th.
U.S. Only Remaining Barrier to World Mind Games Gold Medal for China
Tuesday December 13, 2011
Barring a miracle by the Americans against China, the winner of the Japan-Korea match in the SportAccord World Mind Games on December 14 will take the team silver while China takes the gold. China defeated Japan 4-1 in the 4th round Tuesday, while Chinese Taipei shut out the Americans, winning all five of their games by resignation. Korea swept the European team. The loser of the Japan-Korea match will take the bronze medal. The mixed doubles rounds are scheduled for Thursday and Friday.
- Based on James Davies' detailed reports on Ranka Online, where you can also follow live matches, check out the schedule, results and participants.
Time Out for Kids: SportAccord Delegation Visits a Go Class in Beijing
Tuesday December 13, 2011
December 12 was a rest day for the go competition at the SportAccord World Mind Games, but for a dozen or so of the players and officials, it was an opportunity to pay an afternoon visit to the Zhang Guan Gun No. 3 Elementary School. This is one of the schools in Beijing where the pupils also learn to play go. About two dozen schoolboys, dressed in light blue school uniforms, were lined up inside the school gate to greet the bus carrying the players and officials, escort them to the school meeting room, and present them with self-made gifts.
"We played one-on-two simultaneous games with representatives from the 5th and 6th grades," says Thomas Hsiang, a 7-dan. "My two opponents were 3D players and both took only three stones. We played in their go classrooms, on tables specially made just for playing go. It was there that one sees the future of go in China and understands why it will be hard for others to compete with the Chinese in go in the foreseeable future."
In an unscheduled event, Andrew Okun (right), the American team captain, dropped in on a lesson in a regular classroom to give some second graders a chance to practice their English. They peppered him with questions. Where do you live? Los Angeles. Do you like chicken? Yes. Do you also like duck? Yes. Do you like ice cream? Yes, I like it too much (patting midsection). After ten minutes or so, Okun ended the session with a question to the class: Do you like studying English? The class went wild in shouting Yes.
Back in the go classroom the games were still in progress. On the whole, the pupils were acquitting themselves well but finding that without a handicap, beating world-class professional players and even world-class European amateurs and IGF Vice Presidents is not so easy. Unfortunately, the bus had to leave and some of the pupils' parents had come to get them, so the games were cut short, farewells were bid, and a smiling group of players and officials returned to the Beijing Intercontinental Grand Hotel.
- James Davies, with additional reporting by Thomas Hsiang; photos courtesy Ranka Online; where you can read Davies' full report.
China Likely to Win Gold in World Mind Games; U.S. Contender for 5th
Sunday December 11, 2011
In the third round of the team competitions at the SportAccord World Mind Games in Beijing, China, the United States finally scored a team win when Mingjiu Jiang forced Catalin Taranu to resign, after Andy Liu and Feng Yun won against Cornel Burzo and Vanessa Wong, reports Thomas Hsiang. Jie Li, however, lost by 2.5 points to Cristian Pop in a game that both players thought Jie had won. Kevin Huang then lost to Jan Simara, making the team score 3-2. The US will now probably finish 5th.
The other match, pitting China against Korea, attracted the attention of a lot of the Chinese pros. Wang Runan, Hua Yigang, Hua Xueming, and Yu Bin – the president, vice president, men's team coach, and women's team coach of China Weiqi Association – all showed up to watch. There were lively discussions in the study room around the several large-screen TV's showing the key games. In the game between Kong Jie and Lee Sedol, Kong had a good opening and took the lead early on. But Lee fought back with a clever maneuver to reverse the situation and won at the end. On the second table, Gu Li (right) trailed Choi Chulhan early, causing tense moments among the Chinese audience. But, in a marvelous display of his recent strong form, Gu fought back little bit by little bit. In the end he found a ko and took a firm lead when Choi could not find a large enough threat for the ko. With Xie He and Li He winning, China was assured of a 3-2 victory. China will now probably win the gold medal.
Between Korea and China, there have been three international mind-sport team clashes. In the 2008 WMSG and the 2010 Asian Games, Korea won both by a 4-1 score. So for China, this was a sweet victory indeed.
In the third match, Japan won surprisingly easily with a score of 4-1 against Chinese Taipei. Only Yamashiro Hiroshi lost on the second table to Hsiao Cheng-hao. Japan will now probably take the bronze.
Tomorrow (12/12) is the off day for Go. SportAccord and the Beijing government have arranged a visit for some of the go players to a middle school for a teaching and promotional event. Representing US and EU will be Mingjiu Jiang and Vanessa Wong.
Click here for James Davies' detailed reports on Ranka Online, where you can also follow live matches, check out the schedule, results and participants.
photo courtesy Ranka Online
Japan, Korea & China Sweep EU, US & Chinese Taipei in World Mind Games
Saturday December 10, 2011
"Today's games were uneventful," reports Thomas Hsiang from Day Two of the SportAccord World Mind Games in Beijing, China. "Japan, Korea, China cruised to 5-win victories versus the EU, US, and Chinese Taipei teams. Andy Liu played against Park Jeonghwan today (12/10) and said he was thoroughly impressed. 'I did not even know how I lost. Park's play was perfect'". Chinese Taipei's popular Hei Jia-jia played a tough game against Li He, a game featured on the net broadcast. The game also attracted many pros in the study room. After an early exchange that favored Li, Jia-jia fought furiously back in an exciting fighting game. But in the end she still fell short."
Tomorrow will see the EU pitted against US; the winner will avoid a last-place finish. Also, China and Korea will crash to produce the likely champion team. Japan will play Chinese Taipei for a probable third place.
"Andy Okun and I had a two-hour interview with Lee Youngho, brother of Lee Changho, and Xie Rui, the top Weiqi reporter in China who works for Titan Journal, a sports newspaper. Based on this interview, Titan will publish a feature story about go in America in its next issue."
Click here for James Davies' more detailed reports on Ranka Online, where you can also follow live matches, check out the schedule, results and participants.
photo: SAWMG Opening Ceremonies; collage courtesy Ranka Online
U.S. Team Comes Close But Fails to Upset Japan in 1st Round of SportAccord World Mind Games
Friday December 9, 2011
Results from the first day's team competitions at the SportAccord World Mind Games in Beijing, China on December 9 went pretty much as expected, Thomas Hsiang tells the E-Journal, with China, Japan, and Korea winning against EU, US, and Chinese Taipei. "Chinese Taipei nearly pulled an upset when Chen Shih-iuan defeated Lee Sedol, and Hei Jia-jia (Joanne Missingham) won against Kim Hyemin. In the game that finished last, the young boy Wang Yuan-jun — only 14! — was leading in his game against Lee Younggo. Lee finally prevailed and dashed Chinese Taipei's hope for a big upset."
The U.S. lost to Japan 0-5, but Andy Liu and Jie Li (right) both had their chances, Hsiang reports. "Andy played 'fast and very smart' against Sakai Hideaki, according to Gu Li and Kong Jie, the two Chinese world champions. Gu Li spent more than an hour watching Andy and told me afterwards that he was very impressed and 'that unknown young man had a good game and many chances to win'. Jie lost to Yamashiro Hiroshi by just a half-point, and also had many chances to win, according to Kong Jie. So our young players made a very positive impression."
EU lost to China 0-5.
The broadcasting schedule for December 10 will feature the game between Hei Jia-jia and Li He — "the 'game of the two beauties,' as they say here in China," says Hsiang. Tentatively, Andy Liu will be featured on the 14th when he plays against Xie He from China.
Click here for James Davies' more detailed reports on Ranka Online, where you can also follow live matches, check out the schedule, results and participants.
In other news, Hsiang reports that "the International Go Federation (IGF) held a special Board Meeting today (12/9). I invited (AGA Board member) Andy Okun (in dark blue shirt in photo below) as an observer. Many things were discussed, including an IGF proposal that will fund two projects in the Americas: the AGA's plan for an international go symposium and the Iberoamerican Go Federation's plan to start a pilot project teaching go in Venezuela schools. This proposal now moves forward to IMSA." The AGA's plan to establish a pro system was met with great enthusiasm and encouragement, Hsiang reports. The IGF is starting to plan the next round of the SportAccord World Mind Games that will now be featured for at least five years. Hsiang and Yuki Shigeno will again represent the IGF in negotiations with SportAccord. Brunei will be next IGF member, with Kazistan likely to follow. The Ing Foundation will apply to become a new Association Member of IGF; its president, Mr. Ying Ming-haw, has been invited to become an at-large Director of the IGF. WAGC 2012 will be held in Guangzhou, May 11-18, and the 2012 WAGC 2013 will be held in Japan, with site selection and date to be announced in May 2012. There is still no site contract for World Mind Sports Games II in 2012 and the event is unlikely to take place.
photos: US team player Jie Li (top right); team captains (bottom left); photos courtesy Ranka Online.
SportAccord World Mind Games Kick Off Friday, 12/9
Thursday December 8, 2011
Preparations for the first edition of the SportAccord World Mind Games are in full swing, reports Thomas Hsiang. The Games kick off on Friday, December 9 and "There will be broadcast of events everyday during the tournament on the internet," Hsiang tells the E-Journal. The IGF's Ranka Online will also be providing coverage and the EJ will relay highlights. The go broadcast is from 1500 to 1600 Beijing time (US EST 0200 to 0300) and can be watched live on the SportAccord Youtube Channel or on the IMSA channel. The go event schedule: Team Tournament, December 9, 10, 11, 13, 14; Pair Tournament, December 15, 16; off day, December 12.
In the team event, US will play against: Japan (12/9); Korea (12/10); EU (12/11); Chinese Taipei (12/13); China (12/14). The US playing order is Mingjiu Jiang, Jie Li, Andy Liu, Kevin Huang, Yun Feng. The EU's schedule: China (12/9); Japan (12/10); US (12/11); Korea (12/13); Chinese Taipei (12/14). The EU playing order is Catalin Taranu, Christian Pop, Cornel Burzo, Jan Simara, Vanessa Wong.
Won Seongjin Wins 16th Samsung Cup
Thursday December 8, 2011
After several months of preliminaries and finals, the 16th Samsung Cup wrapped up surprisingly quickly this week, with a three game match between Won Seongjin 9P and Gu Li 9P. The games were played over three consecutive days starting on December 5, 2011. Won clinched the third game on December 7, scoring a 2-1 win, as well as his first major international title. Both players are renowned for their thick and powerful fighting styles, but many go fans expected Gu, who's known as 'muscle man' in Asia, to defeat 'Won punch' in the heavyweight stakes. Even if Gu's fans were disappointed with the results, they can't have been disappointed with the games, which thoroughly demonstrated the power and creativity of both masters.
- Jingning; Games and photos are available in her original article: Won Seongjin wins 16th Samsung Cup!
Photo: Gu Li 9P (left) and Won Seongjin 9P play the opening of the second game.
Jiang Weijie Wins 24th Mingren
Monday December 5, 2011
While Japan has already crowned its Meijin for 2011, the 39th Myeongin continues and 24th Mingren concluded this week, with Jiang Weijie (5p) defeating Kong Jie (9p) in five games.
- GoGameGuru.com


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Easter is a time to gather with family, spend some quality time together and maybe create some fun recipes and DIY projects together.
Easter is a time to gather with family, spend some quality time together and maybe create some fun recipes and DIY projects together.
But even if you want to get your children involved in some of the fun bonding activities, they may not be exactly thrilled about it. Luckily, I've gathered some tips to get your kids of all ages excited to participate in the fun, family-friendly DIY and homemade decor projects for spring and Easter.
Before you know it, you will be making warm memories that will stay with you all for a lifetime.
5 ways to get your kids and teens involved in Easter decorating projects:
1. Tasking older children and teens with creating their own dye color is a great way to get them excited about dipping eggs – it is a mix between science and art that will get them engaged and excited at the same time.
2. Keep projects quick, and relatively parent free when enlisting toddlers and younger children. Tasking them with painting plastic bunnies like the ones on my coconut cluster jars is a task that builds confidence and has an instant impact.
3. Look for more complex projects for older children and teens, they will want to think, be challenged and get as creative as possible. More complex projects like hollowing out and drying eggs to make candles and place card holders is one that requires no supervision but has great impact on your Easter décor.
4. Molding clay is not only inexpensive but offers endless crafting opportunities, from creating egg cups to sculpting bunnies, it a craft that the whole family can enjoy together.
5. Asking teens to dress the table and design the décor theme for the family table not only gets their creative juices flowing, it gives them a responsibly of the celebration that they will take great pride in. Asking the to enlist the younger generation to help set the table makes it a family activity that brings all the elements of Easter decorating together.
Jennifer Kelly Geddes has hosted Christmas cookie swaps, New Year's open houses, Thanksgiving for 22, and all manner of dinner parties in her Manhattan and Ghent, NY homes.Read More »


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We concentrate our efforts on making our unpasteurised 'Winterdale Shaw' and 'Winterdale Oak Smoked'.
We start with the freshest milk from our family farm. After finishing morning milking by about 9am we aim to get the milk into our Traditional Cheese Vat in about 20mins. We do not tamper with the milk what-so-ever, it is taken straight from the cow remaining at body temperature. In this way the original characteristics of our milk are fully retained.
By about 4pm we have made the cheese and the curd is filled into the cheese moulds and then into our traditional wood cheese presses and then pressed for 3 days.
We then remove and carefully wrap every cheese in cotton muslin, this will allow the cheese to breathe whilst maturing for some 10 months.
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Colgate has pledged that its operating impact on climate change will be zero by 2019. The university will be, in a word, sustainable.
John Pumilio, Colgate's director of sustainability
John Pumilio arrived on campus five years ago to coordinate the drive to sustainability. For all the university has achieved in that time — which includes more than a half-million dollars in savings, and carbon emissions reduced by more than 20 percent — Pumilio said, "we are like a molecule in the ocean of global carbon emissions."
Where Colgate's efforts are having their biggest influence, he said, is on students, who take a new environmental consciousness with them into the world.
"We're graduating tomorrow's leaders, and who knows what roles they'll play, what businesses they'll start, how they will lead?" he said. "If we can influence our laboratory, which is Colgate's campus, that's a source of inspiration, not only for our students but also for other institutions across the country. Every day, when students live with our solar panels, our willow plot, our community garden, our wood-fired heating plant — all sustainable approaches — it starts to get into their mind-set."
From common-sense applications such as two-sided printing and low-flow showerheads to the innovative purchase of carbon offsets in Chilean Patagonia to fostering students' own efforts in and out of the classroom, here's a glimpse at a model program that's reducing Colgate's environmental impact, saving money, and helping students to think and live green.
Pied piper of preservation
John Pumilio is at once intense and soft-spoken, driven and collegial, emotional and analytical, practical and philosophical. And everywhere.
As Colgate's director of sustainability, Pumilio employs scientific knowledge, social intelligence, hard work, and an infectious love of nature (birding in particular) in a relentless effort to raise the environmental awareness of students, professors, and staff members.
He'd worked as a field biologist before he switched to sustainability. But, when he saw a rare Florida panther die from man-made changes in the environment, he had an epiphany. He dedicated himself to helping us answer the question, "How can we prosper as individuals, organizations, and socie-ties in a way that enhances our quality of life while protecting and restoring our environment?"
Pumilio can talk the talk, for sure. Citing "parts per million" and "climate sensitivity" and "emission factors," he can detail global climate change and rattle off daunting statistics that leave no doubt "we have until about 2050 to figure this all out." But his compassion and sincerity are what set him apart. He is the antithesis of the wild-eyed ideologue. When an environmental discussion grows heated, it's often Pumilio who thoughtfully and tolerantly brings things back to reality.
He is a catalyst. "If people count on me to make Colgate sustainable, it's not going to happen," he told the Scene shortly after he was hired in 2009. "But if everyone considers sustainability as they teach, learn, and perform their day-to-day work, then we'll get to where we need to go, and I'm just here as a help desk."
He defers all credit, especially to the student activists and interns who staff programs across campus and beyond. They are Green Raiders and Eco-Reps in the residence halls, Green Thumbs in the Community Garden, bloggers, recyclers, composters, green bicyclists, Students for Environmental Action, and students taking environmental studies courses. And Pumilio is their guy: their source, their cheerleader, their confidant.
Their efforts are reported on these pages and in further detail on the university's sustainability webpages. Go to
, and allow yourself some time; the links keep coming. You have to dig for Pumilio's name, but his influence is everywhere.
He describes the changes he has helped bring about to date as "practical, low-hanging fruit." But, "the real beauty of sustainability comes in building resiliency," he said, imagining a day when Colgate could treat and recycle its own water, or produce as much energy as it consumes.
"Colgate's culture is innovative and entrepreneurial," he said. "The university hasn't reached that level in sustainability yet, but when it does, I say, 'Look out.'"
Recyclemaniacs: Behavior change is most likely to happen when there are models to follow. Green Raiders are interns who organize activities that educate and promote green living in all student residences.
Competing for green
Colgate students are always ready for a challenge, so residence-based competitions have become a way to inspire greener habits — and reduce energy costs.
Last fall, eight fraternities and sororities competed in the Broad Street Energy Challenge. The first of its kind on a college campus, it was adapted from a similar challenge sponsored by the central New York region's development and planning board.
The six-week quest to lower energy and water consumption in Greek-letter houses was spearheaded by Green Raiders Kathryn Bacher '14 and Breanna Giovanniello '16. In addition to raising awareness, they hoped "to introduce the sustainability chairs to different projects that they might want to continue," Bacher told the
Each house has a sustainability chair who rallied members in implementing composting and recycling, installing energy-efficient light bulbs and power strips, and becoming aware of water consumption. A post-competition quiz revealed what students had learned, from the concept of phantom power to why eating meat conserves fossil fuels.
Among the challenge's "measures of success," Kappa Kappa Gamma came out at the bottom (a good thing!), reducing their electricity usage by 7 percent and water usage by 13 percent per person from September to October. And, after submitting their experience running the challenge, Bacher and Giovanniello were accepted to next year's Clinton Global Initiative University conference.
Then, for two weeks in November, the "Do it in the Dark" competition helped students in six residence halls learn how to save some watts. An online dashboard let them check out how much energy their halls were consuming in real time — good prep for a similar national competition against other universities this spring.
Offices go green
Information Technology Services is leading the pack in Colgate's Green Office certification program. Departments earn points for implementing practices such as office supply swapping, eliminating disposable cups, and turning off office lights while out at meetings.
Administrative assistant Denise Bolognone spearheaded IT's sustainability practices, reducing their environmental impact and, she reported, saving money for her department.
One change Bolognone made also benefits student entrepreneurs. She contracted with EcoCampus LLC for printer paper that is made from sugar cane parts that were previously treated as waste. Ryan Smith '13 and Brendan Karson '13 developed EcoCampus with guidance from alumni mentors in Colgate's Thought Into Action program. The company is still student owned: Smith and Karson sold it to their Theta Chi fraternity brothers Robert Nicholas '14, John Gabler '14, Cameron Borriello '14, and Michael Hendricks '14.
"I have worked very hard and closely with my department members on recycling and putting in an effort," said Bolognone. "That is all I ask!"
How do you get to zero?
In order to achieve carbon neutrality by 2019, Colgate must purchase offsets. Even with the best sustainability efforts (see chart on pg. 37; we've done better than expected!), individuals and organizations are left with carbon emissions that they can't do anything about. So the mantra is, reduce what you can, and offest what you can't.
But what exactly are carbon offsets? They're anything that you do to either remove carbon from the atmosphere or avoid releasing it in the first place. The most common types are renewable energy projects. For example, you can purchase offsets that support the construction of wind turbines.
Colgate has begun an innovative practice among colleges and universities: purchasing forestry-based offsets, which have been underappreciated in the market. In 2011, we signed a 15-year commitment with Patagonia Sur, whose founder and CEO is entrepreneur Warren Adams '88. A total of 225,000 trees will be planted on 430 acres in an ecologically sensitive area of Chile's Aysén Region of Patagonia. The project will reintroduce native species to the area and hopefully restore the ecosystem, while at the same time sequestering carbon.
The Colgate University Forest is expected to offset approximately 5,000 tons, or about one-third of Colgate's current carbon footprint, per year. The arrangement also provides a research site for students and professors, and a place to collaborate with other member universities on research as well as sustainability initiatives. The work also creates local jobs and benefits local communities.
— John Pumilio
Beyond Colgate
Energy from human waste?
I spent this past summer in Kenya working with Sanergy, a social enterprise that provides sanitation facilities in a slum and collects human waste from them daily. Sanergy uses the "humanure" to create fertilizer through composting and biogas through anaerobic digestion. I know — it sounds gross. But the truth is, not only does this process keep waste out of the sewer system and off the streets of the slum, but it also generates a profitable product and a renewable source of energy. What's not to love?
Back at school, a group of us from the sustainability office visited Madison County's recycling center and saw the renewable energy initiatives underway there. While plans to put solar panels on top of the landfill are exciting, the methane extraction program, which turns gas from decomposing landfill waste into energy, was amazing! Large pipes divert methane from the landfill to a combustion machine, where the gas is converted into electricity. It's used to run parts of the recycling plant, with the excess being sold back to the grid. Besides sequestering methane that would otherwise be released into the atmosphere, this process provides a constant and renewable energy source that doesn't involve the combustion of fossil fuels, and generates revenue for the recycling center. There's also a pilot program to turn hard plastics into fuel. Madison County is setting the bar high for the future of trash disposal and recycling. — Sale Rhodes '16, Green Raider
Prepping for an environmental career
As a communications intern for Environment America in Washington, D.C., last summer, Sara Reese '16 worked to gain media attention about issues like global warming, protecting national parks, and clean energy and to build relationships with reporters,
advocacy groups, and decision makers. She wrote about it on the
summer internship blog
"One of the most rewarding moments was being able to attend President Obama's climate change speech in late June. Most of my work in May and June was targeted at the president, asking him to act on climate change," she wrote. "Not only has this internship exposed me to the interaction between advocacy, the environment, and politics, but it has also taught me the toughness, hard work, and passion needed in the environmental field."
Student interest in green jobs is growing, so Colgate regularly taps alumni working in environmental sustainability fields for its career exploration programs. For example, participants in this year's SophoMORE Connections event in January ranged from Richard Tisch '70, an attorney specializing in environmental compliance, to Steve Bosak '90, executive director of the Society for Ecological Restoration, to Stephen Dickinson '13, Colgate's own sustainability program assistant, among others. (Bosak, by the way, administers the
Colgate Sustainability Group on LinkedIn
, which welcomes alumni and students.)
Senior Seminar in Environmental Studies with Professor Robert Turner
Going green: the academic factor
In 2011, Colgate received a Second Nature Climate Leadership Award from the American College and University Presidents' Climate Commitment. And the Sierra Club named Colgate the 37th-greenest college in the nation in its 2013 "Coolest Schools" list. The ranking was based on a tracking assessment and report to the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education.
Dozens of people on campus participated in the survey, which was led by geography professor Jessica Graybill and the Sustainability Council. "This assessment will receive attention from the media, the public — and, most importantly, the younger generation," she said.
As student groups, the council, and campus departments push for and implement environmentally friendly measures, and the faculty works to infuse sustainability into the curriculum in new ways, students in environmental studies classes regularly take on research projects that help bring about real change on campus. Their work helps Colgate develop programs, initiatives, and practices that are at once environmentally, socially, and economically viable. A few examples:
"How Green are Colgate's Dining Halls?"
For her senior seminar (ECON 428 Environmental and Resource Economics with Professor Michael O'Hara), economics major Olivia Kuby '12 undertook a study of dining services practices on campus that created a baseline for measuring progress. One finding: 20 percent of campus food and beverage purchases are grown and processed within 250 miles of campus. The new goal: increasing local food to 30 percent by 2015.
Community Garden
Cherry tomatoes and daikon radishes were just some of the vegetables made accessible to students when the
Colgate Community Garden
opened a farm stand in the Coop this fall (Gate Card accepted).
Created in 2010, the garden originated from a feasibility study by Megan Cronin '10, Teddi Hofmann '10, Maria Kryachko '10, and Kate Pavelich '10 (students in Professor Robert Turner's ENST 480: Interdisciplinary Investigations into the Environment) and members of the Class of 2012.
With sweat equity provided by sustainability interns, the student group Green Thumbs, and others, the garden also supplies Frank Dining Hall, Hieber Café, and other campus locations — part of efforts to buy local. Proceeds go back into the garden, and excess produce is donated to the Hamilton Food Cupboard.
Although the garden suffered a setback with the major flooding that hit upstate New York in June, the interns quickly refocused their efforts, and managed to eke out a harvest for fall 2013.
Celebrating the harvest at the Colgate Community Garden
Frank Dining Hall, home of trayless dining and a growing percentage of locally sourced food
Trayless dining
Used to be, students eating in Frank Dining Hall could be seen wending their way to tables, balancing trays laden with multiple plates, bowls, and glasses — way more food than they could possibly eat in a single meal.
Not only was food being wasted. Consider the hot water, electricity, and detergent used to wash the trays and dishes, as well as the staff time.
Students in Professor Frank Frey's ENST 390: Community-Based Study of Environmental Issues investigated the costs and benefits of a new strategy: removing trays from the equation.
The study by Claire Burgett '12, Adam Costello '11, Nicole Dennis '11, Alex Felicetti '11, Jamie Horgan '12, and Katherine Johnescu '12 showed that a large percentage of students would support the move. They presented their findings to campus officials, and Sodexho, Colgate's food service provider, soon implemented the change.
"Colgate plays a role in shaping the opinions and choices of its students, who in turn shape the institution," the students wrote. "Implementing trayless dining influences more than just the raw numbers . . . It will also influence student, parent, faculty, and staff attitudes towards sustainable dining."
And the trays? Aside from saving a batch for a traditional sledding party this winter, the trays were sent to Colgate's salvage sale. Craig Blanchard, salvage operations coordinator, reported that they were snatched up in small batches by folks looking to repurpose them, for craft projects and the like.
Environmental Studies at Colgate
The Environmental Studies (ENST) Program offers five interdisciplinary majors; students take a common core of courses and then develop analytical depth in a particular emphasis, in biology, economics, geography, geology, or environmental studies.
A sampling of ENST courses and their professors, 2013–2014:
Environmental Ethics
, Jason Kawall (philosophy, ENST)
Environmental Security
, Marcus Edino (geography)
Community-Based Study of Environmental Issues
, Catherine Cardelus (biology)
Global Environmental Justice
, April Baptiste (ENST)
Nature, Technology
, and the Human Prospect, Paul Pinet (geology, ENST)
Renewable Energy
, Beth Parks (physics)
Weather and Climate
, Adam Burnett (geography)
Thinking, living, and teaching sustainably
Ian Helfant embodies the idea of how interest in sustainability is growing, crossing disciplines, and melding with the curriculum.
A Russian professor at Colgate since 1998, Helfant teaches courses in Russian language, literature, and culture as well as environmental studies and has twice led Colgate students on study groups to Moscow.
He is also a climber, hiker, runner, and photographer — and an evolving hunter/gatherer — with a well-developed concern for conservation and the use of natural resources. Soon after he arrived on campus, he met others who shared that interest. Eventually, with five colleagues from the faculty and administration, he helped to found Colgate's Environmental Council (since renamed the Sustainability Council) in fall 2005. He served as chair of the council, which was charged with thinking and planning strategically about sustainability, for its first five years.
In a journal article about the council's early years, Helfant wrote that, for all they achieved, "experience showed us the limits of what an institution can accomplish without a full-time sustainability coordinator." He described as the council's "crowning achievement" the approval and hiring of a coordinator. He called the fruit of their search, John Pumilio, "superbly qualified."
"Now that we have John in place and successful programs, the interesting thing to me is thinking about curriculum," Helfant said. "One of our goals as an institution is to encourage and inculcate a sustainability ethic in our students, who will go on and be so influential. I've shifted in that direction myself."
With colleagues Robert Turner (economics) and Beth Parks (physics), Helfant taught the ENST seminar in 2008 that led to planting 60,000 willow shoots on land near campus — an experiment in growing biomass (renewable fuel) for the university's wood-fired boiler. Four students in the seminar researched the project, which was supported by a grant from the Colgate Sustainability Fund, the 2008 Class Gift.
This semester, Helfant is debuting a course titled Hunting, Eating, and Vegetarianism, which is slated to become one of the university's new Sophomore Residential Seminars next year. In films, extensive readings, and discussion — and a field trip to Texas hill country — the class will "explore ways in which humanistic perspectives can be brought to bear on these fundamentally important issues," he said.
Helfant explained that the course "reflects my progression over 15 years at Colgate from someone with no experience hunting, to a hunter who provides most of his own meat." A self-taught bow hunter, he also processes the deer that are the primary source of meat for his family, whose diet is long on fruits, vegetables, and grains. He has also begun to keep bees and tap his own maple trees, resulting this year in 150 pounds of honey and six gallons of maple syrup.
In yet another example of his evolution, Helfant's scholarship is trending toward the emerging interdisciplinary field of ecocriticism — the study of the relationship between literature and the environment. His current book project focuses on the way that 19th-century Russians regarded wolves. Like his new hunting and eating course, Helfant said, the book "will employ an ecocritic's use of humanistic perspectives to look at man's relationship to nature."
As he considers new ways Colgate will incorporate sustainability across the curriculum, which is explicitly addressed in the university's strategic planning, Helfant said: "The more our students are aware of these issues, the better off we all will be."
There's a new gown in town: Sarah Cochran '14, Carly Keller '13, and Sarah Vondracek '13 took on sustainable practices at campus events by focusing on one of Colgate's biggest. Their feasibility study toward a zero-waste commencement (for ENST 390: Community-Based Study of Environmental
Issues) resulted in changes coming for Commencement 2014 — including a switch to graduation gowns made from recycled plastic bottles.
Reducing Colgate's Carbon Footprint
In January 2009, Colgate joined the American College and University Presidents' Climate Commitment initiative. The pledge included completing a baseline greenhouse gas emissions inventory, short-term action steps, incorporating "sustainability" into the curriculum, and creating a "Climate Action Plan" with measurable goals, including a target date for reaching climate neutrality. In true Colgate spirit, students, staff, and faculty have applied their ingenuity, knowledge, and dedication, surpassing the initial goals thus far. This map shows just a sampling of the myriad efforts making Colgate a greener campus — and impacting the bottom line.
Low-Flow ShowerHeads
107 installed in first-year residences in 2011
1 gallon per minute each 3.4 million gallons per year — plus the energy to heat
455 more installed since then
Expected total savings:
9 million gallons/year — enough to fill Lineberry Natatorium 18 times!
Paper Consumption
12,340,000 sheets
9,994,000 sheets
2.4 million sheets (19%) — that's 7 times the height of Colgate Memorial Chapel!
Replacing high-pressure sodium with T-5 linear fluorescents = removing a thousand 100-watt incandescent bulbs
Annual energy savings:
Side benefits:
Better light quality might compensate for your tennis swing!
Air Safety Fume Hoods
Replacement of 112 units in science buildings
20-30% reduction in energy usage
(electricity and heat) per building
Green building/LEED certification
Trudy Fitness Center (opened January 2011)
LEED Gold certified 2012
Uses 20% less energy,
30% less water than traditional buildings
Lathrop Hall (renovated 2012–13)
LEED Silver Certification application pending
Alternative Transportation
Colgate Cruiser
(EPA-approved low-emission diesel engines)
2 Zipcars for rental
30 Green Bikes for rental
Additional bike racks encourage cycling
Hybrid and electric vehicles in campus fleet
Purpool online carpooling program
2 electric vehicle charging stations
Trayless Dining
Eliminated 2,000 trays used daily
20-30% less food waste
Estimated annual energy, water, and food savings: more than $100,000
Side benefits:
right-sized portions help avoid the "freshman 15" — and a recycled tray sledding party is in the works!
3,000 lbs. per week
from Frank Dining Hall and Greek-letter houses along Broad Street
Managed and processed on campus by the student Composting Club
Recycling Rate
2009: 15%
2012: 24%
E-Waste Recycling Stations
16 locations help keep batteries and hazardous electronics out of landfills
20,000 lbs per year collected
(computers, monitors, TVs, phones, iPods, cables, batteries, calculators, etc.)
Landfill waste
56 lbs (per person)
44 lbs (per person)
174 tons total
$11,484 in landfill fees
Solar panels
Provide domestic hot water
Projected to eliminate:
900 gallons of fuel oil/year
and 18,000 lbs carbon emissions
Willow Biomass Pilot Project
8-acre field 1 mile from campus
Test plot for self-supply to Colgate's wood-fired boiler (installed more than three decades ago), which meets 75 percent of campus heat and hot water needs.
Expected yield:
900 dry tons during a 20-year period
Local Forest Sequestration
1,059 acres of tree farm certified forest in and around campus
contain 165,491 tons of CO2
absorb 1,535 tons of CO2
Leading the way in incorporating forest management into sustainability practices, Colgate presented its findings at the 2013 national Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education conference.
Colgate University Forest
Patagonia Sur Nature Reserve, Palena province, Chile
225,000 native trees on 428 acres
5,000 tons of forestry-based annual carbon offsets for 15 years
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Book Review: 'Time Fall' by Tim Ashby
Published 10:00 pm, Friday, July 5, 2013
Don't you love to get lost in a good book - and especially one that offer the chance to learn about new people, new places, new experiences and much more? Those are some of the reasons why I was interested in Time Fall by Tim Ashby. His background was also a big attraction for me. As an author I like to know something about the person behind the book.
A lawyer, businessman and writer, he worked in Washington DC as a counter-terrorism consultant to the U.S. State Department, and then at the U.S. Commerce Department, working on commercial relations with Latin America and the Caribbean. He has lived in the Caribbean and Europe and as an avid historian, he has written widely on military history, archaeology, business and international relations.
Time Fall begins in WWII with a group of Army Rangers preparing to parachute into Nazi Germany. But there is a freak storm and the US Delta Force, code name 'Operation Bandstand' is transported into 2011 - but they don't know about the mysterious passage of decades. So, for everyone else, WWII is over but the Rangers are still prepared to carry out their mission.
I had some concerns when I heard there was a time travel element to the book, but it works well. Ashby also included enough detail to make the story plausible - without the overkill that some authors get bogged down in. It is important to note that his extensive research and knowledge are evident in his books.
Time Fall contains plenty of twists and turns throughout the story - keeping the reader on their toes and turning the pages. Within the pages of this thriller, Ashby tackles, terrorists, anti-terrorists special forces, weapons, WWII, current hostilities, investigation of missing military personnel, forensic investigations, and much more.
In the prologue we see an encounter between Adolf Hitler and a young boy - that encounter has a lasting impact of the boy and we see how he behaves as the years go by. This is just one of a number of ways Ashby reminds us of the two time periods in this story. There are many things in this book - although it is a novel - that can make us think about the situations in the world today.
I highly recommend this novel for people who want to learn about another place and time - through the pages of a thriller that will definitely keep their attention to the very end.
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NSW govt to present at open computing conference
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An official from the NSW government will present a paper on the government's open source perspective at the Australian UNIX and Open Source User Group's annual conference this month.
A media release from the organisers said Dr Elizabeth Gordon-Werner, manager of strategic projects at the Government Chief Information Office in the NSW Department of Commerce, would use the recently finalised "NSW Open Source (Linux) Panel Contract" as an example.
She would also provide examples of real world applications of open source within the NSW government.
The speakers list has been more or less finalised and the conference program and abstracts for most papers is here.
The conference, titled Future-proofing Government Computing: Open Data, Formats and Standards, will be held on April 18 and 19 at the Australian National University, on the sidelines of Australia's national Linux conference, linux.conf.au, which is scheduled to run from April 18 to 23.
ATO extends EDS contract
The Australian Taxation Office has extended its ICT outsourcing contract with American outsourcer EDS until June 2008, a media release says.
The extension is valued at more than $300 million, the company says.
EDS began providing services to the ATO in June 1999. EDS Australia managing director Chris Mitchell said the extension was a vote of confidence in the relationship.
Encryption service
Email security vendor MessageLabs has launched what it calls a Boundary Encryption service to ensure privacy between corporate mail servers, a media release says.
The new service uses the Transport Layer Security protocol, a successor to Netscape's SSL 3.0 protocol. All email sent between an organisation's mail server, MessageLabs and designated partners travels via TLS encrypted channels.
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