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Actor Balakrishna's recent releases have got lackluster responses at the Box Office. The senior Telugu actor, who is currently working on upcoming movie, is leaving no stone unturned for this political drama, which has been tentatively titled Legend. The latest news is that a Harley Davidson motorbike worth Rs 20 lakh has been specially designed for the actor for this much-talked about flick.
A source from the production team of Legend has revealed Balakrishna will be seen riding custom-made Harley Davidson. "Balakrishna will be seen riding a Harley Davidson bike in one of the songs. It has been custom-made especially for the song and it cost the producers Rs.20 lakh. He (Balakrishna) also chose the colour of the bike as yellow for personal reasons," IANS quotes the source as saying.
Director Boyapati Srinu, who has earlier worked with Balakrishna in Simha, has written the script and is directing the actor again in the film Legend for the second time. The movie features Radhika Apte and Sonal Chauhan in the female leads. The film, being produced by Anil Sunkara, Ram Achanta and Gopichand Achanta, is currently being shot in Vishakhapatnam and is likely to release during Sankranti next year.
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We all know Deepti Naval as an acclaimed Indian actress. She is more associated with arthouse and independent films which are known as parallel cinema in India. Lately Deepti Naval is gearing up for her directorial venture that is named, 'Do Paise Ki Dhoop, Chaar Aane Ki Baarish'. This film is expected to hit the theatres in the next year, is actually homage to the late legend, Dev Anand.
The film is in its post – production stage currently. The movie revolves around the lives of an ageing prostitute (played by Manisha Koirala), her wheelchair – bound son (played by Deepti's nephew, Sanaj) and a sruggling songwriter (played by Rajat Kapoor).
Deepti says that her movie that explores the complexity of relationships in today's world but what survives ultimately is human bond. She said that, "I wanted to show my film to Dev saab. I told him about it. But as he was busy with his film 'Chargesheet', he could not see it. Now as homage, I want to dedicate my film to him." Recently her book of short stories just came out that is named, "The Mad Tibetan: Stories From Then and Now'.
Her film was supposed to release earlier but due to some reasons there has been a delay in its release and hopefully it will hit the screens next year. Apart from her directorial venture, the versatile actress is also very excited about being a part of 'Listen Amaya' and acting with Farooque Shaikh. She said that, "He has been a wonderful co-star and it's great to have another opportunity to work with him." She made her debut in Bollywood with the movie 'Ek Baar Phir' in the year 1979 and has worked in over sixty movies since then.


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Despondent Hotel Tower workers and their union say they now believe that the hotel's owner Salim Azeez misled them when he said that he was brokering a deal with new owners and lamented that they still have not been paid.
"It seems it is all lies, it was a made up story about getting new buyers and everything …Salim went from pushing us around for the money to now hiding from us and we don't know when workers will be paid," Clerical and Commercial Workers Union representative for the workers, Sherwood Clarke told Stabroek News yesterday.
On May 23rd, the historic hotel abruptly closed and employees protested after they were told through an anonymous phone call that letters were at the front counter for them. They said when they collected their letters, they learned that that day was the last day of work for them as the hotel was closing. They continued their protests in the days that followed.
The hotel then released a statement on May 27th explaining its abrupt closure, saying that business had declined dramatically in recent times and it assured that assets would be liquidated to pay outstanding amounts to its employees.
Azeez had met with the union on May 28th and had proposed that workers return to work for one month unpaid until he was somewhat clear of his financial crisis. The union rejected the proposal and Azeez left and returned on May 30th with another option which was accepted and a deal was brokered.
The agreement was that workers be given two options-to take a severance package and give management one month to pay it off or to accept a payment of all back wages and salaries and resume work. Twenty-one workers took the latter option while 24 took the former.
On June 2nd, Stabroek News was told that the 21 employees turned up for work as promised and were given a partial payment of $9,500 each.
Then on June 11 Azeez met with officials from the Ministry of Labour and at a meeting explained that the hotel had a buyer but that the buyer isn't taking over the past responsibilities of the company, nor do they want the current employees. He said that he would pay workers off from an initial payment, given to the company by the new buyers to pay off all expenses.
The hotel last month reneged on that promise. Azeez's legal counsel, Marcel Bobb, told the workers that the hotel's first obligation was to the bank, the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) and the Guyana Power and Light Inc (GPL).
Workers became enraged as they felt they were being wronged and got vocal, prompting more promises of a payoff at the beginning of this month.
Up to yesterday this was not done but Clarke said Bobb once again promised to meet with him today to discuss a way forward.
The 67 workers are owed a total of $5,577,633 in wages, salaries and other benefits.
Hotel Tower first opened its doors in 1866 on the site of the present Guyana Post Office.
In 1910, it was re-sited to its present location on Main Street under expatriate ownership. In 1946, the property was acquired by a Guyanese/Barbadian family, the Humphreys, along with 50 other shareholders and re-named Hotel Tower Ltd.
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They possess an unmistakable aesthetic that informs not only the label's musical signings but also the cover art. It's no wonder then that the label, founded by the cleverly named Telonius and Munk, is also a graphic design collective.
The label has also been home to hip artists such WhoMadeWho and New York City's Phenomenal Handclap often drawing comparisons to DFA in terms of sound and objective. In addition, the label also small runs of t-shirts, publishes a poster zine called Amore, and curates a gallery night called MondoGomma Pictureshows.
The label has also helped to define a new model of success in the age of digital music by combining so many complementary disciplines into a new model of what a label should be without ever skimping on the music in the process.
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#1 New York Times bestselling author Sylvia Day's Crossfire series, which includes #1 international bestsellers "Bared to You" and "Reflected in You," has sold over six million books in its first eight months of publication. After the overnight success of "Bared to You," the Crossfire series firmly established itself as one of the most popular series in the nation when its second book, "Reflected in You," easily took the #1 spot on The New York Times bestseller list with 389,000 trade paperbacks and ebooks sold in its first week of sales. The overwhelming success of both "Bared to You" and "Reflected in You" sets the table for Sylvia Day's Crossfire series to explode in 2013 with the next installment in the series, "Entwined with You" (June 4, 2013).
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Wednesday, November 15, 2006
The non-ubiquity of Co-ops
As you already know, the forces that aspire to exert any control over society have to ensure that they are they are deployed appropriately, and they have to hope that the historical trade-winds are blowing in the right direction. So big and small business, the police, the various professions, social classes and bureaucracies all have their ducks lined up to defend their interests.
If I had any clout, or a largish audience, I'd probably have the CBI on my ass every time I offered evidence that their members were a shower of leeches. Similarly, if I were to question the handouts that support small businesses, or if I were to suggest that there are better ways of managing the economy than promoting them, I'd probably hear from the FSB sooner or later.
Critical of your quack? Not if the BMA have anything to do with it. Whenever a journalist has a dig at the quality of senior civil servants, they can expect a stiff letter to their editor from the FDA. Anyone of any substance who slights Inspector Knacker can expect a stiff rebuttal from The Police Federation. Other professions have their Unions and trade associations. And journalists have ... well... the media.
And so on.
Now, I'll admit that some of these organisations are more protectionist than others. Some have a regulatory role that insists upon a degree of neutrality, but generally, they offer protection to a particular grouping. If you wanted to really challenge the power of big business, you would have to outmanoeuvre the CBI, and if you want to do that, you'll need to be up quite early in the morning.
But which organisation takes up cudgels on behalf of Co-ops? Who insists that this business model is cultivated and evangelised? Who rebuts slights against Mutualism? Who hires lawyers on behalf of Co-ops and Mutuals to do a line-by-line reading of upcoming legislation? Who focuses and builds the voice of those of us who work in the co-operative sector?
Well, if you wanted to raise a laugh, you could say that there is Cooperatives UK. And then there's The Co-op Party. Now, in my experience, the Co-op Party is primarily a route to Parliament. If you want a safe Labour seat and have no Trade Union connections, the Co-op Party can offer an alternative. For years it has had most of it's funding from the big consumer Co-ops and, sometimes, when some contentious project that has a Co-op veneer emerges, (Foundation Hospitals was the most recent) then the Co-op Party is wheeled out to support them.
But neither the Co-Op Party or Co-operatives UK are much of an asset to producer co-ops, small consumer co-ops, or Mutuals as far as I can see.
I say all of this, by the way, not (just) to have a dig at either the Party or Co-operatives UK. I say it because I think that there is a fatal flaw in the pro-Co-op argument. None of us generate much of a surplus. We reinvest profits or - in the cases where we are very profitable - we distribute a portion of them to staff. Staff who may sometimes be even more short-termist than conventional investors.
Co-ops are often structured to supply 'at cost', or to provide services that the market can't incentivse itself to provide otherwise. We don't have the motive to grow that other businesses have. We have no shareholders yapping at our heels, and there is insufficient motive for us to fund an aggressive trade association.
However, if we were to develop a powerful voice, I suspect that these two organisations could be morphed into something useful. And of the two, the Party is the most likely candidate. It would take a good deal of restructuring and a shift of focus, of course. And it would need to disincentivise people from getting involved in order to further a parliamentary career.
Anyway, they've set up a blog now. It's here. Go and guide them in the right direction if you like? In the meantime, if you're just into uniforms, have a look at this (work-safe but maybe embarrassing) instead.
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- matcroydon said...
A thoughtful critique. But is the limit of the aspirations of the Co-op Commonwealth more small producer co-ops? Of course they're great in theory and in practice, but whilst they're concentrated in trades like health food, bicycle repair, arts, rickshaws and fairtrade imports, the co-op model won't appear mainstream to either the public or traditional business.
So the Co-operative Party is working on issues relevant to the widest section of the public; to involve people through mutual models in the services that matter to them; to use the opportunities for large-scale mutualisation in public services. That is why we have developed foundation hospitals, football supporters' trusts and mutual housing models for stock transfer of council housing. Three examples of real action creating thousands of new mutual members, newly active citizens. That's why we have engaged the 600 or so official Co-operative councillors to work on their councils to develop mutual alternatives to outsourcing relevant to their area. That's why we have been able to convince the government to bring failing private businesses back into public ownership through mutual models, like Network Rail and Glas Cymru.
There's another challenge - to become a 'proper' co-op, it is more difficult and expensive than to incorporate as another company structure. That's why, after lengthy work by the Co-operative Party (started through the success of two private members bills) , one of our MPs, Ed Balls, has been able to announce a major review of co-op and credit union law to bring it into the 21st century, so that it's a viable alternative for mainstream business start-ups, not just the committed few.
Ironically, a traditional criticism of Co-operatives UK has been its focus on small niche producer co-ops. It is not a wholly fair criticism, but worth noting. I hope that we agree that mutualism has to move from its traditional sectors into new areas, and be a viable alternative for any business start-up. But the Co-op Party has to work in the here-and-now as well as the long-term. And that means taking our opportunities where we find them.
Thanks for the plug,
- 12:35 pm
- Sam said...
Out of interest, what other contentious projects have been given a Co-op veneer to ease their passage?
Just wondering.
P.S From my (consumer Co-op) point of view, Co-ops UK and the Co-op Party seem to spend a disproportionate amount of time on small producer enterprises, which is ironic when their funding comes primarily (totally, in the case of the Co-op Party) from the consumer movement.
- 3:36 pm
- Paulie said...
You have, indeed, caught me being more cynical than I need to be on contentious projects.
On the wider question of how Cooperatives UK supports small producer co-ops, it may well get most of it's funding from large consumer co-ops and devote it's energies to small producers.
But that's exactly my point. They don't do it particularly well, I don't think (having set up a producer co-op in 2002, I've never seen any benefit from Co-operatives UK's existance. But this is not due to them being either careless or lazy. My point is that, because we aren't growth oriented, we don't have a pressing need to develop strong professional associations or advocacy organisations. We, as companies, don't have ambitions to grow our sector. So, though our sector is A Good Thing, and more Co-ops would be A Good Thing, we will never create / fund a body that will promote the kind of expansion that is (I'm arguing here) in the public interest.
- 3:48 pm
- Sam said...
Thanks for the response, and I appreciate your point. I have no real experience of Co-ops UK, so am willing to accept your judgement on its efficacy.
In terms of the lack of potential and willingness to grow in the Co-op Movement, I think that the Co-op Group (did I hear booing and hissing?) might be an exception. I get the feeling that the Society is only too willing to grow in areas where it is economically advantageous - the problem is more one of resources.
- 4:49 pm
One way might be to get involved with the other parties. It always strikes me that being involved with just one party means that you ultimately can be ignored but if you get involved with all three you become a constituency that people woo. Obviously Coop historically has been a Labour thing, but why not have Coop LibDem members and even Tories occasionally could be persuaded of the benefits of mutualism its just that noone tries to persuade them.
- 12:50 pm
- matcroydon said...
The Co-operative Party is (as you would expect) democratically run. Every few years one or two members propose a rule change or policy change to work with other parties or break the link with the Labour Party. They are resoundingly beaten. There is no desire within the Party to do this. The truth is that the Labour Party has been a good friend of the movement, and in government nationally has delivered three Co-op Acts as Private Members' Bills and several other pieces of legislation that create or strengthen mutuals and further co-op values. Tories and Liberal Democrats should be encouraged to support co-operative solutions nonetheless, and there are efforts to do so.
- 3:56 pm
Having been in a worker co-operative (is that the same as a 'small producer co-op'?) that I helped to found, for about twelve years, being a member of two consumer co-ops, and someone who works in Co-operatives UK, I feel I may have something to contribute here.
I disagree that worker/producer co-operatives are not growth oriented. One has only to look at the roaring success in recent years of the wholefood distribution co-operatives, which have seen their businesses expand at a rate of knots. I don't think anyone could say that Suma wasn't interested in growing its business. But Suma isn't representative of all worker/producer co-operatives, just as I'm sure that Paulie's co-operative would not see itself as representative. Thr truth is that the sector in the UK is so small, and relatively fragile, that one cannot draw such general conclusions like "we are not growth oriented".
My own epxerience of working in a working co-operative suggests to me that we were - and as far as I am aware that business remains - very much focused on making good profits and growing its business. I would argue that any worker/producer co-operative that is not to some degree profit motivated is not a sustainable enterprise. Of course, co-operatives are about more than profit, but it remains an essential part of the mix.
I take the criticism of Co-operatives partly on the chin. The organisation could indeed be more focused, and work more effectively to promote the co-operative model. The key benefit of any trade association is about providing a forum for members to learn from each other and work together to promote their interests. I have to say that many smaller worker/producer co-operatives seem pretty uninterested in talking to each other, and certainly unwilling to invest the roughly £1 per week that membership of Co-operatives UK costs. Despite this the organisation continues to develop services and provide a platform for the worker/producer sector that far outstrips the current ability of that sector to fund the work involved. We have developed - in partnership with the Co-operative Bank - free banking for co-operatives that have saved some of our members hundreds or even thousands of pounds a year in bank charges. We offer members access to low cost business insurance, which for some has meant premium reductions substnatially higher than the modest membership subscription fees. We are about helping smaller co-operatives to reduce their business costs, and so improve profitability and their chances of longer term survival and growth.
This disproportionate support is in part because there is a belief that the worker/producer sector has plenty of potential in the UK. A small group of co-operatives in that sector are now working hard to engage with Co-operatives UK, and more importantly with each other, to help to build their profile and make things happen. More power to them.
As a democratic co-operative enterprise itself, Co-operatives UK is there to do the bidding of its members - why not engage, participate, and help to set the agenda?
But it has to be said that part of that effectiveness surely should stem from closer co-operation between itself and other bodies such as the Co-op Party. And from my perspective I see plenty of scope to improve that.
- 8:16 pm
- Graham said...
My comment above was anonymous, not because I don't wish to be known, but rather because I'm unfamiliar with this blogging tool...
- 7:18 am
- Sam said...
At the risk of hijacking Paulie's thread and turning it into Co-opnet, I would say that gracchi makes a good point if he was talking about the Co-ops themselves rather than the Co-op Party. Individual Co-ops should welcome members from all political persuasions and none.
- 8:56 am
- Paulie said...
I'm not sure you've understood my orignal post. I'm not really interested in putting Co-operatives UK or The Co-Op Party on the back foot. And life is too short to spend much time 'engaging' with them either.
We could all agree to invest £1000 a month in Co-operatives UK and it wouldn't make much difference. Please don't infer from my post that I'm suggesting that Co-Operatives UK isn't big enough or doesn't do enough. I don't think that anything that I'd like to see happen could happen if Co-Operatives UK got bigger or did more. I AM saying that our sector doesn't have an intent to grow in the way that others do.
I am, of course, cock-a-hoop at the growth of wholefood co-ops - insofar as it goes. Don't expect me to eat the stuff, that's all.
But my point isn't that we can't grow a little bit. My question is this:
How come (given that co-ops are a very efficient business model that provides high quality services) every major government agency isn't a co-op? Wny isn't the BBC a co-op? Why isn't every outsourced local government service (from refuse collection through to pre-school nurseries) a co-op?
Some institutions (in the loosest sense of the word) are expansionist. Large sections of Whitehall simply double in size every time you look at them. When public services were privatised, the cost went up not down. The bureaucracy became more - not less - dense. This is because management consultancies are expansionist.
The armed forces can magnify any threat and increase the salaries of senior officers at will, and politicians will fork out for it - because they are an expansionist organsation, and they have spent years learning which buttons need to be pushed, and when. A relatively small % of troops are in Iraq and Afghanistan while the majority are polishing their helmets in Germany, Cyprus and Northern Ireland - but hey presto! They're officially 'overstretched' and no-one dares to contradict them.
That's what I mean. Maybe I'm saying that we aren't a hegemonic force, but I'd need to look the phrase up properly first.
- 5:16 pm
Businesses go through life phases - startup, growth, maturity, crisis; so do business sectors and their political and trade bodies. The 'mission failure' of the old Co-op Union (now Co-ops UK) and the Party are surely a reflection of the decline and crisis of the consumer co-ops, which have become decadent, in the sense that their original function of providing cheap, unadulterated food for the workers has been usurped. Hence the split between the senior managements, mostly professional retailers who are looking for a way to compete definitively with the big four, and their increasingly moribund boards of lay members.
The consumer co-ops have been persuaded to in effect subsidise the cost of member services to worker co-ops within Co-ops UK. Perhaps this is because the worker co-ops are thought to be a more youthful, vigorous bunch who will make a valuable contribution to the ideological and corporate reformation of the movement. Trouble is, many of our leading worker co-operators are getting a bit long in the tooth themselves. The late 70's and early 80's generation of new co-ops were formed on a wave of political and practical necessity; some survived and professionalised, and are now themselves plateauing and in need of renewal. In effect, these co-ops have been through the full business cycle in around 30 years, as opposed to a century or more for the consumer co-ops.
Let's see if the consumer movement rebranding (by far the most significant part of which is the relaunching of the membership proposition) succeeds in repositioning the retailers as a genuine, popular alternative to the megacorps. As for the worker co-ops, maybe the top 20 should agree to put 5% of their net profits annually into a fighting fund for political representation and the development of the movement (the other 400-odd are mostly in business survival mode).
If the consumer co-op rebrand fails, and the societies continue to lose market share, then we need to have a serious look at ourselves. Instead of pissing away the huge wealth and assets of the movement - which after all only represent the crystallised dead labour of generations of workers - it should perhaps consider shutting up shop, and redistributing that wealth anywhere in the world where working class people are trying to set up and finance autonomous projects.
- 5:58 pm
- Graham said...
I think I'd have to disagree that the co-operative movement is not interested in growth. Ironically, from what I can see it already is a pretty large sector of the economy on a global scale. See the new ICA Global 300 site for example, which suggests that the world's biggest 300 co-ops alone constitute the world's 9th largest economy (or roughly the same as Canada or Russia).
In the UK perhaps the picture is a little different, but I know plenty of people in the co-operative sector who are very keen to see substantial growth. A lot of work has been done, and continue to be done on the 'co-operativization' of externalised public services, with significant success in health and social care sectors for example.
For me the real issue is the lack of a coherent sense of purpose and vision across the cooperative movement. Indeed the term 'movement' is probably incorrect. The majority of those in positions of power, with notable exceptions, are so concerned with their business success (and it is clearly critical that co-operatives are successful businesses) that they pay too little, if any, attention to the question of why they are in business in the first place. More progressive and visionary leaders are in the game because they want to change the world - to these people the business is a vehicle by which this broader goal can be realised.
- 9:51 am
- Paulie said...
We are broadly agreeing Graham.
But my point is that - as a powerbloc - the co-op diaspora isn't hoovering up the attractive stuff. It picks up the crumbs from the table.
"Insoluble problem? Well we've tried everything else, so lets try some co-op idea."
There is no co-op equivalent of Capita in the UK, for example. Capita have agressively promoted the transfer of government agency work into the hands of management consultants - a power-bloc within the wider blog of 'big business' for want of a better term.
There are plenty of other bits of chessplay that could happen, but we don't have any real force (apart from artificial constructs like The Party or Co-ops UK) that can create the kind of energy and momentum needed.
- 11:09 am
- Allotment Plotter said...
Retail Co-ops are in a mess because:
(1) They are too unwieldy big - Leviathan almost in the case of the Cooperative Group.
The Co-op had the bedrock support of local people. Each town had it's coop society, they shopped, met and were buried by it.
My father would, we he alive bust a gasket if he saw me with a TESCO bag. He used to say:
"Why put money in the pocket of the capitalist when it can be in yours!"
(2) They are mainly directed at the top by money grubbing greedy lazy inefficient retired or working or partners of staff.
They have crippled the co-ops, using political blackmail to gain terms and conditions far away from either the norm or indeed with profits the way they are, deserve.
(3) in many cases coops are expensive, stock very little choice, the staff are surly. However the dividend has been rduced to below the rate of inflation. From a pecuniary point of view 60p for a tin of soup from the coop that is 35p at TESCO is economic madness for Joe Punter (always more Joe Punter's than Shareholders.
Of course there are exceptions: Chelmsford Star Coop, which is small, friendly, run by the members, not a poisonous clique.
The Coops one claim to supporters was that:
a) Profits went to those who shopped locally, to to far distant investor capitalists
b) The Coop was democratic, fair, for the worker, fair shared, high quality,
3) That the Coop was a whole organization: shopping, education, entertainment.
It is with honorable exceptions mot this now.
By the 1960smost coops wanted to shed their coronation street image, subsequently crapped on their base , raised prices, cut services, closed stores garages etc and now recieve their treatment in kind.
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The gay-marriage bill led to television ads encouraging people to attend the committee's public hearing on Wednesday. About 800 people already had arrived an hour before the hearing began, and there were 3,000 people by late morning, said Dana Colwill, building director.
The legislative committee set up strict rules, limiting hooting and hollering and banning signs and placards in the building. Testimony was limited to three minutes.
Among those testifying was Roman Catholic Bishop Richard Malone, who said the church has long supported domestic partner laws. But he said the church opposes same-sex marriage, which he characterized as one of several challenges facing traditional marriage.
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There is "great misunderstanding" among Catholics and others about the church's teachings on whether and when life-sustaining medical treatment can be withdrawn when death is near, according to a leading Catholic bioethicist.
Marie T. Hilliard, director of bioethics and public policy and a staff ethicist at the National Catholic Bioethics Center, said the Philadelphia-based center conducts about 2,000 consultations a year with "families in distress" who want to talk with an ethicist "about the church's teaching in light of their (family) situation."
Staff members hear from people who believe that "dialysis can never be discontinued," for example, or that a feeding tube is obligatory "even when it is doing more harm than good," she said.
"Persons who are dealing with crises need to be helped to understand in that situation what is the natural moral law," Hilliard said. "The church always deals with the good and trying to reach the good," even when that means accepting the natural process of dying, she added.
As outlined in the U.S. bishops' "Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services," the church teaches that patients "may forgo extraordinary or disproportionate means of preserving life," defined as "those that in the patient's judgment do not offer a reasonable hope of benefit or entail an excessive burden, or impose excessive expense on the family or the community."
Survey results recently released by the Pew Research Religion & Public Life Project found that 57 percent of Americans would tell their doctors to stop medical treatment if they had a disease with no hope of improvement and were suffering a great deal of pain, while 35 percent said they would tell the doctors to do everything possible to save their lives. Eight percent said it depends or they did not know.
But opinions varied greatly according to religion and ethnic group. Nearly two-thirds of white Catholics (65 percent) said they would stop medical treatment under those circumstances, but only 38 percent of Hispanic Catholics agreed. Most likely to stop medical treatment were white mainline Protestants (72 percent); black Protestants were least likely at 32 percent.
The margin of error for the Pew survey was plus or minus 2.9 percentage points.
The survey also found that only 37 percent of adult Americans had given "a great deal of thought" to their own wishes for end-of-life medical treatment, while 35 percent had given "some thought" and 27 percent had given "not very much" or no thought to the matter.
Even among those 75 and older, only 47 percent said they had given their end-of-life wishes a great deal of thought, while more than half said they'd given some, little or no thought to those decisions.
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Scientists from the Royal Observatory in Edinburgh said, judging by the chemical composition of stars in the Milky Way, our galaxy could contain anywhere between 300 and 38,000 highly developed extraterrestrial civilizations potentially capable of contacting Planet Earth.
Although current generations are unlikely to shake hands with little green men from Mars, humankind has already discovered sizeable mineral deposits on other planets. But should we pin any hopes on them?
In early 2008, the media said Cassini-Huygens, a joint NASA/European Space Agency/Italian Space Agency robotic spacecraft mission currently studying the planet Saturn and its moons, had discovered oil and gas deposits on Titan, Saturn's largest satellite, and that they exceeded terrestrial deposits by 100 times.
Previous images received from Cassini-Huygens indicated rain and snowfall on Titan. Although the discovery of oil and gas deposits on this Moon is hardly sensational, it could help scientists explain the origin of life on the Earth.
Many scientists and analysts say extraterrestrial sources of energy could provide humankind with enough heat and energy for hundreds of years to come and would help it cope with a snowballing energy crisis.
The newly discovered hydrocarbon deposits inside 15 large lakes on Titan could provide enough power for all U.S. heaters, lamps and air conditioners for hundreds of years. Hydrocarbons contained inside huge dunes covering 20% of Titan's surface exceed the Earth's coal deposits several hundred times over.
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First of all, we know nothing about the quality of Titan oil. Scientists from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) know only that a local lake contains ethane, a crude-oil ingredient.
A manned mission to Titan is still the fantasy of science fiction novels and would face the same mind-boggling problems as a mission to Alpha Centauri, the closest star system to our own solar system, at only 4.37 light years from the Sun.
Moreover, even the most optimistic science fiction writers do not know when it will become possible to launch prospecting operations on Titan at minus 180 degrees centigrade.
Also, no one knows whether the world will still require oil a hundred years from now when long-range space missions to other planets could become commonplace.
Current alternative-fuel programs could eventually replace oil with corn and other grain crops. If so, extraterrestrial oil would not play an important global economic role in the near future.
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Although this is a feasible task, it would be inappropriate to try and exploit helium deposits. Lunar-soil samples delivered to the Earth by Soviet Luna probes and U.S. Apollo spacecraft were found to contain a relatively high amount of helium - 0.01 grams per metric ton. But the Moon does not have any helium lakes; and this isotope is spread thin all over its surface.
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Our Prime Minister suggests that heroin injecting rooms indicate a soft approach to drug-trafficking ("Labor soft on drugs, says PM as leaders hit the phoney stump", Herald, February 3). This might be the most naive statement I have heard on this issue.
Do you actually know what goes on in these facilities, Prime Minister? Have you visited one? Have you spoken to the health workers who deal with injecting drug users? Your statements hold no logic to those of us who work directly with people struggling with a drug addiction.
Ian Rodgers, Campsie, February 3.
The Prime Minister refers to no evidence to support his comments, as the evidence shows that drug programs like the injecting room do work. His comments are yet another cheap political ploy, but sadly the issue deserves more than fear-mongering and wedge politics.
The success of the Kings Cross injecting room has been widely documented and is now used globally as an example of the benefit such a program can mean for public health, crime reduction, and the rehabilitation of addicted people through counselling.
Conversely the nil-effect of the zero tolerance platform is clear, as the problem of drug abuse in our community continues unabated even after years of so-called zero tolerance.
What injecting rooms and similar projects look to do is treat the addict rather than marginalise them. These programs, however, do not diminish other efforts to curtail the drug trade - one bears no relation to the other.
It's about time the Prime Minister admitted this, and supported initiatives that have the potential to reap benefits rather than use them as tools of divisiveness.
Pablo Berrutti, Ultimo, February 3.
Labor must be careful that misguided compassion does not hijack good sense.
Pouring an endless flow of money into lucrative contracts to run heroin rooms does not reduce deaths, crime, drug use or overdoses. It hasn't in Kings Cross and it will achieve no better result anywhere else. Addicts and the community deserve better.
Diversions from law enforcement will never solve the drug problem, nor will perpetual acceptance of addiction.
The failure of the Kings Cross injecting room highlights the fact that in the long term, shooting galleries don't save lives, or reduce crime, overdoses or deaths.
We all deserve a real solution to the drug problem, not a surrender to it, and a solution focuses on helping addicts get off drugs once and for all.
Michael D. Robinson, Executive Director, Drug Free Australia, Hurlstone Park, February 3.
The duplicity of the Prime Minister knows no depths. His reliance on a zero tolerance approach to drug policy reveals his lack of compassion for his fellow Australians who succumb to an addiction.
Mr Howard is quoted as saying, "the family remain without a doubt the greatest source of education, of social development, of emotional security and emotional stability that you can find in any nation".
I cannot fathom this hypocrisy by the PM. It is as if those family members that succumb to an illicit drug addiction are not entitled to the emotional security and stability the PM argues are part of the most effective social welfare system available.
Zero tolerance ignores the reality of human behaviour and as such can, through incarceration or dangerous health practices, exclude large numbers of family members from the family unit. Addiction is an illness. It should not be the reason governments discriminate and further polarise this vulnerable minority.
Ted Bassingthwaighte, Chairperson, Family Drug Support, Lake Munmorah, February 3.
It was right for the Chief Justice to raise the issue of costs of litigation ("Courts need a stopwatch: chief judge", Herald, February 3). I understand that more than most, both as a lawyer and a litigant.
However, what the Chief Justice doesn't do is admit that the costs of litigation in this state have substantially increased over the last 15 years by judge-made rules, the additional requirements of interlocutories, witness statements, attendances back and forth from court for unnecessary appearances, added costs of differential case management and all the labour intensive requirements of the judges in order to make the legal system easier for the judiciary.
It is the judges more than anyone who have added to the cost of litigation. The Judges need to review their own unnecessary requirements in the litigation process.
J. R. Marsden, Campbelltown, February 3.
What an outrageous statement by the Chief Justice of NSW, James Spigelman, that courts should perhaps put in place a stopwatch because of the legal industry's "insufficient regard for the costs that are imposed on others". How else are lawyers expected to become wealthy?
Con Vaitsas, Ashbury, February 3.
You reported that Chief Justice Spigelman attacked the legal profession and its preferred method of charging - billable hours. Nice serve, but I am intrigued by how the Chief Justice charged his time when he was at the bar - by the ounce?
Joe Weller, Lewisham, February 3.
As a resident of Pyrmont for the last four years, I have witnessed the transferral of development and planning control from our elected institutions (Sydney Council and the State Government) to the Sydney Harbour Foreshore Authority, an organisation whose policies and principles are never subjected to community review via an election process.
Congratulations to Elizabeth Farrelly for highlighting the workings of SHFA ("Open land, but it's closed discussion", Herald, February 3). In other local authority areas, participation of the local council in the review of development applications means that residents and businesses have an opportunity to influence the direction of an area's development via the election of councillors with similar views.
It is becomingly increasingly frustrating that as a resident of Pyrmont, unlike residents in other suburbs, I do not have the right to elect the people who are responsible for many of the development decisions that are shaping my local environment.
Meredith Lee, Pyrmont, February 3.
I think we would all accept that science and technology are just as much a part of everyday life as Archbishop Jensen claims religion to be ("Let's not undervalue moral education", Herald, February 2).
So, Dr Jensen, if you want God in our schools then you should allow me and other scientists to present our theories, and the method of validation and refutation on which they are based, from your pulpits. The challenge is there, Dr Jensen. I'll give you equal time on my turf, if you'll give me equal time on yours. What say you, Sir?
Dr Tom Hubble, University of Sydney, Camperdown, February 3.
William S.Lloyd obviously wishes to maintain the gross ignorance so many Australians possess on religion (Letters, February 3). If we give Peter Jensen his due, as a representative of the Anglican Church, he should have the right to explain his own religious experience and tradition - I would look askance at any attempt by him to explain Islam, Buddhism or Taoism or anything else outside that tradition.
I have seen positive results when representatives of Christian religious traditions explained their own form of faith together to students in school settings. If this could be expanded - say, to place priests, ministers, imams, etc, in the context of a comparative religious instruction course, allowing an examination of the role and similarity of religious traditions, surely young Australians could see the world in a different light. It would also be a valid way to break through the "I'm the only one who's right" mentality Mr Lloyd and so many others hold.
We must not close ourselves off from the expression of life beyond the mundane - unless we wish to turn our schools and society into just another version of Survivor.
Fergus Hancock, Muswellbrook, February 3.
If private schools instil such great values, why is it that their students are invariably the ones who remain seated in overcrowded buses and trains?
Alasdair Cameron, Arncliffe, February 3.
All this debate on "improving" values/performance of schooling, then we get 21,000 rejected, but UAI-qualified, university applicants ("Thousands to be denied last university offers", Herald, February 3).
Great incentive, Mr Howard.
Rouna Daley, Paddington, February 3.
When I am prime minister there will be no corporate or organisational funding of political parties allowed at all ("Manildra tops list of Coalition benefactors", Herald, February 3).
Only private citizens vote, and only private citizens will be able to support their party of choice. Nor will it be tax deductible.
Graham King, Matcham, February 3.
Surely Manildra's payment of $305,000 to the Coalition was more fee for service than donation.
Glenn Meeves, Kings Park, February 3.
So, John Galligan of British American Tobacco believes the proposed health warnings for cigarette packets to be ineffectual ("Cigarette makers forced to put smoking disease images on packets", Herald, February 3). I guess that means he can have no objection to them being introduced then.
Holly Landgren, Leichhardt, February 3.
What a shock to see "Bond" and "finance" in the one heading ("Bond plan to finance Opera rebuilding", Herald, February 3). It forced me to read on.
David Davies, Sydney, February 3.
Nice to see that the US is happy to lead our PM into an unjustified war and bomb the hell out of anyone/anything in sight but is outraged at the sight of a nipple on live TV. I'm glad it has its priorities right.
John Warby, North Rocks, February 3.
Michael has been arrested on child molestation charges and Janet has exposed her breast to the world ... and it's only February. Crumbs!
Marise Watson, Stanmore, February 3.
I don't know about Paul Sheehan ("Spammers at work, undermining the he-male with email", Herald, February 2), but I have not once been offered penis enlargement via email. I would like to know who leaked my personal details to the spammers.
Shaun Davies, Newtown, February 3.
Don't worry, Robert McKittrick (Letters, February 3), I doubt if cameras in the loo are the explanation. I, too, received penis enlargement offers fairly regularly and was toying with answering one, pointing out that I was a 73-year-old female.
However, my grandchildren advised me that it was unwise to open unwanted mail and very unwise to answer one, so I just waited till they stopped. Now I am being offered blind dates every day. Might be fun! What do you think?
Shirley Evans, Winmalee, February 3.
Rene Rivkin has been ordered to present himself at the gates of the jail on Friday evening. Anyone willing to bet on this?
Tom Donnellan, Cessnock West, February 3.
Jeremy Brender (Letters, February 3) wants to know what day businesses declaring "open 365 days" are closed this year.
I'm more interested to know how those business survive which only "open seven days".
Michel Dignand, Wagga Wagga, February 3.
How big was hail before golf balls were invented ("Cars take beating and thousands blacked out in hailstorms", Herald, February 3)?
Joseph Lee, Munich (Germany), February 3.
Despite the fact that I am a Foxtel subscriber and can watch excellent coverage on its sports channels, I am appalled that Channel Seven has decided to cease free-to-air coverage of the Super 12 rugby competition ("Free coverage of Super 12 ends", Herald, February 3).
I notify all organisations that pay to advertise on Seven that I am selectively turning off that station from now on. I can only hope that fans without access to pay TV can eventually get to watch such a premier competition via an alternative free-to-air broadcaster.
Sean O'Halloran, Turramurra, February 3.
During a vocational guidance chat the other day, my son announced his career intentions: "Dad, I want to become a failed banker." We are very proud of him.
Graham Apthorpe, Cowra, February 3.
It is a terrible shame when you see the deeds of a few highly paid currency traders, not properly supervised by their more highly paid superiors and not detected by flawed systems, result in the resignation of a prominent banker like Frank Cicutto.
I can understand how he, and more particularly the entire staff of the NAB, must be feeling right now. I went through this experience when I was a senior manager with Westpac in 1992 when our CEO, Frank Conroy, was similarly and unceremoniously dumped. It is worth recalling that, in the Westpac case, five members of the board (including the chairman) departed before Mr Conroy.
Mr Conroy was replaced by an American who simply embraced the Conroy blueprint and went on to profit by at least $50 million during his otherwise inglorious tenure.
Mr Cicutto's replacement has been appointed with indecent haste by a board which will probably look quite different in a few weeks. Hopefully it will have some people with relevant banking experience.
I also look forward to reading about the demise of the people in the NAB who were immediately responsible for the checks and balances. If the CEO can't rely on these people, then what hope has he got?
John Swaffer, Beverly Hills, February 3.
I don't know which is worse: that such incompetence is so richly rewarded or that the multimillion-dollar payout to Frank Cicutto can be claimed by the NAB as a tax deduction. The federal Treasury is obviously too busy forking out for the obscene payouts to failed CEOs to be able to properly finance public schools and hospitals. Still, it's nice to know that our tax dollars are giving such solace to those who really need it.
R. Linkiewicz, Caringbah, February 3.
Will someone explain to me how an employee "resigns" but gets "pay in lieu of notice". This is nothing more than a payment by the club to protect the club. Charles Allen should go as well!
G. Findlay, Haberfield, February 3.
I'll bet NAB shareholders feel fully Franked!
Les Shearman, Darlington, February 3.
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Reading the Word in a Month – A 30 Day Bible Reading Schedule
When was the last time you read Yah's Word from cover to cover? A year? 5 years? 10 years, or more? Sadly, reading the Scriptures from beginning to end is something that many people never accomplish during their lifetime. Most simply skip around, content just to read a few bits and pieces from their favorite books when they find a couple minutes to spare… But what type of affect does this have on one's overall understanding of the Word? Would we ever believe for a minute that we could properly understand other books if we approached them in this manner? The reality is, we must stop relying on others to tell us what the Word of our Creator says — we have to read it […]
Bechukotai Torah Portion Teachings
Meaning – "In My laws" Torah – Leviticus 26:3-27:34 Haftarah – Jeremiah 16:19-17:14 Gospel – Luke 14:1-15:32
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Meaning – "In Mount Sinai" Torah – Leviticus 25:1-26:2 Haftarah – Jeremiah 32:6-27 Gospel – Luke 13:1-33
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{This Tom Kha Gai Thai Coconut Soup is the first in a Thai Take-Out Dinner Series. Check back next week for Pad See Ew, Yellow Curry with Prawns, and Thai Iced Tea!}
This soup is my chicken noodle soup. It's the soup I crave when I'm sick in bed or when I've had a bad day and need something comforting. I could eat it daily.
We love Thai food in this house. If given the choice, I think my husband and I would order it once or twice a week. We have this amazing, family owned little place in our town that we've been going to for years and just love. The owners are so sweet and always hang around our table offering Thai cooking and recipe tips. I'd been making this version of the soup for the last few years and was never really truly happy with it, so I figured I'd ask what their secret is. After listening to her explain the simple process to making this soup, I finally figured out that the culprit was the chile paste I had been using. Chile pastes were created for American's in order to make some of the Thai ingredients more accessible. I try not to use them and prefer to use fresh ingredients, but sometimes they are hard to find. The problem is that the paste has a few ingredients in it that are not normally in Tom Kha Gai, so that's why I wasn't getting the authentic flavor I was so desperately looking for. In the real deal, they just use homemade dried and ground Thai chiles.
The owner was sweet enough to send me home with a container of their homemade ground chiles and it made a world of difference! Now this recipe tastes exactly like the restaurant, and at a fraction of the cost! You can make your own at home by drying and grinding Thai chiles, or you can buy it at any Asian market and some health food stores in the Asian foods aisle. I prefer the finely ground spices where the seeds are not noticeable. This recipe is mild, so if you can handle the heat you're welcome to add an extra dash, but I warn you : this stuff will go a REALLY long way. My husband loves spice and he can't handle more than a tiny pinch sprinkled on is food.
You will also want a really good quality fish sauce for any Thai dish you're making. Red Boat Fish Sauce company is the only one on the mainstream market that is both Paleo and SCD/GAPs legal. It's aged 12-16 months and comes directly from Vietnam. They bottle only pure first press "extra virgin" fish sauce so you get an extract that is made of just two all natural ingredients: fresh wild caught anchovy and sea salt. For years I used Thai Kitchen fish sauce and looked past the sugar in the ingredient list, but I've tasted the two side by side now and notice a huge difference.


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When the simulator is running, the white and yellow boxes show you numbers that are being stored in the transputer chip. The green areas of the display are just to help you interpret the numbers .
The numbers in white boxes are displayed in decimal. The numbers in yellow boxes are displayed in hexadecimal. The small boxes show a single byte (8 bits). The big boxes show a word (4 bytes, or 32 bits), treated as a single number.
A register is a special memory location inside the processor which is directly connected to the circuitry for arithmetic, data movement, decision making, and so on. Each register has a particular purpose.
Areg, Breg, Creg: These registers are connected to the arithmetic and logic circuits. For the most common arithmetic and logic operations, the Areg and Breg are directly fed into the cuircuit for that operation, and the result is fed back into the Areg.
Iptr: This is the instruction pointer, or program pointer. It holds the address in memory of the next program instruction to be executed.
Wptr: This is the workspace pointer, or data pointer. It holds the address of the area of memory currently being used by the program for storing the most immediate data items.
Oreg: This holds a partial operand, while it is being built up during a multi-byte instruction. It is displayed in hex so that you can see how operands are built up 4 bits (one hex digit) at a time.
The memory of the Transputer is used to store both programs and their data. Conventionally, the beginning of the memory is used to store the program, while the end of memory is used to store data, though nothing forces this choice.
When the Transputer is started, the workspace register Wptr points just beyond the end of the memory. As space is needed for data, Wptr is decreased. The most immediate data items are stored in the first few locations after the Wptr location.
The workspace is treated as a sequence of words, ie four bytes at a time are moved to and from it. The Transputer uses byte addresses, but instructions involving the workspace work in terms of words. For example, the instruction "ldl 3" means load the number at position 3 in the workspace into the A register. The processor calculates the byte-address of the word by multiplying 3 by 4 (or however many bytes there are per word) to get 12, ie the word is located 12 bytes from the beginning of the workspace.
The program area is displayed in single bytes, each shown in hex. This is so that you can see the structure of the instructions. A one-byte instruction is organised so that the first 4 bits (1st hex digit) specifies the operation to be performed, while the other 4 bits (2nd hex digit) specify the operand.
Instructions vary in length, with the commonest instructions being one byte long. For simplicity and speed, multi-byte instructions are arranged so that each byte is executed by the processor in a uniform way.
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Tuesday night in the Whitney Presentation Hall at Sheridan College, was the 7th in the Natural Resources Lecture Series called "Improving Range Management Through Science" with guest speaker John Walker.
Walker, the director and professor of Agrilife Research at Texas A & M University said range management involves change.
Sheridan College Director of Agriculture, Keith Klement said range management is both art and science.
Art and science are essential for land stewardship, but good old fashioned intuition is also needful.
The lecture series was a general session free to the public which coordinates with this year's annual meeting of Wyoming's Society for Range Management which is being held in Sheridan this year.
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Swimming in Circles: Aquaculture and the End of Wild Oceans
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A travelogue through the world of global aquaculture from the board rooms of the multinationals to the bays and lagoons where America's shrimp and salmon are grown. An expose originally published in 2007, the information remains current, and most of Paul Molyneaux's predictions of the trajectory of salmon farming and shrimp farming have come true.
A Child's Walk in the Wilderness (Hardcover)
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The story of an eight-year-old boy who, as his family begins to disintegrate, asks his father if they can hike the Appalachian Trail.
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The new chief, Mark Malloch Brown, will keep his present job as head of the UN Development Programme.
The 51-year-old Briton is replacing Mr Annan's long-time confidante, Iqbal Riza, whose resignation was announced last month amid UN staff unrest.
Mr Malloch Brown acknowledged the UN was facing a difficult period.
The appointment is seen as an attempt to steady the UN ship, the BBC's diplomatic correspondent Jonathan Marcus reports.
It comes as UN staff morale continues to tumble and amid lingering allegations of corruption in the UN-administered programme to purchase Iraqi oil in return for food - now the subject of a number of investigations, our correspondent says.
Last month, Mr Annan met a group of veteran US foreign policy experts - who are not members of the government - to discuss actions necessary to deal with the UN's problems, the New York Times newspaper reports.
Wider shake-up
Mr Malloch Brown is widely credited with reforming the UN Development Programme, which operates in more than 160 countries around the world.
He took office in 1999 after moving from the World Bank where he was a vice-president in charge of external affairs and public relations.
His appointment by Mr Annan is only the first step in what promises to be a much wider shake-up of the UN's top jobs, our correspondent says.
There has been much criticism of the way UN managers behave, while neo-conservative voices in Washington have attacked Mr Annan himself, urging he be replaced.
A few weeks ago, Mr Annan received a report from a high-level panel that he established, setting out a number of possible reforms.
It is clear the catastrophe in south-east Asia is also putting the organisation's machinery to the test, our correspondent says.
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Welcome to the webpage for the German program at Georgia Perimeter College. You may see below the course offerings in German at Georgia Perimeter College. We offer students the Beginning and Intermediate levels of the German language with a strong emphasis on written and oral expression.
Georgia Perimeter students may earn an Associate of Arts degree in Foreign Language or an Associate of Arts degree in Foreign Language with a Concentration in Business. (see GPC catalog)
At Georgia Perimeter College, we encourage student participation in language clubs and Study Abroad to stimulate further interest in a variety of cultural aspects of German speaking countries and to reinforce the skills our students learn in the classroom.
Why study German?
· German is not as hard as you think!
· German is the most widely spoken language in Europe.
· Germans form the largest single heritage group in the U.S.
Importance of Germany today
· Germany has the 3rd strongest economy and is the #1 export nation in the world.
· The Germans are innovators.
· German is required or recommended by many undergraduate and graduate programs.
Course Descriptions Per College Catalog
* Check Schedule of Classes under Registration for Course Offerings each Semester. The Summer Schedule is often "subject to change" as well.
GRMN 1001 - Elementary German I
This course introduces the student to spoken and
written German, emphasizing the basic grammar and vocabulary of everyday speech.
The four skills-listening, speaking, reading, and writing- are developed
simultaneously. Some aspects of everyday life in the German-speaking world are
also introduced. No native speakers or those who have had a great deal of
their education in the target language are permitted in the Elementary Level
GRMN 1002 - Elementary German II
Prerequisite: GRMN 1001 or permission of the
Department Chair. This course continues the work begun in GRMN 1001, building
upon grammatical structures and vocabulary acquired. No native speakers or
those who have had a great deal of their education in the target language are
permitted in the Elementary Level Languages.
GRMN 2001 - Intermediate German I
Prerequisite: GRMN 1002 or permission of the
Department Chair. This course completes the study of basic German grammar and
vocabulary while introducing reading of a linguistically more challenging
GRMN 2002 - Intermediate German II
Prerequisite: GRMN 2001 or permission of the
Department Chair. This course focuses on a review of the grammar studied in GRMN
1001, GRMN 1002, and GRMN 2001 as well as on developing more facility with the
reading skill.