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ESCAPE ROUTE: Mr Q may succeed in evading extradition
Certain critical roadblocks have been cited by the MEA. The first relates to the extradition papers carrying proof gathered by the investigating agency of the existence of offence. The 250-page extradition request is rather weak. Yet another bottleneck is the lack of solid evidence. Earlier in 2002, the CBI had failed to present sufficient evidence against Quattrocchi in the Kuala Lumpur High Court which dismissed its extradition request because of "grossly insufficient facts, no construction of sequence of events and crime".
Sensing the political implications of the case, the Foreign Office has maintained that while the MEA will extend all possible assistance, with the Indian ambassador to Argentina having been instructed to chip in, "the CBI will be responsible for adequate evidence".
Ironically, even as the MEA was issuing its assessment, the Argentinean Foreign Office was informing Indian envoy Pramathesh Rath that the extradition request handed over to them, together with the annexure, were being forwarded to the Federal Court in El Dorado in Misiones province. The Indian envoy, accompanied by a two-member CBI team of S.K. Sharma, Director, Prosecution, and Superintendent of Police Keshav Mishra, had submitted the extradition papers to the Argentinean government on March 2 soon after the duo reached Buenos Aires.
There are several other hurdles. If the lower court dismisses the extradition case, the only recourse left would be for the CBI to move the Argentinean Supreme Court, which is unlikely to say anything different. The CBI, it is quite apparent, has a tough legal battle in its hands. Quattrocchi's lawyer Alejandro Freeland argues that the Italian businessman was residing in India till 1993, seven years after the Bofors case broke, but was never questioned or approached by the agency during that time.
What may further add to the CBI's woes is Quattrocchi's clout with the Italian Government which he has put to use in an effort to bail himself out. It's a measure of his influence that Italian Ambassador to Argentina Stefano Ronca has pulled all stops to ensure he walks away free. Earlier, the Italian embassy had even supplied references to the Argentinean courts, vouching for Quattrocchi's character and helping him secure bail that was initially denied to him. Then, Ronca wrote to the Argentinean court and its foreign office that Quattrocchi was a much decorated citizen of Italy and it would not be proper to extradite him to India. Quattrocchi is a "Grand Officiale" of Italy-an honour he received for attracting business to the tune of over $10 billion (Rs 45,000 crore) for Italian companies. Sources say this may well be his second line of defence in case the CBI provides clinching evidence, thereby making his extradition a political decision for Argentina.
Meanwhile, facing a barrage of criticism, the CBI is putting up a brave face. "Argentina does not have a very encouraging record with extraditions, but our papers are in order and we have given an assurance of reciprocity," an official said. Also in the dossier are Interpol documents tracking Quattrocchi's money-flow from Switzerland to Bahamas to BSI AG in London. Britain had initially frozen Quattrocchi's accounts based on revelations relating to the money trail that had been provided by Interpol. The CBI also plans to label the Italian an absconder who has never appeared in an Indian court.
Legal analysts hold out hope in the event of some fresh evidence coming to light. "Purely on legal grounds, chances do seem even," says lawyer O.P. Rawat. But Section 11A and 11B of the Argentinean Extradition Act open a window large enough for Quattrocchi to escape. The sections provide that the offence should be punishable in Argentina, as well, and that the accused cannot be punished twice for the same offence. There is also some time bar on pursuing a case.
Freeland has indicated he will bring up the matter of defreezing of Quattrocchi's accounts in London after Additional Attorney General B. Datta's submission "that no useful purpose will be served in pursuing the case". The plea can well be that the case is dead and Quattrocchi is being pursued purely for political ends. Besides, in Argentina, the nature of his crime may not stand before a court, as middlemen in deals are not prohibited. For now, it is clear that it will take more than a legal net to nab the elusive Mr Q.
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However, it seems, nothing could be further from the truth. "So far, there has been little interference from the Government," says a senior army official. The ongoing analysis of trial results will see the army purchase 1,000 towed artillery pieces for $2 billion (Rs 9,000 crore). The army says it will ask for revalidation of certain parameters of assessment in a possible fifth round of trials and will issue fresh tenders only if these parameters are not satisfied or the competitors pull out.
Last month, the army issued request for proposals to six international firms for an additional 180 wheeled, self-propelled guns costing nearly $1 billion (Rs 4,500 crore). This is the first salvo in the army's field artillery modernisation, a gargantuan two-decade programme worth over $6 billion (Rs 27,000 crore) that received a fillip after the Kargil war.
Yet, the programme which aims at equipping all of the army's 230 artillery regiments with towed, wheeled and tracked 155 mm guns, is a relic from an age when off-the-shelf purchases were the norm. It is clearly out of sync with the present defence procurement procedure which lays emphasis on joint ventures and transfer of technology to encourage indigenisation of weapon systems.
Specifications of the programme which called for wheeled, tracked and towed howitzers were laid down in the late 1980s. With persistent delays, the requirement has snowballed to five different howitzer types. The army recently made the case for importing a truck-mounted howitzer, called the Mounted Gun System, and 180 pieces of an air-drop, ultra-light howitzer weighing 4.5 ton.
Prior to trials in 2002, the army had favoured the ponderous 155/52 mm howitzer as its standard artillery caliber. It is between five and nine ton heavier than the older 155/39 gun used in Kargil but improves the range of the older guns by only 2 km. The 155/52 caliber-yet to enter service even in the US or UK-increases the load on the gun carriage and the propulsion systems which are required to manoeuvre it, particularly in the high mountain ranges where it could be deployed. Quite appropriately, it is symbolic of the unwieldy artillery programme.
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calculate the pH of the solution when 25.0ml of 0.0920M HCL is titrated with 0.15ml, 23.0ml, 30.0ml of 0.10M NaOH
Hopefully someone else comes along and checks this, but I'll give it a try. First convert all units of volume from mL to L and multiply them by their respective concentrations, which are given to you in molarity to find the number of moles. e.g. 25ml=0.025L*0.0920M gives you the number of moles of HCl. Subtract the number of moles of base from the number of moles of acid. If you have something left over, plug that number into the formula -log(H+)=pH. If you get 0, the reaction is a neutralization reaction and the pH is 7. if you get a negative value, that is the amount of base left over. Take the absolute value of that value and plug it into the formula -log(OH-)=pOH. This will give you the pOH. Subtract the pOH from 14 to give you the pH. Again I am not sure, but I hope this is correct. If this is, you should get a pH of 2.64, 7.00, and 10.8.
mols HCl = 0.0920 x 0.025 = 0.0023
mols NaOH = 0.100 x 0.00015 = 0.15E-5
mols HCl remaining = 0.0023-1E-5 = 0.002285
MHCl remaining = 0.002285 mols/(0.025+0.00015)L = 0.09085
pH = -log(0.09085) = about 1.04 for 0.15 mL NaOH.
Devron is correct for 23.0 mL 0.1M NaOH; the pH = 7.0
For 30.0 mL of 0.1M NaOH, it's done the same way.
30.0 x 0.1M NaOH = 0.003 mols NaOH
25.0 x 0.0920 M HCl = 0.0023 mol HCl.
Difference is 0.0007 mols NaOH.
M NaOH = 0.007 mol NaOH/(0.025+0.030)L = 0.0007/0.055= 0.0127
pOH = -log(OH^-)
pOH = -log(0.0127)
pOH = 1.89
pH = 14-1.89 = about 12.1
Check my work carefully, especially for typos. I don't like to work these things in mols, I prefer millimoles because there are fewer zeros to count.
Sorry, I forgot to convert everything back to molarity before plugging back in the values.


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Provocative, principled and richly detailed, this is compelling stuff. Emotionally its a little dry, but as brain-food, its absolutely invigorating. George done good.


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In Part 1, we looked at how FEC Tony Sutton's (pictured, right) MN GOP couldn't (wouldn't?) accurately report to the FEC how much they owed a vendor they hired to ensure accurate FEC reports. In Part 2, we noted there are now 2 citizen watchdog groups looking into the MN GOP's Cooked Books — Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington – which nailed 'em last time (the MN GOP got smacked with a near-record $170,000 fine), and Common Cause MN. In Part 3, we looked at how a payroll deductions "no, NO!" that got the MN GOP in trouble last time seems to be a pattern. In Part 4 we looked at the MN GOP using a strange address for one of it's fundraisers.
In Part 5 we looked at at the official FEC Complaint – filed 12 Jan 2012 – by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington ("CREW"). In Part 6 we looked at the MN GOP misrepresenting their expenses. In Part 7 we looked at how the MN GOP categorized pay for a guy that they very well may have been paying to run for state senate – Lakeville's Dave Thompson in SD-36.
Today in Part 8 of the continuing Cooked Books Series we're going to take a look at a MN GOP Campaign Finance Report line item that begs the question: did the State GOP pay for a lawyer for a State Representative's drunk driving case?
Here's the background: endorsed GOPer 2010 candidate for Governor Tom Emmer's campaign was getting hammered over alcohol related incidents, including a certain paid campaign staffer that happened to be Emmer's kid. The campaign did NOT need any more alocohol-related incidents. Apparently, campaign "consultant" Mark Buesgens, state rep from district 35-B, didn't get the memo – he got caught driving drunk with an open bottle of vodka.
Team Emmer's Drinking Team promptly dumped Buesgens. Note the "note" at the bottom of the last entry: "final payment."
Now, the "official story" put out by Team Emmer's Drinking Team was: "Hey! It's just a coincidence, but: just the day before Buesgens got caught driving drunk into the ditch, we ditched him and he went to work for the State GOP!!!"
Yeah, "right."
Let's take a look at the timeline, as reported on Buesgen's court records:
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September 18th, 2010 – Busgens gets caught in a ditch with an open bottle of vodka; blows a .16 blood-alcohol content.
September 24th, 2010 – Buesgens cited in Wright County
November 5th, 2010 – Guilty plea entered, case all but settled (final disposition November 23rd, 2010.
Now, remember how in the scramble to distance themselves from the guy in the ditch (with an open bottle of vodka), Team Emmer's Drinking Team said "Hey! Buesgen's isn't OUR bad boy; he's the GOP's!!!"
Well, Buesgens does indeed show up on the State GOP's state Campaign Finance Report for 2010:
Five days after blowing a .16, Buesgens has the good fortune of getting a check from the State GOP for $2,584.62.
Five days before his drunk driving & open bottle case is all but over, Buesgens pulls another check from FEC Tony & Co for $8, 615.38 — for a grand total of eleven grand: $11,000.00.
Coincidences? Or, do those checks look like "retainer & final payment" to defend a drunk driving & open bottle case?
At any rate, it sure looks like a sweet deal for Buesgens; he goes from about $7k a month with Emmer to $11k with the GOP!!!
I'd ask the State GOP for an explanation of why Buesgen's $11k paydays – in about a month – was for actual work, and not just a pass-through to Buesgen's lawyer, but: it's not like they really like to talk to the ol' TwoPutter. Not that I – or anyone else for that matter – would/should believe 'em; after all: reasonable people no longer have any reason to believe anything a GOPer official – party nor elected – has to say.
The State GOP needs to prove that the $11k Buesgens got was for actual work – because it sure looks like it simply paid a defense attorney for the actual work of defending one of their own.
If I were a GOPer, I'd be mad as (heck) to think my political donations went to a defense attorney for a guy that drove drunk into the ditch with an open bottle of vodka.
As a progressive, I'm simply not surprised. After all, today's GOP is morally bankrupt, intellectually dishonest, and institutionally corrupt.
There's a LOT more, in the GOP's state and federal financial reports so:
Stay tuned!
And, let's hope some prosecutor, somewhere, is thinking: "Isn't it about time to get a Grand Jury together, and do a little digging ourselves?"


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|DM jlord
The Savage World of My Little Pony!
Savage Worlds quick start rules
"The blizzard has ended, but all that remains is a frozen wasteland. Ponies all over are forced to flee to the new land of Equestria and leave their old prejudices behind. With the hope of starting over in this lush untouched land, you have made yourself at home in the town of Trottingham. It is a simple farming village, the first Settlement made in Equestira. Despite the overpopulation and constant refugees flowing in and out, the quality of life is so much better now it's hard to complain."
Hey everyone, Here is the recruitment thread for the Pony Pbp! The setting is a few years after the founding of Equestria. Luna and Celestia are not yet around and the Ponies are just getting used to their new homes. But this new land is untouched and ripe with adventure!
I've got two players from my RL game currently and I am looking for 4 more players for the game. I'd like there to be a mix of all three pony races, and preferably I'd like two of each race.
Beyond that I only ask that you have a reason for wanting to protect the people of Trottingham and a thirst for adventure!
I'm going to put a close date for character submissions for Saturday night August 4th at 11:59 pm. So about a week.
The game rules and campaign rules are attached above. If you have questions about the game or need help feel free to ask.
|DM jlord
I don't have a problem with the Noble edge, but if you take it, I'd like it detailed a little bit in your background. It's kinda like two edges in one, but it has a minor drawback too with dealing with noble responsibilities.
I'd rather not have anyone with the young hindrance because it significantly weakens the character and you won't be taken seriously buy adults. That being said, If you really want to be a filly I won't stop you.
I'm thinking this will be an adventurous campaign, like D&D meets ponies, or Daring Do, so your character will possibly be in serious danger regularly.
|Kobold Cleaver
|DM jlord
Got her mostly made but still need a cutie mark and a name, hmm...
Here she is so far, I will make an alias when I have settled on a name though,
Name: ?
Looks: black coat, white mane, purple eyes
Breed: Unicorn
Third eye: d4 in spellcraft
Natural Magic- Unicorns can use magic, allowing them to cast cantrips and spells. All Unicorns start with the Magic Trick cantrip, plus an additional cantrip for each rank of Spellcraft they possess (you automatically gain new cantrips of your choice whenever this skill is raised). See the chapter on Magic for more information.
Cutie Mark:
Attributes: 5(3)
Charisma: +2
Pace: 6 (+d6 when running)1 = 1 inch or 2 yards in game
Parry: 4 [2 + 1/2 fighting]
Toughness: 3 [2+ 1/2 Vigor] (-1)
Hindrances: all 4 points spent on two additional edges
*New Spell
Skills: 15(10, cap; d12)
Skill Tied Attribute Special
d4 *Athletics Strength
d4 *Fighting Strength
d6 **Grace Agility Clash of Wills
Healing Smarts
Intimidate Strength Clash of Wills
d4 *Intuition Spirit
Investigation Smarts
d4 *Knowledge(art) Smarts
Leadership Spirit
Nature Smarts
d6 **Notice Smarts
d6 **Persuasion Smarts Clash of Wills
Piloting Agility
d8 **Spellcraft Smarts
d4 *Stealth Agility
Streetwise Smarts
Taunt Spirit Clash of Wills
d6 **Vogue Smarts
Magic Known
Free: Magic trick
1r: Enunciate/silence
2r: Magic Box
3r: Project Image
Spell: Change shape
Money: start 300s, annual 1500 f
Sling 1s ea
Bulletsx12 1b ea
compass 15s ea
journal 1s ea
satchel wp 10s ea
art supplies 5s set
Formal Clothes 30s set
Money: current 236s 4b
Her father, Oak Leaf, was the lord of a mid sized town. Her mother had died from the cold early on and her father, now knowing the cause of the winter, has trouble not blaming the pegasi and the earth ponies for it, though he would never openly state such. Because of this, her family was one of the last to leave their home and travel to Equestria. They currently stay in Trottingham while looking for a good place to found a new town which is planned on being named after her mother, Rhubarb.
She likes to make sketches to run cross country track. She also enjoys using using the change shape spell she snuck out her mother's library to change into a hawk and fly around to find inspiration for her sketches.
|GM Spugly Fuglet
|Kobold Cleaver
Name: Shepard Jeremiah Pie
Race: Earth Pony
Occupation: Rock Farmer
Cutie Mark: Boulder
Likes: Rocks, Racing, Roughing it outdoors
Dislikes: Bright colors, Loud noises, Unsupervised children
Physical Description: Light grey coat, dark grey mane with black streaks, square jaw with black mustache. Often wears a Straw hat (emergency rations) and occasionally smokes a corn cob pipe (also emergency rations)
|DM jlord
Looks Good DarkLightHitomi. Does the Shapechanging have anything to do with your Special Talent? Shape Changing would be a hard cutie mark to come up with. I'm not worried about a map of Equestria at the moment.
Artthedarklord is one of the guys from my RL game. Fluff looks good, Now all you have to do is actually make the character.
GM Spugly Fuglet, If you want to make a rainbow dash clone, that's fine, but put in a little something that makes it yours. And a different name would be nice, Even if it is as corny as Rainbow Flash or something.
Testing Some Symbols for the Card Draw. Let me Know if you can see the suits:
|GM Spugly Fuglet
|Nightflight Mintleaf
|Nightflight Mintleaf
|DM jlord
I think a good name would be Starlight or Fancy Flight. Though a cutie mark I think will be about her sketches, perhaps a pencil with wings.
Thoughts anyone?
I somehow missed this post. A drawing cutie mark would be neat too. Heck, the trappings for some of your spells could even be drawing with your horn or something like that. Draw a cat with your horn, *Poof* Your a cat! You might not want to screw up your drawings if you do something like this! (jk)
Ok, so far it looks like we got...
DarkLightHitomi: Nightflight MintLeaf, Unicorn
Artthedarklord: Shepard Jeremiah Pie, Earth Pony
Spugly Fuglet: Higgledy Piggledy, Pegasus
Dan: ???, ??? (other guy from my RL game)
We got 2 spots open still. Anyone else care to join?
|Higgledy Piggledy
|Nightflight Mintleaf
|DM jlord
Nightflight MintLeaf (DarkLightHitomi)
Shepard Jeremiah Pie (Artthedarklord)
Higgledy Piggledy(Spugly Fuglet)
You three are diffidently in. Here is the discussion thread.
Ok, I'm going to give more time for others to join in, as Nightflight is the only fully made character up at this moment.
There are three, Totally Available and Totally Open spots for this game available. And one of them Can Be Yours, ABSOLUTELY FREE!
Seriously though, I'm expecting one of my RL gaming friends to hopefully show up still, but life is a bit hectic for him at the moment, so he might be slow going here.
If anyone is holding back due to the system, I am willing to make a simple character for ya and you can fill in the fluff. I'm still new to the system too, but it is a really simple one to use, so it shouldn't take long to get the jest of it once we start.
If there are any questions, feel free to ask.
|Kobold Cleaver
Things are going to be really busy for me this week. I got NaPoWriMo (actually, Camp NaNoWriMo, but they overlap), two new players to introduce to my weekly game, and a friend's story to review. If there's still room at that point, I'm totally in (though I'm guessing that might not fly, so whatever).
|DM jlord
|Shepard Jeremiah Pie
|Kobold Cleaver
You can probably be a member of any one of them, though I'm no GM. We have two pegasi, two earth ponies, and I think two unicorns (though only two pegasi, one earth pony and one unicorn have entered the game yet). I think almost everybody here is a newbie to the game system, so that shouldn't be a problem--they're pretty simple, I think.
|Nightflight Mintleaf
|DM jlord
I spent some time going over the rules of Savage Worlds and seem to have gotten the jist of character creation for this game. Not sure how the abilities work completely but I'd need to practice some.
I have two characters I had mentioned to the GM in a PM
Hay Bale: A Farm boy earth pony looking for adventure and excitement.
TriCorn(Name may change): A unicorn whose magical gift revolves around the natural elements of the world and he wishes to study them further and put his knowledge to the test.
Depending on GM's response, I will elaborate more on either of these characters. I had intended to use them in a FanFic a while back but this is more fun. Hope I get to use one.
|kankuro Kurosaki
|Kobold Cleaver
|Higgledy Piggledy
|Kobold Cleaver
|DM jlord
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|DM jlord
Opening up recruitment for 2, possibly 3 players. We are out a unicorn, and a pegisus. We might need to replace an earth pony too, but I'm giving that player some time to post and continue.
If your interested, feel free to post, ask me some questions and check out the ooc and gameplay board to get a feel of the game.
|DM jlord


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Ladies Man Simon Cowell's 'X Factor'-Style Auditions to Find the Perfect Woman (PHOTOS)
The pair dined out together at Cecconi's restaurant in West Hollywood after initially flirting with one another on Twitter.
And although this season's X Factor is about to reach its conclusion, the man behind bringing the hit FOX show to America is no closer to finding the love of his life.
In fact, recently the 52-year-old music mogul seems to be carrying out his very own private auditions to find his perfect partner.
Cowell split with former fiancée Mezhgan Hussainy earlier this year, but the pair was spotted shopping together in Beverly Hills only last month.
Former Playboy pin-up, Carmen Electra, is another stunner who's come under Cowell's radar recently after the pair dined-out with a group of friends at Cecconi's in West Hollywood in September.
And it seems Gavankar may have some competition, with Electra joining Cowell at The X Factor live show on Wednesday night, where a source tells Celebuzz not only did the TV judge bring the brunette beauty as his guest, he showed his affection for her too.
"He full on kissed her at the show in front of the audience," a source told Celebuzz.
Although Electra has been coy about their relationship, telling Celebuzz they are "just friends," adding, "I really like him, he's a cool guy," fellow X Factor judge L.A. Reid couldn't help but notice their sparks. He tweeted a photo of the twosome from the show, "Didn't mean to, but got in the middle of @SimonCowell and @carmenelectra #LoveBirds," wrote Reid, who revealed Thursday he won't be coming back to the show next year.
But at the moment is seems that Cowell has a thing for Gavankar — who plays sexy Luna Garza on HBO's vampire hit True Blood.
And it was Cowell who initiated the relationship with the exotic beauty from Joliet, Ill., right before his 5 million Twitter followers last month after he wrote: "Hello trouble. Simon x."
Gavankar replied: "Who me?? #Definitely me," to which he answered: "yes you. x"
Maybe the answer comes from Cowell himself.
In an interview UK's The Guardian newspaper last year, he admitted to being more than generous with his exes after a break-up.
"You can't have somebody in your life who's become accustomed to a certain thing and just because you don't want to be in the relationship any more say to them, 'Now everything is cut off.' That doesn't make sense," he revealed.
So, it definitely pays to date Cowell, no matter the outcome.
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Ms Roxon said Dr Lawrence's decision to quit because she could not support Labor's more humane position on asylum seekers could sabotage goodpolicy.
Her colleagues also criticised Dr Lawrence's decision as premature because most policy decisions were still to be made.
Mark Latham, Labor's spokesman on economic ownership, said: "You would have thought there were very good reasons for staying in the ring throwing punches on issues instead of throwing in the towel.
"I reject utterly this assertion that shadow cabinet is risk-averse and has not been making decisions on the basis of principle," he said. "It's just that not everyone shares Carmen's principles."
Mr Latham described himself as the beneficiary of "probably the biggest risks that Simon (Crean) took in the first week of his leadership", the decision to recall him to the front bench."
Carmen Lawrence's attack on Labor's new policy on asylum seekers, which minimises mandatory detention, did not impress Premier Steve Bracks.
As a past premier Carmen Lawrence had presided over a regime in Western Australia that operated mandatory detention for young people, Mr Bracks said.
"Carmen Lawrence should have worked within the party, within the caucus and within the shadow cabinet," he said. "I would have expected, as a past premier, that's the principle she operated within. I mean she was a premier of a regime that had mandatory sentencing for young people."
NSW Premier Bob Carr described Dr Lawrence's stance as "too ideological".
Mr Crean also rejected Dr Lawrence's claims that the shadow cabinet was too conservative and timid, and denied it was causing a caucus split.
"There's nothing weak about me," Mr Crean told 3AW. "I have taken on rules changes in the party where I had to confront the New South Wales right and win. I have had to take on positions in the party to get major changes through."
He also said there was nothing timid in the decision on asylum-seeker policy that was a catalyst for Dr Lawrence's departure.
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Listener Request - June 2, 2012
Dear Bob,
I'm a country girl. I grew up in the sticks my whole life, and I love it. We are very lucky to live by the ocean and do a lot of sailing. Every summer, we pick a theme song for our sailing adventures... And "Knee Deep" by the Zac Brown Band was the winner last summer. We have yet to choose this year's theme, but we're ready.
Our boating season here in Nova Scotia is so short that we tend to sail even on rainy days! But with great country music playing, it makes every day sunny. Here's hoping for a beautiful sailing season heading our way.
Thanks for all the great music and keep it coming!
Debbie and Steven
Halifax, Nova Scotia CAN
Hi Bob!
I'm a 17-year-old guy writing to you from the Iowa farmland, and this special request is in honor of my grandfather. Truth is, he was more of a best friend than a grandfather.
When I was little, he would let me sit in the racecar he had, and to this day, I still have pictures of that. He was also known for the old red and white ford he drove and for his goofing around behavior.
He was a strong worker too, making the races go off properly at the Benton County Speedway, every Sunday. I'd get out there and see him in the water trucks, cigarette in one hand and the steering wheel in the other... Giving me a toothy grin as I walked up.
There's a song by Alan Jackson that reminds me of sitting next to him in the water trucks during the races as a kid, and listening to him tell me stories and teaching me how to drive those old trucks. So, in memory of Dwayne Burkey, who I wish was still here today, please play the song "Drive".
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Over 300 Micronesian community members, community activists, service providers, and faculty and students from several campuses gathered for
Micronesian Voices in Hawaii, the center's 2008 conference, held 3–4 April. They came to hear speakers from the Marshallese, Kosraean, Chuukese, Pohnpeian, Palauan, and Yapese communities describe the challenges for recent migrants and the work that they are doing with families and with state agencies to help meet needs in the areas of education, health, language access, and the legal system.
The conference was preceded by a talk on 2 April by independent consultant Ben Graham, whose appointment as the Marshall Islands ambassador to the United States was announced as the conference was taking place. In
Determinants and Dynamics of Micronesian Emigration, Graham began by looking at how Micronesia fits into our understanding of migration generally. In his presentation he looked at the scale of Micronesian migration, specifically from the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM) and the Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI); changes over time; and the key factors that both push and pull migration. He concluded by looking at what we might anticipate with respect to Micronesian migration, and the population and policy implications of continued migration.
The featured speakers on 3 and 4 April were Dr Hilda Heine, Director of the Pacific Resources for Education and Learning (PREL) Pacific Comprehensive Center Program, and the Honorable Andon L Amaraich, a lead negotiator for the first FSM Compact of Free Association and currently the chief justice of the Federated States of Micronesia.
In her talk,
Micronesians' Contributions and Challenges in Hawaii, Dr Heine, like Graham, looked at some trends in migration from Micronesian nations and the reasons for migration. In addition, she detailed some of the challenges for migrants in Hawaii, in the areas of education, language access, affordable housing, employment, and health. She looked at some hopeful trends in Hawaii's response to Micronesian migrants and described how Compact of Free Association (COFA) migrants are contributing to Hawaii and to Hawaii's economy.
In his talk,
Compact Negotiations, Expectations, and Hopes, Mr Amaraich reflected on the movement that has taken place since the original compact negotiations and how this has exceeded what was envisioned at the time of the compact signing. He cited education as a primary goal of Islanders seeking unrestricted access to the United States. He also described the inherent contradiction in the United States position with respect to negotiating free association. On one hand, the United States was charged, by the United Nations, with the responsibility of preparing the US Trust Territory islands for self-governance. On the other hand, the United States was reluctant to release control of the islands for military reasons.
The major part of the conference was devoted to panels that featured Micronesian community leaders and professionals talking about the work that they are doing in the community, the resources that are needed, the education that needs to take place. and some opportunities to make an impact. In addition to panels that focused on strengthening communities, increasing effective communications, building programs in education and health, and educating about rights and responsibilities, there was an open-ended panel in which pastors talked about the different hats they wear in the community, some of their personal experiences with families, differences in the expectations of their congregants here in Hawaii and back home in the islands, and the work that remains to be done.
On Friday afternoon, conference attendees met with panel members in breakout groups to brainstorm recommendations for policy makers. At the conclusion of the breakout sessions, the breakout group leaders met to compile a preliminary list of eight joint recommendations. These recommendations, which were presented to representatives from the governorÕs and Honolulu mayor's offices during the final conference session, reflected common themes that emerged across the breakout groups. These recommendations, along with links to Ben Graham's and Hilda Heine's presentations can be found on the
Micronesian Voices resources page at www.hawaii.edu/cpis/2008conf/april2008resources.htm.
The conference was taped for broadcasting by Ōlelo Community Television (NATV, channel 53) in June 2008. To be notified of programming dates, please contact Tisha Hickson at email@example.com or check the Ōlelo website at www.olelo.org/programming/default.html.
The conference co-organizers—David Hanlon, Tisha Hickson, and julie walsh—are indebted to the members of the conference advisory committee and are grateful for the support from the UHM School of Pacific and Asian Studies and the Sidney Stern Memorial Trust. A major portion of the funding came from the center's US Department of Education Title VI National Resource Center Grant.
The inaugural meeting of the Advisory Committee to the Pacific Print and Performance Media website project met recently at Hamilton Library, University of Hawaii. This archival website, which is under construction, will offer thousands of digitized pages of rare and hard-to-find literary journals, books, literacy materials, bibliographies, and mission, government and colonial administration documents. When complete, it will also serve as a repository for audio and video files.
The pilot project focuses on the literary history of Papua New Guinea (PNG). In addition to historical documents, the website will offer profiles of and interviews with contemporary writers from PNG. The website will be released for peer review by November 2008, with a launch anticipated in early 2009. If the pilot is successful, the committee will seek funding and further collaboration for the construction of parallel sites devoted to the print and performance cultures of other Island nations.
Hosted by Canada's Athabasca University, the website has an advisory committee comprising Dr Karen Peacock (University of Hawaii), Ewan Maidment (Pacific Manuscripts Bureau), Dr Steven Winduo (University of Papua New Guinea), and Dr Evelyn Ellerman (Athabasca University), among others. The site has the cooperation of several relevant institutions, including the National Archives of Australia and the Melanesian Archive at University of CaliforniaÐSan Diego.
The Pacific Print and Performance Media archive is intended to provide a service to scholars, teachers, and students who are interested in Pacific literatures, but who are unable to access documents easily. It will offer its resources in a variety of formats, including CD-ROMs, for those without reliable Internet connections.
Arrangements are being made so that users will be able to access the digitized files from the online catalogues of collaborating libraries and archives. This should provide a seamless experience for the user.
When complete, the Pacific Print and Performance Media site will be published and maintained by Athabasca University Press, whose publications are all freely available online.
If you have any questions about the website, please contact Advisory Committee Chair, Dr Evelyn Ellerman. at firstname.lastname@example.com.
(Thank you to Evelyn Ellerman for contributing this project description for the newsletter.)
Students of the Pacific, and all who have followed and admired the wide-ranging work of Epeli Hauofa, will be delighted to know that selections from his influential and impassioned writing have been published as a collection—We Are the Ocean: Selected Works—by University of Hawaii Press. The selections include analytic articles, cultural essays, interviews, a short story from Tales of the Tikongs, two excerpts from Kisses in the Nederends, and poetry. Artwork from the Oceania Centre for Arts and Culture, which Hauofa founded and currently directs at the University of the South Pacific, provides a fitting cover and is also interspersed with the writings.
In his preface, Hauofa describes the path his writings from the past 15 years have taken, leading him
into exciting worlds of ideas, passions, and practice. It has been a journey of joy, discovery, and, I hope, of some service to our widely dispersed communities.
The idea for the collection and much of the work to bring it to fruition came from a committee of three: Geoffrey White, David Hanlon, and Houston Wood. Geoffrey White's foreword describes important milestones in Hauofa's journey and a context for the ideas and the writing that emerged. The Center for Pacific Islands Studies assisted with funding for the project.
We Are the Ocean is available through the Orders Department, University of Hawaii Press, 2840 Kolowalu Street, Honolulu, HI 96822-1888; the website is www.uhpress.hawaii.edu. 2008, 189 pages. ISBN 978-0-8248-3173-8, paper, US$22.00.
This year's UHM School of Pacific and Asian Studies Graduate Student Conference,
Moving Tides: Rearticulating Space in Asia and the Pacific, featured a strong Pacific-focused cadre of speakers. These included
Taiiri Paumotu: Crossroads of Style, Questions of Identity in the Tuamotus
Samoan Soldiers: Making American Samoa, Making History
Uncle Sam Under the Looking Glass: English, Public Education, and the Chamorros of Guam
The Performance of an Authentic' Tahitian Culture in Hawaii
Ples Blong Lanwis: Vernacular Education in Vanuatu from a Community Perspective
Imagining the Nation: Displaying Myth and Mana Maori at Te Papa Tongarewa
Won't You Please Come Back to Guam? Media Discourse and the Military Build-up on Guam
At the conclusion of the conference, prizes were awarded for the best Pacific-focused paper and the best Asia-focused paper. Congratulations to Pacific prize winner and CPIS MA student Marata Tamaira for her paper on biculturalism and the National Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa.
The Center for Pacific Islands Studies is joining forces with other research groups and institutions in the field of Pacific Islands studies in an ambitious research program headed by Edvard Hviding, an anthropologist with the University of Bergen Pacific Studies Research Group. The project aims to examine contemporary connections between expanding perceptions of cultural heritage and the emergence of new political forms, in response to challenges of global political economy—all in the context of the Pacific Islands region.
The project includes components of training and education, scholarship programs for students and scholars from Pacific Island nations, scholarly and financial support of cultural centers and museums in the Pacific Islands, a sequence of co-funded international conferences, and a wide-ranging publication and dissemination program that includes a
virtual museum and the provision of a range of educational materials for use in schools and distance learning in the Pacific Islands.
The project is funded by the Research Council of Norway. In addition to the UHM Center for Pacific Islands Studies, major partners cooperating with the University of Bergen include the UHM Department of Anthropology, the East-West Center Pacific Islands Development Program, the Solomon Islands National Museum, the Vanuatu Cultural Centre, the British Museum, and the James Cook University Department of Anthropology, Archaeology, and Sociology.
The Center for Pacific Islands Studies joined with Kahuaomnoa Press and the UHM Department of English to launch Pohnpeian poet and author Emelihter Kihleng's first collection of poetry, My Urohs. The reading and launch took place 17 April in Halau o Haumea, Kamakakūokalani Center for Hawaiian Studies, at UH Mānoa. My Urohs (which refers to the distinctive Pohnpeian embroidered skirt) is the first collection in English by a Micronesian poet. Writer and poet Teresia Teaiwa describes Kihleng's work as
ethnographic poetry. She writes of Micronesians in Iraq and on MySpace as easily as she does of Micronesians living in their homelands or in Hawaii.
Kihleng's visit and reading was supported, in part, by the Equity and Diversity Initiative at UH Mānoa, the UHM Student Activity Program and Fee Board, and the Center for Pacific Islands Studies Title VI National Resource Center Grant from the US Department of Education. (See Publications for more information.)
The Center for Pacific Islands Studies has announced the 2008Ð2009 Renée Heyum Scholarship competition. The Heyum Endowment Fund was established by the late R Renée Heyum, former curator of the Pacific Collection, Hamilton Library, to assist Pacific Islanders pursuing education or training in Hawaii. Funds are available to support one scholarship in the amount of $3,000 for the 2008–2009 academic year. Applicants must be indigenous to the islands of Melanesia, Micronesia, or Polynesia and enrolled full-time for academic credit as graduate or undergraduate students at a campus of the University of Hawaii. Pacific Island students enrolled in noncredit education or training programs may also be considered for assistance.
Applicants must submit a letter of application that includes a statement describing academic interests, career goals, need for support, and a plan of study for the 2008–2009 academic year; relevant transcripts of previous academic work; and three letters of recommendation.
Applications are due on 20 June 2008 and should be sent to Professor David Hanlon, Director, Center for Pacific Islands Studies, 1890 East-West Road, Moore 215, Honolulu, HI 96822.
Visitors to the center during the period January through early April 2008 included
The Dramatic Arts Center of Iran invited Professor of Pacific Islands Studies Vilsoni Hereniko to be one of five jury members for the international section of the twenty-sixth Fadj Theater Festival, 1Ð17 February 2008. Regarded as one of the biggest theater festivals in the world, the Fadj Theater Festival this year attracted close to 300 plays. In attendance were theater companies from Korea, China, Poland, Russia, Germany, France, Armenia, and India, among others.
Congratulations to Davianna Pomaikai McGregor, professor of ethnic studies, who recently received the Kenneth W Baldridge Prize for her book, Na Kuaaina: Living Hawaiian Culture. The prize, for the best history book written by a Hawaii resident, is awarded by the Hawaii Chapter of Phi Alpha Theta History Honor Society. Na Kuaaina was also selected as a finalist for the National Council on Public History Book Award.
In March, Jane Freeman Moulin, professor of ethnomusicology, was invited by London's BBC to do an on-camera interview in Los Angeles for an upcoming documentary,
The 1930s in Color. The documentary includes early color footage from a 1937 voyage on the Stella Polaris.
In January, Moulin's UH Tahitian Ensemble was asked to perform for the official opening of the 2008 Hawaii State Legislature. They followed this up with March performances at the UHM International Student Association's
International Night and were featured in a performance at the Kapiolani Community College International Festival. Together with the UHM Samoan and Hawaiian Ensembles and guest performers from the Tokelau School in Hawaii, they held a concert,
An Evening of Pacific Music and Dance, on 19 April 2008, in the UHM Music Department.
Center editor Jan Rensel and her husband, Anthropology Professor Emeritus Alan Howard, chaired a working session at the annual meeting of the Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania (ASAO), held at the Australian National University, 13–16 February 2008. The session, titled
Diaspora, Identity, and Incorporation, was organized by two colleagues who were unable to attend the meeting. Jan and Alan will continue to co-organize the session leading up to the 2009 ASAO meeting, which will be held in Santa Cruz, California. Their paper is titled
Issues of Concern to Rotumans Abroad: A View from the Rotuma Web Site. They also contributed to a working session on
Indigenous Struggles and Issues in Oceania Today, with a paper titled
Ethnicity, Nationality, and the Rights of Indigeneity: The Case of Rotumans in Fiji.
Jan and Alan also gave an invited talk,
Choices: Deciding How to Write History, and for Whom, for the UHM Center for Biographical Research on 28 February. They spoke about their experiences and decisions in creating their new book, Island Legacy: A History of the Rotuman People, which they wrote specifically for Rotuman audiences.
Joining Jan and Alan at the ASAO meeting was CPIS affiliate faculty member and Assistant Professor of Ethnic Studies and Anthropology, Ty Kāwika Tengan. Ty co-chaired a symposium (
Articulating the Genealogies of Indigenous Anthropology in/of Oceania) with Tēvita Kaili (BYUH) and Rochelle Tuitagavaa Fonoti (University of Washington); their paper was
Articulating the Genealogies of Indigenous Anthropology in/of Oceania. Deborah Waite, professor of art and art history, gave a paper,
Serembule-Vovoso: Agency of the Past in the Present Solomon Islands, in the session she co-chaired with Kathryn Creely,
Pacific Past: Agency, Archives, Artifacts.
Other colleagues at the conference included Suzanne Falgout (UH West Oahu) gave a paper titled
Pohnpeian Diaspora to Hawaii: A New Home and a Connecting Link. Eric Wittersheim (EWC Pacific Islands Development Program) gave a paper,
Islandism vs. State-Building? The New Forms of Identity Politics in Contemporary Vanuatu, and Alex Golub (UHM Department of Anthropology) gave a paper,
Why Papua New Guinea Has No Indigenous People. Fiona McCormack (UH Hilo) gave a paper titled
Ongoing Struggle of Maori to retain Control over Their Fisheries. (See Student Activities, below, for UHM student participants.)
Jon Van Dyke, Professor of Law, was co-counsel (on the victorious side, for Office of Hawaiian Affairs) on the important decision of the Hawaii Supreme Court in Office of Hawaiian Affairs v. Housing and Community Development Corporation of Hawaii, issued 31 January 2008. The decision imposed a permanent moratorium on the sale or transfer of any of the
ceded lands by the State of Hawaii until the claims of the Native Hawaiian people are addressed and resolved. His recent book, Who Owns the Crown Lands of Hawaii? was mentioned in the previous newsletter.
CPIS MA student Trish Shipman attended the Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania meeting in Canberra in February. Her paper was
Ples Blong Lanwis: Considering Vernacular Education from a Community Perspective. UHM anthropology graduate student Patricia Fifita also attended the ASAO meeting. Her paper was
Traditional Medicine at the Interface of Modernity: Negotiations of Globalization and Health in Tonga.
Congratulations to Hinanui Cauchois, doctoral candidate in the UH Mānoa Department of Anthropology. She recently received a National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant for her research in Papetoai, Moorea, French Polynesia. The grant of $15,000 will fund radiocarbon and coral dating.
CPIS alumna Mahealani Uchiyama (MA, 1987) received the Eleventh Annual Hawaii Music Award in World Music for her CD A Walk by the Sea. The awards are sponsored by the Music Foundation of Hawaii, a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting the diversity of music found in Hawaii. Winners are determined by online voting.
Louise Potiki Bryant and other members of the Atamira Dance Collective from Aotearoa/New Zealand presented a lecture demonstration on 4 February 2008 in the Earle Ernst Lab Theatre on the UH Manoa campus. Bryant, a choreographer and performer with Atamira, showed video footage of Ngai Tahu 32, which she choreographed, and members of the group performed an excerpt from this work. On 10 February, Atamira performed a number of works in a well-received performance at Kennedy Theatre on the UH Mānoa campus. Their visit to Hawaii, which included performances and educational workshop on the neighbor islands, was coordinated by the University of Hawaii at Mānoa Outreach College.
On 20 March, Steven Winduo, senior lecturer in literature and English at the University of Papua New Guinea and a visiting professor in the Department of English, University of Minnesota, gave a talk,
Unmasking Memory and History in Pacific Writing. He discussed the notion of cultural memory and history constructed in the literary culture of Pacific Islanders, as a way of exploring critical reading from the perspective of an indigenous Pacific writer and scholar. The talk was sponsored by the EWC Pacific Islands Development Program, the Center for Pacific Islands Studies, and the UHM English Department.
The People of the Sea: Environment, Identity, and History in Oceania, by historian Paul D'Arcy, attempts to fill a gap in Pacific history research by combining neglected historical and scientific material to provide the first synthetic study of oceanÐpeople interaction in the region from 1770 to 1870. 2008, 312 pages. ISBN 978-0-8248-3297-1, paper, US$25.00; ISBN 978-0-8248-2959-9, cloth, $36.00.
Nokonofo Kitea/We Keep on Living This Way: Myths and Music of Futuna, Vanuatu, by Janet Dixon Keller and Takaronga Kuautonga, is the product of the collaboration of expatriate anthropologist Keller and Vanuatu Cultural Center fieldworker Kuautonga. In stories and songs from the Polynesian outlier West Futuna, in Vanuatu, Islanders
enunciate personal and social struggles, articulate power dynamics, and proclaim the cultural geography and cosmology that promote community. 2008, 324 pages. ISBN 978-0-8248-3113-4, cloth, $50.00.
UH Press bookscan be ordered through the Orders Department, University of Hawaii Press, 2840Kolowalu Street, Honolulu, HI 96822-1888; website http://www.uhpress.hawaii.edu.
My Urohs, the first collection of poetry by Pohnpeian poet and writer Emelihter Kihleng, has been published by Kahuaomānoa Press. The collection (whose title refers to the distinctive Pohnpeian embroidered skirt) is in two sections. Likio reflects the experiences of Pohpeians outside of Pohnpei. sapw sarawi reflects their connections to Pohnpei as the sacred land. 2008, 61 pages. ISBN 978-0-9793788-3-6, paper, US$12.00. To order, contact Kahuaomanoa Press at email@example.com.
Capturing Wealth from Tuna: Case Studies from the Pacific, by Kate Barclay with Ian Cartwright, looks at fisheries management in an extensive study of six Pacific Island states. Asia Pacific Press. 2007. ISBN 978-0-7315-3816-4, paper, A$36.00.
Changes in the Matai System/O Suiga i le Faamatai, edited by Asofou Soo, is a collection of articles by leading indigenous Samoan scholars. It is published by the Centre for Samoan Studies at the National University of Sāmoa (NUS). 2007. ISBN 978-982-900329-4, paper, ST40.00, plus postage. For more information, contact Centre for Samoan Studies, NUS, PO Box 1622, Apia, Samoa.
Daughters of the Pacific (Aotearoa/New Zealand, 2006, PAL DVD and Video, 45 minutes) is a documentary by indie filmmaker Jennifer Lee Lewes, featuring four young Pacific women born in Aotearoa/New Zealand to parents from Samoa, Tonga, and NiueÑEmeline Afeaki, Pule Puletaua, Lanni Liuvaie, and Louise Tuu. Daughters of the Pacific is about their experiences as part of the first generation born in a new countryÑtheir struggle to combine two cultures and to find their place in Aotearoa/New Zealand. To order the DVD or video, contact Jennifer Lee Lewes, leelewes films, 393 Motutara Rd, RD1 Waimauku 0881, New Zealand; e-mail firstname.lastname@example.com. The cost for a PAL DVD is NZ$25.00 plus GST and postage.
Papa Bilong Chimbu (Papua New Guinea, 2007, DVD, 54 minutes), directed by Verena Thomas, tells the story of her great-uncle, Father John Nilles, who went to Papua New Guinea as a young missionary in 1937. He stayed there for the next 54 years, living with the people of Chimbu. According to Thomas, he was more than just a priest; he became an anthropologist, linguist, politician, and clan leader. The film, in English and Tok Pisin, is available from Ronin Films. A study guide is also available. The DVD is Australian $49.50.
Chief (Sāmoa/Hawaii, 2007, DVD, 21 minutes), written and directed by Brett Wagner, is the story of a Samoan chief who is on the run. Following the drowning death of a daughter he was unable to save, weakened as he was by the long process of being tattooed, he flees to Hawaii, where he works as a cabbie until his past catches up with him. The film, starring a true Samoan chief, Sielu Avea, was shown at this year's Sundance Film Festival. The film is in English and Samoan (with English subtitles). For information, contact Brett Wagner at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Grassroots: Those Who Vote (Vanuatu, 2003, DVD, 85 minutes), by anthropologist and filmmaker Eric Wittersheim, focuses on the Vanuatu elections of April 2002. Saby Natonga, a young leader from Tanna Island, has created a new party, NCA (National Community Association), to challenge the traditional opposition between anglophone and francophone parties. The film, in Bislama and French, is subtitled in English. It won the prize of the jury at the International Oceanian Film Festival (FIFO) in Tahiti in 2004. The DVD is €15; see the website at philux.org/DVD/grassroots.html for ordering information.
Dema: Music from the Marind Anim (Anthology of Music from West Papua 2) is a new CD from Southern West Papua. The 42 tracks on the CD provide an overview of extensive recordings make by Catholic priest Father Jan Verschueren in 1962. The 20-page booklet accompanying the CD is based on the notebooks and publications of Verschueren and is illustrated with rare historical pictures from Dutch archives. The CD is published by the Institute for Multicultural Music Studies (IMS) in Amsterdam. For information, see www.reinmusic.nl or e-mail PAN Records at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Folktales and Fairy Tales: Translation, Colonialism, and Cinema will be held at UH Mānoa, 23–26 September 2008. This international symposium will explore the significance of folk and fairy tales within the contemporary world in a manner that is interdisciplinary and attentive to University of Hawaii's location in the Pacific. The symposium seeks to stimulate conversations among scholars of contemporary culture by focusing on social practices—translation and colonialism—that have shaped the history of both folktales and fairy tales. The symposium, which is organized by Cristina Bacchilega, Vilsoni Hereniko, and Noenoe Silva, is cosponsored by the Department of English, the Center for Pacific Islands Studies, the Center for South Asian Studies, and the Indigenous Politics Program in the Department of Political Science, all at UH Mānoa;. It is also cosponsored by the East-West Center Pacific Islands Development Program. For more information, contact email@example.com.
Putting People First': Intercultural Dialogue and Imagining the Future in Oceania,sponsored by the European Society for Oceanists, will be held in Verona, Italy, 10–12 July 2008. See esfo2008.dpac.univr.it for information.
New Zealand and the Mediterranean,hosted by the New Zealand Studies Association and the Centre for New Zealand Studies, Birkbeck, University of London, will be held in Florence, Italy, 2–4 July 2008. For information, contact Ian Conrich at www.festival-pacific-arts.org.
Contemporary Myths in the South Pacificwill be held at the University of New Caledonia in October 2008. For information, contact Sonia Faessel at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Organizers of the 6th Pacific International Documentary Film Festival (FIFO), to be held in Tahiti, 27 January–1 February 2009, are soliciting entries. At FIFO 2008, which took place in Tahiti in January, Horoa, directed by Jacques Navarro-Novira, won the grand jury prize, along with €4200. The festival welcomes documentary films on all aspects of the Pacific region, which have been produced within the last three years. To obtain information on entering and to see the film line-ups for previous FIFOs, see the website at www.filmfestivaloceanie.org. The entry deadline is 1 October 2008.
Writers and teachers Kuualoha Hoomanawanui and Kaimipono Kaiwi Kahumoku have issued a call for papers for a scholarly anthology of essays on various aspects of Hawaiian literature, tentatively titled Hulihia Ka Mauna (The Mountain is Overturned). The editors are looking for essays that address a range of Hawaiian literary genres, Hawaiian poetry, Hawaiian drama, specific authors, specific texts, intersections of Hawaiian with other literatures, and specific themes in texts. The deadline is 30 June 2008. For submission guidelines, please contact Hoomanawanui (University of Hawaii at Mānoa) at email@example.com or Kahumoku (Kamehameha Schools) at firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Hilarious Video of Kindergardeners Singing "Day Man" [VIDEO]
If you are not familiar with the song "Day Man", let's get you a bit of an introduction. This song is an epic ballad telling the tale of Day Man, who is the fighter of the Night Man. It is already a hilarious song portraying the battle of good and evil, but it just got a little bit better.
The song comes from a great episode of "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia". The song was written by the ever funny and high, Charlie. "Day Man" is jam packed with this guy's insane concepts of reality and even has a bit of sexual innuendo. Helped along the way, his friend Dennis, this became an iconic song for the show. Here is the original performance.
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A Fed President Explains All of Today's Monetary Policy
Over the past few years, there's been a huge split between monetary hawks and doves. Hawks are afraid the Federal Reserve is doing too much and risking inflation, and doves worry that the Fed isn't doing enough to stimulate the economy during a period of weakness.
In some ways, the dichotomy is a false one. Explaining why that is could fill up a book, but Minneapolis Fed president Narayana Kocherlakota managed to do it in a very short and (by usual Fed standards) very understandable speech in Duluth yesterday.
Before delving into his speech, some background on Kocherlakota. Until very recently, Kocherlakota was one of the biggest inflation hawks in the Federal Reserve system. A prodigy who'd enrolled at Princeton at age 15, Kocherlakota came to the Fed from the University of Minnesota, a school known for its "freshwater" economics department*. He served on Federal Open Markets Committee (the group that makes the Fed's monetary policy decisions) last year, and quickly gained notice for his dissents from the committee's decisions to loosen monetary conditions.
In August of last year, Kocherlakota voted against Bernanke and co.'s decision to promise low interest rates for a longer period of time, citing rising inflation and falling unemployment as a reason not to do any more stimulus. As recently as June of this year, Kocherlakota was calling for a hike in interest rates as early as this fall to stave off future inflation.
In the meantime, Bernanke himself took the time to personally convince Kocherlakota to change his outlook, emailing back and forth with the Minneapolis Fed president about monetary theory. Whatever Bernanke said, it was persuasive, as Kocherlakota is no longer on the hawks' side at all. And that's where yesterday's speech comes in.
Kocherlakota speech indicates that he hasn't changed his mind about the role of the Fed in maintaining price stability. Instead, he rejects the idea that the Fed should be doing "more" or "less," and argues that the Fed's role should be determined by the state of the economy:
The public discourse about the Fed often focuses on our financial transactions in isolation, and the links back to our Main Street objectives are not always apparent. This disconnect is always problematic, but…it is especially so today.
Kocherlakota notes that, viewed without the proper context, the Fed has done a whole lot over the past few years – QE1, QE2, and QE3, "Operation Twist," etc. But there is a larger context in which those actions should be regarded:
...observers argue that the Fed has done too much, has been too accommodative. I strongly disagree. These critics are certainly right that the Fed's actions—tripling its balance sheet and keeping the fed funds rate near zero for years—are historically unprecedented. But it is also clear that the economy has been hit by the worst shock in 80 years.
The fact of this shock means it's misleading to compare what the Fed's doing now, in terms of bond purchases and other maneuvers, to what it's done over the past 30 years, when conditions have been different. The proof that the current situation calls for unusual measures, Kocherlakota argues, is that both current and forecasted inflation are running below the Fed's 2 percent target. "Given how high unemployment is expected to remain over the next few years," Kocherlakota concludes, "these inflation forecasts suggest that monetary policy is, if anything, too tight, not too easy."
In other words: yes, the Fed has done a done of bond-buying and other stimulus by historical measures. But, looking at how short inflation and employment are of the Fed's targets "does not suggest that monetary policy is currently too easy," in Kocherlakota's words.
Although Kocherlakota doesn't spell it out, this comparison goes both ways. The Fed can't fulfill its stated goals without measures that would be considered highly stimulative by normal standards. At the same time, monetary stimulus is ineffective if the Fed hasn't clearly spelled out what its goals are.
The Fed didn't specify any targets to two of its largest programs of the past few years, QE2 and "Operation Twist." By Kocherlakota's logic, the lack of clarity about what those bond purchases were intended to accomplish likely lessened their effectiveness by depressing investors' confidence and increasing uncertainty. By tying QE3 to set (if vague) goals, the Fed probably will do less with more.
* It's worth noting, for the purposes of this post, that Kocherlakota himself has cast doubt on the idea that there's a saltwater-freshwater divide in modern macroeconomics (pdf).


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1. Re: Contracted revenue in Primavera P6924630 Dec 16, 2012 2:32 AM (in response to adityaagr - oracle)What is 'Contracted revenue'? Funded amounted? But maybe you mean budgeted amount?
2. Re: Contracted revenue in Primavera P6adityaagr - oracle Dec 17, 2012 3:41 AM (in response to 924630)It means the contract which we got for a project. I think it is budgeted amount.
3. Re: Contracted revenue in Primavera P6FSantos Dec 17, 2012 4:05 PM (in response to adityaagr - oracle)could you give more details about what you need in this situation?
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4. Re: Contracted revenue in Primavera P6adityaagr - oracle Dec 18, 2012 4:00 AM (in response to FSantos)Hi, Thanks for your response, Actually I am working on a project where in we need to do Revenue shaping as we forcast that there will be a revenue shortfall qtr3 when we are in qtr1
so for that some stattistics have given in a excel sheet, where in it has mentioned two things one is Projected Revenue and second one is Contracted Revenue.
So I am not sure if where we can incorporate the 'Contracted Revenue' thing in Primavera ? I am new in to that and based on the excel sheet information we need to build the project further in PrimaverP6 and generate the reports/graphs which can show how we can shape the revenue.
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5. Re: Contracted revenue in Primavera P6973217 Dec 18, 2012 4:38 AM (in response to adityaagr - oracle)Hi,1 person found this helpful
Contracted Revenue is nothing but the total budgeted sales/amount. Now, this is mapped into Primavera 6 through mainly 3 categories (labor, non-labor and material). You can also introduce one more cost account under the expenses column.
Once these things are mapped into P6 WBS/Activity wise, you can view the same through the resource usage/activity usage profile graphs. Here you will also find projected revenues/amount as per desired requirement (monthly/quarterly etc). By this way you can forecast to the client regarding projected revenues, gross margins, anticipated profits etc.
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you are right, this snake is missing the two lines on the back that the other snakes did have in the lake.
Interesting. When I was initially trained, I learnt about this diagnotric role of stripes in Natrix persa. But later on, when I saw striping in another subspecies (N. n. scuttatta), and stripless snakes in striped "persa" populations, I started to think 0that striping is not really a reliable diagnostic feature, and that phylogeny and systematics of Grass Snakes seems to be much more complex than we believe. Unfortunately I have never got a chance to run a study of these guys, but still it is very interesting. Just thinking;)


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I have been volunteering at the Provo Utah Food and Care Coalition at lunch time. I love it there! I have had so many wonderful experiences. One time a Indian man came there with a woman I later found out was his wife. He thanks my sister and I for serving there. He asked if we would mind if he told us his story. He said that he use to be addicted to alcohol and that he use to be homeless. He'd lose everything- work, home, wife and family. He felt hopeless. He came to the Coalition to get meals and found other help their. He was able to get a job, quit drinking and he was now active in a church and married to this woman. He was going to college and was there to remember and to write his story before graduating from college. Tears were in all of our eyes. We have seen many miracles there and this is just one of them! Thanks Stacy Hone
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My daughter and I serve lunch once a week at the Food & Care Coalition. We're constantly amazed at the people that pour through the doors for lunch. We're so glad to help out each week. We're also surprised at the amount of donated items coming into the kitchen in the two hours we're there each week. What good people there are supporting those who are less fortunate than them.
I volunteer in the Food & Care Coalition's Dental Office. I am always amazed at the quality service the Coalition gives to the members of society who are in great need of good oral care!
My children and I have been volunteering at the Food & Care Coalition for over 5 years. It all began with an introduction to the Coalition's Executive Director, Brent Crane, at a local business function. I quickly learned of Brent's heavy involvement in the community and the good accomplished by the Coalition. I wanted to be part of this dynamic movement. In the ensuing years, we have enjoyed our association with all the Coalition team members and the clients served by this organization of caring souls. There is no such thing as second-best for the recipients of the Coalition's services. From the meals, to the dental services, to the life skills training--and beyond--every client at the Food & Care Coalition is served with respect, dignity, and diligence.
My daughter's Elementary School did a hygiene supply drive as a contest between grades. We gathered boxes and boxes of shampoo & conditioner, toothbrushes & toothpaste, lotion, soap, and toilet paper for the Food and Care Coalition. The response from the children was so much more than we anticipated. We filled a 12 passenger van, empty of benches, from floor to ceiling and then filled another mini van after that. Some of the children in the school's Service Club did announcements describing the people they were helping. The children were enthusiastic about the project. The children gained insight about the needs of people around them while also learning to be grateful for their own situations.
I started volunteering at the Coalition in my junior year of high school. I arranged for my school A Capella and Chamber choirs to sing during the meal times. I found the people working there so amiable and wonderfully eager to make the experience of serving there a great one. Because of the INCREDIBLE experience everyone had, this has become a choir tradition. I heard so many stories of how students' lives were changed from the people they met there, as well as the general feeling they received just from serving. Ever since we started serving there, the choir has become so much closer and more in tune with the messages carried in our music. I'm SO SO SO grateful that I had the opportunity to organize these "service singing" trips, and watch as the choir members' hearts were touched. Thanks so much to everyone at the Coalition for all that you do! :D
I have had the opportunity to volunteer for the Food and Care Coalition in a few different ways. It is a great organization to be involved with. One of my sons assembled "apartment start up kits" for his Eagle Project. It was such a meaningful project to him. Everything went so smoothly because the Food and Care Coalition is so organized! The Food and Care Coalition has so many different ways that people can serve depending on circumstance. There is something for everyone!
I love the Food and Care Coalition. I love volunteering there. They have provided a comfortable, safe, compassionate, happy environment for patrons and volunteers. The facility is well organized and clean and they meet the needs of their clients in a professional and efficient manner. They make it very easy to donate or volunteer there by providing current needs and providing a variety of projects or opportunities that can be fulfilled at home, in a classroom, or onsite. I have worked there with people of all ages and ability. This organization fills a true need in the community. They facilitate care for those who are in need of temporal help and provide opportunity for those who want to serve.
The Utah Food and Care Coalition is run by compassionate people who really love their work and the people they serve. We have spent hours helping in the kitchen and serving the clients. The staff are always meticulous about food safety and always give professional service. The pantry is always well-stocked and very clean. The dining area is even graced by a piano so the clients can have dinner music while they eat. Most of all, the staff are caring and considerate of the needs of the clients as well as the volunteers.