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Finding & Securing Hard-to-Find Parts
Adding or subtracting a link in the supply chain is never easy. A single substitution of a component, for example, affects other components on the board; pricing; delivery considerations; and even relationships. But buyers have to hedge their bets to ensure a single component doesn't hold up production -- a function that falls under "managing risk."
Numerous considerations fall under the category of "risk management." The risk of any one thing going wrong between design and production is considerable and is one of the challenges that keep supply chain managers up at night, according to research conducted by UPS and IDC.
There's no shortage of options in risk management: companies can calculate it internally; consultants are widely available; distributors consider it part of their core competency; factories hedge against not filling an order; and even logistics companies are entering the fray. An overall risk management strategy involves cross-functional groups within an OEM and C-level executive involvement. But buyers play a significant role in reducing the number of variables as well. Much of this involves relationship management with supply sources and dealing with issues that aren't automated, known as "exception management" situations.
The classic situation is the hard-to-find component or the part that can't be sourced at the last minute. Most OEMs develop an approved-vendor list (AVL) that designates two or more sources for a particular component. These parameters can be programmed into a system and automated. But the typical forecast window -- six weeks or more -- means that component leadtimes change or there can be rapid shift in supply and demand, as the industry experienced during the 2011 Japan earthquake/tsunami. This is where buyers contribute most to an effective supply chain.
The first line of defense in a shortage is the component supplier. In times of scarcity, however, the reality is the supplier's largest customers will be first in line in getting their parts delivered. In the semiconductor market, no matter how good forecasting is, it takes 16 weeks to manufacture a component.
Distribution is usually the next stop. Distributors, like suppliers, manage their inventory to customer forecast, but build in both upside and downside parameters for inventory buys. Because distributors serve hundreds of customers, chances are if one customer cancels an order, there are other customers that also use that part. This minimizes the risk that inventory excess will build up. Strategically, smart buyers will manage relationships directly with suppliers and also with distributors: like suppliers, distributors will try to respond first to their largest or most dependable customers.
However, for distributors, orders change every day -- not just in times of crisis. Suppliers or customers may go out of business or discontinue certain product lines. These factors go into inventory purchasing decisions every day. Distributors are likely to have buffer stock for hard-to-find parts, or have an order on the suppliers' books if there's a shortfall in finished goods.
When all else fails, buyers can go to the open market or through independent channels. They are not necessarily the same thing: the open market often operates on pricing swings where brokers can buy and sell based on the possibility of shortages and higher prices. Independents may follow the same practices, but more often they will help OEMs siphon off excess inventory by buying this inventory in the hope of selling it at a later date.
Buyers face several issues in the open market, however. Parts may reach the open market from factories but don't carry the manufacturer's warrantees unless they are sourced through an authorized channel. Counterfeit parts also enter the channel through open market deals where bogus parts are mixed in with legitimate components. Typical testing doesn't always weed out these parts because batches and lots are tested: not every component is examined. Many independents are beginning to offer such services, but authorized channels are still skeptical of the screening procedures.
There are sources of authentic parts available. Authorized distributors -- ranging from big broadlines such as Avnet and Arrow to niche players such as Rochester Electronics and e2v -- will buy inventory when a part reaches its end of life (EOL) or buy the die, masks, and IP from the original component vendor. When necessary, some of these companies can manufacture components using all the original specs. This solution tends to be costly, however, as these businesses don't typically own their own fabs and parts aren't manufactured in massive volumes. However, this solution is often recommended as the most secure option for hard-to-find parts.
Once parts are secured an accounted for, logistics becomes the next challenge. I'll look at logistics options and strategies in upcoming blogs.
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Chapter 14: Shien Kai, Pt. 3- Brave Soldiers
Ri Wu dropped Yuan Chong's body and rushed forward, intent on killing Zuko in retaliation, but as he thrust forward with an earth slab, Iroh broke it apart with a flaming parry.
"It is you and me now, general." He readied himself.
Ri Wu snickered. "I can't believe I finally get to face the great General Iroh! It is as if fate has delivered you into my hands!"
"Destiny has a fickle temperament." Iroh replied as he launched a massive fireball.
Sokka, upon hearing the order to attack, stopped moving toward Toph and drew his sword. We can always resolve this later. He glanced briefly at Katara, but her face, an expression of abject terror plastered there, made him look away.
The first in the line of soldiers that came at him and the others fell before even reaching them, thanks to the Yu Yan Archers. Sokka flipped his sword around in his hand, looking for Aang, but he was gone.
Piandao stood beside his student. "You have come far, Sokka, and you have passed every test. You have learned all you can from me. I am no longer your master, and you are no longer my student." He smiled. "Are you ready, Swordmaster Sokka?"
All childishness was removed from his expression. "I sure hope so..."
Yun Zhen and Haru began by submerging the front lines' feet in earth so that they would be unprepared for the arrow volley to follow, and it worked. Yuan Chong's army scattered, leaderless and under assault. It was a free-for-all.
Ty Lee, Suki, and Mai ripped through the Earthbenders like they weren't even there, with dozens falling in a matter of minutes. Suki whipped her fan across the face of an unfortunate soldier while jamming her katana through another's midsection. Ty Lee weaved in between fighters so quickly that ten of them fell before they could even register the attack. Mai ducked under a flying rock and stabbed up under a man's chin with her sai. When another attempted to charge her with a spear, she flicked her wrist, sending a dart into his chest.
Yun and Mai ended up fighting back-to-back, with Yun making use of his sword. "We need a plan!"
"We have one; distract until the next volley!"
A head rolled when Yun whipped his blade in an arc. "I'm not sure we have that much time!"
"Correct. You have none." General Yung stood with multiple Earthbenders and a massive Dai Li agent.
Koh slithered back toward the shrine, elated at his success. Two faces, and now another Avatar might yet come to fight. He would have an Avatar's face; all he needed was one.
"Koh!" The spirit turned, shocked to hear not the current Avatar's voice, but another.
"Avatar Kuruk...." He grinned. "What a surprise. Have you come for your wife's face?" Koh switched to Ummi's face. "She really misses you."
The Avatar closed his eyes, and his expression contorted in rage. Koh licked his lips in anticipation of the completion of his goal, an Avatar's face.
"Give her back to me!!" Kuruk opened his eyes, a blue glow replacing his pupils.
The spirit recoiled, seeing nothing but light; taking his face now would be suicide. "You've learned Kuruk..."
"And you've finally made the mistake that will allow me to kill you! You're on earth now; I can bend!" The Avatar ripped a chunk of earth the size of a small hill and threw it at the spirit. Koh slid as he was struck in the side.
His face switched to that of the blue Oni. "This will be fun."
The rock wall that Ri Wu put up disintegrated under the force of Iroh's fireball, and the Earthbender quickly responded with a massive boulder. The Grand Lotus crescent kicked it aside and was driven back by an earth pillar that struck him in the stomach. As Ri Wu followed up with a rock chain, Iroh used the final pillar as a launching point. He flipped and generated a fire column aimed at the general. However, as he dodged, it expanded and knocked him into the wall.
The Earthbender stood, a feral grin on his face. "I commend you General Iroh. None have challenged me like this in a long time."
Iroh just stared at his opponent. "It seems another did."
"This..." Ri Wu indicated the large scar that covered his chest. "Was done to me by a mere child. It is my mark of shame, and I will mitigate it by your death." He launched another boulder while sending a spike chain toward his feet.
Iroh lunged in between the attacks and spun, ending by firing a massive blast at RI Wu.
Yun stood among the bodies, and only Yung stood in front of him. "Why?"
Bumi's former captain narrowed his eyes. "They deserve this! They nearly brought the Earth Kingdom to its knees, and we intend to return the favor!" He reached his hand forward. "You of all people should understand. Join us for your parents."
Ty Lee shook her head, imploring him to refuse, but Yun Zhen merely brandished his blade. "My parents were Fire Nation, I am Fire Nation, and I will fight to defend my home."
"Your—?" General Yung sidestepped as Yun lunged forward. "Fine." He shoved Yun back. "You wish to join your 'people'? Than join them!" He neglected using the mace at his side in order launch several rocks at Yun in quick succession.
"No!" Ty Lee moved forward, ready to attack the Earthbender, but the Dai Li agent stepped in front of her. He said nothing as shards of earth flew from his gloves.
Kuruk jumped over one of the spirit's legs, which swung at him in counterattack. He quickly charged a fire blast and struck Koh's Oni mask, wincing as an ear piercing scream of pain ripped through the plaza. The scream was followed by a hideous laugh.
"Excellent, Kuruk...." The Face Stealer whipped his entire back half at blinding speed, and it struck the Avatar, knocking him through a wall.
An air wave disintegrated everything in its path before reaching Koh. The spirit was lifted off of the ground and bashed against a statue in the clearing. He flipped over almost immediately and intercepted the enraged Water Tribe Avatar, clotheslining him with one leg and stabbing him in the stomach with the point of the other.
His face changed to that of Kuruk's wife, but it was so unlike the Ummi Kuruk had known. An expression of triumph and hunger was evident as Koh loomed over the Avatar.
"I shall savor your pain and sorrow, my old friend."
Ty Lee flipped over the attack, and her foot connected with the main nerve on the agent's left arm. She followed up with a knuckle strike to the nerve above the man's knee. However, he merely growled and brought his other knee up into her stomach. As she doubled over, he grabbed her braid and pulled her off of her feet. The Dai Li agent grinned as he punched her full force in the stomach.
She nearly choked as the wind was knocked out of her. Tears formed at the edges of her eyes, but she quickly shook them off. The young acrobat wrapped her feet around his right arm, twisting until she felt a snap.
The agent grunted and let go, attempting to round kick as she landed. Ty Lee rolled back, dodging completely. He continued his assault, swinging at Ty Lee with his left arm as his right hung uselessly by his side. A battle cry erupted from him as she dodged strike after strike, but one finally connected with her jaw. Ty Lee got to her knees as the agent pulled out a small dagger.
As he brought the blade down, the Kyoshi Warrior kicked with her left foot and slid to her opponent's unprotected right side. She flipped to her feet and lunged, punching him full force in the throat. A pained gurgle emanated from the man as he grasped at his crushed windpipe and collapsed.
Ty Lee just stood there for a second, shocked to see the man's lifeless body on the ground. She then simply sat down, bringing her knees up to her chest, and she wept.
Ri Wu knew he didn't have enough time to dodge or set up a wall, so he dipped his head and let his helmet take the blow, sliding back a few feet upon doing so. Iroh didn't even give him the chance to fight back; he just kept launching fire blast after fire blast. Ri Wu was losing, and he knew it. The Earthbender's eyes narrowed in rage as he raised two massive columns of loose earth.
"Today the Fire Nation pays dearly for their crimes!" Both columns weaved around, heading straight for Iroh, who blocked one with a concentrated fire ball while the other pushed him into a wall. Ri Wu sneered as he compacted the loose earth, pinning the Dragon of the West to the wall.
"Now you're mine, General."
Iroh simply closed his eyes. "Perhaps."
Zuko staggered as he made his way to the first line of troops; the duel had taken its toll. "General Shinu, move the 5th forward only after the Yu Yan Archers fire their volleys."
Shinu bowed. "Yes, Fire Lord Zuko."
The young Fire Lord looked out on the battle, smiling as he realized his friends held the line. The Yu Yan lined up behind him, and he barely heard Shinu's firing order before hundreds of arrows were let loose.
Yun turned when he noticed Yung staring in horror, and he grinned in triumph. The arrow volley decimated Yuan Chong's ranks with ease, and the 5th Regiment moved forward to end the fight. The young Earthbender was brought back to reality when a rock struck him in the face, knocking him back.
"We will not lose!" Yung fired rock after rock at Yun, and Yun found himself unable to accurately see where they were coming from.
He quickly realized that his head injury was bleeding, and that made him unable to focus. Yun felt rock after rock pelt him mercilessly, and only his earth armor kept him from being crushed. As he collapsed to his knees, he had only one question.
Kuruk looked up at the spirit, never letting go of the Avatar State.
"Come, now...release the Avatar State. If I kill you now, the cycle ends. Do it; sacrifice your spirit in order to save countless others."
Kuruk. He heard the voice in the back of his mind. Kuruk! "Aang?"
I know what to do. And now, so did the Water Tribe Avatar. He reached up and quickly placed both hands, forefinger and thumb in an 'L' shape over his eyes.
"What are you—?" Koh was silenced by a chanting that seemed to come from the depths of the Spirit World itself.
Kuruk grimaced. "Getting my wife back, you monster!"
A bright blue light emanated from the two figures, and Kuruk's hands sunk into the stolen face of his wife. He pulled with all his might and ripped his wife's soul from Koh's body. An unearthly shriek came as the spirit recoiled from his assailant, but Kuruk did not notice. He smiled at his wife as she embraced him.
"Kuruk...thank you...."
Kuruk smiled. "We are together once more, my beloved. He will never hurt you again."
The Water Tribe Avatar and his wife stepped away from the wounded spirit, and Aang stood as their spirits disappeared, finally moving on. "Good luck, Kuruk..."
Iroh watched with a small grin on his face as Ri Wu exalted in his apparent victory. "The great and powerful General Iroh has fallen by my hand! There will be songs written about my victory here in years to come!"
"Perhaps you celebrate too early; I am not out of this fight yet."
The Earthbender laughed. "You expect me to believe that you will be able to escape with your hands and feet trapped by inches of solid earth? You are truly a fool, General." He began to twirl three small stones above his hand playfully. "And also the second Fire Nation Royal I've killed."
Iroh's eyes widened, and Ri Wu sneered. "Yes, I've killed another. After you left my city, I was informed as to the nature of the soldier that did this." He indicated his scar. "They told me that it was a prince."
Iroh closed his eyes and turned away. "No..."
"Yes, you Fire Nation filth, I killed your son. I killed Lu Ten."
Iroh inhaled and exhaled calmly; anger could not help him now. He would only grieve again for his son, slaughtered by a monster.
Leaves from the vine
Falling so slow
Like fragile, tiny shells
Drifting in the foam
Little soldier boy
Come marching home
Brave soldier boy
Comes marching home.
Yes, he would remember Lu Ten, beloved Lu Ten. His son's death finally and completely brought to light. He smiled, his conscience assuaged.
The Earthbender scowled. "I just told you how your son died! How can you even function?"
Iroh kept smiling. "It is really a simple matter. Simply knowing how he died brings me the peace I've sought for years. That, and the fact that he went down fighting, as I will."
Ri Wu bellowed out a laugh dripping with scorn. "And how will you do that?"
"Do you know why I am called the 'Dragon of the West'?"
"Yes...I've heard the—!" Ri Wu only had time to block the fire blast with his helmet. The old fool blew fire at me!
The general's jaw dropped when, in a not insubstantial explosion, Iroh burst from his earthen prison.
Yung stood over Yun Zhen. "Why?! The Fire Nation took my city! They uprooted and destroyed lives!"
"That doesn't justify this..."
Yung shook his head. "I don't care! They will pay for their transgressions!"
Yun said nothing for a moment, until he thought of his mentor. "Bumi wouldn't want this..."
The general's expression softened. "You think I don't know that? You think I don't weep every time I think about that awful, necessary thing we had to do?"
Tears welled up in Yun's eyes. "You killed him."
Yung shook his head. "I didn't do the deed, but I might as well have. I did what was necessary then, and I will do the same now."
C'mon, Ty Lee, pull yourself together. The young warrior swallowed her horror and stood, but she was still unable to even look at the body. She scanned the battlefield, and what she saw immediately snapped her back to reality: Yun was in trouble. General Yung stood over him with a boulder cocked back, ready to strike.
"No, no one else we know dies!"
The acrobat did the only thing she could; she ran full speed at the Earthbender.
Aang faced Koh, still in the Avatar State. The spirit was breathing heavily and trying to stand.
"Heh...well played...Avatar...that impressed me." He began to circle around Aang. "Unfortunately, I have other matters to attend to..."
A wall of earth rose up in front of him. "You're not going anywhere until you give her back to me."
Koh laughed. "You don't mince words, do you, Avatar Aang? I am sorry, but you won't be taking this one from me."
Aang stepped in his way, and all the voices of the past Avatars flowed from his mouth. "Give her back! Or I will take her myself!"
The face stealer chuckled. "Good luck. I'm not making this one accessible."
The earth cracked beneath Koh and pulled him under, leaving only his head. "You will not have her!"
General Yung felt his breath leave him as he was forced to drop the rock, and he watched in disbelief as an acrobatic warrior flipped over him to land in front of Yun.
"Stop!" The girl stood in between them.
"This doesn't concern you." Yung quickly gripped the mace at his side and whipped it out aimed at her head. However, the Kyoshi Warrior back flipped away before it struck. This time, Yun stepped in.
"Your right; it doesn't." He turned to Ty Lee, who gasped when she saw the blood on his forehead. "Ty Lee, please go. I won't have you get hurt on my account."
Her eyes narrowed. "I won't leave."
"Ty Lee, I won't let you die here!"
She frowned. "Neither will I."
Yung stared at both of them; each one was willing to give their life for the other. What camaraderie did Yuan Chong's army have compared to this. Theirs was the larger force, more powerful, but still they had lost.
Both Yun and Ty Lee turned at the sound of metal clanging. "You both won't have to worry." Yung's expression was filled with surrender. "I didn't sign up for this. I'm done."
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Today's Lady News: 24-Year-Old Sara Ganim Wins Pulitzer Prize
- Sara Ganim, a 24-year-old reporter at the Patriot News, won a Pulitzer Prize in local reporting for breaking the story about former Coach Jerry Sandusky and the Penn State University sex abuse scandal — making her one of the youngest people ever to win a Pulitzer. [Poynter]
- The Washington Post reminds us that Mitt Romney is pro-stay-at-home-moms, unless they are on welfare, in which case they need to learn "the dignity of work." [Washington Post]
- Takedowns of Katie Roiphe's 50 Shades Of Grey/BDSM piece in Newsweek that you should check out include this one by Megan Carpentier at Raw Story and this one by Virginia Heffernan at Yahoo.
- More on Mitt Romney's gender gap with Barack Obama in the polls. [New York Times]
- A Good Samaritan in Chicago stopped a cab driver from sexually assaulting a 21-year-old woman in an alleyway by chasing him down the street with a shovel. You go, dude. [Stop Street Harassment]
- Meet Maria Thornton McClain, the first woman in Indiana to be ordained as a Catholic priest. The Roman Catholic Church doesn't officially recognize the ordination of women. [IndyStar]
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WALES' world boxing champion Nathan Cleverly will defend his WBO light-heavyweight title against the Ukrainian Vyacheslav Uzelkov after plans for domestic dust-ups with Carl Froch and Tony Bellew came to nothing.
Undefeated Cleverly, 25, returns to Cardiff's Motorpoint Arena on October 27, scene of his last victory against the American Tommy Karpency in February.
"I had a brilliant reception at the Motorpoint Arena in February which was my first fight in Wales for over four years," said Cleverly, who will be making the fourth defence of his title.
"The fans came out to support me, so it's great to return again for another big fight night in the capital.
"Uzelkov's ranked in the top 10 of three of the major governing bodies and has already mixed it with Beibut Shumenov for the world title, so I know he'll be a hard defence for me.
"I've seen some of his fights already and he looks strong and comes forward which will be perfect for me,
"Every defence of my title is vital as I build towards a unification fight, so I can't afford to slip up against Uzelkov."
The Ukrainian, who's nickname is 'Steel Power', is based in Vinitza and is currently ranked number nine by the WBO, four by the WBA and seven by the IBF.
As a professional he's amassed a record of 27 wins from 29 fights with 16 stoppages – 10 going inside the first three rounds – and is the current WBO Intercontinental champion.
He challenged current WBA world champion Shumenov for his title in July 2010, flooring him in the second round with a big left hook before losing on points.
As a stand-out amateur he faced David Haye at the 2001 World Championships in Belfast, taking the future world heavyweight champion the distance in the semi-final to lose on points.
But Cleverly's promoter Frank Warren admitted that Uzelkov was not their No.1 target, saying American ring legend Bernard Hopkins decided not to take on the Welshman after terms had been agreed with Golden Boy Promotions.
Warren said he also offered the fight to Shumenov to put his WBA title on the line against Cleverly's WBO belt in a unification contest in Las Vegas, but his team could not get a date on Showtime until next year.
A further offer, he said, was made for Shumenov to come to the UK which he declined as were offers for IBF super-middleweight champion Froch to move up a weight division or a re-match request with the Liverpudlian Bellew, who Cleverly beat on points last October.
Warren said, "It's proved frustrating as we had Hopkins lined up and then he pulled out and Shumenov didn't want to come over here to fight Cleverly, plus Froch and Bellew didn't want to know.
"While we look to make these fights Cleverly has got to keep busy as he hasn't fought since February and Ulezkov is a tough title defence for him,"
An action-packed undercard featuring a further title fight and Wales' best young prospects will be announced shortly.


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Gumbo in a bun.
The inspiration for these spiced lamb burgers came from beloved memories of boardwalk gyros at the Jersey shore.
This Waldorf-Inspired burger puts a new twist on a classic favorite.
Las Vegas, like every other city in America is loaded with pizza joints. I created this recipe because of my love of burgers, barbecue, and pizza.
One of my favorite things in the world to eat is a rich beef stew, and nothing is better than traditional beef bourguignonne (except maybe Hungarian goulash...another burger adventure).
I felt Indian food wasn't being represented enough in the main stream restaurants and how wonderful the flavors are in there food. So, I came up with a burger that captured there spiciness.


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GOULDSBORO AND BLUE HILL – Jon Hugh Webber, 82, died Aug. 1, 2013 at his camp in Gouldsboro. He was born Oct. 23, 1930, in Ellsworth, a son of Clyde Chester and Isabel (Falvey) Webber.
Jon graduated from George Stevens Academy. He served in the U.S. Air Force from 1950 to 1953. Jon was the store manager for Sherwin Williams in Ellsworth for more than 30 years. He was a member of the Ashville Church, Eleanor Widener Dixon Clinic Committee, and Maine Coast Memorial Hospital Schoodic Scramble.
He is survived by his wife, Susan E. Young Webber; brothers-in-law, Capt. Richard "Dick" Young and wife, Joyce, and Keith Young; sister-in-law, Mary Flaum; several cousins, nieces, nephews and special friends. He was predeceased by his parents.
A memorial service will be held at a later date. Contributions in Jon's memory may be made to the Eleanor Widener Dixon Memorial Clinic Committee, 37 Clinic Road, Gouldsboro, ME 04607. Arrangements by Jordan-Fernald, 141 South St., Blue Hill. Condolences may be expressed at www.jordanfernald.com.


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i see a dry land, far from glass heads and forged laws, one sees all, and all see him, "life is hard" he staits, the sky is his ground and the earth is his cealing, "why hasent anyone found me?", the mind says hes lost, the soul says hes home, eyes forced shut by his friends, enemys turn to help him, "it is dark, so let there be light so i may see my fate" and there was light, he was born into a needy world, "why do i give all that i have, and be given nothing?" he ripped his left arm out and lay it on the sky, "with this, all needs will be filled" the arm sank into the sky and made a demon, the demon helped all who asked for its power, but the glass heads saw such gifts as evil. they beat and killed the demon, the maker ran away, never to help the world with its needs, this man was God, and we made the mistake that killed existance.
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Robinson will receive an honorary degree at Commencement, as will two of the college's distinguished graduates, Deborah Haigh Dluhy '62 and Barbara Jensky Kovensky '67.
Robinson joined the Times company in 1983 and was named CEO in 2004. In this role she oversaw and coordinated the company's operations and business units and worked closely with Times chairman and publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. to chart the company's direction. (In December 2011 she announced her retirement from the company.)


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Shots Fired? T-Pain Says He's Not Getting Kanye West's Daughter Nori A Gift Because Yeezy "Has No Couth"
Oooo they so sensitive! Kanye West won't be getting any baby gifts from T-Pain…
Via US Weekly reports:
What do you get the guy who already has everything? "Buy U a Drank" rapper T-Pain is still stumped over what to get pal Kanye West's newborn daughter North West as a baby gift because, as he tells Us Weekly, West is "not couth."
"Kanye is much richer than me so I'm not even going to try [getting him and Kim Kardashian a gift]," he told Us at the premiere of The Kevin Hart Experience in Los Angeles on Thursday, June 27. "Kanye has no couth when it comes to things like that, so when you bring him something, he'd be like, 'What the f–k is this?'"
"You don't want to be that person because he'll make a big scene about that," he continued. "You don't want that."
Something the new dad will likely purchase for his little girl, T-Pain joked, are a pair of "some golden shoes, some golden booties."
About five weeks ahead of schedule, West, 36, and Kardashian, 32, welcomed their first child together on Saturday, June 15, and according to T-Pain, the outspoken Yeezus rapper will be a "great" father.
"I think it's gonna be good," T-Pain told Us. "I think he's going to be great. If he has the child around enough — and I don't know how that works with flights and stuff — but he'll figure it out."
SMH @ T-Pain acting like he doesn't know how it works to balance work and fatherhood — he's taken plenty of flights in his career and he has kids too!


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Hey guys,
I have a problem with my wife has no idea what to get me for my Birthday and i do not want her to spend too much money for it as i have eveything i want in her. now i do need hooks, CDC, (want a few rite bobbins) ect, ect, but that is a little to specific for me to let her surprise me without either me putting it in an online basket or her getting the wrong items. So does anyone have a good review for a leader tying kit. other than that i think she will get me an xbox 360, all is good i want to play Fornza 3 racing sim. BUT i do not want her spending that much on me as i will not be able to spend that on her so any FF'ing simple and effective suggestions would be appretiated BTW i have till Wed 3 Feb.
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Why not ask her for a weekend getaway for the two of you near a nice trout stream?
Happy birthday!
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First off, Happy Birthday...If you have a fly shop near you a gift certificate would be the answer...She will know you got what you would like, and you get what you really want...
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If you dont like the gift card thing and you have a fly shop near you, just tell her to go and buy you tying material, tell her to pick out what ever she wants and then learn to ty new patterns with what she buys. :cool:
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i would say a gift card but the idea of her getting you tying materils of her choose could be alot of fun :)
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I'm for the weekend getaway. Rates at some mom and pop motels near mountain streams and lakes are usually reasonable.
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All the gear in the world is worthless if you don't use it.
Go somewhere cool for a long weekend
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If you were looking for a leader kit, I was happy with the Orvis kit I bought
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Hi bloodhound,
I solved the "what to buy me for any occasion" a long time ago. Here is what I do. I take the Feather Craft catalog and mark anything I would like to get with a red marker. I pick all levels of cost and she can decide what she wants to spends. This way it is easy for my wife and I always get something I want and it is always a surprise. Most of the time she picked the more expensive items.
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THIS year, Geoffrey O'Connor has been ringing in the changes: trading in his spectacles for sunglasses, his jangly guitars for banks of synths, and his old ''solo'' name, Sly Hats, for the one on his birth certificate.
''On one hand, it was as simple as not liking my former name: Sly Hats was something I came up with when I was young and in a hurry,'' the Melbourne-based singer-songwriter says. ''But I guess I also wanted to start again, in a way. It's nice not to have this record necessarily associated with previous records. I try to change with every album but this was a gesture to show I was doing this with conviction.''
Trading under one's own name is theoretically a sign that the music is more personal and unguarded but O'Connor's first LP, Vanity Is Forever, is big on the artifice. Whereas the Crayon Fields, the harmony-centric fey-pop band he founded as a high-schooler, have always been intently sincere, O'Connor's solo guise feels like an adopted persona.
Take, for example, the sunglasses-at-night artwork (shot by stylist Darren Sylvester), where the pantomime goes against the limitations of the artist's eyesight. ''I actually can't wear sunglasses,'' O'Connor says. ''Unless I wanted to buy expensive prescription ones. I had transition lenses for a while but, thankfully, they broke. I was tired of looking like Bono. I got given these free Ray-Bans in America once but I'd never worn them; I was glad to find a use for them.''
Using synthy sounds - ''It's not a homage or a retro record,'' O'Connor says, ''but I know you can't use gated reverb on the drums and not evoke the '80s for people'' - was a way for O'Connor to pit essentially ersatz sound against emotionally dramatic lyrics.
''I was interested in making something that sounds very unnatural but juxtaposing that with songs that sound very human, very confessional,'' he says. ''Songs about people, songs about romance, songs about rejection, all floating over this synthetic world.''
Yet, when O'Connor sings ''I got over telling my secrets to everyone'' - in steamy duet with long-time foil Jessica Venables of Jessica Says - it sounds as if he has tired of singer-songwriter confessionalism. ''That's true, absolutely,'' he says, ''but that's more about that embarrassing element to that. It's, actually, very much a confessional record. That [line] is not about ceasing confession, more about getting better at it; not inarticulately spilling your secrets, as you do when you're young, but learning to present your secrets in a more flattering light. Where they no longer feel like secrets but lies.''
Initial recordings for the album did not have such a slippery sensibility. O'Connor began making more ''traditional'' versions - acoustic instruments, orchestral parts, ''almost choral-type arrangements'' - only to find things were not sticking together. So he took his ''classic singer-songwriter folk songs'' and dressed them in polyester yacht-rock threads, attempting to write ''one long soundtrack'' rendered in a singular palette.
Even in a year in which indie bigwigs such as Bon Iver and Destroyer have turned a similar soft-rock trick, those who loved the Left Banke-esque sunshine of Crayon Fields might find the neon, plastic palette of Vanity Is Forever shocking. But, as much as he was adopting a new shtick, O'Connor is no synth dilettante, a tourist in the realms of key tone.
''I've always been someone who's been into buying and selling old synthesisers like a used-car salesman,'' O'Connor says. ''I'm forever going into the local second-hand music store and buying new ones, selling old ones. I just love the way old synths sound.''
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Recently, due to Lama Zopa Rinpoches' great kindness, CTCT received the gift of a most beautiful life size statue of Maitreya - The Buddha of Loving Kindness ~ it is most timely to have this beautiful representation arriving just a week prior to our Becoming Compassion Buddha Retreat on May 5-8 with Ven Robina Courtin which is all about developing this most essential aspect of loving kindness, compassion , great compassion -the good heart....and continuing the theme of our teaching presentations- Developing the Good Heart - we welcome Jampa Jaffe back to CTCT leading residential Retreat on the 8 Verses of Thought Transformation June 8-10 ......Bookings OPEN Now
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21 May to 19 June 12 marks the fourth month on the Tibetan calendar - Saka Dawa, a time considered by Tibetans to be auspicious for Dharma practice. Throughout this period, the merit of any virtuous deed is multiplied by 100,000 times.
4 Jun 2012 marks the full moon day (15th) of Saka Dawa, commemorating the Buddha's birth, enlightenment and parinirvana, according to the Tibetan calendar. All merit created on this day is multiplied by 100 million times as cited in the Vinaya text, Treasure of Quotations and Logic.
Do join us for an auspicious day of practice, accumulating limitless skies of merit and dedicating for peace in everyone's hearts, for the pure Dharma to flourish and for the long lives of all our Gurus.
WELCOME TO 2012 at CHAGTONG CHENTONG
Advice from our Spiritual Director Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche
~ The Good Heart is the Root of all Happiness ~'Even if other people don't practice the good heart, still we should practice the good heart because we want happiness and we don't want suffering. Even if other sentient beings don't practice the good heart or they try to harm us, cause us loss, kill us and so forth, if we practice only the good heart from our own side—if we are kind and only benefit others with our body, speech and mind or at the very least we don't cause harm to other sentient beings, then we will experience happiness. The most important things in life for you, especially for others, who are numberless, are compassion, the thought of benefiting others, caring for others, and causing happiness for others.'
sourced : www.lamayeshe.com Lama Zopa Rinpoches Online Advice
CTCT are delighted to welcome Venerable TONY BEAUMONT opening our program for 2012 CREATING CONTENTMENT on FEBRUARY 18-19
Returning to Hobart for his 4th visit
Please see full program details below
We hope everyone has enjoyed a refreshing break after the busy year of 2011
This year the Program offered by CTCT is developed around our visiting teachers and the topics presented will all be interrelated and offer the participant / student a pathway of graduated learning , discovery and opportunities for meaningful and sustainable integration via personal and / or group practice and study , ornamented with a vast array of online learning tools and available resources.
A supportive group meeting inclusive of guided meditations, group practices and facilitated topic discussions will be programmed monthly in Hobart, following a teaching event and in preparation for the next month's teachings. (See Calendar for dates)
All invited teachers to CTCT are fully accredited and registered with the FPMT Education Department http://www.fpmt.org/education.html
Venues for 2012
Monthly meetings, Public Presentations with visiting teachers
CWL Hall Venue 108 Bathurst St Hobart
All Residential Retreats
Mary Knoll Retreat Facility in Blackmans Bay A visiting teacher will join CTCT Community each month in 2012 ( with the exception of March)
We have the great fortune to also be hosting a Tibetan teacher, Geshe Thubten Sherab from Kopan Monastery for a 4 week visit during August – September
Here you will find a 10 min video information (Narrated by resident teacher Ven Karin Valham)
FPMTs heart Monastery - Kopan Gompa Kathmandu Nepal
The Program
All topics presented at CTCT essentially incorporate the elements of the Lam-rim
The Graduated Path to Enlightenment
What is the Lam rim ?
"...the essence of the 84,000 teachings of the Buddha, organized into a clear, step like arrangement that makes it easy for any individual practitioner to understand and practice the Buddha dharma and forms an essential part of every school of Tibetan Buddhism.
Buddha dharma means bringing discipline and inner tranquillity into our mind. Therefore, when we talk about transforming our mind and developing inner qualities, the only way we can do this is to utilize the mind itself. There is nothing else we can use to bring about such change...' quote: HH Dalai Lama - Illuminating the Path to Enlightenment (this text is available via CTCT Bookshop, accessible during all teaching events and monthly meetings.)
Topic examples:
The Purpose of Dharma practice
The four Noble Truths
Refuge Renunciation Karma
Understanding the nature of the mind
Death & Rebirth
Developing Wisdom and Compassion
Benefiting others
A glimpse of 2012 Program : ( PLEASE CHECK CALENDAR FOR DETAILS )
February :Creating Contentment one day workshop
February :Recognizing the extraordinary in the ordinary moment half day workshop
March : No visitors ( see events in Australia below)
April : Stages of the Path mixed with Insight Meditation 4 day residential retreat [Easter]
May :Becoming the Compassion Buddha 2 day residential retreat plus Public presentation
June: The Door to Satisfaction 8 Verses of Mind Training 2 day residential retreat plus evening presentation
July: Spiritual Care from a Buddhist Perspective1 day workshop Chenrezig Practice Retreat Day
August-September: One Month of teachings + w/end retreats with Geshe Sherab TBC
October: Mind App. – calming the chaos amid one day workshop and /or Public presentation
October: Wisdom of the Dakinis - feminism in Buddhism 2 day residential retreat
November:16 Guidelines for Life - Universal Education 2 x one day workshops
March 1-2 Happiness and its Causes Conference http://www.happinessanditscauses.com.au/
March 20 –April 1 His Eminence Choden Rinpoche in Australia http://awakeningvajraaustralia.org/
We look forward to Dr Sonam Takchoe hopefully resuming his teaching program at CTCT July - August TBC
Our first visiting teacher for 2012
Venerable Tony Beaumont February 18-19 CREATING CONTENTMENT
The focus of his weekend presentation of teachings and meditation in Hobart will be on contentment as a state of mind.
When : February 18 Saturday 10 am - 5pm
What: Creating Contentment - 'The jewel of the spiritual person'
Where : CWL Hall 108 Bathurst St Hobart ( Lunch break 12-1.30pm BYO )
Facility Fee $25
When: February 19 Sunday Midday - 5pm
What: Recognizing the extraordinary in the ordinary moment -
(BYO share Picnic 12 - 1pm) followed by discourse discussion & meditation on the lawn – in the gardens.
[Please Email the Centre for location directions].
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Contentment is essential if we are to have peace of mind. It releases us from the restless desires that drive us blindly forward, and which prevent us from being open to the needs and gifts of others. It frees us up to direct our energy in fresh and more conscious ways. We can attain contentment by gathering together the appropriate ingredients mainly through developing more and more constructive ways of understanding ourselves and and our world.
The program will included discourse, guided meditations, contemplation, and interactive discussions and will form a foundation and introduction to the topics for our 2012 study program
Most suitable for those newly interested
Equally most beneficial for those already having been introduced to the methods and practice of Buddhism.
Everyone is welcomed
About the teacher:
Ven Tony Beaumont is Australian-born, and trained and worked as a psychiatric nurse. Fully ordained since 1993 he has studied at Lama Tsong Khapa Institute in Italy, http://www.iltk.org was based at Thubten Shedrup Ling Monastery Bendigo Victoria, http://www.tslmonastery.org/ holding the Directors position for 4 years and taught at many FPMT centres around the world in schools and Prisons and now recently returned to Australia after 2 years of intensive full time study at Nalanda Monastery in France http://www.nalanda-monastery.eu/nalanda/ Following his visit to Hobart he will be travelling to Dharamsala India to take up position as full time Resident teacher at Tushita Meditation Centre. http://www.tushita.info/
Each day can be a stand-alone event although complimentary to each other
Children (accompanied by a parent/carer) welcomed for Sunday afternoon picnic and teaching event
We look forward to seeing you !
"If your daily life is tremendously involved in emotions, you are completely driven by them and psychologically tired. In other words, our physical emotions get too involved and we don't understand the functioning of our six sense consciousness's"
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AZZL is a fabulously unique, animated logic puzzle like you've never seen before. This bold and brilliant game from the makers of Rebus offers over 100 weird and wonderful moving puzzles to solve.
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THE Gazette should be congratulated on doing what the Tory leadership of Malvern Hills District Council seem reluctant to do – canvassing the opinion of local people with its food bank online poll.
Believing that our council should not profit from the hardship of others, but instead should do all it can to alleviate suffering, I brought a notice to council asking the leadership without delay to waive the rent it charged the Malvern foodbank – thereby allowing the foodbank to extend the amazing support it gives to all areas of our district.
They would not. Now, a massive 85 per cent of those who took part in your poll have agreed it is wrong for the council to charge rent.
It's time to stop playing party politics. The Tory leadership should do the decent thing: if they won't listen to me, they should at last take heed of the opinion of local people.
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The 'Wide Awake' singer won't be a candy queen anymore and is going to be 'crashing from the sweetness of that moment' instead.
Katy Perry will ditch her carefree persona in her next studio installment. Instead of continuing her reign as a "candy queen" in an imaginary cotton candy land, the 27-year-old West Coast pop star will "step off this cloud and face reality."
The estranged husband of Russell Brand dishes on her vision for her next CD, "I think it's time for more meat and potatoes." The chart-topping singer additionally says, "I feel I have a lot to say on the next record. I have a lot to flush out of the system."
"With 'Teenage Dream', I created this cotton candy cloud with a kind of a wink and a kiss, and it was all cute and fun and playful," she explains. "(Now) it's like I'm falling from cloud nine and crashing from the sky, crashing from the sweetness of that moment."
This confirms her previous statement that revealed her plan to explore the "dark" side instead of sticking on the "fun and vibrant" road. "Well, my music is about get real f**king dark," she stated. "I'll be shoe-gazing. You'll never see my face because my hair is in my face."
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Journey to the treacherous and tempestuous Highlands of fifteenth century Scotland in Hannah Howell's passionate tale of a feisty beauty determined to uncover the softer side of the iron-willed warrior who has wed her, bedded her...and stolen her heart. Though she has yet to be courted by any man, spirited Gillyanne Murray decides the time has come to visit the dower lands gifted to her by her father's kinsmen. She arrives to find the small keep surrounded by three lairds, each one vying for her hand...and property. Though resolved to refuse them all, the threat of battle on her threshold forces her to boldly choose a suitor: Sir Connor MacEnroy, a handsome, daring knight of few words. As his wife, Gillyanne is stunned by his terse, cold distance--and her own yearning to feel passion in his arms. Now, bringing her healing touch to a land and a keep ravaged by treachery and secret enemies, she dares to reach out for the one thing she fears she may forever be denied...her husband's closely guarded heart.
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Posted: 27 February 2013 1728 hrs
HONG KONG: Hong Kong's finance chief on Wednesday unveiled a budget to kickstart growth in the city and temper property prices but warned the world economy could face headwinds from possible trade and currency battles.
During a speech interrupted by protests, Financial Secretary John Tsang also set out a series of measures to support the middle class and alleviate poverty in the first budget under an increasingly unpopular leader Leung Chun-ying.
The announcement came as data showed the southern Chinese financial hub saw growth of just 1.4 per cent in 2012 and was tipped to expand only 1.5-3.5 per cent this year.
In unveiling measures to boost the city's financial sector and private equity industry he warned: "The whole world will have to face wars on three fronts, namely 'currency', 'trade' and 'geopolitics'.
"As a highly open and small economy, Hong Kong will be impacted by the development of these wars to a certain extent."
His comment come after a sharp drop in the value of the yen sparked accusations of government meddling and concerns about a possible global war in which nations weaken their currencies to gains give a jolt to softening exports.
Tsang outlined plans to boost the city's financial sector, including extending profits tax exemption for offshore private equity funds, with an eye on regional rival Singapore.
He also unveiled a string of populist measures aimed at supporting the middle class and poor, while looking to address the city's chronically high property prices, which have doubled since 2009, squeezing average citizens.
Tsang vowed to increase land-supply to allow the building of more houses while quarterly rates amounting to HK$11.6 billion and covering 75 per cent of properties will be waived. That follows Friday's decision to double stamp duty on second homes to 8.5 per cent.
Also on Wednesday, Tsang said there will be a 75-per cent cut in salaries tax to a ceiling of HK$10,000.
However analysts said the budget would do little to improve the lot of the middle-class or poor or give a lift to the popularity of Leung, whose government has been rocked by a series of protests since he came to power in July.
Leung, who was chosen by a committee dominated by pro-Beijing elites, has seen his support rating drop after scandals involving illegal structures at his home, and last year came close to facing impeachment proceedings.
"For the middle class there is very minimal. If the middle class is renting property -- those rates are nothing to do with him," said Philip Hung, President of the The Taxation Institute of Hong Kong.
Hung added the level of some of one off measures, such as the salary-tax cut, was lower than last year.
Despite announcing a budget surplus of HK$64.9 billion ($8.4 billion) this year -- which swelled reserves to HK$734 billion -- the new measures totalled only HK$33 billion, down from the HK$80 billion-worth introduced last year.
In a sign of the dissatisfaction with the administration, dozens of people, some dressed as the Chinese "wealth god", waved banners and shouted slogans outside government headquarters demanding handouts of HK$10,000 and more welfare spending.
"The government should give money directly to the general public so that they can make ends meet," activist Tam Kwok-kiu told AFP, adding that the government is sitting on a fiscal surplus.
Two lawmakers including radical Leung Kwok-hung were escorted out of the chambers after interrupting Tsang's speech and calling him a "liar".
Tsang said he had had been listening to the concerns of the middle class, who are faced with rising bills for rent, medical care, and supporting their parents and children.
"I agree that middle-class families should be given some support. However, as one may appreciate, it is impracticable for the government to respond to each and every demand," he said.
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Andrew Tudor asks what makes a good documentary
Documentaries document. Or so one might suppose, given the opprobrium recently heaped on Michael Moore for the 'undocumentary' imbalances and excesses of his Fahrenheit 9/11. Had the attacks come from the Bush-supporting right then they could have been dismissed as a simple political response to a simple political film. But it is a section of the liberal intelligentsia that has turned against Moore, including some of those who were so enthusiastic about his earlier attacks on American gun culture in Bowling for Columbine (2002) and General Motors in Roger & Me (1989). Aside from distaste at his undoubted penchant for self-publicity, it's an odd response. The idea that non-fiction films should be balanced reflections of reality – BBC current affairs strictures notwithstanding – is deeply misguided, and in any case never really survived the first few years of the documentary movement. John Grierson, who was hugely influential on the shape of documentary from the late 1920s onward, believed in fostering a 'purposive cinema', one which would play a positive role in sustaining and extending democracy. By informing and educating the public, he (and many of the film-makers whose careers he encouraged) hoped to promote an essentially reformist agenda. In making films like Industrial Britain (1932) or Housing Problems (1935), though they were indeed 'documenting' social states of affairs, they also knew very well that they were intervening in reality and not simply reflecting it.
There have been cinema verité moments, of course, when documentarists have laid claim to privileged access to the world recorded by their cameras. But more often than not, that was either self-delusion or a cinematic illusion created by skilful manipulation, editing and even staging. Ever since Flaherty deliberately set up Nanook and his fishing hole, documentarists have been persuading reality to fit their projects. The direct cinema film-makers of the 1960s – the Maysles brothers, Leacock, Pennebaker – may have used the new lightweight sound and camera technologies to go where film-makers had previously been unable to go with the avowed intention of capturing the richness of that real world. But they too were not averse to encouraging reality to behave itself when necessary.
Frederick Wiseman, the most thoughtful exponent of the direct cinema philosophy and, for many, the finest living film documentarist, puts it bluntly. "Everything about a movie is manipulation If you like it, it's an interpretation. If you don't like it, it's a lie – but everything about the movies is a distortion." In recognition of that view, he calls his films 'reality-fictions' rather than documentaries, although they do indeed document the workings and failures of a whole variety of real American institutions. Shooting with a mobile two-person unit, and in his earlier films in black and white, he creates a powerful sense of the ways in which our institutions bear down upon us. Never resorting to voice-over guidance and using only the natural sounds encountered while shooting, Wiseman does much of his work in the editing, moulding his material into extraordinarily compelling and subtle accounts of the worlds which he observes. Welfare (1975) is perhaps his finest film, its three hour length steadily drawing us into the desperate travails of those caught up in the machinery of an overworked welfare agency. But, as the recent, even longer Domestic Violence (2002) suggests, his moral power and film-making skills are still as effective as ever, his style still as persuasively understated.
It would be hard to think of a film-maker further removed from Michael Moore's rabble-rousing sensibilities. Where Wiseman coaxes his audience into thought, providing the time, occasion and inclination for us to reflect, Moore tries to beat us into submission with a polemicist's hammer. Wiseman's style is cool and analytical, though its cumulative effect is often intensely moving, while Moore (as he does with the distraught mother in Fahrenheit 9/11) ladles on the emotion only finally to leave us alienated by that very excess. Where Wiseman clearly has a penetrating understanding of the unintended social consequences of human institutions, Moore is inclined toward escalating and often inconsistent conspiracy theories. And while Wiseman is present artistically in every frame of his films, through his style and his ideas, Moore's presence is crudely literal – as a sometimes disingenuous, sometimes knowing, and sometimes self-serving participant in his own creation.
So, while you may very well sympathise, as I do, with the political tenor of Bowling for Columbine or Fahrenheit 9/11, it is getting increasingly difficult to defend a film-maker so bent on overstating every case that he makes. Not, however, because he is betraying the cause of proper documentary – the documentary movement always has room for fierce commitment, as the exceptional Brazilian film Bus 174 (2002) recently demonstrated – but because of the sheer incoherence of his scattergun approach. With political friends like this, who needs enemies?


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- Published: 10 February 2012
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Travelling is an experience which can be interpreted in many different ways. For some, a chance to sit back and reap the rewards of hard work via five-star luxury; for others perhaps the opportunity to set off into the unknown and let the winds of fate decide. An inspiring alternative take built on the idea of "experiencing a country through its people", is that of CouchSurfing. With its rapidly growing community receiving worldwide attention, Essential Travel (ET) caught up with the very man to conceive the project, co-founder Casey Fenton.
ET: Hello Casey, thank you for taking the time out to answer some of our questions. So, tell us, what is CouchSurfing and how does it work?
Casey: We are a community and a movement trying to create a better, friendlier world where people who are different from one another can meet and learn from one another. When you join CouchSurfing, you tap into our network of welcoming people worldwide. You can share your hospitality and experience your city through new eyes by offering travellers a place to stay on their journey, or you can bypass the typical hotel experience by staying at the home of a local and learning about their culture. You can join cool and interesting people for anything from a bike ride to a party using CouchSurfing Activities. And you can meet up with new people, whether at home or while traveling, for inspiring experiences and new friendships.
ET: It must be said that the question of safety does come to mind with this idea. Is there anything CouchSurfing does to ensure the security and safety of the members?
Casey: CouchSurfing members are active participants in the safety of our community. By sharing information through our systems, educating themselves about trust and safety, and making thoughtful decisions about who to meet, CouchSurfers keep themselves and everyone else safer. Small towns aren't safer just because theyâre filled with upstanding citizens - they're safer because people know and respect each other. References and vouching help make our global community as safe as a small town while keeping it as exciting as any big city.
ET: We see that as of the beginning of this year you have over 1 million active members in the CouchSurfing community, where are most of your members from? Do you expect to see this number increasing throughout the year?
Casey: Our biggest CouchSurfing communities are in the United States and Europe, followed by South America. CouchSurfers come from all walks of life. Our members are young and old and from different socioeconomic backgrounds. We have surfers who are single, as well as those who have families. Our membership tends to follow a seasonal trend, with more people joining as we approach the summer months, at least in the Northern hemisphere. Overall we do expect our membership to increase over the year.
ET: Who keeps CouchSurfing running?
Casey: We have a staff of about forty which is pretty small for a website of our size. Many of them are experienced CouchSurfers who have been with us since our early days when CouchSurfing was run in collectives. Our newer employees are CouchSurfers in spirit even if some don't have much experience yet. Being inclusive of all kinds and getting a good cultural fit is really important to us.
ET: We are curious, how does CouchSurfing generate revenue if signing up is free?
Casey: We're proud to be part of the ever growing community of B Corps. At the moment some of our revenue comes from members who pay to be verified. This is a way for members to prove that they live where they say they do. We're closer to finalising what the rest of our revenue model will look like, but I can't announce it just yet. I can tell you I'm really excited about some of the revenue ideas that CouchSurfer members have come up with!
ET: A very clever way to provide a means for both the company and members! Casey thank you very much for taking the time out to talk to us, we hope this unique community continues to grow. Just before you go, where did you get the idea for CouchSurfing?
Casey: Where I got the idea for CouchSurfing is really three-fold so I'll try to explain it in a nutshell. The first part of it was being introduced to the idea of determinism versus free will. I came from a pretty small town in Maine (north of New York and Boston) and I realised that I just didn't have many options available to me. Studying the philosophy of determinism helped me realise that if I was going to make the best decisions I could in life, I needed more choices. I set about trying to broaden my world by experiencing more, and meeting different people. I realised that many people must be in the same position as me, and deserved to have a wider range of choices also.
The second step was a trip to Egypt, where I got to experience the city of Luxor with local families. My time there was so much more interesting and rich than it would have been if I had stayed in the hotel and with my tour group. That's not to say that hotels and tour groups don't have their place in travel, I just feel like I really get to know a country through its people more than anything else.
The third piece of the puzzle was a trip I took to Iceland. I had found a cheap plane ticket but couldn't really afford a hotel there and certainly didn't know anyone. Since I was an experienced programmer, I found a way to email 1,500 students at the University of Reykjavik. I asked them if they wanted to host me and show me their city. I made sure to include lots of personal information about myself, and set up the email so it seemed personalised. To my surprise I got over fifty responses. It answered my question of whether people would be willing to invite someone into their home, even if they had only met them on the Internet. They would, as long as they had an opportunity to learn something about you. I ended up staying with a really interesting family and having an amazing trip.
It would be a couple of years before I actually started programming the website. You know how life can get in the way. But, all of these experiences helped form what the CouchSurfing community and website would look like.
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