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General Education Requirements
Baruch Common Core
The courses of the Baruch Common Core will develop and improve your:
- Oral and Written Communication Skills
- Global/Cross-Cultural Awareness
- Quantitative and Scientific Thinking
- Technological Skills
- Critical Thinking
- Information Literacy
- Civic Awareness
- Ethical Awareness
- Aesthetic Appreciation
General Education and the courses of the Baruch Common Core are central to the college's mission. They shape the experience that Baruch offers all of its students, whether they pursue a degree in the Zicklin School of Business, the Weissman School of Arts and Sciences, or the School of Public Affairs. The Baruch Common Core is available only to students who entered Baruch before fall 2013.
Gen Ed at Baruch reflects the college's commitment to the ideal of education as a transformation of the whole person through study of the arts and sciences. The Baruch Common Core, which emphasizes learning goals in the areas listed above, includes introductory courses in a variety of disciplines in the arts and sciences as well as advanced concentrations that allow students to focus on a single area in the liberal arts.
Tier I: Basic Skills (click for list of courses)
- Communication Skills (3–5 courses)
- Quantitative Skills (1 course)
Tier II: Introduction to the Arts and Sciences (click for list of courses)
- Humanities (4 courses)
- Social Sciences (4 courses)
- Natural Sciences (1 course)
Tier III: Liberal Arts Minor (click for list of minors)
- 3000-level courses (2 courses)
- Capstone course (must be taken at Baruch College)


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While sitting here doing nothing in particular, I began to think of the last time I had a chance to work with O-sensei Philip Porter of the late USJA and now of the USMAA. Sensei Porter is the Father of American Judo for those of you who do not know him. BUT.... he is also one of the more controversial men in martial arts in the 20th and 21st century. Why? Because he is all about the money. Everything about rank and teaching has a price tag attached to it. But you know what? Having that knowledge of him doesn't bother me so much because I know that going into a seminar with him. I know for those 4+ hrs he's going to give me everything he has. He holds nothing back and gets on the mats with us, even at the ripe young age of 80 years old.
Money aside, having the priviledge to work with this man is something I will never forget. Unlike many of the "living legends" that are still with us, he still gets in there and works with his students. Here is a man who can tell a story about the "good old days" and then show it to you. How rare is it today to get that? A venerable old veteran who is no hypocrite and lives and respects the principles of others. He doesn't care what affiliation you belong to, what religion you practice, what part of the country you come from, or what your educational level is. He is the real thing.
SO.... next time you are talking to those who have "done it all" in their martial arts career and are living on their reputation alone, and seem to make the rules as they go along, think of people like Philip Porter sensei who doesn't give a sh** and still goes out and proves himself day after day. This guy will probably die out on the mat. Hate to see him go, but where else would you want to be!

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Will Tokyo and Pyongyang be able to Solve the Abduction Issue?
Sebastian Maslow
Research Fellow, German Institute for Japanese Studies
Hideshi Takesada
Professor of Graduate School, Takushoku University
Language: The speech and Q & A will be in English
At first it looked like the talks between North Korea and Japan in Stockholm at the end of May had ended inconclusively. But then both sides announced that they had reached an agreement. Pyongyang would reinvestigate the fate of Japanese citizens it had abducted in the 70s and 80s while Tokyo said it would consider lifting unilateral sanctions.
Since the agreement was announced the diplomats seem to have been working quietly without major hiccups. However, experts are questioning if this attempt will bring any better result than earlier ones. Is Pyongyang sincerely interested in solving the issue? Is Japan ready to accept the findings, if they do fully correspond to the public's expectations? And how strongly does the abduction issue still dominate Japanese policy towards North Korea?
To discuss these questions, PAC has invited two experts, Hideshi Takesada, professor at Takushoku university, and Sebastian Maslow Research Fellow at German Institute for Japanese Studies (DIJ).
Professor Takesada worked for 36 years at the National Institute for Defense Studies (NIDS) of the Japanese Ministry of Defense. Between 2011 and 2013 he was professor at Yonsei University in Incheon, South Korea. Takesada has published extensively on Korean issues.
Sebastian Maslow is focusing his research on Japanese-North Korean relations in particular Japan's North Korea policy. Besides his research position at DIJ Maslow holds part-time teaching positions at Fukushima University and Tohoku Gakuin University.
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Belgium booked a World Cup quarter-final date with Argentina as they saw off the USA 2-1 after extra time.
Kevin De Bruyne, one of a host of Belgium players to find American goalkeeper Tim Howard in inspired form, smashed into the bottom corner in the third minute of the first additional period after regulation time somehow ended goalless at Salvador's Arena Fonte Nova.
Romelu Lukaku, dropped to the bench having failed to fire so far in the competition, then gave Belgium breathing space with an emphatic 105th-minute second. But there was further drama as a resilient USA team hit back through substitute Julian Green before Jermaine Jones poked agonisingly wide, with Clint Dempsey also denied late on, before Belgium sealed the prize of a last-eight meeting against Argentina in Brasilia, despite the stunning efforts of the brilliant Howard.
Captain Vincent Kompany returned from groin and abdominal complaints to bolster Belgium's defence, while Divock Origi was favoured to Lukaku in attack.
The 19-year-old almost enjoyed a dream start, stealing in behind the defence to draw a fine save from Howard on the angle inside the first minute.
But the United States quickly settled into the contest and Michael Bradley combined with Dempsey for a 20th-minute opening, although the latter's shot lacked the power to trouble Belgium goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois.
Jan Vertonghen caught USA midfielder Graham Zusi in possession on the halfway line and stormed forward to give De Bruyne a glorious opportunity in the 23rd minute, but Belgium's top scorer in qualifying dragged wastefully past the near post.
Vertonghen was proving a potent attacking threat from full-back and he forced DaMarcus Beasley into a vital goalmouth clearance, with Marouane Fellaini poised to convert.
Influential USA right-back Fabian Johnson departed with a hamstring injury after the half hour, although the pacey runs of replacement DeAndre Yedlin provided a useful counter-point to Belgium's razor-sharp threat on the break.
Howard was forced into an acrobatic stop to touch Dries Mertens' looping header behind two minutes into the second period, and Belgium settled into the groove of calm, assured possession football they were denied during the opening half.
De Bruyne and Origi somehow both failed to convert Vertonghen's brilliant 54th-minute cross and the young striker flicked a header onto the crossbar two minutes later.
Vertonghen called Howard into action once more before Zusi caused panic on an increasingly rare USA attack, although they returned to the back foot as Mertens prodded past the near post - his last act as Kevin Mirallas was introduced.
The attacker displayed clever footwork to set up Origi, but Mirallas' Everton club-mate Howard was again equal to the task after 72 minutes.
Roles were reversed when Origi sent Mirallas clear with a cute threaded pass, only for Howard's excellence to come to the fore again as he saved brilliantly with his boot - a stop possibly bettered by pushing Eden Hazard's 80th-minute half-volley out of the far corner.
There was an air of inevitability in Howard keeping out Origi's rasping shot and turn after Hazard smashed into the side-netting, while Kompany instigated a 90th-minute counter only to have a scuffed attempt impressively saved.
Somehow the USA retained an attacking threat amid the onslaught and the sight of Chris Wondolowski blazing over unmarked from an offside position served due warning to Belgium heading into extra time.
Having almost single-handedly brought about the additional period, Howard was beaten by De Bruyne after Lukaku's fresh legs proved decisive down the left flank, and the powerhouse striker made it two as a Belgium break finally came to fruition.
With the game seemingly up, Jurgen Klinsmann threw on Green and his swivelled volley put the match back in the balance.
After Jones' close shave, Dempsey looked destined to send it to a shoot-out but it was Courtois' turn to provide goalkeeping heroics after a brilliant set-piece routine as Wilmots' charges held on.
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Not a good night for the Pirates or some of their top prospects.
Ross Ohlendorf, still searching for his first win or the season, was perfect through 10 outs, but then got knocked around the second time through the order as the Pirates lost 6-3. Ryan Church was inexplicably the DH while Lastings Milledge played RF. Garrett Jones extended his hit streak to twelve games with a first inning RBI single.
Zach Duke could go on the DL if he can't make his scheduled side session today.
Last year's #1 draft pick Tony Sanchez was hit in the face by a pitch and had his jaw broken in two places. Surgery will be required to set the bone. He was also hit in the head by a pitch earlier in the month and missed a week then. Best of luck to Tony on the journey back to solid food.
After conflicting reports on the severity of the injury earlier in the week, it does appear now that Class A infielder Brock Holt will miss the rest of the season with a sprained MCL and a torn meniscus.
Akinori Iwamura and cleared waivers and been optioned to AAA. He has said he will report on Friday.
Last night's loss also guaranteed that the Pirates will have a losing record in interleague play this year. If memory serves they've only had a winning record twice. Still, it would be nice to take this series and the next.
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1977 -1981ASA was founded as the Midwest regional distributor of Audiovox mobile audio/video products in Elkhart, Indiana.
- Founded ASA Fabrication Division to do manufacturing and assembly work.
1986 -1991
- Began development of engineering department
- Established contract manufacturing in Asia
- Established control process for 100% of ASA product design work
- ASA introduced the first 13" DC only color television specifically designed for the mobile video industry.
1993 - 1994
- ASA launched the first Flat Panel Seatback Video Entertainment system under the FlexVision® name to the mobile video industry.
- ASA is awarded its first mobile video utility patent registration. To date, ASA has been awarded several design and utility patents.
- FlexVision® brand name receives trademark registration
1996 - 1997
- Aquatronics® brand name gets trademark registration.
- Voyager® brand name receives trademark registration
- Established as Tier 1 supplier to John Deere, J.I. Case,New Holland, Freightliner and Navistar
- ASA becomes joint venture partner with Audiovox, New York.
- ASA acquires Heavy Duty Truck, Agriculture, and Construction Division from Audiovox, New York.
1998 -2000
- Received ISO-9001 certification Awarded contract to build flat panel video entertainment systems for Nissan
- ASA introduces the mobile video industry's first 13" flat panel flipdown entertainment system with built-in TV tuner
- Awarded United Parcel Service (UPS) contract to put observation systems on their American fleet totaling 70,000 vehicles.
- Awarded Lear mobile video contract for 2001 Ford Excursion installed in line at Ford Truck plant in Louisville, Kentucky.
- Kenworth, Peterbilt and Paccar approved vendor curbside Voyager® Camera system
- ASA awarded Foreign Trade Zone status by US Customs
- ASA awarded US postal service contract for observations systems
- ASA is awarded OEM contract for US Marine (Bayliner) 2004 model year audio business. This is a custom built OEM audio package for Bayliner, the first of its kind in the marine industry.
- ASA awarded UPS contract for observation systems in Canada and Mexico
- ASA awarded UPS contract for observation systems in Europe
- ASA awarded several new design patents for flipdown and observation monitors
- ASA purchases brand licensing rights JENSEN®, Acoustic Research, Advent, and Road gear for use in the RV, Van Conversion, Marine, and Commercial Vehicle markets.
- ASA builds new corporate headquarters in Elkhart, Indiana
- Launched extensive line of automatic switching observation camera systems with an array of front and side view camera options
- Awarded ISO-9001-2000 certification
2006 -2007
- ASA offers B2B Portal, an intuitive program that allows customers to manage their ASA account online.
- ASA becomes sole mobile electronics provider to RV Rescue television broadcast.
- ASA launches new JENSEN JEN-X "extreme" audio/video system to Toyhauler market.
- ASA introduces waterproof heavy duty "MINI" stereo system to Agriculture, Construction, Powersports, Mower, and Off-Road markets.
- ASA develops and introduces the Voyager Wireless Observation System, an industry first. Targeted towards travel trailer, towable, and 5th wheel RV markets.
- ASA goes paperless…Begins utilizing Optical Character Recognition (OCR), a software program used to automate the extraction and importation of key data from documents.
- ASA awarded prestigious 2007 Genmar Innovation Award for new JENSEN Marine product lineup.
2008 -2009
- ASA partners with SIRIUS Satellite Radio to integrate SIRIUS Gen3 technology into various new stereo designs.
- ASA becomes sole provider of JENSEN LCD TVs and monitors, stereos, DVD players, and Voyager Observation Systems to Trick My Truck television show aired on CMT.
- ASA introduces new Voyager Side Body Observation Cameras that utilize enhanced Super CMOS technology.
- ASA awarded exclusive right to sell Hamilton Beach microwaves and refrigerators to the RV, Marine and Commercial markets.
- ASA expands Shenzhen China office to 15 people to maintain stringent quality control in our factories and efficient overseas business practices, both here and abroad.
- ASA hosts visit from grandson of Peter Jensen
- ASA launches Stationary Omni directional antenna
- ASA adds new line of Spa specific products
- ASA Awarded ISO 9001:2008 Certification
2011-2012Advent Air rooftop air conditions, microwaves and refrigerators are added to product line up
An exclusive distributor agreement is signed with Polk Audio
Marine Audio brand name and all company assets are purchased by ASA
ASA launches line of all digital wireless observation systems under the Voyager WiSight™ brand name
ASA secures a spot as the exclusive electronics supplier to Camping World
The title of Preferred Audio/Video Supplier is awarded to ASA from the American Boatbuilders Association
2013-2014ASA introduces a full line of Bluetooth® stereos to the mobile industry
ASA reveals the first ever marine grade Polk® stereo
ASA launches first Harley-Davidson® Plug n' Play replacement stereo
A patented auto-pairing feature is added to ASA's line of Voyager® Camera systems
2015Launched all new website for both corporate and retail sites (JENSENRVDirect.com, JENSENMarineDirect.com, JENSENHeavyDuty.com)
ASA partners with ATA Featured Product Program to launch safety-centric JCV2015BT Heavy Duty source unit
ASA adds app control to their robust audio line up
JTV line of metal cabinet TVs is added to product offerings
Polk Ultramarine® brand name is registered and secured by ASA
New products are launched under the Marine Audio® brand name
ASA is honored with being named IBBI Supplier of the Year
ASA Electronics partnered with Keystone RV to launch the iN·Command control and monitoring system, sold exclusively in Keystone RVs for two years.
The JENSEN® JWM9A is launched as the first theater-style wallmount stereo of its kind with app control to connect with our jControl app.
ASA Electronics Introduces New Larger 6.5" JENSEN® Replacement Speakers HDX650 for Harley-Davidson®. These speakers can be a direct replacement for the stock speakers in Harley-Davidson® fairings.


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Publicly Traded Ed. Companies Are Rare
New data offer window into school, student preferences
K12 Inc., the nation's largest provider of online precollegiate education, was launched in 2000 and went public seven years later after raising about $140 million in revenue. Like other companies, it moved from being privately held to being publicly traded to raise more money quickly, increase brand awareness, and accelerate business goals.
The company now works with more than 2,000 U.S. school districts and reported $522.4 million in revenue last fiscal year. "No school district could ever invest what we do and get the productivity we get," said Chief Executive Officer Ronald J. Packard. He said his company invests about $40 million a year in new technology and programs.
But there's a risk to taking education to Wall Street—one that helps explain why so few publicly traded companies cater to the educational needs of students in elementary, middle, and high school.
K12's stock prices plummeted after a Dec. 12 article in The New York Times accused the Herndon, Va.-based company of wresting profits from public school dollars by increasing enrollment without concern for student retention, assigning teachers to unmanageably large classes, and lowering standards.
The article also reported that Mr. Packard's $5 million salary in fiscal 2011 was nearly twice the previous year's $2.67 million, and that his annual bonus is partially linked to enrollment. Shares fell from $28.79 the day the story ran to $17.25 three weeks later on the New York Stock Exchange.
Then, on Jan. 31, a lawsuit was filed by a K12 Inc. shareholder against the company and some of its senior executives, alleging it had violated securities law by making false and misleading statements to investors. ("K12 Inc.'s Public Status and Growth Attract Scrutiny," this issue.)
"There are so many strings that come with being a public company," said Steve Pines, the executive director of the Education Industry Association, a nonprofit organization based in Vienna, Va., that helps education entrepreneurs connect with the K-12 market. "It's not for the fainthearted."
Beyond having to deal with a level of transparency that privately held companies are generally protected from, publicly traded companies offering K-12 instructional services face other potential complications.
They have a poor track record, for starters. Edison Schools Inc., now EdisonLearning Inc., a former leader in for-profit schooling, is the most prominent example, with analysts using its heyday and subsequent troubles as an object lesson in what not to do as a public company. New York City-based Edison reported only one profitable quarter over the four years it was publicly traded, failed to deliver on its promises of academic improvement, and lost contracts with school districts across the country.
And it's expensive to comply with multiple and extensive reporting requirements from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, including the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, which Mr. Pines called "an audit on steroids."
What's more, the scrutiny is intensified when the educational best interests of children are put on a profit-loss spectrum. The tension leads one academic observer to label the act of gratifying shareholders while providing superior education "an inherent clash of cultures."
Those two goals are at odds with each other, said Alex Molnar, a research professor at the University of Colorado at Boulder's school of education. He used an example of a company that moves a factory to Mexico to double profits to 12 percent.
"The move will be socially destructive by killing pensions, eliminating health care, and destroying jobs, but the shareholders will get an extra 6 percent—and that's the sort of environment we're headed toward in public education," Mr. Molnar said. "It's not illegal, but it's not serving the public very well."
'Healthy Solution'
Regardless of the current debate over the profit motive in education, the stock market can pump a lot of money into companies targeting the K-12 instructional market. And if a company's goal is to grow big, venture capitalists can only take it so far, observers say.
"If you want to get your hands on $500 million, it's hard to do that privately," said Frederick M. Hess, a resident scholar and director of education policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute, a free-market-oriented think tank in Washington.
"If you're a relatively small company grossing $30 million a year, and your capital requirements are $5 million, you could certainly get that from one angel investor and avoid the whole headache of going public," said Mr. Hess, who also writes a blog for edweek.org. "But in most of the world, the goal is to go public because that's where the founders can grow a really thriving enterprise."
Mr. Hess doesn't see why there have to be winners and losers when education companies go public: "It's a business proposition. They're offering a service and trying to get paid for it. Contracting for services can be a perfectly healthy solution, and I'm always interested in why we try to make it such a moral issue," he said.
Publicly traded education companies point out that school districts have outsourced services for decades—for construction, transportation, meals, and staff training, for example—and argue that if they didn't deliver on their promises, they would stop growing and eventually go out of business.
'Oversight Complicated'
The long-term impact of unwelcome attention on K12 Inc., meanwhile, is uncertain.
According to Mr. Packard, the New York Times article was an "unfair and erroneous attack" that ultimately strengthened the resolve of K12's employees and proved that its long-term core investors truly backed the company's mission.
The stock slump didn't last long. Prices began rising again by early January. At press time, K12 stock was trading at $21.89.
K12's financial report for the second quarter of fiscal 2012 showed that while net income was down 46 percent, with higher costs causing profits to fall short of Wall Street predictions, revenues grew to $166.5 million—an increase of $37.5 million, or 29 percent, over the same period the prior year.
"Companies that are great over the long term are companies that worry about their customers, not the stock market," Mr. Packard said in an interview this month. "The stock will eventually take care of itself."
Gary Miron, a professor of education at Western Michigan University and a National Education Policy Center fellow, said he won't be surprised if other companies find themselves in the same situation as K12's, particularly with the industry's high dependence on self-reporting.
"It's like asking Coke or Pepsi which soda is best," he said. "Oversight becomes complicated."
K12 started rebounding quickly, however, and will continue to thrive because it has figured out, in football terms, "an end run," said Samuel E. Abrams, a visiting scholar at Teachers College, Columbia University, who is writing a book on school reform for Harvard University Press.
"It has grown because it can achieve economies of scale, especially as we become more comfortable with online learning and online living in general," Mr. Abrams said. "It's a much more subtle form of educational outsourcing, and as such it doesn't generate the same pushback and distrust" as for-profit management of brick-and-mortar schools.
A 2011 study by the National Education Policy Center deemed virtual schools the fastest-growing segment of alternative education.
In 2010, 48 states and the District of Columbia had virtual school programs, 27 states allowed virtual charter schools, and approximately 1.5 million students took one or more courses online, according to the Evergreen Education Group, a consulting firm in Durango, Colo.
Mergers and Acquisitions
Some companies are going public through mergers and acquisitions, often by selling themselves to larger companies in the educational technology sector.
The textbook-publishing giant Pearson, a publicly traded company based in London, acquired Connections Education, the United States' second-largest online school business, in September from an investor group for $400 million in cash.
Based in Baltimore, Connections had been a stand-alone, privately owned company since 2004. It operates virtual schools or academies in 22 states—with plans to enter Iowa in the fall—and serves about 40,000 students.
With a yearly 30 percent revenue growth, an estimated $190 million in revenue in 2011, and annual surveys consistently showing that 95 percent of families would recommend Connections, the company expects to have an even greater impact in the world of online learning now that it has the benefit of Pearson's global reach. At press time, Pearson's stock was trading at $19.41.
"There was never a timetable set or a path chosen for us to become a public company," said Ted Ochs, the chief operations officer and chief financial officer for Connections Education. "But we've always said that if we serve our students well, we'll figure out the business model to make things work."
Wireless Generation, based in New York City, also appreciates the larger platform it was given after Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. bought a 90 percent share of the educational technology company for $360 million in 2010. (Larry Berger, a co-founder and the CEO of Wireless Generation, is a trustee of Editorial Projects in Education, the nonprofit corporation that publishes Education Week.)
"There was a time when Wireless Generation was trying to get attention for the products and services it was offering, and it was a little hard to do," said Zachary Silverstein, the chief of staff for the company, which says it serves more than 200,000 educators and 3 million students in all 50 states. "Being part of a bigger company presents more of an opportunity to be recognized and to tell the world about what we're bringing to the classroom."
But Wireless Generation could also be tarnished by its association with News Corp., which is best known in the United States for its ownership of right-leaning media outlets and is embroiled in a scandal over its news-gathering practices in Britain. New York state blocked a contract awarded to Wireless Generation in the wake of the News Corp. scandal. ("Scandal Clouds News Corp.'s Move Into Education," Aug. 10 and "Wireless Generation Loses Contract in Wake of News Corp. Scandal," Sept. 14, 2011.)
Meanwhile, some companies, for strategic reasons, bounce back and forth between being publicly traded and privately held. Now a private tutoring company, Baltimore-based Sylvan Learning has done just that since it first went public in 1993.
Sylvan spokeswoman Darshana Patel said via email that the company's "capital-structure decisions are made with two goals in mind—maximizing educational outcomes and shareholder value."
While some economic analysts note it's unlikely many more education companies will go public in the near future, a few trends—such as the increasing emphasis on digital education, as well as global education in emerging markets worldwide—may eventually turn the tide. Large companies pay big prices for acquisitions, in fact, because they anticipate those trends will reap big rewards.
"This usually predicts that smaller companies will resist the temptation of being bought up, and instead get to the scale where they take themselves public," said Susan Wolford, the managing director and head of the business-services and media group at BMO Capital Markets in New York City. "And then, hopefully, off they go."
Vol. 31, Issue 21, Pages 1, 16-17Published in Print: February 22, 2012, as Publicly Traded Ed. Companies Rare
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This year marks the 200th anniversary of Mexico´s independence (no, it´s not celebrated on 5 de mayo!) and we're already preparing for it. Living in the U.S. it´s nearly impossible not to be influenced by one of the myriad elements that make up the rich and diverse Mexican culture. It imbues or food, our TV screens, our slang and our music. Mexican music has influenced genres across the board and still continues to be predominant on the scene. But few musicians have immersed themselves into the true, deep roots of Mexican music and converted it into a learning tool, masked as a true fiesta, for bilingual children. Sones de México Ensemble has done just that with their newest CD created for children growing up bilingually (English/Spanish) and biculturally: Fiesta Mexicana.
The band has been performing educational shows in Chicago schools for over 15 years and has recreated that experience in a double album chock-full of songs in Spanish and English that transport you to tierras mexicanas that were resonating way before their 200 years of modern history. This is music from the country's soul, and this soul touches our children with indigenous sounds, instruments, stories and languages. If your heritage is Mexican, this recording will bring the beat of your roots straight to your kid's heart.
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But Fiesta Mexicana does not only address Mexican-American kids, says producer and bassist Juan Díes. "It's for everyone who lives in this bilingual and bicultural environment." The lessons are universal, not just about Mexican culture; he adds, "kids learn about tempo in music, about loving animals, and about the importance of balance in the world and in one's self." "We are educators at heart," says music director Víctor Pichardo, who was brought to Chicago 17 years ago by an arts education organization and conceived Fiesta Mexicana to teach children about Mexican heritage through story and song.
I am not Mexican, but I have grown to love the culture I married into. This is one CD that I plan on keeping in my arsenal to introduce my girl to the authentic folklore, music and cosmology of part of her identity. Plus, their cover of "El Ratón Vaquero," the Cri-Cri classic I grew up with, has me tapping my feet and polka-ing every time we hear it!
Fiesta Mexicana by Sones de México Ensemble just released this week. You can already get your copy via La Tiendita. ¡Que Viva la Fiesta!
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Celebrating 25 years of Classic FF1600 1994 - 2019
Welcome to the Classic Formula Ford 1600 Club
This is a club run by and for Classic Formula Ford racing enthusiasts with both racing and associate (non-racing, social) members in the UK and abroad.
Our race series caters for Formula Ford cars built/raced before 1982.
Our website contains lots of information including race reports, items for sale and articles written by its members.
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Our culture continues to be defined by the screen and the lens. The works of Marshall McLuhan and Andy Warhol remain disturbingly current. Politics continues to be defined by image, not ideas, to the extent that the Leader of the Labour Party feels the need to have work done on his sinuses (or something), the better to appeal to floating voters.
One area of interest for me is the collision of the media with ordinary people – and by that, I mean those who find themselves caught like rabbits in the spot-light, as opposed to those who seek it out. In particular, the sub-genre of media Death Coverage. The visual grammar of a press conference is fascinating. I have also written before on how the images of the recently dead are manipulated to fit an established template (even when the deceased was very different to how they are described).
The sad death of Issy Jones-Reilly who overdosed at a party last weekend, has sent me back to this subject once more. The pictures of this pretty girl have featured heavily in the papers for a couple of days. What I have found noteworthy is that in almost all cases, the picture illustrating the victim has been a self-portrait. In this era of cheap digital imaging, that means an arms length shot, with the camera (or smart-phone) pointed back down at the photographer. The arm must necessarily extend outside the shot, and the wide-angle distorts and swells the face a little. It's the polar opposite of professional portraiture, where the subjects are lit from the sides and rear and a narrower angle lens is used to put the face in better proportions.
I find these images of Issy quite sad. First, of course, that she only found fame in death. When she took those photos of herself she was engaging in a form of sel-promotion (I don't doubt they were used as Facebook profile pictures at some point). She would never know the context in which those photos would finally be used. It seems to me quite tragic that, for her allotted 15 minutes of fame, she had to take her own photos.
Meanwhile, an accomplished and quite brilliant photographer suffers the indignity of having his own death illustrated by someone else. The case of Tim Hetherington, killed in Libya last week, was not quite as bad as that of Meredith Kercher (whose death was illustrated by the prettier of her alleged killers). However, I still found it odd and a little disrespectful that Hetherington's death was reported in The Evening Standard by a picture of his girlfriend. A perfectly serviceable image of the man who actually died was relegated to the inner pages. Of course we know that pretty girls are always the choice of photo editors. But in this case, when the subject was a fellow journalist, I thought the Standard editors' cynical bid for eyeballs was particularly crass.


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Yesterday was my niece's first Christmas – too bad she slept through opening presents Wednesday morning.
To be fair, it was her naptime, but still. I guess Santa was too exciting for the big girl.
But as you can see from the photo above, it didn't stop her from being the star of the production – the one with the most gifts and the center of attention.
BTW, she's not spoiled at all. Seriously.
Anyway, I hope you had a great holiday with your loved ones! I'm headed out to the mall to talk to some post-holiday shoppers to discuss what they're looking for and/or returning.
Fun times!


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Royals Minor League report: June 28
Omaha Storm Chasers (35-46)
Iowa 5, Omaha 1
LP: Justin Marks (1-9)
The Storm Chasers dropped to 0-2 vs. Iowa. Omaha's pitching staff worked out of several jams, stranding runners in each of the first eight innings. Johnny Giavotella was 2-for-4 with a run scored, extending his hitting streak to 10 games (.472, 17-for-36). Paulo Orlando doubled and tripled for his fourth straight multihit game.
NW Arkansas Naturals (6-3 2nd half, 31-48 overall)
NW Arkansas 7, Midland 3
WP: Zach Jackson (1-0)
HR: Matt Fields (20)
Northwest Arkansas rallied with five in the eighth to complete a sweep of Midland. Rey Navarro's single tied the game at 3-3. Manuel Pina's groundout plated Yem Prades for the go-ahead tally and Whit Merrifield capped the rally with a three-run double. Fields took over the Texas League lead in homers with his 20th in the first. Starter Andy Ferguson allowed two runs, five hits and three walks over six innings.
Wilmington Blue Rocks (4-3 2nd half, 37-40 overall)
Wilmington's opener vs. Potomac was postponed due to rain. A doubleheader is scheduled for Saturday night, with the first seven-inning game starting at 5:05 p.m. ET. Kyle Zimmer will start the opener, with Tyler Sample taking the mound in the nightcap.
Lexington Legends (5-4 2nd half, 38-39 overall)
Lexington 3, Hagerstown 2
WP: Ali Williams (4-4)
SV: Mark Peterson (8)
HR: Mark Threlkeld (2)
Lexington rallied with three in the ninth to even a four-game set at a game apiece. Mark Threlkeld's homer tied the game at 2. Fred Ford followed with a triple and Bubba Starling's sac fly was the difference. Starter Crawford Simmons took a shutout into the fifth, allowing two runs over 4 2/3 innings.
Idaho Falls Chukars (2-7)
Ogden 7, Idaho Falls 3
LP: Cody Reed (0-1)
Idaho Falls lost the opener of a four-game series. Ogden plated three in the third and four in the fourth, including six runs off of Cody Reed. Dominique Taylor, KC's 15th-round pick in this year's First-Year Player Draft, was 3-for-4 with an RBI. Fourth-rounder Zane Evans doubled twice and drove in a run.
Burlington Royals (5-4)
Bluefield 10, Burlington 9
LP: Cruz Guevara (0-1)
HR: Sam Bates (1)
Burlington battled back but fell short after Bluefield built a 9-1 lead. Sam Bates drove in three runs and finished a triple shy of the cycle. Alfredo Escalera posted three singles and three RBI. Ryan Mattes struck out five over three perfect innings of relief.
Surprise Royals (3-5)
Arizona Dodgers 6, Surprise 5 (12 innings)
LP: Alex Black (1-1)
Surprise lost a second straight extra-inning game to the Dodgers. Lee's Summit North product Brandon Dulin followed his homer on Thursday with a four-hit night. He doubled twice, walked and drove in three runs. Tripp Davis threw three scoreless innings in relief.


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Hello Good People who still sometimes read this blog…
I return briefly to give a highly subjective account of a gig I went to at the weekend, that blew my mind and which has deafened me although I hope to regain my hearing gradually over the week (wear earplugs kids and don't do as I did).
I decided on the spur of the moment to go to Oxford on Sunday to see Acid Mothers Temple.
I bought my ticket online, but shortly afterwards realised I was ill with a stomach bug and had a bit of a temperature, but decided to go anyway, these difficulties were compounded by missing not one but two Oxford Tube coaches ( long stupid story). However I live with the philosophy that if something has many obstacles in the way, then the rewards at the end of it all are bound to be amazing so I forged my way to Oxford from London eventually.
The Bullingdon Arms venue was a bit grim but OK. Many posters about sniffer dogs and a ban on drug dealing, made me realise that I was probably not hanging out in the poshest part of Oxford but the low down and dirty experimental rock part, as it should be for such a gig.
The first act on were a young local band called Chambers of The Heart. I think they were a 5 piece band, it was hard to tell as they were playing in the dark, with only a film projection behind to illuminate them. Sounding like early Hawkwind, they were very loud and jammed continuously well, but in line with the age of the musicians, they sounded too well rehearsed and polished to actually be mistaken for a group who were creating sounds out of the air after taking a strange combination of far too many drugs ( i.e. early Hawkwind or any of the other 70s jam bands crawling out of the squats and back streets of Ladbroke Grove).
Chambers of the Heart had no vocalist but was fronted by a truly excellent female theremin player, who made this contraption her own by making it sing like a drunken but earnest Clanger. They sounded somehow slower than Hawkwind, but compensated for this by having great swells of loud energy and contrasting quiet peaceful bits.
I couldn't find any youtube clips for this band but instead here's their myspace:
chambers of the heart
Motorhead may have claimed to have "Everything Louder Than Everything Else", but that's only because Stearica was not playing live at the time. Italian band Stearica, have several pleasant-sounding melodic clips of themselves online however at this gig they were loud, forceful, speedy and raucous like this clip but much louder and somewhat faster:
Stearica 14/4/2008 ( in the spirit that I saw them play in)
Again there was no singer, but the drummer was the front man. He was the most manic drummer since Keith Moon , although this reference may now be outmoded. He asked the audience standing a few feet back from the stage,to come in closer, in a strong Italian accent. So I moved right to the front, but I had already become so engrossed in the music than I forgot to put in earplugs. Thereby injuring both brain and ears and experiencing the music in the same way as gorging a curry full of chillies and not much in the way of other ingredients.
The bassist played from a wheelchair, with energy and originality. A third member of the band played synth and guitar through two rows of pedal effects, but I was not able to hear him until the rhythm section stopped playing, and even then, I wasn't sure if what I was listening too was him playing high-pitched sounds or my internal screaming tinnitus.
However here he is on an occasion where he can be heard:
There was nothing subtle about this band, but also no boring moments,high-speed all the way through. At one point, in mid-song,the drummer got up and the whole band halted in suspended animation, which was surreal. They kept this up for some time until the crowds cheered enough for the drummer to start back up again and the others joined in perfectly in time. Pretty impressive. If I was running a psychedelic club I'd book them just for their sheer attitude and contagious enthusiasm.
By the time Acid Mothers Temple got on stage , I was already a bit deaf and had headbanged several thousand brain-cells out of existence ( now living in headbanger's heaven). I was a bit worried that I would not be able to hear the next band or have any energy left to dance with. I needn't have worried as they cranked up the volume of the Marshall amps even further, and the two guitarists standing in front of me, moved about as they played ,so that somehow I became possessed by a need to dance even more frenetically. I didn't need drink or drugs, the music was enough to temporarily cure my stomach malaise and send me into a psychedelic trance.
The entire band was Japanese except for the bass player who had broken his arm and was replaced by a white guy with a poney tail and a moustache . He was a dead-ringer for a guy I used to know who was both a devout Catholic and a devout drug dealer with gangster connections. This phased me initially, wondering if people who look just like other people, have similar personalities and lifestyles, but I digress. He was just a good bass player.
The lead guitarist was an artist. I don't know his background but I could imagine him starting by learning to play Chopin from an early age and practising this for 5 hours a day and then graduating to Hawkwind, Hendrix, Pink Floyd and Steve Hillage in adolescence.
The front man with long grey hair, on guitar and synth, seemed also to have studied the greats. You note that I do not name them.I know little about Acid Mothers Temple.
Of course I had heard of this band for some years , and knew that they had a connection with Gong, but the reason why I was at this concert was after a conversation in a London restaurant with some music students.
One girl, who is an excellent musician herself and generally a nice person, was taking the piss out of hippies as most people do. She was telling us about an Acid Mothers Temple gig she'd been to. She described them as being total hippies, who jammed for hours on stage, with a lead guitarist who did twenty-minute long solos, how everyone there was on acid and how there were hundreds of long-haired hippies in the audience either swaying or dancing crazily for hours on end to the loud psychedelic mayhem happening on stage. At which point I had to say "That sounds great!" even though she was criticising them. A music lecturer then helpfully told me that they were on tour and about to gig in Oxford.
I had heard some Japanese "noise" bands from clips on youtube, and this is what I was expecting, but Acid Mothers Temple was not only "noise", it was bloody good music. It was not "original" music in Western terms, but blatantly imitating early Pink Floyd and Hawkwind jams, Hendrix , Steve Hillage, or other psychedelic artists, re-hashed (pardon the pun) and re-assembled into beautiful musical forms, sublimely executed by these crazed rebellious musicians. The riffs could be a bit laboured and repetitive, but this had the effect of sending everyone into some kind of trance. At one point I got slightly bored with the repeated riff but then the bass player launched into the most amazing bass line in the style of Yes bassist Chris Squire.
But you can hear this for yourselves. A clip of Acid Mothers Temple, this is one of their famous tracks ,Pink Lady Lemonade..wait for the bass to come in…followed a minute or so later by guitar solo (27 th march 2010 Vancouver)
Here is a little taster of them during a manic more disjointed phase of their musical performance from 2006:
The drummer was tucked away in the back but still drove the ever-changing speed and volume.There were phases in the music of light and dark, the pretty and melodic contrasted with piercing chaos. Feedback was used throughout as an extra dimension as well as prolific stage antics.
On several occasions, I expected the guitarist to smash his guitar to pieces in front of me and was ready to duck or catch it, if it landed in my direction. There were attempts at singing but due to the volume of the instruments it was impossible for either the audience, or the musicians to hear any vocals. At times,even the drum kit , which was being hit as hard as humanly possible, barely registered against the storm of surrounding feedback and electronic overdrive.
But hey, why have one drum-kit when you can have two?
Here is a clip of Acid Mothers Temple ( with two drummers), doing a cover of a Steve Hillage track :The Glorious Om Riff … Somehow they manage to shout the lyrics in a totally different key to the music, I don't know if this is intentional , or just because they were deafened. Luckily they did not play this at the excellent Oxford gig I attended,as it is a bit painful to a Steve Hillage fan, and yet it's still brilliantly rebellious and entertaining. I assure you that they are much more "polished " in 2010…if polished is the best word to describe them. Anyway Steve Hillage fans should play this clip from around 5 minutes in and see what you think of their cover version. Even later on in the clip, the band gets a tad nihilistic.
Acid Mother's Temple with glissando guitar ( beautiful!)
14th April 2010 Kentucky
The final 30 minutes of the gig had virtually non-stop strobes. The lead guitarist threw his guitar around and then hung it up on the lighting rig, letting it ring out the feedback before leaving the stage.
Love 'em or hate 'em, the hurricane of electronic sounds and the dedication of the musicians to blow your mind into the ultimate psychedelic experience makes an "Acid Mothers Temple" concert an unmissable cathartic event.
It's been three days and I still have some tinnitus in my ears, but all in all, that was the craziest psychedelic rock gig I have been to in 30 years.
There were no lyrics, no elaborate lightshows, no on stage choreography, but f*** me it was good.
Go see Acid Mothers Temple before you die, or they do (and bring earplugs).
Love and Peace


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There's a rather astounding article at Coaches By The Numbers (h/t Team Speed Kills) about turnover in the upper tier coaching ranks at D-1 schools over the past few seasons. You can take the time to pour over the charts for the details, but these two paragraphs tell the tale:
So think about this. If you signed a scholarship to play college football at an FBS program in 2009, there is a 68% chance that you are playing for a new head coach, an 86% chance that you are playing for a new offensive coordinator, and an 88% chance that you are playing for a new defensive coordinator.
Here is one final eye-opening statistic for all the wide-eyed high school recruits getting wooed by their favorite coach or coordinator. In the last 4 years (2009-2012), only eight FBS teams (roughly 7%) have had the same head coach, offensive coordinator, and defensive coordinator for all four years from 2009-2012. [Emphasis added.]
Of course, the selfish question for us is whether Georgia is past the hump on coaching turnover. The contract extensions headed Richt's and Grantham's way would seem to indicate that. But, man, given those numbers CBTN compiled, I'm not sure anyone should get too comfortable.
One more thing – I used to be at least somewhat sympathetic to the proposal that student-athletes should be free to transfer in the wake of a coaching change without having to sit out a year, but after looking at this, how chaotic would it be to allow that?


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BREDASDORP, South Africa (Reuters) - Hundreds of South Africans chanting "enough is enough" gathered on Friday at a building site where a 17-year-old girl was mutilated and left to die after being gang-raped.
Their tribute was testimony to how the killing of Anene Booysen has stirred outrage in a country where many people have become oblivious to rampant sex crimes and violence.
People marched in a procession to the site in the sleepy town of Bredasdorp, 130 km (80 miles) east of Capte Town, where they placed flowers and candles by a simple wooden cross.
Booysen was found by security guards lying only a short distance from her house after partying at a nearby bar last Friday evening. She later died in hospital.
Her foster mother, Corlia Olivier, recounted the moment when she saw her daughter dumped amid the gravel and grass, her stomach slit open down to her genitals.
"I heard her saying âMommy help me, Mommy help me' and I rushed over...and just saw her guts hanging out," Olivier told reporters, tears welling up in her eyes.
The incident and the public response has echoes of the gang rape and murder of a 23-year-old student on a New Delhi bus last year, which caused a national and international outcry.
President Jacob Zuma expressed shock and outrage, calling for the harshest possible sentences for the killers and a concerted campaign "to end this scourge in our society".
In Geneva, U.N. Human Rights chief Navi Pillay said South Africa must tackle a "pandemic of sexual violence" and she was concerned about low conviction rates for rapists.
"There is a need for very strong signals to be sent to all rapists that sexual violence is absolutely unacceptable and that they will have to face the consequences of their terrible acts. The entrenched culture of sexual violence which prevails in South Africa must end," said Pillay, herself a South African.
South Africa has the highest number of reported rapes per head of population of any Interpol member country, with more than 64,500 reported in 2011/2012.
Even when suspects are caught, only 12 percent of cases end in conviction. But sexual crimes seldom cause little public concern beyond some soul-searching editorials and anguished radio phone-ins.
The Womens' League of the ruling African National Congress is trying to mobilize the public into similar action to the protests against anti-female violence that took place in India after the New Delhi attack.
On Friday, Cape Town radio station KFM broadcast a "bleep" every four minutes as a reminder to listeners that another South African woman will, on average, have just been raped.
At the Bredasdrop site, religious leaders and politicians linked arms with Booysen's relatives as they sang hymns and laid a wreath by the cross, adorned with a pink ribbon.
"I still hear her footsteps," Olivier said as a stream of well-wishers arrived to offer condolences.
Maree Louw, commander of the local police station, said the murder was one of the worst cases she had seen in a long career.
"The brutality and the slaughter of this young teenager is beyond belief," Louw told Reuters.
Like many towns in South Africa's Western Cape, Bredasdorp, with a population of 35,000 people, has problems with drug and alcohol abuse but, Louw said, most people would go to bed at night with their back doors open and windows unlocked.
Booysen managed to reveal the name of one of the attackers, a family friend, before dying. Three men in their early 20s have been arrested and are expected to appear in court on Tuesday on charges of rape and murder.
They face the prospect of life in prison if convicted.
Under a constitution drawn up after the end of apartheid in 1994, Nelson Mandela's "Rainbow Nation" abolished the death penalty. Some in Bredasdorp wish that were not the case.
"This crime was very sadistic and deserves the death penalty," said mother-of-three Sophia Europa. "What they did was worse than anything done to an animal."
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Thursday, September 13, 2012
Picture Book Round-Up
It's been a long time since the last Picture Book Round-up. Over the summer there's slim pickings at the library most of the time, and so now that school is back in session, we've snagged great finds again. Here are just a handful of 'em.
I was skeptical of this book when I heard it was about manners. But it's done in a fun way and my boys both enjoyed it. They were wishing that could maybe have elephants, lions, or camels for parents for a day or two so they could go wild with no rules. Ha! But it's nice to read a fun book that also reminds them that their parents aren't the only ones with rules. The chart in the back that shows the rules for various animals was pretty fun too!
This book is written to the tune of Over in the Meadow, which I have to admit I'm not a huge fan of. But I really liked this Halloween version. Ghosts, witches, goblins, skeletons! The rhymes were clever and rolled of the tongue so easily, which makes it a really fun read aloud. My boys both had glowing things to say about the book as soon as I finished reading it. I might use this with my Literacy Launchpad students next month. Really liked this one!
Crisp and vivid illustrations in this one, collaged and with a great textured look. I really loved the illustrations! How many different onomonopias can you use to describe bird sounds? I wasn't so sure how I was going to like this when I started it. But the bird sound onomonopias were so fun; my little guy stayed glued to the book as I turned each page to reveal a new bird. There was counting, and discovering new birds, and making fun noises, and exploring each cool illustration... Even the way the text was laid out on the page became a visually interesting part of each illustration. The brief bird facts at the end were a pleasant discovery, as my son had a few questions as this intriguing book wrapped up and he wanted to know more about these cool birds!
We snagged this book at the library at the perfect time; there have been caterpillars and butterflies (or are they moths?) all over the place by us this past week. My son caught a caterpillar and brought it inside and watched it build its chrysalis. I remembered that we had this book and we sat down and enjoyed. It's basically a counting book, with beautiful Lois Ehlert illustrations. Simple. I think it would be wonderful in a board book format; toddlers would love this. Great for spring time... Or I guess for fall too! Ha!
One of those warm, fuzzy boy-meets-pet stories. A boy wants a dog, a duck wants to be a pet, so he dresses up like a dog. The duck is so adorable. I can't help but imagine gifting this book to a niece or nephew with a cuddly, plush duck to go with it. I mean, the illustration with the duck tear, and then the boy carrying the duck with the duck's head on his shoulder...? Melt my heart! I guess I'm just a sappy, softy. This is a great book to cuddle up with your little one(s) with at bedtime. I'm thinking about doing a pet unit too, and might use this book for that.
I had to grab this book when I saw it at the library because my boys are obsessed with ninjas (thank you, Ninjago). This story is clever, and funny, and just a hoot to read. This is the kind of book my boys and I love; it was a great discussion starter, and great for encouraging creativity and imagination. It's kind of off-the-wall and I love reading books that get my boys to think in a kind of off-the-wall way. And what kid doesn't love a story where the child protagonist is right in the end and gets to have a told-you-so kind of moment with their parents. This book delivers that. Ha! Love it!
A big ole game of "Telephone" between a bunch of forest critters, only the secret makes it all the way around without getting warped into something its not. The illustrations were very visually interesting. I loved how the illustrations showed a little dotted trail throughout the pages of the path the animals took. It was like a little map, and it had me thinking up fun craft activities that would be great to do with this book. Pair a map activity with a real game of "telephone" with your group you're reading to, and you've got a fun little story time. Definitely going to use this book for a lesson, either with my students, or just with my kids at home.
I'm pretty hard to please when it comes to alphabet books, but this was one I liked. The problem I have with most alphabet books is that they try to get too cute and clever with it, and it just ends up feeling awkward and doesn't work for me. This book doesn't do that. I love the illustrations of the alphabet letters; they remind me of the way I used to draw big block letters myself when I was younger. I could see doing fun art projects that mimic the illustrations in this book. There's a quaint simplicity to this book that is sweet, but still beautiful. And the illustrations are perfect for lingering over with your little one on your lap and talking about the letter names, sounds, and what each of the letters are doing on each page. This book begs to be read over and over, taking your time.
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Stanton showing what he can do when healthy
MIAMI -- No longer can Giancarlo Stanton be labeled a "slow starter."
If anything, Stanton has made a strong case to be the National League Player of the Month for April.
After belting a two-run homer in Tuesday's 9-0 win over the Braves, the 24-year-old slugger set a Marlins record for RBIs in March/April. He now has 31, breaking Moises Alou's previous mark of 30 set in 1997.
In recent years, Stanton has had rough going in the first month, but that was largely due to injuries that plagued him in Spring Training. For instance, he had just nine RBIs in April last year.
Stanton has stepped up with eight homers the first month, and he's showing the raw talent that has many believing he can become the most feared power hitter in the game.
"I'm staying relaxed," Stanton said of his first-month success.
Since the start of Spring Training, Stanton has made it clear he doesn't want to spend much time talking about his successes. Instead, he prefers to let his results do the talking.
"I'm not worried about [April numbers]," the right fielder said. "It's pretty cool actually. But it's just April. We've got to keep it going."
Stanton's career high for RBIs in a season is 87, set in 2011. A year ago, he finished with 62. He already has half of that total.
Previously, Stanton's best overall RBI month was in May 2012, when he was the NL Player of the Month, batting .343 with 12 homers and 30 RBIs.
The Marlins actually have two players worthy of monthly honors, Stanton and Jose Fernandez, a candidate for NL Pitcher of the Month.
"He seems like he's having a lot of fun," Fernandez said. "He's laughing, enjoying this game. When he's like that, he's unstoppable."


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New 2020 Kia Forte LXS
- Stock: NC20218
Basic Info
Exterior:Silky Silver
Engine:Regular Unleaded I-4 2.0 L/122
Fuel Efficiency:29 CITY / 40 HWY
Key Features
Android Auto
Apple CarPlay
Backup Camera
Interior Accents
Keyless Entry
Lane Departure Warning
Side-Impact Air Bags
Vehicle Details
- Black Grille w/Chrome Surround
- Black Side Windows Trim
- Body-Colored Door Handles
- Body-Colored Front Bumper w/Black Rub Strip/Fascia Accent
- Body-Colored Power Side Mirrors w/Manual Folding
- Body-Colored Rear Bumper w/Black Rub Strip/Fascia Accent
- Clearcoat Paint
- Fixed Rear Window w/Defroster
- Fully Automatic Projector Beam Halogen Daytime Running Headlamps w/Delay-Off
- Fully Galvanized Steel Panels
- Light Tinted Glass
- Spare Tire Mobility Kit
- Tires: P205/55R16 All-Season
- Trunk Rear Cargo Access
- Variable Intermittent Wipers
- Wheels: 16 Machine Finish Alloy
- Wheels: 16" Machine Finish Alloy
- 2 12V DC Power Outlets
- 2 LCD Monitors In The Front
- 6-Way Driver Seat -inc: Manual Recline, Height Adjustment and Fore/Aft Movement
- 6-Way Passenger Seat -inc: Manual Recline, Height Adjustment and Fore/Aft Movement
- 60-40 Folding Bench Front Facing Fold Forward Seatback Rear Seat
- Air Filtration
- Analog Display
- Cargo Area Concealed Storage
- Cargo Features -inc: Spare Tire Mobility Kit
- Cargo Space Lights
- Carpet Floor Trim and Carpet Trunk Lid/Rear Cargo Door Trim
- Cruise Control w/Steering Wheel Controls
- Day-Night Rearview Mirror
- Delayed Accessory Power
- Driver And Passenger Visor Vanity Mirrors w/Driver Auxiliary Mirror
- Driver Foot Rest
- Fade-To-Off Interior Lighting
- FOB Controls -inc: Cargo Access
- Front Bucket Seats -inc: 6-way adjustable driver's and front passenger seats
- Front Center Armrest
- Front Cupholder
- Front Map Lights
- Full Carpet Floor Covering
- Full Cloth Headliner
- Full Floor Console w/Covered Storage, Mini Overhead Console w/Storage and 2 12V DC Power Outlets
- Gauges -inc: Speedometer, Odometer, Engine Coolant Temp, Tachometer, Trip Odometer and Trip Computer
- Glove Box
- HVAC -inc: Underseat Ducts
- Instrument Panel Bin, Driver / Passenger And Rear Door Bins
- Interior Trim -inc: Metal-Look Instrument Panel Insert, Piano Black Door Panel Insert, Piano Black Console Insert and Chrome/Metal-Look Interior Accents
- Manual Adjustable Front Head Restraints and Manual Adjustable Rear Head Restraints
- Manual Air Conditioning
- Manual Tilt/Telescoping Steering Column
- Perimeter Alarm
- Power 1st Row Windows w/Driver 1-Touch Down
- Power Door Locks w/Autolock Feature
- Power Rear Windows
- Radio w/Seek-Scan, Clock, Speed Compensated Volume Control, Steering Wheel Controls and Radio Data System
- Radio: AM/FM/MP3 Audio System -inc: 4 speakers, support for Android Auto and Apple CarPlay smartphone integration, Bluetooth wireless technology and auxiliary and USB input jacks
- Rear Cupholder
- Remote Keyless Entry w/Integrated Key Transmitter, Illuminated Entry and Panic Button
- Remote Releases -Inc: Mechanical Cargo Access and Mechanical Fuel
- Streaming Audio
- Trip Computer
- Urethane Gear Shifter Material
- Window Grid Antenna
- Woven Cloth Seat Trim
- Radio: AM/FM/MP3 Audio System -inc: 4 speakers, support for Android Auto and Apple CarPlay smartphone integration, Bluetooth wireless technology and auxiliary and USB input jacks
- Radio w/Seek-Scan, Clock, Speed Compensated Volume Control, Steering Wheel Controls and Radio Data System
- Streaming Audio
- Window Grid Antenna
- 2 LCD Monitors In The Front
- 120 Amp Alternator
- 14 Gal. Fuel Tank
- 4-Wheel Disc Brakes w/4-Wheel ABS, Front Vented Discs, Brake Assist and Hill Hold Control
- 4.89 Axle Ratio
- 60-Amp/Hr Maintenance-Free Battery w/Run Down Protection
- Electric Power-Assist Steering
- Engine: 2.0L 4-Cylinder MPI 16V DOHC w/Dual CVVT
- Front Anti-Roll Bar
- Front-Wheel Drive
- Gas-Pressurized Shock Absorbers
- Single Stainless Steel Exhaust w/Chrome Tailpipe Finisher
- Strut Front Suspension w/Coil Springs
- Torsion Beam Rear Suspension w/Coil Springs
- Transmission: Intelligent Variable -inc: Sportmatic and drive mode select w/visual display (normal, sport, comfort)
- ABS And Driveline Traction Control
- Airbag Occupancy Sensor
- Back-Up Camera
- Curtain 1st And 2nd Row Airbags
- Dual Stage Driver And Passenger Front Airbags
- Dual Stage Driver And Passenger Seat-Mounted Side Airbags
- Electronic Stability Control (ESC)
- Forward Collision-Avoidance Assist (fca)
- Lane Keeping Assist-Line (LKA-L) Lane Departure Warning
- Lane Keeping Assist-Line (LKA-L) Lane Keeping Assist
- Low Tire Pressure Warning
- Outboard Front Lap And Shoulder Safety Belts -inc: Rear Center 3 Point, Height Adjusters and Pretensioners
- Rear Child Safety Locks
- Side Impact Beams
- Forward Collision-Avoidance Assist (FCA)
Tech Specs
- Vehicle Name: Kia Forte
- Body Style: Sedan
- Drivetrain: Front Wheel Drive
- EPA Classification: Mid-Size Cars
- Passenger Capacity: 5
- Passenger Volume: 96
- Base Curb Weight: 2762
- Fuel Economy Est-Combined: 33
- EPA Fuel Economy Est - City: 29
- EPA Fuel Economy Est - Hwy: 40
- Engine Order Code:
- Engine Type: Regular Unleaded I-4
- Displacement: 2.0 L/122
- Fuel System: MPI
- SAE Net Horsepower @ RPM: 147 @ 6200
- SAE Net Torque @ RPM: 132 @ 4500
- Trans Order Code:
- Trans Type: 1
- Trans Description Cont.: CVT w/OD
- Trans Description Cont. Again:
- First Gear Ratio (:1): 2.68 - 0.39
- Reverse Ratio (:1): 2.82
- Final Drive Axle Ratio (:1): 4.89
- Tons/yr of CO2 Emissions @ 15K mi/year: 5.4
- Maximum Alternator Capacity (amps): 120
- Suspension Type - Front: Strut
- Suspension Type - Rear: Torsion Beam
- Suspension Type - Front (Cont.): Strut
- Suspension Type - Rear (Cont.): Torsion Beam
- Front Tire Order Code:
- Rear Tire Order Code:
- Spare Tire Order Code:
- Front Tire Size: P205/55HR16
- Rear Tire Size: P205/55HR16
- Spare Tire Size:
- Front Wheel Size: 16 X 6.5
- Rear Wheel Size: 16 X 6.5
- Spare Wheel Size:
- Front Wheel Material: Aluminum
- Rear Wheel Material: Aluminum
- Spare Wheel Material:
- Steering Type: Rack-Pinion
- Turning Diameter - Curb to Curb: 34.8
- Brake Type: 4-Wheel Disc
- Brake ABS System: 4-Wheel
- Disc - Front (Yes or ): Yes
- Disc - Rear (Yes or ): Yes
- Front Brake Rotor Diam x Thickness: 11
- Rear Brake Rotor Diam x Thickness: 10.3
- Drum - Rear (Yes or ):
- Rear Drum Diam x Width:
- Fuel Tank Capacity, Approx: 14
- Front Head Room: 38.8
- Front Leg Room: 42.2
- Front Shoulder Room: 56.1
- Front Hip Room: 53
- Second Head Room: 37.5
- Second Leg Room: 35.7
- Second Shoulder Room: 55.3
- Second Hip Room: 51.1
- Wheelbase: 106.3
- Length, Overall: 182.7
- Width, Max w/o mirrors: 70.9
- Height, Overall: 56.5
- Track Width, Front: 61.2
- Track Width, Rear: 61.6
- Min Ground Clearance: 5.3
- Trunk Volume: 15.3
- Country of Origin: Mexico Kia Passenger Cars
- 4 Speakers
- AM/FM radio
- Radio data system
- Radio: AM/FM/MP3 Audio System
- Air Conditioning
- Rear window defroster
- Power steering
- Power windows
- Remote keyless entry
- Steering wheel mounted audio controls
- Traction control
- 4-Wheel Disc Brakes
- ABS brakes
- Dual front impact airbags
- Dual front side impact airbags
- Front anti-roll bar
- Front wheel independent suspension
- Low tire pressure warning
- Occupant sensing airbag
- Overhead airbag
- Brake assist
- Electronic Stability Control
- Exterior Parking Camera Rear
- Delay-off headlights
- Fully automatic headlights
- Panic alarm
- Security system
- Speed control
- Bumpers: body-color
- Power door mirrors
- Driver door bin
- Driver vanity mirror
- Front reading lights
- Illuminated entry
- Overhead console
- Passenger vanity mirror
- Tachometer
- Telescoping steering wheel
- Tilt steering wheel
- Trip computer
- Front Bucket Seats
- Front Center Armrest
- Split folding rear seat
- Woven Cloth Seat Trim
- Passenger door bin
- Alloy wheels
- Variably intermittent wipers
- Front Wheel Drive
- Power Steering
- Brake Assist
- Aluminum Wheels
- Tires - Front Performance
- Tires - Rear Performance
- Power Mirror(s)
- Rear Defrost
- Intermittent Wipers
- Variable Speed Intermittent Wipers
- Daytime Running Lights
- Automatic Headlights
- AM/FM Stereo
- MP3 Player
- Bluetooth Connection
- Auxiliary Audio Input
- Smart Device Integration
- Steering Wheel Audio Controls
- Bucket Seats
- Pass-Through Rear Seat
- Rear Bench Seat
- Adjustable Steering Wheel
- Trip Computer
- Power Windows
- Keyless Entry
- Power Door Locks
- Remote Trunk Release
- Cruise Control
- Cloth Seats
- Driver Vanity Mirror
- Passenger Vanity Mirror
- Security System
- Traction Control
- Stability Control
- Front Side Air Bag
- Lane Departure Warning
- Lane Keeping Assist
- Tire Pressure Monitor
- Driver Air Bag
- Passenger Air Bag
- Front Head Air Bag
- Rear Head Air Bag
- Passenger Air Bag Sensor
- Child Safety Locks
- Back-Up Camera
- 4 Cylinder Engine
- Gasoline Fuel
- CVT Transmission
- Transmission w/Dual Shift Mode
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Fear of Radical Islam in Syria
The Greek Orthodox Patriarch Ignatius IV Hazim Friday added its voice to that of the Maronite Patriarch Boutros Bechara Rahi, expressing his concern about the possible arrival of the "Salafis" (radical islamists) to power in Syria.
Patriarch Ignatius, who gave an interview to radio VDL, said that today Christians of Syria are free and united. The Patriarch emphasized that his concern related to possible changes in Syria. The head of the Antiochian Orthodox Church said that he would like to see the status to be preserved as it was in last thirty years, when nothing had not been committed against the Christians.
The Christians who are minority in Syria, are not capable to influence any changes alone in the country, nor to take high positions in the leadership of Syria, explained Patriarch Ignatius, expressing his doubt regarding possible civil wars in this country. He pointed out that changes that would happen in Syria, could have consequences also for Lebanon.
Source: Metropolitanate of Montenegro and the Littoral, Orthodoxie


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Based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, DynaFront selected IBM PureFlex System over other offers as the platform to launch its new service. Serving the growing Asia-Pacific insurance industry, DynaFront offers local and multinational insurance companies flexible, high-performing IT solutions.
Malaysia's insurance sector is on a solid growth path based on the new regulatory reform introduced at the end of 2010, as well as on other favorable trends such as rising life expectancy and a growing need for pension and health provision beyond that provided by the state. According to Life Insurance Association of Malaysia (LIAM), the Malaysian economy is expected to grow by between 5 and 6 percent in 2012 with the services and manufacturing sectors spearheading expansion. With these developments, coupled with the low insurance penetration rate in the country, the industry is forecast to achieve a growth of between 7 and 10 percent this year.
"South East Asia is attractive to insurers because of its population growing affluence. While the markets are under-penetrated, our clients focus on cost reduction and improved efficiencies while trying to offer innovative ways to reach new clients," said Mr. Chan Eng Lim, Chairman and CEO of DynaFront. "We selected the IBM platform to launch our new offering because we recognized the game-changing role PureFlex System can play not only in how we run our back office, but also in how it enables the industry to build relationships with its customers".
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WASHINGTON - The U.S. on Tuesday said it is delaying a new 10% tariff on some key Chinese imported consumer products that President Donald Trump had been set to impose September 1.
The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative said the levies on laptop computers and computer monitors, cell phones, video game consoles, some toys, shoes and clothing would be delayed until December 15. That could be a cost-saving benefit to U.S. consumers, who often give such products to family members and friends over the December holiday season.
In addition, the U.S. said it is exempting altogether a separate group of Chinese imports "based on health, safety, national security and other factors."
But the new tariff will still be imposed on a wide range of other Chinese goods, the U.S. trade office said, with the list of affected products to be announced soon.
After days of losses, U.S. stock indexes surged on news of the tariff rollbacks, with markets in New York jumping 1.6% or more.
The tariff changes were announced as Trump, on a golf vacation at his New Jersey resort, defended his trade conflict with China.
On Twitter, he contended tariffs he has imposed on hundreds of billions of dollars of Chinese exports headed to the United States are benefiting the U.S. Treasury. He said the tariffs are not hurting U.S. consumers who buy Chinese-made goods or farmers whose produce China has stopped buying.
"Through massive devaluation of their currency and pumping vast sums of money into their system, the tens of billions of dollars that the U.S. is receiving is a gift from China," Trump tweeted. "Prices not up, no inflation. Farmers getting more than China would be spending. Fake News won't report!"
He added, "As usual, China said they were going to be buying 'big' from our great American Farmers. So far they have not done what they said. Maybe this will be different!"
Over a two-year period, Trump has sent or is promising to pay U.S. farmers more than $26 billion in government aid to compensate them for losses they have sustained since China ended its purchase of American grains and other products.
Despite Trump's claim, it is U.S. importers who pay tariffs, not exporters like China, and the American corporations often include the cost of the levies in the price of the goods they sell to other businesses and consumers. A Treasury report said U.S. businesses have paid more than $50 billion in tariffs on products from throughout the world, not just China, through the first nine months of the government's current fiscal year.
To date, Trump has imposed 25% tariffs on $250 billion worth of Chinese exports and said he planned to add a 10% tariff next month on another $300 billion worth of Chinese products entering the U.S. If he had imposed the new tariff in full, virtually all Chinese goods entering the U.S. would have been taxed.
Now, with the Tuesday rollback of the new tariff, not all Chinese imports will be taxed.
Trade negotiations between the world's two largest economies have been contentious, with Washington and Beijing unable to reach an agreement.
U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin talked with Chinese Vice Premier Liu He on Tuesday and agreed to another call in two weeks. But there was no announcement on any movement toward an accord.
The next round of trade talks between the two countries were expected to to occur in September after the U.S. tariffs take effect.