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New Economic Report Finds Changes in Oil & Natural Gas Industry
A just-released report shows a single industry – oil and natural gas – pumps $61 BILLION into the state economy. In fact, the study shows this industry remains the defining sector in the state, generating one out of every $3 in gross state product.
The Oklahoma Energy Resources Board, on behalf of the oil and natural gas industry, commissioned the economic impact study to determine the effect of exploration and production on the Oklahoma economy. The report was released during a press conference at the state capitol.
This report serves as the third in a series of studies and provides economic impact estimates for activity in 2011. Among the key findings in relation to the 2009 economic impact report are the following:
Russell Evans, executive director of Steven C. Agee Economic
Research & Policy Institute, explains the findings of the research.
• Over the two-year period, the industry added nearly 12,000 jobs, including nearly 4,000 jobs to the self-employed.
• Self-employment labor income grew to levels in 2011 very near their pre-recession peak, providing a statewide average compensation per job of more than $113,000 a year.
• Income growth was strongest in the oil field, reflecting increased drilling activity and increased complexity associated with today's drilling technique; average income from drilling jobs grew nearly 30% since the recession to more than $65,000 per job.
• 2011 industry activity set off economic impacts of $52 billion in gross state product or one out of every $3 in GSP.
• $28 billion in state personal income is attributed to the industry.
• 344,503 jobs are directly or indirectly related to the industry.
• The industry paid nearly $1 billion in gross production taxes annually
The study shows the oil and natural gas industry is pumping $61 billion into the state economy – very near the pre-recession level in 2007 of $68 billion.
"The 2011 impacts are awfully close to being where they were in 2007, pre-recession," said Russell Evans, director of the Steven C. Agee Economic Research and Policy Institute and author of the study.
"A lot of the impacts that we enjoy in Oklahoma from the oil and gas industry really revolve around regular, predictable drilling activity," Evans said. "We're not quite back to our '07 impact levels, but awfully close."
Oklahoma's oil and natural gas industry has helped the state emerge from the recession better off than many states in the country.
"More than 25 cents out of every dollar spent by Oklahoma's state government is provided thanks to the Oklahoma energy industry. That translates into better schools for our children, better roads and bridges and better health and safety for our citizens," said State Treasurer Ken Miller. "We can't take this sector for granted."
The gross production tax on oil and natural gas accounts for 12 percent of all state tax collections. When income
Oklahoma State Treasurer Ken Miller talks about the financial impacts the oil and
natural gas industry has on the state of Oklahoma.
taxes are included, the oil and natural gas industry accounts for 27 percent of all taxes paid in the state. This does not count corporate income taxes, motor vehicle taxes, ad valor-em taxes and other miscellaneous fees and taxes paid by the industry.
"Without the energy industry, Oklahoma would not have one of the lowest unemployment rates in the nation at 5.4%, almost 3% below the national average, the second highest job growth in the nation and the fourth highest per capita income growth in the United States," said Miller.
Because the energy industry is Oklahoma's defining industry, its growth demands the expansion of a broad employee base with diverse skill sets.
"Within the walls of our producers in Oklahoma, the types of employees they require is changing considerably," said Evans.
The study shows producers have increased hiring in the areas of compliance officers, auditors, accountants and network and computer systems administrators. Evans noted not only will this talented, skilled labor force enhance the energy industry, but it will also help diversify the state's labor pool because companies are hiring employees with a greater mix of skills.
Evans said that demand also forces Oklahoma colleges and technology centers to provide training for a more diverse workforce, in turn creating a deeper labor pool for other industries.
"In Oklahoma, we understand the importance of this industry. Those of us who live close to the wellhead understand and depend on the impact this industry has on jobs and the overall economy," said Bob Sullivan, Chairman of the Oklahoma Independent Petroleum Association. "These numbers represent our friends and neighbors, little league coaches and church deacons, uncles and cousins.
State Treasurer Ken Miller takes questions
from the media.
Because of these men and women, the oil and natural gas industry is producing for Oklahoma."
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PSV Eindhoven winger JEREMAIN LENS (9), the newly-capped Holland international purchased from AZ 67 Alkmaar for 6.25 million Euros this past summer, attempts to pull away from Glasgow Rangers' United States World Cup midfielder MAURICE EDU (7) at the Philips Stadion in the Netherlands. (Ermindo Armino/AP)
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For all their possession and overwhelming advantage in attempts-at-goal, Dutch Eredivisie leaders PSV EINDHOVEN were held to a scoreless draw by the stubborn defending of visiting Scottish side GLASGOW RANGERS in the first leg of the UEFA Europa League Round of 16 knockout tie.
Reserve goalkeeper NEIL ALEXANDER, who has earned three caps in his career for Scotland, was given the start between the sticks by Rangers manager WALTER SMITH on his 33rd birthday and did all that was required of him to turn in a clean sheet.
Brazilian defender MARCELO, who netted the third goal in PSV Eindhoven's decisive 3-1 win over French club OSC Lille in the previous round of the Europa League, had a marvelous opportunity to win the match for the Rood-witten but headed wide at the far post with the goal at his mercy and less than twenty minutes remaining .
Hungary international winger BALAZS DZSUDZSAK, who leads PSV Eindhoven with 21 goals in all competitions this season, was sufficiently held in check by the five-man backline of Glasgow Rangers, who are missing several first-team regulars due to injury.
Sweden international midfielder OLA TOIVONEN, second on the Boeren with 18 goals from all games and currently serving a suspension in the Dutch top flight, was also unable to get his name on the scoresheet for PSV Eindhoven.
With club captain and 40-year-old Scotland international defender DAVID WEIR (3) caught in between, Glasgow Rangers' reserve goalkeeper NEIL ALEXANDER (25)punches the ball away from Holland international winger JEREMAIN LENS (9) of PSV Eindhoven at the Philips Stadion. (Ermindo Armino/AP)
PSV EINDHOVEN : Isaksson – Manolev, Marcelo, Bouma, Pieters – Engelaar, Hutchinson – Lens, Toivonen (Bakkal 84′), Dzsudzsak – Berg (Koevermans 70′)
GLASGOW RANGERS : Alexander – Whittaker, Bougherra, Weir, Bartley, Foster – Lafferty (Wylde 80′), Edu, Hutton, Davis – Diouf (Weiss 64′)
Sweden international MARCUS BERG, the striker out on loan from German Bundesliga club SV Hamburg who has scored just two goals in Europe for PSV Eindhoven this term, cannot negotiate Glasgow Rangers reserve goalkeeper NEIL ALEXANDER (25) at the Philips Stadion in the Netherlands. (Ermindo Armino/AP)


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Plus, it's officially fall now, and there are a lot of things we could say about this being a time for less beer and partying, more coffee and working. But do we really need an excuse to take an obsessive look at local coffee? Of course not. If we have it our way, you'll never have to set foot in a Dunkin Donuts again.
Besides boasting literally the most straightforward name possible, the Brooklyn Roasting Company has all the social responsibility cred a conscientious addict could ever hope for: their beans are all Fair Trade, Rainforest Alliance, and Organic certified from the outset. They're then put through multiple rounds of taste testing, roasted with recycled equipment, and transported with clean energy sources before arriving in the company's DUMBO cafe. So ethical (and delicious) that it almost hurts. Almost.
Since opening in 2003 Oslo has quickly become one of Williamsburg's cornerstone businesses (they have two locations in the neighborhood), establishing itself as an essential pilgrimage for any dyed-in-the-wool coffee fanatic. They also keep things environmentally friendly, offering up coffee chaff — the run-off that results from the roasting process — for all your local composting needs.
Oslo is nothing if not consistent, with a reliable stable of both house and seasonal roasts on hand, and even their decaf blend is meticulously selected. If that isn't a labor of love, we don't know what is.
Stumptown may have come to us by way of Portland and Seattle, but between its Red Hook plant and the fact that their beans have showed up in just about every self-respecting coffee place we can think of, they've more than earned their spot on this list.
Every single one of their blends is guaranteed to leave you pleasantly wired, but there's no better place to start than with their classic Hair Bender beans. This one's nothing short of essential.
Between their fastidiously roasted beans — sold to customers no more than 48 hours after roasting — and delightfully elaborate equipment — a Japanese slow-drip machine that painstakingly doles out iced coffee (see above) — their Berry St. cafe has everything both a coffee snob or a casual addict could ever ask for. Did we mention their pastry menu? It's just as serious as their coffee, if such a thing is possible.
Toby's, a new but hugely popular addition to Williamsubrg's coffee options, is the singular vision of founder Toby Smith, who cut his teeth working on coffee plantations in Brazil and Guatemala before honing his roasting technique in his native Australia. The company has proved to be hugely popular worldwide, and finally came stateside last winter, opening its shop and roastery in a former meatpacking factory, of course.
Aside from obsessively selected beans, Toby's also stands out for Australian specialties like the Flat White, a cappuccino-like marriage of espresso and textured milk, without the foam.
Before Williamsburg fashioned itself as the coffee capitol of the entire borough, this Park Slope favorite rose to dominance and has more or less stayed there ever since. A decade after opening, Gorilla is easily one of the longest-running and most visible staples in our exploding coffee scene, with organic, Fair Trade beans sold all over the city alongside their ubiquitous mugs and shirts.
More recently, the company had little trouble bouncing back from a contentious period in 2010, when nearly the entire staff of baristas quit over conflicts with one of the owners. Since then they've quietly resolved tensions, consistently sending staff out to conferences to keep up with roasting techniques, and even sending a company bike team on a ride through the Colorado Rockies. Aww.
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UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee,
Terry BUTLER, also known as Bo, Defendant-Appellant.
No. 92-1393.
United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.
Sept. 30, 1992.
NOTICE: Sixth Circuit Rule 24(c) states that citation of unpublished dispositions is disfavored except for establishing res judicata, estoppel, or the law of the case and requires service of copies of cited unpublished dispositions of the Sixth Circuit.
Before RYAN and SUHRHEINRICH, Circuit Judges, ENGEL Senior Circuit Judge.
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President Obama has ceded control over economic issues to the GOP and Glenn Beck is a liar, radical philanthropist George Soros told CNN's Fareed Zakaria.
President Obama has "lost control" of the national economy and allowed Republicans to set the national agenda, Soros said. (Of course, it was the American people who put Republicans in the driver's seat in the November elections, but why ruin a perfectly good narrative?)
Republicans are mucking things up by mixing economic and ideological priorities together at the expense of the American worker, Soros claimed. But the GOP agenda will succeed, at least to an extent, he conceded.
They are going to pursue a very strong effort to cut services by refusing to have any tax increases. I think this agenda will be successful. But it will be pursued, I think, to an extent where it's more directed at cutting services and achieving the ideological purposes of the Republicans rather than to get the economy going. So I think this will have a negative effect on the economy.
Zakaria showed a clip of Glenn Beck from his TV show. Beck says
Do we have a shadow government and if we do who is the intelligent minority that is guiding us through and where are they guiding us to? … Who's the puppetmaster? George Soros.
Soros, who has actually overthrown many governments around the world, reacts with amusement to Beck's assertion.
I would be amused if people saw the joke in it because what he is doing, he is projecting what Fox, what Rupert Murdoch is doing, because he has a media empire that is telling the people some falsehoods and leading the government in the wrong direction, but by accusing me of doing that it kind of makes it rather hard to see that it's really he [that] is working for the man who is doing it, which is Fox News [...] Fox News has imported the methods of George Orwell where you can tell the people falsehoods and deceive them.
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Why CIO Magazine's recent top five list on big data misses the mark
In his recent article, "Five Things CIOs Should Know About Big Data" CIO Magazine writer Joab Jackson shares his top five pieces of advice about the big data revolution for CIOs. He includes reasons why the hype about Hadoop isn't all it's cracked up to be. While I definitely agree with his #5 assessment that "Big data is not just about Hadoop," I don't entirely agree with the other four points that made his list. Here are my counter-arguments surrounding the other important issues he raises.
You will need to know about big data.
I would assume any company big enough to have a CIO inevitably knows about big data and what it can do to help improve business. But, it's no longer enough to know about big data. If you're not in the process of developing or implementing big data initiatives – even on a fairly basic level – you are already at risk of falling behind your competitors. It's not knowing about big data, it's knowing what to do with it that counts.
Useful data can come from anywhere (and everywhere).
Actually, I wholly agree with this statement. My counter point comes from the fact that Mr. Jackson focuses on data generated by machines: like log files that show how people interact with your company's website, or sensors in cars that reveal people's driving habits. While there is no doubt that machines and sensors are invaluable sources of data, they represent only a fraction of a much bigger data ecosystem.
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"The big thing for me is it has established the family farm as having a valued place," said Pattie Chelseth, co-owner of the 10-acre My Sisters' Farm in Shingle Springs. "It needs to be cherished and nurtured."
Chelseth earlier this year sought the Board of Supervisors' backing for a campaign against regulations that hurt small farmers.
Last week, the board adopted a "local food and community self-governance" ordinance, which prohibits the county from establishing licensing and inspection requirements on what are termed "family farms."
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Chelseth sought the board's support for the rights of small farmers after she was issued a cease and desist order by the California Department of Food and Agriculture. She was selling shares of cows on her farm in an attempt to deal with rules that prohibited her from selling raw milk directly to consumers.
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IT'S PRIVATE DEBT, NOT PUBLIC DEBT, THAT GOT US INTO THIS MESS 5 comments
May 7, 2012 5:40 AMPRIVATE DEBT NEEDS TO BE DESTROYED MUCH MORE THAN PUBLIC DEBT -- PRIVATE DEBT IS NOW BEING DESTROYED BY SELLING IT TO THE PUBLIC
I came across a GREAT chart this weekend while surfing the internet:
The arguments that the American Government caused this crisis through overspending on entitlements -- serving the so-called losers of society -- this is the standard line of the Far Right -- doesn't show up in this chart.
Government debt vis-a-vis Gross Domestic Product is not astronomical, according to this chart. It was not high in 1929 either, the last time the global economy had a heart attack and died. Public Debt is, in fact, at the time of this chart at least, lower than in 1945, when the public financed American involvement in World War II.
The Far Right illusion is that if government just 'gets out of the way' of private enterprise, the world will fix itself. But this chart gives a different picture of reality.
This chart says it is PRIVATE DEBT that is at astronomical levels vis-a-vis GDP. Private Debt in America was at 240% of GDP in 1929, before the global economy crashed then; and Private Debt in America was at 300% of GDP in 2009 -- and is still at 260% of GDP now, higher still than in 1929.
Of course, there was a real estate bubble and subsequent banking crisis in the 1920's. In fact, the asset bubble that began in 1921 caused the massive growth in private debt that destroyed the global economy then also. The web site below examines the housing bubble of 1921-1926.
The famous stock market bubble of 1925-1929 has been closely analyzed. Less well known, and far less well documented, is the nationwide real estate bubble that began around 1921 and deflated around 1926. In the midst of our current subprime mortgage collapse, economists and historians interested in the role of real estate markets in past financial crises are reexamining the relationship of the first asset-price bubble of the 1920s with the later stock market bubble and the Great Depression that followed. Limited data on 1920s home prices and foreclosures means that many questions remain unanswered.22 Historical trade publications like the weekly New York Real Estate Record and Builder's Guide, of which Baker Library holds a sixty-year run, allow researchers to fill in the blanks. The implications of early findings may challenge conventional wisdom about the factors that caused and prolonged the Great Depression.
What this all suggests is that Big Business is refusing to take the blame for the Global Collapse it helped to create through the same mechanism it used in the 1920s pursuing recklessly their own economic empires -- asset price inflation fueled by lower and lower interest rates - and has attempted to shift the blame on to the governments of the world (Big Government being the boogeyman of the Far Right).
The debt that must be destroyed before the global economy can reach a state of organic growth again is, primarily, private debt -- private enterprise debt and private consumer debt. In fact, the very force that the Far Right says will save us from our current disaster is what caused and is still causing the current disaster.
Of course, Big Business has now found a convenient method for unloading toxic debt: by selling it at face value or even at future inflated value to the governments of the world. The governments are willing to buy worthless private debt in the hope of keeping themselves in power, of keeping their societies from unraveling into civil war and revolution. Why would Big Business ever concern itself with risk if there will always be a buyer of last resort willing to absorb the crimes and failures of the Free Market in pursuing the demon of Unlimited Wealth?
Then, of course, this forced ingestion of toxic (criminal?) debt by the governments in question -- in hopes of avoiding civil war -- has been followed by the political gambit of Big Business and the political supporters of Big Business screaming and shaking of fists at the government for taking on too much debt. Well, the 'too much debt' the public was taking on was the disaster debt of unregulated Big Business which made careless business decisions without care to risk or even to crime in many cases (organized crime almost certainly, organized crimes in white shirts on Wall Street).
Comstock Partners issued a report this year in which they found almost exactly the same evidence I am presenting -- that it is PRIVATE DEBT that is the villain, and the cause of our collapse. And Public Debt is now growing as it takes on the burden of absorbing the Private Toxic Debt accrued from 2001-2008, mainly caused by the Housing Bubble (again).
From the Comstock Report:
In fact, the eight years between 2000 and 2008 the debt grew from $26.5 trillion (265% of $10 tn GDP) to $54.5 trillion (or $28 trillion from 2000 to 2008).
The private sector debt that grew the most was the household debt, mostly because of the massive purchases of homes and goods imported largely from emerging economies. This sector of debt was historically about 50% of GDP and 65% of Disposable Personal Income, but by the mid 1980s it starting growing exponentially until it was in a full blown debt bubble. This sector debt rose from $6.5 trillion in 2000 to almost $15 trillion in 2008. This sector is presently de-leveraging and is down to about $13 trillion on its way to below $10 trillion (in our opinion) as the de-leveraging continues to take a toll on the U.S. (as well as the global economy, since the rest of the world needs U.S. consumption). This is very similar to what took place in Japan starting at the end of 1989 (except that the bubble in Japanese debt resided in the non-financial corporate sector).
Currently, most observers are much more focused on GOVERNMENT DEBT where the debt ceiling was $6 trillion in mid 2002 and just recently President Obama signed a bill lifting the debt ceiling by $2.1 trillion to $16.4 trillion. If you count the unfunded liabilities (or the promises we made to retirees) this debt could be higher than $100 trillion. We believe this debt will have to be addressed thru either inflation (printing our way out at the expense of the U.S. Dollar), or deflating our way out through de-leveraging or defaulting on the enormous debt (we believe the deflationary solution to be the highest probability, at least initially). It is very difficult to inflate out of our present situation since banks will only lend to the best credits and the best credits don't want to take on more debt-this is called a "liquidity trap" and stifles the "velocity of money."
The problem with all of the above solutions is that they will not be easy to resolve since the government sector debt will have to grow to replace the private debt declines, in order to curtail the collapse of the economy. This is exactly what happened in Japan as their government debt grew to 225% of their GDP as the private debt declined in the deflation. We expect the solution that will evolve in this country will start with deflation. We will show exactly how we view deflation by displaying the chart "Cycle of Deflation" (see attachment) which we have used in many prior reports.
I am not suggesting that government debt is not a problem. I'm reminding the reader where this crisis began: with the DEREGULATION of Big Business. The proper role of Big Business is to pursue profits; and the proper role for Big Government is to regulate (provide laws and police powers to enforce these laws) Big Business. Where there are no laws -- DEREGULATION -- there will be only criminals, at least until we all pass into the Spiritual Kingdom in which selfishness and greed are no longer human problems.
We are heading down a long slow path of debt deflation that will peak in the year 2019. Don't listen to those who claim that only American Ingenuity and Free Unregulated Business can get America back on its feet again -- because those are the very same people who just threw America on its back, while pursuing their own economic empires -- the world be damned. There will be a time for the ideology of empire and ingenuity and entrepreneurialism again -- but not until after 2019.
We are not saints yet. Until we are all saints we need laws and police to protect decent people from the sharks who believe the world should and must be a world of shark-eat-shark only.
I will save my suggestion that American Bank reform should use the American public power utilities as a model for what banking should become in the future -- I will save this for a future article. Bankers should be technicians and functionaries who serve the public and provide guaranteed stability, not entrepreneurs, not gamblers, who can always count on public bail-outs if their gambles turn to dust. Let the capital gamblers and entrepreneurs work in non-financial industries, such as technology and weapons-production.
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Is Japan out of their recession. I don't think so. They're still hiding debt. You have to destroy the debt. You can't hide it.
Deflations are supposed to last 18 years. Their deflation is lasting longer because they hiding private debt inside of their public debt, which is what America and Europe are trying to do now. Not a nice picture. -
"Hiding private debt inside public debt" is an interesting phrase, but what does it mean? And where does your "18 years" number come from?
After the collapse of Japan's 1980's asset bubble, private debt that previously looked fine on balance sheets was suddenly a huge problem, because the assets on the other side were worth much less. Companies that were otherwise thriving and earning profits suddenly started paying down debt in an effort to restore their balance sheets to health, causing a "balance sheet recession". Companies stopped taking loans, and money flowed back into banks, who had a very hard time loaning it to anyone, even at near zero interest. That would have led to a deflationary spiral, with the money supply shrinking as money was bottled up in banks. Massive monetary policy (the supply side of the debt market) had very little effect, because the demand side of the debt market was extremely weak.
Fortunately the Japanese government stepped in and made up the shortfall by taking the debt that the companies didn't want while companies paid down their debt. That public debt did lead to deficits, but it also kept the economy afloat until companies could recover. Unfortunately many politicians didn't understand what was happening, and tried to reduce the deficit before companies were ready to get back to normal borrowing. The Hashimoto and Koizumi administrations both tried to reduce the deficit, and in both cases the result was higher deficits when the economy slipped back into recession, and lengthening the overall recession as profits fell, resulting in less money for companies to pay down their private debt.
The Japanese have accumulated public debt, and more of it than they needed to if they had fully understood the problem and avoided the mistakes of the Hashimoto and Koizumi administrations, but they still have a thriving economy. If they had stood back and let the deflationary spiral take its course, their economy would have been devastated. They will need to pay down their public debt, but they have a thriving economy providing tax receipts to do that with. This is one of the rare cases where running a deficit was necessary, but in normal times it's important to run a surplus or near neutral in order to have a sound public debt position for emergencies like this. -
Japan was fortunate to have the first leg of their deflation occur while the rest of the world was getting richer and richer and willing to still buy their products. Now, however, the entire world is entering the depression together. The 'thriving' Japanese economy is highly dependent upon the thriving wealth of the rest of the world, so they can buy Japanese products. As the Depression grows, the true nature of the Japanese economy will be shown to be moribund.
Sometimes one must go through economic devastation -- economic winters -- in order to destroy bad debt (not hide it) and pave the way for a real recovery (spring).
Japan is not growing. They are declining slowly. But the decline will gain momentum soon, as export markets begin to collapse.
The 18 year figure comes from my study of American historical cycles of inflation (expansion, growth) and deflation (contraction, rest).
Plato wrote: "The Laws of Nature and the Thoughts of God." And: "The Mind of God geometrizes." Keplar wrote: "The Universe is the thought of God's geometry." -
THIS is a total misunderstanding: PRIVATE debt is not an issue. It will be resolved case by case. Lots of that debt is actually backed by assets and by the ability to work of the individual who contracted the debt.
GOVERNMENT debt, on the other hand, is a gigantic problem, because the only way to pay it back is by further robbing people who had nothing to do with it.
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Why Do You Animate?
When a person wants to join my stage-acting class, I ask him why he wants to act. The answer to that question is very revealing, and the amazing thing to me is the number of people who have not enunciated why they are doing what they are doing. Here is a few of the responses I hear:
"Everybody tells me that I really ought to be an actor."
"I think I have what it takes to be a star."
"I have always wanted to act on a soap opera."
"I don't know, it's just something I have always wanted to do."
Often, a newcomer will tell me right away that she has zero interest in acting on stage, that she only wants to be in the movies.
None of these answers are very considered or introspective. It is devilishly difficult to make a career in any art, and that includes animation. A newcomer needs to have more fire in her belly than, "It's just something I have always wanted to do."
A new animator is almost definitely going to face more rejection than employment offers. There are more applicants than there are jobs in all of the arts, an upside-down balance between supply and demand. In pure economic terms, if you have more applicants than jobs, that drives down salaries and benefits, and it causes those who already have a job to feel insecure about it. An imbalance in supply and demand deals all four Aces to the employers. An artist must have something to sustain herself during the bad times, the days when she is sitting at home looking at a computer screen and …wishing. Nobody needs help or courage to select among the many job offers. When Pixar, Disney and DreamWorks are trying to outbid one another for the privilege of having you on staff, you'll know what to do and how to respond.
The decision to become an artist is sort of like finding God. You wake up one morning and realize that this is something that you cannot not do. You will be an incomplete person if you do not give it a go. And how about this: Suppose you knew up front that you would never make more than a sustenance income from animation. Would you still do it? If you knew that this career does not come with commercial success, would you still do it? Why? Why not?
And so I ask you what is the nature of the happiness that you get from animating, from being an artist? Can you think of other activities that give you a similar feeling? Life is not a dress rehearsal, so why are you doing what you are doing? Why do you animate? What would you like your life to be seven years from now?
The single most important attribute you can bring to the table when searching for a job is an inclination to communicate. Animators that are technically excellent are not rare any more and, anyway, many of the big studios expect to teach a new hire their proprietary software. I think a lot of any artist's employment prospects have to do with self-image. Are you a technician? Or an artist? Or both? Are you the contractor that follows the blueprint, or the architect who designs it?
I have personally watched brand new animators land gigs at big studios because of their student animation. Animation almost crude, but a sensitivity to the human condition and a desire to talk about it. An artist with strong personal values and a vibrant curiosity is surprisingly difficult to find. People who can do triple back-flips with Maya, not so difficult.
The market place is tough, don't get me wrong. But it is definitely doable. The National Sales Executive Association put out some surprising figures a while back. Ten percent of salesmen make ninety percent of sales. What that means is that, if you are seeking employment, it pays to watch the averages. The same year that Babe Ruth set the record for the most home runs, he also set the record for the most strike-outs. Something to think about. Good luck!
I've been on hiatus from my animation for 2 years, where as before, with schooling and my time, it was all i could focus on. Once out of school all the issues surface that you have to find a job. You realize you could of been spending your time during school advertising your new skills. And without practice once your out of school you can lose alot of knowledge. Practice is essential.
Commitment is also necessary to passion. But at a professional level it is very difficult to meet the guidelines as a professional animator. Animation has taken so many twists and turns but out in the world it is alot more rigid than working at home however you want, than behind a cubicle, in a busy city where noone knows your name.
Thanks for the post. Let me ask you something else: Suppose you knew that nobody would ever see your animation, how would that affect your passion? I'll tell you where I am going with this. Animation, live action film and stage can all be tracked back 6,000 years to nomadic tribes and a shaman drawing a circle in the dirt. Had there not been live action film, there would have been no animated film. All of the arts, including animation, rest on an attempt to communicate an idea to somebody else. The aesthetic reward is a feeling of psychological visibility. In other words, when you animate, you are expressing your personal values. When someone sees your work and laughs or cries, that person is saying to you, "I appreciate your values." I have heard many people say, "I create my art just for me. It doesn't matter if anybody ever sees it." I disagree, although I understand their point. Artistic expression is not masturbation. It requires two humans. By the way, in my Acting for Animators workshops, I do not make people get up and perform. Stage fright is not an issue. The workshop was designed specifically for the sensibilities and needs of animators. Now, if you visit one of my stage-acting classes, that is another matter. People in there aspire to acting on Broadway or in movies with Johnny Depp. They ALL want to get up and perform!
Being a recent grad myself, I was lucky enough to find an internship at a wonderful company who I've been with for about a month now. However, I've recently come to realize just what you were explaining in your article. At this company I've modeled and done a little matte painting - but character animation has always been my passion. I miss it and I don't think I can go much longer without it!
Everytime when I new quarter started at school, the professors would ask us to introduce ourselves and why we were here - why we wanted to animate? Many answered it was because they've always wanted to do it, but I could not say the same. Up until my senior year of highschool I didn't even know that animating was possible as a career. My first answer was that I found joy in creating a piece of art and then being able to make it move - and now it's still that and so much more. Unlike your students - I'm very shy and would freeze up if I were on a stage or in front of a camera. With animating, it's like being able to act with no restraints - no stage fright! I also firmly believe in doing what you love and loving what you do. Times are tough and you should do what you can to get by - but I don't see myself doing anything else.
There is not a correlation between talent and financial reward in any of the arts unfortunately. Van Gogh sold only one painting before he died, I think. I applaud your integrity and urge you to hang onto it. Particularly in the U.S., a place where a distinguishing characteristic is that people sell things to one another, it is hard to escape the monetary measure of success. I travel a lot internationally and am always fascinated by something: In the U.S., if I meet a stranger and begin a conversation, it is very likely that I will be asked what I "do" within the first five minutes. In other countries, I have literally talked to people for days before that question came up. It is difficult being judged for what you "do" rather than who you "are". The upside is that, if you wear your values on your sleeve for the world to see, there may be some that don't like it -- but you will find others who share those values. It's worth it.
A career in the arts is a marathon, not a sprint, Laura. You will definitely get your first gig if you get up every morning and work at it. I started out as an actor in New York City, and I thought that if I could just land that first job, the rest would follow and I could relax. Then I finally got that first job. And then that job was over, and I looked around for those other jobs that were supposed to flow, and there weren't any. What I learned is to settle in for the long road. Don't let rejection discourage you, and don't take too much credit for the victories. It is all a combination of talent, timing and luck. Hang in there!
I've recently graduated from school, and frustratingly still unemployed. But inspiration can come desperation, and I've come up with two ideas for features in my down time. That, and the occasional bike ride, is what is keeping me sane. Even though my contacts aren't responding to my politely persistant emails, I know that there will be a job some day.
I've never really cared about making money, as long as I'm doing what I love. That is more of a reward than any pay check. Believe me, I have dreamed of having a state of the art cyntiq and a lot of prismacolor supplies, but I'm doing the best with what I have now, and praying that it'll make do for the time being.
There is nothing that compares to watching/creating animation films and shorts. I can do other things, but they wouldn't satisfy me the way this art does. So in a sense, I can't do anything else.
Excellent post. Whenever I self reflect on my decision to make animation my career, the answer that bubbles up from inside is always 'this is something I cannot NOT do'. It's almost not even a choice - more like a surrender to what's supposed to happen.
I've always had the privilege of a relatively distorted view about money. In my mind, money is disconnected from effort or skill - having seen people rewarded for no effort, and others denied resources even though they sacrifice all. In my mind, money is almost an means of 'enslavement'. If you think the amount of money you make determines your worth or happiness then you're a slave to those that decide how much you should get (your boss, client, the government, etc). The ironic thing is, many people KNOW this, but they don't have the courage to ACT on it - or DEFEND it when the freedom to define yourself by the quality of your work and not by your bank account comes under attack by slick advertising or subliminal media.
So, I am a freelance animator making a very meek income, just enough to keep a roof over my head and my tools up to date. And I will do this until I die - with or without money. To NOT do it would be to kick the goads.


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ARLINGTON, Mass. (WHDH) -- Cleanup was underway Thursday after Wednesday's powerful storms that swept through Eastern Massachusetts.
Trees were down, cars crushed, power lines were down, sidewalks were ripped up and homes were damaged after wind gusts that reached 80 miles per hour tore through Arlington. The National Weather Service confirmed Thursday that a microburst went through the city leaving major damage.
"Everything happened at the same time -- trees, branches, everything blowing down the street," said George Ryan, who lost trees in the storm.
Richard Haven garage was destroyed while he was out to dinner for his 79th birthday.
"This is a 205 Lexus LS 430. My pride and joy. It's just got 40,000 miles on it and I just went out to dinner and I came back and…take a look," Haven said.
Maureen Conroy was inside her house when a tree landed on it.
"The house just shook -- like an earthquake," said Conroy. "That's not normal that the house shook like that."
The high winds and torrential rain caused havoc around town. Some fallen trees ripped up sidewalks, others blocked roads. Countless vehicles were damaged.
"It seemed like a regular storm," said Beau Tremblay, who was hit hard by the storm. "The wind just started picking up…to the point where you just couldn't even see."
Power was restored to all Arlington residents by Thursday evening. Officials said 35 homes in Arlington have fallen trees on them.


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Key features I think should be in Virtua Tennis 2009
1. Challenge System. Players should be able to challenge a call when they disagree with the empire or linesman.
2. All four Grand slams. Wimbledon, Australian Open, Us Open, and French Open
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IC : Loki was told he only had a year to live , a year was not alot of time, he threw a huge cry and ran off ignoring his brother hug and kicked the god between the legs and shoved away, Loki fled to earth and ran to stark towers. he appears in Tony's lab doorway, He coughed slightly trying to hide the tears "Tony" the god mutters, Tony could see tears, fear and pain in the gods eyes. The god looked around skiddishly as if something could come and kill him any second but he wasn't scared of Tony at all, he had his reasons to come back to the inventor other then the other Avengers.
Loki hears a girl come downt he stairs and whirled around eyes widen but blinked when it was a girl with orange hair,
"Tony conference meeting in an hour" she said seemed to be reminding Tony. Loki blinked and saw there where a lot of drinks near the stand of the mortal male, he was having drinking issues as well huh
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A Scribe Overimbibes
Written by Joe Longo
Friday, 08 August 2008 10:50
There are far worse things an unemployed New Orleanian can do in the dead of summer than snag a media credential for Ann Tuennerman's annual Tales of the Cocktail gathering in the French Quarter. To float up to the 17th floor of the Monteleone Hotel at 10:30 of a weekday morning to sample 5 full-blooded drinks is to put all worry aside and lose oneself in the joyful frivolity of upper-middle class connoisseurship.
I can't say that I attended all of the seminars at this year's Tales of the Cocktail, but I'm still willing to bet that Phil Greene, trademark lawyer, sailboat owner, founding member of the newly opened Mueseum of the American Cocktail, and featured mixologist for this morning's lecture, "To Have and Have More: A Hemingway Bartender Companion," embodies the spirit of this robust summer gathering as much as anyone. A descendant of the Peychaud family, the New Orleans clan responsible for the Sazerac, Greene has lived around the world. No small wonder, then, that he would esteem Ernest Hemingway's life and prose enough to honor him with a sipping tour of his writing.
As I said, 5 distinct cocktails were served to the patrons during Greene's discussion, a PowerPoint-driven talk that established a link between Hemingway and the Monteleone Hotel. I have to wonder whether Hemingway's tenuous connection to New Orleans will someday be exploited into a full-blown festival, since the city has a penchant for insinuating itself as a source of inspiration in the lives of artists who were just passing through. A selected excerpt from Hemingway's writing contains, inevitably, a small child singing for quarters. Sounds like a perfect contest to rival the Stella/Stanley Shouting competition, and much more in keeping with what it is we actually do here. To survive a New Orleans summer, you've got to sing for coins one way or the other.
Unless, as I mentioned before, you've insinuated yourself into the Tales Of The Cocktail Festival. And there I was, sampling Greene's first Hemingway favorite, the Jack Rose. This brandy-based drink was featured in Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises and was thoroughly abused by Bill Gorton upon his arrival in Paris after an ill-fated trip to Budapest. Greene used his Power Point to highlight a passage from the novel. What he did not highlight was that in the scene where Bill gives a shout-out to the Jack Rose he also uses the word "nigger" 14 times, making it the most uncomfortable scene in the novel to teach to credulous University of New Orleans sophomores.
This kind of contemplation makes me grateful to be unemployed and on my way to drunk before noon, as opposed to preparing a college-level syllabus. This is how Tales Of The Cocktail can elevate a man's spirit. I am buoyant as we move on to the gin drinks.
It doesn't require deep Hemingway scholarship to conclude that the man grew increasingly pompous as the years rolled on, and staccato declarations of certainty about how a drink should be made permeate his writing. For instance, a Hemingway-penned scene features a claim that a Martini should have a 15-to-1 gin-to-vermouth ratio, the same ratio General Montgomery preferred his troops to have over the enemy when going into battle. Anyone who has worked a bar in New Orleans or anywhere is familiar with this kind of boozy bluster. I recall pouring drinks during the National Association of Television Production Executives and serving a man immensely pleased with himself for having successfully pitched a remake of the "Name That Tune" game show. You can tell when someone is on his way to a beat down, and a man who boasts of a high-six figure deal to a mid-two-figure-a-night bartender is not long for Bourbon Street.
As I finish the Montgomery Martini graciously provided for me by Tales Of The Cocktail and Bombay Gin, I wonder how quickly Hemingway would have gotten into a bar fight had he spent more time in the Quarter. Let's face it, the man was a bit of a death seeker, and here in New Orleans there are many folks willing to oblige.
As we move on to a delicious concoction called a Green Isaac's Special, I am struck with the kind of epiphany that can strike an unemployed man who is pounding cocktails at 11am. In the passage that Phil Greene quotes regarding the gin and coconut water-based drink , the protagonist insists on Gordon's Gin. Even though Greene is obligated to tell us to use Bombay, it becomes clear that Hemingway's writing, with its tour guide vistas and bold claims of expertise, is the perfect vehicle in which to infuse product placement. Is this the real reason why he is America's most enduring 20th Century writer?
I become so consumed with this question that I can no longer concentrate on Phil Greene's seminar. What are our obligations, as contemporary writers, to give future generations something tasty to drink? On the occasions when I clink glasses with Joseph and Amanda Boyden, a local writing couple who are currently flush with book-publishing success, they drink, respectively, Miller Lite with Rose's lime juice and whatever the House Pinot Grigio happens to be. This is troubling. Eventually, one or another of our acquaintances will pen his or her own A Moveable Feast, Hemingway's revisionist Paris memoir where he shits on all his old friends, and what the by-now-legendary writers drank will surely be noted. This will prove problematic. When the history of NOLAFugees is written, the youth of future generations will note that editor/publisher Jarret Lofstead drank Redneck Mimosas with his oyster po' boys. (A Redneck Mimosa is a shot of orange juice added to a bottle of Miller High Life.)
Some local writers seem to be aware of alcohol-soaked posterity. The hideous drinks highlighted in Heart Like Water, Joshua Clark's Katrina memoir, all have sticky names like Elle In August, and he even capitalizes them in the book for easy reference.
If these drinks rise to such prominence by virtue of the writers who championed them, enormous pressure will be placed on the newly opened Museum of the American Cocktail, located in the Riverwalk, to induct these drinks into the New Orleans Literary Hall of Fame. We are placing future generations of literary-minded tourists in peril.
(Postscript: The author also attended a lovely seminar hosted by charming British mixologist Charlotte Voisey. He learned that mixing tea and gin is complete genius. Beyond that, the author's notes ceased to make sense.)
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By RAMIT PLUSHNICK-MASTI, Associated Press
MAD ISLAND, Texas (AP) — Strange things are aloft in the bird world.
Endangered whooping cranes flew 2,500 miles from Canada to Texas, where they usually spend the whole winter. Instead, they pecked around for a short time and flew back. In Nebraska, other cranes never left.
Some ducks just kept flying south — all the way to Belize in Central America. And a snowy owl was spotted near Dallas, only the sixth time that's ever happened.
Throughout the winter, scientists have noticed these and other examples of bizarre bird migrations — a result, they believe, of flocks becoming desperate for food and habitat becoming increasingly scarce because of the stubborn drought in Texas. The unusually mild winter in the Northeast and Midwest has even persuaded some birds they could stay put, fly shorter distances or turn back north earlier than normal.
"We have birds scattered all over the place looking for habitat right now," said Richard Kostecke, a bird expert and associate director of conservation, research and planning at the Nature Conservancy in Texas.
The concerns go beyond a few lost flocks. Migratory birds often use the winter months to rest, eat and gain energy for the long journey back to their nesting grounds, so biologists can only guess at the effects of this season's peculiar movements.
What will happen if the birds' diets are altered or if they expend too much energy? What if they fail to migrate at all? Will they still be able to breed after a stressful winter?
"You may see a cascade of impacts," Kostecke said. "We don't know exactly where things will end up."
In a typical winter, the Texas Gulf Coast is packed with tens of thousands of birds — songbirds, waterfowl, catbirds, gnatcatchers, warblers and other migrants. But this year, an annual count done just before Christmas found the population had dropped steeply.
The number of water-dwelling birds was down significantly. Geese, for example, were 61 percent below their 19-year average. Dabbling ducks dropped 43 percent, diving ducks 60 percent and spoonbills 74 percent.
Part of the problem is lack of food. The drought — the worst one-year dry spell in Texas history — parched thousands of acres of wetlands along the coast, a habitat that is normally rich with fish, seafood, berries and insects.
At the Nature Conservancy's Mad Island preserve alone, wetlands have been depleted from 1,100 acres to a mere 200 acres. Habitat provided by rice paddies will also probably decline because many farmers are not expected to get water for irrigation. And with so little rain, freshwater is scarce.
Lucky for the birds, they can fly.
"God gave birds wings for a reason: to pick up and find what they need," said Dave Morrison, the small game director at the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department.
A mid-winter population survey revealed that overall numbers were down about 3 percent compared with last year. In the rain-starved Panhandle, where ducks typically rely on water-filled natural basins as habitat, there were 15,000 birds this year, compared with 36,000 last winter.
But many apparently sought refuge in the state's prairie areas, where biologists spotted 1.2 million ducks this year compared with about 885,000 last year.
The unexpected population shifts weren't limited to waterfowl on the coast. Surveys show inland species are on the move, too. They were observed in greater numbers near the Gulf, probably because their usual homes offered little food. So they kept flying — all the way to the coast, where they hoped to find more mice, snakes and other small prey.
The disruption in natural migration comes with risks, even for the birds who survive into the spring. Birds that switch migratory paths may be fine for a couple years, but they could die later if they follow the same path only to find that their destination has become much warmer or colder than expected.
One of the biggest concerns is for the whooping crane. There are only about 300 of these majestic, 5-foot birds left in the wild. This endangered flock, which scientists and the federal government have been working to revitalize for decades, flies every year from its nesting grounds in Wood Buffalo National Park in Canada to the Texas Gulf Coast.


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Cookies & Liban?
By danderma | May 29, 2012
My dear Jacqui was grocery shopping and posted her grocery basket via Instagram, there was a packet of Chips Ahoy! chocolate chip cookies in the basket! I remember that blue packet being a stable in our pantry for years on end when we were kids! We used to love it. I also believe I've stopped eating them in 1994. They were just too fattening and -later on- too dry and packety for my taste.
However, Jacqui said something about heating them up in the microwave and having them with "Liban" -buttermilk. At first the idea recoiled my pallets, Liban? really? People have cookies with milk usually, or in my case with a tall dark americano, but Liban?
But then I thought, why not? The saltiness of the Liban would bring out the sweetness of the cookies! But I don't know, it just sounds too weird still.
Have you ever tried cookies and liban? Would you ever try it?
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انا متعوده اكل اي شي حلو مع لبن كيك او شوكولاته او بسكريت فعلا لذيذ ودج ماتوقفين اكل
Hmmm .. Leban .. sounds like something i would try .. i mean why not!! .. but after you off course .. i'm a gentleman .. and i always go by LADIES FIRST rule :p
Trust me Leban and Cookies are the best thing out there! I like how the saltiness of the Leban compliments the chocolate! It makes it that much more amazing!
Grab some chocolate chip cookies and Leban and thank me later


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Twin Ports Mayors Take Football Border Battle Personally
Friday, January 4, 2013 - 4:31pm
Dana Thayer
Harry Baker
FOX 21 News, KQDS-DT
DULUTH - The competition is heating up between Vikings and Packers fans across the Twin Ports as Saturday's football game gets closer.
The rivalry is no different between Duluth Mayor Don Ness and Superior Mayor Bruce Hagen.
The two are going head-to-head with game plans they say will keep their team's Super Bowl hopes alive.
"What we need to do is make sure that the receivers are covered and Mr. Peterson, Adrian Peterson, stumbles a little bit," Superior Mayor Bruce Hagen said. "Ponder will have just like his wedding, there will be no reception."
"Let me put it this way, Adrian Peterson has averaged over 200 yards against the Packers the last two games," Duluth Mayor Don Ness said. "So if they have some plan to slow him down, they haven't showed it yet and I don't think it's going to happen on Saturday."
Even U.S. Senators Amy Klobuchar and Al Franken have teamed up against Ron Johnson and Tammy Baldwin.
They have promised a case of local craft beer from their state if they lose.
Twin Ports mayors are keeping their wagers local, too.
"If the Vikings win, which hopefully they won't, he better come hungry because we're going to have an Anchor burger," Hagen said, "and a Wisconsin cheese basket so he can share with his family."
"We'll give him a Epicurean cutting board so he can cut his Wisconsin cheeses," Ness said. "We'll put a little Vikings logo on it."
Mayor Ness says he will also bring Mayor Hagen to the Canal Park Brewery.
Still, both are confident it that it will not be them picking up any tabs.
The mayoral competition is fierce, but un–sportsman like conduct is not a part of this battle.
"We're all friends and we all like the competition," Hagen said.
"Because we're so close and over the bridge makes the rivalry all the more fun," Ness said.


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Don Cherry lays the verbal smack down on Geoff Molson
Despite some of his hypocriticalness, we love Don Cherry. Guy's hilarious and has more hockey stories than a zamboni driver.
Over the weekend he laid some verbal smackdown in regards to the Chara hit, including a ontage of turnbuckle hits over the past two decades, and presented an idea on how to make that area of the ice safer, calls Molson's/Habs arena's turnbuckle "a joke" (comparing it to Philly's superthick turnbuckle padding).
The difference between Montreal and Philly's turnbuckle padding is insane. Philly basically strapped a crashpad onto it; Montreal has a pillow. Madenning. But Montreal is really all about "safety first." Bullshit.
Another look at Cherry's turnbuckle design.
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Bangalore-based ASM Technologies, dealing in enterprise applications and enterprise product development for manufacturing, retail, oil and gas verticals, has reported a consolidated net profit of Rs 94 lakh for quarter-ended December 31, 2009, up 23.43 per cent compared to the previous quarter of the current fiscal.Revenue from operations stood at Rs 17.21 crore and EBIDTA stood at Rs 1.51 crore for the quarter ended 31 st December 2009, up 19.24 per cent compared to previous quarter of the fiscal.
The above Press release was in Business Standard dated 29th January, 2010.
ASM Technologies, reports consolidated Net Profit of Rs.94.78 lakhs for the quarter ended 31 st December, 2009, up 23.43 % QoQ.
ASM has been ranked 175 out of 500 in Manufacturing SMBs, for the year 2007-08 by the magazine Industry 2.0
IT service providers, ASM Technologies posted a net profit of Rs 4.10 crore for the year ended March 31, 2009, up 8% from the year ago period. Revenue of the company was up 16.60% year-on-year to Rs 79.6 crore, while EBITDA stood at Rs 6.45 crore. Earnings per share stood at Rs 7.56. For the quarter ended March 2009, PAT was at Rs 69 lakh, while revenue was at Rs 173.8 lakh.
The above Press release was in Financial express dated 9th May, 2009.
IT services providers ASM Technologies Ltd has registered a 34.20% year-on-year increase in net profit for the quarter ended December 31 at Rs. 117.99 lakhs. Revenue for the quarter was up 13.20% y-o-y at Rs. 1905.56 lakhs, while EBITDA stood at Rs. 174.19 lakhs showing a y-o-y increase of 5.45%. EPS of the company stood at Rs. 2.36(Rs.1.76)
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A father who was accused of impregnating his own child breathed a sigh of relief when a DNA test recently saved him from a possible long imprisonment.
Goodhope Police confirmed in an interview this week that the 58-year- old- man from Mmathethe village in the Southern District was recently cleared by DNA tests.
"The tests did not implicate him in anyway and therefore the matter was dismissed. The man was charged with incest, a serious crime that can attract not less that a 10-year jail sentence but he is now free," revealed the Goodhope Police Station commander, Thapelo Ngiye in an interview.
In November 2010, the then 14-year old girl, told one of her school teachers and her mother that her father was responsible for her pregnancy and that he had sexually molested her for a long time before she fell pregnant. At the time, she was about six months pregnant and the matter was then brought to the attention of the police.
The girl's parents separated in 2007 and she stayed with her mother but visited her father from time to time.
According to a testimony in court made by the girl's mother in December 2010, the girl wrote a note and claimed that her father assaulted her sexually several times.
"My daughter wrote me a note and told me it was her father who impregnated her. She said she forced her into early sex soon after our separation three years ago," she had stated.
The woman further added: "She said when her father discovered that she was pregnant, he asked her if she had ever had sex with somebody else besides him and when she said she had a boyfriend he told her to implicate the boyfriend."
Although the man denied all the allegations, the teenager maintained the statement in court. But her father was allowed bail pending the DNA tests.
The baby was born in February last year but the tests were only done this year.
"It took long for the tests to be done because as you may be aware, we have only one forensic department and it serves the whole country," Ngiye explained.


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