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Instructor Adam Smith teaches karate to autistic students,
Tessa Merritt, a 17-year-old orange belt in kenpo karate, has learned how to face an opponent with her bare hands.
"She is now punching like a fighter," instructor Adam Smith said about Merritt. "She is moving forward not shying away which shows her confidence level has gone up tremendously. She feels she can defend herself."
Merritt is autistic, and has studied kenpo and mixed martial arts with Smith for the past eight years.
"It's awesome there," Merritt said about the special needs class at Tazmanian Martial Arts.
Smith opened Tazmanian in June after having taught at other schools.
DeDe Merritt said she enrolled her daughter in karate to give her the ability to defend herself after reading about the high incidence of abuse among children with developmental disabilities. "It drove me nuts. So I wanted her to have self-defense knowledge."
Besides learning how to defend herself, Merritt has seen her daughter develop better coordination, strength, balance and self-confidence.
"(Smith) is a wonderful instructor," Merritt said. "He has exercises where she's doing leg kicks and she has to hit a particular target. Before she used to kick, then fall and tumble on the mat. She is definitely a stronger girl."
Paul McKinley, an 18-year-old with autism, began his martial arts training with Adams when he was 10. McKinley's parents enrolled him in a special needs kenpo karate class as a fun activity, as well as a way to gain self-control.
"We were looking for some activities for Paul," said his mother, Dana McKinley. "We knew the principles of karate such as self-control would be good skills to work on.
"Adam has that natural innate ability to connect with the kids," she said. "He gets them to do what they need to do. He's very encouraging, very positive, and doesn't get frustrated."
Paul McKinley recently earned his orange belt and wants to continue learning karate.
"Pretty soon I will get my black belt," McKinley said. "I will be a karate teacher like Adam."
Smith structures his special needs class the same as his other classes by incorporating karate traditions, such as students showing respect by bowing before going onto the floor.
"For the most part I just give them more patience, the rest of the class I keep the same," Smith said about the classes. "I stay strict with them so it keeps structure of the class. It also helps new students coming in to know what to expect."
Smith incorporates boxing, kickboxing and Brazilian jiujitsu into his karate classes.
"It's a style that encompasses everything," Smith said. "I give kids the best of what I feel has worked as far as my experiences go."
Smith also works with students on self-control, honor, happiness and perseverance. Smith has the students be aware of how they can incorporate the principles into their lives.
"Each month we'll go through a life principle," Smith said. "It's about knowing what we need to do in order to be successful adults and lead our lives right."
DeDe Merritt said the karate classes have helped Tessa at University High School, where she's part of the National Honor Society. She's also a member of Tazmanian's Martial Arts Honor Guard Life Team.
"She has integrity and she's a good student," DeDeMerritt said. "She strives to be the best she can be."
As part of the program, Smith plans to have his students get involved in the community once a month performing different service tasks such as delivering meals or doing karate demonstrations at senior living facilities.
"That's a huge thing for me is being able to help out," Smith said. "You learn so much from it."
Smith began taking kenpo karate at age 5. He has earned a black belt in kenpo and blue belt in Brazilian jiujitsu. He competes as a professional mixed martial arts fighter.
He began teaching eight years ago at the former Kick-N-Fun Martial Arts and taught at the School of Boxing before opening his own studio.
Three of his special needs students have followed him from other schools to attend his class.
"My special needs students are my pride and joy," Smith said. "I have gotten to see the change in them."
Smith wants his special needs class to grow and eventually split into two different levels, beginning and advanced.
"I really feel it's a good program for special needs kids," Smith said. "It develops their coordination, their sense of respect and confidence."

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Journey Through
We're deep in it now. Working our asses off, some days for 12 hours a day, following the songs wherever they lead us, adding and extracting and balancing the weight before we get ready to dive into mix world next week.
Teles, old Lespauls, Danos, Supros, Fender amps, Gibson amps, Ampeg amps and guitars, Orange amps, bells, chimes, triangles, biggest toms ever, whirly, rhodes, weirdness and a whole lot of tambourine for party flow have all passed the revue. Gots to have your eerie sounds, crackling noises, little interludes here and there or whatever element the songs needed for the full on 3D record experience… and what can we say: audio soup is where we live. Sonic washhh makes us happy. Big brushstrokes all over the place.
In layering and recording vocals Chris' philosophy hasn't changed. The first take is usually the one you want. Spontaneous and dangerous. Melodies, vocals and solos that start and don't know where they'll end create more dialogue with a straight up gut feel. Never let the comfort zone take over, that way lies boring fucking perfection. Enough of that out there already, right?
Also. We're set on a title.
Come fall "The Orb We Absorb" will be up for grabs. We hope you find a copy or steal one on the internetz or from a buddie and maybe let it change your life. *coolguystance* + Michael Jackson "Hooooo!"
Two more days of recording and we'll be clearing our ears before we embark on mixing week. San Diego, here we come for some downtime.
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There are so many other things that i can't put it here, but i'm terribly happy for these lucks
It is now 4 days before christmas and the holiday spirit is in the air, mixed with the oxygen we constantly breathe. I might not celebrate christmas, but i always do enjoy this season, and the carols as well :)
Other than that, December is a contemplation month, the time to regret things what we should've done and to vow we will try harder the year after
I, just like everybody else, have things i regret for and of course things i'm grateful for
Some of you might recall one post i wrote back on August that i finally got a job and how grateful i was. To cut the chase, let me just tell you that i quit. Super fast, i know, but i have my own personal reasons and i stood by my choice. It was sad, to be apart from some great people i have befriended with, but i'm happy, i can't even be happier actually. I am sure life will offer me better things to experience
Just like this several non-stop-series-of-luck that i had just after i quit my job during this December
Maybe you think it's too lame to share it here but then again, it's a #shamelesspublication kinda post :)
Remember this post about me joining LOMO BLOG COMPETITION that was held by @lomonesia community? I got to be in the top three, and based on "thumb donations" on facebook, i won the third place and lomonesia sent me this super cute DOMINO !
Thank you Men's Folio Indonesia (@MensFolio_ID) for inviting me to be one of the presented blogger in this Nov-Dec issue. I am extremely proud that you tag me along with these incredible 4 other bloggers
Diana Rikasari, Luthfi Riadi, Caroline Robianto, and Sonia Eryka. I am truly honored !
This is probably the most random giveaway i ever entered yet i surprisingly won it! The giveaway was held by Cindy Karmoko, a dear blogger friend of mine who now is hitting Milan for school (envy her! :p). She used random.org to get the result and i am happy that is not an action of nepotism *LOL*! The t shirt is LOVELY and she even sent me chocolate! kisses to Milan!!!!!!
As the closing of this post and my latest luck of the month so far was winning a 'best dressed' at the Magnum event that i posted earlier along with Bethany Putri. Well, unlike Putri who was seriously cute in her Vahada's caped dress, i didn't actually win. It was supposed to be Reza Bustami, the fashion stylist of CLARA Magazine, but he went home already and then they mentioned my name ! Thank you Reza for coming home early that evening. LOL. I guess i need these shopping voucher more than you do :p. Yes, it is SHOPPING VOUCHER. Such a perfect chocolate icing on the cake!!!
So maybe quitting your job is not always a bad and sad thing to do after all :p
There are so many other things that i can't put it here, but i'm terribly happy for these lucks
There are so many other things that i can't put it here, but i'm terribly happy for these lucks
Maybe it's just a coincidence, maybe it's just a rolling wheel of life. Or maybe it's a year end sale session from God :)
Thank you
Until the next malfunction box ! ! !
~Ario Achda~
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9 comment:
- uchie suci utami apsari said...
knapa kau beruntung skali arioo:)
- Wed Dec 21, 11:04:00 AM 2011
- Girl With Plastic Camera said...
You're so lucky!!! Ohmennn!! I really hope one day we can meet!
- Wed Dec 21, 02:03:00 PM 2011
- Mei めい said...
you're so lucky ! :)
congrats :D
- Wed Dec 21, 03:47:00 PM 2011
- Gricia (Cia) said...
Another luck and blessings will come to you next year ;) btw i thought u will also recap several projects that u've been involved in ;p
- Wed Dec 21, 06:45:00 PM 2011
- M. Ersa Adiprasetya said...
you are so luck arioo! envy with you.. hehehehe...
have a nice december ario :)
- Wed Dec 21, 07:59:00 PM 2011
- Cindy Karmoko said...
OMG ariooooo so luckyyyyy.. kisses from milan!!!
- Fri Dec 23, 05:41:00 AM 2011
- Karina Dinda R. said...
Wow you're so lucky! Senangnyaaaa :D
Karina Dinda R. ♥
- Sat Dec 24, 08:42:00 PM 2011
- AEIDYTHOMERSON said...
you're so lucky! merry christmas!
- Mon Dec 26, 12:04:00 AM 2011
- Cliff said...
OMG seriously you're sooooo lucky! Consider it as a Christmas gift :D
- Wed Dec 28, 12:56:00 AM 2011
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Councilman David Greenfield piled on Anthony Weiner tonight, on his weekly Thursday night radio show, suggesting he's only doing the Republicans a favor by joining the Democratic primary and splitting the vote. Public advocate Bill de Blasio also got his share of the blame for not firing his staffer who tweeted racial and anti-semitic comments, letting him to resign out of his own will.
Thursday, April 18, 2013
Greenfield Lashes Out at Weiner , Lhota and de Blasio; Lhota Responds
Thursday, April 11, 2013
Weiner's Jewish Brothers Embrace Ambitions, Divided On Timing
While pundits are divided among themselves whether Weiner's bombshell announcement that he's seeking to jump into the mayoral race hurts frontrunner Christine Quinn or Bill de Blasio, there's definitely one group that is not yet locked on any of the candidates. Weiner entry could shake up allegiances among New York City's Jews, Josh Nathan-Kazis writes in The Forward.
Wednesday, April 10, 2013
Salgado In Pitch To Orthodox Jewish Voters: Religious Values Under Sustained Attack By NYC Gov't
Long shot Conservative Democratic mayoral candidate, Erick Salgado, addressed Tuesday night the Rabbinical Alliance of America, a national rabbinic organization based in New York, in an effort to reach out to Orthodox Jewish voters from a standpoint of religion, faith and common values.
"We are living in a time when the values of people of faith are under sustained attack," Mr. Salgado started off. "whenever there is a person who believes, who wants to preserve his culture, his customs and his values, that person seems to be strange. And many of the elected officials don't respect the different communities.. that's the reality " he said.
Sunday, April 7, 2013
Where Is Thompson... Where Are You?
Since covering the mayoral race, we have gotten numerous calls from former Thompson supporters who have expressed disappointment in Bill Thompson's absence from major Jewish events.
Mr. Thompson's last visit to the Jewish community in Brooklyn, was at a closed event in the Avenue Plaza hotel's conference room, with the attendance of a dozen community leaders and operatives. However, Mr. Thompson was notably absent from the annual COJO of Flatbush legislative Breakfast, as from the JCC of Marine park breakfast a week earlier.
Saturday, April 6, 2013
Newcomer and Long Shot Mayoral Candidate Cries Foul Over 'Discriminatory' Disregard
As reported last week, Rev. Erick Salgado, a church pastor and self-described "conservative Democrat," has entered the crowded field seeking the Democratic party's nomination for mayor. In an interview with the Staten Island Advance, Mr. Slagado touted his Latino culture and coalition he believes he has assembled as a unique choice in this mayoral race.
"We need to concentrate and make sure that all the different communities get the representation they deserve in City Hall," Rev. Salgado told the Advance Friday. "We cannot define New York City as a melting pot anymore -- we have to understand it is a collection of different communities with different cultures."
Friday, March 22, 2013
Catsimatidis: It Takes A Fusion Ticket For A Republican To Win The Mayoral Race
"It's all about winning. It all about making sure one of us wins. You need the money, and you the need the ability to appeal," Business mogul John Catsimatidis modified his message in his closing argument at the 92Y mayoral debate sponsored by the New York Observer.
"A pure Republican can't win, It's impossible" Catsimatidis elaborated following the debate, in a brief conversation with NYC Elects. "When Romney lost in NYC 80-19, a pure Republican can't win." he added.
Tuesday, March 19, 2013
Sunday, March 17, 2013
Bill Thompson Assures Wary Jewish Community He can Win And Deliver
In the event of so many campaign announcements and Borough tours, Mayoral candidate Bill Thompson met Sunday evening with a dozen of Jewish community leaders and politicos at the Avenue Plaza Hotel in Borough Park. "You are looking at the next mayor of New York, without any doubt," said Rabbi Freilich.
Mr. Thompson, who remembers that Borough Park handed over victory to Mayor Bloomberg in 2009, faced a tougher crowd than expected, with questions about vouchers, transportation, public safety, taxes and unions covering the entire Q&A. While Thompson seemed to be on the defensive (after all this is a district that has voted for Mitt Romney and Rudy Giuliani in the highest numbers) he also deferred concerns of a future Democratic administration after 20 years of Republican/Independent control of City Hall.
Bill de Blasio Kicks Off Charm Offensive Tour Courting The Jewish Vote
"This community will be crucial," Bill de Blasio started off his remarks at a breakfast with Jewish community leaders and politicos, hosted by Leon Goldberg from Agudath Israel. Mayor "Bloomberg came to you in 2009, but didn't tell you why it was that crucial. I can tell you upfront because it will be a close election," Mr. de Blasio added.
This is the age of close elections," Mr. de Blasio continued. "But I think we have all gotten the memo that every single vote counts."
Sunday, March 10, 2013
PHOTOS: Mayoral Candidates Attend COJO of Flatbush Breakfast
Thursday, March 7, 2013
Interview: BP Hopeful Eric Adams Discredits Anti-Semitic Accusations
In a blog comment and a follow up email conversation, Gatemouth argued that there is no public statement that show Eric Adams apologize for offending the Jewish community and supporting the nation of Islam.
"In order for me to apologize for something, I would have to have said something anti the Jewish community or antisemitic," Mr. Adams told me in a brief conversation. Gatemouth, Mr. Adams claims took Farrakhan and Khalid's language and made it seem as if he were supportive of what they were saying.
Orthodox Paper Conceals Hikind, Highlights McDonald, Adams Controversies
UPDATED: The Brooklyn Orthodox paper Hamodia, that covered up for Assemblyman Dov Hikind by not reporting a word about the Purim 'Blackface' controversy, highlighted in Thursday's newspaper Mayoral candidate' George McDonald's comments about Jailing more blacks. The news review of the NYC 2013 race also included Beep candidate Eric Adams' past controversial comments about Jews, as revealed by Gatemouth, despite the fact that Adams was never asked to adress the issue in public, and has ever since earned praise and welcomed by events of all local Jewish organizations. Not to mention a number of leaders that participated at his kick off campaign rally.
Wednesday, March 6, 2013
Catsimatidis Touts Jewish Friendship and Religious Freedom Protectionism
"God has been good to us. New York City has been good to us. That's why I want to give back," Mayoral candidate John Catsimatidis told The Jewish Voice in an interview published this week. "I think every successful citizen should give back. Remember what John Kennedy said – 'Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country.' People don't believe that anymore. I want to give back [because] in the end I don't need any money, I don't need anything. Bloomberg works for a dollar – I'm going to work for 99 cents."
Thursday, February 28, 2013
Hispanic Pastor Promises to Repeal Metzitzah B'peh Regulation
While the mayoral candidates, other than Bill de Blasio who's a proud progressive, on the Democratic and Republican side are touting their liberal social views but fiscal conservative policies,There's one guy out there, unnoticed, that is the opposite of all. Erick Salgado, a Hispanic Pastor backed by Reuben Diaz Sr., presents himself as a social conservative and a fiscal liberal. Oh, and he's running in the Democratic primaries for mayor of NYC.
Wednesday, February 20, 2013
EXCLUSIVE: Catsimatidis Planning 'Ahead of Time' Massive Jewish Outreach
Republican mayoral candidate John Catsimatidis, is not wasting time to appeal to the general public, in a bid to boost his name recognition and business credentials as an investment 8 months ahead of the general elections.
I am told that Catsimatidis has hired a Jewish liaison, who's name will be announced in the near future. As part of the planned Jewish outreach, Mr. Catsimatidis has bought ad space in every Jewish publication, Orthodox, Yiddish and English newspapers, wishing Jewish New Yorkers a Happy Purim, which is celebrated on the 14th of Adar next Sunday.
While Joe Lhota, who is believed to be the favorite hopeful in the Republican primary, is investing time among Republican donors and voters, Mr. Catsimatidis is looking ahead to the general election. Acknowledging his scooffed up campaign chest and the extra time given, the Catsimatidis campaign's belief is, that while the Democratic candidates are busy fighting over the hearts of the labor unions and hardcore Democratic voters, and while the Republican candidates struggle to gain traction, fundraise and appeal to the GOP base who are likely to go out and vote, Mr. Catsimatidis is able to invest and time, energy and money to reach out to certain communities who feel neglected in the primary process.
While Joe Lhota, who is believed to be the favorite hopeful in the Republican primary, is investing time among Republican donors and voters, Mr. Catsimatidis is looking ahead to the general election. Acknowledging his scooffed up campaign chest and the extra time given, the Catsimatidis campaign's belief is, that while the Democratic candidates are busy fighting over the hearts of the labor unions and hardcore Democratic voters, and while the Republican candidates struggle to gain traction, fundraise and appeal to the GOP base who are likely to go out and vote, Mr. Catsimatidis is able to invest and time, energy and money to reach out to certain communities who feel neglected in the primary process.
According to some operatives involved in the campaign, if Mr. Catsimatidis manages to make inroads among Democratic Jewish voters while he's not obligated to do so, the effort will pay off once the primary season gears up, and he emerges as the Republican nominee for mayor. Mr. Catsimatidis hopes that by then he will already be sold as a viable candidate with an appeal to key voting blocs who are willing to give another republican a chance, especially after a bruising Democratic primary. After all, over 80 percent of Orthodox/Hasidic voters in NYC voted for Mitt Romney in the past presidential election.
Mr. Catsimatidis, at a press conference in Queens two weeks ago, told Azi Paybarah from Capital New York (and TwitterWorld) that he is planning to appoint liaisons to every ethnic group in the city who will report to him directly. Looks like Mr. Catsimatidis is not wasting time executing his promises.
It's important to note that in the Orthodox community newspaper ads are the most significant and effective outreach, and after 12 years of Bloomberg, the idea that a Republican candidate, who's not Jewish, is granting such a substantial amount of attention to the growing community, will have a great impact, a Democratic observer told me.
Attached is the 'Happy Purim' ad by John Catsimatidis that will feature in every publication over the weekend, from Hebrew, Yiddish, English and Yinglish.
Tuesday, February 19, 2013
The Forward Selects Viability of Candidates to Claim No Jew is Running for Mayor
NY and LA will both pick mayors this year, but while LA is likely to pick a Jewish mayor, NYC who has lost a great Jewish Mayor (Ed Koch) and has had a Jewish mayor over the past 12 years, will likely remain without a Jewish mayor, Josh Nathan-Kazis writes in the Jewish Forward.
Nearly every mayoral race in recent memory has included a Jewish candidate. Yet in 2013, not a single one of the handful of front-runners vying to replace Bloomberg is Jewish.
"That there is no Jewish candidate in this particular race is more a consequence of personal behavior on the part of the potential Jewish candidate than anything else," quipped Flora Davidson, a professor of political science and urban studies at Barnard College, referring to Weiner, who resigned by disgrace..
Oh, remembers Nathan-Kazis, "there actually is one Jew in the New York City mayoral race. Tom Allon, a newspaper publisher, is running for mayor as a Republican, though his lack of name recognition makes him a long shot."
Joe Lhota, who is actually the favorite on the Republican side is also Jewish by law, as earlier reported.
What the forward is doing , is basically selecting the viability of the candidates to justify their claim (after all you need something to write a story) that No Jew is running this year for mayor. Its up to the voters, Mr. Josh Nathan-Kazis.
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Friday, February 15, 2013
Video: Erick Salgado Touts Pro-Israel Creds and Conservative Values in Russian Radio Interview
Democratic mayoral candidate, Rev. Erick Salgado, who is hoping to assemble a coalition of minority groups and multiracial communities together in support of his candidacy for Mayor, uploaded a recording of an interview he conducted Feb. 7th with 'Russian media Mogul' -as describes in a NY Times profile - Gregory Davidzon.
The interview, that was conducted in English and translated in Russian back and forth was about the issues concerning Russian voters, which like other issue concerning voters is: Israel. Given the fact that NYC serves as the home for a majority of Jews outside the Jewish Homeland. "As a Latin evangelical, we have been pro-Israel a hundred percent," he said. Adding that his church is very heavily supportive of Israel.
Thursday, February 14, 2013
Some Snippets of the Mayoral Election NY1/Marist POll
Christine Quinn's support among Liberal Democrats is the highest with 43%, with de Blasio in second place with only 13%.
Quinn's lead is bigger among Conservative Democrats with 38%, compared to only 33% among moderates. John Liu is in 2nd place with 16% of Conservative Democrats. Hence, 47% are still uncertain and might change their vote before election day.
Bill Thompson has the support of less than a quarter of his strongest base: African American voters, trailing Quinn's 29% of support. Only 32% have indicated they might change their preference before election day.
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Saturday, February 9, 2013
Israeli Orthodox Magazine 'Bakhila' Profiles Bill Thompson with Header- "A Shabbos Goy"
|Bakhila cover of Thompson profile
"I tell people, look at the current Mayor, that is a Jew, and look at the other hand at Bill - One is Jewish, and one is Black. But in reality, the Jew is not so Jewish, and the black guy is not so black," said one of the Jewish activists, who's supporting Bill Thompson's bid for Mayor of NYC, to the Israeli Orthodox magazine 'Bakhila' in Hebrew.
In an extensive profile of former city comptroller and mayoral candidate Bill Thompson, Bakhila magazine describes Thompson's ties to the Jewish community in Brooklyn and his support for Israel, with the header: 'A Shabbos Goy' (a non-Jew who performs certain types of work for a Jew on the Sabbath).
Friday, February 8, 2013
de Blasio Says He's a 'All People' Progressive Candidate
"You are the most leftist candidate... sorry .. most progressive candidate in this race," radio host, Michael Fragin, described Mayoral candidate Bill de blasio, in a debut 'Meet The Mayoral Candidates' interview on the Spin Class / Jewish Political radio station.
After 2 decades of Republican control, 24 years after the last Democratic mayoral candidate was elected as mayor, De Blasio expressed confidence that a Democrat will become mayor of NYC come January 2014. "2013 is going to be a Democratic year," he said twice.
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Space Projection AE Animation (Loop x 3)
Things I Learned & Discovered:
- Simple animations can be more interesting than complex ones.
- Simple movements and effects can create interesting moments.
- Experimenting and playing with effects and presets created happy accidents even in animation.
- Adding sound helped inspire and guide me through what movements and which shapes to animate.


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TV Olympics: Best Vampire Effects and Rules
For this round of TV Breakroom's Olympic event, we're going to look at all the different variations of vampires on TV! I know we had favorite Christmas episode originally scheduled for today, but at 30 options and still growing it no longer counts as a mini-poll (I'm saving it for December).
This poll is not only about the visual effects – fangs, black eyes, bumpy foreheads, and bloody tears – but also the vampire mythology and rules within each story world. Do vampires have a soul, and if not, can they regain them? How can you kill them – does sunlight, silver, holy water, etc. work? Do they turn into a pile of dust or a bloody mess when they die? Can they ever come back from that? Do they have to drink human blood, or can synthetic or animal blood work? Do they have to be invited in? Do they have super speed? Can they hypnotize humans?
Side note – I've been pondering the above questions recently as I'm working on writing a novel that includes scientifically-created vampires. How much of the vampire mythos can I find reasonable explanations for, and therefore include (yeah, invitations won't be needed for these vampires). I plan to share more about this story and its deep connection to TV shows with you in the near future!
If there are any TV vampires that I missed (and they appear in more than one episode of the show), please feel free to nominate them in the comments. Poll will be open for one week, and you can choose up to 3 options.
Which show has the best vampire effects and rules? (Choose up to 3!)
- Supernatural (32%, 82 Votes)
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Angel (23%, 57 Votes)
- True Blood (12%, 31 Votes)
- The Vampire Diaries (9%, 24 Votes)
- Moonlight (9%, 22 Votes)
- Being Human (US) (7%, 17 Votes)
- Being Human (UK) (6%, 15 Votes)
- The Gates (1%, 2 Votes)
- Forever Knight (1%, 2 Votes)
- Vampire High (0%, 1 Votes)
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I'm not into romanticized vampires. I don't find what are basically blood-sucking animated corpses to be seductive in any way. I like vampires when they're treated as villains. And I also like it when they are beheaded with razor wire or machetes. So I voted for Supernatural.
Though Buffy had cool effects.
I would vote for Vampire High, but I can see it isn't in the list…
You forgot "Forever Knight," which in my opinion, was one of the best vampire TV shows ever.


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Thursday, March 1, 2012
Steel Cage Match of Quaker Values: Where does strict adherence to the Peace Testimony rank?
Trev informed me the other night that he needed to buy some little plastic soldiers for a diorama he was making for school, something to do with the Revolutionary War, and that he had been told they could be found at CVS.
I proclaimed to all who would listen, which pretty consisted of Trev and Cheryl, that I as The Dad, knew they would be far more likely found at Toys R Us, so I stopped there on the way home from work last night. After looking high and low, and believe me, at that store there are plenty of highs and lows to look at, and not finding any small diorama-worthy soldiers, I asked a cute stockgirl and she pointed me to the one place they had them. Thanking her, I picked them up, a veritable Tub O' Soldiers, priced at $19.99. Twenty bucks for a homework assignment!
As I walked to the checkout counter, tub in hand, I started to think more about just it was I was doing. An outrage, I declared to all who were listening, well, in my head. An outrage that my Quaker child was being forced to buy soldiers, glorifying the military and so much that we Friends oppose. This sort of thing just lends credence to the idea that violence is the solution to all problems and that guns are an acceptable part of our public education. And besides, the soldiers looked to be too big and cost too damn much, dammit.
I decided that when I got home, I'd suggest to Trev, that instead of displaying the soldiers, that he place little crosses instead, showing the ugliness of war, that the mainstream media rarely reports on anymore.
On my way home, I thought I'd just stop in at the CVS, to make sure they didn't have them, and maybe to prove to all who might listen again that The Dad Knows Best, but alas, not only did they have them and not only were they a more appropriate size, but they only cost $3.29!
$3.29 - hmm, not so bad. What's a few soldiers on an innocent historical diorama. That's fine - I'll take 'em.
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I've been thinking about the quaker testimony on non-violence as it applies to (of all things) roller derby. I took, and then taught, a tae kwon do class at Earlham college. I was never sure if what I was doing was contrary to Quaker values (you shall not fight!) or completely congruent with Quaker values (you shall know yourself, control yourself, and respect yourself and others!)ReplyDelete
Semantic wrassling with the actual words "All bloody principles and practices we do utterly deny, with all outward wars, and strife, and fightings with outward weapons", seems kind of disingenous when you go "well, it's not OUTWARD weapons..."
I wonder what the arguments were for and against playing football at Westtown -- was the testimony on violence aired then?
Interesting, John. If it helps any, after much verbal rasslin', Downingtown Meeting recently approved the use of the schoolhouse for a weekly martial arts class.ReplyDelete
I forget why football was dropped...or never started at Westtown, but I think I remember that the dangers involved were a factor, back when then President Teddy Roosevelt got involved in encouraging the regulation of football because guys were dying form playing, due to its violence and lack of protection for the participants.
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Burnout Paradise rocks.
Could not be more awesome than checking off my last Stunt Run and breaking the million point barrier for first time. My last ten or so Burnout Paradise events were all Stunt Runs, because I put them off earlier in the game when I couldn't figure them out. It took a long time for me to get even decently good and I was just bouncing back and forth between different start points for a couple weeks.
I think my biggest mental stumbling block was trying to "clear out" locations right near the starting point of the Stunt Run. Even before I got lots of extra practice, there were places like the southern bridge where I could easily rack up big stunt multipliers. It wasn't that hard to get to the jackpot locations as long as I conserved boost or drove backwards, and I needed to get over trying for a perfect run and emphasize making it easier. The clinching run started outside the tunnel outside the Lawrence Tunnel, but the key was keeping the run going long enough to get to railway and hitting the big Billboard/Air Time/Spin combos. (Remembering to get in those Flat Spins are another big help.)
I'm so proud to get my Elite License, as proud as I've been to ever accomplish anything in a video game. I could've looked up hints all I wanted (and probably will when it comes to crossing off the smashes, billboards and jumps I'm still missing), but I still had to win the races/events myself and that's what I did. If anything, I'm disappointed it'll be until Fall when the new Island is released, but I'm sure I'll be restarting the game on my own before then.


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South Carolina's social media policy is wrong. Here's why.
Posted on March 12, 2015 3:16 pm by Shel Holtz | External
I would have missed the news out of South Carolina if not for a podcast. I learned that the state has a new policy forbidding employees from using social media on official devices from Tom Webster and Mark Schaefer, who talked about it on their Marketing Companion show. (It's a terrific show. Listen to it.)
I disagree with Tom and Mark's conclusion, though. The policy is just fine, they said. After all, those who need to use social media for work can do so (with permission), and the rule applies only to state-owned devices; employees are free to use their own devices on their own time, even at lunch.
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147 years ago today, Abraham Lincoln took time out from dealing with the Civil War to sign into law an act of Congress creating the Idaho Territory. The territory contained what are now the states of Idaho, Montana and most of Wyoming. Its first capital was Lewiston, Idaho.
But then, in 1864, the capital moved to Boise -- and has stayed here ever since. To make it up to the bereft citizens of northern Idaho, Idaho's land grant university -- the University of Idaho, my law school alma mater -- was situated in Moscow, the seat of Latah County.
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The Lafayette Art Association that I belong to is having another juried art competition they have named "Put A Cork In It", which only means they are serving wine and cheese at the reception. But, I always find it a challenge to try to do a play on words, especially when I create an abstract piece. I racked my brain and went to work on creating something for the show and here is my entry. I will find out next week if this piece makes it in.
30 x 40 - oil on gallery wrapped canvas
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In my Abstract Representational piece, God and the Devil, obviously represent good vs. evil. The rose with thorns represents nature and beauty as well as being vulnerable to hurt. The leaking heart represents Mankind. God is looking down on us and smiling. The yellow from his beard is enveloping the heart and fixing the problem, thus "Putting A Cork In It"...and yes, that is a real wine cork. The devil is not happy...


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Shear Strength of Continuous Platesby M. Daniel Vanderbilt, Assoc. Prof. of Civ. Engrg.; Colorado State Univ., Ft. Collins, CO,
Serial Information: Journal of the Structural Division, 1972, Vol. 98, Issue 5, Pg. 961-973
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Results of punching shear test of 15 reinforced concrete specimens of a new type of test specimen that simulates continuous two-way construction are reported. Conclusions for these tests are that: (1) Circular columns permit development of higher shear strength than square columns of equal periphery; (2) increasing moment reinforcing results in slight shear strength increase; (3) none of the empirical strength equations extant are reliable; and (4) conventional footing type test specimens are adequate for parameter studies.
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No sooner did the new two lovers, Mounser Green and Arabella Trefoil, understand each other, than they set their wits to work to make the best of their natural advantages. The latter communicated the fact in a very dry manner to her father and mother. Nothing was to be got from them, and it was only just necessary that they should know what she intended to do with herself. "My dear mamma. I am to be married some time early in May to Mr. Mounser Green of the Foreign Office. I don't think you know him, but I daresay you have heard of him. He goes to Patagonia immediately after the wedding, and I shall go with him. Your affectionate daughter, Arabella Trefoil." That was all she said, and the letter to her father was word for word the same. But how to make use of those friends who were more happily circumstanced was matter for frequent counsel between her and Mr. Green. In these days I do not think that she concealed very much from him. To tell him all the little details of her adventures with Lord Rufford would have been neither useful nor pleasant; but, as to the chief facts, reticence would have been foolish. To the statement that Lord Rufford had absolutely proposed to her she clung fast, and really did believe it herself. That she had been engaged to John Morton she did not deny; but she threw the blame of that matter on her mother, and explained to him that she had broken off the engagement down at Bragton, because she could not bring herself to regard the man with sufficient personal favour. Mounser was satisfied, but was very strong in urging her to seek, yet once again, the favour of her magnificent uncle and her magnificent aunt.
"What good can they do us?" said Arabella, who was almost afraid to make the appeal.
"It would be everything for you to be married from Mistletoe," he said. "People would know then that you were not blamed about Lord Rufford. And it might serve me very much in my profession. These things do help very much. It would cost us nothing, and the proper kind of notice would then get into the newspapers. If you will write direct to the Duchess I will get at the Duke through Lord Drummond. They know where we are going, and that we are not likely to want anything else for a long time."
"I don't think the Duchess would have mamma if it were ever so."
"Then we must drop your mother for the time; — that's all. When my aunt hears that you are to be married from the Duke's, she will be quite willing that you should remain with her till you go down to Mistletoe."
Arabella, who perhaps knew a little more than her lover, could not bring herself to believe that the appeal would be successful, but she made it. It was a very difficult letter to write, as she could not but allude to the rapid transference of her affections. "I will not conceal from you," she said, "that I have suffered very much from Lord Rufford's heartless conduct. My misery has been aggravated by the feeling that you and my uncle will hardly believe him to be so false, and will attribute part of the blame to me. I had to undergo an agonizing revulsion of feeling, during which Mr. Green's behaviour to me was at first so considerate and then so kind that it has gone far to cure the wound from which I have been suffering. He is so well known in reference to foreign affairs, that I think my uncle cannot but have heard of him; my cousin Mistletoe is certainly acquainted with him; and I think that you cannot but approve of the match. You know what is the position of my father and my mother, and how little able they are to give us any assistance. If you would be kind enough to let us be married from Mistletoe, you will confer on both of us a very, very great favour." There was more of it, but that was the first of the prayer, and most of the words given above came from the dictation of Mounser himself. She had pleaded against making the direct request, but he had assured her that in the world, as at present arranged, the best way to get a thing is to ask for it. "You make yourself at any rate understood," he said, "and you may be sure that people who receive petitions do not feel the hardihood of them so much as they who make them." Arabella, comforting herself by declaring that the Duchess at any rate could not eat her, wrote the letter and sent it.
The Duchess at first was most serious in her intention to refuse. She was indeed made very angry by the request. Though it had been agreed at Mistletoe that Lord Rufford had behaved badly, the Duchess was thoroughly well aware that Arabella's conduct had been abominable. Lord Rufford probably had made an offer, but it had been extracted from him by the vilest of manoeuvres. The girl had been personally insolent to herself. And this rapid change, this third engagement within a few weeks, was disgusting to her as a woman. But, unluckily for herself, she would not answer the letter till she had consulted her husband. As it happened the Duke was in town, and while he was there Lord Drummond got hold of him. Lord Drummond had spoken very highly of Mounser Green, and the Duke, who was never dead to the feeling that as the head of the family he should always do what he could for the junior branches, had almost made a promise. "I never take such things upon myself," he said, "but if the Duchess has no objection, we will have them down to Mistletoe."
"Of course if you wish it," said the Duchess — with more acerbity in her tone than the Duke had often heard there.
"Wish it? What do you mean by wishing it? It will be a great bore."
"But she is the only one there is and then we shall have done with it."
"Done with it! They will be back from Patagonia before you can turn yourself, and then of course we must have them here."
"Drummond tells me that Mr. Green is one of the most useful men they have at the Foreign Office; — just the man that one ought to give a lift to." Of course the Duke had his way. The Duchess could not bring herself to write the letter, but the Duke wrote to his dear niece saying that "they" would be very glad to see her, and that if she would name the day proposed for the wedding, one should be fixed for her visit to Mistletoe.
"You had better tell your mother and your father," Mounser said to her.
"What's the use? The Duchess hates my mother, and my father never goes near the place."
"Nevertheless tell them. People care a great deal for appearances." She did as she was bid, and the result was that Lord Augustus and his wife, on the occasion of their daughter's marriage, met each other at Mistletoe — for the first time for the last dozen years.
Before the day came round Arabella was quite astonished to find how popular and fashionable her wedding was likely to be, and how the world at large approved of what she was doing. The newspapers had paragraphs about alliances and noble families, and all the relatives sent tribute. There was a gold candlestick from the Duke, a gilt dish from the Duchess — which came however without a word of personal congratulation — and a gorgeous set of scent-bottles from cousin Mistletoe. The Connop Greens were lavish with sapphires, the De Brownes with pearls, and the Smijths with opal. Mrs. Gore sent a huge carbuncle which Arabella strongly suspected to be glass. From her paternal parent there came a pair of silver nut-crackers, and from the maternal a second-hand dressing-case newly done up. Old Mrs. Green gave her a couple of ornamental butter-boats, and salt-cellars innumerable came from distant Greens. But there was a diamond ring — with a single stone — from a friend, without a name, which she believed to be worth all the rest in money value. Should she send it back to Lord Rufford, or make a gulp and swallow it? How invincible must be the good-nature of the man when he could send her such a present after such a rating as she had given him in the park at Rufford! "Do as you like," Mounser Green said when she consulted him.
She very much wished to keep it. "But what am I to say, and to whom?"
"Write a note to the jewellers saying that you have got it." She did write to the jeweller saying that she had got the ring — "from a friend;" and the ring with the other tribute went to Patagonia. He had certainly behaved very badly to her, but she was quite sure that he would never tell the story of the ring to any one. Perhaps she thought that as she had spared him in the great matter of eight thousand pounds, she was entitled to take this smaller contribution.
It was late in April when she went down to Mistletoe, the marriage having been fixed for the 3rd of May. After that they were to spend a fortnight in Paris, and leave England for Patagonia at the end of the month. The only thing which Arabella dreaded was the meeting with the Duchess. When that was once over she thought that she could bear with equanimity all that could come after. The week before her marriage could not be a pleasant week, but then she had been accustomed to endure evil hours. Her uncle would be blandly good-natured. Mistletoe, should he be there, would make civil speeches to compensate for his indifference when called upon to attack Lord Rufford. Other guests would tender to her the caressing observance always shown to a bride. But as she got out of the ducal carriage at the front door, her heart was uneasy at the coming meeting.
The Duchess herself almost went to bed when the time came, so much did she dread the same thing. She was quite alone, having felt that she could not bring herself to give the affectionate embrace which the presence of others would require. She stood in the middle of the room and then came forward three steps to meet the bride. "Arabella," she said, "I am very glad that everything has been settled so comfortably for you."
"That is so kind of you, aunt," said Arabella, who was watching the Duchess closely — ready to jump into her aunt's arms if required to do so, or to stand quite aloof.
Then the Duchess signified her pleasure that her cheek should be touched — and it was touched. "Mrs. Pepper will show you your room. It is the same you had when you were here before. Perhaps you know that Mr. Green comes down to Stamford on the first, and that he will dine here on that day and on Sunday."
"That will be very nice. He had told me how it was arranged."
"It seems that he knows one of the clergymen in Stamford, and will stay at his house. Perhaps you will like to go upstairs now."
That was all there was, and that had not been very bad. During the entire week the Duchess hardly spoke to her another word, and certainly did not speak to her a word in private. Arabella now could go where she pleased without any danger of meeting her aunt on her walks. When Sunday came nobody asked her to go to church. She did go twice, Mounser Green accompanying her to the morning service; — but there was no restraint. The Duchess only thought of her as a disagreeable ill-conducted incubus, who luckily was about to be taken away to Patagonia.
It had been settled on all sides that the marriage was to be very quiet. The bride was of course consulted about her bridesmaids, as to whom there was a little difficulty. But a distant Trefoil was found willing to act, in payment for the unaccustomed invitation to Mistletoe, and one Connop Green young lady, with one De Browne young lady, and one Smijth young lady came on the same terms. Arabella herself was surprised at the ease with which it was all done. On the Saturday Lady Augustus came, and on the Sunday Lord Augustus. The parents of course kissed their child, but there was very little said in the way either of congratulation or farewell. Lord Augustus did have some conversation with Mounser Green, but it all turned on the probability of there being whist in Patagonia. On the Monday morning they were married, and then Arabella was taken off by the happy bridegroom.
When the ceremony was over it was expected that Lady Augustus should take herself away as quickly as possible, not perhaps on that very afternoon, but at any rate, on the next morning. As soon as the carriage was gone, she went to her own room and wept bitterly. It was all done now. Everything was over. Though she had quarrelled daily with her daughter for the last twelve years — to such an extent lately that no decently civil word ever passed between them — still there had been something to interest her. There had been something to fear and something to hope. The girl had always had some prospect before her, more or less brilliant. Her life had had its occupation, and future triumph was possible. Now it was all over. The link by which she had been bound to the world was broken. The Connop Greens and the Smijths would no longer have her, unless it might be on short and special occasions, as a great favour. She knew that she was an old woman, without money, without blood, and without attraction, whom nobody would ever again desire to see. She had her things packed up, and herself taken off to London, almost without a word of farewell to the Duchess, telling herself as she went that the world had produced no other people so heartless as the family of the Trefoils.
"I wonder what you will think of Patagonia," said Mounser Green as he took his bride away.
"I don't suppose I shall think much. As far as I can see one place is always like another."
"But then you will have duties."
"Not very heavy I hope."
Then he preached her a sermon, expressing a hope as he went on, that as she was leaving the pleasures of life behind her, she would learn to like the work of life. "I have found the pleasures very hard," she said. He spoke to her of the companion he hoped to find, of the possible children who might be dependent on their mother, of the position which she would hold, and of the manner in which she should fill it. She, as she listened to him, was almost stunned by the change in the world around her. She need never again seem to be gay in order that men might be attracted. She made her promises and made them with an intention of keeping them; but it may, we fear, be doubted whether he was justified in expecting that he could get a wife fit for his purpose out of the school in which Arabella Trefoil had been educated. The two, however, will pass out of our sight, and we can only hope that he may not be disappointed.
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I'm getting a variety of messages, depending on which program I'm using - Word, InDesign, Photoshop Etc. but most messages indicate that the printer could not be initialised. Indeed even the Windows Test Page cannot be printed - it immediately returns an error. I've tried reinstalling and looking through the obvious settings, all to no avail.
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Muralee Murugesu was born in Negombo, Sri Lanka but spent most of his younger years in Paris, France. He studied chemistry at the University of Paris 7 Jussieu, graduating in 1997. He then studied at the University of East Anglia in England, under the guidance of Annie K. Powell, obtaining his MSc in 1999. He continued his PhD studies with A. K. Powell at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany where he obtained his PhD in October 2002 with top honours. His first postdoctoral appointment was at University of Florida, under the guidance of George Christou from 2003–2005. He subsequently undertook a second postdoctoral position in 2005 working jointly between the University of California, Berkeley and the University of California, San Francisco under the supervision of Jeff Long and the Nobel Laureate Stanley B. Prusiner.
In August 2006, Murugesu became an assistant professor at the University of Ottawa and was promoted to associate professor in July of 2011. His research focuses on the design and development of new synthetic methods towards novel nanoscale materials. Over the years, this work has been recognized by several awards including the Early Researcher Award, Young Researcher Award and he has been appointed as a University Research Chair in Nanotechnology.


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What Does Your Ideal Society Look Like?
Its quite easy to be pessimistic and a realist, rejecting any utopias as idealism.
However I think it is important for people to have some ideals about how society should be. So, what would your ideal society look like? What things would you change or improve? What kind of political system would you employ? What sort of policies would you like to see?
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I'd go with hunter gatherer or early farming societies (only because they seem to be the first who started brewing beer). Life seemed simpler then. There weren't too many choices when it came to career. World was smaller and really quiet.
…or a modern social democracy with no income inequality. Free market within reason. No greedy corporations. No financial sector that's obsessed with gambling on stock exchanges. No foul religions nor other hateful ideologies. An educated and open society.
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The classes include student presentations of different research papers, which lead into group discussions. Readings are drawn from a range of classical and recent research papers.
The doctoral seminar 15.764 focuses on theoretical work for studying operations planning and control problems. This term's special topic, "Customer-Driven Operations," considers how a number of companies have succeeded in focusing their operation systems on the customer. The class reviews the quantitative models and theoretical tools underlying some of the customer-driven operational practices of these cutting-edge companies. Students will read and present research papers on topics such as distribution systems, short life-cycle product management, and forecast evolution models.
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ODS Health Plan Joins the We Can!® Movement
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ODS Health Plan, Inc., (ODS)—provider of medical and dental insurance to more than one million Oregoneans—has signed on to the We Can! movement!
As part of its own efforts to educate members about the benefits of healthy weight management, ODS will be reaching out to their members with We Can! resources. They will be providing access to We Can! materials; distributing fliers, tips, handbooks, and posters; and beginning collaborations with We Can! community sites throughout Oregon.
But that's not all! In the spring of 2010, ODS anticipates building on their regional efforts to support We Can! community sites by sponsoring a We Can! regional training, similar to those being planned by other sites.
Contact us at email@example.com if you are interested in working with ODS or would like to register for or learn more about their upcoming We Can! regional training.


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Selling Haitian Coffee to American Hipsters
Why coffee fanatics from Brooklyn to San Francisco are clueless about the superb coffee growing in their country's backyard
"Bon," starts Jérôme Banave, "it's good quality coffee, for export." We're standing in Banave's rainforest-like four-acre garden just outside of Thiotte, a mountain town in south-east Haiti, not too far from the border with the Dominican Republic. Banave is 76 years old. Gray hair peeks out from underneath his baseball cap, forest green with the red and white flag of Peru. He smiles and tells me he's always happy to show off his garden to visitors.
There are two main ways to process coffee from the so-called cherries that grow on the plant into beans that are ready for roasting: dry and wet. In Haiti, the traditional method is the dry one, largely because the hard cocoon formed during the process can preserve cherries for a year or longer. Virtually all Haitian farmers process at least some of their crop this way and keep it on hand as a reserve – a coffee farmer's bank account. The for-export product Banave is talking about is washed coffee, wet-processed beans. This is the type of coffee he processes each spring after the harvest, the type favored by American coffee drinkers from Brooklyn to San Francisco, and the type that earns some Haitian farmers three times the price of dry-processed beans.
By the late 1700s, the French colony that would become Haiti grew half of the world's coffee and was the most profitable colony on the planet, its riches built on the backs of half-a-million slaves from Africa. Though the colony was only about the size of Massachusetts, historian Laurent Dubois notes that "it was more valuable to France than all the thirteen colonies of North America were to England."
"We kept the original typica tree," says Douglas Weiner, referring to the heirloom coffee plants first brought to the island by Europeans, "and when you drink coffee from Haiti, it's like drinking coffee from 200 years ago." Weiner is part of the fourth generation of Geo Weiner, which sells coffee locally under the name Cafe Selecto and is one of the few remaining coffee exporters in Haiti today. Wiener's great-great-grandfather, a Polish-Austrian Jew, fled New Orleans with his black Haitian wife during the Civil War. They settled in her hometown on the tip of Haiti's southern peninsula, and the family has been in the coffee and cocoa trade since.
All of Haiti's coffee is Arabica, the high-quality bean used in gourmet coffees. Ninety percent is the typica variety and may derive from a plant that a French naval officer brought to Martinique in the 1720s. Because coffee growing methods in Haiti have hardly changed for three centuries, the country's plants remain effectively unchanged from the earliest trees brought to the Western Hemisphere. As a result, coffee from Haiti is unique from that produced anywhere else in the world.
Haiti's crop is organic by default – most of the nation's 200,000 coffee farmers couldn't afford to use chemical fertilizers or pesticides even if they wanted to. The humid mountain gardens where the crops grow are bastions of biodiversity, home to tropical oaks, laurels, and fruit trees that provide shade needed for coffee production. In a country with only 2 percent of its virgin forest remaining, coffee-producing areas are lush and green. While 60 percent of Haitians are farmers, the country's booming cash crop of late doesn't sprout from the ground – it's charcoal, the cooking fuel of choice for the country's 10 million residents. Coffee has proven to be one of the few trees that's economically worthwhile to leave standing in lieu of cutting and charring it.
Haiti now produces less than 1 percent of the world's coffee.
"Today," says 56-year-old farmer Mitriche Colin, "the biggest problem is price." World coffee prices plummeted during the early 2000s, largely thanks to a glut of new production from Brazil and Vietnam. Many Haitian farmers responded by cutting down their coffee trees and replacing them with subsistence crops, like corn and beans. Since the 1980s, production and exports have plummetted, and the number of Haitian coffee exporters shrunk from 20 companies to just two main players today, Geo Weiner and Rebo.
Jobert Angrand, executive coordinator of the National Institute of Coffee, lists other factors that contributed to the decline of production and exports. Pests like borer beetles and diseases like coffee rust have decimated trees. Angrand says that 70 percent of Haiti's coffee trees are over 20 years old, while most Columbian trees are less than 9 years old. Prime producing age is between 5 and 15 years. The small, diverse parcels that Haitians farm are good for quality but awful for efficient production, another reason that per-hectare coffee yields in Haiti can be as low as one-tenth of what they are in other Latin American countries.
"I don't think today we're looking into going mainstream," says Gilbert Gonzales. "We can't. There is not enough volume for that." Gonzales is vice president of Rebo, the other main player left in the Haitian coffee export business. He says that the ideal U.S. retailers for Haitian coffee would be groceries like Trader Joe's and Whole Foods or specialty cafés. "It's looking into the higher-end gourmet shops, things like that," he says, "so that we could really share with the rest of that world the quality available from Haiti."
For nearly two centuries, coffee was arguably Haiti's most important cash crop, thriving despite heavy taxes that the government levied on exports. Today, Haitians in the trade have a popular refrain: "Coffee paid for Haiti's independence." Revenues raised by the export tax helped pay the hefty 1825 indemnity that President Jean-Pierre Boyer agreed to pay France in exchange for diplomatic recognition as a free nation. Under the 20th-century father-son Duvalier dictatorship, the sector was governed by the Code du Café, which regulated every aspect of supply. The iron-fisted control helped keep production up, but at a price. A farmer could be fined, or caned, for bringing beans to his local market that weren't quite clean enough, for instance.
Walking through his coffee garden in Thiotte (pronounced "chut"), Colin uses one word to describe Haitians' attitude to coffee since the late 1980s: "negligence." I ask him why he hasn't cut his coffee to plant something else. "I have another vision," he says. "For me, coffee is a guarantee for the land." Emile Pierre, 72, looks at me incredulously when I ask him the same question. "Corn doesn't make you money," he says, "it's coffee that makes you money."
But, for the past 30 years, Haiti hasn't been making money from its coffee crop – at least not the kind of money it made in its heyday. At the same time, the blueprint for exporting lucrative coffee has been laid out over the last decade like model car assembly instructions for anyone to try to follow.
Irish coffee company Java Republic has purchased 97 tonnes of Haitian coffee from Rebo since 2010. The farmer association that Colin and Pierre belong to in Thiotte grows and processes the beans that are now available in every village and town in Ireland. After a 2010 trip to meet partner farmers in Haiti, CEO David McKernan wrote that "with no sense of a coordinated national coffee strategy and no control of coffee pests, the country could learn so much from Rwanda in the past 10 years."
Rwanda exported scant amounts of coffee in 1994, the year of the genocide that claimed 800,000 lives. Today, the country is known for its high-end coffee sold in cafés in Manhattan and Washington, D.C.
"I think there are a lot of lessons from Rwanda for Haiti," says Michael Fairbanks, author and advisor to Rwandan President Paul Kagame since 2000. He also consults in Haiti and has testified before U.S. Congress on business solutions to poverty in the country.
Fairbanks says that coffee was the most important export for Rwanda's 500,000 smallholder farmers, all of whom had coffee trees in their backyards. But the low-quality product that farmers were producing meant that they lost money on every pound. "The difference right there," says Fairbanks, "is that Rwanda had to figure this out. It was an existential challenge to the country."
So Rwanda invested heavily in washing stations, learned to add more value to their beans in-country, and now exports sizable quantities of high-end beans.
Washed beans that sell for high prices abroad account for less than 2 percent of coffee grown in Haiti. Unwashed beans make up 90 percent of Haitian production, most of which is consumed by the domestic market or slips across the border to the neighboring Dominican Republic on donkeys, duty-free.
Poor farmers have sporadic cash flows, and most prefer to sell as quickly as possible, with little regard to price or who happens to be buying. The farmers' cooperatives that sell washed beans for export lack financing and pay only a portion of the price up front; members have to wait until the end of the season to receive the remainder, or ristourne. Local and Dominican traders can often pay immediately upon purchase and are happy to buy low-grade coffee or even raw cherries. The majority of Haitian farmers wind up selling low-value coffee at correspondingly low prices.
Starting in the 1990s, a project called Haitian Bleu tried to bring the washed-bean export model to Haiti. USAID spent $5.8 million to form FACN, an export-licensed federation of co-ops that would supply roasters abroad with washed beans sold at three times the market price. But as the aid subsidies dwindled, no one proved willing or able to manage the venture as a viable business.
"Because the Haitians are used to all this aid from bilateral donors and NGOs," says Fairbanks, "there is a rent-seeking mentality because of the short-term nature of donor fashion and aid.
"When USAID built 120 washing stations in Rwanda, the Rwandans didn't think that this was a passing phase, because they had never received this kind of aid before. They took it more seriously."
FACN couldn't provide roasters with the volumes they'd contracted for, its administration didn't manage finances properly, and it ultimately couldn't pay its farmer members. After over a decade of aid assistance, the endeavor went bankrupt, leaving little behind besides the Haitian Bleu trademark.
Marcel Duret served as Haiti's ambassador to Japan from 1991–2003, during the height of the Haitian Bleu project. He helped champion the washed beans to coffee-crazed Japan, connected FACN with Japanese importers, "and for the first time, they sold the Haitian coffee for $3.00 a pound," Duret says. He's optimistic about prospects for high-end Haitian coffee in American markets, if the country's supply can evolve.
"We have identified 50 micro-climates all over the country," he says, "that could be planted and produce very high coffee that can compete in the international market with Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee, for example, which fetches about $15.00 a pound in the Japanese market. And we have reached only $5.75 as the highest price." By comparison, unwashed coffee sold in Haiti currently fetches from $0.92 to $1.37 per pound.
These days, Haiti and Rwanda produce about the same volume of beans each year. But Rwanda has exported nearly 20 percent of its coffee in recent years as washed beans for gourmet markets, up from just 1 percent in 2002. Haiti sells 90 percent of its production as cheap, dry-processed beans that never leave the island of Hispaniola. The upshot is that in 2010, Rwanda made $55 million from coffee exports. Haiti made $1.5 million.
"Haitians like their coffee," says Weiner, the fourth-generation coffee man. "Rwandans drink tea."
"I visited Rwanda in 2007 and saw how much was invested in coffee processing," Weiner says. "I thought at the time that it was the best way forward for Haiti." But after investing $80,000 in washing stations, he says the company hasn't been able to fill even one shipping container with washed beans.
"There is no market for coffee inside of Rwanda," he says. "In Haiti, there is a market for coffee, and a bigger one in the Dominican Republic. The Haitian farmer for less work has a market available." And he's been supplying that market with cheap, unwashed beans for decades.
Angrand, the coordinator from the government's coffee institute, says that "it's not really a problem of the Haitian mentality to produce washed coffee. It's a problem of access." Most mountainous coffee growing areas have terrible access to the country's paved national highways. If farmers can't get processed coffee to market quickly, then they may as well dry it and save it as a rainy-day fund or to pay expenses like children's school fees.
Americans like their coffee too. The giant and lucrative market in Haiti's backyard has, in theory, potential to improve farmers' livelihoods while also introducing coffee nerds in U.S. cities to Haiti's unique terroir. Today, the coffee sells only in the most niche of U.S. markets and through a hodgepodge of small ventures.
Philadelphia-based La Colombe has exported four shipping containers of Haitian coffee to the United States since 2010, supplying high-end chefs like Eric Ripert and Daniel Boulud. A handful of small companies or non-profit ventures market Haitian coffee as a way to help the country's farmers, but they move tiny volumes. A retailer startup called Kafe Pa Nou – "our coffee," in Haitian Creole – started selling Rebo and Cafe Selecto roasted bags online in April. Haitian-American co-founder Jean René Faustin says he would like to get into wholesaling eventually, but that it would be a much more difficult "second step."
"We've talked to Starbucks a few times," says Gonzales, the Rebo vice president. "We were referred to them, and they also contacted us." But he says that Haiti's yields and production are too meager to consistently supply such a large distributor, which is why he wants to focus on niche markets for now.
The average coffee yield in Haiti is 250 kilos per hectare; recent Rwandan yields have been double or triple that. By improving per-hectare yields, Haiti might one day be able to supply its domestic market while also exporting a significant volume of high-end beans.
"Haiti was for a brief moment in time the biggest producer of coffee for export in the world," says Gonzales. "Right now, most people would say it's impossible" for Haiti's coffee sector to return to international prominence. "We're not saying that it's possible in the next two years, maybe not even in the next 12 years. But it is possible."


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Fred Parsons Retires from Exploits' ERMA
THE TELEGRAMRetirement from ERMA bittersweet for Fred Parsons
Looking back and toward the futureKrysta Carroll email@example.com Published on October 10, 2017GRAND FALLS-WINDSOR, NL – The Exploits is a world-class, industry-leading river, but how many actually know its history?Fred Parsons, executive director of the Exploits River Management Association (ERMA), remembers it all as if it was the recent past."I came here in May of 1985 and I signed a three-month employment contract," Parsons said.Thirty-three years later Parsons is retiring, and this past summer Randy Edison was hired to take his place and learn the ropes.The history Edison is learning plays a big part in plans going forward.ERMA was created when closures in the mill led to some early retirements and job losses. The chamber of commerce kicked in to help, with a mandate to develop the economy in central Newfoundland using natural resources as the base."They didn't know where this would take them," Parsons said. "The plans in 1985 wasn't to build an interpretation centre and an RV park."I often say are we an environmental group with business overtones, or are we a business group with environmental overtones. I really don't know," Parsons said.When Parsons began with the group, there wasn't a big run of salmon on the Exploits River. Building massive fish ways was one of ERMA's first initiatives, building $2- and $3-million projects in-house."At the same time, we built a massive hatchery that we used to stock the river," Parsons said. "The Exploits wasn't a salmon river. It's a person-made river."In the late 1970s, there were 1,500 fish in the river, Parsons said – a number ERMA has brought to close to 50,000.In 1992 the group built the Salmonid Interpretation Centre, and the following year added a restaurant."It only seems like yesterday," Parsons said.http://www.thetelegram.com/living/2017/10/10/retirement-from-erma-bittersweet-for-fred-parsons.html
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The end is near for the Nahr al Bared camp in the north of Lebanon - quite literally.
Below you will find two sets of pictures, taken by me from the same angle. The first of both sets was taken on June 9th 2007 (21st day of the siege). I took the second of each set on July 19th 2007 (61st day of the siege). What a difference 40 days can make!
Click on the pics for enlargement. Or better, save the pics on your computer, print both and compare. The differences are quite amazing.
Saturday, July 21, 2007
Nahr al Bared - Find the 6.577 differences
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indeed, a huge difference. why is this conflict still dragging on!
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The Real Shelf Shady: new crags at Shelf Road.
Posted by Fred Knapp on 11th May 2017
Wow. What a spring we're experiencing -- mild, if not a little wet. It's truly been perfect Shelf Road conditions, though certainly there are days where climbers want to avoid the sun.
Shelf Road has so many aspects that chasing shade or sun isn't that difficult, but the great news for Shelf veterans is that many new routes have gone in recently, especially at The Gallery. Rick Thomson's Shelf Road Rock includes several dozen routes in that area that can't be found in any other book (and he clarifies confusions at the Far Side). If you're heading out there, take a peak at the sample photo for the Far Side: http://stores.sharpendbooks.com/shelf-road-rock-by...
You may find some routes you haven't climbed or get the up-to-date info. And be sure to check out The Zoo -- the newest crag that sees morning sun and afternoon shade! If you haven't been to the North End, Heaven or the Great Black North, it's worth checking them out. Some of Shelf's most classic lines reside among the forests at those crags. And they're a little cooler!


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Engine firms in Japan in deep thoughts about EV's
There are winners and losers with every aspect of advancement in the business world. After years of steady jobs and prosperity these folks are concerned about their future. Things are changing so fast in the world economy that when working for corporations you can only hope the company you are working for plans ahead! Way, way ahead….
From the Detroit News:
Hamamatsu, Japan— People here refer to it as "electric vehicle shock." Sooner or, more likely, later, the electric car could render thousands of companies superfluous here in the heart of Japan's auto parts region.
No more engines. No call for exhaust pipes. Spark plugs? Gone with the electric-car wind.
A recent widely circulated study predicts the eventual demise of much of Hamamatsu's gasoline engine economy. Spurred by that study and a sense of foreboding, carmakers, parts factories and local governments in this sprawling industrial town are joining forces to prepare for a future of electric vehicles.
Suzuki Motor, based in Hamamatsu, helped found a regional alliance in October that will help parts makers develop automotive technologies geared toward electric cars and other industries.
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With theses guys, I decided to go ahead and make them up as US Shermans. I figure that whenever I get around to it, I can use these as support for the 29th Infantry Division list I keep meaning to start.
I had US decals laying around that I picked up from somewhere, so I decided to use them. No opening the turret, so I decided to put a turret star on the platoon leader.
I did not use the Brown Violet spray for these, just a pot from the US Paint Set. I love how it isn't 'brown' or 'violet' at all. Looks great, though.
I did some mud on these guys. I really like to have the tanks look a bit worn and lived-in. Since I am keeping these, I went with it.
These tanks can't be Brits! See that baseball bat?
Well, you just cannot have enough Shermans. I will eventually get a US list together. In the mean time, I can use these for demo games or whatever. Thanks for looking!


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Friday, January 7, 2011
Someone said Egon?
Well, found this one forgotten somewhere. I made it back in 2008 probably was my first drawing with ink, I have to check with my brain to confirm that info do.
The character is inspired in a friend, far from looking like her but at the same time love how it ended. I gave the drawing to her as a gift, so I only have bad jpg copies of it. But still one of my favorites.
Oh! and someone once saw it and told me it remind him to Egon Schiele , what I later found out was a great compliment.
Happy wknd everybody!
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2 rebellious thoughts:
- Ellie said...
You are too amazing! Great work!
- January 25, 2011 at 7:42 AM
- Subversive Lulú said...
Thank you Ellie!, you have amazing things aswell.
- January 25, 2011 at 10:10 AM
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Distance learning experts, the Maritime Training Academy, has announced that Boatshed, one of the world's largest yacht brokerage groups, has endorsed their Diploma in Yacht Brokerage.
Founded by Neil and Mandy Chapman nearly two decades ago, Boatshed boasts a network of over 50 offices worldwide. According to Neil and Mandy, with an ever-expanding fleet of experienced brokers, continuous professional training and development has always played an essential part of the Boatshed ethos.
Neil Chapman, founding broker of Boatshed commented, "Boatshed is delighted to endorse the MTA's Diploma course in Yacht Brokerage and to support the MTA's excellent broker training curriculum. The course thoroughly equips existing and new brokers for the used boat sector and the job of being a busy yacht broker. At Boatshed we value the skills MTA graduates gain should they wish to become a Boatshed Broker".
To compliment Boatsheds endorsement, Maritime Training Academy is offering a 20% discount to all Boatshed franchises that enroll for the Diploma in Yacht Brokerage. Along with this, the course is also offers a gateway for students who wish to become a future Boatshed franchisee.
The next Diploma in Yacht Brokerage commences 1st October 2015, and students can register early to secure their place. Delivered through distance learning, the course consists of 12 modules, with subjects including registration title rules and regulations, yacht brokers and the law, business management, sea trials, valuation, insurance, among others.
For more information, visit the Maritime Training Academy.


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|Sleeveless spencer toile view from the front
In fact, the little breeze of a garment is now toiled and fitted as of this morning, with the expert fitting help of my friend Jane. It is just SO much easier and more efficient to have someone help you...no wrinkles on the back, no strange puckers seen when your arms are at your side, caused by toiling with the toile with your arms up, trying awkwardly to pin! Thank you and bless you, Jane.
Besides, it was a delightful friendly morning full of excellent coffee, excellenter conversation and lunch, and a trip to admire the garden, where the asparagus is up, the spinach wintered over, the sweet peas putting out shoots, and the cut forsythia branches used as staking aids last fall have rooted and are blooming! Tough as nails is right, Jane!
A Refresher: The Design
Here below is the overall design I following. Remember it? The February 1796 Gallery of Fashion sleeveless spencer, or body, with epaulettes and chain in the back?
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Finally, the pattern I drew up? Have a look at the 1790s Convertible Spencer: The Actual Project Begins post. Gee, that was back in January.
Whoop! I forgot to report on how I draped the thing on a pillow dummy wearing my cross-front dress. Oh, phooey. Hope the images are still around; the old computer died, and they may have deleted. If they live still, will report in a non-chronological post.
Suffice it to say that I dressed a fat pillow, not having my dress form at hand, with my cross-front dress, and then draped the paper over it, first following the lines of the dress, seams, and then changing them to fit the lines of the Met spencer. Then I added wide seam allowances for fitting, and cut out the pattern pieces.
It felt very period to do so. I was taking the lines of a dress that I had, and adjusting them for a different style. As explained to Jane this morning, each period has its conventions in cut; the conventions are subject to endless variations, but once you learn them, you can adapt what fits you endlessly.
All right, so you are somewhat refreshed, I hope, and the fitting pictures will make more sense.
The Fitting
Swedish tracing paper has body, and is good for making toiles of fitted garments of firm fabrics, or so I have found. Plus it's easy to draw on and cut, and translucent, so it's easy to see seamlines and so on underneath.
It's also white, and I had donned a cream top this morning, and Jane's house is in neutrals. Mmm. Can you see, or shall you squint like I am right now?
Here is the back.
The back and side back seams needed no tweaking. The back fits smoothly. You can see my stays underneath (made by Sarah Jane Meister, and so comfortable!)
The back is meant to be wide and steeply angled...no tiny diamond here, more of a trapezoid.
Oh my, I just had a breathless, horrible moment, looking at that image. It appeared I had placed the straps incorrectly! Actually, while pinning everything together this morning, there was a dorky moment when I pinned the straps to the right and left of just the front pieces, and left the back hanging. Jane laughed when it wouldn't go on.However, those wide allowances for fitting are fooling the eyes. Let's look at a marked-up copy.
Hmm. Now that I look at it, I see a basic error. The garment edges are colored in blue. When pinning, I didn't fold back the armscye seam allowance. The edge of the toile is snug, but the garment line when sewn is way loose. Will have to take at least part of the seam allowance away and try the toile on again. Don't want too snug, but not this loose. Dress fabric is liable to blouse out of too-large armscyes.
Plus, while the Met spencer has very much of a squared neckline -- from an earlier garment iteration, perhaps? -- it's too boxy and too low. I like the curve of the fashion plate. Even the adjustments in red are wrong. The height is better, but I want to curve the neckline a little. Just a little, because the straps really are just rectangles, but just a wee. The plaiting of the lace trim will lend a curve.
The waistline looked too high, so I marked a lower one in red, but now am rethinking that. O Hive Mind, your thoughts?
Here is the front.
Here's another very basic error. Have a look at the pattern that I made, in the post linked above. Note how wide the fronts are. Why? I did the design so long ago the reason has escaped. Perhaps it was the fat pillow distorting the cut, perhaps it was me being generous with the double hem that I will need in the center front in which to insert a bone to each side and also lacing eyelets.
Whatever: we have TOO much fabric entirely. I have folded it in back like wings so it's pretty funny looking. In addition, am not sure whether to lace it up edge to edge or to leave a little room.
Do you think the garment would look goofy with dress showing through: this is, after all, the early Regency, not the Long 18th Century, or 1830. So I am going to lace edge to edge and if evidence shows the contrary, then eh, I take in some fabric.
Might fuss with the height of the front a bit. Imagine it without the seam allowance and it seems pretty nice...or is it?
The waistline needs shortening, just a little. Also, while my pattern includes the spencer skirts, or peplum as we would call it, the fashion plate lacks it and frankly, I think the spencer will look better without the little skirts, so I am leaving them off. Can reuse this pattern again later for a wool spencer, in which the peplum would make better sense.
Then too, two tiny vertical darts will need to be set in the chest area, as in the Met spencer, once I have donned the real dress and am working with the silk. Doing those darts now would be a study in failure.
Here are the adjustment marks:
The last image, the side view. All okay here. Didn't Sarah Jane do some pretty embroidery on those stays?
So, first fitting is done. A few tweaks, then it's on to dying the fabric lilac and cutting it out!


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Make A Film. Make A Difference. called on Victorians aged 25 or under to write an idea for a short film that tackled the theme 'Your Mates Life is in Your Hands', and specifically encouraged young people to speak up when they feel unsafe. 21 exceptional films have been produced by young Victorians.
From hundreds of ideas submitted each year, two filmmakers were given the go-ahead to bring their short film to life with a budget of $25,000 and mentorship from industry professionals and the TAC.
Once produced, the films were screened in cinemas, online and at youth events. Winners also received a $5,000 cash prize each.
The MAFMAD competition formed part of the TAC's youth risk-taking strategy. This competition was developed with the premise that the short films will contain a valuable road safety message created by young people, for young people.


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Bates projects "Madman" will rank ninth among the 95 prime-time shows scheduled for next season, averaging a 15.9 rating.
Fox's "M.A.N.T.I.S." will rank 95th out of 95 shows, with a 4.8.
"Very few shows will create the excitement generated by the cream of last season's crop, `NYPD Blue,'*" according to Bates.
Indeed, even "Madman" will break into the top 20 only because of the strong programming surrounding it on NBC's Thursday night schedule.
"Madman" follows "Seinfeld" at 9:30 p.m. (ET), and Bates notes it will "wind up being the highest-rated new series not because of great concepts or great writing but rather because it will hold on to some of the audience flow from the hit shows that precede it."
Demographically, Bates predicts three new shows will break into the top 20 among the key 18-to-49-year-old group, including "Madman," ranked No. 5 with a 12.9 rating; NBC's "Friends," No. 11 with a 9.4 rating; and NBC's "Martin Short Show," No. 20 with an 8.4 rating.
While NBC will make some inroads this season with new programming, Bates predicts ABC will continue to dominate the key younger demographic.M
Joe Mandese coordinates MediaWorks.