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Horizontes Antropológicos
Print version ISSN 0104-7183
Horiz.antropol. vol.5 no.se Porto Alegre 2010
Metropolis, cosmopolitanism and brokerage
Metrópole, cosmopolitismo e mediação
Gilberto Velho
Museu Nacional/Federal University of Rio de Janeiro - Brazil
Translated by Letícia Cesarino
Translated from Horizontes Antropológicos, Porto Alegre, v.16, n.33, p. 15-23, jun. 2010.
This article deals with some issues concerning the relations between metropolitan life and cosmopolitanism. It brings historical examples and examines contemporary situations, exploring recent changes in world life. It also deals with the themes of social-cultural complexity, heterogeneity, mediation, multiculturalism and their implications for different life styles. One of its main concerns, especially focused on urban life, is the general question of social interaction and sociability as a basic phenomenon of social and historical processes.
Keywords: complexity, cosmopolitanism, heterogeneity, mediation.
O texto examina algumas questões relacionadas à temática do cosmopolitismo metropolitano, focalizando trajetórias e subjetividades. Trata-se de refletir, a partir de autores clássicos como Simmel, sobre as descontinuidades entre culturas objetiva e subjetiva na sociedade moderno-contemporânea. Uma das preocupações centrais é identificar o trânsito entre múltiplos domínios e diferentes correntes de tradição cultural. Dá continuidade a trabalhos anteriores em que a complexidade e heterogeneidade socioculturais têm sido examinadas através de seus efeitos nas trajetórias de indivíduos e categorias. Dessa forma, procura-se repensar a própria noção de cosmopolitismo, contextualizando-o em termos históricos e culturais. Está em jogo o tema da mediação, que se manifesta na capacidade de transitar e, em situações específicas, do desempenho do papel de mediador entre distintos grupos, redes e códigos. O mediador, mesmo não sendo um autor no sentindo convencional, é um intérprete e um reinventor da cultura. É um agente de mudança quando traz informações e transmite novos costumes, hábitos, bens e aspirações.
Palavras-chave: complexidade, cosmopolitismo, heterogeneidade, mediação.
It is by now common sense to associate the metropolis with cosmopolitanism. This has consequences for both scientific analyses and public policies at various levels. Cosmopolitanism would oppose localism and an almost pejorative provincialism. The cosmopolis could be an indication of a world without borders, with universalistic characteristics. One could perhaps talk of a cosmopolitan ethos with direct implications for anthropology as a discipline and a field of knowledge. This suggests an investigation of life styles and world views during various historical periods. We know, for instance, that cities in Antiquity as in Rome, Constantinople, Alexandria and others showed sociocultural characteristics linking heterogeneity and cosmopolitanism. Thus, historically, circulation, transit, exchange, interaction have all contributed to cosmopolitization. On the other hand, in modern-contemporary society at least since Romanticism, cosmopolitanism has been associated above all with individualistic values and perspectives. Who are, and how would behave, cosmopolitan individuals - agents and products of broader socio-historical processes, some of a longue durée, and others that seem to burst suddenly and powerfully into the present? To which extent one may, for instance, associate cosmopolitanism with the dynamics of currents of social tradition - to use Barth's (1989) term - and multi-ethnicity? Following Simmel's (1971) concern, it is also important to examine relations between objective and subjective cultures when dealing with the differences between a (in principle) self-referred localism and the universalist potential of a cosmopolitan experience unevenly distributed across the inhabitants of a metropolis. In this heterogeneous and complex experience, there is a coexistence of various social worlds and cultural currents expressing different ways of relating and interacting with reality, as well as multiple, simultaneous identities and belongings. Certainly, there are worlds that are more restricted and static, and others which are more open and dynamic.
In the remote year of 1971, I carried out an exploratory research among a population of Azorean origin in the Boston metropolitan region. One of the most fascinating aspects of this inquiry was to compare the differences, above all generational, in these immigrant families. In various situations, these were grandparents, children, and grandchildren. They all lived in one of the United States' most important urban areas, with a remarkable history and traditions. Classic studies developed there, such as those by W. F. Whyte (1973) and H. J. Gans (1969), approached all its sociological complexity and cultural heterogeneity. I believe that my chief reflections, stemming from what I had read and researched, pertained to the generationally discontinuous ways of socially constructing the reality in the universe studied. This had interested me during a previous research in Copacabana (Rio de Janeiro), which focused on trajectories in the city and in society at large, looking at the similarities, contrasts, and transformations in the middle classes' world views - which were not only generational, although these were very important. Schematically, it was possible to distinguish a tendency of perpetuating a scale of values associated with localities and neighborhoods, bounded by tradition, and another one marked by change and mobility. These however often appeared in complex and contradictory ways. Based on this and other studies, I explored the notion of field of possibilities by integrating concerns found in works by authors who contributed distinctively to this reflection, among which Simmel (1971), Schutz (1970), Geertz (1973), and Bourdieu (1974).
Basically, it is about acknowledging the sociocultural borders and limits across which categories, groups, social agents and individual-subjects move, even in societies not marked by individualistic values. Thus, there are several important dimensions to be observed, including most prominently social relations tout court - such as participation in social networks -, and shared meanings in the cultural sphere proper. One should be aware that social relations and shared meanings speak to each other, and constitute a complex phenomenon to be approached multi-dimensionally.
In principle, the cosmopolitan experience is supposed to expand the universe of experiences and access to different world views. When and how is such cosmopolitanism manifested? In which social contexts and situations is it an important variable for understanding the motivations and actions of subjects, be them individuals or collective agents? Obviously, there are various types of cosmopolitanism that are historically and culturally differentiated as a function of circumstances, position, career, and social trajectories. In the abovementioned research, one would suppose that a worker coming from a village in the island of São Miguel would have a very distinct experience than that of an Azorean student in New England. The adolescent and young adults with whom I talked in 1971 avoided to speak Portuguese, while most adults presented serious difficulties with the English language. Some of the young folks of Azorean origin circulated in the so-called counterculture of that epoch, often making more or less regular use of drugs such as marijuana and lysergic acid. They interacted and related above all with native or immigrant Americans in their schools or at the university (Velho, 1994). There was certainly a dimension of experimentalism in these cosmopolitanizing experiences. Their daily life and rhythm, their differentiated activities and sociabilities involved meanings that were not necessarily shared by other members of their family and/or domestic group. This was the case of a young lady who lived for some time together with her older relatives under a so-called "altered state of consciousness" caused by LSD, establishing contrasts between perceptions by her family and the meanings attributed by her friends and generational peers. This implied, for instance, diverse representations of time and space with broader import for systems of classification and organization of experience into provinces of meanings, to use a term by Schutz (1970). Thus the travel, the process of migration, of settling into a new society and a big city are not translated into a homogeneous sort of cosmopolitanism to be understood as a linear and simple variable. In order to talk about cosmopolitanism in a more fruitful way, then, it is necessary to qualify it. In cosmopolitan Copacabana, too, I have found various life styles and taste cultures (Gans, 1975; Velho, 1973, 1999) which made up a heterogeneous, complex and dynamic sociocultural picture. On the one hand, there was a social segment at which people from all across the world circulated, from sectors such as business, entertainment, arts and culture, among others. Their references were clearly international. To travel across the world was a routine activity, and they were part of intercontinental social networks. They would speak at least one foreign language, sometimes three or four - just as the social elites of cosmopolitan second and third century Palmira who, according to Paul Veyne (2009), spoke Greek, Latin and Aramaic. On the other hand, there were individuals and families coming from more distant neighborhoods, the city's outskirts, smaller towns or other regions in Brazil. These would be mostly classified as suburban or provincial people, although the presence of members of regional elites should be remarked; these had sociocultural characteristics which distinguished them from more modest migrants. These were businessmen, politicians, higher level state officials - it should be recalled that, until 1960, Rio de Janeiro was the capital of Brazil. For almost two centuries, this city was the country's political, administrative, and cultural center, and - until the rise of São Paulo in the mid-twentieth century - Brazil's most populous city and main economic pole. As such, it was home to diplomatic representations and major international meetings. To be cosmopolitan, from the standpoint of the individuals, would mean to be able to access different codes, cultures, life styles, world views, and so forth. It is important to repeat that this may come from various sources. The trader who travels the world, the adventurer who journeys various continents, the diplomat, the sailor are prototypes of individuals who, in principle, have the potential for developing a less localist perspective. But on the other hand, travelling would not have the magical effect of transforming the individuals, of dissolving their socialization by annulling values, beliefs, prejudices, tastes previously constituted by their participation in an original milieu and culture.
At stake here is a sociocultural plasticity manifested in the capacity to transit and, in specific situations, to play a brokerage role between different groups and codes. Cosmopolitanism may be interpreted as an expression of this phenomenon which is not only spatial-geographic, but which has a potential for developing the capacity and/or empathy for perceiving and decoding points of view and perspectives by social categories, cultural currents, and particular individuals. Without discarding explanations of a psychological nature, and even acknowledging the possibility of building bridges with them, our focus is on the trajectories, life histories and relations between objective and subjective cultures. The Brazilian writer Machado de Assis, for instance, constructed a world of characters and situations of a complex and multifarious humanity without ever leaving Rio de Janeiro (he went only as far as Petrópolis), through his knowledge of the literature and his capacity for observation and reflection. What to say about the cosmopolitanism of Cicero, Dante, Camões, Shakespeare, Balzac, Proust, Borges, each in his own time and circumstance? What is permanently at stake here is the possibility of communicating and engaging in dialogue with different traditions such as Western literature, bearer of meanings and values associated with a particular socio-historical memory. Is intelligentsia cosmopolitan by definition? This is certainly a problematic question if one takes into account recent xenophobic and racist formulations stemming from diverse intellectual productions. One cannot ignore a certain kind of cosmopolitanism that subscribes to stereotypes, colonialism, and imperialism. To be an intellectual does not imply adhering to universalism of a liberal and/or progressive kind, neither is cosmopolitanism a virtue in itself. I believe it is worth insisting on the idea of brokerage as a socioanthropological phenomenon. The broker, even though not an author in the conventional sense, is an interpreter and a re-maker of culture. He is an agent of change when he brings, for better or for worse, information and transmits new costumes, habits, goods and aspirations by means of his objective and/or subjective cosmopolitanism. Nowadays, this can be done via rapid international trips or even while sitting in front of a computer screen, by potentially accessing an almost unlimited repertoire of data, news, general information. It is important to remark that such uses are highly unequal in terms of the users' backgrounds, cultural capital and trajectories. To navigate on the web does not automatically confer a cosmopolitan passport. A fundamental point is to resume the idea of multiple belongings. People have complex experiences, move across multiple sites, articulate in diverse networks; their identities are not homogeneous, neither do they develop unilinearly. Thus, we could say that there are no "pure" cosmopolitans; the domestic, local, provincial, self-referred, endogamic side reappears or is always present in particular contexts and situations. The ancestors' village, the old neighborhood, the paternal home and their memories are well-known and common examples of important identitarian anchors.
Another compelling issue is to relate cosmopolitanism not only with Simmel's (1971) abovementioned notion of subjective culture, but also with the Bildung problematic and the unfoldings of German philology and philosophy in the works of authors such as Herder, Humboldt, or Nietzsche. Certainly, Simmel's work bears relation with this tradition of thought, itself full of polemics, lineages, and currents. We may ask, thus, whether the cosmopolitan experience contribute to the improvement and development of individual, social and cultural potentialities. How to compare different cultures or streams of cultural traditions in these terms? To which extent are notions such as Bildung and self-cultivation expressions of a Western universalistic humanism? Or rather, is it possible to deploy them along an anthropological train of thought, sustained by the notion of cultural relativism? By assuming the problematic of diversity, sociocultural pluralism, hybridism, among other renditions of the privilege of the value of difference, how one deals with the classic heritage of universalistic literary humanism, frequently associated as it is with hierarchical conceptions of culture? The development of individual potentialities within this tradition would point to a social utopia in which society(ies) as a whole would be made up of fully developed individuals with fulfilled competences and capacities. This has been one of the fundamental dilemmas of contemporary humanism: how to deal, on the one hand, with the multiplicity of cultures and their relations with nature and, on the other, with the fragmentation, inequalities and conflicts of modern-contemporary society, especially in the metropolis. For the sake of illustration, one could recall, among the various political, economic and cultural cosmopolitanisms with which we live, the existence of international crime and mafias, organized in complex and efficient networks. Cosmopolitanism is therefore not synonymous with a spiritual aristocracy, neither with sociocultural refinement. It may be an instrument, a way of life supporting strategies for accumulating material and immaterial resources, including prestige and power. In its various versions, it may be associated with life styles that inscribe frontiers of status; but it may also be a diffuser of information and ideas which might contribute to more democratizing forms of exchange, to the establishment of new bridges between different cultural levels. On the other hand, the cosmopolitan may be a polyglot without ever giving up his ethnocentrism, as long as he remains attached to world views ill-adapted to dealing with the new, the transnational, and the different. On the negative side, the cosmopolitan life style may be regarded as superficial, rootless and detached from deeper regional and/or national foundations. Rather than meritorious, internationalism and universalism would be signs or symptoms of lack of commitment with the domestic world of the family, appearing as "inauthentic" as opposed to the "authenticity" of local, continual and long-lasting experiences involving close and dense relationships. As already mentioned, perceptions of the foreigner and of the "external world" as a physical and symbolic menace are well known, and sometimes tragically experienced. Barriers, prejudices and aggressiveness may take on multiple forms.
Ultimately, among all these possibilities and controversies, I seek to underline the cosmopolitan experience's potential for dialogue, be it at the level of objective culture and material relations, be it in the relations established between different subjects when negotiating reality and thus constructing it as part of an unbroken process. In this sense, the extension of networks of relations and the multiplication of interactions could translate into enrichment, especially in terms of individual valorization and subjective culture, by intensifying and deepening the experience of belonging to and participating in a broader, reassessed and socially renovated collectivity capable of facing the contemporary world's threats, violences, and risks. This multicultural and multiethnic humanism recuperates the ancient idea of cosmopolitanism, which finds its best possibilities of expression in the metropolis by means of public policies implementing and strengthening spaces and circumstances for democratic dialogue. Anthropology, with its unavoidable ups and downs, has a fundamental contribution to make to the assessment of the various facets and contradictions of cosmopolitanism by means of the notion of culture, with all its revisions and reinterpretations. The indefinite and sometimes overrated globalization adds interesting elements for evaluating the social and individual dimensions of cosmopolitanism in terms of its changes and the reactions that it causes. On the other hand, brokerage is a fundamental phenomenon not only for building bridges across those who are different, but, by reinventing codes, networks of meanings and social relations, for expanding and developing a new and more complex conception of citizenship. There are many styles of brokerage - from active agents who play a direct part in politico-social movements and mobilizations to intellectuals, scientists, authors and artists who, through their researches and reflections, contribute to broadening horizons and renewing forms of communicating and establishing dialogue. These forms may combine and complement each other, even though there might also be conflict and clashes. On the other hand, persistent resistances, prejudices and obstructions are found not only in particular social categories and groups, but in the trajectories and experiences of complex and contradictory individuals.
Thus, when celebrating anthropology's possible cosmopolitan ethos, it is important to pay heed to the well-known tyranny of circumstances, which imposes limits upon all of us.
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When we got back to Dallas we were hit with an Ice Storm. It was our first. It was crazy! The ice was so heavy that it broke off of bunch of huge branches from the tree in our front yard.
The ice was covering everything. It looked like everything was incased in glass.
The kids wanted to go outside but it was so cold we had to bundle them up nice and warm. Unfortunately we don't have gear for snow or ice so we had to make do. Elena was pretty cold by the end of it.
Jesús tied rope around the kids and we used bucket lids to drag them down the sidewalk.
So since everything was just ice, they closed everything and there was no school or church for 4 days. It was fun at first then it started to suck. We were tired of being inside. I cannot tell you how happy I was when things were melted enough for us to go back to our lives. I have never had church cancelled before for any reason so this was a shock for me. As things would melt, the water on the roads would freeze over again in the night so there would just be more ice on the roads. I slid a little taking the kids to school for a few days but then the sun came out and melted everything and I felt all the anxiousness go away. I love the sun. Love it.

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During the first week of the new year, I took my daughters for an overnight trip to the Kitsap Peninsula just to get away for a couple of days. Every so often, it's nice for them to spend some time together without their brother. We had some good weather and favorable tides during our trip so we crossed the Hood Canal Bridge to do our first clam dig of the year.
Wolfe Property State Park is a small but fertile beach where you'll find some decent populations of Manila and other clams. The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife seeds the Manila clam population on this beach which explains their abundance.
The clams on this beach tend to be somewhat smaller than at other Puget Sound beaches but we easily got our limits that day. Using a hand trowel, we found our clams within an inch or two of the surface in the tidal zone where the sand and small gravel mix.
Besides the good shellfish harvesting, Wolfe Property State Park is also a nice kids' beach for running around. And with an awesome view of Mt. Baker in the distance, it's a scenic, quiet place for adults too. When we got back home, we rewarded our efforts with a big pot of steamed clams with garlic butter sauce.


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1 December 2009 marked the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Antarctic Treaty in Washington DC. To acknowledge this milestone, experts in the field of international governance attended the Antarctic Treaty Summit: Science-Policy Interactions in International Governance symposium, hosted at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History.
The Antarctic reserved the continent for peace and science, ensuring that this special place would remain free of military fortifications and activities while promoting international cooperation in scientific investigation.
The three and a half day summit involved a series of keynote presentations and panel discussions from scientists, conservationists and policy makers who reviewed the lessons learned from the Antarctic Treaty and addressed the hopes for the next 50 years. Dr. G. Wayne Clough, the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution and Prince Albert II of Monaco gave opening addresses.
Dr Harlan Cohen, IUCN's Advisor on Ocean Governance and International Institutions, gave a concise overview of the last fifty years focused on the important role played by non-governmental and intergovernmental organizations in providing important information and advice without which the Treaty Parties could not effectively or efficiently manage Antarctica and the Southern Ocean.
"Looking back, the Antarctic Treaty was developed as a way to reserve Antarctica from Cold War tensions that troubled the world at the time," explained Dr. Cohen. "It represented an innovative way to use scientific exchanges to promote disarmament. This developed from a culture in which governments of the time operated in relative secrecy. The closed nature of the Antarctic Treaty System changed over time and debates on Antarctica in the United Nations General Assembly also played a major role in promoting more open information policies."
Jim Barnes, Executive Director of the Antarctic and Southern Ocean Coalition (ASOC) addressed the challenges that still face the Treaty.
"Bringing Measures and Annexes into force promptly is very important for the credibility and legitimacy of the Antarctic Treaty System," he explained. "We all agree that further steps towards fuller transparency must be taken and that positive synergies among various international agreements should be promoted."
As commercial tourism increases additional regulatory measures are needed. Though some initial steps have been taken, there is not a comprehensive, legally-binding system that will prevent tourism activities that rely on larger vessels that are not suitable for use in remote, poorly charted and often icy waters and on land-based infrastructure.
All in all, the summit proved successful in terms of analyzing the treaty's successes and weaknesses. It was clear that there is much still to achieve to ensure that the Antarctic Treaty System works effectively over the next five decades.
About The Antarctic Treaty
After a decade of diplomatic contacts and informal consultations among an interested group of countries, on 3 May 1958, President Eisenhower formally invited those countries "which have engaged in scientific activities in Antarctica over the past nine months in connection with the International Geophysical Year" to confer in the United States about an Antarctic Treaty. This invitation was "dedicated to the principle that the vast uninhabited wastes of Antarctica shall be used only for peaceful purposes…insuring that this same kind of cooperation for the benefit of all mankind shall be perpetuated."
Over the next eighteen months, and through the tensions of the cold war, the two superpowers and the other ten countries that cooperated in Antarctica during the International Geophysical Year (IGY) from July 1, 1957 through December 31, 1958 contributed to sixty secret preparatory meetings in Washington, D.C. The final negotiations were convened as the "Conference on Antarctica" at a Department of State annex in Washington, DC from 15 October to 1 December 1959, when the Antarctic Treaty was signed by the twelve Antarctica-IGY countries.
The Antarctic Treaty came into force on June 23, 1961 after its ratification by all twelve countries that had collaborated in Antarctic research activities during the International Geophysical Year from July 1, 1957 through December 31, 1958. These included Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Chile, France, Japan, New Zealand, Norway, South Africa, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the United Kingdom and the United States.


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The latest hypercar looking to take on the big boys of Ferrari, McLaren and Bugatti has been unveiled.
Coming somewhat surprisingly from Slovenia, the Tushek TS 900H Apex has been revealed in a series of photos before it makes its first public appearance at the elite Salon Prive at Blenheim Palace in September.
TheTS 900 H Apex is the brainchild of Slovenian racing driver Aljosa Tushek who previously created the TS 500 Renovatio and TS 600 and has spent the last four years applying his experience on the track to create this latest model.
Powered by a 4.2-litre, supercharged V8 which drives the rear wheels and two electric motors at the front, Tushek claim the TS 900 H produces 937bhp and more than 1,033lb/ft of torque.
That's less than the recently announced Ferrari SF90 Stradale and all-electric Lotus Evija but Tushek say that doesn't matter as the TS 900 H Apex is the lightest hybrid hypercar around – weighing in at just 1,410kg, compared to the Ferrari's 1,570kg and the positively tubby 1,680kg Lotus.
This is achieved by using a chrome-moly spaceframe and pre-impregnated carbon-fibre body, featuring a removal structural hard top and scissor doors.
Top speed is apparently 236mph and the 0-60mph run takes just 2.5 seconds with hefty Brembo brakes to slow it down and Pirelli Trofeo Series R tyres.
Aljosa Tushek commented: "Over the past years we have intensively developed and constructed advanced technological solutions for our new model, the TS 900 H Apex, in particular in the area of electric drive train.
"Those developments are now incorporated in our latest model and have been successfully tested in race-track conditions over the past months."
There's no suggestion on price yet but this is a small-volume high-performance hybrid that's looking to challenge some serious players so don't expect it to be cheap.


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Weekly Release Spotlight: Frankie Rose
Posted on 10/7/2013
Photo credits: Ebru Yildez
Frankie Rose
Herein Wild
Fat Possum
By: Ryan Glenn
Frankie Rose is back and building on their strong foundation of synth heavy dream-pop, the crew takes us in a whole different direction.
Frankie Rose bursts onto the scene last year with their amazing release, Interstellar, and continues on their cosmic travels with this years Herein Wild. Although the variables have been tweaked a bit, the formula is still basically the same. By building on their strong foundation of synth heavy dream-pop, the Frankie Rose crew takes us in a whole different direction.
While Interstellar was steeped heavily in synth filled dream-pop, Herein Wild adds a bit more of an organic element to the sound of Frankie Rose. Gone are the joyous and upbeat sounds of "Interstellar" and "Daylight Sky". It may be the harshest change between the two albums, but it certainly doesn't take away from the strengths of Herein Wild. Frankie Rose is often related to the cosmic plain (perhaps perpetuated by naming an album Interstellar) and while their debut was all about the fun of whipping through space at whiz-bang progress, the sophomore effort reminds us how lonely and desolate it can be while doing so. Most invoking of this tone is the track "Cliffs as High", a stark and quiet single in comparison to anything else released by the band. It gives an idea of what Frankie Rose could do without the dream-pop formula they used so well. The string arrangement is a nice addition to the familiar sounds. The track also feels like the first song group leader Frankie worked totally on her own. It is mostly Frankie on her own with a minimalistic accompaniment. The song calls upon influences of Bjork, and could be looked at as a further progression of where they are going as a group.
For fans of Interstellar there is still plenty of enjoyment to be had here listening to the new collection of songs. Don't be worried about the change in pace on the record, it is still a wonderfully crafted album that takes away the sense of exploration and opts to instead take a moment for self-reflection. As with "Cliffs as High" the record often feels like Frankie alone drifting listlessly. Also this time around instead of singing of blazing across the interstellar highway, the travel is a little slower to take some time for reflection. As on "Sorrow" Frankie brings up plenty of things that would be considered full of sorrow. However, instead of facings these things head on with action, Frankie asks "Why? Don't ask me why." It is not an uncaring or callous answer, rather a blunt statement of what could be wrong. There is a lot of sorrow everywhere, yet we rarely know why. While Interstellar was the innocence of birth, youth, and exploration, Herein Wild is the realization of adulthood and the all encompassing lifestyle and questions that come along with that. It is certainly a grown up and darker record, but by no means it is worth skipping out of fear of growing up.
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First quarter results: more revenues and net profit. Record financial position.
Maranello, 16th May
Montezemolo: "More profit but even more investiments in both our product and Formula One"
"We want to keep total production of the cars in our range under the 7,000 mark once again this year whilst strengthening our economic results. This target poses an even greater challenge in the light of the very substantial investments we are making in both our product and Formula One where an exceptional effort, financially as well, is required to bridge the gap with our competitors."
Chairman Luca di Montezemolo declared at the end of the board that has reviewed the results of the first quarter of 2014.
Revenues leaped by 12.5% to 620 million euro despite a 6% drop in the number ofroad cars delivered: with total of 1,699, 100 less than last year.
Net profits rose 5% to over 57 million euro, while trading profit equalled last year's excellent 80 million euro.
The first quarter of 2014 also confirmed Ferrari's ability to generate strong cash flows, with a net industrial financial position just shy of one and a half billion euro at March 31st. This 1,487 million has reached an unprecedented level in the company's history and its growth has been such that this figure has practically doubled in the course of the last two years.
Markets wise USA (+8%) and UK (+3%) continue to growth. Japan almost doubled and Italy started top grow again.
Very good results on the digital world Facebook page now has 16.5 million fans and Ferrari official YouTube channel has had 40 million views.


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Aurora members of the "99 percent" venture to Tampa, hope(d) to speak with Coffman
Aurora residents with ties to the left-leaning Colorado Fair Share Alliance made the more than 1,800 mile trek to the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Fla., in the hopes of speaking to GOP Congressman Mike Coffman.
Only problem is that the two-term incumbent from the 6th Congressional District isn't there.
Coffman, who is facing a challenge from Democratic State Rep. Joe Miklosi, decided to stay in Colorado as 36 state delegates ventured to Florida. Mitt Romney will be nominated as the party's presidential nominee later this week.
Crista Laughlin, Wanda Ramey and David Bouchey all made the trip, and from pictures provided in a news release by Colorado Fair Share, appear to be safe as Tropical Storm Isaac heads toward Tampa's Gulf Coast.
Last week, Colorado Fair Share announced these 6th District residents were heading to Tampa to try and speak with Coffman, and that they're members of the 99 percent. For months, the group has stressed that Coffman has denied their requests to answer questions about his positions on the middle-class.


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Fact-checking Gov. Scott Walker's new book
In his new memoir, Gov. Scott Walker recounts how he secretly crafted a plan "that gets rid of the unions and eliminates collective bargaining." He dwells on the state of state government's finances prior to his election and argues for how much better they are now.
And he takes a few pokes at President Obama's Washington.
We take a look at how Walker's claims -- new and old -- stack up on the Truth-O-Meter.


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Style7 – Custom Window 7 Themes
Style 7 is a Windows 7 theme generator. It uses the default Microsoft Aero theme as base and generates a new theme using blackbox styles. Blackbox styles are created with a single, simple, human-readable, configuration file. Thousands are also readily available for download on the internet.
You will need UxStyle Core or UxTheme patcher to run the Unsigned Themes created by Style7.
The installer includes the classic blackbox themes. But search for more themes on Customize.org
Change Log
- DWM Composition Support (Aero/Transparency/Effects)
Great idea, but …. I've got a problem. I use UxStyle, and normal Aero-enabled themes downloaded eg. from DeviantArt are working (= UxStyle is obviously active).
But themes applied by Your application not. Windows turns each to "classic". For example Nyz.style visible on Your screenshot is displayed differently at my system, as truncated classic, taskbar looks awfull like Win98.
No aero / transparency. Windows Aero diagnostic reports not Aero-enabled theme.
Also I'm not sure about path. Program creates folder C:\Windows\Resources\Themes\style7, and inside are together all generated styles in paired files *.theme + *.msstyles. But all other working aero themes have different construction:
- C:\Windows\Resources\Themes\theme1
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—- MUI folder
- C:\Windows\Resources\Themes\theme1.theme
Can You please explain me what's going on?
Thank You
I can't wait to try this one out. I've been stuck with the Basic style for a year now. Thanks for sharing.
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Environment Waikato not involved in Gold project
Environment Waikato says it has not considered any involvement in dredging the Coromandel harbour for residues of gold.
Environment Waikato says it has not considered any involvement in dredging the Coromandel harbour for residues of gold.
Environment Waikato has granted resource consent for earthworks and vegetation clearance associated with a proposed new subdivision at Lake Taupo.
A growing number of Beachcare groups are increasing people's understanding of the natural processes on beaches, this week's Environment Waikato Environment Committee heard.
Environment Waikato is concerned about the additional financial burden on Regional ratepayers and the damage the proposed Foreshore and Seabed Bill could have on its relationships with tangata whenua.
Environment Waikato is increasing control on ragwort in Maramarua from next year after requests from landowners.
Environment Waikato has a 10 year plan to limit the spread of pest fish koi carp and brown bullhead catfish through the Region.
Environment Waikato wants MAF to reconsider using Regional Pest Management Strategies to manage a pig disease infecting New Zealand piggeries.
The corporate winners of Environment Waikato's Great E-Scape adventure through the Region got out of their suits and into their gumboots last week to plant the proceeds of their $1500 first prize on banks of the Little Waipa stream near Arapuni.


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CrossRoads RV has announced a new initiative for the company – the Dealer Support Crew (DSC). According to CrossRoads, the DSC marks the "next evolution in CrossRoads' continuing commitment [to] creating the best dealer relationships in the industry."
The DSC team is focused on dramatically enhancing the relationship between CrossRoads and its dealers. The goal is more "touches" with CrossRoads dealers – and not just from the typical industry sales perspective. The DSC team will be visiting with dealers, at their locations, to assist with all aspects of business between the dealer and CrossRoads. These aspects will include, but are not limited to: Customer Service, Parts Support, Product Training, and Delivery Follow-up.


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The single-layer multi-touch applications, mass production of which has been enabled by touch IC designer Goodix' technology, requires only a single layer of ITO film to support 5- to 10-point touch. Previously, the technology worked well only on small-size touch panels, but Goodix has made improvements to enable mass production of the technology on 7- to 8-inch touch panels.
Goodix's medium-size panel clients include China-based makers O-film and Top Touch and their products are mainly shipped to Lenovo. The two touch panel makers will also stand a chance of enterin the supply chain of Intel's Windows-based white-box tablets.
The technology has been considered the best solution for mid-range and entry-level smartphones because it can reduce the use of ITO films down from two to one and still features touch capabilities similar to those of traditional GFF technology. Since the second half of 2012, when the technology entered mass production, single-layer multi-touch panels have seen growing penetrating in China's smartphone market.
However, the single-layer multi-touch technology's high-precision sensors still require the kind of photolithography tools that is usually needed to handle ITO film. For thin-flim touch makers, switching to the single-layer multi-touch technology would mean extra equipment costs. But for glass-based solution suppliers, they already own such photolithography tools, and would find it easier and cheaper to adopt sigle-layer multi-touch technology.
Several LCD panel makers also use the technology to mass produce on-cell embedded touch panels, tapping the mid-range and entry-level smartphone touch panel market. The technology has given a breakthrough to glass-type touch panel player who were losing out in the market.
Currently, the price of a GFF-based 5-inch touch panel is about US$6 at the lowest, while a single-layer multi-touch equvilanet is about US$5, according to estimates by Digitimes Research.
For the production of single-layer multi-touch panels, the thin film-type is technically efficient, while the glass-type has a higher yield rate. The thin film-type currently accounts for the majority of single-layer multi-touch panel shipments, with a 70% share against the glass type's 30% in China's smartphone touch panel market.
With the single-layer multi-touch technology expading its reach to larger-size panels, the mainstream sizes of related touch panels have already risen to 5- to 5.5-inch, amid China telecom carriers' move to cancel subsidies for 4.5-inch smartphones.
As the market demands for cheaper tablets, Goodix has since first-quarter 2014 started cooperating with touch panel makers to push the single-layer multi-touch technology into the 7- to 8-inch tablet market. Lenovo, which has been aggressively expanding in emerging markets, was the earliest adopter of such touch panels, which come from O-film and Top Touch.
China-based BYD, which is aggressively seeking tablet ODM orders from first-tier vendors as well as Intel, and which is seeking to establish a firm foothold in the tablet market, may also adopt the technology to reduce costs.
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It's Bush's fault!
I think it can safely be said at this point that politicians and officials are completely full of shit, and can never be trusted with anything, ever. They are the most corrupt and vile creatures ever to stain the face of this planet.End of rant.
"At this point what difference can it possibly make"----how our enemies kill each other.I wish they were all a lot more efficient at it.I do not care how they accomplish it.Let them perfect their own little Hell and roast in it.
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Student Stories: Learning nuts, bolts of sophisticated ag equipment
Student Stories: Learning nuts, bolts of sophisticated ag equipment
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Modern farming machines are capable and complex. Zachary Stephens, who graduated from Penn State in May with a degree in biological engineering, learned that firsthand recently when he worked as a field test engineering intern at Case New Holland America.
Also known as CNH, the company is a global competitor in agricultural and construction machinery development and manufacturing. It sells several brands of equipment, including New Holland, Case IH and Kobelco.
As a field test intern, Stephens performed various tests on production and prototype equipment in the shop and in the field.
"In a nutshell, our job was to make sure the equipment worked as it was supposed to and to fix or report anything that did not," he said.
Stephens grew up on a farm in Clearfield, Pa., and interning for CNH served as a step toward his dream of working with off-road equipment. He gained experience in many areas, including equipment design, development, manufacturing and testing.
"There is a lot of time put into developing new machinery designs," he said. "The little things, like the nuts and bolts, for example, can have a major impact on performance of the machine."
The internship required Stephens to spend half of the 14 weeks in New Holland, Pa., in Lancaster County, and the other half in Nebraska. CNH moved machines to Nebraska because the state grows a broader range of crops for testing and offers expansive fields to mow.
While in Nebraska, he and another Penn State field test intern were solely in charge of four to five operational machines and two service trucks shortly after starting the position. This aspect of his job was the most challenging for Stephens.
"Not many companies would give interns that much responsibility, but in the end, it proved to be a very rewarding experience," he said.


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This weekend, Michele Bachmann caught some very unwarranted flack for trying to promote marriage and family unity.
Bachmann, along with other Republican politicos, signed a pledge written by activist group The Family Leader that said this:
"Slavery had a disastrous impact on African-American families, yet sadly a child born into slavery in 1860 was more likely to be raised by his mother and father in a two-parent household than was an African-American baby born after the election of the USA's first African-American President.
The goal of The Family Group and it's completely inoffensive pledge is ostensibly to push America back to a more family friendly environment by cracking down on abortion, getting rid of porn and by getting all nostalgic for the early days of this country.
Now, some people might say that instead of bringing various sides of an argument together, invoking the institution slavery in a discussion about anything other than actual slavery only serves to polarize anyone who might be reading that document or listening to someone talk about it.
Those people are lame and boring!
Especially because as Bachmann, et al, pointed out, slavery did some real good for black folks! I don't know if they need another speech writer or document typer-upper. But here are eight other kickass things about slavery that we might want to work into some legal documents!
1. Fitness plans. According to some stats I hastily Googled, almost half of all black people are obese. This article says that in 42 states, more than a third of the black people there are obese. And in 15 states, that number goes up to 40%. I imagine that means that those black people are so fat that…they probably have a number of health problems and are uncomfortable in tiny seats or skinny jeans.
But back in slave days, blacks were super fit!! You can't have a high body fat percentage when you're doing hard labor all day. Not only did they get some cardio in when they were running from dogs and bullets and things, but they also got some fantastic strength training by carrying around full bushels of crops.
2. Better names. So there were those studies a while back that showed how identical resumes were handled much differently by recruiters depending on whether they had regular American sounding names or super ethno-black ones.
It was much the same in the good ol' days. Slaves would come over with these hard to pronounce names and were promptly given new ones. They didn't have to think about it or sift through dozens of baby name books to figure out if they were more a Madison or a Brighton or a Westley. Slave owners did the work for them! You came into the plantation an Mbutu and left a Marvin. Easy peasy!
3. Zero Percent Unemployment. It's not new that The Great Recession has been hard on everyone. But statistics show that it's been super hard on blacks. Whereas the national unemployment rate hovers near 9%, it's up near 16% for black people and even slightly higher for black men.
That's so not how it was when slavery was en vogue. You'd be hard pressed to find a black person out of work then. And sure, they didn't get paid and had to work ridiculous hours, but you know how good an internship looks on a resume!
4. Travel Benefits. Trying to work overseas can be a nightmare! There's Visas and sponsors to worry about. You have to figure out how to get your paychecks converted into the right currency for whatever bank you're using. You can't lose your passport.
But slaves got to work overseas and had someone else take care of all the particulars! All slaves had to do was mind their own business in Africa. Then, suddenly, they got a surprise trip to a whole new world with lodging already taken care of!
5. Easier Investment Portfolios. Have you looked at a paycheck recently? They're so confusing! There's the gross pay and allowances and all kinds of taxes. And don't get me started on how complicated it can be to have a 401K! You have to figure out who your dependents are and how much of what stock you want to invest in. And if your company does matching funds, what's the tipping point when you start taking out too much…it just goes on and on and on…
But slaves didn't have to worry about all that. No pay meant no financial headache! No one likes doing their taxes and slaves got away with never having to.
6. Lots of Time Outdoors. How tiring is it, being cooped up in an office all day! Fluorescent lights and distant windows and office chairs that never seem to be adjusted quite right. It feels so good to just get away at the weekend. Go outside, take a hike or even just a walk around the neighborhood. Camping is a huge industry–people love it! And those lucky lucky slaves got to be outside all the time!! And they didn't even have to wear sunscreen!
7. Low-Sugar Diet. We've already talked about the obesity rates among blacks, but diabetes is sky-high, too. Diabetes rates are twice as high among African-Americans than it is in whites. And they're more likely to have to have limbs amputated. No. Thank. You.
It's hard to over do it on the sugar when you're eating scraps of meat and bread and so slaves totally had it good when it came to controlling carbs! It's soooooo hard to say no to dessert. But slaves never got the chance to say yes! How easy would it be to be healthy without all that nasty temptation everywhere!
8. Gated Community Living. Today, neighborhoods where lots of black live are all scary like Compton or Oakland or The South. But as slaves, blacks got to live in super secure, fenced-in areas that would be totes out of their price range today. Jealous!


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Not impressed by American toilet technology
Re: "New toilets are flush with savings," Nov. 26 business news story.
Your article touts new water-saving technology in American toilets. The new toilets, after "two to seven years of development," will supposedly flush clean using only 1.3 gallons on the first try. Sounds great for states with regular shortages of water. Well, I am not impressed. Read more…


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Is it true that people with dark skin are not at risk of getting a sunburn or skin cancer ? This is a common misconception that dermatologists are working hard to clear up. Although dark skin does offer more natural protection from the sun's harmful rays than light skin, no one is immune to the damage caused by the sun.
Evidence for the Health Claim
Dark-skinned people, including blacks, Hispanics, Asians, and Native Americans, naturally produce more of a chemical called melanin, which gives the skin color and absorbs the sun's damaging ultraviolet (UV) rays. In fact, dark-skinned blacks have a natural skin protection factor (SPF) of up to 13, and filter twice as much UV radiation as fair-skinned people.
SPF is a rating calculated by comparing the amount of time it would take for an unprotected fair-skinned person to burn, to the amount of time it would take to burn when wearing sunscreen. For example, SPF 15 allows a person to multiply the initial unprotected burning time by a factor of 15. If a person's skin turns red after 10 minutes in the sun with no sunscreen, for example, it would take 150 minutes for him to burn. Also, an SPF of 15 indicates that 93% of sunburning rays are deflected.
Evidence Against the Health Claim
Health experts advise everyone, regardless of skin color, to use sunscreen with an SPF of at least 30. Although dark-skinned people won't get sunburned as quickly, they will still burn and are still susceptible to sun-induced damage—such as sun spots and wrinkles—and cancer . At a meeting of the American Academy of Dermatology, researchers from the University of Cincinnati (UC) presented study results showing that dark-skinned people are actually more likely to die from skin cancer than light-skinned people.
The lead author of the study pointed out that the commonly held belief that people with darker skin won't get sunburned or get skin cancer gives such people a false sense of security. They are less likely to take preventative measures, such as wearing sunscreen, and also are less likely to routinely check for signs of skin cancer. As a result, when dark-skinned people are diagnosed with skin cancer, the disease may be in an advanced stage and more difficult to treat.
Although fewer people with dark skin actually get skin cancer, the death rate for dark-skinned people with skin cancer is higher than for light-skinned people (who technically are at greater risk of developing skin cancer). Increasing awareness of the importance of sunscreen and routine skin checks for people of all skin types is an important part of skin cancer prevention.
Although dark skin is naturally more protective against harmful rays from the sun than fair skin, people of all skin types can burn if they don't wear sunscreen. The burn may not be as obvious on dark skin, but this does not mean it is harmless. It is important for everyone to take preventative measures against sunburn and skin cancer. No one should consider themselves immune to sunburns and skin cancer!


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Facing the Challenges of "Big Data": Towards Model Curriculum for Business Intelligence in Undergraduate and Graduate IS and MBA Programms. Proceedings of the BI Congress 3.(2012).
The Impact of National Culture on Business Intelligence Maturity Models. Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS) 2010.(2010).


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It's that time of year again. When the Masjids' begin to fill and there is a Ramadan spirit in the air. Ladies are dawning their hijabs whilst the age old Qurans' laying dormant on top of selves gathering dust, are lifted off the selves and people begin to recite the Quran for the next 30 days or so. It is the most holy time of the year for Muslims across the globe, and the atmosphere is literally buzzing with anticipation and the excitement of Ramadan. Muslims show their love to Allah, through personal sacrifice and self discipline. Its the ninth month of the Islamic year, and all Muslims fast for the entire month from dawn to dusk.
It was during Ramadan that the Quran was first revealed to the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him). According to legend, he was sitting alone in the wilderness when suddenly the angel Gabriel came to him with a golden tablet in his hands. The angel told Muhammad to read what was written on the tablet. What was on this golden tablet is said to be the essence of the Koran, just as the Tablets of the Law that Moses received on Mt. Sinai were the basis of the bible's Old Testament.
Ramadan, a month-long period of austerity that sees devout Muslims keep themselves away during the entire daytime, offering prayers and abstaining from almost every kind of enjoyment including drinking and abstaining from sex. For Muslims all over, it is a very special time – of introspection, meditation, self control, compassion, charitable activities, spirituality and of course, devotion to God. The fast provides many benefits and is full of wisdom. It purifies and strengthens your heart. It rids you of your baser tendencies like exuberance, arrogance, and stinginess. It reinforces good traits like fortitude, clemency, and generosity. You are supposed to be a better human being, be kind, don't lie, cheat, steal, be more generous, and be a better person overall. It supports in your inner struggle to please Allah and attain nearness to Him. It shows how much Allah has blessed us. We are reminded of our brethren those who are less fortunate and are inspired to treat them well.
Having said all this, Ramadan is also a great month to enjoy all the delectable treats prepared for Iftar (breaking of fast). Be it home cooked meals – prepared with great care and love or slip smacking and tantalizing treats on the streets outside the mosque. Platters of fruits – fresh and dry, juices, hearty and nutritious soups, fried savoury snacks, curries, biryanis', salaans', rotis, tikka's, kebabs, and desserts … the spread is unbelievable and never ending. Family and friends get together to eat, and spend time with each other. Every culture has its own specialties and localized dishes, and its wonderful to try what each one has to offer. One of my most favourite dish is Harira. Its very nutritious and wholesome; not to mention absolutely tasty. A one pot dish, which comprises of meat, pulses, veggies and rice, serves as a meal in itself. It's the perfect thing to have after fasting the whole day. I came across this recipe in 2005, when I was in Ethiopia. One afternoon they showed it on BBC Food network and I've been making it ever since.
Harira is Morocco's famous soup. It's fragrantly seasoned with ginger, pepper, and cinnamon, and also boasts a robust quantity of fresh herbs: cilantro, parsley, celery and onion. Although made throughout the year, harira is best-loved by Moroccans during the month of Ramadan when it's frequently served to break the fast at sunset. Some families also enjoy eating harira at suhoor, the meal taken in the early morning hours before a day's fasting officially begins. Recipes vary greatly from one family to another. Some make the soup light in texture; others prefer a filling version with chick peas and rice or broken vermicelli. One Moroccan cook may favor more tomato; another more lentils; still another may add paprika. So there are no rules, feel free to change ingredients and proportions.
Wishing you all a blessed month of fasting.
"Ramadan Kareem???
100g dried chickpeas, soaked overnight and drained
100g Masoor dal (Puy Lentils)
450g Boneless lamb, cut into 1 cm cubes
1 large onion, finely chopped
1 tsp turmeric
½ tsp ground cinnamon
½ tsp each ground ginger, saffron strands and paprika
50g butter
100g long grain rice
2 tbsp chopped fresh coriander
4 tbsp chopped fresh flat leaf parsley
4 large ripe tomatoes , skinned, seeded and chopped
lemon quarters, to serve
Tip the chickpeas and lentils into a large saucepan or flameproof casserole. Add the lamb, onion, turmeric, cinnamon, ginger, saffron strands and paprika, then pour in 1.5 litres/21?2 pints water. Season. Bring to the boil, skimming all the froth from the surface as the water begins to bubble, then stir in half the butter. Turn down the heat and simmer the soup, covered, for 11?2 -2 hours until the chickpeas are tender, adding a little more water from time to time as necessary. Towards the end of the cooking time, prepare the rice. Bring 850ml/ 11?2 pints water to the boil in a saucepan, shower in the rice, the rest of the butter and salt to taste. Cook until the rice is very tender. Drain, reserving 3tbsp of the liquid. To finish, put the reserved rice liquid in a small saucepan. Stir in the coriander, parsley (hold a little back for a garnish if you like) and tomatoes, then simmer for 15 minutes, stirring from time to time. Add to the soup with the rice, and then taste for seasoning. Simmer for 5-10 minutes to thicken slightly. Serve hot, with a lemon quarter for each serving so guests can squeeze over lemon juice to taste.


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The Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) has three chairmen. Two of them are "honorary," ie former chairmen, and the third has no honor at all.
At the party's recent 19th national congress, the one without any honor at all revealed his true colors as he made a shameless grab for power amid much criticism. When one of the honorary ones took the stage, he wept and wept and wept.
The other honorary chairman was careful to stay far away from the congress and the shoes that filled the air, instead choosing to travel to the US, where he was presented with a dubious award for lifetime achievement.
When former KMT chairman Lien Chan (連戰) received the award from the US-China Policy Foundation, he received a silly award from a group of muddleheaded people, denigrating himself in the process.
Although the "honorable" Lien values awards as if they were the water of life, he should make sure that he understands what kind of organization he is accepting tribute from.
The US-China Policy Foundation is registered to Wang Chi (王冀), who is president and co-chair. Former Chinese ambassador to the US Zhou Wenzhong (周文重) is an adviser. The organization moves on the margins of China's united front work and undertakes some of the issues that are too delicate for the Chinese embassy to deal with.
Wang's Chinese-language resume boasts that he has received former Chinese paramount leader Deng Xiaoping (鄧小平) and former Chinese presidents Jiang Zemin (江澤民) and Hu Jintao (胡錦濤), as well as former Chinese premiers Zhu Rongji (朱鎔基) and Wen Jiabao (溫家寶), assisted the US and China in the setting up of liaison offices and organized Soong Mayling's (宋美齡) — Chiang Kai-shek's (蔣介石) wife — address to the US Congress (February 1943).
The resume also states that Lien "asked me to pave the way for his visit to China, and I was happy to agree to contact the person in charge of China's Taiwan Affairs Office and facilitate Lien Chan's visit to China."
Lien has been played by a man who likes to exaggerate, and he even thinks that a great honor has been bestowed on him. However, Lien's office only issued a statement containing the address he delivered at the award ceremony, boasting about the partnership between the KMT and the Chinese Communist Party and his ice-breaking visit to China, during which he sold Taiwan down the river.
The statement said nothing about who had presented the award or which prominent figures that attended the ceremony, making it pretty clear that these are not things to be proud of.
Whether as foreign minister, premier or vice president, the "honorable" Lien has moved from anti-communism to siding up with the communists, resembling, to a certain extent, former ROC vice president and acting president Lee Tsung-jen (李宗仁), who attempted to negotiate with the communists during the end of the Chinese Civil War. Still, that he would have to rely on such a small foundation concocting such a thing as a "lifetime achievement award" as a pretext for endorsing his achievements implies a lot of muddleheadedness.
And that is not all. Drawing some conclusions based on the foundation's services and members, it seems pretty clear that it is relying on China for financial support.
Lien does not understand the importance of such matters, and he belittled himself by accepting the award. He even said that his trip to China to sell out Taiwan was a result of Hu's determination, and that Hu also should have received an award.


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BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - An estimated 1 million Argentines marched on Thursday in one of the biggest anti-government protests in years, highlighting public anger over a deteriorating economy and President Cristina Fernandez's efforts to reform the media and courts.
The demonstration in the capital, Buenos Aires, was peaceful and appeared to be composed primarily of the middle class. Many banged pots and pans in a traditional Latin American form of protest, while others carried signs with slogans such as "Argentina, wake up!" and "Corrupt Cristina."
Several prominent opposition politicians joined the march, which was planned well in advance on social media. Two spokesmen for the Buenos Aires city government told Reuters the turnout in the capital was over 1 million.
Buenos Aires has long been a hotbed of opposition to Fernandez and her late husband, Nestor Kirchner, who between them have governed Argentina since 2003 - a decade marked mostly by strong economic growth and falling unemployment.
Yet Fernandez's popularity, while still high, has slid over the past year as voters criticize her for mismanaging the economy and what many see as an increasingly undemocratic governing style.
In interviews, protesters spoke as much of Fernandez's "arrogance" and "lies" as they did about pocketbook issues such as inflation, which is estimated at about 25 percent annually, one of the highest rates in the world.
"I took to the street because we live in a democracy that runs the risk of transforming into authoritarianism," said Carolina Salina, 24, a university student.
"This government doesn't want to listen. Every day, we become more like hostages and somehow we have to make this known."
Other, smaller marches occurred in cities and towns throughout the country.
Fernandez was not in Argentina during the protests, having flown to Peru for a regional summit aimed at supporting Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro after this week's disputed election there.
One major lightning rod at the march was Fernandez's efforts to push through Congress a broad judicial reform, which some say would allow her to appoint more judges sympathetic to her agenda.
An association of bishops issued a statement this week warning the judicial reform could "weaken democracy." The Catholic Church's political views have become more prominent in Argentina since the former archbishop of Buenos Aires was named pope in March.
Fernandez has also been criticized for a media law that analysts say is designed primarily to weaken Grupo Clarin, a media empire that is harshly critical of her. Fernandez says the law is necessary because Clarin's cable TV and newspaper holdings are unfairly large.
Fernandez's term is set to end in 2015.
Reporting by Brian Winter; Additional reporting by Alejandro Lifschitz; Editing by Peter Cooney


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Also November, Los Angeles chapter, Hollywood-Beverly Hills Discussion Group and Pasadena. November Frank J. Curka (New York) Meeting of Ogden Corporation financial officers, New York. "Recent Opinions of the Accounting Principles Board!' Martin M. Friedman (Garden City) New York State CPA Society, professional development course, New York. "Summary of Earnings!' Rudolph C. Greipel (Executive) AICPA National Accounting and Auditing Conference, Atlanta. "Accounting Changes!' Ralph J. Kliber (Detroit) Seminar on bank holding companies, banking structure and competition, Toledo. "CPA Role in Consolidation and/or Bank Holding Company Applications!' Jerry W. Kolb (Chicago) Illinois CPA Society, Chicago. "APB Opinion No. 19 —Reporting Changes in Financial Position!' John E. Kuhn (Baltimore) National Association of Accountants, Baltimore chapter. "APB —Recent Opinions and Plans for the Future!' David W. Moore (Pittsburgh) Credit analysts of Mellon National Bank and Trust Company, Pittsburgh. 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