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It's that time of year – the sun's peekin' its way past the outer fluff of the clouds, and pale-faced indie boys are thinking about takin' off their tops. They won't, of course – we're too shy for that. Festival-wise, there is but one event that truly whets the insatiable appetite of the indie boy: All Tomorrow's Parties.
Of course, indie girls attend, too – where would the weirdie beardies be without the fairer sex to coax them into occasionally trimming their facial fuzz? This spring sees ATP spread itself broadly across two weekends: May 12-14 and May 19-22. The powers that be are calling this The United Sounds of ATP. During the first weekend, the regular Camber Sands site will be overrun by curators Mudhoney, Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Devendra Banhart. P'haps you've heard o' these bands; they are, after all, A Big Deal in such left-of-centre (but only just) circles. Each has handpicked a selection of artists to perform, and here DiS profiles five per day, to give you a wee insight into what to expect prior to the event itself.
May 12 – Mudhoney Day
Mudhoney (11.30pm, upstairs stage)
It's fairly impossible not to sing the praises of one of rock music's most enduring and affecting bands. Together in some form or other for almost twenty years, Seattle's Mudhoney are absolute veterans compared to most acts appearing about them. Although each member is now comfortably residing in his middle-age, the four-piece's last album, Under A Billion Suns, proved that they've lost none of their aggression; indeed, it was in every way as furiously immediate as Superfuzz Bigmuff , yet retained the more out-there compositional intelligence that marked its predecessor, Since We've Become Translucent. In Mark Arm they have a frontman capable of next to anything while a mic's in his hand, and Dan Peters remains a true powerhouse behind the kit. Our advice: get a few drinks inside you, get down the front and get that shirt off. Dance, drip, fall over, get back up, smile, hug the guy next to you, enjoy. It's such behaviour that Mudhoney were made for.
Link to Sub Pop, band's label
Read DiS's interview with Mudhoney guitarist Steve Turner here.
Comets On Fire (8.45pm, downstairs stage)
From Santa Cruz, Comets On Fire began life as a two-piece at the turn of the millennium, with Ethan Miller and Ben Flashman having every intention of creating a band that existed beyond the confines of r'n'r genre pigeonholes. The result is something like so very many recognised musical classifications – drone, stoner rock, doom – yet to this day sounds both original and utterly compelling. It is music to move the body and the brain, albeit slowly; it is music best heard in a haze, be it the mist of a new day's dawn or the technicolour clouds of a pot-smoker's bedroom. Blue Cathedral is the band's most recent long-play offering, and marked the beginning of their relationship with Sub Pop. Subsequently, they've attracted massive critical acclaim and supported Julian Cope at the Royal Festival Hall. "Flag-bearers of modern psychedelia" is how they've been described; we just sit back and let our minds wander, free of any desire to discover hooks to hang the music upon.
Comets On Fire's website
Read DiS's verdict on their Royal Festival Hall show, here.
The Flesh Eaters (10.15pm, downstairs stage)
So you thought Mudhoney were total old-timers? Check these guys out: The Flesh Eaters formed back in 1977, in Los Angeles. Singer/songwriter Chris D was the catalyst, and it is he that leads the current incarnation of The Flesh Eaters, one that hasn't actually performed together since 1981. Yep, 25 years ago this line-up splintered, with Steve Berlin, for example, becoming part of Los Lobos, but now it's back for ATP; there is but one record in existence that features these players, A Minute To Pray, A Second To Die, so expect to hear tracks from that. We've got to confess that we know little beyond the above, having been but wee in 1981, but we're fairly certain The Flesh Eaters' performance will be one not to miss on the Friday.
The Flesh Eaters' website
The Country Teasers (4pm, upstairs stage)
It's garage rock, son, but not as you whippersnappers know it. Raw and sweaty, stinkin' drunken rockin', Country Teasers are to The Strokes' take on rawk what Millets are to Tracy Emin's stupid tent thing: straight up, no frills, plenty o' thrills. In their own words they speaketh: "Country Teasers have been described most flatteringly as Tammy Wynnette meets The Fall fronted by W.S.Burroughs." Our words are certain to fall on deaf ears, mind, as the Teasers' racket is likely to leave all but those pressed against the wrong side of the bar with three days of lughole-stingin'. Eight albums into their career, these homegrown purveyors of American-boozed mutant blues, deep fried and crisped to stab, are still not to be missed.
Country Teasers at In The Red
Black Mountain (9.45pm, upstairs stage)
Vancouver, that's what is says under 'location', but there's every chance that each member of Black Mountain has roots that one can trace back to the Moon. Their sound is both classic and confusing, 1970s in shimmying swagger and beguilingly futuristic. That they've shared a stage with Coldplay recently just ups the puzzle's ante further. Their debut long-player, a self-titled effort, won many an admirer, containing as it did songs that could be heard as ballads and blasts of rock bombast. Many an offshoot band has sprouted forth from Black Mountain's core, but they remain the biggest draw born of the five individuals that make up its whole.
Check this website out
May 13 – Yeah Yeah Yeahs Day
Yeah Yeah Yeahs (11.30pm, upstairs stage)
Perhaps you've heard one or two songs by the former scene kings 'n' queen of the NYC fashion-core sect? Perhaps, even, you liked what you heard, and concluded that Yeah Yeah Yeahs were indeed worthy of the hype that so blinded many factions of their audience until the release of second album, Show Your Bones, earlier this year. Not an immediate record by any means, the YYYs' follow-up to mega-shifting debut Fever To Tell is nevertheless an album that deserves its acclaim (although DiS couldn't hear what certain other scribes were so thrilled about first time through). Straddling both the folk and the frenzied, it's an album that's sure to produce a compelling liver performance, so quit with the snobbery and get on down the front.
YYYs own homepage thang
Read DiS's interview with YYYs' Nick Zinner here.
Liars (10.15pm, downstairs stage)
Masters of reinvention, Liars' evolution from NYC scene creamers to left-of-centre oddballs has seen fans come and go quicker than vultures descend on Nevada highway corpses. The trio aren't entirely keen on playing safe, so expect their performance to be marked by acts of improvisation and music that mutates before your own two ears. You'll laugh, cry, die and be reborn; you'll smirk at the hilarity of a rake-thin scarecrow playing junior witchcraft and regret your actions when you awake on Sunday morning with a tail poking from your pants. Current album Drum's Not Dead is an absolute certainty to make DiS's end-of-year best-of list.
Liars' website!
Read DiS's interview with Liars here.
Blood Brothers (8.45pm, downstairs stage)
Crazed frenzies and flailing limbs and twisted torsos pulling tea-pot dance moves from pulverised keyboards and shredded guitars. Or, great punk rock playing at lightspeed. Currently working on their fifth studio album with Fugazi's Guy Picciotto, The Blood Brothers are masterful mavericks in a field of sound-alike punk'd punx; they are to Blink-182 and its fledgling offspring what Blink are to a Barney The Dinosaur megamix. Expect to sweat, a lot, and smile like you totally mean it.
Check their website out!
Read DiS's ReDiScover piece on The Blood Brothers here.
Oneida (8pm, upstairs stage)
Newly expanded to a four-piece, Brooklyn's Oneida exist in a similar state of mind to Liars: this is ramshackle riot rock tempered by subtle soul, charming and mystifying yet brutal when force is called for. While their last long-player The Wedding possessed no little semblance of romance, as its title so implies, live Oneida are a tough beast to pin down. Thus, DiS isn't about to raise your expectations for any particular experience: we're not told-you-so types, oh no.
Get wired yo!
TV On The Radio (9.30pm, upstairs stage)
Is this a no-brainer? Probably. Only an album old and yet so revered, TV On The Radio are a sure-fire hit of the weekend. Surely, no more needs saying…?
TV on the internet.
Read Adam Anonymous' 9/10 album review here.
May 14 – Devendra Banhart Day
Vetiver (7.15pm, upstairs stage)
Oh eeek… we've got to tell you that a lot of Sunday's folk-hued action doesn't totally appeal to DiS's hardened rockers, but Vetiver are a welcome exception. Fronted by core member Andy Cabic, the outfit is also blessed by the presence of superb guitarist Kevin W. Barker. Oh, and some sandal-wearing sort called Devanbra or something… Anyway, with a new album, To Find Me Gone, out soon through Fat Cat, expect a set heavy on all things current. Even though it sounds a little, y'know, old…
Click me for Vetiver stuff!
Bat For Lashes (4.30pm, downstairs stage)
Currently being talked about by many a corner of this press of music, Bat For Lashes is, essentially, Natasha Khan. With comparisons already including Kate Bush (wow), ATP attendees could just be lucky enough to witness the formative stages of an incredible talent. But hey, don't take our word for it alone – download the single, 'The Wizard', if you like, here. What's that? Part of the Drowned In Sound Digital Singles Club, you say? Well I never…
Lashes of Bat news and STUFF.
Espers (6pm, upstairs stage)
It's the sound of the long-forgotten past, dusted and amplified. Music for hazy mornings with last night's whiskey still floating behind your eyes, a slight sting in your ears and a lump in your throat. It's something like so many things you heard growing up – there are traces of what you figured folk was, yet the rhythms are as infectious as nursery rhymes – yet absolutely like nothing else you'll hear all weekend. The Philadelphia-based collective – for they always were and still are an ever-changing ensemble – released their debut, self-titled album last year to rave reviews; this year will see its successor delivered to the world's critical ears. Expect said ears to choke in intoxicated bliss.
Espers' website.
Read a 9/10 single review here.
Bert Jansch (8.30pm, upstairs stage)
Mercifully, others have done the hard work for us, here. Just look at some of these offerings of considered praise:
"Jansch's influence on modern music is incalculable" - TIME OUT
"One of the most influential musicians of all time" – THE GUARDIAN
Expect Jansch's technically accomplished yet wholly organic approach to the guitar to beguile, entirely. Try it at home and finger cramps are yours for the immediate future.
Bert's website.
Tarantula A.D. (3.45pm, upstairs stage)
Semi-classical trio Tarantual A.D. left this writer pleasantly lost for words with their Book Of Sand long-player. Containing elements of post-rock and the odd blast of punk fury, yet with a spread of classically indebted passages designed, it seems, to soothe the burn such scorching guitars leave in their wake, the album is next to unique.
Dragonfly! Anchor!
Look out for DiS's preview to the second weekend of The United Sounds Of ATP, coming next week. You can see exactly what other bands are performing, on the first weekend and the second weekend, by clicking to ATP's own site, here.


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2 -Write a program that display two buttons, OK and Cancel, in a frame. A message is display on the console to indicate which button is clicked and how many time was each button clicked and how many time were both button clicked.
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The number of visitors to Donald Trump-branded properties dropped in September by more than 16 percent compared to the same month last year, CNBC reports.
That drop follows a 7.1 percent year-over-year decline in August as well as significant dips in July and June. This is according to an analysis by Foursquare, which looked at visits to Trump hotels, casinos and golf courses from its more than 50 million users.
The slide appears to coincide with Trump's increasingly controversial presidential run, leading some to speculate that the latter is negatively effecting the former. The GOP presidential candidate's privately held company the Trump Organization doesn't release sales numbers and hasn't commented on Foursquare's analysis, meaning that these stats don't tell the whole story.
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Located in north-west Bavaria, the Spessart Hills Nature Park protects one of Germany's largest and most beautiful deciduous forests. The hills are bordered by the valley of the river Main with its picture-perfect towns and castles.
Situated in the geographical centre of the European Union, the Spessart Hills Nature Park is celebrated for the ancient beech and oak forests that cover large parts of its gently undulating hills, occasionally giving way to clearings, streams and river valleys. Where bandits and poachers used to roam, today you can relax and enjoy the sights and scenery of the Spessart hills in all their natural beauty.
The hiking here is unbeatable, with 4,000 kilometres of trails, three certified long-distance routes and a unique network of European culture routes. Cyclists will enjoy the River Main Cycle Route and the trails in the Bikewald Spessart park. Various trails, two visitor centres and an interactive water exhibition will all help you get the best out of your time in the reserve, as will our qualified tour guides.
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April 25, 2013
By Nicole Williams
LAWT Contributing Writer
If there ever was a show that positively represented the elements of what Black relationships should be, then YouTube sensation 'The Couple' is that show.
'The Couple' is apart of Black and Sexy TV, a network that was created by Numa Perrier and Dennis Dortch. According to its website, it is "a network established to provide viewing audiences a more accurate depiction of black culture." It also says their shows focus on love and relationships in the Black community.
The show is compiled of web episodes and mini episodes all centered on a Black couple and the daily situations they go through, which can be anything and everything. It can be as simple as a living situation like which side of the bed to sleep on to a controversial text message that paint a simple picture for the audience: it could relate to your relationship too! In fact, Black and Sexy TV gets more than 2 million views on their videos, with 'The Couple' getting hundreds of thousands of views in itself.
The inspiration behind the episodes of 'The Couple' is what makes the show unique. One of the creators, Jeanine Daniels says it was her own life experiences that sparked the inspiration for the creation of the show. More specifically, it was when Daniels was living with her boyfriend and his roommate at the time where inspiration hit.
"It was just really weird because I had never lived with a guy before and I was writing all these things down and I would tell Dennis about all the random stuff that was happening, funny stuff. And I had this idea in my head that there needs to be a show about a couple, not just a story, but all the things that couples go through."
She continued, "There has to be a show about how these two characters in my head—an anal jock and a really artsy chick are together and how a lot of random stuff happens. When I pitched the idea to the group, they were like yeah, let's do it."
Those experiences were the talk of a typical conversation with the creators of the show Dennis Dortch and Jeanine Daniels and the cast who plays the couple in the show, Numa Perrier and Desmond Faison, who had previously been friends before the creation of the show.
As Daniels explained the guy who became the inspiration for the show, Dennis shockingly said, "Oh Wow, I didn't know that!" as he laughed.
While speaking to all four you can tell that there is some major chemistry going on. I wasn't even able to tell if the two actors for 'The Couple', both Faison and Perrier, weren't an actual couple in real life! Unfortunately, they weren't able to disclose that information because they are on contract, but either way, they had me beat!
Because of that chemistry and how relatable the show is, Dortch says the show is a success, but for more than just those reasons.
"It is a success because its accessible, relatable and I think also because you don't have to follow every single story. You could drop it and you could've seen 10 of them out of 20 and still feel like you know the show and you know them," Dortch said.
Not only that, but Dortch also says 'The Couple' is different from other Black shows because of their cast.
"It's a collaboration where people are bringing themselves to the table. Both Desmond and Numa bring something that's unique that we discover as we shoot," he said.
According to Dortch, who directs and edits the episodes, editing the episodes down is more tedious than the actors actually performing in front of the camera. They are given a description of the episode and do not use scripts; everything is done free style. Not only that, but 'The Couple' uses the actors' apartments and former apartments to shoot the episodes.
"It's a little funny because we shoot in my old apartment in Korea Town for The Couple and now my friend lives there, so sometimes that gets a little weird because it's like I'm taking over that place again," Perrier laughs.
The creators of the show were purposeful for those locations being that they wanted to create a more intimate and realistic setting. The surrounding being realistic caters to the scenes being realistic, which are all made up of ideas or actual experiences. All of these factors set up a platform for the audience to react to, which the creators and actors say they love and encourage feedback. In fact, according to Dortch and Pierrer, viewers tend to take sides. Dortch says this can be in part because large portions of their viewers tend to be women.
"However you set it up, the audience is going to play into it. If you set it up to take sides, they will happily take a side. From episode to episode it will be his side or my side, but if we're together then all of our past transgressions don't matter, they love us," Perrier added.
"Between the two of us, 80% think I'm right," Desmond joked.
Having an online show allows 'The Couple' to take in their feedback, which enables them to see what their audience likes. They say that their success online is their main focus.
"This is really where the future is, online. Production companies and studios are starting to throw a lot of money into this, so we're sort of looking at it with two lenses. We're not just looking at it as a means to end up getting to TV," Dortch said.
Currently 'The Couple' is in its second season. Episodes are slowing down a bit, but it's because Black and Sexy TV has a movie getting filmed this summer that will be a spin-off of 'The Couple'. So if you already loved the realistic nature of this web-based show, looks like you'll have something more to look forward to!
Go to www.youtube.com and type 'The Couple Black and Sexy TV' into your search bar and see with your own eyes what this popular show is all about.


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Saying You Can't Compete With Free Is Saying You Can't Compete Period
from the a-little-explanation deptGetting back to my series of posts on understanding economics when scarcity is removed from some goods, I wanted to address the ridiculousness of the "can't compete with free" statements that people love to throw out. If we break down the statement carefully, anyone who says that is really saying that they can't compete at all. The free part is actually meaningless -- but the zero is blinding everyone.
To explain this, it helps to go back to your basic economics class and recognize that, in a competitive market, the price of a good is always going to get pushed towards its marginal cost. That actually makes a lot of sense. As competition continues, it puts pressure on profits, but producers aren't willing (or can't for very long) keep selling goods at a direct loss. Sunk (or fixed) costs don't matter, because they've already been paid -- so everything gets pushed to marginal cost. That's pretty well accepted by most folks -- but it's still misinterpreted by many. They tend to look at it and say that if price equals marginal cost, then no one would ever produce anything. That's a misconception that is at the heart of this whole debate. The problem is that they don't add in the element of time, and the idea that what drives innovation is the constant efforts by the producers in the space to add fleeting competitive advantages (what some economists have annoyingly called "monopolistic competition," a name that I think is misleading). In other words, companies look to add some value to the goods that makes their goods better than the competition in some way -- and that unique value helps them command a profit. But, the nature of the competitive market is that it's always shifting, so that everyone needs to keep on innovating, or any innovation will be matched (and usually surpassed) by competitors. That's good for everyone. It keeps a market dynamic and growing and helps out everyone.
So, let's go back to the "can't compete with free" statement. Anyone who says that is effectively saying that they can't figure out a way to add value that will make someone buy something above marginal cost -- but it's no different if the good is free or at a cost. Let's take a simple example. Say I own a factory that cost me $100 million to build (fixed cost) and it produces cars that each cost $20,000 to build (marginal cost). If the market is perfectly competitive, then eventually I'm going to be forced to sell those cars at $20,000 -- leaving no profit. Now, let's look at a different situation. Let's say that I want to make a movie. It costs me $100 million to make the movie (fixed cost) and copies of that movie each cost me $0 (marginal cost -- assuming digital distribution and that bandwidth and computing power are also fixed costs). Now, again, if the market is competitive and I'm forced to price at marginal cost, then the scenario is identical to the automobile factory. My net outlay is $100 million. My profit is zero. Every new item I make brings back in cash exactly what it costs to make the copy -- so the net result is the same. It's no different that the good is priced at $0 or $20,000 -- so long as the market is competitive.
So why aren't the same people who insist that you can't compete with free whining about any other competitive market situation? Because they know that, left unfettered, the market adjusts. The makers of automobiles keep trying to adjust and differentiate their cars through real and perceived benefits (such as brand) -- and that lets them add value in a way that they can make money and not have to worry about having products priced at marginal cost. If a company can't do that, it goes out of business -- and most people consider that a good thing. If you can't compete, you should go out of business. But, when it comes to goods with a $0 marginal cost, even though the net result is identical to goods with a higher marginal cost, suddenly people think that you can't compete? The $0 price makes no difference. All that matters is the difference in price you can charge to the marginal cost. Everyone else learns to differentiate -- why can't those who produce infinite goods do the same?
The answer is that they already do -- even if they don't realize it. Why do movies still cost more than $0? Because there's additional value bundled with the movie itself. People don't buy "a movie." They buy the experience of going to the theater. People like to go out to the movies. They like the experience. Or people buy the convenience of a DVD (which is another feature bundled with the movie). They like to buy DVDs (or rent them) in order to get the more convenient delivery mechanism and the extra features that come with DVDs. In other words, they like the differentiated value they can get from bundled goods and services that helps justify a price that's more than $0. Just as people are willing to pay more than the marginal cost (in some cases a lot more) to get that car they want, they're willing to pay more for a bundled good or service with content -- if only the makers of that content would realize it.
So the next time someone says "you can't compete with free" ask them why? Every company that's in business today competes with those who aim to undercut the price of their product -- and the situation is absolutely no different when it's free. It's just that people get blinded by the zero and forget that the absolute price is meaningless compared to the marginal cost.
If you're looking to catch up on the posts in the series, I've listed them out below:
Economics Of Abundance Getting Some Well Deserved Attention
The Importance Of Zero In Destroying The Scarcity Myth Of Economics
The Economics Of Abundance Is Not A Moral Issue
A Lack Of Scarcity Has (Almost) Nothing To Do With Piracy
A Lack Of Scarcity Feeds The Long Tail By Increasing The Pie
Why The Lack Of Scarcity In Economics Is Getting More Important Now
History Repeats Itself: How The RIAA Is Like 17th Century French Button-Makers
Infinity Is Your Friend In Economics
Step One To Embracing A Lack Of Scarcity: Recognize What Market You're Really In
Why I Hope The RIAA Succeeds
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Big ThoughtsThis year the twelve hour flight out there was made even more worthwhile by my participation in the Pink Think Tank on multi-supplier integration. I'll blog more on that latter, and myself and the other members will be producing thought leadership artifacts over the coming months. Suffice to say it was a real joy to be in the same room with such luminaries as:
- Troy DuMoulin
- Rob England
- Charles Betz
- David Cannon
- Karen Ferris
- Charles Araujo
Sadly Rodrigo Flores couldn't join us in the end, whilst Jack Probst kept us all in order as the facilitator.
You can see our initial presentation here but there is a lot more to come.
Big ThemesI think we chose the right topic for the Think Tank because it resonated with many of the big messages that were floating around the Bellagio. Having said that other blogs have picked up other themes and messages, so perhaps I have a selective perception. Be that as it might, here is my top 10 list:
- The business are looking for proof that IT is delivering value
- Enterprise IT lacks the skills to deliver that value or to prove it is delivering value
- Suppliers are both commoditizing non-value adding services, including the basic ITIL processes and building value based relationships with the business
- Shadow IT within the business is taking various forms
- Enterprise Governance of IT remains weak
- ITIL remains useful but to deliver value the emphasis has to shift to those parts of ITIL that have been largely, ignored such as service strategy
- High level supplier management is key to success, but too often is lacking
- Multiple frameworks, tools and methodologies need to synthesized rather than indulging in framework wars
- Culture trumps everything in 8
- We can't do this on our own, we need to reach out to developers, suppliers, architects, and, most of all, the business
Big People
We are lucky to be part of an industry where so many people are willing to share their thoughts and experiences with others and to do so expecting nothing back in return except a willingness to do the same.
The list of great people I've met for the first time at Pink conferences is a long one and if were to attempt to name them all I would be bound to leave out someone.
Suffice to say though that conversations in the bars and in the networking events are a key part of Pink and this year discussion topics included the role of universities in developing a new generation of IT managers and the future of SM Congress. Once again SocMed played a big role in facilitating some of those conversations and once again the Twittersphere also did a good job of keeping people aware of what was going on in the sessions, especially those who could not attend in person.
Big Hearts
Also brilliant for those not able to attend the event is the now well established practice of streaming the keynote sessions at Pink. Personally I enjoyed all of them but the most powerful were those that dealt with human issues, be it Adrian Gostick on the importance of motivating staff, Caroline Casey on overcoming personal difficulties or Cmdr Hadfield on the effort needed to reach into space. On several occasions large parts of the audience were reduced to tears. I just hope we can all take some of that emotion back to the workplace and put it to practical, life enhancing, use
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Russell Crowe stars as Noah in the film inspired by the epic story of courage, sacrifice and hope.
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The 9DBL0242 device is a 3.3V member of IDT's Full-Featured PCIe family. The 9DBL0242 supports PCIe Gen1-4 Common Clocked (CC) and PCIe Separate Reference Independent Spread (SRIS) systems. It offers an integrated output termination providing direct connection to 100Ω transmission lines. The 9DBL02P2 can be factory programmed with a user-defined power up default SMBus configuration.
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Three University of Colorado Boulder students -- Brittany Earle, Mike Lotto and Jeni Sorli, all from the College of Engineering and Applied Science -- have been awarded prestigious Goldwater Scholarships.
The scholarships are worth up to $7,500 and recognize sophomores and juniors who have achieved high academic merit and who are expected to be leaders in their fields.
The CU-Boulder students are among only 271 Goldwater Scholars selected from a pool of 1,107 candidates from universities and colleges nationwide. A fourth CU-Boulder student, junior Ben Gerard, was recognized with a Goldwater honorable mention.
"It's an honor for CU to be among the few institutions whose four Goldwater nominees were all recognized by the foundation," said Deborah Viles, CU-Boulder's top scholarship director. "Such success is a testament to the exceptional talent of our undergraduates, who are the next leaders in their fields, and to the high quality of our math, science and engineering programs."
Earle, a sophomore in chemical engineering, works in Professor Christopher Bowman's campus laboratory, which focuses on polymerics, developing new materials and mechanisms for many biomedical applications. Earle's project focuses on a dual-cure polymer system for ophthalmic stents used to treat patients with glaucoma.
She also is active in the CU-Boulder chapter of Engineers Without Borders and traveled to the Ilam district in Nepal last summer. There she worked on a spring source protection system to help protect the area's drinking water from agricultural runoff. She is a Boettcher Scholar and a member of the Presidents Leadership Class.
Lotto is a junior majoring in aerospace engineering and is interested in space research and flight. He has worked for two semesters with the NASA International Space Station Program's Extravehicular Activity group, supporting the real-time training and operations required to accomplish spacewalks.
His most recent research at CU-Boulder is under the guidance of Professor David Klaus and includes acting as a project manager of a research team performing experiments in reduced gravity environments onboard NASA's Vomit Comit.
Sorli, a sophomore majoring in chemical and biochemical engineering, is interested in renewable transportation fuels and clean energy. She works in the campus laboratory of Professor Alan Weimer, executive director of the Colorado Center for Biorefining and Biofuels, or C2B2.
Her particular research interest is biomass. In the lab she's worked on a bioreactor that was used to run a series of biomass gasification reactions. She presented the results at the American Institute of Chemical Engineers National Conference in Pittsburgh in 2012. She also is a Norlin Scholar and received the CU Presidential Scholarship.
Gerard is a junior majoring in astronomy and physics. He is working on a project to help detect eclipsing RR Lyrae stars, which he equates to finding a needle in a haystack.
"High achieving sophomores and juniors with strong research backgrounds are encouraged to apply next year," said Viles.
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In his 16 years with the university, Nicholson used his expertise and experience in geotechnical engineering to give back to the community and his profession.
For the past 15 years, he has continued to provide technical expertise to assist the State Department of Land and Natural Resources with dam inspections. Nicholson also responded as a local volunteer to a number of geo-related disasters, including the rockfalls at Makaka Towers and Sacred Falls, and the Koloko Dam failure on Kauai last year. He was recently one of three expert engineering faculty to form a reconnaissance team to assess the damage from the October 15th Kiholo Bay and Hawaiʻi earthquakes on the Big Island.
Nicholson served the national community in a special role inspecting the hurricane protection system and causes of the catastrophic failures resulting from the 2005 Hurricane Katrina landfall on the Gulf Coast. He and his team wrote the first report to be released on the causes of the levee failure, for which he was asked to testify before the U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, and the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
Nicholson recently received the Outstanding Civilian Service Medal for his contributions to the Hurricane Katrina Interagency Performance Evaluation Task Force. This award is one of the highest Army honorary decorations that can be awarded to a civilian.
Nicholson will be recognized for his contributions to the university along with other UH award winners at the annual Convocation Awards scheduled for Sept. 18, 2007.
For more information, visit: http://www.hawaii.edu/about/awards/index.html


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In the middle of the Mediterranean coast, Valencia city, celebrates each year the final days of the winter and the arrival of spring with spectacular fires of pyrotechnics. From March 15th to the 19th (the feast of Saint Joseph, day of the father in the whole country), Valencia is given over to a carnival of bonfires, fiesta, fireworks and a healthy dose of satire known as Las Fallas, "the fires".
Displayed on every corner all over the city are colorful ninots, giant paper-mache' figures often 20 feet tall or even more that have been paraded through the streets and then place in fantasy groups to tower over excited spectators. Each one in some way satires a political figure, or a soap star, or more exotic creatures from the movies, TV, sports idols, or simply imagination. Some of them are grotesque...others playful and charming...all are larger than life and up for public scrutiny.
Every day at 2 p.m., firecrackers rip through the Plaza del Ayuntamiento in a noisy event called La Mascleta'. This concert of gunpowder is very popular and involves different neighborhood groups competing for the most impressive volley, ending with the terremoto, (literally means "earthquake") as hundreds of masclets explode simultaneously. While this may not be for the frail or faint hearted, you will understand how the Valencians got their valiant name.
Another important event is the Ofrenda de Flores a la Virgen de los Desamparados, a beautiful ceremony every March 17th and 18th, that honors Valencia's patron Virgin. Thousands of Falleras and Falleros arrive to the city from every corner of the Comunitat (Valencia State) and take the streets wearing traditional costumes and dancing to their neighborhood or village bands as they wind their way to the Plaza de la Virgen to offer bouquets to the giant image of the Virgin.
Historians say that the origins of the festival go back to the time when carpenters cleared out their workshops and talleres at the end of winter, throwing out odds and ends of wood and old candles and lighting them on the street the day of Saint Joseph.
Nowadays, celebrations draw to an end with a fabulous firework displays in the Paseo de la Alameda, called the Nit del Foc (literally "The Night of Fire"), on March 18th. All Fallas burn all over the city the following night (including the winner of the competition) in a tremendous spectacle of fire and joy. Valencia is at that moment like Nero's Rome, a city in flames. That's why Valencians call this the best firework fiesta in the world!
Fireworks in las Fallas
Keep the fireworks in mind even if your are not a fan. Here they are not just fireworks. Over th centuries the Valencians developed them into a form of art. Valencia is the unrivalled Mozart of fireworks. Valencian pyrotechnic crews get regularly contracted for blowing up big world events, such as Olympics and New Years. The fireworks of the Fallas must not be missed.
There are two types of fireworks during the Fallas Festival.
The Mascleta
The firecrackers. The mascleta is not visual, it is just the explosions. But remember: in Valencia it is not just noise. It is an orchestra, there are all those various types of explosions and the Valencians attempt to create some kind of symphony out of them, much like playing a piano. There are various professional pyrotechnic bands who compete to create the best "melody".
The best mascleta is meant to be on the last day of the Fallas Festival, the 19th of March. But get there early...most people will want to see it.
The Castillo
Nic De Foc
"Night of Fire". Usually the castillo lasts for 10-15 minutes. The Nic de Foc is the highlight of the Fallas fireworks...it is extra special, extra visual, extra inventive and extra amazing. It goes on for 25-30 minutes. Don't miss it and do pick a good spot early...once it starts the whole city will move towards a good spot and huge avenues will become totally impassable.
Street Petards
This is one of the more unfortunate side of the Fallas Festival. Witch such Valencian devotion to explosions, the mascleta and castillo are simply not enough. On March 1st, the first petard is thrown on the streets. Over the next two weeks it gets progressively more until, finally, on the 15th, the city is entirely in a war zone. For the next four days, you simply won't walk 3 seconds without hearing an explosion to the left and to the right.
It is fun to walk in such mayhem and it adds to the festivals atmosphere. Unfortunately, its goes way beyond fun. Many of the petard throwers are benign family people entertaining their kids, or the kids themselves are doing the entertaining. This is hard enough in itself...it's not that much fun to jump of fright every ten minutes. But there is also that very malicious breed of adolescent youth who will try to catch you off guard and throw it under your feet when you are not watching. Those petards can be very strong.You will also come across something called borrachos. These are tubes which, once ignited, move around in frantic thrusts, with a long tail of sparks coming out of them. They can look very scary, thrown into the middle of the crowd (and this does happen often...otherwise it wouldn't be funny for those who throw them) but they don't appear to be very harmful in reality.


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As Alan is on his online tour of archive images and has reached Edinburgh, I thought for my Sepia Saturday post that I'd show you where I carry out my genealogy research in Edinburgh – General Register House, at the East end of Princes Street. Due to the current adverse weather conditions, two of the search rooms were closed yesterday, and I was the only researcher in the Adam Dome. Check out the fabulous ceiling
The walls are lined with various Registers and, in an alcove is a statue of King George III, which was originally placed in the centre of the Rotunda in 1791. He's a little bit spooky to be alone with, if I'm honest 🙂 You can read more about this historic building here
Sorry the images aren't brilliant, but I took them using my phone. While you're all on a virtual tour of Scotland, why not visit the Orkney Archive blog (rather irreverent and amusing, I think).


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Being bankrupt didn't stop Teresa Giudice from having one last blowout shopping spree.
The "Real Housewives of New Jersey" cast member spent $60,000 in one outing, a revelation that came out during a court hearing in which she and her husband, Joe, attempted stop a federal judge from auctioning the contents of their home in Towaco, N.J., reports the New York Post.
James Kridel, the Giudice's attorney, was hard pressed to explain the binge to the presiding judge. Seeing as he filed the documentation that included the receipts for the outing, Kridel explained that he knew the papers were "a dilemma" and that the spree could be seen as "conspicuous consumption."
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Shortly after the couple filed to strike their debt, they spent $8,000 on curtains and almost $45,000 for various items, like mirrors, chairs and tables.
"These were not Ikea-purchased furniture items," said Judge Morris Stern. "These were from high-end design stores."
The auction was delayed until October 3. The judge noted that the couple was making a "lifestyle choice" by choosing to burn through their cash, but said that it was ,"not for this court to tell people how to spend their money."
Teresa did not comment when leaving after the proceedings, but her husband Joe lashed out at reporters, yelling, "None of your business! Back off before I get pissed!"
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You'd think that almost being bitten by a 9-foot-long python would turn Kyle Mays running for the door. But for some reason, the Woodberry resident has continued working at Baltimore's National Aquarium for five years.
"I have always wanted to work with animals and teach. I get to do both at the aquarium," said, Mays, 29, one of two herpetologists at the exhibit "Animal Planet Australia: Wild Extremes." Some of his day-to-day responsibilities include taking care of the reptiles and amphibians such as Australian freshwater crocodiles, flying foxes, which are a type of fruit bat, and freshwater whip rays. Mays stopped hanging out with his animals for a bit to talk about growing beards, green bean casserole, and his favorite spot in the exhibit.
Worst pet peeve? People that stop at the end of a ramp when there is a yield sign. "Yield" means yield to other traffic not stop to see if there is traffic coming.
What's on your iPod? I don't have an iPod or computer, just my cell phone, and I'd like to get rid of that and go back to a house phone.
Your worst habit? Growing a beard every year that my wife hates.
Funny or crazy stories about working with animals? One morning I was putting our python back in her exhibit when she tried to bite. Luckily I saw it coming and jumped back but she still managed to bite the zipper of my shorts.
Trend that has exceeded its natural lifespan? Those big, bug eyed sunglasses women wear.
Last movie you liked/disliked? Just watched"Prometheus" — not great but a good movie.
Last video that made you snort with laughter? Almost everything on"Tosh.0"
Favorite spot at the Aquarium? The top of the cliff in "APA: WE." You can see all of the exhibit, the harbor, and the guests in the exhibit having fun.
TV shows you can't get enough of? I'm on Netflix watching all the sci-fi shows I missed while in college when I did not have cable.
Last great meal you had? The same meal my family has every year onNew Year's Day: home-made pork, sauerkraut and mashed potatoes. My grandmother ferments the sauerkraut herself.
Food you hate? I hate green bean casserole. It has the strangest texture of any food I know.
Favorite place to get a drink? Mex's after work because the bartenders know what I drink and get it [ready for me] before I sit down. I can't [also] wait until Mt. Washington Tavern is re-opened.
Favorite quote/saying? "The Dude abides."
Favorite thing about Baltimore? Obviously, the National Aquarium.


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This is the freshest catalogue I have seen in a long time. Artist Pierre Leguillon said that it looks like an annual report—and it somehow is: no gimmicks but full of information worth its price. Or as New York Times critic Roberta Smith put it: "excellent." It has new texts on all artists written by Dan Byers, Amanda Donnan, Tina Kukielski, Raymund Ryan, Lauren Wetmore, and myself. You can listen to one of them here, the e-mail interview with Wade Guyton.
The catalogue contains an introduction explaining what this show is about—see an excerpt below—as well as three essays by the co-curators laying out their different points of view. Art historian Robert Bailey explores the International's unique history and its relationship to the museum's collection; urban planner Gabriela Burkhalter contributes a pioneering article on the history of playgrounds—with amazing pictures. You will also find a quite engaging text from 1961 by former Carnegie Museum of Art director Gordon Bailey Washburn, unaware of the transformations the 1960s were about to unfurl; a scheme about play by the French intellectual Roger Callois from 1958; an introduction to abstraction by Chicago curator Katharine Kuh from 1951; a quasi-abstract reflection on the difference between art and action by French poet Stéphane Mallarmé from 1897; an astonishingly contemporary set of claims for a better use of public space by artist Robert Rauschenberg from 1968; an ode to the power of laziness as a form of resistance by exhibition artist Mladen Stilinović from 1993; and a reflection on spam describing the conditions of our technological world by artist and writer Hito Steyerl from 2011.
And hey, 1,000 thanks go to Katie Reilly, THE&OUR director of publication and to Chad Kloepfer and Jeff Ramsey, THE designers! More pictures!
Excerpt from the introduction:
Despite social media, the Internet, and our global information economy, it still makes a difference if you live in Tehran, a village near Kraków, Johannesburg, or Los Angeles. Yet all of the artists in the exhibition, while working from and within a local context, translate their views into pictures, (more…)


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It all started the other night when I made Chinese egg rolls for dinner. Carlos wandered into the kitchen and observed me for a moment before joking, "Those are egg rolls? … They're not even round. They look like tamales."
I kicked Carlos out of the kitchen for that, although I had to admit, these look more like "tamales chinos" than egg rolls. The important thing is they tasted good, and thinking about Latin American food while making Chinese food sparked an idea.
I watched how the egg rolls puffed a little and became crispy as they fried in the oil and I thought, "I wonder if these egg roll wrappers would work for sopapillas?"
There was only one way to find out, so I gave it a try and success! Here's how you make sopapillas [pronounced so-pah-pee-yas] from egg roll wrappers. (Step-by-step photos below!)
Easy Egg roll Wrapper Sopapillas
Egg roll wrappers
Canola oil
Cinnamon and sugar
1. Take a few egg roll wrappers and cut into quarters.
2. Separate the layers into individual squares.
3. Heat enough canola oil to cover the bottom of a frying pan or large pot.
4. Place a few squares into the oil so that they're not touching, (you will have to cook them in batches.)
5. Flip squares over so they brown on each side.
6. Remove to paper towels to drain but sprinkle with cinnamon and sugar right away, before they cool.
7. Repeat until you have fried all the squares.
Now you can serve these drizzled in honey, or with vanilla ice cream topped with whatever you like – Some suggestions: chocolate syrup, cajeta (dulce de leche), whipped cream, cherries. (When served with vanilla ice cream, it tastes like fried ice cream.)
Note: There are many types of sopapillas (also spelled: sopaipilla, sopaipa, and supaipa) found in Latin America and they go by other names such as torta frita, cachanga, Kreppel and chipá cuerito. This version most closely resembles the American Southwest dessert version which you find in Mexican restaurants in the United States.


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Thursday, May 03, 2012
This Week's Bread
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No one bakes bread like you do~ReplyDelete
Ann, your bread is so beautiful. I can just imagine how delicious it is. Your recipes, photos, and cutting boards ROCK!ReplyDelete
That little hen is pretty darn cute too:)ReplyDelete
Thanks Monique. I'm so happy that you are posting again.ReplyDelete
Brenda, thank you. I hope you are putting your board to good use.
"hasn't had to eat 'bought' bread" --- that sentence has such a lovely feel to it! I wish I had the time or conviction to bake fresh bread every week. I can only imagine how rewarding that must be! But, I did make a garlic boule last week so I still have hope. :-DReplyDelete
Your blog is one of the best blogs.ReplyDelete
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I am sure of that you are also glad to help every other.
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I would be clapping my hands for joy if I could make gorgeous loaves like yours. It's a learning process and I'm working on it. There is nothing like homemade bread.ReplyDelete
Thanks Amrita. Maliha, thank you. I'm happy that you like my blog. Cathy, I know what a great cook you are and I've seen your bread. It looks perfect. ~AnnReplyDelete
Love fresh bread,, I also think your blog is pretty dang cool.. Thaks for the work you've put in on it..ReplyDelete
Thank you Rice Krispie Treats, I appreciate your kind words.ReplyDelete


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Usually minor updates on iOS don't bring news to Safari and web developers. That's not the case on iOS 9.3: new APIs, support for Responsive Images, a new weird viewport attribute and new devices in the market make us check what's new.
iOS 9, Safari and the Web: 3D Touch, new Responsive Web Design, Native integration and HTML5 APIs
I can't believe it's been a year since my last post in this blog; in the meantime, I've written articles at different magazines, while working on a new book and delivering several trainings around the world, including my next live training with O'Reilly Media.
But it's time again to come back here and explain what I've found with iOS 9, the new devices (6S series and iPad Pro) and also the new OSs from Apple (watch OS 2 and tvOS 9 –yes, it's version 9-) from a web developer's point of view.
iOS 8 and iPhone 6 for web developers and designers: next evolution for Safari and native webapps
Android L and other news for web developers from Google IO
The Google's annual developer conference gave us the preview release of Android L. There are some news I want to share with web and hybrid app developers, not only about Android but also for the future of other Google-based solutions, such as Chrome OS and Chrome Developer Tools for mobile development.
iOS 7.1: new minimal UI mode and old bugs on Safari
As you might know, iOS 7.0 included one of the buggiest browsers of all time for iPhones and iPads. After 5 months we have now the 7.1 update that wants to give some fresh air to web developers. Let's see if Apple succeeded on the task. (more…)
Android 4.4 KitKat, the browser and the Chrome WebView
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Last week, President Obama submitted to Congress no fewer than three "hangover" free trade agreements (FTA's) originally negotiated by the Bush administration. All three bills have been widely opposed by labor organizations, environmental groups, human rights activists, and others for their strong likelihood of offshoring U.S. jobs, further deregulating the corporate sector, hurting the livelihoods of farming communities, and ignoring labor and environmental standards and human rights. They are expected to be voted on Wednesday.
Since negotiations on it first began, more than 700,000 South Koreans have protested the largest of the three pending agreements, the U.S.-Korea Trade Agreement, or KORUS.
The Koreans have long been out en masse, says Kim Kyung-Ran of the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions, because they believe people on both sides of the Pacific will lose if the agreement passes—a reality workers across the world have come together to fight.
In January, Kim came to the U.S. to share with labor organizers efforts to stop the agreement by the 40,000 members or her Confederation. In 2006, when negotiations were held in Seattle, 60 Korean labor activists joined more than one thousand local labor, Korean solidarity, and social justice advocates to rally for trade deals that promote prosperity for people, not just business.
In a post-crash, post-oil-spill era, we're enacting agreements that will put fewer, not more, environmental and financial restraints on transnational rule bending. With agreements like KORUS and the others—with Panama and Colombia—it's transnational companies that stand to gain the most. They regularly benefit from the reduced tariffs FTA's offer: First, they move production to countries with lower wages and fewer established labor rights and environmental regulations, then sell these goods back to the wealthier market they left; and second, they are able to sell less expensive products duty-free to countries that make the same products (in Mexico, corn, a highly subsidized U.S. surplus crop).
Right now, tens of thousands of Americans—from New York to Seattle to St. Louis—are in the streets for a related reason: standing up to the control corporations have over the political process. Perhaps nowhere is this manipulation better exemplified than in the realm of global trade.
In the past 20 years, the U.S. has consistently instated international trade policies that secure the "rights" of corporations over those of workers and indigenous communities; that protect intellectual property, but not farmers' land, workers' health, or communities' water and air; that appropriate taxpayer money to bolster industries that shift production overseas, leaving a wake of unemployment at home.
It would be easy for those whose jobs are affected to blame workers in other countries, or even workers in other industries less directly impacted by trade policy. But we are all impacted in some way, and in coming together to demand a say in trade negotiation, labor unions, faith-based organizations, social justice groups, farmers, educational institutions, migrant workers, small and mid-sized business owners, and workers in both organized and unorganized sectors have realized their similarities outweigh their differences.
The Same Mistake Twice
At a time of debilitating national unemployment, our leaders are considering passage of legislation that has been projected by the U.S. International Trade Commission to kill American jobs and increase our trade deficit (which, at $700 billion, is already the world's highest). It means that in a post-crash, post-oil-spill era, we're enacting agreements that will put fewer, not more, environmental and financial restraints on transnational rule bending.
KORUS is the biggest FTA since the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), and shares the same model. NAFTA famously promised to raise up a middle class in Mexico and create millions of jobs throughout the continent. It also famously failed to deliver on this promise: In the last 15 years there is abundant evidence that this trade deal has failed. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics some 900,000 jobs were lost in the U.S. alone, and millions of Mexican farmers' livelihoods were devastated when they failed to compete with the influx of tariff-free, subsidized crops from the U.S.
As with NAFTA, the U.S.-Korea FTA will likely offshore thousands of jobs from an already flailing economy. A large number of the endangered jobs pay around 40.5 percent more than the average wage in the U.S. Of the 159,000 lost jobs projected by the Economic Policy Institute, high tech and green jobs, along with manufacturing, are most at risk. While the Korean electronics and textile industries are positioned to benefit from the deal, it's agribusiness that will prosper in the U.S., producing low-quality, low-paid jobs often filled by migrant laborers—many of whom, as we have seen, are here because the aftershocks of other trade agreements have driven them off their land.
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Free trade proponents argue that lowering tariffs enables producers in other countries to reach U.S. markets. But unless small farmers and manufacturers have access to infrastructure and appropriate resources, lowering tariffs alone does nothing to stimulate domestic economies in countries like Mexico and Colombia. Instead, vulnerable domestic industries risk losing ownership and control of production entirely: In an open market, they are forced to compete with transnational corporations with resources to buy land, invest in infrastructure, and undersell them in their own markets.
10 miles over the border with North Korea, is a complex of sweatshops where 44,000 North Korean workers labor in factories for as little as 25 cents an hour—about half of which is directly paid to the North Korean state.Communities also risk losing control of their natural resources including water, land, and even air. Within months of the implementation of the Peru Free Trade Agreement in 2009, communal lands of indigenous populations were slated for oil and gas exploration. When these communities sought to protect their land and water, they were violently dispersed and some were killed by government enforcement of the FTA's investment rules—rules that protect corporations' rights to the Amazon.
But human rights concerns under KORUS reach further.
About 40 miles north of Seoul, and 10 miles over the border with North Korea, is a complex of sweatshops where 44,000 North Korean workers labor in factories for as little as 25 cents an hour—about half of which is directly paid to the North Korean state. This, the Kaesong Industrial Complex, is a South Korean free trade zone, where 120 corporations like Hyundai use disgracefully cheap labor to manufacture products intended for export—exports that may soon enter the U.S. duty-free. On top of that, KORUS' "Rule of Origin" states that fully two-thirds of a product can be made outside of the country and still have the label "Made in Korea," entering the U.S. without tariffs.
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Greg Palleson, now vice president of the Association of Western Pulp & Paper Workers Union, worked at a paper mill in Longview, Wash., before it closed and the machine he operated was put on a barge and shipped to China. Since the early 1980s, the Association has seen its ranks decline from 24,000 members to about 5,000. They have worked tirelessly to bring attention to the condition of the paper industry, where hard-fought-for environmental reforms on processing, treatment and disposal of paper byproducts, and workers' rights have literally been rolled back with each U.S. mill that relocates to China.
When Greg later visited China to see the transplanted mills, he saw that the workers were not really benefiting from the outsourced jobs, and neither were the surrounding communities: Paper mills have been identified as the largest source of pollution in China's rural environment. According to Greg, a Chinese mill worker received about one dollar an hour, with no pension or benefits. Their skilled American counterparts are paid almost thirty times that, plus health care and a pension. Lack of adequate health care makes it all the more worrisome that Chinese workers are regularly exposed to unregulated toxic wastewater effluents.
Trade policy has the ugly effect of pitting workers around the world against one another. But when we talk to each other and see that neither side is actually benefiting, we start to wonder, who is? After all, if it's not working for you, and it's not working for me, it must be working for someone. This questioning opens the door to systemic change.
We need to continue to build and nourish natural alliances—across industries, across countries, across unions; between faith, farm, and migrant communities; among students and small and medium businesses—so our voices are at the decision-making table ensuring that trade policy benefits our communities.
The FTA's being considered this week by our leaders lack the voices of the 159,000 Americans like Greg who will lose their jobs in the worst economy in decades; of the small farmers in countries without subsidies to fall back on when foreign grains flood their market; of the laborers in the Kaesong Industrial Complex, which is slated to expand to 6,000 acres; of Colombia's imperiled labor unionists, 22 of whom have been murdered already this year.
It is we the people—not we the corporations—who should drive the vote on trade.
Kristen Beifus and Christa Hillstrom wrote this article for YES! Magazine, a national, nonprofit media organization that fuses powerful ideas with practical actions.


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A Skyrim Journal
Awakening in a small plain just west of Fort Greymoor, an abandoned military base that's become a haven for robbing bandits, me and my ironclad companion, Lydia, assemble our small camp, relishing in the relative warm pocket tucked behind the jagged hill, shielding my Imperial temperament from the nordic winds.
Approaching a giant's camp near an oak deemed Sleeping Tree, I hide under the grass at the sight of the large automaton of fur and leather, fearful of the destruction unleashed along with the massive tusks cloaked in the thicket of crimson. Sneaking past the goliath mammoth patrolling the camp, I inch closer, my compatriot shortly behind.
I've never fought a giant. Driven away by tales of their destructive wakes, I've usually kept heed to the warnings, straying clear of their clearings, skimming the edges if given no other passage, but when in the search for compensation, for an Imperial, ethics outweigh emotions. In between nervous glances toward the massive beast on watch behind us, I spot a figure further on the hill. Drawing my bow in attempt to clarify the figure's owner, I peer vigilantly down the arrows shaft as I inch forward up the hill.
Reaching the hill's peak as I slack my bowstring to maintain endurance, I stick to a nearby boulder, urging my assistant to my heel. Unaware of what lies behind my stone rampart, I inch around to get a view, thinking to myself:
"What belonged to the figure I saw, was it something contestable, something my stature, or was it the Giant whose position on the hill is tricking my perception?" Hearing a familiar click heightened my suspicions.
"Is that a crab?!", I smirked. Tossing aside my fears, and steeling my resolve I pull back my bow and charge forward.
Springing from the security of the barricade, I identify my unknown foe. An undead collection of bones held together by a sapphire turban, retaliates to our charge, sparking a fire bolt incinerating my arrow. Dodging around my barrage of Forsworn bolts, Lydia rushes forward, ignorant of friendly fire, confident in her steel plating. Before the undead sorcerer could reach its blade, Lydia's greatsword crashes upon the corpse, releasing the spell bonding the bones to life, scattering its pieces across the field. Before the adrenaline could spread thoroughly, we are victorious, collecting our spoils and regaining our composure. Hearing the undead click slowly crescendo behind us, Lydia turns to spot two more skeleton warriors, creeping closer at an undead stride. Focused on the reinforcements, Lydia fights her blade out of the sorcerer's skull, stuck in the tundra below. Desperate to rescue my faithful colleague, four arrow embed in the assailants, scattering bones like exploding shrapnel. Smashing the skull prisoning her sword, a muffled sound sneaks from Lydia's helm.
As we slowly creep up the hills, mistaking nearby crickets chirps for more skeleton click battle cries, a fresh cadaver enters view, lifeless at the foot of a candlelit table, another draped atop, both with daggers in hand. The stone ruins that encircle the sacrificial ritual ensures their purpose, proved by the prime locale. Inspecting the body on the table, I discover several potions and oils along with herbs that allude to my suspicions. With no way to confirm, and the Giant's bonfire in sight across the expansive clearing, we push forward.
Arriving at Sleeping Tree, Lydia and I return to a hunter's stance, stalking in the shadows created by the Giant's large fire. At the snap of a branch, Lydia and I match glares before the pounce of a Sabre Cat breaks the armored fatale's footing. Trying to pry the mighty beast's attention without attracting my Target's proved daunting, slugging arrows into its hide while trying to pull it way from the camp. Returning to her feet, Lydia repays the predator with a mighty swing down upon its hind, buckling its charge. Unwilling to drag to fight longer, I stab an arrow threw the jugular, attempting to silence its cry as I stare at the bonfire for movement.
Deathly still, choked by the fleeting Sabre carcass, I concentrate on the quakes from Sleeping Tree, fearful of the imminent encounter. Nervous about my foe's awareness of his surrounding danger, I crawl toward the the fire's light. Closing near the glowing embers of the camp, my Enemy is nowhere to be seen. Scanning the camp my eyes fix on the Sleeping Tree, fog cloaking it in an illusive miasma. Distracted by the oak's aura, I spot the Giant arriving with his crimson cattle. Pulling myself together as I grab a gap in Lydia's shoulder guard, we escape to the edge of the camp.
Pulling my bow to the ready, I aim for my Foe hidden behind the girth of his livestock. Spotting the pale leather hide of the Giant behind a sea of the mammoth's flowing crimson fur, I loose my arrow, spurring a panic among his cattle; The Giant jumps from the sting to his spine, whipping around to spot the two hunters, the source of his nuisance and joins two bull's charge against the hail of arrows from our two bows. Witnessing the closing gap, Lydia drops her bow for her greatsword to meet the colossal opposition, barring her feet deep in the soil. Choosing fire instead of wood and steel to halt the charge, I drop my weapon for a more effective arsenal, sparking ethereal flames in either hand.
Swept aside by the large stampede, Lydia finds herself behind the mammoth's charge.
In attempt to split the bulls from their Shepard, Lydia hurls her blade into a mammoth's hide, causing the massive beast to buckle under its stride. Spurred by its brethren's torment, the other mammoth alters course, barreling for Lydia. Racing to her bow, Lydia is bucked by the trampling bovine, kicked up to the beast's shoulders. Gripping despite her gauntlet's lack of traction, scrambling to the mammoth's shoulder blades, the warrior flings off her armored glove to tighten her grasp, searching for her side-blade blindly with her offhand. Working the clinging soldier off its back, the gargantuan creature bucks and shakes, ignorant of its movements, stepping ever closer to the struggling buck. Tearing her anchor from its tether, Lydia clutches her knife, striking it deep into the goliath's crest, tightening her grasp on its hilt as the monster shrieks in its agony, its spine severed. Weightless as life fades, the massive tusk of the titan pierces its brother's ribcage, deafening the last roar of the rising behemoth.
Detached from his reinforcements, the Giant slows on his outmatched opponent, weighting his steps to throw off the balance of the tiny hunter, humbled by the odds of the duel.
Drained of energy from the barrage of firebolts, I find myself too winded to effectively press back my colossal adversary, his large stature proving stronger than my array of spells. Sneaking shots while weaseling an escape, I scramble for a concoction that could reinforce my will, patting every pouch and pocket. Focused on my antagonist, my foot catches a rabbit's hole, prompting a Potion of Magicka to slip from my belt pocket. Scurrying to the vial, I muster enough strength into one bolt, causing the Giant to falter with fatigue. Rising from the ground with reimburse vigor, calling upon the ancestral Unrelenting Force, I shout at my rival, delivering the severing blow.
After the cacophony of deathly wails, silence grips the camp, muting the sound of our footsteps for the several surviving minutes. First our heartbeat returns, then the fire's crackle, then the surrounding ambience. Embracing the bonfire's warmth, we set up camp for the night.


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All day, we've been bringing you new impressions of Nintendo's big holiday games, but allow us to note some little things of possible importance from our time with those titles.
Small things I observed:
-MotionPlus Shouldn't Stay Attached: Like the Nunchuck, Nintendo's MotionPlus Wii Remote add-on can get in the way while playing some games. Take New Super Mario Bros. Wii, which is played by holding the Remote sideways as if it's an NES controller. MotionPlus isn't utilized, but if it's plugged in, it adds to the Remote's length, requiring one's right thumb to reach too far to press the 1 and 2 buttons. So be prepared to remove MotionPlus for games that don't need it, especially those played NES-style.
-New Stop-Playing Images: I've heard people complain that Wii games' graphics aren't good enough, but I've never heard anyone complain that the images that appear in Wii games to remind players to go outside and get fresh air aren't good enough. Well, Nintendo has improved them. While playing Wii Sports Resort I noticed that the reminder to get fresh air was new and improved, with an added dash of color and a more accurately rendered and jacketed Wii Remote sitting on a table while wind blew in from an open window.
-Re-Calibration Recommendations: MotionPlus undoubtedly improves the Wii Remote's motion-sensitivity, but there are signs that the device may have sensitivities of its own. While playing Wii Sports Resort I saw multiple recommendations to press the Remote's plus button in order to re-calibrate the MotionPlus add-on.
-Minimum Motion: For every Wii Sports or Wii Music that Nintendo makes with full motion-control support, there are at least as many games from the company that use motion sparingly. New Super Mario Bros. Wii is one of those. You shake the Remote to pick up a nearby player's character or, if you've fallen and return in a floating bubble, to drift your character toward an active one so you can re-join the action. For gamers skeptical about the applicability of motion control to all gaming mechanics, Nintendo's restraint from motion in key titles speaks volumes.
There's one other game I played with the folks from Nintendo yesterday, in addition to New Super Mario Bros. Wii, Style Savvy, Wii Fit Plus and Wii Sports Resort. More on that one tomorrow.


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