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Compiled by Kate Bennett, KF15, Ecuador
Each Kiva borrower enjoys his or her own borrower profile page. We've all seen these pages: they acquaint us with the borrower's story, plans for the future, country, and a photo in their business or home. Borrower profiles present us with a clear snapshot of the ebbs and flows of a borrower's life. But how can we begin to flesh out what's beyond the edges of the screen? On the Fellow's blog, of course!
This week Kiva Fellows bring us a little closer to our borrowers. We try to walk in the shoes of those living under a dollar a day in Nicaragua. We learn about the power of accredited microfinance institutions for the average Ecuadorian. We get a glimpse (and a sample!) of traditional El Salvadorian fare. We marvel at brilliant images of borrowers in their element in Chile and Colombia. And finally we depart Latin America for Senegal, where a Latin phrase can teach us about entrepreneurs the world over: they can, because they think they can. And they do, just as soon as they have the capital to do it.
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Country: Nicaragua / Fellow: Jason Jones, KF15
This is the second post from Jason in a two-part series, which discusses the reality of living under a dollar a day in Managua, Nicaragua. Jason breaks down a few of the many challenges of living below the poverty line, including its impact on education, access to transportation and clothing oneself, and just what an average day of work might look like.
Top 10: My Favorite Borrower Photos from Chile and Colombia
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During his two fellowship placements with Kiva, John has met with hundreds of borrowers in Chile and Colombia. But as he finishes up his second placement, John shares his top ten favorite photographs from the field.
Loan Sharks, Microloans and the Highest Interest Rates Around (they aren't on Kiva)
Country: Ecuador / Fellow: Kate Bennett, KF15 & KF16
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Country: Senegal / Fellow: Tim Young, KF15
As Tim wraps up three months' work in Senegal, he continues to be amazed by the innovation, enthusasim, and pertinacity of Kiva borrowers. They can because they think they can, they just need to capital to get there.
Everything is Sweeter in El Salvador
Country: El Salvador / Fellow: Andrea Ramirez, KF16
Andrea touches down in El Salvador to begin her fellowship with Kiva and introduces us to one of the most gratifying aspects of working in "the country with a smile"- the food!
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Cooking Classes, Autarky + Social Performance
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Working Animals, Green Microfinance + The Ends of the Earth
Poverty Assessments, Bush Taxis + Meeting "My" Borrower
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Cano's departure gives Yanks financial flexibility
NEW YORK -- The sales pitch tried to tug at Robinson Cano's heart, as the Yankees talked about the farewell tour that Mariano Rivera just enjoyed and traced Derek Jeter's legacy in pinstripes.
Cano could experience a run like that, they said, perhaps ending as the first Dominican Republic-born player in Monument Park. But as the Yankees spoke those words, they feared that a richer or longer contract would appear and sway Cano's allegiances, and they did not view Cano as a player who must be re-signed at all costs.
NEW YORK -- The sales pitch tried to tug at Robinson Cano's heart, as the Yankees talked about the farewell tour that Mariano Rivera just enjoyed and traced Derek Jeter's legacy in pinstripes.
Cano could experience a run like that, they said, perhaps ending as the first Dominican Republic-born player in Monument Park. But as the Yankees spoke those words, they feared that a richer or longer contract would appear and sway Cano's allegiances, and they did not view Cano as a player who must be re-signed at all costs.
Ultimately, the Mariners emerged with the decade-long commitment that Cano could not get from the Yankees, and it was too great to turn down. Cano reportedly agreed to a 10-year, $240 million contract with Seattle on Friday, confirming a departure that officially flips the script of the Yankees' winter.
Unaware at the time that Cano had received an offer exceeding the Yankees' best proposal by $65 million, general manager Brian Cashman noted early on Friday morning that his club could swiftly move on to its backup plans if Cano decided to go elsewhere.
"Everybody is replaceable," Cashman said on a rooftop in Stamford, Conn., preparing for his annual rappel as part of the city's 'Heights and Lights' festival. "That's a team concept. Some people are harder to replace than others, no doubt about it.
"I don't think anybody would have the attitude that anybody is going to make or break your future, but you certainly can invest for good reason into players that can try to make your future brighter. That's what we're trying to do with Robbie, amongst others."
Up until Friday morning, the Yankees still hoped that they would be able to convince Cano to stay in New York, outlining him as a key part of a winter plan that would have centered around catcher Brian McCann, outfielder Jacoby Ellsbury, right-hander Hiroki Kuroda and Cano.
The Yanks had increased their offer to a seven-year deal worth $175 million after beginning negotiations during the season with a package that hovered around $160 million. The organization believed it was in play; in fact, Cashman said he spoke twice on Thursday with representatives Brodie Van Wagenen and Jay-Z, with no indication that a deal was imminent.
Cashman said that he was unaware that Cano and Van Wagenen were on their way to Seattle, where the Mariners apparently unveiled their mammoth offer.
"If it's not to be, it's not to be," Cashman said early on Friday. "And we'll continue to do business as we have and try to collect as many great players as we can."
Cano's deal ties Albert Pujols' Angels contract for the third-largest pact given to a free agent; only Alex Rodriguez's mega-deals with the Rangers (10 years, $252 million) and Yankees (10 years, $275 million) were bigger. The Bombers wanted Cano back, but they held the line at seven years.
"As I've said, he's a great player," Cashman said. "We will, and have, made extensive efforts to show him that we'd like to keep him. I certainly can't control what other people's decision-making process is and the lengths that they would go to."
Cano's departure gives the Yankees a great deal more flexibility to fill their many needs while staying under their goal of a $189 million payroll.
On Friday night, the Yankees reportedly agreed to a three-year contract with free-agent outfielder Carlos Beltran. The former Met spent the past two seasons with the Cardinals.
They have touched base with free-agent second baseman Omar Infante, who posted a .318/.345/.450 split line last year with the Tigers and figures to be at the top of their target list to replace Cano.
The Yankees also may explore a trade for the Reds' Brandon Phillips, but Cashman said on Friday that his sense is that New York's farm system currently lacks the elite chips to entice other clubs. An offense-minded free-agent class might be the best place to dig in.
They have been patiently monitoring the Masahiro Tanaka posting situation, and some of the money Cano left on the table would prove helpful there.
Managing general partner Hal Steinbrenner said on Thursday that he wants the Yankees to add one or two bats to pump up the club's run production. The Yanks were not involved in serious talks to retain Curtis Granderson, who reportedly agreed Friday to a four-year, $60 million contract with the Mets.
But outfielder Shin-Soo Choo could be back in play, a week after agent Scott Boras sold New York on a seven-year, $153 million deal for Ellsbury. If Choo appeared in the Bronx, the Yankees could shift Alfonso Soriano to a full-time designated hitter.
As the Yankees scramble to put together a championship-caliber club in the wake of Cano's departure, it would be dangerous to rule out anything in the weeks to come.
"We're just engaged with a lot of players," Cashman said. "We've signed some. We're on the one-yard line with some, and some we're still engaged with and it's a very fluid situation. Something could happen quick; something might not happen at all. We're just working through it all."
Bryan Hoch is a reporter for MLB.com. Follow him on Twitter @bryanhoch and read his MLBlog, Bombers Beat.


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This is the latest in a series of entries looking at what we can expect in 2013. Each weekday, a guest analyst will look at the key challenges facing a selected country – and what next year might hold in store.
By James Shields, Special to CNN
James Shields is professor of French politics and modern history at Aston University in the U.K.He is the first winner of the American Political Science Association's Stanley Hoffmann Award for his writing on French politics. The views expressed are his own.
While it could hardly be more eventful than 2012, with the toppling of a president and an emphatic swing of legislative power from right to left, 2013 could prove to be more decisive for France. As the electoral promises of the past year recede, they are replaced now by an urgent need to deliver.
The three biggest questions hanging over France in 2013 are a potentially hazardous mix of the political and the economic. How will President François Hollande and his Socialists square their election pledges with the hard choices of governing in economic crisis? How will the center-right UMP recover from its bitterly divisive contest to replace Nicolas Sarkozy as leader and face down mounting pressure from a resurgent far-right Front National? And, as a second credit rating agency downgrades France, can the world's fifth-largest, and the Eurozone's second-largest, economy bring its public finances into balance for the first time in almost four decades?
The first of these questions is scarcely new. Since the early onset of recession in the 1970s, French governments have outdone one another in their capacity to over-promise and under-deliver. Elected to implement reform, governments have been blocked in the streets from doing so, then punished in the polling booths for not having done so. In all but one of the eight parliamentary elections since 1978, the governing majority has been thrown out, while a succession of presidents and prime ministers have vied for historic records of unpopularity.
Now it is the turn of President Hollande and Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault. As only the second Socialist president since the foundation of the Fifth Republic in 1958, Hollande must avoid the pitfalls into which his predecessor, François Mitterrand, led the Socialists in the early 1980s with their short-lived and economically reckless pursuit of an untimely "Socialist experiment." Distant echoes there are. The new president fought a campaign on easy promises to eschew austerity and relaunch growth, while early tax rises on income, wealth, companies and capital gains – including a 75 percent top income tax rate – appeared to herald an old-style Socialist recourse to soaking the rich.
Yet Hollande is no old-style Socialist. A graduate of Paris's elite technocratic finishing school, the Ecole Nationale d'Administration, he is a pragmatist with a preference for workable over ideological solutions. Hence the €20 billion ($26 billion) cut in labor costs for employers aimed at restoring French economic competitiveness by helping create jobs and close a trade gap measured recently at €70 billion ($92 billion). Hence, too, the deficit reduction program that Finance Minister Pierre Moscovici describes as a "Copernican revolution" in the left's approach to government. Other measures to boost investment and to reform France's notoriously rigid labor market are also underway.
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Pragmatism, however, can be but a short step away from incoherence. In an early test of the president's resolve to protect France's industrial base, the government recently found itself in an ugly confrontation with ArcelorMittal, the world's largest steelmaker, over its proposal to close two blast furnaces at Florange in north-eastern France at a cost of 629 jobs. The disagreement degenerated into insults by government ministers against the company's owner, Lakshmi Mittal, who was told he was no longer welcome in France despite owning around 150 sites there and employing some 20,000 workers. The threat to nationalize the disputed site, while conjuring the specter of Mitterrand's ill-fated "Socialist experiment," gave the lie to the government's insistence that France was "open for business." It was also shown to be mere bravado and soon withdrawn as an option in favor of a complex compromise deal.
Such incoherence is damaging. There is, of course, a ritual element to an incoming president talking tough about protecting jobs. Sarkozy, too, huffed and puffed against lay-offs before seeing unemployment rise by almost a million on his watch. As president and prime minister now struggle to explain the strategic direction of government policy, their popularity ratings have plummeted, with Hollande's 36 percent approval rate setting a new record for unpopularity at the six-month mark of a presidential term.
Yet if it is true that a factor in good government is strong opposition, then part of this government's problem is the disarray of its main political opponents. While Socialist ministers were locking horns with ArcelorMittal, the center-right UMP was engaged in a fratricidal feud around the election of its new leader that has split the party down the middle and cast doubt over its ability to hold together.
The leadership contest pitted former Prime Minister François Fillon against outgoing party Secretary General Jean-François Copé. It was also a contest between two different visions of France under a future UMP administration – one economically liberal and socially inclusive (Fillon), the other economically liberal and socially "unapologetic," code for being tough on immigration and Islam notably (Copé). It was expected that the election would produce a clear direction for the party, setting it either on a more centrist or a more right-leaning course; but the near dead heat resulting from a poll of some 300,000 party members has reopened all the old fault lines that the UMP was formed, in 2002, to seal over.
With Copé's wafer-thin victory disputed by Fillon's camp and calls for a fresh vote, the party is effectively leaderless and, for the moment, directionless. This is a dangerous condition to be in, with a new centrist alliance recently formed under the popular UMP defector Jean-Louis Borloo and – more ominously – with the far-right Front National making strong political headway under its new leader Marine Le Pen. She came third in the presidential poll with 6.4 million votes and she has made no secret of her ambition to attract the most right-wing components of the UMP and transform her populist party into the major force on the French right.
Meanwhile, France's accounts make grim reading. Public debt stands at more than 90 percent of GDP and public spending at 57 percent, a eurozone peak; unemployment is above 10 percent (over 3 million), rising to 25 percent among the young and to much higher levels in some deprived suburbs; and successive downgrades of its vaunted triple-A credit rating have struck a blow at France's financial standing. Fiscal discipline is hardly a mobilizing electoral theme, and during the campaigns of 2012 there was barely a reference to cutting public spending; but that is a central part of the challenge now facing the president if he is to fulfill his promise to reduce the budget deficit to 3 percent of GDP in 2013 and balance the books by 2017.
Will President Hollande have the courage to press on with reforms where his predecessors retreated? The answer might be: does he have a choice? A recent report by The Economist described France as "the time-bomb at the heart of Europe" and potentially "the biggest danger to Europe's single currency." Without necessarily going that far, it is clear that Hollande's room for maneuver is slim to vanishing. But it is also clear that, if he has the political will to reform, he has the political means. The Socialists control not only the presidency and both houses of parliament but almost all regions, most departments and most major cities. And if they cannot persuade France's truculent unions to embrace reform, who can?
It may not be attached to a bomb, but France's clock is ticking; and it will tick faster in 2013 than it did in 2012. French presidents once enjoyed a seven-year term; now, since a constitutional amendment of 2000, they have five. Hollande has more power than any other European head of state, but he has only another year, maybe two, to make a difference before the first-draft history of this presidential term is written. Bonne chance!
Francois Hollande is an improvement over that Washington loving Sarkozy who practically reduced France to a virtual colony of the U.S. At any rate, France needs another Charles DeGaulle who'll lead that country out of the Eurozone and restore prosperity to the people.
Colony? I think not. Sarkozy was a refreshing breeze of cooperation in a France long self-centered. The article shows how socialist policies carried to their maximum in the end create a space with no room for maneuver – this is the future of which we should beware. France and so many of the "socialist paradises" of Europe are on a losing course – "soaking the rich" may make the teeming masses feel good, but it is not the answer. The answer is cut back on spending.
Amen...now try to tell that to Obama
Your reply is refreshing and entirely correct.
It is great to be a Socialist when you have other's hard working income to spend on freeloaders and generous pension benefits. Take note USA!
Oh my, the world economies will collapse. For 60+ years its spend for growth. Now its time to reverse this. But as Governments cut back, so must everyone else. The problem is, is that everyone is accustomed to the status quo. For me, less is more and I take every opportunity to downsize so I can ride out the new world order.
Charles DeGaulle – a guy who rode on American tank to Paris in 1945, and whom US let lead the parade out of sensetivity for French?
No. he rode it in August of 1944.
For sure american don't like DeGaule as thanks to him France did not become an american occupied territory 🙂
No – it was the French 2nd Armored who liberated Paris, after having fought in Normandy. Besides, given the Americans chose to give recognition to Vichy up until 1942, then tried to supplant De Gaulle with Vichy-associated yes-men, the least they could do was give him a tank....only thing he didn't ride in on a tank, but Citroen car. De Gaulle remains the best son France produced in the 20th century. without him, France would have either gone red or become a US vassal state thanks to AMGOT.
Asking people here to read some history before commenting is akin to trying to get someone to swim with concrete flippers, but you can all start with a book called "Allies at War" by Simon Bertheon. An eye-opener piece of work that could teach many Americans something useful.
Before lecturing upon knowing history, you should check your facts. Yes the unit liberated Paris. However, it was organized under the US light armored division organization.
De Gaulle was an arrogant, useless commander who was hated by nearly everyone. The US liberated France officially and let De Gaulle ride in as the victor to give the French hope and pride. De Gaulle then lambasted the US, insulted our presence and the French have never liked us since.
for all Americans who spit on the history of France, please open a history book.
It's more or less true. For most of our history we loved France, but as soon as we stopped being a bunch of backwards bumpkins and became a power in our own right, France has resented it, and we've stopped liking France because of that very resentment. Respect is a two way street. Don't expect us to give you any when you habitually give us none.
France has spent the last few decades with ridiculous working hours, massive welfare abuse and low worker productivity and you blame its economic problems on it being a "US puppet"?
Are you stupid or are you stupid?
No – I'm saying had France become a US puppet, it would have much, much worse.
I think you know you are wrong. You cant' be so stupid.
I am french.....and am shocked of most of the opinions I could read about De Gaulle and the French. Firstly if De Gaulle would not have been there.....I do even not want to imagine the outcome! of course.....it is not your country.......about poor working hours, let me insist that all appreared with socialism that caused all the disasters in the french industry! it is a major fault to reduce working to 39 then to 35 hours a week.before that, we worked long hours and full weeks....and of course there is an abuse on social help.
Be assured that we all, as french know that Americans played a major role on the french liberation. It has never been denied or hidden in order to give more favour to De Gaulle! and it is of course a sad memory...even if I have not lived in that period, it is always a huge source of emotion. Please come over, visit France, you will see that we appreciate the Americans!
best wishes from France
Do you really think DeGaulle was a good leader? He was inept. You need to read up on history a bit before exalting someone.
It's like you have been brainwashed by Fox News
Complaints about Sarkozy by Hollande supporters after the fomer is no longer in office harken to complaints here in the USA by some feckless Democrats about George W. Bush. They don't want us to reflect on the manifest weaknesses of the current government, so they keep reminding us of the previous one. Bill Cinton did a masterful apologia on behalf of President Obama recently, striking that very same note. Sooner or later, however–and assuming that democracy is a valid form of government–the electorates in both France are going to run out of patience with ruling factions who have run out of ideas.
The two leadership rivals in centre-right UMP party, Jean-Francçois Copé and former Prime Minister François Fillon have agreed to hold a re-run of their controversial leadership election before October next year.
The political party landscape in France resemble an alphabet soup, a mix of abbreviations and acronyms.
Only a few experts can recount the entire list of parties and movements that have existed over the years.
French women need to shave their mustaches and armpits.
Apparently you haven't seen many French women. They are gorgeous.
I am a French woman, I do not have a mustache nor hair on my arm pits, very little body hair. I speak French, German, Luxembourg. Thanks
So you speak four languages. I do not know what that has to do with the subject at hand.
The French would have done far better by electing Marie Le Pen and the members of the National Party into office last year in stead of these so-called "moderates". That way, France may have been taken out of the cursed Eurozone and put back on the path tp prosperity. In fact, Europe today needs right-wing extremism like it did back in the 1920's but does anyone have the sense to see that? Evidently not, unfortunately!
I hope you were being sarcastic. Right wingnut, left wingnut, national socialist democrat, facist, whatever. What you are invoking is the emergence of a ruthless tyrant to fix the things that apparently don't fix themselves. Mussolini made the notoriously unpredictable trains of Italy run on schedule – probably only required the beatings and deaths of a few hundred railway workers and union representatives. What the heck? The German chancellor put everyone back to work in the 1930s- building a war machine. The Europeans haven't had a good mass extinction event in almost 70 years – that ought to help change the focus of their problems. Chances are that the fools who lent them money will be the first to be exterminated. There is historic precident (look what happened to the Templars who were the major crditors of the French king and oops – the Roman church).
It's telling that at 90% of GDP, France's debt is considered scary. In the US, our public debt is now over $16T, but we passed up our 1:1 ratio on GDP to debt last year – our GDP stands at $15T. So, we're in much worse shape than France on this critical measure of fiscal health. Obviously a big difference is that we control our currency, and France does not control it's. But that only goes so far. Europe is dealing with it's debt problem, albeit slowly and erratically. The US has yet to do this, and fiscal cliff negotiations look like the can will be kicked further down the road again...
France's experiment with socialism is leading to wonderful prosperity there. 11% unemployment, debt to GDP ratio of over 100%, private employers, like the steel mill, wanting to layoff due to all the taxes and regulations the government is imposing, and then threatening to take over the mill if they do lay off (sounds more and more like America?), will only lead to a boom in economic growth. The French young people,with a very high uemployment rate from companies wanting to make an exit there and not hiring (can you blame them), have great hope!
But, folks, lets rejoice in a wonderful French government and new socialist president! At least bankrupt Greece just had their bonds upgraded by Standard and Poors. Austerity does seem to work, well, to a point.................
Considering Hollande has been in office for a number of months following numerous centre-right governments, its hard to blame France's economic woes on a "socialist experiment" – indeed the Nordic countries and Netherlands have enjoyed lower unemployment than France for a generation in part by shifting costs for many benefits from the private sector to the public. Whomever reforms the French labor market – making it easier for companies to hire and fire – will help fix France's economy IMO. It matters not what party they belong to. As much as I respect Sarkozy, he was unable to deliver on this.
The only reason the socialist economies of the nordic countries have not collapsed is because their mineral extraction wealth has been sufficient to pay for the benefits required by a small population. Greece didn't have any mineral wealth to speak of. They also have coherent cultures that strongly encourage care for each other, self discipline, working, and discourage being on welfare.
A factor in good government is strong opposition! I wonder if that applies here? Doesn't this mean that both sides must compromise! I hope both parties in our nation compromise so we can move forward and worry about trying to build a better future. Instead of worrying about who may be to blame if things go wrong, lets get a compromise and move forward. The future of our country is more important than politics.
I'm guessing you missed the memo. Neither party perceives the need to compromise. Something about fiddling while Rome burns (because once burned down the political class believes they will have a free hand to rebuild it to their liking). The usual scenario at this stage in the life of a government is the emergence of a ruthless tyrant who consolidates power.
A "socialist experiment" where the government spends more than it takes in and increases taxes on upper end earners in an effort to reduce the huge deficit. Sound familiar?
We in the USA have a crystal ball to see into our future. France, Grease, Spain and so much of Europe is what WE are destined for, if we don't stop the spending.
It's quite inexplicable isn't it. If they have any sense I have the fenelig that they will have reset it by the weekend. At least set this as the default and give users the option of re-enabling the old style replies via their settings. Maybe a bit of Bernie Ecclestone style smoke and mirrors stuff is going on do something that causes a rumpus and creates lots of press and then suddenly change your mind and start saying the exact opposite a week later
Socialists needing to twist union hands – love it.
If Greece become bankrupt, (50-50% chance it will) France will find itself in deep poop. France and Switzerland are the 2 biggest creditors of Greece.
You need currency to trade electronically in today's world. But everybody being connected and depenedent on each other is a real conumdrum. In the old days you worked for your food clothing and shelter and your economoy was affected by you and the local king and how much he took. Nowadays where do you work? We are closing stores due to internet. Farms are run by tractors so we do need a social safety net. On the other hand socialists or linked to the world market and so they cannot totally manage their own nation and so other nations debt, resources, etc all affect us. A real conundrum. Big government is wasteful but just not control leaves too many to suffer.
France was extremely liberal under Sarkozy. I can't even imagine how liberal it would be under a more leftist regime.
That bodes badly for them..........as the socialists gain control, in more and more countries, in the worst world economic conditions, since the 1930's.
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Let the earth know that these are the days of the LORD and that these are the signs of the coming of the MESSIAH, shalom.
France has to many lazy Muslims. Indochineses (Cambodians, Lao, and Vietnameses) are not White enough to blend in with Francaise. Well! Bon Chance France. Thank You USA, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand for having us Indochineses.
While we are at it, should US Government plunge down the so called fiscal cliff – it would set off very serious consequences of reactions from the global financial sectors. If the US debt ceiling is not resolved, US could enter a deep and long recession and resulting in the world abandoning the US$. US$ bonds and securities would become cheap sale items as panicky US$ investors flee.
If that happened, the US$ might just collapse..... and I leave you to imagine what this could mean to Americans at large.
The Republicans I think are playing with fire, and Americans could get burned by GOP's stubborn self interest handling of the fiscal cliff.
I do hope your kidding, because both parties are playing with fire not just the GOP, both parties need drastic reform, and congress needs to be entirely replaced, this is one of those times where everyone is wrong
At least under Hollande France withdrew from Afganistan-a smart move which will save money. The Globalist Agenda needs to be abolished to improve things.The international bankers need to be put in check, derivatives taxed. If Depardeaux, the rich actor does not want to pay taxes he needs to be banned from France. Charlie Chaplin got rich in the US and did not want to pay his share so he went ro Switzerland , not a good American – a similar story. The choice that needs to be made is to support majority of French people or cow tow to international bankers. In the past the bankers ruled-now we will see if there is anything new under Hollande.
Like other nonsense articles the emphasis is on austerity. The US is in a worse shape than France and the real issues are hidden behind a fake issue (Fiscal Cliff).Unfunded wars, unfunded bank bailouts and generally welfare for the rich is not discussed much. The whole economic policy of the US is dedicated to saving the 4 banks "too big too fail ", but the fact is hardly even mentioned. What the people in the US will most likely get , in spite of the circus rethoric , is double barrel austerity which will depress the economy further. The big talk of $1.3 Trillion over 10 years is peanuts ! Let us break it down. $130 billion/year is equivilent to 3 months of our wars. If we stopped ALL WARS we would save $520 billion per year but there is not even a discussion about the obvious. From what I can see France is moving in the right direction and have a circus.
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Where is France?
Is France still exist?
What happened to France and its people?
Currently, France is not computing in the modern World stages: economically, accademically, militarily, and it is in a bottom list on Intellectual Property registrations.
Is France on cliff, between life and death line?
They are still there, just held hostage by their newfound socialism as they watch millions of Arabic North African immigrants take their jobs ruin their cars, and bring a little bit of the third world with them.
I do hope Europe out grows this crisis, the United States' "advice" has reduced Europe to a fraction of its capability, Europe once was vibrant and heavily industrial, managing many colonial interests, France England and Germany were the face of tomorrow, now they are hollow shells, Europe needs to once again boom, France will always have one of the best militaries on the planet, and boasts a large amount of connections with former possessions world wide, even the Chinese think highly of the French, rating them on their personal national power index as a close third
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But one name that certainly belongs in that group is Jack Tramiel, the founder of Commodore Business Machines (and later, CEO of Atari). As the man behind the PET, the Vic-20 and the Commodore 64--which may be the best-selling personal computer of all time--Tramiel may have had more influence than anyone.
That's debatable, of course. But there's no doubting the reverence Silicon Valley's elders have for Tramiel, an Auschwitz survivor and former member of the U.S. Army who decided that his future lay not in repairing typewriters as he'd done in uniform, but in building electronics.
On Monday night, hundreds of the Valley's graybeards turned out in Mountain View, Calif., for the Computer History Museum's celebration of the
Among those on hand to fete Tramiel were
During the event, Tramiel took the time to talk to CNET News.com about his most famous creation, about the current state of personal computers and about whether there really was a culture war between C64 users and Apple IIe users in the mid-1980s.
Q: What does the 25th anniversary of the Commodore 64 mean to you? Can you believe it's been 25 years?
Jack Tramiel: Yes, I live it every day.
Do you still use a Commodore?
Tramiel: Yes, the 64.
What do you use it for?
Tramiel: Games.
What's your favorite game?
Tramiel: Pac-Man.
How many hours a day do you use your C64?
Tramiel: A few minutes.
We heard that about 500 people were going to show up for this event. How does it make you feel to have such a favorable reception 25 years later?
Tramiel: I believe that Commodore was the first personal computer, and we also were able to help supply products or parts for the Apple and the Atari. Being involved in seeing it be developed, in the marketing and traveling around the world, I saw, in its first two years, that this was going to be an unbelievable hit, and that it was going to change the world. And it did change the world, and I'm proud that I was part of it.
Celebrating one of the best-selling PCs ever.
You've said you were inspired by a trip you took to Japan and that that's what got you thinking that the future was in electronics.
Tramiel: Well, Japan is a big story, and there's no question that they're a different kind of people than we are. If they want to do something, they put their mind to it and they do it. They're very proud of their country, which we are not. I remember shipping the PET to Japan, to develop that particular market. And it was unbelievably successful in Japan. But about two years after, a Japanese company by the name of NEC decided to go into the personal computer business. That day, when they announced it, PET sales stopped, because the Japanese were willing to wait until the Japanese computer came out.
And you haven't seen the same loyalty in the American market?
Tramiel: No, because we will buy from anybody, as long as it's cheap.
But the Commodore was cheap. It cost less than $600.
Tramiel: That was one of the reasons why I made sure that we reduced the price--to make a fair profit, not to stop the imports that came into the country. And I felt very good because we did. There were very few foreign machines coming into the country. When I left Commodore, the world changed. Then, all of a sudden everybody came in because the prices went up. So I feel very responsible for that particular idea that I had, to give people a computer for the money, to make a computer for the masses, not for the classes.
And when you say people, you're not just talking businessmen. Kids could afford it if they saved up enough.
Tramiel: I wasn't thinking of businesses at all, because I didn't want to compete with IBM.
Do people still stop you to tell you their memories about the C64? There's quite a cult following out there.
Tramiel: There is, but I'm very quiet. This is the first real event which I've come to, because I don't like to be in the press. I'm quite happy if people do not know me.
Do you have any thoughts on the PC market today?
Tramiel: The PC market is very strong and it's going to become stronger. It's going to be very important how the products are being packaged from now on. The technology is there. It's about how it's packaged. I believe the smaller we make them, the more they will sell, and the easier they're going to be to use. And I think we're going in that direction.
What other computer do you use (besides a Commodore)?
Tramiel: A Dell.
What do you think it was about the Commodore 64 that made it so popular across the board?
Tramiel: Because I brought everything into it. I brought in sound, video, a full keyboard, and color. It was easy to use. And there was a tremendous following after that, supplying software and everything else. And I did not rely only on the United States. Through my previous connections with the adding machines and typewriters I was selling, I already had a network of dealers around the world. So it was easy to go back to them with computers. I just had to convert the dealers to understanding that this was a consumer product. This is what happened. The young people were able to buy it because it was very affordable.
How influential was the C64's BASIC for future programmers?
Tramiel: Every time I went to fairs around the world, especially the fair in Hannover, Germany ( in the world), kids, ages 12 to 20 would come around to show me their bank books. They said, "Tramiel, I made over $200,000 this year selling software." And that gave me a real kick. Not only did I make my employees rich, but I even made young people rich. They knew that if they worked hard and used the BASIC to design software, they could make money.
When I was in high school, it seemed like there was almost a culture war between users of the Commodore 64, the Apple IIe, and the Atari 800. What do you think was different about the machines and the people who used them?
Tramiel: The only difference was the price. Because it seems that in this country, if you sell something cheaper, it can't be as good. If it's more expensive, and it's the same product, it must be a better product. That didn't stop me. I still wanted to sell it for a low price. But if a person pays three times as much for a computer, he has to be proud of it, because he paid for it. He can't call himself stupid.
So you think the computers were on par with each other?
Tramiel: Each one. Even today, they're the same. If you take an HP, or a Dell, they're all the same.
But it seemed like people had loyalties back then, the same way people have loyalties today between Mac and PC.
Tramiel: There's absolutely no loyalty. One has 95 percent and the other 5 percent...But I believe that what Apple's doing today is one of the smartest things that they can do. They're becoming a consumer company, selling much more than computers, to everyone.
What computers or operating systems came along since the C64 that remind you of it?
Tramiel: Nothing reminds me of it. We live in a different world, a much more developed world today. The computer business today is different than it was in 1975. In some ways it's good, and in some ways it's bad. But the important part is that we all work hard to bring it to the way it is, and people say, "How can you live without a computer?" which is wonderful.
CNET News.com's Kara Tsuboi contributed to this report.


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Brian Hock necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 783 diseños de 100 diseñadores freelance.
HOCK (www.hocktraining.com and http://www.hockconferencing.com and http://www.hockinternational.com))
We are a 10 year old training company based in Russia. We have offices in the former Soviet Union and have an internet based business that sells training materials around the world.
We recently ran a design contest on 99designs, but have since changed what we need. We are creating the vision and mission of the company. Our vision statement will be similar to "Making Your World Bigger" We want to be a company that will expand the horizons of everyone we work with-clients, employees and suppliers. We will do this by offering our services professionally, proactively and with passion.
I started the company because I love to teach and to give people opportunities that they did not have before. This is what we do. We do not teach a course to pass an exam - we teach a course to open doors for this person. We do not teach English - we expand the world so our students can do more because they speak English.
We do this in different ways - through Exam based training, through English classes, Conferencing, non-exam training, consulting. All of our activities should expand the world of our client and open new ideas and opportunities for them.
We want to be a company that others enjoy working with because they know that they will get superior service and superior results form us, in all we do. We "Open Doors" We "Make Your World Bigger" Training is only one way that we do that.
Our target audience is around the world. For HOCK Training it is the former Soviet Union. For HOCK Conferencing it is Moscow, Russia. Our clients here are both individuals and companies, though most of them are current professionals who are looking to expand their skills. We have a very good reputation for quality in the region, and we need to communicate to our clients that they will continue to get that quality, but that they will also have their horizons expanded and that working with us us different than working with other companies.
This logo is the start of a complete rebranding, so the logo does not need to fit into the current website design. A new website will be designed to go with this logo that is being developed.
For HOCK international, the target is individuals around the world. These are people who are studying to pass a Professional Exam and we are providing them materials. When they see the HOCK international logo, they should know that we are going to not only help them pass the exam, but in so doing, their world and their opportunities will expand and grow.
I need a general concept that will demonstrate opening doors, expanding horizons, bigger perspective, greater opportunity. I want our logo to show that this is what we do.
There needs to be a series of connected logos. There needs to be one logo that is simply the word HOCK (my last name) and the graphic design. There should also be room for a short tagline to be added. We will then also need a logo for HOCK Training, HOCK Conferencing and HOCK international. The four logos should be connected so that it is obvious that they all belong together. Differences between them can be in the color, or any other way that is able to demonstrate that these are different companies that have the same vision and mission.
The logo should inspire our clients and our staff and show that we will make their world bigger. Yet be professional enough and show stability so that they know we will be here for the long term.
I like the color orange and would like to use Orange for at least the HOCK logo. The three subsidiary logos can use other colors. I do not have any preconceived ideas of how to show this expansion of horizons, but will actively provide feedback to those who submit.
After the logo is selected, I will need further work for website, brochures, business cards, a complete corporate image. The winning designer will have a chance to propose for this work after the logo is selected.
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Edward ELGAR (1857-1934)
Violin Concerto in B minor Op.61 (1910) [49:17]
Salut d'Amour Op.12 (1888) [3:02]
Offertoire Op.11 (1893) [4:59]
Catherine Manoukian (violin)
Staatskapelle Weimar/Stefan Solyom
rec. Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt, Weimar, 17 June 2011 (Salut; Offertoire); Weimarhalle, Weimar, Germany, 26 June 2011 (Concerto)
Aquí está encerrada el alma de … "Herein is enshrined the soul of …" - so wrote Elgar at the head of the published score of his Violin Concerto. Depending on which source you consult there is still some debate as to the identity of the 'soul'. Putting that to one side, what is clear is that this is an intensely personal and profound work. Therein lies the paradox that taxes performers and audiences to this day. On one hand you have a work of elusive introspection and deeply private emotion yet on the other it is a big bold work full of typically Elgarian gestures and public rhetoric. As well as confronting the considerable technical hurdles it presents the soloist and conductor with an artistic conundrum: which emotional/musical path must they follow and how to find a balance that is both effective and satisfying.
Clearly this is a challenge relished by the modern generation of international soloists with excellent versions in recent years from the likes of James Ehnes, Gil Shaham, Thomas Zehetmair, Philippe Graffin, Tasmin Little and Nikolaj Znaider to name some off the top of my head. Many of these players offer dreaded unique selling points from Znaider's use of Kreisler's violin to Little's variant cadenza or Graffin's original manuscript to add to their undoubted musical gifts. So into such a competitive field how does a relatively unknown player accompanied by one of Germany's less recorded orchestras fit? Pretty sensationally well is the simple answer. The Staatskapelle Weimar is the world's second oldest orchestra, founded as it was in 1491. Since World War II they languished behind the Iron Curtain and were not used as one of the East's flagship recording ensembles. As a result they are all but unknown with a still-small recorded catalogue limiting their international profile. Even so, they are a sensational orchestra as evidenced on discs such as the Naxos recording of Strauss's Alpine Symphony. They are just as good live as a recent UK tour proved - producing a sensationally rich and burnished bass-orientated tone with power, personality and virtuosity to spare. Given this current recording is of a live performance - just one, with some rehearsal patching, one assumes - I am happy to report that all those qualities are preserved here too.
What is 'special' about this version? To my ear it is the total unity of vision between soloist, orchestra and podium. Dig a little deeper into how this could have been achieved and one discovers that Canadian-born soloist Catherine Manoukian is in fact the wife of Swedish conductor Stefan Solyom who is in turn the principal conductor of the Staatskapelle Weimar. This is, quite literally, a labour of love. As ever in Elgar, the balance between emotion and sentiment is a tricky one to find but here it works superbly. Other benefits are found with an orchestra not burdened with a tradition of how Elgar should go. The work's opening is a perfect example. Initial knee-jerk reactions tell you it is slow. Compared to any of the above - Shaham in Chicago is the nearest - and they are all significantly faster, often by a good 10%. Then check your score and put on a metronome and Solyom is right on the money at crochet=100 as marked in the score. Solyom is very close to the printed tempi in the other movements too. Instantly the movement has a breadth and, yes, nobility that I find rather wonderful. Likewise consider the soloist's first entry; famously playing the second, answering, half of the main theme. Elgar marks this f (loud) but tellingly with his trademark nobilmente. Manoukian is exactly that: strong but dignified. Compare that to some famed performers struggle to pitch the 'feel' of their first entry well. Try Kennedy both with Handley and far worse with Rattle when he gives his entry an almighty kick with surely an ff dynamic and accents to nigh on every note. No one can doubt Manoukian's power or intensity at any moment but conversely she does not feel the need to attack the listener. All this subtle detail needs a quality orchestra to be able to sustain the requisite warmth. Again the Weimar players are more than equal to the task.
My one sorrow is that the violins have not been split left and right. Elgar tosses melodies mid-phrase between the sections and this registers best when that aural division is most apparent. Elgar micro-manages the solo part in particular with barely a bar going by without the soloist being told to adjust dynamic, phrasing or articulation. Manoukian's great skill is not to be enslaved to that while at the same time inhabiting wholly the spirit (soul?) of the piece. Likewise Solyom is masterly in his handling of the great melodies in which this work abounds. The great danger in Elgar is the anticipation of a tempo change by changing the tempo. Superficially this can give the music a sense of ebb and flow but the danger is that the musical line can grind to a halt in wallowing emotionalism. Solyom achieves an excellent balance between expressive rubato and keeping the music moving even when his basic pulse is slower than one might often expect. Throughout, Solyom's interpretation initially surprises then wholly convinces. He seems like a natural Elgarian and one hopes that in the light of the success of this project he will investigate the larger orchestral works.
Technically Manoukian is completely on top of this work which is demanding both in its length and virtuosity. Throughout, this is a vibrantly passionate performance but one that does not sacrifice beauty of tone. At the same time, she does not exaggerate the music's high Romanticism. For sure there are passing moments where the tone is fractionally forced but this is music-making in the white heat of inspiration. This is in line with her vision of the work; in the liner-note she and her husband contribute Manoukian argues that by recording the work 'as one' live in concert the momentum is better maintained and the perception of the piece as long, perhaps too long, is diminished. My only query is that in seeking to achieve this Manoukian sacrifices much of the fantasy that inhabits the finale and especially the famous accompanied cadenza. It's an impressive technical tour de force but the elusive mystery of the writing is missing. To my mind this is the only interpretative mis-calculation in the work albeit rather an important one. Revisiting the performance as a whole several times before writing this review I get a growing impression that it 'works' in the overall arc. In the hall on that night it must have been mightily impressive. I do feel that re-conceiving things from the cadenza to the end would take a very fine performance and would make it into a truly great one. Listen to the hushed string accompaniment and it has exactly the kind of rapt intensity that is just so right. The final pages expand wonderfully to the work's heroic end. As mentioned, this is a live event but until the enthusiastic applause which comes in very quickly - and for quite some time - after the final chord you are not aware of the audience's presence at all.
The avid collector of this concerto suffers from an embarrassment of modern riches. Putting to one side classic versions from everyone from Sammons to Menuhin, Heifetz, Haendel, Bean and Kennedy (Handley) - who I like once past the aggressive opening - all of the more recent releases mentioned above have real worth. If forced to choose from those new discs interestingly I would probably plump for the other 'live' version from Gil Shaham in Chicago to put alongside this but this is to praise the quality of this new release rather than diminish in any way the others.
The disc is completed - slightly curiously it would seem - with two Elgar miniatures for violin and piano. I say "it would seem" until one makes the intuitive leap that the uncredited pianist is surely Stefan Solyom. Nowhere on the liner does it say as much but it must surely be so. Again, the unity of expression is quite superb with Solyom proving to be as attentive an accompanist on the piano as he was with the orchestra. There is a touchingly intimate simplicity to the playing here that allows the spirit of the music to shine through. How apt that they play "Love's Greeting" (Salut d'Amour) as well as the rarer slightly later Offertoire. The Berlin Classics engineers place Manoukian slightly further back from the microphones which gives her already beautiful tone more air in a way wholly appropriate to these charming but essentially simple pieces. The Offertoire shows Elgar's skill at negotiating a salon style that teeters on the edge of sentimental and maudlin but in fact comes off as touching and beautiful. Manoukian 'pitches' her performance absolutely perfectly and the pair work as an unexpectedly charming and successful bon bouche after the sheer scale and impact of the concerto.
Berlin Classics have produced a very good disc; relatively short playing time aside. Perhaps in the flesh the orchestra sound even richer than here. Also I would not have minded if the soloist had been taken a step further back into the orchestra. She has been given a very immediate balance but it must be reiterated that her playing bears this kind of scrutiny with ease. The CD is presented in a gatefold digipack with a rather appealing Art Nouveau style cover with the liner-note tucked into a slot on the front sleeve. A personal note from conductor and soloist, rehearsal photographs and a good liner regarding the works complete the package. With such a multi-faceted piece no single performance can ever hope to encompass all its myriad riches but I have been greatly impressed by the coherence and sheer quality of this version. The music-making that is happening in Weimar under Solyom deserves far greater international currency as does the violin playing of Ms Manoukian. Together they are a potent and exciting team. More please.
Nick Barnard
Potent and exciting.
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DOVER — Surrounded by friends and supporters, Gary Sredzienski sat down to a well-deserved plate of fried clams at Newick's Lobster House shortly after 5 p.m. Saturday evening.
DOVER — Surrounded by friends and supporters, Gary Sredzienski sat down to a well-deserved plate of fried clams at Newick's Lobster House shortly after 5 p.m. Saturday evening.
Sredzienski had just completed his latest cold-water swim benefit, 30 Degrees for Wildlife, crossing the Little Bay from Adams Point in Durham to Newick's to raise funds and awareness for the York Center for Wildlife in Cape Neddick, Maine.
Despite recently recovering from the flu, the 50-year-old from Kittery, Maine, made the 3.75-mile swim in 1 hour and 50 minutes.
"I couldn't breathe at first," Sredzienski said. He was wearing two wet suits and his face was slathered in Vaseline to protect him from the frigid waters. The name of the swim came about because the water temperature was expected to be 30 degrees on the snowy afternoon. But it hovered around 35 to 37 degrees for the duration.
At the beginning of the swim, Sredzienski stopped more often than usual, according to supporter Jerry D'Entremont, who was aboard a small boat that followed Sredzienski along the course. Anthony Zwaan, a medical doctor from Exeter, was also on board in case the swimmer ran into difficulty.
But after a slow beginning, Sredzienski was able to swim with the current and gradually picked up speeds of up to 3 miles per hour. He only stopped once for a quick drink of orange and banana juice.
"My lungs did stretch out after a while," he said. During the swim, Sredzienski often gave a thumbs-up to the crew on the boat being driven by Jim Leslie.
There were a couple of rough stretches with currents during the route. Near Fox Point and again near the finish, the currents created a whirlpool effect. Another crew member went out in a dingy at Newick's, just in case it was needed, but seeing the end in sight, Sredzienski pushed on while a crowd cheered encouragement.
After a hot shower and warming up at a nearby residence, Sredzienski was the guest of honor at a public reception hosted by the Center for Wildlife at Newick's.
Sredzienski, who enjoys swimming alongside loons and other wildlife, said he was out for a practice 2-mile swim on Friday, when he spotted a bald eagle hovering over his head.
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It receives no federal or state funding and needs to raise funds to put toward its annual $320,000 operating costs and for a capital campaign of up to $1.2 million to build a new clinic.
Kristen Lamb, the educational outreach director for the center, said the benefit had raised $5,800 as of Saturday. The goal is to raise $10,000.
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