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Weekly Wire: The Global Forum
These are some of the views and reports relevant to our readers that caught our attention this week.
Behind a Pattern of Global Unrest, a Middle Class in Revolt
Bloomberg BusinessWeek
For months now, protestors have gathered in the capitals of many developing nations—Turkey, Ukraine, Thailand, Venezuela, Malaysia, and Cambodia, among others—in demonstrations united by some key features. In nearly all these places, protestors are pushing to oust presidents or prime ministers they claim are venal, authoritarian, and unresponsive to popular opinion. Nearly all these governments, no matter how corrupt, brutal, and autocratic, actually won election in relatively free polls. And in nearly all these countries the vast majority of demonstrators hail from cosmopolitan areas: Kiev, Bangkok, Caracas, Istanbul, and other cities. The streets seem to be filled with the very people one might expect to support democracy rather than put more nails in its coffin.
Where Did Press Freedom Suffer Most in 2013? Online.
PBS Media Shift
This month the Committee to Protect Journalists released its annual analysis of Attacks on the Press, including a "Risk List" of the places where press freedom suffered most in 2013. As you might expect, conflict areas filled much of the list — Syria, Egypt, Turkey — but the place on the top of the list was not a country. It was cyberspace. In the past, the list has focused on highlighting nations where freedom of the press are under attack, but this year CPJ wrote, "We chose to add the supranational platform of cyberspace to the list because of the profound erosion of freedom on the Internet a critical sphere for journalists worldwide." Including cyberspace is a recognition that, at least in terms of press freedom and freedom of expression, the web is not virtual reality, it is reality.
Connected women: using mobile phones to protect migrants
The Guardian
Mobile technology specialist Malcolm Vernon explains how cell phones can protect women at risk of abuse or trafficking [...] Work in Freedom is a five-year programme, led by the ILO and supported by the UK's Department for International Development. It aims to prevent the trafficking of women and girls from South Asia to India and the Middle East. The project focuses on two sectors considered especially vulnerable to abuse: the domestic work sector and the garment industry. At present five countries are covered: Bangladesh,Nepal, India as countries of origin; Lebanon and Jordan as countries of destination.
Why do we need an International Women's Day?
The Guardian
Four gender-equality campaigners share their views on feminism and the backlash against women's rights. What do you think?
The Unruled World
Foreign Affairs
While campaigning for president in 2008, Barack Obama pledged to renovate the dilapidated multilateral edifice the United States had erected after World War II. He lionized the generation of Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, and George Marshall for creating the United Nations, the Bretton Woods institutions, and NATO. Their genius, he said, was to recognize that "instead of constraining our power, these institutions magnified it." But the aging pillars of the postwar order were creaking and crumbling, Obama suggested, and so "to keep pace with the fast-moving threats we face," the world needed a new era of global institution building.
How to Build a Perfect Refugee Camp
NY Times Magazine
From the outside, the temporary shelter for Syrian civilians in Kilis, Turkey, doesn't look like an inviting place to live. It looks like a prison. All around are olive groves, but here, Turkey suddenly runs out. A metal archway announces the customs gate to Syria. To its right stands what is more formally known as the Republic of Turkey Prime Ministry Disaster and Emergency Management Presidency's Kilis Oncupinar Accommodation Facility. High gates bar entry, and barbed wire tops the walls. Police officers and private security mill about. Many of the world's displaced live in conditions striking for their wretchedness, but what is startling about Kilis is how little it resembles the refugee camp of our imagination. It is orderly, incongruously so.
The Economist
THE protesters who have overturned the politics of Ukraine have many aspirations for their country. Their placards called for closer relations with the European Union (EU), an end to Russian intervention in Ukraine's politics and the establishment of a clean government to replace the kleptocracy of President Viktor Yanukovych. But their fundamental demand is one that has motivated people over many decades to take a stand against corrupt, abusive and autocratic governments. They want a rules-based democracy.
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For this weekend only, Xbox 360 owners will be able to access Hulu Plus for free through until Sunday, August 4th. If you're not familiar with the brand, the service enables you to watch TV and movies on consoles. If you're on your Xbox this weekend, you'll be able to enjoy unlimited instant streaming of top TV shows and movies on Xbox Live through Hulu Plus.
It's been a superb week for Xbox owners regarding entertainment. As well as the above, Microsoft has also unveiled a new free trial offer for the service. Signing up today will see you receive two months of Hulu Plus for free.
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My colleague Jim Kim has launched a social media campaign on what it will take to end global poverty (please send your solutions via twitter to #ittakes.) I was reminded of a blog post I did about four years ago entitled "Ending poverty in Africa and elsewhere".
My answer then and now is: Overcome government failure. By "government failure," I don't mean that governments are evil or even that they are incompetent or ill-intentioned. Analogous to "market failure," government failure refers to a situation where the particular incentives in government lead to a situation that is worse than what was intended with the intervention.
For instance, governments finance and provide primary education so that poor children can have access to learning. But if teachers are paid regardless of whether they show up for work, and politicians rely on teachers to run their political campaigns, the result is absentee teachers and poor children who don't know how to read or write—precisely the opposite of what was intended. We see similar government failures in health care, water supply, sanitation, electricity, transport, labor markets and trade policy.
Why do I say the problem is government failure, and not, say, lack of education or health or infrastructure? We have known for some time that education, health and infrastructure are important for escaping poverty. The question is: why has there not been more education and health and infrastructure for poor people? The answer is not simply a lack of money. The problem is that much of the money spent on these sectors is captured by powerful elites before it reaches the poor. In Chad, this is literally the case: only one percent of the nonwage public spending on health actually reaches the clinics. In other cases, it's more nuanced, such as the teacher (and doctor) absenteeism mentioned above, or when trucking monopolies keep transport prices so high that African exports are uncompetitive in world markets. In short, while education, health and infrastructure—among other things—are important, to get spending on these sectors to benefit the poor, we need to overcome government failure.
Overcoming government failure is difficult. These failures are the result of the interests of some powerful groups in society—including government officials and politicians—who will resist attempts at reform. What can be done? Pouring money into a leaky bucket will not solve the problem. And asking governments to reform—even if the request comes with the implicit threat of a cutoff in funds (sometimes referred to as "conditionality")—is unlikely to work if the government itself is captured by the special interests. Perhaps the most productive action is to reach the people who are losing out—the poor—and empower them with information—about teacher and doctor absence rates, the incidence of energy and water subsidies, the costs of labor regulations and protective import tariffs—so that they can bring pressure to bear on politicians. Politicians can ignore technical advisers and external actors, but they can't afford to ignore the citizens of their country.
To be sure, empowering poor people with information is not easy. First, many work 15-hour days just to make ends meet. Expecting them to attend village meetings or read the newspaper or listen to the radio is not straightforward.
Secondly, information by itself may not be enough to empower poor people. They need mechanisms to hold politicians accountable. And third, governments may not welcome these efforts at making evidence available to the public; some will consider it incendiary, and attempt to block it.
But if we agree that overcoming government failures is key to ending poverty in Africa, we need to promote poor people's access to information. Today's technology helps. The fact that one in two Africans has access to a cellphone has made it easier to reach them—and for them to reach politicians. In a sense, then, Jim's social media campaign—and other open knowledge initiatives—are more than just ways of eliciting ideas about ending poverty: they are potential instruments to end poverty
It will take politicians implementing better policies
What will it take to end poverty? Practical Education
You have a point
The fundamental and tragic
The fundamental and tragic truth is that Africa is poor because Africans live and rule there. Europeans create Europe wherever they go (Australia, USA, Canada) and Africans create Zimbabwe, Congo & Haiti. It is a tragedy that with all its natural bounty, the people of Africa so often live in squalor.
Democracy cannot save Africa. Western democracy is failing in the west, largely due to special interest groups who rule by creating and cobbling together factions sufficient to win elections. The result is not a "general will" or what is good for the nation, but Frankensenator. The USA in particular is governed in a manner that resembles a group quilting while fighting over the fabric, thread, needles, and the shape and size of the quilt. The dramatic increase in "diversity" in the previous 50 years in the USA has exacerbated this problem to the point where the USA is on its way to becoming Northern Brazil.
Ending African Poverty
Ending African Poverty
Going Forward...
Reducing poverty - education is the long-term answer
Seeking for Partnership
Promoting of Wealth Creation rather than Poverty Reduction
Thank you for this. My two
It will take Ubuntu and a can-do attitude
community based Initiative
Poor governance and lack of leadership committment
lack of focus on women & youth
End poverty in Africa
Ending Poverty In Africa - Generating Urban Habitat might be the
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good study
This is a good discussion for
This is a good discussion for our Mother Africa.
Great post. I'm facing many
Great post. I'm facing many of these issues as well..
To end poverty in Africa,
To end poverty in Africa, African governments must develop infrastructure and end corruption at all levels.Infrastructure because roads must be put in place, affordable electricity connected, water points distance reduced, schools built and chain links facilitated. Corruption ended to even opportunities for all categories of people to encourage great talents, hard work and genuine competitiveness


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This homemade ketchup recipe, made with tomatoes, vinegar, and sugar, is made without high-fructose corn syrup. And THAT'S a good thing.
The journey that culminated in my realization of the wonder that is homemade ketchup was long and circuitous, and, as sometimes happens, littered with the body of a friend.
One autumn night in 2000, our friend Geoffrey slunk back in through our kitchen door, a waft of cigarette smoke trailing behind him, as he hoped to avoid his wife, Sarah, who was helping The One clear the dishes from the dining table so we could play cards. Geoffrey leaned against the counter while I washed dishes.
"The lasagna was great," he said.
It wasn't, actually. It was an anemic imposter, devoid of the beef, veal, pork, and cheese that define the true Italian diva. Instead, it contained zucchini, peppers, and broccoli rabe layered between spinach noodles. Geoffrey was in his green-food phase.
Geoffrey was the worst kind of vegetarian. He was the sort of self-righteous, self-appointed mayor of Meatlessopolis who never cared how he inconvenienced the unconverted. Whenever he and Sarah came to dinner, I had to haul out a special skillet, one that had never experienced the sizzling, seductive sear of cold meat on its surface, because Geoffrey insisted he wouldn't eat anything cooked in a pan that had touched meat.
On top of all that, he was lactose-intolerant—say hello to dairy-free "cheese"—and also a bit of a hypochondriac. Half an hour or so after we would pour wine, he'd rub his forehead, grab the bottle, and mutter "sulfites" as he scrutinized the label. Then he'd turn his eyes heavenward and shake his head, looking to all the world like one of those beleaguered saints I used to read about in my catechism workbook when I was a kid.
Every time the two of them came over for dinner and cards, which was often, I not only tied myself into knots trying to come up with something to serve him that The One and I could at least choke down with wan smiles, I stomped through the supermarket seeking suitable meat alternatives and scoured the local liquor stores in search of a specific wine no one had ever heard of (and which we'd never, ever be caught dead drinking on any other occasion), all in the name of friendship.
"Oh, and the sauce? Fan-tas-tic!" Geoffrey turned his back to the sink and nonchalantly cleaned his nails with a toothpick. I, on the other hand, was so angry my back teeth began twerking. I redoubled my efforts scrubbing the nubbins of noodles from The Great Un-Besmirched Pan.
"Yeah, I got some beautiful second tomatoes," I said, trying to keep the conversation going. "So I made a sauce. I'm making homemade ketchup, too. I think it'll make a nice gift."
With that, Geoffrey lowered his head and looked as if he was squinting over a pair of spectacles. Judgment rippled across his face. "Why on earth would you go through all that work for anyone?"
Clearly, the irony of the question was lost on him.
I looked at him as if he had asked me, "Why do you eat an entire pint of Ben & Jerry's New York Super Fudge Chunk by yourself?" or "Why do you binge watch TVLand all Saturday?"
"Because…I…can." It came out quietly, almost whispered, but carried such weight as to shut down the conversation.
During the past 13 years, I learned how to wriggle out of my friendship with Geoffrey, but not how to make homemade ketchup. It was distaste by association.
Two weeks ago, though, The One and I pulled into the old-fashioned gas station just off the center of town in Roxbury, Connecticut, to buy organic vegetables from our local mechanic, Mark. On the counter were gorgeous globes of love practically rolling off the table and into our basket. But it was the boxes stacked beneath that caught my eye, "Sauce Tomatoes" scrawled across their sides. Always a sucker for the underdog—and alarmingly low on homemade tomato puree—I asked the price.
"A dollar fifty per pound," said Lucia, the salesperson. A buck fifty? That's incredible! I thought. I bought 20 pounds, then a few days later I went back for 20 more. And after making and freezing 12 quarts of puree, I still had ten pounds left.
Then I heard it in my head. "I'm making homemade ketchup, too. I think it'll make nice gifts." Why on earth did I let his offhanded comment stop me from doing something I've wanted to do for more than a decade? I asked myself. And with that, I began slicing into a beefsteak, its juices squirting across the counter, and simmering, and food-milling, all the while holding a raging one-sided conversation with Geoffrey.
You know, Geoffrey, if you got your head out of your sanctimonious ass, you'd see that making things from scratch is one of the best ways to live.
I grabbed a handful of overly soft Romas and squeezed hard, bleeding them into a bowl.
You may be a strict vegetarian, but you're a food Nazi. Do you hear me? A FOOD NAZI!
I slammed the pot full of chopped tomatoes on the stove and brought the whole thing to a boil.
And ever since you started making millions of dollars, you've become a motherf…
And there it was. The cancerous root of it all. Standing over a pot of burbling tomatoes, I had a breakthrough that would have cost me $250 had I been sitting in my shrink's office.
I understood that I have always felt less than Geoffrey. I've never dressed as if I was a member of the Connecticut Lockjaw Society. I don't have famous actors as friends. I don't throw fundraisers at my home to support state politicians. Instead I dress so messily I startle our UPS driver. I walked away from Meryl Streep just as she was about to talk to me at an event because I was utterly tongue-tied. And I couldn't name a state politician if Mama Leite's life depended on it. I had let his elitism—-his militant vegetarianism, his social exclusivity, his higher tax bracket—-cow me.
After the homemade ketchup was cooled, bottled, and tucked away, I considered giving Geoffrey a jar. There would be a certain symmetry to that. But I knew that such a simple gesture would cost me a lot. A hell of a lot more than $1.50 a pound.
Homemade Ketchup
What I love about this homemade ketchup recipe made with fresh tomatoes is that it tates like ketchup. There's nothing worse than the ketchup that now pass for "housemade ketchup" in so many restaurants that tastes either like tarted-up tomato sauce or tastes nothing at all like ketchup because it's "improved" with unusual or trendy ingredients like chipotle peppers or, I don't know, paprika collected by 17-year-old Hungarian virgins. With this recipe, you achieve the perfect sweet-tart balance of Heinz or Hunt's simply by reducing the tomato liquid into a thick, glossy syrup and then swirling it into the tomato pulp. Originally published September 27, 2013.–David Leite
LC No Food Mill? No Problem! Note
No food mill? No problem! (For those unfamiliar with a food mill, it's a boon to home cooks obsessed with tomatoes because of its ability to remove seeds and skins from a thick purée.) LC recipe tester and homemade ketchup aficionado Brenda Carleton has canned countless incarnations of this condiment recipe, and not once has she bothered to invest in a food mill. Why would she? She has her trusty potato ricer on hand. Carleton is on her 50th or so batch of homemade ketchup, each made in ricer fashion, and she has no complaints. (Uh, almost no complaints. She did mention that the ricer is messy, but then, a food mill would also be messy.
No potato ricer? No problem there, either. Another LC recipe-testing aficionado, Lori Widmeyer, has also made this ketchup more than once and removes the skins and seeds the old-fashioned way. She marks an "X" on the bottom of each tomato, blanches it (that is, plops it in boiling water for just a few seconds), immediately plunges it into ice water, then coaxes the skins to slip off with her fingertips. Then she chops the tomatoes and drains them in a colander. (Those times when Widmeyer was impatient and didn't drain the tomatoes—albeit against her better judgment—the resulting ketchup was watery.)
Homemade Ketchup
- Quick Glance
- Makes 3 to 4 cups
Special Equipment: Food mill or potato ricer
- 10 pounds very ripe red tomatoes, preferably beefsteak, cored and roughly chopped
- 4 garlic cloves, chopped
- 1 large onion, chopped
- 3/4 cup white vinegar (for a mild taste) or cider vinegar (for a fruity tang)
- 1 tablespoon black peppercorns
- 1 heaping teaspoon allspice berries
- 1 cinnamon stick
- 8 whole cloves
- 1/4 teaspoon cayenne
- 1/4 teaspoon ground ginger
- 2 1/2 tablespoons salt
- 6 tablespoons granulated sugar, plus more to taste
- 1. Place the tomatoes in a heavy, wide, nonreactive pan at least 8 quarts in size. Cover, place the pan over high heat, and cook for 5 to 10 minutes, stirring every minute or so, until the tomato chunks spill tomato juice and everything comes to a boil.
- 2. Working in batches, pour the tomato chunks and juice into a large strainer placed over a 3- or 4-quart saucepan. Gently press and stir the tomatoes with the back of a wooden spoon so that all the liquid but none of the tomato pulp goes into the saucepan. You should have about 2 quarts liquid. Reserve the tomato pulp.
- 3. To the tomato liquid in the saucepan add the garlic, onion, vinegar, peppercorns, allspice, cinnamon, cloves, cayenne, ginger, and salt. Cook over moderately high heat until the liquid is thick and syrupy and reduced to about 2 cups. This could take anywhere from half an hour to an hour or even as long as 2 hours or, in the case of 1 tester, up to 4 hours, depending on the type of tomatoes used and the size of your saucepan. [Editor's Note: Some tomatoes, such as beefsteaks, are more pulpy and mealy, whereas other tomatoes, like Romas, are more juicy. This will affect the final yield of juice and total simmering time.]
- 4. Meanwhile, transfer the tomato pulp to a food mill fitted with the finest screen to eliminate the seeds and skin. You should have about 1 quart strained pulp. Transfer the strained pulp back to the first pan. Discard the tomato solids that you strained from the tomato pulp.
- 5. Strain the thick, syrupy, reduced tomato liquid into the reserved tomato pulp, pressing on the solids to extract all the liquid. Stir in the sugar and gently simmer over medium-low or low heat, stirring frequently, until the ketchup is reduced by 1/3, 15 to 20 minutes Taste the ketchup occasionally, adding more sugar if desired. You should have about 4 cups tomato goo at the end. If the ketchup still seems a little runny, continue to simmer the mixture over low heat, stirring occasionally, until the desired consistency is attained. If the ketchup isn't quite the texture of commercial ketchup and some very vocal dissenters in your household prefer that, purée the ketchup in a blender or food processor. Let the ketchup cool to room temperature. Transfer the ketchup to glass jars or other containers with tight-fitting lids and refrigerate for up to several weeks.
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Memphis Grizzlies (2 - 1) @ Golden State Warriors (2 - 1)
Start time: 7:30 PM PST @ The Oracle Arena
Local TV: CSN Bay Area
Probable starters for the Golden State Warriors:
C - Andris Biedrins
PF - David Lee
SF - Dorell Wright
SG - Monta Ellis
PG - Stephen Curry
Probable starters for the Memphis Grizzlies:
C - Marc Gasol
PF - Zach Randolph
SF - Rudy Gay
SG - O.J. Mayo
PG - Mike Conley
Team leaders:
PPG - M. Ellis (30.5) | R. Gay (22.3)
RPG - D. Lee (13.5) | M. Gasol (11.5)
APG - S. Curry (8.5) | M. Conley (8.3)
SPG - A. Biedrins (2.0) | M. Conley (3.7)
BPG - B. Wright (1.5) | H. Thabeet (1.0)
Game Thread: Memphis Grizzlies @ Warriors 2010-11-03
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Gotta keep him controlled
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Another home game...I don't expect the Dubs to lose this one. Even without Steph.
pawno, if you neg repped me for THAT, Ima bust your fantasy team
Wow, its amazing that we have a must win game (if we hope to get a matchup with the Fakers as an 8th seed) with a wild wild west (I still think Clips, Minny, Memphis) as the only not so good teams with Hornets making a drop later in the year. I still think the season is about developing BW ... why give Vlade minutes when his shot does not drop while BW gives you blocks, rebounds, high field goal percentage. Sure he may miss a rotation, or drop a ball, but I rather give him minutes instead of a cold shooter. Ellis and Reggie looked just horrible together (because they both need the ball to be effective) and Lee in particular suffered with the two shoot first guards as a back court. Grizzly will be tired, and so far Ellis has the capacity to shine as needed, so start BW with Biedrins and Lee, place DWright next to Ellis and give Ellis room to score 40+ on the tired Griz. We really need this game to have a chance to sniff the playoffs this year.


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Douglas R. Rothschild, President, Performance Trust Investment Advisors, LLC.
Douglas R. Rothschild, a financial industry veteran and expert in hedge fund operations and asset management, was named President of Performance Trust Investment Advisors, LLC (PTIA), a sister company of Performance Trust Capital Partners, LLC, the companies announced today. As President, Mr. Rothschild will be responsible for running the asset management business for Performance Trust Investment Advisors and executing the company's current business strategy, including raising additional assets and building out the infrastructure in distribution, client service and operations. He will team up with Chief Investment Officer Peter Cook, who manages the investment teams at PTIA. Mr. Rothschild has over 16 years of experience in the financial services industry. Previously, Mr. Rothschild was a partner at Agecroft Partners, LLC, a global, award-winning third-party marketing firm founded by 27-year veteran Don Steinbrugge. At Agecroft, Mr. Rothschild helped build an elite, alternatives-focused distribution firm that received six third-party marketer-of-the-year awards over the last three years. Mr. Rothschild managed Agecroft's distribution efforts in Europe and sourcing and signing managers in London and Asia, producing a lasting footprint for the firm's future.
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Preventing AIDS: An Investment in Global Prosperity
July 2000
Today's pace of scientific discovery provides an historic opportunity to make progress against deadly diseases like AIDS that exact such a toll on economic development and threaten the prosperity and stability of the global economy.
The proposals put forward in the President's Millennium Initiative seek to catalyze a global response to one of the most urgent and morally compelling of such problems: the scourge of infectious diseases that hit hardest the countries that are least able to cope.
I would like to address here the three points that form the basis for the president's initiative. First, the development and delivery of vaccines and treatments for infectious diseases is now one of the most effective investments that we can make in successful economic development in the poorest countries. Second, both the lessons of recent development experience and the advance of scientific discovery have put us in a position to have a real impact on the global spread of these diseases. Third, public-private cooperation, both at the national and international level, is needed to achieve this.
Combating Infectious Diseases as a Moral and an Economic Imperative
It might seem surprising that the Treasury Secretary is devoting so much attention to the goal of preventing and controlling disease in the developing world. But, as Treasury Secretary, I am constantly aware of the enormous national economic, humanitarian, and security stake that the United States has in the successful development of the poorest countries.
Today, it does not overstate the case to say that the greatest single obstacle to human development in these countries is the specter of disease, such as HIV/AIDS. The spread of HIV/AIDS in recent years has been swift and particularly brutal.
Fifty million people worldwide have been infected with the HIV virus; more than 16 million have died; and annual AIDS-related fatalities hit a record 2.6 million last year. In sub-Saharan Africa, where 85 percent of all AIDS deaths have occurred, life expectancy is now declining sharply in many countries, reversing decades of hard-won gains. In at least five African countries, more than 20 percent of adults are HIV-positive. In southern Africa, life expectancy is expected to drop from a high of 59 in the early 1990s to 45 within the next 5-10 years -- a level not seen since the 1950s. And the highest rates of new infection are often among young women who will soon be mothers.
Women are increasingly bearing the brunt of HIV/AIDS, both as the primary care providers and, among the young, as those who are often most vulnerable to the disease. In many places, HIV/AIDS infection among young women is three-to-five times higher than among boys. And in parts of South Africa, nearly one-third of pregnant women are testing HIV positive, compared to just 1 percent in 1990. On a continent where women perform an inordinate share of the physical labor and contribute in critical ways to the household economy, the debilitation wrought by AIDS is especially cruel.
Most worrisome is the rate at which HIV/AIDS is spreading, and the very real danger that what is happening in Africa is about to happen elsewhere. Infection rates in Asia are climbing rapidly, with several countries on the brink of a large-scale pandemic and needing to take action immediately to forestall the disaster that Africa has suffered. Parts of Latin America and the Caribbean -- our own neighbors -- also show high and rising rates of infection. And the former Soviet Union countries and Eastern Europe are vulnerable as well, with Russia experiencing the highest increase in infection rates in the world last year.
At the same time, it bears emphasis that millions of the world's people still fall prey to diseases that are centuries old. For example, tuberculosis (TB) accounts for more than two million deaths annually, and drug-resistant strains are spreading. Indeed, thousands of people who are HIV-positive actually die of TB; their damaged immune systems allow active TB to develop, which then can spread to people who are not HIV-positive.
All told, infectious diseases are the leading cause of death worldwide, responsible almost half of all deaths among people under the age of 45. The end result is not merely a humanitarian crisis, but a broader social and economic crisis.
Life expectancy is falling mainly because of rising mortality among prime age adults, and research has shown that economic growth depends importantly on the share of the population that is of working age. A recent World Bank study estimates that AIDS is likely to subtract about 1 percent a year from GDP growth in 30 sub-Saharan African countries. The burden of coping with these diseases further reinforces the poverty that allowed these diseases to take root. Health care budgets and facilities are overwhelmed by the heavy burden of caring for those who are infected. And families that are already impoverished are forced to liquidate assets and defer expenses for essentials such as education in order to pay for costly medical care, thus sending them into a deeper downward economic spiral. AIDS alone has orphaned an alarming number of children -- more than 11 million worldwide -- with all but one-half million in Africa.
If these countries do not develop, they cannot contribute to the broader global growth in which we have such a stake, at a time when more than 40 percent of our exports already go to developing countries. The national economic distress and political instability that inevitably accompany this scale of human loss can cause greater damage to the global system as a whole.
For all of these reasons, the development and delivery of vaccines and effective treatments for infectious diseases are among the most cost-effective investments we can make, both in successful economic development in these economies, and in the prosperity and stability of the global economy as a whole.
We believe this is fundamentally a humanitarian imperative. It is also a national economic and security imperative. And it is an imperative that global experience and the pace of scientific discovery have now put us in a much stronger position to address.
The Ability to Make a Real Difference
We must deal now with the ongoing and immediate impact of infectious and other diseases of poverty. The record of past international efforts to combat infectious disease suggests that there are no easy, simple solutions to this problem. But we are in a much stronger position today than we were even a few years ago to help countries make concrete progress.
First, there has been rapid growth in relevant scientific understanding. Clearly, one reason for the high incidence of infectious diseases is the remaining gaps in our scientific knowledge about those diseases. The development of vaccines and medicines simply cannot exceed the frontiers of available basic science. But, as one pharmaceutical executive said at a recent meeting on this subject with President Clinton, this is a "golden age" for research and implementation. Important recent advances are being made on malaria, pneumococcus, and AIDS. We believe that public policy can provide a critical boost to private research efforts in this area.
Second, we have new tools for potentially channeling significant internal and external resources toward this effort. A sheer lack of financial resources relative to the cost of even the most basic investments in health is clearly an even greater obstacle to improving health outcomes in these countries.
On average, the poorest nations in the world spend just $15 per person on health care each year -- less than it costs to fully vaccinate a child against nine basic diseases including polio, measles, and tetanus. In the United States, we spend thousands of dollars per person on health care each year. In the poorest developing countries, there are only 14 doctors and 26 nurses on average for every 100,000 patients, compared to 245 doctors and 878 nurses in the United States. And 800 million people live on less than $1 a day. The harsh reality is that the cost of caring for patients with AIDS the way we do in the United States far exceeds the per capita income of most developing countries.
We cannot hope to eliminate the relative gap in countries' economic resources. But in the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) initiative we do have a tool for increasing the funds they have available -- and ensuring that they are channeled to core human development priorities such as basic health care.
The HIPC initiative, created in 1996 and further enhanced last year, has already helped some of the poorest nations in the world free up precious resources for human development that would otherwise have been spent on servicing debt. Fully funded and implemented, the enhanced HIPC initiative has the potential to be an even more powerful tool for helping countries devote more resources to combating infectious disease.
Last year, the Ugandan government saved $45 million in debt service under the original HIPC program. Its expenditures on health and education increased by $55 million, including a major effort to combat the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Immunization rates for children in Uganda are expected to increase from 55 percent in 1996 to 60 percent in 2002. One of the key priorities for health spending in the future, which would be facilitated by enhanced HIPC debt relief, is to extend HIV/AIDS education outreach, particularly to rural communities.
It bears emphasis that educating girls holds the further benefit of helping to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS. Studies in Zaire, Zimbabwe, and elsewhere all suggest strongly that higher rates of female secondary school enrollment have been associated with a much slower rate of transmission of HIV. And across the developing world, health care data confirm that levels of education are now highly correlated with the probability that women will practice safe sex. That is why the new approach to official lending that is part of the HIPC initiative puts core investments in female education, along with other core social investments, at center stage.
Finally, we have greater understanding of the importance of -- and prerequisites for -- the effective delivery of vaccines and treatments. Clearly, it does no good to ship vaccines and medicines to the ports of poor nations if they do not end up in the arms or throats of the people who need them. Just as clearly, it does little good to administer vaccines and medicines to people who do not receive basic tools for maintaining health, such as nutritional interventions like vitamin A and iron, for preventing disease, such as bed nets for malaria and education to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS. These problems have often been important obstacles to international efforts to combat heart disease in the past. However, the tight linkages between different aspects of health care are now well understood in the development community and are being successfully put into practice.
This is reflected in both the President's Millennium Initiative and plans now being developed by the World Bank, which focus on shifting significant resources to improving the delivery of basic health services, including vaccines and medicines.
We also understand better that this is not a problem of money alone -- but one of competence and enduring commitment. Specifically, developing country governments need to commit themselves to specific targets for improving health care delivery and health outcomes. And donor countries, international organizations, and non-government entities in developing nations need to cooperate to find solutions that will work best for the country in question. And applying these principles is yielding concrete results.
For example, in Uganda and Thailand, recent innovative programs supported by the international community have begun to reverse HIV infection rates of high-risk groups. And in Senegal, an early investment in prevention programs has helped to keep HIV infection rates low. In Bangladesh, which spends only $4 per person per year on health, the World Bank, USAID, and other donors have supported the development of networks of non-physician personnel fanning out to thousands of villages and urban slums, helping to reduce the infant mortality rate from 132 to 75 between 1980 and 1997.
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The President's Millennium Vaccine Initiative, outlined in his State of the Union address, draws on both of these realities: the scale and urgency of the problem, and the greater scope that we have today for launching an effective global response.
In these efforts, we are building on the support of the private sector, including pharmaceutical companies that can provide the research and development that is so necessary to developing the right vaccines. We are also drawing on the commitment of the non-profit sector, including organizations like the foundation created by Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, which has contributed so generously to the fight against disease; and we are utilizing the expertise of government so that it can act as a catalyst to ensure that these efforts are expanded on an international scale.
The president's initiative has four basic components. First, mobilizing additional international resources to help the poorest countries purchase existing vaccines for their children. Many poor countries often cannot afford to buy vaccines. To help address this problem, the president's fiscal year 2001 budget proposes a $50 million contribution to the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (GAVI) to purchase existing vaccines for children. This contribution should help catalyze significant contributions from other countries and foundations. It will also add critical credibility to the international community's commitment to provide a market for new vaccines, including vaccines for AIDS, when they are developed. Further, the president has helped stimulate commitments from the pharmaceutical industry to donate hundreds of millions of dollars worth of existing vaccines.
Second, shifting existing international resources toward building infrastructure in poor countries that can deliver vaccines and medicines and provide essential basic health services.
President Clinton has called on the multilateral development banks to shift an additional $400 million to $900 million annually of concessional resources into basic health care. Of course, an essential element of such care is prevention and treatment of infectious diseases, including AIDS.
Third, intensifying the search for more effective ways of treating and preventing diseases that widely afflict developing countries, especially HIV/AIDS, malaria, and tuberculosis.
The president's fiscal year 2001 budget for the National Institutes of Health includes a significant increase in research critical to creating vaccines for deadly diseases that afflict primarily developing countries. Funding for AIDS vaccine research will increase substantially in fiscal year 2001 and will have more than doubled since fiscal year 1997.
The president has also proposed an additional $100 million for HIV prevention and AIDS treatment in Africa, Asia, and other developing countries. We can make crucial headway against HIV and AIDS by providing clear information on prevention strategies and treating sexually transmitted diseases. We are calling on other countries to join us in committing money for these purposes.
Fourth, harnessing the scientific and technological skills of the private sector in the development of new vaccines for infectious diseases.
While important progress is being made, it is widely recognized that the market does not provide sufficient incentive for pharmaceutical companies to develop vaccines and medicines for diseases that disproportionately affect developing nations. Indeed, the World Health Organization estimates that only perhaps 10 percent of the $50,000-$60,000 million spent worldwide each year on health research is directed towards diseases that afflict 90 percent of the world's population.
To start to address this problem, the president is proposing a new tax credit for sales of vaccines against malaria, tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS, or any infectious disease that causes over one million deaths annually worldwide. Under the proposal, the seller of a qualified vaccine could claim a credit equal to 100 percent of the amount paid by a qualifying nonprofit organization (such as UNICEF) that received a credit allocation from the U.S. Agency for International Development (AID). The tax credit would match the purchaser's expenditures dollar-for-dollar, thereby doubling its purchasing power.
For 2002 through 2020, AID could designate up to $1,000 million of vaccine sales as eligible for the credit. This credit would provide a specific and credible commitment to purchase vaccines for the targeted diseases once they become available. The president is calling on other governments to make similar purchase commitments so that we can ensure a future market for these critically needed vaccines.
In addition, the Clinton Administration has expressed its willingness to support a tax credit for qualified clinical testing expenses for certain vaccines, similar to the existing orphan drug tax credit. The credit would be for 30 percent of the expenses for human clinical testing of vaccines for the diseases targeted by the president's initiative. This credit will provide an additional incentive for drug manufacturers to undertake research on new vaccines and accelerate their development.
The sheer magnitude and complexity of the challenge of combating infectious diseases, and their resistance to the efforts of the past, have a tendency to overwhelm hope with a sense of futility. Around the world, infectious diseases -- including AIDS -- are killing millions of children and weakening and killing tens of millions of prime-age adults. The devastating human and economic consequences are clear.
However, in Uganda, Thailand, Senegal, and elsewhere we have now seen compelling examples of concrete progress. And we have seen in the past that well-coordinated global efforts can have an enormous impact. One need only consider the eradication of smallpox; the nearly complete campaign against polio; and the remarkable global effort to combat river blindness (onchocerciasis), which has halted the transmission of that disease in 11 African countries and prevented 185,000 who were already infected from going blind.
As I have said, we believe that we now have a historic opportunity to make headway against the other killer diseases that today exact such a toll on the developing economies. What is crucial is that we act now to catalyze a broad international effort to address the problem at its root.
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QuotedNew factories may be built during the simulation. They cost 10 pts to produce. A factory that is half-complete may begin limited production, at the rate of 500 tons per quarter, in the quarter following the investment of 5 points; A factory is fully complete following the investment of 10 points and begins production at a rate of 1,000 tons per quarter following completion. ... In each quarter each factory produces either 1,000 tons of warship material (for warship construction) or 0.1 pts of industrial material (for infrastructure upgrades/construction).
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I am still digesting all the other elements, but I do not think that this is a universal assumption; it certainly is not mine. I do not favor an unscripted combat system.
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Elena Kagan's successful confirmation to the Supreme Court "would result in six Roman Catholic and three Jewish justices. Many argue that because Protestantism remains America's largest religious affiliation, the top court should have at least one Protestant justice," according to a piece written by Corey J. Hodges, pastor of New Pilgrim Baptist Church, for the Salt Lake Tribune. What do you think? Is it really necessary for the court to have a Protestant judge simply because it is considered America's largest religious affiliation? Overall, does the court's religious makeup have a significant impact, in the end, on how it interprets the law and makes decisions?
Does a Supreme Court justice's religion matter? The answer is maybe.
Personally, I'm not as concerned about the religious makeup of the court as I am about the judicial capabilities and philosophies of the justices who sit on the court.
It is interesting to note, however, that of the current six Catholic justices on the court, four are conservative, one is a swing vote, and the other liberal. Assuming Elena Kagan is confirmed, all three Jewish members would be liberal. From this, one could argue that religion does matter on the court, but does religious affiliation alone dictate a justice's judicial philosophy?
By analogy, let me compare two prominent Latter-day Saints politicians, both of whom are active members of the Latter-day Saints Church. One is Mitt Romney, who ran as a Republican presidential candidate in 2008 and is considered a conservative. The other is Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.), the current Senate majority leader and a liberal Democrat.
It would be safe to say that these two politicians would agree on few issues, despite their common religious affiliation. On a position that they may agree on? Abortion. Romney actually changed his position on this issue over time, which may be more of a reaction to political forces rather than religious forces.
It is fair to say that the LDS community tends to be more conservative than most, but it is incorrect to conclude that all LDS members are conservative or think the same. The same can be said of other religious affiliations.
In contrast, if a nominated justice were to come from a religious tradition that was not considered mainstream for example, an Evangelical Christian, a Mormon or a Jehovah's Witness, religious affiliation likely would be a major topic of debate at a confirmation hearing. In fact, that religious affiliation could be the determining factor in the confirmation, regardless of the justice's other qualifications or positions.
For better or worse, a justice's religious affiliation may matter, depending on the circumstances.
La Cañada II Ward of the La Crescenta Stake of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Isn't it interesting, in spite of popular paranoia over the public expression of religious views, that every Supreme Court judge has an identifiable faith? And that their faith is an issue of public discussion? And that's not surprising. Our faith determines how we judge both large and small issues. It informs our decisions about what is right or wrong, fair or unfair. "By the book" justices are required to make decisions on the basis of the Constitution, but we all know that personal world views play into every decision as well.
Several biblical examples help us identify good judges. Moses' father-in-law urged him to delegate his judicial responsibilities to "able men who fear God, men of truth, those who hate dishonest gain" (Exodus 18:21).
Deborah judged Israel as a prophetess and a woman of bold faith in God's promises. In Jesus' parable, the unrighteous judge "did not fear God, and did not respect man," and gave legal protection to an oppressed widow only because she wore him out with her persistent, repeated requests. Isaiah 11:4 speaks about Jesus' judgment when he returns to rule the Earth: "But with righteousness He will judge the poor, and decide with fairness for the afflicted of the Earth; and He will strike the Earth with the rod of His mouth, and with the breath of His lips He will slay the wicked."
Whether or not they're identified as "Protestant," our country will be blessed by God in direct, visible ways if we appoint judges who "do homage to the Son" of God (Psalm 2:12). But at the moment, I don't see a practical, legal way of establishing a Protestant "quota" for the Supreme Court.
Valley Baptist Church in Burbank
It seems like a balancing act to keep the line between church and state.
Let us affirm that the right and perfect person will replace retiring Justice John Paul Stevens. Let us trust God to direct all concerned in this process, affirming that the highest good for all concerned will manifest.
In the ideal, we all desire a person of integrity, who will listen to their heart in rendering decisions on cases in the Supreme Court, regardless of religious affiliation.
Unity Church of the Valley in Montrose
Given that the sole task of the Supreme Court is to judge whether acts are constitutional, it would seem that its religious affiliations should have little influence toward that end. It's not supposed to make or reinterpret laws, or behave with religious or political biases, so whether the justices claim one affiliation over another hopefully shouldn't be something for which to get overly concerned.
Our first Supreme Court justice made it clear that he thought Christians should be preferred for the position, however, and I imagine that is because our whole system of law finds its moorings in Christian scripture.
It may be that justices hailing from completely foreign ideologies may not grasp the original intent of our founders, but we have yet to experience such a weighted court. The current group does identify with the God of the Bible, and their affiliation, while not mine, is an officially conservative one. This brings up another issue. How faithful are they to their own identified religious allegiance? I have seen the court move from Protestant majority to Catholic majority, and it was the former that ruled in favor of legalized abortion. So who can say whether bench holders will follow their professed moral compass or whether it only serves to provide them an air of religious sensitivity?
We'll have to see if any cases arise that pit Protestant and Catholic sensibilities against one another in some constitutional malaise, but my greatest immediate concern is that these justices are not activists but rather constitutionalists, first and foremost, and that our religious freedoms are protected.
Montrose Community Church
Do I believe that the America we live in it is important for there to be Protestant justice? In this day and age, I would say no, given that religious affiliation may not have any impact on how one trained in such a title adheres to their ethical guidelines, interprets laws and makes decisions. Just as other professions, such as doctors, lawyers and psychologists, who are not Protestant can do their work just as efficiently as a Protestant can. Anyone who adheres to the ethics of the profession they believe in can do an efficient, moral and ethical job. Thus, so can the justice.
However, I do believe that if someone truly lives the Protestant life, it can absolutely affect how they look at laws and ethics, helping them make wiser decisions for our legal system, again, if they actually believe, live and practice such spiritual standards.
The truth that causes me to form an opinion that the title "Protestant" may not have any significance to the position is this: Even those who claim to be Protestant may not truly live the life of character the title implies. So I believe it is the character and truth of the individual that counts. Are they moral, ethical and able to adhere to these guidelines as they serve as justices? This concerns me much more than their religious affiliations.
Would it be ideal to have at least one Protestant judge? Yes.
Is it necessary? I believe, no, based on my previous argument.
La Vie Counseling Center in Pasadena
Statistics tell us that slightly more than 50% of Americans identify themselves as Protestants. Therefore, if we were to use religious affiliation as a criterion of eligibility for the U.S. Supreme Court, then there should be at least four — if not five — justices who are Protestant.
Furthermore, if Elena Kagan is confirmed, she would be only the third woman sitting on the Supreme Court — which is not an accurate reflection of the country's population of slightly more than 50% women. However, I do not believe we need to be strictly bound by census data when determining the makeup of the highest court in the land.
As I mentioned recently in this column, an individual's specific religious affiliation or gender is really not important when considering them for higher office. What is essential, though, is that anyone filling a significant public post must have sound religious bearings and be committed to an ethical lifestyle. They also need to possess a firm belief in God and subscribe to the idea — central to Judeo-Christian belief — of a higher power that determines moral truths. Whether a Supreme Court nominee is Christian, Jewish or Muslim is far less important than the overarching necessity for a justice who is righteous, leads an honorable life and shows proper respect for people of all religious denominations (as well those who profess no faith at all).
Also crucial when considering a Supreme Court nominee is to gauge how well they will make the necessary transition from their previous occupation to their new role on the high court. A 1st century BC rabbi named Judah, the son of Tabbai, offered the wise advice that, "when sitting in judgment, do not act as an attorney." Many individuals are appointed to the bench having previously served as lawyers, and Kagan is currently the solicitor general of the United States. But the responsibilities of arguing one side of a case and serving as an impartial judge are vastly different. Whereas a lawyer generally defines the Constitution in a way that benefits his or her client, a judge — especially one on the Supreme Court — must be absolute in interpreting the intent of its framers. Using this approach will guarantee neutrality and ensure an equal application of the law regardless of the race, color, creed, gender or religion of the judge.
Chabad of Glendale and the Foothills
One of the many wonderful things about America is our belief in fairness. Why, our national pastime, the game of baseball, has the concepts of "fair" and "foul" in it. Does anybody care if good umpires are Christians, Muslims, Jews or atheists? Of course not, as long as those umpires play by the rules and are "fair" in their decisions. We may not like some of the calls, but I doubt any baseball fan thinks that we have crooked umps running the games.
The same is true, it seems to me, of the Supreme Court. As long as we have justices who are men and women of character, regardless of their religion, we'll be just fine. And just because somebody is a Catholic or a Protestant or a Jew or a Muslim is no guarantee as to how that person will vote on a specific issue.
Look at Justices Antonin Scalia and Sonia Sotomayor.
Both are Catholic, but one will tend to vote against abortion while the other will tend to vote for a woman's right to choose. So whether a justice is religious or not religious matters not. What matters is his or her concept of the law and whether he or she truly believes in "liberty and justice for all."
La Cañada Congregational Church
I'm never quite sure what to do with this question — the degree to which important bodies of leadership should be representative of the demographics of the people they lead.
On one end of that question lies ridiculous oversight and gross injustice, if some significant segment of the population is not, and never has been, represented in leadership.
On the other end of the question lies the error of choosing leaders based on politically correct demographic affiliation, instead of on skills and qualifications and that ineffable — we church people would say spirit-led — intuitive choice of the right person, the right team of leaders, at the right time.
Since white male Protestants were practically the only ones appointed to the Supreme Court for the first couple of centuries of its existence, I think we can all breathe easy that there is no gross historical unfairness taking place in this current mix.
As to the court's overall religious makeup, my understanding of the vetting process for nominees is that it errs on the side of blandness, weeding out those with extreme political, religious or moral views, no matter how well qualified they might be otherwise.
And for better or worse, we live in an age of secular humanism — religious affiliation tends to be nominal, and religious teachings are easily overshadowed by other social realities in most of our daily decisions.
I think we can trust in the equalizing blandness of the approval process and the diluted power of religion in our age, to ensure fair rulings by the Supreme Court, no matter what its religious makeup.


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Jimmy McPartland was a member of the group of young White Chicago Jazz musicians known as the Austin High Gang. This group consisted of Jimmy and his brother Dick, Frank Teschemacher, Bud Freeman, Eddie Condon, Dave Tough, Jim Lanigan and Joe Sullivan. In 1924 Jimmy took Bix Beiderbecke's place in the Wolverine Orchestra after Bix recommended him for the job. He made his first recordings with the band in 1925. In 1926 McPartland worked with Art Kassel and others before joining Ben Pollack in 1927. That same year he took part in a famous recording session with some members of the Austin High School Gang under the name McKenzie and Condon's Chicagoans. He left Pollack in 1929 and he worked in and around New York with a variety of bands. He played with Harry Reser from 1933 to 1935 and led his own group from 1936 to 1941, until he was drafted for World War II. As a soldier he took part in the Normandy invasion (D-Day). He was discharged in 1945, but stayed to play with the USO. While in Europe he married the English Jazz pianist Marian Turner. The two continued to play music together up until 1990. Jimmy continued to play a cornet given to him by Bix Beiderbecke throughout his career.
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Mixtapes you might have missed *Erik Paul, Kid Sister, Justin W, QuEStFebruary 13th, 2011 by Siegz | Dance, Hip-Hop/Rap, Pop, R&B, Remix |
I feel a little bad bunching four mixtapes into one post but the mixtapes below don't stand out as amazing however have some songs that are really enjoyable that people may not have heard before. I listed them below in order of preference (least favorite to most favorite).
Erik Paul released his latest mixtape, The EPiphany, around mid January to some solid reviews. However the mixtape didn't make it on datpiff. Erik Paul has a hip-pop feel, with catchy hooks, decent rapping, but has potential to improve as he develops his niche more.
Erik Paul – Insult 2 Injury [Ft. Olu]
Erik Paul – I'da Told You Anything
Next is Kid Sister, whose latest mixtape, Kiss Kiss Kiss, was mixed by Nick Catchdubs and released through Fools Gold Records. I like Kid Sister in doses, can't listen to her music all the time but with the music from her mixtape, you can listen and enjoy it a lot at a club or dance party. Here's two of my favorites.
Kid Sister – Lookout Weekend f. Nina Sky
Kid Sister – Right Hand Hi (Caspa Remix)
Justin W is an artist to keep an eye out for, because track to track you hear differences and wonder what direction Justin W will take next based on the current material we have seen from him. His latest mixtape, Gone 'Til November, has solid rapping, really good hooks but what I like most is the instrumentals with almost every song.
Here's my two favorites off the mixtape.
JUSTIN W – Cloud 9
JUSTIN W – Lost In The Night
Lastly, one of the most underrated mixtapes that dropped in early 2011 was from Miami MC QuESt. I'm a big fan of QuESt because of The Reason: A Defense Mechanism, his latest mixtape that has a very relaxed vibe with his chill rap, great production and overall dope lyricism. I only see QuESt getting better and this mixtape is a big reason why.
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Today (Prod. A.I.(ICE)
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